Chapter Forty-Seven: Filming is in full swing
"It's Hollywood, it's the United States, it's a technological society, why do I need to act in such a difficult and dangerous action scene?"
Chris Tucker's complaints, which will always ring out in the crew of "Rush Hour", have long been a great wonder in the filming process of the crew.
As for this black guy's stubbornness and timidity, everyone in the Fang family class has long been surprised.
Even Li Xuan, who has been working hard and can't rub sand in his eyes, has been numbed by this guy's nagging, and has even learned to completely ignore his various complaints, and will only do his job silently on the side.
Anyway, in the end, there will always be director Brett Ratner to come and end the scene, and Chris Tucker never dares to disobey the director's final decision, and he doesn't have to continue filming obediently.
In fact, this black buddy is purely too self-conscious, likes to find himself boring, has very low emotional intelligence, and his popularity in the crew is also very poor.
In contrast, the other main actor of the crew of "Rush Hour" is Fang Long, a foreigner, and his work attitude is really good!
Although Fang Long's English is not particularly standard and fluent, it is enough for him to communicate normally with the people on the American crew. Therefore, he quickly gave full play to his friendly and fun-loving cheerful personality, and he was able to mingle with the American crew on the set easily.
Moreover, the real and powerful personal abilities that he gradually revealed in his work really shocked and admired the staff on the American side.
In particular, Fang Long's comedy performance ability and thrilling action talent that he relied on to become famous in Xiangjiang did not have any reservations, and he quickly used it in the daily shooting process of the crew, bringing a completely different shocking look to the American Hollywood film crew who advocate technology and special effects shooting!
These American Hollywood filmmakers have never seen action movies shoot so desperately. As the main actor, Fang Long is completely fighting for courage and personal ability, but he can clearly bring extremely beautiful and suitable perfect action scenes to the crew in the end, and it is still the kind of material picture that a director dreams of!
In addition, compared with the simple warm-up action scenes brought to the movie by the Fang family class at the beginning of filming, after the in-depth filming of the entire crew, more and more unique thrilling action scenes and plots that Fang Long participated in are coming. But Fang Long still doesn't need a stand-in, doesn't borrow a position to shoot, doesn't use special effects, he is brave and bold, and his level is superb, so he all go into battle directly in person, and sometimes he doesn't even bring any protective measures!
Fang Long's crazy work attitude and the strong wonderful effect obtained almost immediately reversed the few hidden prejudices of the Hollywood staff in the entire "Rush Hour" crew against the Hong Kong filmmakers.
Especially compared with the extremely weak American actor Chris Tucker, these Americans sometimes feel that they are compared and embarrassed in front of the Xiangjiang people.
Similarly, although the people in the Fang family class do not have as many opportunities for Fang Long to perform in front of the scene, as long as they have the opportunity, they will immediately show their incredible super personal skills and abilities, and they are almost not inferior to Fang Long's action level, which makes the group of American filmmakers even more jaw-dropping!
Among them, Li Xuan's personal performance is the most!
Li Xuan is extraordinarily young, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and he cherishes every opportunity very much, so he is also extremely desperate. Moreover, his skills are extremely beautiful and neat, which naturally attracts a lot of attention.
In the daily filming process of the film, often when Li Xuan designs some action scenes for Chris Tucker, he can easily succeed in the pre-teaching rehearsals almost all at once, and the kind of action scenes he creates are very exciting, which can always reflect or even exceed the specific action scene descriptions in the script.
With such an outstanding personal performance, after a long time, the Americans in the crew must gradually see it. Continuing to compare the clumsy Chris Tucker's countless clumsy imitation performances of drawing tigers instead of anti-dogs, everyone will realize Li Xuan's personal skills.
But even Chris Tucker is clumsy and often uncooperative, and most of the time his performance is very bad. But in fact, generally at the end of the filming of specific scenes, it is inevitable that under Li Xuan's various suitable adjustments, he will barely be able to show extremely qualified action scenes to meet the needs of the film!
This kind of teaching achievement, which seems to be not very conspicuous, once again witnesses Li Xuan's super level in action scenes from the subtleties!
As for when it was Li Xuan's turn to go into battle in person, to play the arms dealer Juntao as an actor in the play. In the course of his limited performance, he quickly pushed his personal super action level to the peak again!
In the scene of "Rush Hour", there will be a very exciting special pursuit action scene about Li Xuan's role, that is, the chase scene between the two protagonists. The arms dealer he plays, after blowing up some people from the FBI with the wrong message, is discovered by the two protagonists and then chases him.
In this scene, Li Xuan needs to give full play to his personal action strength, work hard and break free from the pursuit of the two protagonists beautifully, and present a master-like villain role.
In the specific shooting, the first performance action Li Xuan had to do was to run wildly, then jump onto the suspended iron staircase in the middle of a dead end in an alley, and then use the ladder to flexibly climb into the abandoned warehouse upstairs.
This kind of action scene, if you change to an ordinary actor, it will inevitably take a long time to shoot the entire action scene.
But Li Xuan is different, he only went through a rehearsal, and in the first shooting, he successfully completed the escape action of jumping and climbing upstairs to dodge, and his beautiful skills can still be fully revealed, which instantly adds a lot of color to the movie picture.
At that time, his slender and powerful body and movements, like a martial arts action performance, with a very profound sense of beauty, easily completed the escape in one go, but still quietly with a little taste of hasty escape, the whole performance was extremely smooth and natural, without flaws!
For Li Xuan's high-level role, director Brett Ratner must be quite appreciative and satisfied.
So next, the director pinned his hopes on Fang Long and Chris Tucker to catch up with the same fast and neat skills, in order to show the excellent personal ability of the two policemen in this play.
There was no accident, the powerful Fang Long learned Li Xuan's movements quite easily to complete the scene that was not too difficult for him.
And Chris Tucker, as expected, once again behaved extremely badly. He has a little height and long arms, but he can't even grasp the bottom of the stairs, let alone climb and jump up!
Faced with such a situation, Li Xuan, who was originally responsible for designing various action scenes for Chris Tucker, took the initiative to come over as soon as possible, trying to take the trouble to explain the specific action points to Chris Tucker again, so that this stupid guy could complete the shooting effects that the final crew needed.
However, at this time, director Brett Ratner seems to have despaired of Chris Tucker, and then has a new idea. He suddenly decided not to use such a scene, but instead left Chris Tucker's clown-like action performance to bring out the oriental chic skills of Li Xuan, an arms dealer, and Fang Long, a policeman!
As a result, Chris Tucker, who seems to have been compared again, basically immediately stinks again, and is quite dissatisfied.
However, at this time, everyone in the crew, especially the group of American Hollywood filmmakers, including the director, didn't care about the unhappy Chris Tucker at all, and they quickly shifted their attention to the next wonderful encounter between Fang Long and Li Xuan in the warehouse above.
In fact, director Brett Ratner has always wanted to fully express the characteristics of oriental kung fu during the filming of the movie "Rush Hour", and he has a lot of ambitions to try to make a different Hollywood action movie.
This is why he easily chose to let Li Xuan play the role of an arms dealer who has some intersection with the protagonist, he has long wanted to see the two tacit Xiangjiang actors who know kung fu, what kind of wonderful and beautiful action scenes can be sparked!
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