A few days later, it was late autumn in the mountain city.
At the gate of Jiangbei International Airport, the "Crazy Stone" team is preparing for the crew's first scene.
Getting off to a good start is very important to any crew.
So when we discussed it a few days ago, everyone was very hesitant.
Zhang Yuan took the initiative to take on this responsibility.
There is no way, who makes him an investor, even if the filming is not good, Ning Hao will not scold him.
Everyone was relieved when they saw him taking the lead.
At this time, Zhang Yuan was wearing a pure black leather jacket with this pure white shirt with a large collar underneath.
The lower body is a pair of slim trousers and a pair of Italian leather shoes of the same color.
In addition, there is carefully styled short hair, a platinum ring on the ring finger of the right hand, a black earring on the left ear, and black sunglasses on the bridge of the nose.
All of them highlight the unique fashion attributes of this character.
After getting my ears pierced in "Initial D" last time, it made it a lot easier to put on earrings this time.
The character Mike, the international thief, usually disguises himself as a fashion designer, and this outfit conveys this message to the outside world very simply and clearly.
Apart from some action scenes, the most difficult part of shaping this character is actually the temperament.
That sense of professionalism, and the arrogance that one considers oneself to be very professional, along with the fashionable attributes required for disguise.
Moreover, the film "Crazy Stone" is positioned as black humor, and the characters all have comedic effects.
This is not the deliberately exaggerated comedy of Mr. Xing, but a structural joke brought about by the story progression and the logical conflict between the characters.
Especially for the character Mike, in order to be deadpan and funny, he means that he is obviously serious and his expressions and movements are normal, but he always makes people want to laugh.
Zhang Yuan doesn’t really want to play a comedy, especially an exaggerated comedy role.
You can think about Sha Yi's acting career after starring in "Wulin Gaiden". He was basically labeled as a comedian.
Zhang Yuan is a bit taboo with this label because it will affect his ability to take on major dramas.
Mike's cold-faced character has reached the limit of what he can accept.
Phew!
Pinching his index finger with his thumb, he took off his sunglasses from the bridge of his nose and then waved, stopping a taxi with a particularly cool movement.
“Stop!”
Ning Hao smiled and clapped his hands: "Not bad, not bad, handsome!"
Ning Hao is different from many directors. This one does not shout "ACTION!", nor does he shout "card".
They all shout "start" and "stop".
"Those are all foreigners' words. Xiangjiang people are very good at it. We Chinese people can say whatever we like when we feel comfortable." After asking, this was the answer given by Ning Hao.
Zhang Yuan thinks it is good and down-to-earth.
"You're very good at handling this awkward situation. I was worried that you weren't sure before." Ning Hao said, holding his shoulders.
Because he feels that Zhang Yuan does have a good appearance, but his usual easy-going personality is in great contrast with this character.
But what he didn't know was that this character actually had many similarities with Zhongli Yihou, played by Zhang Yuan in "Initial D".
He has a weird expression, dresses fashionably, calls himself a professional, and looks down on amateur racing drivers (little thieves).
The personalities are 60 or 70% similar, so he is easy to handle.
"Xiao Bo, Brother Hua, Xiao Jun, you three are ready to take over." Ning Hao turned to call to the trio on the side.
"Zhang Yuan has made a good start, but you can't stretch your hips."
"Got it!" the three of them replied in unison.
In addition to Liu Hua and Huang Bo, another member of the three-person theft gang is named Xiaojun in the film, and the actor himself is named Yue Xiaojun.
Ning Hao has always been lazy when it comes to naming, and he has never been a young man.
This Xiaojun is also responsible for proofreading the script and adjusting some details. You can just say that this crew saves more manpower.
“Guess who I am, I’ll give you three chances!”
In front of the camera, Huang Bo covered Zhang Yuan’s eyes from behind while speaking in a strong Qingdao accent Lines.
This is also what Ning Hao requested. Each character has his own accent, and there is no need to speak Mandarin.
This will make the story appear more realistic.
"I think you recognized the wrong person."
"No, there are two more times left."
At the same time, Brother Dao and Xiaojun placed Zhang Yuan's metal code handheld on the ground. He threw the box into the car and drove away.
After Zhang Yuan repeatedly warned and Huang Bo let go of his hand, Zhang Yuan opened his eyes and looked to the left and right, as if looking for the person who had just harassed him.
But when I turned around and bent down, I was about to lift my suitcase, but I found that it was already gone.
Zhang Yuan kept bending down for a second or two, then straightened up and looked around. In addition to confusion, there was also a hint of anger in his eyes.
As if to say.
The local colleagues are so rude!
Zhang Yuan steadied himself, looked at the camera, and murmured his lines.
“I’ll beat your lungs out!”
The original actor Lian Jin was from Xiangjiang, so lines were designed for him.
When Zhang Yuan came, Ning Hao didn’t have to change his lines, script or character.
Because there are a large number of people going to sea in Guangdong, Guangxi and southern Fujian, it fits the character of an international thief.
He can just follow the original settings.
"Stop... Okay, very good." Ning Hao smiled: "Especially the pause when picking up the box just now, it was really good."
"Hehehe, it's really interesting. With this pause, the stupidity comes out all of a sudden." Huang Bo grinned and said: "You really don't consider acting in comedy. I think you are very talented."
< br>This kind of pause actually has similar techniques in cross talk.
Talking to Guo and Yu, Brother Qian often has this kind of pause when replying. Not only can he control the rhythm, but he can also leave time for the audience to react.
His cross talk attributes are not lacking, and this feeling can still be grasped.
“A good start in the first game, everyone applauds!”
Bang bang bang bang... The crew members were very excited and felt that it was a good start.
Since it’s a good start, the rest should be very smooth... How is that possible?
Zhang Yuan also knew for the first time that the inexperienced crew would encounter so much trouble.
“How did you become a producer?”
“Why did you make this mistake?”
Ning Hao kept getting angry on the set.
First, the location was wrong.
The main scene of the gemstone exhibition in the film is at Longxing Temple, but the chase scene around the exhibition hall in the film was taken to Luohan Temple by the producer, and a deposit was paid.
The two temples are far apart, and it takes dozens of minutes to drive there.
“I asked you to bake the wall, did you do it!”
"What the fuck!"
After a while, the lighting engineer forgot to light the newly painted wall to dry it, and the wall became peeling. Ning Hao scolded the lighting engineer again.
Zhang Yuan and the other actors could only watch helplessly as the director went berserk.
Ning Hao usually has a good temper and is always cheerful.
But as soon as I arrived on the set, I looked like a ghost.
There is no way, from morning to night, there are 800 things to do and think about in a day, and I am so busy that I have no time to eat or sleep.
I have a soft temper and can't control the crew. It's all because of my work.
This further strengthens Zhang Yuan’s principle that he should not be a director.
He is not tired of this!
Others would lower their heads when they saw him swearing, or hide to the side in embarrassment. No one dared to persuade him.
At this time, Zhang Yuan could only come forward to smooth things over.
And because there are too many things on this crew, Zhang Yuan keeps an eye on them all day long even if there is no drama, so that he can help deal with troublesome matters.
There is nothing I can do. After all, I invested the money myself, so I can’t do anything without taking care of it.
We were on the set again today. We had just finished a good shoot. Ning Hao was praising the actors,
but as soon as he turned around, he lost his temper again.
The director of the handicraft factory in the film is named Xie Qianli. The actor who plays the role is not a professional actor, but an extra.
But this old man is very strict and has perfectly created the image of the down-and-out factory director.
Later, after Zhang Yuan inquired, he found out that this old man was the deputy director of a local light bulb factory.
After the factory director went bankrupt, in order to make a living, he had no choice but to work as a group performer to make money.
He is not acting at all. This character is basically his real life.
When he performed the performance, he must have felt uncomfortable, but how can a middle-aged person not feel uncomfortable?
“Have you lost your mind?”
But now, the problem lies with the factory elder brother.
Ning Hao pointed at the makeup artist beside him and cursed.
The factory elder brother was very embarrassed and was holding a pair of glasses in his hand.
His character's makeup was to wear glasses, but during the entire scene, which lasted two hours of filming, no one noticed that this person's glasses were always in his pocket.
Or should the factory director ask Ning Hao himself if I should wear glasses?
Haozi discovered this.
This resulted in the front and rear shots not taking over the scene, and the characters wearing glasses for a while and then not wearing them again.
Ning Hao was so angry that he pulled the short woman in charge of makeup and scolded him.
"Makeup is your job. You were there when the makeup was set. Why didn't you put on glasses for him when you put on makeup just now?"
Ning Hao stared at the other person and pointed at the other party fiercely.
And the makeup instructor named Zuo Shi quietly walked up behind Zhang Yuan.
Zhang Yuan: ...
This person is using me as a shield, right?
Every time Ning Hao lost his temper these days, he would come out to persuade him.
So the female makeup artist instinctively used him as a shield.
So, there was a situation where Zhang Yuan was caught in the middle, and Ning Hao and the makeup artist circled around him and cursed.
"Stop...stop!" Zhang Yuan wiped his face. If you continue to curse, it will be sprayed in your face.
"If you're not wearing it, then you're not wearing it."
"If you're not wearing it, the work of the past few hours will be in vain!" Ning Hao refused to give up.
"If you just shoot a scene where he takes his glasses out of his pocket and puts them on, he will be able to take the role."
Ning Hao lowered his head and thought for a moment.
It seems so.
It's better than all the previous lenses being useless.
"Please think it through next time and don't do this again!"
The makeup artist nodded vigorously behind Zhang Yuan.
【Received thanks from Zuo Shi, +1 for makeup skills! 】
This is great, other crew members are starting to follow suit.
From that day on, whenever Ning Hao cursed anyone, he would hide behind him.
There were several times when Ning Hao scolded the cameraman. This big guy, who was over 1.9 meters tall, was wider than Zhang Yuan. He hid behind him in shock.
I ended up playing "Eagle Catching Chicken" on the set every day.
There are disadvantages and advantages to doing this.
Whenever he was in trouble, everyone would pull Zhang Yuan along when he was scolded.
As a result, he was scolded more than ten times a day. He had never been scolded so many times on the set of Star Master before.
The good thing is that everyone in the crew admires him now.
Everyone in front of him or behind him, even those who are older than him, call him "Brother Yuan".
He can't let people shout in vain.
I asked my assistant to buy thirty boxes of mineral water for use on the set.
I also saw these old men staying up late every day and smoking continuously.
This is the most exhausting crew he has seen since he was on the set of "Conquest".
He also concluded a pattern. The poorer and more hurried the crew is, the more aggressive they smoke, and they all rely on nicotine to relieve their fatigue.
So he asked Zhao Jue to order a hundred cartons of local red-shell Chaotianmen cigarettes from the regular counter of the shopping mall.
This thing is not expensive, five yuan a pack, one hundred pieces is only five thousand, and the discount is more than four thousand.
Just throw it in the crew's car and anyone who wants it can take it.
While relying on these cigarettes to gather many attributes, he also gained a wave of admiration from the men on the crew.
When I was in school, as long as I was willing to smoke, a bunch of "sons" would appear. The same goes for the crew. Men are that simple.
"We are much happier with you here." During the meal, Huang Bo smiled and poured him a cup of tea.
“I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on cigarettes, water, and meals these days.”
"As long as the film can be shot well, it's no big deal."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, look, it's different now that you're the boss." Bo Ge sighed.
I remembered that my salary was only 10,000 yuan, and the money that people casually subsidized the crew exceeded my salary, and I sighed in my heart.
Is it really that bad to be unattractive?
Zhang Yuan saw the loneliness in his eyes and took the opportunity to speak.
"If you want to make more money, I can help you."
"I have my own brokerage company. If you are interested, we can chat."
Huang After Bo heard this, you said that he had no idea at all, which was impossible.
After all, Zhang Yuan's ability and financial resources these days are all in his eyes.
And he also heard from his friend Gao Yu that Zhang Yuan is so ruthless now that even the bearded man can't do anything to him.
In addition, he can invest in movies with Brother Hua, which is enough to prove his connections in the film and television industry.
Huang Bo didn't say anything, just thinking carefully.
Zhang Yuan knew that this man was a top smart man and very loyal.
You have to give him some time to think about it, and you have to come up with some benefits to "seduce" him.
Only by putting a long line in can you catch big fish.
After eating, the crew all came to a crossroads.
The scene we are filming today is an important scene in the second half of the entire film.
The BMW Zhang Yuan found was parked on the side of the road.
Not far away, there was a black Santana 2000.
"After spreading the water in a while, we will start from your side."
A stuntman wearing a helmet and leather jacket is carefully following Ning Hao's instructions.
The content of this scene is that Brother Dao is riding a bicycle to snatch the backpack of the actor Bao Shihong, but accidentally bumps into the owner of the Santana car who opened the door. In the end, he crashed into the road because of the slippery rain. BMW on the side.
The BMW happened to be on top of the manhole cover that blocked Huang Bo.
This interlocking storyline is the fundamental reason why "Crazy Stone" can stand out as a low-cost small production.
Script!
Although the script model obviously borrowed from Guy Ritchie's "Two Smoking Barrels", Ning Hao also added a lot of his own ingenuity, including a non-linear narrative lens technique similar to Nolan's "Memento".
Made this movie feel like listening to storytelling at many times.
Just as he talks, he will turn the book over to you and explain the ins and outs of a plot.
Although this crew is poor, they still have to use stand-ins in some places.
For example, in this motorcycle wrestling scene, if you ask Liu Hua, who plays Brother Dao, to do it by himself, what will happen if something happens to him?
Fortunately, Brother Hua was very moved after learning that Zhang Yuan was so attached to the film, so he hired a stunt director named Luo Lixian in Hong Kong to help.
This is the famous director known as the "King of Cars of Hong Kong".
When it comes to flying car scenes, he is the strongest director in Hong Kong and even China.
He did all the flying scenes in "Chariots of Fire" and "Human Torch".
If it weren’t for Brother Hua’s face, the small crew of “Crazy Stone” would not be able to hire anyone at all.
This guy is very busy. After working here for a few days, he has to rush to the other side of the city to film.
What was filmed was the top Hollywood blockbuster "Mission: Impossible 3"!
He was also hired as the action director for the Chinese part of the film.
And the most amazing thing about Luo Lixian is that he has gone through the early immature stage of the Hong Kong film industry, and is not the kind of "good person" who only knows how to make big productions.
He knows very well that spending a small amount of money to do big things is just right for the economic situation of this crew.
Therefore, although this crew is broken and small, it is small but sophisticated and has many masters.
"Come, get ready...go!" Ning Hao gave the order, and the motorcycle stuntman turned the accelerator and rushed forward.
“Stop, stop, what are you doing!!!”
But this guy drove out only a few meters away when a rough voice came straight towards the director team. go.
The sound was so loud that it even echoed around the intersection for several times without dissipating.
"What are you doing? We are filming. Let's talk if you have something to do." The producer immediately stood up to stop him.
This person here is not a crew member, but the owner of the black Santana.
To say that Ning Hao was trying to save money was actually quite immoral.
He had agreed with the car owner to "open the door to kill" and would remove the car glass and replace it with props.
After the photo is taken, I will give it back intact.
But the car owner took a look from the side and realized something was wrong.
In fact, what Ning Hao wanted to take was not to break the glass, but to knock off the entire car door.
Under Luo Lixian's design, the prop brother removed the hinges of the car door and then simply supported it with a wooden pole. When the time comes, it only needs a light touch to make the car door fall.
Coupled with the camera angle, you can create the effect of a motorcycle knocking off a car door.
What Ning Hao thought was that there was not much difference between broken glass and broken car doors.
That's because the car doesn't belong to him!
Can other car owners not be impatient?
The car is a man’s second wife.
Santana sounds worthless, but in 2005, someone with a private car was considered a wealthy person.
“No!”
"Why are you like this?"
"No, we agreed."
After a stalemate with the crew for a while, the car owner grabbed the car keys, got into the car and planned to take the car Drive away.
Ning Hao suddenly became anxious.
We have taken several shots. Now that the car is driven away, the previous shots will be useless.
It's not as simple as forgetting your glasses and just replacing the lenses.
A group of people stopped next to the car.
But the car owner doesn't care about this, he will drive away as soon as he steps on the accelerator.
Then... boom!
After a soft sound.
Everyone shouted.
"Stop it quickly."
"I hit someone!"
"You are crazy, someone give me gas!"
Ning Hao He was also anxious and looked at the ground in front of the car with everyone.
I saw the body of an adult male lying sprawled on the slippery ground, motionless and lifeless.
It is Zhang Yuan!
Everyone in the crew:! ! ! ! ! ! (End of this chapter)