I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 412 [A few more years]

Gained the authority to manage the world, but no longer a human being.

The emotions and attitudes that people should have... have all been deprived, or in other words, assimilated into the countless creatures living in this world.

In human society, absolute fairness does not exist, and relative fairness is rare.

But at the world level, absolute fairness does exist.

Zhou Jie seemed to have completely left this world.

In the weeks after her death, news about her gradually faded.

She is not married and has no children.

Although she looks like a young girl, she behaves like a junior in front of Lu Zhengyi.

But in fact, she is indeed an old person.

Without getting married and having children, she is the only one in her family.

Going forward, no one will be older than her.

Down, no.

Since practicing cultivation, he has rarely contacted relatives, friends and the like. He is mostly alone or in contact with people like Taoist Master Guanshan.

She disappeared from this world out of thin air without affecting anything.

Zhou Jie seemed to have achieved 'true death' and was forgotten.

No, some people were still affected.

Taoist Master Guanshan is in a bad mental state because of Zhou Jie's sudden departure and the group memory modification that subverts cognition.

Even though Lu Zhengyi had revealed to him some of the things he had learned, he was not comforted.

But that's what he should face.

Since only he and I can clearly understand that there must be some special reasons behind Zhou Jie's departure.

That is Taoist Master Guanshan’s business.

Lu Zhengyi also has his own life, his own work, and his own life.

Another half year has passed, and An An is going to enter the second grade.

His thinking became more mature, and he even learned to open his own self-media account and started to create some strange and weird things.

From the moment the projector broke down and was repaired by them, he seemed to have developed a relatively strong interest in this regard.

As for Xiao Chuzhi, she officially began to become a child star.

This opportunity was given by Li Chuanxin.

After the release of Final Destination, he surpassed Bai Wei and became the new pursued god of horror movies.

He opened up another track, letting people understand that even if it is not the kind of horror that Lu Zhengyi often shoots, the kind of horror that is extremely terrifying when you think about it carefully and the horror of spiritual will, but the straightforward bloody violence, it can also create a thrilling atmosphere.

After that, the movie he chose was Silent Hill.

This film is complicated for Lu Zhengyi.

There is no Silent Hill game in this world, let alone a movie.

But in his previous world, there were both. He thought that the game was indeed a horror game, but as for the movie, this work was more like a fantasy work.

Lu Zhengyi couldn’t understand it before, but after becoming a director, he could probably see that because of the director’s directing style, shooting angles and post-production, it lost some of the thriller elements.

When Lu Zhengyi recalls this film, all he can remember are the magnificent scenes, character relationships, and... magic?
The magical elements of this movie overshadow the thrilling and terrifying atmosphere of those games.

So this work is very complicated for him.

The script that Lu Zhengyi brought over was also affected by this aspect.

The content is very rough, with only a rough outline of the story.

Whether good effects can be achieved depends on the director himself.

Li Chuanxin? Lu Zhengyi was looking forward to it. What he created based on that simple story synopsis would be more in line with the game version of Silent Hill or the movie version.

"It's the first time for this little girl to go away from home. You have to take better care of her."

Lu Zhengyi instructed Ayong.

"Meow!"

Ayong shouted, very positively.

"Let me make it clear first, I didn't say that she was Liang Meijuan." Lu Zhengyi waved his hand, "The previous life is the previous life, and this life is this life. These two are different. She can never be her."

"Meow!"

Ayong continued to reply without listening to a word.

He only regarded Xiao Chuzhi as the reincarnation of Liang Meijuan.

But there was no way. Apart from herself, Xiao Chuzhi only had a certain liking for Ayong.

Apart from that, she seemed to have no impression of other people, whether it was the people from the Mei Limao crew or Liang Le who had already started working.

She showed no familiarity.

Because she is so special, Ayong pays special attention to her.

After reincarnation, no one else knows me, only me. It is self-evident who has a better relationship with me.

"Alright, alright, let's go."

Seeing how impatient he was, Lu Zhengyi couldn't help but pat his head, "The people arranged by Director Li are already waiting outside."

A special car to pick you up and a special person to take care of you, this is the treatment that Ayong receives in Li Chuanxin's crew.

He was gone for half a year and didn't return home until the Chinese New Year.

Half a year later, Bai Wei's new film "Annabelle" was released and received positive reviews as always.

But insiders are gradually becoming tired of this film.

They can clearly feel the strong sense of "sameness" in Bai Wei's works.

Although the plots are different, when the director and crew arrange the shooting, many of the visual, musical and emotional communications... are the same.

No breakthrough, no change.

So much so that in their eyes, these movies are almost the same.

And half a year later, Bai Wei picked up a new script and started filming.

He was as hardworking as ever, and the rest of the Mei Limao crew kept following suit.

They gradually got back to their previous rhythm, and Lu Zhengyi was still in the crew, producing a film every six months.

Half a year later, the Meilimao crew went online with "Ghost".

The hero and heroine were driving home late at night and accidentally hit a girl.

But when they got off the car to check, the girl disappeared, leaving only blood all over the ground. Then they encountered some strange things.

The style is the same as always, focusing on spiritual will. The girl's ghost appears in the protagonist's camera from time to time, and the whole film is full of depressing and suffocating shots.

But this time, the box office data of this movie did not surge like in the past, but instead began to decline.

Although the box office data is still among the best compared to other movies in the same period, the data is indeed showing a downward trend.

Ever since Bai Wei took over from Lu Zhengyi and led the Mei Limao crew to shoot Dead Silence, the box office of each of his films has been steadily increasing.

And every movie has a certain degree of improvement in data.

Every time a movie ends, there will be an increase in box office data of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

But this time it’s different, compared to the previous Annabelle, Ghost in the Shell’s box office data dropped by more than 200 million, and the box office data is on par with The Conjuring.

Maybe it’s the influence of the overall environment.

As people's tolerance continues to increase, their requirements for films are also getting higher and higher.

When Lu Zhengyi announced his retirement from the entertainment industry, the desires they had suppressed for several years gradually calmed down, and their vision gradually became less affected by emotions?

Bai Wei, Liang Le, Zhang Xueming and others all think so.

With this in mind, he started filming his next movie, this time titled "Orphan."

But this time the shooting was not so smooth.

Mei Limao no longer maintained his previous filming rhythm, completing a film in half a year, replicating Lu Zhengyi's feat while he was still working.

For a whole year, no news came out from them.

And this year has passed, and director Li’s new movie Silent Hill is released.

Like his last film, Final Destination, Silent Hill once again caused a sensation, and people's expectations for the Meilimao crew and Bai Wei gradually shifted to him. As an audience member, Lu Zhengyi was also very happy that he was able to choose this script.

Li Chuanxin's filming technique is not like the movie he saw in his previous life, but he adopts a first-person perspective in most shots.

With Sharon's adoptive mother, Rose, as the protagonist, the film explores this bizarre and twisted world with the camera.

This kind of creation can obviously make the audience feel the depression and atmosphere brought by the scene more immersively.

Instead of using a pure third-person perspective to show how magnificent and complex the Silent Hill scene is.

He was very satisfied with the work.

At the same time, Xiao Chuzhi officially appeared in front of the public for the first time.

In terms of acting, Lu Zhengyi cannot be said to be outstanding.

After all, at this age, what kind of acting skills can one have? It depends more on "acting in one's true colors."

The instinct of a child is what the audience wants to see, and it is the best acting.

However, after Li Chuanxin's Silent Hill was launched, Bai Wei was in a stalemate.

Now not only experts but even laymen can see that the effects of his current films are almost exactly the same.

The scary places, the sound effects, the transitions...

Although the plots and actors are different, people always have a feeling that these films are the same play.

"Director Lu."

Bai Wei is here.

He sat on the sofa, looking a little overwhelmed.

Director Lu’s idea a few years ago has come true.

He is indeed not as good as Li Chuanxin. After constantly shooting repetitive content, he has finally reached a period of burnout.

In order to pursue the work efficiency of Lu Zhengyi when he was on the crew, they did complete the efficiency of producing one drama in half a year, but this accelerated the audience's aesthetic fatigue with their films.

It can even be said that because the films are produced so quickly, there is not much time for transition and forgetting in between, so even laymen can easily see the homogeneity of their films.

If there is a one or two year gap, the audience may still praise their new films because they have forgotten their feelings when they watched the films the last time.

But now many people have realized this, and there are even many discussion posts about this on the Internet. Even if you want to stop now, there is no way to reverse it.

But it wasn't just him, the director, other people in the crew were also feeling a little annoyed.

They don't know where the new direction is.

"I haven't worked for a long time." Lu Zhengyi replied helplessly, "I haven't thought like a director for a long time."

"In recent years, I have been busy with my family, switching between my wife and children."

"Even when I watch your new movie, I am watching it from the perspective of an audience member."

Just like the same song, different people singing it will have different effects.

For the same script, Li Chuanxin and Bai Wei were not like himself, who had watched other people's works in their previous lives. What they filmed based on the text content was all brand new.

Even with the help of some things and breaking some cognitions, they can shoot better than those directors of the previous world.

This is a good thing for Lu Zhengyi, who loves this type of film.

Apart from this, he had no other considerations.

"It's just a movie. If you think too deeply about the details behind the filming, you'll lose some of the fun." Lu Zhengyi said as he pushed the teacup to him.

Bai Wei was silent. He came here just to ask for advice on this matter.

but now……

"Oh, Uncle Bai Wei."

Just then, a somewhat hoarse voice sounded from the door.

Bai Wei raised his head, his eyes a little dazed.

A handsome little boy was walking towards this side with a schoolbag on his back.

"They've all grown up." He couldn't help but say this, and at the same time, he felt some unconscious emotion.

Bai Wei finally understood what the saying "children change every year" meant.

Every time he saw Lu Yongan, he had a different feeling.

"What grade are you in?"

There was no way to ask him anything about work, so Bai Wei suppressed his worries and asked about his life. "He has gone home by himself now?"

"You are already in fifth grade. You will be in sixth grade next year and you should be preparing for the transition from primary school to junior high school. It is not a problem for you to take the bus home by yourself." Lu Zhengyi replied, "Grandma prepared some snacks for you in the refrigerator. You can either eat them now or tonight, otherwise you will not be able to eat dinner later."

"understood!"

Lu Yongan gulped down the boiled water that Lu Zhengyi had cooled down for him in advance and ran towards the refrigerator.

"so good."

Bai Wei looked at him with some envy. He was over 40 but still unmarried.

When I was in my twenties, I was busy making a name for myself and had no time to think about this.

But when he was in his thirties, he was unwilling to continue being an assistant director and took on the pressure of Mei Limao.

Now in his early forties, his reputation, other people's opinions, Li Chuanxin... these things have left him with no chance to think about those things.

"Stop if you want to."

Lu Zhengyi looked at him and shook his head helplessly, “Your current life and achievements are something that others can’t achieve in several lifetimes.”

The filming was done abroad, even though it was done under the name of Mei Limao, but that is also the fact.

In the past, if any domestic director could do this, he would be pulled out and boasted about for the rest of his life until he was old.

Now that Bai Wei and Li Chuanxin have signed with Guangying, they have taken a shortcut, but this shortcut is not something that everyone can take. They have already gotten most of the money and fame.

Bai Wei was silent for a moment before he responded, "I won't stop."

His tone was firm.

"Although I do envy your life, sometimes when I'm alone, I also think about what my life would be like if I had a partner."

"But no matter what I think, I still want to continue filming."

"The money and fame may be enough, but the goal in my heart has not been achieved yet. At least... at least beat him once."

He always felt that although the other director had more experience than him, he should have been earlier than the other in the field of horror and thriller.

You know, it’s because the domestic market of this type has improved that Li Chuanxin came up eagerly to share the meat.

If the market had not improved at that time, he would not have come forward at all.

As for me, I have been following Director Lu from the beginning, from horror and thriller which was a niche genre to the hot genre now, so I have definitely gone further than him.

Even at the beginning, I was just a script supervisor.

But so what?
Didn’t I accumulate any experience working on a film crew when I was a script supervisor?

Own……

"Human talent is innate."

Lu Zhengyi looked at him, thought about it and gave some advice, "Some people are born to be in this line of work, and they either realize it earlier or later."

"All of a sudden, he got the hang of it. Everything he did became easy, as if he had gained decades of experience out of thin air. This was probably how Li Chuanxin felt. When he remembered that memory, it was like a key that broke all his preconceived ideas."

"Inspiration and creativity all poured out as the door opened. In him, the saying 'people cannot create things beyond their cognition, even fantasy' gradually disappeared. This is his advantage."

Bai Wei was silent, he knew very well what it meant.

Li Chuanxin seldom relies on those special things. He is different from himself. He relies more on creativity and uses some very ordinary actors to shoot.

And what about me? I borrowed so many things and had so many advantages, but I still lost.

Everything they shoot always looks like a copy of Director Lu’s.

All the shooting ideas, how to place the lens, how to adjust the rhythm...

They all learned these things from Director Lu. Even if they thought carefully and went deep into the process, what they finally filmed could not break away from this framework.

"There's nothing you can do about things like talent."

Lu Zhengyi continued, "But sometimes, if you want to win, there are other ways. Of course, I'm not talking about those insidious off-court tricks. Winning that way would be meaningless."

"I mean, start with people's emotions."

“For example, the fan filter.”

(End of this chapter)