Chapter 19 You are very unauthorized

When he said that he would start construction, Li Siming focused on making movies.

When the future screenwriter of Mei Da was busy at his desk, Li Siming was sleeping in Zeng Zhi's studio, in the name of supervision, observing every movie being filmed in the studio was actually stealing his lesson. Zeng Zhi knew this well and did not point it out. The so-called cramming temporarily, and it was light and unhappy. It is precisely this truth. In theory, Li Siming is not unfamiliar with the director's career, but the director of this movie is really a complicated job.

In the early stage of a movie, Li Siming has a clear grasp of the theme and concepts of future films, descriptions of characters, scheduling of scenes, as well as the time and space structure, sound and painting modeling and artistic styles, etc., Li Siming has a clear grasp of these. Then he looks for and determines the actors, and according to the overall concept, he puts forward requirements for the photography, actors, art design, recording, composition and other creative departments, organizes the main creators to study relevant materials, analyze scripts, concentrate and unify the creative intentions, and determine the overall creation plan of the film. The director also needs to lead on-site shooting and various post-production work according to the filming plan arranged by the production department until all the filming is completed. The quality of a film is largely determined by the director's quality and cultivation; the style of a film often reflects the artistic style of the director.

On-site shooting is a critical and very complex and arduous task. The director is the commander-in-chief of the shooting site. He must coordinate personnel from all aspects and complete the creative task in a consistent manner. This is what Li Siming lacks. Unlike stage plays, actors only need to perform strictly according to the script and lines. The action routes during performance are all routine. But movies are different. The camera must constantly change positions according to the plot of the story and the actor's position, the strength of the lights, and the changes in the background are all related to the visual quality of the final movie and the interpretation of the story.

The filming crew that Li Siming met when he first came here. The director's surname was Liu. If he had the full name, Li Siming vaguely remembered that this person would also be a famous director, but this director Liu is currently exploring the road to success, and there is no sign of success.

The movie Director Liu is filming is in the final show: When the male protagonist finds that his woman has a leg with another man on his back, he loses his mind and kills the woman. After repenting. The male protagonist holds the woman's "corpse", collapses on the ground, howling like a pig, like a little boy who has lost his beloved toy. Director Liu is very dissatisfied with the male protagonist's stiff and emotional performance at this time. Director Liu is short and jumps up and down like a monkey, hoping to play it on behalf of the male protagonist. The male protagonist is obviously not unscrupulous, but the script has restricted his performance. He seems to be unable to act like a love-hate drama. Being a good actor requires talent!

Seeing Director Liu's anxious, Li Siming was very anxious for him. This Director Liu was very hardworking. Li Siming arrived early every morning, and Director Liu had already been doing morning classes calmly.

"Director Liu, I'll give you a suggestion." Li Siming walked behind Director Liu. Li Siming came to him every day to film. He was not unaware that although he did not welcome outsiders to visit the set every day, Li Siming came with the identity of the special supervisor of the boss on the set, and it was not easy to drive others away.

"Mr. Li, please tell me." Director Liu asked everyone to take a break. The photographers and lighting masters were already exhausted and were almost exhausted.

The two walked aside and Li Siming handed over a cigarette.

"I have an unfamiliar suggestion. I saw that the male protagonist is not good at performing this crying scene, but why do you have to make him cry?"

“How to say it?”

"The ancients said: Big sounds are rare. There is also the saying that silence is better than sound at this time. My suggestion is to modify the script!" Li Siming said.

"Change the script?" Director Liu was surprised. The director was afraid that the script would be changed over and over, destroying the fluency of the story. The bosses of the film company were also afraid that the director would change the script. It was obviously a love drama, but it turned out to be a suspense film of love and love killing, making it a four-dimensional one.

"For example, this scene is nothing more than the conflicting mood of the hero's love and hate, killing his lover but remorseful?"

"Yes. What advice do you have?"

"Change it into singing?"

"Sing? Cough... Cough!" Director Liu took a sip of cigarettes, but was almost choked and fainted by Li Siming's suggestion.

"For example, what do you say about the heroine sings before her death? Maybe it was a romantic song that they sang during their love. After the wrong killing, the hero held the heroine. At this time, a sad song was given to the background song. Isn't it a response? Singing it in a sad tone at this time, wouldn't it better reflect his conflicting love and hate mentality? And it is far more profound than the hero howling!"

"You... your idea is very good!" Director Liu was attracted by Li Siming's creativity, and there was a sudden enlightenment in his eyes. He warmly gave Li Siming a Russian-style hug, "Thank you! Thank you so much!" He sincerely thanked Li Siming, not knowing that the other party just "borrowed" what he had seen in a certain movie. Li Siming is a director and can't see the possibility of success at present, but when it comes to creativity, there is anything to do.

"No...no!" Li Siming was very unhappy by his actions, and cleverly moved Director Liu's arm away. If he changed it to a beauty, he could consider it.

"It seems that I will stop today. I will look for someone who writes songs again. If I fail to succeed, I will find a ready-made one!" Director Liu said.

"No, I can write!"

"you?"

"Of course! You know, I come from the mainland. If I develop in the Hong Kong music scene, I will definitely be a prince of love songs. Let me tell you this, some of me crying, some of whom are full of affection, some of whom are depressed, and some of whom are not a hundred, and some of whom are thirty. I just have to choose whatever I want. I am just a jukebox. I sing it to you, you can choose whatever I want. But if you are a formal singing, you have to choose another wise man. I am just a hero who is just a hero behind the scenes. Fame and fortune are like clouds, and I am not very famous!" Li Siming began to brag again. We have dozens of beats in our minds, but I don't remember them all. In fact, he doesn't sing well.

One is "The Most Romantic Things" and the other is "The Crying Man". As a result, this love art film is famous for these two songs and is deeply memorable. As for what the film is specifically about, not many people will remember it. However, this also caused another consequence to Director Liu Da: there are too many people who chased him for contact information for the songwriter. However, the initiator Li Siming did not express any sympathy for this. If Li Siming stole all these songs, it would not have been killed many future stars. Thinking of this, Li Siming felt a little guilty. He stole a movie from his compatriots. In the future, if he wanted to steal, the more the better.

Director Liu is not slow, and Hong Kong directors are all very hardworking, especially Director Liu. He invited two little singers who are not very famous, but he can't afford to invite him who are too famous. He is still very confused about the "selfless" help provided by Li Siming.

"It's no big deal. I want to ask you to help me film. I will be the director of a big production film. I will hire you as my deputy director. What do you think?" Li Siming explained one day. He said in the name that he asked Director Liu to help, but in fact he wanted to use Director Liu's experience, at least he has much more experience than Li Siming.

"What movie, how much investment?"

"The 'new' kung fu film is definitely epoch-making and different from others." Li Siming said.

"What's the difference?" Director Liu did not pay attention to the word games played by Li Siming. He was skeptical of Li Siming's "great innovation".

"I know why the box office of the movies you made before was not good. Because you don't know what the audience needs, the audience likes kung fu movies and comedy movies. The audience can't understand the movies you made. Hong Kong is a commercial society!"

"Isn't it just a commercial film? I also know that kung fu comedy films are popular, but I can't afford to invest in those big investments. I have 500,000 yuan to make a low-cost film, as long as I don't lose money. I've made art films now, and in the future, I may have the opportunity to ask my boss to ask me to make big investment films."

"Napoleon said: A soldier who doesn't want to be a marshal is not a good soldier! I have heard that a director who doesn't want to be a box office champion film is not a good director! Do you want to be a good director?"

"Of course I want to be a good person. By the way, who said the latter sentence?" Director Liu asked.

"I forgot what the specific name was said by a well-known foreign director." Li Siming said nonsense.

"Will your movies be popular?" Director Liu had to express his doubts, because he knew that Li Siming had never made a movie at all. As the saying goes, "The mouth is hairless and the work is not solid. Li Siming's beard is very clean, but he brags a little too much.

"Because of your participation, it will definitely become popular." Li Siming patted Director Liu's flattery.

“How much does it invest?”

"Is it investing... about 10 million." Li Siming didn't know how much investment he needed. Anyway, the Hong Kong champion's box office last year exceeded 10 million, so he regarded 10 million as a big investment.

"What? One... ten million!" Director Liu was so scared that he almost fell down by the numbers he said casually, "I heard it right?"

"Yes! One thousand!"

"Will anyone watch this movie?" Director Liu asked in disbelief. What he wanted to ask more was whether Boss Zeng would invest? Only a lunatic would invest 10 million for a young man from mainland China to direct it. Every time he filmed a movie, he would run around and get investment. If the box office was bleak, he would have to owe a lot of debts to start over.

"Of course!" Li Siming "has a hundred times more confidence." Now he doesn't have confidence, he will say he has confidence, "You can get the rewards at will! Who doesn't know in the Hong Kong circle? You Director Liu is very talented and will become famous sooner or later. You are worth this price."

"I'm considering it!" Although Director Liu has always been "unknown", he still enjoyed the flattery he flattered Li Siming.

Inside the office.

Zeng Zhi and Li Siming were watching the script sent by Screenwriter Mei. Screenwriter Mei seemed to have stayed up late in the past few days, and was wearing a pair of panda eyes, but his eyes were still in a state of excitement. A piece of cuff in the suit was burned by a cigarette butt.

"The story is wonderful!" Zeng Zhi finished reading the script in one breath, "It's mainly because it's well written." He didn't want to praise Li Siming for his good creativity.

"Your writing style is very good, and your style is Gu Dasha. But..." Li Siming said, and changed his subject, which made Screenwriter Mei very worried, "But I won't shoot it based on this script."

His words made Screenwriter Mei’s face pale and his eyes became dim. Seeing that his words caused a misunderstanding, Li Siming quickly added: “It’s not that you’re not writing well, but good scripts are always refined after repeated trials. I’ll give you a few suggestions and modify them.”

"Director Li, you said, I will change it immediately when I go back!" Screenwriter Mei said quickly.

"The story is fluent. There are also two completely different things: script writing and novel writing. You should know that the purpose of writing scripts is to use words to express a series of pictures, so you need to let the people who read the script see the words and can instantly associate a picture, bring them to the world of animation. Novels are different. In addition to writing pictures, they also include lyrical sentences, rhetorical techniques and descriptions of the inner world of the characters. These are not supposed to be found in the script. The descriptive text of the script you write is a bit more concise, especially the dialogue of the characters." Li Siming was inspired, but he felt that he was reading an abbreviated version of Gu Long's novel.

"As long as your meaning is the most concentrated, powerfully revealing the character's psychology, portraying the character's personality, and expressing people's thoughts, it will not restrict the actor's performance?" Screenwriter Mei said.

"Hmm? Yes, yes!" Li Siming said for a long time, and it turned out that someone else had summarized it in one sentence.

"what else?"

"The whole script can be divided into ten-act plays. You design it well and every scene has highlights, which is very necessary. For example, the bamboo forest scene needs to create a suspense and thrilling effect, and the bamboo forest seems to represent the mysterious and elegant artistic conception in oriental culture. This is the same as martial arts itself. Upgrading to a level is called culture!" Li Siming said. He always thinks that foreigners watch Chinese kung fu movies.

"I understand." Screenwriter Mei seemed to have grasped the key.

"Change it again. You will make a shot." Li Siming saw his frowning look and felt that it was necessary to draw a big cake to tempt him. When he was an army commander, he was used to this. While obeying orders, he also had to give his subordinates some sweet dates from time to time.

"Is it really possible for me to become famous?" Sure enough, Screenwriter Mei was overjoyed when he heard this, "Then I'll go back and change it right away."

"Take it slow, you will become the number one screenwriter in Hong Kong!" Li Siming shouted at his hurried background, with a bit of teasing.

"You are not authentic!" Zeng Zhi pointed at Li Siming and cursed with a smile.

"I know people and take responsibility, and this is scientific management. Do you understand? Maybe they want to thank me!" Li Siming didn't care.

Before he could finish his words, Screenwriter Mei returned, and the head with dark circles stretched in from outside the door: "Thank you, Director Li!"

"Haha!" Li Siming laughed, and even Xiaodao sitting in a corner reading a newspaper laughed. Zeng Zhi was the only one who couldn't laugh or cry.
Chapter completed!