Huayu 05, our science fiction movie universe

Chapter 42 Production Completed
Regarding the rhythm of the film, when Wang Hao was writing the script, he subconsciously referred to the most classic "three-act" style in Hollywood.

This script structure can give the film a "sense of breathing", allowing it to have a proper balance between tension and relaxation, making the audience more relaxed when watching the film, rather than giving the audience a strong sense of oppression like the original film, making people feel suffocated and breathless.

For this purpose, he deliberately mixed some jokes into the movie, such as secretly making fun of the fact that the customer service telephones of some companies are always in queues.

However, Zhao An, as an editor, has different ideas in this regard.

In his opinion, it would be a pity if Wang Hao's film was just a commercial film shown on TV.

Because the whole movie actually has many merits both in terms of concept and shooting techniques, and it can definitely try to win awards at various film festivals.

And since it is a TV movie and has been sold to a movie channel, he no longer has to worry about audience acceptance and box office.

In this way, he can completely adjust the rhythm of the film, giving the audience a strong sense of excitement and suffocation, so as to highlight issues such as anti-war, midlife crisis, bureaucracy, cold-blooded capital, and emotional conflicts between husband and wife, giving the film a deeper core and deviating towards a more artistic direction.

Wang Hao was somewhat tempted by Zhao An's suggestion.

After all, the path the other party was talking about was exactly the route chosen by the original film "Buried".

Moreover, when Wang Hao was filming, he did hide some metaphors in it. It is not wrong to say that the protagonist being buried alive is a symbol of the male midlife crisis.

But after thinking it over again and again, he gave up.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to gain more glory, but this "Buried" is more than just a "Buried".

It is also the beginning of the entire science fiction movie universe.

In order to consider the subsequent content, Wang Hao's film must set a suitable style benchmark.

He is not worrying about nothing. You see, the reason why the DC movie universe has not been doing well in the past is mainly because Nolan's "Batman" trilogy led them into the dark style pit. He has to guard against this.

So Wang Hao finally decided to maintain a purely commercial style and not consider anything about art or awards.

As for his choice, Zhao An just smiled helplessly in the end and did not continue to persuade him. After all, the final payment from the sponsor had not been paid yet.

After resolving the differences in creative concepts, the editing of the film was much faster.

Wang Hao was also very satisfied with Zhao An's editing skills.

Although they have some conflicts in their creative concepts, that is normal. After all, it is difficult to find someone in the world who has exactly the same ideas as you.

His argument with Wang Hao was actually more about demonstrating the value of his existence and proving that the money Wang Hao spent was worth it.

It's like when people spend money to see a doctor, and if the doctor just takes a glance and sends you away, you will definitely feel unhappy and feel that you have wasted your money.

Zhao An was well aware of Party A's mentality, so whenever he received editing work, he would always make some appropriate suggestions and then pretend to be convinced by Party A.

It is precisely because of this kind of knowledge of current affairs and ability to get along with others that his editing studio has been able to thrive in the Beijing circle.

Wang Hao actually knew this very well, but he had to admit that many of the suggestions provided by the other party did make sense.

From this point of view, his editing fee was not wasted. After all, although he had a golden finger and remembered all the contents of the original film "Buried" clearly in his mind, what he filmed was different from the original.

The new version of "Buried" has undergone a lot of changes in the plot, background, and rhythm, so in terms of editing, we can only refer to the original version at most, but cannot copy it exactly.

In addition to gaining fame, practicing and making money, his purpose in making this film was also to use this film to explore the path of industrialization of domestic films.

In this case, Wang Hao, who already shoulders the rights of director and screenwriter, is not suitable to take on the editing rights as well.

That is the practice of those old-school directors in China. The works created in this way are definitely author films full of personal style.

Of course, Wang Hao is not saying that the author's film is bad.

If you just want to make money and complete the film industrialization, you have to continue to produce "qualified" commercial films.

If a movie has too distinct personal style, it tends to go to extremes and become either a bad movie or a good movie.

This is just like Jiang Wen's "Let the Bullets Fly" and "One Step Away", the former made the box office explode, but the latter made the investors explode.

Of course, some directors are even worse. As long as they make a personal movie, it’s not very good.

That’s right, I’m talking about the master of poetry.

When he didn't have the screenwriting and editing rights, he was still able to make a good movie that was both artistically and commercially successful. After he became famous and had the screenwriting and editing rights, his film-making level dropped significantly.

These predecessors serve as examples, which is enough to prove that the separation of powers among writing, directing and editing is conducive to film creation.

I can’t say that it can raise the upper limit of the movie, but at least it guarantees the lower limit of the movie.

Therefore, clear division of labor is also one of the core points of film industrialization, and Wang Hao does not want to violate the principle.

Therefore, in addition to grasping the general direction of the entire film, Wang Hao delegated power to Zhao An in terms of specific editing, giving him a great deal of autonomy.

And he did not disappoint Wang Hao, and successfully produced the final refined version of the film within the specified time limit.

After the refined version came out, with Wang Hao's approval, the sound effects, composition and subtitles parties also got involved, and together they created and added sound effects and music to the final edited version.

Only when all this is finished can the entire film be considered to have officially completed post-production.

At this point, Wang Hao had no idea how many times he had watched the entire film, and the excitement he had felt at the beginning had long since subsided.

After getting the finished film, he knew that this was not the end. In addition to being sent to the competent authorities for review and obtaining the so-called "Dragon Mark", the entire film also had to pass the test of the film channel's film screening.

Fortunately, he had connections in the court after all, and his uncle helped him arrange everything.

Anyway, on the day of the movie channel's internal film screening, Wang Hao was not nervous at all.

Especially when he saw that among the several school leaders from Beijing Film Academy, one of them was the head of their directing department.

(End of this chapter)