After the show, as usual, he wanted to return to Huairou Film and Television Base. Speaking of which, the crew of "Dou Po" has been nesting here for nearly three months, and the scenes in the studio are basically filmed, and they are about to start their location trip to the whole country.

Because Lu Lin plans to put a production budget of more than 100 million yuan on fight special effects, the proportion of scenes on location shooting is relatively small.

In his opinion, since it is a Xianxia drama, it is necessary to shoot a chic and elegant Xianxia flavor, and it is shameful to change martial arts to avoid the important and light. If the crew of "Journey to the West" back then also avoided the important and trivialized, there would be no classic 86 "Journey to the West".

There is also the 90th version of "Fengshen List", although it is extremely spicy to watch today, but at least people are still trying to do some magic special effects. In those days, it was already very valuable.

But later film and television production companies were not very careful, so that "Xianjian I" in the early years has always been called the pinnacle of domestic Xianxia dramas.

Although the special effects of this film seem a little rough today, the whole film exudes a chic and elegant fairy style. For example, the wine sword fairy in the play, under the super-burning BGM atmosphere, the picture of flying in the air and dancing the sword is too handsome and sensitive!

Among them, there is not only Xie Junhao's wonderful performance, but also the credit of special effects, but more rely on the background music "Sword and Fairy" to set off the atmosphere.

For the classic character soundtrack, the mainland film and television industry at this time did not pay enough attention. Among the classic film and television characters with BGM summarized by later generations of netizens, most of them are characters in Hong Kong film and television dramas, such as Qiao Gang, who stepped on the point to save people with a subwoofer. As for Yuan Hua, who brought "A Cut of Plums", it has been 15 years.

And the soundtrack production in "Breaking the Sky", Lu Lin invited Mai Zhenhong, the style of the work is mainly Xianxia martial arts, and has soundtracked hundreds of film and television works such as "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "Sword and Fairy" is from him, and he is a powerful one in the soundtrack circle.

As for the "Huihuang" Ersheng and Hu Weili, they are all over seventy years old at this time, and it is unrealistic to invite them.

In addition to the soundtrack, Lu Lin's favorite thing is the fight scenes. Martial arts dramas must be chivalrous, and Xianxia dramas must make the characters have the fan of Xianxia. He will not use the shooting techniques such as blowers, slow motion, and 360-degree rotation of the camera stopped in the air commonly used in domestic martial arts films.

Most of the martial arts movements he designed are fast and sharp, but fortunately, Han Dongjun has a good physique, and most of the actresses have dancing skills, and they can barely complete it. As for those who can't do it or can't do it well, they have to rely on action stand-ins. In short, it should be good-looking, heaven and earth, and the special effects are full of screens.

The crew of "Dou Po" left Huairou and went directly to Guixi Province, because the scenery of the mountains and rivers is excellent, and most of the exterior scenes were filmed here.

More than a month passed in a blink of an eye, and by mid-December, "Dou Po" was completed ahead of schedule. The crew held a finale dinner as usual, and after eating, everyone went their separate ways.

Lu Lin returned to the capital with some people, which was still the Huairou Film and Television Base, and cut the film into a 40-episode "green screen" version.

In terms of post-production, a small half of the special effects shots that are not difficult were subcontracted to Yanjing's Tiangong Brilliant Special Effects Company, and the rest went abroad to sign special effects lens production contracts in the names of two companies in India and Cayman respectively. When I returned to Beijing again, it was already late December.

At this time, in the Chinese film market, "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" are in a tragic box office war, "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" only collected 140 million in the first four days, and only 30 million on the first day, which made Yu Dong depressed enough.

He thinks that the filming of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" is still good, even if it collides with "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", the publicity and distribution costs are less, but the box office should not be so low!

By discussing the reasons for the preparation of "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun", he came to Longlin's side and talked to Lu Lin about the box office war.

"Old Monster Xu's 3D shooting is not bad, why is there no attraction to the audience of yours? I originally estimated that there would be four or five thousand on the first day!" Yu Dong smoked a cigarette and looked out the window.

Lu Lin smiled and said, "If you want me to say, it's aesthetic fatigue." Today's mainland audiences are not more than ten years ago, they have experienced the baptism of too many classic martial arts films, and have watched foreign special effects blockbusters such as "Transformers". Martial arts-level fight scenes are already difficult to stimulate the audience's adrenaline. However, today's action actor talent is faulty, all pointing to the fight scenes made by Weiya, even if the 3D effect is added, I am afraid it will be difficult to satisfy the audience.

Yu Dong turned his head and said, "Then what else are you shooting?"

Lu Lin smiled: "I'm a fairyman, playing special effects, and it's a TV series!"

Yu Dong thought for a moment and said slowly: "You said that my initial thinking was wrong?"

Lu Lin nodded slightly, and chuckled: "There are no chivalrous bones, there are no rivers and lakes, are the characters in "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" still chivalrous?"

Yu Dong suddenly glared, laughed dryly and said: "It seems that martial arts movies can't be filmed!"

Lu Lin said in his heart: "It's best if you believe me, otherwise there will be "The Sword of the Third Young Master" behind you." He also said, "The main thing is that the concept of chivalry is no longer respected by the world."

Yu Dong sighed slightly, and said with a smile: "It seems that we are old guys, and we are no longer suitable for this era!" But I was thinking about "Da Shanghai" that I talked to Wang Whale about these days, a heroic film based on Du Yuesheng, and I was going to ask Fa Ge to star. There shouldn't be no market!

After a moment of silence, he asked, "By the way, how is Hou Yi's script written?"

Lu Lin said: "The overall plot has been formed, and the screenwriting team is polishing some details, and it is estimated that it will take less than a month to finalize it." ”

Yu Dong nodded, but he didn't rush to read the first draft, but asked Lu Lin, in terms of casting. What are the ideas, such as the protagonist Hou Yi, how many big names are invited.

Lu Lin said slowly: "The role of Hou Yi, I plan to play it myself!"

Yu Dong was stunned when he heard this, and he couldn't laugh or cry, "Can I say that what you said surprised me too much?" and then said: "If you want to talk about popularity, you must have no problem, that is, in terms of acting." ”

Lu Lin used to play villains and small supporting roles all year round, and he was obviously unconvincing in terms of acting skills.

"It's okay, I can also audition then, you and Mr. Wang come over and have a look. If you don't think it's okay, let's discuss it again!" Lu Lin said with a smile.

Yu Dong said in his heart: "Discuss it, you want to direct and act yourself, if we don't agree, can we still participate?" However, he still agreed with Lu Lin's audition, no matter how big his wrist was, he had to audition before deciding on the role.

"Okay, then make an appointment, I'll come over with Lao Wang to take a look and see what you look like as Hou Yi. Then he laughed again: "You have a good abacus, more than 600 million blockbusters to praise yourself!"

Lu Lin laughed and said: "I'm doing this out of cost-saving considerations, the director and the leading actor take a share of the money, can't they save more money!"