The movie "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: Searching for the Dragon" will be on the big screen on December 18. It has been almost ten years since I started writing this novel. Terrified! It's not very accurate to say ten years, anyway, so many years have passed in a blink of an eye. Ten years, whether it is long or short, is not short. After all, it is more than 3,000 days and nights. When I turn my head and look at it, it seems like a flick of my finger. I recall the first serialization of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" on Tianya Community's Lian Peng Ghost Talk. At present, it can be said that this work would not have been possible without the support and help of all readers.
When I wrote "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", I just wanted to write a Chinese-style adventure story. There are so many adventure films and adventure novels abroad that are very popular, and our ancestors have left so many treasures. Among them, there must be Many unimaginable wonderful stories happened. As for the adaptation of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" into a movie or TV series, this was completely unexpected when I wrote it. It was a good fate to participate in the production of "Long-hunting", and it also gave me a deeper understanding of the industry. understand.
I remember one winter a few years ago, when I went to the Beijing head office to attend the annual meeting, I happened to receive a call saying that Wanda had purchased the filming rights for the movie "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and asked me to talk. I stopped by after the meeting, and it seemed that I was late. As soon as I entered, there was a room full of people. I remember producer Tao Kun, director Wu Ershan, screenwriter Zhang Jialu, etc. To be honest, I didn't remember who was who at that time. I never thought that from here, I would be tied to a rope! At the beginning, I told them that I couldn’t be a screenwriter, I was used to writing novels, and I didn’t want to write screenplays because I wanted to write them how I wanted to. This is not the case with the movie script, which can be changed over and over again. After all, it requires a huge team to work together. So at the beginning, I only agreed to be a consultant. I didn’t write the script. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions. In fact, it wasn’t that easy. Later, it was impossible to just talk and not practice, and I wrote a lot. In short, the first meeting did not involve the content of the movie, so it was decided for the time being.
As soon as we parted from Beijing, a year later, I almost forgot about it. The producer and director were not idle. When they met again, it was already a year later. Everyone went to Haitang Bay, Sanya. According to the producer's brother, the high content of negative ions in the oxygen at the seaside helps to exert imagination. In short, the script creation began in Hainan. During the discussion, the main creative team of the film agreed that there are eight novels in "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and the physical book has been published for nearly ten years. The plot in the original book is already well known, and there is a certain lack of suspense. The classic part of the original book should be retained. At the same time, new content is added, and even viewers who are very familiar with the original will still be pleasantly surprised. Therefore, the script of "Looking for the Dragon" is based on the ninth part of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern". The requirements of producer Chen Guofu and director Wu Ershan are very high. Zhang Jialu is also a very experienced top screenwriter. According to the classic lines of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" - great minds always coincide, and the cooperation is very smooth.
Next, it is a long period of pre-preparation, start-up shooting, post-editing, and special effects production. It turns out that a large-scale production film starts from scratch and requires so many people to spend so much effort and time. At the initial stage of preparation, the concept maps of various setting maps were enough to make me dazzled and amazed. I never imagined that the amount of pre-work for a big movie would be so large. After the production started, the crew moved to the studio in Huairou, Beijing. Once I went to visit the class, the director showed me the stills on the grassland, which surprised me again. The grassland in September was as beautiful as an oil painting, and the actors’ shapes were completely beyond It met my expectations, especially Hu Bayi played by Chen Kun. It can be said that each character, as well as the heavy sense of age, perfectly restores the novel.
I was in a hurry when I visited the class. The director was busy watching the footage on the monitor. He asked me to take a look at him next to him. When I saw it, a scene was shot repeatedly, and there was an actress sitting behind it. I thought it was an extra, and her face was painted black. Then the director said it was Angela baby, I was taken aback, the makeup was very different from what I usually see. In order to pursue the real effect, the cast made the actors really feel like an adventure in an ancient tomb. I also saw her image on the grassland, almost the same as Ding Sitian I imagined. The modeling team referenced a lot of photos of female educated youths who were jumping in line on the grassland at that time, and they did it based on that photo.
I have never been in contact with film and television dramas before, and I think everything is very new, but once I do, I feel that this industry is too painful. Every position is under great pressure, including producers, supervisors, and directors. The pressure is very high. Back then, I was also tortured in the setting of the ancient tomb, and I thought a lot about it with everyone. Regarding the setting of the Naihe Bridge and the Ghost Gate Pass, I wanted to establish a system of the underworld, so that this huge underground world has a cultural basis for its existence. , and is self-contained. Although it is very painful, when you shoot the desired shot, you will feel that all the hard work is worth it, and that feeling of hard work and hard work is also very interesting.
Recently, a lot of readers have been asking about the "Searching for the Dragon", and asked why Ding Sitian was used as an introduction to set up suspense. In fact, there are very few emotional scenes in the first eight volumes of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", and Ding Sitian, as the triumphant first love of King Hu Bayi, is very in line with the emotional conflict of characters necessary for the movie script. We tend to recall our first love repeatedly in the years to come, because there is no result, and because of time, the more we think about this relationship, the more perfect it becomes, and the more we think about it, the more we feel heartache. I have always thought that "Wangpizi Graves" is the most emotional one among the first eight Ghost Blowing Lamps, and the director and I thought of this point invariably. Moreover, Ding Sitian died in the snow disaster in the pastoral area. In the novel, this is only one side of Hu Bayi's words. What is the truth will not be known until the movie is released.
My biggest achievement so far is that I have made many friends with the work "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". Everyone has imagined the filming of this work more than once, and there is an endless topic of discussion about which actor fits the image of the character in the book. Thanks to everyone's support, this book can be put on the big screen and presented in various forms. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude to the new and old readers of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and I hope to have the opportunity to continue in the future. I would like to share new stories with you, and I hope you will support our "Long-hunting Art". Released on 12.18, authentic touch gold fan!
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