Filming has been going on for more than a month, from the Los Angeles studio, the Sierra Nevada location
As a director, Tsui Hark did almost everything in one song, and the entire huge crew was organized under his management.
After the film was launched, Yang Can has been observing Tsui Hark’s behavior. He has no say in the film industry. He knows the truth of letting go, but he likes to study everything. After all, Tsui Hark is a person. What is so extraordinary that they can realize the potential of these actors
Old Monster Xu can create the Oriental undefeated, and Xiaoqian's classic character "color" is almost an epoch-making classic "color", especially Brigitte Lin's Oriental undefeated, this female pretending to be a man's character "color" created After a period of time, Brigitte Lin has entered a long period of finalization, specializing in this type of role, and almost no one remembers that she is the classic heroine of Qiong Yao opera.
Tsui Hark’s method of training actors is very special. Every day before the start of the filming, he usually has a long talk with each actor and puts forward his own views on the role, whether it is Liu Qingyun, Chow Yunfa, Han Ting, Yang Xiuya. Tsui Hark attaches great importance to the opinions of actors, regardless of whether he has a deep understanding of the performing arts or the first newcomers to perform in a film.
The atmosphere of the crew is also extremely harmonious.
The honest and honest Chen Wugang joined the crew and felt that filming was particularly fresh. There were hundreds of people on the crew and various departments busy every day, as if everyone was very excited. Everyone was obviously tired and lay on the bed with a haggard look, but As soon as they entered the camera, the actors and actresses all looked like a different person.
"Mr. Yang, the people you hired are too dedicated, right? What do you think in your mind? Work so hard..." Chen Wu, who was sitting on the recliner and drinking coffee with Yang Can, said heartlessly.
Looking at the crew of these people for 18 hours, Xu Har’s eyes were full of bloodshot eyes on the screen, and Chen Wu felt a little baffling.
Yang Can smiled, sat up straight, and asked Xu Xiaoxiao who was next to him to come over and "knead" and "knead" his shoulders. While asking Xu Xiaoxiao to add weight, he smiled at Chen Wu:
"Wu Zi, then I ask you, do you like seeing beautiful women?"
Chen Wu beamed his eyes and nodded his head repeatedly: "Of course I like it. I was in college, but I like to see those French women in the art department when I was fine. That small body, that's a pretty girl~"
Yang Can asked, "I've shown you the beauties you like for more than ten hours, are you tired of it?"
"Taste? How can it be? I don’t think there is enough time. I really don’t want time to stop. Take another look. First look at the hair, then the face, then the chest, and then the buttocks. After reading it, go from the bottom up, and then Look from left to right..." Chen Wuhan smiled, speaking a little bit impenetrable.
"They are the same." Yang Can pointed to Liu Qingyun and Yang Xiuya who were in the camera: "For them, acting is like watching beautiful women. It's their favorite thing. When they get started, they have energy, and there is nothing at all. The concept of time is gone."
Being an actor and a director is definitely not an industry where the outside world says that you can get a little bit of training and you can come to the industry. It still needs a bit of enthusiasm and sincerity. Just like reporters, don’t look at those big reporters who have to be outside. It's like a cow, and every leader must give them a bit of face. Everyone thinks that they are very good.
In fact, reporters stayed, stayed up late, and interviewed the scene in depth. These are extremely hard things. Few people can really stand it. The actors are like this. Just like the winter, only a few degrees. They were shot outside the palaces built in the mountains. In the movies. But it was a summer scene. The actors were all dressed in single clothes and looked cold. Everyone was wearing a warm baby and wrapped in a coat, but only one shot would not be able to pass, so you have to keep shooting until the director is satisfied.
want to rest? Dozens of people can't delay the shooting time for you, you just have to stand firm!
And in order not to exhale the white mist in the lens, the actors still have to put ice water in their mouths before the show starts to lower the temperature of the mouth, so that the white mist will not be exhaled in the "summer".
Just now, Liu Qingyun was a little red because of her neck being blown by the wind when she was profiled. After the cut, she always apologized to everyone. No matter how big the wrist is, they are all equal here, unlike the ethos of an actor in a TV crew.
I don't know how many such situations are in filming. If you don't enjoy this process, you simply can't survive.
Just heard Tsui Hark yelling "cut!" Yang Yan and Liu Qingyun's agents immediately went forward to put on coats for their respective artists, Yang Xiuya rubbed her hands and sneezed.
Everyone looked at Tsui Hark with a little fear, and wondered why he called cut for the twenty-fifth time. This time King King and Daji both acted very well.
I can see that everyone is very helpless, and Tsui Hark frowned and didn't know what he was thinking about. This is a habit of his old monster Xu. He hardly said anything on the set, and tried to let the actors play freely. Repeatedly No matter what the scene is, Old Monster Xu will stare at him with his straight eyes, making the actors uncontrollably hairy.
Everyone has no idea at all, but they can only think in their minds about what went wrong. "Master" tortured people on the set, it doesn't matter what star you are.
Tsui Hark has said everything that needs to be said before filming. If you don't understand it during filming, just think about it for yourself. After the shooting, Tsui Hark only looks at the scene and rarely speaks, and he hardly gives any feedback to the actors.
When Old Monster Xu is not talking, the sheep's beards are scattered on his chin coldly, which makes him look extremely serious. In fact, everyone who understands him knows that he is a very talkative director, so he is just deliberately creating pressure on the actors. , Let them think for themselves, he has said everything that needs to be said, the thinking needed.
"'Fuck'~! Not to mention the bad shots, I've been doing it all day, it's like a bunch of Chinese lunatics." A Vietnamese extravaganza finally couldn't help it, and jumped off the horse swearing in English. Throwing the spear on the ground fiercely, and leaving angrily, the deputy producer Jansen rushed to catch up, making everyone even more frustrated.
When filming in Hollywood, it is planned for what stage, plot, and how much time it takes to shoot. There are very few cases of overtime, and Old Monster Xu doesn't care about it. It's no wonder these Americans can't stand it.
After all, the funds are only so much, more than 20 million US dollars, even if it is full, only 10 million production costs are not enough for filming, and the set set cost 1.87 million. Every day, such a large group of crew members have to eat and drink. Spend thousands of dollars.
Fortunately, it has been stated beforehand that the accommodation of the actors is simple, or the big names in Asia must rent five-star hotels in Asia.
Tsui Hark didn’t make a sound and let the boy leave. He was in trouble. Yang Can couldn’t help but leaned over to look at the lens. In the lens was a close-up shot of Wang Daji and a group of guards riding a horse. It's a little short of reaching the standard.
Beforehand, Yang Can, the producer, did not put forward specific requirements, but the great director Tsui Hark himself raised his standard a lot. If the energy is less than 500, Mr. Xu will not pass the test. This is the same as Yang Can. The vision of the benchmark coincides with each other.
Yang Can used mind reading to look at Xu Ke’s consciousness and understood what he meant. In fact, this master Xu had passed this period and he could not pick out any shortcomings, but he just felt that something was bad and kept on the picture. I looked for problems but found nothing.
Do you just take this picture over? That would definitely be edited out in the later stage, which is equivalent to saying that today’s game was wasted.
Usually when encountering this kind of unknown problem, the ordinary film director will continue to let the actor come back until he is satisfied, which is a way of gambling, letting the people in these shots tap their own potential, although this This kind of efficiency is relatively low, but many directors are not tired of it, why, because it is just fine to spend time without using their brains.
The problem for Tsui Hark now is that he even used this trick and still didn't solve the problem.
"Let's rest for a few minutes~" Yang Can yelled to everyone seeing this situation.
"Director Xu, please let me take a look." Yang Can asked Chen Wu to move the chair over and signaled Tsui Hark to move away from the camera. Tsui Hark looked a little helpless and was too embarrassed to say anything. The producer started shooting. From the beginning, I didn't care about everything. Now I want to interfere with the shooting. This is the most taboo behavior for the director.
Shi Nansheng was sensitively aware of Yang Can’s ultra vires, and couldn’t help but push his second director Mai Weijian with his hand. Mai Weijian waved his hand to indicate that he could not persuade him. What are you kidding? You are reasonable with Yang Tou, don’t watch Yang Tou is usually kind, and when he really wants to do anything you want to interfere, it's strange that he doesn't kick your ass.
Numerous production staff looked at Yang Can with suspicion and "confusion", and saw that he held his hands to the camera and compared some strange gestures, as if they were studying something.
Everyone was speechless and funny on the spot! ? In front of the camera than this gesture of dividing the picture? what's going on? Don't know how to pretend to understand
Of course Yang Can is not pretending to be garlic, he just sliced the picture piece by piece, to see which area has gone from the problem and affected the entire energy.
Yang Xiuya 512, Liu Qingyun 532, the extras almost 157...According to the screen ratio, the average is less than 500.
Yang Can couldn't help "touching" and "touching" his own chin. Something was wrong. These people who played the King of Kings Guardian were hired by some Hollywood guys who played Asian bodyguards. The energy was around 280. In other scenes, Not bad, why can't it pass just such a close shot
After careful observation, Yang Can finally found the problem, eh! ? By the way, it's the horses. The problem with the more than 20 British thoroughbred horses. These horses are very uncoordinated in the picture. It is not the movement, but the depressive atmosphere that suppresses the liveliness of the scene..
"Who is responsible for these horses~?" Yang Can straightened up and shouted to the people around. Shi Nansheng warmed his hands and waved to a middle-aged man with a big beard, "Toby~ come here." ."
He pulled the beard to Yang Can and introduced: "This is Toby from Vera Ranch. Those thoroughbred horses are rented from them."
Everyone doesn't understand, this scene has not passed the test, what does it have to do with these beasts? I was scolding my mother in my heart. The students and Chinese actors of Irvine College were better. James Walker, who was the head of the photography team, threw his hat on the ground!
"Fuck"! A producer who usually doesn't care about farts is here to make trouble. Isn't this a waste of everyone's time?
After a long time of filming, everyone was exhausted and felt aggrieved. Several actors went to the side to smoke.
Yang Can pulled the bearded Toby and asked, "Toby, do you have a problem with these horses? Why don't you have any energy?"
"Absolutely no problem." Toby's face flushed, "These pure bloods went through a lot of shots immediately, and the three brown "colors" are very brilliant in "The Boy with Saddleback"~!"
Talking about this, he pulled these horses out, jumped on one of them and ran for a few steps. The horse was full of spirits, and the horse's hoof was strong, like a drum. Xu Hark Shi Nansheng and Mai Weijian nodded at the same time. This horse is indeed quite graphic.
Yang Can squinted his eyes. Indeed, this horse sheet looks very good, but those Asian extras with strong muscles are not low-energy, why can't they get together? Yang Can thought about it and "touched" the horse's mane "hair". He probed and entered with consciousness energy, and slowly and gradually penetrated into the horse's consciousness. Yang Can's connection with the animal was already very smooth.
Soon, Yang Can noticed some dents on the horse’s back. It turned out that the horse was bruised. He walked to a guard’s extra, checked his prop armor, and "touched" the back of the armor. Pieces of armor suddenly understood.
Called all the extras, and directed the beautiful Sarah who is in charge of the costumes: "Sarah, before they get on the horse, stick up the back of these people's armors, and don't let the armor touch the horses."
Sarah felt a little inexplicable, so she didn't dare to ask more, and asked a few prop artists to stick the part of the armor together with super glue.
"Okay, let's do it again, just as before." Yang Can patted the horse's ass with a big hand, and the brown horse screamed as if it were very useful.
Everyone was preparing reluctantly. What's this going on? I haven't done it just now. Is it possible to do it again now? What kind of logic, hey, who is the producer
Muttering in my heart, everyone was in their respective positions. After a few minutes of preparation, Shi Nansheng called out an "action" and started shooting again. Mai Weijian and Tsui Hark both came to the front of the camera and looked carefully. Both of them were originally tired. Look at the opening of the mouth.
The same scene, the same lines, and even the tone is exactly the same, but it feels completely different. Against the background of the tall horses and iron guards, Liu Qingyun's King Zhou looks extremely awe-inspiring, and the whole momentum looks completely different, even than usual. Even more brilliant.
Under the background of the horses' low "groans" and the undulating sound of stomping, King Liu Qingyun and King Zhou hadn't even said a single line, the emperor's temperament naturally radiated!
Until the end of the play, Tsui Hark and Mai Weijian were immersed in this extremely charming scene, silent, Shi Nansheng didn't know if he should call cut, so Liu Qingyun and Yang Xiuya added the lines after they finished speaking. I spent a few minutes in the "sentimental" drama.
In the end, the two of them couldn't do it anymore. Yang Can couldn't help but laugh and shouted cut. The actors breathed out a long time, finally being liberated...
Everyone looked at Tsui Hark and Mai Weijian together, Tsui Hark slowly woke up, and then stood up and extended a thumb: "Very good, passed!"
Everyone cheered excitedly, and several guys whistled.
"Awesome~! You can rest!"
"Oh, my waist hurts!"
"'Fuck'~! I can finally go home from get off work to accompany my wife." The atmosphere finally relaxed.
Yang Can laughed and shouted a joke with the lighting engineer: "Johnny, do you still want to go home with your wife? I think you have forgotten what your wife looks like with Sarah."
Everyone laughed, and Johnny had to "touch" and "touch" his head, giggling silly.
"What the hell did you do?" Sarah first ran over, wondering what the difference was between the two shots.
Tsui Hark and Mai Weijian both had the word "horse!" in their hearts.
He stood up by coincidence, ran to the horses, and "touched" and "touched" their backs. After searching carefully, they found the traces that were pressed out. They were surprised and admired and walked towards Yang Can.
"It's really a long experience today, Mr. Yang, how did you discover this detail?" Xu Hark once again impressed Yang Can.
"As I said, our head Yang has double eyes and golden eyes, and the whole is a Monkey King." Zhu Huaicheng sighed, and kept "touching" the horses.
"What the hell are you talking about? Do you suspect that this is a mistake of our props team!?" Sarah looked a little angry:
"I swear~! We have experimented before shooting, and there is no problem with these armor designs." This is a question of her professionalism, Sarah seems a little unacceptable, is she such an amateur in the eyes of these Chinese people!
Tsui Hark smiled and waved his hand: "No, this time I was negligent. It's none of your business." I squeezed Yang Can's arm in the past: "Mr. Yang, really, I have never seen you in a movie for so many years. A careful young man like you."
Yang Can smiled, and Tsui Hark explained to Sara:
"When you tried the circus before, it was a very thin dramatist who was wearing armor to test the horses. He weighed only 120 kilograms. The armor section did not cause damage to the horses' backs. But I later found these guys to perform various performances. All of them are tall and strong men over 180 kilograms, and the pressure caused is much greater than before. The horses are uncomfortable to tie, which creates an inexplicable sense of incongruity in the whole picture."
Because this heavy armor was specially made, although the Shang Dynasty did not have this kind of smelting technology, it was a movie after all, and it had to be artistic. That's why it was designed to cover the scope of the armor even beyond the saddle, which eventually led to this problem.
After hearing Xu Hark’s explanation, the people next to him finally understood what was going on. They all rushed to look for the scars on the horse back in surprise. Everyone was surprised.
Many times when making movies, it is this kind of detail that determines success or failure. With such a producer, the script is relieved and all the details are taken care of. This makes Tsui Hark feel a sense of unprecedented ease of relaxation.
Shi Nansheng couldn't help but came over and patted Tsui Hark's shoulder deeply:
"Old Xu, really, today I think you are pure'director'. If we could meet a producer like Mr. Yang 16 years ago, what would we be like today?"
In 1996, the two came to Hollywood and directed "The King of Strikes Back" and "The Headache". They wanted to perfectly combine Tsui Hark's style with the Hollywood production model, but they failed, and this time the situation seems a bit different...
Tsui Hark also noticed the subtle changes in the atmosphere in the crew, and he also had a strange feeling. Not to mention the other actors, even he seemed to have been revitalized by this young man. They smiled at each other with Shi Nansheng, regretting 16 years ago. , It is also the expectation for the future, maybe this time it can be a little different..