Disaster Artist

"Hanzhou, is everything okay?"

"…"

Lu Qian stared at the front camera of the computer screen and asked with a smile, but the answer to him was silence.

Lin Hanzhou sat in front of the computer screen and seemed to be busy with something, his focus was not on Lu Qian.

Lu Qian was not in a hurry and waited patiently, watching Lin Hanzhou's expression and eyes. Although he was a little anxious now, he knew it would take time—

The so-called autism, the symptoms and conditions that fall on each person are slightly different.

Like Lin Hanzhou, first of all, he has his own way of thinking, which is often different from ordinary people. He sees things from a very special angle.

Thanks to this, he is always able to capture the different textures of the film and then edit it in his own way, injecting color.

Secondly, he has his own rhythm and frequency. He is often immersed in one thing, and then he enters a state of ecstasy. Everything around him is unimportant, and his eyes are full of only this one thing, even if the sky falls. Can't disturb him.

It is because of this that in daily life, it becomes very difficult for Lin Hanzhou to communicate with other people.

For strangers, they don't have the time and patience to wait, understand, and tolerate. After all, everyone has countless problems in their lives, and they are already overwhelmed. Where do they have time to listen to other people's situations?

For the family, it is equally difficult, because they need to repeat the whole process day after day, all patience is exhausted in the daily life of diesel, rice, oil and salt, maybe strangers only meet for a short time, but they need to arrive early Being patient at night is enough to drive anyone crazy.

Lin Changyang and Zhuo Yuying are not saints either. In the more than 20 years long and despairing, they will be irritable, angry and violent, and they will lose control in the face of Lin Hanzhou who lives in different time and space like a stubborn stone. .

But the key is that they have never given up, and they have always been learning and improving, step by step, growing through mistakes, and then approaching Lin Hanzhou, doing their best to understand and support Lin Hanzhou, this is the most commendable .

Lu Qian, the same.

After the last "tourist" filming with the group, he realized how arduous it was to take care of Lin Hanzhou. The only thing to be thankful for is:

When Lin Hanzhou focuses on editing, he will keep 100% input, just like another person.

Now, Lu Qian has also been slowly learning how to maintain a long-term cooperative relationship with Lin Hanzhou. If he needs time, then give him time. Although Lu Qian is really urgent and anxious here, the only thing he can do is Convince yourself to stay calm.

Today is a catastrophic and historic day. All the work was successfully completed. Zhang Benqing's performance was beyond imagination. The whole shooting was also exceptionally smooth. The shooting speed immediately accelerated. It's a day's work that goes smoothly.

And, the quality of the finish is beyond imagination.

When night fell, the crew members could relax a little, and then talk about what happened in the crew today, but Lu Qian couldn't. Work, work, still work, after finishing work on the set, they needed to talk to Lin Hanzhou again. Start another part of the work.

Ji Xu looked at Lu Qian, who remained patient, and the smile on the corner of his mouth rose.

"There is progress."

"Huh, habit is really a terrible thing." Lu Qian sighed, causing Ji Xu to laugh, "But the point is, the time lost here is necessary time for Hanzhou to think and create. After work, there is very little need for rework, so I also convinced myself that it was a necessary process.”

Ji Xu came over and asked curiously, "Are you sure there is no problem with this method?"

"I'm not sure." Lu Qian shrugged very graciously, "You will only know after you try it."

So, what happened?

In short, Lu Qian made a new attempt.

All along, Lu Qian's works all follow the traditional film production process:

The set ends all filming before going into the editing room to finish post-production, which also means they have to make sure they capture as many shots as possible on set—

Because once you leave the studio, it is difficult to make up shots. In order to avoid finding satisfactory shots in post-production, you naturally need to reserve a lot of materials.

The disadvantage of this method of production is that it is wasteful.

The same scene, even if the director is satisfied, often needs to be shot twice or three times, or several different angles and different versions are shot.

Naturally, there will be a lot of unnecessary material when editing later.

Now is not the era of film shooting. Although Lu Qian uses film combined with digital shooting methods, the waste of film is not the main problem; Always want to be able to stock up a little more.

"The Tourist", as Lu Qian's first feature film, encountered such a problem. The material edited by Lin Hanzhou in the later stage was more than five times that of the final version:

That is to say, the final product of "tourist" takes about 120 minutes, while the shooting material takes more than 600 minutes.

This is also because Lu Qian is meticulous in his calculations. He shoots while calculating, and works while thinking. The editing pictures are basically stored in his mind to ensure that everything is put to good use, so he is so "saving".

In the case of other directors, the shooting material is ten or even twelve times the final product, which is the norm.

However, Lu Qian did not like this.

When filming "Unfriending", the footage took about 250 minutes, and the final 85-minute film was edited.

When shooting "The Raid", the material was about 400 minutes, and finally a 100-minute work was edited.

On the whole, Lu Qian has always been a budget-conscious director. The limited funds are part of the reason, and the rejection of unnecessary and invalid duplication of work is another part of the reason. However, Lu Qian also noticed that the filming work seems to be becoming cumbersome little by little. Get up, UU reading www.uukanshu.com a movie is "more tedious" than a movie.

Of course, there are many, many reasons, and it is not that simple. It is certain that one of the many reasons is:

Lu Qian became cautious, and became "lazy" and "slack".

When there is a shortage of funds, a penny can't wait to be used in two halves, so every shooting and every scene must be planned in an all-round way, and the entire shooting efficiency must be improved.

Now that there is no oppression of funds, the calculation and planning before the shooting has become simple and omitted. This is a kind of "slack". At the same time, there is also a "lucky" mentality. Even if the quality of the shooting is not satisfactory, it does not matter. Anyway, you can shoot ten times or twenty times. Such a mentality will have an impact on the substitution of work.

funds?

This is certainly not a problem.

Attitude, the most important thing for Lu Qian is attitude. Before they become lazy, they need to regain their shooting attitude of striving for perfection.

During the filming of "Love", Lu Qian hoped to change this situation.