In early September.

Just when audiences across the country were speculating about the mystery behind "Interstellar", Han Qiu and the crew had already embarked on the road of filming.

At the first stop, Han Qiu went to Lin Xia, preparing to shoot the plot of the earth before the interstellar voyage.

Secondly, FS Company and Xiao Zhang are busy making props at the Great Wall base.

Especially the design of the ship.

Han Qiu didn't ask Xiao Zhang to build the spaceship too tall. According to the post-apocalyptic background of the movie, the number of human beings has plummeted, most people can't even fill their stomachs, most of the world's human and material resources have been used to develop agriculture, and even the protagonist Matthew, a former astronaut, has become a farmer who grows corn.

In this context, it is not engineers or scientists who are needed, but farmers!

So, what kind of tall spaceship, it's all.

In this extremely harsh background, there will be a follow-up story of the protagonist traveling through the wormhole to find a new planet suitable for human habitation.

When Han Qiu asked Xiao Zhang and FS to design, they should not make it in the style of the Matrix. That kind of time-ahead electromagnetic orbital spacecraft, in the background of interstellar crossing, will not appear at all.

FS is responsible for making the internal and external models of the spaceship in the computer, and Xiao Zhang is responsible for turning it into a real thing. Of course, this spaceship will definitely not be able to fly, and it is just an ornament for filming.

Secondly, there is the design of intelligent robots. In his previous life, Nolan had made it look like a black stone tablet. I heard that it is a tribute to a classic science fiction movie: "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Don't see 2001 and think it was released in 2001, in fact, it appeared decades ago.

This epic space masterpiece, which appeared in the sixties of the 20th century in the previous life, can be said to have brought human imagination to the extreme. At that time, the great revolution was going on in China in the previous life.

But when decades later, in 2001, the majestic and mysterious black stele did not appear in reality.

After thinking about it, Han Qiu also decided to design the robot in the shape of a stone monument in order to pay tribute to 2001. Although he didn't think about making the 2001 movie, in Han Qiu's heart, it is still a classic that will never fade.

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After explaining, Han Qiu and the crew set off for Lin Xia.

In the plot, the environment of the earth in the last days is very harsh, and many plants are gradually dying out and extinct, including crops such as grains and grains.

With the extinction of plants, without photosynthesis, there will be less and less oxygen in the air, until eventually, humans will suffocate to death.

Perhaps some humans starved to death before they could suffocate.

Han Qiu had to find a large cornfield to shoot this plot, because the protagonist Matthew planted corn that had not yet become extinct.

In his previous life, Nolan was not looking for a cornfield, but directly planted a large area. It took several months to go from sowing seeds to growing up to be ready to make films.

Han Qiu asked himself if it was not as sassy as Nolan's operation, so he simply went to find a cornfield that met the shooting conditions.

Moreover, this place in Ningxia is close to a very famous wasteland in China, that is, the Loess Plateau.

The "scenery" on it is similar to the apocalyptic background of the yellow sand in Han Qiu's imagination. This is also the reason why Han Qiu is filmed here.

On the 16th, the crew came to Ningxia, a place near the northern part of the Loess Plateau.

Before Han Qiu came here, he had already called the local officials to greet him and inform him of his intentions.

Regarding Han Qiu's filming on the Loess Plateau, these officials who usually don't have any major events are naturally very concerned, once they promote and promote the development of the local economy, it will be a political achievement on their heads.

Immediately, they found a large cornfield on the Loess Plateau according to Han Qiu's request.

In fact, there are still many places that can be cultivated on the Loess Plateau, and the soil in some places is still very fertile.

Take the Hetao for example.

The place was quite rich, and the soil was so fertile. Not to mention growing corn, you can grow ginseng.

Therefore, these enthusiastic leaders quickly helped Han Qiu find a cornfield, right on the plateau. And met all the conditions of Han Qiu: desolate, Liao is uninhabited, except for a small town, surrounded by a loess high slope.

The cornfield that Han Qiu needed was next to a small village outside the town.

As soon as the villagers walked out of the gate, there was a cornfield. Of course, in addition to cornfields, there are other crops.

Now, in September, the villagers have harvested all the corn by the end of August, leaving only a "light pole commander".

Han Qiu's point came just right, so he didn't have to worry about the impact of filming on the villagers' harvest.

Of course, after requisitioning other people's land, Han Qiu still paid a sum of money as a price.

At first, the villagers were very unhappy, and they were even more unhappy when they heard that Han Qiu would also cause damage to the cornfields. Although they had already harvested, it was a lie to see their fields being ruined, and to say that they were not depressed.

However, after Han Qiu put out stacks of RMB, all of a sudden, the villagers' corn faces smiled brighter than popcorn.

Han Qiu was also speechless, these villagers are really.... It's simple.

At this moment, at the village chief's house, the village chief looked at Han Qiu's large sum of money, and he couldn't take his eyes off it.

This is 100,000 RMB, and people don't want our corn, just for a temporary use. Besides, the corn that was picked was not worth 100,000 yuan at all!

"Mr. Han, you are too polite, you can use that cornfield as you like, and you can get it however you want. The village chief said inside, because the corn field belonged to his family, and of course he had full control.

"That's good. Han Qiu nodded: "You can also rest assured, we will not cause too much damage to your field."

The cornfield was mainly used as a background, and it was necessary to drive a car to collapse some bellflowers, and then set a fire to it and burn a small piece of it.

Therefore, Han Qiu will not destroy the soil, but some crops will be unlucky.

But he doesn't have any psychological burden, and the 100,000 yuan is the right to be compensated.

Hearing this, the village chief hurriedly nodded: "Okay, okay, no problem." We don't know what this filming is like, so we can't help much..."

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about that. Han Qiu shook his head: "You lent us the corn field to use it is the greatest help." ”

Han Qiu did not discriminate against the peasants in his heart, although most of the peasants were not highly educated, and they could not understand the theory of relativity, and they had not even heard of it. But after all, the food we will eat tomorrow is grown with their hands.

Especially in the movie Interstellar, technology is almost useless, and farmers are the new force in the last days.

This is also the reason why the protagonist changes from an astronaut to a farmer who grows corn.

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A few days later, the crew began filming.

The main character's family's house is a small three-story western-style building not far from the cornfield.

At present, it only takes hundreds of thousands of RMB to build a small western-style building with several floors and hundreds of square meters in rural areas. This is to be placed in a big city, and it will cost more than ten times as much.

Han Qiu remodeled this place a little, including the decoration inside and so on. Especially the study room, which is the most important. You know, this small study is linked to the five-dimensional space.

For this reason, Han Qiu also deliberately bought a large number of books, most of which were "prop books", which were made of plastic, had an empty appearance, and could not be opened at all. Only a small number of books are actually books that can be flipped through.

It took a week to set up the set and filming, and it was not until late September that the crew began the official filming work.

And these days, the leading actors in the play are more familiar.

Especially Liu Ran and Liu Xianghui, the two "brothers and sisters", have formed a friendship. Because they play "brother and sister" in the play, the two often need to match lines, and this pair, friendship is unconsciously generated.

In the crew, Liu Ran is seventeen years old and Liu Xianghui is thirteen years old, the youngest of the two of them, so the two of them have the most common topics.

Sometimes Han Qiu joked with Liu Dehua, "Hua Zai, Liu Ran is also surnamed Liu, it is your own family, he and Xiao Hui play brother and sister, it's just fake!"

Liu Dehua smiled and teased: "Confusing the real with the fake? Director Han, isn't this exactly what you wanted." ”

Han Qiu shrugged his shoulders and smiled without saying a word.

"By the way, Director Han, why did you give my daughter's character such a name, Murphy?"

"Because of Murphy's Law, isn't it written in the script?" replied Han Qiu.

"I never understood what Murphy's Law meant. Director Han, you have written, I have also checked on the Internet, that is, 'if there is a possibility that things will go bad, no matter how small the probability is, it will always happen', but what is the meaning of this sentence?

Liu Dehua shook his head: "This sounds like a joke, if things have the potential to get worse, then it will get bad one day." It's like saying that if a person is always unlucky, isn't that the same as saying it?"

If you had to say that, Murphy's Law is a bit of a humorous joke. Han Qiu said: "This is originally a matter of probability, it just reminds us to be prepared for things to go bad." Just like our Huaxian movies, they all make a lot of money, but there is no guarantee that they will hit the street one day. ”

In fact, Han Qiu did not have any special admiration for Murphy's Law, even though it was called one of the "three great discoveries of Western culture in the twentieth century".

Liu Dehua nodded: "I think this law is a bit tricky. ”

"Perhaps, most people think so, but if you are from the security department or the safety supervision department, maybe you have a different view. A problem with one screw can cause a rocket to crash, and a bird can knock a plane down. These things, although the probability is pitifully small, may not really happen. The people in the security services are worried about this. ”

Liu Dehua nodded lightly: "It's too, probably that's what Murphy's Law means, but foreigners say it too mysterious." ”

"In fact, our Chinese ancestors have said similar things a long time ago, but they didn't add a 'law' title to it like foreigners. ”

"Oh, what?"

Han Qiu squinted his eyes and smiled: "Blessing is incomparable, disaster is not a one-way street!"