Feng Congli, the editor-in-chief of "China Film News", couldn't help muttering to his friend director Wang Xiaoshuai next to him: "This scene is really good...... This Li Xiaole has worked hard. ”

"It's really good, it's hard, you look at the posture of those bandits squatting on the tree, these people are all skilled, I don't know where to find so many actors......"

In addition to big directors like Chen Kaige, there are many directors like Wang Xiaoshuai who make literary films, although everyone says that "making blockbusters" is not a big deal, but the real magic of movies and stage plays lies in the impact of the picture.

Although this aerial filming scene may be passed by by ordinary audiences at a glance, for most directors, they are envious and admired at the same time, even if they are given so many people, I am afraid they will not be able to shoot such a grand scene.

In order to improve the lack of shocking fighting scenes in the original "Let the Bullets Fly", Li Xiaole spent half a month of hard work to create this shootout drama.

In the original version, Zhang Mazi, a gangster, only had more than 20 subordinates, and Huang Shilang, a tyrant in Goose City, only had dozens of subordinates, which also led to the biggest problem of this movie that was criticized in the future:

"Since Huang Shilang's armed strength is so weak? weishenme Zhang Mazi has been fighting with him for so long? Why don't you just kill these? ”

In fact, in the original script, Huang Shilang had 800 gunmen and Zhang Mazi had 200 brothers, just because Jiang Wen had limited funds during filming and couldn't hire enough extras, so dozens of people were still Jiang Wen's relatives, and the staff in the crew made temporary cameos, the reason was the shortage of production fees, and the 1 announced to the public. The production cost of 100 million is actually only a little more than 80 million.

Many outsiders don't understand that the so-called blockbuster weishenme costs so much money, in addition to the big scene and stunts, it's not a big deal, it's just that there are many people to support the scene, even if each extras are 120 a day, they can't spend a few dollars, and the cost of weishenme is so high?

In fact, the reason is very simple, movies are different from TV, movies have to face the big screen, any detail will affect the audience's viewing experience, and a small mistake will affect the overall effect of the movie.

For example, in "The City Full of Golden Armor", the golden armor and palace maids who appeared, each of them received 1 month of professional etiquette training before filming, which ensured that the extras in the camera were in line with the momentum of the royal guards, and each person's accommodation fee and food expenses were 300 yuan per day, and the cost of each set of golden armor master's handmade costumes was as high as more than 500 yuan, and it was almost more than 10,000 yuan for a supporting extra.

And those who play the bandits must also be trained and experienced extras, there is no local Guangdong at all, there is no time to train, so they can only be transferred from Chu and Zhejiang, and in this way, the fare on the way plus the accommodation fee of these extras is not a small cost, not to mention 500 sets of props and costumes.

When filming the original version, Jiang Wen even saved the clothes of the people of Goose City in order to save money, and directly let them appear shirtless.

And Li Xiaole changed all this during the filming this time, he not only commanded the crew to make all the props and costumes of the extras, but also borrowed 500 dancers from several large art troupes of the Guangdong Military Region with his connections, which reached the conditions for filming this big scene.

The aerial scene just now, Weishenme's picture composition is so open and clear, it is completely made with real effort and energy.

The production cost of "Heroes"2. 500 million, the production cost of "Wuji" is 350 million, the production cost of "The City is Full of Golden Armor" is 360 million, and the production cost of "Casting Names" is 320 million, until "Red Cliff" reaches an unprecedented 600 million yuan......

The more outdoor scenes, the more scenery shots, and the more group scenes. The larger the photographic range, the exponential increase in cost.

As a result, most directors try to avoid these shots, knowing that reducing such a few shots will give the audience a world of perception and feeling, and everyone can't shoot it, and the original Jiang Wen is the same, everything is because of financial problems.

And this time, although Li Xiaole did not come up with a whole magnificent story, he showed full sincerity in such a scene, and every penny of the 110 million funds was spent on the blade.

The long convoy, dressed in uniform military uniforms, was laughing and laughing in the mountain and forest roads by the stream, while the high mountains were lined with bandits in the mountain streams, and in silence, they raised their guns of different sizes and aimed at the convoy below.

In the convoy, Ge You looked at the glittering silver ingots on the car, and couldn't help laughing: "Benefactor, show you a treasure." As he spoke, he took out a letter of appointment from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Mazi.

"Isn't this a power of attorney?" Jiang Wen was stunned.

"Baby~"

"Niannian, Niannian~"

"Ma Bond is hereby appointed...... What's wrong? ”

"Back! Read the words you haven't read, among them~"

"Ma Bond is hereby appointed as the magistrate of Cannes, alas, wait a while~?" Jiang Wen didn't understand.

"haha~" Ge You hahadaxiao: "Le me to death." ”

"Cannes? Isn't it Goose City? ”

"It's always been Cannes~!"

"What's the difference between this goose city and Cannes?" Jiang Wen said curiously.

"Cannes is rich, but Goose City is dangerous."

"Then you weishenme let me go?"

"You cow, hijack the train! Tell you, there are two situations when you come to Goose City! First, you were killed by Huang Shilang in the process, I will go to Kangcheng and take office calmly~ Second, you have a kind, we did Huang Shilang, just like now~hahaha~"

Jiang Wen laughed and snorted: "Okay, good Ma Bond, you liar!" Sooner or later, one day you will be shot by Zhang Mazi~! ”

"You broke me~? You are reluctant~~" Ge You waved his hand again and again and smiled.

"Eh, do you really believe that I am Zhang Mazi?" Jiang Wen looked at Ge You with a smile.

"Huh?" Ge You, who got carried away, was stupid: "If it weren't for Zhang Mazi, there would be real pockmarks on this mountain, and as soon as Zhang Mazi came, you and I would die!" ”

Jiang Wen looked at Ge You, smiled silently, Ge You also realized that he was scaring himself, and he also laughed, at this time, with Ge You's line of sight, the deep mountains were quiet and quiet like a poetic painting, like a green carpet giving people a warm and harmonious feeling, and a few goshawks hovered on it like ink embellishment~

Comfortable music sounded, but the audience at this moment heard that the comfortable music brought the calm before the storm, and such a harmonious picture at this moment can bring the audience the breath of death......

A light breeze blew, and I saw that on the quiet and picturesque mountain stream, thousands of trees swayed, and the leaves rustled, and I saw that the black barrels of the guns were slightly raised in the gaps in the leaves, and then I looked over, and the muzzles of the guns all over the mountains were held on the arms with bulging muscles, and the faces with masks like ghosts loomed, and the audience gasped, and their hearts were lifted for Jiang Wen and Ge You.

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and one person in the convoy fell to the ground, and the people in the convoy were stunned for a moment, "Bang bang ~!" "Gunshots rang out in the valley, and the sound waves reverberated like thunder under the reverberation of the mountain walls! The bullets rained down, the sound of the whistling sound hitting the human body and the sound of the flesh and blood, and the footage of blood splashing in the air, which made many viewers shrink their heads in fright, and a few viewers who were not happy simply closed their eyes.

The people who were hit screamed in an instant, blood splattered, limbs and bones were shattered everywhere, horses galloped in panic, and boxes of shiny silver fell down the mountain road and spilled all over the ground, but they were immediately stained red by blood...... Death, panic, despair, befell everyone.

Jiang Wen and Ge You turned over and hid by the silver box, both looking at each other with a look of horror in their eyes, the bullets whistling past the heads of the two, Jiang Wen's hat was pierced by the bullets and flew to the ground, and his face changed.

Seeing Jiang Wen and Ge You being rained down by bullets, the low exclamations in the screening hall were one after another, as if the audience was in the scene, and the tension level was no lower than that of Ge You, and many young couples naturally shook hands nervously, but their eyes did not leave the big screen.

"Whew." The frequency of bullets finally slowed down, Ge You was relieved, and the audience was also relieved, at this time, Jiang Wen was in danger, and said to Lao Wu: "Tell the brothers, don't shoot~ Run to the top of the mountain." ”

As soon as the bandits' whistle sounded, they gathered in the mountains and forests, and in the convoy where people overturned on their horses, everyone was originally lying on the ground in despair, and people's hearts were scattered, but as soon as they heard Jiang Wen's whistle, among the more than 100 panicked faces, there were more than ten pairs of desperate eyes that were full of brilliance, and they all seemed to be awakened, carrying the guns in their hands in the rain of bullets, walking fast, fast as the wind, and running towards the mountain stream.

"Run to the hills, grab their heads~" "Sixty-two to the west." "At least a hundred to the south." "There's a big one to the east." "Seventh, the third will take ten people to clean up the west!" The bandit whistle whistled like the wind, and the audience looked at these swift figures, and the breath in their hearts finally came up! Zhang Mazi is going to fight back!

I saw that in a grand frontal panoramic shot, I saw the seventh, the third, with a vote of people up, took out a pistol, a bloody and romantic violent shootout began, the battle of the bandits against the bandits, not the original version of the easy victory, but the real battle of guns to flesh, the third, the seventh jumped sideways, rolled on the ground, the gunfire around the sound, the whole body was in dodge in the attack by the branches and stones scraped bloodstained.

Looking at the special effects of the bullet flying in the air, the slow shot passed through the body of the bandit, spurting out blood, seeing the audience's blood spurting, violence is never aesthetics, the hand that captures the lens is the aesthetic creator, Li Xiaole played the characteristics of Zhao Fei, who once won the best cinematography of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association with "The Red Lantern Hangs High", so that he gave full play to his grasp of the red tone, the bullet brought out different reds in the blood, and different spraying efforts have become a stage for this big photographer to show his beauty~