As the old saying goes, it takes ten years of hard work off stage to achieve one minute on stage. It is used to describe the long-term persistence and training required for an actor to win the audience's applause in the first few minutes on stage.
Tao Mu took on the role of Black and White. Although he did not prepare for ten years, several months of targeted training, coupled with his ten years of martial arts skills, were fully utilized at this moment.
Because this scene is Zhou Yuanting's one-man show of a gunfight at the dock, which is about forty seconds long. Director Xu originally wanted to shoot in the conventional way, using various close-up shots to highlight Zhou Yuanting's fighting power.
However, after Tao Mu showed amazing action talent, Director Xu changed his mind. He wanted to change his previous shooting method and use a long shot that lasted from beginning to end. Try to let the audience feel the exhilarating and satisfying pleasure.
Director Xu’s idea is very cool. However, the one-shot shooting method places very high demands on Tao Mu. There are also aspects of scene scheduling and group performance coordination. Both require great cooperation.
The rehearsal just for the movements before filming took more than half an hour. Fortunately, the days are long in summer, and Tao Mu still has a few hours of shooting time.
This scene is about Zhou Yuanting following a gangster boss and preparing to smuggle to Southeast Asia. As a result, at the dock, the gang leader received news that their group was surrounded by the police. The two sides had no choice but to engage in a gunfight at the dock. Various large containers on the dock are the best shelters.
The fighting task that Tao Mu needs to complete under the camera is mainly to hide in the dock immediately when he finds the police, using various large containers as cover to snipe the police.
Director Xu aimed the camera at Tao Mu, and kept following Tao Mu's various tactical movements, pushing the camera close-up from time to time, and then pulling the camera back to take a full-body close-up of Tao Mu.
In the camera, Tao Mu was holding a Glock 17, hiding behind a container with an expressionless face, and shot a policeman in the head.
The gunshots attracted the attention of other police officers. He quickly followed the sound and fired in the direction of Zhou Yuanting. Zhou Yuanting climbed onto the container with an expressionless face - his movements were very standard and beautiful, like parkour. Then he stood on the container with guns in both hands and sniped several policemen from a high position. After a few shots, the entire team was wiped out.
Zhou Yuanting jumped off the container, rolled over to relieve the pressure, knelt on one knee, raised his right hand, and quickly hit the two special police officers who came to support him. He picked up the SWAT's rifle equipment and spare magazines. Then hide behind another container.
What follows is a series of textbook-level individual combat performances that make your adrenaline rush. All tactical movements were very standard and very handsome, from single-shot shooting to continuous firing to suppressing the gun to changing magazines with one hand, dodging with the gun, finding cover, and all kinds of running, jumping and climbing movements were neat and tidy without any delay. The most important thing was that no matter what movements Tao Mu made, his arm holding the gun was always as steady as a dog, as if he could not feel the strong recoil of the gun at all.
The instructor standing by couldn't help but shake his head and sighed, thinking that even if Tao Mu didn't become an actor one day and changed his career to become a policeman, there was at least a 50% chance that he could join the Flying Tigers.
Director Xu, who was sitting in front of the monitor, also felt his adrenaline surge. My perfectionism struck again and I NGed several takes in a row, just to choose the best one to cut into the post-production process. We are even planning to invite a music production team to create a passionate soundtrack for this scene that matches the style of the painting.
But these ideas have nothing to do with Tao Mu. By the time Director Xu actually called out "pass", Tao Mu felt that his shoulder had become numb from the pain.
In order to achieve a realistic effect, the "Black and White" crew used real guns when filming the gun battle environment, but the bullets had no warheads, and there were only sparks and sounds when they were fired. Even though Tao Mu had been trained in the police academy with a group of cadets for several months, he was not a real policeman after all. Without special training, this delicate skin and tender flesh can't stand being shot too many times!
"Hiss, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts." Tao Mu frowned and cried out in pain. A martial artist he got along well with brought him a bottle of wine for bone-setting. Tao Mu massaged his shoulders and joked to himself, "I've been shooting all afternoon, and my kidneys are almost weak."
Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this. Director Xu came over with a red face. He wanted to pat Tao Mu on the shoulder to show encouragement, but when he saw Tao Mu's red and swollen arm, he didn't dare to do it. I can only give you verbal praise: "You did a great job. You can take a few days off now."
The gunfight at the dock is the final climax of the film and also the scene with the most grand arrangement in the entire film. After all, the protagonists are Yan Sheng, Zhou Yanqing and others. Tao Mu doesn't have many supporting roles, so he can rest for a few days after filming. Then we waited to shoot another scene of Zhou Yuanting and the gang boss leaving on a boat. The entire crew finished filming.
Although Yan Sheng and Zhou Yanqing have good acting skills, they are not stunt doubles after all. In this movie, there are a lot of gun battle scenes that require the actors to appear themselves. Director Xu strives for perfection, and also has the ability to coordinate the group performances. It is estimated that this scene will take at least two or three days to shoot.
That means Tao Mu can still rest for two to three days. No need to come to the crew.
This is definitely good news.
Tao Mu could just take his father Yao, Xiao Qi's father and Mr. Song to have a good look around Xiangcheng.
——That’s right, Liu Yao and the other two flew to Xiangcheng to celebrate Tao Mu’s birthday, and they never went back since then.
Originally, Liu Yao was thinking about Ye Se's business and wanted to go back after Tao Mu's birthday. As a result, Meng Qi accidentally met a leader of Xiangcheng TV Station during the meal. When the two were chatting, he inadvertently lamented the current situation of Xiangcheng film and television dramas - basically, they are well-received but not popular. The other party mentioned that TV series produced by TV stations can only be broadcast a few times before they are put in the back of the box, unlike video websites which can play them repeatedly. Moreover, many video websites in the mainland do not pay attention to copyright at all, and directly play various pirated discs. Many Hong Kong films and TV series that are very popular in the mainland do not make any profit from Hong Kong.
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. Tao Mu handed over the management rights of Feixun.com and Danmu.com to Meng Qi. In order to live up to the trust of his little boy, Meng Qi has been thinking about how to develop and expand these two websites. The most old-fashioned and easiest way he could think of was to purchase the broadcasting rights of various classic TV series in order to attract netizens to watch and cultivate their stickiness. Then they use inserted advertisements to earn profits and maintain the normal operation of the website.
Before this, Tao Mu had already signed a round of film source broadcasting rights agreements with mainland film and television companies and TV stations. Most of the classic works from the mainland have been collected by the barrage website. Now that he has arrived in Xiangcheng, Meng Qi plans to take advantage of this opportunity to contact Xiangcheng TV Station and several film and television companies. See if we can acquire the broadcasting rights for some Hong Kong TV series and movies. By then, Xiangcheng can get some profits, and Danmu.com can also enrich its film sources.
The two sides hit it off immediately. In the next few days, Meng Qi stayed in Xiangcheng and discussed the specific details of the cooperation. He also recruited employees from Feixun.com's investment and purchasing departments.
After more than a week of negotiations, the two sides finally decided that Danmu.com would invest 30 million to purchase the five-year broadcasting rights for all TV dramas from Xiangcheng TV Station, and invest another 50 million to cooperate with several other film and television companies to purchase the five-year broadcasting rights for movies. However, most of the film sources are before 2004.
When Tao Mu got the news, he was stunned. On the one hand, I admire Meng Qi's negotiation skills, for being able to get the price so low. On the other hand, we have to be grateful that we have not yet entered an era of inflation. Money is still valuable. Of course, we also have to thank the economic crisis in 2008, which affected the entire Hong Kong economy.
The economic downturn, coupled with mainland restrictions on Hong Kong's film and television dramas, has made life difficult for TV stations and film and television companies. Everyone wants to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, but among mainland Internet companies - or to be more precise, among video websites - only Danmu.com has the demand and the ability to negotiate with Hong Kong TV and major film and television companies for cooperation on film source broadcasting rights.
Either they refuse to agree to Danmu.com's proposal and endure the mainland pirates making a fortune from pirated DVDs while they don't get a penny. Or agree to the cooperation proposal of Danmu.com.
When the buyer has absolute advantage and voice, even if Xiangcheng TV station and several film and television companies are not very satisfied with the conditions. But there is nothing we can do.
"It's good enough to make money. We at Danmu.com have good intentions and insist on genuine products and encourage genuine products. Many video websites and small social platforms simply upload pirated DVDs to attract popularity. We at Danmu.com buy the source of the movies and broadcast them, but we still have to endure those pirated websites competing with us for registered users. It's really not worth suing them for this."
So they have to spend money and endure others infringing on their rights. Look at it from another angle: spending 80 million is just asking for trouble. This is Tao Mu, their little brat. If it were anyone else, Liu Yao would definitely have to describe him as an idiot.
I still remember Brother Yao back then. He was a well-known figure who secretly opened a video hall to broaden the horizons for his younger brothers.
Due to the times and limited resources, Liu Yaomengqi's generation had been watching all kinds of pirated discs and books since childhood. They have no sense of authenticity at all. That is to say, Tao Mu, who was reborn, insisted on doing a good job in copyright, otherwise Meng Qi would definitely do something like playing pirated discs to attract traffic.
Tao Mu smiled and hugged his father Xiao Qi, flattering him and pinching his shoulders, while praising his father Xiao Qi's authentic consciousness.
"Don't mess with me." Meng Qi didn't neglect Tao Mu's disabled image with his arms hanging from the moment he entered the door: "What's wrong with you? Did you get disabled while filming?"
"No, it's just that the recoil of the gun is too strong. I shot for an afternoon and my shoulder is swollen. It will be fine after two days of rest." Tao Mu said, and slowly moved his shoulder: "Look, there's nothing wrong."
Liu Yao snorted, stood up and walked forward, patting Tao Mu's shoulder: "Come here, I'll give you a massage."
Tao Mu shuddered, and said timidly: "Is this not necessary?"
"Stop talking nonsense." Liu Yao clapped his hands and pressed Tao Mu directly onto the sofa. What followed was a scream like a pig being slaughtered.
But his father's cooking skills are still pretty good. After pressing it, Tao Mu was indeed much more relaxed. When I woke up the next morning, my shoulder pain was gone.
Tao Mu had three days of rest, and Meng Qi had just finished the work on hand. The family of four had a great time and, accompanied by their driver Li Xiaoheng, spent three full days in Xiangcheng. The five grown men also went to Disney for a day. It was very enjoyable to watch the tourists looking at all kinds of things.
On the fourth day, Tao Mu returned to the crew and reshot the scene of him escaping with the gangster boss played by Zhou Yanqing. Then the filming of the play was officially completed.
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