New Age Artists

Chapter 363: How Cheap! (33)

Gao Yuanyuan covered her face.

Liu Ye: “.”

Fan Wei: “.”

Lu Chuan, who hadn't even walked out of the set yet, almost vomited blood. How shameless!
Cao Yu and Zhao Yisui walked over to persuade Lu Chuan: "Director Lu, you can't leave."

Lu Chuan looked at the two of them with a bad face: "If I don't leave, why should I stay here? He has sidelined me! You know, he has sidelined me!"

"Why didn't you speak up for me just now?"

Lu Chuan thought of the experience in "Looking for the Gun" and sighed to the sky, feeling sad from the bottom of his heart.

Jiang Wen, the drama tyrant, dragged the crew to follow him.

Shen Santong, the crew tyrant and bastard, has robbed his crew again.

Cao Yu said: "Director Lu, if you leave, we will completely lose control of the crew. If you don't leave, we can still find a way to take it back."

Lu Chuan sneered, "I formed the crew, and the script is based on my ideas. I wrote it while filming."

"I don't believe he can do better than me. Without me, the crew will fall apart immediately."

Lu Chuan left.

Whenever the production crew was on hold, they would come to him for help!
Zhao Yisui and Cao Yu looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Zhao Yisui asked: "Director Lu, do you really not know the gap between yourself and Director Shen?"

Cao Yu shook his head: "It's hard to say."

No one among the actors and those behind the scenes responded to Lu Chuan, for many reasons.

The primary reason is that Shen Santong is indeed strong.

Let’s not talk about the filming, let’s just talk about the small matter of distributing lunch boxes.

Before Shen Santong came, things were very chaotic. After Shen Santong came, things became orderly and everyone could eat on time.

Especially at noon, you can have something hot.

For a play of this type, it is very important to have a good director and good coordination.

Before Shen Santong intervened in the filming, the Chinese actors were very tired and depressed.

After Shen Santong intervened, the actors only needed to think about acting, and he could always clearly express the desired effect.

Even leaving aside the performance.

For the actors, is it better for this play to be directed by the king of commercial films, Shen Santong, or Lu Chuan? Is there any need to choose?

11 month 24 day.

Lu Chuan has been away from the group for three days.

At the hotel, panicked.

The crew is progressing as usual, or even faster.

This is awkward.

Without him, the crew will still be in trouble.

He gritted his teeth and made a phone call.

Xingmei CEO Tan Hong rushed to the Nanjing crew and found Shen Santong: "Brother, this is against the rules."

Shen Sandong said: "Please ask Director Lu to come back. When he comes back, I will hand over the crew to him."

"I have a lot of things to do, including the promotion of 'Happy Birthday 2', and he got angry and threw the work to me. That's not how you do things."

Tan Hong: “.”

Tan Hong was shocked.

After watching the shooting for a while, I was also confused.

This crew has already taken the shape of Shen Santong, and China Film Group has an ambiguous attitude.

Not a big deal.

To put it bluntly, it was a struggle between two directors for power in the crew.

There is also the precedent of "Looking for the Gun", as long as it doesn't affect the filming, it's fine.

After taking a tour around the crew, Tan Hong had to admit that Shen Santong was indeed amazing and had strong management skills.

He estimated that there was a high probability that Shen Santong could not stand the plot of the play, so he intervened.

Shen Santong doesn't need to prove himself.

If we change the subject, we won’t be able to invite Shen Santong even if we want to.

Shen Santong dismissed Tan Hong casually, looked at the actor in the script, Nakaizumi Yingxiong, and the translator who followed him: "You don't want to act anymore?"

Nakaizumi Yingxiong bowed and said, "Hayi. I have signed a contract with Director Lu Chuan. If Director Lu Chuan doesn't come, I'm afraid I can't perform."

Shen Santong asked in a peculiar way, "Is it your own wish, or did someone know that I was going to do this play and made you not cooperate?"

Nakaizumi Hero's expression changed slightly: "Hayi, it doesn't exist. It's because I signed a contract with Director Lu Chuan, and I must abide by my promise."

Shen Santong asked the on-site producer: "Did he sign a contract with the crew?"

The on-site producer nodded: "Yes." Shen Santong said: "Finish today's performance, and then ask your agency, or the person who asked you to strike, to pay the penalty, and you can leave."

Nakai Izumi Yingxiong's face changed: "Shen Sang, I did not breach the contract. It was you who took away Director Lu Chuan's power."

Shen Santong said: "Either you act well, or if you don't, pay the penalty and get out. Do you understand, bastard?"

Nakai Izumi Hero didn't expect Shen Santong to be so shameless and not care about his original identity at all: "I need to think about it."

Shen Santong reminded him, "Perform today's scene well. If it affects the filming, you will also have to pay compensation."

In his heart, Nakai Izumi cursed Shen Santong for being a jerk, but on his face he said respectfully, "Smith, please give me some time to think about it."

Shen Santong said: "It takes time to consider. You have affected the filming of the crew, so you must pay compensation."

Since Nakaizumi Yingxiong has spoken and doesn't want to leave, Shen Santong has to force him to leave.

He had long wanted to make large-scale changes to the play, but was just too embarrassed to do so.

If the leading actor leaves, he can then make large-scale changes to the play.

Colonel Lu Chuan is a smart man.

"Nanjing" is the third movie he made since he entered the industry.

The first one, "Looking for the Gun" directed by Jiang Wen, took advantage of the trend.

The following two films, "Kekexili" and "Nanjing", firmly occupied the moral high ground from the very beginning when choosing their topics.

In the play "Nanjing", because of its subject matter and that painful period of history, history and film itself are closely tied together.

Choosing this topic is bound to be a hot topic.

From a business perspective, this kind of topic that takes advantage of the situation is already halfway to success.

However, in Shen Santong's opinion, such painful memories should not be commercialized.

The perspective of the original film alternates between the Chinese and Japanese perspectives, with each side taking roughly half and half of the shots.

But the problem is that there are more key figures on the Chinese side.

It appears and leaves, the relay is average, and the main storyline is intermittent.

Only Mr. Tang, played by Fan Wei, can barely be considered a clue character.

The fate of their family becomes an important element driving the development of the film for a period of time.

Compared with Liu Ye's Lu Jianxiong, Gao Yuanyuan's Teacher Jiang and others, Mr. Tang is relatively fuller and more real.

In the end, he had the opportunity to leave, but he gave the chance to live to others, and his image instantly became taller.

But before that, in order to protect himself and his family, he informed his people that there were injured soldiers from the University of Tokyo in the safe zone.

This character, who originally seemed more real, has become unbelievable.

After his death, the baton was passed to Xiaodouzi.

As the baton was passed again and again, the perspective changed again and again, becoming more and more chaotic, and by the time Xiaodouzi took over, everything was completely out of control.

The protagonist of the book, Kadokawa, played by Hideo Nakaizumi, is the only character that appears throughout the entire film.

Compared with Chinese figures, he is consistent.

He was also given a cheating device to keep him out of the film.

Especially it is incompatible with the Japanese side.

He is a Japanese soldier who retains his humanity. When faced with killing, he will be afraid and miss home.

After losing his virginity to a comfort woman named Yuriko, he would want to marry her.

The death of Yuriko and women who look like her would cause him great distress.

Although apart from him, the plot of the book is more about showing the atrocities of the Japanese people, giving an invader flesh and blood is a big problem in itself.

Throughout the film, the Chinese perspective is intermittent, while the Japanese perspective is flesh and blood.

Colonel Lu Chuan attempted to interpret this historical and human tragedy in an objective and neutral way.

But for a subject like this, we can’t just talk about the national humiliation and the movie.

In the face of national suffering and scars, maintaining neutrality itself shows one's position.

The original version did not consider the causes of the massacre or the abnormal behavior of the soldiers.

If it were just this, it would still be rubbish, but considering the situation in the entertainment industry, it's still okay.

But the movie has a plot about a Japanese officer "confessing".

Kadokawa repented and committed suicide.
The character of Kadokawa is kind, innocent and self-disciplined throughout the story.

His love for the comfort woman Yuriko was pure and persistent, and he even shot Jiang Shuyun to save her from humiliation.

At the end of the film, he resolutely let the two Dong adults go, and then completed the redemption of his soul by committing suicide.

The problem is that Colonel Lu Chuan forgives on behalf of Lord Dong and repents for the devils.

What qualifications do you, Lu Chuan, have to forgive on behalf of the victims?

The incense offered at the toilet shrine and the endless offerings from all over the place show that Ben has not repented.

You, Colonel Lu Chuan, have imagined the repentance of a group of unrepentant people.

The Japanese won't repent, but you, Colonel Lu Chuan, are repenting for them. How despicable!
(End of this chapter)