Chapter 289: The Elements That Connect China and the West in the Movie

Li Yu Ke was very interested in such a thing, and immediately asked: "What kind of lens is more suitable for our movie, if it is a classic shot like this, you should be the first to work." Yuan Heping shook his head and said: "It's hard to say specifically, Chinese kung fu is now more and more accepted by the West, therefore, at this time, there are few kung fu that no Westerners have seen, we want to shoot into a real classic, that is, to find a real action shot that makes Westerners shine, and then use the rainstorm editing method to make the whole shot appear to have a strong visual impact." ”

At this time, Yuan Heping mentioned a relatively unpopular editing technique, Li Huan, as a literary film director, is naturally rarely heard of this kind of editing technique, so he immediately asked: "What are the characteristics of the rainstorm editing method, and what kind of help does it help our films?" Although I haven't heard of this kind of editing technique, what Li Yu actually cares about is how it will help his film in such a situation, and if it is helpful, it is not impossible to adopt it.

Yuan Heping explained: "Well, for a simple example, the same is true of heavy rains in nature. No matter how heavy a rainstorm is, its true state is not a continuous column of water as our eyes see. The reason why heavy rain causes the feeling of continuous columns of water falling from the sky is because our eyes have a congenital "defect", which is "visual retention".

It's our own eyes that connect the raindrops one by one. Therefore, we will use the term "rainstorm like a pillar" to describe a very heavy rainstorm. Because in this overwhelming rainstorm, we can't see the raindrops at all, and all we see are countless pillars of rain "hanging" between heaven and earth. That kind of visual shock is the real kind of powerful impact that people feel. A visceral shock. The editing of the movie sometimes causes this kind of psychological effect of "rainstorm like a pillar" to the audience, because the effect needs this kind of powerful shock, especially when it is said to have reached the real climax, especially pay attention to this. Especially in Chinese martial arts action movies. The brave, intense combat action and fast, dense editing will form a continuous torrent of visual images, causing a strong impact on the audience's psyche.

It's as if an invisible hand stretches out from the screen into the audience's heart, grabbing the audience's heart.

War or disaster movies are sometimes a more common technique. In action movies, we call this editing method "rainstorm editing" or "stormy editing".

In other words, the film minimizes the temporal and spatial distances between shots. The originally single, intermittent film shots form a fast, complete and continuous image narrative chain. This "iconic" editing grammar is exactly where the aesthetic style of Chinese martial arts action movies lies. In kung fu films, after this is a style unique to our national films. ”

As a famous martial arts instructor, Yuan Heping naturally said that he has two brushes, especially in action movies, which is like a few treasures.

Li Yu frowned and said: "In other words, there must be a suitable classic shot, so that you can use such editing techniques, right?"

Naturally, if there are no action shots, then in such a question, it is actually more about the sky in general. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

Yuan Heping nodded and said: "There is nothing wrong, but it takes a certain amount of time to design such an action shot, and it needs the kind of action shot that Westerners accept." It's very difficult to grasp.

Mr. Ye is also a kung fu master, what does he think about such a thing? ”

Ye Ming's kung fu is better than him, which Yuan Heping can see at a glance. As soon as the connoisseur stretched out his hand, he knew if there was one.

Ye Ming has actually been thinking about this issue all the time. Even when I arrived at the shooting site just now, I found a free time to ask what the system is all about, classic, what kind of action scenes can penetrate the classic action shots.

The system gives an answer [through, the classics need to be inherited, and they need to be run through. Even if it is said that Michael Jackson's spacewalk, it does not mean that he was the first to create it, but that Jackson himself summed up the experience of his predecessors, innovated it himself, and then promoted it. It became his signature move, so it was important to pass it on. The shot of the protagonist Neo dodging bullets in The Matrix is a very classic shot, at least it has a feeling of being amazing, but, there is no inheritance, it seems to have crossed over to the shot of dodging bullets in one step, which seems a bit abrupt. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon uses dodging bows and arrows, and Luo Xiaohu dodged the overwhelming bows and arrows for a moment, and then, one person directly overturned five officials and established the core position of the leader of the big robbers. 】

At this moment, the system simulated a scene for Ye Ming, Luo Xiaohu rode a horse and galloped, turned over and dismounted, and when he walked in front of the crowd, he raised the scimitar in his hand to clean up the official errand, but what greeted him was an overwhelming bow and arrow.

At this moment, when Yuan Heping asked Ye Ming, Ye Ming paused for a moment, then rubbed his brows with his hand and said: "In fact, if you want to find a shot of a scenic spot, it doesn't mean that there is no way, but it just means that you are looking for a condition that runs through things, as long as there is such a condition, the movie has a very sense of identity, and only with a sense of identity, the box office will naturally go up." ”

This method is actually very clear to Yuan Heping, but if you want to find such a sense of identity, it doesn't mean that you can find it in a day or two. At this time, Yang Ziqiong said unceremoniously: "It sounds good, and it is not easy to find a sense of identity." Bruce Lee conquered the West with hand-to-hand combat, Jackie Chan conquered the West with daring to fight, and the rest of the people are still a little worse. If you haven't been to Hollywood, you can't imagine how xenophobic it is. ”

Although Yang Ziqiong is a bit aimed at Ye Ming, but in the last sentence, in fact, she is not wrong, Hollywood is a place that seems to be very free and open, but there are strict hierarchies and clear barriers, if you want to fight a bloody way out of it, how difficult it is.

Yang Ziqiong is a person who goes to Hollywood to shoot movies, so her opinion is relatively objective.

Yang Ziqiong actually didn't believe in Ye Ming's good way at all, so she unceremoniously sarcastically mocked Ye Ming.

And Zhang Ziyi, in fact, also thinks that this matter is quite difficult, Yuan Heping has nothing to do, can Ye Ming have any tricks? Doesn't it mean that Ye Ming is higher than Ye Ming in martial arts instruction?

But Zhang Ziyi felt that she was going to play against Ye Ming after all, and if she offended Ye Ming at this time, it would not be good for her no matter what she said.

Therefore, even if Zhang Ziyi was not very convinced of Ye Ming in her heart, she didn't say anything after all.

And Ye Ming didn't seem to be angry because of Yang Ziqi's words, and said with a smile: "I don't mean overall, in general, Hollywood looks down on any film company outside the United States, but I'm talking about a shot, as long as you say that you do a good enough job, with the feeling that Westerners agree with the two, Western audiences will agree, Hollywood will naturally agree, Hollywood is possible to do right with anyone, any foreign film company, but they will definitely not get along with the box office." I think the bow and arrow is a better sense of identity. Whether it is in the historical war of the East or the West, in front of the movie camera, this bow and arrow is not unfamiliar, therefore, the bow and arrow is a good carrier. ”

Ye Ming's words immediately caused a burst of silence. What Ye Ming said was not wrong. Bows and arrows, whether to the East or the West, are all weapons that they identify with.

In some movies, bows and arrows are used, which is also a very common shot. It is even said that the weapon of Sagittarius in the Western constellation is the bow and arrow, so it can be seen that the bow and arrow are deeply rooted in the bones of Westerners.

At this time, Li Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, bow and arrow, yes, bow and arrow is indeed a good carrier, he immediately said excitedly: "This idea is good, Mr. Ye continued." ”

At this time, Ye Ming thought about it, said his general meaning, and finally said: "Think about it, in the stormy bow and arrow, Luo Xiaohu swayed with the wind like a swaying branch, and the slow motion showed that Luo Xiaohu was able to dodge all the bows and arrows, what an exciting shot." ”

This shot was proposed, and Li Yu's eyes immediately lit up, it was really a good idea, but then he was a little disappointed: "What Mr. Ye said is good, but if you want to shoot for real time, I'm afraid you have to use special effects to dodge bows and arrows, which is very difficult." ”

In Li Yan's view, this is an impossible task, so if you want to achieve such an effect, then in such a situation, you have to use special effects. And it's about using Hollywood's powerful special effects team.

It's impossible for a normal special effects team to accomplish such a task.

But with good special effects, that's burning money.

This. It made Li Yu very worried. (To be continued!)

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