The mage in the late Qing Dynasty

"Everyone, come and see God."

Seeing this scene, the extras, assistant director, makeup artist, and supporting actors ran to tell each other.

The wind was quite strong, but fortunately Zhao Chuanxin chose to fly with the wind.

Below, Peter Grebin looked up with his mouth wide open, and saw Zhao Chuanxin holding the camera above with his mouth opening and closing.

Until Zhao Chuanxin landed, Peter Grebin pulled the reins, and then he understood why Zhao Chuanxin's mouth was opening and closing.

Because Zhao Chuanxin was cursing: "Who told you to look up? And what's wrong with your expression?"

Peter Grebin's expression was not the joy of escaping from the cage, but shock.

It is hard to imagine what the inner activities of a person who just escaped from prison are like when he rides a horse wildly, but looks up at the sky with a face full of amazement.

Peter Grebin changed his previous laziness: "I, I, I will shoot it again."

Volunteered?

Instead, Zhao Chuanxin waved his hand: "Forget it, let's just leave it at that."

It doesn't matter if the budget is increased. This is an independent film, and there is no upper limit on the funding. Even if Lao Zhao is poor, he can afford these little things.

The key is that time is tight.

On this day, Zhao Chuanxin actually shot more than 50 shots in the snow.

The others cooperated very well, even though they didn't know the script and didn't even understand what they were acting in.

They were respectful and obedient like sheep.

At night, Zhao Chuanxin returned to the Peacekeeping Bureau and found a group of people following him.

If there is anyone in this world who is not afraid of being followed, it is Zhao Chuanxin.

After he returned to the tower, he went to the third floor.

And this group of people went to the second floor, knelt on the floor, clasped their hands and prayed.

Zhao Chuanxin saw this scene through the perspective provided by the True Vision Crystal, and got up and went down to wait in the corridor at the door.

Peter Grebin walked out of the office lobby on the second floor.

He saw Zhao Chuanxin's body tremble.

Zhao Chuanxin asked him: "What are you doing?"

Peter Grebin said honestly: "Evening prayer."

"Why do you come to the Peacekeeping Bureau to pray if you don't go to church for evening prayer?"

"It's closer to God here."

Zhao Chuanxin: "..."

But on the second day, these believers were not so fanatical.

Perhaps after a night, they figured out one thing: God is unlikely to kill people openly.

But Zhao Chuanxin will.

So, Zhao Chuanxin ≠ God.

On the second day, in addition to the actors and staff, there were also many curious audiences participating in the filming.

But Zhao Chuanxin's filming plan was made by Xingyue, and efficiency was the top priority.

And Zhao Chuanxin used a non-linear way to narrate the events.

This led to the fact that no matter the actors, staff, or the audience, they didn't understand what Zhao Chuanxin was going to shoot.

At this time, film production emphasized the characteristics of stage drama and the static images.

Zhao Chuanxin completely subverted tradition.

You can question Zhao Chuanxin's directing ability, but you can't question his composition and aesthetics.

Just like the Fuxiang Tavern, it is just an ordinary building in the wilderness outside the camera, but with the frame, Shirasaka Inori, who doesn't know photography, can only exclaim: "Beautiful."

Today's filming is a fight between exiles.

Peter Grebin's lower body is unstable, his fists are weak, his movements are slow during the fight, and the supporting actors in the opposite role are sluggish.

At this time, Zhao Chuanxin was more magnanimous and demonstrated in person: "Watch it, my two steps are narrow, the back foot follows, and the body inertia is used to turn the hip to exert force, and the hook punch!"

Bang.

The sandbag was shaken violently by his punch, which shocked the spectators and frightened the listeners.

Peter Grebin scratched his head: "Sir, I can't hit with such force."

Zhao Chuanxin came to the extra: "If he can't hit with such force, then it's all up to you to set off. You are more important than him."

The extra was secretly happy: "Sir, I will do whatever you say."

"Okay, you have a wide road, and I will give you a chicken leg later."

Zhao Chuanxin pretended to hit, and the extra pretended to fall.

Zhao Chuanxin had a strong sense of proportion. He threw a punch and his fist stopped just in front of the extra's cheek.

The extra felt the wind of the punch and reacted half a beat slower: "Ouch..."

He fell with his head tilted back.

Zhao Chuanxin stopped: "Is this the Fist of the North Star? It takes three seconds to hit the ink mark before the head explodes, right?"

It can't be taught in a short time, so Peter Grebin and the extra try again to find the feeling.

The protagonist Peter Grebin turned his hip and hooked, with standard movements.

Bang.

How can he have Zhao Chuanxin's sense of proportion?

He really hit the extra with one punch.

The extra really didn't have time to react this time.

"Ah..."

The scream was very real, and you could tell it was painful just by the sound.

"Cut." Zhao Chuanxin was surprised: "It's over, it seems you are all experience-oriented."

There are many action scenes in this movie: boxing, gunfights, train hijacking, horse riding, etc.

Why is it so complicated?

Because he plans to screen this movie in Sakhalin, Japan, and all over China.

At this time, movies are completely Western for Chinese people. What they watch is the waltz of separation of wives and children, the kiss between gentlemen and chaste women, and the swimsuits of big foreign horses at the beach, etc., but not other things.

Except for the most rough and primitive "beauty", other things are incomprehensible.

Zhao Chuanxin refused to shoot a love action movie, so he had to use more explosive content to catch the eye.

Zhao Chuanxin's female secretary and makeup artist Shirasaka Kimi also has a role.

She draws water from a stream on the coast, wearing a kimono, with her hair tied behind her head with a long striped headband, and with a little buck teeth like the Showa beauty Sawaguchi Yasuko.

She stood in the rare morning sun in Sakhalin, with a fair face and red lips. Her wide kimono could not hide her beautiful figure.

Nakamura Ken scratched his head: "My Lord, what am I acting?"

"You just said with a ferocious face - I'm going to give him aconite."

When Peter Grebin acted out the scene of being poisoned, Nakamura Ken realized that Zhao Chuanxin asked him to play a child with a vicious heart.

"My Lord, this is unfair." Nakamura Ken went to Zhao Chuanxin angrily, feeling cheated: "I acted so much like myself, but you didn't give me a chicken leg."

So this is what you said.

Zhao Chuanxin was relieved.

"..." Zhao Chuanxin patted him on the shoulder: "Good boy, your role is the best. It doesn't matter if you get a chicken leg now, but you just need to wait until the movie is released so that you don't get beaten to death."

Nakamura Ken: "..."

There are two scenes that are the most difficult.

They are all gunfights.

In one scene, two sets of cameras were filmed at the same time.

One shot from a low angle, and one shot from the side.

Peter Grebin fell to the ground, holding a gun and shooting at a Russian soldier who was rushing towards him with a bayonet.

The bullet was a blank, Zhao Chuanxin used fresh chicken blood to fill the blood bag, and used a micro-bomb to explode the plasma.

"You jump up, and when Peter Grebin shoots, you pull the string to detonate and jump back at the same time, so that it looks like you were shot and flew away."

"Sir, I have seen people who were shot, they will not be shot away, but there will be a hole as big as a bowl in their body."

"Idiot, I have fought my way out of a sea of ​​blood and corpses, how can I not understand this? This is called violent aesthetics, which is to exaggerate the effect."

Five bags of plasma were wasted, and the chicken blood was coagulated, but the effect was not taken.

Zhao Chuanxin said with a gloomy face: "Don't think I didn't see it! Are you doing it on purpose, so that I can kill more chickens and eat more chicken at noon?"

"Absolutely not." Everyone said in unison.

Zhao Chuanxin sneered: "I'll help you perform this time. You should detonate the blood bag first, and I'll help you complete the rest of the action."

He originally wanted to use a rope to pull from behind to assist, but he didn't know how to make special effects without the rope.

When Peter Grebin fired a blank.

Bang.

The extra was familiar with detonating the blood plasma, and Zhao Chuanxin used his secondary limbs to drag his collar from behind.

The extra first flew backwards for one meter, and then his upper body landed on the ground first, falling hard.

Fortunately, there was thick snow on the ground.

The extra stood up and was confused: "What happened?"

Another play is difficult because it requires a group of people to play Russian and Japanese soldiers.

What if there are really not enough people to support the big scene?

Zhao Chuanxin went to the North Island and South Island Pass to move people.

Real Russian soldiers, real Japanese soldiers.

"Sir Zhao, if we leave our post without permission, we will be punished."

"No problem, I will take your superiors with me."

"..."

"But what if the Japanese/Russians attack?"

"Anyone who blocks Zhao from filming will die!"

"That's fine."

If there are conditions, use them. If there are no conditions, Zhao Chuanxin will create filming conditions.

It took half a month to complete the filming.

Zhao Chuanxin lay on the recliner, watching through his glasses, while Xingyue manipulated the black puppet craftsmen and puppet servants to edit the film, and it took two days to complete the film.

The name of the film is "Sakhalin Bitter Journey".

There are two ways of recording, one is simultaneous recording and the other is post-recording.

Zhao Chuanxin asked the actors to make up the recording in the post-recording, and add special effects sounds by the way.

Zhao Chuanxin asked Xingyue to copy and make subtitles.

He went to the newly built, larger, unopened tavern next to the Fuxiang Tavern for decoration.

This is the temporary screening room of the Peacekeeping Bureau, which must be ready before the Russian Christmas on January 7.

Not only the Peacekeeping Bureau, but also the two northern and southern regions all knew that Zhao Chuanxin was filming a movie.

Everyone looked for clues about the movie in previous newspapers and magazines.

After all, in the desolate Sakhalin, movies are too far away.

Various rumors about movies spread like wildfire.

January 7th became the most anticipated day in the artistic desert of Sakhalin.

At the same time, Zhao Chuanxin's cinemas in Lugang Town, Lubin Prefecture, Hankou, Hong Kong Island, Ao Island, Shanghai Beach, Tianjin Wei and other places all hung up promotional posters.

Zhao Chuanxin crossed the Tatar Strait and headed south, first to Shanghai Beach, then to Hong Kong Island and Ao Island, traveling 4,500 kilometers, spending 5 hours on the sea, and a day to go to various places.

He did not stay and was immediately transferred to Hankou.

Somehow, some time ago, someone paid for him to publish advertisements to promote his heroic deeds, and all newspapers had them.

It forced his faith to surge.

Zhao Chuanxin could not figure out whether the assist was an enemy or a friend.

He has many fans, including some who are too rich to have much time.

Two of his registered disciples are such fans.

He has more enemies, but the Japanese are the first to be killed by such a despicable and sinister style, followed by the United States.

In any case, Zhao Chuanxin is praised, but it is difficult to kill him, and Zaifeng's tricks are not enough.

It is just right for transmission.

Hankou, Tianshangfei, Yanbian, Lugang Town, Lubinfu, Zhao Chuanxin went around a lot.

He sent copies of film and new projectors, speakers, and promotional posters to movie theaters in various places.

At the same time, he discussed the release date with various places: January 7.

The rest is the spontaneous promotion of movie theaters in various places, mostly by spending money on newspaper advertisements.

"Report": The screening of Shanghai-Shanghai Internet Cinema is fair - the cinema's new film "Travel in Sakhalin" is directed by Zhao Chuanxin, who is well-known at home and abroad for a long time. The film lasts for 53 minutes. In the film, there are beautiful and graceful women, and some extremely vicious Rakshasa soldiers. They are in danger of boarding the train, are frightened by the gunfire, are capable of fighting, or rush out on angry horses... This is the first film in the world. A color film, a sound film, hundreds of extremely exquisite shots...

Overall, this promotion is innovative, but not much.

Why?

First of all, there is the color. Previous short films also had color versions, but of course they were artificially colored, which was very fake. What was outrageous was that the character images had rough edges, just like the special effects that later generations would see with 50 cents.

The second is the talkies. Nowadays, many movies have artificial soundtracks, narration, or musical instruments, and they can be called talkies.

Then there's the content.

Newspaper advertisements can be mistaken for a collection of short films, so there are many content items.

And it was highlighted that there was a charming and graceful girl...

But there are two points that are very attractive.

The first is that the movie is 53 minutes long, and the second is that the director of this movie is actually Zhao Chuanxin.

Zhao Chuanxin is now a household name.

Did Zhao Tuzi switch to making movies?

Then you have to join in the fun.

The ticket price for a movie at Internet cinemas across the country is one dime.

Of course, this is a third-class seat ticket price, because the cinema is divided into first, second and third-class seats.

The price of silver rises and falls sharply, so the ratio of copper yuan, copper coins, small oceans, oceans, and silver is not fixed and changes frequently.

But Lubin Mansion's money is very stable.

This is an important part of Lubinfu Bank's outward expansion.

If you want to go to the theater, then it's most convenient to go to Lubinfu Bank to exchange banknotes and buy tickets.

The general ticket price for a screening room in Sakhalin is 10 kopecks.

By this time, nickelodeon theaters had emerged in the United States.

Because the ticket price was 5 cents in nickels, it was called the Nickelodeon Theater.

Back in 1905, there were only a few nickelodeon theaters.

By 1906, there were more than 100 nickelodeon theaters in Chicago alone. In 1907, there were as many as 2,000 nickelodeon theaters in the United States.

At this time, there were almost seven or eight thousand families.

There are so few theaters in China that Zhao Chuanxin's Internet cinema is almost the most advanced professional cinema at this time.

The foreign devil Remas has rented and purchased new movies from the French EMI record company in the past two years. He rented a small room in the Shanghai Tanhua Club Tea House as a screening room and hired people to trumpet and trumpet at the door to attract customers.

Huahui Tea House is famous in Shanghai, located on Fourth Avenue in the downtown area.

The teahouse is divided into two floors. The upstairs is for customers to drink tea and smoke; the downstairs is a playground with a billiard room, Western view, fun mirror, and chess and card room.

After all, the Huahui Restaurant has a large flow of customers, which makes Remus a lot of money.

But at this time, the film is all nitrocellulose and is easily damaged.

Dozens of Remas's short films have been played for a long time, and gradually become fragmented and incomplete. The images are scattered and often cut off during the screening.

But the audience still came in droves.

Remas picked up "The Report" and couldn't help but sneer when he saw the Internet cinema advertisement.

That movie theater was built a long time ago and even hired people, but it never opened and became a joke in Shanghai.

Now it is suddenly announced that the movie will be shown.

Colleagues are friends. When Remas saw the grandeur of the Internet Cinema, even though he didn't go in, his eyes turned red with envy.

In comparison, he looks like a street performer walking around.

"Damn it, do you think you can make money by using Zhao Chuanxin as a gimmick? Zhao Chuanxin knows nothing about movies? He is also a director. Can any cat or dog be a director?"

In fact, there are many foreign devils who love movies, not only Remus, but also Galen Baike, Kobuchev, etc...

At this time, the few screening halls in the country were basically monopolized by foreigners, both in terms of film distribution and theater construction.

It is inevitable that Zhao Chuanxin, a troublemaker, will make these foreigners unhappy.

On January 7, Remas took the money to exchange money at the Lubinfu Bank, which was originally empty but had a small amount of banknotes to exchange.

He held the beautifully printed dime banknotes, touched the texture of the banknotes, and wondered: What kind of paper does Lubinfu Bank use? How can you still feel the lines?

When he arrived at the Internet Cinema, he took another look at the poster.

On the poster was a handsome Russian wearing a fur hat, aiming a gun.

There are many words on it, but the biggest word is undoubtedly - Director: Zhao Chuanxin.

These big characters have translations in Chinese, English, Russian, French, German and other languages.

Afraid that others won’t see it.

As for the introduction of Peter Grabbin, it was so small that no one would take a second look at it.

None of this is important. What is important is that there are long queues outside the Internet cinema.

Good guy, no need to beat gongs and drums, there are so many people waiting to watch the movie?

How much money do you need to earn?

A ball of fire ignited in Remas's jealous chest: I want to build a cinema too!

He waited and waited, and the queue got longer.

Fortunately he came early.

He saw that the people were in high spirits, talking a lot, and their faces were full of merit, and he couldn't help but scratch his heart with a hundred claws.

Finally it was his turn.

Remas arranged his suit and hat, walked forward with a civilized stick, and bought the tickets first.

The movie ticket has a pattern of a crescent wrapped around a six-pointed star printed on it, and the text reads: Produced by Xingyue Film Company.

"Hmph, it's all so fancy, let me see what kind of shit movie you make."

When we got inside and entered the waiting room, there were stalls selling drinks, popcorn, dried sweet potatoes, dried fruits, newspapers and magazines.

There were no shelled snacks like melon seeds and peanuts here.

When we got to the waiting room, we had to wait for another round of audiences to come out, during which time many people went to buy snacks and drinks.

Butter sweet popcorn is more expensive than plain popcorn, hot tea is more expensive than herbal tea, illustrated magazines are more expensive than newspapers, and frosted sweet potatoes are more expensive than plain sweet potatoes...

Remas bought butter sweet popcorn, looked around, and was proud to find that the small popcorn actually increased his value invisibly - everyone else bought tasteless popcorn.

After waiting for another hour, the audience came out one after another, each with excitement on their faces.

Remas didn't understand what they were discussing.

Finally it was his turn to enter.

Some ticket inspectors would cut the movie ticket into a section before letting people in.

The ticket inspector asked him, "Sir, can you understand Chinese?"

"Yes."

"Sir, smoking is not allowed in the third-class area, and littering is not allowed. Please take the garbage out of the viewing room, otherwise there will be corresponding penalties."

When Remas heard that smoking was not allowed, he was like, "Why? What if I must smoke?"

The ticket inspector pointed to the patrolman in uniform: "Did you see the words on his clothes?"

Remas looked.

There were three words on the uniform: Judgment Group.

The ticket inspector had a polite but unflinching smile on his face: "Have you heard of the Judgment Group of Xuantian Sect in Hong Kong Island? If you insist on your own way, the Judgment Group is proficient in two skills-reasoning and fists and guns."

Remas cursed, but dared not say anything else.

In coastal and port areas, all foreigners have heard of the Judgment Group.

It is one of the sharpest minions of the Far East Butcher Zhao Chuanxin.

It really never pampers foreigners!

At this time, many theaters that can play movies have a simple environment and poor hygiene.

It was probably just a few rafters of a dilapidated house, with a curtain hanging on the door, a few rotten wooden chairs, foul smell and pungent cigarettes.

The audience was of very low quality, noisy, and people were yelling and flirting.

Some of the more particular ones would rush out soon after entering.

The more exaggerated ones recalled later: "It was like a trip to hell!"

When Remas entered the screening room, he was shocked to find that the rows of chairs inside were neat, clean, and brand new.

Like a staircase, one layer higher than the other, so that people in the back row could see clearly, like the Colosseum in Rome.

This is so professional.

The ground is flat and clean, no wonder smoking is not allowed.

He also heard the service staff in the second-class and first-class seats say: "This area is equipped with ashtrays, please cooperate and flick the ashes into the ashtrays. Do not smoke opium, otherwise you will be sent to the police station. If you resist arrest, you will have to rely on your own luck, and your life may be in danger in the hands of the judgment committee."

Lemas: "..."

I am so awesome, you are threatening the audience?

Suddenly, the lights in the projection room went out and fell into a huge darkness.

The screen showed a picture.

Lemas was shocked: "Wang Defa... How did you do this?"