Living in the Hong Kong Film World

Chapter 623 Test Screening
Smacking his fist bitterly, Liu Ming covered Zhang Dasheng's face with the canvas again.

Outside the canvas lay Zhang Dasheng's coat. Liu Ming reached out to touch it, and suddenly took out a golden bell from the pocket of the coat.

Looking at Jin Lingdang, he was taken aback for a moment, and realized instantly that the grandmother he helped up before was Kako Yamaguchi after her disguise!
At this time, Shankou Xiangzi, who had already got on the receiving vehicle, came to the branch of Tianlong Club in Shanghai, which was a room above a dance hall in the concession.

After changing her clothes and taking off her disguise, Koko Yamaguchi came to the living room.

"Miss Yamaguchi."

Zentaro and Isetaro waited respectfully.

"You are being followed and you don't even know?"

After entering, Kako Yamaguchi looked unhappy and asked a question.

"track?"

Zentaro and Isetaro looked at each other.

"The other party got on the boat and almost exposed my identity. You don't know anything?"

Kako Yamaguchi stared at them.

When the two heard the words, they were sweating in shock and rushed to the window.

"Don't look at it, they didn't follow."

Koko Yamaguchi stared at them, and ordered in a deep voice: "Bring back all the people from Qingdao. Since the mission is over, there is no need to waste time there. Shanghai is our main battlefield."

"Yes!"

The two bowed their heads.

Nodding, Kako Yamaguchi came to the wine cabinet, took out a bottle of red wine, poured half a glass, and sat on the sofa.

Lifting Erlang's legs, her white and tender calves without a trace of fat were exposed from the hem of the cheongsam. Zentaro and Zentaro quickly glanced at each other, and then quickly looked away.

Taking a sip of red wine, Yamaguchi Koko said, "We lost more than half of our manpower in this Qingdao operation, and the target of the mission assigned by the military department this time is a Chinese martial arts group."

"I have fought against them. For me, they are not difficult, but for ordinary operators, they are still more dangerous when facing them."

Looking at the two of Zentaro, Koko Yamaguchi said seriously: "So, this time, we must be very careful and try our best to preserve our vitality while completing the task."

"Yes!"

After thinking about it, Shankou Xiangzi asked, "Is Feng Jingyao reliable?"

Zentaro hurried forward and replied: "It's absolutely reliable. He said that he would do his best to help us, but he wants us to help him and let him be the director of the Ministry of Industry."

"very good."

Koko Yamaguchi nodded in satisfaction: "Businessmen are the best to control. As long as there is enough profit, their loyalty will be higher than that of soldiers."

After drinking the red wine in one gulp, she stood up and said, "Ask Feng Jingyao to meet at night for me, I want to have an interview with him!"

……

The door of the editing room opened, and Fei Nan and Du Yu walked out with red eyes.

Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu, who were dozing outside the door, woke up instantly, jumped up, and rushed forward to ask, "Have you finished the cut? Can you read it?"

Feinan nodded: "The editing is finished, but the recording film has not yet been integrated into a master disc, and there is still no dubbing."

"It's okay, let's let it out and have a look!"

Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu were very excited. They had been busy for so long just for this movie. They didn't want to wait any longer, they just wanted to see this movie as soon as possible.

"Alright."

Feinan nodded, turned around and walked back to the editing room.

There was a projector in the editing room, but Du Yu took the film reel, installed it, turned on the power, and a beam of light was cast on the white wall.

There is no LOGO, and there is no cast list, so we went directly to the topic.

A pair of dart flags appeared on the screen, with the word Huo written on it, which was the dart flag taken from Huo Yuanjia's relics.

The camera moves down and descends along the flagpole to a courtyard where a young man is practicing martial arts.

This courtyard was filmed in Jingwumen, and it was used as the escort agency where Huo Yuanjia lived when he was a child.

When shooting this scene, Du Yu held the camera and was hoisted in mid-air. It took a lot of effort to get a usable picture.

But even though he suffered, Du Yu enjoyed it. He never dreamed that a movie could be made like this.

This camera movement alone is the first time in film history.

This is also the first time in film history that Wia is used for filming.

In the screen, Huo Yuanjia played by Huo Tingen is practicing boxing under the guidance of Huo Endi, played by an uncle in the door. Because the matching vinyl record has not been made yet, everyone can only see the mouth opening and closing of the person in the screen , but no sound is heard.

However, after so many days of filming, everyone is familiar with every shot of the movie, and they know what the people in the picture are saying without listening.

Zhang Shichuan and the others whispered excitedly and communicated in low voices. They would think of their related memories when they saw every shot.

But as the plot unfolded, they gradually became immersed in the movie and became quiet.

The first third of the movie’s plot is mainly about Huo Yuanjia’s life when he was young, from his father’s learning of family boxing, literacy, getting married and having children; A stevedore; then went to work as a helper in Nong Jinsun's drugstore, and briefly introduced his life experience before coming to Shanghai.

The pharmacy scene was filmed at the pharmacy under the name of Nong Jinsun, and the wharf scene was the only outdoor shooting of the crew. It went to Zhakou Wharf and filmed on-site for two days.

In order to show Huo Yuanjia's awe-inspiring righteousness, Feinan specially arranged a small fight scene, let "Huo Yuanjia" go out to solve a dispute between the dock workers, so as to arouse the empathy of the audience.

During the period, Feinan also cut into the picture of "Huo Yuanjia" teaching his son Huo Tingen according to the teaching of his father Huo Endi, using this picture passed down from generation to generation to further increase the audience's sense of identity.

After that, "Huo Yuanjia" came to Shanghai by boat, established the Jingwu Sports Club, and also came to the first small climax of the movie, which is the scene of fighting against the British Hercules.

The British Hercules was played by one of the two British guys sent by Gu Jiatang. Under the intimidation of Feinan, he tried his best to put on a stern look to show his arrogance.

Although his performance is not perfect, under the montage effect of the editing, it does not look obtrusive, which is enough.

It was also from his mouth that the term "sick man of East Asia" appeared for the first time in the movie.

Feinan deliberately cut in many close-up shots of extras to enhance the atmosphere, and the effect was very good.

Although they knew it was a technique of expression and they shot it by themselves, but Zhang Shichuan and others saw the faces of different Chinese in the movie, because they heard the words "sick man of East Asia", they were so angry that they gritted their teeth He couldn't help but show an angry look on his face.

After Huo Tingen hit the face of "Hercules" with a heavy punch in the screen, knocking him to the ground, they even let out an uncontrollable applause, obviously fully immersed in the plot.

(End of this chapter)