Chapter 1624: Back to the War Years
When most of the cast and crew gathered in the tent, Li Mu asked Wang Yuanlang and several on-site assistants to bring in more than 100 bottles of wine that he had brought, and said to everyone: "Everyone has worked hard here for so long, and I see that the finish is imminent, so I specially brought you some good wine, and we will have a celebration banquet in advance tonight." ”
Spielberg smiled and said, "Then it looks like everyone is going to get drunk tonight." ”
Li Mu said: "Stephen, hurry up and arrange the work at hand first, so that everyone can finish work as soon as possible." ”
Spielberg nodded and said with a smile: "Our chef has already started preparing for today's dinner, and today he drove to Spring City to buy all kinds of ingredients for the two pickups." ”
Li Mu said with satisfaction: "Today's celebration banquet is to be grand, and we will cooperate with a wave of media publicity to deepen the public's impression of the movie "Flying Tigers". ”
Saying that, Li Mu looked at Leonardo, Tom Hanks, and Liu Ye, the three male leads, all three of them were still wearing costumes, that is, US Air Force jackets during World War II, black jackets, beige khaki pants, and brown high-top leather boots.
Moreover, Leonardo's appearance is against the sky, and he is now at the peak of his appearance, such an outfit is perfect.
Liu Ye's appearance is also first-class, and he is tougher than most cream students, so wearing such an Air Force outfit is not much better than Leonardo.
Although Tom Hanks is a little older, his appearance is slightly inferior to that of a young actor, but the best thing about this big brother is what he plays, his outfit goes to that station, saying that it is Chennault, it is Chennault, if he wears a pilot sunglasses and holds a cigar, he can definitely charm a large number of female audiences.
Li Mu suddenly thought, why not take advantage of the sunset outside, and take a group photo with the three main creative actors on the runway outside and in front of the fighter plane?
As soon as he thought of this, Li Mu immediately asked Spielberg: "Stephen, is there an Air Force uniform that I can wear?"
"Yes. Spielberg blurted out, "We have prepared more than a hundred Flying Tigers uniforms, you want to give them a try?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "Find me one, I'll go out with the three male protagonists to take a group photo, and then post it on my Weibo." ”
Spielberg's eyes lit up.
He knows very well in his heart that the celebrity with the highest traffic in the world is not any star, but Li Mu.
If Li Mu posts a photo with the three leading actors on Weibo, I am afraid that in less than a day, the group photo will spread all over the world.
Thinking of this, Spielberg hurriedly said to the assistant beside him: "Go and find a set of clothes that fit Mr. Li, quick!"
Ten minutes later, Li Mu wore a very well-fitting U.S. World War II Air Force uniform and walked out of a single tent provided by the crew.
As soon as he came out, everyone applauded him and even a few young Americans even raised a long whistle.
Li Mu shook the black bomber jacket and asked with a smile, "How is it, is it a little bit like that?"
Du Wei stared at Li Mu with her eyes tightly, and said seriously: "Brother Li Mu, although saying such things will offend Brother Liu Ye, I still have to say that you should play the role of Brother Liu Ye in this movie!"
Anne Hathaway was also a little stunned when she looked at Li Mu, she was filming in China recently, and Oriental men have seen a lot, although the impression is good, but from an aesthetic point of view, Oriental men are not attractive to a standard Western woman like her.
She has a little affection for Li Mu in her heart, and even often fantasizes about the picture of making a promise to each other, but what attracts Li Mu to her is not her appearance.
However, when Li Mu changed into an Air Force pilot uniform and came out with black pilot sunglasses at this time, she found for the first time that Li Mu was indeed very handsome, even from her own Western point of view, he was handsome.
There are no mirrors in the tent, so Li Mu himself doesn't know what he looks like, but when he stands side by side with Leonardo, Tom Hanks, and Liu Ye, the three male leads, even if he can't see his appearance, his heart suddenly seems to have traveled back to that war-torn era, as if he is really one of the pilots of the Flying Tigers, as if he is about to communicate with his Chinese comrades. Together with the American comrades-in-arms, they flew one after another fighter planes spray-painted with the image of a big shark not far away, and fought fiercely with the fighters of the Japanese invaders in the long sky.
Spielberg called the photographer of his crew, which was his royal camera, but he now asked the other party to take on the camera work and let him take photos for Li Mu and the other three male leads.
Spielberg thinks that 20% of the scene, momentum, and artistic conception are in the equipment, 30% in the composition, and 50% in the use of light.
So, Hollywood's top photographers picked up their SLR cameras and took a highly restored historical photo for Li Mu, Liu Ye, Leonardo, and Tom Hanks under the golden and bloody sunset on the Yunnan Plateau.
At this time, the sunset is the most beautiful, the fire clouds in the sky are red and spectacular, they are wearing the same air force uniform as that era, the ground runway is rammed with red clay, and behind them are several American-made P-40C fighters, the photos look particularly real, as if people suddenly go back to that war-torn era.
The P-40C was the main model adopted by the Flying Tigers in China that year, and these planes were all painted with shark mouths in China at that time, which can be said to be the most familiar World War II American fighter for the Chinese people.
At the time of the group photo, the P-40C fighters on the airport were all painted with completely restored shark mouths, and Spielberg told Li Mu that all of these planes were real P-40Cs, which he specially found from the American Folk Flying Club, and the P-40Cs were extremely well maintained and could be lifted into the air.
According to Spielberg, although the fighter planes on the airport do not look too many, after the post-production computer special effects, the scene here will be turned upside down, and the visual effects will be at least ten times more spectacular than the actual situation.
Everyone at the scene was extremely satisfied with this photo, whether it was the shooting technique, or the expressions, movements, and aura of everyone on the photo, or even the historical restoration of this photo, they could not find any fault.
Spielberg even said, "I really want to use this photo as a promotional poster, this picture looks so much stronger than Tom Cruise's TopGun!"
"TopGun" itself is already a very enthusiastic Air Force movie, and it is understandable to say that it is the first Air Force movie today, but Spielberg feels that after the release of "Flying Tigers", it will comprehensively crush "TopGun" in all fields.
For example, the actual budget of "Flying Tigers" is higher than that of "TopGun", and the gold content behind the scenes and the starring team is also stronger than that of "TopGun", and "Flying Tigers" has the support of Li Mu behind it, and the publicity resources are more than an order of magnitude stronger than "TopGun".
What's more, "TopGun" as a whole is more like an idol drama, while "Flying Tigers" is completely based on real history, and the latter's sense of history has an absolute crushing effect on the former.
Spielberg has made many war films, among them, the movie "Saving Private Ryan" directed by him is almost recognized as one of the best war-themed movies, and the "Band of Brothers" he produced is also recognized as the best war-themed TV series, Spielberg's experience tells him that making war films, from the perspective of historical weight, there is no theme that can compare with World War II.
Therefore, in Spielberg's eyes, "Flying Tigers" will definitely be able to become one of the top war-themed movies, and it is possible to surpass the achievements of "Saving Private Ryan" and become the king of war films.
Li Mu is also sparing no effort to promote "Flying Tigers", and his goal is not only to make the Chinese and American people pay attention to this movie and this history, his goal is to attract the attention of the whole world, so that people all over the world can pay attention to this movie and this history, so he will travel all the way here to visit the class and add some topics to this movie.
After Li Mu got this photo that made him very satisfied, he immediately uploaded the photo to his Weibo through the laptop he carried with him, with the text: "Visit the filming site of the "Flying Tigers" crew, and pay tribute to all the pilots who fought against the invaders in the skies over China for justice and peace during World War II!"
As soon as the photo was posted, it immediately became the biggest hit on Weibo.
Because the data of Weibo and Titter are completely interoperable, whether it is in the Chinese version of Weibo or the foreign version of Titter, Li Mu is the one with the most fans, so once his Weibo is updated, the speed of popularity is very fast.
For those users who know the movie "Flying Tigers", when they see this photo, they not only feel that the four people in this photo are so handsome that they are attracted by the powerful aura in the photo, but they can also know at once that this is the movie about the story of the Flying Tigers invested by Li Mu.
For those users who don't know the movie "Flying Tigers" yet, when they see this photo, their first impression is also very cool and handsome, and most of them can find at least two or three familiar faces from it, such as Li Mu, who already has a high reputation around the world, and he can be said to be known to everyone in countries and regions around the world with networks.
And Leonardo and Tom Hanks also have a large number of fans around the world, although Liu Ye's global influence is much worse than the three of them, but fortunately, he is very OK in terms of appearance and image, so he will not delay this photo.
Immediately afterwards, Leonardo and others also published this photo on their Titter, and in a very short time, they worked together to make this photo the hottest news on the entire Internet.