Coquettish Rebirth

"Mr. Jia, you know that in China, it's not easy to be a good director, but it's really easy to be an average director and become a little famous! At that time, even if you want to make a movie, you can find a group of big names to come over. Why can't you make money? Just watch Feng Xiaogang's movie. Although the book was written by Wang Shuo, but relying on the book and the actors, can't you also make it? How much talent has Feng Xiaogang shown? Really! If you replace Feng Xiaogang in the filming, the result will not be much worse!" Jiang Wen didn't despise Feng Xiaogang, he knew Feng Xiaogang well, when they were filming "Capital Man in New York", they were all on the same crew!But it was because of familiarity that Jiang Wen was able to use it as an example!

Indeed, if Jia Hongjian thinks about it carefully, Feng Xiaogang has made a trilogy of comedy films "Party A, Party B", "See You or Be Square", and "Endless" in the past few years. How complicated are the narrative techniques? place?Isn't it all straightforward?What's so good about this film?Isn't it the book and the actors that are good?If Jia Hung-chien had a notebook and actors, then he would know a little bit about the language of film shots, for example, when two people talk face-to-face, how to manipulate the camera--like the simplest way, two people talking , Let's take an on-axis shot, that is, everyone will shoot their faces when they are talking.In fact, when filming, in many cases, an actor directly faces the camera and pretends to be talking. In fact, one person directly speaks out his own words in segments, and then another actor comes in. In this way, after editing in the later stage, they are mixed together. It becomes as if two people are having a conversation.

Then what.There is also a dialogue shooting method in which two people are in the camera - take an outside shot angle, that is, the two actors face each other, and then shoot the actor facing the camera from the angle behind the actor's shoulders over the actor's shoulders, And sometimes you can use two machines to cross-shoot, so that if you cut it out, you can have a straight face when each person says a sentence!

Understand this a little bit, and then know when to shoot the facial expressions of actors. For example, when two people are talking, if one person says a word and the other person has to respond, then the camera should take a close-up of that person.Take a look at the reaction of that person's face...and then it will be done?What's next?Just don't set your goals too high.Don't just focus on the goal of winning awards based on the language of the camera, and set yourself a goal that allows the audience to understand the story. How can the shooting be worse?

Even in Hollywood, the director's worth is not as high as that of top actors!Still take Ang Lee as an example.This is when Ang Lee is filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".Before tax, Ang Lee's remuneration from beginning to end is a total of 100 million US dollars!And what about Zhou Runfa and Yang Ziqiong at the same time?When Zhou Runfa broke into Hollywood two years ago.The salary is 300 million U.S. dollars, even if Ang Lee is given a discount, the remuneration is still 200 million U.S. dollars!Yang Ziqiong's price is actually not low - after cooperating with Cheng Long in a movie like "Super Tiaozi".Yang Ziqiong was photographed by Hollywood and filmed "Tomorrow's Empire", a Bond girl in 007's work, and then her worth soared to 2000 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking below Cheng Long in Hong Kong!So in this film, Yang Ziqiong's salary is about 150 million US dollars!This is still discounted!

Calculated in this way, the price of each of the two leading actors is more expensive than Li An!Then Ang Lee is less busy than an actor?It is true that the actors have to put on makeup and hang wires, but after the filming is over, the actors will be fine, and Ang Lee is still busy with editing and so on!How much time is Ang Lee going to waste? How long is the actor?

Even according to Jia Hongjian's understanding of Ang Lee, when it came time to film "The Incredible Hulk", Ang Lee's salary was only 200 million US dollars!On the other hand, according to the data that Jia Hongjian saw in 09, if the total income of all European and American film and television stars and directors in that year is ranked first, Michael Bay is ranked first, followed by Speer. Berg, followed by James Cameron, these three directors are all big names who can get a share, and apart from them, the next one is the actor of Harry Potter!Then the next piece is full of actors!Basically, through such a ranking, we can know that if a director can’t be the top, if he can’t be top-notch in business and art like Spielberg and the others, if he can make outstanding films, if he can’t climb to the top of the director If there are a few people at the top, then the income is definitely not as good as that of the actors!

And this difference in income also reflects an understanding of the box office appeal of the film company and the audience-proven big-name directors can certainly have box-office appeal, but when the director is not particularly famous, the actor's box-office appeal The power will be great!Therefore, if a new director or does not want to be the top director, he can rely on a good script and absolutely well-known actors, and he can immediately have a box office appeal, and then the film will lose money if it can be shot. It's not easy!How to make some money!Even the unluckiest actor in "Future Water World" was too domineering and made the director run away. As a result, the actor asked the film and television company to find a new director. An actor like him who had never studied directing directly became the director himself.In the end, "Future Water World" lost money because of a hurricane encountered during the filming in Hawaii, which destroyed the scene of a water village that had been worked so hard and cost a lot of money, and had to be rebuilt, otherwise the I really don't necessarily lose money!

So seeing if he didn't, the more Jia Hongjian thought about it, the more he felt that Jiang Wen was right—if your sister's director doesn't demand the top, then it seems that anyone can do it!No wonder Jiang Wen doesn't like being a director so much. No wonder when he was a director, he often had to appear on camera and act. It turned out that he was afraid that his colleagues would think that he was just looking for other stars to mess with the box office?

To be honest, when he thought of this, an idea really flashed in Jia Hongjian's mind - hey, how about he, Jia Hongjian, come to be the director himself and make such a "Magic Journey of Tang Xuanzang" ?If he comes to be the director, the actors will choose some old actors of the acting school, and then find a good person to write the book, or even find Li An to write it, and then find an editor to come and cut it... It will cost hundreds of millions Box office should not be difficult?

But such a thought just flashed through his mind.Jia Hongjian was reborn, but he didn't really want to be an all-round star, nor did he really want to develop in the film industry. He has a lot of things to do, okay? How can he have so much time to make movies by himself?Besides, it's not that he doesn't know how much he has. Maybe he really has a little film knowledge to be an ordinary and well-known director, but does he want to be so famous?The good ideas in his hands were all thought of as a reborn person, not his own.We don't have a follow-up ability, this time we are famous, so we won't shoot later?Then Jia Hongjian is such a top-notch person, he is top-notch in the commercial field, why does he have to come to the director's business to be a well-known director?He is not full of love for making movies, why does he have to do it?

And the key point is that, for such an idea in his hand, he didn't want to make himself famous, what he wanted was to publicize Chinese culture, what he wanted was to let others make his idea into a film that could Great film nominated for an Oscar!So what he wants is not personal popularity, but to make his material better!The more well-known the work can be, the better!Then it is obviously not suitable for him to shoot by himself, he should find a good director to shoot, yes!

But now that Jiang Wen said he didn't want to shoot anymore, he can only find Li An, right?But what about Li An's schedule... what should I do?Didn’t Jia Hongjian calculate it before? If Ang Lee finishes filming Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and then shoots this one, there will be no time to hurry. Maybe the editing is not finished yet. "The author's original book is published!At that time, this idea will crash!This is how to do?

To say that Jia Hongjian is really smart!Now that we have decided to find Li An, we have a solution after a little thought-yes, we can't make Li An faster, but who said we can only crash at this speed?Speed ​​is relative, if we can't make Li An fast, we can make the guy who wrote "Youth Pie" slow down!right!After we let the author of the original work slow down, wouldn't it be impossible to hit it?

So how do you find the author of the original work?Jia Hongjian remembered that the man was Jan Martel, why did he know this man?In addition to Jia Hongjian having read the original novel, this person also worked as the screenwriter for the movie version of "Youth Pi"!So Jia Hongjian couldn't remember whether he wanted to or not!After all, he had read the Chinese version of this book around 02, and later found out that the author helped adapt it into a script. How could he not remember it?

Then it would be very simple to slow down the original author—isn't Ang Lee busy with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" now?Then Ang Lee doesn't have much time to work on Tang Seng's script, right?Then why don't we pay Jan Martel to write the script for us?In the future, we can give more money and let others change it.As a result, people will look at it when the time comes, shit, someone in China has already come up with the story of a creative crash, will he write that "Youth Pi" in the future?Yes or no?Let's destroy the original book of "Youth Pi", so there will be no crashes? (To be continued..)