Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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In an empty room on the Clear Water Bay studio.

Xu Cun first explained to Li Wo how to arrange the Yi Zhuang, and then discussed with Zhong Zhiwen how to arrange the cameras.

Coming out of Yizhuang, Xu Cun led Lin Zhengying and Chen Xunqi towards Uncle Jiu's "home" and said in a chatting tone: "The director is the organizer and leader of the film production, and he expresses himself through actors." The person who thinks is the person in charge of putting the script on the screen. As a synthesizer of various elements in film creation, the task of the director is to organize and unite all creative personnel, technicians, and performers in the crew to give full play to their talents , so that the creative labors of all men can be merged into one..."

Lin Zhengying and Chen Xunqi knew that Xu Cun was passing on their experience as directors, so they listened very seriously—both of them have been in the film industry for many years, and they are no strangers to the job of director, and they both believed that they could be directors. director. However, after all, Xu Cun is Xiangjiang's first and so far the only director whose box office has exceeded 10 million, so they are still willing to listen to Xu Cun's experience.

Xu Cun is not a good teacher, but Lin Zhengying and Chen Xunqi will go out for at least one or two years and make films for DreamWorks independently. Teach them your own experience and some advanced concepts of later generations.

After the decoration of the Yizhuang was completed, Xu Cun took advantage of the darkness to start the scene of breaking the Yizhuang.

At first, Yizhuang was mainly the play of Xu Cun and Xu Guanying, so Xu Cun asked Lin Zhengying and Chen Xunqi to direct the play.

In the first Yizhuang scene, Qiu Sheng, played by Xu Cun, pretends to be a zombie to frighten Wen Cai, played by Xu Guanying. As a result, he loses a dozen or so face-pressing yellow charms of real zombies, creating a farce that is ridiculous.

Xu Guanying is an old actor with great talent for drama. Xu Cun plays opposite him, and more often he cooperates with Xu Cun's rhythm, which makes Xu Cun's acting very enjoyable.

However, since both Lin Zhengying and Chen Xunqi were directors for the first time, and the two scenes were a bit messy, they were NGed twice because of a trivial matter.

Later, Xu Cun explained the essentials to Lin Zhengying and Chen Xunqi, and then passed.

In the second scene, Lin Zhengying's Uncle Jiu and Chen You's Fourth Eyed Priest subdue the zombies.

Both Xu Cun and Lin Zhengying had to play in this scene, so Chen Xunqi acted as the director alone.

Because Xu Cun had drawn up the shot script in advance, and Xu Cun still had the complete "Mr. Zombie" in his mind. So, "Mr. Zombie" was shot very fast.

If it weren't for Xu Cun's constant pursuit of excellence and the desire for Lin Zhengying and Chen Xunqi to practice their skills, all the scenes in Yizhuang could be filmed in one night.

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At that time, "Mr. Zombie", which invested 8.8 million yuan, was expected to lose 2 million yuan, but in the end, the box office exceeded 20 million yuan, and it was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, which was well received and well received.

The success of "Mr. Zombie" is the result of many factors.

It transplanted the master-student relationship and fighting plots of Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China, and is full of Hong Kong movies' proficient local stunts and Kung Fu acrobatics.

In the middle, there is also a Liaozhai-style segment of a passionate ghost chasing a boy.

There are jokes, romance, and nothing boring.

However, the most important factor is the interestingness of the zombie images and bridges in the film.

It digs deep into the interesting folk customs, borrowing many details from the legend of expelling corpses in western Hunan, including the yellow-robed mage, the pressed yellow paper talisman, and rows of jumping zombies.

Moreover, "Mr. Zombie" carefully learns from the notebook novels of the Qing Dynasty.

First of all, the reason why people become zombies is because they are dying unceasingly, or they die unjustly. When they are infected with the yang energy of living people, they will turn into corpses.

Secondly, you can avoid zombies by holding your breath. This is Mr. Zombie's most powerful design, so that the title of the film is called "Temporarily Stop Breathing".

Thirdly, the method of subduing zombies-peach wood sword, ink fountain line, yellow paper talisman, glutinous rice, is full of Taoist colors, allowing the audience to have an intuitive impression of the mysterious Maoshan magic.

As for the image of zombies with fangs and sharp claws, the living people will turn into zombies after being bitten and suck blood, which comes from Western vampire movies.

And some of the funny plots are stolen from Polanski's classic "The Master and the Monster".

These settings have become the "cultural model" of the next zombie film trend.

Xu Cun did not move any of these classic modes of "Mr. Zombie". He just deleted some superfluous things, and let Huang Bingyao and all the martial artists in Xu's class work together to replace it with a better method. In addition, the narrow-minded Xu Cun deleted all the plots that might make Li Saifeng suffer.

The biggest change Xu Cun made was Dong Xiaoyu's image and Dong Xiaoyu's ending.

In terms of image, there are only two Dong Xiaoyu played by Zhao Yazhi - the first one is the bride image carefully designed by Xu Cun, Zhang Shuping and Xi Zhongwen. The second one is Xu Cun, Zhang Shuping, and Xi Zhongwen carefully designed the images of elegant white clothes. These two images are much more beautiful than the three images of Wang Xiaofeng. In addition, Xu Cun changed the part where Dong Xiaoyu showed her true colors, so that Dong Xiaoyu always showed her most beautiful face.

In the ending, Xu Cun asked Dong Xiaoyu to reappear and sacrificed his life to save Qiusheng. He almost died with the zombie played by Zhong Fa. Later, he was reincarnated by Lin Zhengying's spell. I was even more impressed with Zhao Yazhi.

"Crack!"

Lin Zhengying stopped Xu Cun and Zhao Yazhi who were filming a bed scene.

"Brother Ying, did I make a mistake again?" Zhao Yazhi asked Lin Zhengying after sitting up.

It was the first time in his life to act in a bed scene, Zhao Yazhi was extremely nervous! If it wasn't for Xu Cun's opponent in the sex scene, Zhao Yazhi wouldn't have accepted such a scene if he beat the thin-faced Zhao Yazhi to death.

"It's not your problem...it's Brother Cun." Lin Zhengying said.

"My question?" Xu Cun, who felt good about himself, asked in surprise.

Lin Zhengying said hesitantly: "Brother Cun, your expression is a little, a little..."

Seeing that Lin Zhengying was so deflated that he couldn't explain why, Xu Cun walked to the camera and looked at the scene just taken.

After reading it, Xu Cun knew where his problem was—his expression was too obscene, so that the characters he presented felt incomplete.

In fact, it’s not Xu Cun’s fault when it comes to this—Zhao Yazhi’s female ghost costume is so beautiful! Xu Cun, who was so beautiful that he was already familiar with every inch of Zhao Yazhi's skin, couldn't help being fascinated by her again!

Knowing what the problem was, Xu Cun deleted the film he had just shot without blushing or beating his heart, then adjusted his state, and said, "Do it again."

This time, Xu Cun, who was already mentally prepared, performed well, and passed it once.

After Lin Zhengying yelled, Xu Cun whispered in Zhao Yazhi's ear: "Don't take off your makeup, I want to savor you like this in a while!"

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