Winter in the capital has come to an end, but the cold snap is still entrenched in the city.

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve.

The flow of people on the street is much sparser than in the past, in addition to those business districts and some popularity, the third ring road is basically empty, to say the most lively place, in addition to Chaoyang Gate and outside, Li Zhifan feels that it is the film and television base where the crew of "Wolf Warrior" is located.

Because he didn't have time to wander around outside.

At the peak, the crew of "Wolf Warrior" had more than 1,400 people, and the staff recorded so far has exceeded 2,000, including more than 1,200 group performances from home and abroad.

There are also more than 200 scene builders, who have to build a scene almost every day.

However, these group performances are only a few scenes, and after filming, the staff will be quickly reduced to more than 100 people, and these workers who built the scenes have all been completed as required at the end of January, and they will not be asked to come back and dismantle them until all the scenes are filmed.

Morning.

The most thrilling tank battle in this drama is about to start filming.

For this set of shots, the crew prepared for a whole week, not only borrowed tanks, but also used scrapped iron sheets and several pickup trucks to be scrapped to restore three "fake" tanks 1:1 for blasting.

"Zhifan, can you drive a tank?"

Wei Chaoxian took time out of his busy schedule to come to the filming site, if it weren't for the fact that he was going to shoot this scene today, he might not have been able to come.

When Li Zhifan practiced the technique of driving a tank before, Wei Chaoxian was not at the scene.

"Of course!"

Li Zhifan said very easily, "Director Wei, today I will let you see what real technology is. ”

Wei Chaoxian looked incredulous, but the tank soldiers sent by the military region were all full of smiles, because they were from beginning to end, the tanks were transported from Inner Mongolia, to the actual exercises, and then to today's official use and shooting, they didn't pull down for a moment.

Including technical training in opening tanks is also them.

But what surprised them was that Li Zhifan only trained for an hour, and he could play more than them, while Ole trained for a week to reach one-third of Li Zhifan's level.

"Zhifan!"

Wei Chaoxian repeatedly instructed, "Don't go wrong, the tank must be preserved, you yourself must be preserved, life is the most important!"

"I know!"

Li Zhifan waved his hand nonchalantly, turned to the assistant director and asked, "Can you start?"

"That's it!"

The assistant director said, "The field has been cleared, and Ole has already gotten into the tank." ”

"Okay!"

Li Zhifan took a walkie-talkie, pressed it and said, "Ore, Ore, please reply when you hear it." ”

"I'm Ole!"

"Ok! Follow the pre-rehearsal plan, don't make mistakes, and strive for success!"

"Understood!"

Holding the walkie-talkie, Li Zhifan walked to his tank, and without borrowing any assistants, the two climbed up.

In front of the left side of the tank, under the barrel, Li Zhifan sat in the driver's seat and could just poke out a head, the operation shot inside the tank is easy to shoot, and many feints can be made, but the shot outside the tank is a real challenge.

"Shoot the impact scene first!"

Li Zhifan picked up the walkie-talkie, "Ole, are you ready over there?"

"Ok! I can't wait!" Ole exclaimed excitedly.

The two camera trucks were on both sides of the tank, and several masters carrying cameras were also shooting at close range.

There is also a remote pole shooting that is also ready.

When the assistant director shouted to start, the two tanks slowly drove up.

"Speed! Speed!"

Li Zhifan shouted at Ole on the other tank, "I'm going to raise gear!"

“ok！”

Ole shouted.

The speed of both tanks is instantly increased for short periods of time and for short distances.

The whole plant was dusty and filled with gunsmoke, and after a week of circumnavigating the field, both tanks found their senses, which began to shoot footage of the impact.

The videographers were running around, and in many cases they almost got hit by tanks.

And the wonderful shots were shot in this thrilling moment, and almost everyone was shooting with their lives.

Ole's face was hideous, Li Zhifan's cheeks and temples were bruised, and when the two huge tanks collided like nimble racing cars, both of them quickly lowered their gears and braked immediately.

The Type 76 tank uses brakes to brake, and after cutting off the power, the tank still rows five meters away before stopping.

"It's dangerous!"

Li Zhifan climbed out of the tank, jumped down and shouted, and turned to look at Ole.

He rowed farther than Li Zhifan, and was still sitting in the tank in horror at this time.

ran over to appease Ole, Li Zhifan walked to the monitor again and looked at the effect just shot.

There are more than a dozen lenses, with different angles and different directions, which are played on the monitor at the same time, Li Zhifan scanned all the screens at a glance, and after looking at them in general, he replayed several shots again.

The assistant director asked, "How's it going?"

"No way!"

Li Zhifan shook his head, "Say, can you cut into the lens from this angle and shoot the impact effect up close?"

"That's not going to work!"

The assistant director shook his head again and again, and the American photographers also shook their heads, and explained, "It is impossible for us to lie down in that position, unless we tie a camera to the tank, but in that case it will shake, and it is not certain whether it can be imaged at one time, not to mention that the impact of the tank is very strong, and the entire tank will shake after the impact, and it is impossible to shoot a complete and fixed picture!"

"Let's try it once!"

Li Zhifan said, "Otherwise, we will drive slowly and send a cameraman to hang Weiya to shoot from above in the air, you can zoom in on the lens, we will bump into it, and stop after the collision!"

"This ......"

After listening to Li Zhifan's suggestion, everyone immediately began to study feasible plans.

Over there, Ole was resting in his coat to calm down, and when he heard that he was going to shoot again, he immediately rushed over.

"Lee, isn't that what you just shot?"

"It's not impossible, but the visuals aren't shocking enough!"

Li Zhifan explained to him, suddenly thought of something, and said, "By the way, I still think of a way!"

"What?" Ole said curiously.

Li Zhifan didn't answer him, but immediately went to the props team, pulled a prop master to the tank, pointed to the right front of the tank and said, "I want to smash this piece of iron sheet when the two tanks collide, can you modify it?"

"This is a tank! This thickness is no longer an iron sheet, this is an iron plate!"

The prop master was surprised, "If you want to break such a strong iron plate, you have to dismantle this one, and then put on a piece of iron sheet that can be broken." ”

"Okay, just do as you say, how long will it take to finish?"

"Not kidding, right?"

The prop master said bitterly, "It will take a lot of time to dismantle this piece. ”

A tank soldier standing next to him said, "It doesn't take long, we often dismantle this piece for maintenance, and we have the know-how and the way." ”

"Then I'll leave it to you!" Li Zhifan immediately looked at him happily, "Big brother, thank you so much!"

"It's okay!" the tank soldier smiled shyly, "If you really smash the tank, there is nowhere to get the accessories, this is all forged with the best military steel back then, but now whether it is this just now or the machine, it is eliminated, this tank car is also a retired product, it is not easy to repair, and it is not worth opening the mold." ”

"Don't worry, it won't be broken!"

Li Zhifan held his hand, "What tools do you need, I'm sorry for you!"

"We brought our own!"

After saying that, the big brother of the tank soldier went to get the tools.

On the other hand, the shooting plan has been solved, but the tank must be driven slowly, but the footage can be processed faster in post.

And Li Zhifan told the new plan he had just thought of, that is, to smash the iron plate on the right side of the tank.

In this way, many of the previous shots cannot be used, because there is no broken picture and the broken picture are edited together, and it will inevitably be a goof, so it has to be redeployed and shot in all directions.

Once all the preparations were made together, the shooting began again.

This time it can be said that they are familiar with each other, and Li Zhifan and Ole don't have to yell at each other like the first time.

And just to shoot the impact of the picture, the speed of the tank is also much slower than before, after hanging the second gear impact, Li Zhifan saw that the iron sheet had been torn after being squeezed, and immediately turned the direction and braked to stop.

"Ok!

After seeing the shooting effect, Li Zhifan shouted, "Which set of shots are taken below?"

The field manager immediately came over and handed over a page of script.

Li Zhifan glanced at it and said, "The tank presses the plane! Is the wreckage of the plane ready?"

"Ready!"

The props team responded.

"Ok! Let's get ready!"

Li Zhifan shouted.

The shots of him in this shooting are all posed, and from the macro scene to shoot these sets of shots, the people in the tank are all stuntmen and those tank soldiers, and the stuntmen all play the mercenaries under Ole in the play, and they are on the stage because they need to show their faces in some shots.

A total of ten tanks, plus two "fake" tanks.

The exciting tank presses the plane, the scene is huge, the formation is overwhelming, and the scene is divided into several shots, but they are all shot once.

Step by step, the time came to the afternoon.

There is only one tank drift in the afternoon scene!

This is a scene that pushed "Wolf Warrior 2" to the altar, at least Li Zhifan thinks in his heart that the drift of a tank in such a small space is far more than just icing on the cake, but also a dent in the stunt power of domestic movies.

It's not CG production, it's not computer effects, it's a real tank, amazing drifting.

Even the Hollywood team was amazed at the idea of this scene.

Because Hollywood's film technology is advanced enough, they rely on post-production when dealing with this kind of scene, and they have the ability to make the tank realistic.

But no matter how realistic it is, it's just realistic, it's still fake, and there will still be "fake" elements visually.

But no one will lie to this scene filmed today, because even the computer can't do it.

Most of the time the tank operators are tank soldiers, and their familiarity with tanks is far from being comparable to anyone present, and it is climbing and accelerating impact, coupled with exciting drift scenes, after an hour of filming, Li Zhifan happily shouted to stop.

After filming for so long, it is all material, and there are only a few shots that can really be edited into the movie.

"I'm announcing that today!

Li Zhifan shouted, "Everyone, thank you for your hard work, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Chinese lunar calendar, this year we spent in the film and television base, we ate dumplings together in the evening, and ate a big meal together!"

……

A film and television base not far from the project.

More than a dozen cauldrons are boiling boiling water, and the chefs in the later stage of the crew are busy preparing.

Dumplings are directly purchased from several dumpling restaurants in the urban area, a full more than 200 catties, is calculated according to the capita, one pound per person.

In addition to dumplings, there are whole chickens and ducks, two roast pigs, three roast sheep, and beer, liquor, and drinks in the corners.

Those who can stay to this day are all indispensable staff in the group, although there are only about 200, but it is still not a small number.

After Li Zhifan returned triumphantly with the centaurs, Wang Yue and the others were already ready to eat.

When he saw Li Zhifan, he immediately complained bitterly: "Alas! Look at "The Truman Show", the whole group was on holiday two weeks ago, so what about us?

Li Zhifan couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother Yue, you can go home! There is no drama for you during this time, and you live in the capital, why are you coming here on Chinese New Year's Eve today?"

"I'm not worried about you!"

Wang Yue seemed to have prepared his words, hugged Li Zhifan's shoulders and said, "Besides, we brothers only see each other, it's not easy to celebrate the New Year together for the first time!"

In addition to Wang Yue, Fu, Zhou Shilei and Wang Ye were also there, and only Sun Youbin went back to Taiwan for the New Year.

These three people were not "idle", for a while they went to steal and eat in the "name" of helping the cook, for a while they chatted with the actresses of the crew, and for a while they chatted with the tank soldiers who came down from the army.

In the end, they came to Li Zhifan one after another.

As soon as he sat down, Li Zhifan preemptively said: "Come on, don't sit down, go and say hello! You are all masters and responsible persons, today and this year, you arrange for everyone to have a good time!"

"Then why are you sitting here?"

Zhou Shilei's eyes widened and he asked dissatisfiedly.

Li Zhifan spread his hands and said: "Because I just came over after filming, I have worked hard? Don't you know, today's tank scenes can make me tired." ”

"How's that, how's that?"

Wang Yue hurriedly asked, "Have you finished filming the tank scene?"

"Not yet!"

Li Zhifan shook his head and said, "There are still a few more scenes, and maybe today's filming still needs to be retaken, it's difficult!"

"Oh! that's why you're not done!"

Wang Yue sighed, "Have you found a stand-in?"

Zhou Shilei immediately rushed to say: "I've looked for it, I just asked those tank soldiers, and the brother of the soldiers can say that they participated in several scenes and filmed them together, what about our Director Li? ”

"Go!"

Li Zhifan smiled, these soldier brothers did make a lot of efforts.

At this time, his mobile phone suddenly rang.

Li Zhifan saw that it was Liu Yuan's, and immediately picked it up.

"Zhifan!" Liu Yuan said bluntly, "I'm just informing you, remember to watch the Spring Festival Gala!