Chapter 123: The Opening Scene
Lu Lin's words made the media and the audience very excited. After all, there are more and more crews who are not distracted now, and the characters in Xianxia and mythological dramas do not have fairy fans, and there are not too many people with obscene temperament and thunderous shapes, which makes people suspect that there is any love and hatred between actors and stylists.
In the film "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun", the twelve ancestral witches actually have two forms, which makes people feel reliable when they listen to it.
After that, the media asked some questions and interviewed some popular artists, and the work was not over until more than eleven o'clock. The next arrangement is the start-up ceremony, the kind of worship and incense, the time is set at more than twelve o'clock, and the location is on the set. There is an offering table covered with a red cloth, with an incense burner, suckling pig, fresh fruit, and a camera on the side.
After Lu Lin and other press conferences, he first took the main creators to the set, and the media reporters naturally followed, and enthusiastic fans accompanied him. When the so-called auspicious time arrived, the main creators of the crew went over to worship God in turn.
There is no clear requirement for the opening ceremony to worship any god, and you will worship whatever you believe, but most of them are to worship Guan Gong. If you have other religious beliefs, you can just stand aside and pray silently without offering incense.
After the ceremony, the actors who have no role for the time being can not join the group first, the media reporters send "carriage and horse fees" to pass away, the enthusiastic audience is evacuated, and the crew of "Houyi Shooting the Sun" officially starts filming.
The first scene is Fu Dalong's, and it is also the opening scene of the film that Lu Lin expected. It is like a key that opens the door to the world of light and shadow, leading the audience on a cinematic journey.
It can be said that whether a movie can catch the audience's attention in a moment and have a good chemistry with the audience, the opening shot plays a very important role. For the director, the opening shot must be well thought out.
For example, in the opening scene of the Hong Kong film classic "A Chinese Ghost Story", the wind rises in the middle of the night, the barren mountains and ancient temples, the scholars read at night, the beauties throw themselves into their arms, and the evil ghosts kill people.
When Ning Caichen, played by his brother, stayed overnight in Lanruo Temple because he had no money to live in a hotel, the audience always sweated for him, because they knew that Lanruo Temple was haunted. And the scene where the grandmother suddenly visits in Xiaoqian's room and the brother hides in the bathtub will be full of tension and exciting.
In contrast, "Painted Wall", which is suspected of being borrowed, is a little worse in terms of opening. At the beginning of the film, Zhu Xiaolian, a scholar played by Deng Chao, strayed into the "mural fairyland" because he chased a thief into an ancient temple and met a peony fairy.
Each woman in the fairyland tries to convey a sense of tension and oppression to the audience, but because of the bluffing performances of the fairies, Yan Ni's performance without aura makes the whole plot seem loose and slack, and there is no dramatic tension at all.
A famous screenwriter once said that costume dramas are easier to write than modern dramas. Because in costume dramas, when the plot is weak, as long as you kill a character, you will immediately get nervous. But it's not easy to write modern dramas like this, because it's a legal society, and it's difficult to do rational design.
However, in the desolate world, there are ants under the saints, and it is not uncommon for anyone to die! The opening scene of "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun" also wants to kill people, and the one who is killed is a witch, played by "sister-in-law" Xu Dongdong.
The synopsis is: In the early morning, the shrine maiden picks flowers in a field. Suddenly there was a sun in the sky, and the sun was the same day. Immediately afterwards, a sun turned into a fireball and fell from the sky and landed beside the witch, who was the head of the ten sons of the Emperor of Heaven played by Fu Dalong.
Bo Yi was dressed in gorgeous clothes, mighty and domineering, and hooked his fingers to the witch and threw himself into his arms. The two of them turned the phoenix upside down, and the clouds and rain in Wushan. After the good thing, the witch asked if she could take her to heaven, and with a wave of her robe, the witch fell into a sea of fire and turned into ashes in an instant.
Bo Yu said contemptuously: "Humble witch, dare to covet the Heavenly Court Imperial Family!" immediately turned into a three-legged golden crow, spread his wings and soared into the sky.
After that, the lens processing is very artistic, like the butterfly at the beginning of the movie "Kung Fu". Bo Yu flew over the Yangtze River, forest and grassland. Everywhere he went, the earth cracked, the plants and trees withered, and countless people and animals died. And the rest of his brethren followed, and on the same day of the tenth, all spirits were afflicted.
At this moment, a sharp arrow flew from below, and with a pop it pierced through Bo Yao's body. Three-legged golden black feathers flew up, and golden blood volleyed into a mist. The screen slowly faded out of four words - "Hou Yi shoots the sun".
The opening set of shots not only points out the theme, but also establishes the villain status of the Ten Sons of the Emperor. Just like the opening scene of "Men Should Be Self-Improvement", the opening scene of the White Lotus Sect Jiugong real people portrays a group of ignorant White Lotus sect members who pretend to be ghosts and fools in just a few minutes, which is in stark contrast to Huang Feihong in the back.
In fact, from the perspective of the struggle between the two clans of the Lich, it is difficult to talk about who is right and who is wrong between the Heavenly Court of the Demon Clan and the Wu Clan. And even though the Emperor of Heaven himself is eloquent and strategic, it is not contrary to the recklessness and viciousness of the ten sons of the Emperor of Heaven. After all, in Chinese history, the emperor's father is wise and martial, and there are countless examples of the princes being ridiculous.
chose Fu Dalong to play such a role, naturally because he likes his strength as an actor. In the historical drama "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", Fu Dalong played Emperor Yang of Sui with a dark belly, murderous and lustful, but he was smart and witty, and his performance was very successful. Maybe the real Yang Guang is not like that, but the play is adapted from a book review, and the character design is like this.
At the shooting scene, Fu Dalong, who had painted his makeup, wore a simple and atmospheric dress, although the human race was ignorant in the flood era, it did not mean that the prince of the demon race Heavenly Court also wore animal skin leaves.
And Xu Dongdong's character is an ordinary witch, and her modeling and clothing are relatively simple, which not only reflects the atmosphere of the wilderness, but also reflects her own "murder weapon".
In the first set of shots, the vast wilderness, the flowers in the mountains, the two days and the same day, and the fireball landing, all need special effects in the later stage, so Fu Dalong and Xu Dongdong came directly to the scene where the two met.
Due to the limitation of time and scale, this set of shots can only be freehand, showing that the two are asleep, but the specific sleeping method cannot be shown on the screen.
Besides, the son of the Emperor of Heaven is definitely not good. To put it mildly, my brother is watching from above, so I have to cover it up.
Therefore, after the two met, Bo Yao waved his hand to conjure up a luxurious, atmospheric carriage with a thin gauze at the window and a three-legged golden crow sign in front of the body.
After the two got into the car, one camera captured several intimate shots looming through the tulle, while the other looked at the golden crow logo that swayed with the car. When you cut them together, you can express the meaning.
Because the actual shooting scale is not large, the people in the crew were not driven away, and everyone was happy to watch this "flood version of the car shock" scene.
"OK, pass!"
I have to say that Fu Dalong's acting skills are indeed good, and he portrays the image of a rebellious, lustful, and vicious prince of the heavenly court with every move.
And for Xu Dongdong, it is not difficult to play a woman who behaves frivolously and loves Ronghua. The two of them actually passed a group of shots, which can be regarded as a good omen for the film "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun".