Chapter 57： super editor

With the help of the hot girls, Zhang Dongcheng quickly took the sheet music and ran to Hammer Films, asking them to provide singers and bands. He even specified who would sing which song, as if he knew If these songs are sung by them, they must be extraordinary.

"OK, Mr. Smith, let me arrange for someone to do it. You are such a genius, you can even compose music!" The boss Alston wiped the sweat from his brow, looked at the monstrous Zhang Dongcheng in front of him, and sighed himself Was scared once.

"Hehe, it's just that I think more, it's okay." Zhang Dongcheng replied with a smile, he would not show his hole cards to others.

"Okay, the filming of the movie has been completed, and the editing will start tomorrow. All my hopes are now on you, and I hope you can succeed." Auston threw a cigar to Zhang Dongcheng, and he himself Light one, then click on it, and exhale a big mouthful of smoke, just like his restless heart.

"Thanks to Mr. Alston for running up and down for my film. The British newspapers are now promoting positively, not just scolding me like they did at the beginning. This is very good. The early publicity did not cost much money. "Two Smoking Barrels" But it is well known by ordinary people in the UK." Zhang Dongcheng shrugged, expressing his confidence.

"It's good to be known, but if your movies aren't as classic and great as you say they are, all the Brits will join up and throw you in the gutter, and I'll be thrown down on your chest too." Body!" Infected by Zhang Dongcheng's words, Auston also relaxed his mind and made a joke.

"No, we won't be thrown into the stinky ditch, we will be promoted to the altar. And Mr. Alston, your vision will amaze the whole of Britain!" Zhang Dongcheng snapped his fingers and raised his eyebrows lightly.

The next day, Zhang Dongcheng and the editor started to work in Auston’s Hammer Film Company, and the entire "Two Smoking Barrels" has been filmed with the efforts of all crew members and actors.

Compared with the original movie in Time and Space, Zhang Dongcheng is very confident that the performances of the actors will be better. They are eager to prove that those tabloid reports are just nonsense in front of the camera, and their mental energy is not comparable to the original movie. Zhang Dongcheng Zhuyu's repeated comparison and speculation before, every shot will only be more colorful than the original version, not inferior to it.

Combined with the investment of more funds, the structure of the whole movie has been improved, and the sense of picture is more penetrating. Three million pounds versus 960,000 pounds will naturally make the movie reach or even exceed its original height.

Everything depends on how well the editing scissors play!

The most important work in the post-film stage is the selection and editing of film shots.

On the basis of a deep understanding of the script and the overall concept of the director, based on the shot-by-shot script, the editor makes the story structure of the whole film rigorous, the plot unfolds smoothly, and the rhythm changes naturally through the fine and appropriate editing and combination of the shots (picture and sound). , thus helping to highlight the characters, deepen the theme, and improve the artistic appeal of the film.

As a close collaborator of the director, the editor has a decisive responsibility for the success or failure of a film through meticulous and complicated re-creation activities. The editor must be a faithful embodiment of the director's creative intention and artistic conception. However, the editor can also make up for, enrich and even correct some deficiencies and defects in the shot material through the editing of the shots, and can also partially adjust the original structure of the film, or partially change the director's original conception, so that The film is more complete.

For such an important position, the boss Auston naturally dare not be careless, and even spent a lot of money to invite Zhang Dongcheng's super editor Walter Murch, who is well-known in Hollywood!

I am afraid that there are a dozen of the greatest directors in the world today, but there is only one greatest film editor, and that is Walter Murch. Murch's name is unknown to the general public, which is due to the nature of his work: editing. A good film can immerse the audience in the story, the emotions and fate of the characters, without any trace of editing. , finally declaring itself as a sign of the existence of an independent art form. As a master of editing, Walter Murch created miracles one after another in the dark editing room, and was honored as the "Godfather" in Hollywood, of course not only because he created the legend of "The Godfather" trilogy for Coppola, but also because of his Made outstanding contributions to the development of film art. Under the circumstances that editors as "invisible artists" are generally unknown to outsiders, Walter Murch is the only master editor who frequently appears in people's cultural vision in the world.

Speaking of Walter Murch, his name is all over the string of radiant monuments.

Screen editing of The Godfather I in 1973 and sound design for Coppola's personal favorite The Conversation in 1974 won an Oscar nomination and BAFTA and Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival , and won an Academy Award for outstanding sound design in Coppola's 1979 version of Apocalypse Now. In 1996, Walter Murch won an unprecedented two Oscars for his poetic editing of picture and sound for The English Patient!

Facing such a master who can be called the number one person in the editing industry, Zhang Dongcheng was a little nervous and uneasy, and his hands gradually became sweaty.

Walter was sitting across from him. He was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. His hair and beard were a little gray. The traces of time had already climbed onto the face of this fifty-year-old man, but he could not conceal the flash in his eyes. sharp.

With a slight smile on his face, he is sincere and friendly. As a person behind the scenes, he does not have the airs and airs of a big Hollywood director or star. He looks gentle and refined.

"Hello, Mr. Walter, I am Smith Zhang. I have long admired your name, and I am very happy and honored that you have come to participate in my film editing." Zhang Dongcheng took the initiative to walk forward, shook hands with Mr. Walter, and sincerely Expressed his thanks.

"Hehe, Mr. Smith, I am also very happy to meet you. I have seen your tuner. It is a great short film with extraordinary appeal." Mr. Walter also kept smiling, not because of himself His qualifications and the face of a young oriental mess is arrogant.

"Haha, sit down quickly, Mr. Walter, I have invited you here this time because of Smith's new movie "Two Smoking Barrels". Go up to another level!" Boss Oston rubbed his head and laughed, he was very satisfied with the friendly state of the two people in front of him.

Finally, there is no one who is arrogant or sarcastic, Alston thought in his heart.

"Okay, before editing, I want to have a chat with Mr. Smith. Regarding this movie, what kind of state does Mr. Smith want to achieve?" Walter sat on the sofa, took a sip from his teacup, and then proposed Topics you care about most.

"The state I want is that the film as a whole follows the linear narrative mode, and deconstructs the plot of a single scene in a paragraph, starting from a single paragraph, abandoning people's normal view of time and space, and combining the plots with causality, It must be skillful and reasonable, and the audience must not feel the slightest sense of abruptness."

Zhang Dongcheng was not depressed, and directly expressed his point of view: "I need a lot of flashbacks, fast editing to present the behavior of the characters in the movie in an anxious and chaotic form, and at the same time, the mutual cooperation and perfection of music and editing must be integrated. Let the movie present a cool and intuitive feeling. Cool! is the only standard."

"You mean, the movie should be like MTV, with fast cutting, fragmented space, non-linear time, stylized modeling, and excessive images integrated one by one to produce a unique style and reflect that unparalleled coolness?"

Walter is the only super editor in Hollywood, and he quickly grasped the key points in Zhang Dongcheng's words. He lowered his head and thought for a while, then quickly raised his head, stared at Zhang Dongcheng's face with piercing eyes, and asked tentatively .

"You are right, it fits my idea very well! This is a cool black comedy, I hope Mr. Walter's scissors can make all the audience laugh!" Zhang Dongcheng snapped his fingers and said affirmatively.