Chapter 815: Challenging Authority
Since the official launch of the first part of the martial arts movie "Sword Out of Huashan" in Ningshan Film and Television City, nearly a month has passed, but the filming work has not gone smoothly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At least it has not reached the planned progress, and it is basically certain that there is no hope of landing in domestic theaters during the summer vacation.
This made the morale of the crew a little low.
You must know that for this big movie, Chenfei Media has been preparing for nearly a year in advance, and all aspects of preparation can be said to be quite sufficient, but in the actual filming process, there are still many problems.
These problems are mainly concentrated in martial arts.
"Click!"
Chen Guozhi put down the microphone in his hand, shook his legs and feet that had become sore, stood up, clapped his hands and said, "That's all for today, and continue tomorrow." ”
On the set, both the actors and the crew were greatly relieved.
Today's filming is extremely tiring, there are both literary dramas and martial arts dramas, the two directors Chen Guozhi and Lu Chen are in charge in person, and the degree of attention is extraordinary, everyone is naturally conscientious and does not dare to slack off.
From 7 o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock in the evening, everyone's nerves are tense, and they are very tired physically and mentally, and now they have finally persevered to the end.
But after so much effort and sweat, there are not many qualified shots, and I have to reshoot and reshoot tomorrow, and it will be a new round of suffering.
Lu Chen got up and said, "Everyone rest early, don't stay up late..."
Of course, he can see that everyone's mood is not high, but making movies is like this, and it will never be easy and simple to make real masterpieces.
Behind the success, there are often too many unknown hardships, and the wonderful things that the audience sees and enjoys in the theater require them to work hard in obscurity.
Lu Chen can only find a way to make up for it, and he will never relax his requirements because of this, in fact, if you really want to talk about it, many of the shots taken today are already very good in the eyes of insiders, but they did not achieve the effect he wanted to achieve 100%.
The crew is under a lot of pressure, which is naturally reasonable.
At this time, Chen Guozhi said to him: "Xiao Lu, let's go back to the hotel and have a few words?" ”
Lu Chen was slightly stunned, and hurriedly replied, "Okay." ”
Back inside the hotel, it was already 10 pm.
Chen Guozhi and Lu Chen talked not in the room, but in the small restaurant, where Chen Fei'er and the producer, cameraman, drama and Chen Guozhi's assistant, who is the real henchman of the great director.
In fact, similar small meetings have been held several times during the filming process.
It's already so late, the hotel's restaurant must have closed a long time ago, but the crew of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" stationed here is not an ordinary guest, and the service provided by the hotel is extremely thoughtful, no matter how late you want to order a meal, there is no problem, and supper is no exception.
Chen Guozhi is old, pays attention to health and does not have such a good appetite, he ate a bowl of mushroom noodle soup and was full, and then poured a cup of Longjing tea and tasted it slowly.
Lu Chen and the others knew that he had something to say, so everyone ate casually to fill their stomachs, asked the waiter to remove the plate, and accompanied him to drink tea.
After drinking a cup of tea, Chen Guozhi said in a thoughtful tone: "Xiao Lu, our current shooting progress is a lot behind, have you considered speeding up?" ”
The filming schedule is lagging behind, mainly lagging behind the part that Lu Chen is responsible for.
In addition to playing the leading role, Lu Chen also served as the action director of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", an action director who appeared very early in the domestic and foreign film industry, mainly responsible for the design and direction of the fights in the film, and is the leader in the shooting, scheduling, and editing of all action scenes.
But Lu Chen's action director is different from other peers, according to his definition, the action director of martial arts films is the general person in charge of the design, training, arrangement, scheduling, shooting, editing and other artistic creation activities of martial arts and action scenes in the creation of martial arts action movies, starting from the subjective and objective conditions such as scripts, directors, actors, and on-site environments, and the importance is not under the director.
"Smiling Proud Jianghu" and other action movies, including gods and ghosts, also have essential differences, and it is precisely in order to deepen this difference that Lu Chen is extremely strict in the shooting of action scenes.
As a real martial arts movie, there are many martial arts scenes in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and Lu Chen's pursuit of authenticity in action fights is aimed at achieving an artistic sense of reality through the processing of art and technology.
Therefore, he must balance the relationship between truth and falsehood, and strive to reasonably "embed" the martial arts action in the characters and plot in the logical relationship of the storyline, so that all the martial arts action in the film can happen as naturally and as dazzling as possible.
And if you want to achieve his goals and meet his requirements, it is undoubtedly a huge pressure for the actor!
"Smiling Proud Jianghu" is not "A Chinese Ghost Story", the background of the film is grand, involving Shaolin, Wudang, Wuyue Sword School, Sun Moon Divine Sect and many other sects, and the number of actors is large, but most of them lack experience in this area.
There is no doubt that a large part of the problem can be solved with the help of Wu Ti, but it is impossible for Wu Ti to replace from beginning to end, and corresponding training and cooperation are also required, and there are many group performances that also have to learn basic routines.
In this way, there are really not enough people in the Lu family class, many times Lu Chen has to go down to demonstrate in person, help the actors to correct it repeatedly, and it is strange that the filming progress does not lag behind!
Fortunately, film is now used for all-digital photography, and I don't know how many disks I have to squander before, and the cost is unbearable.
Delaying the schedule is a problem, and the bigger problem is the psychological pressure of the actors and crew.
Chen Guozhi's tone was not heavy, but there was still a hint of questioning, which made the atmosphere in the small restaurant quietly become solemn - was he expressing dissatisfaction?
Lu Chen felt the pressure from this great director, he thought about it, and replied in a deep voice: "Director Chen, according to the current situation, it is difficult for us to speed up our progress, I think we must first ensure the quality and effect..."
"We're not rushing!"
Something about the same, Lu Chen told reporters before, but the object of his answer now is Chen Guozhi.
Chen Guozhi is the director of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and Lu Chen's words are inevitably suspected of challenging his authority.
Several important members of the crew here couldn't help but panic, if the two had a conflict at work, would this movie continue to be filmed like this?
Lu Chen's answer was too direct, couldn't he be more tactful? Or wouldn't it be nice to compromise a bit?
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