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Chapter 340

"Space and Space Warrior" won the North American championship for two consecutive weeks and won the global weekly box office championship, which made Zhang Ran's reputation reach its peak in China.

For a time, various labels such as "the hope of Chinese films", "genius director", and "magic director" were all attached to Zhang Ran, making Zhang Ran's reputation soar, and even when facing Zhang Yimou, it was not inferior.

However, Zhang Ran did not forget his words because of the media's flattery. He knew what he wanted. He also knew the truth that "the wood is so beautiful that the forest wind will destroy it". The more famous a director is, the higher the audience's expectations for you. As long as you make a slight mistake, it will inevitably lead to criticism. Just like Zhang Yimou's "Hero", if it was filmed by a young director with no fame, would he be scolded so badly?

Therefore, "The Aviator" cannot fail, and it is the most important thing to make "The Aviator".

It was already evening at this moment, and the crew of "The Aviator" was still busy, and now they were filming a bed scene.

Zhang Ran has no special affection for bed scenes, and of course he will not sneer at them. Like Yoji Yamada, I don’t shoot violence and nudity. Movies must be based on actual needs. Some movies are necessary. For example, "Lust and Caution" has six bed scenes, and these six bed scenes are six confrontations. Through the six bed scenes, you can see the transformation of the characters' psychology. If removed, the transformation of the characters will not be trusted. On the contrary, some movies are forced to add, and they have no impact on the movie. The bed scenes in "The Flowers of War" are something that Zhang Weiping insists on Zhang Yimou to add, for the convenience of hype later.

Nowadays, there are too many movies that use nude lenses and bed scenes as gimmicks to hype. They always have words like "passionate kisses" and "maximum scale", as if they will not promote them after leaving the bed.

Of course, smelling bed scenes is not a Chinese patent. Harvey started out by playing this. At the beginning of Miramax's establishment, Harvey bought a lot of European art films with nude lenses. He cut out these nude lenses and made them into trailers to attract audiences. However, now Harvey has made his career bigger and stronger, playing high-end things like Oscars, and he has long stopped playing pediatrics like bed scenes.

The scene Zhang Ran and the others are going to film today is when Liu Jiao and Qiao Zhengfei break up and marry the teacher played by Huang Lei. However, she still loves Qiao Zhengfei in her heart. One night before the wedding, she found Qiao Zhengfei and handed herself over to him.

It is said to be a bed scene, but in fact there are only kissing scenes, and the scenes in the latter are performed through empty shots. Simply put, this scene is mainly divided into three parts, Qiao Zhengfei and Liu Jiao kissing, and then pressing Liu Jiao onto the bed; then the camera switches, and the camera is aimed at a painting about the plane on the wall; next is the large panoramic view of the single dormitory, where Liu Jiao walked down from the upper floor and walked out of the camera.

This scene is very important for the movie. Zhang Ran hopes to be more beautiful. He requires the texture of the skin to be warm, beautiful and sexy. In order to create ideal lighting, Zhao Fei and the others are doing their best, making some low-color temperature lamps of 200w, and then using backlight to make contrast to capture the reflection on the skin.

Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu came back with makeup on, and Zhao Fei and the others were still lighting up, so they sat on the side and chatted. Zhang Ran took a breath, patted his chest, and exaggeratedly said: "Oh, I'm so nervous!"

Zhang Jingchu couldn't help rolling her eyes: "Nervous, will you be nervous?"

Zhang Ran said seriously: "Of course, this is my first kiss!"

Ning Hao and the others laughed. They said these words and were too thick-skinned. Zhang Jingchu couldn't help laughing: "You were in love with the little girl in the first day of the Chu Dynasty and kissed her for the first time. Are you shameless!"

"This is my first kiss on the screen. I'm really not used to doing such a thing in front of the camera." Zhang Ran laughed, "You have to take care of me later, senior!"

Zhang Jingchu was speechless: "It's the first time I'm fine!"

The preparations for the shooting were completed quickly, and Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu arrived at the performance area.

Ning Hao began to shout commands according to the standard process. When the command to "start" sounded, the recorder immediately raised the recorder, stood in front of the camera, and waited for the command to "play the board" to sound, he started the board.

Ning Hao glanced at Zhang Ran and shouted loudly: "Start!"

Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu walked into the dormitory. After entering the door, Zhang Jingchu locked the door.

Zhang Ran was stunned. Why did you lock the door? But before he could react, Zhang Jingchu had already hugged him. Zhang Ran was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and kissed her forehead. Zhang Jingchu looked up at Zhang Ran and slowly closed her eyes.

Zhang Ran hugged Zhang Jingchu's body tightly, looked at the twinkling big eyes, and kissed her seductive lips.

Zhang Jingchu began to repay Zhang Ran's body with both hands, closed her eyes slightly, and responded vigorously. Then Zhang Ran's body sided and overwhelmed Zhang Jingchu on the bed.

At this time, Zhao Fei pushed the camera from the No. 2 position to the wall according to the prior design, which was a brand new aircraft poster.

This is a typical empty shot. There are no characters or the main images of characters in the empty shot. In artistic films, the film's artistic expression and plot appeal are usually enhanced with its symbols, metaphors and other functions, and it usually has the artistic effect of expressing montage. For example, when someone is extremely bored, you can take an empty shot filled with cigarette butts and wisps of blue smoke; when someone is uneasy, you can take an empty shot with rain hitting the screen window.

In Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu", there is an empty shot of a butterfly breaking out of the cocoon. The symbol of Stephen Chow's experiences a lot of hardships and finally achieves the right result. Zhang Ran's use of this empty shot with an airplane poster also has strong symbolic significance, symbolizing the separation between dreams and reality, and has a strong tragic meaning.

Although it was an empty shot, the performances of Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu did not end. According to the plot of the movie, Qiao Zhengfei was still a little awake at this time and knew what the next action meant, so Zhang Ran said the line: "Why are you doing this? I can't give you anything!"

Zhang Jingchu replied: "I don't need you to give me anything. I think this is what I owe you. You should take her away. I don't need you to take any responsibility. I'm sorry for you."

Zhang Ran paused and said, "I don't want to hurt you. If I do this today, you will be unhappy in the future, and you will hate me."

Zhang Jingchu's smile was a little bitter: "No, I know what I am doing. Take away the things that belong to you. If you don't take them away, I will hate myself."

Zhang Ran's lips were printed on Zhang Jingchu's lips again and started kissing again. If it were a director like Lou Ye, Zhang Ran and the others should take off their clothes, take off their clothes naked, and then start fighting. However, "The Aviator" is expressed through empty shots, so there is naturally no nude, and you only need to create a little sound effect.

Ning Hao felt that it was almost done, so he called to stop.

Zhang Ran came to the back of the monitor and turned out the picture just now to see. There was no problem with the empty shot, but he was not very satisfied with the kiss scene before the empty shot. He turned to look at Ning Hao and Ding Sheng and asked, "What do you think?"

Ning Hao shook his head and said, "I think you acted too well and cooperated too skillfully, which may be a bit of a problem."

Ding Sheng added: "It should be a little awkward."

Zhang Ran nodded slowly. It was true that Qiao Zhengfei and Liu Jiao were lovers, but the story happened more than ten years ago. At that time, the social atmosphere was not very open. There was no particularly intimate move between them, and it should have been awkward for the first time to do such a thing. But Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were too familiar with each other, and they did not have the awkward feeling of performing. He stood up and shouted: "Do it again!"

Zhang Ran called Zhang Jingchu over, had a simple exchange, and the shooting started over.

However, after the filming, Zhang Ran was still not satisfied. He and Zhang Jingchu were trying their best to show this awkward feeling, but this feeling was performed, and the traces of the performance were a bit heavy and not natural enough. In fact, it is difficult to let mature actors play that awkward and innocent, just like letting an actor in his thirties play a girl in his teens, giving people a feeling of being very artificial.

After that, Zhang Ran and the others took photos twice, but it was still difficult to satisfy. Ning Hao had no idea and suggested: "How about forget it today and take photos tomorrow!"

Zhang Ran pondered for a few seconds, stood up and said, "In this way, everyone from the prop group and art group came here."

The shooting starts over.

This time the shooting was different from before. This time, there was a circle of people standing not far from Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu, and everyone's eyes were focused on Zhang Ran and the others.

When a normal person hugged and kissed, there was a circle of people watching around him. What was that feeling? He would definitely feel embarrassed and unnatural, even Zhang Ran, who claimed to be shameless.

When Zhang Ran hugged Zhang Jingchu, she felt her body stiff. Her eyes were firm but a little shy. If Zhang Ran was sitting behind the monitor now, he would definitely slap his thighs and applaud directly. But now he was performing, and he had not forgotten his work, so he lowered his head and kissed Zhang Jingchu on the forehead.

A hint of blush appeared on Zhang Jingchu's face, and she slowly closed her eyes.

Ning Hao sat behind the monitor and saw Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu's performances, he snapped his fingers happily: "Teacher Zhang has many ways, and he wants this feeling. Even Tony Leung and other actors may not be able to achieve such a real effect!"

Ding Sheng nodded slightly. As Zhang Ran’s deputy director, his biggest gain was not to see how the Hollywood crew operates, but to know how the director should direct the actors: "If it were me, I really couldn’t think of any way except scolding the actors."

Five minutes later, Zhang Ran announced that the shot had passed. He looked at the time and it was already nine o'clock in the evening. Considering that everyone was a little tired after working overtime for filming in the past two days, they directly announced that today's shooting ended and the crew was disbanded.

After the crew disbanded, the crew staff packed up the venue and returned to the hotel to rest. However, the director Zhang Ran could not rest and pulled the members of the director team to discuss matters related to tomorrow's shooting in the conference room. By the time they finished their work, it was almost twelve o'clock and most of them were asleep.

When Zhang Ran returned to the room, Zhang Jingchu had just come out of the bathroom, wearing a white shirt, holding a towel in her hand and wiping her moist hair. She saw Zhang Ran coming in, opened the bedside table, took out the hair dryer for Zhang Ran, sat on the edge of the bed and said, "Help me blow my hair!"

When Zhang Ran started blowing Zhang Jingchu's hair, he blew up all kinds of messy hairstyles, but he had already practiced it now and knew how to blow it won't perm, and how to blow it straighter and smoother. His fingers gently grabbed the root of the hair, brought the hair to the palm, and then used a hair dryer to blow the hair in the palm of his palm. He smelled the fragrance coming from Zhang Jingchu's body and felt that blowing her hair was a very happy thing.

Zhang Jingchu enjoyed this tenderness very much, and her heart was filled with sweet taste. But at this time, she saw the phone at the bedside, and suddenly remembered the phone call she had just called from Li Xiaowan, and said, "Zhang Ran, I forgot to tell you something. I came to me two days ago in "Men's Clothing" and hoped that I could take a set of photos for them. What do you think?"
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