China Entertainment 2000.

Chapter 245 God’s will plays tricks on people

"Da da da"

The roar was deafening.

Caesar turned around in shock. On the smoky river in the distance, a helicopter slowly appeared and disappeared.

Before the orangutans could react, a hail of bullets came.

Blank bombs wreaked havoc on the road surface and steel cables of the Jiangyin Bridge. It was not until sufficient footage was collected from multiple camera positions that the director's return instructions were heard over the intercom.

In front of the monitor, Jiang Liu's eyes scanned the images from multiple angles like lasers. He saw that there were no gangsters, the actors' performances were acceptable, and the blank bullets kept at a safe distance of seven meters did not splash or hurt anyone. He couldn't help but sigh. He stood up and clapped with a smile.

After deploying and simulating for a whole week, the helicopter debut was finally completed.

"Director Ming, thank you for your help. We have to shoot a take-off shot of the helicopter later. I will trouble Director Ming then."

Jiang Liu happily extended his hand to Ming Hong, the director of 81 Film Studio.

"As partners, we should help each other."

Ming Hong didn't show any arrogance, she smiled and shook Jiang Liu's hand.

He has been on the set for a few days, and has been staying with the director team for a few days. He has seen the shooting techniques, techniques, and lens language of the director team headed by Jiang Liu, and he has been deeply touched.

Jiang Liu is worthy of being a first-tier, unique commercial film director in China.

His shooting style is not only full of imagination, but also uses new technologies in the Hollywood film industry.

Just like the scene he had just finished filming, he was asked to think about how to stitch together the rest of the plot, but he racked his brains and couldn't figure it out.

Looking back at Jiang Liu, he looked relaxed and confident.

Among the major domestic directors, Zhang Yimou has been making clichéd and nondescript martial arts movies one after another in recent years.

Feng Dapao's movies are commercialized.

But the biggest feature of his commercial films is probably the successful placement of advertisements in the films.

In recent days, "A World Without Thieves" has been widely promoted. The total investment is 3000 million yuan, but the advertising placement is as high as 4000 million yuan. The movie has already made back the cost, and everyone is arrogant.

Compared with these two people, the youngest Jiang Liu is bolder and more energetic, and is obviously at the forefront of Chinese films and directors.

Minghong secretly commented on the affairs of several domestic directors, but Jiang Liu didn't know. He was busy urging the makeup staff to touch up makeup and talking to the actors.

The scene on the Jiangyin Bridge is the last scene in the movie.

The plot is about Caesar leading the orangutans to escape from the research institute, run out of the city, and want to continue across the bridge into the forest.

However, because the head of the institute successfully escaped the clutches of the orangutan, he called the police and attracted a large number of police. In the end, the two parties met on the bridge.

In order to cause unnecessary trouble, the Biological Research Institute in the script was replaced by a foreign-funded enterprise called Eagle Sauce.

The head of the Biological Research Institute was also replaced by a foreign actor.

Before Jiang Liu changed the script, he specially asked someone to investigate whether there were any foreign-funded research institutes in China at this time.

The ending shocked him. Not only were there, but there were many. CJ Group, the parent company of CJ Entertainment, with which he has maintained close cooperation, has a biological research institute in Liaocheng.

He doesn't need to have any psychological burden when changing the script.

"No!"

"Come again."

"No!"

"Louder, come again."

"No!"

In front of Caesar, played by Wang Baoqiang, Jiang Liu frowned: "You were raised by humans and have feelings for humans, but you are dissatisfied with the captivity of orangutans by humans, so when you saw the silverback gorilla dragging the mounted police off the horse, you asked Only when he kills someone will he stop him."

"It's really hard to express this feeling. You should be more angry."

"Why? Because Caesar's ideological level is already very high, and he realized early on that apes and humans should coexist peacefully."

"Director, I understand." Wang Baoqiang grinned and touched his eyes carefully.

His makeup is such a test of one's willpower.

Two specially made animal-skin-like costumes, the hoods covering his head, hands and feet, were sewn with a lot of hair, making them uncomfortable to wear and smelling very strong. The exposed eye sockets, chin, etc. were either coated with unknown liquid, filled, or covered with thin hair. When the wind blew, the hair moved, making it unbearably itchy.

It takes four or five hours to do makeup every day.

"Don't move, your makeup is so difficult to apply." Wang Baoqiang's personal makeup artist took out his makeup tools angrily.

"Sister Qiu, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Jiang Liu comforted the two of them and said, "There's no need to touch up. It's not a close-up shot. You can't see such a small flaw. Hurry up and finish filming this section. The bridge will be opened to traffic later."

The makeup of "Apes" is bound to have flaws.

No matter how great your makeup skills are, the special effects will never be as perfect. Action shots will expose more problems, so Jiang Liu is mentally prepared.

"Be strong, think about it, do it again, just say "no", it's not that difficult. If you can't feel the inner anger of the character, just think about the anger in your heart when you were bullied as a child; or as an extra in Beijing Film Studio, The anger that ignited inside me when I saw the casting director’s disdainful gaze.”

Wang Baoqiang said naively: "I was not angry when I was a group actor. I felt unwilling to give in for a while, but soon I met my brother and joined the crew of "Marry the Right Man in the Wrong Sedan Chair" and acted in "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger." It was pretty cool. OK."

"Rough." Jiang Liu said depressedly, "You can just act out your unwillingness."

"it is good."

"Three two one, turn on the phone."

After Jiang Liu shouted, he turned on the phone and looked into Wang Baoqiang's eyes. "No!" Wang Baoqiang shouted.

Jiang Liu blinked and felt okay. He told Wang Baoqiang to be more angry. Angry at apes and humans killing each other, he hurriedly retreated and shouted: "Are all departments ready?"

"The props are ready."

"The actors are ready."

"Martial arts is in place."

"There's no problem with the makeup."

"Lighting. Lighting was added as required by the lighting director, and the equipment was set up."

"The photographer is in place and the camera is set up."

"Unrelated people exited the camera coverage."

Shen Yan, the deputy director of the crew, nodded to Jiang Liu, and Jiang Liu raised his chin to the scene reporter: "Let's start filming."

""Apes" has 52 scenes and 6 shots, five, four, three, two, one, action."

Wu Xing, who plays the policeman, squeezes the horse's belly with his legs, and the yellow-maned horse comes to the silverback gorilla played by Gao Damao.

With a "pull", Wu Xing exerted his strength instantly. Gao Da Mao jumped up high with the help of the car, threw Wu Xing off his horse, pressed him down and punched wildly. Seeing that the silverback gorilla was about to kill him, Caesar Say "no".

The silverback gorilla shook his head, panted heavily, and stood up angrily.

Jiang Liu smacked his lips.

Wang Baoqiang and Gao Damao's performances were barely above the pass mark, which made him a little at a loss. After thinking about it for a while, he frowned and said, "I barely passed, let's call it a day."

"Director, two phone calls."

Jiang Liu took the mobile phone handed over by the crew assistant: "Whose phone does it belong to?"

"Director Yan, Director Ji."

"What's going on? How's the filming of "Pirates 2" going?"

"I'm slowly polishing the shots. Tsui Hark has changed the script."

"Ah? What did he change?"

"He said it was not easy to film the actors fighting on rolling barrels, so they changed it to fighting in a cage."

Jiang Liu's eyes glazed over for a second. He changed the famous scene in "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" to use barrels. Tsui Hark was lucky and changed it back. What a trick of God.

Because of his "Pirates", Disney has delayed preparations for the sequel to "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Well, now, Tsui Hark's "Pirates 2" will give Disney another good drink.

(End of this chapter)