Just when Xu Wangqiu and they were busy with "The Rape", the Modu Film Factory ushered in a Dongying crew, the crew of "The Balance of the Balance" led by the famous Xiong Jing Qi. Last year, Kei Kumai's film "Wangxiang" caused a huge sensation after it was released in China. Now Kai Kumai is visiting the magic capital with "The Balance of Heaven", and he is naturally warmly received by the film industry of the magic capital.

Kei Kumai is a solid and rigorous artist who insists on using film as a weapon to expose and lash out at the injustice and darkness of society, and bravely confronts those characters and institutions that have caused great harm to innocent people, and his spearhead is directly aimed at the capitalist system of Dongying. With a fearless spirit, he challenged the increasingly right-leaning social phenomenon, and made works such as "Sea and Poison" and "Light Moss", which deeply criticized the crimes of the Japanese army in World War II. She did not hesitate to dedicate her sincere emotions and deep respect to ordinary people living in misfortune or poverty, especially women who had a rough life and suffered a lot but still bravely faced life.

This was not the first time Kei Kumai had visited China, and in the fall of 1971, at the invitation of the General Manager, Goo Shirato, then director of the Office of the Japanese Chinese Exchange Association, arranged for a delegation including Kei Kumai to visit China to participate in the celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. After receiving a personal meeting with the Prime Minister in the Great Hall of the People, Kumai came up with the idea that Toei films should express the psychology of atonement. After returning to China, he began to conceive of shooting a large-scale documentary film "The People's Republic of China", and immediately began to write a thick script, but due to the special relationship of the times, this long-cherished wish was ultimately aborted.

This time, Kumai Kai came over to make the movie "The Balance of Heaven", which is adapted from the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue, mainly telling the story of the monk Jianzhen in the Kaiyuan and Tianbao eras of the Tang Dynasty and the story of the Dharma being passed on to the day. Scenes like this will definitely not be filmed in Dongying, especially the Chinese part of the content can only be filmed in China.

Kei Xiong had a cordial and friendly exchange with the main leaders and some directors of the factory in the Magic Shadow Studio. During the casual conversation, Xiong Jing Kai heard that Zhao Dan was making a movie recently, and he was very curious about it. Zhao Shan can't help but be famous in China, and his fame in Dongying is also quite large. Many Dongying filmmakers will visit Zhao Shan when they visit the magic capital and communicate with Zhao Dan. Xiong Jing Qi and them are no exception, and now they heard that Zhao Dan was filming a new drama, so they asked the crew to take a look and go to the class.

Naturally, the Magic Shadow Factory would not refuse, and at ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, Xu Shangchu and some leaders of the Magic City Film Bureau took Xiong Jing Qi and the crew of "The Balance of Heaven" to get on the car and go to the Chedun base to visit the class.

The car drove for nearly an hour and arrived at the Chedun set. Xie Fei knew that the Film Bureau, Xiong Jing Qi and others were coming, and he had been waiting outside the base. When they got out of the car, Xie Fei took them to the set. Xu Shangchu gave Xiong Jingqi a brief introduction to the Chedun base, and told them that the Magic Shadow Factory was going to build this place into a film and television park.

Kei Kumai is a director, and he is not interested in theme parks, how to develop the film and television industry, or how to make money, and most of the other Dongying people are also lacking in interest. However, Dongying people did a good job of face, and they couldn't stop nodding their heads, and seemed to listen very seriously.

Only Kenichi Aoi, the producer of "The Scales", was an exception, and he was extremely shocked by Xu Sangchu's concept, and couldn't help but say: "Mr. Xu's idea is very remarkable and very discerning! The big movie companies in the United States have encountered difficulties in the 5 and 60s, bankruptcy and bankruptcy, and the acquired have been acquired, and only Disney has survived perfectly, and their biggest guarantee is the theme park." I've heard that Disney is negotiating to build a Disney park in Tokyo! I didn't expect the Shadow Studio to have such a plan! It's amazing!"

Listening to Kenichi Cangkong's words, Xu Sanchu was very happy in his heart, thinking that the original Dongying people also thought this idea was very good, this idea was indeed very good! But Chinese have always been modest, especially in front of guests, Xu Shangchu smiled slightly: "Mr. Aoi praised, we are just a small fight, and there is no comparison with large foreign companies." ”

When the staff along the way saw Xu Shangchu and them coming, they ignored them and were busy with themselves. Recently, the crew has filmed fireworks scenes, both guns and bullets, and everyone has a string in their hearts, and they dare not take it lightly.

Seeing this, Kei Kumai and the crew of "The Balance of Heaven" all nodded secretly, thinking that they didn't expect the Chinese crew to be so professional;

When he arrived at the filming site, Xu Shangchu hurriedly called Zhao Dan over, and the Dongying people came to visit Zhao Dan, so he must be arranged to meet with the Dongying people. Zhao Dan is a superstar in China with a very high status, and the people of Dongying respect him very much, bowing and saluting. Zhao Dan was very easy-going, welcomed Xiong Jingqi and them, and said some polite words.

Xu Shangchu did not forget Xu Wangqiu and Xie Fei, and introduced the two of them to the Dongying people. Dongying people thought that Xie Fei was the director, and Xu Wangqiu was following the reputation, and greeted Xie Fei one after another, without taking Xu Wangqiu to heart.

Xie Fei saw that Dongying didn't pay much attention to Xu Wangqiu, and introduced with a smile: "Actually, the real director of this movie is Wangqiu, and the whole movie is directed by him, and I just do some auxiliary work." ”

Dongying people were taken aback when they heard this, they didn't expect that this boy who looked eighteen or nineteen years old would be the real director of the movie, and they felt incredible. The Dongying film industry is very serious according to seniority, and newcomers must be tempered on the set if they want to get ahead, and slowly climb up from the bottom. Take Kei Kumai as an example, he trained on the set for eleven years, and only got the opportunity to direct at the age of 34.

Most of the crew of "The Balance of Heaven" shook their heads secretly, feeling that Xu Wangqiu was too young, without enough precipitation and experience, how could he be able to control a huge crew? Some people even speculated that this Xu Wangqiu might be the child of a high-ranking official, otherwise how could he be a director at such a young age?

Dongying people are the best at face kung fu, and they don't think about Xu Wangqiu in their hearts, and all they say are compliments: "It's amazing that Mr. Zhang can be a director at such a young age! ”

However, after the polite words, they immediately left Xu Wangqiu and chatted with Zhao Dan. There is really nothing to communicate with a child like Xu Wangqiu, does he really understand movies?

Xiong Jing Kai also felt that Xu Wangqiu was too young, and he had never seen such a young director, but he still tried to communicate with Xu Wangqiu: "Can I ask you what story this movie is about, and what content is filmed today?"

Xu Wangqiu saw that Xiong Jingqi was interested in his movie, so he naturally wouldn't hide it, so he said: "Our movie is called "Hoe Rape", which tells the story of a small team to eradicate traitors, which belongs to war movies, or gunfight movies. There is a plot in the story where the squad falls into the enemy's trap and is ambushed by the enemy, and most of the team members are killed. Today is a shot of the squad leader played by Mr. Zhao Dan throwing a grenade at the enemy, but the arm is hit, and the grenade falls to the ground, blowing him up. ”

Kai Kumai has never made war films, but he still has some understanding of war films, and said with a smile: "I have only seen such shots in American movies, and most of them use secondary exposure technology, but I didn't expect you to understand this technology." ”

Kumai's technique is to shoot a shot of the actor taking off, then shoot a bomb explosion from the original camera position, and then use a second exposure to stack the two shots, and the effect looks like a bomb blowing people away. Xu Wangqiu shook his head and said: "The second exposure is not real enough, and we can't see the mud and gravel hitting the human body after the explosion, so we are blowing it directly." ”

Xiong Jingqi was startled when he heard this: "Nani, Mr. Xu, you're not joking, are you?"

"Of course not. It may sound dangerous, but we have the technology to make sure we don't get the actors hurt. Xu Wangqiu saw the suspicion on Xiong Jingqi's face, and didn't explain much, and chuckled, "You'll know in a while." ”

Xiong Jingqi was curious, but Xu Wangqiu didn't say anything, and he didn't want to ask too much, so he said, "I'm looking forward to it." ”

After a brief chat, Xu Wangqiu said to Xiong Jing: "Mr. Xiong Jing, the movie is about to be made, and I have to go to work." You sit here and rest, and when this shot is finished, we'll talk. ”

Xiong Jingqi nodded and said, "You go and get busy, we'll talk later." ”

Xu Wangqiu turned his head and shouted at Zhao Dan: "Uncle Zhao, we have rehearsed." ”

Zhao Shan said sorry to the Dongying people present, walked quickly to the middle of the venue, and continued the rehearsal.

filming this kind of scene where the actor is bombed, just relying on people to jump, the height is limited, and there is no feeling of being blown up. In later generations, it was common to pull the actor up through a steel wire to create the effect of being blown up. If you look closely at the bombing footage of "Lifesaving Private Ryan", you will find that the soldier who was blown up was pulled up by a tightrope.

There is a problem with the use of hanging wires, how to solve the goofs, and how not to let the audience find the wires.

After forty years, there is specialized software that can easily wipe off the tightrope. Now there is no such technology, to solve the wire goof, the background masking method is generally used, like the 86 version of "Journey to the West" hanging wire, the background is either a mountain or a forest, anyway, it is a place with a darker color, because the wire is thinner and the background color is darker, it is not easy for the audience to see the wire.

"Hoe Rape" is a movie, it is to be shown on the big screen, and it uses Agfa's film, the picture quality is particularly good, and the background masking method is not too safe, and it may be a goof. To be on the safe side, Xu Wangqiu dug a pit at Zhao Dan's feet and put a small trampoline on it. When the bomb explodes, use the trampoline to jump to create the feeling of being blown away.

Filming the scene of being blown up by a bomb, how people fly in the air and how they fall to the ground are all carefully choreographed and need to be rehearsed repeatedly. In order to avoid Zhao Dan being injured during rehearsal, the crew specially laid a mat on the ground. Zhao Shan jumped on the trampoline and fell on the mat again and again. Xu Wangqiu and the action director carefully observed on the side, constantly correcting his irregular movements.

Kenichi Aoi knew that Zhao Dan was in his sixties, and when he saw him fall to the ground over and over again, he admired him very much, and said to Xu Shangchu: "Mr. Zhao is really an amazing actor!"

Xu Shangchu nodded slightly: "Of course, Adan is a great actor." ”

Xiong Jingqi's focus is not on Zhao Dan, he has been observing Xu Wangqiu, watching him compare and draw, constantly correcting Zhao Dan's movements, and can't help nodding secretly, facing a superstar like Zhao Dan without fear, concentrating on correcting the details of the action, this young director is amazing!