I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 813 Past Events

Wu Jing talked to Shen Liang about his experience in The Meg 2...

Although China is the main investor in this project, the production team is from Hollywood, and the director, script, etc. are already ready.

Wu Jing brought Yu Baimei into the group, changed the character setting, and added a lot of small details...

Including the character's name, it changed from Zhang Jian to Zhang Jiuming.

This was Yu Baimei's idea, taken from the line "In Praise of the Statue of Yu Wenjing" which goes "The vast sky is above, and the nine seas are below." The nine seas mean both the ocean and the abyss, which sums up the theme.

Of course, I personally feel that this name is not good. Which Chinese parents would give their child a name with the word "Ming" in it?

From this we can see that Yu Baimei’s talent is really limited!
Of course, Shen Liang didn’t say anything…

Instead, I listened to Wu Jing continue to talk. He mentioned the filming process: "I went there to learn from him! Not only did I look at the production process, but I also looked at the living habits, division of labor, and positions of the staff, whether it was the field staff, the costume and makeup props, the lighting and photography, including the very detailed division of labor in the planning department and the production department, which department we should hand over to, and how to reduce errors in the process."

“Oh, and I packed a bunch of photography equipment!”

"Photographic equipment?"

"For example, there are subjective photography equipment in China, but they are different from those in Hollywood. Each set of equipment is more than 20 kilograms heavier than Hollywood's. I exchanged the brackets and parts of those subjective equipment with the Hollywood team, and then packed them all and sent them to Guo Fan..."

"Tsk tsk..."

Wu Jing smiled, then remembered something and said directly: "I want to shoot "Classic of Mountains and Seas"..."

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas is not easy to film..."

"They gave me a book called "Oddities of the Poll Bureau", and I plan to start with this book..."

"'Oddities from the Public Opinion Survey Bureau'?" Shen Liang nodded: "I've heard of this book..."

"The Strange Stories of the Public Opinion Survey Bureau" has opened up a new type of novel: folk legend + horror story. "Taoist Stories of Miao Area", "Top Secret Files", "Weird Files", "Records of Strange Stories", including "The Years I Was a Taoist Priest" and "China Dragon Group" are all of this type!

The protagonist joins a mysterious organization by coincidence, and then a series of bizarre and exciting "supernatural" stories happen...

"Records of Abnormal Creatures" is also of this type.

However, Shen Liang is not optimistic about the adaptation of "Classic of Mountains and Seas" - according to materialistic values, feudal superstition cannot be tolerated!

But he still came up with an idea: "Either travel through time and space, or...make the monsters look like they are at peace with the world and want to make friends with humans, just like in "ET the Extraterrestrial"..."

Wu Jing immediately asked: "...Are you interested?"

“…You can try it!”

……

In fact, the biggest problem of "The Meg 2" is that the force value is not distributed evenly enough!

There are three sharks. The American Wolf Warrior should kill one, the Chinese Wolf Warrior should kill one, and then work together to kill another...

As a result, the movie shows that the American Wolf Warrior killed two in a row, and the third was persuaded to return by the Chinese Wolf Warrior. People and nature live in harmony, peace and love!

It’s still the traditional path: the white man saves the world, the black man is responsible for rapping, the Asian man is responsible for technical support, and the dog must not die!
Since Yanan has invested, let’s give him some monsters to fight…

Besides, when I watch "The Meg", I want to see a giant shark bite someone!

Bite openly.

Damn, in a two-hour movie, the shark scene only lasts for less than 20 minutes!

Look at the egg...

Also, sharks!

Compulsory education tells us that sharks are endangered species.

Why is it endangered? Because it is overfished.

What are you fishing for?
Eat it! No, no matter how awesome you praise this thing or how powerful it is, it is not a reason not to eat it!
Again, in most cases, Chinese people are unlikely to be afraid of edible things.

However, The Meg 2 was profitable.

The first film in the "Megalodon" series grossed $5.22 million worldwide, and "Megalodon 2" grossed $3.96 million worldwide!
The combined global box office of the two films is $9.18 million, and the mainland box office of the two films is $2.63 million, which is the most impressive among co-productions...

And it was officially announced that there will be a third part...

I guess he will look for Shen Liang...

……

The Shanghai Film Festival, whose full name is actually the Shanghai International Film Festival, is a film festival, so it has a main competition unit!
The biggest news this year is probably #Hu Ge and Da Peng Movie King Double Yolk Egg#…

Hu Ge won the award for "It's a Worth the Trip", and Da Peng won the award for "The Eighth Suspect"...

Neither of these two movies is that good, especially "It's a Worth the Trip"...

"Worth the Trip" is very much like the movies starring Hu Ge - pretending to be mysterious and mature but actually very empty.

Many people say that "It's a Worth the Trip" is an art film...

This movie is about a man who writes eulogies and does some things in the funeral industry...

This kind of movie is easy to make into a classic.

For example, films like "White Ribbon", "Love", and "Her", whether exploring human nature, death, or future technology, although not sensational and emotionally restrained, have depth in their stories, and even the plots of these films are very compact.

It will attract you to keep watching, and you will be deeply shocked after watching it.

After watching "It's a Worth the Trip", will you only type one? …

What is this thing for?

"The Eighth Suspect", to paraphrase a comment from a netizen: a constipated main-theme crime film, with no style, no emotions, no characters, no story...

This is a very impure movie: some people made it for awards, some made it for money, but no one cared whether it was good or not.

Why did the Shanghai Film Festival give awards to these two actors?

Just like Huang Xiaoming flew to Shanghai from abroad urgently and won the "Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor" for a movie that no one had seen yet...

Sometimes I think, I really don’t understand these old masters in the film and television industry (juan), what’s the point of commenting on these people?
When it comes to the film market, which tests the true appeal of these best actor and actress, they just fail again and again...

Hey, a few years ago, there was a trend of praising "old actors" and mocking "fresh meat", but now, it is no longer popular!

The fact that everyone can see is that the vast majority of so-called "old actors" are just as eager for fame and fortune, but they use the popularity of "fresh meat" to despise it, while stepping on young people to market themselves...

Forget it, I won’t complain anymore!
Shen Liang left Shanghai before the awards ceremony was over - he had to join the crew of "Going West to Anxi"!

……

"Go West to Anxi", the cast is quite luxurious...

——The city is full of white-haired soldiers!
That must be over 60 years old.

Jackie Chan brought in a bunch of old buddies, most of whom were old buddies he worked with when he was young, including Mars, Yuen Biao, and Louis Koo...

Shen Liang originally thought that Jackie Chan would look for the first generation of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team…

Then the martial arts instructor Wu Gang told him, "There is no first generation of Cheng family Stunt Team!"

Shen Liangte was curious: "No?"

"Big Brother once disbanded the Cheng Family Team for a while, and the first generation no longer exists!"

(End of this chapter)