At the beginning of the filming of the movie "Police Story", there were some problems with the action scenes. Because of the limitations of the times, and Jackie Chan has mostly starred in Republic of China dramas for a long time, the actions he designed are full of Republic of China style, and Jiang Ran is not very satisfied with it.

This also caused a large number of NG in today's scene, and Jiang Ran and the members of the family class had to get together and study repeatedly in order to find the reason. At this time, Wang Kun made a suggestion that attracted everyone's attention.

"Can we borrow more on-site seats, benches and other props in the fight? ”

After Jiang Ran heard Wang Kun's words, he thought about the Jackie Chan movies that he watched in later generations, and there were indeed many scenes of Jackie Chan's fights with the help of daily tools.

Jiang Ran felt that Wang Kun's proposal was an idea, but Jackie Chan was the action designer of the movie, and he also needed to respect Jackie Chan's opinion. Therefore, Jiang Ran turned his head to ask Jackie Chan's opinion.

"I think I can try it out again, Aaron, what do you think?"

Jackie Chan didn't answer Jiang Ran immediately, continued to look at the footage he had taken before, thought about it for a while, and then said, "Then let's rehearse it first, Director Jiang, you can take a look?"

After Jiang Ran and Jackie Chan agreed on the same opinion, Jackie Chan took a few people to the side and began to rehearse.

Jiang Ran also kept standing by and watching, but after Jiang Ran watched for a while, he found that Jackie Chan and the others deliberately pursued the application of props, but lost their own characteristics.

Jiang Ran therefore said to Jackie Chan: "Ah Long, don't lose your own characteristics when you design your actions. Some comedic effects mixed with fights are your characteristics, and you must keep them, if you don't have characteristics, you will no longer be the Jackie Chan that the audience likes. ”

After listening to Jiang Ran's opinion, Jackie Chan thought about it, the action rehearsed just now was indeed a little too deliberate, and he lost his own characteristics. Therefore, Jackie Chan gathered several people from the family class and began to redesign the action.

When Jiang Ran was watching the rehearsal of Jackie Chan and several people, Liu Liwei brought an unexpected person, Li Junxia, to the filming site.

Jiang Ran didn't know why Li Junxia suddenly came to the crew, you must know that although Li Junxia has the position of producer of the crew, as a senior officer of the police force, he has never been to the crew except for meeting the main creative staff on the day of the press conference.

"Uncle Li, welcome to the crew. You've never been to the crew, how did you remember to come to the crew today. ”

Li Junxia looked at the rehearsal of Jackie Chan and several people, and replied with a smile: "I have the title of film producer, the crew has been on for nearly a week, and I haven't been to the crew yet, so it's a bit unreasonable." Let's take a look at this if there are no major events in the bureau today. How about you, do you welcome me?"

Jiang Ran smiled and said, "Of course welcome, Ah Wei, gather everyone over and meet Director Li." ”

Li Junxia listened to Jiang Ran's words, and before Liu Liwei could answer, he said: "Don't affect everyone's work, I'll take a look at the scene." ”

Li Junxia said and turned his head to look at the rehearsal of Jackie Chan and the others, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Jiang Ran saw that Li Junxia really didn't mean to see the crew, so he waved his hand to Liu Liwei next to him, and then explained to Li Junxia: "There was a fight today, I have not been very satisfied, and now Ah Long and they are rehearsing." ”

Li Junxia heard that the filming was not going well, and asked with some curiosity: "What kind of fight scene did not go well, isn't Jackie Chan a martial arts star?"

Jiang Ran said helplessly: "In the entire Hong Kong film industry, there are very few kung fu movies with realistic themes, and Ah Long and they basically made kung fu movies in the Republic of China, but now when they shoot urban police and bandit kung fu, I always feel that the action scenes they designed are a little incongruous." ”

"Oh, can I take a look?"

Jiang Ran saw Li Junxia's excited appearance, so he had to take him to the back of the monitor and show Li Junxia the footage taken in front of him.

After watching it once, Li Junxia said to Jiang Ran: "Ah Ran, this fight scene of yours is too fake, who fights like this in reality?"

After Jiang Ran heard Li Junxia's words, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he finally knew why he always felt that the fight scenes designed by Jackie Chan and them were not coordinated.

Jackie Chan used to shoot more kung fu in the Republic of China, so there is a shadow of traditional martial arts in the design of the fight. And in "Police Story", as a modern police officer, the traditional kung fu of hard bridges and hard horses in fights seems a little out of place.

Jiang Ran waved his arm happily and said to Li Junxia: "Uncle Li, you have helped me a lot, and there should be no problem with the future design of the movie." ”

Li Junxia saw Jiang Ran's excited appearance, and asked inexplicably, "What's the matter, Ah Ran?"

Jiang Ran calmed down and explained to Li Junxia: "Uncle Li, I couldn't find the problem in Jackie Chan's action design, but just now one of your fake words made me find the root of the problem." ”

"Jackie Chan had traditional kung fu traces in their original action design, which contradicted the environment of the movie, so I always felt that it was incongruous, and now it is easy to find the root of the problem. ”

Li Junxia was also very happy and said, "Oh, it's good if it helps the movie." ”

Jiang Ran said to Li Junxia a little impatiently: "Uncle Li, I'll ask Ah Wei to accompany you to look around, and I'll go and discuss the design of this set of actions with Jackie Chan and them." ”

"It's okay, you go and do your job, don't worry about me, I'm here to see how you shoot this scene. Li Junxia waved his hand at Jiang Ran, and then said.

Jiang Ran was not polite, walked directly to Jackie Chan, and said to a few people: "Ah Long, you stop first." ”

Jackie Chan and the others looked at Jiang Ran strangely, not knowing what his opinion was.

Jiang Ran glanced at his family and said to Jackie Chan and the others: "Everyone, I think I have found the reason why our play is not in harmony with the movie." ”

"Aaron, the protagonist of our movie is a police officer, in the real city, have you ever seen someone fight with the kung fu of a hard bridge and a hard horse? Obviously, almost nothing?"

"Our film is not traditional kung fu, we don't need two kung fu masters to fight each other, we just need to embellish the brawl scenes of ordinary people and add Aaron's usual comedic effect to the action design. ”

"We designed the fight scenes to be within the acceptable range of ordinary people, and to make the audience feel that these fights really exist in real life. All the action design should make the audience feel that as long as they have more courage, calm thinking, and some luck through long-term training, most people can do it. ”

"In addition, Ah Long, our drama is a modern urban police film, and in the action design, try to use some modern martial arts elements such as sanda and grappling. ”

After Jiang Ran finished speaking, several members of the family class, some thoughtful, some looked at each other, and finally looked at Jackie Chan, after all, only Jackie Chan is the core of the team of the family class.

Jackie Chan didn't speak at this time, he was still thinking about Jiang Ran's words with his head down.

Jiang Ran said a lot in one breath, and after finishing speaking, he also knew that Jackie Chan and the others needed time to digest their opinions, and he didn't care that no one paid attention to him, just stood next to him and waited quietly for Jackie Chan to consider.

After thinking about it for a while, Jackie Chan looked up and asked Jiang Ran.

"Director Jiang, do you mean to abandon traditional martial arts in action design and add modern martial arts elements?"

After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Ran replied: "Ah Long, it's not that you completely abandon traditional martial arts, I hope that when you design your movements, you will try to be as close to reality as possible, but to a certain extent higher than reality. Of course, because of the relationship between the movie genre, try to add some modern elements in the action design, which can make the style of the whole movie more unified. ”

After listening to Jiang Ran's explanation, Jackie Chan lowered his head and thought about it for a while before saying, "Director Jiang, I basically understand what you mean, let's try again." ”

Jiang Ran wasn't sure if Jackie Chan and the others really understood what they meant, and after a period of rehearsals, the movie started filming again. Jiang Ran stood behind the monitor and quietly watched the picture in the camera, waiting for this scene to be finished.

Jiang Ran stood up and shouted loudly, "CUT!"

Everyone turned their heads and looked at Jiang Ran expectantly, looking forward to passing the test smoothly this time.