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Chapter 707 Scene Scheduling (2-in-1)

For the box office of "The Saint of Gambling", Jiang Xia's attention is not very high, and he is now concentrating on "The City is Full of Golden Armor".

For a movie like "The Saint of Gambling", which has already been released, it is enough to pay attention to the box office occasionally, and the box office is not very low. It's just that compared with the 1.2 billion box office of "God of Gamblers", it is a bit low, but as Jiang Xia said, the schedule is different, and the sense of expectation cannot be the same.

Moreover, Jiang Xia did not recognize the 1.2 billion box office of "God of Gamblers", and the shots of the casino bigwigs broke the general law of the movie box office, making "The Saint of Gamblers" rise against the trend for a few days, and the box office in those days accounted for one-third of the total box office of "God of Gamblers", removing the one-third of the box office, the real box office of "God of Gamblers", that is, about 800 million, is not as exaggerated as 1.2 billion at all.

If "The Saint of Gambling" is placed in the Lunar New Year file, it is estimated that it can impact one billion, and even in the summer file, it can also impact one billion. In terms of box office performance, Jiang Xia believes that "The Saint of Gambling" will surpass "God of Gamblers". The advantages of comedy in Chinese cinema are unmatched by other films.

Think about the movies in the previous life that went against the box office, except for foreign action blockbusters, all of them were comedies, and you can know what the audience likes to watch and what movies can have a "money" way.

"God of Gamblers" also has comedy elements, but compared with "The Saint of Gambling", it is still too much less.

"The Saint of Gambling" does not have any suitable schedule, it can only be arranged in the National Day file, and cannot be crowded out of the New Year file. Hengying arranged this for the sake of economic interests, and now it seems very reasonable, and if you put "The Saint of Gambling" to celebrate the New Year, you can get an extra two or three hundred million at most, which is far less appropriate than arranging "The King of Sparrows" to steal some box office.

After the seven-day National Day holiday, "The Saint of Gambling" took a week to cut the box office of 510 million, which is definitely a very good result. This achievement is all the result of low competitive pressure.

Seven days have passed since the National Day, and the box office of "The Saint of Gambling" once again ushered in the second period of weakness, and the box office suddenly fell to more than 20 million, which was even more weak, far worse than during the holiday, even if it rose a little over the weekend, it only reached 30 million, according to this trend, the box office of "The Saint of Gambling" should end at about 800 million, which is very consistent with Jiangxia's prediction.

The box office of 800 million is an absolute good result for many people, but Jiang Xia can't satisfy him, he can only say that it is good. All his ambitions at the box office are on "The City Full of Golden Armor", and he wants to try if he can use this movie to hit the champion of the Chinese box office, so Jiang Xia filmed it with special care.

In mid-October, before the filming of the literary drama was finished, Jiang Xia began to direct the filming of martial arts, otherwise there would not be enough time.

Truckloads of chrysanthemums all arrived at the palace and began to be placed in the square. Just laying out these chrysanthemums, it took a whole day, from morning to evening, ten carts of chrysanthemums, all spread on the ground.

When the chrysanthemums are spread all over the ground, the shocking beauty of the picture has a great impact on everyone.

Before Jiangxia, no one had ever made a movie like this, the scene was so big, the neat beauty, the majestic feeling, and the shock brought by it were really not something that a small movie could bring.

The "Troubled Times" series is also a costume film, and there are also war scenes, but although I didn't see the martial arts siege scenes that Jiangxia was going to film, just by looking at these yellow chrysanthemums, I knew that in terms of war spirit, we had to throw the "Troubled Times" series out of a new level.

The night lights sprinkled, Cheng Xin stood on the city wall and looked down, and sighed: "It's so beautiful." ”

"Tomorrow won't look good. Jiang Xia said.

"What are you going to do?" asked Cheng Xin.

Jiang Xia said: "I will start filming siege scenes tomorrow, and I will shoot siege scenes every night, otherwise I really don't know when the filming will be finished." ”

"Fighting on this?" Cheng Xin asked, pointing at Chrysanthemum.

Jiang Xia nodded and said, "Yes, just fight on this." ”

"No wonder you want 200 million, it doesn't seem to be enough now. Cheng Xin said.

"It should be enough, it depends. Jiang Xia said, "It's hard to say if it's really filmed." ”

"Which one do you want to shoot first?" asked Cheng Xin.

Jiang Xia said: "Let's shoot a close-up first, I have prepared a thousand big knives, so I have to shoot my close-up." ”

"Then I'll have to see. Cheng Xin said.

"Well, voila. ”

Jiang Xia said that he had prepared a thousand big knives to shoot a shot, this shot was in the original version, Jay Chou's big knife was entangled in the weapon chain of the black-clothed killer, and he slashed it on the ground and unfolded the chain.

In order to shoot this shot, Jay Chou cut 1,800 big knives, and Jiang Xia prepared 1,000 big knives because he believed that he could shoot this shot within a thousand big knives.

Jiang Xia said that he would shoot the next day, but he didn't shoot like this, but first took a small range of shots, that is, the shot of chopping the ground as he said, and it was not shot in the square full of chrysanthemums.

The battle of Chrysanthemum Square is the battle between the Great King Army and the Golden Army.

The battle between the black-clothed killer and the Golden Army was in the square in front of Chrysanthemum Square.

The surrounding background is the battle between the Golden Army and the black-clothed killer, Jiang Xia let Wu Xing act as the background board, the real shooting shot is that he turns around and slashes this action, there is only this one shot, when it is really filmed, this shot has to be reshot.

The close-up shots are shot separately from the full-fledged shots, so that you can concentrate on each shot.

In order to shoot the effect Jiang Xia wanted, this shot was shot over and over again, and the prop big knife was indeed easy to cut, after cutting three hundred big knives, Jiang Xia finally shot the effect he wanted, announced the end of work, and began to shoot the scenes of the real war, so that the army group performance was settled in the crew.

In the next month or even two months, the shots shot at night were all big scenes, and the time to test Jiangxia's scheduling ability came.

Jiang Xia didn't know where Zhang Yimou found so many group performances when he was filming "The City is Full of Golden Armor", he directly looked for the army anyway and found all the people.

The advantage of finding an army is that they are well-trained and prohibitive, so it will be very convenient for Jiangxia to dispatch.

On the first day the army arrived, Jiang Xia asked them to change into costumes, and first filmed the scene of the Golden Army attacking the palace, without any difficult scheduling, and even they could run at will, no need to run neatly.

"Let's try it first, take the company as a unit, and run with your company commander, you can run chaotically, but you can't exceed your company commander, understand?"

"Understood. ”

After Jiang Xia came, he called everyone together and shouted to them, and the neat words of the soldiers made Jiang Xia feel a feeling of a general.

"Very good, I know you have trained before, this time please come and join our Golden Armor crew all over the city, it is our honor, I hope you will cooperate well and shoot this drama well." Jiang Xia shouted.

Report. A soldier in the front row shouted.

Jiang Xia said: "Speak." ”

"Director Jiang, can I take a photo with you after filming?" the soldier asked.

"Yes, feel free to take a group photo. Jiang Xia smiled, "However, those who make mistakes will not be given a group photo." ”

"Thank you, Director Jiang. The soldier said.

Jiang Xia looked at it, and many soldiers were happy. They are all a group of ten-year-old young people, and they also have favorite stars before they became soldiers, and the past few years when Jiang Xia became famous, it was the era when they just knew about chasing stars, so Jiang Xia is the idol of many of them, even if they are not idols, they are also the stars they like.

Although Jiang Xia has repeatedly emphasized that he is a powerful faction, many people regard him as an idol, there is no way, sometimes he suffers such a loss if he is too good.

"Okay, I won't shoot with you for the first time, I want to take a look at everyone's position, remember that you take the company as a unit, you retreat outside the palace, and the company commanders are organized. In terms of sorting, I have already told the company commanders, take the walkie-talkie, and I will contact you at any time. Jiang Xia shouted with a loudspeaker.

The crowd of Ulala ran out, and it took five minutes to get out of the square.

He Ying asked next to Jiang Xia: "Director Jiang, there are so many people, how do you dispatch?"

"Elementary school students know that grouping. Jiang Xia said.

He Ying was dumbfounded and asked, "How many groups do so many people score?"

"I divided into nine groups, nine groups down, and then many groups. Let the leader of the nine groups arrange it and convey the orders layer by layer. Jiang Xia said.

"You're the head teacher. He Ying said.

"No, I'm the Head of Year, and the head of the nine groups is the head teacher. Jiang Xia said.

He Ying said: "I almost wanted to say that it was a pyramid scheme just now. ”

"Almost, just understand the meaning. Jiang Xia said with a smile.

After speaking, Jiang Xia picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Each group reports the situation." ”

"One set in place. ”

"Two sets are in place. ”

"The three groups are not in place. ”

……

"Nine sets in place. ”

After waiting for another three minutes, the walkie-talkie rang: "Three groups in place." ”

Jiang Xia said: "Okay, everyone, listen to my command, three-two-one, run." ”

After the order went down, Jiang Xia stood on the last wall of the city, watching the group of people running in from the outermost part of the palace, and when he ran to the middle, Jiang Xia shouted, "Stop." ”

One by one, the crowd stopped.

Jiang Xia shook his head and said, "No, there needs to be a clear signal to hand over the spear." Each company commander gave a big knife, the style is different from mine. ”

Zhuang Hao immediately contacted the assistant directors, and the assistant directors began to contact the drama props together.

Half an hour later, everyone's equipment was distributed.

After the reports of each group were completed, Jiang Xia spoke: "Okay, each group come forward and go to the city wall on my side." ”

The army advanced en masse.

Jiang Xia put down the walkie-talkie, picked up the loudspeaker and said, "Everyone listen to me, when your company commander raises the big knife in his hand, you will stop, understand?"

"Understood. ”

Jiang Xia said: "Okay, now, turn back and run back to the outside of the imperial city." ”

The army drove out of the imperial city, and Jiang Xia said to the assistant director: "You look at the point above, find a camera to shoot it, and I will also go down and run twice to take a look." ”

After the order, Jiang Xia went down from the city wall, followed him to the outside of the imperial city, took a big knife, and then said with a big speaker: "Each company commander will come over for a meeting." ”

A group of company commanders ran to Jiang Xia's side, and Jiang Xia said, "Our movements must be consistent, follow me, is there a problem?"

"Nope. ”

Jiang Xia said: "OK, everyone go back, Xiaozhuang, come here, wait for you to take this horn and shout away." ”

Zhuang Hao was just about to take over the loudspeaker, He Ying took the first step and said, "Director Jiang, let me come." ”

"Okay, same. Jiang Xia said.

He Ying ran away with a loudspeaker, and Zhuang Hao helplessly stalled his hands.

With He Ying's order, Jiang Xia dragged the big knife and began to rush forward, and the company commanders saw Jiang Xia's movements and also learned Jiang Xia's movements and rushed forward. As for the soldiers, Jiang Xia didn't care what their movements were like, and they would convey all kinds of instructions first.

With Jiang Xia leading in front, this time it was indeed much better than before, at least when it stopped, it was not intermittent, but stopped collectively.

"Beautiful. Jiang Xia said, "That's it today, tomorrow I will change into armor and take a real shot." ”

When he returned to the hotel in the evening, Jiang Xia was like paralyzed in the car.

Zhuang Hao asked, "Director Jiang, are you okay?"

Jiang Xia said: "It's okay, it's just a little tired." This kind of large-scale scene scheduling is too brain-consuming. ”

"There will be a group of people next week to play against the current batch. Zhuang Hao said, "You still have to star, how to shoot?"

"Hell, one step counts as one step. Jiang Xia rolled his eyes and said.

The next day, Jiang Xia did not have his own scenes during the day, and the shots in the palace in the morning were shots, and there was no Jiang Xia's scenes.

Before the arrival of this batch of troops, Jiang Xia finished filming his indoor scenes as much as possible, and he knew that he had to dispatch this batch of troops, which would take a lot of effort.

Making movies, especially when there is plenty of time, is really slow, some people make movies and shoot a page of scripts a day, Jiang Xia he shoots scripts here, sometimes he only shoots one shot a day, or two, both of which are less than one page of scripts. is like an action scene filmed at night, you can't shoot a page of the script for a month, because this paragraph in the script is a one-time pass, let alone a month, that is, you can't shoot a page for half a year.

In the afternoon, the army had already changed into golden armor, and they were put on one by one, quite neatly.

When evening fell, standing on the walls of the palace, a group of people looked out, and it was golden.

Lu Xiuping said: "Looking at it this way, it does look much better, much stronger than yesterday." ”

Qiao Xue said: "This is the army I invited, of course it looks good." ”

Miao Chengjie said: "What about Director Jiang?"

Lu Xiuping said: "I went over there, he said that he was going to shoot a real shot today, not only him, but also your daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, they will die over there." ”

"Very sad story. Miao Chengjie said, "Should I be silent for three minutes?"

Qiao Xue said: "I heard that you have died, haha. ”

All three laughed.

Just as they were talking and laughing, they suddenly heard neat footsteps, and the three of them looked up and were instantly amazed.

Under the open city gate, Jiang Xia took the lead, holding a big knife horizontally, and rushed forward with small steps, his eyes firm. Behind Jiang Xia, there were soldiers in golden armor, neat and awe-inspiring.

Then Jiang Xia paused, raised the broadsword, and the company commander behind him also raised the broadsword, and the soldiers behind him immediately stopped and ordered the ban.

After Jiang Xia took the loudspeaker, he said some precautions, and the person stepped back again.

Only then did the three men on the wall recover.

"I was suddenly a little curious about what Director Jiang was thinking, I saw it in the script at the time, I didn't feel anything, I just said that there was a golden army rushing into the palace, I didn't expect such an impact, it was so good-looking. Qiao Xue said.

Miao Chengjie said: "It's just really difficult to shoot." ”

"This is not the most difficult to shoot, this scene is still a little simpler than the final battle, I now think about my army fighting with such an army, and then destroying this army, I wonder how Jiang Xia will shoot. "The road is flat.

Qiao Xue said: "Sure enough, it's a blockbuster. This is the first director in China to shoot like this, right?"

"Isn't it abroad?" Lu Xiuping asked.

Qiao Xue thought for a while and said, "Okay, the number one in the world." I'm not going to continue watching, go back and rest, there are still scenes to shoot tomorrow. What about you?"

"I'll look at it for a while. Miao Chengjie said.

"I'll watch it for a while. Lu Xiuping said.

Just as they were talking, Jiang Xia rushed over with a group of people again, but this time he didn't bring all the people, only the people in the first five rows.

After stopping this time, Jiang Xia's broadsword swung forward, and the soldiers in the first row behind made a throwing gesture and threw the spear in their hands, followed by the second row, the third row, the fourth row, and the fifth row, without any pause in between.

Jiang Xia was already sitting on the ground when they were throwing, turning his head to see the neatness and movement of their throwing.

"It's very good, reshoot the close-up of the group of entities passing by, and let Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Chan die there. Jiang Xia said.

So, the venue was designed again, and the drama was busy for nearly an hour, and under the command of Jiang Xia, the death scene was designed.

He Ying said: "It's really good not to shoot the scenes of our fighting and dying, but to shoot the shots after death?"

"What's so bad? Anyway, how to die is designed, and what it looks like after death is also designed, so we just have to die here. Shang Lili persuaded He Ying to say.

Over there, Jiang Xia was already holding a loudspeaker and asked: "Pay attention to all units, follow the shooting team, remember to play the lights well, three, two, one, run!"

A group of soldiers in golden armor ran past Shang Lili and the others.

In the loudspeaker and walkie-talkie in Jiang Xia's hand, they switched back and forth to dispatch this group of soldiers, thanks to the help of more than a dozen assistant directors, it took seven days, Jiang Xia was finally able to dispatch them smoothly according to his own ideas.

Then, the crew ushered in another group of soldiers, more than this group of people.

Jiang Xia greeted them with a smile, and then in the hotel, sticking out his tongue, it seemed that his voice couldn't be saved, he was almost dumb for the past two days, and he would definitely be dumb next.