When most of the cast and crew gathered in the tent, Li Mu asked Wang Yuanlang and several on-site assistants to bring in more than 100 bottles of wine he had brought, and said to everyone: "Everyone has worked so hard here. It’s been a long time, and it’s about to be finalized, so I specially brought some pretty good wine for everyone, and we’ll have a celebration party in advance tonight.”
Spielberg said with a smile: "It looks like everyone will be drunk tonight."
Li Mu said: "Stephen, hurry up and arrange the work at hand so that everyone can finish the work as soon as possible."
Spielberg nodded and smiled: "Our chef has already started preparing today's dinner. Today we drove to Spring City and bought two pickup trucks of various ingredients."
Li Mu said with satisfaction: "Today's celebration banquet will be grander. We will cooperate with a wave of media promotion to let the public have a deeper impression of the movie "Flying Tigers"."
As he spoke, Li Mu looked at the three leading actors, Leonardo, Tom Hanks, and Liu Ye. All three of them were still wearing costumes, which were the U.S. Air Force jackets from the Second World War, black jackets, beige khakis, etc. Trousers, paired with brown high-top leather boots, although it has a very period feel, but even with today's aesthetics, it is absolutely handsome.
Moreover, Leonardo's appearance is incredible and he is now at the peak of his appearance. This outfit is simply perfect.
Liu Ye's looks are also top-notch, and he is tougher than most young boys, so wearing such an air force outfit, he is no less impressive than Leonardo.
Although Tom Hanks is a little older and his looks are slightly inferior to those of young actors, the best thing about this big brother is that he plays whatever he wants. Wherever he goes in his outfit, if he says he is Chennault, he is Chennault. Wearing aviator sunglasses and holding a cigar, you can definitely charm a large number of female viewers.
Li Mu suddenly thought, why not take advantage of the sunset outside and take a photo with the three leading male actors outside on the runway and in front of the fighter plane? Then publish it on your own Weibo. Needless to say, it will definitely be very popular and the publicity effect will be extremely good.
As soon as he thought about this, Li Mu immediately asked Spielberg: "Stephen, are there any Air Force uniforms that I can wear?"
"Yes." Spielberg blurted out: "We have prepared more than a hundred sets of Flying Tigers uniforms. Do you want to try them out?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "Find me a suit. I will go out with the three male protagonists to take a group photo, and then post it on my Weibo."
Spielberg's eyes lit up.
He knows very well that the most popular celebrity in the world now is not any star, but Li Mu.
If Li Mu posted a photo with the three leading actors on Weibo, it would probably spread all over the world in less than a day.
When he thought of this, Spielberg hurriedly said to the assistant beside him: "Go and find a suit of clothes that fits Mr. Li quickly!"
Ten minutes later, Li Mu, wearing a perfectly fitting U.S. World War II Air Force uniform, walked out of a single tent provided by the crew.
As soon as he came out, everyone looked at him and applauded, and even a few American young people whistled longly.
Li Mu shook his black bomber jacket and asked with a smile: "How are you doing? Do you mean that?"
Du Wei stared at Li Mu and said seriously: "Brother Li Mu, although saying this will offend Brother Liu Ye, I still want to say that you should play the role of Brother Liu Ye in this movie!"
Anne Hathaway was a little stunned when she looked at Li Mu. Recently, she has been filming in China and has seen a lot of Eastern men. Although she has a good impression, from an aesthetic point of view, Eastern men are not as good as for a standard Western woman like her. What an attraction.
She had already had some feelings for Li Mu in her heart, and she often fantasized about committing herself to him, but what attracted her to Li Mu was not his appearance.
However, when Li Mu put on an air force pilot uniform and black aviator sunglasses and came out, she discovered for the first time that Li Mu was indeed very handsome, even from her Western perspective. pressing.
There were no mirrors in the tent, so Li Mu himself didn’t know what he looked like. However, when he stood side by side with the three leading actors, Leonardo, Tom Hanks, and Liu Ye, even though he couldn’t see himself With such a look, my heart suddenly felt as if I had traveled back to that war-torn era, as if I was really one of the pilots of the Flying Tigers, as if I was about to fly with my Chinese comrades and American comrades not far away. Fighters painted with the image of big sharks took off and fought fiercely with the Japanese invaders' fighter jets in the sky.
Spielberg called the photographer from his crew over. This was his official photography, but now he asked him to take on the camera work and let him take photos of Li Mu and the other three male protagonists.
Spielberg believes that 20% of the scene, momentum, and artistic conception depend on the equipment, 30% on the composition, and 50% on the use of light. If you want to take awesome photos, just like taking awesome movie scenes, the photographer must He knows how to use light very well, whether it is ambient light or equipment light.
So, Hollywood's top photographers picked up their SLR cameras and took a highly restored historical picture of Li Mu, Liu Ye, Leonardo and Tom Hanks under the golden sunset on the Yunzhou Plateau. Photo.
This was the time when the sunset was at its most beautiful, and the fiery clouds in the sky were fiery red and spectacular. They were wearing exactly the same Air Force uniforms as that era. Under their feet was the red earth airport runway, and behind them were several American-made P-40C fighter jets. The photos look extremely real, as if they immediately bring people back to that war-torn era.
The P-40C was the main model used by the Flying Tigers in China at that time. These aircraft were all painted with shark mouths in China at that time. It can be said to be the American World War II fighter aircraft that the Chinese people are most familiar with.
When the group photo was taken, the P-40C fighters at the airport all wore completely restored shark mouth livery. Moreover, Spielberg told Li Mu that these aircraft were all real P-40Cs that he specially imported from the United States. Found in a civilian flying club, this is a P-40C that is well maintained and can take off.
According to Spielberg, although there don't seem to be too many fighter planes at the airport, after post-production computer special effects, the scene here will undergo earth-shaking changes, and the visual effects will be at least ten times more spectacular than the actual situation.
Everyone at the scene was extremely satisfied with this photo. No matter it was the shooting technique, the expressions, movements, aura of everyone in the photo, or even the historical restoration of the photo, there was nothing wrong with it.
Spielberg even said: "I really want to use this photo as a promotional poster. This photo looks much better than Tom Cruise's "Top Gun"!"
"Top Gun" itself is already a very passionate air force-themed movie. It is understandable to say that it is the number one air force-themed movie today. However, Spielberg feels that after the release of "Flying Tigers", it will be comprehensive in various fields. Crush "TopGun".
For example, the actual budget of "Flying Tigers" is higher than that of "TopGun", and the behind-the-scenes and starring team are also more valuable than "TopGun". Moreover, "Flying Tigers" is backed by Li Mu and has more publicity resources than "TopGun" More than one magnitude stronger.
More importantly, "Top Gun" overall is more like an idol drama, while "Flying Tigers" is completely based on real history. The historical weight of the latter absolutely crushes the former.
Spielberg has made many war films. Among them, the film "Saving Private Ryan" directed by him is almost recognized as one of the best war-themed films; and the "Band of Brothers" he produced is also recognized as It is the best war-themed TV series. Spielberg's experience tells him that when making war movies, from the perspective of historical significance, no subject matter can compare with World War II.
Therefore, in Spielberg's eyes, "Flying Tigers" will definitely become one of the top war-themed movies, and may surpass the achievements of "Saving Private Ryan" and become the king of war movies.
Li Mu is also sparing no effort to promote "Flying Tigers". Moreover, his goal is not only to make the Chinese and American people pay attention to this movie and this period of history, but his goal is to attract the attention of the whole world and let the whole world pay attention to it. People are paying attention to this movie and this period of history, so he traveled all the way here to visit and add some buzz to the movie.
After Li Mu got this photo that he was very satisfied with, he immediately uploaded the photo to his Weibo through the laptop he carried with him, along with the text: "Visiting the crew of "Flying Tigers" The shooting scene pays tribute to all the pilots who fought against the invaders over China for justice and peace during World War II!"
As soon as this photo was posted, it immediately became the biggest trend on Weibo.
Because the data of Weibo and Twitter are completely interoperable, Li Mu has the most fans no matter on the Chinese version of Weibo or the foreign version of Twitter. Therefore, once his Weibo is updated, it will spread very quickly. .
For those users who know the movie "Flying Tigers", when they saw this photo, they not only felt that the four people in the photo were extremely handsome, but they were also attracted by the powerful aura in the photo. They knew right away that this was the movie about the story of the Flying Tigers invested by Li Mu. After seeing such amazing stills, they were full of expectations for the movie;
For those users who don’t know the movie "Flying Tigers" yet, when they saw this photo, their first impression was that it was very cool and handsome. Moreover, most of them could find at least two or three things in it. There are familiar faces, such as Li Mu, who is already very well-known around the world. He can be said to be known to everyone in countries and regions with Internet access around the world.
Leonardo and Tom Hanks also have a large number of fans around the world. Although Liu Ye's global influence is much lower than that of the three of them, fortunately, he is very good in terms of appearance and image. So it won’t hold back this photo.
Immediately afterwards, Leonardo and others also posted this photo on their Twitter. In a very short period of time, they worked together to make this photo the most popular news on the entire Internet. On Twitter, the topic was about The most popular thing about this photo is that it takes you back to the war years.
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