"Hahaha, to put it mildly, you must have fallen in love with my sarcastic and sarcastic ways. I've read the script, and it's really almost the same as the image in that movie!"
Who is Xu Guanwen? He is a well-known talent in the Hong Kong film and television industry. Liu Qingshan's little scheme can't be hidden from him.
The three Xu brothers were very popular in Hong Kong back then. In "Half a Category", Xu Guanwen is acerbic, Xu Guanjie's honesty and bravery, and Xu Guanying's foolishness are combined together to interpret the story of a detective agency in a hilarious way. It is known as the most satirical and funniest movie in Hong Kong in the 20th century.
In fact, even if it weren't for the fact that Xu Guanwen was the protagonist of the original version, he would have invited this person to come out. With such a big-name person with a popular style joining the cast, it would be difficult for "Baby Project" not to become a hit.
Since these people all spoke Cantonese when they arrived, Liu Qingshan, who hadn't spoken for a while, was a little unfamiliar and couldn't keep up with their rhythm.
Fortunately, they saw Nakai Kiichi. When they visited Takakura Ken and others yesterday, this person was not at the hotel, and he was currently popular. Chen Long immediately changed his target and quickly introduced everyone around him.
Liu Qingshan took advantage of his role as translator and successfully took back the initiative.
Xiangjiang people are well-known in the industry for being together outside and at heart, but today Chow Yan-fat is in a special situation. Since the film requires him to speak Mandarin, he is currently trying his best to avoid a Cantonese environment, otherwise his dialogue skills, which are prone to nonsense, will be lost. It will delay the filming progress.
So the first thing he said after meeting the fellow villager was that if he spoke to him in Mandarin, otherwise he would ignore him, even if his senior Xu Guanwen came to visit.
However, Xu Guanwen's current interest was not in him. Instead, he immediately became interested when he saw Zhou Renfa's stand-in Wen Xiang.
The main reason is that the two people are so similar that even Sister-in-law on the set recognized the wrong person. It is no longer a general resemblance. In the eyes of many people, apart from being slightly inferior in height, Wen Hsiang basically imitated the smiling face deliberately. , you can't see much difference unless two people stand together.
This person was found by Liu Qingshan. He had never appeared in a film or television drama before, but he had many years of experience in imitation.
Fa's sister-in-law had been following the crew and was very familiar with Wen Hsiang. When she saw this scene, she walked up. Wen Hsiang could not understand Cantonese, but Xu Guanwen, who usually speaks Cantonese and English, felt like he was talking like a duck at this time.
According to Liu Qingshan's directing habits, every day after breakfast there is also a meeting for the core members to implement the specific shooting content decided the night before. The same is true today, especially when Zhang Dabeard, who has been out for a day, rushed back in time.
In order to satisfy Chen Long's curiosity, the main content of today's shooting is the scene of the Hongmen Banquet, which is also an important scene. It tells the story of Huang Silang's banquet with Zhang Mazi and Master Tang.
In the previous plot, Zhang Mazi pretended to be the new county magistrate and took office. Before his butt was even hot, he angered Huang Silang, the tyrant of Goose City. Not only did he beat his men, but he also declared that he would change the rules of society.
In order to give the ignorant new county magistrate a warning, Huang Silang designed to force Xiao Liuzi to death.
Xiao Liuzi was not an ordinary person, he was Zhang Mazi's adopted son. This undoubtedly stirred up a hornet's nest, and Zhang Mazi was determined to take revenge.
At this time, Huang Silang sent a banquet signal to Zhang Mazi. Is this to make peace with the other party? Or is it a trap? Faced with the danger of going deep into the tiger's den, Zhang Mazi bravely chose to attend the banquet.
At the beginning of this scene, the three bosses had different positions.
Zhang Mazi was bent on revenge, and secretly made arrangements for his brothers to sneak into the Huang Mansion, listen to his signals, and be ready to take action at any time.
Master Tang was thinking about something else. It was in his best interest to get Zhang Mazi and Huang Silang to work together to make money. Of course, this seemed to be the most unlikely thing to happen.
The reason why Huang Silang sent out the invitation was clearly stated in the previous script: "Don't rush to kill, just play with them."
This was Huang Silang's arrogance as the overlord of Echeng. It was easy to kill Zhang Mazi. He just wanted to have some fun before killing him.
Before entering the banquet, Huang Silang first introduced the game rules and reward and punishment system of this scene.
The so-called rule is to find out who is responsible for Xiao Liuzi's death. Is it Huang Silang? Or three witnesses? Or is it Zhang Mazi himself? Anyway, after this meal, someone has to die.
You know, this is Huang Silang's old lair, which can be said to be a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. His opening remarks are undoubtedly telling Zhang Mazi that you can't go out smoothly today.
But if you listen to what Huang Silang said, it shows that everything he said was fair, and the subtext was full of murderous intent.
Zhang Mazi is not a person who takes it easy. Of course he can hear the murderous intention of the other party, but since he is coming, he has to take the move. So he said: "Master Huang, I heard that a short knife is used to commit suicide. The long knife belongs to the wrong person."
This is tantamount to a formal declaration of war.
Immediately afterwards, both parties took their seats.
This scene was regarded by later generations as a collection of classic lines like a textbook. The performances of Jiang Wen, Ge You, and Fa Ge were so spot on. The explosive acting skills of the three people made this scene an eternal classic.
This is a typical multi-person dialogue scene, which has long been a difficult problem in film and television shooting. Dialogue-driven plot scenes involving multiple people have challenged many directors and editors because of the complexity of their axes.
"Twelve Angry Men" produced in 1997 can be regarded as a leader in this regard. In scheduling among twelve people, the film used a lot of techniques to avoid and weaken the problem of over-the-top.
For example, first, a long shot of more than six minutes is used to roughly introduce each character through the actor's scheduling and guidance. Then, modeling is used to avoid cross-axis confusion. After the rough orientation is determined, various minor treatments are performed.
For example, determine the temporary axis based on the focus of the plot, use the gaze to guide attention to indicate the direction, and use "speak in seating order" to clearly express spatial relationships...
After the film runs for more than ninety minutes, the complex spatial relationship between the twelve people will not confuse any audience.
Similar scenes in "Let the Bullets Fly" are much smaller in scale, so naturally they are relatively easy to control.
At present, only Hollywood can accurately master this shooting technique, but it is the first time it has appeared in China. Although the complexity of this scene is far less complicated than that of "Twelve Angry Men", there are only three people and three axes, but it is There are concerns about chaos.
Liu Qingshan still relied on the split paragraphs of the original version. Because the talks between the three people were mainly conversations between two people, the temporary axis was easy to determine. The key was how to make this switch invisible when the axis was changed or crossed.
Not only did he value this scene, Ge You and Fa Ge also discovered Fu Yun's superb acting skills in this clip through the script. They are both experienced actors and have a supreme love for the acting career. Of course they want to give it a try. The feeling of addiction.
And they are also very concerned about Liu Qingshan's editing ability afterwards. If he can accurately show the spatial relationship through the perfect switching of the split shots, and present the plot relationship and development in an orderly manner one by one, it means that his first directorial debut is successful. .
No actor is unwilling to have a classic work in which he has participated be included in a textbook. This is no longer a matter of vanity, but an affirmation of his acting career.
So when they heard that the scene was being filmed today, Uncle Ge and Fa Ge instantly became excited like clockwork.
But how to shoot this scene well, the technical level of the photographer is also indispensable. For this reason, Liu Qingshan did not hesitate to hire the top photographers in Asia at high salaries, including one from the Mainland, one from Xiangjiang, and one from Han Guo Bit.
After receiving the order, Shi Hui and Chen Zuming immediately took action. It is well known that the leading actors attached great importance to this scene, and no one dared to be careless.
According to the plot, this scene will last from day to night, so it is not enough to use a whole day to complete most of the content.
According to the final edited version of the original version, the Hongmen Banquet scene lasts for a total of 8 minutes.
It can be said that this eight-minute shoot required a lot of manpower and material resources. In order to film this scene well, Director Jiang Wen spent eight minutes in the scene and one week outside the scene. There were three movie stars sitting around a round table, and three cameras, rotating 360 degrees. Shoot.
In order to capture every subtle movement of each actor, 100,000 feet of film was consumed. This is basically the film needed for a small movie, so this eight-minute scene is really rare in Chinese movies. .
In order to film this scene, Liu Qingshan collected almost all the unedited scenes through Xiaoxing. After completely analyzing these eight minutes, he had the courage to touch this legendary work without any directorial foundation.
Seeing the tense atmosphere among the crew, the guests suddenly became quiet. Even big names like Chen Long began to remain silent on the way to the filming location with the large troops.
After the shooting started, the first shot was a close-up shot, and there was no panoramic explanation. Instead, the spatial relationship was explained through editing.
The reason there is no panoramic lens is that a 360-degree circular track was laid in the studio, and three cameras were used to continuously shoot. In order to avoid the cameras interfering with each other and the conflict of light and shadow, the shots of the three protagonists were all close-ups and close-ups.
Starting from the first shot, the camera is mounted on a track and moves slowly to the right for 42 consecutive shots, creating a relaxed atmosphere.
The character setting is like this, Huang Silang is for power, the master is for money, and Zhang Mazi is for revenge.
Huang Silang has three cards in his hand: treat, behead, and accept as a dog. He treats first, and then decides whether to kill or win over.
Zhang Mazi's trick was revealed before serving it to the table: Huang Silang said that if someone reported him, he would kill himself, but Zhang Mazi blocked him back without mercy. From asking for a dagger to later not paying back the money and getting 30-70 points, he always used backhand in every move.
The blood and murderous intent were covered by the tablecloth, and all that could be discussed on the table was money.
What is in the cup is the friendship between the world and the lake.
