Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 420 "Exchanging Identities"

"roof"

"Three Dark Days"

"You are happier than before"

"snails"

"Open Love"

"Sister, are you asleep?"

"Star Clear"

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PS: (All the above-mentioned songs are Jay Chou's songs, but except for "Xingqing", other songs were written by him before he was eighteen years old, such as Wu Zongxian, Xu Ruyun, Wang Leehom...)

Sure enough, after looking at the lyrics and music, Jay Chou single-handedly composed all the songs on his album.

Chen Qiming paid close attention to the melody of the song to see if it had the potential to be a hit.

In less than ten minutes, he had roughly finished reading these lyrics and music.

Generally speaking, the quality of Jay Chou's songs in this album is very good.

However, although the quality of lyrics and music is good, it is too average.

That said, there are no songs on the album that are of higher quality than others.

Only "Xingqing" is relatively easy to become popular in Chen Qiming's opinion.

"Do you have any ideas?"

Seeing Chen Qiming's thoughtful expression, Liu Ciwei couldn't help but ask.

"It's okay, that's it! Remember to give them more resources when promoting, and follow it as a B-level project!"

After coming back to his senses, Chen Qiming put down his lyrics and music.

He was just thinking whether he should give him two of Jay Chou's future songs.

But think about it and forget it.

Jay Chou is still young now, so he can be trained on his own.

Moreover, this guy is extremely talented, so it would be nice to let him follow his own creative path in his dream.

It's better not to interfere with him.

In addition, I should put some pressure on him.

For example, they copied all his future hits and asked him to re-create some hits.

In order to avoid too few golden songs in the Chinese music scene in the future.

In the days that followed, Chen Qiming stayed at home for a while, spending some time with his mother, and handing over some work in Asia.

In March, he will go to the United States to shoot the movie "Face". This movie will not be filmed for two or three months.

For such a long time, Chen Qiming needs to hand over many tasks in Asia.

In early March, Chen Qiming finished handing over all work in Asia and boarded a plane to the United States again.

When he came to the United States, he first went to Paramount Pictures.

He had some objections to his role in "Face/Off" and needed to renegotiate with Paramount and John Woo.

Because of this film, Chen Qiming was invited.

Therefore, many settings in the movie have changed greatly from those in the dream.

According to the original plan, the role played by Chen Qiming should be Li Hua, the boss of the Chinese American gang.

However, considering that he is now the pride of the Chinese people and is not suitable to play such a role that is detrimental to the face of the Chinese people, after he came to Paramount, he proposed the idea of ​​changing the role to Paramount.

Paramount originally did not want to agree to Chen Qiming's suggestion.

The movie script has already been completed, and it will be very difficult for the screenwriter to temporarily play a higher role.

But in the end, considering Chen Qiming's popularity, Paramount finally accepted this condition.

Changed his character from a gangster to a police detective.

As for his original role, he was replaced by Nicolas Cage.

In fact, it's just a role reversal.

However, after swapping roles, many of the character's settings also need to be readjusted.

In the original setting, there were actually many other Asians appearing.

But because of the change in Chen Qiming's role, the original Chinese gangster was directly changed into the foreign gangster where Nicolas Cage was in the dream.

The script was changed again, and although Paramount found the best screenwriter to work on it, the filming date of the movie was inevitably postponed.

The originally planned shooting in early March was postponed to March 20th.

During this period, Chen Qiming took the unfinished script and retreated at home alone to figure out the role.

The addition of Chen Qiming has greatly changed the plot of this very high-quality film in Dreamland.

Of course, the most important thing has not changed, that is, just like the original core plot, this is a story that mainly tells the story of two protagonists gaining each other's life after exchanging identities.

Nicolas Cage's character Kester is a gang boss in the film.

One time, he designed to kill the Interpol police officer Chen Li (played by Chen Qiming) who had been tracking him for 8 years.

But unexpectedly, the plan failed and Chen Li's son was accidentally killed, which completely made the two of them have an sworn hatred.

Kester in the movie is very smart and is able to cleverly evade Interpol's tracking every time.

After Interpol finally arrested him and brought him to justice, another problem arose.

That is, Kester installed a poison gas bomb into the crowd, but the specific installation location was not disclosed.

In order to detect the bomb, Chen Li, who has the same build and height as Kester, decided to change identities with Kester.

Then use Kester's identity to find the gas bomb installer.

But there are also difficulties in identity swapping. Although Chen Li and Kester are very similar in body shape, they have different appearances and even different skin colors.

In order to successfully exchange identities, Chen Li used the latest face-changing and skin-color changing technologies to transform him into an existence exactly like Kester.

After the operation was successful, Chen Li woke up first with the help of his assistant, and then quickly devoted himself to the task.

Kester, on the other hand, did not wake up after the operation and was placed under guard.

After he regained consciousness, he quickly killed the police officer who was guarding him due to the negligence of the guard.

And several key personnel who knew the matter were also killed one by one.

This face-changing plan itself is a high-level secret operation, not to mention that Kester is very smart and directly kills all the insiders.

So the exchange of identities between the two became a secret forever.

On the other side, after changing his face, Chen Li became the gang boss Kester.

He immediately used his unique identity to infiltrate the gang to investigate the truth.

At the same time, he also helped the Kester family resolve conflicts and helped the daughter who had gone astray to find her way back.

After Kester turned into a policeman, he did not follow Chen Li's old-fashioned way and was out of tune with other Interpol police officers.

Instead, he used his unique Western humor to resolve the conflicts between Sean and his Interpol colleagues.

Moreover, in order to play the role of Chen Li well, he began to learn a lot about Chinese culture to ensure that his performance would not be exposed.

To this end, he even personally went to China to visit a Kung Fu master and learned real Chinese Kung Fu from him.

To be honest, the difficulty of playing after the identities of the two people are swapped is absolutely hellish.

People from different countries, different skin colors, and different cultures have to play each other. You can imagine the difficulties involved.

Especially Kester, he needs to learn Chinese, the most difficult language in the world, Kung Fu, and even understand China's five thousand years of history.

Damn it, Kester was so sick.

On the opposite side is Chen Li.

He used to eat with chopsticks, but suddenly he had to use a knife and fork, and he had to play rugby, which he didn't know how to do.

It's also a hell level.

Generally speaking, the new version of "Face" has nothing to do with the general plot direction.

In fact, the content has changed a lot.

This is mainly due to the addition of Chen Qiming.

His addition made the movie more interesting.

For example, how do two people from different cultures learn from each other’s culture? There will definitely be many Chinese elements added to this.

For example, Chinese Kung Fu and other Chinese drama culture.

Regarding this point, both Chen Qiming and John Woo have a tacit understanding and try their best to add this aspect of culture to the movie.

After all, this is a good opportunity to promote Chinese culture. As Chinese, they will not let go of such an opportunity.

Time passed, more than ten days finally passed, and in a blink of an eye, the time came to the 20th.

On this day, "Face" officially entered the filming stage.

Well, it's not a change of face. After some re-evaluation, this project has been renamed "Swapping Identities".

The filming of "Swapping Identities" did not use green screen shooting, which has been very popular in recent years, but chose the more difficult real-location shooting.

There is nothing we can do about it.

In the movie, Kester needs to travel to many scenic spots in China for filming.

As for the scenery of the Great Wall, what kind of green screen can be created?

If you really had the money to set up that scene, you might have filmed it several times on location.

In fact, Chen Qiming felt that the filming of this movie was quite challenging.

He and Nicolas Cage almost have to challenge two roles.

Yes, two characters.

Kester at the beginning of the movie is played by Nicolas Cage, and Chen Li is played by Chen Qiming.

After the identities are exchanged, the two people's roles will change. It will be Chen Qiming who takes Kester's character and name to film. The same is true for Kester.

In addition, cooperating with Nicolas Cage is also a pleasure for Chen Qiming.

At this time, Nicolas Cage is not the bad movie king in the future dream.

Now he is one of the most popular movie stars in Hollywood.

The movies he has starred in in recent years have all been box office hits.

In terms of acting, Nicolas Cage just won the Best Actor award at last year's Oscars.

He is an out-and-out Oscar winner.

The drama with the Oscar-winning actor is something that Chen Qiming has been looking forward to for a long time.

And Nicolas Cage did not disappoint Chen Qiming.

Chen Qiming felt great playing opposite him.

Of course, the same is true for Nicolas Cage and Chen Qiming.

Chen Qiming's two Golden Horse Best Actors and one Golden Horse Best Actor did not come for nothing.

Although he has never won an international best actor, in terms of filming, Chen Qiming is definitely an actor at the moment.

He just doesn't do much filming.

If he had been filmed more, he would definitely be comparable to Tony Leung Ka Fai and Tony Leung Chiu Wai among Hong Kong and Taiwan actors.

When actors are filming, if there is no real gap between them, it is easy for actors to develop a good relationship on the set.

This is the case with Chen Qiming and Nicolas Cage.

One of the two is mainly engaged in the singing industry, and the other is a pure actor.

Although there are business conflicts between them, they are not many.

At the same time, the two had no grudges before.

Therefore, without any grudges or business conflicts, the two became good friends within a few days of being on the set.

In his spare time, Nicolas Cage would ask Chen Qiming for some advice on Chinese culture.

Chen Qiming asked Nicolas Cage to teach him how to shoot.

Anyway, in the United States, as long as you have money, any gunman can play.

Chen Qiming tried ak.

Good guy, the recoil was so strong that it made Chen Qiming’s shoulders sore for two days.

The scenes in America were filmed for nearly two months.

Most of the scenes in this drama were filmed in the United States.

Including many gun battles, they were shot directly on the streets of America.

For actors, there are actually many benefits to filming in the United States.

There is an Actors' Union here in the United States. As long as you join the Actors' Union, you will be protected by the union.

If you encounter any difficulties during filming, the union can help solve them.

Such as shooting time.

Eight hours a day. If you exceed this time, you will either have to pay more, or the union will take action to trouble the production company. Anyway, you will not be bullied.

Of course, this is not free.

It is necessary to pay money to join a union and be protected.

For example, Chen Qiming, after joining the trade union, he immediately became the highest-level member.

But in contrast, he paid half a million US dollars to obtain this highest level of membership. (Lifetime membership, the upper limit of the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild is $1 million)

After paying so much money, the Actors Guild naturally had to provide him with the best service, otherwise his money would be in vain.

Therefore, Chen Qiming is very comfortable during his time in Hollywood.

Shooting for eight hours a day, not even one more minute would do.

Anyway, I get off work on time every day and go to a bar to meet up with white girls.

For the film "Swapping Identities", Chen Qiming's salary was quite high.

After his own fight with the Screen Actors Guild.

He received $6 million, second only to Nicolas Cage's $7 million.

A movie costs millions of dollars.

No wonder everyone is envious of Hollywood.

Here, as long as you can break out, being a billionaire is not a problem at all.

And this movie should be regarded as the highest-paid movie that Chen Qiming has received in recent years. (His own investment does not count).

At the same time, his salary is currently the highest among Asian actors, including all actors in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The news that Chen Qiming received a salary of US$6 million in Hollywood also spread to Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This incident really caused a stir.

It makes many people jealous.

Many people called Chen Qiming to ask if his salary was true.

Just like Jet Li.

Ever since his wife Li Zhi lost a lot of money in business, Jet Li has been filming movies to pay back the money.

Recently, his contract with Yongsheng is about to end, and it is said that the Xiang family intends to let him go to Hollywood.

Regarding this point, Chen Qiming has some guesses.

The plates at Yongsheng have become smaller and smaller in recent years.

Stephen Chow and Wong Jing left, and Andy Lau also officially ended his contract with Yongsheng in the middle of last year.

Jet Li seems to have only one or two movies left in his contract with them.

The departure of a large number of pillars has caused Yongsheng's position in the film and television industry to decline significantly.

In addition, I heard that Boss Xiang is planning to change his career to gambling, but all the money has gone there and he won’t be able to make blockbusters.

Therefore, Yongsheng is already considering quitting.

When he was about to quit, Jet Li wanted to leave early.

The Xiang family and his wife enjoyed working with him.

Therefore, they plan to let him go, and as for the remaining two movies, they plan to wait until Jet Li becomes famous in Hollywood before filming.

By then, you may still earn a lot, but that’s not necessarily the case.

(End of this chapter)