1993 My China Entertainment Age

Chapter 27 A director who pays attention to excess!

After nearly a month of filming from the start of filming until now, Jiang Wen was so confident that he decided to start filming the scene "Ma Xiaojun sends his father off".

This scene in the script "Sunny Day" only contains six short lines. In actual filming, Jiang Wen used 20 tanks, more than 10 aircraft, and thousands of people.

It took a week to figure it out, and it was very expensive.

During this period, Jiang Wen thought the color of the plane was wrong and asked someone to re-spray the color of the plane.

The entire scene was nearly four hours long, and the footage used in the movie was only over three minutes (the opening scene in "Sunny Days")

Gu Changwei felt that Jiang Wen was too extravagant and felt sorry for the film being wasted so much, so he said to him: "You take so many pictures, but they will all be cut in the end."

Jiang Wen didn't care so much, because as soon as he closed his eyes, he knew the picture and sound he wanted, and he must restore the image in his mind to reality without any deviation.

For example, there was no one in the Yanjing Hutong in the 1970s. He could see the other side from one end and there was no garbage on the ground. He had to find an equally clean alley.

Let’s talk about the actor Wang Xueqi who plays Ma Xiaojun’s father Ma Wenzhong. After filming all his scenes, he bought a bunch of Chinese toons at the Yanjing wet market and went to Guangzhou to visit his friends. They had already walked to the airport when he was called back by a phone call to reshoot.

, the color of the clothes is wrong.

In Jiang Wen's memory, in that era, there were three years of new and three years of old, and another three years of mending and mending, so clothes needed to be worn out.

Wang Xueqi asked Jiang Wen dissatisfied: "I bought so many toon, what should I do if they rot?"

Jiang Wen immediately replied: "That's easy to handle. We have so many chores, let them go to the vegetable market and do the cutting!"

In the scene where Ma Xiaojun jumped off the chimney, Jiang Wen felt that the color of the chimney was wrong, and he did not escape the fate of being painted.

Everyone feels very strange and thinks this is too wasteful of people and money.

However, Director Jiang still retains his humanity, so in order to save money, the chimney was only painted halfway.

Therefore, until many years later, the big chimney in Prince Gong's Mansion was still two colors, half gray and half red.

Faced with everyone's doubts, Jiang Wen gave this explanation - "I think everything is right, but the color of something is wrong, which means there is a picture in my mind."

The most cruel thing was a photo hanging in Milan's house. Ma Xiaojun lost his soul when he saw it.

In the original work, this is the sharpest point in Wang Shuo's writing: "It is because of the photos that I fell into the infinite beautiful imagination and obsession with Milan."

In Jiang Wen's opinion, this photo was so beautiful and important, but he couldn't capture the taste no matter how hard he took it.

Therefore, in order to take the breathtaking photo of Milan in the original work, Jiang Wen used 4 volumes of film (about 40 minutes) to take the photo, which is equivalent to taking a total of 23,040 photos, and then selected one from them.

The film ratio is as high as 23040:1!

In the opinion of the main creative staff of the film crew, director Jiang Wen is too particular, and it can even be said that he is too particular.

Every line of dialogue, every frame, every color, every sound, from the design of the lens to the sound of the soundtrack, Jiang Wen will exhaust everything and make it perfect.

Jiang Wen's particularity is due to his personality. Secondly, since his debut, he has worked with Xie Jin and Xie Fei, the best directors in China, so he knows what is best. Thirdly, when he became popular, he was catching up.

China's literary and artistic trend in the 1980s, with its attitude towards the highest point of art in everything, had a profound impact on it.

The reason why Jiang Xiaofeng joined the cast of "Sunny Days" was not only to earn the 5,000 yuan salary, but also because he sincerely wanted to learn some skills from Jiang Wen, even if it was to learn a little bit about acting or directing.

But a month after joining the crew, Jiang Xiaofeng realized belatedly that Jiang Wen was really a very paranoid and particular filmmaker, a perfectionist who pursued the ultimate. Without that patience and determination,

It’s really not that easy to learn, and most people can’t learn it at all.

Of course, Jiang Xiaofeng has not gained nothing during the two months he has been on the set of "Sunny Days". He has indeed learned a lot of acting skills and experience.

However, as the second male lead in the movie "Sunny Days", most of the time Jiang Xiaofeng spent on the set waiting for scenes was very boring and boring.

From the beginning of the secret training in the army's car regiment to more than a month after the filming started, Jiang Xiaofeng has turned over the script and even knows the lines by heart.

In fact, Jiang Xiaofeng can tolerate boredom and boring. What he can't accept the most is the waste of time, especially after the show, there is often nothing to do.

Of course, the main reason is that Taohong won't do it. If Taohong did, Jiang Xiaofeng wouldn't feel that his time on the set of "Sunny Days" was too wasted.

Jiang Xiaofeng felt that this was not the way to go, so he took advantage of a dead afternoon to make a special trip back to the Asian Games Village, took the guitar back to the crew hotel, and prepared to continue practicing and creating.

This evening.

The hotel where "Sunny Day" stayed.

As usual, Taohong was waiting in the room for Jiang Xiaofeng to come and have a tryst with her.

As a result, by 10 o'clock in the evening, Taohong still had no news about Jiang Xiaofeng, so she went to look for him herself.

After arriving in Jiang Xiaofeng's room, Taohong discovered that Jiang Xiaofeng was holding a guitar and writing a song on the bed with a pen and paper.

What Taohong didn't know was that Jiang Xiaofeng deliberately didn't go to her tonight, because they had been together for more than a month. Jiang Xiaofeng and Taohong had been in the hugging and kissing stage, and had not gone any further and even touched their buttocks.

, would be called a hooligan by Taohong.

Jiang Xiaofeng felt that the development speed of himself and Taohong was too slow, so he decided to adopt the countermeasure of "retreating in order to advance" and deliberately used the excuse of composing songs to snub Taohong. This was considered reasonable and reasonable, and there was no fault in it.

Seeing Jiang Xiaofeng working on creation, Taohong was not angry, but took the initiative to sit next to Jiang Xiaofeng and asked in a low voice: "Didn't the director not allow you to bring your guitar to the set?"

Jiang Xiaofeng sighed helplessly: "No matter what, there is nothing to do anyway, so we can't keep wasting time like this." After saying that, he continued to play the strings.

After staying in Jiang Xiaofeng's room for a few minutes, Taohong saw that Jiang Xiaofeng was still working on creation, so serious and focused. Taohong couldn't bear to disturb her, curled her lips and said to Jiang Xiaofeng: "I'm going back, you should rest early tomorrow.

We still have to film." After saying that, he stood up and prepared to leave.

Hearing Tao Hong's words, Jiang Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, but soon came to his senses, quickly put down his guitar, grabbed Tao Hong and said, "Don't leave, it's still early!"

Being pulled by Jiang Xiaofeng, Taohong turned around tacitly, then fell down and sat on Jiang Xiaofeng's lap.

Jiang Xiaofeng hugged Taohong, kissed her on the cheek, and then asked with a smile: "Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"

Taohong was silent for a moment, then said aggrievedly: "I don't want to disturb you."

Jiang Xiaofeng said in a gentle voice: "You think too much. I can't even be happy that you can come to me. Why would you bother me?"

"Who knew you? You didn't even come to see me tonight."

"Aren't I writing a song? I lost track of time as I wrote it... I had originally planned to go find you right after I finished writing this song..."

Under Jiang Xiaofeng's patient guidance, Taohong's mood began to change from cloudy to sunny.

Taohong asked Jiang Xiaofeng: "Writing songs is more interesting, or being with me?"

Jiang Xiaofeng replied without even thinking: "Do you still need to ask? It must be fun to be with you,"

"That's pretty much it!"

"..."

(End of chapter)