Chapter 427： Bloody and cruel

Heading north along the intercontinental highway, to the north of Burbank near the San Fernando Valley, Ronan got off the car and entered a small old warehouse.

Since the warehouse has just been rented and has not yet been remodeled, the garbage from many places has been piled up and has not been shipped out.

"Wait! Don't move yet!"

Wen Ziren’s shout came from the front, and he said loudly to several workers: “Don’t remove the toilet pipes and toilets! Don’t clean this toilet, just keep it as it is now! It’s okay, it’s okay to be messy! Open that window , Ventilate, let off the smell."

Ronan could tell that Wen Ziren had entered a state.

On the other side, Ray Warner was relatively silent, turning around in the warehouse with a pen and paper, constantly writing and drawing, and only greeted Ronan when he met Ronan.

Ronan knows very well that the combination of Wen Ziren and Ray Warner is entirely based on Wen Ziren.

Ronan walked over after Wen Ziren confessed his work. Wen Ziren came over to shake hands with Ronan: "Good afternoon, Mr. Anderson."

Ronan said, "James, you're welcome, just call me Ronan."

He was about to shake hands with Wen Ziren. Wen Ziren found that his hands were grey, so he quickly withdrew his hands, and said embarrassedly, "My hands are too dirty."

Ronan didn't care, and asked, "Is it going well?"

Wen Ziren said: "The warehouse has just been rented out. It is not a big problem to clean it up."

In fact, money is easy to handle.

Ronan said, "I will leave you in charge of this project."

"Thank you." Wen Ziren was a little moved: "Ronan, thank you for your trust."

Ronan smiled and said, "James, I believe in your ability."

The entire project invested 1.5 million U.S. dollars, placed in today's Shahai Entertainment, it can be said to be a veritable low-cost production.

Wen Ziren took Ronan around in the warehouse, talking about future filming plans based on the script.

This also reassures Ronan, the producer.

For such a small production, Ronan also dared to let the director play his role appropriately. To put it bluntly, if the investment of 1.5 million US dollars is ruined, Wen Ziren’s directorial future will basically be over, but Relativity Entertainment has little influence. .

Relativity Entertainment now has such capital.

Entering the management office of the warehouse, Ronan immediately stopped and stood in front of a sofa and looked carefully.

There was a puppet sitting on the sofa. The puppet was wearing a black suit and a red bow tie. His pale and gloomy face seemed to be stained with blood, and his body was full of evil.

Maybe it's because of the relationship that has watched "Saw Cry", Ronan thinks this puppet is super charming, evil charm!

Ronan pointed to the puppet and asked, "James, did you do this?"

Wen Ziren smiled embarrassedly and said: "It's called Billy, I did it."

Ronan nodded. Billy the puppet was once a famous character. In countless Internet posts and Internet works, he can be called a movie character who is just as mythological as Jiu Shu.

"Not bad." Ronan glanced at Billy again. "It looks scary."

Wen Ziren simply said: "This puppet, in fact, I borrowed from the famous Italian horror film master Dario Aquido's "Blood Red at Night" and transformed it into this puppet based on the murderer's setting."

Ronan asked concerned: "There will be no copyright issues, right?"

"No." Wen Ziren is very confident about this: "Just borrowed from the setting, the external image is completely different."

Ronan nodded and asked, "Do you have any thoughts about actors?"

Wen Ziren smiled, and said: "I came to Hollywood not long after Lei and I were not very familiar with the circle. I have to trouble you in this respect..."

"Yeah." Ronan said directly: "I will let Shahai Entertainment send an announcement to recruit actors."

Tobin Bell should be an old actor, such a person is very easy to find in the circle, and let me inquire about it later.

"Oh, that's right." Wen Ziren seemed to think of something, and said: "Lei wants to play one of the roles. No extra pay is required."

Ronan is unambiguous: "Yes, you can discuss this with Lei."

Shahai Entertainment signed a long-term contract with Wen Ziren and Ray Warner. This "Chain Saw" is also paid according to industry practices, and the two people's remuneration totals $50,000.

As for Wen Ziren's worries about increasing the risk of investment, it is nothing in Ronan's eyes.

Wen Ziren is a veritable newcomer director in Hollywood, and he has to coordinate in all aspects, such as buying ketchup for making props, and pig intestines for human intestines.

Blood and cruelty are also one of the selling points of this film.

In Wen Ziren's words, it is an interpretation of human nature with blood.

"I designed a lot of **** shots." Wen Ziren handed the sub-shots he had drawn to Ronan, and said: "For example, to get out of the shackles to cut his legs, the steel crack jaw helmet removes the head from the mouth. split into two……"

He explained: "Such cruel scenes directly test people's psychological endurance, making people creepy and feeling that human life is so fragile. It produces an endless fear from the depths of the heart. After fear is the despair of life."

Ronan carefully looked through the shots of the artwork and changed to another director. In order to achieve the goal Wen Ziren said, the budget of 1.5 million US dollars was not enough.

But Wen Ziren shouldn't be a big problem.

A famous person once said that Wen Ziren comes with two attributes: the master of horror halo and the special effects aura halo.

The former can increase the horror sensory effects of his horror films by 50%; the latter can increase the special effects of the movie by 20% at the same cost.

In this respect, Wen Ziren is similar to Michael Bay. While making big money for the film company, he also saves a lot of investment in production.

Such a director is a good director in the eyes of a Hollywood studio.

Artists like David Lynch and Woody Allen are really weak for the film company in front of Wen Ziren and Michael Bay.

Plasma and pig intestine are easy to handle, and they are not a problem for Hollywood studios.

Ronan will let people prepare in advance, the first part of "Chain Saw" is fine, and more and more plasma will be needed later.

Blood and violence must be the biggest selling point of this series.

Speaking of blood and horror, Wen Ziren seemed to have lingering fears, and he couldn’t believe what he said: “I’m actually very courageous. When I watch other horror movies, I see the blood splashing and the blood flying. Frightened and blindfolded."

Ronan smiled and said, "James, you have to train your courage."

Could this happen? The cowardly director was born a horror movie wizard, but he was scared to death by his own horror movie...

I remember when I was in school, there was a ghost story on the radio. Many people were rumoring that he was scared to death.

Perhaps, after Wen Ziren went through such a creative process, those things that once frightened him no longer frightened him.

Before leaving, Ronan exhorted: "James, there is one thing you need to pay attention to. You must give the movie enough suspense so that it can be distinguished from the horror films that were purely **** and cruel in the past, and let the audience feel that this horror film is different. "

Wen Ziren solemnly said: "I will pay more attention to this aspect."

Ronan added, "But it can't be complicated and obscure."

"I understand." Wen Ziren is obviously a sensible person.

Ronan didn't say much, and left immediately.

In addition to **** cruelty and tricky killings, Suspense is also the best in the series.

Appropriate increase in suspense can make the audience watch it enthusiastically.

Hitchcock once said that several people gathered around a table to talk about baseball. If the audience knew in advance that there was a bomb under the table that would explode in 5 minutes, then this prompt would create strong suspense and make the audience very concerned. This talk about baseball scene.

But if the audience didn't know that there was a bomb, these people talked for 5 minutes, and then the bomb suddenly exploded and blasted the people to pieces. The audience was just shocked. And for these people's 5 minutes of talking about baseball , I feel a little dull.

Wen Ziren once undoubtedly did a very good job.

For example, at the end of the movie, the body slowly stood up and said in a contemptuous and sincere manner: Many people don't know how to cherish, but it's not you, and it's not you anymore.

The suspenseful story and the depth of humanity are there, but the director makes the heart that has become softened again to beat violently, shocking people and leaving some puzzles again. For example, do those with broken legs survive? Is the confined person dead or alive? What will the jigsaw do after it leaves? This kind of suspenseful and open ending makes it difficult to get out of it for a while.

The classic of Chainsaw One is that the content is richer and deeper. Not only is the story full of suspense, but the director also uses a lot of suspense skills in the chapters, but the structure is not obscure and complicated.

For commercial films, obscurity and complexity are simply the natural enemies of the audience, as well as a weapon to drive profits.

In fact, one of the movies that the average audience hates the most is the mystery.

Perhaps playing mystery will make many critics describe it as artistic and complacent because ordinary people cannot understand it, but it is too terrible for commercial films.

After leaving the warehouse studio, Ronan did not go to the company again, and returned directly to Beverly Hills. Christmas was approaching, and the manor was a little deserted.

The housekeeper Nikia and a few workers are also reuniting with their families. There are not many people in the huge manor.

After dinner, Ronan walked around in the garden and returned to the study. He read and processed mail as usual. When it was near ten o'clock, he suddenly received a call.

"Ronan, it's me, Avril! Are you in Beverly Hills? Do you have time? I'm at Beverly Club."

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