"Huo, it's so hot here!"

The crew left London and came to Tangier, Morocco, a coastal country in northwest Africa, and the weather in Morocco immediately made the crew of "Inception" feel a different temperature.

Zhao Fei fanned his hat and couldn't help complaining.

Tangier is located at the northern tip of Morocco at the entrance to the Mediterranean Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean, the urban area is spread on a coastal hillside, and the beach stretches for more than 10 kilometers, with beautiful scenery and a mild climate.

Because Morocco belongs to the Arab country, there are many Arab buildings in the old city, such as the Grand Soko Square, the Kasbah Castle, the Sultan's National Palace, etc.

The plot filmed here is mainly the plot of the dream builder Chen Daoshu finding the pretender Duan Yihong and the pharmacist Liu Yunlong, which also includes a chase and escape scene of Chen Daoshu.

Wu Jianye smiled and said to Zhao Fei: "Don't complain, filming here is a test for you, is there a problem?"

Regarding the shot of Chen Daoshu's rapid escape, a handheld camera Steadicam, wide-angle shooting, walking shooting and other shooting methods will be used, which is indeed a test for Zhao Fei.

Often, photographers can use railcars and rocker arms to reduce camera shake when shooting on the move.

But Steadicam has a great deal of flexibility and convenience.

While it can shoot long shots longer than the boom, and while the track requires flat ground, Steadicam can adapt to more environments such as mountains and steps, and can complete more complex moving shots.

That's what differentiates them, and that's what makes Steadicam a feature.

Steadicam is a highly human-machine combination of equipment, not all people can wear it to shoot the desired effect, Steadicam needs to walk posture, waist and shoulder angle, arm ease-going degree, finger distribution, machine three-axis alignment and other links for special training and calibration, in fact, in the professional field of Steadicam is a specialized type of work.

Nowadays, there are very few domestic applications of this technology, and more Hollywood film companies will use it, because if you want to use this art well, you must carry out scientific exercises and professional calibration.

The use of Steadicam technology has been around since the seventies.

In 1976, Stallone's "Rocky" was one of the first feature films to use Steadicam, in which cinematographer Garrett Brown climbed the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to show off Stallone's heroism.

The shot is one of the most memorable in the film, something like this that was unattainable before the invention of Steadicam.

In 1980's The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick used a Steadicam lens to show the hallways of a haunted house, and another shot showed Jack Nicholson walking through a snow-capped hedge path.

Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and many other directors have used extremely complex Steadicam lenses to show the inner worlds and scenes of their characters.

In 1990's "The Way of Thieves," Scorsese uses a Steadicam lens to transport the viewer into a bustling restaurant on Cobakabana Beach.

In one five-minute shot, viewers watch as Reliotta walks through the back door through the kitchen, up the stairs to the bar area, and finally stops to greet customers. This is one of the most intriguing shots in the movie.

At the same time, Steadicam is also used in special effects shots.

In 1983's Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the scene of the car chase was captured by photographer Garrett Brown walking slowly in several places in Redwood National Park in California.

The special effects crew fast-forwarded the shots and stitched them together with the blue screen footage of the actor on the automaton to get such an exciting set of car chase shots.

Without Steadicam, these lenses would shake when fast-forwarding.

In order to shoot the scene in Tangier, Wu Jianye specially transferred a photographer from Phantom Pictures to give one-on-one tutoring to Zhao Fei, and now it is time to see the effectiveness of Zhao Fei's learning.

Zhao Fei said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have been learning this technique a few years ago, and with this special training, I guarantee that there will be no problems!"

Wu Jianye smiled, he was still very relieved about Zhao Fei, there was no situation between the two of them who didn't know how to pretend to understand, as long as Zhao Fei said that there was no problem, Wu Jianye believed that he had no problem.

In the filming of Tangier, not only is the shooting technique a difficulty, but also in that chase scene, the crowd is also a very difficult scene to control, after all, the crowded crowd is easy to cause a collision of personnel and some unprofessional performances.

At the same time, this also means that the crew needs to invest more manpower and material resources to help those who make cameos, and these personnel are not all group performers, but local people.

After the crew stayed in the hotel, Wu Jianye found Chen Daoshu.

In this scene, Chen Daoshu is the top priority, after all, in everyone's impression, Chen Daoshu has not filmed such an action scene, although before this, Chen Daoshu has received action training, and also starred in the movie "Eternal Night".

But the martial arts in "Eternal Night" and the action scenes in "Inception" are two different concepts.

However, Chen Daoshu didn't feel too difficult about this scene, but calmed Wu Jianye.

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Although you are confident, you can't be too careless about this kind of thing, after all, this shooting is different from "Eternal Night", tomorrow the crew will shoot other scenes first, Tan Yang will take you to familiarize yourself with the situation on the scene first, and at the same time do some training in advance, and strive not to have any unexpected problems when filming!"

Although the crew made various protective measures when they began to prepare, in order to avoid accidents during filming, especially some action movies, if there is an accident, it is a very uncomfortable thing for the entire crew to shoot the movie, and it is possible to postpone the filming at every turn.

In another time and space, in Xu Wei's "New Dragon Gate Inn", Lin Qingxia's eye corner was almost pierced, and later she could only play as a stand-in to help complete the later shooting.

During the filming of "Huang Feihong", Li Lianjie was also injured, and the subsequent shooting could only be posed.

The most serious thing is that Cheng Long's "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" almost died at the beginning, when he fell from a tree, if it wasn't for the best doctors who were giving lectures in the local area at that time, Cheng Long's consequences would be unimaginable.

Although the action scenes of the movie "Inception" here are not too dangerous, not too dangerous does not mean that there is no danger.

Now that the whole movie is halfway through filming, if Chen Daoshu is injured at this time, the entire crew will have to stop and wait for Chen Daoshu to recover.

It was precisely with this problem in mind that Wu Jianye became more and more cautious.

Chen Daoshu has no opinion on Wu Jianye's arrangement, although Chen Daoshu is confident in his acting skills, but the more such an actor, the more he will protect himself, because they all know clearly that movies are never a safe shooting process.

Any accident can happen, and the more inconspicuous the place, the more likely it is to get injured.

On the second day, Wu Jianye really took other people's shots first, and asked Tan Yang to take Chen Daoshu to familiarize himself with the venue.

Before coming to Tangier, the vanguard of the crew had already arrived here, and they also contacted the local government of Tangier, and the other party was also very supportive of Wu Jianye's ability to shoot here.

And gave great help, the local officials followed the crew, and helped the crew to communicate everything.

Tourism is a very important industry for Tangier, and they are aware of Wu's influence around the world and hope to use Wu's films to advertise their local area.

Although at this time, the tour group in China has not yet become an important contributor to the international tourism industry, but Wu Jianye's influence has never been limited to China, starting from "The Last Emperor", Wu Jianye has a certain influence in the world, and after the release of "Jurassic Park", the influence will be even greater.

Let's take a simple example, after the release of Wu Jianye's movie "The World of Chu Xing", although a real estate bubble occurred in Qiong Province, the filming site of "The World of Chu Xing" became a tourist attraction.

Many tourists come to visit the city.

There are countless examples of this in later generations, such as Feng Pants's "Do Not Disturb" series, two "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" will bring RB's Hokkaido and China's Hainan to fire!

Later, Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown" series also became popular with Savadika......

These are actually the magic of movies, at that time, Chinese films, not only the interests of the film or peripheral products, an excellent film may even drive the tourism of the filming site.

But that was twenty years later.

In this period, among the filmmakers in China, only Wu Jianye has this influence!

Now the Tangier municipal government does not value the China behind Wu Jianye, but Wu Jianye's influence in the world, especially in Europe and the United States.

"Director Wu, you are very welcome to be able to shoot your new movie with us, during the filming of the movie, I will be responsible for all the things of your crew here, if you need anything, just tell me!"

The official sent by the Tangier government talked with Wu Jianye with a smile through an interpreter.

Morocco is an Arab country, Arabic is the official language, but the lingua franca is French, so the official also speaks French.

Wu Jianye did not understand French......

Through the translation, Wu Jianye thought that the other party expressed his gratitude.

In fact, the filming here is indeed because of the existence of the other party, and the filming process is very smooth, especially when filming Chen Daoshu's scene in the next few days, it is even more prominent.

Because the local folk customs are different from those in China, there is a high probability that there will be problems when shooting outside because of these seemingly unimportant things.

For example, Wu Jianye's first movie "Peacock Princess" starring before the night, because the filming location is Yunnan Province, many local customs are different from those of the Han people, if there are no teachers staring at them, maybe there will really be a problem.

The same goes for the shooting in Tangier.

At the same time, because of the company of their local officials, the communication with the local people has also been much smoother.

At least after Wu Jianye made a request, the other party could help Wu Jianye solve it.

But even so, because those ordinary people are not professional actors, they will often look at the camera inadvertently when filming, and it is this kind of performance that made Chen Daoshu's scene shoot for five days.

Every night when I go back, I can see Chen Daoshu, who is already tired and paralyzed.

However, Chen Daoshu has never said anything about these difficulties.

Later, Zhao Fei proposed to find a local masseuse to help Chen Daoshu recover his strength, otherwise, it is estimated that after the five-day shooting, Chen Daoshu would have to lie down tired!

After the filming of this scene was over, Chen Daoshu couldn't help but say: "How do I feel that filming this scene is more tiring than filming "Eternal Night"!"

Jiang Qian said with a smile: ""Eternal Night" was filmed in China, and the people who are playing with you are all professional actors, so it is naturally easier to pass, this time it is different, this time the people who are playing are all ordinary people here, and they have no shooting experience at all, there is no problem with your own performance, but they can't." ”

In fact, Chen Daoshu himself knows the problem that Jiang Qian said, but now that the filming is over, he simply complains.

Wu Jianye smiled on the side: "It's too early to shout tired, and now we have just completed less than half of the plot, and we still have several tough battles to fight next!"

Chen Daoshu sat up straight at this time and said, "Director Wu, don't worry, I'm just casually saying, how to do the next shooting, how to do it, no problem!"

Regarding Chen Daoshu's professionalism, Wu Jianye naturally believed it, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the movie is not finished, I won't let you go so easily!"

Everyone smiled when they heard this.

For these people, in fact, they don't pay too much attention to the difficulties and fatigue encountered during filming, and they don't want future generations of actors to be so expensive, and it is a great dedication to rub a little skin on their hands.

For them, the most important thing in their hearts is always the film work, and they have their own awe for their work!

Why in later generations, when filming "Looking for a Gun", Jiang Qian was so strong in the middle and late stages, is because he found that the director did not have enough ability to control this movie......

If the director's ability is enough, they won't have more ideas, just finish filming their scenes seriously!

A good director can stimulate the potential of an actor, and a good actor can also drive the director's ability.

Of course, if a director is rotten wood, no matter how good an actor is, he can only ensure that in the end, he can only ensure that in a bad movie, it will be very good to maintain his acting skills!