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Chapter 85: Indescribably Priceless? Brother Tianer, Please Let Me Go!
Got the "ticket" to film in Kowloon Walled City~
The crew of "Hong Kong Ghost Story" entered the city where good and bad people mixed together and began to prepare for filming. Everyone inside was very polite!
In the summer, he also bought a lot of medicine and food and donated them to the local residents. He showed his friendly side.
Cai Lan is the producer of this film, Lan Naicai, who is particularly good at cult classics, is the director, and Xia Tian is the supervisor...

Many of the horror scenes and effects were created by Xia Tian and Lan Naicai.

Xia Tian always draws the key scenes, which are so vivid and lifelike.

The crew made some repairs and renovations on some of the corridors, alleys and rooms in the walled city.

On July 7, the filming of "Hong Kong Ghost Story" was launched in Kowloon Walled City, with a string of firecrackers, some tributes, and worship of Guan Erye.

In the summer, they moved faster than Big Nose Dragon's "Crime Squad", and they are still preparing!
As the producer, Xia Tian is with the crew most of the time, but not all the time.

Generally, they construct horrific scenes in their minds - for example, there is a small theater in the walled city, where there is a monster with a Huadan face painted on it and six plastic models with long legs and spider-like bodies.

——In the plot, someone is practicing evil magic in the city, but he is a jack of all trades and wants to resurrect his lover.

But the result was just like those "predecessors", with a tragic ending - the ancestral book said "six sense organs are complete", but this uneducated guy thought it meant six feet.
Well, this monster is inspired by the monster in Silent Hill, but the original game also borrowed a similar image.

The background of the entire film is explained bit by bit in a subtle way, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the horror film from the protagonist Chin Kar-lok's first-person perspective.

……

I was busy filming here in the summer when Milan from Yanjing called me.

She told Xia Tian about this month’s cover of Popular Movies—yes, it caused a sensation again!

Many people may not know that the standards in those days were actually much larger than later.

There are leaked images in the opening credits, the movie starts with a naked back, there are venomous and perverted murderers, there are corpses in a mental hospital, etc.

What about the so-called "Haunted Building" that is said to scare people to death, and the "drinking manna" and so on~
Even the magazine covers are bold, and are becoming bolder by the day.

After so many years, "Popular Movies" has found the secret to its popularity - the cover must feature a female actress, the more beautiful and eye-catching the better!

Previously, a male actor was featured again, and the sales of that issue were cut in half!
The result is that people are becoming more and more courageous and their standards are getting bigger and bigger.

Before, it started with showing the navel, then showing the shoulders, and in this issue, "Popular Movies" is even more of a big deal~
The cover features young actress Xin Ying...

This episode is just crazy!
Many people's first reaction after seeing this photo is "Oh my God, where is her hand?"

There are almost no female stars in China who dare to pose like this!
This scale is already the limit of print magazines!
If it gets any bigger, it will probably catch up with Hong Kong’s “Dragon Tiger Pandora’s Box”!

It is conceivable how big a commotion there would be in the country.
Milan was so excited, it was like he had gotten some big news!

She also talked about the results of the 5th CCTV Young Singer TV Competition - Youth Song Competition two days ago.

Among them, there was a name that Xia Tian was quite familiar with - Mao Ning, who won the second prize in the popular singing category of the professional group.

Xia Tian participated in the first Youth Song Competition in 84.

The first Youth Song Competition did not have any distinction between singing styles, only amateur and professional groups. The judges were mainly composed of people from the music and television industries.

Originally, the contestants had to go through the preliminaries on various local stations, and finally the contestants who entered the finals would compete with each other.

But Xia Tian was an amateur player recommended by Yanjing University and directly entered the semi-finals.

Then he sang a croon version of "Castle in the Sky" in the semi-finals. The full lyrics only have one word "ah"~
Then he got the highest score in the amateur group semi-finals!

The final was sung by Tan Weiwei's version of "Chi Le Chuan" - commonly known as Gao Wang's Happy Song.

Also added the techniques of Humming and long tunes~
Finally won the first prize in the amateur group.

That summer, I also met a sister named... who won third prize in the professional category...

……

Less than a week after the filming of "Hong Kong Ghost Story" started, on July 7, another major case occurred in Hong Kong.

It was hailed as the largest heist in Hong Kong history—four well-planned gunmen stole a shipment of US and Hong Kong dollars bound for the island near the airport's cargo terminal administration building—a total value of HK$1.676 million. Xia Tian, ​​upon seeing the breaking news on TV, immediately reacted: "Holy crap! These robbers are truly big-time!"
It’s really messy here!

……

"Hong Kong Ghost Story" has only four or five main actors, and two of them die in the early stage. There are only the protagonist from the first-person perspective, the colleague and girlfriend of the protagonist who is possessed by evil spirits, and two women who appear in the early stage and are thought to be good people but are actually villains.

The most tedious part is actually setting up the scene.

Xia Tian divided the crew into three parts, with Group A and Group B shooting separately. Group A mainly shot the plot and characters, Group B shot various real scenes in Kowloon Walled City for editing, and the final logistics team was responsible for setting up and adjusting the scenes.

Under Xia Tian's meticulous command, fifty or sixty people methodically and swiftly completed their tasks. By the time they finally realized what was happening, they were—holy crap! Is the progress so fast? It felt like we hadn't worked much overtime! How could this be going so smoothly?

It is inevitable to encounter some accidents when filming, especially this kind of film, which has a lot of stories in Hong Kong.

Moreover, the filming location was a place like Kowloon Walled City, which was a psychological burden and the probability of problems occurring was even greater.

However, after more than ten days of filming, not only did no accidents occur, but it went extremely smoothly, and the work of the three groups of people was very smooth.

Not only is it fast, but there’s no overtime!
Brother Tian'er is even more generous, providing high-quality meals and plenty of cold drinks, snacks and treats.

Even the children who came to watch in the walled city were often given a lot of snacks and candies, which made them have a very good impression.
In the summer, you can even take a handheld camera and film the daily lives of the residents in the walled city to use as documentaries and materials!
I don't know what happened, but some strange remarks appeared in the crew, such as "Brother Tian'er is blessed by the gods", "Brother Tian'er is born with good luck", "Brother Tian'er has great luck" and other nonsense!

This rumor spread from the crew to the ears of paparazzi, which was even more outrageous. They almost said that Xia Tian was the godson of Guanyin Bodhisattva and the fourth brother of Guan Erye!

That report went viral for a while!
Xia Tian wanted to explain, but these bastards just wouldn't listen!

Even within two days, the rumors became even more outrageous!

It is said that a famous wizard in Hong Kong looked at Xia Tian’s face through his photos and said that he was “invaluable”!
Xia Tian was so angry that he started cursing on the set: "What kind of chicken neck wizard is this? Look at his face? He's so expensive! He's trying to trick me, right?"

Why don’t you just say I want “breakfast”!
Originally, Xia Tian just cursed privately. This kind of thing cannot be escalated. It is best to deal with it calmly.

Even the crew members didn't take it seriously. After all, words like "priceless" were too outrageous. Was he really the Dragon Emperor?
As a result, the next day, when Xia Tian arrived at the crew, he found that the crew members looked at him with strange eyes - when he looked at him, they quickly turned their faces away, as if they were guilty and didn't dare to look him in the eye.

Xia Tian immediately wondered if these grandchildren had done something wrong to him? Did they steal the props again?
After asking Cai Lan, I found out that something happened last night - the big-mouthed wizard who said summer was priceless had a car accident last night!
The strange thing is that he was not hurt at all, but his arms were broken, and he fell to the ground and lost six teeth!
Now he is lying in the hospital!
Cai Lan handed the obviously low-quality newspaper to Xia Tian with very careful movements.

He looked back at the other people in the crew and asked Xia Tian with all his might, "Tian'erzi, you don't really know something, do you?"

Summer reads the tabloid in my hand, and I'm dumbfounded—what the hell does this have to do with me? He who crosses the road without checking the traffic light deserves to be hit by a car!

But when he saw the curiosity and caution in Cai Lan's little eyes, he knew that no matter how much he explained, it would be useless.

"Alas~" He could only sigh.

Sure enough, what followed was an information explosion.

This incident happened yesterday, and only the paparazzi from this tabloid discovered it and made it a headline overnight.

But by this morning, nearly ten groups of paparazzi had gone to interview the unlucky guy in the hospital.

These people quickly took photos and reported it in the newspaper the next morning. The guy had a swollen mouth and several teeth missing. He publicly apologized to Brother Tianer in the newspaper, saying that he shouldn't have said nonsense after looking at his face, and asked Brother Tianer to let him go!
There were even paparazzi who came to interview Xia Tian and asked him, "Brother Tian Er, are you going to let him go?"

Xia Tian glanced at the paparazzi and said, "I'll let him go. I'll let you take his place!"

As a result, the paparazzi had not walked more than 20 meters after the interview when he bumped into someone at a corner. The person was Wang Jiu, the Qigong master who had previously fought with Xia Tian.

"Damn, don't you have eyes?!" Wang Jiu pushed him against the wall and he fell heavily.

That paparazzi was really dedicated. He held the camera in his arms at the critical moment. As a result, when he wiped his mouth, his mouth was broken!
This frightened him so much that he got up and ran towards Xia Tian like a 100-meter race: "Brother Tian'er, I was wrong, please let me go~~~ (crying voice)"

Xia Tian:...Fuck you!
Fortunately, on July 7, the filming of "Hong Kong Ghost Story" was completed.

The filming took a total of 22 days!
(End of this chapter)