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Chapter 72 You shouldn't

"Hahaha!" Zhang Shuping laughed.

"What a coincidence! I have a collection of several fabrics here. They are all my accumulation over the past ten years. I didn't expect that I could still use them."

"Then you have to give it up, Shuping. Price is not an issue."

"Don't worry, it's rare to work with a crew that is so dedicated. I'll sell it to you, Director Huang, at the price I paid for it, taking inflation into account."

"Oh, there's one more thing." Zhang Shuping said, "These must be customized in different shops. If we ask one craftsman to do it, it may take him a year to finish it."

"If we don't let the same person do it, the quality may not be guaranteed!"

“At the latest, it will take me one and a half months to receive the finished product.” Huang Ze is not someone like the Sunglasses King with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Time is also very important when filming. He thinks that if it’s done by different people, the audience won’t be able to tell the difference.

"Then we have to do it separately. Fortunately, the quality impact shouldn't be too great."

"You should know something about the cheongsam shops in Hong Kong, right?" Huang Ze asked, "Shall we go get it custom-made today?"

"Okay, come back to my house first, I'll get the fabric."

"Let's go!" Huang Ze, Gong Xing and Zhang Shuping immediately walked towards the door. When they reached the door, Huang Ze stopped and looked at Zhou Huimin, "Do you want to act?"

"acting?"

"The second female lead, the male lead's wife, but her face is not shown, only her back."

"Okay!"

Although she couldn't show her face, Zhou Huimin was delighted at the thought of being able to film and nodded repeatedly.

Hearing this sweet voice, Gong Xing felt a sense of crisis and his eyes fell on Zhou Huimin's face. He saw that she was still young, wearing a pair of black-framed glasses, and her face was not very pretty.

The sense of crisis in my heart dissipated instantly.

At the same time, I felt a strong sense of self-blame. What's wrong with me? Why am I so suspicious?

If he was that kind of person, he would have distanced himself from me long ago when the matter became widely known. How could he treat me like this?

But I actually doubted him.

No, no, no!

……

They went to Zhang Shuping's house to get his collection of fabrics, and ran to each tailor shop.

Finally, the sizes of the twenty-four cheongsams for the female lead and several cheongsams for the second female lead were measured.

As for the production, it was handed over to more than a dozen shops, and the delivery must be made within one month.

Because the tailor shops we went to were all relatively high-end, the cheongsam alone cost me more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars.

This day was almost spent on this.

The next day was still busy.

Huang Ze asked someone to find a female model and invited her directly to his home.

"let's start."

Huang Ze sat in the living room, watching the model teach Gong Xian, who was wearing high heels, how to walk like a model.

"One Dada, Two Dada."

"Hey, pay attention to the rhythm."

After watching it twice, Huang Ze wanted to cover his face.

My dear mother!
Although I wouldn't fall down while walking, I just didn't fall down. My body seemed too stiff when I walked.

Compared with the swaying figure of Zhang Manyu in "In the Mood for Love" in my mind, the difference is quite big.

However, Zhang Manyu's Manshen is still a vase at this moment, and is even in the early stage of being a vase, so he cannot be used.

Besides, who made him agree to make a movie starring Gong Xing?

I can only hope that I can get close to it after practicing for a month.

When the time comes, just shoot a few more times and you will always be able to get decent shots.

After watching for a long time, Huang Ze ran away.

It's not like he's running away, he's even busier. There are too many things that Huang Ze needs to confirm in person.

For supporting roles, as long as the supporting role shows its face, it must be someone uglier, just like casting Jiang Wen in my movie “Good Will Hunting”.

Beauty and ugliness require comparison. As long as the faces that are shown are not that good-looking, the appearance of the male and female protagonists can be more highlighted.

This will also make everyone feel that only the male and female protagonists can have feelings for each other, and no one else is worthy.

This allows the audience to temporarily abandon their values ​​while watching the movie and forget that it is an extramarital affair film.

I won’t talk about the filming location.

A smaller one.

For example, the color, the color of the curtains, the color of the sofa when dining.

There is also a mirror.

There are a lot of mirrors in In the Mood for Love.

On the one hand, crowded spaces need mirrors to enhance the sense of space and change.

On the other hand, the structure of the film's story is full of mirror images and blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy.

For example, when the two people moved at the beginning, the male and female protagonists had a lot of mirroring relationships.

This mirroring is also used in character settings.

It looks like there are two actors, but because they play their two cheating partners in the plot, in fact the two actors need to play four roles.

Zhou Muyun, Su Lizhen's husband, Su Lizhen, Zhou Muyun's wife.

These are four relationships between four characters.

Therefore, a mirror is essential.

Even the rice cooker was a relatively new thing even for Hong Kong Island at that time, but it represented a lot in the film.

With the advent of rice cookers, women can be freed and have more time.

Zhou Muyun's wife cheated on him after she bought the rice cooker.

After the landlady pointed out that Su Lizhen had cheated on her husband, the first thing she did was to pick up the rice cooker and start cooking.

If I don't keep an eye on it myself, I'll always worry about mistakes.

When they arrived at Xinghai Film and Television, Liang Jiahui and two assistant directors were each given a script.

"Jiahui, you should figure out the role carefully."

"Jiawei Zhenwei, read the script first, then we have to start preparations."

"Okay." The three of them started watching together.

Liu Zhenwei was the first to finish reading it and couldn't help wiping his sweat.

This script is too jumpy and not funny enough. If the Hong Kong audiences can applaud, he will walk on his head while standing upside down in the future.

"Boss, the box office in Hong Kong..."

"I know that the box office in Hong Kong is not the main source of income for our film. Our goal is to sell the copyright to the three major European companies around the world. I have already gone through this path."

"Oh oh." Liu Zhenwei wanted to say that he felt it was unlikely that anyone would buy such a story.

But thinking that this was the first time we worked together and no one knew each other well, I decided to just wait and see how things developed, so I didn’t say anything.

"I think it's pretty good." Wang Jiawei pushed his glasses up. "This story is quite interesting."

"Besides, film is not just the art of scripts, it is ultimately the art of light and shadow and a combination of other aspects."

"If you only look at Spielberg's Jaws script, can you believe that the film was a global hit and earned $470 million?"

"Director Huang, I have a question." Liang Jiahui raised his head and smacked his lips. "This Zhou Muyun, is he really cheating, or is this a form of revenge against Su Lizhen? Is there a feeling of revenge in it?"

"Revenge?" Liu Zhenwei touched his head. "It doesn't make sense. Your wife cheated with Su Lizhen's husband, so why would you take revenge on Su Lizhen, the victim? If you want to take revenge, take revenge on that couple."

"Besides, they both eloped later. It's obvious that the other party doesn't care about Su Lizhen, so it won't have any effect of revenge at all."

"You can understand it as revenge at first, but it turned into love later." Huang Ze smiled and looked at Liang Jiahui, "Why do you think he was seeking revenge? And which words gave him the urge to seek revenge?"

(End of this chapter)