A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 349 Crime Action Movie, 1 trial, 1 silent

Although he had already known about the movie over the phone, Yuen Wah still looked embarrassed after listening to Chen Jinnian's narration.

To have a Chinese-style fight scene full of artistic conception is a bit beyond the scope. It is true that he can design actions, but all of them are limited to humans. Now that he is asked to intervene in the struggle between gods and demons, he can't keep up with the ideas for a while.

Yuan Kui glanced at his embarrassed junior and said, "We have many styles in action design. Everyone has different ideas. There are hard-hitting realists like Mr. Yuan Ba ​​and freehand artists like Cheng Xiaodong. So, which style do you want?"

Cheng Xiaodong has always been known in the Hong Kong film industry for his extraordinary action design, and he does not pursue the authenticity of the action. A Chinese Ghost Story and Wind and Cloud are both his representative works.

"Hmm." Chen Jinnian pondered for a moment. "I want something like Teacher Cheng's. However, the movements designed by Teacher Cheng are too conservative. I want something more floating. I want the movements to be graceful enough on the screen. I don't care who has the upper hand in a fight between Fahai and Bai Suzhen. That's a matter of talent. The Jinshan Mountain has been flooded, so who cares about that? They are both old monsters in the Nascent Soul stage. What they are competing for is their cultivation."

Chen Jinnian's words silenced Yuen Wah and Yuen Kwai. They looked at each other. It was the first time they heard that some people disliked Cheng Xiaodong's conservative action design. What's the difference between that and disliking the salt because it's too bland?

“If the action is even more extreme than Cheng Xiaodong’s, the location requirements will be too high and it will be almost impossible to shoot,” Yuen Wah explained.

"Location is not a problem. This shoot uses virtual production technology that combines green screen and CG special effects. There are no boundaries for real-life scenes. As long as the action is in place, I can produce it in post-production."

Chen Jinnian said confidently that he now had the support of Kingsoft and could use his first-class production technology.

He was born at the wrong time and was not as lucky as Guo Xing and others who were sent to Hollywood to study by China Film Group. He had never seen how foreign visual effects blockbusters were made, so now that he had the opportunity to accumulate experience points, he must make good use of it.

"Senior brother, this..." Yuen Wah tilted his head and looked at Yuen Kwai.

"Do it yourself, don't ask me."

Yuen Kwai quickly shook his head and refused. His action design style was deeply tied to Li's, and the overall style was to follow the style of Mr. Yuan Ba. Such imaginative actions were naturally beyond his ability to handle, so it would be better to let Yuen Wah try it himself.

Seeing this, Yuen Wah gritted his teeth and agreed. He didn't have many invitations now, and it was naturally a good thing to have a job close to home so he didn't have to go to Hengdian to take on roles.

As for the contract, Chen Jinnian was unable to sign it with Yuen Wah. He was not an investor in the film and did not have that much power. Yuen Wah's agent had to go to Zhuying to sign the contract.

After discussing work matters, Chen Jinnian seized the opportunity to consult two seniors in the film and television industry for advice.

The status of action directors in Hong Kong and in the mainland is different. With the decline of co-productions between Hong Kong and mainland China, martial arts directors have lost their original status and become auxiliary staff of the crew, responsible only for teaching actors movements.

In fact, in the early days, the action director was the director of the action scenes, who was in charge of everything from the action, to the scene, to the shooting, and to the final effect. Yuen Kwai, in particular, can be said to be a senior director with many years of experience.

Yuen Kwai and Yuen Wah were naturally happy to share their experiences and insights in response to Chen Jinnian's humble request. They talked to him about their many years of filming experience and insights, especially the camera scheduling and usage techniques when shooting action movies. This was like a revelation to Chen Jinnian.

When filming Wolf Warrior 2, he was very curious about how Wu Jing handled the fighting scenes, but Wu Jing himself was a novice. He knew how to shoot many things, but got stuck when it came to explaining them.

"When Golden Harvest first started filming kung fu films, they all used a rigid, hard-hitting action style. Every move was like practicing martial arts, with fixed routines. Audiences didn't really like it. Later, our senior brother led us to incorporate somersaults, taekwondo, and karate from opera stages, and we began to explore new action choreography directions."

Chen Jinnian was listening intently to Yuan Kui's narration, but the system that had pretended to be dead for a long time suddenly came back to life, which scared him so much that he quickly pretended to drink tea to cover up the abnormality of his body.

He didn't expect that a new task would be triggered again before the previous system task of shooting an art film was completed.

Looking at the two seniors in front of him, he had a hunch that the new mission would be related to an action movie.

He lowered his head slightly and immersed his mind in the system to check.

Good news, he guessed right, the system really arranged for him to shoot a crime action movie.

The bad news is that this time it's a super double and he needs to shoot two films to complete the task.

Perhaps it was because he had been putting off completing the last mission and even opening the auxiliary gift pack that angered the system, so this time the system didn't go around in circles and directly sent him the scripts of both movies.

He acted as if he was going to let you go if you didn't take the photo.

Fortunately, the system was quite considerate and did not give him a task penalty without a task reward like last time. This time, it gave him five disease-curing pills and a movie promotion voucher as prizes.

Chen Jinnian was very happy. The disease-curing pill was a miracle drug that could save his life when necessary. But when he saw the two movie scripts, he couldn't laugh anymore.

A film called "Ballet Revenge"

One is "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils"

It was numb, this time it was really numb. Chen Jinnian's scalp was numb and he couldn't help but complain in his heart, "They are not two scripts, they are clearly two bombs. I was wondering why the system is so kind and even provides scripts. It seems like it is waiting for me here."

Of the two films given by the system, in the current film market, one has little hope of passing the review, and the other is only a theoretical possibility.

It is very difficult for large-scale crime themes to pass the review. Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" was rejected by the film review committee, and it was rejected after filming was completed. It was shelved for four years before it was released.

Chen Jinnian couldn't imagine how badly his movie would be rejected.

After meeting with the two seniors, he and I, Wang Yidi, returned to Shenzhen that afternoon and locked ourselves in our bedroom, without going out to play with our family and friends.

I announced to the outside world that today's communication was very fruitful and I had to hurry to record it, but in fact I was lying on the bed, pulling my hair in front of the notebook.

Before he plucked himself bald, he decided to give it a try. He did not change a single word of "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" but changed the background country and names of people in "Ballet Revenge" and sent it directly to Liu Tingting, asking her to submit the script for review.

If you can pass, then pass. If you can't, there's nothing he can do.

Chen Jinnian is still young and doesn't want to go against the relevant departments. He doesn't want to get a ten-year ban on guiding for the sake of mission rewards.

But he was no longer worried, and his worries shifted to other people. As a director on the focus list, the film script and shooting plan he submitted could be said to be a stone thrown into the calm lake.