Chapter 389 Chen Kaige: Haha, I Got It!

Northwest Gobi.

"Painted Skin 2" is also being filmed intensively.

Although a new director has been appointed, the main actors are still the original cast.

Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, and Zeng Li are the three main actors who have returned, and Yan Kuan, who replaced Zhang Guorong as the demon catcher, and Wang Ou, a company artist who plays the innocent bird spirit, have also joined.

Because Yang Mi is going to play in "Goblin", it is naturally impossible for her to have the opportunity to play the bird spirit Que'er again, and this role has been digested by other artists in the company.

In addition, a large number of golden supporting roles have also joined the filming of "Painted Skin 2", and the cast is much stronger than the first one.

For example, the adoptive father of the male protagonist Huo Xin, Uncle Da, the producer really invited Uncle Da from Hong Kong Island, Wu Mengda, to guest star.

You Benchang, Liu Jiahui, Ji Chunhua, and Sun Honglei also have wonderful supporting roles in "Painted Skin 2".

Although "Painted Skin 2" is a Hong Kong movie, this drama was entirely funded by Light and Shadow Times itself. It just acquired a small film and television company in Hong Kong, and then co-produced it with Light and Shadow Times Head Office under the name of this film and television company.

This is considered to be a loophole in the current co-production policy.

However, Light and Shadow Times is not the only one doing this, so it is not a new thing.

For the director of this movie, Chen Kaige, the experience of shooting this movie is still very new to him.

"So, this is how a magic movie should be shot!" Chen Kaige sat behind the monitor, looking at the shot script in his hand and the shot effect on the monitor, thinking thoughtfully.

In order to ensure that Chen Kaige can shoot "Painted Skin 2" as much as possible according to his ideas, rather than making it a Chen Kaige-style riddle man movie, Wu Yuan even prepared several thick stacks of hand-painted script shots for him.

If someone else did this, Chen Kaige would definitely not accept it and continue to do his own thing.

But the person who did this was Wu Yuan, the only director in China who has made achievements in the field of fantasy movies and can even be said to be authoritative.

Chen Kaige also had to take the storyboard script given by Wu Yuan seriously and try to understand why the storyboard should be done this way and why it should be shot this way.

In actual operation, after trying to shoot for more than two months, Chen Kaige did have a lot of experience.

Putting aside his arrogance, Chen Kaige did feel what a real magic movie is.

There is no need to talk about any in-depth truths, nor to make a bunch of parallel narrative lines, and to cram too many complex story backgrounds into the two-hour movie.

Just use the linear narrative method to tell a direct and clear magic story, and you can make a movie above the standard.

For Chen Kaige, the process of shooting "Painted Skin 2" is to do subtraction for himself.

He is trying to adapt, not to show too much desire to talk in the movie, and not to try to cram too much abstract aesthetic art into the movie. ɱ

There is no doubt that Chen Kaige is a very good director.

It is precisely because he is so good that he always wants to express his excellence in movies and make all kinds of high-brow content.

In the past, no one could hold back his desire to express himself, not even Chen Hong.

But now Chen Kaige has joined the crew of Light and Shadow Times. With Wu Yuan's script and storyboard script, he can't act recklessly. Instead, it is a self-examination experience for Chen Kaige.

More than once during the filming, Chen Kaige felt that the storyboard was too simple, too straightforward, and without depth.

But after the actual filming, he had to admit that such a shot was indeed suitable for this film.

Although "Painted Skin 2" is inevitably attached to Chen Kaige's personal style, compared with the first film shot by Wu Yuan, the picture is more delicate and beautiful, and the composition is more extreme, but Chen Kaige did not add any material and tried his best to shoot a more commercial work.

When the filming of Painted Skin 2 was nearing its end, Chen Kaige also felt that he had realized how to make a qualified commercial magic film, and no longer had the feeling of being at a loss and crossing the river by feeling the stones when filming The Promise.

Hey, Wu Yuan asked Chen Kaige to be a tool man, and he still has to thank me!

"Xiao Chen, Xiao Zhou, come on, let's do this scene again. I want to change the camera position to shoot, let's add another group."

Chen Kaige, with an expression of enlightenment, excitedly waved to Chen Kun and Zhou Xun who were taking a break, and continued to shoot with great interest.

The filming of Painted Skin 2 not only satisfied his dream of a magic film, but also gave him new ideas for the already perfected script of The Orphan of Zhao.

Perhaps he should also do some subtraction in the script of The Orphan of Zhao, and not try to tell the audience such a complicated story. It is enough to simply tell a classic three-act commercial film of extermination-survival-revenge!

Chen Kaige feels that after filming "Painted Skin 2", his "The Orphan of Zhao" will definitely be completely new and make a big comeback!

He is already enjoying how he will make a comeback and dethrone Zhang Yimou after "Painted Skin 2" and "The Orphan of Zhao" are released next year.

Among domestic directors, Chen Kaige is the best!

North America, Los Angeles.

While China is still working normally, it is already night in Los Angeles.

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei had finished work and returned to the hotel a long time ago. After a simple wash, they lay on the bed.

One of them was checking tomorrow's shooting schedule, while the other was dealing with some official documents sent from China.

Although Wu Yuan was in the United States, he couldn't really ignore the huge amount of things in China.

Wu Yuan regularly tracked the shooting progress of "Along with the Gods" and "Painted Skin 2", the important work of some artists in the company, and the preparation and shooting of TV series.

Wu Yuan also had to take charge of the development of the Light and Shadow Times cinema brand and the daily operating data of Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast.

He didn't necessarily have time to relax after work every day.

In contrast, Liu Yifei was much more relaxed. It only took her a few minutes to finish reading tomorrow's shooting schedule. Although she was also one of the leading actors, she didn't have many scenes. Sometimes she didn't have any scenes for several consecutive days, so she was very idle.

When people are idle, they will diverge their thoughts and think about various things.

Just now, Liu Yifei, who was in a daze after reading the shooting schedule, suddenly remembered something.

"Hey, Senior Brother!"

"Did you write the English song you sang when you proposed last time?"

"I searched the Internet later, but I couldn't find the song."

"Yes, I prepared it specifically for proposing to you." Wu Yuan nodded nonchalantly. He couldn't say that this song was a new single from Mars Brother two years later.

"Then do you want to record it as a single and release it?"

Liu Yifei thought happily: "I think this song is very nice to sing. We must play this song at our wedding in the future."

"And if it is released as a single, it may become a must-have song for weddings like "You're Marrying Me Today."

"This can also be regarded as letting people all over the world witness our happiness!" (End of this chapter)