Chapter 757 Filming
The development of Taiwan's entertainment industry can be traced back to the 1950s and 1960s.
At that time, the film industry was just starting out in Taiwan. Later, with the rise of the television industry, Taiwan's entertainment industry entered its golden age.
The entertainment industry is a type of cultural industry. Whether the entertainment industry in a place is developed is closely related to the local political and economic conditions.
Why can Hollywood in the United States sell its movies all over the world and make them popular in countries around the world?
Because of its strong national strength, the United States' economic and military strength are both the best in the world.
Admiration for the strong is human nature. In the globalized environment, with the backing of the United States, the world's largest country, various Hollywood blockbusters can naturally flow smoothly and be widely popular.
Economic prosperity is the foundation for the development of a region's entertainment industry.
In the last century, Taiwan was known as one of the Four Asian Tigers along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. With rapid economic development and a prosperous people, the entertainment industry naturally entered a golden age of development.
When talking about the Taiwanese entertainment industry, it is often combined with the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry and called the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industry.
The Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industry in the 1980s and 1990s was an era of fierce competition, with all kinds of superstars emerging one after another.
Chow Yun-fat, Stephen Chow, Jacky Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Louis Koo, Chyi Chin, Wakin Chau, Jacky Wang, Ange Tong, and the Little Tigers who are still active today, etc.
The Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles have achieved remarkable achievements in pop music, movies, TV dramas, variety shows and other fields.
However, as time went on, the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industry, which relied on the entire Asian market, inevitably began to decline after reaching its peak.
This situation has become increasingly obvious in the 20 years since entering the 21st century.
Today's Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles have entered an awkward situation of a lack of successors.
The older generation of stars are getting older, but there are no newcomers to take over.
In Hong Kong Island, Mr. Guanxi repaired a computer and directly destroyed all the popular male and female stars of the younger generation. The highly anticipated successor, Nicholas Tse, also became Chef Tse, and stopped pursuing his career and started focusing on cooking.
In Taiwan, "Tian Ting Yan" is considered a young man favored by local capital, but after being fed with various resources, his achievements are still limited.
After the incident where the most popular actor Eddie Peng changed his seat at the Weibo Movie Night last year, his various resources were severely downgraded.
On the contrary, 10 years later, young stars from mainland China grew up rapidly.
This situation is not a coincidence, but is determined by the market environment and economic environment of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Gu Wei has been to Taiwan several times to promote his TV series.
He is quite famous here. To put it in perspective, he is just like F4 in China when "Meteor Garden" was at its peak.
[Swords of Legends], [Love O2O], [Nirvana in Fire], [Eternal Love], etc. These hit dramas by Gu Wei are not only popular in mainland China, but also have a very high number of views in Taiwan.
To be precise, these dramas are very popular throughout Asia and in countries influenced by the Confucian cultural circle.
Unlike his previous promotional visits, Gu Wei did not announce his itinerary for filming in Taiwan this time, so there were no fans to greet him at the airport after the plane landed.
He was wearing a mask and a hat, and followed by Zhou Ye, Peng Yuchang and a group of people. They walked out of the airport very smoothly and got into the nanny car that came to pick them up.
Gu Wei has been to Taiwan several times in recent times, and what impressed him most is its unchanging state.
In the mainland, whether it is urban construction or people's lifestyles, changes are happening almost every year. Many things are constantly being updated, and new things are emerging in an endless stream.
However, in Taiwan, the city and people's lives have hardly changed as they were 10 years ago.
Take telephone booths for example. They were once installed in mainland cities, but with the development of mobile communications within a few years, this kind of public facility was eliminated, and it is difficult to find telephone booths in mainland cities.
But in Taiwan, you can see many telephone booths even in the provincial capital Taipei.
"Has Xiaoye been to Taiwan?"
“No, this is the first time.”
In the black Mercedes-Benz vs900 business car, Gu Wei and his companions were looking at the scenery outside the window and chatting.
"You are the first one here~" Peng Yuchang said in surprise.
"It's normal. I was in school before. Even when my parents took me on trips, it was always in mainland China. The last trip we took was to Europe.
I’ve been to Hong Kong Island but never to Taiwan.”
Gu Wei said: "The scenery here is quite good, but the urban construction is a bit worse and can't be compared with the inland areas."
Zhou Ye looked at the scenery outside the window. There were tall buildings, shopping malls and pedestrian streets, as well as dilapidated residential areas and dirty streets.
“I feel that Taipei’s urban construction and architectural style are not much different from those of third- and fourth-tier cities in mainland China.
A little disappointed”
Gu Wei said with a smile: "Many of the buildings and streets here are very retro, which is hard to find in the mainland. This is why we finally chose this place for the actual filming of this movie."
After entering the crew and settling down, Gu Wei and Wen Mu also met and chatted for a while.
Afterwards, all the main creators gathered together for a script reading.
"Teacher Wu Zhenyu, nice to meet you. I'm very happy to work with you~"
In addition to the protagonist Chen Guilin, the most important characters in "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" are the other two wanted criminals. Aberdeen is the second most wanted criminal and is played by Wu Zhenyu.
"Mr. Gu, although this is the first time we meet, I have heard of your name before.
We talked about you when we were chatting with Song Wen before, and it is my honor to work with you this time."
Wu Zhenyu kept a very humble attitude.
Most of the Hong Kong stars of their generation came from relatively humble backgrounds, were very tactful in their dealings with others, and knew how to survive.
Liu Dehua is one of the best among them.
Although Wu Zhenyu always plays villains in the drama, in real life he only shows his villain side when dealing with some unknown small-time celebrities.
He never offends anyone who has a good background or is famous.
In the variety show "Infinite Beyond Class", mentors Wu Zhenyu and Derek Yee were very harsh on the new actors, but when Xiang Zuo came on stage, even if his performance was terrible, they would manually mute the microphone, and in the end, they would go against their conscience and find various angles to praise him.
The script reading went very smoothly. Several main actors in the [Zhou Chu] crew are absolutely talented, and everyone will not have any major problems in acting. In addition to familiarizing everyone with the script, the main purpose of the script reading is to determine a tone so that everyone will not deviate from the understanding of the script.
The next day, the crew officially started filming.
In the morning, in the dressing room, Gu Wei's head was shaved off again, and a small area of his hairline was shaved back. His face was also painted darker, and he looked a lot older. His look was somewhat similar to the one he had when he was filming "Life Events".
"Brother Wei, you look quite handsome in this image!" Zhou Ye said with a smile as he watched Gu Wei putting on makeup the whole time.
She didn't have any scenes for the first two days, but she still came to the crew to watch other people filming, mainly to watch Gu Wei.
"Your hair is gone, and you've become so much darker. How can you be handsome? Cricket?"
"You look a little oily now, but not too oily. You have a bit of a cool and handsome vibe."
Zhou Ye opened his big eyes, looked at Gu Wei's face carefully, and said seriously.
Today we filmed the protagonist's first scene, where he kills another gang boss, Tietou, at Mr. Hong's funeral.
This is also a scene that establishes the character of the protagonist Chen Guilin. From this scene, everyone can know what kind of person he is.
Outside a well-decorated mourning hall, there were extras in black suits all around, and wreaths were placed against the walls.
Gu Wei was wearing an oversized suit and sitting on the side eating a box lunch. Peng Yuchang, wearing a yellow wig, was sitting next to him.
"I haven't seen such a grand scene in a long time. Mr. Hong is really impressive.
That madman actually came from Taipei and killed him!"
"Who are you talking about?"
Gu Wei was carefully picking at the food in the lunch box. He was really eating and it looked like he was enjoying the meal very much.
"A man named Guilinzi~"
"What's Guilin?"
Peng Yuchang looked around and lowered his volume.
"Shit, let me tell you, even though he's a lunatic, I actually think he's pretty tough!"
"Do you know him?" Gu Wei chewed his food with a smile on his face.
"Guilinzi is a boy from Ren Yinjiu, a village in Dingqiu Village, Zhongshan District.
Two months ago, Brother Jiu went to Mr. Hong’s casino and won more than eight million.
Mr. Hong refused to acknowledge the debt, and in anger, Brother Jiu asked Guilinzi to collect the debt.
Guess what happened?"
"What was the result?"
"In the end, Guilinzi took a grenade, went over there, took eight million, and blew up the entire casino! Kill Mr. Hong!
You say he's awesome or not! "
The gangster Jinmao, played by Peng Yuchang, has an exaggerated expression and looks of admiration.
Gu Wei was also very happy to hear him talk about his own story. He smiled, ate with big mouthfuls, and nodded in agreement.
"Dick~"
"Damn~
But the first bird to stick its head out gets shot, and after Brother Tietou issued the killing order, it seems Guilinzi is in great danger." Peng Yuchang turned around and sighed, looking regretful.
The scene at the beginning of the movie is divided into two parts. One part is the conversation between Chen Guilin and the gangster Jinmao, which explains the protagonist's personal information and part of his character.
Then Chen Guilin walked into the mourning hall, pulled out a gun and shot Tietou in public. When he was leaving, he was seen by Wang Qianyuan, who played the policeman, and the two staged a chase scene.
Although the filming had just started, the literary scene with Peng Yuchang was so simple that the two of them shot it three times before Wen Mu gave it the go-ahead.
The first two takes were re-shot because Peng Peng’s lines were not good enough.
"Fortunately, I wouldn't be able to finish my lunch if I didn't make it this time. Luckily, I had the foresight to know that we were filming this scene today, so I didn't even have breakfast."
After the shoot, Peng Yuchang scratched his head and said, "Sorry, Brother Wei, it was NG because of me."
"I'm just kidding, we passed the first scene after only three takes, which shows that both of us performed well.
Thank you for all the hard work you put in for today's scene. We finished filming right after we started. I'll treat you to dinner tonight as a wrap-up party."
Gu Wei smiled and patted Peng Peng on the shoulder, then went over to Wen Mu and discussed with him the filming of the next chase scene.
The crew was having lunch at noon, and Zhou Ye was eating while swiping his phone.
"Brother Wei, have you seen the news about Zheng Shuang implying something about Sister Mi?"
He had eaten a lot of boxed lunches while filming in the morning and was not hungry at all at noon, but Gu Wei still asked his assistant to prepare a small bowl of porridge and some fruit for him.
"News, what news?"
Zhou Ye raised his head, a gossipy look on his face.
"Yesterday, Zheng Shuang participated in a live broadcast on a medical beauty platform and asked the doctor if tooth extraction could help with face slimming.
The doctor said that no face-slimming injection is effective.
Then Zheng Shuang asked, "Who said that you can make your face thinner?"
After the live broadcast ended, Mi Jie’s fans started arguing with Zheng Shuang’s fans online.
There are a lot of news reports about this now.”
Yang Mi once said in an interview that she had four wisdom teeth removed and her face became much thinner. Zheng Shuang was almost naming him by name when she said this.
It's not surprising that the two groups of fans are fighting.
"Haha, Shuangzi is still the straightforward girl as always." Gu Wei smiled and didn't take it seriously. This level of quarrel was just a minor incident and no one would pay attention to it soon.
"Brother Wei, you don't like Zheng Shuang?" Zhou Ye could hear a hint of sarcasm in Gu Wei's tone.
"When I first debuted, I filmed a movie with her, [Gu Jian Qi Tan], where Mi Jie and I starred, and Zheng Shuang played the second female lead.
To put it nicely, she is straightforward and innocent, but to put it bluntly, she is crazy and reckless.
I don’t like either her or her ex-boyfriend.”
Zhou Ye nodded. Of course she knew who Zheng Shuang's ex-boyfriend was.
As a die-hard fan of her boss, she knew that there had been a conflict between Gu Wei and Zhang Han because of the casting of "Come on, My Love" which caused quite a stir.
However, Gu Wei's status rose too quickly afterwards, and the gap between him and Zhang Han became increasingly larger, making it difficult to compare the two.
At the end of December, "The Accidental Detective" was in its third week of release, with a total box office of 1.286 billion yuan. "Ip Man 4" followed closely behind, with a total box office of over 600 million yuan.
After filming for a few days with the crew of "Zhou Chu", Gu Wei took a day off and flew back to Changsha to participate in Mango TV's New Year's Eve concert.
This year, Mango TV invited many popular stars in the circle to the New Year's Eve party. As the boss of a local TV station and deeply involved in the entertainment industry, many stars still have to give face to Mango TV's invitation.
Gu Wei also has many friends participating in this year's Mango TV New Year's Eve party, such as Yang Mi, Yang Zi, and the young assistant from Rocket Girls 101.
Gu Wei was the finale performer to sing a solo of his old English song [Sold Out]. Although there were no new songs this year, this song was still classic enough.
"Miss Mi, you look so pretty today. I'm sure you'll be great on stage later."
After rehearsing twice in the afternoon, Gu Wei started chatting with Yang Mi, who was also participating in the New Year's Eve party.
She has two songs tonight, one is "Wild Wolf DISCO" sung with Tengger and Wang Chenyi, and the other is "Little Lucky" sung with Zhou Bichang.
Da Mimi was wearing a low-cut long dress covered with sequins. Her plump upper body was surging and trembling slightly when she walked, which was very eye-catching.
"When am I not beautiful?" Yang Mi was very pleased with Gu Wei's compliments, but she habitually argued with him.
"Will we really sing at the party later?" Gu Wei asked a sensitive question.
Yang Mi rolled his eyes at him when he heard that.
"Of course I sang live. I've practiced both songs."
(End of this chapter)
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