Chapter 827: Seriousness and Focus
On the day of the accident, it was actually late March.
After more than 20 days of continuous shooting, the crew, whether it was the actors or the behind-the-scenes staff, was actually exhausted for a long time.
According to what they said behind the scenes, I'm afraid that only Jun Shao is still doing things with a hundred times more energy.
No matter which one it is, even if it is a cast and crew who didn't know anything about Yin Jun before, this time they all admired him so much.
Before 7 o'clock in the morning, Yin Jun must have appeared at the filming site, and seriously discussed the details of the scene to be filmed today with Yuan Kui and Wen Jun.
During the day, not to mention the rhythm of the whole process, after everyone finishes work in the evening, Yin Jun will try to edit some clips with Yuan Kui, Zhang Yaozong, Huang Yuezhu and others, discussing which shot to use and which shot to discard.
Until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Yin Jun will take the car home to rest, and then come back again after 6 o'clock the next day.
Even if Yin Jun didn't do anything when he went home, he only had 5 hours of rest when he was full.
On such days, there is no problem with persistence for one day or two, but more than 20 days are uninterrupted, and every day is a hundred times more energetic, without a little slack, which is not something that ordinary people can do.
Or it can be said that there are basically few directors or producers who can do it.
Many actors and staff are saying that if it weren't for the injury of the hero and heroine this time, Junshao would definitely have worked hard until the end of the film.
There are already many people who have given Yin Jun the nickname "Iron Man".
It is very, very rare for a director and producer to be able to do this, let alone a super-rich man like Yin Jun with assets of 4 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Because it is sufficient, it is precious.
With Yin Jun's extremely serious attitude, how can you say that the cast and crew don't follow along?
Of course, they are almost at the limit, and their mistakes have increased a lot recently.
Even if it weren't for Fei Xiang and Zhong Chuhong's accident this time, it would be easy to make other mistakes.
This also reminded Yin Jun that you can't blindly pursue progress in making movies, and proper relaxation is also a necessary step.
Speaking of which, a crew like Yin Jun, who shoots for one day is equal to the energy of others filming for three days or more, if they are tense all the time, it will not be easy to produce results.
Why are many directors in Hong Kong able to finish a movie in a week or two?
Because most of them rely on stories to promote films, rely on the performances of characters, and rarely rely on external forces - that is, the so-called Hollywood film industry system.
If you think about it, it's just a few people acting, at most changing some scenes, and then love and hate come up in turn, and finally come to a vigorous or happy movie, isn't it much easier?
Like Hollywood, there is a big scene at every turn, the big dinosaur of Lao Si at every turn, the big ship of the truck driver, the crazy explosion of the bomb shell, the magnificent Middle-earth of Jackson, the hero of the Marvel Universe...... The effect of these rotational bombing is more attractive than that of pediatrics like Xiangjiang movies!
Movies that rely on acting skills are divided into regions.
Oriental movies, such as the blockbuster "Thai Embarrassment" and "Blooming Heart", are not very popular in the United States.
On the other hand, "The Silence of the Lambs", "Forrest Gump", "The Strange Man of the Bell Tower" and so on in the United States are not very popular in China.
But those big productions are different.
There are amazing special effects, and the content with the spirit of justice, struggle, bravery, unyielding, resistance, victory, etc., which are loved by all human beings, although it is a little rougher, but it can be eaten all over the world with one move.
Therefore, after Hollywood paid more and more attention to the Chinese market after 2015, most of the movies they brought to China were such movies.
As a result, it has also achieved a super high box office and occupied half of the box office in China.
Yin Jun knew where their success came from, so he naturally wanted to use their routine to contribute to the film market in Europe, America and even the world in the past.
The film industry, we can do it from now on!
With exquisite and grand special effects, with the story connotation of our Chinese people to match these special effects blockbusters, you can't say that they can't be compared to Hollywood works, right?
"Speed of Life and Death" is the first step for Yin Jun to start a special effects blockbuster.
The current industrial and electronic level can only let Yin Jun choose it.
In fact, there are a lot of reluctances in this.
To put it simply, in 1994's "Speed of Life and Death", mobile phones are very common communication tools, but now?
In 1981, the first mobile phones were not yet commercially available.
But Yin Jun didn't care, when the actor stopped the convertible sports car for the first time and chased the bus, he added a conversation when chatting with the owner of the car sitting next to him.
"Oh, what are you? cordless phone, wireless intercom?"
"You bun, this is the mobile phone developed by my uncle, and it has not yet been listed in Xiangjiang, I secretly took out the test machine, which can talk to the whole city!"
"Well, I'm requisitioning!"
"Damn!"
This explanation, although a bit far-fetched, is also in the past, otherwise it is inexplicable - how to run around with a cordless phone?
For another example, everyone knows that the Heung Kong Police Force does not have helicopters on duty at all, but helicopters are indispensable in the movie.
Yin Jun could only rent two helicopters from Aomen, spray them with paint, and convert them into police helicopters.
And the teenager also promised the Heung Kong Police Station that once "Life and Death" was a big hit, then he would donate two additional helicopters to the police force, which made the police inspectors very excited.
However, the most important thing about "Speed of Life and Death" is the thrill of racing against time, and these subsections should not be a big problem.
Under Yin Jun's omission, "Speed of Life and Death" is much more meticulous and meticulous than in the previous life, not to mention that Hollywood special effects blockbusters in the future are full of loopholes, and they are still big hits, which is to tell people a truth, as long as you are good enough, then people can be willing to turn a blind eye to your lack of excellence.
There is one more digression here.
It's about Mercedes.
Mercedes-Benz paid 2 million Hong Kong dollars and provided all the necessary cars as a condition, so that the crew of "Life and Death" used their cars.
As a result, the off-road vehicles, buses, police vehicles, etc. driven by Fei Xiang himself have become their pockets.
Only when the bus is rampage on the street, it is a large number of scrap cars and old cars of other brands.
But it was this scene that the president of Mercedes-Benz (Asia) who came to watch saw it.
Seeing the Mercedes-Benz bus with a trident on its head, so rampage hitting all kinds of vehicles, he inexplicably had a sense of excitement.
Because this means that the Mercedes Benz will run over the rest of the cars!
For this reason, he deliberately shot 1 million on the spot, and let the movie camera add two more conspicuous close-ups to the Mercedes-Benz logo of the bus, and then he knows that the investment in "Life and Death" must exceed 120 million Hong Kong dollars, and your millions of sponsorships have no way to influence their general direction.
Originally, the president also proposed another plan, that is, to let the collision of the vehicles, more BMW.
As long as Yin Jun agrees, he is willing to pay another 2 million Hong Kong dollars, and the car is provided by Mercedes-Benz, and the cost of reshooting the footage is also a Mercedes-Benz bag.
Yin Jun refused without thinking about it.
You're kidding!
It's cool for you to do this, but I've offended the world's second-largest luxury car manufacturer, and after that, how can I work with them in filmmaking?
So the president of Mercedes-Benz returned in a huff, but Yin Jun had reason to believe that when the movie was released, he should laugh again.
If it weren't for the fact that he had never had the experience of making global films, he wanted to win all the important vehicle logos for just 2 million Hong Kong dollars?
Dream on!
At least $2 million.
Of course, Mercedes-Benz is also the highest one.
The rest of the sponsor brands, such as clothes, big gold watches, etc., add up to only two or three million Hong Kong dollars.
This is related to the current atmosphere of film advertising in Xiangjiang, and it is also related to the influence of Xiangjiang films in the world.
If "Life and Death" were in Hollywood, invested by a big company and directed by a big director, the price of various sponsorships would have doubled many times.
Mercedes-Benz is because he saw the influence expressed in "Police Detective School", and he invested in Yin Jun, a genius, in advance, so he gave so much.
Others, including Yu Zheng, the general manager of Kirin Film Company, felt that this was picked up for nothing and made a lot of money.
But Yin Jun held his breath.
Just wait.
After the success of "Speed of Life and Death", you will know what the advertising placement price of an international production is.
It's just that although advertising placement is one of the best ways to reduce costs, Yin Jun also knows how to do it.
For example, crazy product placement advertisements like "Big Shot" make the film less artistic and entertaining, which is not advisable.
The advertising placement of the entire Audi car running through "Destiny Express 4" has completely become an advertising video for the Audi car, which is also undesirable, and the box office fiasco was found by myself.
Teenagers are more interested in less but more refined advertising placement.
There are not too many types of advertisements, and there are not many scenes that appear.
Only at a critical time, a few strokes with the finishing touches are enough to make people shine.
For example, in "Shaolin Football", when the third senior brother Tian Ji replaced the fourth senior brother to guard the goal, in the face of an incomparably powerful enemy, he stood tremblingly in front of the goal, and the only action was to silently take out a mobile phone and call his wife, which made people's blood boil and sad.
The name of this mobile phone is still remembered by Yin Jun.
NOKIA。
In the lens that can stir your heart so inadvertently, such an advertisement appears, which is a classic of success!