Soon, the movie was about to start. Xu Ling took Lin Chen's arm and walked into the screening room. In front of and behind them, Lei Long and five bodyguards pretended to be audience members, quietly protecting them.
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When the movie was shown, Goo Jai, dressed as a soldier and with short hair and a smart look, appeared on the screen.
"So handsome!"
Immediately, female fans screamed in exclamation in the theater.
But the people around him did not blame him. Instead, many people nodded silently.
Goo Jai's military uniform is indeed very handsome, and just the first scene makes people feel that it is different from the previous TV series version of "The Legend of Qin".
In "The Legend of Qin" broadcast by Hong Kong Island TV back then, Xiang Shaolong was a Hong Kong Island police officer, but this time the movie version has returned to the original setting. Xiang Shaolong became a military special forces soldier, which is consistent with the original work.
Consistent.
Although it is just a change in character setting, it already makes people feel the film's pursuit of restoring the original work.
In the beginning of the time-travel part, the movie almost completely restores the original work. Xiang Shaolong appears as a prodigal son in love and an elite in the army. There are also many lifelike military camp scenes.
The audience might think it was just a set, but Lin Chen could see that it was a real military camp!
It must be that guy Wu Jing who made it convenient for Goo Jai.
Afterwards, Xiang Shaolong underwent an experiment and traveled to Zhao State a year before King Qin Yingzheng ascended the throne, only to find that he was living in ancient times and could not return.
In order to go back to the future, Xiang Shaolong, who knew little about history, began to find Ying Zheng, who had not yet succeeded to the throne and was still under house arrest in Zhao State, living a life of hostage, and help him establish a great cause.
Goo Jai handled the plot at the beginning very smoothly, not like a new director at all, and did not drag on the plot at all.
The subsequent plot is roughly that Xiang Shaolong goes to Handan, the capital of Zhao, and gradually enters the aristocratic circle of Zhao State through his extraordinary martial arts and wisdom, and then starts an official and love intrigue with Zhao Mu, the ruler of Zhao State.
Although Xiang Shaolong is romantic but not vulgar, although he is affectionate but affectionate, he lingers among the flowers and is like a fish in water in that special era.
However, after being tricked several times by Zhao Mu and others, Xiang Shaolong conspired to flee to Qin and disguised his adopted son Xiaopan as the later Qin Shihuang Yingzheng.
Finally, with the help of Wu Shi, Xiang Shaolong successfully evaded Zhao Mu's eyes and ears, and his family, Zhu Ji, Ying Zheng, mother and son escaped from Zhao State and went straight to Xianyang.
The plot of the first Zhao Guofengyun ends here.
Lin Chen had watched the story of the past TV series "The Legend of Qin" many times and was very familiar with it, so he naturally found that the movie version of the story was very different from the TV series version.
In the TV series version of "The Legend of Qin", many characters and stories were deleted due to cost reasons, but in this movie version, almost all of them appear!
Goo Jai has recruited most of the young and beautiful actresses in Hong Kong Island to appear in the drama. Even the maid characters who only appear for a few seconds are all beauties.
Angela, who Lin Chen arranged to join the crew, also appeared as an important character, Ting Fang.
In addition to the completeness of the plot, as the most essential and enjoyable point of "The Legend of Qin", this movie has also completely restored it.
For example, Xiang Shaolong relied on military fighting skills to easily defeat enemy horse bandits. Another example is that he relied on Tang poetry and Song lyrics to attract countless beauties.
A plot in which pretending is better than acting cool was completely restored by Goo Jai, leaving the audience hooked.
Of course, the movie version of "The Legend of Qin" is not a complete restoration. Goo Jai has made some changes to the sadistic plots in the original work. While maintaining the tragic plot, it does not make people feel unacceptable.
In addition, due to scale considerations, part of the plot was still deleted, but Goo Jai did a good job. He did not delete for the sake of deletion, but changed the plot so that it could meet the scale needs of the big screen.
In addition, Goo Jai's restoration of the big scenes also allowed many viewers who were dissatisfied with the drama version to get what they wanted.
Once upon a time, Xiang Shaolong, who was deleted from the drama version and escaped from the Zhao Kingdom during the First World War, was brought to the big screen by Goo Jai.
The scale of this battle scene surprised all the spectators at the scene.
Before this, domestically recognized movies with good war scenes, such as "Hero" and "Red Cliff" in which Xu Ling once starred, became unworthy of mention before the Battle of Wujiapu.
"Oh my god! How did Goo Jai shoot this scene?"
Xu Ling has starred in "Red Cliff" and knows how difficult it is to shoot war scenes, so she feels completely incredible about the scenes on the screen now.
Because everything is so realistic.
The scene of the siege of Wujiapu by as many as 30,000 Warring States soldiers looked completely lifelike, as if a real ancient war had been photographed by Gu Zai.
Lin Chen knew a little bit about the inside story, so he explained to her: "Look at the actor who plays Teng Yi. His name is Wu Jing. He was the one who contacted the people in the army for Gu Zai. This drama borrowed 5,000 soldiers from the army.
We also hired the Hollywood Lord of the Rings team to do special effects, and this scene alone burned Goo Jai’s budget of HK$200 million.”
"Two hundred million?" Xu Ling was shocked.
"That's not all. If Goo Jai didn't have his own special effects team and took over some repetitive labor-type special effects production, I'm afraid the 200 million alone wouldn't be enough."
This is how money is spent on special effects in movies. Why have Chinese movies been criticized for their special effects in the past? Even some movies that claim to have hired Hollywood teams to do special effects can be annoying. This is actually because those movies have not given any money at all.
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In Hollywood, the average price of one second of special effects is US$1,000! This is still the average price. If time is required, the price will be higher.
Therefore, the top special effects in Hollywood are all paid for. It is common for a special effects movie to cost more than 100 million.
On the other hand, in China, people talk about hiring Hollywood teams and investing tens of millions of dollars, but the actual money given to people is probably not even ten million dollars. More money has been given to celebrities, and they still want the remaining money.
To produce good special effects, isn’t that just wishful thinking?
But this time "The Legend of Qin" is completely different. All Lin Chen's investment in Goo Jai was used in the production.
In addition to specially spending 200 million to hire a foreign team, plus its own special effects company, to complete the special effects of "The Legend of Qin", the rest of the budget was also spent on extras, troop actors, props and scenes.
As for the stars in the movie, except for himself, who is considered a big name, the rest are either newcomers or actors from previous dramas, and their pay is not high.
But even if this is the case, it is fortunate that the first part of "Xun Qin Zhuan" does not have many big scenes, so the budget is enough.
If it were the next two films, Goo Jai estimates that the budget might exceed an astonishing billion!
But are these investments worth it?
This can be seen from the fact that many people around Lin Chen and others spontaneously applauded when the movie ended and the credits started to play.
If he had to describe it in one sentence, Lin Chen could also be described in the words of an audience member sitting in the front row of him.
"Awesome, this is the best movie adaptation I've ever seen!"