Chapter 591 [Second Seed, Final Edit]
Grieg Berlanti will regularly report to Warner's senior management for the work of Liang Kun on the crew of "Quick Chase". This is what Warner requires. Many people want to know how powerful Liang Kun is and whether he can make a good action movie.
Their biggest doubt about working with Liang Kun is that he has never directed an action movie before. DC superhero movies are not just action movies, but also special effects blockbusters, and Liang Kun's steps are a bit big.
As a result, Liang Kun completed the filming work perfectly, exceeding everyone's expectations. None of the crew dissatisfied him, especially two deputy directors, cameraman and producer Grig.
The main creators couldn't tell the fault of Liang Kun's shooting and learned a lot.
Although Liang Kun only has B-level director skills, he has learned the shooting techniques of two great directors, Michael Bay and Christopher Nolan. If he wants to get to A-level, he only needs to accumulate experience. When he makes a big production movie and integrates the knowledge of making blockbusters with the assistance of the system, it should be almost done.
The actors admire Liang Kun's acting skills. Although the male protagonist has not many literary dramas, he is still outstanding. Everyone can see how Liang Kun is very involved in the show. He gives people the feeling that he is either performing or that killer!
Several actors who acted against him even said that they felt the murderous aura emitted from Liang Kun. Even if they knew they would not be injured, the pressure to shoot action scenes with him was also very high.
Keanu Reeves' movies will never make the audience feel uncomfortable. His performance is not hard, unlike "Little Little Little" who occasionally exerts too much force in various expressions. The characters he plays have some of their own temperament, a little serious, and a little melancholy.
Liang Kun is obviously better than Keanu's acting skills, so he played this killer alive. He can use his eyes and body language to make people feel John Wick's emotional fluctuations. He is very killing, but he is not a reckless man. He can think calmly when doing things. At the same time, he has a tendency to self-destruct, and he is tired of living.
After the performance skills are upgraded to A-level, Liang Kun will not be too bad in anything he plays, unless there is a problem with the setting of this character.
Warner executives began to regard Liang Kun as the second seed among co-directors, and of course Nolan was No. 1 seed.
Liang Kun is definitely not comparable to Nolan, because the box office of "The Dark Knight" in North America was as high as US$552 million, which is second only to "Titanic" in the rankings.
The global box office of the movie is about to exceed $1 billion, surpassing the 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean 3, ranking fifth in history. This film is only 10 million away from the 974 million box office of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".
There are still many countries around the world that can contribute to the box office. It is only a matter of time before the global box office of "The Dark Knight" exceeds 1 billion, which means they will rise to the fourth place in history.
Warner is optimistic about Liang Kun's potential, and he may not be unable to make movies with super high box office in the future. Grigg reported that his filming of "Quick Chase" is not only fast, but also high quality, and there is not much waste material.
This is the benefit of the simple story of the movie. The plot is just like that, and a main line runs through the end. Besides the scenes of being shot and blood, the movie does not require special effects or post-processing. As long as the protagonist in this kind of film is very skilled, the director will not be able to slow down even if he wants to film it slowly.
In order to pursue the sense of reality, Liang Kun was shot in real life and he had never used Wiya much.
The scene where he carried a strong man up and threw him down the stairs in a nightclub was used by Wia, and it was filmed separately. He threw the other person out first, then switched the camera and took the scene of the extras falling downstairs. Of course, the actor didn't really fall down from the upstairs, but jumped down from a low table and fell to the ground, and no one was injured.
The movie is a visual magic. After processing it in the post-production, editing the two sets of shots together, making it feel like a person falls off from a high place.
After the filming, the editing is about to be prepared. Liang Kun is only responsible for the first editing of the film and has no final editing rights. This is already under his expectations, so he is not depressed at all.
Warner's attitude has always been: "If you want the final editing right? Go out and turn right, so you can leave without sending it."
Even if the final editing rights are not given, Warner still has the ability to hire a front-line director. Although directors with ideals and confidence will hope that they can edit their works themselves, looking at the entire Hollywood, as long as they cooperate with large companies, they will insist on the final editing rights, and even fewer people will truly gain this power.
Big Pictures has big capital in hand and does not have to worry about not being able to find a director with the same creative philosophy to cooperate with. The first thing they need to guarantee is box office results, and secondly, to win awards.
Warner is shifting his focus to the series of movies, gradually reducing investment in small and medium-cost art films. The series of movies has a deep audience base, easy story routines, and box offices come quickly. Why not do it?
In recent years, unless the series has been formed, Warner's small and medium-cost original films have almost disappeared. These types of films have begun to turn more to independent production, including romantic comedies, horror movies, and family movies.
What satisfied Liang Kun the most was that when he came up with the script of "Quick Chase", he said that there was a sequel plan.
After the movie was filmed, Liang Kun still lived a fulfilling life. While editing the movie with Grig, he lived a cohabitation with Teresa in his New York apartment.
Listening to Liang Kun's words, Teresa never took on new films, but just went back to Australia for vacation and participated in several variety shows. Her relationship with her parents improved, and she knew that she was getting better and better in Hollywood, and her parents began to support her career.
There was no reason not to support them. Teresa made a lot of money back and bought a big house for her parents in Australia. Although the child did not like to stay at home, she was still filial.
After returning to the United States, Teresa immediately went to New York to find Liang Kun. They all stayed in New York before finishing the editing of the movie.
After the Olympics, Teresa admired Liang Kun even more and thought he was the most powerful man in the world. The two had endless things to say, even if they had talked about some of them while online.
Liang Kun and Grig had a tacit understanding during the editing, and there were almost no differences except for some small details. What Liang Kun wanted to make was a pure commercial film, a violent aesthetic action film. The plot depth and discussion of human nature are not all.
When Warner producers hold the final editing right tightly, they mostly consider it from the perspective of pure commercial interests. When the movie is in theaters, the more time fits the audience's traditional viewing habits, the more popular the box office is. The second is the content. In art films, the more personal and obscure the plot, the more likely it is to be "scissors hand".
There are no such things in the movies made by Liang Kun, and they are all content that audiences love to watch. This is what he did when he directed the first movie "Happy Death Day". Paramount people thought it was great, and the final editing was exactly the same as his ideas.
In name, Liang Kun does not have the final editing rights, but in fact he has it, because the producer Grig admires him so much that he is impressed by him. He doesn't believe that he can cut it better than Liang Kun, so the two of them can discuss it.
Warner mainly asked them to work together to find a feeling. If the box office of the first "Quick Chase" hits the box office, they will definitely work together again. If a director can grasp the final editing rights, it proves that the director himself is already a golden sign. Liang Kun is too young, so Warner is not looking down on him when he looks for stability when he finds someone to stare at him.
The initial cut was completed quickly, and the quality was as exquisite as the final editing. Just do a good job of the special effects of the shot effect and you can simply enter the theater directly.
Liang Kun only worked for more than five weeks in total, which was the production speed of Xiangjiang movies back then. Xiangjiang movies were mainly kung fu movies. When a group of people fight and don’t pay much attention to literary dramas, the shooting speed would be astonishingly fast.
Literary dramas test the actors' acting skills, not just the protagonists. If the supporting roles are performed too poorly, the audience will be disconnected from the play, and the whole movie will be ruined.
The key to the action scenes is to play beautifully, like Guo... Oh, Bu Ajie, who made tough guy movies of the same type in succession, and still became a B-level male god.
There is no need to worry about the absence of audiences in action movies, even if this actor is always a way of acting. As long as he can smile, frown and stare, he can be as good as a diving athlete as a diving athlete.
After editing, Grigg admired Liang Kun even more and said that he had never seen a more exciting action movie. Liang Kun played very coolly, and it was all the actions that could be made in reality. There was no exaggeration, and he did not hang a wire at once.
Before, when Chinese actors made action movies, they took a dexterous route. They couldn't kill a person for most of the day and showed off their operations. Liang Kun broke this convention and killed 116 people in just one movie, which was simply a god of killing.
"I don't care about what's going on next. When will the movie be released?" Liang Kun asked.
"This depends on how the company's people arrange it. You should be on this drama very quickly." Grigg smiled.
"Then I'll go to Los Angeles to wait for news first." Liang Kun rented a villa for a long time and no one lived in the car, and the car was left in the garage for a long time.
"What are you going to do next? If nothing is going to happen, why not stay in New York?"
"I want to go to Los Angeles to practice tennis, and the environment there is more suitable for sports than New York," Liang Kun explained.
Liang Kun doesn’t like New York. His feelings here are always uncomfortable and depressing. Because New York is too crowded and old, the population density is much larger than that of Los Angeles.
According to statistics, the permanent population density of New York is more than 10,000 people per square kilometer. How much is this crowded?
What’s even more terrifying is that most people in New York live in four major outer areas and go to Manhattan to work every day. This makes Manhattan’s population almost twice as many as the permanent population during the working day, reaching more than 3 million. While Manhattan itself has an area of only 59 square kilometers, the population density is simply terrible.
Liang Kun will only feel comfortable when he visits New York in his dream. In the movie "Avengers", the Zitaris attacked the earth and did not see them killing a few people. It was definitely a miracle.
Liang Kun and Teresa did not leave separately and took a plane to Los Angeles together.
Chapter completed!