It’s a new day, September 4th.

Hong Kong Island is as prosperous as the entertainment age. It started on the evening of the 28th when a group of The Voice instructors took turns holding a solo concert in Hung Hom and invited students to come on stage as guests.

Flights full of passengers are all migrating from the island countries, South Korea, Star, Malaysia and Thailand like migratory birds. Even though many people come, they cannot buy tickets before September 15th.

But there are scalpers!

Even though professional scalpers are rare and often beaten down and unable to play in this industry, rich fans, second generation and so on, go outside the venue and randomly catch the regular audience members who bought tickets in advance that night, charging them double or triple the premium.

, this is not a big deal.

Star chasing... No matter this era or later generations, star chasing is very crazy.

It was under such circumstances that Lan Nai just opened the door and was shocked to see Fan Shaohuang standing in the corridor outside the door carrying a snack box, "Xiaofan, what are you doing?"

Fan Shaohuang laughed, "Uncle Cai, if you hadn't supported me, how would I have had the chance to play the leading male role in a big science fiction movie? My dad even shouted last night that he would continue to treat you to drinks. I thought that after we finished filming, he would

I’ve had so many drinks with you.”

"I have to wait for a few days to nourish my stomach. I just bought some breakfast. You haven't eaten it yet?"

Lan Naicai shook his head and said with a smile, "You little naughty boy, since you bought it, I won't be polite. Come in."

After entering the room and looking at the clean living room furnishings, Fan Shaohuang quickly opened the food box to put breakfast. He also bought the most common Hong Kong-style morning tea breakfast, "Uncle Cai, you are so famous, you are one of the best in Hong Kong.

For a great director, his daily life at home is too peaceful."

Lao Lan laughed again, "Okay, I still don't know what you monkey is thinking. Let me tell you straight, I don't want to take on the project (Taiping Wheel) because it was pushed by those guys. You want to star in it,

I can recommend an ordinary character to you."

"But this is different from (The King of Power). The required acting skills are much higher. I can't give you a role that is too important."

Fan Shaohuang waved his hands hurriedly, "No, Uncle Cai, that's not what I meant. I'm not here to get a role. It's really not..."

Lan Naicai was speechless, "Eat, after dinner I will go out for a walk to avoid being harassed."

Lao Lan is very interesting. He started out as a small worker in Shaw Brothers movies. He was promoted from a small worker to a photography assistant, and then to a photographer who worked for seven or eight years at a stretch. He relies on his unique sound, light, electric science fiction film techniques and special photography.

Forming a highly stylized directorial line.

The original trajectory has always been to pursue comic adaptation, cult classics and niche.

Then because of one film (The King of Power), which was defined as a third-level film that was not romantic, he was so angry that he quit the film industry...

He is a cult, he is a cult, and there are no romantic and romantic scenes that are directly classified as Level 3, which is really sad. After the original track retired, he became a photographer, went to mountain orphanages to do volunteer work, etc.

He was only in his early 40s when he retired from the industry. He had good strength and ability. Once he retired, there was almost no news about him.

This is a man who is talented and wants to prove himself, but also values ​​his reputation from the outside world.

In this dimension, Zhao Donghuai has gained too much... too many reputations and honors that he himself could not even imagine. Therefore, for a great director who pays more attention to external reputation and reputation? When Xiang Laoshi, Xiang Shisan, Deng Yurong, Wang

When Yu and others approached him and asked him to sit in and take photos of the Taiping Wheel?

Lan Naicai's instinct was to reject it. Damn it, even though this is a big special effects movie and he knows how to do special effects, but a disaster war epic or something? He doesn't understand it at all, you guys.

Do you think he, a person who didn't go to school much, was a small-time worker, and worked in the Shaw Brothers Film Studio, understands the meaning of those epic wars? It's such a heavy theme intertwined with national destiny, personal destiny, etc.?

After reading the script, he knew he couldn't grasp it.

Who recommended him? Isn't this trying to harm him? Good guy, a group of big bosses spent hundreds of millions, and after the filming was completed, the production was crumbling. The great reputation he only gained following Zhao Donghuai, wouldn't his aura as a famous director suddenly be shattered?

What was the social atmosphere of Taiping Wheel in 1949? If this was filmed as a street gang fight, how many years would he be nailed to the pillar of shame? He would never be able to cleanse himself of it in his lifetime.

Therefore, after all kinds of favors came and went, and more and more people came to ask for his help, Lao Lan could not stay alone, so he could only reluctantly agree, but he said that he was only responsible for the production of special effects.

For example, making a model of the Taiping wheel, researching how to sink a ship, shooting special effects, etc., and not caring about anything else.

Then Wang Yu and others agreed happily, but when they turned around, it was said that Xiao Wu had never filmed a big scene before. How should you be more tolerant, take care of Xiao Wu more, and check for him more?

If he hadn't lived in Hong Kong Island and lived for 40 years, he would have run away with a bucket, okay? He read the script in which Wu Yusen stayed up all night for almost three days and three nights without much rest.

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Generally speaking... it's okay? From the Anti-Japanese War to that and so on, and then to that and so on, the love story of several couples? Under the changing general situation, following the national affairs and drifting with the wind? Then to the shipwreck disaster? The separation of life and death?

The script is not complicated and seems to include everything, but after reading it in a hurry, it seems that no theme is highlighted and everything is rushed.

Have I finished reading? What did I read?

He has seen the tear-jerking brotherly love story of A Better Tomorrow, and the bloody duo. It also talks about the tacit understanding and sympathy between men, as well as the fight against the villain in a decisive battle for justice and law.

Fight for survival and take care of the weak.

But there is something wrong with the Taiping Wheel theme that Lao Wu brought out...

The biggest problem is that against the epic background of the national war of resistance and the bald-headed runaway war in the mainland, the love stories between the protagonists who appear one after another are difficult to resonate with him and cannot elicit empathy.

Can he directly criticize that the script is not good and ask Lao Wu to rewrite it? It's not appropriate. He doesn't want to direct it himself. He was dragged into the car by others and was given a lot of money. There were too many acquaintances who asked him for help.

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Just say that when Wang Yu was the first-generation martial arts superstar in Shaw Brothers and TVB, he was still a little brother on the set, and Deng Yurong was not far behind.

Chu Yuan and Sun Zhong are both half of his masters, and those seniors also call to communicate with each other. What can he do?

I couldn't push myself into the car, and I wasn't very interested in the project. The main reason was that I wasn't sure I could shoot it well, and I was afraid that my reputation would be ruined all at once, so I worked on it for three days and three days for Lao Wu to come up with the idea.

For a director who stays up all night to write out a script, it's hard for him to speak too frankly.

He could only say, "The script is okay, but I feel it can be improved even more. After all, it is a large project involving a multi-party joint venture with an investment of 100 to 200 million yuan." Then Lao Wu was driven back to perfect the script, and he was still very unconvinced before leaving.

glared at him.

Lan Naicai felt a little numb, he was not a pua, he just felt that the book was not very good, so he commented very tactfully.

I hope Director Wu can provide a better quality script next time.

Now he was too lazy to explain too much to Fan Shaohuang. He sat on the sofa and ate his morning tea. Before he could finish a barbecued pork bun, there was a knock on the door. Outside the unlocked door, it was Zhou Runfa carrying half of a roasted pork bun.

A whole lamb lunch box came over, "Brother Cai, are you eating such a vegetarian meal so early in the morning?"

Lan Naicai took a look at the eye-catching "Luck Good Luck Flagship Store Takeaway Meal Box". The picture of roasted whole lamb was so delicious and delicious. He couldn't help complaining, "You gave me this so early in the morning?"

"I said Ah Fa, you should go find Director Wu. You are so familiar with each other. You guys collaborated on both A Better Tomorrow and The Bloody Heroes."

Ah Fa walked in with a smile, "Look what you said, when I was filming (Jurassic Park 2), I didn't know how to shoot special effects unless you pointed me out."

Ah Fa was not polite. He walked in, opened the box, and invited Fan Shaohuang to sit with him. They were all acquaintances who have known each other for many years. "Aren't Yongsheng, Ying Zhijie, and Wang Yu too ambitious this time?"

"Wanted, Spider-Man sequence crew, there are too many action stars queuing up to get in, it's nothing to do with me, but something like (Titanic) novel (Titanic)?"

"Isn't this a lot of acting?"

"Brother Cai, do you think I still have a chance?"

Only then did Lan Nai see that the roasted whole lamb inside was all cut into pieces, and he picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, "Of course you have a chance, the chance is still great, so as long as Director Wu writes the script well and the special effects are created according to normal blockbusters

, there is a lot of hope that it will be a big hit."

Their friendship is not just a movie (Jurassic Park 2), Lan Naicai has been working on the Shaw Brothers studio for ten or twenty years, and he is no stranger to stars such as Ah Fa and Qiu Guan.

Ah Fa's eyes lit up and he said, "Brother Cai, I just want to ask, what do you think of Director Wu's script? Judging from your experience in directing so many commercial blockbusters since you started working in the industry?"

Lan Naicai thought for dozens of seconds before looking at Fan Shaohuang. Xiaofan naturally got up and went to the toilet. When he walked away, Lao Lan whispered, "He should have written an anti-war

The theme uses different couples to make love, life and death super fragile when war and disaster come, and the vulnerable theme is used to resist the war and highlight the tragic tone..."

"An epic war, natural and man-made disasters, displacement, depicting or sublimating the theme of love, the overall package is really complex and grand."

Afa blinked, "This sounds very good."

Lao Lan's voice was still very low, "I'm just going to comment this time. You can tell Xiang Sheng privately that Director Wu has integrated many themes and cores, but there is something wrong..."

"You were having a happy reunion dinner with your wife and children at home. Suddenly, bandits came and wanted to kill your children and steal your wife. They stole all your property and stabbed you several times. You resisted and fought off the bandits."

"After the bandits went out, they were blown up by bombs falling from the sky. Before they died, the bandits were still thinking about their girlfriends or wives and missing their beautiful love. It was so miserable..."

"Do you think this story is good??"

Ah Fa immediately sprayed it, "What the hell?"

Lan Naicai said seriously, "This is how I feel after watching the results of Director Wu's three days and three nights. It's the same as your reaction now. What did I watch?"

"So many people interceded and I took the money. You must tell Xiang Sheng seriously again that I don't know much about screenwriting and I don't know how to tell stories. I am only responsible for special effects!"

"Just like in the story I just told, I was only responsible for the special effects of the bomb that dropped from the sky and killed the bandits when they were repelled."

"He is also a great director. He had a falling out with Xu Ke because he insisted on his creative ideas. So many years of friendship were ruined. I have never collaborated with him, so I can't say much. After all, it's like this

It was a project he initiated."

Afa fell into silence for a while.

Lan Naicai said again, "Besides, you can't say that there is no hope of this becoming popular. What if people outside like it? What if it explodes in Europe and the United States? I don't understand the mentality of those audiences. Titanic novel

It was a best-seller, but the European and American version was not released.”

"What if a Chinese version suddenly comes out and attracts many book fans to watch the movie?"

"There is a complete story here, with various core elements. Once the special effects are completed, I dare not say that he will definitely lose money, and maybe he will make a lot of money?"

Afa was also said to be at a loss. Yes, when I first heard Lan Naicai's alternative description, I felt very abrupt, surprised, and messy. But here is a complete story, with various themes and foreshadowing, and it looks like a flower.
To be continued...