Movies with only one person are rare in the world, but there are some.

Tom Hanks's classic "Desert Island Survivors" is a movie of survival alone, except for the appearance of other characters at the beginning and end, the main plot is only the male protagonist.

This kind of movie basically has one thing in common, in addition to the male protagonist, there must be something around him that can accompany him.

There is a volleyball in "The Aftermath of a Desert Island", and the actor has always carried it.

Whether it's an animal, a toy, or something, there has to be something that makes people feel their presence in that extreme environment.

Whether it's the end of the world with no one or the background of "Desert Island Aftermath", it's important to create an atmosphere of loneliness, but it is also important to give the characters a little comfort.

Even if it is not this type of film, some god-like art films, it is impossible for the characters to have nothing to communicate with.

More than 30 years ago, a Belgian horror romance movie "A Man and His Pig", directed and acted by the director, not to mention that there were no other actors in the whole film, not even a single dialogue.

But there has to be another character, a sow.

The story is about a lonely man who lives alone on a farm and has a lot of quirks.

Even after getting along for a long time, he had feelings for the sow, and he also had a relationship, and the sow gave birth to his child, a group of piglets.

The male protagonist takes care of the sows and piglets like his wife and children, feeding them milk.

But the little pig didn't recognize him as a father, only the mother pig, and over time the actor became more and more disappointed, hanged the piglets, and ate their meat.

The sow saw her child being killed by her beloved man and howled in despair in the mountains and forests.

In the end, the sow also died, and the hero buried it, and wanted to bury himself alive for martyrdom, but in the end he crawled out of the grave.

Since then, this man's behavior has become more and more abnormal, throwing away all the food in the house and throwing Xiang into the pot to cook.

One sunny day, remembering the sow, sadness and despair struck, picked up a ladder and rope, and hanged himself in that sun-drenched wood.

"Did you find any other common denominator in this genre?"

At this time, the crew was resting in place, waiting for the sun to set, and Li Qian talked about very old experimental films.

It's just that in the ears of Liu Ye and Wen Muye, how can they feel so perverted when they listen to this story.

Even if you are a film professional and have read countless films, you still have very few such films.

But since he asked, Wen Muye thought about it and said his opinion, "Boss, the pigs and sows in this film, the volleyball in "The Rest of the Desert Island", and the DV in Lao Guo's "127 Hours" that recorded his last words all symbolize hope, when the only hope in a desperate situation is gone, it is almost desperate, and under despair, he can burst out with energy far beyond himself, and then get out of trouble and be rescued. ”

Although he was not born in a film school, he also studied as a director in a private undergraduate program, and studied in a film academy for another year, which is still at this level.

However, it is too long-winded.

In a similar sense, the very important things that have always accompanied the characters are suddenly gone, which is usually the turning point that causes the plot of the movie.

Let's play this scene, the trap in the karma brother, the dog was infected and died by a zombie bite in order to save you, and the only partner in this apocalypse is gone, and then it causes you, who have been cautious, to drive to the city center at night to find the zombie to fight alone, and at a critical juncture, another survivor, the heroine appeared and saved you.

A very critical scene, we spent five hours in the previous morning scene, and then there was not so much time, from the time the sun went down to the time when it was completely dark, there were only two or three hours in between. ”

This scene is filmed when the actor is wandering on the road as usual, and suddenly finds that the dummy that has been placed in front of the video store has appeared on the road.

It was certainly not he who moved, either the dummy himself could walk, or someone else moved the dummy.

If there were other survivors, the actor would have radioed in the city center every day, and the other survivors would have heard it a long time ago.

Knowing that the actor is such a person, and also knowing the video store he often goes to, the dummy who often greets, and the dummy who removes the dummy to lure him, it is obviously ill-intentioned.

Moreover, even if there are no speculations, the actor is afraid every day that he has lived in an empty city for so many years, and he will naturally be wary in the face of other survivors, after all, it is such an era.

Seeing the dummy in the distance mistook it for the joy of a living person, and found that it was the disappointment, fear, and uneasiness of the familiar dummy, and the uneasiness of constantly shouting, and then the catharsis of the shooting, this whole fast-paced emotional change, Liu Ye did not grasp it before, and it took more than five hours.

"Director Li rest assured, the mood of this scene is relatively simple, and there is also the previous foreshadowing, and I have been with the dog for more than half a month, no problem. ”

After a day's delay, Liu Ye was also a little embarrassed, the scene in the morning was not just a fast-paced change in mood, but when new emotions appeared, the original emotions were still there.

Even if I was nervous, uneasy, and shot to vent, there was still a trace of expectation and joy in my heart, because if the dummy could come here, someone must have moved it, which means that there are still living people in the city.

Because in the past few years, the male protagonist who has been dealing with zombies has not found any signs of wisdom from zombies.

In fact, it was because the male protagonist caught the zombie boss's wife, and the zombie boss also used the same trap to catch him, and only sent three zombie dogs out, with no intention of killing him, just to follow him to find the lair and save his wife.

"Brother Ye, don't be too nervous, we have two nights. ”

Li Qian nodded, and then ordered the stunt team, "Let's start, hang people up." ”

“...”

Liu Ye was stunned, he said well, why hang it up, there is still half an hour before the end of the rest time.

"Smack!"

Li Qian clapped his hands, "It's time to start, get ready, finish filming early and finish work early." ”

Time is pressing, although today did not start at 1 am like the first day, but the crew also got up early at 3 am to prepare.

Until now, it has not stopped intermittently, and this scene will be filmed until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and I will have a meal at the end, and I don't know if I can sleep at ten o'clock.

After all, today's working hours have reached 19 hours, and Li Qian doesn't even have time to look at the washed samples after finishing work.

Hearing Li Qian's words, everyone also dragged their tired bodies to work, and Liu Ye was hung in the air.

In the middle of the morning, I was in a coma because of a head injury, and the sun was about to go down before I woke up.

The scene of waking up is not difficult, and it is filmed before the sun officially sets, and it will be troublesome when it gets dark.

This was followed by the footage of preparing for the evacuation, which was also successfully filmed.

The zombie dog appeared and waited for the sun to completely set to shoot, which made the crew rest for a while again.

"Boss, just now in "A Man and His Pig", I think the hero's surname desire for the sow represents primitive instincts and desires, and all crazy behaviors are suppressed outbursts, related to the social environment in Belgium in the 70s, satirically criticizing the deviation of the people's beliefs under the leadership of the ruling class, the collapse of the three views, and the chaotic ...... life"

Wen Muye came up and talked to Li Qian seriously about his understanding of the plot.

Li Qian: "..."

is to take a relatively niche and novel movie as an example, dictate the plot, and analyze it so carefully.

I didn't even watch the movie, so I talked about the Tao, and I had a fight with the keyboard man.

Patiently waiting for him to finish, Li Qian said helplessly, "Actually, this is a movie that records the labor life of a lonely person in a black humor style, not the kind of perverted film, it is nonsense to spread it as a banned film on the Internet, don't over-understand."

In the future, when you are creating, don't make too many metaphors layer by layer, ordinary audiences can generally see two or three layers, you don't have five or six layers, and you should also express it in a relatively simple and visible way. ”

This Wen Muye is different from Guo Fan, who has been a choreographer for four years and studied for one year, and he still has some standard academic style.

is also different from Su Lun, Su Lun drifted north for a period of time, and stayed in Ma Xiaogang's crew for three years before going to Chinese drama.

Academic, I don't know how many years there has been no director who satisfies ordinary audiences, Ning Hao didn't learn directing, he studied photography.

Although it is not to say that the academic school is useless, but the film school and Chinese opera, these two schools that specialize in training directors, cannot teach directors who can make the audience like them, and there must be certain problems.

Of course, if Wen Muye wants to take the path of niche literary films, Li Qian also supports it.

But if this is not the case, Li Qian plans to wait for Xu Zheng to shoot "Thai Embarrassment", and let Wen Muye partner with him to neutralize it.

......

The film has to continue to be filmed, and after the sun goes down, move on to the next shot.

is mainly a fight between Liu Ye, dogs, and three zombie dogs.

Zombie dogs can't use real dogs, even if the appearance can be done with makeup, is it difficult to let the dog act in a fight?

Special effects, three special effects personnel dressed in green are fighting with Liu Ye with a prop hairless dog head in their hands.

The actions have been disassembled and rehearsed countless times, and they are not subtle moves, and they were successfully filmed in three hours.

In the end, Liu Ye knelt in front of the black back that was bitten by a zombie dog, trembling slightly, and repeated over and over again, "You'll be fine, look at me, you'll be fine." ”

"Okay, it's okay, let's go home. ”

"I'll take you home, come, come home. ”

Liu Ye, who was already injured in his foot, left the dark street with his hands on his black back.

Here from picking up the dog to edit, the picture immediately shifts to the base to look for drugs and rummaging through the cabinets, which will not give a limping and lonely back.

Many film and television dramas like this kind of slow motion, like Li Qian remembers that there is a new version of "Bright Sword", when the cavalry company faces the neon cavalry wing charge, it is all pretending to be sensational slow motion, and I can't wait to shoot the two-minute scene into twenty minutes, and everyone who watches it will fall asleep, which is far less flavorful than the original fast-paced and intense editing.

That's war, not flirting.

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In addition to the two iconic buildings of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Nanjing Road Commercial Street, other places should be selected in the surrounding districts as much as possible, otherwise it will be troublesome to close the street and the filming station, and the city center will not be as good as the suburbs.

After staying in the magic capital for more than 20 days, in mid-June, I also came to the last live-action location shooting.

At one o'clock in the morning, the two sections of the Nanpu Bridge have been closed, but the bridge is indeed brightly lit, with more than 200 crew members, more than 100 group performers, more than 400 people, and dense cars, filling the entire bridge.

The actor recalled that the previous footage was filmed a few nights ago, and this is the final blockade of Pudong, a large number of people waiting for testing at the Nanpu Bridge to cross the bridge, and the scene of the actor's wife and daughter leaving, and the helicopter accident.

Except for the explosion scenes, they are all real shots, and there is a lot of trouble during filming, but it saves trouble in the later stage.

If the level of special effects is not enough, try to be real, and if the technology is enough, there is no need to be so troublesome, there is no way to do it.