The preparatory meeting before the start of filming of "Red Sorghum" only lasted two hours. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the subsequent adjustment work was carried out for three days.

Red, what kind of red?

Yellow, what kind of yellow do you want?

What about cyan?

What kind of spectrum are these three colors in the director's mind?

As a photographer, what kind of light do you need to capture?

These alone, not to mention the subtle adjustments in the middle of the shooting, just the debugging before the start of the day, it took a day, and I don't know how much film was wasted.

The actors are all old drama bones, and a few of them are specially selected to be thin, but it still doesn't work, contemporary people, adequate nutrition, and even excess, especially these actors are not short of money, even if they are drama actors whose income is not too high, they are all urban people who eat and drink well, and they all have oil on their bodies.

What to do?

Hungry!

Starve for a few days!

The chef specially equipped by the crew is responsible for opening a small stove for several actors in the crew, and no oil is allowed in the dishes, no meat, and the supply is limited, and they are not allowed to eat enough. Each person has only one three-way bread made of sorghum flour, white flour and cornmeal per meal, and they are not allowed to eat any fruit because the sugar content of fruit is too high.

The peasants of that era were fortunate to have enough to eat, but where could there be the lines of the full feeling that modern people naturally brought out? All the actors who played the peasants and members of the shochu pot did not require everyone to lose their bones, but the sense of age that should be had was not missing at all.

To put it mildly, judging from the Republic of China era in which the story is located, not to mention that there are often scenes of actors showing their tops in movies, even if they are wearing clothes, they have to show their skinnyness!

Without this sense of skin, the unique taste of the sense of age, you can't get out!

Fortunately, I said it thoroughly in advance, these specially invited old drama bones are very cooperative, how the crew arranges, they eat, and some people have even begun to take the initiative to lose weight a month ago, just to meet the filming needs of this movie.

Considering that the crew will shoot some scenes that don't require too many characters, and start training with the male and female protagonists first, the time left for these actors can be twenty days, and when the time comes, it is not a big problem for them to lose that sense of age - the main thing is everyone's cooperation.

To tell the truth, maybe in another ten years, when the atmosphere of the entire film market is really money is in charge, business is king, and interests are paramount, those young actors should be absolutely unbearable to endure such "torture", but at least at the moment, among these actors who perform on the drama stage all year round, the mentality of "working hard to play" and "making a good play" has always been very positive!

Again, China is too big, there has never been a shortage of good actors, and there has never been a lack of willingness to dedicate to art, if there are no good things and good works on the market, don't blame others, don't blame the film company or director, or the actor - in fact, in the final analysis, it's all the audience's choice, the guidance of the market!

And then......

The color of the paint prepared by the makeup artist is slightly off, and I continue to adjust it, I want the kind of gray yellow that the skin facing the loess with its back to the sky day after day and year after year will have, but this gray and yellow does not look like any dead ash, and under the gray and shriveled skin, it is hot blood that flows!

It has to be a vibrant grayish-yellow color!

And then ...... Clothing is fine, it's actually the easiest to fix. Because the costumes of this play do not need any deliberate sense of beauty and design, they only need to restore the simplicity of the year.

The clothes made two months in advance were washed many times, and they were specially distributed to the local villagers to wear for a period of time and then put away and clean - Li Qian knew that the clothes were already in place.

There is also the most important scene of the whole movie - the shochu pot.

The houses were built on leased land a year in advance, and they were all earthen walls built with the help of local farmers, and then let them be beaten by the wind and rain for a year, which has shown the mottled age of that era. As for the roof, doors, and windows, they were all directly removed from some dilapidated old houses in several nearby villages, and transported over to install them directly.

And the outside of the shochu pot, that large area of terrain, after the bulldozer deliberately piled up and sorted, formed the required terrain, and then, since the beginning of spring, hire people to fight herbicides every three days, hire people to clean up the weeds in the corners every ten days, until now, there is bare, no grass, even after the rain, as long as the ground is slightly dry, people and horses move, it is dusty.

Everything has taken shape.

The pale yellow earth symbolizes the heavy history of this nation carried by this land for thousands of years, and the national character that has not changed through wind and rain.

The dilapidated houses and emaciated people symbolize the suffering and backwardness of this nation.

The red sorghum wine, people's unyielding eyes, and craggy skinny bones symbolize the undefeated blood in the hearts of this nation and the arrogance that is not afraid of any disaster.

And the green, continuous, sorghum that no one sows but grows every year, and the wild combination in the sorghum field is pregnant with the inexhaustible future of this nation!

To do all this well, before the crew officially started filming, there were already staff members who had been busy for nearly a year!

And now, as the official start date approaches, everything that has basically taken shape is placed in front of Li Qian and the entire crew.

Looking at everything that took a lot of manpower and material resources and took a year to complete, I have to say that even the old partners who have made many movies and TV series with Li Qian before instantly understood: This time, unlike every previous time, is different!

…………

The weather at the end of August in the solar calendar is scorching.

At the edge of the filming location of the crew, a pergola with four or five bamboo mats as the top was specially erected, and under the pergola, although the air was still very hot, there was something above the head to shade the sun, which was always better.

A few chairs, two specially invited masters from the county are cutting the actors' hair.

There is still the last day left before the official start-up, and today is the day for the actors to try on and take makeup photos.

Li Qian's hair has not been taken care of for a few days, and he has grown dark and prickly stubble, which will make the master shave, cool, slightly itchy, but he feels an indescribable refreshment.

He was the first to shave his bald head, touched it himself, was very satisfied, stood up, turned his head and saw Liu Chunhua with an evil face squinting and napping, although his bald head had just been shaved halfway, but the ferocious aura on his face had already come to his face - several people were staring at him.

In fact, although he is also a person with few words when he usually deals with him, he is quite kind.

He is the only actor who was favored by Li Qian as early as two years ago, and at that time, Li Qian had already determined that he must be asked to play the bandit three cannons in "Red Sorghum"!

When he watched Zhang Guoshi's "Red Sorghum" in another time and space, one of the scenes that impressed him the most was that of the bandit. Moreover, it was also one of the lines that impressed him the most in Chinese movies for decades-

When the guy who was originally in charge of cooking and killing cattle under him was forced to approach him with a cattle killing knife and want to skin him alive, the original bandit scolded angrily!

Just one word:

Dog!

Repeated scolding: Dog! Dog!

Just this one word, it is so sonorous and powerful! It is so blood-boiling!

How many similar shots of the same theme, how much effort was spent, and how many powerful lines were held, but together, they couldn't stand up to this one word!

This is the skill of the national teacher!

Or in other words, I think that the national teacher back then, before he fell into the eyes of money, was really talented!

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Liu Chunhua's head was quickly scraped, and Wei Yizong, a teacher and veteran actor of the Huaxia Drama Academy who had been squinting and hiding in the pergola to smoke, looked at him and smiled, "Xiao Liu, you villain professional household is really worthy of your reputation." ”

Liu Chunhua smiled, "Teacher Wei, you have won the award." ”

Wei Yizong smiled and waved his hand, "Hurry up and go in and put on makeup." ”

Liu Chunhua agreed, turned around and walked to the makeover room that had been set up temporarily.

Wei Yizong plays the skinny guy who is responsible for killing cattle for the bald three cannons in the play, he has hair, and it is not easy to get out of shape after the short flat head is trimmed, and he has already put on makeup and changed his clothes.

Especially when he squatted under the pergola at this time, he was already full of the image of an old peasant.

It didn't take long for Qin Jingjing to come out.

"Oh......"

Many staff on the set couldn't help but widen their eyes when they saw her style.

Qin Jingjing's special beauty has been verified by the role of Diao Chan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", needless to say, but at this time, she is different from Diao Chan who covered the world back then.

The actor is still pretty, but the makeup and costumes are ......

At this time, her hair was coiled, she was dressed in old homespun clothes, and it was an old blue cloth that had been washed white over the years, and her face was slightly yellowed - her beauty was lost by three points at once, not to mention, the whole person was full of a rustic atmosphere!

However, this was nothing, because not long after, Li Qian came out shirtless.

"Wow!"

The entire crew was boiling in an instant!

It's a proper male god! Even if you shave your head, it's too handsome!

But now, the lower body is a pair of old-fashioned coarse cloth trousers, with an old coarse cloth belt tied around the waist, and a pair of old dirt shoes underneath, and the upper body is full of khaki muscles!

It's a kind of man flavor full of rustic flavor, but it's rough and sultry!

Under the silent gaze of the whole crew, Li Qian walked outside the pergola, stood still, and suddenly opened his throat and shouted, "Sister, you boldly go forward......