Chapter 480 In Preparation

Dongying Taiqin Film Village, in the conference room of the hotel.

"First of all, we need to clarify the action characteristics of our movie." Luo Quan was talking in front of the stage. Opposite him sat a group of middle-aged uncles who were more than twice his age. These are all deputy action directors supported by Sony. , assistant director and cinematographer.

It is impossible for a large-scale production to be made by the director alone. To complete a film of this size, hundreds or thousands of people must work together to achieve it.

Now, she is providing technical guidance to the senior producer of the film:

"I have studied a lot of samurai action movies on the market, and most of them, like "Zatoichi," focus on the art of drawing a sword, especially the process of drawing and holding the sword.

It is true that the beautiful Iai Slash is indeed very enjoyable to watch, but if there is only such a single action, it would be too monotonous. After all, not any movie can be as exciting and violent as "Zatoichi".

In addition, these recent action movies place too much emphasis on the so-called actual combat effects, and their viewing value is not high enough. This needs to be changed. "

Luo Quan's remarks were quickly questioned by action director Musashi: "Director, practicality is the mainstream now. Everyone likes more realistic actions. If it is too flashy, what is the difference between it and science fiction movies?"

Luo Quan corrected: "I don't mean that being realistic is not good, I mean that on the premise of being realistic, make the fight as beautiful as possible, and it is acceptable to add a little exaggerated movements.

After all, this is a movie, not a documentary, and artistic processing is understandable. "

"But how to complete the action? Do you need to use Wia all the way?" Musashi thought of those classic Chinese martial arts movies, "Do we need to add concepts like light kung fu and internal strength?"

Japanese martial arts and Chinese martial arts basically follow different paths. Classic Chinese martial arts are all about floating on water, flying on grass, and creating a shock wave with one palm.

Japanese martial arts are somewhat similar to Hollywood action movies, with fierce fighting, full of blood, and more emphasis on visual impact.

"Of course I won't add these things." Luo Quan smiled, "I can complete most of the actions independently, and a few require wire connection. This is what I call an appropriate exaggerated expression technique."

After hearing what Luo Quan said, the uncles no longer had any doubts in their hearts. They had all heard about Director Luo's skills. He was a fierce man who could subdue five gunmen with his bare hands, even among the top special forces in the world. The elites may not be able to achieve this level even with bare hands.

If Luo Quan joins the action movie industry, none of the martial arts superstars around the world will be able to match her.

In every sense.

"The tone of the movie is like this for the time being, because there are so many action scenes that need to be shot. I definitely can't come up with the idea alone. Everyone, especially the action directors, can design some exciting and fancy fighting moves, which can be a little exaggerated. , it doesn’t matter even if it is divorced from reality.

Action movies are neither literary movies nor satirical movies. The first priority is to make the audience enjoy watching them. Luo Quan put his hands on the table and gave instructions to several "seniors" of the crew.

As the brains of the crew, she can determine every general direction of the film, but it is impossible to take care of every detail, and these require the help of other people in the crew.

After the meeting, Luo Quan sent the costume design drawings to a company that specializes in making costumes for costume films and TV dramas.

All that needs to be made are the costumes of the protagonist, so the workload is not very large.

As for the costumes for the extras, you can just wholesale and rent them at Toei Taiqin Film Village. This is the largest film and television base for filming costume dramas in Japan, and its status is the same as Hengdian in China.

Of course, it cannot compare to Hengdian in terms of scale or restoration of ancient buildings.

She has already found a group of performers with basic swordsmanship skills. Once the costumes are in place, she can ask the disciples from the Yagyu Kendo Gym to start work.

Speaking of which, these disciples can be regarded as helping the master's granddaughter. Moreover, the lead actor Luo Quan is also the idol of most of them, so this time everyone originally planned to perform the role free of charge.

However, Luo Quan is definitely not a stingy person. It is already a favor for someone to come and take pictures. If she lets people work for free again, even if these disciples don't mind, Mr. Yagyu will probably have some opinions about her.

Now she is not as strapped for money as she was when she was filming "Resident Evil" and had to borrow money from others to tide over the financial crisis. The salary given is basically above the market price, and the treatment is good.

Luo Quan has always felt that high investment can lead to high returns, and shoddy work will never succeed.

Therefore, when she makes a movie, the salary of the leading actor will never account for too much of the total cost.

Movies currently on the market often cost hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, and the salaries of popular stars directly account for half or more of the total investment.

The total budget is only that much, and if the majority of it is taken away by one person, you can only imagine what level of actors can be hired with the remaining money, and what kind of transformation can be produced.

This is where the five-cent special effects and plastic-textured costumes come from.

In the early days, capital blindly believed in the magic power of fresh traffic, and kept spending money to invite popular traffic to act in an attempt to get fans of the traffic to spend money for their idols, and then harvest leeks.

In the beginning, movies like this really made some money, and capital became increasingly greedy and cut costs more and more in terms of investment. At one time, the proportion of fresh meat film remuneration in the total investment reached more than 60%. .

And the result of this is that one after another, fans are photographed. Although fans are fanatical, they are not fools. They can be fooled once or twice because of love, but they cannot always be fooled.

As a result, all these capitals were lost in the overwhelming tide of bad movies.

Now, these capitals have become a little more enlightened, they have increased investment, and used the routine of matching traffic and old drama stars to increase the quality and reputation of movies, but not many actually make money.

Generally speaking, after several rectifications, China's film market is still showing a trend of good money driving out bad money. As long as it is a truly good movie, there is generally no need to worry about the box office.

Bad movies will no longer have as many people paying for them as before, and stars who make such movies will face more public criticism than before.

Luo Quan is filming in Japan this time. In fact, just looking at the leading role and the second female lead, they have some of the old and new roles that have been popular in China recently.

However, although Junko is a popular idol, she is not an experienced actress.

She is just a star who is more popular than Junko and has considerable influence in Japan.

She can't guarantee the box office appeal, but a small goal of about ten should be fine.

And as long as the quality of the movie is excellent, as word of mouth ferments, the box office will definitely be high rather than low.

Only then will she truly have box office appeal.

Therefore, for the movie "Rurouni Kenshin", Luo Quan would never choose to control costs like most movie investors.

In her opinion, it doesn't matter if you earn less, but building a good reputation is the key.

And word-of-mouth is usually reflected by the actors' wonderful performances.

As the starring role, Luo Quan will inevitably receive the most attention and bear the most responsibility.

The first step she took to take responsibility was to cut off her long hair that she had grown for several years.

"Cut your hair in half?!" In the barber shop, after hearing Luo Quan's request, Teacher Tony asked in a tone that was half disbelief and half regretful, "Luo Quan-sang, your waist-length blond hair is so beautiful, you really need it. Cut it off like this?”

"It's just for filming." Luo Quan seemed quite indifferent, "Besides, it's not like shaving your head, and it can still grow even if it's shaved."

As an actress, she doesn't do kissing scenes, passionate scenes, or sex scenes. In fact, she seems to be very limited in her acting career.

If you are not even willing to cut your hair, that would be a bit too willful and unprofessional.

Not to mention cutting her hair short, if it is required for a plot role, she will not hesitate even if she really has to shave her head.

"This is such a pity." Teacher Tony picked up the scissors and cut off Luo Quan's waist-length hair directly at the waist.

In the original work, Kenshin's hairstyle is air bangs and a ponytail that is not particularly long.

Her hair was obviously too long and the color was wrong, so after cutting it, she immediately dyed her beige-blonde hair reddish brown to match the original work to the greatest extent.

However, in addition to the hairstyle and color of the original Kenshin, there is also a cross scar on the left side of his face.

But this is definitely the job of the prop master. No matter how dedicated you are, there is no need to harm yourself.

And now her face is quite expensive. Not long ago, in order to celebrate her twentieth birthday, her father directly insured her face for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Then, her face was once again included in the Guinness Book of World Records, becoming the most valuable human organ in the world.

Although the matter sounds strange, it would be different if it were applied to Luo Quan. No one would think that Luo Quan's face was not worth so much money.

After underwriting the insurance, the insurance company regularly sent people to perform facial care on her face. For this action movie, Luo Quan also needed to report to the company in advance, and someone would be sent to the studio to follow her to ensure that no accidents occurred. Hurt her face.

It's very troublesome and unnecessary.

When Luo Quan learned about the insurance, he wanted to tell his father that her face was actually thick and hard, not as delicate as it looked, and the insurance was completely unnecessary.

But the money has been paid and the contract has been signed. It's too late to say anything else.

Luo Quan could only be thankful that this company would not let bodyguards surround her 24 hours a day, and would only appear when engaging in dangerous activities.

Like when she went to Paris Fashion Week before, these bodyguards didn't come.

Therefore, her daily life was not greatly affected.

His thoughts gradually drifted back, and Luo Quan's hair had been dyed.

She is quite satisfied with this new look.

In order to keep fans and audiences fresh, celebrities often change their looks, including hairstyle, makeup, clothing, etc.

Only Luo Quan's look remains unchanged for almost ten thousand years. What's interesting is that fans are not tired of the same Luo Quan at all.

But this time she took the initiative to change her look, and fans will probably be very happy.

"Luo Quan-sang, this is the hair you cut off." Teacher Tony walked over with a large bunch of soft golden hair in his right hand, which he had collected when he cut Luo Quan's hair just now.

In his opinion, the hair might be worth more than the same weight of gold, so he held it carefully with his hands before cutting it off.

After receiving these trouble threads, Luo Quan didn't know if there were three thousand in number, but his first thought was definitely that he didn't want them anymore.

I was originally going to go out to the barber shop and just find a non-recyclable trash can and throw it away, but after thinking about it, if it was picked up by a caring person, it would be a troublesome thing.

It's not that she's afraid of being used to lower her head. She doesn't believe in these superstitions at all. The main reason is that she's afraid that these things will be used and sold again.

The shoes she had worn before were sold for sky-high prices on Xianyu, not to mention the large amount of hair cut from her body.

After thinking about it for a while, Luo Quan asked for a plastic bag from Teacher Tony and put all the hair in it and kept it properly.

As for whether to burn it next or something else, that is a matter for later.

Anyway, the hair won't get rotten and smelly, so it doesn't matter if you leave it for a long time.

Putting on sunglasses and a mask, Luo Quan returned to the hotel room.

Junko was still reading in bed. Luo Quan first took out his mobile phone and took a selfie of his new look, and then shouted to Junko: "Junzi, see what's different about me today?"

"Isn't she beautiful again?" Junzi closed the book with a smile, raised her head and looked at Luo Quan, and then her eyes froze:

"You...you...when did you dye your hair?"

Luo Quan flipped up his hair: "Just now, I cut half of it off and then dyed it red."

"Wow, it is indeed much shorter than before. Your sacrifice must be too great." Junzi came to Luo Quan, looked at her hair, and sighed.

Luo Quan said with a serious face: "This is the professional quality that an actor should have. Not only me, you must also be aware of it."

"What enlightenment?" Junko hesitated.

"The consciousness to shave my head if the plot requires it."

"Ah!" Junko grabbed her hair, almost crying with fear.

Seeing this, Luo Quan quickly explained: "Don't react so bigly. I'm just making a metaphor. There is definitely no need to shave your head in this movie."

"It scared me to death. I thought I was going to shave my head this time." Junko breathed a sigh of relief, then clenched her fists and said firmly: "But, if you really want to shave your head, it's not impossible... .”

"It's good to have this awareness. If there is a chance for the next movie, I will definitely fulfill your wish." Luo Quan patted Junzi on the shoulder and laughed.

In Junko's eyes, the boss suddenly looked like a demon.