Entertaining Children

After finishing all the auditions in the afternoon, Xiao Yao, Mu Ying and Zhao Rui bid farewell to Kate McCann and Zhou Jingyi. Although Zhou Jingyi has confirmed that she will star in this movie, she does not live with Xiao Yao and the others, and Muying wants to send Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui back to the apartment, so naturally they have to separate.

"Old Mu, did you plan ahead?" Xiao Yao couldn't help asking Mu Ying on the way back to the apartment.

From the fact that Xiao Yao didn't object to Muyingla's advertising placement and sponsors, it can be seen that this movie is a purely commercial movie. Xiao Yao planned to release the film globally at the early stage of preparation, so he would naturally take market factors into consideration. Shooting the film in the United States, framing the scene in the United States, and using American staff is one embodiment of considering this factor, and another more important embodiment is the choice of film actors.

In the selection of actors for the movie, Xiao Yao wanted to fully reflect internationalization. This kind of internationalization is not only about having foreigners in the supporting roles, but also in the protagonists. The protagonist of this movie is a seven-member parkour team. The Chinese male characters of Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei are the three most important protagonists in the movie. This has long been determined.

Generally speaking, movies with Chinese characters as the main characters, especially commercial movies, are not particularly popular in European and American countries, but because the three of them are the founding team of parkour, they are popular among parkour lovers all over the world. The status is different, and the target audience of this film is mainly parkour enthusiasts, so the setting of these three characters was excluded by Xiao Yao from this international consideration.

In the starring seven-person team, apart from the three roles of Xiao Yao and the others, there are still four roles left. These four characters, Xiao Yao and the others set them as four young people with different skin colors when writing the script. In addition, parkour is not a sport exclusively for boys, girls can also play it, so one of the remaining four characters is a girl.

Four young people of different skin colors are white, black, Asian yellow and Latin American. When setting the characters in the initial stage of script writing, Muying suggested that the female characters in it should be set as Asian-yellow, saying that apart from the three of them, female characters are the most attractive. Setting this role as Asian should be The most suitable, because after all, they are all Chinese. This reason sounded very reasonable at the time, and Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and others had no objection at the time, so they decided on it. Thinking about it now, maybe at that time Muying already had the goal of helping Zhou Jingyi win the role.

"Really not," Muying knew what Xiao Yao meant, and explained with a smile, "When I first set the role, although I already knew Jin, she hadn't found out that we were preparing for the film and writing the script together. I simply think that this female character should have an Asian face. We are all Chinese, and you have all the male characters in the movie, so the female character with the most important role must be Chinese!"

"If you only said the latter sentence, I might still believe you," Xiao Yao pouted, "but you specifically emphasized that Jin hadn't found out that we were preparing for the film and writing the script when you set the role, so I don't believe it. Maybe that At that time, she really didn't know that we were preparing for the movie together, but you must have planned to recruit her to act, maybe you deliberately let her find out that we were discussing the script in the video!"

"You~" Muying glanced at Xiao Yao in surprise, then smiled, "Okay! So what? I'm her acting teacher, what's wrong with me helping my students get a role in my play Is there anything wrong? If there is a mistake, it is your fault, because you asked me to be her acting teacher!"

"This~" Xiao Yao was speechless,

Leaning on the back of the chair, he waved his hands weakly, "Yes, you are right, don't say anything!"

After sending Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui back to the apartment, Muying did not leave immediately, but followed Xiao Yao into his apartment room, watched the audition videos of several actors in the afternoon repeatedly, and discussed their performance. When they had almost discussed, it was time for dinner.

During dinner, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting also got up and came to Xiao Yao's room. Instead of going out for dinner, everyone ordered takeaway.

These people are all investors, and after having dinner together, Mu Ying introduced them in detail about the preparations of the crew. The formation of the crew has been completed, part of the actors and all the behind-the-scenes staff have been confirmed, and the contract has been signed, and all the shooting locations have been contacted. We only need to confirm the actors for the last few roles before starting the machine.

After introducing the situation of the crew, Mu Ying discussed the shooting plan of the film with everyone, and stayed until almost late at night before leaving.

According to the previous plan, Xiao Yao was going to let Muying do the primary audition for casting, and after he came, he and Muying would go through the re-election and make a decision. However, due to the release of "WALL-E" and Zhao Rui Xiao Yao and his team came to the United States later than Xiao Yao expected. In order to save time, Xiao Yao let Muying decide most of the supporting actors by himself, leaving only a few The main character and some important supporting roles will be decided after he arrives.

There are not many roles that have not been confirmed, and not many actors need to audition. The next morning took another morning, and Xiao Yao, Mu Ying, and Kate McCann auditioned all the candidates who had not yet confirmed their roles.

McCann is just a representative sent by the Screen Actors Union to supervise the audition process and ensure the legitimate rights and interests of actors. When all the shortlisted actors are ostensibly qualified, she has little influence or say in the final outcome. Xiao Yao and Mu Ying spent another afternoon discussing all the actors for the second audition, and finally selected the list of actors for all roles.

After the list of all the actors was finalized, Mu Ying asked the assistant director of the crew to notify the newly confirmed actors to come and sign a contract with the crew, and then waited for the movie to start shooting.

Before the movie officially started, Muying also called all the behind-the-scenes staff and main actors of the film crew to meet for a meeting, so that everyone could get acquainted with each other first.

Xiao Yao is well-known in the United States, and most of the crew and actors behind the scenes know Xiao Yao as a person. Although Xiao Yao is very young, and it is the first time to direct a live-action feature film, everyone has heard a lot about Xiao Yao's various deeds, and they are very curious about this "Hua Xia talent", but there is no sign of contempt. Chatting is generally more pleasant.

In a relatively pleasant atmosphere, the movie officially started.

Xiao Yao's inspiration for this parkour movie came from the French movie "Corporate Warrior" in his previous life, and the setting of the seven-member parkour team came from that movie. However, Xiao Yao not only added female characters to the protagonist team, but also the main story of the film is not that kind of story.

The main plot of "Corporate Warrior" in the previous life was that the parkour team went to steal a rich man's house in order to save a child with a heart attack. Xiao Yao worried that such a movie that promotes "violation of crime" might not pass the trial in China. Although Xiao Yao's movie is aimed at the international market, he doesn't want this movie to be released in China, so apart from borrowing some character settings and action scenes, this movie actually tells a completely different story.

In the opening part of the movie, this movie is more similar to the "Corporate Warrior" in the previous life, basically it is to show the skills of the seven-member parkour team first. In the early morning, seven people got together to discuss and choose the target building. At dawn, they climbed from the outside of the building to the roof with bare hands to watch the sunrise. Then the residents called the police, and the police surrounded them.

However, because the main plot is not to help children with heart disease to raise surgery fees by stealing, there are no two children who sneaked out of the house and watched them climb the stairs excitedly, so as to avoid the suspicion of "teaching children badly". .

After the opening show of climbing stairs and chasing scenes, the film still introduces the seven members of the team with the introduction of a certain police chief. It is also in this way that each member of the team has a separate presentation.

The plot shown alone is different from the "Enterprise Warrior" in the previous life. Each character's identity, occupation, family environment, skill characteristics, and display methods in the movie are not the same as the previous "Corporate Warrior". Instead, under Xiao Yao's guidance, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others follow their respective It was reconstructed based on its own characteristics.

The only thing kept by Xiao Yao is that there is also a police detective in the police station who knows a member of the team privately and has a relatively close relationship, which also paves the way for the following plot.

The real dramatic conflict of the movie is not a child with heart disease who accidentally fell from a tree trying to imitate the protagonists, but that the three members of the seven-member parkour team accidentally witnessed a a murder case.

At that time, the seven people were playing parkour on the roof of a building. The character played by Xu Fei accidentally saw the window of a building next to them. They seemed to be arguing about something. Out of curiosity, Xu Fei jumped directly onto the balcony railing outside the window, and then the characters played by Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui noticed Xu Fei's abnormality and jumped over.

Since the movements of the three were relatively light, and the window was closed, the three of them did not attract the attention of the few people who were arguing in the house, and the three of them did not turn up to the balcony, so they grabbed the iron railing of the balcony and watched quietly through the window. .

In the room were two men beating another man, and another man sat and watched. Just when the three of them saw the swollen nose, swollen face and bleeding mouth and nose of the beaten man, and were discussing whether to call the police, the man sitting next to him took out a pistol and shot the beaten man in the head.

The characters of Xiao Yao and the other three were taken aback, and when they were about to run away to call the police, the man who killed the man with a gun occasionally looked back out the window, and happened to see the three of them. The three people in the room and the three people outside faced each other, and they all saw their faces clearly. The man with the gun immediately aimed his gun at the three people outside the window.

When the parkour trio outside the house saw it, they immediately let go and fell to the balcony on the first floor downstairs, before quickly escaping.

The three are masters of parkour, and through a window, they escaped the pursuit of the three murderers in the house smoothly, and ran to the police station to report the crime.

However, due to the previous series of "disturbing the people" and "molesting the police", the seven members of this team are all unpopular figures in the police station, so naturally they are not convincing. Not only did the three of them fail to call the police, they were almost arrested by the police for causing trouble at the police station.

After the three left the police station, four other members of the team found them. The three of them shared what they saw with the other four members. After some discussion, they finally decided to privately go to the police detective who grew up in their community and had a close relationship with the character played by Xiao Yao.

At the police detective's home, they recognized the murderer who shot and killed him from a magazine. It turned out that the man was a well-known entrepreneur. This entrepreneur is a celebrity in the city and has a good reputation. The police detective dubiously followed the seven people to the scene of the crime, but found that there was no murder scene at all. Under investigation, the police detectives found that the owner of the so-called "crime scene" room was just a construction worker who had no fixed occupation and worked part-time. According to neighbors, this person had recently been paid and disappeared. He probably didn't know where he was going. Where was it squandered.

After this investigation, the police detectives naturally couldn't believe the testimony of the three, and instead advised the seven to get back to work and stop playing those "disturbing" parkour.

The police reported the case to no avail, and the seven had no choice but to go home separately. Unexpectedly, the entrepreneur was so powerful that he found out the identities of the three of them, and secretly sent someone to ambush them on their way home.

After the three escaped from the arrest of the minions sent by the entrepreneur by virtue of their superb parkour skills, they gathered the other four together and decided to launch a counterattack with the strength of seven people.

The entrepreneur was a builder, and the murdered homeowner was a builder, so the intersection is obvious. Through a private investigation by seven people, it was found that the construction worker's last job happened to be on the entrepreneur's construction site, and it was very likely that the construction worker had obtained something from the entrepreneur. Judging from the scene of the entrepreneur's murder, the murderer probably hasn't found the clue yet.

Relying on parkour's stair-climbing skills, seven people directly climbed the wall and turned over the window to enter the victim's home. After searching, they found a video from the hard-to-reach ceiling.

The content of the video is some violations on the construction site, shoddy, doping materials with impurities, bribing quality inspectors, etc. It is very likely that the builder found out by accident and recorded it to blackmail the builder, which led to the murder.

Getting this video can only prove that the quality of the builder's project is faulty, and it is likely to be fined, and the builder just lost some property. Since the body of the builder was not found, and there was no direct evidence of the builder's murder, the murder case may not be filed, and the danger of the three members still cannot be eliminated.

Later, seven people set up a bureau and took the initiative to get in touch with the entrepreneur, claiming that the evidence was in their hands, and led the entrepreneur to come out for negotiations. Entrepreneurs who have already killed people will certainly not submit obediently. They secretly arranged manpower at the meeting place, ready to kill people to silence them. However, the seven people who had been prepared for a long time not only successfully got rid of the pursuit of the entrepreneur's subordinates through ingenious planning and superb parkour skills, but also took evidence of their attempt to kill and silence, and successfully brought down the black businessman.

Since the construction project of this black businessman is in the community where the seven people are located, their behavior also solved a potential threat for the people in the community. There was a change, and in the end it was a happy ending that everyone was happy with.

The plot of the movie is not particularly brilliant, but the highlight of this action movie is not the plot, but the action scenes. In terms of literature and drama, as long as the story is told clearly, there are no obvious logical loopholes. The main focus of this movie is to shoot the action scenes well.

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