The Russians loved their Leo Tolstoy and "War and Peace" too much, and when they learned that the Americans were going to start making this film adaptation in July '55, and then figured out that the film was invested in $6 million, filmed for 4 months, and the heroine was Audrey Hepburn, the Soviets knew that the Americans were going to do bad things!

Americans love money too much, and they love Hepburn even more, so they made "War and Peace" into a romance movie!

$6 million, which was an absolute big investment in 1955, but if you want to make "War and Peace" in the hearts of Russians, even if all the actors, including Audrey Hepburn, don't get paid, it's not enough for a fraction of the filming cost!

In the eyes of the Soviets, the $6 million budget of the Americans was not even enough to buy a box lunch!

The Soviets are on fire, how can "War and Peace" make the Americans go to such a bad thing!

What to do?

Make a perfect one yourself!

The Soviet Union immediately began to plan its own filming of "War and Peace" in 55 years, and after years of preparation and 5 years of filming, it was not until 1967 that all four films were filmed, and almost 1.1 million words of content were almost perfectly displayed on 70mm film.

After the movie was filmed, someone finally made a detailed statistics, and the data broke the eyes of the film industry all over the world - the total number of actors in the whole movie alone reached 595193!

Close to 600,000!

The $6 million in the American version, if it were placed on the side of the Soviet Union, and the head would be 10 dollars, unless people can clear the valley, otherwise it will definitely not be enough for the actors' food!

There are 36 important characters in the whole film, and 599 characters with dialogue: the costumes of the important characters are not counted, and the ordinary clothes such as military uniforms, military hats, and monk clothes that are imitated in batches are jointly guaranteed by 47 factories, and the harness and leather products needed for filming are produced by two professional factories.

In order to pursue reality, the military uniforms of the Russian army in the second part of the movie and the Russian army in the third part are different, because the Russian army did change its uniforms during this period in history - in order to be close to history, the crew customized at least tens of thousands of new military uniforms, and the result was that by the time the movie was completed, more than 200,000 sets of military uniforms during the imperial Russian period were made!

The uniforms worn by the armies of that era were probably the most elaborate and dazzling in the entire history of military clothing, and even if the replicas worn by the soldiers did not need to be elaborately made, the prices would be more expensive than the Soviet army's own military uniforms because they were so gorgeous!

It's all for the real!

Or for the sake of reality, there are 302 sets built, and 118 large location bases are built!

Similarly, in order to restore the real history to the greatest extent, the crew borrowed 257 ancient paintings and sculptures in the museum...

In terms of munitions, what explosives and gunpowder do not count, 16,600 grenades alone were used!

That's right, 16600 military grenades of the 60s of the 20th century!

As for the "Borodino Battlefield", which used 125,000 Soviet soldiers to participate in the shooting, one battle took 35 days to shoot, not counting the jets used, and it seems that 35 helicopters were used!

Seriously wounded 10 people and lightly wounded countless people, the brutal war was not filmed with simple gasoline bombs.

“... For the filming of the front-line combat process of this 'one campaign', the crew threw $48 million into it, which is at least equivalent to $250 million now..."

It was Andrei who spoke, he had not only read the original books and movies, but also the statistics of the films, and the Red Devils had a very good memory.

Using the power of the country, regardless of the cost, the final film with a total length of 1,540 kilometers was edited into a magnificent masterpiece with a duration of 427 minutes!

$560 million in '68, at least $3 billion in '91, and at least $6 billion in 2016, who else could make such a movie so willfully except for the Soviet Union?

Zhang Nan can't do it, even if he really lets the "Titanic" that is still on the slipway hit the iceberg a few years later, it won't achieve the money-burning effect of the Soviet version of "War and Peace".

The Titanic is not worth billions of dollars, and it is worth sinking the latest improved "Lincoln" aircraft carrier in the Nimitz class, with a displacement of more than 100,000 tons and a cost of $3.5 billion!

A movie, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with an amazing cost, the cost of the two is almost the same, and such a crazy thing can only be done by the Soviet Union in its heyday!

Fighting peoples, they love the essence of their culture!

If you think of shooting, shoot it!

The most exaggerated thing is that that movie actually made money!

Yes, it made money, the domestic box office of the Soviet Union was 58 million rubles, which seemed to be a blood loss, but even at the peak of the Cold War, it still swept almost all foreign language film awards in the Western world, including the Oscars.

Of course, such a film has to be imported, and as soon as it is imported, it will explode at the box office and sweep the entire Western film market.

Not to mention other countries, when it was officially released in Japan in 1969, the little devil immediately swiped out a super box office of 250 million US dollars! Movie tickets are hard to find, and high-priced scalpers may not be able to buy them, so the little devil theater chain had to re-release this Soviet version of "War and Peace" in 1971, and the box office is still hot!

Zhang Nan won't make a 6 billion movie, but he has to ask for hundreds of millions of dollars.

At this time, the cafeteria directly became the most preliminary idea discussion room, but the discussants were Zhang Nan and Chariz Theron for the time being.

The others basically couldn't answer.

"It's best if the investment can be controlled within 100 million US dollars, it doesn't matter if it's not enough, just calculate it, and the salary of the main actors in such a film can still be lowered..."

Zhang Nan talked eloquently, that's right, the best way to control costs and not hurt the movie itself is to press the salary!

For example, like Jet Li, even if his salary in Xiangjiang this year can reach 10 million Hong Kong dollars, Xingchen Columbia suddenly invited him to participate in a super blockbuster with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, but only gave him a salary of 500,000 US dollars, then he will definitely come.

Together with Jet Li, Golden Harvest Company, which should have a contract, will not have much opinion, and will even cooperate to the greatest extent for the future release in Xiangjiang!

The investment of 100 million dollars and the star of Colombia, these two gimmicks are worth it.

Besides, there are many actors in this world, and the earth can turn around without anyone, and it is not the turn of such a giant to pick and choose actors - it is estimated that many big names among Chinese movie stars will come if they give a little salary, and even as long as they eat and live, there will be a lot of people who don't want to be paid!

After such a movie is completed, it will definitely be released on a large scale in the United States, and showing your face in the film is all qualifications, so don't think about making a lot of money the first time.

"Where was the shooting?"

Of course, such a film would have to be made in Huaxia, and Charitz Theron asked about the main filming base: she had been to Huaxia and knew that the landform around Xianyang was very different from the landform near the huge film and television city built by her brother's hometown!

Zhang Nan wants to make a movie with taste, even if the natural environment in the northwest region was much better than it is now more than 2,000 years ago, but it can't make the original Guanzhong region the Jiangnan style it is today - if you do this, it will be a big joke to make a movie!

Zhang Nan has a way.

"The palace and interior shots are all placed in Yan County, and the exterior scenes are all on the side of Xiqin. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan said to Guan Xingquan: "Brother Guan, do you remember the brick kiln factory we saw over there in 87, I think it would be good to be a location for digging the foundation of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum."

The place is wide and deep enough, and the amount of earthwork can be saved, as long as the big chimney of the kiln factory is avoided, the lens will not be goof. ”

When Guan Xingquan heard this, he said with a rare smile: "That place is suitable, you are carrying that little thing by the way, right?"

By the way, how do you solve it?"

Dialects, sitting nearby, the two of them could understand each other.

He watched the "Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Warriors" 3 years ago, and knew that the scene of the Qin Tomb at the construction site could not escape.

Zhang Nan didn't care about Boss Guan's ridicule about the brick kiln factory, and said: "The main actors are not a problem, and the filming permission is not a problem, but the actors who play the army have a little problem."

Qin Jun's discipline was the first in the world at that time, and even if ordinary extras put on makeup and practiced, they couldn't shoot the effect I wanted, and the military formation would be less flavorful. ”

"Think of a way, if you can get the troops to help.

As long as you spend all the hundreds of millions of dollars in China, I see that you will be given a short time, and it is still not a big problem to transfer a few thousand troops in the past two months.

Find a few thousand college students as summer workers, preferably from the martial arts department or physical education department, put together a military formation of tens of thousands of people, put the military formation of the warrior gate in front, and make up a few big scenes. ”

There are more than 10,000 soldiers, and more than 100,000 soldiers are boundless!

We can't compare with Mao Zi who used 125,000 people to shoot a big war, and the "Qin Army" of 10,000 people is enough, and there are not many films that can have a group performance of this scale.

One person counts 1,000 yuan in labor fees, and it takes time to train in advance, but because the big scenes can be filmed intensively, and the big scenes can be shot within two months, the head fee of this group of actors is only 10 million yuan.

10 million yuan is a huge amount of money, but Zhang Nan doesn't care, even if it is added by 3 times, it is enough to 5 million US dollars: this kind of money Zhang Nan will not be calculated according to the official exchange rate, and the actual market price will be obtained!

However, the capitation fee is only a part, you have to eat, drink, and sleep, tens of thousands of people get together, and other expenses are also a lot of money!

Like eating.

"Brother Guan, what is the standard of the army's daily food expenses now, ordinary army soldiers. ”

Zhang Nan remembers that after more than 20 years, the food expenses of the Huaxia army can be roughly divided into four levels: 11 yuan per person per day for the first type of stove, 13 yuan for the second type of stove, 23 yuan for the third type of stove, and 39 yuan for the fourth type of stove.

Of course, this is only a rough division, and there are many different subdivisions that can be subdivided according to the actual situation.

There is also a rough division into seven levels, but no matter how it is divided, including conscripts, non-commissioned officers, and officers who eat with the soldiers, they are all in the same category.

What can you eat for 11 pieces a day?

In the locality, this standard is at most porridge, steamed buns and pickles every day!

However, in the army, it is different, take the lunch recipe of an ordinary company as an example (this is a kind of stove): dry braised crucian carp, stewed chicken with potatoes, shredded potatoes with vinegar, mapo tofu, lettuce with sliced meat, stir-fried rape, and three fresh soups - a total of six dishes and one soup, the staple food is fragrant northeastern rice, and each person has one or half an apple.

Why is that?

The cost doesn't seem to be enough!

There is a subsidy, but if there are few people in the station, and there is no special distribution, and the vegetables have to be bought at the vegetable market by yourself, then you can only be considered unlucky!

Guan Xingquan has been away from the army for several years, but as one of the controllers of the "joint forces", he sometimes pays attention to the welfare of the armies of various countries today - you recruit mercenaries, and welfare is also a big highlight to attract excellent personnel.

Relatively speaking, if you eat well, this person's spirit will be good!

So he knows what the food standard of the Chinese army is in the past two years.

"If it's just average, food is not counted, the food cost of ordinary army type A troops is two yuan a day, and type B troops are eight yuan a day, but now prices are rising rapidly, plus regional differences, some places do not eat well.

In fact, this standard of food expenses cannot be counted by many standards, and it is divided very carefully, and many places are still rationed in kind, rather than giving cash to the cooking class to buy it themselves.

For example, when I left the army, the food of the troops was 'half a catty plus four taels,' that is, in addition to food, the troops were guaranteed to have a food ration of one and a half catties of vegetables, one tael of meat, one tael of poultry and fish eggs, one tael of soy products, and one tael of vegetable oil per person per day.

However, it depends on your luck whether you can get there, or exceed this standard, and the situation varies from region to region.

For example, when the squad leader was a car soldier, the food cost for a day was pitiful, and the average soldier ate a meal of meat as a tooth sacrifice.

But the squad leader has no appetite when he sees beef and mutton, who makes it cheap in Tibet, eat it every day, and eat it until you vomit!

There are also troops near the fishing port, seven or eight years ago, crabs were a few cents a pound, and after serving in the army there for a long time, they fainted when they saw pike crabs and hairtail fish.

There are also unlucky, in some places, there are two dishes for ten people in the main meal, and a class eats less than 2 taels of meat a day. ”

Well, it doesn't just depend on the place, but also on whether there is a competent secretary.

"You said that I would pay 10 yuan a day for food, how should this be enough?"

After spending a long time in the United States, Zhang Nan really forgot about the prices in China.

Hearing this, Guan Xingquan said with a smile: "This standard is in the northwest, and you can make everyone eat a few catties of fat."

One dollar for breakfast, 3 yuan for lunch, three yuan for dinner, and then prepare 1 yuan for supper plus one yuan for five yuan of soda drinks and fruits, I can be an extras for you.

By the way, do you have time to make movies?"

The cooking class does it by itself, and the big pot dish costs 30 yuan for ten people at a table to eat, or a standard buffet for three yuan per person, which can definitely make people fat!

Even if the price is rising, this catty of good pork is only three dollars and a catty, and the food standard is already very high!

Enough is good.

"I don't have the time, at most I can go and see it..."

......

When he returned to New York, he found Joshua, and two days later, all the stones on the front of the cross were removed.

Sure enough, there are quite a few words and secret notes hidden under the gem.