Chapter 480 (1/2)
After this chat, Christopher Nolan began to often ask Liang Kun's ideas when filming as an important reference.
Nolan found that when a play is uncertain about what scene to shoot, Liang Kun can always put forward reasonable suggestions, which is more than Deputy Director Niu B. It's not that the deputy director is incompetent, but Liang Kunqiang's outrageous.
If Liang Kun doesn't say anything, they have to discuss for a long time and try to shoot from multiple angles again and again.
Nolan's reaction speed can't be compared with Liang Kun's hanging B. the gap is obvious. The two deputy directors have a deep understanding. The actors don't know, because Liang Kun whispers with Nolan and won't steal his limelight.
Liang Kun loves to show, but there is also a limit. He knows enough. He spent most of his time making soy sauce. Unless Nolan asked him, he said something about himself.
At Nolan's home, even if he knows some pictures of the film, he can't say them carelessly in front of everyone. Otherwise, he's not here to study. He's here to smash the field.
It's not that Liang Kun's current directing level is better than Nolan, but that they have different perspectives in making films.
Nolan only has a script. Unlike Liang Kun, he doesn't have a film as a reference. He has to fumble for shooting. Liang Kun is different. If his advice is wrong, system assistance will make him uncomfortable. As soon as his heart was comfortable, everyone on the set was comfortable.
The normal filming process is very complicated. There are few good directors in the world because only a few people have extraordinary creativity. In China, even Zhang Yimou's filming has obvious weaknesses. He is a photographer. The picture is very beautiful, but the story is not good.
Old Mou Zi has always had this problem. This is the case when shooting red sorghum. He still can't tell the story well when shooting the Great Wall. Judging from the story, he didn't even make any progress.
The second half of the film ”Red Sorghum” directly changed from Qinchuan style to the war of resistance against Japan. The fast change of the story style makes people unprepared and wonder whether the first half and the second half should be put in a film? He almost collapsed in the middle of the Great Wall. I don't know what the plot is.
The play ”deadly magic” is not easy to shoot. Nolan is a typical film control, and he also likes IMAX cameras. In the film scene, he likes to build real scenes, so he can use less special effects.
Choose scenery, actor's performance, make-up and modeling. All aspects have to be tried again and again to find the best effect.
Only Scarlett Johnson's part is easier. She just needs to wear sexy clothes and be responsible for beauty. For Scarlett, this vase role is a bit of a stoop. She is too easy to complete the task.
She has only a few scenes to show her acting skills, such as when angel wants her to steal Magic Secrets from Boden and do undercover. Because angel's magic was successful, she kissed him happily. When she heard angel's words, her face changed. The other party wanted to kiss her again, and she turned away.
In a discussion with Nolan, Liang Kun's ”film and television drama directing” skills improved rapidly and rose to level C 67% at the end of February.
He is really thinking of learning to prepare for the new films ”escape from the secret room” and ”lost lover”.
He has seen movies and communicated with the subconscious. He has some pictures in his mind, which is easy to shoot. But what if he makes movies he hasn't seen in the future, really original movies?
Liang Kun knows that relying too much on systematic training assistance may not be a good thing for him.
In the future, when he doesn't have a picture in his mind, he may lose his standard. At that time, he had to grope like Nolan and formed the habit of being afraid of trouble. When he was excited, he might become a set tyrant like Michael Bay.
He has B-level Xueba skills and smart mind, and can improve his strength through learning. In the future, even if he has no systematic assistance and no previous life memory, he will still be very powerful. That is the right way.
Liang Kun can learn. All he needs to pay is some time.
The more in-depth study, Liang Kun felt that it was really difficult to make a good film. It's not enough to have a script to shoot. Editing is also a knowledge. No matter how good the director is, it's useless to edit a good story.
For films, screenwriting is the first wave of creation, shooting is the second wave of creation, editing is the third wave of creation, and then the film is finally presented to the audience. Editing is the last level of the film, which has a vital impact on the previous screenwriter and shooting. If it is not done well, it will produce an inexplicable castration version of the film.
Liang Kun found many advantages of Nolan. First, he makes movies with heart and will keep thinking. Second, he will find a different topic for his film. The third is to carry out hierarchical narration. He has spent a lot of time writing stories before shooting.
There is one thing they have in common. The most useful way for a new director to enter the film industry is to find a script and stick to shooting it. Find something that only you can shoot and others can't shoot, even if it doesn't meet the expectations of the public.
To put it bluntly, it is ”opening a brain hole” in the film, which makes you look very different. Nolan's editing method is different. Liang Kun's happy death is a unique story.
Mediocre directors will choose to tell a story in a plain and straightforward way, but Nolan uses his diary to promote the plot. The film uses a lot of flashbacks and interruptions, which makes the audience need to carefully consider and watch it again and again in order to fully understand the development process of the whole story and all the details in the film.