Chapter 126: One after another (Part 2)

Su Yunrao admired these two rare ancient costumes with great interest, and then labeled them in his heart: Fortunately, these are all stamps that I have collected.

It was the typical look of a big boss looking at his younger brother.

Seeing the two men approaching, Xu He put down the script in his hand and said, "Today we are going to shoot the first meeting between Baoyu and Beijing Wang Shuirong. After the shooting starts, Lesley, you go to the second floor of the wooden building and pretend to be chased by zombies with no way to go. Danny, you go to the other side and get ready. When the time comes, the martial artists will help you to 'jump' out to save people."

As he said this, he was about to call for the photographer and lighting to be ready...

Su Yun quickly grabbed him and said, "What are you doing?!"

"What? Didn't you say we were in a hurry? Now that everyone is here, of course we should start shooting right away!" Xu He said as if it was a matter of course.

"Why don't you talk to the martial arts director first?" Su Yun was a little dumbfounded: Although Xu Laoguai, who is not even 30 years old now, still has the attributes of a rookie, he shouldn't be such a rookie, right?

When Wu Shiyuan introduced him, didn’t he say that he had shot documentaries and participated in film shooting in the United States, and worked as a screenwriter and director at TBB after returning to Hong Kong?

"When I was studying in the United States, martial arts films didn't require martial arts instructors!" Xu He answered seriously.

"Do you have martial arts film courses there?" Su Yun asked back.

"That's not the case." Xu He immediately became honest.

Su Yun asked a few more questions in succession: Good guy, he didn’t know the process of shooting martial arts movies in Hong Kong at all, he just heard that they were going to shoot a "martial arts film", so he came here happily - he was so fascinated by the world of martial arts that he didn't even ask for all the details.

So Su Yun had no choice but to wave goodbye to Zhang Querong and Chen Boyang and rush them to memorize the pitiful script, and then called Lin Jingying and a group of other martial artists borrowed from Zou Yunhua to discuss how to shoot the entrance movements of Beijing Wang Shuirong.

Xu He still thinks he is a "martial arts master" who specializes in theoretical knowledge. In front of a group of martial artists, he twisted his body and performed a series of moves he imagined. Su Yun, who was standing next to him, was so embarrassed that she almost broke out in a sweat.

Obviously, the serious Lin Jingying was irritated by Xu He's appearance. While he was still twisting his body, she quickly pulled Su Yun aside and asked quietly, "Is this director...really okay?"

Su Yun helplessly held his forehead and said, "Just let him be stubborn - you can correct it later. Talented people always have a little bit of weirdness."

Otherwise, he would not be called Xu Laoguai in the future.

So Lin Jingying had no choice but to comfort each other with his fellow apprentices, and watched Xu He's "performance" under the emoticons of a group of elderly people on the subway looking at their phones.

Su Yun turned her head and looked at the actor - very good, Zhang Querong was a very interesting person. After Xu He started twisting his body, he realized that something was wrong and immediately switched positions with Chen Boyang, letting him face this way.

In the Cantonese area, there is a word called "Zi Zheng", which means that a person pays great attention to his image and appearance, and most of the two of them have this attribute.

However, Zhang Querong can temporarily give up this attribute for filming or other requirements, but Chen Baiyang cannot do that now: the young man who has been spoiled and raised pays the most attention to his image. If he sees Xu He's performance, even if his movements are actually graceful due to the styling and shooting, he will still be thinking about Xu He's coquettish twisting appearance...

If he, who is so well-mannered, saw this, he might just leave without hesitation.

Su Yun gave Zhang Querong an approving look, then turned around to communicate with the others and asked Chen Boyang to come over and practice sword moves with Lin Jingying for a full twenty minutes. Only then did she call back the extras who were paralyzed in the corner and prepare to start filming.

After the call for action, the extras dressed as zombies rushed forward, gathered in a group and began to howl like ghosts.

Standing behind the shabby railing on the second floor, Zhang Querong flexibly performed the change of expression from anxious fear to lying down in resignation, and then shouted "I would rather die than go down, the worst that can happen is that I will stand on each side of you until dawn...", then made a gesture of turning around in a hurry and stepped into the pit prepared in advance.

This series of actions was very smooth. Seeing that half of his body had fallen in, Lin Jingying and others hurriedly pushed Chen Boyang out.

The red shadow fell and the golden shadow rushed out, but unfortunately, due to the obstruction of the group of actor zombies below, they did not catch anyone, and instead fell to their own side.

Zhang Querong is struggling with his arms waving randomly, and then special effects are added later to make it appear as an accidental collision of divine power; Chen Baiyang uses the traditional martial arts film routine, holding a prop sword and fighting with the group of actors.

I have to say that Xu He's imaginative twists and turns are more suitable for this idol-oriented movie than the hard-core kung fu that Lin Jingying and others are familiar with. In addition, Chen Baiyang has a thin and tall figure, and his clothes flutter with his movements, which makes him look very graceful and beautiful when fighting.

After the two of them dealt with the "zombies" surrounding them, they supported each other and fled in another direction in panic.

Because the next scene is of two people escaping on horseback, and this is an indoor scene, so this section was temporarily stopped and switched to shooting other indoor scenes.

"Not bad, this is my first time filming on set without any NGs, I've made progress!" Su Yun stood on tiptoes and patted Chen Po-yang, who was still in the role.

After she patted him like this, Chen Baiyang finally woke up from his dream and asked in confusion, "Are you done?"

"Didn't you hear the director shout CUT?" Zhang Querong asked speechlessly.

"I...I just focused on running for my life with you, and I didn't hear anything else." Chen Boyang replied blankly.

"Oh, thank you for your hard work." Zhang Querong also patted his shoulder and praised him, "You've made obvious progress. You even memorized the lines and passed them in one go!"

Chen Baiyang looked at the two people's "trickery" to him in silence: Come on, in this scene, he shouted the line "be careful" when he flew out, and there was no need to shoot his face in the long shot, and then there was an action scene where he held a sword and fought against the zombies of the extras - unless he made a mistake in the action, it would be very difficult to NG, okay?

But the two of them were clearly encouraging him...

"Thank you." Chen Po-yang smiled gratefully and then made some moves with the prop sword. "I found that I can get more involved in action scenes."

“But action scenes are very hard.” Sensing that he seemed to be interested in becoming an action star, Zhang Querong quickly reminded him.

"I'm not afraid of hard work. Rather than forcing myself to put on an expression to get into the role, it's more suitable for me to just do it with my hands and feet." Chen Boyang thought for a moment and replied.

"If you really can't improve your acting skills, being a fighter is indeed a good way out." Su Yun touched his chin: he looks good in fighting because he has a dance background, and once he starts fighting, the requirements for literary drama will be relaxed accordingly.

With his looks, he can play the role of a cool and heroic hero who can fly high and hide in the sky for many years, or the role of a talented high-class flower.

Moreover, the subsequent martial arts film and television genres in Hong Kong have also evolved, with the development of later technology, from the early hard-core real-life fighting to the later types of various internal strength moves.

In her childhood memories, the twin duo was very popular. Apart from their singing career, Sasha, who had good acting skills, developed into traditional drama, while Jiaojiao, who had relatively dull acting skills, developed into martial arts actresses.

If it weren't for the incident in the Hong Kong circle where a part-time photographer was cheated by a computer repairman, which directly wiped out most of the new generation of Hong Kong stars who were both good-looking and had good acting skills, perhaps Hong Kong entertainment would not have suddenly fallen into decline.

The rest of the filming period will be spent in the process of the crew getting used to each other.

What’s funny is that when Su Yun learned that she would go to the United States to join ILM’s post-production work, her enthusiasm for post-production special effects was no less than that of the martial arts director Xu He. Whenever she had time, she would enthusiastically ask Su Yun about everything. Su Yun, who came to supervise, was so scared that she even wanted to run away: in order to catch up with the filming schedule, Xu He could go without food and sleep for several days and still maintain such a good mental state. If something happened to him, the legendary director might die early...

So Su Yun hurriedly exerted the momentum he had learned from being a producer and forced Xu He to take a rest, and also gave the crew a holiday - he had already locked the entire crew in the studio for two days and two nights!

Fortunately, he is in Hong Kong, where the control is not strict. If he were in Europe or Hollywood, where the system is more complete, he would definitely be blacklisted in the circle and be sued in court before his debut film was released in theaters...

But his efforts were not in vain. In the time it took Su Yun to take a final exam, ten days later, the filming of the movie was more than half completed. If everything goes well, the editing and post-production process can be completed in less than two weeks, and then it can be scheduled for release.

Of course, this was also due to the fact that some previous footage was retained, but the shooting progress still seemed terribly fast to Su Yun, who was accustomed to the Hollywood speed.

After confirming that everything in Hong Kong was going smoothly, Su Yun had to prepare for another trip to the United States: Lucas's "Star Wars" was scheduled to be released on May 25th, and it was already mid-February, so time was very tight.

After spending the Lunar New Year on the 18th with relatives and friends, she will have to set off on the third day of the New Year.

While Su Yun was busy preparing for the next job, a discussion meeting that might be earth-shaking was quietly taking place in Beijing.

The darkness that accompanied the sorrow has passed, and before the infinite light is about to arrive, we must not only focus on economic development, but also vigorously promote cultural undertakings.

"Raise the national ideology and liberate the people's spirit!"

"We can't let heroes shed blood, sweat and tears. Taiwan bans her, and we import her!"

"Even if we don't have much money, even a dime, a cent, or a penny...it's all our thoughts, our expression and support!"

Looking at the cinema construction plan and the film going to the countryside policy plan aimed at "improving national thinking and liberating people's spirit", the participants in the discussion spoke passionately.

A night of discussion is finally coming to an end. In the early morning light, some people looked out the window: Perhaps, the moment when people open their eyes to see the world for the second time is not far away.