Chapter 301: Special Attention
Teacher He, slow down!"
In the horse farm next to the palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a thin man wearing a black tight vest was riding a brown horse galloping all over the field. A stout man next to him clasped his hands into a trumpet shape and shouted worriedly.
"Phew!"
I saw the man riding a horse pull the reins, and the horse under the crotch neighed, although it was not as exaggerated as the front hooves of the horse raised high into a standing position in TV, but the front hooves of the horse were also slightly raised, and the person riding on the horse had an obvious backward posture, and as the front hooves of the horse landed, a slightly exaggerated forward lean, and the horse was stopped steadily.
The man wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled at the stout man who hurriedly came over to help hold the reins: "How is it, Lao Wang, is it okay to ride?"
The stout man named Lao Wang finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time, gave a thumbs up and said: "Niu! Mr. He, this is the first time I have ever seen you learn to ride a horse so quickly, and you are at your current level, you don't need a stand-in for filming at all." ”
Teacher He heard Lao Wang's compliment obviously very useful, laughed, and then a scorpion swung its tail, shook off the horse neatly, threw the reins in his hand to Lao Wang and said, "I've worked hard for you these past few days, and I'll invite you to drink at night." ”
In fact, riding a horse is similar to riding a bicycle and hanging a wire, as long as you master the balance, you can learn to get twice the result with half the effort, Mr. He went from a beginner to being able to ride on horseback and gallop, and even be able to do a few fancy movements, it took less than a week.
Lao Wang hesitated for a moment and said: "Your identity is too dazzling to go outside, if you don't dislike it, you come to my house in the evening, I will let my family get a few good dishes, let's have a drink!"
"Yo, that's embarrassing!"
"It's okay, it's okay, you can go to my house, that's to give me face. Or is it settled?"
"Cheng, then I'm welcome. ”
Lao Wang was obviously very happy when he agreed, and said busily: "Teacher He, a big star like you can come to my house to drink with a face, and I can blow this cow for a whole year." ”
Teacher He smiled and waved his hand, "It's not so exaggerated, we can be considered friends, right?"
"That's right, that's right, then I'm ...... high."
After laughing with the owner of the racecourse, the crew waiting next to him hurriedly sent their coats over, so as not to accidentally catch a cold and delay the filming, which is a big deal.
Several main actors in the crew, which one is not a front and back, all kinds of assistants and agents, but He Xin is always alone, it is estimated that even the producer Chen Hong can't see it, and he is ashamed, so he specially arranged a crew member to follow him and wait for the dispatch.
He Xin was not used to having people around him, but since it was the kindness of the proprietress, it was not easy to refuse. And the young man from Xi'an named Lu Xiao in front of him is quite eye-catching, and he will never be an eyesore in front of him when he is fine, but he helps him take care of some trivial things very well.
This young man is a North Drifter, who first squatted at the gate of Beijing Film Studio as an extra, and later took a refresher class at Nortel.
"Xiao Lu, you can come over together in the evening!" Lao Wang also warmly invited Lu Xiao when he saw him.
"Boss Wang, I'm not suitable!" Lu Xiao hurriedly excused himself, and at the same time glanced at He Xin, obviously with the meaning of asking for advice.
"Let's be together, it's more lively. Besides, my amount of alcohol is not enough for Lao Wang. He Xin said with a smile.
In fact, the boss of the racecourse has a lot to do with Director Chen, when Director Chen was filming "Jing Ke Assassinating the King of Qin" here, he was the equestrian coach who came with the crew. I met a local girl when I was filming, and I didn't leave after filming, I married a wife and had children here, and I also contracted the horse farm on this side of the Ming and Qing Dynasty palaces. Now with more and more crews coming to Dahengdian to film, Boss Wang's small life is very good.
Coincidentally, this Boss Wang and Ning Hao are still fellow villagers, and their hometown is in Huairen when He Xin was filming "Incense" at the beginning of last year.
At this time, it has been almost half a month since he came to Hengdian, and this time is extremely easy for him, on the one hand, there are not many scenes, and he has only filmed a total of ten scenes until now, and they are all night scenes, so there is basically nothing to do during the day.
Every day, I basically run in the Hengdian International Conference Center, which is like a forest park, come to learn how to ride a horse, or go to the shooting site to observe and observe. was idle and panicked, and even learned a set of flower boxing embroidered legs that were said to have no actual combat effect except for exercising with Lin Di'an, the action director in the crew.
His little life is very leisurely, but the filming of the crew has always stumbled and not smoothed at all. For example, in the weather, Director Chen Dadao filmed "Wuji", requiring that the weather must be sunny, but in April, there is always rainy weather in Jiangnan, and the shooting has been intermittent.
In addition, the untidyness and defection of the extras also made Director Chen extremely annoyed.
In the past, He Xin was treated by a small crew, and the personnel structure was relatively simple, although there were bloody things from time to time, but compared with the super investment and super large-scale crew like "Wu Ji", it was simply a small thing.
The reason why there is a mixed phenomenon of good and bad extras is mainly because the crew had an agreement with the actors' guild here in Hengdian that the extras must use the personnel they provide. But the quality of the extras provided by the actors' guild can be imagined, and the crew pays forty yuan per person every day, but the actual extras only get eighteen yuan.
Moreover, Chen Hong is both an actor and a producer, and it is the first time to control such a huge crew, so it is inevitable that there will be omissions and opportunities for the people below to exploit loopholes, such as the poor food of the extras.
There is also the fact that the black robes on the extras are also of very poor quality, and they are easy to fade when exposed to the sun, but Director Chen is an extremely sensitive and demanding director to color, so the costume engineer of the crew brushed ink on it in order to maintain the color of the clothes. This result can be imagined, on the one hand, the ink is easy to stain the extras' own clothes worn inside, and on the other hand, the clothes that have been brushed with ink are exposed to the sun, and the smell is extremely pungent.
In addition, the crew had a very poor attitude towards the group performers, and they often reprimanded and scolded people, which led to the defection of a large number of group performers. After all, it is not the crew of "Wuji" that is filming in Hengdian at this time, but also "Four Youths in Beijing" starring Liu Xiaoqing, "Daqing Palace" starring Fu Biao, Qin Hailu's "The Legend of Li Ji", He Bin's "Da Song Ti Criminal Officer", etc., all need a large number of extras.
And those who left were all with better images, and in the end, all the rest were crooked melons and cracked dates that others didn't want. At this time, Director Chen became anxious, not only increased the cost of extras to sixty yuan a day, but also promised to improve the food as much as possible, so that he could barely retain some people.
But the problems are still endless, first of all, the obedience of these extras is very poor, and it is very difficult to rehearse just in a formation every day, as well as the battle between the red and white sides. During the official real shooting, because of the problem of extras, it would be NG many times every time.
What makes Director Chen even more intolerable is that almost every day, it can be found that group actors bring cameras to the set in an attempt to shoot secretly. You must know that in order to prevent candid filming, the crew not only fenced off the entire Qin Palace, but even blocked the fence on the hill next to the Qin Palace, and there were special personnel responsible for patrolling.
Director Chen finally couldn't bear it anymore, and finally fired all the hundreds of extras sent by the Actors Guild a few days ago, and invited 400 armed police soldiers from Hangzhou at no expense.
Think about it, the national teacher was prescient back then! These armed police soldiers invited were far superior to the rabble before them in terms of appearance, temperament, and mental outlook.
Director Chen was happy to see Hunting, and he personally commanded the extras to line up in a big formation for the past two days. When He Xin went to the scene yesterday afternoon, he saw Chen Dadao wearing a straw hat and a black Adi, calm and experienced in on-the-spot dispatch, with a powerful and accurate posture, and a general's demeanor!
And what makes the crew even more worry-free is that the troops are responsible for their own food and lodging, and they will lay on the floor in the Qin Palace at night, and early in the morning, with the wake-up horn blowing, the soldiers shouted slogans on the Qin Palace Square and went out for morning exercises, accompanied by curling smoke.
After breakfast, the soldiers changed into costumes and played the role of silver helmets and black robes and red helmets. The Silver Helmet Soldiers are the troops of Duke Wuhuan of the North, and the Red Helmets are the troops of the Great General Light. The clothing style of the silver helmet and red helmet soldiers is complex, atmospheric, and fantastical, with floral decorations from chest to foot, and the weapons in their hands are also various, including "golden finger knife", "crescent shovel", "long stick sword" and so on. The shots taken by the soldiers of the silver helmets and red helmets are mainly drill formations, or phalanxes, or rhombic formations, neat queues, neat appearances, and meticulous.
After filming, after the soldiers who had worked hard all day changed their clothes, they always sang a few songs under the command of the leading officer, sang "I am a soldier", and sang "Return from Target Shooting". The loud and exciting singing echoed in the sky above the Qin Palace, but it became a highlight in the boring shooting every day. Even the crew, who were busy finishing work, were infected by the singing.
This morning, when He Xin met Lin Di'an, the action director of the group, he heard him humming the tune of "Return from Target Shooting" in his mouth.
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In the makeshift shed of the Magic King City, two figures, one black and one red, are flying, and the ghost wolf who betrayed Wuhuan is starting a big battle with Wuhuan wearing flower armor.
This battle has been filmed for several nights, and the main thing is to constantly adjust the actions of various fights to make the scene more intense and exciting. Of course, the difficult actions are all performed by the martial arts brothers as stand-ins, and the simple actions are only completed by the two leading actors. However, Rao is like this, the two still stumble a little when they fight, and one will always make the other party suffer a small loss if he is not careful.
At this time, I saw that the two were separated by a screen, and the serpentine sword in He Xin's hand swung and split the screen in two, but one was accidentally grabbed by King Xie and grabbed the belt with a peacock feather on the black feather robe on his body.
He Xin suddenly looked frightened, and it was obviously too late for the probe to snatch back the belt. And King Xie grabbed the feather strap in his hand and raised his head slightly, raised his eyebrows, and said proudly: "It's over, as long as I gently pull this strap ......"
As he spoke, he raised the gold-fingered red tassel gun in his hand, only to find that the golden index finger erected on it had been cut off by He Xin's sword just now. The scene of Xie forcing Wang to pretend to be forced became a little embarrassing for a while, his face suddenly sank, and he was about to pull the feather strap in his hand hard......
"Cards!"
Director Chen shouted again to stop.
This time, he personally ran over and demonstrated to King Xie Qi: "It's best to have some comedy in this plot, your expression should have a gradual process, and then you will be annoyed and angry at the end, OK?"
has been filming for such a long time, among the two Hong Kong superstars, Xie Qiwang's comprehension in performance is too poor, and he has been NG the most times during filming.
However, since the last "scary" incident in the side hall, Chen Dadao's attitude towards him has changed significantly, and he takes special care of King Xie Qi, and always guides him very patiently every time.
Xie Qiwang is not a fool, he also clearly feels the director's care for him, although every repeated NG makes him very tired, and even unhappy, but once the filming starts, he will work very hard.
It's just that whenever He Xin sees this scene, he will inevitably muttered in his heart, should Director Chen regard King Xie as the former Leslie Cheung, right?