"You really love Ma Qingyang and Ma Huagan to play themselves."
After returning home, Tong Liya was shocked when she heard Li Qian talk about finding Er Ma's true character to play her.
It's strange enough that they both appear in the movie. It seems that apart from historical figures, no real people have appeared on the big screen, let alone themselves playing themselves.
"Yes, you play yourself, and to be honest, whether it's an old horse or a little horse, their looks are very unique." Li Qian said with a smile, "Needless to say about the little horse, you can remember it at a glance, and the same is true for the old horse. He is very recognizable, and his smile makes him feel very shy. If you look for other actors, it would be difficult to match him completely."
"Shy?" Tong Liya was speechless, "He is about to be called the biggest profiteer in the country, and you still call him shy."
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Li Qian shook his head, "Everyone on the Internet is just venting. It's nothing more than various memberships under Penguin and various game recharges. Most of them are impulse purchases. The money spent on it is virtual and cannot be obtained. You will regret the real thing later, so compared to buying something you can see and touch from the treasure store, it feels particularly worthless.”
In fact, compared to Brother Ma who pretends to be cool every day and makes chicken soup one after another, Lao Ma is really a bit shy and cute when he smiles.
"Then you film their dark history in a movie, where Ma Huagan disguises himself as a woman and chats with dozens of people at the same time. Is he really willing to act?" Tong Liya asked curiously.
Li Qian spread his hands, "What kind of dark history is this? This is to tell everyone that when making friends online, you never know who is sitting across from the computer.
Moreover, the audience will only smile knowingly and will not really ridicule. Some things are much better if they are performed by themselves rather than being told by others. Moreover, Lao Ma himself does not care and regards it as an unforgettable memory when he started his own business."
Regarding Erma's appearance, I also responded the next day, and I will take the time to meet Erma later.
There is no other way. The bigger the business, the busier it becomes. Ma Qingyang is still attending a meeting in Switzerland.
The company currently has nothing for Li Qian to do. Tong Liya also went to the crew of "Beijing Meets Seattle", and Li Qian wrote the script of "Detective Chinatown" first.
Literary scripts are easy to write. Anyway, Li Qian only needs to give Ning Hao a complete story. The subsequent storyboards and storybooks are his business.
The whole story is a suspense comedy. The whole film is full of laughter in the tense and relaxed atmosphere of the investigation. It has a strong comedy color and is very innovative in China.
As a comedy suspense film, the first thing to show is the "laughter" caused by incongruity. Incongruity is the external form of comedy, while contradiction and conflict are its internal essence.
The crazy Wang Baoqiang, who plays cheap and cute, and the serious genius boy, the two themselves are a huge conflict.
The three lines in the movie, the detective, the police, and the gangster, are intertwined. When the three parties come together, it makes people laugh and cry equally.
Through the plot, the incongruous factors in the incident that may be transformed into conflict can be used to guide the characters' actions to achieve better comedic effects. This is the point.
In fact, the real difficulty is not how to make it funny, but how to keep the three lines mixed but not messy, so that it can create a suspenseful and absurd effect without causing headaches.
I had a complete movie in my mind, and I wrote the script very quickly. Anyway, it was just a framework, which was close to 30,000 words. No matter whether Ning Hao or another director took over, it would have to be reworked. Li Qian almost finished it in a few days.
Before finishing writing the script, and at the appointed time, Li Qian went to the hotel to meet Ma Qingyang first.
The Two Sessions are currently being held, and both Ma Qingyang and Ma Huagan are in the capital. At the previous Zhengzhou Association meeting, Ma Qingyang was criticized by the Suning boss.
The CEO of Suning pointed out that there are counterfeiting, infringement, and non-tax sales in C2C, and called for the taxation of e-commerce. He believed that small shop owners with annual sales of hundreds of thousands are not as good as migrant workers, and the value created by paying for goods is not as good as Suning.
In the past two years, those working in the real economy have often criticized Ma Qingyang, saying that the real economy is the backbone of the country and those who undermine it are sinners.
However, in the war of words, Ma Qingyang was not afraid of anyone and directly said that Taobao has always been in the real economy.
Fortunately, Li Qian didn't have to fight with Ma Qingyang, he just came to talk about things.
Li Qian met Ma Qingyang at the Capital Hotel not far from the Great Hall of the People.
Short, with a crew cut.
Li Qian quickly stepped forward and extended his hand, "Hello, Director Ma."
"Hello, Director Li, please take a seat."
Ma Qingyang happily asked Li Qian to sit down, and he didn't seem to have the airs of a big boss at all.
"I really like watching Director Li's movies. In "Moon", when you discover that everything is just an illusion to you, where should your soul rest? and "The Truman Show" tells contemporary young people that no matter what they face, No matter what the hardships are, no matter what the society is like, you can never lose yourself."
When they met, Ma Qingyang talked enthusiastically about Li Qian's previous movies.
Li Qian said quickly, "That's such an honor. I didn't expect Director Ma to also like watching movies."
Ma Yun smiled and said, "A long time ago, once, a group of my employees got together and had a lively chat. You know I am a lively person, so I got together, but I couldn't understand a lot of what they said. .
For example, this classic line: If God gives me another chance... This sentence made them laugh so hard that I couldn't understand the reason at all at the time, so I was very anxious and immediately asked them about the origin of this sentence.
At that time, I suddenly felt that I was too behind the times and didn't know anything, so I quickly bought the CD of "Westward Journey" and went home to have a good meal.
If I want to know the future, I need to know what young people are thinking and what their ideas and concepts are like. From then on, I fell in love with movies."
Awesome!
Li Qian couldn't help but give Ma Qingyang a thumbs up in his heart. This made it very clear that most of the online shoppers were young people, and it was young people who made money by buying money, so he had to understand the thoughts of contemporary young people.
Success is no accident. Otherwise, with so many people standing at the forefront, only a few like Ma Qingyang would be able to fly.
After chatting about movies for a while, Ma Qingyang also said that Jin Yong was his favorite, followed by "Journey to the West".
Tang Monk babbles about having no abilities, but is very persistent; Sun Wukong is very capable but makes a lot of mistakes. There are such people in every class, they are annoying but indispensable; Zhu Bajie is a little lazy, but positive and optimistic and has a sense of humor. He I also like it very much; Monk Sha is so wonderful, don’t talk about blind ideals, just work hard, these four people form a perfect team.
If you watch "Journey to the West", you can see a perfect team.
Even in "The Truman Show", Ma Qingyang was able to analyze the needs of contemporary young people.
"Actually, spiritual needs and material needs are interlinked. By looking at what movies people like to watch, we can see people's spiritual needs, and in turn infer their material pursuits and consumption habits."
"What Director Ma said is that everyone's behavior will reveal their own needs." Although he felt a little sleepy after hearing what he said, Li Qian still accompanied him and continued the conversation.
"In the same way, people who write and make movies can infer personal personalities through their works."
Ma Qingyang turned around and said, "After watching a few of Director Li's movies, I can probably tell what kind of person Director Li is."
"?????"
Li Qian straightened his back unconsciously, thought for a moment, and said with a smile, "I hope Director Ma can have a good opinion of me."
Ma Qingyang looked at Li Qian and laughed, "Director Li is a very sunny, confident and emotional person. All movies convey a positive and optimistic attitude. No matter what difficulties the protagonist in the movie encounters,
It is solved in a positive way, and friendship, family affection, and love are always described in a positive way.
Moreover, always remain rational. In desperate plots such as "Moon", "I Am Legend" and "The Truman Show", the male protagonist does not have a dark side."
That's it
Li Qian thought that Ma Qingyang had the ability to read minds. Anyone familiar with the points he mentioned knew that there was no need to analyze them at all.
However, this was only the first time he met Ma Qingyang. The rumors about him from the outside were that he was arrogant, had a big temper, and was always irritating.
And Ma Qingyang can tell what kind of personality he has after watching a few movies, which is a bit amazing.
With this ability, coupled with this eloquence, it would be a pity not to tell fortunes.
Li Qian finally figured it out. Ma Qingyang was a pretentious person. Why were they talking about this when they met for the first time?
Unable to fool him with his talk, Li Qian simply went straight to the point.
"Dong Ma, Mr. Wu must have told you that there is a plot from the 1990s in my new film. As an indispensable character in the 1990s, you have several scenes in the film, so I thought of delaying you.
Take some time and star in this movie."
Ma Qingyang nodded and said jokingly, "As far as I know, Director Li's new movie is a romance film. Could it be that he arranged a love affair for me twenty years ago?"
"That's not true."
Li Qian waved his hands quickly, thinking to himself, with your appearance, the audience would not be able to stand a love scene.
Therefore, Li Qian carefully explained the concept of "Rejuvenation" to Ma Qingyang.
Ma Qingyang understood clearly, "It's like "Forrest Gump", where the hero goes through the history after the founding of the People's Republic of China?"
"That's roughly it." Li Qian said.
"Then I'm really honored to be a representative figure of the 1990s." Ma Qingyang said with a smile.
Li Qian also expressed his support at the right time, "For today's young audiences, this is indeed the case. Everyone is also curious about what Chairman Ma was like in the 1990s."
Ma Qingyang nodded and asked, "I heard that there is a technology that can be transplanted to another actor by capturing my expression and eyes?"
Li Qiandao, "Yes, this is expression capture technology. Hollywood has long used it on a large scale. In the 2011 global hit movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," the protagonist is an orangutan. The expressions were captured from the actors' faces.
There are non-human characters such as "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "King Kong". In addition to CG production, human expressions are also used."
"This technology is very interesting. Can Director Li tell me about it?"
"Similar to traditional optical capture systems, the location of the marker points is usually at the actor's joints and key points of the body structure, so that the actor's movements can be correctly mapped to the bones of the virtual character.
Facial capture is different. Since expressions are more controlled by muscles rather than bones, the situation will be more complicated. It is necessary to repeatedly define and optimize the mapping relationship between the actor's facial muscle system and the character's facial muscle system, so facial capture
More marking points are needed to record more subtle muscle changes and map them to the face of another actor or a CG actor."
Ma Qingyang became interested, "So this technology means that you can capture the expressions and movements of a person through past videos, and use special effects to create a new identical person?"
"Absolutely. In fact, my digital domain is preparing to use real-time holographic projection technology to resurrect the late King of Rap and perform a concert on the same stage with the famous North American rapper Gou Ye."
"Then can we arrange for Michael Jackson and I to have a concert on the same stage?" Ma Qingyang's eyes lit up.
"????"
Let’s talk about the movie, why did it involve a concert, and I still sang on the same stage with MJ.
However, Ma Qingyang does like singing, and especially Wang Fei's songs.
"It is indeed possible, but it may involve various aspects of the character's portrait rights."
"Then I'm interested. If I have time some year, I can have a concert to enjoy myself." Ma Qingyang said with a sincere smile.
After chatting about music for a while, Ma Qingyang talked about martial arts again and asked Li Qian if he had any idea of making a martial arts movie.
"This is not available yet, but I plan to keep trying new themes. Maybe one day I will have this idea." Li Qian said.
"Then Director Li must let me play a role. I have to perform it myself, and it's not just about capturing the expression." Ma Qingyang was also very interested in martial arts, and warned, "It must be a hero, and it must be in line with my taste."
temperament."
“Definitely next time!”
Li Qian nodded repeatedly. He was so obsessed with martial arts. No wonder the top management of Li Qian used the names of martial arts characters as nicknames.
After the whole meeting, there was nothing more to talk about. Instead, the original business was settled in two sentences.
Ma Yun agreed to star, even though the scene he was going to star in included a plot where he was rejected as a waiter because of his appearance.
We chatted for two hours, and it felt like the time flew by so fast, as if it wasn't the first time we met, but the reunion of old friends for many years.
Ma Qingyang's talkativeness is really good. This is the first time that Li Qian has been passively chatting throughout the whole process.
However, as long as the goal is achieved, as for resurrecting MJ with a holographic image, having a duet concert with Ma Qingyang, and making a martial arts movie, asking him to play the role of a great hero.
Such a ridiculous thing, it's hard for him to think of it. Rich people are different. It's probably too boring, so he wants to have some fun.