HPDBC Chapter 818
Chapter 818
Chapter 818
"Jinling Thirteen Beauties" includes "Nanjing!Nanjing! ", "Tokyo Trial" box office in Southeast Asia is not too high!
Among the Chinese films that can penetrate the Southeast Asian market, only martial arts action films.
"Embroidered Spring Knife" and "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate" sold very well.
Golden Harvest's cool action movies can also sell at high prices, but others are a bit difficult...
Chinese audiences in Southeast Asia, because they have maintained the habit of watching Hong Kong movies for a long time, they are very appreciative of action movies and Hong Kong-style comedies...
Of course, this recognition specifically refers to celebrities, for example, "Yangtze River No. 2600" has a box office of nearly [-] million US dollars in Southeast Asia!
As for WWII-themed movies, they are not popular in Southeast Asia...
Including "Pearl Harbor" which sent his father to the children of the Showa era, the box office in Southeast Asia is not high!
Generally, movies that can be sold in Hong Kong can also be sold in Southeast Asia, and the wind vane attribute is particularly obvious.Maybe it’s because Hong Kong hasn’t made a movie about World War II in those years...
As a result, Southeast Asian audiences do not favor such themes.
As for Nippon, they made quite a few films about World War II, such as "The Yamato of Men", "Eternal Zero", "The Longest Day in Nippon", and so on. Released in markets other than benzene, through this kind of film, you can't see the reflection on the war at all, there is reflection, but the reflection is on why the war was defeated...
In fact, countries in Southeast Asia also have their own film industries. Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam all have local films...
Especially in Thailand, in the 90s there was a new wave of Thai films, and Thai filmmakers formed a series of uniquely Thai genres on the basis of learning from Western film expressions and integrating Thai local culture: Thai Horror piece.
It's a pity that it caught up with the financial crisis, coupled with the small market size, the change of the military government, etc...
The successor is weak!
The rise of mainland movies and the expansion of streaming media have an obvious siphon effect on talent. Even the Korean film industry is almost becoming a vassal of the United States, let alone Southeast Asia, which is still in its infancy!
Pulling back, Shen Xudong chatted with a group of people for a while, and then went back to their rooms to rest.
After all, the next day was going to be filmed.
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Shen Xudong has already made three films, "Being Famous", "33 Days of Broken Love", and "The Grandmaster", all of which have good reputation and box office, especially "The Grandmaster", which directly won the Venice Golden Lion Award!
But he still doesn't have much interest in filming...
I chose "Tang Detective" simply because I wanted to pretend to be a force-tell everyone that he can make commercial films.
Otherwise, "Tai囧" passed one billion this year, and Ning Hao's "One Mirror to the End" may also exceed one billion. What should he do?In addition, Shen Xudong really wanted to cooperate with Wang Baoqiang.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, Shen Xudong arrived on the set. Several people from the camera team and lighting team were busy setting up machines, laying slide rails, adjusting lines, and light ratios.
The main photographer, Du Jie, followed the art director Li Miao to help the props and scenery team arrange the scene in an orderly manner.
The whole crew was busy.
The actors are almost here, and they are busy taking their positions...
Shen Xudong was a little speechless, are you in such a hurry?
In addition, many people intentionally or unintentionally looked at Nini standing on the side...
The crew was all pure men, so when Nini appeared on the crew in an orange dress, it was no surprise that the entire crew was attracted to them.
Du Jie walked to Shen Xudong, who was eating bread: "What's wrong?"
"...Is this Yumo from "Thirteen Hairpins"?"
"Yes…"
"Is "Thirteen Hairpins" still being promoted? Can she come over?"
Shen Xudong said casually: "Let's get a feel for our rhythm and the way the actors perform in advance, so that when she is acting, she won't match up with the crew!"
"... She looks like a royal sister!"
"Nonsense, there is no Royal Sister Fan, why should I look for her..."
Du Jie is Ning Hao's royal photographer. The original time and space were banned for 4 years because of "No Man's Land". Du Jie went to cooperate with other directors, including Gao Qunshu, Cheng Er, Guan Hu...
However, Ning Hao was not banned this time. Du Jie has been cooperating with him. Shen Xudong, the photographer of "Detective Chinatown", originally wanted to use Song Xiaofei, but Ning Hao recommended Du Jie, and Shen Xudong used him.
"Tang Detective" pre-production, storyboard, storyboard, Du Jie participated in the whole process, and got along well with Shen Xudong.
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Nini is very nervous...
Although she looks indifferent and arrogant on the surface, "Tang Detective" is her second film, and she is not the protagonist yet. She read the announcement and her role will not be filmed until February.
just don't know what to do...
After all, he is a newcomer!
Everyone in the crew of "Tang Detective" is very strange to him, and Thailand is very hot.
The whole crew gave her a very weird feeling. Director Xudong seemed to be doing nothing, just eating by himself, and the executive producer was busy setting up the scene...
Also, last night, Director Xudong unexpectedly didn't gather the actors together for a script meeting, asking them to talk about their understanding of the script and characters...
It's not at all the same as director Zhang Yimou's way of doing things!
Just as he was thinking about it, the assistant director Xu Hui shouted with a loudspeaker: "It's almost done, let's take a trial shot, don't worry everyone, today is mainly to see the effect..."
"Everyone be quiet, we turned on the machine, lighting, camera, props preparations, actors entering the venue, and stage preparations. All units listen to my password."
Zhang Ji shouted with a loudspeaker.Every time he called a unit, the relevant person in charge answered one by one.
"Action!"
As the scene was set, the camera continued to rotate, and the filming officially started.
The crew also watched the filming quietly...
In the first scene, Huang Langdeng led the crowd to hunt down Tang Ren, and then Tang Ren ran away with all his strength, well, it was such a big game when he came up!
It's still quite troublesome, the actors have to keep running, and the camera team has to keep up...
But this shot should have been rehearsed several times, so the final rendering was okay!
"not bad!"
Shen Xudong glanced at the camera, first boasted, and then said: "The depth of field of the camera is in place, but the shot where the close-up is transformed into a medium shot is too abrupt, it is better to add a few close-ups...I want the audience to be there!"
"Okay, how many booms should I add?"
"Okay... Be sure to capture a good close-up!"
After saying this, Shen Xudong walked to Wang Baoqiang's side: "Take it easy, let it go a little bit, Tang Ren's character is timid and fearful, so when he is hunted down, he must be in a panic... You can't rely on knowing what's going on behind the scenes , don’t panic!”
"I have shown..."
"But it's too close, let's put a little more..."
"it is good…"
"No rush, let's take our time!"
Baoqiang is a typical experience school, you have to give him time to enter the role, once he enters, everything is right!
This requires him to step out of the previous role, which was the baby in "Lost in Thailand"...
Shen Xudong is really not in a hurry, "Tang Detective" will be released in the Spring Festival next year - the schedule has been set...
Well, forcing "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" to choose another schedule...
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In fact, the so-called director training actors is to let the actors present the state they want...
To do this, first of all, the director must have a specific target for the performance of the actors, and be prepared to tear their face apart...
The so-called tearing face means that when it conflicts with the actor's performance concept, the actor must be persuaded!
Not all directors have this kind of courage. Hong Kong film critic Li Zhuotao once criticized Xu Anhua: "She criticizes her completed works very harshly, but she is not strict enough when the works are produced..."
Xu Anhua is a typical example. The most common catchphrase seen in the interviews is two words, "so annoying", from the age of 30 to the age of 70.
Can't talk to passive actors, it's so annoying;
It's annoying to dabble in new movie genres and not understand scheduling;
It's so annoying to find someone to write a few drafts of the script.I don't want to fight for the box office, but I have to compromise, so annoying;
I don't want to care about gains and losses, I don't want to value fame and fortune, but the film industry is just a vanity fair, so annoying;
She had no choice but to complain to the reporter, "Unless you give up and become a monk or a nun, then being a human being is such a bother."
In fact, she is too easy-going...
She is a director who is willing to allow the actors to play independently. Sometimes, if the director and the actors have conflicts in terms of roles and performance concepts, most of the actors will play independently. Therefore, the actors who work with her have rich performance experience and have a lot of experience. better!
Xiao Fangfang, the leading actor of "Forty Women", Siqin Gaowa, the leading actor of "Aunt's Postmodern Life", Bao Qijing, the leading actor of "Day and Night in Tianshuiwei", etc...
Do you think it's unreasonable for her to complain about Tang Wei?
Hehe, she complained about her own "A Guest's Autumn Hate" before, and when talking about the performance of the actors, she bluntly said that "the acting skills of the actors are just so-so."
You must know that the heroine of this play is Zhang Manyu, and the second female lead, that is, the mother of the heroine is Lu Xiaofen. At that time, she was already the queen of the Golden Horse Film Festival, but Xu Anhua still made complaints about her appearance - the acting was really bad, and then she complained about herself' Many times I make appointments with actors to talk about roles, but I don't know what to talk about!It's annoying, I'm not used to talking. '
"Ghost World" also complained about Shu Qi's state is very bad, I can't wake up all day, I look very tired and bored', I reflected on it by the way, 'I thought about it again and again, there is no need to quarrel with her, otherwise after the quarrel, I will be happy In her state, she might disappear and not appear! '
This is a director with a soft personality...
Shen Xudong is different, he requires actors to meet his requirements!
Not even a penny.
So, at the end of the day, Wang Baoqiang's body was bruised and purple - he would definitely be injured in an action scene.
(End of this chapter)