Actors start from the college entrance examination

Chapter 441 The Secret
This is the first time that Su Ze has benefited a lot from the real theme of Hong Kong Island police and robbers. It is amazing to experience the scene of his son's yearning for himself.

What is a genre film?
In Su Ze's view, filmmakers have accumulated a lot of experience through trial and error in a certain type of film, and apply this experience in actual shooting to reduce the cost of trial and error and form an assembly line product that can be repeatedly produced.

Practice makes perfect!

For example, in a road movie, after a lot of experiments, the screenwriter found that the most effective character relationship setting is two people, one is brainless and the other is unhappy.

Putting two people in one car will make the plot look good without much design. Watching "Lost in Thailand", "Tang Detective" or even the Oscar-winning "Green Book" is basically a routine.

This is the genre film experience accumulated by the predecessors, and future generations can just imitate it directly, saving time and effort, and no deception.

The reason why Hong Kong cops and gangsters are so well filmed is that, to put it bluntly, they filmed a lot in the early years.How to move the camera position, how to move the actors, how to set up the blasting, how to cooperate with the environment...

There is a very mature plan, which is based on experience.If you shoot like this, the audience will be happy, and if you shoot like that, the audience will not be stimulated. Over time, these directors who shoot police and gangster films know how to shoot to keep the audience happy, which is commonly known as the whole process without peeing.

It also explains Su Ze's confusion for a long time, why the mainland wants money and people, but the filming is not good?

These so-called experience can be solved with money, and moving this team over will solve part of the problem, but the most difficult problem to solve is actually another problem: the aesthetic system.

Mong Kok, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon Walled City, colorful lights, minibuses, ferries...

Food stalls with bewitching kids, undercover rooftops, long stairs, cramped buildings, dim green corridor lights, old-fashioned elevators that need sliding doors, dirty back alleys...

This is a very important visual element of Hong Kong-produced police and gangster films.

It makes people feel that crimes can breed in these places, and you think it is very right, not only because the director is very good at shooting, but also because your brain has formed a thinking pattern, as long as you see these elements, you feel that the taste is right.

Terrain difference is very important!

This is a sentence summed up by Lin Chaoxian.

Because an important method in police and gangster movies is the chase scene, and if the chase scene is to be successful, it needs to use the terrain to make the protagonist jump up and down.

Why was South Korea able to directly copy the Hong Kong Island model back then, and even some films came out of the blue in the later period?

The key reason is that Seoul is also a naturally uneven metropolis. Many caves are built on hillsides, coupled with extremely irregular residential buildings of varying heights, which made the director's pursuit scenes promising.

On the contrary, in the first-tier cities in the mainland, except for subways and commercial buildings, which can play tricks, other than running in a straight line or running in a straight line, it is boring.

So look at Chongqing.

Su Ze thinks it's not that mainland directors don't know how to make gangster films, but that mainland directors haven't formed a large enough scale in this genre.

It's hard not to name a few directors who are good at shooting cops and gangsters. You say five hundred, and up to now there is only one White Night Chase.

Xin Yukun?Strictly speaking, it is a crime theme, basically there are no popular scenes, and it all reflects social issues, so it is easy to win awards, but the box office has not been very high.

Of course, this kind of subject matter is too risky in the mainland, and many experiences of Hong Kong Island cannot be directly applied mechanically, and the aesthetic styles of the two parties are not completely compatible.

For example, if you are filming a group of gangsters robbing a bank in a shootout in Lujiazui, will the audience believe it?
Be funny!

After all, it lacks the support of realistic logic. In fact, there are no so-called gangsters robbing banks on the street in Hong Kong Island, but long-term indoctrination has led the audience to believe it habitually?

After this cooperation, Su Ze decided that simply imitating 100% would be a dead end!
The gangster film is a genre that requires both cultural background and realistic logic.In the past few years, many new directors have filmed police and criminal crimes, and nine out of ten are imitating memories of murder.

The result is often that Dong Shi smiles, because many local elements of others cannot be directly applied to our context, and the final filming makes people look very fake.

Su Ze feels that the ideal mainland police and gangster film in the future should be a director who digs deep into various elements in his hometown and integrates him into his own movies.

In recent years, in addition to Chongqing, Northeast China is also an important filming location for crime suspense. Su Ze, the undocumented crime, liked it very much. It can be regarded as the most extreme regional element.

Especially the use of ice and snow, the grasp of the state of the characters, and the art setting of the scene make the audience feel very textured and real.

The director is a native of Northeast China.

There are also major life events, although they are not about the police and robbers, but the reason is the same. If Liu Jiangjiang is not a local, if he does not have more than ten years of experience in the funeral industry, Mo Sanmei will not be able to stand up.

There is also Manslaughter, which has the highest box office of its kind. The director is a Malay. Although it was filmed in Thailand, the culture is basically the same. Because the director's growth process and environment make him feel natural about these elements, which is very important.

The two collaborations gave Su Ze a deep understanding of Hong Kong Island movies. Many things cannot be described in words. It is a subtle connection between people.

From the very beginning of the bloody duo and the true nature of the hero, this kind of confrontation between the identities of the police and the gangsters, but also endowing them with a certain emotional connection, highlights the contradictory plot is very advanced.

The so-called police and gangsters are just shells, as long as they are opposites, it can be police and gangsters, teachers and students, parents and children, bosses and subordinates...

They are all opposing identities, but the police and gangsters are one of the strongest, and the contradictions cannot be reconciled. With the integration of various hot scenes, the audience will never tire of it.

This kind of strong identity opposition, and then insert a kind of interconnected emotion, the dramatic contradiction will come out.

If it was changed to a game of great powers or an international situation, even the director of Hong Kong Island would not be able to shoot it!
On the contrary, this kind of delicate and soft emotions between people is the best. After all, Hong Kong Island is too small, and people are crowded together. Back then, there was no money, no people, and no venues.

We can only try our best to use resources, so the films made by local directors are often focused on one person or a small group, and those that pass are the so-called genre films.

The great thing is seeing the world in a square inch.

So far, what Su Ze appreciates most is their sensitivity, which is an innate unique history and status. When growing up, it is unnatural to pay attention to the people in the city and their emotions.

The low-level little people photographed are the best!

(End of this chapter)