Japanese Entertainment: From special effects actor to action superstar

Chapter 214: Magic Must Look Magical

After watching from the sidelines for a while, Gu Mingshou realized that Chiba Shinichi was most likely unable to handle this part of the fight.

In fact, it has nothing to do with fighting. The main reason is that Journey to the West is a magical action movie, so it has to create enough magical feeling. When it is not magical enough, special effects or traditional special effects have to be used.

The fist-fighting fights are fun to watch, but it also depends on the type of work.

What's Monkey King's clone? His somersault cloud? We have to use them!
You can't just carry a stick and beat people up every day!
Therefore, it is very important to find a reliable martial arts director for a work. For example, before Gu Ming traveled through time, he had watched a movie, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which was directed by Tsui Hark again.

What a mess the movie turned out to be. Guo Jing looks like Huang Rong, and Huang Rong looks like a fool. Even the authors in the martial arts section shook their heads after watching it.

None of the Five Great Masters of Central Plains appeared, yet they were introduced for a long time in a serious manner. Hu Jun only had a cameo appearance for less than a minute, but during the promotion, they almost wanted to write Hu Jun as the male lead.

All the fights are just two people fighting each other from a distance with special effects.

How could the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms look like that!

Gu Ming was so angry that he traveled through time that night.

A martial arts movie!
Director Tsui Hark!
What did you shoot this?

Martial arts movies can be free-flowing and imaginative, but necessary fighting is necessary. Two people using air cannons is not fun at all, and is not as good as the fighting scenes in Investiture of the Gods.

Of course, deification is also shit.

"Luckily I came early. If I had been a step later, if they had insisted on taking me to be Xiao Zhan's substitute, I would have lost face for the rest of my life!"

Gu Ming secretly felt lucky.

Chiba Shinichi is certainly not that bad, his fighting skills are still acceptable.

However, Chiba Shinichi's style is not suitable for this magical action style. When the project was first launched, it was decided that Chiba Shinichi would be responsible for the human-to-human battle, and the monster battle would be left to Gu Ming.

Obviously there are people in the crew with good eyesight who realize Chiba Shinichi's shortcomings.

Unfortunately, Gu Ming discovered that Chiba Shinichi was not aware of this problem.

Soon, the fight began, the blower was whirring outside, and the actors inside couldn't open their eyes.

The strong wind and sand did have some effect. Zhen Xialong squinted his eyes and couldn't see anything. He hit the stick a few times and couldn't see anything clearly.

He has some skills in suit acting, so that's fine, but the others weren't so good. Several of the extras couldn't see anything clearly and even accidentally hit their own people.

The director paused several times, but the effect was not very good.

"Furugu..."

The director hesitated to speak.

Forget it, forget about Gu Gu. It’s like there’s no one else in the crew.

Cheng Long was scratching his head.

Someone said before that the action director of this episode was Shinichi Chiba, but now looking at it, Cheng Long definitely doesn’t believe it.

There is no reason for someone who can bring out the scene before to mess up the scene here.

"What a pity." Cheng Long sighed.

"This martial arts director does have some skills, but why does he have to do such a grand spectacle? Wouldn't it be better to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses?"

Gu Ming glanced at him and said, "Didn't you also want to make a big scene before?"

"That, that's different!"

He apologized to Cheng Long for a few words, and then kept saying "I have ideas too" and "Seek innovation and change to create brilliance" and so on.

Shinichi Chiba has already discussed with the director and is ready to try again.

Gu Ming calculated the amount of film.

"I don't think we'll be filming today. Film is expensive. Hey, if I were you to direct this scene, do you have any ideas for it?"

Cheng Long was slightly stunned.

Let him come? Can he do it?
Cheng Long actually has this idea!
He was a martial arts stuntman and had his own ideas about fighting. Later, Cheng Long's own fighting designs were included in "Fighting Kung Fu".

By 1980, he was doing quite well.

Gu Ming slapped his thigh.

Cheng Long took his hand away and tried to hit him back, but Gu Ming dodged it.

Gu Ming said, "We won't be filming today. I think they'll have to ask me to come back and help in the end. Why don't you try directing the play tomorrow? Don't worry, you'll be paid."

Cheng Long's heart was beating fast, and he lowered his voice and asked, "What are you going to do?" Gu Ming said, "Me? I have other plans. The magical style of this play needs to be designed separately, and I need to prepare some props."

……

……

That night, Chiba Shinichi sat alone in the camping tent, his hair flying around.

He really tried his best today, but the filming results were not good, especially the expected wind and sand effect did not achieve the desired effect. The dust had to be raised again every time, which made the actors very unhappy.

At this point, Chiba Shinichi actually admitted that he was indeed no match for Gu Ming in this regard.

He dared to say that if Gu Ming was the one shooting this scene today, he would definitely not use this method.

But he just didn't want to give up, and Chiba Shinichi wanted to try again.

He is at least 40 years old, middle-aged, married, and has his own career. He is also a popular action actor in Japan. It is not that easy to make him admit defeat.

Just as I was thinking, I heard someone greeting me outside, and Chiba Shinichi said, "Come in."

Unexpectedly, it was Gu Ming and the big-nosed man he didn't know.

"Please sit down." Chiba Shinichi asked the two to sit down and said, "The conditions are simple and there is no tea. I hope you two are not here to laugh at me."

"You worry too much. I wouldn't do that kind of thing." Gu Ming bowed slightly and pulled Cheng Long to sit down.

Gu Mingyan was concise and to the point and directly stated his purpose.

"You should know the specifications of the film we're using today."

Chiba Shinichi frowned, but still said, "Of course it's 35mm film. This drama was a huge investment, and the film quality is also very high."

Film has a certain width. Generally, 35mm film is high enough to be considered movie quality.

Gu Ming continued, "Then you must also know the price of a roll of film like this."

Chiba Shinichi took a deep breath.

He could understand what Gu Ming meant.

But, I don't want to admit defeat.

Gu Ming said that because film was very expensive, in order to save money on filming, he hoped to hand over the design of the killing formation for this episode to him again.

"Gugu-kun is so young, but he has already achieved great success. It's really enviable. When I was your age, I was still a supporting actor on the set."

Gu Ming smiled and said nothing.

There's no point in praising him.

"Actually, your idea was right at first, but the execution was wrong. Although the wind and sand effect is important, you also have to consider the actors themselves."

Gu Ming said, "No matter what the reason, please return this play to me. Of course, this is not a request, it's a notice."

Otherwise, you know my methods!

Chiba Shinichi took a deep breath.

Looking at Yasuaki Kurata, he knew that he was indeed very resourceful!

Yasuaki Kurata was almost beaten to death!
"So this is 'No Sword Taker'! Victory or defeat is decided outside the studio."

Chiba Shinichi sighed slightly: "Then, I'll leave it to you. But this doesn't mean that JAC loses!"

Gu Ming bowed slightly.

Cheng Long didn't understand, but he could see that the atmosphere between the two had eased.

So, he can slap his thigh now?
Cheng Long stretched out his hand.

Chiba Shinichi:?
Why are you patting my legs!
Chiba Shinichi is worthy of being a true disciple of Kyokushin Karate. He sensed Cheng Long's intention and instantly lowered his arm to block Cheng Long. However, Cheng Long turned his wrist and went around his arm to hit him again.

In an instant, the two exchanged several moves, their arms entangled, unable to let go of each other. Their faces turned a little red, and finally, they looked up at each other.

Cheng Long: I just pat my thigh!
Chiba Shinichi: You guy, why don't you take a picture of your own legs! Is there no one?
Gu Ming held the hands of the two men, one on the left and one on the right, forced them apart, and then held the two hands together.

stop fighting.

You won’t be able to touch my thighs like this!

(End of this chapter)