In the midst of mixed reviews, fans who really care about the film found another fact that they were shocked by, "Let the Bullets Fly" turned out to be a story about a small town during the Republic of China, just looking at the dress of the people in the stills, which has nothing to do with the military government, and is a purely folk theme.

Although Li Xiaole has said before that it is a "hero film in the western part of the Republic of China", most people speculate that it is concentrated in one direction, that is, the military theme of warlord struggle, Zhou Yunfa and Jiang Wen are really suitable to lead thousands of troops.

As a result, Li Xiaole took these two big actors with the temperament of leaders, and turned them into local tyrants and inferior gentry, bandits and robbers...... Is he really going to make an American cowboy western? That's nonsense......

There have been Westerns in China, such as "Guanzhong Knifeman" and "Mirage", but these are all adventure themes with action movies as the core, and there is no similar type of gunfight like an American cowboy......

Shotgun during the Republic of China government...... What can you shoot?

"I really can't think of it, weishenme wants to shoot this kind of nondescript theme, not warlords during the Republic of China, ...... bandits" "I don't necessarily think so, with Ge You here, it will be very pleasing to make a pure comedy." "It must be a Hong Kong hero film, it is the Republic of China version of "The True Colors of Heroes", I bet that Jiang Wen must play the gang boss, and Zhou Yunfa will play the rebel brother, maybe it will be reversed."

Fans from all over the country were confused by Li Xiaole this time and began to talk about it, the real problem is that those fans who had watched "Soldier Assault" and were looking forward to a big war scene and wanted to go to the cinema to shock were a little disappointed, if it was a spoof comedy, it would be too wasteful to use these actors.

As long as people have a little common sense about movies, they feel that this movie is too difficult to make, and they can't find any selling points except for the strong cast.

Of course, many people have realized Li Xiaole's intentions, and have made remarks on the Internet in support of Li Xiaole:

"This time, Li Crazy seems to want to create a new genre film, since he can use "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" to create a big series of blind date genres, weishenme He can't create a western shootout film? Before Xu Ke filmed "Dragon Gate Inn", everyone didn't expect that there would be a genre of western martial arts films. ”

"Wait, although I can't figure it out, but Li Crazy's brain is much stronger than mine, I don't believe that he will be stupid, act in a bad movie by himself, and smash his own signature ......"

In the suburbs of Kaiping, Guangdong, the light rain continues, the crew of "Let the Bullets Fly" is in full swing to shoot, the crew is working on Lin Zhiling's "county magistrate's wife" and Zhang Mazi's bed scene, the props team is nervously arranging props, according to the start of the film for half a month, the crew's plot has been stopped and changed, far behind Jihua, and it seems that it will not be able to catch up with the Chinese New Year schedule at the end of the year.

Everyone felt what Li Xiaole meant by "autocratic, perverted" before, Xu Zhen, Lao Jiangtou and others, who have worked with Li Xiaole many times, obviously feel that this time the director's requirements are stricter than ever, in the past, he was only more concerned about the actors, but this time it is the performance of the group performance, the placement of the set, and even the lens setting will have many harsh requirements.

Fortunately, the performance of the actors is extremely stable, in a group scene that entered the city before, not only Zhou Yanfa, Jiang Wen, and Ge You's performances are wonderful, but even Zhou Yun and Liao Fan, who don't have many scenes, are remarkable, the real problem is...... Jiang Wen.

In the Chinese entertainment industry, there are several recognized "big brother" level figures, this kind of "big brother" is not the kind of "big brother" in the family, but a character who is indistinguishable in a certain field, they are usually super capable, used to carry burdens, love to take care of newcomers, willing to do any dirty work, and have to meddle in every detail.

In the American film industry, the "big brother" is James Cameron, in the Taiwanese music industry, the "big brother" in the Taiwanese music industry is Li Zongsheng, and in the Hong Kong film industry, the "big brother" is Jackie Chan, and in the mainland film industry, this "big brother" is called "Jiang Boss", that is, Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen is in the crew, he usually automatically takes care of a lot of things, from props, to makeup, actors' positions, and even the script, everyone is used to it, so Jiang Wen's plays have always been "three supers", the plot is super exciting, the shooting time is too long, and the funds are too much.

In the filming of "Let the Bullets Fly", "Boss Jiang" still maintained his style, and his most helpless behavior was to always change the scene temporarily, and every time he had to make Zhou Yanfa, who worked hard to memorize Mandarin lines, extremely painful.

Fortunately, Fa Ge's acting skills are indeed superb, and when he said the sentence changed from "domineering four-colored" to "domineering exposure", he had an impulse to clap his hands and call haode.

And Lin Zhiling's performance is even more amazing, although she often acts completely different from the script, but it gives people just the right feeling, the bed scene with Jiang Wen just filmed, she has a few eyes and even faintly overwhelms Jiang Wen who is deliberately restrained, which is really surprising.

However, Li Xiaole seems to be very affinity for all actors, whether it is Lin Zhiling, Zhou Runfa, Ge You, every time they propose to Jiang Wen to "This doesn't work, it doesn't feel right, let's try other words~ You must ponder carefully, how to make this word more flavorful and fragrant", they will fall into the painful predicament of hard thinking and meditation.

And at this time, Li Xiaole will stand up in time and teach them face-to-ear, every time Li Xiaole temporarily changes out the lines, everyone applauds, and the wonderful "domineering exposure" of Huang Shilang is what Li Xiaole came up with.

At this time, the most depressed person became Jiang Wen, because Li Xiaole would remind all the actors, and every time he wanted to give him advice, he Jiang Wen was different.

The lines of the script were written by him, and the scene was that he felt that the taste of the play was wrong, and he shouted "stop", and he also asked the actors to ponder the lines by themselves, in this case, how could he ask Li Xiaole to give him a prompt, it would only show that his old ginger's incompetence was ridiculous! This will not be promised!

So every time Li Xiaole wanted to suggest, he stubbornly waved his hand and said, "No, Director Li, don't say anything, I'll just think about it myself." ”

Zuihou made other actors think of brilliant lines immediately under Li Xiaole's suggestion, and every time someone else waited for Jiang Wen for half an hour, he could come up with a suitable line plot by himself, this embarrassing situation was unexpected by Jiang Wen.

In fact, Jiang Wen also wanted to ask this seemingly inspired Li Xiaole for advice, but after all, he was there, and he swore before that he would say that Li Xiaole couldn't shoot well, and he still couldn't pull off this face.

And what made Jiang Wen even more depressed was that he patted and patted, and suddenly found that there were several completely illogical things in the script he wrote that could not be solved.

"Although Lao Qi is impulsive, but he is not stupid, how could he let Hu Wan force him to commit suicide?" "Since Zhang Mazi sent money to the poor, how could it be sent to Sister Hua?" The most critical thing is also the climax of the play: "In Zhang Mazi and Huang Shilang's one-time move in Zuihou, killing the stand-in is the result, but how did he vent Huang Shilang's anger in the process?" We ignored this process! ”

This is how to make movies, if you want to pursue the ultimate, you will shoot and find different pits in the plot, and the general movies will be filmed casually according to the script, and they will be released directly in the hope that the audience can ignore them, but Jiang Wen's personality is a person who must fill in the pits before he can shoot it.

This is a process of "breaking first and then standing", Jiang Wen is good at the process of "breaking", his sense is very keen, and he can quickly find the imperfections in the plot, but it is not easy to "stand", it is very difficult to design a stunning bridge section with ingenuity without changing the outline structure.

Jiang Wen convened his screenwriting team to discuss for a whole week, but he didn't come up with a reasonable bridge design for these issues, which made him struggle in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep, and often got up alone in the early morning to squat and smoke in the watchtower hall.

Of course, Li Xiaole saw these situations, he didn't make a noise at the time, and let Jiang Wen get entangled by himself, the original script of "Let the Bullets Fly" was the hard work of 12 editors of Jiang Wen's creative team for 3 years, and now it is only less than two months, how can it be possible to write a perfect script?

Although he didn't want Jiang Wen to be so painful, and he also wanted the crew to run smoothly, but in order to tame this self-esteemed teacher Jiang, he had to go through this process.

Jiang Wen was very painful, but what could he do, he also understood that he was purely self-inflicted, and now he had begun to regret his move to seize power from Li Xiaole at the beginning, he had already fucking known that Li Xiaole's level of control over the story was so high! How could he Lao Jiang do so much!? still wants to guide Li Xiaole, and now he wants Li Xiaole to guide him......

"You just deserve it~" Huang Jianxing looked at Jiang Wen's current predicament, and threw this sentence at him hatefully: "Why don't you go and apologize to Director Li, you two have a good discussion~"

"Is it necessary?" Jiang Wen still looked like he was not admitting defeat, and said very calmly: "Old Huang, believe it or not, I have a way to get Director Xiao Li to take the initiative to show me goodwill, I don't have to apologize." ”

"How can you let Director Li take the initiative to show you favor, people are holding their breath to compete with you now, think about what you said to him before, if I want to slap you in the mouth." Huang Jianxing looked at him and said angrily, you have despised Li Xiaole like this, you are still waiting for others to bow their heads, what you old Jiang thinks is beautiful.