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Chapter 126 "Detective Chinatown"

On August 2002, 8, with Bai Bing's joining, the crew of "Detective Chinatown" finally assembled and completed the crew, directly chartered a plane and flew to Thailand.

At the same time, during the flight to Thailand, Jin Xiaoxiao, who stayed in the company to handle company affairs, also sent Cao Qing the capital expenses that the crew of "Detective Chinatown" had already spent. These expenses totaled 3975 million RMB.

Among them, the staff of the crew had to pay their salaries one and a half months in advance, so these more than 100 people together paid a total of about 55 yuan, and the actors of the crew were even more expensive.

Fortunately, Wei Xiang, who plays Tang Ren, is still a rookie actor, so although he is the protagonist, his salary is a bit lower than that of Huang Bo and others, only 43 in total.

However, although it is only 43 yuan, and only half of it was released in advance, there are so many actors, big and small, in the entire "Detective Chinatown" crew, so the cost of these actors alone is calculated to be 352.5 million yuan. about.

At the same time, since Cao Qing, a crew of more than 100 people, is filming in Thailand, the various venue expenses are naturally indispensable, even if the local government wants Cao Qing to promote the relationship between Thailand's tourism industry in the film because of Cao Qing's huge reputation. , in terms of various expenses, Cao Qing has been reduced a lot, but Cao Qing still spent a full 2600 million baht, which is about 500 million yuan, on the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the entire crew.

In addition to these crew members, filming actors, and venue board and lodging expenses, the costs of equipment, film, props rental, travel transportation, and hiring local Thai extras that must be used during filming are also high. Can't save at all.

So these costs plus the cost of casting and publicity for "Detective Chinatown" before, the film "Detective Chinatown" has not officially entered the shooting stage at all, and it has already spent a huge amount of nearly 4000 million yuan. cost.

August 8th, Yaowarat Road, Bangkok, Thailand, which is also the legendary Chinatown.

Here, a small area of ​​the street has been surrounded by the crew of "Detective Chinatown", and in this surrounded area, Wei Xiang is wearing very flamboyant floral shorts and floral shirt, dancing towards himself Opposite there were a few middle-aged ladies who were playing mahjong. The bald old man slapped the table and grinned:
"Run away after winning? Who do you guys think of me, Tang Ren?"

"I have a blue dragon drinking water on my left, and a white tiger flicking its tail on my right; I hide sand in my pocket, and I am rich; I have a tree behind me, and the God of Wealth visits me; I will kill you all without leaving a piece of armor, naked~"

Hearing what Wei Xiang (Tang Ren) said, the middle-aged aunt who was sitting next to him couldn't help but screamed.

"Huh~"

"Forget it."

Seeing the behavior of the middle-aged aunt next to him, Tang Ren, who was dancing happily, couldn't help but feel a chill all over his body, and quickly explained to her.

While speaking, Wei Xiang, whose hair was messed up and exploded into a ball, and specially pasted a model of a big gold tooth, really played the role of Tang Ren vividly. Compared with Tang Ren, who played the role of Wang Baoqiang in the movie, he is not inferior in the slightest, each has his own characteristics and is evenly divided.

"Pass~"

Seeing Wei Xiang's performance, Cao Qing couldn't help but declared with a smile all over his face.

To be honest, even Cao Qing himself didn't expect that Wei Xiang, a member of Happy Twist who had never officially acted in any movie before, actually gave himself a big surprise when shooting a movie for the first time.

For the first scene of his film career, Wei Xiang only NGed it twice, and then successfully grasped the essence of Tang Ren's character, and went through it in the third filming.

This kind of awesome acting skills simply made Cao Qing, a director who has seen countless bad actors in the process of filming movies and TV dramas, feel extremely surprised, and even feel like he has found a treasure.

And probably because of this kind of joy in his heart, Cao Qing, who has always been stern-faced on the set, this time, after announcing that this article has passed, he patted Wei Xiang on the shoulder with a rare smile road:
"Wei Xiang, you guy, yes, I'm very optimistic about you."

"You continue to work hard during the filming of the next film. If you can maintain this performance, I will give you a gift after the film is over."

After finishing speaking, seeing Wei Xiang's face full of ecstasy and hurriedly thanking him, Cao Qing nodded with a smile, and without further words, turned around and returned to the back of his camera monitor to start filming the next scene .

In fact, the storyline of the movie "Detective Chinatown" is not complicated. The two hours of the whole movie only talk about one thing, that is, Qin Feng, a talented stuttering boy, wants to complete a perfect He committed a crime and failed in the police academy entrance examination, so his grandmother asked him to go to Thailand for a week to relax.

At the same time, he has a cousin in Thailand, that is, Tang Ren who is known as the "No. [-] Detective in Chinatown". As a result, Qin Feng was taken to a bar by his cousin Tang Ren just after he arrived in Thailand.

However, Tang Ren was unreliable. On the first day of his eldest nephew's arrival, not only did he forget to pick up someone because he was playing mahjong, but after picking up someone, he took the ignorant little boy directly to the nightclub to have fun.

As a result, in the bar, Tang Ren drugged him because he saw that he couldn't let go. As for the two of them, they became murderers inexplicably after a night of drinking and drinking. At the same time, they were involved in the theft of gold bars. Gangs hunted down.

Qin Feng and Tang Ren, who encountered this oolong incident for no reason, had to start detective mode in order to find the truth and clear their innocence, and finally got their wish after going through many twists and turns.

But this seemingly simple and routine story, because the screenwriter and director of this film Chen Sicheng deliberately filled it with quite a lot of complicated side stories, so the main line of this film is actually very easy to get confused during the shooting and editing process. As a result, the entire movie becomes unclear.

However, as the director and screenwriter of this movie, Chen Sicheng's directing skills are indeed quite good. In the two hours of this movie, he not only told the main story of the movie clearly and clearly, but also told the story of the movie. The entire story structure of the film is also well structured.

Basically, every step is achieved so that the audience can understand it clearly, so that the audience will not be confused after watching the movie.

And just after all these stories were over, at the end there was a twist in this movie, whether it was the seemingly innocent little girl Sinuo who suddenly smiled ghostly at the end, or what Qin Feng told her at the end. That story all proves that the little girl Sinuo is the final hidden boss, and she is the one who commits a perfect crime.

It is precisely because of this reversal of the gods that it can be regarded as a godsend to the movie "Detective Chinatown", just like the last reversal of the gods in "Hello, Li Huanying", which instantly greatly improved the entire film. The connotation of the two movies that were originally quite routine eventually became masterpieces.

For those audiences who are unwilling to accept this kind of magical turning point and hidden ending, since this second ending is quite hidden, they can also choose to accept that the bad guy is all dead, the protagonist successfully refreshes his suspicions, and helps the protagonist. The good guy Quintiles finally succeeded in getting promoted and raising his salary.

In short, for the movie "Detective Chinatown" with an open ending, whether you like a bright ending or a dark ending, you will ultimately be able to see what you want to see in this movie.

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Soon, because Wei Xiang's acting skills were far better than Cao Qing's imagination, the filming process of the crew of "Detective Chinatown" was quite fast, and within a few days, Tang Ren and Qin Feng were in the vegetable market. The scene of being constantly chased by the Thai police.

In this wonderful chase scene, Tang Ren (Wei Xiang) and Qin Feng (Cao Qing) had to run around in Chinatown because they were mistaken by the police for murderers, and at the same time chased after each other with the police in the vegetable market , It only made the whole vegetable market a mess.

Tang Ren, who was flying on a motorcycle, jumping wantonly on the motorcycle, and being chased by countless Thai policemen, had a wretched appearance, but his figure was as nimble as a big civet cat. Even though it looked extremely dangerous on the surface, he In fact, it remained unscathed.

And in the vegetable market, Tang Ren's hands were full of cabbage and cabbage flying wildly, soybeans and soybeans were splashed all over, tomato and chili noodles smashed into people's heads, and egg flour was battered, and they escaped from the hands of countless Thai policemen abruptly, like a Just like a big wild boar running wildly, he forcibly struggled out of his own life.

However, although this scene looks cool in the movie theater, in reality, in order to be able to perfectly film this chase scene, Cao Qing not only used hundreds of thousands of extras for several days in a row, but also smashed and damaged the scene. Cao Qing bought countless daily necessities such as vegetables, stalls, pots, pans and bowls. Just to shoot this scene, Cao Qing spent tens of millions of baht in damage costs.

If it weren't for the cheap prices in Bangkok, Thailand, where the movie "Detective Chinatown" was filmed, the cost of property losses caused by this chase might even be close to tens of millions of RMB. Ordinary film crew.

And even if some film crews still have sufficient funds and still have some leftovers after filming this scene, basically they can only shoot some ordinary scenes after shooting this big scene, and there is not much money for such a big scene. once.

However, unlike those low-key crews, the filming funds of the "Detective Chinatown" crew are too abundant. The filming funds of more than 1.55 million yuan directly gave them enough confidence to wantonly toss big scenes.

So in the following various shooting processes, whether it is in the Bangkok Police Station, Bangkok Hospital, or on the bustling streets of Bangkok, you can see the wanton figure of the "Detective Chinatown" crew.

Money is willful!
At the same time, in the constant chasing and fighting scenes, the cooperation between Cao Qing and Wei Xiang became more and more familiar. In the end, it was more like a violent chemical reaction in the collision, and they continued to burn and sublimate their respective acting skills. .

That is to say, under this kind of sublimation reaction, the scene where Tang Ren and Qin Feng were trapped by three gangsters including Bei Ge (Liu Yijun) in the alley, was directly ignited by Wei Xiang and Cao Cao, who were ignited with acting sparks. Qing Duo gave a wonderful performance.

In the small alley, Tang Ren (Wei Xiang) was like a big fat and flexible wild boar, scurrying around beside a few gangsters, waving his hands and feet back and forth constantly, showing all kinds of sinister things. There are endless moves, and only the few gangsters headed by Bei Ge (Liu Yijun) are quite embarrassing.

Especially under the close-up shot specially prepared by Cao Qing, the intense pained expression shown by the tall gangster when Tang Ren inserted his eyes and pulled out his crotch, can directly make the moviegoers in the movie theater have nosebleeds instantly. My heart fluttered.

Especially for those male audiences.

After all, Tang Ren's Nanpai Mojia boxing movements are too sinister and scary. Captured by the incomparably real lens of the "Detective Chinatown" crew who have been shooting for many years, even through the big screen of the movie, you can still see it. It hurts their little brother faintly.

And Tang Ren's extremely funny and flinching movements, under the guidance of the family martial arts group in the crew of "Detective Chinatown", are also so real and violent that they can make people's heart beat faster in an instant.

This is a real violent aesthetics!
(End of this chapter)