Today is Tsui Hark's last scene, and tomorrow he will officially work with Lin Chaoxian to see what the so-called masochistic maniac on the set is like.
"Can you believe that I found Lin Chaoxian less than a month after the Changjin Lake project was approved?" Yu Dong suddenly sighed.
Seeing Su Ze raise his eyebrows, he smiled and said: "He said he has no confidence. War dramas are not a big problem. They are all in the same field, mainly history."
"This period of history is rarely mentioned, and textbooks only mention it briefly, so..."
Su Ze nodded. Lao Lin was also a ruthless person. He made up for the past, built a team from scratch, and designed tactics. For a set of war shots, the photographer repeatedly tested and modified them. In the end, the photography equipment used to shoot football matches was also used for experiments.
According to his words: I want to use three-dimensional expression techniques to capture the soldiers' will to resist powerful enemies with their flesh and blood. This kind of will is the key to defeating the enemy armed to the teeth when we, with backward equipment, were able to defeat it.
Although there is no official filming, you can see Lin Chaoxian busy on the set every day. You must know that he is a native of Hong Kong Island.
From more than 20 degrees to more than 20 degrees below zero?
The legendary devil Lin can't hold it anymore!
In fact, from Su Ze's point of view, Lin Chaoxian is the director of all action design. Even Tsui Hark, most of the shots just put forward an idea and feeling, and many times it is Lin Chaoxian who gives specific opinions.
For example, I took a photo of a dry riverbed a few days ago. The enemy sent fighter jets to search the area. The Seventh Company had no time to cross the riverbed, so it could only hide in place immediately, hoping that the enemy would mistakenly think that the people below were all corpses.
Tsui Hark has been thinking about how to express this scene, and finally Lin Chaoxian came up with a very bold idea...
One shot to the end.
However, it was only when we actually started shooting that we found out that it was very difficult, because the operation of the on-site shots required a relatively large-scale scheduling.
Because the riverbed can be shot both near and far, as well as airplanes, etc., when the camera needs to be raised to shoot the plane crossing, and when it needs to be lowered to take close-ups, even a close-up of an eye needs to be designed.
At this moment, Su Ze realized what it means to be a top war drama director.
Tried a lot of different equipment, including using flying cats, which are usually used to film American football games.
If you are doing big sports or large-scale movements, Flying Cat is very useful and very fast. The speed can reach a certain level, but it is not suitable for taking detailed shots.
It can only be combined with other instruments, and the operation is as fierce as a tiger. A scene can be divided into dozens of lenses. I try my best to use lenses of different sizes to perform, and finally combine them.
Awesome!
Not only the director and team, but also the other actor Su Ze was full of recognition after three months. They had never worked together before, but in this movie they are all tough guys.
I've heard of stand-in and substitute, but who has heard of substitute whistle?
Zhu Yawen has a scene where he needs to whistle to command his comrades to take action, but what should he do if he can't whistle?
He had no choice but to ask Han Dongjun, who played Pinghe, to help, and he turned into a veritable substitute.
That's not all. Li Chen, who plays Yu Congrong, is not particularly tall, but his appearance was in a quarrel with the artillery battalion soldiers.
In order to appear more imposing, Han Dongjun actually let Li Chen ride on his neck, completely condescending.
The most amazing thing is Hu Jun, who is very attached to the role of Lei Gong because his father was a veteran who actually participated in the battle.
In the scene where Lei Gong died in his car, the script originally planned a long line of dialogue, but Hu Jun only said two sentences according to his own ideas: It hurts me to death.
Don't leave me here alone.
The whole audience burst into tears in an instant!
According to his point of view, a seriously injured person cannot speak at length. In Su Ze's opinion, these two revised lines may be the most touching point in the film.
I have to say that the actor's ability to perform at 120% is inseparable from the due diligence of the entire behind-the-scenes team.
It has been almost four months since filming started in June. Tsui Hark has to hold more than ten meetings every time he starts filming. Cheng Kaige talks to the actors shot by shot. The most optimistic estimate is that even if Lin Chaoxian goes smoothly, at least...
Three months!
Three major directors, more than a dozen powerful actors, a team of thousands, tens of thousands of extras, and the temperature is more than ten degrees below zero every day...
Eight or nine months!
"Changjin Lake is a kind of belief!" As the boss of Bona, Yu Dong said with rare emotion: "I have been investing in movies for so many years and have made all kinds of movies. As a human being, you always want to leave some memories in the end, right?"
Su Ze was deeply touched. At this moment, his impression of Fatty Yu was greatly changed. Although he was a businessman, he still had a deep love for movies.
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After decades of life, one must leave some thoughts in the end.
This time I really experienced a lot about war scenes. Compared to the long shots and rhythm of the Battle of Changsha, Changjin Lake is another extreme.
It must be said that it is really difficult to complete the war scene scheduling well, especially for complex and large scenes, the shots are very fragmented, and coupled with fast editing, the cruelty of war can be reflected.
Many times you were alive one second and died the next.
Then there is the ubiquitous background sound, dozens of sounds mixed together, especially the 3D special effects, giving Su Ze the illusion of being on the scene every time, as if he is in a bloody battle.
Watching the glow of the Great Wall from a train, fighting closely with enemy troops, bombing in the canyon, machine gun fire from the Gobi desert army, indiscriminate bombing from aircraft...
Many times when I come back from filming, my ears are ringing!
The one who moved Su Ze the most was Lei Gong, and he was also his favorite character, even more than Wu Jing's Wu Qianli.
After the enemy dropped the marker bomb, our army was in a dangerous situation. If we could not change the situation in time, we might suffer heavy losses. At the critical moment, the marker bomb could not be extinguished by thunder, so we could only drive the troops away from the position and towards the enemy's retreat.
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To put it bluntly, they are death squads. Once they go, they never come back.
In the process of driving away, Hu Jun vividly portrayed the mood and expression of a person on the verge of despair. In fact, his character was that of an old soldier who cherished his life, but he stood up for himself at critical moments.
Especially the last two lines before death, and then he couldn't help humming a Yimeng tune from his hometown, which reminds people that they worked hard just to get home safely.
He just lived an ordinary life, but now he can never go back.
At that time, Su Ze finally understood the real reason why this battle must be fought.
The beautiful rivers and mountains contrasted with the brutal war, the enemy's big fish and meat contrasted with our army's frozen potatoes, the peaceful life of fishermen on the river contrasted with the bloody fighting on the battlefield...
Our army was ready and vowed to fight to the death. The offensive was at full strength. But the enemy plane just made a U-turn and left lightly with death and sorrow that they didn't know they didn't care about?
It uses a sharp contrast to reflect the simple desires of the people at that time and the cruelty of war!
It reminds us that children living in today's peaceful era must remember history and strive for self-improvement!
Only if you are strong enough can you resist foreign enemies!
A weak country has no diplomacy! This chapter has been completed!