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At the end of the song, people dispersed and melancholy at dusk, the water in front of Zhaoqu Pavilion poured into the east.

Liang Gaohui was summoned by his master Li Hanxiang to go to the imperial capital to reshoot the remaining scenes of "Fire Dragon". He also dragged his girlfriend Jiang Jiahua to go north with him, saying that he wanted to travel and relax and experience the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

However, Wu Xiaozu speculated that Liang Xiaozhao was afraid that he would go to his house to find Jiang Jiahua while he was not at home - eating and drinking was the real thing! With his nature, this was not impossible!

Wu Xiaozu also stayed upstairs in Longcheng Ice Room to revise the script of his new play.

From "The Butcher on a Rainy Night", he saw the urgent needs of the Hong Kong horror film market.

He doesn't care whether he likes it or not, he just thinks that horror movies can make money.

Of course, he could see this, and so could others. And it was faster and more crazy than he imagined.

In recent days, several film company bosses have gotten his contact information from nowhere, and are asking him to star in movies. Just dramas like "The Butcher on a Rainy Night"! Everyone regards Wu Xiaozu as a boy who attracts wealth!

I don’t know how many people are jealous and greedy with the box office of tens of millions.

With such a small talent, there is probably no genre that is more suitable than horror movies. Countless small companies have seen the opportunity to make a lot of money and are eager to give it a try!

Movies adapted from real cases like "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" are especially favored and followed by film companies.

It is foreseeable that movies disguised as thrillers will appear frequently in theaters in the near future. After all, "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" has set an example, so there is no reason not to follow suit!

In this situation, Wu Xiaozu could only shake his head and smile bitterly. He would not lead the Hong Kong film industry astray and accelerate the "evolution" process at the same time, right?

According to what he heard, murder cases in the 1960s and 1970s have become targets for film companies to set up projects. Some even went directly to the police station to solve the cases, and the cases were already in the 1950s!

I can only admire the execution ability of Hong Kong people! They are not good at doing serious things, but they are just the best when it comes to opportunism!

Horror movies seem to have become popular in the eyes of major companies overnight. It is obvious that New Art City and Debao are interested in it.

The trend of strange cases is unprecedented!

The strange case style itself is not Wu Xiaozu’s original work.

In the early 1970s, the Film, Television and Entertainment Administration and the police relaxed location restrictions on TV stations, which led to the rise of realistic dramas. This is the main reason for the rise of mystery-style and reality-themed TV dramas.

At this time, Li's took advantage of the situation and created the "Top Ten Mysterious Cases" TV series, which became a sensation.

However, no one has tried it in movies. The emergence of horror murder movies like "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" with a mystery style has allowed Hong Kong filmmakers to see a new direction in thrillers.

………

Dragon City Ice Room, third floor.

A pair of long legs were draped on the wooden table, straight and slender. His body was leaning on the chair, with a drawing board covering his face, and all he could hear was the rustling of pencils.

"Brother Zu, coffee." Su Liyao put the coffee on the table. Seeing Wu Xiaozu concentrating on his work, he didn't say much and went downstairs to help.

Putting away his pencil, Wu Xiaozu stretched his body and twisted his neck, making a snapping sound.

The new play emphasizes the sense of space and image, and Wu Xiaozu needs to express some of the images in his mind in the form of storyboards.

Storyboards are more intuitive and visual than scripts.

During the filming process, the director can use storyboards to convey the shots he wants to express.

In later generations, storyboards were very simple and could be made directly using a computer. But now, the director is required to draw one stroke at a time. Each director's artistic skills are different, which also creates different hand-drawn drafts of the shots.

The great director Hitchcock has great painting skills. Just like his movies, his hand-drawn sketches can be read as horror and suspense comics. Needless to say, Cameron’s driver, Jack painted a nude picture of Rose when filming The Ship. It came from his hand.

Of course, not every director in Hollywood knows how to draw. At this time, Hollywood already has a dedicated draftsman painter, and the industrialization of films is not just talk.

In Hong Kong, there are only a few directors with real academic background. Tsui Hark should be considered one of the few directors who likes to draw storyboards.

Tsui Hark is a film major and he has been fond of comics since he was a child. Therefore, his storyboards have a strong comic style. He belongs to a cartoonist who was delayed by making movies. Don't be surprised if he suddenly changes his profession and becomes a comic author.

Words like storyboards and hand-drawn scripts are just a fantasy in the Hong Kong film industry. When Tsui Hark told the story to the New Arts City Seven, Eric Tsang was dumbfounded. It wasn't until Tsui Hark explained that he understood.

It just so happens that in the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry, filmmakers with wild backgrounds like Eric Tsang account for a large part. This has led to a very strange phenomenon in the Hong Kong Island film industry - a weak foundation. This is true for directors and producers, and even more so for actors.

The room was filled with the sound of rustling drawings. From time to time, Wu Xiaozu put down his pen, picked up the coffee on the window sill, and looked out the window with empty eyes. He was imagining the plot of the new drama in his mind.

On the storyboard, there was first a picture of two women, one large and one small, hugging each other tightly. It could be clearly seen that their hands and feet were tied, and their expressions were panicked and frightened.

Turning to the next page, a man is standing on an empty street with a gun pointed at another man, forming a confrontation. Turning down, there are four pictures, close-ups of the two men's feet, both of which are chained. Button.

Scroll down to see a panoramic composition, in an empty room, two men fell on both sides in pain and despair. Between them, a corpse fell to the ground, with blood flowing into a river.

In the blank space next to the picture, there are four big characters: "Chamber of Fear".

"Life or death is in your own hands!"

"Many people are alive but cannot be grateful..."

There are a lot of quotes next to the picture. If future generations see this sentence, they will definitely know that these are all from "Saw"!

That's right, the new movie that Wu Xiaozu is planning to shoot is a movie adapted from "Saw". He calls it "The Chamber of Fear".

The name is frustrating, but there is nothing I can do about it. Hong Kong movies have always had this name. For the sake of box office, he could only choose this Hong Kong comic style name.

Like the first film, Wu Xiaozu also plans to refine the core elements of "Saw" for this "Fear Room" and innovate and adapt the story.

Although Wan Tsai-yan is Chinese, the values ​​​​of his films are completely Western-style cultural core. This concept has not been fully integrated into the East in later generations, let alone Hong Kong Island in the 1980s.

Breaking out of the limitations of the film, Wu Xiaozu simply chose to use the "fatalism" and "causality" that are more acceptable in Hong Kong or Southeast Asia to interpret the tone of the film. For this kind of coincidence, if you do evil, you will be punished by yourself!

Things like fate and karma are very popular in Hong Kong Island. If you watch ghost movies and zombie movies produced in Hong Kong, most of them have this element. It seems that Chinese people are more willing to believe in reincarnation than "salvation".

Therefore, in the storyboard, darkness, rain, dark streets, dim lights, teahouses and restaurants, etc., have become things that often appear when Wu Xiaozu interprets this black plot of reincarnation. "The Chamber of Fear" is extremely Hong Kong-like. In the film

In the painting, Wu Xiaozu chose the iconic image of "Guan Gong" to appear in the composition to express his intention.

As for whether it is a bit risky? But then again, which movie is not risky?

Before any movie is shot, it is impossible to predict whether the movie will really be accepted by the audience. Even if Wu Xiaozu were to plagiarize "A Better Tomorrow", he would not be exactly the same as Wu Yusen's version.

The lighting design, the use of lenses, the transitions of the screen, the characters' dialogue and the feeling the director gives to the movie will all make a huge difference.

If the time is turned back and Wu Yusen is allowed to reshoot, maybe "A Better Tomorrow" will be a different story.

Because during filming, Ajie, played by Zhang Guoyi, was actually the leading actor in the true sense! The emotional connection between him and Zhu Baoyi runs through the entire movie. However, during the final editing, Wu Yusen cut out these scenes.

That's all.

Zhu Baoyi has also become the female lead with the least appearance. Of course, Zhu Baoyi is better than the second female lead. At least she still has a camera. And the second female lead? The answer is yes, Brother Di Lun actually has emotional scenes...

Xiao Ma was just a temporary guest star. Neither he nor Di Lun was the reason why the investors actually paid for the film studio to make this high-investment movie. It wasn't until Zhang Guoyi was found that the investors were willing to pay...

No two leaves are exactly the same in the world.

Later, the theatrical version of the epic masterpiece "Kingdom of Heaven" shot by Hollywood director Ridley Scott and his director's cut were simply two movies. The same movie by the same director are so completely different, not to mention the so-called

copy?

“When oranges grow in Huainan, they become tangerines; when oranges grow in the north of Huaihe, they become tangerines.”

Those who mechanically copy movies and think they will sell well at the box office are simply a joke.

Copying is never a panacea. If you think that copying is equal to success, then I can only congratulate you. It means that you are really young and in your prime, and your IQ is as slow as your breasts.

Even if there are successful precedents in previous lives, the movie is not a copy and paste. If the movie is really a copy and paste, it will lose its most charming charm, and not so many people will like it.

Artistic creation itself varies from person to person. Of course, except for inherent bugs.

"Wolf Warrior 2" is very good and great, but do you think that if you change the time and place and copy it, it will be copied successfully and it will still be as popular?

The answer is a question mark.

Therefore, every movie released is a gamble on the market. It just so happens that Wu Xiaozu considers himself a good gambler.

Because he cherishes every hand of cards.

No matter whether it's good cards or bad cards, he can play his own style! This is true for "Rainy Night Butcher", and it's still true for "Horror Chamber". He never plays according to other people's rules. He will take the initiative in every gamble.

In your own hands.

Then, before he could take the initiative, Qiu Litao sprinkled blood all over his face, and he couldn't even wipe it off.
Chapter completed!