Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 459: Grand Show (4K Chapter)
While all kinds of news were making headlines in the mainland, the results of the Hong Kong Academy Awards were also announced.

Chen Linfeng won the Best Director award and Fang Long won the Best Actor award.

In addition, it was awarded the Best Photography, which is considered average.

Compared to others, he is already the first person from the mainland to win the Best Director Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

People like Jiang Wen, Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, and Chen Kaige have never won it.

After all, it is a movie that has grossed over $5 million worldwide, and it performed very well especially in the United States.

He probably got some benefit from this, so the director award was given to him.

The media in Hong Kong were quite excited about this and asked about breaking history, how it felt to win the award, and whether it was very exciting.

Chen Linfeng was speechless. The Hong Kong Film Awards were not the same as the Film Awards on the other side of the ocean.

What's so exciting about this?

Instead, he was excited for Fang Long.

Previously, Van Long was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards 10 times, but never won a single award, which is really miserable.

Until this time, I finally reaped the rewards.

Moreover, winning the Academy Awards is equivalent to winning all three major domestic awards, a grand slam.

Especially since he seems to be the first actor in the country to win three major awards.

Compared with Hong Kong Island's traditional strong players Liang Chiuwei and Liang Jiahui, he actually came from behind and surpassed them.

Looking at it this way, it's indeed worth being happy.

Anyway, when Fang Long won the award, he was sighing and crying with excitement, as if his wish had been fulfilled.

The media in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau are very enthusiastic in discussing related issues.

Especially about Van Long's history of losing all ten nominations, and his current transformation into the first Grand Slam actor.

The sense of drama is full.

The next person to be hyped by the media was the Grand Slam director.

There is currently no director who has won all three domestic awards. Chen Linfeng defeated Xu Ke and won the Best Director Award at this year's Academy Awards.

The only thing he needs to win the three major awards in China is the Golden Rooster Award for Director.

What is quite coincidental is that Xu Ke, like him, now also has two gold awards, only one short of the Golden Rooster Award.

The dramatic conflict came all at once.

This year's Golden Rooster Awards immediately became the most watched object.

Moreover, last year, the domestic film market produced many excellent works, which led to the term "Spring of Domestic Films".

If we take into account the works from the year before last and the first half of this year, the competition is so fierce that it may be difficult to divide the awards.

Taking this opportunity, Chen Linfeng quickly published an article in industry journals such as "Film Art" and "Contemporary Film".

It is argued that with the explosive growth in the number of domestically produced films, the biennial Golden Rooster Awards is no longer in line with today's trend.

Whether it's useful or not, let's just try it out first.

Chen Linfeng is a teacher at Yanying Film Studio, and he still publishes several articles of this kind every year.

Moreover, he is quite famous, and every article he publishes can cause quite a bit of impact.

There are even special media outlets that excerpt his articles, organize the core ideas and then publish them to the public.

Therefore, it is more suitable for blow-drying.

……

In early May, filming of "Inception" began.

Chen Linfeng didn't hold any press conference for the launch of the film. He just said a brief goodbye and that was it.

The several rounds of casting information he had announced previously, as well as several interviews Leonardo had given, were sufficient publicity before filming began.

The attention from domestic audiences, including those in Europe and the United States, is very high, so there is no need to do anything unnecessary.

In a neon-style room, Leonardo was sitting at the table, trembling a little, eating his meal with his head down.

"I had a vague dream in which someone was carrying this spinning top."

An old man across the table said with nostalgia,

"That man's head is full of radical ideas."

Leonardo looked forward in shock.

"click"

On the other side of the neon room, Chen Linfeng sat in front of the monitor, repeatedly confirming the effect of the lens, and finally announced,

"OK, next game."

"OK, next preparation!"

After saying it once in Chinese, someone has to repeat the same command again in English.

There’s no other way. This is the only way for a multinational crew to work together.

Chen Linfeng looked up at Liu Qianqian and said, "How is it, after watching Leonardo's plays for two days, what do you think?"

"It feels okay."

Chen Linfeng looked at the other party in surprise, "Sure, you are full of confidence."

Liu Qianqian raised her chin and said, "It's not a very difficult scene. I can't just say "It's OK"."

"That's true."

Chen Linfeng asked again, "Leonardo came to the crew, why didn't you ask someone for an autograph or something?"

Liu Qianqian was surprised and asked, "Why should I go and ask for his autograph? He is a star and so am I. It would be too embarrassing to go up and ask for his autograph."

Chen Linfeng smiled and said, "I didn't expect that my Xixi is so ambitious. She deserves praise."

"Go away, you underestimated me again, didn't you?" Liu Qianqian said unhappily.

The two were chatting here, and on the other side, Watanabe Ken was removing his makeup with the help of the staff.

The old man just now was completely wearing makeup.

Special effects will be added in the later stage to make it more realistic.

The filming of "Inception" has been progressing a lot slower this time.

The full 3D shooting requires a completely different level of effort than the previous "Your Name", which only achieved the most perfect 3D effect at some key points.

Chen Linfeng previously said that he wanted to use "Your Name" as a test product to learn and practice 3D shooting methods, and it was not just talk.

Generally speaking, 3D movies require dual cameras during the filming process.

The general principle is to imitate human eyes to take pictures.

Therefore, ordinary dual cameras are not enough. Matching and synchronizing the dual camera lenses is a big problem.

This requires professional equipment to achieve functions such as synchronized recording and synchronized zoom.

In addition, the most complicated thing is that the angle and distance between the two machines will affect the three-dimensionality and depth of the finished film.

A little further or closer will have different effects.

Different lenses require different effects, so they need to be adjusted accordingly.

3D shooting sometimes becomes a technology that takes time and relies on experience.

Moreover, the 3D camera tries to simulate the human eye as much as possible, but it can only try its best and cannot achieve the real effect at all.

There are many movies where, in actual 3D effects, some elements in the picture will appear double.

Some of these situations are caused by lack of experience during the shooting process, while others are due to objective natural laws and are unavoidable.

"Avatar" can achieve near-perfect effects because many scenes are created using computer special effects. If they are filmed in reality, there will still be double images.

Chen Linfeng can only say that he has mastered the corresponding technology and is still exploring further. For example, he has already realized the problem of double vision in the previous "Your Name".

During this shoot, Chen Linfeng tried his best to reduce the distance between the subject and the background, and then spent more time adjusting the camera distance to reduce ghosting.

If it is really unavoidable, replace it with post-production special effects.

Therefore, the shooting time this time will not be short.

Even though all the scenes from the previous life were already engraved in Chen Linfeng's mind (this movie was one of the most watched ones he had ever seen), it wouldn't work if a lot of the wasted shots were missing.

During the first few days of Chen Linfeng's filming, Zhang Yimou came to visit the set.

He saw with his own eyes the effort Xiao Chen put into the filming and was almost scared.

“This is too time-consuming.”

"It's nothing. You know I'm always very fast at filming. Even if I take a little longer now, it's just about the same time as other people."

"I know you're faster," Zhang Yimou shook his head, "but others don't have your brain to plan many shots in advance. If we want to achieve perfection, it will take at least half a year to finish the filming."

He said with a sad face, "No wonder these so-called '3D' movies were criticized in the first half of this year. They were converted to 3D in the later stage, and the effect is far from satisfactory."

"Normal. If the 2D to 3D conversion effect is good, who would bother to spend time on it during the early stages of filming?"

Chen Linfeng advised, "This thing requires experience. Once you become proficient, your speed will increase."

When he was in Infinite World, he was just a spectator.

The first time I watched "Your Name", the results were just so-so.

The reason why domestic audiences were so shocked at the time was mainly because there were too few good special effects movies in China and everyone’s expectations were too low.

Moreover, there are other 2D-to-3D converted movies on the market to serve as a backdrop, so both word of mouth and box office are very good.

This time, Chen Linfeng put in his greatest effort and tried to achieve the best results.

Therefore, it takes more time.

After all, this was the first time for Chen Linfeng, a young lady, to get into a bridal sedan.

After hearing this, Zhang Yimou breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing Chen Xiao's movie "Your Name" raking in 21 billion at the domestic box office, it would be a lie to say that I wasn't moved.

Years ago, he was filming "The Flowers of War". Both he and Zhang Weiping were deeply shocked at the time, and they can still vividly remember it.

Therefore, he also wanted to try his hand at 3D blockbusters.

Now that I see that I need to learn so many new things, I almost give up.

Chen Linfeng asked, "Have you decided what the subject of your next movie will be?"

"Probably historical war themes. I've always been interested in that."

"Which era?"

"The Southern Song Dynasty."

Chen Linfeng was shocked.

No way, it's not popular to take pictures of Half River Green. If you can't control this thing, be careful that your reputation will be ruined.

He opened his mouth to give some advice.

"I want to film the Battle of Diaoyucheng in the Southern Song Dynasty."

Zhang Yimou further explained, "When we were chatting before, weren't you lamenting that there are basically no good city attack and defense movies in our country?"

"I thought this subject would be easier to make into a blockbuster."

Moreover, the Battle of Diaoyucheng is highly regarded in the West.

It is called "the place where God's whip is broken" by Europeans and "the Mecca of the East" by the Arab world.

As the place where the Mongol Khan Mongke was injured and died, it stopped the expansion of the Mongol Empire and indirectly prevented Europe from being ravaged by the Mongols.

From a historical perspective, it is indeed not low.

Zhang Yimou still has greater ambitions and hopes to achieve high box office in the European and American film markets.

Xiao Chen has already given examples before.

Zhang Weiping strongly supports his idea, and so far the two of them have shown no signs of falling out.

Chen Linfeng breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that was not the case.

He smiled and said, "This is an interesting idea. In Chinese history, famous city sieges often ended in tragedy. Diaoyucheng is one of the few that had a good ending."

"I have also considered this aspect. Domestic audiences don't like to watch tragic movies."

Hollywood has produced similar works, the typical example being "Kingdom of Heaven".

If this 05 movie had been released as a director's cut from the beginning, it might have achieved both box office success and good reputation.

The performance of the director's cut in the DVD market later at least proved that the public is still interested in this type of movie.

This also made Zhang Yimou dare to make this decision. After all, the cost of making movies in China is relatively low, and the current film market situation is so good.

Chen Linfeng nodded. Everything had been considered carefully. It seemed that Zhang Yimou was very determined this time.

At this point, Zhang Yimou said embarrassedly, "Xiao Chen, when I find a screenwriter to finish writing the script, can you help take a look? I'll feel more at ease with your review."

Worried that the other party would disagree, he immediately said, "I know you are busy, I just want to take a look. Don't worry, your name will definitely be at the top of the screenwriting list."

Chen Linfeng waved his hand, "That's easy. It's just a matter of looking at the script and making some revision suggestions. It's no problem."

He felt that he had some level in historical scripts, and that he had read a lot of history books, not in vain.

Zhang Yimou was overjoyed, "Then it's settled."

The two of them are now showing signs of forming an alliance.

Whether it was the previous co-production of a movie, or the selection activity we initiated together some time ago, to helping read the scripts now.

Both represent a further strengthening of the relationship between the two.

Chen Linfeng has no lack of fame nowadays, but he lacks qualifications. Some matters and opinions involving the superstructure may not be taken seriously by the industry.

It would be smoother if we could bring Zhang Yimou along to do this.

After all, as the first Grand Slam director who also holds the title of national master, he does hold great weight in the eyes of his superiors, especially older leaders.

While Chen Linfeng was obsessed with filming and constantly communicating with various directors who visited the set.

The preliminary 200 candidates for the selection of the -year classics in film history have almost been finalized.

Basically, they are all influential figures in the industry.

Actors like Gong Li, Zhang Manyu, Lu Zhong and You Benchang who have achieved outstanding results in movies.

There are also the fourth, fifth and sixth generation directors such as Xie Fei, Tian Dazhuang, Huang Jianxin, Wang Xiaoshuai and Lou Ye.

Zhang Li, Hu Mei, Chen Baoguo, Li Baotian and others from the TV drama industry.

The younger ones, such as Liu Qianqian, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, Liu Ye, etc., either have international influence or outstanding awards.

There are also Pu Cunxin, Feng Yuanzheng and Chen Peisi from the drama industry.

For photography, Zhao Fei, Zhao Xiaoding and Cao Yu.

Music arrangement by Zhao Jiping and Hu Weili.

Art, production, editing...

In Hong Kong and Taiwan, some particularly outstanding ones are directly included without having to wait until the second round of selection.

In this way, with more than ten categories, mainly actors and directors, and a few people from each of the others, it would be easy to fill up.

Basically, all of them are people with excellent past achievements. They first report their excellent past works, which far exceed one hundred.

The whole process is like a grand show, attracting the attention of the public.

It also makes those who are selected take more importance.

　I can only get this far in 4K today, I will make up for it later.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)