Chapter 52 Finishing and Rushing
“When the assistant director was filming, when you took off your skirt, you had to stand straight up and take it off, so there would be no curves. You had to raise your buttocks and let it slide down slowly, yes, ok.
And this piece does not require a close-up, you need to shoot the rocks on the seaside, so that the overall aesthetic structure will be more reasonable. If you do this kind of close-up, the audience will not be able to appreciate the scenery, but can only see the actors themselves. Shortcomings."
Guan Ling followed Liu Yan first and then followed the assistant director on the side.
"Liu Yan, you are short, so you must stand up straight when shooting, so that your legs will not become a weakness after the filming is completed."
Although Guan Ling did not choose Lin Zhiling, for the quality of the film, Guan Ling did not give Liu Yan too much tolerance during the filming process.
He still has very high requirements for the quality of movies.
Even if Liu Yan tries her best to serve, it won’t work.
During the day, Guan Ling let Liu Yan enjoy the taste of the sea in the sea. Fortunately, Liu Yan could swim, so Guan Ling shot many simple scenes directly from the rocks on the sea.
When it comes time to shoot in the sea, there will be boats standing by to avoid safety issues.
At night, when Guan Ling enjoys Liu Yan, he can always feel the smell of the sea.
This left Guan Ling speechless.
They are all adults. Since Liu Yan signed the contract with Lingyun Media, she has been asking for whatever Guan Ling wants.
She knew that the road of hosting was too slow, so she decisively chose Guan Ling. When Guan Ling decided to support her, she could not refuse Guan Ling's offensive.
In her heart, she even felt a lot of gratitude to Guan Ling.
With Guan Ling's achievements in two films, Liu Yan knew that he could choose many actresses, and few people could refuse him. Moreover, he was very handsome, so Liu Yan was a little flattered.
The filming lasted for seven days. Guan Ling worked hard day and night, feeling pain and happiness at the same time.
But he is also very excited, because he feels that there is no hope that this movie will not become popular.
During the filming process, Guan Ling attached great importance to the logic of scene shooting. Whether it was rocks, buoys, or whale carcasses, Guan Ling did not make local modifications.
When Guan Ling was revising the script, he set the film's background in Australia, so that all subsequent scenes, such as language barriers and flare guns, could be rationalized.
On June 25, the Shanghai Film Festival concluded with awards. Guan Ling reluctantly left Liu Yan's waves and cast her sacred vote for the Asian Newcomer Award at the film festival.
He voted for the Chinese film "Tokyo Trial". Guan Ling actually didn't like this movie. This movie was about liquidation. However, in Guan Ling's view, the trial was not thorough and it was not possible to execute those criminals who had committed many crimes. Determined.
This is a historical film worth thinking about.
But I am not happy. The sentences of those criminals are never easy or natural. Instead, they are mixed with the game and power of all parties.
Thanks to the strong arguments of the Chinese judges, a narrow victory allowed those criminals to die!
But unfortunately, the Best Picture, Best Director and Special Jury Prize were all won by other films.
This time the awards in the main competition unit were divided among foreigners. The best film was "Four Minutes", which was awarded by Poet Chen and Luc Besson.
Even in the Asian Newcomer Award, only half of the winners are from China. The international banner of the Shanghai International Film Festival before its opening finally reflected what it means to be international when it ended.
Guan Ling is actually quite sad about this matter, because many domestic films are worth it.
Guan Ling also presented the college student's favorite movie award to "Glorious Fury". Guan Ling, who is about to graduate from Nortel, was specially selected to be the award guest.
Taking the stage as a representative of university students, it seemed a bit joyful.
The director of the film is Cao Baoping, a professor from Nortel, so the program team of the film festival is a bit bad and deliberately creates news.
Guan Ling's impression of him actually focused more on "Li Mi's Conjecture", "Heart of the Burning Sun", and "The Murderer", but the script has already been preempted by Guan Ling.
The guest who cooperated with Guan Ling to present the award was Mr. Zhou. The two were telling jokes on the stage. Mr. Zhou said:
“Hello everyone, I am Zhou Xun. I am very happy to be with you in Shanghai this year. The judges of the International Film Festival and the recently well-known director of the Billion Dollar Club came together to present the award."
The two complimented each other a bit,
Zhou Xun joked: "Although we are here to present the award today, But I also came here to look for a job, and I hope Director Guan will consider me for his new drama."
Guan Ling also joked: "Ms. Wang of Huayi told me that Huayi is a golden brand. I definitely can’t afford the gold. If Mr. Zhou wants to act in my drama, he might as well come to Lingyun Media. We are also recruiting artists recently.”
It seems unintentional, but the media is already here. Next, we started writing press releases in unison.
When accepting the news interview after awarding the award, Guan Ling told the reporter very clearly.
"Why not use actors from Huayi? You are over-understanding. I simply cannot afford to use them. Actors from Huayi are too expensive and we will not consider them for small-budget films in the future."
"We do need to recruit artists. But we want to recruit directors more than artists. As long as you are willing, we can train you."
"Is there any grudge between you and Huayi? This is a very good question. There is no grudge against Huayi, and Mr. Wang has no grudge against me. Didn’t we also collaborate on "The Suspect"? "
Guan Ling seems to be explaining, but in fact he is adding fuel to the controversy on the Internet about the discord between Guan Ling and Huayi. , began to explode rapidly. But everyone is just guessing.
Wang Zhonglei and Wang Zhongjun were furious by Guan Ling's sudden behavior. Only then did they realize that Guan Ling was not as honest as they thought. There was a thorn in it. For a while, the new artists that Huayi wanted to sign were somewhat stagnant. They wanted Huayi to give them real roles or benefits, just like the male protagonist of Huang Xiaoming's "Suspect".
Guan Ling didn't care at all about the trouble he caused.
After returning to Qingdao, he started photographing Shark Beach again.
The scenes on the reef are relatively simple. Whether it is suturing the wound on the leg with a necklace, or lying down on the reef with only the bikini towering into the sky, the photographer is too scared to look at it. .
Liu Yan’s degree of completion was very high, especially her firmness. Guan Ling and the photographer were salivating when they saw it.
The crew is very motivated, and everyone realizes that the final film will be very touching.
“Click!”
“Prop group, this is a buoy, not a telephone pole. It floats back and forth in the sea. You have to move up, down, left, and right with it. Don’t give it to me here. Make trouble.”
When filming the buoy scene, Guan Ling was quite angry.
"Liu Yan, can you show me your beauty when you climb? Don't look like a female monkey, okay? Stand tall, stand tall! What is your advantage? Show him in front of the audience. The hand The angle should be right, hold the iron railing of the buoy, don't block your chest, okay, okay, just keep it like this!"
"You should change your expression, you feel panic, I want you to show it! That feeling of helplessness to the point of collapse, and then you need to explode. Do you understand? This is an emotional breaking point!
If you scold people first, scold them in the most ruthless way, you will not find the shark. , you want to kill it, and it keeps swimming around you.
Do you have to use Chinese to curse? FUCKYOU! You can also use this kind of line when facing sharks, you are an elite. , a Chinese who can dive, speak English, and know 26 English letters.
There is a ship in the distance. You are so anxious that you want to fly over. Where is your sense of urgency?
Take the flare and use the whale oil. If you light it on the sea, you will burn this shark to death. Do you understand? You have to be cruel!"
"Click!"
"Very good!"
"The next scene is difficult. You have to think about it. You have to use your ingenuity to sink the buoy into the sea and use the buoy to The iron thorn above is the ultimate showdown with the shark. When you are about to reach the iron thorn, you need to quickly transfer your body and do a submarine drift! I figured it out. I actively wanted to kill the shark. "Liu Yan is very smart.
This part of the scene is indeed very complicated. It was very difficult for Liu Yan to act, and it was also more difficult for Guan Ling to shoot, which put some pressure on Guan Ling.
Fortunately, Liu Yan is very resistant to stress. She worked hard to relieve Guan Ling's stress during the day and night, which made her very tired, but she still completed the filming task resolutely.
Guan Ling likes her more and more, and the smell of the sea has become a habit.
“Perfect!”
On July 11, all the scenes of "Shark Beach" were finally completed. Guan Ling used a hot air balloon for the aerial shots, which was different from the unexpected visitors. It's different when it comes to filming the sea surface with a hot air balloon, which can bring more beauty to the entire movie.
The pilot controlled the hot air balloon very low, and he could even capture the rolling waves during the shooting.
Liu Yan was lying on the fake whale carcass made by the props team, arranged into the words "da" and "∞".
After retaining all the materials, Guan Ling shouted to the crew, "I announce that "Shark Beach" is finished!"
Liu Yan also cried with excitement, she I am the most tired. I am very tired during the day and night, and I often have to go to bed very late.
“It’s done!”
She was dancing up and down on the beach in a bikini, shaking the earth and making everyone’s eyes dizzy.
Evening, hotel.
"Director Guan, I know how to get angry, right? I need money."
"You know how to get angry," Guan Ling held the opponent's soft hand, not knowing why, Guan Ling It's not that Ling has never seen meat and fish before, but here at Liu Yan, Guan Ling feels that nothing is enough.
“I’m very sure, sure, you will be very popular. Everyone will be watching you, and you will make the entire Chinese film industry understand the core of commercial films.”
"Core?" Liu Yan didn't understand.
"The audience only likes to see what they want to see. If they don't treat the audience as a human being, the audience will not treat the director as a human being. This is not a bad world. Times have changed." Guan Ling said with a smile.
On July 18, after two days and nights of hard work, and after explaining all the effects to the special effects department and providing them with storyboards of some key locations, Guan Ling boarded a plane to the United States.
The post-processing of "Hearing Girl" has basically been completed, and Guan Ling went to see the finished film.
(End of this chapter)