Chapter 166: The Lion King Fights for Supremacy
The plot of "The Lion King" has been transferred from Guangdong to Beijing, and if you want to discuss which place in the domestic film and television city is more in line with the characteristics of the times in the late Qing Dynasty, the first choice is, of course, Hengdian.
It's a pity that the preferential conditions given by Hengdian are far less than those of Huairou.
Therefore, the crew of "The Lion King" is stationed in Huairou.
As for the building complex that meets Xu Hui's requirements, the film and television city is specially built!
Xu Hui came to the crew in early November, and the staff were still those staff, and it had not been a month and a half since the completion of "Men Should Be Self-Improvement", so there was no nonsense, and filming started directly.
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Compared with the first two films, the pattern of "The Lion King" is a little bigger - after all, it has come to the capital!
The main plot is that Li Hongzhang wants to hold a lion king competition, Huang Feihong doesn't want to lose to foreigners, let the foreigners' conspiracy succeed, and degrade China's morale, and he doesn't want his own people to kill each other, so he can only participate in the competition and stop everything.
There are a lot of things in the whole story, and the Oriental charm and Western technology collide fiercely.
The steam engine, the darling of the Western Industrial Revolution, was moved to a pharmaceutical factory in Beijing, and it was Huang Feihong's father, Huang Qiying, who opened the factory.
Some people say that the third part renders too many scenes of fighting...
And many of the fights in it are small and have nothing to do with the overall main line.
In fact, after a little analysis, you can almost understand.
Xu Laowei is definitely ready for the trilogy from the beginning, the first two parts are more about showing Huang Feihong's ideological changes, and in the third part, he is already a group of people at the top of the era!
"The Lion King" shows a complex and chaotic social ecology of the late Qing Dynasty: the arrogant and inactive court, the foreigners who look down on the tiger, the Guangdong guild hall that combines the East and the West, and the unscrupulous martial artists who are competitive and unscrupulous.
But to be honest, the film is a bit long, 118 minutes!
Compared with the 95 minutes of "Men Should Be Self-Improvement", which is clean and neat, "The Lion King" probably wants to show too much...
Of course, all these cumbersome scenes have completely become subsections after Huang Feihong's last sentence.
Now the gold medal is in my hands Huang, not that I won. In order to show the might of our people, the adults held this "lion king competition", and so many people were killed and injured, in front of the world, in fact, we all lost. According to the views of the small people, we not only train our martial arts to strengthen ourselves to resist foreign enemies, but the most important thing is to open up the people's wisdom, wisdom and military integration, which is the way to make the country rich and the people strong. Whether a mere brand can change the fortunes of the country, please think twice. This gold medal will be left for you as a souvenir. Farewell!'
This line directly sublimates the theme of the entire movie.
It's like the first part of 'The Mountain of Gold? Where does the world come from? Maybe we're already on the Mountain?
The second part of "I hope that the morning sun will always shine on my land, and don't forget the blood of the martyrs all over the ground"
According to the words of the teacher's education when I was in school, it was 'the last finishing touch that made the whole subject more profound...'
In order to make the whole plot smoother, Xu Hui deleted the part where the martial artists were competitive.
In fact, the third part has a disadvantage compared to the first two, that is, there are no particularly impressive fight scenes!
"Lingyun Zhuangzhi" has a warehouse bamboo ladder chaos;
"Men Should Be Self-Improvement" has Li Lianjie's PK Zhen bullet loaded into the classic fight;
When it came to "The Lion King", it was probably a change of martial arts instructor, and the setting of many fight scenes seemed huge, but it was not enough to make people marvel...
Presumably, the audience has become accustomed to this type of fighting.
In order to make the overall picture more shocking, Cannon Hui deliberately used an IMAX camera to shoot!
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Wu Jing joined the group on November 10, but he still did not follow Xu Hui's suggestion.
is very righteous to accompany the crew of "West Wind Spirit" to go around all thirteen box office warehouse cities.
It's a pity that the audience has had enough of the baptism of bad movies, and their acceptance of domestic bad movies is almost zero - the audience in those years was very sensible, and there were few hot-blooded fans...
"The Lion King", Huang Feihong is of course the protagonist, but he is not the only eye-catching role, Liang Kuan, Huang Qiying, Ghost Feet Seven and Zhao Tianba are all good supporting roles.
Especially Huang Qiying and Ghost Foot Seven.
As soon as Huang Qiying, who was dressed as Wu Gang, appeared, whether it was standing or talking, it gave people a feeling that it should be like this.
The old drama bones are the old drama bones!
Zhang Jing plays the role of Ghost Foot Seven, in order to highlight the fierceness of Ghost Foot Seven, he deliberately gave him a bald head shape, not only that, but his face was also covered with some hideous scars...
The original handsome and handsome image was directly erased...
The character of Ghost Foot Seven has appeared in a lot of shots in the entire "Lion King",
The most impressive thing is that the ghost foot fell in Bao Zhilin after his seven legs were broken, Huang Feihong wanted to save him, he would rather go out in the heavy rain than lie out.
Huang Feihong chased him out and wanted to support him, but he didn't expect to be punched by him, Huang Feihong still pulled him, and was punched again, but Huang Feihong still didn't let go.
After going back and forth three times, this man, who was as fierce as a tiger at the beginning, hugged Huang Feihong and cried bitterly!
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It is obvious that the shooting went smoothly, the actors' performances are not mentioned, the staff has almost zero mistakes, and there are few mistakes in the on-site layout.
The only thing that's a bit problematic is the videography.
The IMX camera is very heavy, 80 kilograms, if you want to catch the picture that the director wants, someone must control it, no one in the whole crew understands this thing, there is no way, Xu Hui had to borrow a few people from the United States and let them make a temporary cameo as a cameraman...
After all, he is the first director to eat crabs in China, and the first team to shoot with IMX cameras for the first time!
Fortunately, the difficulty of IMX shooting is not much different from normal shooting, except that the camera is not easy to operate.
After the crew was uncomfortable at the beginning, they slowly entered the normal filming process...
Now the footage of the thirteenth aunt teaching Huang Feihong English.
"Camera, OK!"
“Action!”
Tong Liya has become more and more comfortable with the role of Aunt Thirteen, and many times, even Xu Hui feels that she and Wu Jing are a pair after watching it.
Actors, understandable!
Fortunately, there are no kiss scenes or anything like that...
By the way, in this shooting, Wu Jing has not been able to enter the state for a long time, and "West Wind Spirit" has a great impact on him!
Fortunately, the crew is patient - how can the filming be completed with a three-month cycle.
The staff and actors gave him a great relief.
After experiencing two scenes, he obviously felt that his state had picked up, and Xu Hui specially prepared this literary drama.
“oman!”
"Oh... The noon gate, I know, is the place where the head is cut off 1"
"Uh... This one is easy to confuse, change one... Man!”
"Stuffy, didn't we go to the noon gate two days ago, it's not boring at all..."
"It's not noon and stuffy, it's women and men, oman is a woman, and man is a man!"
"Oh, all the women have pushed out the noon gate and beheaded, of course the men will be bored!"
"Click! Yes, Liang Kuan is on the field!"