Two days later.

Beijing, airport.

The flight from Chicago to the capital landed.

“elcome-to-China！”

Li Zhifan personally greeted him, shook hands and hugged Lilith and Ole who walked out of the airport, and then asked Lilith, "Welcome!" Lilith, can your husband understand Chinese?"

"I don't understand!" Lilith shook her head, "so I'm also in charge of his translation this time." ”

"Then we can find a translator for him, or he can communicate with me if he has something!"

Li Zhifan smiled, "My English is not bad!"

Ole saw that Li Zhifan and Lilith were chatting happily, and he was slightly surprised, but he still asked politely: "I don't know when we can start working, or what preparations need to be made in advance?"

"The boot is scheduled to be two weeks away!"

Li Zhifan replied in English, "But we will have special training from the day after tomorrow, but because we have to shoot in the film and television base first, the special training will also be carried out simultaneously, and your role is mainly filmed in Africa." ”

“OK！”

Ole spread his hands, and the corners of his mouth crooked and smiled, "Then what I want to do most first is to quickly find a place to take a shower, and then familiarize myself with your script." After turning on the machine, I'm afraid I won't have so many opportunities to take a shower!"

"No!"

Li Zhifan said, "We will still arrange the living conditions of the crew." ”

“NO！NO！NO！”

Ole shook his fingers, "It's that I personally don't like bathing very much!"

"Uh...... Huh!"

Li Zhifan smiled, such an international action movie star doesn't like to take a bath, and there is no one.

……

Put Ole and Lilith in the car and tell the driver to go to the hotel.

And he can't go yet, he has to wait for a group of people.

About 20 minutes later, the flight from Los Angeles to the capital landed again.

This time, it was a Hollywood film and television production team, with more than 30 men and women, and at first glance I thought it was a foreign light watching from a tourist to the capital.

The person in charge, who was one of the studio's co-partners named Carter, saw their pick-up sign from a distance and immediately directed the others to go.

This time, it was not Li Zhifan who was responsible for receiving them, but a vice president of the film and television management of the Men's Gang.

"Mr. Li, they've all received it!"

"Okay! Take them directly to the film and television base, stay in the hotel first, reverse the jet lag, take them to familiarize themselves with the script and venue in the evening, and have a meeting after dinner!"

"Good!"

……

Evening.

All the staff of the "Wolf Warrior" crew had their first meeting in the hotel.

The entire hall was wrapped up and ready to work all night long.

When eating, we only talk about the scene, know each other, get familiar with each other, and start to discuss after eating, only about work.

As a director, Li Zhifan stayed until 4 o'clock in the morning, discussing with the American production team back and forth, and he completely explained every idea in the script, what was the effect he wanted, and what he wanted to shoot, in detail.

Of course, these discussions are still superficial, and the specific details can only be discussed in depth until the time of filming.

"Zhifan, it's not early, why don't you go and rest first!"

Liu Zexin walked behind Li Zhifan and said, "Tomorrow morning, you have to preside over it yourself!"

Li Zhifan rubbed his eyes and said, "Okay! It is estimated that they are all tired, let everyone rest, start filming directly tomorrow morning, and notify all departments to prepare well, and there can be no mistakes!"

As he spoke, Li Zhifan lowered his voice and said, "The first time I cooperate with foreigners, I can't lose face in front of them." ”

"Okay!

Liu Zexin pursed his lips and smiled, turned around and left.

Li Zhifan clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's get here here today!" The machine will start at nine o'clock tomorrow, don't be late, remember to be on time, and go to rest!"

The staff members of the United States are all right, and their accustomed working hours are exactly at night in Beijing time, and in addition, they have already made up for sleep during the day, so few of them are sleepy.

The staff on the Chinese side had already been dozing in a daze, and when they heard Li Zhifan's words, they were like being amnestied.

……

The next morning.

Nine.

The crew of "Wolf Warrior" officially started filming in the film and television base and held a simple start-up ceremony.

All the staff participated, and the actors, those who had a play, those who did not, those who did not play, and those who were domestic and foreign were all present.

Most of the foreign actors who play Daddy's hands are unknown stuntmen, stuntmen, and preferably just cameos, but these people are very useful, because in addition to the role of a cameo mercenary, they can also help other favors in the crew, so they signed a contract with the group directly.

The boot-up ceremony is a purely Western-style setting, and in fact, this set of rules has now become a common rule in China.

Champagne tower, pour champagne, play a symphony of "Song of Triumph", and then add firecrackers with Chinese characteristics.

After a lap, this boot ceremony is done.

The first scenes were arranged in the abandoned steel factory next to the film and television base, which was a well-run state-owned enterprise 20 years ago, but went bankrupt for various reasons, and was later acquired by a private company and became a private company.

With the industrial landslide, the factory changed from a steel mill to an electronics factory, and later the electronics factory moved to a new factory in a county in Hebei, so it was abandoned and left empty for ten years.

The steel plant does not belong to the film and television base, but it happens to be next to each other, and after obtaining the consent of the owner, the crew will be stationed.

In the first scene, Li Zhifan shouted to the factory workers: "I'm here to save you!"

The shooting seems very simple, but it is mainly on Li Zhifan's personal acting skills.

Whether he can pass it or not is all up to him.

Those foreign actors and Hollywood production teams all looked at Li Zhifan with their arms, and they also wanted to know what kind of level this self-directed and self-acting Chinese had, because this determined their future work attitude, whether to fool things up, or to follow the director seriously and conscientiously.

I just want to see if you're a professional director.

However, after this set of shots was taken, everyone applauded.

Some of them mean something, and some of them really show Li Zhifan's acting skills.

One over!

It's a good start for this drama!

Li Zhifan came to the monitor to watch the replay, and gestured: "OK! No problem, the first scene has been shot!"

Then he said to the makeup artist, "Give me makeup!"

The filming times were all scheduled in advance, and the scene manager in charge of on-site confirmation came over in surprise and asked, "Director Li, ...... next scene?"

"Let's shoot the scene between Lilith and Ole first!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Zhifan said, "Let the two of them run in with our people, Ole is a veteran action actor, I had a deep chat with him yesterday, and I will come if I can do it." ”

"This ...... Okay!" handed the script to Li Zhifan, "Director Li, then let's shoot this scene next, you are ready to put on makeup!"

Li Zhifan glanced at it and smiled.

This is the most important scene in "Wolf Warrior 2" - the scene where Leng Feng and the villain played by Ole Lei fiercely confront Bo.

The scene is five minutes long, but when it comes to filming, it's much more than that.

Li Zhifan walked up to Ole with the script and asked, "Have you seen the second scene, how is it?"

"Yes! No problem at all!"

Ole grinned, clenched his fists, and took off his down jacket, revealing the half-sleeves he was wearing.

It's January, and the winter in Beijing is not ordinarily cold, Ole only wears half sleeves, and he doesn't feel cold at all, and his bulging muscles seem to be steaming.

“OK！”

Li Zhifan smiled, "Wait for me for two minutes." ”

After that, he began to unbutton his shirt, and when he took it off, he beckoned the makeup artist to come and apply his makeup.

"Isn't it cold?"

"Director Li, do you want to drink hot water?"

"Lee, be careful!"

"Director, as the action director of this play, I need to remind you that this scene is still being designed, right?"

Everyone gathered around Li Zhifan to talk.

Li Zhifan waved his hand: "You don't need anything, let me feed Ole first, you can also design it, in fact, no matter how perfect the design is, it is not as enjoyable as fists to the flesh." ”

The action director looked stunned, thinking that he had misheard.

After he confirmed that he had heard correctly, he exclaimed in fright: "Even Mai Ka! Director, do you have a grudge against Ole?"

As film practitioners who are also working hard in Hollywood, these American staff members still respect Ole, after all, he is a famous film actor, unlike those of them who are still looking for opportunities.

So in this shooting, they thought that it was best for both sides not to get hurt, and on the other hand, they thought that with Ole's strength, they would definitely beat this Chinese kid, of course they were proud of themselves, but as filmmakers in the same group, they were ready to step forward at any time to protect Li Zhifan, the director.

"Three, two, one, start!"

As the executive director shouted, the three photographers began to shoot at close range with the camera, and there were also shooting long shots in the distance, which were also shooting in real time.

There is no foreplay, no dialogue, and the two can be said to shoot without saying a word.

Because movies are a science of editing, the chirps in front can be filmed after a while, but now that it's freezing, it's better to warm up first.

The two of you are sending fists back and forth, and they are both feeding tricks.

As a veteran action actor, Ole has already made a set of self-inflicted measures in his control of strength and the beauty of shooting angles, and he can do it himself without action design at all.

Of course, this is in the case of him as the protagonist, but in recent years, he has played more villains, and he has become accustomed to accommodating the protagonist, so the style that came up is accommodating Li Zhifan, and at the same time, he has to take into account his image in the camera.

So someone once said that when filming action scenes, the villain is more difficult than the leading actor, and he has to be beaten and take care of the protagonist, if it weren't for the action design profession to pre-set the way, angle, speed, etc. of the move for them, I'm afraid few people can be qualified for the role of the villain on their own.

However, Ole is one of them.

The two of you went back and forth, fists and legs, and after fighting very weakly for more than ten minutes, the assistant director over there shouted: "Click!"

Li Zhifan and Ole immediately withdrew their fists and kicks, and the two put on their clothes and came to the back of the monitor shoulder to shoulder.

"How's that?" Li Zhifan asked.

The assistant director said, "Look at it again, I think it's more than five minutes of footage." ”

It is not easy to edit the action to be smooth and artistic, and sometimes the same trick has to be repeated several times from different angles in the movie to achieve an "amazing" effect.

The picture in the monitor that the two of them see now was taken by five cameras, two with a close-up short focal length, one with a close-range long focal length, one with a long-distance long focal length, and one from above.

"This one works! This one works too!"

"This can't be done, it's too empty!"

Li Zhifan pointed, sometimes nodding, sometimes shaking his head.

After watching it overall, he frowned and said: "No, it's not ruthless enough, this scene is already a meeting of enemies, both of them are red-eyed, but there is no sense of shock when they fight, no, no!"

Ole also smiled bitterly: "My eyes are red and frozen, but when I exercise this time, my blood is flowing all over my body, why don't we do it again?"

"Okay!" Li Zhifan proposed, "Find an action director and ask." ”

The action director on the side has been silently observing the shooting of the two just now, sometimes sketching in the notebook and writing down some things.

I thought that he was not needed in this scene, but when I heard Li Zhifan's words, I immediately leaned over in surprise and said: "Director, Ole, I think you can get closer, play more realistically, and have movements, I have designed a few for you, you can see ......"

After explaining the actions he designed, Li Zhifan and Ole recognized several of them, and then Li Zhifan said: "Why don't we really fight?"

"Okay! I'm fine!"

Ole doesn't care about a show of hands, and at the same time, he is a boxer and has won the featherweight boxing championship belt, so he will naturally not be afraid of ring-style matches.

"Okay, don't be merciful!"

Li Zhifan took off his coat and walked towards the venue, shouting at the same time: "All departments are in place, ready to shoot." ”

The makeup artist immediately went up to touch up the makeup of the two, and applied plasma, black green oil paint or something to their faces again.

Although he said that he would do his best to show no mercy, how could Ole really do this?

Looking at Li Zhifan, who was a head lower than him, he still couldn't help but show mercy in his hands.

But when he and Li Zhifan collided head-on, they were actually overturned by Li Zhifan's fist, and after falling to the ground, a trace of pain came from his lower abdomen.

"Roar!"

Ore's eyes widened, the whites of his eyes bloodshot, "You...... You……”

"Seriously, how do you stop it?"

Li Zhifan stepped forward to Raore, but the cameraman stopped him and ran up to Ole to take a close-up of his exaggerated face before dispersing.

"Just like that!"

The action director said excitedly: "Ore, you are doing a great job!

Ole listened, and a tear oozed from the corner of his eye.

It hurts me!