Director of Rebirth of Xiangjiang

Chapter 655 Preliminary preparations, getting better (seeking subscription)
After Zhao Hong's operations, the recent affairs are basically completed, but he needs to always pay attention to the pre-processing of "Dragon Inn".

This time it is also a co-production, in which the mainland provides some actors and behind-the-scenes personnel.

The director of Jingyingcheng helped to build some exterior scenes in the capital, and cast some in the mainland.

In Xiangjiang, Cheng Xiaodong is currently in charge. His "Shushan 4" has been filmed, and the main characters of "Dragon Inn" have basically been selected.

Among them, Jin Xiangyu is played by Guan Guan. She has been preparing for this role for a year. If she didn't expect the career of an actor to be a good job, and it was just a matter of personal preference, then no one would do it, especially Xiang Jiang. !

Even in the Mainland, this situation is gradually decreasing.

She has fully understood this role now, and it has become very easy to enter this role. When she was with Zhao Hong in private, her style was more bold. I don't know if she was influenced by this role, but he just enjoyed it.

Sure enough, letting his own person play this role is really the right move.

As for the role of Qiu Moyan is Qingxia, she spent no less time preparing than Guan Guan. When playing against Zhao Hong, she was full of Qiu Moyan's shadow in every move.

As for Zhou Huaian, Zhao Hong repeatedly considered using Li Lianjie. The main reason is that although Zhou Huaian played by Liang Xiaoyu is also good, he is still far behind Li Lianjie in terms of righteousness.

This kind of hero should let Li Lianjie come!

He would also secretly make up for Liang Xiaoyu.

What I want to say here is that in the original book, Zhou Huai'an is the instructor of the Imperial Army. This identity did not exist in the Ming Dynasty. This is the name of the Song Dynasty. Zhao Hong made some changes to this and became the daily chief training officer of the three major battalions in the capital. , so I feel much more comfortable after changing it.

In fact, it is more than that. In the original version, many places are not in line with the Ming Dynasty, such as clothing, official titles, etc. Zhao Hong has made a lot of changes to these.

The section "Dragon Inn" is just a story in his novel "Daming Jianghu", and Zhao Hong often understands the logic very clearly.

In fact, many Hong Kong films have such shortcomings, that is, they are not in line with history, and they have only a little understanding of many histories. This situation is not at all during this period. The main reason is that these films were shot for Southeast Asia, Wanwan and From the perspective of Xiangjiang people, they are not too familiar with history, so they don't care too much about these things. As long as the film is good-looking, it is right.

However, the mainland after the millennium is different. Many people have studied history textbooks since junior high school, so they are relatively clear about many familiar histories.

Even the costumes of each dynasty generally have an impression. At this time, it will be very bad for Xiangjiang filmmakers to remake them randomly, because their main audience has become the mainland.

They started adapting familiar ancient stories from Wu Baige's "Three Kingdoms", and then Li Rengang's trilogy of flying saucer hats directly put the label that Hong Kong Island filmmakers cannot make historical films.

In view of these things, Zhao Hong is very strict with his company, that is, as long as history is involved, it should not be fabricated, and everything must be in line with history, as for jokes and romances, it is another matter.

But as long as TV dramas and movies involve dynasties, the most improvement in clothing can be a little bit more in line with the style that modern people appreciate, but the characteristics of that dynasty must be highlighted. As for the ostentation between dynasties, it is not acceptable.

It is said that Li Lianjie knew that he was going to play the role of Zhou Huai'an just after the New Year, so he basically stayed at home after the new year to figure out the role, and did not take other roles.

He values ​​this opportunity very much. Although he is currently a first-line actor, he is still far behind Big Nose, Rong Shao, and Brother Fa.

In his opinion, the main reason is that there has not been a blockbuster movie released yet, and "Dragon Inn" obviously has a trend of blockbusters, so how can he not be cautious and cherish it?

The role of Cao Shaoqin is still played by Zhen Zidan, mainly because he interprets this role very well, and this time Zhao Hong invited Yuan Heping, the world's number one martial arts finger, as an action director, and Zhen Zidan is his Proud disciple, this counts as a favor.

For Zhao Hong, it was a smooth sailing.

Jia Ting is played by Liu Dan, the eldest of the four major stalls in the East Factory, the leader of the encirclement and suppression of Zhou Huai'an at the Longmen Inn.

Jia Ting was artificially scheming, and used a judge's pen with a thin tip and a thick round handle. It was mainly used to select acupoints and hit positions. It was an extremely dangerous and evil weapon.

Liu Dan interpreted this character very well in the original version, besides, Liu Dan is currently an old drama player of DreamWorks, so it is too unreasonable not to use him.

Lu Xiaochuan is played by Wu Qihua. Although this actor is not a big hit, he has appeared in many Hong Kong movies. He is a very good supporting actor. You may not know who he is, but as long as you mention "Judge of Life and Death" ", everyone will definitely think of that insidious bad guy litigator.

He is very bookish himself, for Lu Xiaochuan, one of the four leaders of the East Factory, who is feminine and treacherous, and Jia Ting's favorite inner eunuch, he is really easy to catch.

What I want to talk about is the actors of Yang Shangshu's pair of children, one is Xu Qing, and the other is Liu Dan's son Hawick Lau. As for the original movie, they are played by two relatively young children. Here, Zhao Hong directly modified it. , will have no effect at all.

In addition to the above-mentioned main characters, Zhao Hong, who personally watched, other less important roles, Zhao Hong, are directly handed over to the casting director. Currently, the assistant director of this movie is Li Huimin, who is still the director of the original version, but in this version he There is no chance.

He himself was the director of Li's TV station before, and became the director of DreamWorks after DreamWorks acquired Li's. He has produced many popular TV series over the years.

Afterwards, he switched to the film industry, and the films he shot were barely passable, quite satisfactory, and he was a good executive talent. His biggest advantage was his obedience.

This is what Zhao Hong likes. He plans to leave all the chores in the early stage of his film to him, and it is troublesome for him to keep changing his deputy.

In addition to paying attention to the movie, Zhao Hong spent the rest of her time writing the novel "The Silence of the Lambs". The more she writes the book, the smoother she is.

In the early stage, certain provisions must be made for the setting of the background and the character of the characters. In this case, it is difficult to get up to speed, and you can only start writing slowly and carefully.

And once the head is opened, it will be much faster to officially enter the good state of creation.

The novel tells the story of the protagonist, Starling, who accepts the task of apprehending the perverted murderer "Buffalo Bill" from her boss.

In order to understand the psychology of the criminal, she seeks clues from the evil genius Dr. Lecter, and starts a desperate fight with this cruel murderer.

The heroine is Clarice, an intern agent of the FBI.

Starling was born in a humble family. His father was a policeman in a small town in his hometown. During a night patrol, he ran into two burglars and drug addicts and died in the line of duty.

The mother worked as a maid in a motel during the day and a cook in a cafe at night, struggling to support the family.Two years later, Starling was sent to foster care with her mother's cousin in Montana, leaving her younger siblings with her.

Starling was only ten years old at the time.My mother's cousin and her husband are ranchers, and the pasture mainly raises sheep and horses, but most of these animals have some problems, either lame or blind.

They are slaughtered to be made into glue or fertilizer, or pulled away to become dog food.

After Starling discovered all this, her childlike innocence was strongly stimulated. She wanted to save these poor animals, but what could a ten-year-old girl do?
She decides to escape from the pasture, thinking that she can take at least one animal with her - "Hannah", a mare with eye disease, which becomes her good friend after she arrives at the pasture.

One night, Starling woke up from the darkness, she heard a terrible scream.

It's the spring lambs, they're being slaughtered in the barn.Starling finally made up her mind to escape, otherwise her "Hannah" would also die.So she left the ranch and ended up in what was actually an orphanage sort of charity, the Lutheran Home.

If the screams of lambs that Starling heard in the pasture in her childhood were real, then the screams of lambs that she heard from time to time when she grew up had more symbolic meaning, representing the weak, the victim Those who symbolize the cries of these people in their helplessness.

That's where the title of the book comes from!

In this book, these weak and victims are all young women, which makes Starling seem more painful.

She imagined their situation before they were alive, and recalled the horrors of their victims, and finally everything was condensed into one voice: the lamb was screaming, screaming, screaming!

It was a calling, an irresistible drive, and as long as the sound continued for a day, Starling would have no peace. She would have nightmares, wake up in the middle of the night, and break into a place where bold men could smell it. A sinister place that is daunting and daunting.

Naturally, Starling succeeded in the end, and she captured and shot Buffalo Bill so she could finally "sleep deep and sweet, for the lamb was quiet".

It can be said that the whole book revolves around Starling, and the whole book feels very horrifying. The heroine dances on a tightrope, and if she is not careful, she will lose her life.

When filming the movie, the main character is Hannibal, the villain, and the heroine is only used as an interspersed plot.

(End of this chapter)