Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 116 Classic Kung Fu (Happy New Year’s Eve)
  The MV for Raymond's last song before his death officially entered the filming stage. Tang De rented a Japanese-style karate dojo as the filming location for the main scene.

On the day of filming, Jessica Alba walked to the camera wearing a suit customized by Tang De. It was a bright yellow Chinese kung fu suit, which was quite similar to the costume of the heroine in Quentin's "Kill Bill" Similar, except that the style is more Chinese-style, and wires are tied to the body to make various flying movements.

The reason for choosing this outfit is naturally to pay tribute to Bruce Lee's classic look. This is the best pass for acting in Hollywood. As long as you wear this outfit, everyone will naturally know the style of this MV.

Moreover, Bruce Lee's fan base is still huge. Many older middle-aged people miss the once popular Kung Fu, while the younger generation has always been interested in the mysterious Kung Fu.

So when Jessica put on this outfit, she immediately aroused low voices from the crew members.

"Destroy Nice...on an empty stomach!" Jose punched him several times in a row, brushed his nose with his thumb, and said these words in a bad accent, which immediately aroused the excitement of others.

"That's called Kung Fu!" Tang De corrected several people's irregular pronunciation in correct Chinese, and then looked at the background wall rebuilt by the scene team.

Tang De did not exactly follow the arrangement in "Kill Bill". After all, it is normal for the clothes to collide, but it is hard to tell if the scene elements collide.

And Quentin’s style is not his. He prefers to use large color contrast to emphasize the status of the main subject of the picture.

To put it simply, draw a black point on a piece of white paper, then the black point is the visual center. If a small area of ​​yellow dots appears in a large area of ​​red, then yellow is the visual center.

The human eye simply focuses more easily on distinctive colors.

So when taking street or landscape photos and don’t know how to stand out, the easiest way is to move the lens and place the things you want to shoot in a large area of ​​the same color.

For example, crows flying in the blue sky, or yellow warning signs on the blue construction site fence. You don’t need to see the photo, you just need to think about these two images to know the meaning of the visual center.

The same is true for this MV. Jessica's yellow kung fu costume is the center of the whole picture. Her enemies, unlike those in "Kill Bill", wear dark red costumes.

At the same time, the scene where they were fighting was also painted black.

The large black background and the continuous dark red enemies will become the main color of the MV, and Jessica is naturally the yellow dot that represents the visual center.

As for how the blood is expressed? Will it collide with red clothing?
  Tang De shrugged and told Greta, who had this doubt: "Who said blood is red?"

"What?" Greta didn't follow Tang De's train of thought and didn't quite understand what he meant.

Tang De laughed and said: "In this MV, the blood is green."

"Human blood is red!" Jose didn't quite understand either.

Tang De spread his hands: "Hey, who told you these guys are human beings?"

Upon hearing this, Greta and Jose looked at each other and suddenly thought of the plot of the MV that Tang De had told them, and they laughed together.

"WTF!"

"The irony is incredible."

When the preparations were completed, Tang De strapped a Steadicam to his body, held up the camera and stretched out his hand: "Come on! Get ready to start!"

"Okay! The first game! Begin!"

"Bang!" The sound of typing sounded, and Tang De controlled the camera to turn it on. Jessica immediately rushed to the camera, waving the knife in her hand forward.

Tang De's camera immediately panned and turned to the enemies in front as the blade deflected. However, the people in this dojo were not from Tokyo, but a group of blond guys wearing dark red clothes.

There were men and women among them. After shouting, they all rushed towards the camera. They split around Tang De and continued to rush towards Jessica, surrounding her.

At the same time, Tang De leaned down and frantically moved backwards to pull the camera, which made both Greta and Jose break out in a cold sweat.

You must know that this is not a slow movement, but a fast movement backwards. Most people would easily fall if they kept retreating, but Tang De was able to steadily control the camera in front of him, retreating smoothly on the mat without shaking at all. It was incredible.

When the field manager next to him saw this, he quickly recorded it with his digital camera, intending to keep it as a souvenir for himself.

It's just that this shot was not completed after all, because some of the extras made mistakes, twice.

Then the roar of the tyrant on the set resounded for a long time.

"FXXK! What the hell are you doing! Is your brain a World War II landmine dug out of the soil? Do you want me to help you clear the soil from it now!"

"Go left! Go left! If you continue to go right I will break your legs with a gun! Do you know that?"

"Son of a bitch! Are you going to ruin this MV? Are you responsible for the wages of so many people at the scene! Remember the moves! If you make another mistake, get out!"

"Jessica! Don't be stunned! Are you using the knife like this to commit seppuku?"

"No! Stomp your feet! You are not the savages dancing around the fire in Africa! Jessica! Did you leave your cerebellum at home today?"

"Yes, that's it! Do it again! Keep your spirits up." In fact, the reason why Jessica made two mistakes was because it was the first time she saw Tang De in this state and she was a little uncomfortable with it.

Although Cameron is also a tyrant, or there are many directors in Hollywood who are synonymous with acrimony, they are not as contrasting as Don De.

To be honest, when such a handsome face scolds you, even if you didn't make a mistake, you can't help but wonder if it's your fault.

This is also why Jessica did not choose to fight back.

And Tang De is indeed more restrained in scolding than other directors, because some directors will not say what mistakes the actors made, but will only repeat: "You ruined the movie! You ruined everything! You fucking suck!" "

This kind of swearing that only outputs emotions is more likely to increase blood pressure and increase mental stress.

A friend of Jessica's met this kind of director on the set. After the performance, he went directly to see a psychiatrist, complaining of moderate depression.

Tang De is undoubtedly better than this kind of person, although not much better.

However, there are also people who hold opposite views to Jessica, such as Jose. His perspective is not the emotions of the actors, but the progress of the crew.

Without Tang De, I don’t know how many times this scene would have been shot. It was because of the director’s determination and determination that the crew took a lot less unnecessary shots.

He has been with many crews, and many directors have no idea what they want and dare not make judgments. They just let the photographers go back and forth to shoot again and again.

I also know a little about adjusting actors, lenses and lighting, so I have to rely on the photographer and lighting engineer to try it out myself every time.

It's okay if we don't encounter any problems. When problems arise, the crew often has to stop work for several hours. Why do many actors say that the waiting time is too long? In fact, the shooting time is very short, mainly because it takes too long to adjust the lighting and camera positions.

But under Tang De's high-intensity supervision, this situation does not exist at all. He can always find problems sharply and then provide solutions.

So next, except for a few extras who were kicked out because of their poor psychological quality, everyone else completed their parts very quickly.

When the time came to ten o'clock in the evening, the whole scene was finally completed.

"Phew!" The exhausted Jessica immediately lay on the ground.

Tang De walked up to her and his expression returned to his usual appearance. Jessica, who just looked at him with her chin raised, smiled bitterly: "I know why you are called the devil, Tang, you scared me."

"But I won't be sorry for this..." Tang De knelt down and helped her push the bangs out of her eyes: "Is there anything gained?"

"Yes, it's big." Jessica admitted honestly.

This may also be the reason why Tang De's crew has gradually become fixed, because with him, you can really learn something, whether it is visual aesthetics, camerawork, or even acting skills, you can always learn what you want.

Jessica found that Tang De was basically unreserved on the set. If you asked him any questions, he would answer them. He did not hide everything tightly, and he liked to explain some practical skills and principles to everyone. .

During every intermission, cast members would surround Tang De and listen to his small class.

In this atmosphere, many field staff are now able to deal with some lighting problems, and one worker has been promoted to a photography assistant.

This situation is very rare in other production crews, because the default division of labor is detailed, and each position is clearly defined. Everyone only cares about their own affairs. Even if they want to ask, no one will teach them. If you want to learn, you can only rely on your own understanding.

She herself is one of the beneficiaries. Tang De is also very good at training acting skills. He will perform it once to show it to Jessica, and then tell her how to capture that emotion.

Jessica felt that she had learned a lot, so she didn't care so much about Tang De's devilish speech.

"That's good." Tang De smiled.

But his next words turned this smile into a dangerous signal in Jessica's eyes.

"We will continue filming tomorrow, and half of the scene is still unfinished. It's just that this time you have to work harder, and you can't just act ruthless."

"OMG! Don, can you give me some good news?"

"Of course this is good news, because it means you are almost done filming. Are you happy?"

Jessica covered her head and spread her bangs in front of her face, looking unhappy.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as she wanted. One day later, filming continued.

The remaining scene is the banter plot that Tang De mentioned. Although there are not as many actors in this scene as in the previous one, it pays more attention to the performance of individual actors.

Therefore, the filming of this scene lasted two days. After entering the green screen studio for some reshoots, it was completely completed.

Just after Tang De's new MV was announced, the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, known as the outpost of Oscars in the industry, announced this year's winners list.

The musical "Chicago" shot by Tang De is impressively on the list!
  (End of this chapter)