Chapter 703: The Footsteps of the Times

PS: Friendly reminder, daily transition chapter, more watery.

As the film with the longest preparation time and the longest shooting period after Li Mo came to this time and space, "Book of Swords and Enmity" finally showed signs of completion before the National Day after almost three months of filming.

The reason why there are signs of success, rather than completing the work, is mainly because the filming of "Book of Swords and Enmity" is more like a test of the ability of Molong's crew after the completion of "Shura Battlefield".

Of course, it is to test whether the company's behind-the-scenes team can play the theme of action movies.

The result?

OK.

In addition to the outsourced action direction, the other departments are running and cooperating quite well.

Some people may think that a team without action direction is incomplete at all.

To be honest, Li Mo expressed a hundred approvals for this view.

But the problem is, no matter how much he agrees, it is impossible to pull the action team up overnight.

Yes, as the Xiangjiang film market continues to decline, many veteran Xiangjiang teams have chosen to develop in the north.

But the problem is that as a team that has worked with each other for decades, the people of Xiangjiang naturally know how to make their own value to the extreme.

Forming a team, everyone divides labor and cooperates, works together, asks for a price together, and takes care of each other, which is definitely better than going it alone......

Most of the action direction teams in the mainland film circle have just been formed, and there is a big gap between them and the Xiangjiang team in terms of professionalism and actual work ability.

Not to mention the mainland action team, even if it is a South Korean team that has developed rapidly in recent years, their ability is more reflected in modern movies, such as "Book of Swords and Enmity", such a big IP, even if Li Mo has the ability to find a South Korean team, even if the price is cheap, he really doesn't dare to use it......

Although South Korea, like the Celestial Empire, belongs to the East Asian civilization circle, there is no such thing as 'martial arts literature' in their place at all, and it is better to simply cultivate their own team if they understand what Shaolin Wudang is and what Mingjiao Huashan is......

But having said that, although the cooperation with Li Zhongzhi's team this time was very pleasant, Li Mo also found the hidden problems in Li Zhongzhi's team.

That is, they have a faint aversion and hostility to motion capture and computer synthesis technology.

To be honest, from the perspective of these people, Li Mo can fully understand why they are hostile and disgusted with motion capture and computer synthesis technology.

As a martial artist, they can have their current skills, at least after several years of hard work.

Even so, the longer they stay in the circle, the more big and small injuries they get older and the more they get involved in movement-related work, which not only affects their physical condition, but also shortens their already modest careers.

For others, these situations may not be a big deal, but for those who eat martial arts, if they can't save enough for their future life, family and even medical expenses before they are old or have to quit this profession because of physical injuries, then what awaits them will be far more difficult than that of other workers in the same industry......

The most prominent example of this is the veteran action actor Liu Jiahui in Hong Kong.

As the youngest of the three Liu brothers in the 50s of the last century, Liu Jiahui appeared in the movie directed by his brother Liu Jialiang as early as 1973.

After going around for decades, whether on the big screen or the small screen, Liu Jiahui can be regarded as a well-known actor whose name can be called and his face recognized by the audience, but even so, when Liu Jiahui was partially paralyzed due to a stroke in 2011, he also fell into the dilemma of life embarrassment......

And most of his savings are expected to become a string of numbers on the bill for hospital or nursing home rehabilitation in the near future......

This is still the case for well-known veteran actors, and the situation for those young actors who have not yet become popular is only worse.

The development of motion capture technology and computer synthesis technology to the extreme, the end result must be that only need to have enough actions in the database, and the relevant technicians can complete the action design of the whole movie, and even all the action scenes of the whole movie......

Of course, for people like Li Mo who have enough knowledge and understanding of existing computer technology, even if the scene just depicted can be realized, it will take a company to accumulate for several years or even decades, but for people like front-line martial arts, the words motion capture and computer synthesis are like something unclear.

…… Not to mention them, even Li Zhongzhi, who communicated directly with Li Mo, has expressed his nostalgia for the past Xiangjiang action movies in more than one conversation, intentionally or unintentionally.

Although he is making a lot of money now, he is still a man like Li Zhongzhi who has experienced that golden age...... Even if it's just a filmmaker at the tail of the golden age, perhaps, only that era belongs to action movies and belongs to them......

But it can't be helped!

Just as WIA replaced the early Shaw Brothers action scenes, motion capture and computer synthesis will inevitably become mainstream with time and the development of related technologies.

The old-school action movies represented by Carny Lau were sent to the old paper pile by Xu Ke's new-school martial arts, and the ever-changing technology is also imperceptibly becoming the gravedigger of the action team.

That's the future.

Doesn't change because of anyone's efforts.

Li Mo once pointed out in front of Li Zhongzhi and Wu Jing, hoping that they would be able to move with the times and keep pace with the times when designing actions in the future, but looking at the state of the two people during this time, it seems that Wu Jing seems to have some understanding, while Li Zhongzhi is a little disapproving......

…… Then there is no way.

After all, Li Zhongzhi and Wu Jing are different.

After getting along for a period of time, Li Mo is relatively familiar with Wu Jing's ability and personality, and will have more in-depth cooperation with him in the future.

But Li Zhongzhi can only be regarded as a pure work cooperation.

The mindset and work habits that have been cultivated for decades are not something that Li Mo can turn around with a few words.

Talking shallow and deep is a big taboo to get along with others!

On the last day before the end of the National Day holiday, Li Mo and his "Book of Swords and Enmity" film crew finally completed all the exterior shooting, and the rest except for some indoor scenes were reshooted, only the part where Princess Xiangxiang appeared as an easter egg in the movie.

Of course, Li Mo couldn't pull everyone into the oasis of Western Xinjiang for the sake of such a few tens of seconds of scenes, so he had already thought about this part of the content - completely using green screen synthesis to shoot.

At this time, it was only a week before the release of "Embroidered Spring Knife: Shura Battlefield" directed by Lu Yang.