Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 404: So fucking stingy

On the dim street, Zhang Weijian, wearing black-rimmed glasses and a school uniform, looked ahead with a frightened look, as if there was something scary ahead.

"Don't come here, don't come here! Ah..."

Suddenly, Zhang Weijian raised his ferocious right hand and shouted loudly at the same time.

"Kah! Very good, Jianzi, your performance was correct. Do you want to come over and have a look?"

At this time, Director Tsui Hark behind the monitor stopped the performance in time.

Although today's Tsui Hark looks more and more weird and looks more and more like the old weirdo Xu in people's minds in later generations, his status in the Hong Kong film industry is getting higher and higher. He is no longer the frustrated person he once was. TV series director.

"Director Xu, I really want to see it. You know, such a performance without physical objects is really difficult to grasp!"

Zhang Weijian nodded and bowed.

Tsui Hark waved to Zhang Weijian and waited until the other person came to his side before replaying the performance on the screen.

Looking at the embarrassing performance of himself yelling into the air on the screen, Zhang Weijian felt like he could dig out three rooms and one living room with his toes on the ground.

The result of this kind of performance, without the blessing of special effects, is really ugly.

However, Tsui Hark watched it with gusto. This is the result of the different perspectives of the director and actors.

"That's right. Once my special effects studio completes the post-production work, we can recreate the scene in the comic!"

Tsui Hark spoke with a bit of excitement.

Today, Tsui Hark is called Director Xu, rather than Boss Xu.

Just the year before last, Tsui Hark established a film company called New Visual Stunt Studio with investment from Kirin Entertainment.

At first, the company only undertook special effects outsourcing work, but this year, he began to try to use a large number of special effects to make movies.

And the first movie produced by this company is called "Parasite"!

"Parasite" is Li Wannian's early comic, and it has been around for 10 years. During this period, there were cartoon adaptations, but there was no live-action version.

More than one person fell in love with this comic, especially Tsui Hark, but Li Wannian never let go.

The main reason is that the special effects methods cannot keep up, which makes Li Wannian have no confidence in them.

However, with New Vision's two years of technical accumulation, Tsui Hark finally had the courage to challenge him, and with his shameless efforts to pester Li Wannian, he successfully obtained the rights to adapt "Parasite", and at the same time also Li Wannian was invited to serve as a consultant for this film.

After possessing the copyright and technical accumulation, he began to look for actors, and finally found Zhang Weijian, who was well-known but cheap.

Of course, the reason why Tsui Hark chose Zhang Weijian to play the leading actor Quan Zhenyi is not only because he is cheap, but also because although he is 23 years old, he is full of youthfulness, and he is also considered a young "old actor", and his acting skills are completely online , the most important thing is that he also likes this comic.

To be honest, filming "Parasite" was quite challenging.

After all, there is still a lot of comic content in "Parasite" that can't be covered in one movie.

Therefore, when revising the script, Tsui Hark asked Li Wannian for advice and changed it into a two-part movie.

The first movie mainly tells the story of Quan Xinyi being attacked by a parasitic beast and possessing a transformable Xiaoyou, and then when Xinyi is assassinated by his parasitic mother, he is rescued by Xiaoyou, and finally takes revenge and kills Lost the mother-killing enemy.

Then the parasitic beasts of the mysterious organization appeared, and they even ran for governor of Hong Kong Island. Kana thought she could sense Shinichi, but ended up dying tragically in his arms.

As for the second part, it tells about the campus riot battle and the city government's siege, as well as the final decisive battle with Hou Teng.

It can be seen that the big scenes of the movie are mainly concentrated in the second part. The first part is more about the changes of the protagonist Shinichi.

The advantage of this is of course that the cost of the first part is less. If the first film does not perform well by then, the filming and preparation of the second part can be suspended to reduce greater losses. And if the first movie does well, of course you can increase investment in the second one and shoot the big scenes even better!

However, because of this, the budget of the first part is limited, and most of the money has to be spent on special effects, so the actors to be hired must be high-quality and cheap!

"Yeah, how else could you be the director?"

Zhang Weijian gently patted Tsui Hark's butt, then took the doll off his hand and continued: "By the way, director, after this little right guy finished filming, can you give me one?"

The doll in his hand is very realistic, and through the control of his hands, he can open and close his mouth and make some expressions.

Since computer special effects technology is still immature today, many movie special effects require the use of props, makeup and other technologies.

Therefore, Xiaoyou, the soul prop in the movie, naturally needs to be produced.

When Zhang Weijian joined the team and saw this thing, he fell in love with it at first sight and played with it reluctantly all day long.

Don't tell me, this thing is much more realistic than the Xiaoyou model sold in the two-dimensional animation city!

"It's a beautiful idea, I plan to take it home as a souvenir!"

However, in the face of Zhang Weijian's request, Xu Keyi refused.

Just kidding, in terms of nerdiness, Zhang Weijian is like a younger brother to Tsui Hark!

How do you think I won the filming rights for "Parasite"?

The two chatted for a few more words, and then Zhang Weijian reluctantly handed Xiaoyou back to the prop team, and then went to the dressing room to remove makeup and change clothes.

The best thing about filming is that the place is small and you can go home after filming. You don't have to stay on the set or in Hengdian for two or three months as you did when filming in mainland China.

Even if you stay in a five-star hotel, where can you compare to the comfort of your own home?

I drove my somewhat old sports car out of the shooting location and soon merged into the busy and crowded roads of Hong Kong Island.

Zhang Weijian, who was driving on the road, suddenly saw a roadside stall on the side of the road, so his heart moved and he parked the car on the side of the road.

"Boss, please give me a copy of the latest "Second Dimension Youth Weekly"!"

"okay!"

"Rich?"

"Twelve dollars!"

"Holy shit, are you robbing me?"

Hearing this figure, Zhang Weijian, who was about to pay for it, paused and was even more shocked. He subconsciously thought that the owner of the newsstand was asking for an exorbitant price.

"What kind of robbery? How much do you think it will cost?"

"Isn't it eight yuan?"

"That was the price a few years ago!"

“It’s so expensive!”

As Hong Kong Island's economy soars, prices are obviously growing faster.

In the end, Zhang Weijian paid for it, bought a magazine and left.

Seeing the sports car leaving a cloud of black exhaust, the newsstand owner spat with envy and contempt: "Damn, you are still so stingy when driving a sports car? Bah!"

(End of this chapter)