Coquettish Rebirth

Speaking of Cheng Long's filming, there is also time. Jia Hongjian helped Cheng Long in the filming last year. After the filming was over, Cheng Long began to recuperate from various injuries, and this film is roughly related to special effects. The team discussed what kind of picture they wanted, and after giving a rough hint, Cheng Long nodded and sent the film for special effects.Now, the special effect is finally done.

Originally, there were not many special effects in Cheng Long's "Who Am I Remake", and most of the scenes can actually be completed with traditional special effects-such as some kind of explosion, just make a The gasoline bottle is then equipped with a timing device, just ignite it!This is also the practice of traditional Hollywood explosion scenes, and even the practice of movie explosion scenes in most parts of the world.The reason for doing this instead of using real explosives is also very simple, because real explosives look ugly!When the real dynamite exploded, it was a gray piece.It's hard to notice fire lights or anything without slow motion, let alone big fireballs or something, which just doesn't exist!

Hollywood movies or other commercial movies rarely care about whether they are real or not. What's the use of being real?Truth is at most a gimmick of the movie-you can write a sentence "This story is adapted from real events" in the opening title, besides enhancing the attractiveness, what is the use?Like when an rpg shot hits a car, the biggest possibility is that there was a bang, and then a puddle of ashes exploded, and finally there was a small hole in the car, and then the car didn't move much. !This thing looks good?Hollywood made it, with steel wire, gas pumps, and gas explosions.What a big fireball that is, the whole car looks like it was blown up by the rpg, how enjoyable it is!

In this year, although Hollywood movies have begun to adopt special effects on a large scale, the price of special effects is still very expensive, and the production cycle is also a bit long.Cheng Long originally thought of using special effects to do most of the things, but later he still felt uncomfortable, and he still liked real people.The result of this is that it saves money and shoots quickly. Of course, there are gimmicks, but the only downside is that the chance of injury is greatly increased.

That is because most of Cheng Long's "special effects" are made by traditional methods.For example, explosions are made with gasoline.And all kinds of dangerous actions are performed directly by real people.So when making special effects, the main thing is to make up for the frame number of "bullet time" and to erase the traces of various steel wires.As a result, the production time of the whole film is much faster!

This time I'm going to America.Jia Hongjian took Ye Jing with him instead.The two flew all the way to Hong Kong by plane.After taking Cheng Long with him, he flew all the way to the United States.Originally, Cheng Long didn't have to go to this kind of film meeting.It was useless for him to go.However, as the protagonist, as one of the most well-known stars in Greater China, he still has a lot of ideas about entering the US market this time, so he really wants to go this time.As for this screening, after all, it was organized by DreamWorks, so Jia Hongjian could decide who to let go.

Flying all the way to the United States, after landing, Cheng Long really looked a little uneasy.Ye Jing looked at his distraught look, and said with a smile, "Brother Cheng Long, don't you have confidence in yourself?" Cheng Long heard this, smiled, and said a very classic sentence, "I have no confidence in myself." I am very confident, but I have no confidence in the Americans." Having said this, he laughed himself, "You probably don't know? I have been to the United States in the 80s, and I first filmed "The Killer" When I saw a foreign director at the beginning, I was afraid. I thought to myself, this is a foreigner. I must know a lot. We are newcomers. Of course, we should be careful not to talk too much and treat ourselves as newcomers. As a result, we filmed a few scenes After playing the show, I realized that this foreigner doesn’t even know how to catch the most basic play scenes! I need to teach everything, and in the end I even had to urgently call two Cheng’s classes from Hong Kong to cooperate. I was able to fight, but the director didn't give me editing rights at all, and he didn't let me adjust the shots, so I didn't want to admit that it was my movie after the movie was shot, and the fight was a mess!"

Having said this, Cheng Long sighed, "To be honest, this is my godfather, before he left, he finally asked me to come to Hollywood for a while. It can't be said that I didn't get along well and ran back to Hong Kong. I will never dare to come again for the rest of my life." Yes, everyone like Zhou Runfa has come to Hollywood to develop. As a Hong Kong hero and a Chinese hero, of course I will also come. But when I come back, I thought it didn’t matter before, but now that I think about it, I’m successful and famous. I’m actually not coming. I can eat and drink spicy food for a lifetime, why should I come? Now that there are so many Hollywood superstars here to support me, if these American theater managers don’t like my movie by then, if I try it American audiences just didn’t like it when I was playing. Where do you think I’m going to put my old face? Is it considered late? My physical strength has begun to fail in recent years, and I can fight in a few years. I don’t want to conquer Hollywood again in the future It's too possible...so you said, can I not worry?"

Hearing what Cheng Long said, Jia Hongjian felt touched.Indeed, for Cheng Long, being content with the status quo is the best choice.For someone like him who has already achieved success and fame, if he does nothing, he will lose nothing, but if he does, he will take risks and may lose, and if he loses, he may have no time or means to recover !This is like the famous stars who participated in "I Am a Singer" in later generations. It seems that they should win. If they lose, they will lose face.So he nodded, "That's true, but this also proves from the side that you are much braver than others if you can come to participate, right?"

When Jia Hongjian said this, Cheng Long burst into laughter immediately, "No, no, I am just a little more courageous than others..." Although he was polite, in fact, his proud expression was no one else. Can't see it?

After the group arrived at DreamWorks, Spielberg of course warmly received Jia Hongjian and the others, and the old man was full of praise for Cheng Long's film, "I have seen this film before, and I will tell you all about it." Say it, it’s praise! It’s shot by a real person, and the effect is better than the special effect, it’s amazing!” As for this sentence, Jia Hongjian felt that the old man was just boasting, and this kind of boasting is similar to that of Americans. Seeing a child doing homework and saying "excellent" is purely out of politeness-seriously, how is the special effect in "The Matrix", which will be released soon this year, worse than the real one?Yes or no?If the special effects in the 80s were still different from real people, the special effects in the 90s would have been so hard to distinguish by the naked eye, at least the top Hollywood special effects can be so hard to distinguish by the naked eye!

As for Spielberg, he seemed to have seen the meaning behind the faint smile on Jia Hongjian's face, he smiled a little embarrassedly, and then said: "But I think the most beautiful one is yours. This kind of fighting! You know, there has always been a myth in Hollywood movies before, that is, everyone thinks that the fighting in Hong Kong is really good. At that time, why should the protagonist use kung fu when he can use guns? You know that in the United States Unlike you in China, we can hold guns, and many ordinary people have guns, so when we have guns, we encounter criminals, why don’t we take out guns to deal with them? Or why don’t they take out guns Come to deal with us? Martial arts are useless in the face of robbery, right? After all, it is impossible for a person to be faster than a bullet, but I think your film solves this problem very well!"

Hey!That's professional enough!Jia Hongjian was curious when he heard this! "How did he solve this problem?" he asked.As for Spielberg, he smiled at this time, put his arm around Cheng Long's shoulder and said: "It should be said that you solved it! You have added a lot of restrictive elements to the plot to make the firearms ineffective to the greatest extent. , so of course cqc is needed, that is, close combat! For example, Cheng Long does not have a gun. When someone else has a gun, he either grabs the gun or prevents the opponent from aiming at him as soon as possible, and then grabs the gun or dismantles the gun. , this is to create a counterattack method similar to fighting against gunmen with bare hands. At least in theory, such an approach is quite logical. On the other hand, although Cheng Long's character finds that he may be in danger Strange background, but now that he has lost his memory, he now thinks he is a good person, so he doesn't choose to take a gun, and then it always puts him in a dangerous passive state, which is very attractive. People, because Cheng Long's acting style is relatively civilian, he is not a tough guy, he is not a hero like Bruce Lee who can't hurt at all, he is just like ordinary people, he can hurt and have ghost ideas!"

"Really? Thank you!" Cheng Long hurriedly thanked Spielberg in not-so-fluent English. It seemed that he was really happy after hearing such a high evaluation from Lao Si!As for Jia Hongjian, who was beside him, he was even more curious about the effect of editing this film—to be honest, although he had written a plot outline by hand before, the plot outline and the real movie are two different things, after all, there are scenes Clip this big killer.Just like in "The Killer", with the editing, Cheng Long can be Chen Jiaju in "Police Story", if there is no editing, it is the Chinese who is slowly fighting in "The Killer".So he was really curious about the actual effect of this movie! (to be continued..)