Chapter Ninety-Three: Coming up with a solution
"You Director Xiao Wu, even if it's good, you little guys are catching up with a good time, do you know what state we were in when we filmed "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?"
As an old-timer in the entertainment industry, Mr. Zhang taught a group of young people experience in the tent, of course, this is a more literary statement, and in layman's terms, everyone has nothing to do and chat and fart.
"What's the state?"
"yes, tell us about it. ”…… Idle is also idle, and the enthusiasm of the young people is good.
"How nice it is that you still live in the palace! At that time, many of us slept in the cowshed and stable, and it was cold in the winter, not to mention!"
"Is it that miserable?"
"Yes, Mr. Zhang, you're too exaggerated. ”
"Exaggeration?" Teacher Zhang's eyes widened, and he continued: "Do you know how much money I earned by playing a halberd back then?"
"I don't know how to say it, but I have to get a thousand eight. ”
"That's good!" Teacher Zhang sighed, "We were back then, I was a little better, I paid a monthly salary, I got three hundred and eight a month, which made those people envious, Tang Guoxuan was not famous? At that time, he only took two hundred and five in one episode, not only him, but many people had this price, and then we added it up to ourselves, and everyone of us was two hundred and five." ”
As soon as the words "Ha Lu Ha Ha ......" came out, it was strange whether they could be happy or not, it turned out that these famous, big names, and big names all have a black history.
Teacher Zhang also smiled, although the events of the year were very bitter, but they were also very interesting, and it was a special experience in retrospect.
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" back then, although the total investment was very huge, but the salaries of the personnel were really too small, it should be said that the wages were not high at that time.
If you have time to chat and fart, it must be because the filming work is not busy, it should be said that the crew of "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty" at this time has stopped filming the entire time.
I can't stop it, it's because of this problem of riding without stirrups!
It's really too difficult, and no actor can complete this action. Without stirrups, none of them dared to let the horses go faster than 5 kilometers per hour.
So no one can ride like that? Yes!
At the beginning, Wu Xiang found a lot of teachers, who were Mongolian compatriots, and their riding skills were awesome. But most of them are brothers, little brothers, all of them are not very old.
It's been a better year, and some of us are still grazing according to the old way, some of them come on horseback, and they want to be left in the next generation, and everyone is driving on motorcycles, and there are fewer and fewer people riding horses. But in this way, the Mongolian guys who have grown up don't ride horses much anymore, and their skills have declined a lot, so now only those teenage little ones are skilled in equestrianism.
I really don't need stirrups, it's OK to have a fart mat, and people run up, which is very happy.
Yes, it's not that he didn't shoot any shots of horseback riding, Wu Xiang filmed these Mongolian guys and asked them to play the Huns, but they were all small-scale scenes, and they couldn't be on the big scenes.
Not only did the Mongolian guys come to help, Wu Xiang also contacted my country's famous Hongshan Military Horse Farm through Huang Tuanzuo, as well as one of the last cavalry units in my country, the first battalion of the Inner Mongolian cavalry, they are on the grassland of Ba Huanaoer!
Originally, Wu Xiang connected all of this, and he summed it up yes, with these people as teachers, how can everyone learn a little bit, but he didn't expect it, this without stirrups is too difficult. The soldiers of the cavalry battalion actually have a lot of experience in film and television drama shooting, but as soon as they heard Wu Xiang's request, they directly said that you can't learn it, because even if they are, many skills can't be completed without stirrups.
In fact, other film and television dramas, no matter what dynasty they are, all have stirrups, there is no way to shoot without this, "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" has, "Hero" has, these are all the works of great directors, enough to pursue details, but they all have stirrups.
There is a trick to solve this problem, that is, to give more close-up shots, which is not difficult at all in terms of lens design, and the long-range shots are so good, and it is nothing for the audience to see it, and there are not many people who know the importance of this little thing.
But Wu Xiang can't do it this time, because the script he wrote has a lot to do with this stirrup. Because what his script says is that in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, although the equipment of our foot soldiers was better than that of the Huns, we suffered too much in the cavalry, just because of the good equestrian skills of others, which is symbolic, and it has a lot to do with the whole plot, and it can't be changed.
Therefore, Wu Xiang can't shoot like that, and he is also ready to shoot that kind of particularly grand war scene, close up and long shots, which must be there, stirrups, absolutely must not appear!
"Hey, the director is back!"
"Are you really back?"
"It's not a big deal, is it?"
Why is this Wu Xiang 'back'? The crew members all came out to greet him, Wu Xiang is both a director and an investor, everyone has to give face.
"Oh heh! This is not a light fall. ”
"Xiangzi, you're fine!"
I saw Wu Xiang at this time, just got out of the car, needless to say about his clothes, but he now has a white neck sleeve around his neck, and his arm is still tied with a bandage, and he has a lot of adhesive tape on his face, like a mummy, obviously he is injured.
Fall! That is, fall on horseback!
Wu Xiang this guy is unwilling, he went up to try some without stirrups, and the result is like this, of course, this guy died, he sped up the speed, he felt that he could control it, but as a result, he fell quickly.
Fortunately, Wu Xiang has a good body and reacts quickly, and everyone who saw it at the time thought that this guy had to fall to his death.
However, there is another advantage of not having stirrups, that is, he will not be hung on the horse, which also keeps Wu Xiang from falling heavier.
"It's okay!" Wu Xiang shouted, indicating that he had no problems.
"That's good! That's good. ”
"Xiangzi, let's watch this scene, let's shoot it normally if you want me to watch it. ”
"Yes, why do you have to respect history so much, how to shoot before, how to shoot now. ”
These are all rationalization suggestions, really rationalization suggestions, but will Wu Xiang agree?
"Old and young masters, I have thought of a trick! We can shoot, we can shoot without stirrups, but we have to wait for a while!" Wu Xiang was full of confidence, and his expression didn't look like he was joking.
Wu Xiang has a trick?
Many people are a little incredible, and there are many people who are afraid, you guys have fallen into such virtues, we didn't get much money from filming, and it was not worth it to fall like you?
People's hearts are fluctuating, but Wu Xiang is unwavering now, because he has really found a way and found a possible solution to the problem, but ......
"Everyone should learn to ride horses with the people in the army, don't be lazy. Wu Xiang said this sentence again.
As soon as these words came out, everyone was confused, what are you talking about?
Isn't it going to be a scene without stirrups? So why do you still need to use stirrups to practice equestrianism?
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