Chapter 113: Worry and Danger

After the birthday party and wrap-up banquet ended, most of the actors and crew members began to leave one after another in the next few days.

During this period, Su Yun, apart from seeing off a group of people who left every night, spent time in a small dark room sorting out materials with Lucas and the editor who was in charge of the preliminary editing.

Although I still watched the materials one by one as before, and then wrote down various numbers in my notes, so that I could refer to them when looking for corresponding materials in the future; however, due to the dual-angle narrative line of this movie, there are so many repetitive and complicated materials that it is really not an easy task to organize them.

"Oh no, we can't use this part. We have to find a new one to connect with the previous one." This was the most common sentence uttered by everyone in the small dark room.

Although the general direction is grasped, the details still need to be based on the structure and narrative of the entire film: if you want to find a comfortable and smooth rhythm for the camera and music, you have to carefully distinguish which scene needs to be delicately rendered with emotions, which scene needs to speed up the rhythm so that people can understand the connection of the plot, and which scene needs to slow down the rhythm but not let the audience feel dragged...

Especially because of the double angles, the natural transition between the camera and the complainant becomes a top priority.

Thanks to Su Yun’s past experience as a part-time employee and hobby, she has practiced with a full range of post-production software, practiced in a systematic training darkroom, and learned a lot from the three great directors she had previously taught. Therefore, under the influence of the one-size-fits-all principle, it just takes time for her to adapt to the post-production operations that are a bit backward in her eyes.

If someone else tried to learn post-editing and machine application right away, they would have to spend a lot of time learning and practicing before they could barely get started.

Therefore, Lucas and several editors who were in charge of organizing materials and rough cutting all praised Su Yun's rapid progress. They thought she was a super lucky girl who had great talent, was able to learn, and met a famous teacher, which was why she was able to perform so well.

Moreover, Su Yun's accuracy in expressing colors is quite outstanding. Coupled with her talent in programming, the color grading step created a hazy filter that feels like dusk memories, which makes the texture of the picture have an extremely powerful leap.

Film, an art of light and shadow, has extremely high requirements for color, so the re-composition of the picture during the color grading stage is no less than a rebirth. Su Yun has found the most suitable color, saving a lot of effort for everyone.

The movie "Fall in Love" did not use any large-scale special effects shots, and Su Yun's special effects production skills were basically useless here. Therefore, after confirming that Lucas and the editor in charge of fine editing had reached an agreement with her, Su Yun accepted a gg invitation from Zhuang Long who called to inquire about it, and planned to fly to Japan on the 17th to earn some money to fill her tight funding chain after filming two movies in a row.

By the way, you can also visit Nintendo's headquarters in Japan to see the development progress of new machines and new games.

When they arrived in Japan, summer was getting stronger. The filming location was outdoors in the mountains. Su Yun could not stand the heat and immediately stopped caring about her image. She took out a red duckbill cap from her small suitcase to use as a fan and then took out a bottle of water. She shook the cap to fan herself while guzzling water.

"Fortunately, the camera is not working now." Zhuang Long smiled immediately when he saw her like this.

"Oh, I really miss the ice cream in that freezer when you came to guest star as the owner of an ice cream shop." Su Yun recalled that she had asked Zhuang Long to go to the United States to guest star in "The Fault in Our Stars" and she missed that cabinet of colorful ice cream very much.

"How about this, after we finish filming this scene this afternoon, I'll go back to the hotel tonight and try to discuss it in the kitchen. If it's okay, I'll make it for you." Unlike Su Yun who only had a ten-second invitation to have sex, Zhuang Long had a whole set of four consecutive sex, so he was much busier than Su Yun now.

Moreover, Kanebo invited Su Yun and Zhuang Long to collaborate on a cosmetics campaign this time in order to take advantage of the popularity of "Memoirs of a Geisha" and let the two of them appear in the same frame again - Su Yun's current net worth is much higher than Zhuang Long's.

Su Yun completed her filming mission at three o'clock in the afternoon. When she was leaving, she saw several reporters coming to interview her, and she generously allowed them to take some photos for publicity.

"Your red hat is so pretty. Where did you buy it?" In this weather, in addition to the necessary chemical sunscreen lotion and cream, it is also standard to use an umbrella or wear a physical hat when going outdoors. The female reporter who was interviewing was also wearing a white duck-billed cap.

"I bought it in Hong Kong. Their factory's products are also exported to Japan." Su Yun pressed his hat and answered with a smile.

Wang's garment factory originally had many orders for foreign trade, and the quality was guaranteed, but the sales were not as good as those of famous brands. Therefore, Su Yun, as the image spokesperson and also a small shareholder of the factory, wore Wang's garment factory products from head to toe except for the custom-made clothes for attending big events.

With her promotion, every time her photos were published in newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong, Japan and other places, the sales of the same clothes and various accessories produced by the garment factories would increase significantly.

The reason why Su Yun is so generous in accepting interviews from reporters now is just to get some free publicity.

There is no way. Accumulating capital is fundamentally a long and arduous process.

The subsequent promotion of the movie costs money, and Apple and Microsoft, which are in their early stages, are even more money-making pits - however, when the new decade of this century comes and the company is successfully listed, Su Yun will directly become a billionaire!

Although this billionaire is just a title, in fact, all the stocks and real estate under his name are difficult to cash in. But with their continuous support from behind, Su Yun will not have to be as frugal and restrained as he is now.

The fastest and closest day for her to become rich was December 12, 1980, when Apple went public.

This is key to her historical knowledge of her former position and her current interests, so Su Yun remembers this date more than anything else.

However, considering that it would take her four years to become rich, Su Yun decided to gradually shift the focus of her work back to Hong Kong.

On the one hand, it was to keep a low profile and avoid attracting more targets by making too much money in Hollywood; on the other hand, it was also to pave the way for her to return to Hong Kong for development in the future.

This kind of thing of touching other people's cakes, and then quickly moving the map to continue making trouble when they are just being thought of but not yet being formally attacked, is really a "guerrilla" tactical operation of shooting and moving to another place - Su Yunshi is getting better and better at it.

"A horror comedy about beating zombies?" Zou Yunhua was a little incredulous when he heard the content of Su Yun's new plan on the phone. "Except for "The Sixth Sense", you don't have any experience in horror movies, right?"

"The mountain of robot corpses in "Artificial Intelligence" was created by me." Su Yun succinctly reminded Zou Yunhua to recall the scene in which the robot, which was inspired by the weird and horror style of zombie movies, picked up garbage to repair itself, and successfully raised the film rating of "Artificial Intelligence" to PG.

"But is this too much? Can horror and comedy be compatible?" Zou Yunhua was still a little hesitant.

"Of course, comedy is a magical attribute that can infinitely accommodate all other attributes. Whether it is a kung fu comedy, a costume comedy, or an urban comedy, the most impressive part often has traces of them." Su Yun explained to Zou Yunhua seriously, "Of course, the funny clips of comedy may not be as good as those classic farewell and sadness shots, but in terms of replay rate, people still like them the most."

"Can you tell me more about it?" Zou Yunhua was somewhat interested: after filming "The Fault in Our Stars", the two Xu brothers are now preparing to shoot an urban comedy under the leadership of the eldest brother Xu Guwen; and now Jiahe's film types are relatively single. If Su Yun can come back and add another type of film to Jiahe, then when facing the Zhao family in the future, Jiahe will be more competitive.

As they are all big bosses who have reached the level of being a wise man, Zou Yunhua certainly understands the reasons why Su Yun began to shift the focus of his work.

"I plan to find Lin Jingying, who I have worked with before, to play a heavenly master who is very good at catching ghosts and zombies, so this will also involve a certain amount of martial arts scenes, which will allow the dragon and tiger martial arts masters who have not had much work recently to start working to make money to support their families... ..." The prosperity of the industry cannot be separated from people, and the reason why people have to work is to make money and survive. Su Yun decided to use the supernatural zombie film as the first step to return to Hong Kong after considering many factors.

Hearing Su Yun say this, Zou Yunhua sighed: "It's hard for you to think so far ahead at such a young age. I will study your new plan carefully. By the way, when do you plan to come back recently?"

“If it’s fast, it’ll be over in a few days…” Su Yun hadn’t even finished his sentence when he suddenly felt a strong shaking.

earthquake!

After quickly saying "It's an earthquake, I have to run for my life first", Su Yun immediately dropped the phone, picked up the suitcase, and rushed out of the room in two steps.

Fortunately, the hotel room she stayed in was on the first floor. She followed the panicked crowd to an empty place. After silently feeling that the shaking had stopped, Su Yun heaved a long sigh of relief.

After returning to the room and settling down at night, Su Yun received a lot of phone calls to report safety. While watching TV, she explained to Zhuang Long who came to check on the situation: "It was just an ordinary small earthquake, which is very common in earthquake-prone areas like Japan. There is no damage."

She was even given a discount on her room rate by the hotel as a consolation measure because of this.

"Then I feel relieved." Zhuang Long had also experienced several small earthquakes during his time in Japan. He was used to it and did not think it was strange. But when he thought that this was the first time Su Yun had experienced this, he couldn't help but worry.

"Today is July 22nd. Let me see. I'll go to Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto and then return to Hong Kong on the 28th..." When Su Yun calculated the itinerary according to the calendar, she always felt that something inexplicable was lingering in her heart and would not go away.

"Don't worry, there's a forecast on TV. This kind of situation shouldn't happen again before July 28th. You can rest assured." Seeing that Su Yun seemed a little worried, Zhuang Long patted the back of her hand and comforted her.

However, Su Yun's eyes fell on Zhuang Long's key card: "5...12?"

"Oh, the hotel room I'm staying in is Room 12 on the 5th floor. Is there any problem?" Before Zhuang Long finished speaking, Su Yun suddenly stood up.

For her generation, 512 is a terrifying date that will never be forgotten...

But as time goes by, 728 is the day that the previous generation feared the most!

"What's wrong with you?" Zhuang Long saw that her complexion was getting worse and worse, and couldn't help but ask again with concern.

"I'm a little tired and want to rest." Su Yun lowered his eyes and answered in a low voice.

After Zhuang Long left, Su Yun sat in the room thinking all night, and then took a bus to Kyoto early the next morning.

When Zhuang Long learned that Su Yun was going to the inland as a visitor, he quickly turned down his afternoon filming assignment and called her.

"What happened?" Zhuang Long asked anxiously.

"After the earthquake that day, I had a terrible nightmare. When I woke up, I checked the information and found that there was indeed a forecast report of a major earthquake in Tang City..." Knowing that he was not telling the truth, Su Yun had to make up a half-truthful reason for him.

"There have indeed been many disaster reports there in recent years, but you shouldn't be so rash!" Last year's Haicheng earthquake was accurately predicted, so it was a successful case of damage reduction based on the official organization of evacuating civilians. If a major earthquake really happens in Tangcheng, someone should have predicted it and arranged the evacuation in advance.

"You've been out for too long, you may not know how lucky people are." Su Yun sighed, "No matter what, I have to see clearly before I can feel at ease. If there is nothing, then that's a good thing. I will come back secretly and no one will find out."

"What if there is?" Zhuang Long asked in a calm voice.

"I've already called my mother-in-law." Su Yun smiled bitterly, "I will do my best to protect myself, and then do my best to help with disaster relief."

There was silence on the other end of the phone, and after a faint sigh, Zhuang Long continued to ask, "Aren't you afraid of doing this?"

Taiwan's attitude towards the mainland is still unclear. If a major earthquake really happens in Tangcheng as she said, and if she appears in Tangcheng to help with disaster relief in such a high-profile manner, what kind of judgment will Taiwan, the largest sales place for Hong Kong films, make of her... It is actually not difficult to predict.

No wonder she didn't ask Zou Yunhua for help, but instead took Nintendo's approach - he was not unaware of the situations in which people had a mentality of taking chances because of economic and other considerations, but he just couldn't believe that these were more important than the lives of tens of millions of people.

Although the forecast may not be completely accurate with current technology, it should still arouse concern and attention.

But no matter when and where, such things really happen.

"When you think that this action can save many lives, you won't be afraid," Su Yun replied.

Then she hung up the phone.

Secretly holding the approval slip and ticket in his hand, Su Yun walked into the airport lobby without looking back.