Chapter 272 October
On September 24, 1982, British Prime Minister Mrs. Thatcher, who had just won the Battle of the Horse Island, visited China and held a "cordial and friendly" talk with the Chinese leaders on the future of Hong Kong. After the talks between the two sides, Mrs. Thatcher walked out of the Great Hall of the People with a serious expression.
Then, she fell...
The news then spread to Hong Kong, and the stock market and real estate immediately caused a turmoil. The already sluggish economy of Hong Kong became even worse. Many wealthy people ran away to immigrate, and Hong Kong's financial and real estate circles were even more in awe.
However, at this time, Li Xuan was still running around in the United States for the release of "This Man from Earth", but he was not in Hong Kong and saw the scene when people's first-hand hopes were shattered.
After Li Xuan settled the release of the movie, he stood up and rushed back to Hong Kong. He, the producer of "The True Heroes", has not been on the crew for a day, and he still has to see if Wu Yusen is filmed to his taste.
As for the release and release of "This Man from Earth", MGM and major theaters are responsible for it. Moreover, the theater supervision system in the United States is now very complete. The publisher and theater companies will also ask the audience to do questionnaires from time to time. Li Xuan doesn't even shoot these Americans in Hong Kong.
"Are the sprinkler truck ready?" Wu Yusen shouted with a loudspeaker.
"OK, ready!"
Wu Yusen nodded and replied loudly: "Everything is ready. Everyone is buried in their own seats. Be prepared to take another shot. The sprinkler truck will start sprinkling water."
"Huahu--"
As soon as the director finished speaking, a large stream of water spewed out of the high-pressure water gun, which was poured down. The people in the prop group pressed the flash light from time to time to create the effect of thunder and lightning.
As for Zhang Guorong, who was standing in the rain, he was soaked in a thorough manner.
"Scene 51st second shot, Action'! Bang-"
Huang Yuetai, who took back the position of the chief camera as soon as he came back from the United States, hid in a specially built small awning with the camera, and pointed the lens at Di Long standing under the eaves.
Zhang Guorong braved the "heavy rain" and walked to Di Long.
Di Long smiled softly and shouted: "Ajie!"
"Bang--"
Zhang Guorong had a cold face and punched Di Long in the stomach. Then Di Long took several steps to endure the pain and also entered a pouring "heavy rain".
"Ajie, calm down." Di Long said, arching his waist slightly and covering his wounds.
Zhang Guorong did not answer and directly fought with Di Long.
The rain keeps falling
...
Hong Kong actors do not have human rights as American actors. They are still in the rain for filming in the middle of the night. Fortunately, the temperature is not low in October, otherwise Li Xuan would not know if Zhang Guorong would get sick. As for Di Long, he was born in Wuxing and his health has been good.
The performances of Di Long and Zhang Guorong are quite remarkable. After all, they have been filming such a long time. This is the first time that Zhang Guorong has made such a serious movie. He is a little excited and performs from time to time, but it is not a big problem.
As for Wu Yusen's director skills, they were still fine. After Li Xuan came back, many shots were discussed before filming. Anyway, Li Xuan kept focusing on violent aesthetics, which made Wu Yusen burst out some inspiration from time to time, which made him reshoot some movie shots later.
This made Li Xuan a little amused. In short, Wu Yusen is now in the enlightenment stage of his own violent aesthetics, so Li Xuan doesn't mind pushing it more, of course, it is also to make "The True Color of Heroes" better.
Li Xuan went to this movie for Jiahe's Christmas.
This year, Jiahe is the leader. There is Hong Jingbao's "Great Stars" during the Spring Festival and Chenglong's "Detective Weilong" during the summer season, but the Christmas season is like last year.
It’s not that Jiahe doesn’t have a director, but that there are only two or three directors with box office appeal.
Wu Yusen has left Jiahe and ran to Li Xuan and is stepping up filming "The True Color of Heroes". However, Chenglong is still running around the world, trying his best to expand his international reputation. Xu Chuwen, who has long returned to Hong Kong, has not yet come back to his senses from his brother's backboard, and no shooting plan has been reported.
As for Hong Jingbao, this poor kid and his Hong family are still accompanying Xu Ke to film "The Legend of the Swordsman in Shushan". This 20 million-yuan movie has been filmed for six consecutive months. Recently, she also invited special effects personnel from Hollywood to help film, which is the most anticipated movie of Hong Kong public this year.
Jiahe’s intention is obvious that this movie “The Legend of Swordsman in Shushan” is for the new year next year. But now only Li Xuan in Hong Kong knows that this movie is terrible and terrible…
At this time, Wang Jin, who had been wandering outside to help others film, also found Li Xuan and handed over a movie "The Ghostly Horse". This is a typical Wang Jin-style follower comedy. The one who follows the trend is still a very popular Superman movie. It is a movie with low cost and good box office. Li Xuan agreed to the shooting of this movie with a big stroke.
However, thinking about the troubles Wang Jin caused when filming "Black Man 2" last year, Li Xuan also casually named himself the producer. Anyway, he has no share in the Christmas and New Year seasons, so he might as well be a film producer.
Just as October gradually passed, when Xu Ke's "The Legend of the Swordsman in Shushan" was about to be completed, Li Xuan's "This Man from Earth" was also screened on 300 screens in the United States.
"Hi! Ashley, are you here to watch the movies too?"
At the entrance of a theater in Chinatown, San Francisco, a Chinese boy saw a beautiful white girl and hurried up to say hello, with an excited blush on his face.
"Oh, Bruce, why are you here?" Ashley asked in confusion as she looked at the boy.
"My house is here, and a shop over there is my house." Bruce pointed to the other end of the street and continued to ask, "Ashley, are you watching the movie?"
"Of course, I'm a Jacky movie fan now." Ashley shook her body and said mischievously.
"Oh, then you should come early." Bruce replied: "Jacky did an event with us last month, and I also got a poster of his signature."
"Ah? Really? You guys are so lucky!" Ashley said enviously.
"Uh..." Bruce hesitated and said, "Ashley, since you like it, how about I'll give you the poster?"
"Yeah? What about you?" Ashley asked.
"It doesn't matter!" Bruce waved his hand and said indifferently: "Anyway, Jacky promised to come to Chinatown again next time. I'll just need another poster at that time."
Ashley said with excitement on her face: "Oh, thank you, Bruce!"
"No need to thank you, let's go in and watch the movie first. Then go to my house to get a poster after you finish watching it." Bruce looked at the movie tickets in Ashley's hand, and asked while walking to the theater with her, "Ashley, why did you run to Chinatown to watch the movie?"
"Oh, I'm so annoyed when it comes to this." Ashley looked at the movie poster in front of the theater and said, "I searched three blocks before I found that this movie was screened here. I wanted to see what the director's new film that made "Police Story" looks like? I heard that this is his first time filming an American film, and maybe it won't disappoint me."
"Definitely not, Ashley." Bruce greeted his compatriots at this moment.
"Hope so..."
The same thing happened at the entrances of more than 200 theaters in various states in the United States. Many Chenglong fans were confused by the "Police Story" on the poster and stepped into the cinema. They wanted to see how popular science fiction directors who made such a high-quality action movie would make.
Bruce, a slutty man who wants to pick up girls, not only bought a lot of popcorn and drinks, but also spent money to change his seat after entering the theater. Looking at Ashley holding the popcorn and chewing it carefully, Bruce felt like he had honey in his heart.
Since the theater is in Chinatown and Li Xuan is also a Chinese director of "Police Story", the people in Chinatown are very proud of their face and gave them a full seat on the first day.
Before they could wait, the lights in the cinema dimmed, and a beam of light shot from behind to the screen. The theater suddenly became quiet, and there were only two "clicks" sounds of chewing popcorn.
At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist John packs his luggage outside the house, and several friends come to see him off.
Everything is still normal now, but Bruce is puzzled why it doesn't look like a science fiction movie at all?
In the next fifteen minutes, most of the people in the theater were Sparta...
A few sofas, a stove, and a few scholars talked for fifteen minutes. The audience just heard John say that he had lived for 140 centuries and his first reaction was that he finally got to the point of science fiction, which finally aroused their interest. But the development was beyond everyone's expectations, and there were no big scenes, no science fiction laser gun scenes, no aliens or something.
Talk, talk, talk all the time.
The cinema, which was originally quiet, gradually became buzzing. Some viewers watched the movie seriously, some were almost asleep, some viewers and the people next to them began to discuss the plot enthusiastically, while some began to curse.
"Oh, Shit! What kind of science fiction movie is this?"
"Punish you, director this ugly boy!"
"MyGod, is this movie all about conversation? It's so boring."
"Oh, wasting my time and money, Fuck!"
“…”
As the movie continues to play, the audience has gradually been divided into two parts. Those who like this movie think it is very creative, while those who don’t like it think it is not a science fiction film at all, but an art film under the guise of science fiction, which cheated them of money.
Bruce listened to the chaotic sounds around him and said quietly to Ashley who was frowning slightly, "Ashley, let's go out, it's too noisy here."
"Yes, I really don't know what they are quarreling." Ashley said quite discouragedly: "This movie is obviously very good, can't they see it?"
"yeah?"
Bruce, who almost fell asleep, was stunned for a moment, then changed his words and said, "That's right, the movie is really good. We don't care about those people. Let's talk about it after watching the movie. Anyway, there are subtitles."
However, by the time the movie was halfway through, the noise in the theater had already stopped. Some of them could not bear to watch it and the other part was that Bruce was recruited.
And only 60% of the people in the theater were left...
However, 60% of the people were watching the movie seriously, and every word from the protagonist slowly echoed in their hearts. What would happen if they were the immortal person? What would happen if they met such immortal person? How could they refute the protagonist's amazing remarks?
One by one question and one by one doubt came into their minds.
The film slowly ended. With the reversal of the identity of the old professor Will, all the doubts, speculations and questions before it turned into awesomeness.
This director, this screenwriter, and this idea are simply amazing!
The movie screening ended, and the theater gradually became brighter again. Many people were still sitting on chairs and feeling the throbbing of their hearts after watching the movie.
Even Bruce, who was about to fall asleep at the beginning, felt as if his heart was shocked.
"Ashley, go and get a poster at my house!" Bruce slowly recovered and said softly.
"No, I decided..." Ashley suddenly said with a serious face: "I decided to be a movie fan of this director from today. By the way, I heard that he is a Hong Kong director, Bruce, do you have any videotapes of his previous filming?"
Chapter completed!