Due to the weather, coupled with the rookie director's various tricks, he stopped shooting and stopped shooting, which directly caused the originally planned one-and-a-half-month shooting period in Lushui to be stretched to two and a half months.
, the first phase of filming was not completed until the end of December.
The crew will then move to Jianchuan in Dali to shoot scenes at the temple where A Ming became a monk, and the small courtyard of an ancient house with a ginkgo tree where A Jiu lived after his reincarnation.
After the transition, He Xin had a rare one-week shooting break because he first filmed the scene where Ah Jiu was reincarnated and became Mo Xiaoyu and her husband Qin Yan living together in this life.
Two months of filming was not that tiring for He Xin. The key to stopping and taking pictures was very tiring. He often started work on the mountain early in the morning and finished it at nightfall. He stayed on the mountain for ten hours, but
The actual shooting time may not even be half. Most of the time is all kinds of wrangling and adjustments.
And to be honest, he didn't dare to compliment the teacher's directing ability, including on-site scheduling, organizational skills, etc. However, this seemingly weak teacher Yu was stubborn as hell and would not listen to any opinions.
It was only then that He Xin finally understood why she had such an outstanding performance in "The Joy Luck Club". It turned out that everyone was deceived by her appearance. In fact, deep down she was an unreasonably stubborn person.
He Xin regretted taking on this film several times. February 7th next year is the Spring Festival, and there is at least a little over a month left at this time. Nearly half of the scenes have not been filmed. It is definitely not possible to film it as originally planned.
Finished before Chinese New Year.
He Xin is already ready for a protracted war. Not only him, but also his girlfriend's "The Big Deal," which is currently being filmed, also requires New Year's Eve. He needs to use this week to return to the capital first. During this time, the company has many things to do.
It was urgent for his boss to deal with it, and he planned to go to Chongqing to visit a class on his return trip. After all, the physical and psychological needs were very urgent.
"Boss, this is the copy of "Let's Go" recommended by China Film Group."
China Film Corporation has launched a series of major initiatives since Mr. Han was promoted from President Han to Director Han. One of them is to initiate a "Young Director Program." This program is somewhat similar to the "Asian Rising Star Director Program" run by Andy Lau.
It just forms a fund, then selects potential directors and helps them make movies.
Since it was initiated by Mr. San, at the beginning of its establishment, Bona, Xinhao Media, and Zhang Guoli's National Chang Sheng, who were eager to flatter others, all actively participated in it. Currently, the first batch of six directors and six scripts have been selected.
"Let's Start Now" is one of them. However, after reading these books, Xiao Douding fell in love with this book. She also started to think about it, thinking that the investment was not big anyway. If China Film did not choose this book in the end, she would
I want to take it myself.
Not to mention, Xiao Douding may have become a monk halfway, but as a literary young man who was obsessed with literature and travel, she sometimes has a very accurate vision, such as "Double-sided Tape" and "Two Donkeys" were originally discovered by her.
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"Okay, leave it alone, I'll look at it later and talk about it later."
In addition to the book "Let's Start Now", Xiao Douding also brought over a bunch of documents that needed his signature. Although he trusted Xiao Douding very much, he still needed to read these documents carefully one by one, at least to be aware of them.
It took him a full morning to process these documents. After sitting for most of the day, his muscles and bones were exhausted. He stood up, covered his waist, twisted his hips, and walked around the office several times, and finally stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window.
It was the middle of winter in Beijing at the end of December, and the green space outside the window was already desolate. After staying in the south for a long time, I got used to the comfortable climate in Lushui where the daytime temperature is about 20 degrees and the night temperature is around 10 degrees in winter. How about this?
I'm really not used to it when I go to the capital.
There are water dispensers in the office, but he felt that the hot water in the water dispenser was not enough to make tea, so he put in an electric kettle. The water was still pure water, but it was a little troublesome.
The tea in the cup today is the Waku tea he brought back from Lushui. He used to like Longjing, and usually drank Hu Jian's Tieguanyin for a change, but now he is better with it.
Moreover, before leaving, he specifically found a cadre from the local publicity department who was responsible for liaison with the crew, and asked him to help him send dozens of kilograms of new tea every year when it came out.
Yes, he is so willful. Not only does he drink it himself, he also shares it with his close friends. He even thought that in a few years, he might be able to become a delivery expert and contribute to targeted poverty alleviation.
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After finishing the business, he picked up the script and sat down comfortably on the sofa, put his legs on the coffee table, and began to read the script of "Start Now", which the little Doudin was very optimistic about.
In fact, when he first heard Xiao Douding mention the name of this script on the phone, he felt that it sounded familiar. This script was written by a newbie, but director Liu Jiang had heard about it for a long time. He graduated from the Nortel Performance Department with the class of 1988. He was older than he is now.
Yao Lu, who cooperated, was one level below Teacher Yu and one level above Teacher Yu. He was stuck in the middle and was in the same class as Jiang Wenli.
Speaking of which, He Xin has some connection with director Liu. Wang Tong, who guest-starred with him as a couple in Gu Changwei's "Peacock", was Liu Jiang's wife.
Liu Jiang has directed several TV series before, and the only one with better results is the spy drama "Snow Wolf" that was aired not long ago.
The entire spy war drama tells the story of Liu Dongliang, a surgeon who returned from studying in Japan, and tried to rescue the anti-Japanese heroine Zhao Yiman. Although he failed, he was inspired by her to join the anti-Japanese organization, under the pseudonym "Snow Wolf", and fought with Japanese devils and traitors.
A story of struggle.
This TV series was very popular in the original time and space. It is no wonder that when Jiang Wei was selecting actors in the original time and space, Yu Zecheng's first choice was Xin Baiqing, the leading actor of "Snow Wolf". It was just because his wife Zhu Yuanyuan was
Being pregnant, he declined Jiang Wei's invitation, which allowed King Yan to take advantage.
But now, due to the early release of "Latent", Zhu Yu is ahead of schedule, and the response of "Snow Wolf" is average and can only be regarded as a small hit.
This is Liu Jiang's first time directing a film, which meets the requirements of the Young Directors Program.
He Xin first looked at the synopsis of the story. It tells the story of Lao Cui, a useless man living in Cyprus who wanted to make a fortune and then return to his country to honor his ancestors. Unexpectedly, before his wish was fulfilled, he was forced to return to his country for a divorce.
Lao Cui, who returned home in a hurry, suddenly found that his wife was not only pregnant, but also pregnant with the flesh and blood of his old friend Lao Wei. Faced with the cynicism of his ex-wife, Lao Cui could only silently swallow his frustration. He just wanted to return as soon as possible.
Cyprus, because the Chinese restaurant he co-opened, which he regarded as his entire hope for the rest of his life, was about to be sold by his partners.
But something unexpected happened, and the unlucky old Cui accidentally met a girl Xiao Xia who was like a disaster star. From then on, his nightmare life began...
The more he looked at it, the more familiar it became, until he saw Lao Cui and Xiao Xia chasing each other on the street. When Lao Cui took off his clothes one by one, leaving only a hurdle vest, he suddenly remembered this.
He had seen the movie in his previous life, and the actor who played Lao Cui in it was Fan Wei.
Fan Wei's films are still very impressive to him, because the characters played by Fan Da Nao are definitely funny, and this guy is very good at interpreting characters with his naive attitude and his clever heart.
Even if he didn't read further, he could still vaguely recall some of the storyline. From the time they met by chance, they were just a straightforward good man and a little girl. They were completely from two different worlds. They were connected by chance. The girl
From initially being dismissive of Lao Cui and even taking advantage of him, to gradually growing fond of him and starting to feel good about Lao Cui, until finally feeling reluctant to let go of Lao Cui.
This is a comedy that unfolds a series of stories around Lao Cui and Xiao Xia. Although it is not a multi-line narrative, the storyline is a bit like "The Stone" and is very close to life. At the same time, it also vaguely reveals the dark side of society.
The plot of the story is not abrupt at all. It is not earth-shattering or tear-jerking. The story of the girl and Lao Cui is as real as the story that happened to her, light and pure.
But as for who played Xiao Xia, he had no impression at all. He just vaguely felt that the actress's performance was very exaggerated and did not match Fan Wei.
Although he had watched this movie on TV in his previous life, when he read the script in one breath, he really felt that it would be a pity if such a script was only made into a TV movie.
Because of the Young Directors Program's limited cost requirements, it can only be temporarily made into a TV movie.
Although there are many low-budget comedies these days, most of them are shoddy. However, the plot of this book is relatively compact, and there is a bit of warmth in the absurdity.
If "Stone" is unscrupulously funny, then this book of "Start Now" is more like a love story with humorous elements.
Moreover, the overall concept of the screenwriter is purely based on the logic of a romance film. The two are two people who have fallen from the world, meet in the floating world, and then fall in love with each other, and finally become companions. It is really a very good story.
He couldn't sit still and quickly dialed the phone to Xiao Douding: "Please make arrangements. I want to talk to Director Liu as soon as possible."