Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Ancient City
During the filming in the Thar Desert, everyone suffered a lot, although they didn't complain, but seeing that Zhou Xingchi and several people were tanned a lot, even Guan Zhilin and Zhong Chuhong, the two delicate beauties, also had red skin, which made Wang Zheng feel a little unhappy, and his words of comfort now have no practical effect, only to make the movie well, so that more audiences can watch it and recognize them, which will also help them in their future careers.
Leaving the Thar Desert, due to the uncomfortable experience of the last train, this time the crew rented a commercial bus at a high price and came directly to Madhya Pradesh, India, from eastern India. Although the road is very narrow, you don't have to endure the sour smell of curry and the crowding.
After more than ten hours of driving, finally arrived at Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, the car drove directly to a hotel not far from the ruins of Orchha, looking at Orchha not far away, as if coming to a medieval castle, everyone got off the car and checked into the hotel, rested for one night and continued to work tomorrow.
The town of Orchha has not been developed by tourism in this era, and there are not many people in the town, it is a peaceful town. The Shaw Brothers production department has already done the official work of Orchha Town, and the crew can shoot here with peace of mind.
Outside the walls of the town of Orchha is a piece of loess, in which stands a granite bridge, which leads to the bustling square of Orchha, with its medieval castles. The location of these ancient castles is close to the Silk Road, which is very similar to the buildings of the exquisite ancient city, and Wang Zheng did not need to change these buildings to start shooting.
After Hao Aiguo was bitten to death by a snake, everyone entered the castle to shoot and hired a local craftsman to paint some murals and paste them on the wall for a lot of time. The filming of Orchha is almost over, and the rest of the plot needs to be returned to Shaw Brothers Studios, and the main scenes of the exquisite ancient city are in the underground mausoleum.
When I returned to Xiangjiang, I was able to relax, and everyone suffered a lot on this trip, sweated a lot, and tanned a lot. Wang Zheng gave the crew a day off, and a day later gathered at Shaw Brothers Cinemas for the following shooting, Shao Tycoon has been urging progress, and Wang Zheng can only give everyone a day off.
In a cave built in Shaw Brothers Studios, Wang Zheng looked at a mahogany coffin hanging in the air and was a little speechless. Let the props team prepare an ancient coffin, what the hell is this mahogany coffin, in the end, Wang Zheng had to personally take people to the mountain behind the studio, scraped a few layers of thicker bark back, and then changed the small coffin, gluing the bark to the surface of the coffin, so that it looked like a coffin made of a big tree hollowed out.
Wang Zheng asked people to remove all the inappropriate prop models and redo them according to his wishes, and the props department finally completed the required props with processing and points, and the film began to shoot the final underground stage.
The last shot of Ocha is when everyone enters the temple, and the ball on the roof of the temple falls a ball of fire snakes, and everyone hurriedly shoots back.
In an empty and dilapidated hall in Shaw Brothers Studios, Wang Zheng carried a camera, the camera was aimed at Liang Chaowei and Guan Zhilin, and next to him, Da Fei, Zhou Xingchi, was holding a gun and shooting at the ground behind him. Shi Tian's eyes were dilated and he muttered, Professor Chen played by him had not recovered from Liu Dehao's death. Zhong Chuhong was frightened and screamed loudly, and the three cameras around him were recording all this.
I saw Liang Chaowei and Guan Zhilin turn the pillar together, and the entire hall "boomed" a few times, and as soon as the camera turned, the floor tiles in the center of the hall all sunk into stairs, and an entrance appeared.
This shot is completed, and all the cameras below are turned off, leaving only the light camera on Wang Zheng's shoulder. Wang Zheng felt that he couldn't make any special effects, so he might as well use a pseudo-documentary to shoot this underground scene.
Liang Chaowei beckoned everyone to hurry down to the entrance, and the camera lens on Wang Zheng's shoulder recorded the figure of everyone hurriedly entering the entrance into the film, and finally Liang Chaowei greeted his camera: "Classmate Wang, keep up." After speaking, he also walked down, and Wang Zheng followed in with the camera.
Wang Zheng trotted all the way to keep up with the team, the camera shook for a while, and everyone walking in front had all turned on the flashlights, walking in this damp darkness step by step, Wang Zheng turned on the light on the camera, patted the murals on the wall from time to time, and then patted the wet ground. Hear the conversation in front: "There is the sound of water in front, follow quickly." ”
With the filming technique of pseudo-documentary, Wang Zheng followed everyone to the end of the passage, and there was no way ahead. Guan Zhilin threw a flare at the bottom of the passage, Wang Zheng pointed the camera at the flare, and through the illumination of the firelight, he saw that there were countless gold and silver treasures under his feet, Da Fei and Zhou Xingchi took advantage of the fact that people were not paying attention to stuff a few gold coins into their pockets, and the two of them played very well with that kind of eye dodge.
"Okay, you're all doing really well, you're all very natural, and you're just like me being documenting and continuing to be natural in front of the camera. ”
Wang Zheng took the camera and started filming again, and Professor Chen, who was played by Shi Tian, noticed the small movements of the two and reprimanded angrily: "This is all national stuff, you can't take it away, just because of people like you who are greedy for cheapness, I don't know how many antiques and national treasures in China flow overseas every year." ”
The two had no choice but to put down the gold coins, and everyone continued to walk through these treasures, to the cave of the bottomless abyss, the legendary ghost cave, tied a big wood to the stone pier above the ghost cave, Hu Bayi played by Tony Leung guessed that it was the coffin of the Exquisite Queen, and the wood was not ordinary wood, but the legendary Kunlun Divine Tree, Shi Tian prevented everyone from going to open the coffin of the Absolute Queen, and asked the big golden tooth Zhou Xingchi to copy the ghost cave text on the wall first, and Wang Zheng followed with a camera.
Zhou Xingchi was transcribing the ghost cave text on the wall, Wang Zheng suddenly pointed the camera at the coffin of the Exquisite Queen, and slowly walked towards the coffin, deaf to Stephen Chow's call behind him, and halfway through, Wang Zheng threw down the camera on his shoulder.
"Bang", the camera smashed on the ground, the camera was facing Wang Zheng's back, only to see that in the lens monitor, Wang Zheng walked to the stone pier next to the coffin, laughed a few times in a low voice, hit the stone pier with his head, and hit the wall while laughing wildly, the sound was full of madness. After hitting him a few times, Wang Zheng turned his head to face the camera, only to see him with blood on his face, looking up to the sky and laughing wildly, looking crazy.
After the echo stopped, Wang Zheng stopped laughing and fell head-on, "bang" smashed out a piece of dust, and the camera monitor was suddenly hazy, and after the dust dissipated and the picture was restored, I saw a face that was still smiling in the entire monitor of the camera, staring at the camera with wide eyes full of blood, and the eyes that had spread were very terrifying. Suddenly, Wang Zheng's body seemed to be dragged by something, and the camera moved with it. After a sound of "rubbing", the camera lens turned up and down, looking dizzy, and after the picture was still, I saw Wang Zheng in the camera monitor falling at a rapid speed, and the figure disappeared at once.
It turned out that the body became soft after death, and the place where Wang Zheng died just now was on the edge of the stone pier, and after his death, his body slowly slid like the bottomless abyss on the edge of the stone pier, and the moment he fell, the camera drove the camera, and the camera fell down with him, and the camera was hooked by the tree fork on the edge of the ghost cave at the same time, and the process of Wang Zheng being swallowed by the ghost hole was recorded.
The shooting method of the pseudo-documentary ended with Wang Zheng's death, and Wang Zheng designed his death to be so terrifying and gloomy, it can be regarded as a fight.
After the filming was used back to the traditional way, the speed was much faster, seeing the director Wang Zheng show a perverted performance that he didn't want to image, and the rest of the people also performed hard, it took more than half a month, and finally finished filming everything that should be filmed, and then re-shot what pictures were needed when editing later, and the work of the actors in the crew was also over, this movie tossed them all lightly, from Xiangjiang to India, the crazy shooting will leave a deep impression on them.
The crew and actors have all finished work, and Wang Zheng has a lot to do, he first found some mountains and cliffs in Xiangjiang to capture some real scenes. With the now immature special effects team, do some simple special effects, such as fire snakes, ants, corpse incense konjac, can only let the props team make the models of these monsters more realistic, don't poke so much with the eagle of the Condor Heroes, Wang Zheng is satisfied.
Then there is dubbing, and finally there is editing, a bunch of things waiting for Wang Zheng to arrange.
Wang Zheng sighed that the director is really not so easy to be.