Chapter 303: Overcoming the Tribulation
In the crew, Zhang Yuan and cameraman Du Jie had a leisurely chat.
This graduate from the Nortel Photography Department is just like Zhang Li, the former photography master on the crew of "A World Without Thieves".
But it doesn’t matter if they are in the same school. Opportunities in life include not only study, but also family background, connections, luck, etc.
Du Jie obviously does not have the same family background and luck as Zhang Li, but just after graduation, he received an invitation from Ning Hao, a senior at the same school, to go to the vast grassland to film a movie called "Green Grass" literary film.
I just graduated, majoring in photography.
I heard that it was a literary movie and that I could go to the prairie for filming.
Holy shit!
Isn’t that how “poetry and distance” shines into real life!
Of course he agreed immediately.
It's easy to talk about the price. You're young, you have a lot of hard work, and you're not afraid of hardship!
The young people who came later knew that if you can endure hardships, there will be endless hardships. This sentence came true for Du Jie.
The crew had just started filming, and the investors withdrew their capital. Ning Hao spent all his money to ensure that the crew could continue filming.
But the originally expected team of 60 people was reduced to 11 people.
The drivers all have to work as on-site reporters and lights.
That is to say, there is no substitute for him as a cameraman, otherwise he would have to work part-time in other jobs.
Isn’t it just difficult...he thought at that time.
We are all brothers, fighting for our dreams!
Then, the crew had a series of "minor accidents" such as car accidents, fractures, fires, getting lost, and falling into the water. The only multi-talented person in the crew, a full-time assistant, was forgotten when the crew changed filming locations.
A few days later, everyone remembered that when they found this person, he was sitting on an empty oil drum, relying on the only remaining pack of instant noodles and rainwater to survive for several days.
The assistant immediately ran away and went home crying.
Of course, God is fair, and everyone in the crew will have their own hardships.
What happened to Du Jie was that he was almost struck by lightning!
Ku cross!
This guy was filming when he heard a deafening loud noise next to him, and his head was buzzing.
Turning around, he saw a small, charred pit on the grass less than three meters away from him.
If he had taken a few more steps to the side, it would be almost the anniversary now.
After listening to this, Zhang Yuan sighed in his heart.
If you are not unlucky, you really don’t know how unlucky you can be.
Drinking cold water and stuffing your teeth is just a small problem. Weird things can happen.
The scary thing is not that I have filmed "Green Grass", but that as soon as I debuted, my first film was "Green Grass"!
It’s like first love meeting Ma Rong, who can withstand this?
Zhang Yuan even wanted to take Du Jie and Gao Rui to have a meal, which could be regarded as a communication between patients... Oh, that's not right.
Both of them are so unlucky, and what they have in common is that they have a close relationship with Ning Hao.
Zhang Yuan seems to have discovered a blind spot!
"Is he causing trouble?"
"Why do I feel that I am in danger?"
Zhang Yuan calmed down and then thought.
"Others said that this guy was almost struck by lightning. I think half of it is Ning Hao and half of it is his parents."
"Look at this unlucky name, Du Jie. Overcoming the tribulation..."
"Can it be possible?"
Young people, after encountering difficulties, can easily go from one extreme to another.
This is exactly what Du Jie is doing now.
“Fuck!”
“What poetry and distance!”
"I almost died several times while filming a movie. I was as tired as a dog, but in the end I only got thousands of dollars."
"Fuck your dream!"
This guy As a result, Zhang Yuan took a puff on the cigarette he handed over and said indignantly.
“Actually, I don’t blame Ning Hao.”
“We still have money to take, but he himself lost hundreds of thousands, and he is the most unlucky.”
"The only thing I blame is that this market cannot tolerate quiet souls."
This man blew out a smoke ring and suddenly became artistic.
"Wenqing is suffering from a disease..." Zhang Yuan He complained in his heart.
“So, I just want to make money now!” Du Jie looked solemn: “I was away from the imperial capital for several months to film “Green Grass”. When I came back, I had no money, and my girlfriend even split it.”
"So..." Zhang Yuan glanced at the camera stand, which still had a lot of vomit to be cleaned up: "It doesn't matter if you are treated as the third son of those Xiangjiang people?"
Du Jie closed his eyes and gritted his teeth.
“You have money to make, so what are you afraid of!”
“Besides, look at this machine.” Du Jie pointed to the Alai camera in front of him, which cost hundreds of thousands. The small crew has no chance to come into contact with a machine of this level."
"I can see that I have learned a lot here."
"After working for a few years, I will gain experience. , it’s not too late to make plans.”
Full of ideals, full of reality, all you need is "Green Grass"...
Zhang Yuan chatted with him for a while. Although this man said he came to study with pay, in fact, in his heart There is also a lot of dissatisfaction.
“Damn it, those newcomers from Xiangjiang who are also photographers and have the same job as me, even easier, earn three times as much as me!”
“These guys with high salaries Grandson..."
"You can't say that..." Zhang Yuan tried to persuade him after coughing a few times.
Because he has calculated his salary, based on the roles and the number of episodes he has appeared in, he is the third-highest-paid actor in the entire crew.
Nicholas Tse's salary per episode is about 170,000, Zhang Weijian's is 130,000, and he is over 100,000... The second female lead, Fan Bingbing, only earns 60,000 per episode.
His salary is higher than that of Yuan Quan, the female lead who has not yet joined the crew.
Du Jie cursed others and even cursed himself.
The salary of senior employee Zhang Weijian is not as good as that of Nicholas Tse, a well-connected person, and only slightly higher than that of Zhang Yuan, a small-connected person.
This is no different from the salary status of most companies.
Either the remuneration has to be kept secret, otherwise it would be easy to start a fight.
When the conversation was almost over, the crew members and Mr. Xie, who had recovered, returned to the scene, and filming was about to start again.
"Thank you just now." Mr. Xie came to him specifically to express his thanks.
【Received thanks from Nicholas Tse, +1 for guitar basics and +1 for music basics! 】
Because of Wang Fei's relationship, he was quite polite to Zhang Yuan.
“You moved so fast just now!” Mr. Xie looked suspicious and praised, “I didn’t even see it clearly, so you blocked it with your clothes.”
“Did you Have you practiced martial arts?"
Zhang Yuan raised his eyebrows, completely different from the past, and replied with a silly smile that he usually used to deceive people.
“I have never practiced martial arts.”
"You thought I moved quickly just now because I felt unwell. You were wrong."
"Really?" Mr. Xie tilted his head in confusion.
"I wish I had practiced, so that I could make very cool martial arts moves."
"Yes." The man nodded, didn't think much more, and then looked at Yang Xue looked aside and then turned around to film.
"I felt embarrassed after vomiting in front of my eldest sister..." Zhang Yuan saw what he was thinking.
As a result, this scene was ultimately shot in two shots according to Wang Jian's plan.
After Mr. Xie finished vomiting, he learned his lesson and stopped "challenging himself".
After catching a fish during the day, in addition to learning calligraphy from Wang Bozhao and Xu Jingjiang at night, he also went to Du Jie, whom he had just met, to have a drink with him.
“Are you interested in photography?”
Du Jie said unexpectedly.
"What, you have research on photography?"
Du Jie couldn't understand even more.
You are an actor, or a well-known actor, but you don’t earn a lot of money, why do you want to learn this?
You think you earn too much and your work is easy, so you want to steal my job?
Du Jie didn’t understand. But as soon as the two started discussing, Du Jie was shocked again.
“You are so knowledgeable!”
No, he got the attributes related to lens and camera from many directors.
Not to mention far away, just talking about the crew of "A World Without Thieves", he recruited a lot from Du Jie's senior brother Zhang Li.
Now, you can use it all!
"I think at this stage, in terms of lens language and picture language, the most powerful person in our country is Lao Mouzi." Zhang Yuan then started the deception mode.
"We don't care about anything else, let's just talk about "Hero", which currently has the highest box office in Chinese film history."
"There is this in "Zhou Li" written by Zhou Gongdan."
“The painting of silk is a mixture of five colors.”
“The east calls it green, the south calls it red, the west calls it white, the north calls it black, the sky calls it mysterious, and the earth calls it black. ”
"This is the origin of our country's five-color concept."
"And "Hero" corresponds to the five colors of green, red, yellow, white and black."
"Director Zhang is in color His accomplishments in this aspect are truly outstanding.”
As a professional photographer, how could I not study the lens language of “Heroes”? This is a required course and cannot be avoided.
Now that Du Jie saw Zhang Yuan quoting scriptures when he opened his mouth, he couldn't help but take the initiative to listen closely.
"Except for the dark theme of the Qin Kingdom, the other color themes of the movie appear in the memories and dialogues of different characters."
"There is a point in this movie that has caused many people to discuss, and that is what This story is true, or relatively true.”
“In fact, you can see Director Zhang’s original intention from the color.”
Zhang Yuan paused and led the other party. When curiosity aroused and impatient, he continued.
“In fact, if you talk about masters of color, especially masters of bright and solid colors, even if you look at it from a global perspective, you have to talk about the one from the island country.”
Du Jie was stunned for a moment, then spoke immediately.
“Akira Kurosawa!”
If the idol of a great Chinese director were to learn from Japanese filmmakers, many people might have national sentiments.
But Master Akira Kurosawa has influenced not only Chinese filmmakers, but all practitioners in the film industry around the world!
In 1970, Akira Kurosawa's "Train Man" failed at the box office. He was unable to secure investment for the filming of "Shadow Warrior" and even committed suicide due to depression due to the failure of the film.
After George Lucas and Coppola, who were far away in the Lighthouse Country, heard about this, they directly approached Fox and asked for 1.5 million US dollars to inject funds into Akira Kurosawa.
Both of them were very popular at the time, and one of them became the world's top director with "Star Wars".
A man just finished filming "The Godfather" a few years ago and became famous all over the world.
Both of these two are loyal fans of Akira Kurosawa.
Even the source of inspiration for "Star Wars" is Akira Kurosawa's "Heroes of the Warring States Period".
Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Quentin, these famous big guys are all big fans of the old man.
"If you are familiar with Akira Kurosawa, you should know that the master often uses highly saturated clothing and decorations to express dreams or hallucinations."
"So..."
"So in the film "Hero", whenever there are high-saturation colors in the picture, the content is illusory." Before he could finish speaking, Du Jie continued.
“Only the story with the white picture is real.”
The young cameraman was silent for a long time, and then clapped his hands excitedly.
“This explanation angle is interesting!”
“Use the color of the picture to infer the plot.”
“Instead of using the plot to analyze the color of the picture.”
< br>“Wonderful!”
He really didn't expect that the actor in front of him who was younger than himself was really knowledgeable!
Zhang Yuan actually admires Lao Mouzi, who is also a great director and uses a lot of highly saturated colors in the pictures.
Compared with "The Promise" and "Hero", there is a huge difference.
Whether it is artistic conception, meaning, picture language, or picture effect, the two are not on the same level.
“Brother Zhang’s talk has benefited a lot!” Du Jie patted the table generously.
"Besides the picture, do you have any special understanding of the camera?" the person asked.
Zhang Yuan waved his hand without thinking.
“If I were to make a film.”
“Then I would make one, a whole film.”
“One shot to the end!”
"Isn't it very bold?"
Hearing this, Du Jie was very excited!
“A movie only takes twenty or twenty-five days to shoot.”
“It is shot twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, for ten consecutive days.”< br>
“This has been done twenty times, so I will choose one.”
"I spent ten days rehearsing before, and then it was all one shot!"
Pop-pap-pap... Hearing Du Jie's scream, he was so excited that he clapped his hands.
"Okay, if one day, there is this opportunity, Brother Zhang must call me and I will help you take pictures!"
Zhang Yuan:...
I was bragging, and he seemed to really believe it.
Chatted with him for a long time.
The reason why Zhang Yuan became good friends with him was that he was Ning Hao's friend and junior student. With this relationship, he naturally had to treat him with courtesy.
Secondly, I am not satisfied with being just an actor.
So, just like what Uncle Li said in "A World Without Thieves".
What is the most expensive thing in the 21st century?
Talent!
This person can withstand the working environment of "Green Grass". This person is definitely a talent.
Now that we are starting our own team, we are in desperate need of talents.
Besides, this person has just made his debut and needs support from noble people.
Just like an investment company, the most profitable is definitely the angel round.
The same goes for investing in talents. The most profitable thing is to help them when they have nothing.
However, in addition to these two points, there is a third one!
"Hey, what a pity!" After chatting for a long time and drinking a table full of canned beer, Zhang Yuan sighed sadly.
“It’s a pity that I only have interest and theory, but no chance to practice it.”
“This is just talk on paper.”
"Let alone filming, I have never even touched the machine."
This is the truth!
On the set, the prop master's box could not be moved, and the cameraman's machine could not be moved.
The camera has many settings that suit personal habits, and it is a high-priced precision instrument, so it is most taboo for others to touch it!
Not to mention the actors and crew, even if they are also cameramen, they rarely touch the camera of the same person.
But Du Jie was different. He had a heroic personality and had a great conversation with him, so he patted his chest.
"What's the point? The crew has a lot of machines."
"Which one do you want to see? When I use it, I can secretly play with it for you a few times. It doesn't matter! "
"Happy, I like your temper. "
The two clinked glasses again.
Zhang Yuan's purpose was to understand how the crew's cameras were used.
This is of great use to the purpose of his trip!
(End of this chapter)