Movie Queen Development Plan

Chapter 171: Chapter 168 Tips on how to get actors to express themselves



A girl in a kimono, holding a dagger in her hand, slowly walked towards the elevator door.

Suddenly, the elevator door opened suddenly.

Several shaky puppets walked out of the elevator. They moved stiffly and made roars, looking like zombies.

The puppets walked towards the girl and raised their hands to attack her.

Facing these monsters, the girl frowned slightly.

Then, in the next second the girl scurried out like a cunning rabbit.

The dagger in her hand flashed a few cold rays, easily cutting the puppet into pieces.

The girl was as agile as a nimble cat, but her nimble skills and ferocity made her look like a well-trained vicious dog.

Her movements were smooth and flowing, without any fancy or unnecessary actions, and each cut was clean and neat.

Throat, head, chest, and lower abdomen.

The dagger flashed across these places gracefully and accurately, disintegrating the puppets one by one.

"Old Li, you did a great job."

Nanaya looked at the results on the screen and praised Li Wenshu generously.

Based on the results submitted by Li Wenshu this time, Nanaya believes that he is fully capable of serving as the action director of FSN in the future.

For Li himself, being able to serve as the action director of "Kara" and FSN may become a key experience for him to become the president of Tsuburaya in the future.

Even if Li Wenshu eventually gives up the election for the president of Tsuburaya, based on his past experience he will at least become one of the best action directors in Japan.

"Let's do this for this part of the footage." Nanaya stopped playing the footage. He was quite accepting of this result.

At this time, Nanaya and Li Wenshu were proofreading in Lin Bao's film room, and Nanaya was reviewing the rough cuts that had just been made.

These shots look extremely simple because no special effects have been added yet, but with Nanaya's editing, they have already taken shape as a finished film.

"Although it's not exactly what I thought, these can be solved with special effects."

Nanaya commented, pinching his chin.

"I thought you were going to ask me to retake it."

Li Wenshu said jokingly.

"How could that be?"

Nanaya shook his head, patted Li Wenshu's shoulder and said, "You've done a good job. Let me handle the rest."

"Even though you said that, the special effects of the movie still have to be done by my team, right? Doesn't that mean I have to take over?"

A drop of cold sweat ran down Li Wenshu's temple.

"That seems to be the case. Then Lao Li, just do your best! Haha!"

Nanaya laughed without any conscience.

When filming the dock scenes, Nanaya discovered that both the actors and the action director Li Wenshu were in very good condition.

Considering the free time of other actors, Nanaya simply modified the original shooting plan.

He completed the filming of all the action scenes for the two films, "Remaining Pain" and "Spiral", in advance.

Except for a small number of shots involving a lot of special effects, which Nanaya shot himself, most of the shots were shot by Li Wenshu.

What Nanaya does is more about supervision and review.

Although it seems that Nanaya is the one who is being lazy, the director's original position in the crew is to be the chief coordinator.

If all shots have to be shot by the director himself, then why do all film awards separate the director award and the photography award?

As a director, it is more important for him to maximize the work efficiency of all crew members than to shoot the scenes himself with the camera.

If Nanaya does everything by himself, he estimates that he will have malnutrition before he turns 40.

So, for the sake of her hair, Nanaya decided to try to let go.

Nanaya shot almost all the previous "Overlooking the Scenery" and "Goblin Slayer" by himself, which almost made him die from overwork.

Therefore, Nanaya thought that it would be better for him to try to learn to be lazy, so that he would not have to buy Zhang Guang 101 before he turned 50.

What's more, shooting action scenes is a very tiring task in itself. Even if Nanaya is not in charge of the camera, it is still a lot of work to coordinate.

And because of the special nature of action scenes, all kinds of accidents are inevitable.

It is inevitable that stunt actors will get injured accidentally.

Even the lead actress, Ryougi Shiki, sprained her ankle because she lost her balance while filming a running scene.

Fortunately, it was just a normal sprain, and I resumed filming after resting for two days.

If something serious were to happen, Nanaya felt that Ori would never let him go.

Of course, this is also related to the tight shooting schedule. In order to allow other actors in the movie to catch up with the schedules of other projects, Nanaya can only speed up his progress as much as possible.

Unlike Hollywood, Japanese movies and TV series have strict shooting schedules.

In addition, the Japanese entertainment industry has an almost paranoid demand for credit, which leads to the filming progress of Japanese movies and TV series being very stuck.

The most obvious difference is that if the actor is not in the right state, the shot will not look good.

Hollywood directors usually use a tough attitude to force actors to perform over and over again until they finally get the feel for it.

When Japanese directors encounter this situation, the first thing they think of is to modify the plot and skip this part.

What should we do if the actors are not in good condition?

Change the plot.

What should I do if there is a problem with the props?

Change the plot.

What should an actor do if he has facial paralysis?

Change the setting, this character has facial paralysis.

I heard that James Cameron was filming the banquet scene in Titanic got furious simply because the prop meal lacked a White Star Line logo.

To this end, he not only postponed the filming of the banquet scenes, but also spent 2 million to redo the tableware props.

Although this logo never appeared in the finished film of "Titanic".

If it were a Japanese crew, they would definitely not think about how to change the props when encountering this situation, but would directly modify the banquet plot and change it to eating Indian pilaf.

Japanese directors also know that this is not a good solution, but at least there will be no delays in the release date.

After all, being late is much more serious than being cursed by the audience. The latter can continue to get jobs with the support of big shots, but the former will be GG for his entire career.

Although Nanaya himself belongs to the Japanese entertainment circle, he is more deeply influenced by Hollywood because of his previous life.

When faced with difficulties, he tends to grind through them.

It's just that as a director with a salary of 70 billion, he has the capital to do so, and no one else in the crew can say anything.

But the other actors have to rush to other film schedules and can't stay with Nanaya.

For this reason, the only solution Nanaya could think of was to speed up the shooting progress and extend the shooting time.

Although it is a bit torturous, it is still very good considering the current effect.

At least by December, Nanaya had finished filming the action scenes for two movies and started preparing for the literary scenes.

You know, this not only speeded up the filming progress of the movie, but also allowed Tsuburaya to start post-production in advance.

This has accelerated the production progress of the entire film.

"Hey, Mikiya."

In a single-room apartment, Ryougi Shiki blushed as she extended her hand to the actor who played Kokutou Mikiya.

Although Shiki tried to keep his face as calm as possible and wanted to appear as strong as usual.

But her slightly trembling hands and shy expression still showed the actor's shyness.

"Key..."

"What?" Confusion appeared on Mikiya's face.

Ryougi Shiki slowly stood up and walked in front of Mikiya. She had a conflicted expression with gritted teeth, as if she wanted to eat Mikiya.

"Give me the key to Mikiya's apartment too..." Shiki looked away, "Only Mikiya has my key... He's so sneaky."

"Cut! Very good! This one passed."

Nanaya said to Ryougi Shiki, "The girl's shyness is showing."

"Fuck you! Nanaya Kiryu, you pervert, go to hell!"

When Nanaya shouted "Cut", the expression on Ryougi Shiki's face completely relaxed. She quickly pulled the soles of her feet twice and then threw something that was still vibrating at Nanaya's face.

Nanaya calmly turned off the massager and handed the props to the stage manager beside him.

"It's your fault that you can't show a shy girl's expression. If you can do it yourself, I won't borrow props."

Although "Kara no Kyoukai" is a special effects movie with a tight plot, it also tells a love story.

Therefore, a girl in love is an absolutely indispensable link.

Although considering the characters, there are no kissing scenes between Ryougi Shiki and Mikiya Kokutou.

But it would be unacceptable if Ryougi Shiki didn't blush or show any shyness throughout the entire movie.

Don't underestimate the role of love elements in Japanese films. It is very important for the addition of a Japanese film.

I have said before that love is a scarce resource in Japanese society. After all, most Japanese couples have very little love in their relationships.

Social responsibility and family responsibility, these things other than emotional factors are the key factors in forming a Japanese family.

This can be seen from the fact that in Japanese, "lover" refers to lover rather than wife.

It is said that you should make up for what you lack.

Precisely because they cannot get it themselves, Japanese audiences are extremely persistent in pursuing love on the screen.

Therefore, if a Japanese movie adds a love element, the box office will at least increase by 10 to 20 percent.

However, I don't know if it's a trait of the Ryougi family, but Ryougi Shiki is not very good at acting as a woman in love, just like her brother Ryougi Ori.

In the original "Overlooking the Scenery", Nanaya directly kicked his junior brother with his foot to get the expression he wanted.

But now Nanaya is facing his elder sister Ryougi Shiki. He can't just kick a girl's butt, right?

So, Nanaya could only borrow some tools - and stick the electric massage tool on the soles of Ryougi Shiki's feet.

The effect was very good. Ryougi Shiki started shaking and her face turned red because of the strange feeling on the soles of her feet. She had to put on a patient expression in order not to laugh.

But the effect was achieved, and Nanaya completely pissed off Ryougi Shiki.

"No forgiveness! Absolutely no forgiveness!"

Ryougi Shiki grabbed Nanaya's neck and yelled loudly, while the other members of the crew were quietly packing up their things, pretending they heard nothing.

"How dare you play with a young girl's feet like this! You pervert, I will never forgive you!"

"Don't make me sound like a scumbag!"

"Isn't it?!"

In the end, Nanaya had to promise to treat Ryougi Shiki to dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel before the other party finally let him go.

"but..."

Looking at Shiki who was posing in a victory pose, Nanaya's mouth twitched slightly: "Have I fallen into this girl's trap?"

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