Chapter 718 Gan Guoliang

9days ago Celebrity fiction 8
After the special effects and set team of "Grave Robbers" settled in, a valley in Danxia Mountain quickly changed.

A strange cypress tree was planted in the middle of the valley, and the bare cliffs that originally belonged to the Danxia landform also became green and covered with plastic rattan.

This arrangement alone (including material costs) consumed over one million Hong Kong dollars in movie budget.

However, compared with the movie's post-production cost, it can only be considered a small matter. Kang Jianfei didn't know whether the budget of 100 million Hong Kong dollars was enough.

"Terminator 2", which is still popular all over the world, spent more than 5 million US dollars on various transformations of the liquid metal man.

The action scenes in "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" basically require special effects shots, but now there is no motion capture technology, so the movie special effects are extremely troublesome.

"The Battle of Electronic World" seven years ago was the first movie to use a lot of computer special effects. Although its CG team only has 8 people, there are more than 500 post-production personnel involved, which is simply made with money.

The same is true for "Grave Robbers' Chronicles". It cannot be completed by a special effects company at all. In the end, some of the products will be handed over to Industrial Light and Magic to assist in the later stage.

After filming in Danxia Mountain for more than 20 days, the number of crew members increased again, and Luo Lixian also came with his stunt team members.

Boss, the explosion point has been set according to the predetermined location.OVER!There was a noise from the intercom.

Received, OVER!Luo Lixian put away the walkie-talkie and made an OK gesture to Kang Jianfei, who was more than ten meters away.

Kang Jianfei put the guide cylinder beside his mouth and shouted: Pay attention to all units, and it is ready to turn on the computer!

The lenses of several cameras have been pointed at the preset explosion point. Xiong Xinxin, who was wearing strange and tattered costumes and was covered in blood and bloody makeup on her face, was pulled to the cliff by the security lock.

A trough hole was dug in advance at the cliff near the explosion point, and Xiong Xinxin hid behind it, and several stones made of plastic foam were made in front of him.

The heads of each group had prepared the report through the intercom. Kang Jianfei stood behind the monitor and said: You can start.

The scene record immediately put the board in front of the main camera and punched it hard: "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" Scene 32, 6, Akesh!

After taking the record board away, Luo Lixian sent a signal above the cliff.

boom!

The explosion sounded on the cliff, and Xiong Xinxin jumped down from the trough hole of the cliff with the explosion. The fake stones made of plastic foam also flew around, just like Xiong Xinxin broke through the cliff and flew out from inside.

Click!After Kang Jianfei and other cameras captured that shot from different directions, they immediately arranged the shooting of the next shot.

Xiong Xinxin, who plays the zombie of the Thousand Years of Lu, was hung in the air. A few kilometers long safety rope was tied to both ends of the valley, and the steel wire behind Xiong Xinxin's waist was hung on the safety rope.

More than 20 members of the special stunt teams in various parts of the valley were nervously controlling the rope in their hands. When Luo Lixian waved his hand, everyone started to move.

Xiong Xinxin flew down quickly from mid-air. Before she could land, Kang Jianfei shouted: Crack, it's crooked, come back!

The body that had not yet landed suddenly stopped. Several special stunt team employees on a mountain pulled the rope and pulled Xiong Xinxin back to her original position in the air.

After more than 40 minutes, NG countless times, the shot of the zombie landing from the air was truly completed. Xiong Xinxin was tortured and not only was her whole body numb, but her legs were even silenced. Kang Jianfei asked her legs not to bend when they landed on the ground.

Is it okay?Kang Jianfei asked Xiong Xinxin.

fine.

Xiong Xinxin smiled a little reluctantly, and he felt that his whole body was about to fall apart.

However, it cannot be said in front of the director No, although he is a national martial arts champion, he is destined to be a stand-in and a villain for others. Being able to endure hardships is more important than being good at skill.

Kang Jianfei nodded and said: You should take a break first, you have a strong role today.

Thank you director.

Xiong Xinxin walked to the rest area beside her, holding her numb legs.

He is the negative protagonist in the movie's fighting scenes, but the audience will never recognize him when it is released, because Xiong Xinxin plays a zombie, without a single line, and will be extremely terrifying by makeup and post-production special effects.

While Xiong Xinxin was resting, the scenes starring several starring began again.

After some arrangements, filming started again. Lin Xue knelt under the tree on the jade platform, pointing to the direction where Xiong Xinxin landed just now and shouted in horror: That thing is still alive!

Wu Zhenyu's expression gradually became solemn and he said: We seem to have no place to escape.

Zhang Min, dressed in white, suddenly fell from the sky. Her clothes were covered with dirty blood and her hair was scattered, blocking Wu Zhenyu and Lin Xue.

Zheng!

The black gold blood sword left his body, and the blower made Zhang Min's clothes flutter. She pinched the sword technique in her hand and rushed towards the zombie.

Hello, Iceberg Girl, I'll help you!Wu Zhenyu took out a black donkey hoof from his backpack as a brick and jumped off the jade platform to help.

The camera stopped here, Kang Jianfei called Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Min, Lin Xue and Xiong Xinxin together, and the action guide Huang Xia and several substitutes also came over. Everyone began to discuss and rehearse the next action scenes.

It was already autumn when the crew left Danxia Mountain. At the end of the summer season of the Hong Kong movie, "The Story of Ah Lang", directed by Ang Lee and starring Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung, sold 31.86 million yuan in local box office, becoming the box office champion this summer.

It is well known that art films are not selling well in Hong Kong, but basically every once in a while, one or two art films will be sold well in Hong Kong.

This is the case with "Alang's Story". Under Ang Lee's camera language, this movie is more literary than the original.

Ang Lee's ability is to make a very literary film so that ordinary audiences can watch it. This guy has been an assistant director for two years with Kang Jianfei and has a very good grasp of the audience's movie needs.

When Ah Lang fell down in the film, blood flowed down the transparent cover of his helmet, and the audience's tears also flowed down.

Especially those female audiences, when Chow Yun-fat died, they all cried loudly.

In this way, while cheating the audience's tears, an art film also cheated the audience's money in their pockets, and at the same time defeated all the movies released in the summer and became the box office champion in the summer.

Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung are already very popular. After starring in "Arang's Story", the film appointments are even more like snowflakes.

The pay of Hong Kong actresses is much lower than that of male actors. In the past, Cherie Chung's pay was only 1 million yuan at most, while Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung both had more than 1.5 million yuan, and Jet Li and Xu Guanjie's pay was at least 2 million yuan.

After the big sale of "Arang's Story", Cherie Chung's pay soared to 1.8 million, becoming the only one of Hong Kong actresses.

After the fall of "Alang's Story", the follow-up was "Terminator 2" from the United States.

Before it was released in Hong Kong, "Terminator 2" had been released in Japan and Europe and the United States, sweeping local box office without exception.

Nowadays, Terminator 2 has earned a total of US$3.8 billion worldwide, and this hot-show frenzy continues to spread.

When it was originally established, Oriental Film Company (OFC) was nothing more than an agency similar to a US office and was also responsible for the distribution of Oriental DreamWorks in the United States.

But to the present, OFC has invested or produced one or two Hollywood movies every year, produced "Home Imperial 1", "Terminator 1, 2", and invested in "Out of Africa" ​​and "Rainman". Its profitability can already rank among many American film companies in the middle.

The success of "Terminator 2" has completely made Oriental Film Company famous around the world.

Although most viewers don’t know the origin of the company, the three English abbreviations of the dragon and OFC at the beginning of the film are reflected in the audience’s minds.

Just as many viewers don’t know Paramount and Warner, but they are impressed by the movie’s opening star surrounding the snowy mountains and the WB Shield Factory Mark. Anyway, as long as those logos appear, they feel tall and outstanding.

With the hit screening of "Terminator 2", director Cameron finally divorced his second wife, Anne Hurd.

Anne Hurd, a woman who just divorced, showed no trace of sorrow. She was busy with the next investment of OFC.

Because Kang Jianfei gave her 18% of the company shares in the summer, as an affirmation of Anne Hurd's work in recent years and also an incentive for her future work.

It can be said that Kang Jianfei has not taken much care of the Oriental Film Company in the United States in recent years. Except for the few blockbuster movies he has guided, Anne Hurd is responsible for the other films.

This woman is very good at both professional and social skills, and she is very ambitious in her career.

With the strong financial support of Kang Jianfei, Anne Hurd developed Oriental Film Company into an independent film company ranked first in the United States in a few years, which was a very rare achievement.

Kang Jianfei doesn't feel sorry for the 18% OFC shares. A workaholic woman like Anne Hurd will work harder after becoming a shareholder of the company.

Beijing, Liulichang.

During the Qing Dynasty, Manchus and Han people were not allowed to live in the inner city.

Liulichang was in the west of the outer city at that time, and most of the Han guild halls were built here, and Han scholars who went to Beijing to take the exam also settled here. There were shops selling brushes, inks, calligraphy and paintings everywhere. Over time, a strong cultural atmosphere was produced.

After the reform and opening up, Liulichang has gradually flourished.

At first, they only sold four treasures of the study and books, calligraphy and paintings. Later, there were more vendors of stamp collecting and antiques, and then all kinds of forged antiques trapped tourists.

The last filming location of "The Tomb Raiders' Chronicles" is in Liulichang, because the third uncle in Kang Jianfei's book runs an antique shop, so he opens it on this street in the capital.

It was already half afternoon. Kang Jianfei observed through the camera's viewfinder for a few seconds, and pointed his toes at the ground and said: Set the camera here.

Two photography assistants quickly carried the machine over. Zhang Yimou wanted to have a viewfinder, looked at the thing like a monocular telescope, shook his head and said: Compared with the camera position just now, there is no change.

Kang Jianfei smiled and said: There is indeed not much change, but it can highlight the subject and make the heroine's image more chic and eye-catching.

Zhang Yimou nodded subconsciously, indicating that he had been taught.

Since "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" was filmed in Beijing, Zhang Yimou has taken the initiative to apply to the Chinese Film Co-production Company to join.

He was not an associate director or a photographer, but he actually robbed the job of recording and seemed to be preparing to return to Hong Kong with Kang Jianfei to do post-production editing.

This guy is purely here to steal the story. The reason is that the movie he made was just overwhelmed and he wanted to learn how to shoot commercial movies from Kang Jianfei, the international director.

Zhang Yimou is a good young man with pursuits, and he doesn't want to make a rusty rural art film all his life. After winning the award for "Red Sorghum", this guy has always wanted to transform into a commercial director.

Last year, with the support of a rich man, Zhang Yimou began to plan to shoot urban commercial films.As a result, after half of his early work, Zhang Yimou didn't want to shoot because he had no feelings about filming urban films.

But he spent more than 90,000 yuan on his rich friend's money, and Zhang Yimou could not do anything to give up halfway, so he asked his friend for help and got a script for a modern anti-terrorism war film, and started filming it.

The protagonists of this anti-terror war movie include Gong Li, Ge You, Wang Xueqi and others, and they will definitely be considered a big cast twenty years later.

However, Zhang Yimou was really not in the mood to shoot such a subject, so he had to do it. He finished filming this anti-terrorism film called "Code Name Jaguar" in 27 days. After the release, there was a lot of scolding, which scared Zhang Yimou so much that he dared not admit that he made the movie.

I heard that Kang Jianfei came to Beijing to film, and Zhang Yimou, who had nothing to do and was depressed and frustrated, ran over to join in the fun.

Wu Zhenyu held the authentic Fan Kuan work he had just bought, and walked back to the store with his third uncle Zeng Jiang, and happened to jump up Zhang Min who came out of the store.

Zhang Yimou looked at the two cameras in front of him, one was using tracks to move the shot, and the other was lifted up and down through the rocker arm.

He couldn't help but shake his head. This is not a special plot, and there is no metaphor in it. It's just to show off and be cool. Can the camera be shot so fancy?

When the filming was almost evening, Kang Jianfei finally announced that he would finish work and shoot two more indoor scenes of the antique shop tomorrow.

Director Kang, it’s almost time, let’s go there together.Zhang Yimou looked at his watch and said.

Let's go.Kang Jianfei threw the guide to the field staff and walked towards the end of the street in Liulichang.

Someone was treating guests at a nearby restaurant, but Kang Jianfei just went over and had a meal, and Zhang Yimou was the protagonist.

When Kang Jianfei and Zhang Yimou arrived at the hotel's private room, everyone else had arrived. In addition to Gong Li, Tsui Hark also sat in the dining room.

Mr. Kang, Mr. Zhang, thank you for your admiration!A handsome middle-aged man in his 40s stood up and shook hands with Kang Jianfei and Zhang Yimou with a smile.

They are all old acquaintances, so you don’t have to be polite.Kang Jianfei smiled.

This middle-aged handsome guy is named Gan Guoliang. He is a student of the first session of the wireless training class. He has started to do behind-the-scenes planning for the TV station before graduation. He is a veteran of TVB's opening station and has also made Liza Wang famous. Later, he has been the director of TVB's program for many years, in charge of TVB's TV and variety shows.

Until Fang Yihua took over TVB, because Gan Guoliang had too much power in TVB, he naturally became a thorn in Fang Yihua's side.

Looking at the reasons for the failure of the ratings of several refined dramas, Gan Guoliang's rights in TVB were deprived bit by bit, and finally left the TVB in disheartened manner.

In another time and space, shortly after Gan Guoliang left the TV station, he served as the director of the TV station at the invitation of Li Chaoren, and built the TV station into the first international Chinese media covering many countries around the world.

After expanding the TV Chinese Channel, Gan Guoliang took office as the group's president and developed his TV business to non-Chinese-speaking countries in Asia. The TV Chinese Channel's programs once had high ratings in South Korea.

Until the Chinese TV station of Satellite TV was renamed Feng Huáng TV, Gan Guoliang still held management work.

It can be said that the Feng Huáng TV in the original time and space is the country that Gan Guoliang has captured.

In this time and space, Kang Jianfei founded Macau Satellite TV in advance. The Chinese TV station founded by Li Chaoren last year could not compete with Macau Satellite TV at all, and is now in a half-dead state.

Gan Guoliang was recommended to Macau TV as director shortly after TVB stepped down.

There are three people who recommended Gan Guoliang to Kang Jianfei, one is Yu Zheng, the gold medal host of Feng Huáng TV and Macau TV, the other is the genius director Tsui Hark, and the other is Liu Zhenwei, who was still working as a film planner at DreamWorks at the time.

These three are all friends of Gan Guoliang. Liu Zhenwei's best friend Wang Kar-wai was born in the first director training class of wireless, while Gan Guoliang personally served as the director of the training class. It can be said that Wang Kar-wai was taught by Gan Guoliang step by step.

As for meeting in Beijing this time, it was because Yu Zheng and Gan Guoliang jointly opened a film company in Beijing, and the entrepreneurial work of this film company called Tianyi is "The Love of the War between the Ancient and Modern Warriors of Qin".

As for the production team, the lineup is even more luxurious, including Li Bihua's screenwriter, Zhang Yimou's director, Gong Li's heroine, Cheng Xiaodong's martial arts handwriting, Tsui's producer, Bao Dexi's photography, Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui's soundtracks...

This lineup is top in Hong Kong. Being able to get together purely depends on Gan Guoliang's interpersonal relationships.

Tsui Hark just came here today, while the martial arts commander Cheng Xiaodong is still busy working in Hong Kong. It will take some time for the filming of the movie to officially start.

In another time and space, the director of "The Love of the War between the Ancient and Modern Warriors of Qin" is Cheng Xiaodong, while Zhang Yimou is the male lead.

In fact, according to Gan Guoliang's original plan, Zhang Yimou was the director, but this guy just made a frustrated commercial film. After getting the script, he was scared and finally gave the director's position to the martial arts commander Cheng Xiaodong.

Old Xu Ah, your studio has made a movie in two years, and he actually has the time to come to mainland China to be a producer.Kang Jianfei sat down and joked, not afraid that the producer Gan Guoliang would be unhappy when he heard this.

Tsui Hark shook his head and sighed: There is no way, if you are not careful in making friends, you can't even push them off.

The two of them sang together, and Gan Guoliang was not angry at all and said with a smile: Those who can do more work, I don’t worry if Lao Xu checks the film.

The relationship between the few people is still good, and Kang Jianfei is still Gan Guoliang's boss, because Gan Guoliang is still the director of Macau TV.

Even DreamWorks and Warcraft is one of the main investors in "The Love of the War between the Ancient and Modern Warriors of Qin", because Gan Guoliang and Yu Zheng do not have that much money, so they can only invest everywhere in movies.

The main purpose of today's meal was to gather together, mainly because Kang Jianfei happened to be filming in Beijing, and there was no dispute over interests at the dinner table, so he naturally had a lively and comfortable meal.

Gong Li had graduated from the Central Academy of Drama a few months ago. At this time, she was sitting next to Kang Jianfei and occasionally picked up food and added wine to Kang Jianfei. It was a personal possibility that the relationship between the two of them was unusual.

Go to my place tonight!Taking advantage of the gap between Gan Guoliang and Tsui Hark going to the bathroom together, Gong Li suddenly whispered in Kang Jianfei's ear.