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Chapter 407 A Confident Woman Is The Most Beautiful
The two main actors, Xu Guangtou and Huang Bo, will not be able to join the group until a few days later. Yaya is still filming "Emergency Doctor", and it will be ten days before they can join the group.

So at present, we are mainly filming the story of Tang Ren and Qin Feng.

From Qin Feng's arrival in Chinatown, he first went to the dance hall to hang out, and then to the case when Tang Ren became a suspect.

"Welcome to Thailand, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, you know, I'm a big detective, I'm very busy, I have a lot of cases to handle..."

Listening to Wang Baobao's well-practiced Mandarin with an eastern Cantonese accent, Zhou Xia was very satisfied.

The scene between the two started at the airport. After Qin Feng got off the plane, Tang Ren was still playing mahjong and lost a lot of money. Only then did he remember to pick up Qin Feng when he received the phone call, and then came to the airport to pick him up.

The so-called big detective, with curly hair, wearing a large floral shirt, gold-plated watch and sandalwood bracelet, driving his motorcycle, came to pick him up.

With Qin Feng's IQ, of course he can tell what Tang Ren is doing, especially the loneliness he hides behind the happy expression he pretends to be.
In this regard, Wang Baobao portrayed this character very well. It can be said that Tang Ren, a little character who worked hard abroad, had no achievements, dared not go home, and could only enjoy himself while suffering, was vividly portrayed.

After Qin Feng got off the plane, he was taken to a bar full of feasting and feasting, and then he got drunk before drinking much.

Of course nothing else happened.

After waking up, Qin Feng has been taken back to Axiang Hotel: where Tang Ren rented.

When he woke up the next day and went to the bathroom urgently, he found Tang Ren lying in the bathroom, watching the female boss take a bath through the small hole in the wall. Curious, Qin Feng squeezed up to take a look, and was splashed with a basin of water, hot water His eyes were burning red, and he let this cousin, who could only reach him eight poles, slander him for watching A Xiang take a bath...

Qin Feng asked Tang Ren to take him to handle the case, but what he saw was that Tang Ren was looking for a dog for the old woman with dim eyesight, and the dog he found was not the old woman's dog at all. Bought the cheapest necklace at the gold store.

As a result, within half a day, Qin Feng confirmed that his so-called uncle was not a detective at all.

When he returned to the hotel to pack up his things and was about to leave, Tang Renren hurriedly stopped him, and asked Qin Feng to question him immediately, and immediately revealed all his background.

Qin Feng: "Are you a detective?"

Tang Ren: "If it's fake?"

"You bought the chain to solve the case?"

"of course!"

"Not for your landlady's birthday?"

"How do you know?" Tang Ren was dumbfounded.

Qin Feng put down the box, dragged Tang Ren "" to the calendar, on which he circled the date with love, Tang Ren was speechless.

"I'm late to pick you up, have you gone to play cards?"

"You know again?"

"You smelled heavily of cigarettes that day, your eyes were bloodshot, and your nails were covered with dirt, especially your right hand. Your left hand was yellowed by the smoke, but you usually smoke with your right hand. Shiny, the combination of these characteristics can only produce one behavior - playing, mahjong, and jongg!"

When Qin Feng stopped stammering and quickly uttered this question, Tang Ren's eyes widened, and he swallowed his saliva. He was really shocked: "Learned from the novel?"

"is not it?"

"That day, I usually have a lot of cases!" Tang Ren continued to argue.

"for example?"

"Investigate missing persons."

"Looking for cats and dogs?"

"Tracking the suspect!"

"Catch the mistress!"

"Important supplies are being escorted!"

"Send the courier!"

"Damn, you know all about it?" Tang Ren was completely seen through, couldn't hold on any longer, and swears directly.

Then Qin Feng pointed to a row of books on Tang Ren's bookcase, "It's all in Chinese, you are too low!"

After being completely exposed, Tang Ren stopped pretending to be a detective and promised to have fun with Qin Feng for six days. Qin Feng asked Tang Ren not to lie to him, and the two reached a tacit understanding.

In this episode, Qin Feng, a stuttering boy, has undoubtedly revealed his talent in reasoning, and it also completely exposes Tang Ren's true identity.

On the next day, Tang Ren received a call from Tai Kun, asking him to run for his life. He was involved in the murder case, and all the clues point to him as the murderer.

It is from here that the whole movie really begins to enter the theme, with a total duration of 130 minutes, which is a bit too long for a detective and comedy movie.

This type of movie is best controlled at about 100 minutes, and 90 minutes is the best. If it is too long, it is easy to lose the younger audience and wear down the patience of the audience.

For movies longer than two hours, showing them in theaters is also very detrimental to film scheduling.

Zhou Xia made up his mind at the beginning of the filming. When the time comes to edit the film, it is best to control it to 100 minutes. Among them, he will basically delete the subplots of 30 minutes.

Especially street tracking fights, there are neither good-looking and funny actions, nor plots, just a group of people chasing people, he will delete 4 minutes.

At the beginning of the movie, before the official plot starts in 10 minutes, he will cut off 5 minutes for some irrelevant things, which is almost 10 minutes.

It's like netizens reading a novel. If you haven't appeared the protagonist in the three chapters, or haven't started the story, it will greatly affect the audience's viewing experience.

Hollywood has a set of rules for commercial movies. From the beginning to the end, every minute has a purpose.

Especially in the first 3 minutes, from the background of the story to the protagonist of the movie, at least the first introduction must be unfolded.

And for a movie like "Detective Chinatown", at the beginning of the multi-line narration, the police detectives sealed up the crime scene, and the police chief ordered two subordinates to solve the case within a time limit and find the gold.

This paragraph can be unfolded after the two protagonists appear and their roles begin.

Detective movies don't have to start with a case. After all, the story still needs to be advanced by the characters, so Zhou Xia prefers this editing method.

Let the two protagonists get to the point first, and then start the case. After all, this case was originally a disaster, so it is more dramatic.

Moreover, when Qin Feng arrived in Bangkok, he went to the bar to fall asleep that night, and the plot unfolded. At night, the police station began to ask to solve the case. The next day, when Qin Feng was playing with Sugar Man, the case should break out, don't wait until another day.

The pace of this movie is a bit slow in the early stage, and the dialogue between the two protagonists is redundant, which is one of the few shortcomings.

Zhou Xia naturally had to correct these flaws, making the plot of this movie more compact and the sense of conflict in the story stronger.

All in all, on the clue of Qin Feng and Tang Ren, many plots that are purely for making jokes should be deleted, and the rhythm of comedy and detective must be unified.

The audience should not be suddenly tense, and then suddenly slow down, so that the audience loses their nervousness and curiosity about the investigation. They must always maintain a certain degree of attention and a high sense of expectation.

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In the next two days of filming, Zhou Xia and Wang Baobao became more and more in harmony, and Wang Baobao no longer had any fear of his directorship, and his performance became more comfortable.

On the third and fourth days, Xu Guangtou and Huang Bo officially entered the group respectively, and the filming of the two-line plot started.

The two assistant directors, Yan Fei and Da Mo, who had filmed "Charlotte" with Zhou Xia before, were in charge of filming this clue, and Zhou Xia continued to be in charge of filming his and Wang Baobao's scenes.

After another week of filming, Yaya finally joined the group.

These days people are abroad, there are not so many paparazzi candid shots, Zhou Xia is much more free, but he is busy with filming work every day, rough editing after filming, and arranging the shooting tasks for the next day, and he has no time to go shopping in Bangkok.

After Yaya came that afternoon, Zhou Xia called off work early, and in the evening, the two of them took their assistant and the guide of the film crew and wandered around Bangkok.

Bangkok is the "Buddhist capital" of Thailand. It combines Eastern and Western cultures. It is an all-inclusive "City of Angels". The things are very cheap and the fruits are delicious.

Every year from November to next April is the golden time to travel to Bangkok. There is a grand Songkran Festival in April, and the off-season is from May to October. Because it often rains, it is inconvenient to travel, and the room and board are cheaper. Tickets will not be tight.

It has rained twice in the past few days since Zhou Xia came, but they were both heavy rainstorms. After the rain, the weather suddenly cleared up, which did not affect the filming.

At night, it hardly rains.

They filmed this film, and many attractions in Bangkok are also included, including the Grand Palace, the Chao Phraya River, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, the Erawan Buddha, and the Temple of the Reclining Buddha.

Moreover, there are fewer people traveling in this season, and there are even fewer domestic people in Thailand, and their chances of being recognized will also decrease.

So the two are very relaxed, wearing glasses and hats, they can go shopping together freely like ordinary couples, wandering in the beautiful world of foreign countries.

It's a pity that they haven't enjoyed this kind of free life for a long time. After visiting the Grand Palace, the Chao Phraya River, and shopping at the night market in Chinatown, they were almost recognized by a few Chinese.

Thai people have always liked to watch domestic popular dramas, especially Chinese. Zhou Xia's "You at the Same Table", "Gong", and "Why Shengxiaomo" were all the top ratings in the same period in China, and they were well received by most people. , It is normal to be introduced by Thailand.

Moreover, Zhou Xia's movie "Charlotte Annoyance" created a domestic box office record, and it was released in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and other places one after another. It is not uncommon for people who came out of him.

Since they couldn't go shopping comfortably, the two of them simply went back to the hotel to play games. It's been a long time since they saw each other, and of course they missed each other very much.

Zhou Xia found that Yaya became more and more beautiful than when she first met her. It should be said that she has become more and more temperamental. The temperament brought by self-confidence and success made her look more beautiful and charming.

Confident women are the most beautiful, and it makes sense.

(End of this chapter)