Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1908 Redistribution of roles
Before "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was launched, there was already a launch ceremony.

But after Lin Daoqiu decided to start over, he decided to do it again.

On the second day, Lin Daoqiu called all the cast and crew to the set of Magic Studio, and then completed all the procedures respectfully and under the guidance.

Finally, after cutting the roasted pig, the camera covered with red cloth was lifted, and this time the opening ceremony was successfully completed.

"Everyone, something went wrong with "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" before, so we have to overthrow everything and start over. Everyone will treat it as a brand new start and work together to make this movie a good one."

Immediately after Lin Daoqiu finished speaking, there was applause at the scene. What was different this time was that Lin Daoqiu was in charge of filming this time.

Although the hard work of the previous few months was wasted, Lin Daoqiu didn't underpay them, so it wasn't too bad for most people.

Today's opening ceremony did not invite reporters to the scene, because Lin Daoqiu didn't want to alarm others, and he didn't want too many people in the outside world to know that "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" restarted filming.

Although it was only because he felt that this drama did not meet his requirements, Lin Daoqiu chose to start all over again.

But if it falls into the mouths of those reporters, I don’t know what they will write, so one more thing is worse than one less thing. After the opening ceremony, I directly entered the shooting of the first scene.

The setting of this scene has already started a few days ago, so that Lin Daoqiu can directly enter the shooting stage without waiting too long.

After all, his current time can be said to be very tight. On the one hand, he has the filming work of "Tomb Raider", and on the other hand, he will go to Hollywood to host the release of "1992" one month before Christmas.

So he can only stay in the crew of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" as much as possible, and shoot what he wants to shoot.

Then I hope that Lin Zhengying and the others can understand what kind of things they want through this period of filming.

If it really doesn't work in the end, Lin Daoqiu has another record, which is to recruit Tsui Hark to take over the filming of this movie.

Compared with others, Tsui Hark's ideas are the closest to his own, and he has more experience in the use of special effects than ordinary people.

In addition, the script of this drama has been written very well, and Tsui Hark only needs to shoot according to it, so there will be no gaps or deviations in the plot.

If it weren't for the fact that Tsui Hark is currently filming "The True Colors of a Hero", "Swordsman" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", Lin Daoqiu really wanted to find him as his deputy.

But since there is no other way, Lin Daoqiu can only shoot by himself.

With Lin Zhengying, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, and Hong Kong's top Hong family class, at least Lin Daoqiu didn't need to worry too much about the martial arts scene.

As for the art direction of this play, Lin Daoqiu had already recruited Zhang Shuping to be in charge.

Xiangxi-style architecture and clothing are very different from what we see now, and the design ideas at that time were still based on maintaining tradition.

Lin Daoqiu has no research on the clothing of Xiangxi, and as for the architectural features, he can only learn from some books and photos. This is not his strong point, so he had to let Zhang Shuping do it.

However, in some main scenes such as the tomb, Lin Daoqiu can give clear instructions in these places, which makes it easy for Zhang Shuping to show the effect Lin Daoqiu wants.

In terms of the plot, Lin Daoqiu made some revisions to the previous script. After discussing with Zheng Danrui and others, Lin Daoqiu felt that if he made a direct remake of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in the novel, it would satisfy book fans.

But in that case, it will appear that after reading the novel, you will have a complete understanding of the subsequent plot, and you will not be able to surprise the audience too much. You can only work on special effects, action design, and some details.

So Lin Daoqiu directly changed the role with a big stroke of the pen, and Chen Yulou, the leader of Xiling played by Yuen Biao, was fixed.

And Sammo Hung's role has become partridge, the last heir of the Qianshan School, which is a combination of his previous classic roles in "Five Lucky Stars".

After these two core roles are determined, other roles will be much easier to handle, such as the big villain Luo Laowai is still played by Ren Shiguan.

The red girl has become Zhong Chuhong, Li Saifeng's identity has become Partridge's junior sister, and Zhong Chuhong will also play the ghost concubine.

With such a modification, from the perspective of the plot, it is already very different from the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" serialized by Lin Daoqiu in the newspaper, but it is still somewhat related.

At least the audience will not feel that they are watching a work that has already appeared in their impression after buying tickets to enter the venue.

"Wouldn't it be nice for you to suddenly ask me to play such an important role?"

At first, Zhong Chuhong just wanted to play a cameo role, but Lin Daoqiu did not expect that Lin Daoqiu directly changed her role into a supporting actress, and there were quite a few scenes, which made Zhong Chuhong feel that it was not very good.

As for Zhong Chuhong's worries, Lin Daoqiu didn't seem to care at all.

"This kind of modification is only for the movie itself. After all, if you only play one ghost concubine, the role of the scene is too small, and the audience doesn't think it's enough. They just re-modified all the characters to make your role more important..."

"Think about it, you are both the main character and the ghost concubine in the tomb, so the audience will be shocked when they see this scene in the early stage, and it will definitely arouse their curiosity. Isn't that good? ?"

Lin Daoqiu is not making it up, he just found out some places that can be used in this movie to make changes based on the movies he has seen.

At least from Lin Daoqiu's point of view, such changes can add some interesting features to the play, but Lin Daoqiu is not worried at all about whether the audience will buy it.

After all, based on his experience of watching so many movies, such a change will definitely surprise everyone, making them even more curious about what kind of development the plot will have in the future.

"Sometimes I really don't know what's going on in your head, but if you think it's okay then I'm fine."

Zhong Chuhong is not sure whether Lin Daoqiu really let himself add the role for the good of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", or whether it was only because of his relationship with him that led him to make such a decision.

But in the final analysis, for Zhong Chuhong, no matter what Lin Daoqiu's thoughts are, as an actor, she must do well what the director and director have explained, so she finally accepted Lin Daoqiu's decision and played the role of the red girl in it. .

(End of this chapter)