Chapter 414 Let's Go to the Movies

Although people kept visiting the crew, which affected the crew's early shooting plan in Hong Kong, the filming of the film in the middle and late stages went very smoothly and was faster than expected.

This was mainly because the filming of the scenes in the subway was faster than Zhou Yan and his team had planned.

When the film was just beginning to be prepared, Tang Chen applied to the relevant departments in Hong Kong, hoping to be able to shoot in the subway. The relevant departments did not set up any obstacles and directly approved it, but the degree of freedom in shooting was not high.

After all, the four existing subway lines in Hong Kong are very busy. The crew of "Time Traveler" wanted to shoot here, which would affect the normal operation of the subway station, so the relevant departments only allowed them to shoot for one hour a day.

There are not many scenes in the subway in the movie, but it is more troublesome to shoot, because the male and female protagonists have to change a lot of clothes, and street performers have to be arranged to sing.

In order to ensure the shooting effect, a large number of extras must be used, and it is not an easy task to dispatch them.

If you can only shoot for one hour a day, the shooting cycle will be greatly increased.

However, after the filming of the movie officially started, things have taken a turn for the better.

There is a subway line under construction in Hong Kong. It was originally the Airport Railway, but now it has been changed to the Airport Express and Tung Chung Line.

The Airport Railway was planned quite early. In 1989, Hong Kong implemented the international airport located on the Kowloon Peninsula to Chek Lap Kok, far away from the city, and proposed the Airport Core Plan to build an airport railway connection.

At the beginning, this line had only one main line. Later, due to development needs, it was divided into two parts, one is the Airport Express and the other is the Tung Chung Line.

In 1994, the Airport Railway began to be built. After two years, the line construction has been completed. It is planned to be tested next year and officially operated the year after.

Among them, the Kowloon Station of the Tung Chung Line has been completely completed. Except that it is not open to traffic, it is basically the same as a normal subway station.

Such a subway station that has just been built but has not yet been officially put into use is simply tailor-made for the crew.

The crew temporarily reported the shooting plan of the Tung Chung Line Kowloon Station, which was quickly approved.

This time, the Hong Kong Railway Company was very generous and directly "packaged" the Kowloon Station for the crew to use for a week, which brought great convenience to the crew's filming.

Of course, Zhou Yan and his team could not use up the one week given by the railway company. Including the time for layout and preparation, it only took two days in total.

When the scenes in the subway were finished, there were not many shots left for the whole movie, and they were basically indoor shots, which were not difficult to shoot.

Zhou Yan and his team stayed in Hong Kong for less than 20 days and completed all the shooting, and there were still two days left before the time node they originally planned.

After completing the shooting plan ahead of schedule again, Zhou Yan still gave the crew a holiday.

Originally, he planned to give the crew a holiday, but originally there was only one day off. Now because the plan was completed ahead of schedule, the holiday was increased by one day, becoming two days.

After finishing work that day, Zhou Yan announced the holiday arrangements, and everyone was naturally very happy. Many people had never been to Hong Kong, so they took advantage of this holiday to stroll around Hong Kong.

Compared to Pengcheng, Xiangjiang has more places to play and more things to buy. Of course, it costs more money.

Zhou Yan had just finished talking to Li Hong and was about to go find Joey Wong when Li Xiaoran suddenly came over and stood in front of him, looking like she wanted to say something but stopped.

Seeing her like this, Zhou Yan probably knew what she wanted to do and said directly, "Go to Jiang Mengfei to ask for the game console later and say that I approved it."

The smile on Li Xiaoran's face suddenly faded. She came to Zhou Yan just for this matter.

In fact, she had wanted to say this for several days.

Her role was not much, and there were only two scenes in Xiangjiang, which were filmed a few days ago.

In theory, she had actually finished filming for several days and could go home directly.

But she was not in a hurry to leave. On the one hand, it was inconvenient for her to go home alone, and on the other hand, her game console was still in the crew.

Now the crew is on vacation, and everyone else is thinking about strolling around Xiangjiang, only she is thinking about her game console.

For her, no matter where she went, she would not be as happy as playing the game console in the house for two days.

These days, she has been thinking about how to bring this up with Zhou Yan, but she has not found a good opportunity, because Zhou Yan is very busy every day, and she is embarrassed to disturb Zhou Yan because of the game console.

Finally, when the crew was on vacation, she got the chance.

"Thank you, Director Zhou." Li Xiaoran hurriedly thanked him.

"It's yours, no need to thank me." Zhou Yan looked at Li Xiaoran with a smile. After being scolded by him last time, this girl is not as casual as before. When the crew was filming, he was very active in watching and learning.

In fact, Li Xiaoran should stay in the crew more at this stage.

Although she doesn't have many roles, she can learn a lot in the crew. The most important thing is that there are professional guidance like Gao Jinwen to teach for free, which is an opportunity that others can't even ask for.

Since she wants to develop in the film and television industry, she should not miss such an opportunity.

Zhou Yan wanted to ask Li Xiaoran what her future plans were, but seeing Li Xiaoran's anxious look, he said nothing and asked her to go find Jiang Mengfei.

After Li Xiaoran left, Wang Zuxian and Chen Derong came over.

"Brother, what are your plans for tomorrow?"

Zhou Yanqian glanced at Chen Derong, "You've finished filming, aren't you in a hurry to return to Taiwan?"

The subsequent scenes in Taiwan are only related to Joey Wong and the actors playing her family members. The rest have been completed by today.

Logically speaking, Chen Derong no longer has any shooting duties, so he can go back first.

What Zhou Yan meant by saying this was to tell Chen Derong not to be a light bulb. He also wanted to enjoy the world of two people with Wang Zuxian.

However, Chen Derong acted as if he didn't understand, and said with a smile, "Why am I in a hurry? Anyway, the crew is going to Beijing City in two days, so I'll go back with you. I'm so tired from filming during this period, and I just happened to be in Xiangjiang. Play, relax, where are you going?”

Zhou Yan said nothing and turned to look at Wang Zuxian.

Wang Zuxian smiled and said, "Why don't you go to the movies? My brother's movie is about to be released. Before it is released, let's go and support it."

The movie she was talking about was "Golden Leaves 2" which was just released last month. Speaking of which, this movie has something to do with Zhou Yan, because the soundtrack of the movie was made by Zhou Yan's studio.

"Golden Leaves 2" is the sequel to "Golden Leaves", directed by Chen Kexin. The production cycle of this film basically overlaps with "Sweet Honey".

It is said that while filming "Sweet Honey", Chen Kexin found time to shoot "Golden Leaves 2".

Zhou Yan's studio made the soundtrack for this movie, which was also a smooth task.

This movie is full of big names, including Leslie Cheung, Anita Yuen, Anita Mui, Carina Lau, and Eric Tsang. Leslie Cheung and the others mentioned this movie before when they went to visit the class.

Now they go to the movies to support Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui.

As soon as Wang Zuxian finished speaking, Chen Derong smiled and said, "Okay, let's go together."

Zhou Yan was quite willing to go to the movies, but he was not willing to be surrounded by such a big lightbulb like Chen Derong. This girl was a bit upset to begin with, but she became even more upset after filming "Time Traveler".

"How about you go out and play by yourself?" Zhou Yan suggested.

Chen Derong pouted Lao Gao, "What, you think I'm getting in the way of you two? Do you have a wife and no longer have a sister? Do you think of me as a brother like you?"

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes and let this girl rely on him for a show.

Wang Zuxian said with a smile, "It's okay, let's go together tomorrow."

"Then it's settled." After saying that, Chen Derong jumped away and walked away.

Zhou Yan touched his forehead and sighed, "What are you taking her for?"

"Is it possible that you really want Xiao Rong to go out alone?"

"What's the matter? She knows Xiangjiang better than I do. If that doesn't work, let Mengfei and the others play with her."

"Why don't we just watch a movie together? It'll be fine. Just think of us as taking our sisters out to play."

Zhou Yan curled his lips, he didn't lack a sister.

Speaking of his sisters, he hadn't seen his sisters at home for some time, and he didn't know how Qing'er and the others were doing lately.

In the past few years, Xiaojiu has changed the most. Every time Zhou Yan goes back, Xiaojiu changes a lot and gradually grows into a big girl.

As the third brother, he really doesn't care enough about his younger brothers and sisters.

He used to find it annoying when his younger brothers and sisters went to play with him during the holidays. But now that he thinks about it, he may never have such an opportunity again.

…

The next morning, Zhou Yan, Wang Zuxian and Chen Derong went out fully armed.

They did not go far and found a nearby cinema in Harbor City. However, because "Golden Leaves 2" was about to be released, there were very few shows. This cinema only had one at 11 o'clock in the morning.

It was only nine o'clock when they arrived at the cinema, and there were still two hours before the movie started. Naturally, it was impossible to wait in the cinema.

So they bought the tickets first, then left the cinema and walked around Harbor City.

Harbor City is along the coastline, right next to the Star Ferry Pier. Zhou Yan has been to Xiangjiang several times and lived nearby, but this is his first time here.

When he came here before, he spent most of his time on the east coast.

Compared to the east coast, this area is definitely much busier, and it is also a popular business district now.

There are many luxury stores here, and girls especially like to visit them. Even Wang Zuxian is not exempt from the vulgarity, and shopping is particularly exciting.

At this time, Zhou Yan discovered that bringing Chen Derong out was not without benefits. At least she could accompany Wang Zuxian shopping, and Zhou Yan only had to follow him as a stakeholder. The two of them could provide each other with emotional value.

"This dress looks good, it will definitely suit you."

"Wow, this necklace is beautiful too. It goes perfectly with the dress just now."

"I'm short, it would look better on you."

"This dress is cuter and suits you better."

"This is this year's new model. I've never seen it before."

…

The two girls went shopping like ordinary girls, mainly looking. After shopping around, they didn't buy a single thing.

In the end, Zhou Yan couldn't help but said, "How about you two buy some, and I'll pay for it today."

But Wang Zuxian shook his head and said, "No need to buy it. I have a lot of similar ones. If I buy them home, they will just sit in the cabinet and collect dust. It's a waste of money."

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows, girls actually know that these things are similar?

Chen Derong smiled and said, "How about I buy one?"

"Okay." Zhou Yan nodded.

"How about the watch just now?"

"What watch?"

"It's just an ordinary watch, not expensive, just over 300,000."

Hearing that the watch cost over 300,000, Zhou Yan curled his lips, "Okay, I'll deduct it from your remaining salary later."

"Forget it, that watch is not very good-looking." Chen Derong pursed her lips and muttered, "If Xiaoxian wants to buy that watch, will you buy it for her?"

Zhou Yan laughed, "Then I'll deduct it from her salary."

"So stingy!"

The three of them walked around for a while, and when it was almost time, they rushed to the cinema.

When they arrived at the cinema, the movie had just started checking tickets.

Because it was midweek and the show was at 11 o'clock, and the movie was about to be taken off the screen, the attendance rate was very low.

When they entered, they found that there were only two couples in the entire theater except the three of them.

"Stories of Legends 2" tells a story of a gender-misaligned love triangle. Lin Ziying, a young fan who disguised herself as a man, mixed into the music scene. By chance, she met and fell in love with the gold medal producer Gu Jiaming, and became a pair of gender-ambiguous lovers.

What's ridiculous is that Lin Ziying's career is developing very well and he even won the Most Popular Male Singer Award. At this time, she was in a dilemma and didn't know how to announce the truth about her gender.

Anita Mui played Fang Yanmei, who returned to the stage and traveled around the world. She returned to Hong Kong again and met the new singer Lin Ziying. She fell in love with Lin Ziying and Gu Jiaming at the same time...

To be honest, Zhou Yan doesn't like this kind of story very much, but he has to admit that Chen Kexin has his own special features when portraying this kind of love story.

The two movies shot by Chen Kexin at the same time, whether it is "Stories of Legends 2" or "Comrades: Almost a Love Story", are not conventional love stories.

When watching movies, Zhou Yan pays more attention to the soundtrack of the movie. There is nothing outstanding about the soundtrack of this movie. Because of the subject matter, there are many songs in it.

Most of these songs were not written by Li Tao and his team, but were written by others. Some of them were already published and are still famous.

In fact, this is the normal working mode of music directors. It is rare for a movie like Zhou Yan to use his own music from beginning to end.

Most of the work done by music directors is not composition, but song selection. All they have to do is put the right music in the right shot. (End of this chapter)