Chapter 29: Alternating Realities

In order to shock people of this era, there must be technological improvements that transcend the times.

Compared to the modern society where Su Yun grew up, the system is an era of technological innovation that is many times higher. Even a former programmer like Su Yun, who was once at the forefront of the times, had to spend a lot of time modifying his original concepts and combining his previous knowledge to learn how to use them. Not to mention the early 1970s when microcomputers still had green screens and were extremely scarce.

Therefore, the combination of the stand-in method in the shooting technique and the keying technology in the post-production, coupled with the system's advanced rendering effect, can produce this flawless, detailed and lively same-screen picture.

This was when Su Yun showed the already produced promotional video to director Xu Guwen in the middle of the filming. Xu Guwen gritted his teeth and said: Since we are going to gamble, let’s gamble big!

Su Yun's script story is already quite complete, and those stick figure storyboards look funny at first glance, but in fact the expression effect is very good: from the composition and structure, it can be seen that Su Yun's sketch foundation is very solid, even the stick figures have the posture of "people", rather than being messy and random.

The painting skills are a little poor, perhaps due to time constraints, the painting is not that detailed, but with this solid foundation, as long as people paint seriously, it will not be difficult to see the difference.

This is really a misunderstanding - although Su Yun used to work in film and television post-production, at that time, the extremely miserable social animal workers always encountered a boss who was not a human being. It was not impossible for him to do the work of a modeler despite his major...

Don't want to do it? Then don't do it!

There was no other way. To make a living, Su Yun had to "guest star" as a modeler for some game outsourcing companies for a period of time. Then she had to learn some basic sketching and know what the normal human body structure should be like. It was her boss's business if he didn't behave like a human. Since her job required her to "make human (object)" models, she couldn't make copper bell-eye cone faces like those in magical pop aesthetics that didn't look like humans but more like bamboo poles transformed into spirits...

Therefore, Xu Guwen, who was also a half-baked person, believed that Su Yun was also a person with the same talent for filming as himself - based on the script and storyboard, as long as he could shoot the materials accurately and then hand them over to good post-production personnel, the results would not be too bad.

I just didn't expect the effect to be so good.

Su Yun's skills were beyond the expectations of both her own people and outsiders. Originally, they just wanted to use a stand-in to switch the camera, but they were reluctant to spend the money to find a professional to paste the characters on the film film...

Su Yun's initial investment plan was NT$1 million, but in total it would cost less than NT$600,000, of which NT$100,000 was the gg fee for Li Ying to broadcast the promotional video in Hong Kong.

Of course, Su Yun symbolically charged the two main supporting actresses a total of 4,000 yuan as newcomers, and 5,000 yuan for post-production special effects. This is one of the main reasons why this movie is so cost-effective.

Others, such as the two leading actors who each took a song and were given a "friendship price", were also key points for saving money.

Although Su Yun's role was important and the core of the core, there was a rare precedent of young actors playing the leading roles in that era. Jiahe considered for a long time and, for the sake of being conservative, wrote Xu Gujie and Deng Niyun as the male and female protagonists; and Su Yun was demoted to a lower level due to her age, with the role of the female lead mixed in with the ranks of the second female supporting actress.

Leaving aside the story outside the play for the moment, the plot inside the play is beginning to develop to a point where it is becoming more and more attractive: as the masked sword fighting continues, when both pairs of people fall into the water together and take off their masks, the onlookers see these two almost identical faces and they hold their breath.

But probably children, except for biological brothers and sisters, don't like someone being called another self. What's more, Shuangshuang and Duidui had just been fighting with swords, and it was a fierce battle.

Shuangshuang looked down on Duidui and called her an uneducated tomboy. Duidui also retorted in a sarcastic tone that Shuangshuang was a pretentious "young lady". They got so angry that the teachers couldn't stop them and could only sternly warn them not to fight again.

So that night, the two of them, along with their fellow campers in the same cabin, started another literary duel in another cabin - playing poker.

On a small table, Hong Kong dollars, Taiwan dollars, coins, small jewelry, skin care products and other girly items all became bets in this game.

Shuangshuang, who was full of confidence because she had won all the cards at home, played what she thought was the luckiest hand, a straight flush of A-5 of diamonds.

Then Dui Dui sincerely praised Shuang Shuang's luck, and under the gaze of the movie audience, he played a royal flush of 10-A of spades.

Helplessly, the two had to follow the bet and took off their Chanel-style jackets and skirts, leaving only a small vest and shorts and jumped into the cool lake water in early spring.

As a result, the pair, who were as naughty as shrimps, turned around and went into the water together. They took away the clothes she left on the shore with their campmates.

If it weren't for the three fishermen brothers Jiaju, Jiaxiang and Jiayang who were fishing by and rescued him, he might have frozen sick.

However, after discovering that Shuangshuang was one of the children who came to the camp, the three brothers, who hated the camping travel agency for seriously affecting their Aboriginal lives, angrily sent Shuangshuang to the shore and drove him off the boat.

After that night, both of them had a cold for several days.

From then on, Shuangshuang and Duidui officially became enemies.

The funny scenes of the naughty kids playing pranks on each other certainly made the audience laugh, and the plot in which they later became hostile to each other and accidentally entered an aboriginal settlement and had to join forces to fight against the three aboriginal brothers was also funny and passionate, as if it made people unconsciously recall those childhood friends who had fought and joined forces together.

However, the good times did not last long. After the old battalion commander Luo Xian and the teachers discovered that this group of naughty kids had caused so many troubles, Shuangshuang and Duidui, who took the initiative to admit their responsibility, were isolated and imprisoned in a punishment cabin on a small hill.

The spring breeze and rainstorms in the Cantonese area always come so suddenly. The two people, who had originally developed a good impression of each other because the other took the initiative to stand up and take responsibility in order to protect their friends, officially put aside their past grudges and sat together after they worked together to close the window that was difficult to open due to disrepair.

"I finally understand why people here like to wear slippers so much." I used to laugh at Duidui for his "uneducated" behavior of wearing slippers when going out, but now, as they both took off their socks soaked by rain, I vaguely understood why a local tyrant like Duidui would do this.

"That's right. When it rains, shoes cover socks, and socks cover feet, both of which keep us moisturized!" Duidui took out a pair of new slippers from the luggage bag. "There's a reason why we love slippers - here, new ones, let you use them first."

Shuangshuang took it and tried it on, and it fit perfectly.

Then, the two bored people started chatting in the wind and rain.

Slowly, they discovered that both of them came from single-parent families, and that they had the same birthday and had never seen the other parent since childhood. Only a photo torn in half let them know that the person in the photo was their mother/father...

As they put the two photos together, the twins, who were separated at birth due to their parents' divorce, finally hugged their long-lost selves with tears in their eyes.

Watching the two children on the screen crying and laughing, many audiences in front of the screen also showed moved smiles or excited tears.

And the naughty kids screamed in unison.

Next, Shuangshuang and Duidui put their two small beds together and discussed exchanging identities on the bed so that they could go see their long-missed father/mother.

After a round of dancing that made the audience laugh as they taught each other to imitate themselves and change their looks, the pair dressed as tomboys boarded the ferry back to Kowloon, Hong Kong, while the pair dressed as rich girls boarded the big ship back to Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Looking at the deep admiration for their mother in the eyes of the couple leaning on the railing, Fang Mona in the small screening room stopped the screen.

They were careless. They didn't expect Su Yun to work with Jiahe to make such a movie.

Perhaps it was because after Zhao's films had secured a solid position and without their biggest rival, he lost his former fighting spirit and became simply conservative.

But it doesn't matter. Just like how Zou Yunhua helped Zhao poach Lin Lai, the top actress of Dianmao, which enabled Zhao to defeat Dianmao and become the industry leader; Zhao can also do the same and poach people around Su Yun.

Xu Guwen and Xu Gujie, the two Xu brothers, left the Zhao family just like Su Yun, and Deng Niyun mainly focused on Taiwan and Japan, so the probability is not high...

So Fang Mona drew a line on the two names "Zhou Yuanfa" and "Zhao Xiashi" - coincidentally, the names of these two people were also on the application form for this year's artist training class and Miss Hong Kong.

I guess I had reported it before, but I didn't expect that Su Yun would take me to film a movie first.

very good.

Fang Mona thought about it while looking at the content of the registration form again. She found that the name she had liked before was not on it. She couldn't help but pick up the phone immediately: "Why is Wu Manda's name, who ranked in the top five in the exam, not on it?!"

Hearing the excuse that Wu Manda's appearance didn't quite meet the artist requirements, Fang Mona was almost not amused by the idiot on the other side: "The artist training class is not a Miss Hong Kong pageant. What is needed is acting skills, audience appeal, and diversity in the fit of the role. What does appearance have to do with it?!"

After holding back her anger and resolving the matter, Fang Mona looked up and suddenly saw Zhao Qiming being scolded by Zhao Rifu.

After Zhao Rifu was finally called away by a work call, Zhao Liming lowered his head silently: In fact, he didn't want to inherit the Zhao family at all.

The Zhao family has a very special tradition, which is to hand their children over to their brothers to be taken care of and raised, so as to prevent them from developing a spoiled character while being around their parents.

Therefore, Zhao Liming grew up with his eldest uncle in Singapore in his early years; correspondingly, his second uncle's son, his cousin Zhao Liying, was sent to Hong Kong to grow up.

Zhao Rifu also knew that his eldest son was not cut out for this job, so as a workaholic, he decided to fully respect and support his son's hobbies and planned to let Zhao Liying take over the position of general manager of Zhao's Company.

However, plans can never keep up with changes. Zhao Rifu, who has already begun to integrate into the development of the international film industry, and his second brother Zhao Cunren, who is nostalgic and conservative, gradually diverge in their ideas over time. Therefore, Zhao Rifu teamed up with his third brother, who also ran the "Zhao Brothers" company, to force Zhao Cunren, who inherited his father's business and ran the "Zhao Father and Son" Co., Ltd., to gradually give up power.

Being forced to retreat by his two younger brothers, Zhao Cunren naturally felt resentful. He declared, "Don't work for others anymore!" He also labeled his son Zhao Liying, who was helping Zhao Rifu, as "unfilial", and forced him to resign from the Zhao family in Hong Kong.

In desperation, the filial and obedient Zhao Liying had to succumb to Zhao Cunren's pressure, bid farewell to Zhao Rifu who wanted to entrust him with an important task, and left for Japan, without any news of him again.

Afterwards, the kidnapping of Zhao Qiming occurred in Singapore.

After bringing Zhao Liming and his other three children back to Hong Kong, Zhao Rifu asked Fang Mona to join Zhao's company to help quell the undercurrents in the company, while at the same time training his eldest son Zhao Liming, hoping that he would take over the company in the future.

But Zhao Liming had no such idea at all, and Fang Mona's arrival indirectly prompted Zou Yunhua, who originally thought he could become the general manager after outlasting Zhao Liying, to leave.

Family, company... In fact, Zhao Qiming didn't want to take over, nor was he willing to take over - he couldn't sit in a position that directly or indirectly controlled the life and death of thousands of people.

What he wanted to do was to enter the real estate industry, just as he had seen and learned in Singapore before, and build high-rise buildings similar to what are called "HDB flats" in Singapore as a form of welfare housing for the general public.

Together with Hong Kong’s unique housing estate system, the dream of “everyone has a home” has been truly realized, so that everyone has a house to live in and a home to call home.

Instead of doing what Fang Mona did just now: on the one hand, she vigorously supported those capable talents and changed their fate, which might have been tortuous, like a Bodhisattva who saves people from suffering; but on the other hand, she suppressed her opponents who were also talented, and used tricks to pull down those who might have climbed to the top, just like an unforgivable Shura.

"This world is a place where the strong prey on the weak. Even if you don't want to, you will always become an obstacle to some people who are on the same path as you in this era." Seeing that Zhao Qiming was still confused, Fang Mona was not anxious. She just told him the experience she learned from Zhao Rifu, "Even if you have no intention of harming others, you must be on guard against others."

Since ancient times, driven by interests, there have been many precedents of fathers and sons turning against each other, brothers quarreling, and friendships breaking up...

Does she hate this little girl Su Yun?

They don't hate it, they even appreciate it very much - just like Zhao Rifu appreciates Zou Yunhua and TBB appreciates Taiwan's ATV.

But she also understands that appreciation is not everything.

Since you have become an opponent, you must put aside other thoughts and work hard to fight against it. This is the respect for the opponent.

Looking at the cast list on the table with two names circled by her, Fang Mona smiled slightly: the two most valuable names will be taken by her, and among the remaining people, such as the Xu brothers and Deng Niyun, Su Yun will definitely not be able to control them.

As for those young actors such as the Mei sisters, the Wang brothers, Ng Yun-yi, Leung Siu-wei, Stephen Chow, Zhang Hanyou, Luo Jiayang, etc., they are even more insignificant.

Unlike Su Yun who had a system golden finger to copy historical records, Fang Mona at that time probably would never have imagined that the people on this list of "insignificant" minor actors would become part of the pillars of the future "Eastern Hollywood" film and television industry.

Those familiar names, one after another, will become the mark of an era.

Along with the songs and images they represent, they have become the softest and warmest memories of time in the hearts of generations related to them.