Chapter 267. ['Fighting King Ali' vs 'Happiness Knocks on the Door']
The time has arrived on March 6, 2001.
The filming of "The Pursuit of Happiness" has finally come to a close after a month of filming.
On this day, everyone was very nervous. After all, they had been suffering for more than a month and were waiting for today.
The filming location was an office of Fantasy Entertainment Company. Yi Feiyang ordered people to decorate the place like a stock investment company, arranged hundreds of telephones, and asked some employees of Fantasy Entertainment Company to act as extras. Their job was very simple.
It means pretending to be a stock broker, picking up the phone and pretending to make calls to attract customers.
Because the scene was a bit big, Yi Feiyang was afraid that the scene would be chaotic and difficult to control during the official filming, so he asked these people to audition it.
The guys who had never acted before did perform well, but Yi Feiyang still told them, "Don't look at the camera for a while. Just be yourselves."
Looking back, Yi Feiyang found the leading actor Will Smith and talked to him about the scene.
This scene is very important as the final scene. It mainly tells the story of the male protagonist "Garner" played by Will Smith. After working in a stock brokerage company, he worked hard for his dream, and finally moved his acquaintance with his sincerity and enthusiasm.
The customer made the first transaction and took a solid first step towards success.
"Will, the next step depends on you!" Yi Feiyang said, "Do you have confidence in yourself?"
Welsh Smith slapped his chest, "Of course! Let's get started, man!"
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The spotlight was turned on, and Charlie, as the lighting engineer, tried his best to highlight the surroundings of the office. This way, the light would not be exposed or leaked after the shooting.
Photographer Cindy is sitting high on the crane. After a while, he will follow director Yi Feiyang's instructions to shoot the busy scene of the entire "stock brokerage company" from top to bottom.
This kind of scene can be seen in many movies about Wall Street, but what we filmed this time is more real and intuitive than those.
As the director, Yi Feiyang saw that the scene was almost ready, picked up the loudspeaker and shouted: "The camera is in position, the actors are in position, everyone is in position..."
After a brief pause, Yi Feiyang shouted: "God Ike!"
Shooting officially started.
High-altitude shot. The whole office is ringing loudly, and everyone is busy, either making phone calls or taking pens to record stock amounts.
The camera slowly lowered and shifted to a close-up of a black man standing silently in this chaotic "battlefield", looking at everything busy around him, encouraging himself: "Gard, you can do it, yes. You can! You can't do it anymore.
If you fail, the probation period has expired. If you still can't complete a deal, then you have no choice but to get out!"
"Hey, man, you can do it! Come on!" Martin (played by Clinton), the white elite who helped Gardner join the company, walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and encouraged him.
The camera moved, and Gardner took a deep breath, smiling, "Yes, come on!" He picked up the phone.
He looked through the record book and selected the client he thought he was most likely to persuade---John.
Gardner: Hello, John. You sent a postcard back to our company a few weeks ago. You said you wanted to inquire about a high-quality stock with great prospects and very little risk. Do you remember it?
john: Yes, I'm interested.
Gardner: I'm calling today because, John, I just saw a stock, and it's the best I've seen in half a year. If you have a minute to spare, I want to talk to you.
are you free?
john: Tell me, I'm really interested. What's the name of this company?
Gardner: Airtech International is a high-end technology company located in the Midwest. The approval is about to be passed. The new generation of radar detectors are widely used in both military and civilian fields. Now, it is here, John, here.
The current price of this stock is $1 per share, and John, our analyst pointed out that it can rise far beyond this price. You only need to invest $6,000 to get a return of $6,000.
john: Oh my god, I can pay off the loan.
Gardner: Exactly, you can use it to pay off the loan.
john:Is this stock safe?
Gardner: Jhon, even in this market, I can guarantee you one thing---I don't need to sell junk stocks to my valued customers, because your success is my success, and your failure is my shame.
!Yes, I have lovely children to support just like you, so let’s try it together for once!
The other end of the phone sank for a moment.
John: Okay, for the sake of the child, your sincerity touches me! Buy it, I’ll buy it for 4,000!
Gardner was inexplicably excited: That's 4,000 shares, John. I'll lock this deal in now, and then ask my secretary to tell you the specific information, okay, John?
john: OK, okay.
Gardner: Great, John, thank you for your vote of confidence, and welcome to our company.
john: thank you, brother
Gardner: Goodbye!
"Yes! I succeeded! I finally made my first business!"
In the camera, Gardner jumped up like a child, tears falling from his excitement. Everyone around him, led by Martin, applauded him.
The camera switched and Ganard, whose face was filled with tears of excitement, kept saying "thank you" to everyone around him, then wiped away his tears and ran towards the door because he wanted to tell himself the great news as soon as possible.
Lovely son---"Dear baby, your father and I succeeded!"
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At the moment when "The Pursuit of Happyness" was finalized, the promotion of "Muhammad Ali" in Colombia entered the final stage.
Spending a lot of money, Abbas invited several heavyweight players in the world of boxing to tell the story of Muhammad Ali on TV programs and trace his glorious deeds.
I have to say that this is a very good way of publicity for the American people who love boxing. The ratings are far ahead of other TV programs.
For a time, the expectation index for the drama "Muhammad Ali" directly surpassed Yi Feiyang's "The Pursuit of Happyness" and became the first in online searches.
Faced with this situation, many movie audiences and film critics are no longer optimistic about "The Pursuit of Happiness", which competes with "Muhammad Ali". For them, although the new film has not been released yet, the difference is already
There are results.
""Muhammad Ali" will definitely blow up the "Happiness" street!"
"Ali is our hero, but where is that Ghanader who is waiting to knock on the door? Who knows what kind of birdman he is?!"
"We feel sad for China Yi. The movie hasn't even been released yet and half of it has already been lost. Poor guy, may God bless him!"
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Yi Feiyang naturally sneered at this. If Abbas was a person who wanted revenge and ignored the opportunity to make money, then he didn't need to worry about Abbas being qualified to become his enemy. But this is good, at least Yi Feiyang felt
It's nice to have a challenger to show your authority.
Now, the only thing that Yi Feiyang is interested in is busy with the post-production of "Happiness". The edited trailer has been broadcast on Fox TV station, and magazines and newspapers closely related to Fantasy Entertainment have also released various news.
The leaks leaked out bit by bit, quickly arousing the media's appetite, and this craze lasted until the second version of the trailer was released.
Yi Feiyang is the busiest person in the entire "Happiness" crew. The special effects department of Fantasy Entertainment is the post-production department. After Yi Feiyang dragged Will Smith to finish the narration for the film, he started working on the sound effects again.
The source is prepared.
The source of the effect sound is the ambient sound in the film. These require a skilled dubbing artist to complete. Yi Feiyang only needs to be responsible for telling the dubbing team leader his concept. Fortunately, after
After filming "Happiness", every department approached their work with an absolutely rigorous and enthusiastic attitude, which made the post-production of the film extremely perfect.
For example, the sound of cars in the film, the effect Yi Feiyang wants is definitely not very noisy or loud, but a relatively light effect. This can increase the perfection of the film and show that rich people of that era drove sports cars.
Features. The recording team worked very hard. In order to match the few car sounds in the film, they came up with many solutions, such as using a loudspeaker to make the sound sharper, giving people a completely pure feeling.
Even in order to match the sound of footsteps, such as the sound of Will walking on the street, this requires some openness and some confident and very rapid sound effects. In fact, the recording team worked very seriously on this, even Yi Feiyang
I admire you greatly.
In terms of subtitles and dubbing in other languages, the talents that Dures ordered the human resources department to find are indeed elite. Among them are not only local Hollywood language masters, but also invited in order to facilitate the conversion into Chinese for release in Asia.
Asian language experts even invited foreign language professors as professional consultants.
Of course, language is definitely not translated literally. Yi Feiyang has always felt that this is too stupid. Therefore, the translator basically does not translate completely literally, but analyzes the meaning of a certain line of dialogue in the film word for word. When
When they turned over it, they still had to keep the dialogue and the atmosphere and style of the film consistent, which was definitely a very difficult thing.
Fortunately, Yi Feiyang has been preparing for all of this since he formed Dream, so in terms of technical aspects such as pre-preparation and post-production, Dream can be said to be the best in Hollywood and even the United States.
Many people, including Dures, are puzzled by the fact that the boss Yi Feiyang attaches so much importance to the Asian market. They think that the only reason is that the boss himself is a Hong Konger. But only Yi Feiyang knows that the future Asian film market will exceed
The European market has become the most important distribution site for Hollywood movies, and what I have to do now is to consolidate the resources here and lay a solid foundation for the future.
Subtitles and dubbing are just tedious technical tasks, but soundtrack and editing are extremely artistic tasks.
The soundtrack engineer looked at the silent scene and asked Yi Feiyang: "Hey, dear director, do you want the sound and the picture to be synchronized, or do you want the sound and the picture to be in counterpoint?"
Yi Feiyang is well aware of these two types, which are actually the technical types usually chosen for soundtracks. As a professional scorer, he actually starts composing when the crew encounters a certain scene that may require a soundtrack during the filming process. In the later stage, it is basically
The process of screening.
Looking at the video screen, Yi Feiyang tapped his fingers gently, and the rhythm gradually made him experience the inspiration of this kind of creation. This time he would no longer rely on memory to choose the soundtrack. Suddenly he opened his eyes. Yi Feiyang pointed
Looking at the scene of Will running in the heavy rain on the screen: "This section needs to be modified. But the rhythm should not be too strong!"
In fact, this time Yi Feiyang chose the soundtrack technique of counterpointing sound and picture. The image and music are in opposition but vaguely unified to create a sense of hierarchy. Yi Feiyang did not want to destroy the artistic conception of the original shots in the film, so he chose to
Music for unimportant plots.
The soundtrack is definitely a very artistic job. This not only requires considering the music style and layout, but also whether the design can match the style and plot changes of the film. It also requires that each piece of music can mobilize the mood of the film from the beginning to the end.
The mood and atmosphere must also match the sense of the picture, whether it is the director or the scorer. Just one oversight may very well lead to the score not being in harmony with the film.
The work of music composers is not an easy one. They often have to understand various musical instruments and orchestration. They also have to have a considerable understanding of various music and materials, and they are required to have the ability to control the length and rhythm of music. Absolutely.
It is an exaggeration to say that the work of a composer is definitely much more difficult than that of a pop music piece.
The soundtrack that Yi Feiyang chose in this film was very rare. Because the film has a strong sense of rhythm, almost every piece of the soundtrack was inserted in every possible way. After completing this process, Yi Feiyang was not satisfied.
After playing the entire video, I experienced the feeling and said, "Delete this soundtrack. This one can be more intense."
The remaining work is editing. In fact, several editing processes have been done before. The picture when Yi Feiyang created the soundtrack is the picture after re-editing. The earlier editing was mainly to fit in with Yi Feiyang's creative intention.
necessary fragments.
In front of the rewinding machine and splicing machine, Yi Feiyang quietly enjoyed the film. In fact, the film without editing is simply not for people to watch. Pointing to the scene where Will and his son slept on the street and had to hide in the bathroom for the night, Yi Feiyang
Feiyang narrowed his eyes and said to the editor: "I want to cut out here..."
Continuing to enjoy the film, Yi Feiyang kept pointing out his requirements. In fact, Yi Feiyang didn't need to say it. The editor probably knew what Yi Feiyang wanted, because he himself had been following the crew on the creative intention and overall concept of the film.
I also have a very deep understanding of the character's personality and other aspects.
This editor has edited many films, but none of them seems to be more special than this one in his memory. The biggest special thing is that this film contains factors that make people cry inexplicably from beginning to end, especially in the
It focuses on depicting the relationship between father and son, which makes people feel extremely sad and touching after reading it.
In addition, this is not the first time that he and Yi Feiyang have collaborated. Looking at the dreamy works, there is always something very special and novel, which makes the editor very interested. This level of interest has even led to n major companies throwing their hands at him.
He doesn't take it to heart at all when it comes to poaching people. For him, being able to edit an excellent film is more tempting than a high salary.
In short, with the efforts of Yi Feiyang and the crew, the drama "The Pursuit of Happyness" will be released soon.
At the same time, Columbia, a subsidiary of Sony, also announced that the film "Muhammad Ali" will be released soon and is preparing to hold a grand premiere ceremony on March 12.
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On the day of the premiere, Columbia summoned all the famous Hollywood stars to come to support the show, as well as celebrities from the business world, politics, and various industries.
Abbas led the entire "Muhammad Ali" crew, and with the support of the president of Colombia, became the protagonist of the entire premiere. For a time, all the media were attracted, the spotlights flashed, and the whole scene was unparalleled in popularity.
Compared with the high-end premiere of "Muhammad Ali", the premiere of "The Pursuit of Happiness" released at the same time was not tit-for-tat and extravagant. On the contrary, under Yi Feiyang's initiative, this black inspirational movie turned out to be
It was arranged to be screened in the poorest and most backward neighborhoods in Los Angeles!
This neighborhood is the neighborhood where the black dad lives. Yi Feiyang, who had no money, strength, and status, premiered his first movie here. It can be said that this is the place where Yi Feiyang made his fortune. It is also the most supportive place.
Yi Feiyang movie block.
More than three years have passed, and this neighborhood has changed a lot. New schools, shops, and cinemas have been built in the formerly poor and backward areas. The original queues for water have disappeared. Every household has installed running water.
The scenes of black children playing football idle in the streets disappeared. They all went to school. The bad boys who originally gathered to talk about drugs and crime disappeared. They went to work in stores or became projectionists in movie theaters...
In short, this place has changed drastically. If you have been here before, you will definitely be surprised by the huge changes here. And these changes are all caused by one person, he is - Yi Feiyang!
Yi Feiyang has never been a ruthless person. He made his fortune here back then. After the establishment of the company, almost all the movies were shown in the small cinema here. After his success, he did not forget the supporters and enthusiastic residents here, so he spent a huge amount of money.
The residents here have not forgotten him, so when they heard that Yi Feiyang had premiered this important new film here, everyone in the neighborhood was excited.
"We need to support him!"
"Dear Yi, you are our best friend!"
"God bless, this premiere will be a great success!"
A powerful spiritual force bursts out! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster novels!
