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After more than a month of preparation, "The Condor Heroes" finally arrived at the official start of filming. Before the start-up, Gu Cheng spent a week sorting out his roles with the main characters, exchanging their understanding of the roles with each other, and brewing the characters.

As a director for the first time, Gu Cheng finally knew how much complicated work a film and television drama had before filming started.

In contrast, his first two experiences can only be regarded as scratching the surface of his involvement in the pre-preparation and setting the tone of the film.

That's it, at least more than 80% of the specific director's workload was completed by Guan Hu and Liu Hui for him.

After filming started, because he was the actor at the same time, he had to sit behind the monitor for him and watch, correcting the crew's small mistakes in photography, lighting, and positioning, such as jumping the axis and backlighting.

He, a throw-off director, can almost only be regarded as a job of setting the tone, setting the style, putting forward requirements, and improving the effect. As for how to do it after the effect is proposed, he Gu Cheng can only be responsible for throwing money.

But there's nothing to be ashamed of: many people who have transitioned from actors to directors for the first time do just that.

Early in the morning of October 8th, at the Hengdian location base, Gu Cheng and all the actors and crew members held a start-up ceremony.

The ritual was relatively simple, and there was no burning incense for the pig's head. Gu Cheng didn't look down on those feudal superstitions in the first place, but now that he finally invested money to see the overall situation by himself, he naturally had to follow his own wishes.

After the start-up ceremony, it's time to work on the props and sets, and the preparation for the first day is always very long, and it takes a few hours to set up the scenes needed for the opening "Lujiazhuang" shots.

On the first day, there was no indoor drama during the day, purely because Lu Zhanyuan and his wife found the message that Li Mochou was coming to chase and kill outside Zhuangzi, and Cheng Ying and Lu Wushuang's cousins escaped overnight, and finally when they were about to be killed by Li Mochou, they were stalked and rescued by Yang Guo, who was still a little ruffian, and was recognized by Guo Jing and Huang Rong who were passing by.

After nightfall, they will move indoors, interspersed with the process of Lu Zhanyuan and his wife discussing countermeasures and deciding how to let their daughter and niece escape.

When the props and sets were working, Gu Cheng first invited everyone to have an early start-up luncheon, and the stall was closed at 11 o'clock at noon, and then there would be at least seven or eight hours of continuous work.

Throughout the day, Gu Cheng would only have three or four sets of shots in person, and the rest of the time was just following Guan Hu to observe the specific director's work. And Liu Feifei's little dragon girl will not appear in at least the first 3 episodes, and after attending the ceremony and eating the start-up banquet today, you can rest, and it will be no problem to come back in more than a week.

During the filming of the TV series, the order of each character will be coordinated as much as possible to shorten the time they need to stay in the group. Because in addition to the male and female protagonists, the appearance time of many secondary actors is very fragmented.

And "Condor" is even more typical, "Except for Yang Guo, everyone else's appearances are very broken, and even the heroine Xiaolongnu often does not show up for five or six episodes in a row".

Of course, in the scene where Xiaolongnu is not there, Yang Guo is often accompanied by Cheng Ying, Lu Wushuang, Gongsun Lucao, Guo Fu, and Guo Xiang...... And the main purpose of these scenes is often one sentence: accompany Yang Guo to find his aunt.

Oh, and the two-episode scene of falling off the cliff to learn Dugu swordsmanship, the girl was replaced with a big eagle that scanned the material texture after 3D modeling, to complete the task of accompanying Yang Guo to find his aunt.

According to the filming schedule, Gu Cheng's life experience in the next 3 months can be roughly summarized as follows: every important supporting actress can take turns to rest, while Gu Cheng can only endure Liu Feifei, Jiang Xin, Yang Rui, Yang Mi, Sun Li...... The hard work of five girls wheel X.

Fortunately, everything has just begun, and now it is enough to endure the double flight of Jiang Xin and Yang Rui, and Gu Cheng, who has been recuperating for a long time, does not feel hard.

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After the first day, Jiang Xin and Yang Rui "stopped work and waited for materials" again.

Only Gu Cheng needs to play against Guo Jing, Huang Rong and Guo Fu played by Yang Mi, and the first difficulty of this play also came as scheduled.

The biggest trouble with filming an adaptation of a famous novel is that it is easy to be compared with the old version by the audience, especially the elderly audience, and it will be hacked.

In fact, except for some particularly thunderous dramas, many new dramas made in the late 90s and this century are not worse than the old versions in all aspects, at least they have their own merits.

The biggest reason why it is hacked no matter what it looks like is that the post-80s will see what the post-90s and post-00s are watching, and the post-00s cannot see what the post-90s and post-80s have seen. In fact, if the 83 version of Condor Archery can be fully watched many times by the post-90s and post-00s, there are also exaggerated acting skills that can be complained about.

In everyone's mind, there is a subconscious mind that judges those who come after it based on preconceived impressions. Or even just use "it doesn't look like the former" as the criterion of merit and disadvantage.

For the sake of the reputation of professionals in the circle, it is impossible to directly copy the old version of the script, and it must be changed in order to seek new ideas. If you change it in this way, you will have a greater chance of being sprayed.

Since the two versions of Gu Tianle and Ren Xianqi, what kind of person Yang Guo should be, in fact, it is difficult to dig deeper. Many post-80s "fan sisters" who like beauty are even using "Xinyang looks like Gu Tianle" as a yardstick.

Gu Cheng has always been very clear about all this. From the moment he took on this film, he noticed this challenge.

But he can't stop innovation because of that.

To create, but also to create a depth, there are not many points that can be dug.

"Digging deep into the causes of the formation of human nature" may be regarded as a breakthrough point that seems grandiose, but it is extremely difficult to achieve.

This is not to say that Gu Cheng will use the thunderous practice of "matching a bloody love past for every supporting role", and create a "tragic experience that causes him/her to become bad" for Li Mochou and Tian Boguang, who are obviously difficult to whitewash, and then put on a sentence that the post-00s are used to saying "hateful people must have pity".

Gu Cheng is not so stupid, he focused his pen on Yang Guo's personality formation stage when he was writing the screenplay.

Why is it evil? Why is it crazy?

In "The Condor" in previous years, Yang Guo's actions when he was a teenager had many "trouble-making" behaviors that ordinary people could not understand, such as deliberately annoying Huang Rong and Ke Zhenwei when he was on Peach Blossom Island, and taking the initiative to provoke Zhao Zhijing when he went to Zhongnan Mountain.

Even if a handsome guy like Gu Tianle looks humble and introverted, he can't avoid being felt too reckless. In the hands of Huang Xiaomin, there is only a hooligan ruffian, and he has completely become a troublemaker.

Crazy, but not brain-dead, crazy and reasonable, not exaggerated.

This is where Gu Cheng hopes to surpass all previous works.

Moreover, the era in which he lived had this opportunity.

"In the TV series over the years, the performance of the character 'arrogance' will require everyone to be very exaggerated, because the audience of the TV series is not very attentive, if it is not exaggerated, many things to be expressed will be missed by the audience, and the flattery will be thrown to the blind.

But we live in an era where online video will soon be born, and perhaps less than half a year after the film is broadcast, downloadable films watched using web players will become mainstream. At that time, our audience can pause and watch frame by frame, and can easily rewind and watch it repeatedly. Less pompous, just right for new needs. ”

Before the start of the film the next day, he emphasized this outline to Yang Mi and other actors again - in fact, a similar prophecy he told Chai Zhiping when he was in "Meteor Garden".

But in the latter words, it's different.

"Madness has to be crazy to have depth, so Yang Guo's temperament formation when he was a child is very important. There are several points of inner activity in Jin Yong's original work, and I think we can dig deeper:

First of all, Yang Guo was miserable since he was a child, but Mu Nianci was always reluctant to tell him what kind of person Yang Kang was when he was alive. As a result, Yang Guo has always regarded his father as a great hero who stands up to the sky, and further obscenity, "If it weren't for my father dying early, I would definitely be a famous family now, with strong martial arts, glory and wealth."

This kind of brain supplement contributed to Yang Guo's initial madness and refusal to admit defeat. And all the original versions of "Condor" were given up because this scene was too much of an inner monologue and could not be expressed through rival plays.

Secondly, Yang Guo is very smart and intelligent, and can have a sense of superiority in IQ. Throughout the book, Huang Rong always emphasized, 'I can see through anyone, but I can't see through children'. But so far, the TV series and the original book have not shown Yang Guo's Yingwu when he was a child.

So this time we made a very reasonable deduction in the script -- in the two years on Peach Blossom Island, Huang Rong was afraid that Yang Guo would become as bad as Yang Kang after learning martial arts, so he only taught Yang Guo the Four Books and Five Classics, Qin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting -- but what was the result?

Gu Cheng always emphasized the key points to the actors at the end.

He is going to spend more space than Gu Tianle's version to emphasize the personality formation stage of the young Yang Guo on Peach Blossom Island. Instead of being like Huang Xiaomin and Liu Feifei in history, just relying on a few sentences of dialogue of "reporting punishment after causing trouble", Guo Jing sent Yang Guo to Zhongnanshan to finish.

It's certainly not easy to do that. The biggest problem is the makeup and age of the actors.

The reason why Gu Tianle and Ren Xianqi's version can play a little more Yang Guo on Peach Blossom Island is based on the setting of "disrespecting the original work on Yang Guo's appearance", and using a thirty-year-old actor to play Yang Guo, who should still be a child. But it is precisely because Gu Tianle is old that the scenes such as "a big man's inner monologue there" that lead to too dramatic painting style must be omitted.

And Liu Feifei's version of another time and space, in order to break through the previous work, took the lead in using a child star to play the teenager Yang Guo (later Yu Ma's version used a child star even more frantically). In view of the exaggerated and insufficient acting skills of child stars, they can naturally only jump and skip a lot of scenes.

Fortunately, this difficulty, which all predecessors have faced, is not a problem for Gu Cheng today.

He himself is only 18 years old, and with a little makeup, he can still be transformed into a young man under the age of fifteen, but if he is too tall, it is a hard injury.

And the female supporting actors in the crew who have emotional scenes with Yang Guo are also outrageously young.

Yang Rui, who plays Lu Wushuang, is the oldest, only 22 years old. The other 20-year-old Sun Li, 19-year-old Jiang Xin, 16-year-old Liu Feifei and Yang Mi can all be treated with makeup.

In the scene on Peach Blossom Island, after Yang Mi's makeup effect came out, everyone sighed: If you don't reveal your real age, in the eyes of outsiders, it will definitely be a three-year start.

Using Lori to play Lori seems to have a miraculous effect.