After the filming of the movie started, many actors felt something different.
This movie is not like an ordinary urban movie.
Because the cost is really too high.
Even Wu Li, who guest-starred as Officer Cao, was stunned.
Han Zhou, who chose the location in Jinling, transported a large number of plane trees at his own expense and planted them on both sides of the street.
These trees alone cost millions.
And this movie costs a lot of money.
How much will it cost? Will it pay for itself?
Although New World's movies have been very profitable in the past two years, the thinking of ordinary people in the film and television industry is still stuck in the era when 100 million yuan is a good thing.
How can an urban movie make money if it has no special effects and no gimmicks?
Of course they didn't know that the movie had already paid for itself and made a profit.
In fact, purely for this movie, these expenses are very, very, very necessary.
Platanus sycamore is the name of this world, and it is also its scientific name. In the previous life, sycamore tree had a name called Faluji Wutong.
This kind of tree actually grows in countries like Spain.
It was cultivated and promoted by the first batch of British people doing gardening business.
In a previous life, it was brought to Jinling by a French Braised Chicken missionary and planted in the French Concession. Because it grew easily in the climate of Jinling, it spread and became known as the French Braised Chicken Wutong.
In fact, it neither comes from French Braised Chicken nor Wutong.
There is also a legend in the past life that a woman named Song liked this kind of tree, so a certain person named Jiang planted it all over Jinling.
This statement was originally made up by the male pheasant to put a filter on the person named Jiang.
After all, petty bourgeoisie is popular nowadays, and with this arrangement, the surname Jiang seems very romantic.
As a result, it had the opposite effect.
Because trees like the French parasol tree produce something like catkins every year, which lasts for nearly two months, the people of Jinling hate this kind of thing very much, so it makes the people of Jinling hate people with the surname Jiang even more.
God won’t allow you to baptize people with the surname Jiang in Jinling!
When the man named Jiang was sent to Jinling to defend against the Sakura Army, he blew up all the ships before the war began, trying to imitate the overlord of Chu and sink his boat into a desperate fight.
As a result, before the fight even started, he got on the boat and ran away.
As a result, countless people and soldiers in Jinling were unable to retreat, which gave the cruel Sakura people a chance, and the subsequent shocking tragedy occurred.
In fact, French Braised Chicken Wutong has nothing to do with them.
In Jinling, there are two tombs that have influenced the whole country of China. One is the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang and the other is the tomb of the founding father.
There are French parasol trees all over Jinling, which is related to the founding father.
The Founding Fathers originally dreamed of establishing a capital on the border and developing Greater China into a huge empire.
But this plan obviously doesn't work.
His second plan was to build Jinling into the capital.
This plan is feasible and has been implemented.
Therefore, the people of Jinling still thank the founding father.
At this time, it was popular in Jinling to use braised chicken sycamore as a shade tree.
After learning that the coffin of the Founding Father was to be sent to Jinling for burial, Jinling decided to plant French braised chicken sycamores on this avenue.
In this era when there was little planning for urban greening, French parasol trees quickly spread all over Jinling because they were easy to grow.
This is the reason why Jinling is covered with French parasol trees.
In fact, it was spontaneously initiated by people from Jinling. It was not someone who showed up to be romantic. He was bald and knew nothing about romance. In other words, the person named Song was a hypocritical believer. The person named Jiang also pretended to follow the religion. It was his respect for the person named Song.
You are attentive, but as for romance, don’t think too much about it.
The reason why Han Zhou decided to plant plane trees in Jinling was because he had no choice but to do so.
First of all, sycamore trees are extremely suitable for planting and growing in Jinling. After the founding of New China in this world, agriculture and forestry were the focus of attention.
At this time, there was no concept of so-called invasive species, and many economic and landscape animals and plants were introduced.
Among them, Jinling was once again selected by history and planted with sycamore trees.
This kind of thing got out of control and spread all over the city.
With the development of the times, urban greening has gradually become the focus of the city's image.
When people in the past planted trees, they did not consider that the air quality would be too bad later, and they did not consider the respiratory diseases of future generations.
Now everyone is criticizing in a different way, saying that it is impossible to plant sycamore trees for greening.
The most planted are ginkgo trees, followed by poplar, camphor, metasequoia and other plants.
In other words, the greening of Jinling today is completely different from that of 2002.
In order to recreate the scene in 2002, Han Zhou directly chose to plant trees, and planted the braised chicken sycamore.
How long these green plants can survive after planting and whether they can survive are not things Han Zhou has to consider.
If you can contribute to a movie and affect many people's lives, then it will be worthwhile.
And Han Zhou is also a maniac about details when it comes to setting.
For example, in the original version, in 2002, Cheng Yong's drugstore that couldn't sell miracle medicine actually used a large white glass door.
This is a bit funny.
Han Zhou followed his own memory.
The storefront should be made of aluminum alloy. Inside the store, there is a wall separated by a white glass window, and then there is a low-quality aluminum alloy door with white glass. This should be a small store in the magical city of Suzhou in this era.
A relatively popular door in the streets and alleys.
Moreover, this thing was only popular in the years from 2002 to 2006. After 2006, it basically disappeared from the streets, and stores that have not been renovated during this period will not use this thing.
This kind of detail is actually completely unnecessary, but Han Zhou just wanted to capture this kind of detail.
Because of Han Zhou, when I watched "I'm Not the God of Medicine" in my previous life, I didn't even notice that this happened in 2002!
But when I was writing the script and reminiscing, I discovered that there was a subtitle reminder [2002, Magic City].
This information is very important.
Is it the same level to spend 30,000 yuan to buy a month's worth of medicine in 2002 as it was in 2008?
In 2002, people from Jinling and Shanghai could only take medicine for a year after selling their house.
After 2008, if people from Jinling and Shanghai want to survive, they will sell their houses and move to the countryside. The money from selling the houses will be enough for them to take medicine for a lifetime.
The information of this era directly affects whether the audience will have a deep enough impression of the badness of pharmaceutical companies.
Of course, the original version also tried to reveal some age information in some simple details.
For example, Solitaire is played on the computer screen in the drugstore, the obvious old-fashioned big-back computer, and the ancient computer system.
For example, the small and pitiful TV in Cheng Yong’s father’s room.
But the other items in the same scene where such details occur are completely divorced from the reality of 2002.
For example, next to the cabinet where the computer is placed, there is a wood-framed glass medicine cabinet, which doesn't look like an old item.
For another example, the shelves at the back are made of stainless steel.
This guy's stainless steel rack was not cheap enough to store clutter at that time.
The most eye-catching thing is the boss chair, which should not be owned by this small drugstore.
Another example is that the windows in the room with the same screen as the TV are logically either wooden window frames or aluminum alloy window frames.
But in fact, the window frames in the movie are plastic steel.
Although the white plastic steel has turned yellow, this thing should not appear in the 2002 old shabby little one.
In these pictures, these items, which look old, have a lot of holes in them.
Either the style is old, but the thing is actually new.
Or the thing is old, but the style is new.
Han Zhou's memory is such that he clearly remembers what's in each picture and can easily see what's wrong with it.
Therefore, in my own setting, I can say that I strive for excellence.
So much so that many older actors really felt like they were back in 2002 as soon as they walked into the store.
The audience clearly realized that this was 2002, realized that five yuan of pork head meat could make a person feel full, realized that popsicles sold for two cents at this time, realized that a haircut this year only cost two yuan, and realized that this
The annual house price is only 2,000 yuan, and the median salary is 800 yuan.
Only then can they understand that 30,000 yuan of medicine a month is a devil's contract.
Only then can we understand that there is only a thin line between a patient with CML and a dead person.
These details can undoubtedly enhance the quality of the movie.
In the early stages of filming, there was no role for Han Zhou, and all the crew members were adjusting.
After the filming of "In the Name of the People" was completed, Chen Xiaoyong returned urgently and took on the task of photographer.
Han Zhou has always appeared on the set dressed as Lu Yiyi, and Han Zhou has been thinking about how to play Lu Yiyi better.
The original version benefited from Lu, to be honest, it was great.
If there was no role of Huang Mao, then Lu Yiyi would definitely be one of the most outstanding supporting characters in the whole drama.
But with the role of Huang Mao, Lu Yiyi is not good enough.
It can be said that Lu Yiyi is a wonderful supporting role and Huang Mao is a classic supporting role.
However, Han Zhou is a movie king-level figure and has much higher requirements for himself than Huang Mao. Han Zhou has been thinking about how to highlight the role of Lu Yiyi.
Among domestic actors, directors actually don't care much about these details. Many of the character traits that highlight the character are not what the director thought about, but were added by the supporting actors themselves.
But, some people add these to highlight their character traits, and some people add them purely for show.
The original version of Lu Yiyi also had some details added, such as the orange, which runs through almost all of Lu Yiyi's scenes in the movie.
There are also iconic multiple masks.
But these two things are too ordinary and ordinary to highlight the characters.
Take Huang Mao for example. The biggest characteristic of Huang Mao is his yellow hair. He talked about shaving his hair for a long time and went home. Finally, he got into a car accident with a crew cut, which made the audience remember this character forever.
Han Zhou has studied the role of Lu Yiyi for a long time and feels that this role has been weakened.
the reason is simple.
In reality, in order to purchase generic drugs, you must have several characteristics. The first is to have access to Asan Country, and the second is to be educated and have ideas.
Lu Yong in reality is such a person.
In the movie, Cheng Yong’s prototype is Lu Yong, so isn’t Lu Yiyi’s prototype Lu Yong?
But the reality is that after the movie was made, although Lu Yiyi was outstanding, it seemed that his role was not enough.
In the five-person team of Miracle Medicine.
Cheng Yong is the backbone, Lu Yiyi is the military advisor, Huang Mao is the one who must do the dirty work in every team, Sihui is the businessman, and the godfather is the translator.
As for the Han Zhou version, certain adjustments have been made to several people.
First of all, Cheng Yong is not only the backbone, but also has strong cohesion. In the original version, Cheng Yong's cohesion is not enough to explain the problem.
There was a point in the original plot that after Cheng Yong stopped selling medicine, and then Zhang Changlin stopped selling medicine, Lu Yiyi quickly became unable to buy medicine, and then his condition worsened.
This is absolutely illogical.
Lu Yiyi really wants to survive. The whole film shows that he wants to survive, so will he not make second-hand preparations? Not leave the contact information of the drug dealer? Not find a second agent?
It is because Cheng Yong did not show enough cohesion, did not fully display his personal charm, and did not show the characteristics that Ah San only recognized him, that there was this logical loophole.
This loophole is not a loophole unless Asan has no contact with anyone except Cheng Yong and the new agent he arranged.
So the first thing is that Cheng Yong's personal charm needs to be strengthened. His diaosi aura is too strong and excessive, and his character needs to be adjusted from a diaosi to one with ambitions but unfulfilled ambitions.
It is also because of this that Han Zhou's version of Cheng Yong initially had great ambitions and wanted to give his wife and children a better life. He heard that the United States was very profitable and believed in their lies. As a result, he went to the United States and washed dishes for three years.
A dismal return.
Then in the past three years, his wife had an affair and fell in love with a rich man, which inspired Cheng Yong to want to make money.
Therefore, the emergence of Lu Yiyi and the "bringing of generic drugs" are exciting enough for Cheng Yong.
I don’t know what the purpose of the original version was. Instead of choosing a similar approach to easily establish the character’s image, it chose to make Cheng Yong a loser, and then a bad guy who beats his wife. This kind of setting is useless to the plot.
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In order to give Cheng Yong an external motivation to make money, he let his father have cancer and then the child went to the United States. This was a way to promote it.
Compared with the excitement that follows, the first three minutes of Cheng Yong can be said to be boring and the biggest failure of the entire movie.
It is also the most redundant and untenable place.
Selling drugs together, does Lu Yiyi know that Cheng Yong is essentially a bad person? If he knew clearly, he would pin everything on Cheng Yong?
It’s also because of the adjustment of Cheng Yong’s role.
Lu Yiyi's role is very clear.
He is a smart man and knows what to do, but he does not have the ability to do it himself, so he needs to find a capable person to cooperate, not just a strategist, but a planner.
How the entire team moves forward is entirely in his hands.
Offer advice when it's time to offer advice, and recruit people when it's time to recruit people.
And Cheng Yong is responsible for turning his plan into reality, bringing together the people he recruited, and turning his suggestions into reality.
So why is Lu Yiyi so smart but he doesn’t dare to do it himself?
Because, cowardly.
Lu Yiyi is timid.
Therefore, the details of Lu Yiyi’s performance also need to be adjusted.
For example, when the original version surrounded the medical representative, Lu Yiyi was on the outside with disdain.
This is very strange. If you don't care, why go to the scene and not waste the bus fare?
In fact, it was just to show that Lu Yiyi was cowardly and did not perform well.
Han Zhou's modification was that in the end, someone threw the medical representative's stool, and Lu benefited from the bucket.
Before the crowd got excited, he handed over the bucket, and then the people slipped away to a distant place to watch.
Such a change shows that it is a lack of courage.
He wants to do many things, but he doesn't have the courage to do them, but he has the courage to encourage others to do them.
Therefore, the benefits obtained are also weakened.
The person who splashed the medicine represented that it felt good to defecate. He just handed the bucket over and didn't splash it, so it felt a little better.
Selling medicine is very profitable, but he just came up with an idea, so he made a small profit.
Realizing Huang Mao's power, he wanted to recruit Huang Mao to join the gang, but he didn't even dare to stop Huang Mao from getting the medicine. However, he dared to make an idea and let Cheng Yong recruit Huang Mao to join the gang.
Similar actions like passing the manure bucket are used throughout the movie, strengthening his characteristics many times.
Other characters also have their own needs for deepening.
The first is Sihui. In order to save her daughter, Sihui worked in a nightclub as a dancer, and even thought about satisfying Cheng Yong to deepen the relationship between the two.
Cheng Yong did not refuse because of his sense of justice, but because he had a lustful heart but no courage.
The original version probably took into account the role of Sihui's mother and did not dare to go too far. It was just a metaphor. In this way, many people are willing to think about it, but more fans will not think much about it at all.
Why not be more direct?
Therefore, in Han Zhou's version, Si Hui is directly arranged to perform on the stage, and the charming moments are used to deepen this character with the contrast between the stage and the off stage.
But there is no part between Si Hui and Cheng Yong that is not considered sexy but only embarrassing.
Han Zhou added a new plot to her, instead of asking Cheng Yong to show off, he asked Cheng Yong to use money to buy the foreman to dance.
But Sihui insisted on dancing.
After watching the glorious dance with admiration, Cheng Yong asked Sihui afterwards why she still dances now that she is not short of money. Sihui's answer was: "Earn more if you can."
Later, the character Lu Yiyi died because he had no money to buy medicine, but why was Sihui's daughter able to afford medicine and survive?
Han Zhou's setting for her was to seize every opportunity to make money and then save it all to provide a way for her daughter to survive.
When setting up, we must consider, ‘Being a mother means being strong’.
Lu Yiyi's will to survive is already so strong that it breaks through the sky, while Sihui's spiritual belief in letting her daughter survive is even stronger than Lu Yiyi's.
The character Huang Mao is a little bit awkward and not very good at talking, but he is brave and fierce, and he is the only one of the five who is truly good.
His characteristic is simplicity, and he evaluates a person based on morality rather than emotion.
This was also the biggest shock Huang Mao gave Cheng Yong.
Therefore, the gunpowder plot at the beginning only highlighted Huang Mao's bravery, but did not highlight the fact that Huang Mao was a good person.
After all, there is a conflict between before and after.
In Han Zhou's version, Huang Mao's appearance was replaced by a story about a real patient told by Chen Cheng.
Huang Mao was the one who used the contact information to contact Asanguo Pharmacy, but found that the call could not be reached, so he ran to ask the police why the call could not be reached.
And he didn't grab medicine just to survive.
It was because his co-worker, who was also a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia, could not afford to take medicine and his body was broken, so Huang Mao tried his best to get the medicine.
And he wasn't just robbing, he was robbing the medicine and then giving it the cost price.
Because he learned that the price of medicine over there in Asan Country was this.
After being robbed of drugs, Cheng Yong thought that if everyone was like this, how would he be able to continue his business, so he and Lu Yiyi went to stop Huang Mao.
Finally, I found Huang Mao distributing medicine to patients at his residence. I felt that Huang Mao was not a bad person and had strong fighting ability, so I recruited Huang Mao to join the team.
The original Huangmao story is very different from this one, but it seems inconsistent, so with a slight adjustment, the whole character will end up the same.
After all, it is a supporting character who does not have so much space to show his changes. This is the most perfect state.
Everyone can often find a problem when watching movies.
Some people's plots are very abrupt.
Actually, it’s not that the director didn’t consider the screenwriter and didn’t write it.
But the editing was too long, and in the end I had to reluctantly cut some things.
All the incoherence in the plot is actually not incoherence in essence, but the story is told too slowly, which leads to the need to cut some things to reduce the movie time.
Since he has seen the original version and heard so many patients' stories, Han Zhou naturally wanted to correct these aspects.
Try to use the simplest story and drama conflict and the clearest method to directly complete the establishment of each character's character and personality.
And the priest, in Han Zhou's "Medicine God Five", is no longer the translator.
The job of a priest is to teach people not to be superstitious!
Responsible for explaining the efficacy of drugs to patients, popularizing science about drug efficacy, and popularizing various knowledge related to chronic myelogenous leukemia.
This identity, doing this thing, has the most explosive effect.
The priest doing this job naturally led Zhang Changlin to sell counterfeit medicines.
Naturally, the priest led the five-person team to find Zhang Changlin.
And this job and this identity create even more jokes.
In essence, this film actually has a lot of comedy parts.
But since many of the characters are patients, we can't make too many jokes.
But with Han Zhou's design, the priest was separated from his identity as a patient, and Chun Chun used the conflict between the two extreme identities of priest and science popularizer to create jokes.
In this way, the priest has changed from being the least present in the "five-person group" to being the most funny person.
The framework of Han Zhou's version was also built and adjusted based on this, with the addition of real patient stories and a shooting cost that was several times that of the original version.
The effect strives to be better than the original version.
Although this change only slightly improves the quality of each point, it may even be in vain.
But if there are more details like this, the quality of the movie will be improved by half, which is not a problem.
He is a funny priest, Lu Yiyi is a planner, he is a wise and wise mother, and Huang Mao is a brave and good person.
After the images of the four characters are further deepened in this way, when Cheng Yong proposes to run away, it will arouse the audience's disdain for Cheng Yong and bring about the greatest dramatic effect and conflict.
In the original version, Lu Yiyi was mediocre in the early stage, but it was the performance in the later stage when he was suffering from illness that was so exciting that he left a deep enough impression on the audience.
In the end, Huang Mao left a deep impression on the audience when he and Cheng Yong sold medicine together and were accidentally hit and killed by a large truck in a truck.
But after adjustments, their early impression was impressive enough.
Cheng Yong's backstab made them look even more helpless.
Make the audience more worried about them.
After the knife was sent down, the person was struck again.
On the one hand, people with swords are used to enhance the audience’s perception of them.
On the one hand, the audience has already recognized them, and then cuts them off, which is doubly painful.
It’s hard not to improve the quality of movies.
The only disadvantage of this approach is that the role of the male protagonist Cheng Yong is weakened and becomes hateful.
In the previous version, I originally planned to shoot a protagonist who was not a good person. Firstly, I didn’t give people the prototype, and secondly, it wasn’t thorough enough.
Han Zhou simply went to the bottom of it, asked for the consent of the prototype, and then made Cheng Yong appear as an ordinary person, or even a bad character who loves money as much as his life.
When this character finally transforms into the good guy at the end, it feels even more interesting.
Although the whole process was annoying and the scenes were reduced, the ending of Han Zhou's version was originally different from the original version.
The ending of the original version was a bit bullshit.
When Cheng Yong was arrested, countless patients came to see him off.
And when I was released from prison, no one picked me up.
I don’t know if it was because all the patients died back then, or because it showed that the patients had no conscience.
If it's the former, it's nothing more than a bit of a smear move and a smear move on society.
If it is the latter, it is smearing the patient group as white-eyed wolves.
Therefore, so far, few people have the courage to do a film review analysis of the final clip.
In the original version, when the patient faced the police arresting the drug dealer, he argued with reason and vividly expressed his desire to survive, but did not express true gratitude or justice.
In reality, thousands of patients signed a letter asking that Lu Yong not be punished. While fighting the disease, they traveled around to help repay Lu Yong.
Naturally, Han Zhou's version also used this version, but Cheng Yong actually sold medicine and made a profit from it, so the process was more tortuous.
In the end, there was no scene where the patient was caught sending Cheng Yong to prison.
Instead, the patient is caught in the scene welcoming Cheng Yong out of prison.
This version also greatly weakens Officer Cao's sense of presence.
In fact, in this movie, the police don't need to have a strong presence.
This time, Han Zhou changed almost a large part of the content of "I'm Not the God of Medicine".
This time, Han Zhou began to try his own story and his own abilities.
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I didn't expect to write so many words about the plot revision and adjustments at first. I hadn't written about Han Zhou's acting skills for a long time, and I was planning to express a section, but there was no space.