Movie tycoon

Chapter 398
It is said that this "Young and Dangerous" filmed by Shaw Brothers had a total investment of 500 million, which was considered to be an upper-middle investment at the time. Generally, a blockbuster with an investment of more than 800 million is similar to the future tens of millions of mega-productions.

Among the 500 million invested, Shaw Company actually invested 200 million, Chen Xiaotang invested 200 million in his own name, and Dongxing Society invested 100 million in the form of peripherals.

Someone here may want to say, why did Shaw Brothers agree to invest in Dongxing Society?The reason is very simple, since the subject of filming is "Young and Dangerous", without some real young and Dangerous performing, wouldn't it be "unreal"?
For this reason, under the leadership of Chen Xiaotang as an intermediary, Shaw Brothers agreed to Dongxing Club to join, and Dongxing Club needed manpower and material resources to cooperate with the filming of this drama.Big bosses like Crow, Lord Ding, Dasang, etc., all have wonderful performances in this drama.

In addition, let’s talk about the film’s salary issue.Although this movie is not a big production, but Chen Xiaotang is very popular, and the salary has doubled, from 50 yuan to 100 million yuan. In the eyes of the outside world, Shaw Brothers is still very harsh or stingy of.You know, Chen Xiaotang's popularity is no less than that of the former TVB top brand - Fa Ge, and Fa Ge's salary outside has reached 150 million to 250 million. Female stars like Zhao Yazhi can be paid as high as 200 million. Said that Chen Xiaotang's salary is really low, which doesn't match his popularity and popularity.

But Chen Xiaotang doesn't care about these things. In his opinion, this is not how to make money. If you really want to "get rich" by relying on this salary, you may have to learn from Liu Dehua and become an iron man model worker, shooting 200 films a year Only play will do.Therefore, what Chen Xiaotang values ​​is not the salary, but his own investment.He believes that this movie will be a big hit, and then the money he invested will be doubled, and 400 million will become 800 million, [-] million—this is the big winner.

Because of the above thoughts, Chen Xiaotang devoted himself even more to filming this movie, and because of this, he "kidnapped" Zhou Huimin, taught her how to play a little stutter, awakened Wu Zhenyu, how to play a "nervous boss", and helped Liu Dehua, achieved the "Golden Section of Acting Skills" ---
However, in the eyes of outsiders, his actions seemed a bit too strict and harsh, even a bit harsh.So everyone said that Chen Xiaotang's filming was ruthless and perverted.

But it's nothing to be cruel to others. The most surprising thing is that Chen Xiaotang is also "ruthless" to himself.

This afternoon, "Chen Haonan" played by Chen Xiaotang finally got on his horse and left the country. The content of the filmed clip was that he received instructions from the big boss, but he assassinated a society scum.

According to the requirements of the Kung Fu version script written by Chen Xiaotang, Chen Xiaotang turned this play into the parkour scene at the beginning of Donnie Yen's "Jing Wu Feng Yun".

In the camera, the actor who played the role of Hei Boss was seen walking out of the nightclub surrounded by a group of younger brothers, biting a cigar, talking and laughing happily with a chick in his arms.

Suddenly, Chen Xiaotang sprinted over from across the road.

Close-up: A car braked suddenly, Chen Xiaotang supported the car with one hand, jumped directly onto the car, and then leaped into the air, jumping from one car to another like Spiderman.

The black~boss on the opposite side gave the order coldly: "Kill him!"

The little brothers beside him suddenly took out the thing from their arms, wow, 30 people rushed towards Chen Xiaotang aggressively.

The camera zooms out: Chen Xiaotang jumped off the car, knelt down on one knee, raised his head, the wind blew his hair, and his eyes showed a cold light.

Then I saw him leaping up like a leopard, stepping on the shoulders of those thugs and "flying" over.

The boss got anxious and shouted: "Stop him, stop him quickly!" Pushing the woman in his arms, he turned around and ran away.

Long shot: A large group of people armed with weapons hurriedly turned around to intercept him, Chen Xiaotang grabbed one of them by the shoulder, threw him out, then kicked the three who came behind him away with a sweep of his legs.

The boss who was running for his life felt that there was wind behind him, and hurriedly drew his gun.

Chen Xiaotang grabbed his pistol with one hand, and with all his strength, he even released the pistol.

The boss was shocked.Suddenly his face beamed with joy.

Close-up shot: a pony in the back sneaks up and stabs him with a knife.

The boss sneered: "Go to hell!"

Chen Xiaotang held the stabbed knife with his backhand.

The lens zooms in: blood oozes from the blade.

Chen Xiaotang remained expressionless, and gave it away!
The long knife pierced directly into the belly of the boss.

Full shot: Everyone was stunned.

Chen Xiaotang pressed the boss's head with his hand, and the boss' eyes widened, and he fell to the ground with his eyes wide open.

The boss is dead, he really is dead!

Chen Xiaotang turned around, and everyone backed away in fear.

Close-up: Chen Xiaotang looked at the palm cut by the blade, then took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff leisurely, brushed his hair, and walked away.

Those horse boys were holding knives, but they couldn't help getting out of the way for him. At that moment, Chen Xiaotang was full of arrogance!
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"OK, this shot is over!" Fatty Wang, the director, shouted.Everyone shouted, "Brother Tang, you are so cool!" "Yeah, especially the scene of you stepping on the car and running, you are so handsome!"

Chen Xiaotang turned a deaf ear to the praise in front of him, but ran to the camera and carefully watched the replay inside.

"Fatty, why do I feel that the shots inside are still a bit lacking, do you want me to do it again!" Chen Xiaotang touched his chin and asked.

"Pull it down! It's good enough! You think these negatives don't have to be bought with money! Choose, if you are not in charge, you don't know how expensive it is!" The fat man despised Chen Xiaotang's "keep improving".

"Ahem, is this the way it is?"

"Of course it's over! There are more hot scenes to be filmed below, so save your energy!"

Chen Xiaotang was helpless, "I'll smoke a cigarette first! Get ready!"

Just like what director Fatty Wang Jing said, the next scene is really hot and exciting. Of course, it is also very dangerous. Even in the industry, the risk factor of this set of shots is extremely high.

This play is about Chen Haonan, played by Chen Xiaotang, who is chased and killed by other gangs after being found to have assassinated the gang leader. The storyline is relatively simple.Chen Xiaotang drives the car in front, and the killer played by Liu Xingbo drives behind to chase.

After the two cars collided several times at the corner, Chen Xiaotang pushed the other side to the side of the road with his courage.

But after a few shots, Fatty felt dissatisfied with the results after watching the results. The reason was that Chen Xiaotang's driving skills were really bad, and he was very sorry for his previous title of "Wanchai Car God".

Chen Xiaotang himself couldn't see it, so he changed the chasing of racing cars into a series of collisions with three or four cars, and there was a scene of cars rolling and blasting in the air.

This actually shocked Fatty. You must know that although the cost budget of this film has reached 500 million, it is not too much for Fatty. Otherwise, Fatty would not have despised Chen Xiaotang's "excellence" before.

Chen Xiaotang smiled and said: "Don't worry, since we want to make a film, we must make a classic, not a trivial one. I know your heart, but the budget is too low to restrict your hands and feet, Today the budget for those few cars can be excluded.”

"Not included? How is it possible?" The fat man didn't quite understand.

"Hehe, it's a big deal. I'll call the crow and ask him to bring some black cars that need to be dealt with. We smashed it up!"

"I choose, this is okay?!" The fat man was stunned.

Faced with the fat man's astonishment, Chen Xiaotang finally said only one sentence: "I will let important people know that all the movies that Chen Xiaotang starred in are definitely worth watching!"

At that moment, the fat man was filled with arrogance, he lost his mother, since Tang Zai is not afraid, he is afraid of a bird!

So when the filming started next time, the chase scene, which was originally driven by Chen Xiaotang and Liu Xingbo, suddenly turned into an explosion scene.

For the crew, shooting is much more difficult.

For the sake of safety, Chen Xiaotang asked Liu Xingbo, who is also a martial artist and dragon and tiger martial artist in this show, if there are stunt personnel who are good at driving skills.

You know, there is a big difference between dragon and tiger martial artists and stunt personnel.Dragon and Tiger warriors are good at fighting scenes, while stuntmen are good at speed car blasting and thrilling scenes such as jumping off buildings.In a sense, a good stuntman must be a good dragon and tiger martial artist; and a dragon and tiger martial artist can only become a qualified stuntman after rigorous training and accumulation of experience.

Hearing Chen Xiaotang's question, Liu Xingbo laughed, and said, "Atang, you really asked the right person, I know a few!" So Liu Xingbo called over two speed stunt talents he knew.

One of these two people is called Ah Cai and the other is called Ah Wang. Together they are "Wang Cai Shuang Sha". They once had a wonderful car performance in the movie "Beware of Little Hands" shot by Sam Hung.

When they met, Chen Xiaotang didn't talk to them, but just asked: "Can you bear it?"

"Wangcai Shuangsha" patted his chest: "We are absolutely sure about the blasting of the flying car, brother Tang, just watch!"

Chen Xiaotang is an expert and knows the rules in the circle, but he dare not let them play easily, and he can't bear it if there is an accident.

Who would have thought that the "Wangcai Shuangsha" had a tough temper, so Chen Xiaotang must have looked down on them.Chen Xiaotang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he had no choice but to make a written statement, which allowed them to get on the horse and start filming the speeding car explosion scene.

In order to take this shot well, Chen Xiaotang and Fatty Wang Jingche used a total of three cameras to take three-dimensional shots from far, near, and high altitude.

As the decision-maker announces the decision, the camera lengthens directly.Fatty Wang Jing focused on the shooting effect inside the camera.

The first thing that appeared in the camera was Chen Xiaotang's car. The motor was speeding up, and the buzzing sound could be heard from a long distance away.

Fatty Wang Jing sighed beside him and said, "Just now I said that Ah Tang was a bad driver, now he's going crazy again. I really don't know if he can complete the following action!"

In fact, Chen Xiaotang is really not very good at driving, but with the experience of racing with "Wan Chai Da Fei" last time, his desperate drive is definitely admirable.Besides, this car was meant to be crashed, so fasten your seat belt at worst, and it's OK if people don't get hit and fly out.

But deep down in his heart, it is a lie to say that he is not afraid, but for filming, he insisted on fighting, this is Chen Xiaotang's madness!

"Wow, Ah Tang is really crazy this time!" Liu Dehua, who played the role of Da Tian Er at some point, came over and looked at the camera and said.

The fat man "hush" at him, only to see in the camera, the speeding car following Chen Xiaotang chasing up from behind. You can hear the rubbing sound of the car tires against the surface.

Fatty: "Quickly make up for the second camera. Make sure to zoom in on the far lens. Note that the key is to take a close-up shot of cars colliding with each other!"

The lens of the camera slowly retracted on the boom, and the two cars in the lens began to collide with each other, and thick white smoke rose from the impact of the front of the car. It seemed that Chen Xiaotang and Liu Xingbo really worked hard to film this scene .

The camera is getting better.

Next, the two cars arranged by Chen Xiaotang as passers-by appeared.According to the adapted plot, they collided head-on with Chen Xiaotang's car, and then Liu Xingbo's car rear-ended and hit the car in front, turned over in the air, and hit another road car when it rolled over the ground.

Seeing that everything was going well, the person in charge of setting up roadblocks to block pedestrians on the intercom suddenly said loudly: "It's not good, a road car rushed to the scene!"

Fatty Wang Jing turned pale with shock, "What?" He was about to go crazy, "What do you eat?"

"I just peed, who knows..."

"Idiot!" The fat man slammed the walkie-talkie to the ground.

As the director Fatty Wang Jing can only order to stop filming at this moment.

But it was too late at this time, and a white car in the distance had already appeared in the camera.

"What should I do?" Fatty was about to go crazy.As a last resort, he had no choice but to pick up the walkie-talkie and say to Chen Xiaotang who played Chen Haonan: "Ah Tang, there are passers-by, you'd better get out of the way!"

At this time, Chen Xiaotang also saw the sudden appearance of the vehicle, his eyes narrowed, and then he said to the fat man through the walkie-talkie: "Don't stop shooting, keep going!"

"What? How is this possible!" But before the fat man finished speaking, he saw in the camera that Chen Xiaotang's broken car, which was hit so that the tail of the car was smoking, spun, and directly threw the white car that was about to rush into the camera. intercepted at the periphery.

The two cars were head-to-head, and they almost collided! !

This is not a special stunt, everyone was surprised to see it!
Xin said, Chen Xiaotang started to go crazy again!

(End of this chapter)