I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 518 Arrival (34)

"To Be Famous", in terms of genre, is actually a "variant" of the Snowman-type suspense film.

The protagonist of the "Snowstorm Mansion Mode" will be set as a detective or a whistleblower, and will carry out a wonderful locked room reasoning process.

The "detective" mentioned here is a type of role rather than a profession, such as police, prosecutors, investigators, reporters, etc. Anyone with an investigative color can become a "detective". In the movie "To Be Famous", a screenwriter innovatively took on this role.

At the beginning, a group of people were invited to a luxurious villa for a "script meeting".

The theme of the script is to shoot a movie with the background of three famous Shanghai gangsters being killed at the same time in the same room.

Different from the usual search for the murderer, "To Be Famous" has made some micro-innovations.

The murderer played by Zhang Benyu is also with everyone, and his identity is revealed almost at the beginning of the story, but the plot is not about the murderer harming people, but about exploring the truth of the crimes the murderer has committed.

If you want to write a good story about a murderer, you naturally have to dig deep into every aspect of the murderer, so the role of detective naturally falls to the screenwriter Li Jiahui.

But the screenwriter is actually a behind-the-scenes character, so the play within the play in the movie, "The Magic Hero" and "The Case of the Three Elders" at the end of the film, do not require Shen Liang's participation...

There is also the story line of Qi Leshan and Nightingale, which does not need Li Jiahui...

So, after Shen Liang finished filming these, his scenes were finished!

Also finishing the filming were Hu Xianxu and Yu Entai…

By the way, Hu Xianxu is the only one who died in “Becoming Famous”!
Hai Zhaofeng, the little policeman...

Having set up the flag of "I am a policeman" at the beginning, after escaping, he must uphold justice and reveal the truth, otherwise his character will collapse, and the ending will have to be rewritten, which will lead to more plots...

So Hai Zhaofeng must die.

It's quite pitiful that he was the only one to die!
……

Say goodbye to the crew and actors...

Shen Liang didn't even stay for a night.

"Are you in such a hurry?"

"Yeah, it's urgent..."

"Changjin Lake" has sounded the assembly order...

Shen Liang couldn't delay too long.

Brother Chen Kai has a bad temper!

In variety shows, they can get angry at people and say things like "I don't owe you anything"...

It's normal, it comes from the studio...

In the traditional film production process, the director himself is a symbol of privilege!
This is a fact. Our film market is very short. If we need an exact time point, we have to start from Zhang Yimou's "Hero", which was at the end of 2002, less than 20 years ago.

We certainly had movies before that, but at that time movies were a tool and making movies was a privilege.

So, you are right, he is indeed a superior person.

Yang Mi then asked: "Are you going directly to the Northeast?"

"No, I'm going to Xiangyan Village in Xianju County first..."

“…Are you the protagonist of this play?”

"Almost." Shen Liang finished removing his makeup: "I'm leaving first!"

“…How long did it take to shoot “Changjin Lake”?”

Shen Liang said casually: "...Five months!"

"Can it be released in time for next summer?"

"I don't know... I'm just an actor in the show, let's go!"

Shen Liang waved and left...

……

The opening scene of "Changjin Lake" where the elder brother Wu Qianli returns home to visit his family and recognizes his younger brother Wu Wanli on the shore was filmed in Xiangyan Village in Xianju County. This village is not very famous, surrounded by fields. The Yong'an River makes a bend in the north of the village, making the village surrounded by water on three sides. The river bank is densely forested, and there are many old wooden houses built in the 1940s and 1950s in the village, which are still well preserved.

Arriving at the filming location, Shen Liang met with the crew, and then went to get his hair cut and changed to a buzz cut…

Then I took a break...

This plot was mainly shot by Brother Chen Kai.

Shen Liang doesn’t have much respect for Director Chen, but it’s not that he believes that “Farewell My Concubine” was filmed by someone else…

Most of the works of Chinese directors are driven by hormones.

When I was young, I still maintained a normal degree of sensitivity to life and tried to change the world by changing myself.

At that time, they were revolutionaries, and their films were full of revolutionaries' passion and impulse.

It’s hard to maintain this passion after you become successful!

In fact, most works of art are a way for the creator to communicate with the world.

They are more sensitive than most people. They maintain an inexhaustible curiosity about life and are always willing to touch the world in more ways.

But...when they reach a certain point, are they still willing to touch this world?

"He is a conservative old artist who came from a closed world and doesn't care much about the progress of the world. He lives and immerses himself in the past and feels the sunset of the past."

In a sense, this sentence is a self-evaluation!

Then...why does he still want to film?

Nonsense, this industry has a huge ability to monetize fame and fortune that is visible to the naked eye. Movies are a tool for getting rich and becoming famous.

Do you think they love movies?

Do you love tools?

Tools are mostly disposable after use.

Their creative power is as surging as a mighty river, but after achieving its goal, it evaporates as quickly as water, at such a fast speed that it seems as if it had never happened.

Therefore, you will often wonder why Director Chen, who made Yellow Earth and Farewell My Concubine, would make The Promise, The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain, and Daytime Meteor...

After achieving success, it is not easy to maintain a strong desire to create and constantly learn and update the means of expression...

So, Amou is awesome~
Even in his seventies, he is still able to innovate his creative techniques. "On the Cliff", "Rock Solid" and "Clause 20" are all good movies!

However, The Three-Body Problem…

To be honest, for "The Three-Body Problem", it is estimated that Lao Wang (the producer Guangguang) looked for a large number of directors, but was rejected by all of them. So he had no choice but to find A-mou, who is tough and thick-skinned, and a lean camel is bigger than a horse, as a backup.

Ah Mou is not a fool. He is full of confidence and insists on taking the center position, beating out a number of directors to snatch the "Three-Body Problem" in an attempt to show off his skills...

As for whether it can be accomplished...

Hard to say!
Oh, Shen Liang opened the live broadcast room and reported to his brothers that the EP was almost done.

"It will be online on the 27th, yes, the day when The Crowd is released!"

“…four songs…I feel they are all pretty good…”

"Oh, I have arrived at the set of "Changjin Lake"..."

"The drama of "Fame" has ended..."

“It was shot pretty fast… ‘Fame and Fame’ itself is an ensemble drama, and everyone worked well together, so of course it was shot quickly!”

"The specific release date... should be next summer. It's hard to say the exact release date, it depends on the arrangement of the theaters..."

"Opponents? My film is not afraid of any opponents, it's just that they treat us as opponents!"

"The same is true for 'Raging Fire'. The reason why it was scheduled for November 11 is mainly to make a good start for the Lunar New Year holiday..."

(End of this chapter)