Chapter 232 Concept Poster

Su Yun even brought up this misunderstanding during lunch as a little anecdote in her boring filming career.

When Liang Jiawei learned at the dinner table that the reason why director Su Yun and second male lead Zhang Querong were so close was because they were old friends who had known each other for nearly ten years, he blushed with embarrassment.

After all, they were all the best of the young generation who could be named locally, and they were young men and women with good looks and good character. Newspapers and magazines would occasionally write about their scandals to increase sales. In order to keep up with the trends of young girls, he had previously published a girls' fashion magazine, so he would also pay attention to and write about popular stars in the group, and naturally he knew about several of Su Yun's scandal targets.

Especially since Zhang Querong had just collaborated with Su Yun on "My Three Dead Ex-Husbands" at the beginning of the year, and before that there was "Song of Youth". In both films, they played a couple, so scandals of falling in love on the set were inevitable.

And the most important point is that Zhang Querong, whose star luck is not very good at the moment, is obviously not as popular as his friend Chen Baiyang who has already made a name for himself in the music industry. However, Su Yun has provided him with several movie resources in succession, and even asked Chen Baiyang to play a supporting role for him in "Dream of Red Mansions"... This seems so abrupt under the unspoken rule in the circle today that whoever is more popular has more resources.

Of course, if the reason for this unreasonable allocation of resources is because Zhang Querong is Su Yun's "own man", then it is so reasonable that one cannot say anything.

Liang Jiawei, who is only half an insider, couldn't help but have wild thoughts: I have only heard that the entertainment industry is dangerous for female artists, but I didn't expect that male artists are also dangerous...

Even if it's a young, beautiful and wealthy "rich woman" like Su Yun, it would only cause trouble if you don't like her.

It was not until noon when he returned to his rental house to eat with trepidation that Liang Jiawei finally felt relieved: Fortunately, it turned out that he was thinking too much.

Distracted by this little episode, Liang Jiawei, who was playing the leading male role for the first time and shooting on location in a place like the Walled City, seemed to relax his tense spirit and appeared much more natural during the filming.

It just fits the protagonist's gradual adaptation after staying in the walled city for a while.

Su Yun felt at ease and comfortable using a talented, hardworking and honest leading actor like Liang Jiawei: Although Liang Jiawei is a landslide in the interview world who dares to confess in an interview program that "I was not a very good person when I was young", in fact, in the golden age of Hong Kong circle where chaotic relationships and scandals are frequent, he is one of the few big-name male artists who has no scandals.

Moreover, he is not only loyal in love and marriage, but also very dedicated to his work. Unlike the 50-50 male stars mentioned above who never waste a single moment of their acting skills, Liang Jiawei always delivers his best work in every film, ensuring both quality and quantity.

Therefore, he often becomes one of the few bright spots in various bad movies he has participated in. He is a typical dedicated worker who loves his job and believes that "no matter how bad the project is, I have to do my job well"...

It was during their collaboration that Zhang Querong discovered Liang Jiawei's professionalism, and only then did he fully understand why Su Yun chose to promote him, a newcomer, to the leading role: in addition to the strong recommendation from co-director Du Lifeng, Liang Jiawei was more compatible with the male lead than he was.

It's not that he can't play the leading male role, but the complexity and interweaving of the leading male role's personality are not suitable for his current youth idol style; even if this role would be very likely to win an award if played well, he would inevitably be criticized because of the plot, and would not attract more fans than the second male lead's personality with a dilemma.

Nowadays, people still have clear innate preferences and different treatments for heroes and villains. Playing a classic villain is like being remembered for a long time. Therefore, artists are generally reluctant to take on villain roles, so as not to affect their future acting career.

Especially for someone like Zhang Querong, who had just become a screen couple with Mei Yanshuang relying on his righteous Sir image, and whose singing image is that of a youth idol who sings and dances vigorously, even if he is willing to challenge himself and take on the role of a villain, it has to be an understandable and crazy idol type.

It cannot be the "art" type that Liang Jiawei is currently doing, which means well but ends up doing bad things and overly insinuates reality.

In other words, Liang Jiawei, who prefers art and has a bit of a literary personality, does not mind this kind of role and instead finds it challenging. He is willing to follow Su Yun and Du Lifeng to go out every morning and evening to shoot on location.

Due to the special spatial structure of the walled city, many people were unaware of the rain, let alone the problem of lighting. After confirming that most of the scenes would be shot on location, Du Lifeng worried about the lighting issue for a long time.

He even wanted to borrow the legendary f/0.7 lens that Kubrick used in Barry Lyndon, taking advantage of the relationship between Su Yun and Kubrick, to ensure low-light scene shooting during the actual filming of The Walled City. In the 1960s, this legendary f/0.7 lens was once used by NASA for lunar exploration missions and to take photos of the far side of the moon. It is one of the lenses with the largest aperture in the world.

When the aperture of this lens is fully opened, in low-light scenes with only candles, natural light, etc. as the light source, the shooting effect and noise control are incomparable to ordinary lenses.

The depth of field and out-of-focus images are extremely beautiful - the images in "Barry Lyndon" that are said to be like oil paintings are mostly contributed by this god's head.

Then Su Yun, who finally had the opportunity to use the system's built-in black-tech camera, flatly rejected his request, saying that with the development of technology, she had just developed a new camera that could meet the needs of low-light scene shooting, so there was no need to borrow a 0.7 lens from afar.

In the face of this reply, Du Lifeng didn't have much to say: besides the fact that Su Yun was the main one and he was the deputy, and Su Yun's new black technology had always given people confidence; if something went wrong when taking the risk of bringing this level of god-level lens into the walled city, his whole family would really not be able to afford the compensation.

Since Su Yun guarantees that the effect is just okay, it is just because of the material problem that it will only last for one or two months before being scrapped - this is barely enough given the speed of production in Hong Kong.

The speed of Hong Kong production is largely due to the cooperation of the crew and the desire to achieve more, faster, better and cheaper results.

Thanks to the sewage and dripping water everywhere in the Walled City, many people would wear long sleeves, long pants and hats when walking around the streets even in summer, which could cover their secret photography behavior to the greatest extent.

Yes, that's right, candid photos.

The protagonist of "The Rooftop Post" is a postman who delivers letters in the walled city every day. In addition to using his perspective to showcase the walled city, a miraculous complex of buildings, he can also naturally show the daily lives of most ordinary residents of the walled city from the side.

In order to pursue maximum "truth", Su Yun proposed to use the method of candid filming to make the postman part of the plot into a documentary style.

This approach was also seen in "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" ten years later, and because of its documentary style and plot twists, it won the 49th Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award for Best Film.

Su Yun tried to let Lei Bo, who had been their leader and participated in the filming of a commercial radio station's Walled City program, have a try. Then, after finding a hidden location and shooting with a fixed camera for half a day, he returned to the rental house and compared the photos with Du Lifeng. In the end, both parties agreed to use the mode of candid photography for some of the "realistic" plots.

However, even though she and Du Lifeng hid in separate places and filmed with two cameras, this method of secretly filming with a fixed camera position was still not as convenient as regular filming.

In order to obtain multi-angle and multi-camera footage, Su Yun and Du Lifeng were basically filming all the time when they were pretending to be volunteers and when Liang Jiawei was filming his personal scenes: the light in the morning and evening is the best, and can be used to shoot rooftops and outdoor scenes that require light; and the time outside of these two time periods is just right for walking around the streets pretending to be volunteers to take candid photos of real life.

After a day's filming, the group returned to the rental house one after another: they wanted to go home separately to hide their whereabouts, but unfortunately the unscrupulous developer of the new building they rented was too creative.

In order to save money, the foundation was not built carefully. Anyway, the buildings in the fortress were built side by side, which provided a strange support for each other. It would not fall to the point where it would collapse in the wind.

The problem is that it is such an 11-story building, but they don’t even bother to build stairs. Instead, they just hang it next to the building next door, using the stairs of the building next door…

After living there for a while and discovering the truth, even Su Yun, who was accustomed to the many scams of real estate developers in later generations, was still confused for a while.

However, no matter how chaotic the situation is, we still have to work.

After returning to the rental house, Su Yun and others started by organizing the materials, checking the map drawn by engineer Chen Changcun, and then arranging the shooting plan for tomorrow. Day after day, there was basically no major change.

As for the issue of secretly filming - it's OK for the residents. After the filming is finished, the Welfare Association will come forward to explain and apologize. Basically, there will be no problem. As for those extraordinary chaotic scenes in the walled city that seem to have happened randomly, they are something you can only encounter by chance and you have to take risks...

Generally, when encountering such a situation where they are lucky to get the chance, the division of labor between Su Yun and Du Lifeng is very clear: Du Lifeng takes Zhao's camera to shoot from a high and far place, while Su Yun takes the system's high-tech invisible remote-control camera device and hides in a closer indoor place to shoot.

Anyway, the system's high-tech is powerful enough that she can perform remote control through real-time feedback even if she stands farther away.

As for the reason why Su Yun hid closer, it was to hide from the eyes and ears of Du Lifeng, who was one of their own.

After completing the most difficult project of on-location shooting, most of the indoor scenes can use the sets from the previous film "Out of the Walled City" that have not yet been dismantled. This brother drama is also miserable. It is still being ordered to change this and that, and from time to time it has to shoot some additional footage for the modified plot. Therefore, the sets of imitation walled city sheds have not been dismantled.

This happened to be a good thing for Su Yun, a colleague who was going to shoot the same subject: the fewer people who sneaked into the walled city to shoot, the better and safer it would be. The few of them who couldn't really escape, just disguised themselves and went in, so it was enough.

If the other characters do not need to enter the walled city for filming, their personal safety will be greatly improved, and it will also be possible to find artists with better conditions to perform the roles.

For example, the role of the male protagonist's grandfather "Uncle Cao" was played, after several twists and turns, and finally Cao Zehua, who is known as the "Iron Man of the Silver Circle" was invited.

This famous veteran Cantonese film actor is not only deeply rooted in the hearts of the people with his image as a hero and a detective, but the anecdote of how he gambled away more than HK$300 million in one night in the 1960s in properties including film studios and cinemas has also been talked about by Hong Kong people for a long time.

There is even a character named "Niu Dahua" designed based on him in the spoof movie "The Young and the Restless", competing with "Li Qi" and "Xie Yuan", two nostalgic characters that allude to classics.

What Su Yun was attracted by was his state of mind, which had experienced supreme glory and witnessed endless darkness.

Although the role of "Uncle Cao" does not have many scenes, he is the reason and guide for the male protagonist to enter the walled city, and in the end he will tell the male protagonist the ultimate core idea that the movie wants to express. It requires extremely high acting skills, so you absolutely cannot be careless.

While sorting out materials in the rental house, Su Yun took advantage of her spare time to try to hand-draw a concept poster.

After obtaining permission, Zhang Querong took a look at the poster with interest, and was immediately struck by the artistic conception of the poster.

In the dusk, the huge airplane occupied more than one-third of the upper part of the entire picture. Even the salty duck egg-like sunset was mostly obscured by this man-made steel behemoth. Only the golden and red glow and light still lingered in the sky, showing its existence, becoming the final confrontation between man and nature.

A pure black silhouette, which looked extremely small in contrast to the steel behemoth and the huge buildings, was running on the rooftop of a high-rise building in the city.

The mess of clothes, wires and various sundries on the rooftop are intertwined to create a strange yet harmonious look, matched with the countless windows and plaques below, giving a sense that even if you are born at the end of the world, you must do your best to live in the present, but it also seems to have an atmosphere of a future wasteland carnival that transcends time and space.

And under the large hand-painted title of "Kowloon Walled City: Rooftop Postman", there is a line of small words that seem to be written casually.

"What you consider to be hell may be heaven to others."

The Rooftop Postman is a messenger from "Heaven".