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Chapter 54 "The Hangover" Power On

On October 83th, Cao Qing's [-]-square-meter small house in the second ring road of the imperial capital was on the fifth day of his stay in Yin Tao. Finally, it was slowly decorated according to Yin Tao's favorite style.

That is to say, on the day when the house was renovated, Cao Qing, who had finished filming "Crazy Stone" since the end of February, finally started filming his second film again after more than half a year.

However, compared to "Crazy Stone", which he could copy almost directly according to the gourd painting, the difficulty of shooting this movie "The Hangover" is much higher.

Speaking of which, in fact, the plot of "The Hangover" is very simple, and there are not many characters. It is roughly about the male protagonist Doug deciding to go to Las Vegas with a few close friends to have a final pre-wedding party two days before his wedding. Crazy night, officially announcing the end of single life.

In the United States, where the behavior is relatively open, the male protagonist's behavior was not opposed by his family and relatives. On the contrary, he also received strong support from his future father-in-law and enthusiastic encouragement from his fiancee.

The encouraged male protagonist, together with his future brother-in-law Allen, Phil, the elementary school teacher who has been married and gay for many years, and Stu, the dentist who is unmarried but has a dictatorial girlfriend, plan to have a good life. Go wild and have a wild night.

During this period, because Doug's crazy brother-in-law Alan bought the ecstasy by mistake, the four of them went crazy all night after drinking it. The next day, several people collectively lost their memory. They didn't know what happened last night.

But at this time, they discovered a more frightening thing, that is, Doug, the male protagonist who is about to get married, has disappeared. Seeing that the wedding will be held in a day, his brother-in-law and two good friends were terrified. Crazy began to recall what happened last night, and began the process of finding the whereabouts of the hero Doug.

In the process of searching for the whereabouts of the male protagonist Doug, the whole plot is full of absurdity and madness, which is very funny and exaggerated, including going to Tyson's house to steal a tiger, dentist Stu marrying a strange stripper, stealing a police car, and Lasvi All kinds of crazy behaviors such as trading and other local gangsters in Gass.

Anyway, the plot is such a plot. The funniest part of this whole movie lies in the nonsensical search process, and in the search process, various sets of clues and clues are used to constantly trick the audience to attract them to continue watching.

It is actually not difficult to shoot such nonsensical and funny movies, with a general plot context and the original movie as a reference.

As long as you find a good actor, don't remake it randomly, and shoot it according to the original movie plot, any normal director can restore it to seven or eighty-eight.

It’s just that the movie is easy to shoot, but there is one problem, that is how to properly adapt a Hollywood movie that was shot and released in the United States 11 years later, and localize it as perfectly as possible.

After all, if you can't overcome the plot of this movie that is obviously incompatible with the domestic environment, this super dark horse movie that swept the box office of nearly 4 million US dollars in the world after its release in the United States in the previous life, obviously, it can't even be released.

Fortunately, it has been a month or so since Cao Qing got the script of the movie and started shooting.

Even if you want to reasonably adapt and localize a Hollywood movie, the process is quite difficult and obscure, but after a month of hard work, and several helpless deletions in the middle, Cao Qing's magically transformed local " "The Hangover" finally passed the review within the relevant departments.

On the green leather train to Omen, Cao Qing, who directly bought hard sleeper beds for all the main actors and important staff of the crew of "The Hangover", stood with a smile on his face and a large section of the crew was occupied by the crew In the carriage, the scattered scripts in the hands were distributed to the corresponding actors one by one according to the number.

Standing up and taking the script, he turned around and sat down on his lower bunk. Huang Bo quickly flipped through the script in his hand, and after carefully memorizing it silently in his heart, Huang Bo frowned unconsciously.

Standing up with some doubts, he whispered to Cao Qing and said:

"Brother Qing, you changed the script again, it seems to have changed a lot from the plot you showed me three days ago."

Nodding, Cao Qing smiled and patted Huang Bo on the shoulder, explaining in a low voice:
"Well, after Assistant Jin helped me book the train tickets for everyone at the train station, he specifically explained things to me."

"She told me that with the current number of more than [-] people in our crew and the current price of Omen, if we still stay in Omen for a month according to the previous shooting plan, it is possible that the funds left for us to do publicity later will be as much as would be severely lacking."

"In order to avoid this, I deliberately cut out some of the scene changes that will occur when filming in Omen, and try to fix those conflict scenes in those few important scene locations, which can effectively save at least 30 funds."

"Our company is not big now. Apart from maintaining the basic food and drink of the crew members, we pay more attention to economy in other aspects of filming."

Hearing what Cao Qing said, Huang Bo nodded to show that he understood.

Although Huang Bo, who has never been to Omen, is not very clear about the price of Omen at this time, but Huang Bo, who has clearly seen what is called pre-filming film preparation work in the recent period, is very concerned about the "Hangover" crew. How much food and drink cost many people have to spend every day can be counted.

After deducting a lot of necessary expenses for filming such as preparing props and renting machines in the early stage of the crew, and deducting the food and drink expenses of the more than 100 crew members, Huang Bo guessed that Cao Qing probably had less than himself left in his hands at this time. The 200 million funds were really used for filming.

And this mere filming funds of less than 200 million may sound like astronomical figures in the mainland, but for Omen and Hong Kong Island, which are economically developed at this time, this little filming funds is really nothing.

However, if Cao Qing uses a little more in any scene during the filming process, it is estimated that the entire film will face the dilemma of lack of funds and difficulty in filming all the plots.

Sighing, Huang Bo, who had received definite information from Cao Qing and knew that the script had been changed a lot, sat back on his bunk, silently picked up the script and recited the lines seriously, trying hard to express himself Bringing you completely into character.

Lines are one of the basic skills of an actor. As an actor who has become a monk halfway through, Huang Bo is very aware that he is much weaker in terms of lines than the few actors in the crew who came out of China Opera and Beijing Film Studio.

Out of a kind of self-esteem, but also out of a kind of love for the actor's career, even if he knows that he owns 5% of the shares of Tengda Film and Television Entertainment Company, he will never be ridiculed by these newcomers in the crew, but He still seizes every opportunity to learn, constantly learning and strengthening himself.

After reading the script by himself for a while, he felt a little out of touch. Huang Bo looked at Cao Qing who had finished distributing the script in the carriage and was also memorizing the content of the script on the seat next to him. He patted him lightly on the shoulder and said:
"Brother Qing, why don't we practice together?"

"Anyway, when we get to Omen, we will have to shoot a movie together in the crew, why don't we start practicing now."

Cao Qing glanced at Huang Bo in surprise. Although he was not very confident in his acting skills, as a person who had filming experience, he already possessed the necessary professional skills for acting in full view of the public. Cao Qing, who is socially obsessive, is not afraid.

Nodding their heads, Cao Qing and Huang Bo stood up together, and under the watchful eyes of the other crew members on the nearby beds, the two began to read their lines to each other without changing expressions.

　I'm thinking about how to change the plot magically, it's a bit difficult, and it takes a lot of brainpower.And readers, remember to add clothes to keep warm. Our side yesterday was 35 to 20 degrees, and today it is directly [-] degrees. I suddenly caught a cold and felt uncomfortable.

　　
　
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