I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 470 Guest appearance and invitation (44)

Although "Changjin Lake" is a group play, the main characters are still Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli. As one of the six top stars of the Mesozoic era, it is not appropriate for Wang Baoqiang to play a supporting role...

Most importantly, Yu Dong and Chen Sicheng don’t have a good relationship, and as a result, he and Wang Baoqiang don’t get along well either…

Bao Qiang is closer to Chen Sicheng and Huanxi Media, while Yu Dong has his own circle!

Moreover, leaving aside capital and the like, just looking at the image, it is not very suitable, and Wang Baoqiang is not suitable either.

Starting with the role of the wreath in "The Wreath Under the Mountain", the wise and brave cadets have gradually become the protagonists of military films. Bao Qiang is suitable for playing the second role...

But considering his status, playing the second role is a bit of a disadvantage!
Moreover... the main theme military themes have already been divided up among Wu Jing, Zhang Hanyu, and Zhang Yi, while Ou Hao, Huang Jingyu, Du Jiang and other people with Bona connections are also dividing up the supporting role market.

If Shen Liang's reputation wasn't too strong, Yu Dong wouldn't have looked for him.

Yu Dong picked up the wine glass, and after they drank it all, he asked Shen Liang, "So you will join the crew of "Peak Explosion" later?"

"I have to guest star in Director Xu Zheng's The Last Lesson for three days..."

“Where did you shoot it?”

"The one in Zhejiang... it's just a three-day guest appearance, so it won't have much of an impact!"

"I heard that the script of Peak Explosion was rewritten according to your ideas?"

"Yeah," Shen Liang nodded. "The original script wanted too much. The protagonist's family, love, and personality were all explained, and then it immediately turned to the description of the disaster. This is an approach that leads to a series of subsequent problems. If the audience has not established a basic emotional connection with the character and reached empathy after reaching a consensus, then no matter how difficult the character goes through, it will be difficult for the audience to get into the mood..."

"So, you gave up family and love?"

"The family plot is too awkward, and the love plot... is a little bit, but it is not the main plot. The main contradiction of the play "Peak Explosion" is the collision of the thinking of "national projects cannot be delayed for the tunnel" and the thinking of "human life is above all else, for the sake of human life, no sacrifice is hesitated"..."

Yu Dong was surprised: "Ah... so bold, they allow you to shoot like this?"

Shen Liang chuckled: "Shoot first, we'll talk later!"

The original version of "Peak Explosion" had this problem - due to some well-known objective factors, the part about the group and the workers "for the tunnel" obviously could not be shown in large length, but had to be neutralized, otherwise, it would make their image too negative and unfriendly to their identity. Therefore, in the second half of the movie, the image of the group simply turned completely positive, and the characters simply did not mention that "the project could not be delayed"...

There is no way, because the group actually represents the "main theme output" of the film, so they have to change in the end.

Even if the presence is extremely weak, even if the image is vague.

"Can the higher-ups agree?"

Shen Liang explained: "It's okay. The protagonist was the first person in charge of the accident scene. He himself did not understand the severity of the accident at the beginning... So, his report was based on his own understanding... When the second accident occurred, he knew the severity... Then the higher-ups immediately made the decision to blow up the tunnel..."

The logic of "Peak Explosion" is that at first, the hidden large cracks were not discovered, and the victims of the landslide were judged to be tunnels and bridges.

When a large crack hidden in the middle of the mountain was discovered, the county became the victim of the landslide. The problem they faced at this time was whether to save the tunnel or the lives.

Then they discover they can save the county by blowing up the tunnels...

Then we have to blow up the tunnel!

Because 'human life is above everything else, and for the sake of human life, we will sacrifice anything'!
……

"My Hometown and Me", with Zhang Yi as the chief producer, Ning Hao as the chief director, Zhang Yibai as the chief planner, and Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Chen Sicheng, Yan Fei and Peng Damo, Deng Chao and Yu Baimei directing five comedy stories respectively.

This movie was organized by Brother Song.

Last year’s “My Country, My Parents” was a huge hit, and Song Ge felt that this model could be completely replicated!

On the one hand, due to the special circumstances this year, the number of film projects that have started shooting has dropped sharply;

On the other hand, for tribute films, actors all join at low prices...it's good business!

Shen Liang has seen this movie. The most amazing part of "My Hometown and Me" is "The Last Lesson"...

Teacher Fan Wei contributed the best performance of his career!
Xu Zheng also contributed the best of his directorial career: the scene where everyone recreated and decorated the classroom used a long shot of more than a minute. The overall effect looked very smooth, which was truly amazing.

Best transition: When the camera circles around the teacher and then circles back, it's already the classroom in 1992. This is so cool!
The most outstanding scene: The teacher went to get the paint in the heavy rain, but unfortunately fell and the paint fell into the river. The paint was not painted on the paper, but was painted on the land along the river.

It's so bullshit.

The shooting techniques and the use of these lens techniques are really brilliant!

I would never have thought that this was a short film directed by Xu Zheng.

Well, the director of photography for The Last Lesson is Cao Yu…

The top photographer in China, his representative works include "Nanjing! Nanjing!" and "Legend of the Demon Cat"...

Excellent photographers can really make a great contribution to a film. After Xu Zheng, the film "Duck Prophet" in the "My Fathers and Me" unit still used Cao Yu. The style of the film pays tribute to Wes Anderson's works, using a lot of old-fashioned panning shots, and the art and post-production color grading are retro fairy tale style...

Still very good.

But when it comes to the movies he produced, such as "My Heart Flies" and "Love Mythology"...

It's far inferior!

Specifically refers to the movie scene...

Back to the topic, Shen Liang arrived at Qiandao Lake in Chun'an and started filming...

There wasn’t even time to get to know the actors…

He gave three days...

In the original time and space, Li shot the scene for more than a month, but in the end, only two minutes of footage was edited out.

Shen Liang is similar, his role itself is not very important and the close-up shot does not exceed two minutes!
For many group scenes that don’t require the cast to show their faces, Xu Zheng has already found a stand-in to shoot most of them.

By the way, Yang Zi is also in this crew.

After finishing a day's shooting, Shen Liang found Yang Zi and asked, "Do you have anything to do next?"

"We need to film a scene!"

"What kind of movie are you shooting?"

"The Female Psychologist..." Yang Zi smiled and asked, "Why? You want me to make a movie?"

"Yes," Shen Liang nodded: "For "Peak Explosion", I'm still short of an actress who plays a girlfriend..."

This is true, Shen Liang wanted to find Yang Zi from the beginning...

The original version was Jiao Junyan. We are not saying that Jiao Junyan is not good, but she is indeed much older than Shen Liang, and there is no CP feeling at all!
Yang Zi is different. In "Honey Stewed Squid", their CP fans of "Tong Nian and Han Shangyan" are still very active...

Asking her to act in the film can save a lot of publicity expenses!
But Yang Zi...has already signed a contract with the crew.

"I can't leave... You're not an ex-girlfriend, just find someone else!"

"I don't have so many ex-girlfriends..."

(End of this chapter)