Disaster Artist

The Windy City, the world-famous city of high-rise buildings, was where the first skyscraper was built in history. Later, with the advancement of time, it gradually developed into a modern city with high-rise buildings. The rolling skyline has also become a unique scenery. , is spectacular.

The city is located on the banks of the Great Lakes, and the hunting and hunting winds from north to south are endless year round. Walking through the towering buildings, the wind is sharp and ferocious. No wonder the Windy City is so well known.

However, it is also thanks to the unique geographical environment by the lake that the canal and railway transportation of the Windy City have become an important hub for the entire continent to traverse east, west, north and south, which has greatly stimulated the vigorous development of industry and commerce. In just a hundred years, it has been Grow into a city of one million people—

It is also the only city in the world that "doesn't exist a century ago but now has a population of over one million".

On the one hand, businessmen and tourists from all over the world are mixed together. The collision of different interests, the confrontation of different cultures, and the confrontation between different classes are also surging under the blue sky of the Windy City. The natural law of "a tooth for a tooth is an eye for an eye". It has also become one of the most important rules of conduct, and gradually formed a social style with a sturdy folk customs.

On the other hand, thanks to the vigorous development of industry, blue-collar workers have always been an important part of urban residents. From workers to businessmen to large enterprises, the classes in the urban economic structure are complex and distinct, and conflicts of all sizes have penetrated into the city. The corner of life has even become a daily routine, and local residents have their own way of solving problems.

After a century of development, Windy City has now been able to rank among the top 20 cities in the world, but behind the prosperity of the economy, the dark side of the city has never dissipated. The crime rate has become another label of the city.

Because of this, the Windy City has also become one of the most popular shooting locations for many crime movies and action movies, and it covers a wide range of topics:

From white-collar crimes related to the art economy, to violent crimes involving guns and knives, to financial crimes involving commercial disputes, and heavy crimes hidden in the dark, all of them are like being in a melting pot. breed.

"Human Removal Plan", after careful consideration, director Jiang Paifeng also chose Fengcheng as the background of the story——

Obviously, this is the best soil for the story to take place.

However, the biggest drawback is that the Windy City is a big city and does not rely on the film industry, so there are no facilities and preferential policies for filming here.

Simply put, the cost is higher.

Regarding this point, both Ji Xu and Xiu Zhongjun had hesitated. After all, Blue Whale Films did not have the capital to squander; but Jiang Paifeng managed to persuade them.

As a director who is good at shooting genre films, Jiang Paifeng's inspirational talent is indeed not comparable to that of his brother, but his advantages lie in pragmatism, stability, and discipline. It is rare to squander production costs. The shooting is done carefully, which also means that the cost is controllable——

Moreover, it is also within the acceptable range of Blue Whale Pictures.

Of course, whether the "Human Removal Plan" is a live shooting or a studio shooting, Blue Whale Pictures and Gate Pictures have also discussed this point.

Lu Qian, as a producer, insists on live-action shooting. Unless it is a blockbuster visual effects film, it is really more convenient to shoot in the studio. Otherwise, Lu Qian always hopes to ensure the real-life shooting, because the real texture presented by the lens is different, especially For the thriller horror genre:

Because this type of movie is easy to be cheap and become a B-level movie if you are not careful, unless you specifically want to create the texture of such a leady movie, the texture will be a very important part in determining the viewing effect.

At this point, Lu Qian and Jiang Paifeng stood on the same line. After many meetings between Blue Whale Pictures and Damen Pictures, they finally nodded in agreement.

When Lu Qian arrived in Fengcheng, he left the airport quietly, without disturbing anyone, hired a taxi, and went straight to the studio.

Looking at the rolling city skyline outside the car window, the vision is compressed under the lush and cold steel forest, and the squares are stacked one after another, like a honeycomb, and there is a sharp oppression in the silence. As if you can see the gray tones of the city.

Different from Lanchuan and Weihai, Fengcheng is a real modern metropolis, which inadvertently awakens Lu Qian's memory of working hard in a big city in his previous life.

Ups and downs, continuous, every corner can deeply feel the grandeur and greatness of human beings. At this moment, it is impossible to imagine the barren scene here a hundred years ago, but it is precisely because of those towering floors that economic The classes created by cultural status are also particularly distinct.

Everyone longs to be able to stand higher, higher, until the clouds are also underfoot.

Gradually, vehicles leave the hustle and bustle of the city center, leaving the hustle and bustle of business and work behind and entering a quiet living area.

When you look at it, you can see a familiar scene similar to Lanchuan, which is somewhat imaginary and different from the shooting location of "Unfriending".

It is also a middle-class living area, but the Windy City is more modern and colder. I don’t know if it is my preconceived notion. The edges and corners of the buildings here are more distinct, and the white and gray tone is also due to the lack of gardens and lawns. There is a growing sense of alienation.

Not only that, more modern and more intelligent garages, doorbells, guards, etc., can also outline the difference in lifestyle from the details.

Occasionally, a flickering red and green light of the siren flashed lightly at the tail of the line of sight, and turned his head to look at the conditioned reflex, but he could not see any shadows, only the sound of "diwudiwu" was captured from the wind. ~www.novelmt.com~ realized that a police car should have just passed by the block behind the single-family house.

Trivial unease and shadows swirled in the air.

Then, the taxi stopped slowly.

"... There is no way to go ahead. This is the shooting area on the set."

The taxi driver didn't recognize the young man in the back seat at all, just said politely, and then raised his finger to the barricade set up ahead.

Lu Qian lifted his chin slightly and could see it. He didn't ask the taxi to continue.

Around the barricades, some people were sparsely gathered to watch the excitement. There were also staff on the scene who were responsible for maintaining order and preventing passers-by from breaking into the set, but the melon eaters were still watching the performance inside with great interest—

Literally, watching a play.

Lu Qian's footsteps also gradually approached, and there was a bright light in his eyes.