Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 207 Long Shot (Part 2)
Subtitle of this chapter: This is not a movie! I repeat, this is not a movie!
"How could this happen?"
Our Master Yuan stood there muttering to himself.
"Mr. Yuan, it's always like this!" Jin Dianfei at the side laughed bitterly and said, "This long shot at the beginning is really too difficult to shoot!"
“Uh…oh…ah!”
When Yuan Yan heard this, she first showed an unhappy expression, then frowned in thought, and finally an expression of sudden enlightenment.
It turns out this is really my fault!
As a film screenwriter, Yuan Da the time traveler has as many creative ideas and plots as he wants.
However, as a film screenwriter in 1921, he neither understood the entire process of filming at that time nor had any realistic fantasies about the film technology of that time.
When he came up with the idea of creating "Orphans of Famine", he was aiming for the highest-end historical epic film of all kinds.
So what is the most stylish way to start a historical epic?
Is there any need to ask... Of course it is the long shot that audiences and film critics love to see the most.
As soon as Yuan Yan picked up the pen, the first thing that came to her mind was the 1958 film Touch of Evil, which begins with a 3-minute and 20-second shot that makes people tremble with fear and dare not breathe.
Well, this long shot was too complicated in terms of spatial arrangement. It not only required a camera car, but even a crane. Besides, "Orphans of Famine" did not need to be so thrilling, so he had to PASS it.
The second thing he thought of was "I Am Cuba", shot by the former Soviet Union in 1964. The 3-minute and 22-second long shot at the beginning of this film is generally recognized to be comparable to the beginning of "Beauty of Ages". The status of these two long shots in the history of world cinema is almost the same.
Or again, this shot also requires the use of " high-tech" means such as slings, and it is a highly dangerous shot. Moreover, the beginning of "Orphan of Famine" does not need to be so complicated and gorgeous, and the styles of the two do not match well. So he passed it again.
By the way, the longest long shot in film history was also shot by Russians, that is "Russian Ark" in 2004. This film is actually a long shot of 90 minutes and 28 seconds.
The camera takes the audience through the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, visiting all 33 exhibition halls, covering a total distance of more than 2,000 meters. Of course, there are more miracles than these, more than 2,000 actors in different costumes, 3 symphony orchestras, and various historical exhibits appear in the camera...
Finally, he thought of two famous long shots in the historical epics Schindler's List and Dunkirk, the former of course being the little girl in red and the latter being the beach attack. Then he used them in his own film Orphans of Famine.
To put it simply, the village is first used to explain the origins of the heroines, and then the escape is used to show the miserable conditions in the countryside during the Great Famine in Ireland.
After our Master Yuan finished writing it, he was quite complacent, thinking that he was indeed a talented and natural filmmaker.
It's a pity that he was born at the wrong time and didn't have a good father. Otherwise, he could write, direct, act, compose the music and lyrics, draw the movie poster, and make a movie called "Pure Mind: Chasing the Dream of Show Business" in a few minutes.
Thinking of his pride, he couldn't help but hum the theme song of the movie "People Must Fall" written by Director Bi:
Chasing dreams, chasing dreams, chasing dreams, making money in the entertainment industry, chasing money, chasing money, chasing money.
We are pure, pure, pure, pure, pure, pure teenagers.
With my beautiful dream since childhood,
To become a great and proud rich second generation...
Listen, what great lyrics, they completely express the thoughts of those born in the 90s, 00s... and 10s, it can be said to be the strongest voice of the era!
Back to "Orphan of Famine", if screenwriter Yuan Da had given this script to an ordinary director, it would have been fine. He might have made some adjustments and filmed it, but of course the effect would not have been so good.
But the director he entrusted the project to was a man with strong artistic aspirations, and this time he was determined to prove himself as the "Father of Film" - David Griffith.
As the saying goes, don’t bully the poor middle-aged people.
Under the triple , his little universe exploded!
Just when Yuan Yanshu finally figured it out, he heard a voice calling him: "Ni...ah..."
"Niaoao, is it really you?"
When he heard the sound, he looked and saw a village girl waving her hands at him.
The ragged, starving village girl cried out heartbreakingly, "I'm not seeing things! I'm really fed up..."
"Ah ...
The village girl squeezed out of the crowd with all her might and ran towards him...
"Li, Li, Lillian?!"
Our Master Yuan finally confirmed that the actress who played the role of the village girl was his "lover lady". At this moment, he couldn't help but feel sweet and warm in his heart.
Look, it turns out that I was right to love this big star the most!
The fact that she was so excited when she saw me shows how deep her love for him is and how much she loves him.
It is said that it is the hardest to disappoint a beautiful woman, and then fall into a fire pit after being trapped.
"Lilianlianlian..."
Yuan Yan didn't care that she was in public and rushed towards the fire pit...that beauty.
Come on, close your eyes and imagine...
Under the bright spring sun, above the green fields, a pair of handsome men and beautiful women called each other's names affectionately and ran towards each other without hesitation. It was simply the ending shot of a classic love movie.
When the two of them came to the center of the camera, they hugged each other , lifted each other up and spun around a few times, and finally gave each other a long, wet kiss. That was THE END, which couldn't be more perfect.
"oops!"
"Baji!"
Just as everyone was holding their breath waiting for such a grand finale, our "Ms. Lover" suddenly had a cute fall on the ground.
The superstar who fell to the ground tried very hard to support her body and wanted to stand up, but it seemed that she fell too hard and she just couldn't stand up.
However, she was so tenacious that she did not give up, and actually crawled towards her lover using her hands and feet!
"greasy……"
Finally, she was exhausted and only managed to say her lover's name halfway before she fainted with her head tilted.
The hundreds of people present were completely dumbfounded.
There are such infatuated women in the world, and there are also such infatuated men. Today I have really opened my eyes.
As you can imagine, our Master Yuan felt so heartbroken when he saw that.
He used all his strength and rushed to the superstar at the fastest speed in his life. He didn't care about the hundreds of US dollars on his body, or the custom-made suit worth tens of thousands of RMB in later generations. He just pounced on the ground like a hungry tiger and hugged the unconscious Ms. Gish in his arms.
Yuan Yan, with tears in her eyes, burst into tears and said, "Li, Li, Lilian, I'm coming!"
A tear from his face fell onto the lips of the "Ms. Lover", finally waking her up.
"Ni, ni, ni, is it really you?" She called out in a low voice, extremely weak.
"Lillian, it's really me!"
"It's just you, it's just you..."
"Neo, you're here..."
Yuan Yan turned around and saw David Griffith walking towards them. He could not help but get angry. A good person turned into this state, it must be this old guy who caused this.
He said firmly: "Lillian, just wait, I will avenge you!"
Black flames came out of his "eyes of nothingness", vowing to burn the "Father of Movies" into ashes.
"Niao, wait a minute. I have something to ask you..." The big star pulled his lover's clothes with difficulty and said with difficulty.
"Lillian, just ask!"
The face of "Ms. Lover" flushed with the kind of blush that only a person with a lasting sense of revival would have, and she spoke clearly, "Niao, do you have anything to eat?"
