Stanley Ho, the gambling king of Macau, may be more realistic than being called the underground emperor of Macau. Here, no one dares to say a bad word about Stanley Ho, because everyone knows that even if it is secretive, Mr. Ho will know it.
Macau has always been known as the Monte Carlo of the East, and it is definitely a golden place. Which of the three major associations in Hong Kong is not powerful, and they can have tens of thousands of subordinates with just a wave of their arms. However, no one dares to touch Stanley Ho. Likewise,
No one dares to do anything illegal on his territory.
Because in Macau, Ho Hong-sheng is everything and the sky for Macau people. As long as Ho Hong-sheng says a word, the people in the entire Macau street will become brave fighters. Anyone who comes to Macau must act according to Mr. Ho's rules, no one is exception.
Even when the mainland government later took over Macau, it had to install someone related to the Ho family as chief executive for the sake of stability, which shows the status of Mr. Ho.
In Hong Kong, the crew did not have to go to the local gangster to pay homage to the pier when filming, but when he came to Macau, he had to ask Yu Jiayu to pay homage to the pier. Xiao Ran did not want the crew to have problems anytime and anywhere during filming, let alone die inexplicably.
people.
Of course, Mr. He is not the gangster brother, but his power is definitely far greater than that of the gangster brother. As long as he says a word, the two major societies in Macau will be purged at any time. Unfortunately, Yu Jiayu told Xiao Ran after he came back that Mr. He
On vacation, no visitors.
Xiao Ran had no choice but to give up the idea of meeting this legendary figure. In fact, Mr. Hong in the film "Dark Flower" was based on Stanley Ho. It was a pity that he could not meet him.
The next day, after the worship ceremony, Xiao Ran announced the official start of filming. The makeup artists and stylists began to get busy. An hour later, Fa Ge and Su Renyao both put on makeup and appeared in front of Xiao Ran.
But what's wrong? Xiao Ran frowned and rubbed his nose as he came to Fa Ge. Su Renyao was fine. With his bald head and the tattoo, he definitely looked like Liu Qingyun.
However, the problem seemed to lie with Brother Fa. Seeing Xiao Ran circle around him several times, Brother Fa knew that there must be something that did not suit Xiao Ran's liking: "A Ran, what's the problem?"
After turning around for a few times, Xiao Ran finally understood what the problem was! It was Fa Ge who didn't feel haggard enough. After deciding to start filming this film, Xiao Ran had asked Fa Ge to start losing weight. During this time, he had already lost weight.
I lost as much weight as in "A Better Tomorrow".
No matter whether it is clothing or styling design, there is no problem. Xiao Ran had given Zhang Shuping advice to copy the original version as much as possible for this purpose. However, now he suddenly discovered that Fa Ge gave people the impression of justice, no matter how he looked at it, he could not
Like a corrupt police officer, and that's the biggest problem.
"Ayou, go call Teng Furen and Zhang Shuping!" Xiao Ran frowned and gave instructions to the assistant director You Zhi beside him, and then said to Fa Ge, who was full of doubts: "Fa Ge, your image does not match
The character image in my mind. This is a corrupt police officer, ruthless, and you don’t look like him."
"No, I think this is very good!" Fa Ge looked at his style strangely, and he thought this was very good: "But, you are the director and you make the decision!"
Teng Furen is a makeup artist and a newcomer promoted by Phantom Company. He is young and imaginative. Xiao Ran has used this person in "God of Gamblers" and feels that this person's makeup ability is quite strong.
When Teng Furen and Zhang Shuping hurried over with You Zhi, Xiao Ran greeted them and asked Fa Ge to make a pose. After seeing Fa Ge's movements, Xiao Ran stared at the two of them: "Do you feel
What's the problem? It doesn't seem to be in line with what I want."
"This is very good!" Zhang Shuping and Teng Furen both looked at Xiao Ran in surprise and replied. They really felt that this was in line with the effect Xiao Ran wanted.
Xiao Ran shook his head. This was definitely not the image he wanted. Staring at Fa Ge's bright eyes, he suddenly had an idea. Fa Ge's eyes were too straight, which needed a little change. The second thing was the issue of makeup.
He thought it needed to add a little more decadence.
"Can you make his eyes a little cloudier and give him a little more stubble? Then he looks about the same!" Xiao Ran gave instructions to the two of them, and then watched Fa Ge follow.
Half an hour later, when Fa Ge came out of the dressing room, Xiao Ran still felt something was wrong. Seeing Fa Ge and Teng Zhang walking towards him, Xiao Ran seemed to have caught some inspiration and quickly shouted: "Stop and don't move!"
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Fa Ge and the other three were suddenly startled and stopped. Xiao Ran immediately grabbed the light. It was Fa Ge's steps that were too big. The steps were too big. With Fa Ge, who was already very majestic, it would be easy.
He must be more straightforward. Thinking of this, Xiao Ran showed a joyful smile: "Brother Fa, try to keep your pace as small as possible and let's take a look!"
Zhou Runfa seemed to understand what Xiao Ran meant, and made his walking pace smaller. But Xiao Ran was still dissatisfied, and after adjusting it several times, he shouted: "Yes, that's the pace, but walking
The speed needs to be a little faster, I think that’s enough!”
Fa Ge quickly expressed what Xiao Ran wanted, walked up to Xiao Ran and asked with a smile: "Are you satisfied this time? Everyone is waiting for you, there is no need to be so serious!"
Xiao Ran shook his head. Filmmaking must be done carefully to make a good film. If you don't even pay attention to such details, the actor's performance will appear out of place. In any case, Fa Ge's image now fully meets the effect Xiao Ran wants.
He shouted to the staff around him and got busy immediately. Xiao Ran looked at the sky and saw that it was getting dark. He knew that it would start soon, so he quickly found Huang Yongheng, the photography director.
It's not that Xiao Ran doesn't want to use Duke style, but Huang Yongheng is better at this kind of film. Huang Yongheng said a few words to several photographers, then came to Xiao Ran and asked: "Brother Ran, what's the problem?"
"Problem? No." Xiao Ran laughed, why are there so many problems: "I think you should pay attention to capturing the light source in some shots to create strong contrast. Also, instruct the lighting engineer to set up the lighting well. In
Lighting is very important in this film!"
The first scene was the scene in the hotel. Zhang Shuping instructed his men to decorate the hotel for a long time, and then negotiated with Huang Yongheng. Xiao Ran stayed at the camera position and slowly moved the camera. Zhang Shuping was indeed a top master.
All aspects, including space, are organized with a sense of hierarchy.
They finished their work quickly. Xiao Ran glanced at Su Renyao and Fa Ge: "Are you ready? This is live radio, so you have to do a better job!"
Live sound recording is a very clean and neat recording method. Nowadays, the Hong Kong film industry all adopts the method of dubbing later. Because live sound recording will slow down the filming process a lot, and post-dubbing can save a lot of time.
If it's dubbing later, the actors don't even need to say the lines, they just need to match the lip sync. It's even okay to say other things on the scene, just like Wu Zhenyu playing in Du Qifeng's "Gunfire"
In Huang Qiusheng's scene, because it was Huang Qiusheng's birthday, Wu Zhenyu slapped Huang Qiusheng in the face and said fiercely: "Happy birthday!" This was not visible at all after the film was released.
"ACTION!" After confirming that all units were ready, Xiao Ran shouted with a loudspeaker. When he saw the camera starting to operate, he walked closer and looked at the situation in the performance area.
Fa Ge opened the door and walked into the restaurant with a group of his men. He glanced at it and walked straight to one of the tables... At this moment, Xiao Ran shouted: "CUT!"
All the units stopped, and Xiao Ran waved to Su Renyao who was at another table. Su Renyao was a manly man. He obviously knew what he had done wrong, and came to Xiao Ran in fear. Xiao Ran smiled slightly.
: "Asu, what were you doing just now? I said, don't be nervous. The character of your character is that no matter what happens, it seems to have nothing to do with you. Do you understand?"
Starring for the first time always has some stage fright, and Xiao Ran fully understands this. Therefore, he didn't blame Su Renyao much and comforted him for a while. Xiao Ran shouted start again, but after a while, he shouted stop again.
This time, it was not only Su Renyao who had a problem, but also Fa Ge's performance. Xiao Ran ignored Fa Ge for the time being. He just came to Su Renyao's table and waved him away. Then, Xiao Ran motioned for Fa Ge to be there.
The performance continued there, while he continued to drink his soup with his head buried there, looking extremely awkward among a group of customers.
After the demonstration, Xiao Ran asked Su Renyao: "Do you understand? Now try it yourself!"
When he arrived in front of Fa Ge, Xiao Ran couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that such violent movies were indeed very rare in this era. He couldn't blame even Fa Ge for not fully grasping the essence of it.
Smiling at the bit actor, Xiao Ran took the prop wine bottle from Fa Ge, without even looking at Fa Ge: "Fa Ge, you see clearly."
The wine bottle hit the extra actor's hand one after another, but Xiao Ran's expression didn't change at all. It was like he didn't treat people as human beings. Zhou Run was stunned and his eyes were straight. Such a performance was
Isn't it too cold?
Seeing Fa Ge's expression, Xiao Ran couldn't help laughing and handed him the bottle: "That's right, we want this effect. Can we start?"
Fa Ge smiled indifferently: "I suddenly felt that you are really a genius, you can actually come up with such a cold performance method!"
Xiao Ran chuckled, but didn't say anything. The performances of actors these days are relatively orthodox, and there is almost no performance method with personal characteristics like in the future. In fact, Xiao Ran never thought about this film when he started filming it.
This movie can be a hit.
Because the passionate faction like Wu Yusen is popular now, not such a calm faction. Looking at all the villains in this era, I dare not say that they are all the same, but they never change from their sect, and they all look fierce and evil.
.As everyone knows, this kind of ferocity without showing anything is what really scares people.
Xiao Ran is not sure that this film will be a hit because it goes against the trend of the times. The problem is that he is trying to use this to guide, or it is better to spend money to pave such a path for Hong Kong films. He is willing to do this
Yes, but with Fa Ge starring, no matter how bad the box office is, it will be difficult to get less than 10 million.
In fact, filming was very boring, and half a month gradually passed. Because the actors and crew were not very able to adapt to this unique and advanced style, the progress was quite slow. However, fortunately, everyone gradually adapted to this.
The style and speed gradually increased.
During the day, Xiao Ran called all the creative staff to invite them to dinner. In a private room of a hotel, the heads of almost every unit of the crew came. Xiao Ran raised a cup filled with water and toasted to everyone: "This
The progress has been very slow in the past half month. I hope that after eating this meal, it will be faster, but quality comes first!"
Everyone in the circle knew that Xiao Ran didn't drink, so I didn't think there was anything disrespectful about it. A lot of time passed while chatting and laughing. Seeing that everyone had almost eaten, Xiao Ran gently
After knocking on the table twice, the noise gradually subsided.
Glancing at the people who were looking at him, Xiao Ran smiled slightly. He wanted to give some attention to some departments that were not taken seriously at this time, instill some concepts in them and let them spread. After gathering his own ideas, Xiao Ran
He said with a smile: "Actually, everyone here is very important to the crew..."
"Take the lighting engineer for example!" Xiao Ran cast his eyes on the lighting engineer Dou Wenbao, and couldn't help but make the guy a little confused: "Everyone thinks that the lighting engineer is useless, just lighting a dozen lights casually. Now when we are filming this movie, I
I think Atou now knows that making lights is not that easy!"
Although Dou Wenbao was a little embarrassed at first, he was very proud that Xiao Ran used himself as a role model, not because of anything else, but because during this period of time, he did feel that he was more like an artist than a lighting engineer. This feeling was undoubtedly very pleasant.
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