The first thing to shoot is naturally the drama part.
The shooting here is different from Zhang Hong.
Zhang Hong completely followed the progress of the plot and filmed whatever step the plot reached.
But here, the literary play is shot in one go first, and in the literary play, the same scene is shot in one go.
Once all of this is done, go out to the outdoor scenes. All the outdoor scenes will be completed, and finally all the special effects shots will be shot in the green screen studio.
Rather, this is the normal shooting process, both at home and abroad.
Zhang Hongcai is the weird one who doesn't follow the routine.
He patiently followed us for two days of filming, but he always felt that nothing was going well!
Finally that night, he found Donald.
"Old Tang, I don't feel right."
Zhang Hong took a sip of beer and then started to complain.
Here he felt a little at home again.
It would be better if this was not a small bar but a domestic barbecue stall.
Donald also took a sip of Budweiser, then breathed a long sigh of relief and burped, and then asked with a red nose: "What's wrong? I don't think the progress is going smoothly?"
Zhang Hong curled his lips and put down the mug, "If you just want to make a popcorn movie that's not very good, then it's not a big problem to shoot like this."
Isn’t popcorn bad?
At least it tastes good before cooling.
In fact, he understood what Zhang Hong meant, but what Columbia Pictures wanted was popcorn movies.
It's not that they haven't pursued it, it's that they don't have the qualifications to pursue anything now.
This is like the editor of a website.
Different editors have different styles. Some editors don't like to interfere with the author's writing, so his author may end up in the sewer, or he may soar into the sky and become a hit.
But some editors want stability, so they prefer authors who are stable.
It won't hit the streets, but there's little chance of it becoming a hit.
Columbia Pictures is looking for stability now, and they are not qualified to pursue the so-called top hits.
As long as the movie can recoup its costs, that's the biggest victory for them.
At the very least, it can give an explanation to shareholders and prove that Columbia Pictures can still make movies that don't lose money.
But this is not what Zhang Hong wants.
What he wants is to make money!
Make big money!
How much money can you make from a regular popcorn movie?
Maybe in China, with the name of Hollywood popcorn and Zhang Hong's fame, he can get a lot of money.
But that's not what he wants, he wants to make money while standing!
But in Hollywood, this kind of movie... isn't shocking enough.
The special effects are definitely top-notch, and the box office won't be bad, but doesn't it mean that Zhang Hong has been brainwashed by the Hollywood industrial assembly line?
Well, actually he just can't handle Hollywood.
Donald took a sip of the foam-free beer and asked doubtfully: "Zhang, do you want to change the script?"
If Zhang Hong said that, he would definitely veto it.
Columbia Pictures can't afford the trouble right now.
Zhang Hong shook his head, "No, I just changed a few minor issues, such as the second part and the ending."
What an international joke!
He, Zhang Hong, wishes that Hollywood would be turned into ashes by someone's "controversy from heaven" tomorrow, leaving him to lick Hollywood?
Can't!
However, if the script could be slightly changed to make the idle birds in the Ugly Country pounce on the red necks and Blackmen in a more immersive way, then he would be fine with it.
Wouldn’t it be a good thing to make more money?
Besides, you can earn a lot of money from European and American ghosts and get a good reputation, so why not do it?
Donald was noncommittal, "How can we change it? Besides, we only invested so much in our first movie. If there is no result, even I won't be able to get five cents more from the board of directors."
Zhang Hong thought for a moment and said: "It's very simple, just add a few small details in the middle."
Then he began to detail his plan.
For example, the first film was shot as it was before. The protagonists were righteous, and then they burned down signal towers, beat up people, killed people, robbed supermarkets, and then injected themselves with vaccines to save the world.
Nothing changed from the first part.
The plot of the second part is connected to the first part. The man behind the scenes (the boss of a technological biopharmaceutical company, whose surname is not Gates anyway) controls and then rules the world by adding nanochips to vaccines.
Then the protagonist and the heroine used the initial vaccine, which are the only two vaccines without nanochips.
So the officials sent people to find them, saying that the initial vaccines in their bodies were imperfect and would eventually cause problems.
At the same time, the man behind the scenes also sent people to look for them.
The father and daughter evaded (attacked) while heading towards the other company's company.
Finally, after going through all kinds of hardships, her daughter was sent there to be vaccinated. Before the vaccine was injected, the protagonist accidentally learned the truth. It turned out that COC was going to use the antibodies produced in her body to develop a new generation of vaccines to counter the nano vaccine rescue of the technology company boss.
world.
But the price is that my daughter will die.
So the old father, who fell into a violent state, killed the coc alone and rescued his daughter.
As for the world?
Whatever.
However, after solving the official side, the technology company still sent people to hunt them down.
An old father was accidentally knocked down by a golf club, and his daughter was taken away in front of him.
The old father who woke up went berserk again, and another person killed the technology company and rescued his daughter.
Even when he finally met the boss, he planned to kill him.
Then the boss told the truth.
In fact, there is no chip vaccine at all. All vaccines are indeed normal vaccines. He is not the mastermind behind the scenes. He really wants to save the world and save mankind.
The reason why we took him and his daughter there was because the vaccine in their bodies was not yet complete. After being injected with the initial vaccine, they would indeed not be infected with the virus again, but at the same time, they would also become a source of virus transmission.
Yes, there is no radio wave virus at all.
That is a virus that was accidentally produced by nature.
But in order to cover up its ignorance and incompetence, the ugly government blamed the signal tower.
The so-called chip in the vaccine is also an action taken by the government to deflect blame or prevent the truth from emerging, causing the support rate to drop.
The protagonist is doubtful.
The boss of the technology company laughed and said: "Believe it or not, they will announce that black people are the source of the virus soon? Because one day someone will discover that air waves cannot spread the virus at all."
The protagonist didn't believe it, but the next moment, the TV station started broadcasting the news.
The great commander-in-chief of the Ugly Kingdom began to deliver a national live broadcast speech on the aircraft carrier.
He said...
"CoC research shows that all non-white people of color are the real source of virus transmission."
So, the riot began.
Black people kill white people, white people kill black people, and then there are other races.
Looking at the chaos on the street outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the protagonist fell into silence.
At this time, the boss of the technology company adjusted his suit and planned to leave.
Before leaving, he told the protagonist the truth.
In fact, no one cares about the source of the virus, at least no one at the top of the ugly country cares.
They only care about their own rule.
This society is a divided society.
Is the problem in Ugly Country really a racial problem or a problem of ignorant people?
No, it's a class issue.
There are capitalists among white people, there are capitalists among black people, and there are also capitalists among yellow people and Latinos.
But they will hide, and they will hide themselves in their own race to gain benefits for themselves and divert hatred.
You say that a person is a capitalist and should be knocked down.
He said you were racist.
It is clearly the result of a horizontally divided society, but they make people think it is a vertically divided society.
That's how this society is.
The protagonist asked: "What about the virus? Does no one really care if the world is destroyed?"
"Who knows, maybe China across the sea cares and will have a solution, but our great motherland certainly does not."
The boss smiled and said, "What you have to do now is to survive until the day the world is destroyed, or... when the real savior appears."
Finally, the protagonist left with his daughter.
Seeing the raging fires and the people with numb and hateful faces who were randomly beating, smashing, and looting, he showed no regrets and turned around to leave with his daughter.
This is where the script officially ends.
Donald was deeply shocked.
But he still has a worry: "Zhang, this script... is the kind that can win an Oscar! I believe this! But the funds are really..."
"No, that's enough. Just do it my way." Zhang Hongzi said, "Dismissal of the crew, only the post-production team and the surround LED screen team will be left. Leave the rest to me.
I will find my crew from China, and then... give you two movies from Columbia Pictures that will be big hits at the box office and can win Oscars."
Donald frowned for a long time. Finally, he drank the beer that was no longer cold in the cup and gritted his teeth and said, "fk! Do it! Zhang! I'm risking my career!"
Zhang Hong smiled slightly: "I won't let you down."