Chapter 643: Everyone wants to take a handful of Li Yis wool
In fact, there are many strange "rules" during filming, such as Good Start, which are difficult to figure out. Some people say they are superstitious, while others think they make perfect sense.
Like turning on the camera and worshiping gods, this is a necessary ritual that almost always happens when a movie starts. Burning incense is usually the producer and director taking the lead in burning incense to pray for smooth shooting, and the camera is also covered with red cloth. Sometimes it is also necessary
There are pork head meat, fruits, tobacco and wine.
In fact, these rituals cannot be regarded as superstitious, because you will encounter many unknowns during the shooting process. In most cases, they are just for peace of mind. Gradually, a culture is formed. Of course, this culture is also formed because of some unexplainable things.
, for example, some people say that when they often encounter scenes such as temples being photographed by a camera, when they look back, they come up blank and nothing is captured.
Of course, after Li Yi has been filming for so long, he still rarely encounters such "weird" situations.
But Li Yi is well aware of the good start. During previous filming, problems did occur in the first scene, only to have problems occur one after another.
Therefore, many times, he would rather believe that something exists than something that does not exist!
Everyone has come here this way, so naturally he won't go out of his way.
The filming of "Infernal Affairs" went much smoother than he imagined.
Especially the performance of the two leading actors and the main supporting actors made Li Yi extremely worry-free. Many times, he didn't even need to speak, they would find the problems themselves and correct them.
When Li Yi was filming "Infernal Affairs", Xingman was not idle either.
The first draft of the script for "Nezha" was quickly produced.
Sent to Li Yi.
Li Yi is actually quite looking forward to Xingman's writing team.
However, after reading the script of "Nezha", Li Yi couldn't help but shake his head.
The main reason is that the script of "Nezha" was influenced by "The Return of the Great Sage".
I deliberately said that the script of "Nezha" is almost a replica of "The Return of the Great Sage".
However, The Return of the Great Sage could be written and filmed in such a way because of the experience of the Monkey King, the Monkey King.
He indeed went from crushing the sky and being unruly to being suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years. Therefore, the plot of this original work provides the background logic for "The Return of the Great Sage".
But what about Nezha?
Nezha is back?
That’s a bit nonsense!
Nezha is different from the Monkey King. There are many versions of Nezha's background story.
Nezha in Fengshen and Nezha in Journey to the West are completely different.
At the same time, although Nezha is not low in popularity, he is still far behind Monkey King.
Therefore, you can write "The Return of the Great Sage", but you cannot write "The Return of Nezha".
"What do you think?" Li Yi asked Zhang Haiyang on the phone.
"This..." Zhang Haiyang felt a little guilty.
"Let's do this. I have two script outlines here. You can fill them in and show them to me!" Li Yi also knew that if Xingman was really asked to write the script himself, it doesn't mean that it can't be done, but this
It takes too long!
For this reason, Li Yi simply sent Zhang Haiyang the synopses of the two stories "Nezha Makes the Sea" and "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes to the World".
He wanted to see how they would fill in the content.
Time passes day by day.
The filming of "Infernal Affairs" is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Filming a police movie on Hong Kong Island was really smooth.
This also made Li Yi feel more and more that his idea was really right, because this is the advantage of Hong Kong movies.
It can be said that the right time, place, people and people are all available for filming a Hong Kong police and gangster film on Hong Kong Island.
Making this type of film is truly a way to get twice the result with half the effort.
"Infernal Affairs" is the most intuitive embodiment.
In fact, Hong Kong police and gangster films have always been made, and quite a few appear every year. However, most of them are relatively clichéd films due to cost or other reasons.
They are all police and gangster movies where you can clearly feel the clichés of old Hong Kong movies.
This time, there is a revival of Hong Kong films, and Hong Kong police and gangster films are expected to continue the glory of Hong Kong films, which have become popular because of Li Yi's "Infernal Affairs".
But after all, the filming of "Infernal Affairs" has just begun, and I still have to wait to see this film.
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Chen Keming is a veteran director in Hong Kong. From the 1980s to the 1990s, he produced many Hong Kong films that are still talked about today.
It is a pity that Hong Kong films have declined in the new century.
At first, it can be said that there were no real commercial film directors in China, so the group of commercial film directors from Hong Kong like Chen Keming became popular.
In fact, many times, people's problems are caused by being used to them.
Domestic funds found directors like Chen Keming in Hong Kong and provided investment.
Chen Keming was a little better at the beginning. Although the films he shot were old-fashioned, at least he shot them seriously.
But he soon discovered that those investors from the Mainland did not understand movies at all and were only responsible for investing money.
When Chen Keming discovered that he was serious about making movies, but in the mainland market, the audience didn't seem to buy it. He worked so hard to make the movie, but after it was released, he could only drink a little soup.
So, he began to coax those mainland investors and manipulate every aspect of the film's shooting. At first, it was just a trial, but he soon discovered that those investors didn't seem to understand this, and almost everything he said was what he said.
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This also made him bolder. Human greed is endless.
Soon, Chen Keming began to become bold, and some outrageous and obvious things happened, such as a prop straw hat costing 6,000 yuan and still missing the shipping fee.
If this is just a way to cheat money, that's all. But if the money is cheated and the movie is not shot well, and halfway through filming, it starts to ask for additional investment, what can the investors do?
You have already invested so much. If you continue to invest, the cost will be too high. But if you don't continue to invest, all the money spent before will be wasted.
So I could only continue to invest more, but the resulting movie was a mess. Chen Keming made a lot of money, but the investors lost all their money.
Of course, this kind of crooked approach will definitely not last long, so after Chen Keming did this kind of thing several times, he quickly discovered that no investors were willing to invest money.
His reputation is also bad in mainland film investment circles!
Chen Keming also fell silent for a long time.
But with the explosion of the mainland film market, with box office revenue ranging from hundreds of millions to billions, how can Chen Keming not be tempted?
But he found that the mainland audience really didn't like his routine, so he began to change his routine and sell his emotions.
He has made sequels to all kinds of movies he has made. Although the reputation in the end is as bad as ever, he can always make some money at the box office.
But if you do something too much, the audience will become immune.
So he reluctantly discovered that this method no longer worked!
In fact, as a veteran Hong Kong director who was once extremely active, Chen Keming is really incompetent?
It's really not the case. It's a pity that today's Chen Keming has long been used to making crooked money.
