Tokyo Literary Godfather

Kei Fujiwara went to ask about the situation, and Ono's side was pretty smooth. The unstable factor that Kei Fujiwara worried about the most, Mika Sato, hadn't been a moth recently, and was very cooperative, Kei Fujiwara was relieved.

Ohno Nagaharu's directorial ability has been tested, but after all, this is the first feature film to be supervised, so Fujiwara Kei has hired the company's most experienced producer to join his crew, so there should be no major problems.

And it seems that because of Miya Sato's relationship, Matsunichi Pictures has been very friendly towards Mizunami Productions recently - Kei Fujiwara is so sick that he wants to vomit. He is at odds with himself because of one lover, and because of another lover. Ease the relationship yourself. Treat the company as your own gun room. If it weren't for business, Kei Fujiwara would really want to stay away from that guy Nohibi Shiosuke forever.

Although being friendly with Eiji Shirai, who has resigned, was also the reason for the estrangement between Matsuhi and Minami, it was initially because he offended Nobi's nepotism.

The two movies have started filming one after another, and the planned third movie "My Sassy Girl" is almost ready. There are still a month or two before it can be launched.

It's been half a month since the filming of "Infernal Affairs" started. Perhaps it was because it was his second time filming a movie, but Kei Fujiwara felt smooth all over. Everything is going on schedule in Anbu. According to the original plan, the film will be shut down around June 1998, edited and filmed at the same time, and it will be released around October. But when making a movie, it’s normal for the reality to be less than expected. Therefore, Fujiwara Kei not only had to consider the loss of cost, but also the loss of time, as various emergencies delayed filming.

But it has been very smooth and there have been no incidents beyond my control. On the other hand, Ohno Nagaharu, although the filming tasks are progressing steadily, there are always some minor troubles.

For example, the male protagonist of "The Embalmer" is a cellist. When the protagonist was working in the orchestra at the beginning, the crew rented many expensive instruments, but an assistant director was clumsy and dropped an expensive violin. Unfortunately, I heard that the violin was still an antique, so the orchestra directly demanded a large amount of compensation.

Naturally, the company did not want this matter to go to court, so they negotiated privately and eventually lost a sum of money, and the budget of the entire film also increased accordingly.

The trouble was not over yet. The assistant director was scolded by the producer for this. As a result, he collapsed emotionally. He couldn't think about it that night and tried to commit suicide. He was saved. The producer was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. Mizuhara Yui was worried that he would commit suicide, so she tried to comfort him and let him work peacefully.

As for the director's assistant, Mizuhara Yui originally wanted to keep him and deduct a bonus from him, but as for the piano, he was not allowed to lose it. To be honest, he couldn't afford to pay it back. Judging from his salary, even if he worked for the company for five years in vain, he wouldn't be able to repay the price of the piano.

But when Yoshida Kashi learned about this, he insisted on firing the employee. Qin doesn’t have to pay compensation, but she definitely can’t keep her. Otherwise, there will be hidden dangers. In the future, there may be a group of people who threaten the company to commit suicide in an attempt to escape punishment if something goes wrong at work.

After these two incidents passed, there were many other minor things that caught the horse. For example, a pile of bird droppings suddenly fell from the sky during the filming. Later, I found out that it was a naughty kid nearby who fed his pigeons laxatives, and the crew was drenched; someone had the flu and persisted. work, but it infected the entire group. Even the male protagonist had a hoarse voice and had to stop working for a few days.

All these troublesome little things like catching horses made some crew members more firm in their belief. It must be that the start-up scene was not filmed well, which offended the gods who protected the crew. They thought that we had no respect for the movie, so the gods sent down all kinds of actions. A disaster is coming to punish us.

You see, the crew of "Infernal Affairs" next door had a very smooth opening day, so they had never experienced anything like this before!

Film and television workers are inherently superstitious, and the longer they work, the more superstitious they become. This idea spread all of a sudden and spread throughout the group. So many members of the working team and even the creative team took advantage of their vacation to organize a group trip to a nearby shrine to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. When they came back, they even bought amulets for themselves.

In addition to the conventional ones such as "the filming was safe and smooth", "the box office is a big hit", "all diseases are immune" and so on, there are also some that look like customized ones at first glance.

“Protect yourself not to be drenched in bird droppings”, “Protect not to have props damaged”…

On the one hand, the crew members prayed for good luck and hoped that no more trouble would occur. On the other hand, they became increasingly dissatisfied with the film's heroine, Mia Sato.

It was this woman who caused so many troubles during the filming. Some people thought about it silently in their hearts, but did not express it openly, but even so, a tacit unified concept was formed in the minds of many working group members.

Moreover, his acting skills are not very good either. He often fails to take on the role of the male protagonist, and I don’t know if it is because he has been in the United States for a long time. When he speaks in daily life, he often speaks in English, which is annoying. He also often laughs at the English accents of other Japanese people in the group. She also shows off her pure American pronunciation.

Although most Japanese people's English pronunciation is indeed strange, everyone is like this. If you laugh at one person, you are equivalent to laughing at the whole group, which makes it even more offensive.

Fortunately, Miya Sato's manager is quite discerning and knows the importance of establishing a good relationship between actors and crew. He often spends money and buys fruits and drinks for the crew to eat, which is how he can barely regain some goodwill.

But Miya Sato showed her mental retardation. When the agent bought snacks for a treat, a young actor in the lounge was eating snacks and asked casually, "Miss Sato, don't you want to eat?"

Miya Sato said casually: "Don't eat, this kind of cheap food will make you fat."

other people:"……"

After finishing speaking, he seemed to feel that he had said something wrong, so he added: "Oh, it doesn't matter if you eat, the audience won't notice you, don't worry."

"..."

Kei Fujiwara couldn't help sighing when he heard these glorious deeds of Mime Sato occasionally, and he seemed to regret that he appointed this person in order to maintain the relationship with Fukuyama TV and win the filming funds. It would be better if he was the supervisor himself.

But Choji Ono was shooting a feature film for the first time, and he was not well-known in the industry, so he was easily underestimated. This time it caused him a lot of trouble.

But it's okay, although the emotional intelligence is low, and he often says things that are not conducive to unity, making the crew members in a bad mood... But the harm of these things is always limited, so hurry up and finish filming this guy's role, and completely kill the risk.

Compared with Ono Changji, Kei Fujiwara feels much luckier.

The atmosphere of the crew of "Infernal Affairs" is very harmonious and passionate. This is of course due to Kei Fujiwara being in charge, but the entire creative team has a grand pursuit of hoping to make an outstanding movie. They all regard this film as their own work, rather than just perfunctory as a daily job.

As the person who decides the development direction of a work, it is very important for the director to have a clear purpose, strong execution and leadership. The production crew is like a dragon boat, and the people in each station of the crew are like sailors rowing on both sides of the dragon boat. Only when everyone has the same direction and rhythm, can the boat row fast.

And this also tests the leadership of the director's supervision, whether it can provide a consistent direction, and whether it can stimulate the enthusiasm of the members for work. Obviously, Kei Fujiwara has done a good job in this job.

There are also the two leading actors, the momentum of the show can almost blow the roof off. Although there are not many occasions where the two appear at the same time, most of the time they are acting in their own roles, and only when they are facing each other on the rooftop can they really face each other. But everyone can feel that the two leading actors are serious about this drama, and they seem to be thinking about competing with each other...

And watching Miyata Takayoshi playing in the eyes of the crowd, the stars are holding the moon, the passer-by actor Yamaguchi Tsuiyo showed jealous eyes, and at the same time looked at Kei Fujiwara again with eager eyes.

"It's a pity that I'm not a woman, otherwise I might get more chances by dressing up and knocking on the door of Supervisor Fujiwara's hotel room." Yamaguchi Jiyang thought a little depressed.