September 22, Songjiang.
At this time, construction was going on everywhere in the car pier. The construction workers were working in full swing and were enjoying themselves. After all, they were paid more than before.
Compared with the "old Shanghai style" in the previous life, here there is neither Mahler Villa nor Shikumen Lane Group, but the appearance of the old streets in eastern Guangdong, with shops hanging on both sides. There are all kinds of signboards, such as "Da Sanyuan Restaurant".
Among the exquisite simulated buildings, Baozhilin Hall is located among them.
Fang Yan led Gong Qie, Suzuki Yoko, Zhao Jing and others as they walked on the street. It was no longer clear whether they were in Shanghai or eastern Guangdong.
Moving forward, everyone came to a warehouse where the scenery was being built. Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng were standing at the door, obviously waiting for a long time.
"Teacher Fang!"
"Director Xu! Ms. Shi!"
Fang Yan said hello, and then introduced Suzuki Yoko and others one by one, especially It's Zhao Jing and Zhang Yu.
The two of them, Xu Ke, understood each other and planned to play a supporting role in "Once Upon a Time in China".
"Gong Qie."
Shi Nansheng volunteered to act as a guide, "I will take you around. There are so many places worth seeing in this film and television city."
Seeing her make an understatement. He immediately pushed the person away, and Fang Yan showed a satisfied smile, "Ms. Shi is really worthy of this." She is a good wife.”
Xu Ke couldn’t help but sigh: “Thanks to her help, otherwise, this film and television city may not have been built so smoothly.”
Fang Yan turned around and looked. , "Is this the warehouse where the final battle took place?"
"That's right, Huang Feihong and Yan Zhendong are here to start a decisive battle on the bamboo ladder."
Xu Ke raised his hand and made a "please" gesture.
Fang Yan walked in and looked around, not much different from the scene in his memory.
As Xu Ke walked, he poured bitter tears. Because this kind of martial arts design was unprecedented, no one in Xiangjiang martial arts had done it. He could only keep discussing and designing repeatedly. For example, the ladder must be hoisted by steel wires. Well, so that you can better control the speed.
And this is only the most basic. The difficulty lies in how to move on the ladder and how to fight in a way that is exciting and beautiful.
But at this most critical moment, Liu Jialiang, who was originally invited to be the martial arts instructor, gave up his job.
“Why is this?”
Fang Yan was very curious.
“It should be said that it is a conflict of ideas.”
Xu Ke said that in the decades of history of Xiangjiang Kung Fu martial arts films, many martial arts teams, large and small, have been born.
Cheng Long's "Cheng Jia Ban", Hong Jinbao's "Hong Jia Ban", Yuan Heping's "Yuan Jia Ban", and of course Liu Jialiang's "Liu Jia Ban", but unlike other leaders, they all came from Beipai. Liu Jiaban's martial arts skills are inherited from the opera stage, and he comes from the authentic southern school.
Liu Jialiang's father, Liu Zhan, studied under Huang Feihong's disciple Lin Shirong, and can be regarded as the true successor of Hongquan.
Therefore, in the 1950s and 1960s, the "Once Upon a Time" series became popular in Hong Kong. Dozens of films were produced over the past ten years. Liu Zhan, as the direct descendant of Huang Feihong, participated in it and was regarded as a half martial arts director. For this reason, Xu Ke invited Liu Jiaban to come out and design the action.
Who would have thought that Liu Jialiang would be so rigid and stubborn, insisting on insisting on hard bridges and hard horses, authentic Hongquan, and scoffed at the new martial arts style concepts proposed by Fang Yan and Xu Ke, and was quite resistant to them, thinking that they were " "Apostate" and "I don't know what to say."
Especially the "Foshan Shadowless Kick", which kicked out seven or eight kicks in mid-air, I felt that it was an insult to the founder Huang Feihong, so I resigned directly.
"It's okay to leave. We have different paths and we don't want to work together."
Fang Yan curled his lips. No wonder Liu Jiaban, as one of the four major martial arts groups in Hong Kong, was the first to decline. It was completely unable to keep up with the times.
"Yes, later I found Yuan Xiangren and Yuan Xinyi..."
Xu Ke smiled bitterly, Xinyi City and Jiahe were mortal enemies, and Jiahe's two generals, " Naturally, it was impossible for the "Cheng Jia Ban" and "Hong Jia Ban" to be enemies, but the other few could not meet Xu Ke's requirements, so they had to pick and choose, and in the end they had to find Yuan Heping to save the situation.
"Is this Yuan Heping the martial arts director of "Drunken Master"?"
Fang Yan pretends to be confused while pretending to understand.
Xu Ke nodded, "I decided to hire him because of his action design in "Drunken Master"."
"It's really good."
Dialect said, just from the deconstruction of the Eight Drunken Immortals, it was redesigned into such a witty The humorous martial arts style is enough to show Yuan Heping's level of accomplishment and innovative strength. Since he wants to create a new martial arts style, change the audience's aesthetics, and break through the one-tap-for-one format of traditional martial arts films, the martial arts guidance of "Once Upon a Time", I'm afraid it has to be "Yuan Jia Ban".
“I think so too!”
Xu Ke readily agreed, and then agreed to Fang Yan's proposal to let Liang Jiahui star in "Ya Ca Su".
Yu Gong, Tony Leung Ka-fai, the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, has obvious acting skills and is able to handle the small supporting role of "Ya Ca Su".
Privately, I just think of it as a seller's teacher, not to mention that I also sympathize with Liang Jiahui, who is in the predicament of being banned.
"Then I will thank Director Xu on behalf of Liang Jiahui."
Fang Yan smiled knowingly.
"Teacher Fang, there is no need to be so polite."
Xu Ke said: "I heard from Huang Zhan that you two met in Xiangjiang and co-wrote a song for the movie?"
Fang Yan nodded and said: "It's called "Men Should Be Strong"."< br>
"Huang Zhan said that the music score is a new song adapted from the ancient song "General's Order", and then Teacher Fang filled in new words."
Xu Kebei was interested, "I don't know if it can be done Teacher Fang, please sing a few words?”
Fang Yan said happily: "Do you want the Cantonese version or the Mandarin version?"
"There are two versions?"
"Of course, as a co-production, we must take into account the mainland and Audiences on both sides of Xiangjiang."
"Then let's listen to the Cantonese version first," Xu Ke said in surprise and doubt.
Fang Yan stood still and cleared his throat, "Arrogant and arrogant, laughing at thousands of waves, hot-blooded and hot than the red sun..."
"Teacher Fang, what if it's the Mandarin version?"
Xu Ke clapped his hands, and the sudden applause instantly attracted the attention of everyone around him.
"Just a little modification."
Dialect said: "Arrogance in the face of thousands of waves, blood like the red sun, courage like iron, bones like fine steel..."< br>
“Great talent! Teacher Fang is indeed a great talent!”
Xu Ke's eyes sparkled, and just listening to the a cappella singing made his blood boil.
In my mind, I can’t help but picture the scene of Yan Zhendong and Huang Feihong fighting in this heroic song.
"I think only this kind of music is worthy of Huang Feihong's master style."
A smile appeared at the corner of Fang Yan's mouth. After all, no one can beat Cheng in the toy store. dragon.
Similarly, no one can beat Master Huang in the invincible BGM! …………
Time passed by minute by minute, and when we finished visiting the Chedun Film and Television Base under construction, it was already evening.
Fortunately, the premiere of "The Ring" was in the evening, so everyone had enough time to go to the theater after dinner.
Looking around, there are long lines of ticket purchasers at the ticket office and ticket gates, and the scene is spectacular.
Fang Yan did not buy pre-sale tickets in advance. He was rich and went directly to the ticket seller:
"Brother, what's the price?" ”
“It depends on which seat you want tickets for! "
The young man grinned, showing a row of front teeth, "Look, the positions of these seats are different, and the prices are naturally different. Tickets for the front rows cost 10 yuan each, and tickets for the back rows cost 10 yuan each. It's cheaper, 5 yuan, 3 yuan, 2 yuan..."
Fang Yan chuckled and said: "You are a little bit shady. The tickets for "Midnight Ring" only cost a few cents. Come to your place. It becomes 2 pieces. "
"Hey, these are the tickets for "Midnight Ring"! The midnight bell knows it! ”
"Look at the queue at the ticket gate. They are all here for "Midnight Ring". If you don't buy it, there are many people who want to buy it!"
Listen to the young man who has no clue, bragging about himself and his dialect. Smiling but not saying a word, no wonder they all say, "You can wear a lot of clothes, but you can never wear flattery."
The young man boasted: "Tell me, for such a writer and such a work, I only charge you two yuan for a ticket. Is it expensive?"
"Not expensive!"
Fang Yan suppressed a smile and nodded, "If it were you, I would probably sell it for 5 yuan."
The young man said happily: "Then you want two?"
"How can two be enough."
Fang Yan bought 8 movie tickets, and then walked into the cinema with Xu Ke and others. Waiting in line to check in.
Out of the corner of my eye, I inadvertently noticed the hand-painted poster of "The Ring" on the wall, and subconsciously said:
"I should add the sentence 'for the faint of heart' here. Don't look at it' or something like that."
"Why?"
Gong Qian blinked.
“Because of the rebellious psychology.”
Shi Nansheng explained that just like banning movies and books, the more the official bans, the higher the sales will be, and the more it will imply that the audience is timid and should not watch it. The audience's desire to watch is more and more aroused, they want to see how terrifying it is, or they want to test their courage.
“Professional!”
Fang Yan clicked his tongue and praised her business acumen.
“It’s an award, but I don’t understand something.”
Shi Nansheng couldn’t understand why “The Ring” was obviously a science fiction horror novel and was adapted into a pure horror movie?
Spiritual realm, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, there are so many fantastic science fiction concepts, it would be too extravagant to just don’t want them!
“This is the result we arrived at after taking into account technology, cost and other aspects.”
Fang Yan waved his hand, saying that the state-owned film studio didn't even understand the concept of entertainment films, so they shouldn't try to make science fiction films.
Otherwise, it would not have become "The Wandering Earth", but would have become "Shanghai Fortress", which closed the door to science fiction movies, which would be a joke.
"The director who shot "The Ring", I heard, was the photographer of "That Man and That Dog in the Mountain"?"
Xu Ke has a strong interest in Zhang Yimou, especially It is a unique skill of painting and color.
“That’s right.”
Gong Jie said that during the filming of the film, Fang Yan and Zhang Yimou would occasionally discuss on the phone how to redefine Oriental horror films.
Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng and others looked at each other. They had never seen a mainland horror movie.
In fact, it can also be said that "The Ring" is, in a strict sense, the first horror film in the Mainland.
In comparison, whether in Japan or Hong Kong, horror films are already a very mature genre in the market.
Japanese horror movies are mainly about ghosts and ghosts in Japanese mythology, such as "Onmyoji".
As for Hong Kong films, starting from the romance films of the Shaw Brothers era, there have been a large number of female ghost themes. In recent years, supernatural martial arts films such as "Ghost Fighter" and "Scary" have emerged, as well as next year's origin of zombie films, "Zombie" "Mr." combines Maoshan Taoism with ghosts and ghosts.
Therefore, Suzuki Yoko and Xu Ke are extremely curious about this first horror film in the mainland.
“Let’s take advantage of Yimou’s expertise. Use pictures and colors, coupled with camera movements and sound effects, to create an atmosphere of horror and suspense.”
Fang Yan smiled, “I just I can say so much, but if I continue to talk about it, the movie will seem tasteless."
As soon as these words came out, everyone's interest was aroused, and like everyone else in the theater, they stared eagerly. The movie officially launches.
The story background of the movie takes place in the future in the 1990s. After all, the number of TV users nationwide is soaring every year, but it has not yet reached the point where it is completely popular, let alone more expensive and rare video recorders and video tapes.
The plot is not complicated at all, and even so far, there are not many pictures that directly show horrific scenes.
Horror movies actually create an atmosphere, a dangerous situation that makes the characters and the audience feel unable to escape but powerless.
Zhang Yimou matched the color, tone, light and other elements of the film with the picture, so that the entire environment was always lacking in light sources and shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere, just like the resentment wrapped in a ghost Likewise, the audience became restless under constant psychological hints.
The timid one has lowered his head, not daring to look directly.
Even those who thought they were bold swallowed their saliva and did not dare to gasp loudly.
Everyone is like a gold captain who robbed a tomb, holding torches and walking in the dark and deep passage, with the wind blowing.
The most eye-catching thing is that the speakers in the theater play harsh and rapid sound effects from time to time, like a female ghost laughing miserably.
“Ah!”
With the emergence of tense plots, the depressive and weird atmosphere gradually accumulated, and the audience began to become a little restless.
Coupled with the sudden narrowing of the field of view and the harsh sound that appeared without warning, the originally fine TV began to flash with snowflakes.
Suddenly, several female viewers screamed because Sadako climbed out of the TV with twisted limbs.
The tension of the audience reached its peak. Some clenched the armrests, closed their eyes, screamed, hugged each other...
Screams came one after another, fear in the darkness It spread in the environment and began to show signs of human-to-human transmission.
Just like a defeated party fleeing, their emotions collapsed, their defenses were completely broken, and the entire theater was in chaos.
"I understand."
Halfway through the video, Xu Ke's eyes shone, "I kind of understand what you just said about 'using atmosphere to scare people'!"
Yoko Suzuki Feeling the same, he turned his gaze to Fang Yan and saw a playful smirk amidst his screams:
“Making a horror film does not necessarily require bloody and violent scenes, weird and supernatural props, and fierce and rare special effects.”
“Those are all sensory stimulations, and my film "The Ring" 》, what you play is the fear of the soul, what you play is the heartbeat! ” (End of this chapter)