reshape life

When Qingqi Baima was a teenager, his sons and daughters were old in the world.

This is probably the portrayal of Qi Lianheng's short life.From a respectable and well-loved young chivalrous man to a paranoid, ruthless and maddened villain, Lu Heng needs to portray the internal conflicts of this character's blackening from the perspective of literature and drama, and also render this character before his blackening from the perspective of drama. It has a different sense of hierarchy than after blackening.

The former requires Lu Heng to read the script more, ponder and communicate with the director, while the latter requires Lu Heng to communicate more with the martial arts instructor of the play.

However, during the communication, Lu Heng was surprised to find many problems——

The first is the structure of the whole movie - "Xia Qi" was originally a movie adapted from a martial arts novel, since it is a martial arts movie, it should pay more attention to the design and interpretation of the fighting.But I don’t know if it’s because director Wu Zhongyuan wants to transform. Lu Heng found that in the movie "Forbidden Man", director Wu Zhongyuan put more energy into deliberating the script and polishing the plot. The most important part of the movie is the fight, but it is not as deep as the previous martial arts movies that were shot purely to highlight the visual effects.

On the other hand, compared to Mr. Fang Qizheng, the martial arts teacher used by director Fang Kaizhi, it is obvious that the martial arts guidance of "The Forbidden Man" is not as good as the old man's profound attainments in terms of artistic background and professional quality.Therefore, in the choreography of the play action, it is quite clichéd and cannot accurately express the personality characteristics of each character——

To give the most obvious example, all the characters appearing in the whole play, except Qi Lian Hengshi who was required to use the jade flute as a weapon in the script, the other characters actually use swords.Moreover, everyone's swordsmanship is a few moves that are commonly used on the big screen.Even the Biyu Xiao used by the character of Qi Lian Heng, his martial arts methods are all transformed from a few commonly used sword techniques.

It was a martial arts movie, but it was so perfunctory in terms of acting - of course, with Wu Zhongyuan's qualifications and shooting experience as a director, his usual team is naturally not bad.In fact, from the perspective of other industry insiders, the play of this drama is completely above the standard.

The main reason why Lu Heng felt that the play in this drama was perfunctory was that he was originally from martial arts, and since his debut, he had cooperated with top-notch teams in the industry. He has Mr. Fang Qizheng who is suitable as a mentor and apprentice, and even the martial arts teachers who worked with Mai Chengliang are "big prize winners" who are good at shooting gunfight movies, and Lu Heng himself is also a person who likes to ponder Action martial arts fans...

Several factors are added together, and some people who are used to the spicy and delicious food cooked by top chefs, and then eat porridge and side dishes cooked by lesser chefs, always feel that the refreshment is not so small.

After an in-depth discussion with Director Wu Zhongyuan and several martial arts teachers from the crew, Director Wu also came to his senses.He was originally an experienced old director who was good at shooting martial arts movies, but this time he was just eager to transform, so he made the mistake of focusing on one thing and neglecting another.After being awakened by Lu Heng, an outsider who is clearly a bystander, Director Wu Zhongyuan also reviewed in his heart that he focused on literary dramas and almost ignored the paranoia of martial arts. Come down, let's discuss how to design martial arts actions based on the difference between the plot and the characters.

Everyone in the industry knows that when Lu Heng was filming "Flower and Sword", he was spotted by the most sought after martial arts master in the industry, Mr. Fang Qizheng, and he was directly accepted as a closed disciple.Moreover, when Lu Heng participated in the audition of Wen Renjing, the second male lead in "Flowers and Swords", in order to impress the interviewer, he even painstakingly designed a set of sword skills for the role of Wen Renjing. Incorporated into the martial arts action system of "Flower and Sword", Lu Heng also took advantage of the opportunity to become a non-staff member of the martial arts guidance team of "Flower and Sword". "Tianshan Jinghu Landscape Brush and Ink Competition" with the most beautiful and ethereal style of domestic martial arts scenes has successfully won the Best Martial Arts Instruction Award, Best Costume Design Award and Best Visual Effects Award at several major domestic and international film festivals.

This matter has long been talked about in the circle as a good talk.

Now that Lu Heng is willing to help "Xia Qi" design martial arts moves, director Wu Zhongyuan and the martial arts team of the film crew are simply wishing for it. Even if the film crew has to pay an extra salary for this, everyone is willing to do so.

Lu Heng himself declined with a smile.With his qualifications and status in the Chinese film industry, the standard of remuneration for filming has long been 1000 million soft sister coins plus a remuneration share ranging from 5.00% to 20.00%.This time to save the scene and take over the filming of "Heroes Forbidden", in view of Zhao Miao, an old friend, the contract signed by Hengxuan Studio to Lu Heng is only 1000 million yuan plus 5.00% of the box office share, and the rest of the contract terms are compared with The standard treatment for first-line actors will do.

So Lu Heng declined another salary offered by Director Wu on the grounds that he had already received the box office share, and said with a smile: "...As a member of the crew, I certainly hope to work hard with everyone This movie is good. As long as everyone doesn't dislike me too much."

Hearing this, director Wu Zhongyuan and the crew's director of martial arts, Mr. Xin Yuanwei, looked at each other with a smile, and immediately said: "...How is it possible, we are too late to be happy. You are a martial arts genius who has been praised by Mr. Fang! "Xia Qi" can invite you to help as a martial arts instructor, which is definitely lucky for all of us. I believe that with the addition of Mr. Lu, "Xia Qi" can definitely win the best martial arts instructor award next year!"

Although these words showed that Director Wu Zhongyuan and Xin Yuanwei valued Lu Heng, but to Lu Heng, who was always low-key and humble, it was overrated.He hastened to speak modestly, and Zhao Miao, who had been listening silently for a while, waved his hand impatiently to interrupt Lu Heng's words, pointing to the center and saying: "...If you want to recreate Lu Heng's words in line with the plot and character design, Does designing the martial arts actions and fighting plots of all the characters mean that the shooting schedule set by our crew at the beginning is definitely not enough, and we have to extend the shooting time and even increase the shooting budget? If we really want to increase the shooting budget If so, how much additional investment is needed to ensure the normal shooting and post-production of the crew?"

And in addition to these two things, it is also necessary to ensure that the crew of "Heroes Forbidden" has sufficient publicity funds to carry out box office promotional activities before and during the release, everything adds up to money!

After being reminded by Zhao Miao, the leading actor and investor, director Wu Zhongyuan, who had been immersed in the filming of the plot, and other heads of the main creative department of the crew also came to their senses, and they couldn't help looking at each other for a while.

These "Men Sao" filmmakers who take shooting Chinese classic movies as their own mission, although they sometimes have to succumb to the market and capital, will accept some actors who are not very optimistic about them from investors as roles, and even I will deliberately arrange some plots to please the audience in the plot to increase the box office, but under certain conditions, everyone wants to be a strict artist, polishing their works frame by frame——

Especially under the premise that Wu Zhongyuan originally had the ambition to transform into a literary and artistic film to win awards and stand out, this desire to refine the film will be more urgent.But now, if Zhao Miao, the largest investor, vetoes everyone's ideas on the grounds that the filming budget is not enough... that would be embarrassing!

Director Wu Zhongyuan was thinking about how to persuade Zhao Miao to increase investment in his heart, when he heard Zhao Miao say naturally: "If we want to redesign martial arts movements, I'm afraid we need to redesign some of the actors' costumes and accessories." Weapons, extended filming time... plus Zhuo Yuheng had to re-shoot the scenes played by Zhuo Yuheng... At least one month's filming time will be required to finish filming..."

Zhao Miao muttered, then turned to look at the finances of the film crew, and said with a smile: "You guys do the statistics and see how much we need to increase the budget to finish the film. Then call the other investors to let us know." They came over to discuss——if those investors don't agree to increase the investment, then Lu Heng and I will share the rest of the budget equally!"

As Zhao Miao said, he patted Lu Heng on the shoulder as a matter of course, and said with a smile: "Just put in your 1000 million film salary as a budget, how about increasing the share according to the investment ratio?"

Lu Heng smiled and nodded repeatedly.There is really nothing to say.

Zhao Miao thought that he was a casual person, and for some reason, he thought of the joke that brother Lu Chi suggested Lu Heng to be the director during the Chinese New Year. The student Zhao Ermiao, who has become a serious brother control, was moved and suggested with a smile: : "...Anyway, you have to help director Wu and Teacher Xin redesign martial arts moves, why don't you learn how to film with director Wu in your spare time. See how the moves you designed are shot in front of the camera Yes, accumulate more experience, if you want to transform into a director in the future, it’s not bad!”

Hearing this, Lu Heng blinked his eyes thoughtfully.

If these words were heard before, Lu Heng would definitely turn a deaf ear and take them seriously.Because he is deeply aware of his weakness in character, and he doesn't think he has the talent to be a director.

However, after hearing the persuasion and persuasion from his elder brother, Lin Xuan and even Zhao Miao one after another year after year, and the fact that he had just talked about martial arts movements with Director Wu and Teacher Xin very happily, Lu Heng really raised a bit of reprimand. Fang Qiu pointed out Jiang Shan's happiness.This kind of happiness cannot be brought to him by thinking about the role and interpreting the role alone.

Is this what it feels like to be a director?

When Lu Hengsi and Caicai chatted with Director Wu just now, the sense of accomplishment of building the whole world bit by bit spontaneously arose, hesitantly pursed his lips, looked at Wu Zhongyuan and said: "... I wonder if Director Wu has time to teach I……"

If other investors are really not interested in additional investment, Lu Heng will probably become one of his bosses.

Under such circumstances, director Wu Zhongyuan, who was determined to make a good movie, would certainly not refuse Lu Heng's request.What's more, he wanted to redesign the martial arts action of the whole movie with Lu Heng and Xin Yuanwei, which originally involved issues of shooting pictures and shooting skills.

Moreover, with Lu Heng's popularity and status in the industry, coupled with the current status of the domestic entertainment industry, Lu Heng's future will definitely not be limited to the profession of an actor.Wu Zhongyuan felt sincerely that if he could teach Lu Heng a thing or two about his directing experience and form a good relationship, it would be a good thing for himself.Just treat it as a favor, which may be useful in the future.

Having figured this out, Wu Zhongyuan's attitude was naturally more enthusiastic and positive.

Seeing that the rest of the meetings basically had nothing to do with me, the financial manager who had been meeting with the group got up and went out to prepare for a new budget and contacted several other investors, but he never thought that when he was going out, he happened to meet the third male in the movie. No. actor Lin Chaoyang.

Speaking of which, Lin Chaoyang can be regarded as a late bloomer in the circle.He was originally from Xiangcheng, and when he was young, he had applied for an acting training class of a TV station in Xiangcheng.It's a pity that because the image is not sunny enough and the appearance is more sinister and old-fashioned, he has never been able to get a good role, and naturally he has no chance to make his mark.

Until a few years ago, Lin Chaoyang was recommended to take part in a martial arts drama about history that was invested and filmed by Xiangcheng TV Station. The reason why the appearance is lifelike and the acting skills are three-pointed is familiar to the audience. Then Lin Chaoyang seemed to have found the switch, and successively filmed many villains with different images. While maintaining his status, the image of a professional villain is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

From this point of view, Lin Chaoyang had nothing to do with Lu Heng.However, after Lu Heng joined the group "Heroes Forbidden", he repeatedly expressed rejection, disdain and even hostility towards Lu Heng.

Now, from the crew's accountant, he learned that Lu Heng would usurp power and toss about a few days after joining the crew, and even wanted to change everyone's martial arts from beginning to end, Lin Chaoyang was even more furious.Couldn't help cursing: "Sure enough, they are a group of brats who are not reliable in their work. Changing such a big matter as the drama, they just changed it? Don't they need to ask for our consent? Wu Zhongyuan signed a contract with us at the beginning. At that time, I didn't say that this crew is such a joke, and even the roles can be changed at will!"

The finance staff of the crew frowned slightly, and didn't quite understand Lin Chaoyang's anger. He couldn't help explaining: "Director Wu discussed with them only about changing the action part, and didn't say that he wanted to change the drama!" Why are you so excited?

Hearing this, Lin Chaoyang glared at Cai Cai angrily, and said, "What do you know, a layman. The core of martial arts movies lies in fighting scenes. Wu Zhongyuan has a soft ear, and after hearing a few words from the little kid, he wanted to change the show. Isn't that true?" Are you kidding us all about our time?"

"No. I can't let them go on like this!"

After Lin Chaoyang said this, he ran to Wu Zhongyuan's guest room angrily without even looking at the finance.