One hundred and forty-one chapters are famous in Cannes
"He is indeed a genius. I think if there was a screenwriting award this year, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to escape it!" Murray and Coppola were like the gunmen invited by Xiao Ran, bragging.
The guests who could see Xiao Ran and the others in the venue all turned their attention to it. Most of them had watched Xiao Ran's "Dark Flower". They all admitted that the film was indeed very rare and smooth, and the director was very good at it.
The method is quite creative, concise and direct and effective.
"I hope he can win from it!" Coppola said nothing more. He opened the post without looking at it and raised it to Murray without even looking at it: "Murray, read it!"
Xiao Ran smiled at Coppola and Murray on the stage. He thought that Coppola was just appreciating his film, but he never expected that he would be so praised. Under such circumstances, he had to think, this film is indeed
It's a classic, but it's definitely not to the point where a world-famous international director like Coppola would praise it as a genius. But he always felt that he was missing something key, and as for what it was, he couldn't remember it.
"The winner of the Best Director at the 41st Cannes Film Festival is..." Murray opened the post and took a look. He immediately showed joy and spelled out two Chinese characters in pinyin: "Xiao Ran, "Dark Flower"!"
Just when he heard his name, Xiao Ran's head rang. Suddenly, he realized that he had missed something key. It was about time. "Dark Flower" was originally a film ten years later. In these ten years,
Over time, there has been some progress in both directing techniques and other aspects.
This is very obvious. Just compare the films of the 1990s and the 1980s, and you can clearly find that all the films of the 1980s have defects such as slow pace. Or the director's techniques are too old-fashioned.
, the most typical one is Wu Yusen’s classic gunfight scene, which has been imitated and learned many times since then. It is not surprising that this technique will be used ten years later. Of course, if you talk about it, the founder is still the strongest in this aspect.
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The key to "Dark Flower" winning the award lies in this. The difference of ten years is enough to make many techniques that were originally ten years later become very unique and novel today. A typical example is the ending of Yaodong and Ah
Chen draws a gun and shoots a scene. Twenty years later, this move was extremely common. But now, with Xiao Ran's scene scheduling and conceptual techniques, the film is unforgettable today.
Amazing.
Suddenly enlightened, Xiao Ran stood up, needless to say, the joy in his heart. After hugging Fa Ge, Lin Qingxia, Su Renyao and Zhang Manyu, he walked up to the stage. He took the award handed over by Coppola and saw him
Xiao Ran understood the old man's action of opening his arms and opened his arms to hug him.
After giving Murray a warm hug, both of them happily congratulated him: "Congratulations, Xiao Ran, I think you definitely deserve this award!"
"I feel really ashamed to be praised by two seniors!" Only one knows whether Xiao Ran is really ashamed, but now that he is holding this award, his mood is unusually calm. Perhaps what he longs for more is a
Win an award for a work that is entirely your own, rather than relying on plagiarism from the works of future generations.
Taking a deep breath, he glanced at the audience, slowly raised his voice and delivered his award-winning speech in not very fluent English: "I feel very honored to be able to stand on this stage. However, I want to say
, the increasingly mature Chinese-language films will become an important part of world cinema. And my compatriots and I will bring more and better Chinese-language films to every corner of the world! Thank you to the judges, thank you Francois and Murray
It is an honor for me to present this award to me personally.”
Returning to his seat, Fa Ge extended his thumb to Xiao Ran and praised him for what he said just now. Xiao Ran just smiled casually. It was difficult for him to judge that his words could have such an impact, but he hoped that the West would pay more attention to it.
Chinese movies.
The Palme d'Or fell into the hands of another film, and now Xiao Ran was completely indifferent. The next day, he, Fa Ge, Lin Qingxia and the others immediately rushed back to Hong Kong, while Zhang Manyu and the others did not want to be in a hurry to go back.
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Later, Xiao Ran and the others learned that the Palme d'Or almost went to "Dark Flower" and lost by only one vote. And it was also later that Xiao Ran learned about the reviews of international film critics.
Mistaking his creative intentions, they all thought that Xiao Ran deliberately used the gangster aspect to express good and evil, and to reflect the social problem of police corruption.
This result obviously made him dumbfounded. This is obviously a pure gangster story. It was actually involved in so-called social issues and projections by film critics. This is undoubtedly an extremely funny thing.
Just when Xiao Ran and the other three quietly rushed back to Hong Kong, the whole Cannes was a bit shocked. All the reporters could not find the two winners this time. This was definitely a very depressing thing. Some even
The impatient reporter wanted to make this into a kidnapping story. On the third day, news about Xiao Ran and the others finally came from Hong Kong. Reporters from other places rushed over.
"Dark Flower" won the award, and major newspapers in Southeast Asia made great efforts to report on it. They mainly watched Hong Kong films. Hong Kong and Taiwan spared no effort to promote it, especially the latter.
Treat Xiao Ran's success as Taiwan's success.
It goes without saying that the reputations of Siu Ran and Chow Yun-fat in the Hong Kong and Southeast Asian film circles have reached unprecedented heights. Especially when Fa Ge became the first person to be crowned emperor at Cannes, it pushed Fa Ge's fatality level even higher.
At the top, he is hidden as the unique number one superstar in Southeast Asia.
Xiao Ran, who has always been less recognized as a director than a screenwriter, this time no one dares to deny his directorial ability. Just kidding, even Coppola praised him as a genius. Who else dares to deny that he has the ability?
It's not too late to direct a few "The Godfather" movies and watch them.
It's really a wonderful thing. Xiao Ran was recognized as the number one screenwriter in Hong Kong within two years of entering the industry. Now it is no exaggeration to call him the number one screenwriter in Southeast Asia. However, the last time "God of Gamblers" was nominated for the best director
and Best Picture, this time he simply won Best Director at Cannes. In terms of performance, absolutely no one in Hong Kong can match it, but no one in Hong Kong thinks that Xiao Ran is the number one director in Hong Kong.
In fact, this is easy to explain. At first, screenwriters were not taken seriously at all, but after Xiao Ran turned around, he also overturned the case for screenwriters, which greatly increased the screenwriter's status. Coupled with his obvious screenwriting ability, he naturally easily gained industry recognition.
But directing is a very artistic job. Wang Jiawei has won several awards, but no one thinks he is the number one director in Hong Kong. Xu Ke is definitely one of the best directors in Hong Kong now, but no one thinks he is the number one director.
.If you want to be recognized by the industry, it is not enough to have just a few achievements. You must at least do something for directors in Hong Kong that everyone can admire.
Xiao Ran did not accept any interviews, and even Liang Jiabao refused. He now needs to concentrate on thinking about how to film "The Spy" instead of sensationalizing. However, even if he is very scheming now, he still did not think about it, because the reporter
With the gathering of people, coupled with his newly crowned Best Director aura, several reporters focused their attention on Xiao Ran's new film while being unable to conduct interviews.
With this focus, Liang Jiabao and other reporters all went to the press office of the marketing department. It was the first time Bai Wenjing encountered such a thing, and he was in a panic. When Xiao Ran heard the news, he just had an idea and borrowed
The way to promote the future is to tell Bai Wenjing how to deal with it on the phone, while hyping up the new film.
After this, the next day Bai Wenjing was very different from the situation yesterday. He calmly followed Xiao Ran's instructions and revealed the status of the new film bit by bit. By the way, he announced several news about the start of filming of new films, letting the name of the new film appear first.
Exposed in newspapers.
"'Espionage', this is the title of Mr. Xiao's new film!" Bai Wenjing's steady and calm look makes people wonder if he was the one who was in a hurry yesterday: "This film has an investment of 30 million, breaking the record of Hong Kong movies
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"Thirty million!" reporters from Hong Kong and Taiwan exclaimed loudly. Those foreigners don't know what 30 million is in Southeast Asia, but they know it very well. It is difficult for a movie to reach 3,000 at the box office.
million, and this film actually invested 30 million, what kind of concept is this.
Bai Wenjing now secretly admired Xiao Ran in his heart. With just one sentence, the reporters were actively involved in the news. However, the investment of 30 million in this film was not a lie. The production cost was 25 million, plus for example
Expenses such as publicity fees will almost add up.
Therefore, the figures in the film industry are very strange, and they are far from being as simple as imagined. As long as a few words are slightly reduced, the meaning of the entire sentence can be completely changed, and there is still no fault.
"The Spy" in Hong Kong is now only missing the last explosion scene. For this reason, Xiao Ran specifically requested the police public relations department to help block the road. This is an extremely fierce explosion scene, because the explosion scene is
Choosing this scene in a forty-storey building, Xiao Ran specifically requested the pyrotechnics and firearms department to spend a lot of money to make this scene perfect.
Standing on a building near the explosion site, Xiao Ran carefully looked at one of the explosion scenes jointly designed by the gunsmith and pyrotechnics master. According to their design, the explosion would occur on the floor, but that was not what Xiao Ran wanted.
effect.
An explosion scene creates nothing more than a sense of intensity and visual impact. The effect of an explosion in a room is definitely not as strong as an explosion in an open field. However, after browsing the second design drawing, Xiao Ran frowned.
His brows relaxed.
The second design indeed met the requirement of sparing no expense. The explosion of the entire floor spread from the center to the surroundings, and even the surroundings of the entire floor spurted flames and shattered the glass. This is really a waste of money.
, except for the venue fee, which was exchanged for advertisements in the film, which cost nothing, it would have cost at least half a million to make this scene.
Xiao Ran hesitated for a moment. This design met his requirements, but he always felt that there was something missing. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and an idea flashed through him, and he thought he had figured out the ending.
"The explosion design is enough, but I want the flames and black smoke to continue to come out of this floor, giving it a ruined feeling." Thinking of this, he thought about how to use the sounds of fire trucks and police cars.
To set off the background, the effect will definitely be better: "Well, we also need to contact the police and fire department to cooperate!"
The pyrotechnics masters and firearms masters couldn't help but sigh with emotion. If they were working for other companies, how could they be so valued? Working with Phantom, they received high remuneration and their status was affirmed, which naturally won the support of these supporting actors.
Heart. Of course, this still requires money.
However, what the two of them admired even more was that Xiao Ran was willing to spend a lot of money to shoot the film carefully and did not want any flaws to appear. In fact, not only them, but everyone who had worked with Xiao Ran both admired and complained about Xiao Ran.
Just like this explosion scene, in other action movies, you would either find a small isolated bungalow and set it on fire, or you would find a car to light it up. But in "The Spy", there are only explosion scenes.
The cost is enough to make a medium-sized film, and no one else is willing to spend such money.
For them, it was not easy to prepare for this scene. It required sufficient experience and calculation to correctly judge how to achieve the effect Xiao Ran wanted. For producer Yu Jiayu, this was not easy either.
We also need to find someone to remove the glass on that floor and replace it with fake glass.
It is even more difficult for photographers and sound engineers. Not only do they have to make full use of natural light and natural sound, they also have to judge the best shooting and sound recording distance and direction. Just this scene alone is enough to prepare.
It took three days to get ready.
However, just before filming, an accident occurred. Yu Jiayu hurried to Xiao Ran and said in a deep voice: "Brother Ran, the government is not allowed to close the road for filming!"
Road closures are not allowed for filming? Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment. The previous car chase took place at night, so there was no need to close the roads. Hearing this sentence, Xiao Ran immediately thought about it. The government was trying its best to assist film shooting in all aspects.
The policy was only issued after 1997.
Nowadays, there are no provisions for road closures for filming. Just recall that there were few action scenes in Hong Kong films before 1997, and there were very few such big scenes. Thinking of this, Xiao Ran admired these veteran filmmakers even more.
As a human being, it is really rare to be able to make a film look like the real thing under such circumstances. However, this is obviously a shackle that restricts the development of Hong Kong films into large-scale productions.
Rubbing his nose, Xiao Ran quickly organized the idea in his mind and quickly determined: "Ask the police for help. This scene only takes ten minutes!"
The next day, the filming of the last scene in Hong Kong started. Fa Ge worriedly pulled the wire on his body and asked the action director: "Is this okay? Is it safe?"
"Don't worry, it's okay!" The guy glanced at the action director Guan Xin. He felt that Guan Xin was really weird, and he was very different from the action director he had seen before.
Everyone was ready. Xiao Ran picked up the binoculars and glanced at the photographers on the other three buildings and the photographers downstairs. Then he stuck his head out to look at the photographer hanging in the air and made a gesture. Only then
Pick up the walkie-talkie and ask loudly: "Are all departments ready?"
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