Chapter 57: The Gurkha Knife Hand
Next, Director Xie told Zhou Yi in detail about his movement design, and it is not difficult to communicate between professionals, and everyone can understand it. Zhou Yi was very satisfied, and felt that the action choreography was really good, and he didn't have to bother designing it himself.
Of course, the specific effect depends on Zhou Yi's wonderful performance.
The same action, different actors to play, the effect is definitely different.
Sometimes the shooting is not good-looking, not because the action design is not good, but because the actors can't play the kind of flavor that the director wants. Specifically, the actor does not know how to pose, or the shape is ugly, the rhythm of the action is not well controlled, and the explanation of moves is messy.
This is the same as singing to grab a slow beat, and go out of tune.
Anyone can sing songs, but it's rare to sing at the top level.
That's just the way it goes.
These are all taboos in action scenes, if you make these mistakes, no matter how strong your actual combat ability is, it is useless, after all, filming is not a ring. In the previous life, those sanda fighting champions made movies, and if they didn't have professional training, they still didn't look good.
There is also a situation where the photographer's shooting level is not enough, and the skills are insufficient, and the shooting effect is naturally not good-looking.
The action scenes of the movie are not national martial arts competitions, and they are never judged by competition. It is the art of the lens, and it is natural to pay attention to the shooting effect, and the level of the photographer is particularly important. Jet Li's performance in some TV shows in his previous life was limited to his height, and he was indeed not particularly good-looking, but it was like that, which was much inferior to the movie lens. This is the shooting effect, otherwise it is useless for the actor to have strength, and the photographer needs to cooperate.
But now these problems can be solved very well.
Zhou Yi's Guoshu strength is enough, his figure is excellent, his height is more than 1.8 meters, he is definitely cool and handsome, and his action modeling is not a problem.
Since photographer Lang Hannian can work in Yousheng Entertainment Group, can be sent over to take charge of the camera alone, and can also be trusted by his colleagues, he is obviously able to take on the heavy responsibility of shooting, and there is nothing to worry about. That's it.
The quality of film practitioners in today's Huaxia is indeed very high, even the chief photographer of Zhengdong can shoot very well, not to mention the photographer of Yousheng, even if he is only the deputy photographer of the crew, but the level is enough, he has already been refined, and if he goes to a small company to make films, he can also be independent.
There's no doubt that a cinematographer who makes a movie is better than a cinematographer who shoots a TV series.
In this regard, Zhou Yi can fully trust Lang Hannian's photographer.
Next, everyone has to start training and form a tacit understanding.
Xie Yingshou introduced some martial artists of the crew to Zhou Yi, and they will assist Zhou Yi and others in training later. Some white and black actors who specialize in playing mercenaries also came to the scene to greet everyone, see the excitement, and make some preparations. They have been working in Huaxia and naturally know some Chinese. Many movies need foreign actors like them, and they don't have to worry about having nothing to do.
Don't think they can't get along in Hollywood, so they came to China to pan for gold. In fact, they get a higher salary in Huaxia. After all, the Huaxia film industry is more prosperous, the market is large, and it makes more money, which will naturally attract some foreign actors to pan for gold.
Didn't some Chinese celebrities in their previous lives also sharpen their heads and desperately go to Hollywood?
These things are normal.
For the sake of the film effect, these foreign actors are often asked to play some roles.
However, this end credits have limited time, and these foreign actors are just acting as mercenary backgrounds, and there is no fighting.
The easter egg fight is concentrated between Zhou Yi and the four Gurkha swordsmen.
The scenes are concentrated in order to look good, but if there are too many people, it will be chaotic, but the effect is not good.
Watching the scenes of a large group of people fighting back and forth in the movie is often not exciting.
Dozens of seconds of knife fighting, how many people do you want to film? Bite off more than you can chew.
Plot-wise, these South American mercenaries won't have nothing to do with group fights, it's too dangerous. They just stand aside and watch the excitement, pointing fingers, muttering a few words, with a little facial expression, and it's good to be a standing background.
At this time, four Gurkha swordsmen also came to the shooting site to prepare.
Don't think they're fake, they're absolutely authentic Gurkha swordsmen, from the Gurkha village west of Kathmandu, Nepal, who have been practicing knives since childhood, and never leave their bodies. And they are all retired special forces of the foreign Gurkha battalion of the Chinese special forces.
The Chinese special forces have a special Gurkha battalion, which is responsible for suppressing some overseas forces.
The situation in this world is different from the previous life, the whole of Asia is the sphere of influence of China, and India has been divided, just like the Korean dynasty in the previous life, and it is more divided, and it is not at all formed. British influence has long been driven out of the Asian sphere of influence, and India is no longer the crown jewel of the British Empire. The Gurkha camp is also not a double-flowered red stick for British nobles, and it is a specially hired thug.
Now Nepal has long been conquered by China, and it has many economic aids in peacetime, and has become a member of the co-prosperity circle.
In the previous life, the Gurkha battalion could serve the British, and in this life, it can also serve China, just changing the master. After all, in the face of powerful thermal weapons, personal martial bravery is no longer commendable. They are just a small people, they will perish if they do not submit, there is nothing to say.
The modern history of China today is a glorious history, and all those who stand in the way are invincible, and they are invincible.
It's the way it is, and that's the way it is.
Now Huaxia Film and Television Company wants to find some Gurkha retired soldiers to play some movie roles, which is very easy, as long as you give money. These actors have been used by major film companies. These Gurkha usually star as fierce swordsmen or mercenaries. Due to their frequent appearances on movie screens, they also have their own unique screen image, both good and bad, and they are somewhat famous.
Some special action actors are also well-known and respected in Nepal, which can be described as both fame and fortune.
Obviously, the price of these knife hands is very expensive.
Don't look at this time it's just an easter egg scene, two fight scenes, which add up to only about a minute, but the four Gurkha swordsmen each have a remuneration of 10,000 Chinese yuan, and the crew is responsible for food and lodging, which is equivalent to a salary of 60,000 yuan a minute in the previous life.
Of course, this can't be counted like that.
But the price is really not low.
Even if you do cut people, there will be no such price.
This is the real fight is not as good as the fake fight, it's all like this.
Xie Yingshou introduced all these situations to Zhou Yi.
He directly told Zhou Yi that these Gurkha people are very tame, don't look at them as soldiers, as swordsmen, they seem to be fierce, but Huaxia is strong, they will not bite their masters, they usually get along very well, and there is no need to worry at all.
Previous brutality was directed against overseas rebels, and they participated in repressive military operations. But now that they have retired, they are very honest in China, and they want to make money by making movies, and they have no rebellious temperament. As long as you give money, you can shoot anything.
Zhou Yi understands in his heart that modern society is a society of power and money, a society of class division, but it is definitely not a society of fists. No one can make a difference. Take him as an example, why has he been reluctant to break away from the military command, and he still took the initiative to get up, obviously the military command has great restrictions on him, but this official skin is too useful. Not to mention that he is the eighth section of the national arts, even if he holds the title of the hundred sections of the national arts, he can't compare to the organizational background of the military commander.
It is covered with tissue, and it is convenient to do anything.
Emotional bonding is only one factor.
These Gurkha people are of the same nature, they don't need official status like Zhou Yi, but they need money to live better. In the previous life, with a salary of less than $10,000 a year, they were able to sell their forces to become soldiers, so would they be high in this life? For the sake of money, no matter how backbone you have, you have to bow your head. Personal bravery and self-esteem are not used in filmmaking.
Even in previous lives, Gurkha mercenaries were known for their loyalty to their employers, as well as for their discipline and bravery, which was good at obedience, not rebelliousness. Since they were able to be used by the British in their previous lives, no matter how much they preached that they were not conquered, they were still the same, just another way of saying it. How could they be rebellious? Britain just didn't want to pay too much price, so they turned to wooing, but in fact tamed them. It's the same in today's Huaxia, at least these Gurkha swordsmen in the crew are very good, very gentle and honest.
If you are always unruly and fierce, who dares to invite you, how can you make money?
That's just the way it goes.
In fact, these Gurkha swordsmen are very easy to get along with, they are not tall, they do not have a fierce appearance, and they have received professional training from the military department, they have learned Chinese in China, they have a level of education, they are good at communication, and they are very kind.
Under the introduction of Xie Yingshou, Zhou Yi chatted with the four Gurkha swordsmen, and everyone got along very happily.
In order to make money, it is absolutely impossible for people to do anything vulgar and disgusting like disobedience to challenges.
That kind of behavior is purely mentally ill brain-dead behavior, and I think I can fight it, so it's powerful, isn't that a stupid fork?
It's really so aggressive, it's better to play the game directly, and what kind of movie do you make.
No matter how high your national skills are, people will not respect you, and if your national skills are not enough, people will not look down on you, and they will still cooperate according to the director's requirements. People value money, not you. Of course, Zhou Yi understands the reason.
As long as you put the money in place, Michael Gwight can be beaten by Tony Ja, Tyson can draw with Donnie Yen, and the Gurkha swordsman from the special forces who suppressed overseas riots can of course be abused by all kinds of Chinese heroes on the screen. Rich is the big guy.
The audience just loves to watch these things.
Now everyone is communicating, just to better cooperate with the play.
Both sides are professional masters, and they also have acting experience, so there is nothing difficult to cooperate with the play, the main thing is to get familiar with it. Some of the action designs practiced by the martial arts group can be completed very well, as long as they watch it once, they can follow it down, and there is no problem at all.
At least Xie Yingshou is very satisfied, and feels that the two sides cooperate very well, very smooth and natural.
Zhou Yi cooperated with the four Gurkha knife players, and he was also very happy, at least the play could be more exciting, the other party's performance was indeed very professional, and he could completely keep up with his speed and react quickly. This is filming, of course Zhou Yi will not do his best, just to make the action exciting.
When the world says that the Gurkhas are slow to react, they mean that they are emotionally apathetic, that they are natural soldiers, killing machines, but not that they are slow to react. When the Indian independence movement was suppressed, the Gurkha were ruthless and committed massacres, and they could even shoot peaceful demonstrators with machine guns for up to an hour, slaughtering thousands of believers, and their faces did not change, hence the comments of unresponsiveness and emotional indifference. But the fighting actions of their movies are very exciting, especially the knife skills are particularly wonderful and incisive.
For the fight of close knife fighting, it can be brilliant in a few seconds, and many knives can be produced in one second, and they have to fight for dozens of seconds, which is enough to play. The fighting knives used by both sides are carefully designed by the prop masters of the crew and are very safe.
Zhou Yi used a tiger stripe tactical straight knife.
Note that this life is different from the previous life, this is not a famous foreign knife, it is a military dagger-type tactical straight knife used by the Chinese special forces, which is a medium-sized straight knife, and it is also a jungle combat knife, which matches the identity of the character very well, after all, it is a mercenary trained in the jungle of South America.
This medium-sized straight knife has a total length of 38.4 cm, a blade length of 25.4 cm, a blade thickness of 6 mm, a black titanium surface, a hollow all-steel and string binding, a solid and non-slip handle, and a variety of built-in survival accessories such as matches, hooks, lines and compasses.
The tail tip taper hammer with the shank can be used for vigorous striking and also has a rope hole.
A ring clasp to protect your fingers has also been added to the handshake.
This tactical medium straight knife has a blade shape suitable for cutting, chopping and stabbing, with a large and powerful double layer of large back teeth, a very fine and sharp blade, and a cross-shaped and slotted driver at both ends of the handguard for screwing.
Of course, the above is real data, but Zhou Yi uses a simulated prop knife made by a prop master, which is not practical and lethal at all.
Zhou Yi is not bad to use, quite handy.
The four Gurkha swordsmen wield a Gurkha dogleg scimitar, a recurve knife, which contrasts sharply with the tactical straight knife.
Although they also used a short knife shape, the recurve blade length was still longer, at more than 30 centimeters.
In this way, the recurve knives held by the four Gurkha swordsmen were longer than Zhou Yi's tactical straight knives, and the hand-to-hand knife combat was more dangerous. Generally speaking, in action movies, the protagonist often has a short knife and a long knife, which is the shooting technique. And the straight knife melee recurve knife is really thrilling.
In fact, everyone uses imitation prop knives, no matter how you fight, there is no danger, just don't deliberately attack the vital point.
In addition to the simulated weapons, the props team also created a variety of props, including plasma packs, that could be used later in the shoot. This hand-to-hand knife fight must be very bloody, and you have to sprinkle blood plasma wildly and be prepared.
In terms of action design, Director Xie is indeed extremely exciting, which is to highlight the word "sinister" in knife battles.
The personal knife battle includes various knife slashing techniques such as cutting fingers, picking tendons, breaking elbows, wiping throats, and continuously cutting arteries, which are very bloody and brutal, at least much more bloody and brutal than the scene where Wu Jing killed the police in his previous life, if it highlights the fierce and violent side of the villain played by Zhou Yi.
However, many of the actions are similar to the filming methods of the movies in his previous life, Zhou Yi is very familiar with them, and he has seen a lot of them in his memory, and there is no problem.
He has a lot of character looks to refer to.
For example, Ikowuais's knife duel against Rahman, Yuan Bin's knife duel against Tannayon, Wu Jing's knife duel against Scott Akins, and the short knife knife design in the two Wolf Killing Wolves can all be referenced.
Although the actions of the design of the solution are different, these things can be touched.
For example, there are good examples in the short knife changing hands, Yuan Bin vs. Tan Nayong, and Wu Jing vs. Donnie Yen. For example, there are classic scenes in the continuous cutting of arteries, the fight scenes of Ikowues vs. Rahman, and Won Bin vs. Tannayon. As for actions such as breaking tendons and wiping throats, it is even more common. Scott Akins also has the thrill of a short knife in the crotch, which is just too much.
Zhou Yi's attainments in national art are very deep, and he has the insight of his previous life, so it is really not difficult to shoot these action scenes at all.
And in the process of filming, it is especially important to keep your own look perfect and cool.
The head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the hairstyle cannot be messed up.
For the top action scenes filmed by those excellent action actors, every action is simply a pose, and it is all the perfect connection between various shapes and shapes, even the dodge action of dodging bullets, and even the action of rolling all over the ground must go through a special modeling design, so that it looks good. For example, the scene between Yuan Bin and Tan Nayong, including the shootout, doesn't matter whether the strength is strong or not, all kinds of actions are really handsome, that's it. For another example, Jet Li is in the ending scene of "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", he is simply posing everywhere, and there is no trick that does not pose.
Of course it looks handsome that way.
Zhou Yi will also learn from these experiences.
Even if it's a combat style, it's not a mess.
Those messy action scenes are not necessarily because the action design is very poor, or the actual combat style is not enough, but there is a problem with the rhythm control, the play is too chaotic, not organized, and finally loses the enjoyment.
After all, making movies is for the audience to enjoy, not actual combat, and the most important thing is to enjoy it. Only the actual combat style based on ornamentation is called the actual combat style, otherwise it is a random fight, and there is no excitement at all.
Zhou Yi will never make that kind of low-level mistake, this is filming, not actual combat, the action must be fast, but it can't be chaotic, no matter how fast a move is, you must explain it clearly, especially pay attention to the shooting effect. In these aspects, he deliberately reconciled and guided, and Lang Photography communicated carefully, determined the shooting plan, and studied how to design various lenses, which was the main work of his afternoon training. As for the run-in of the play, everyone is a professional master, as long as they are familiar with the routines, they can all remember it, there is no problem. It's not a competition, how else do you need to train?
Most of the research is the change of the rhythm of the play, the design of the action modeling, and the use of special skills, which require the tacit understanding of both parties, and the most important thing is how to capture the camera. This is what filming is to be studied, not like a national art duel or a ring, which is to fight in one breath. It's not okay to shoot regardless of the camera. Don't look at it, it's just an action scene of tens of seconds to a minute or so, but it's also very cumbersome to shoot excitingly. In particular, close-fitting knife fights are more skillful, and shooting is really important, not as easy to shoot as simple punches and kicks.
However, Lang did make sufficient preparations in advance, and there was no problem in this regard.
After an afternoon of drama research and training, these movements are finally done.
Less than two minutes of play, this design is enough.
If you want to save trouble in this kind of scene, of course, it is easy to fool the past.
But if you want to shoot well, you have to do it so seriously.
Regarding Zhou Yi's performance, Director Lou is indeed very satisfied with the reconciliation guide.
They feel that Zhou Yi's action modeling is extremely handsome, every action is a cool and handsome shape, the coherence between the shapes, the movements are in place, smooth and natural, there is a degree of advance and retreat, a strong sense of rhythm, very rhythmic, more powerful, and has a super visual impact. Some acting superstars have a scene in every look, but Zhou Yi can do every action with a play.
In particular, Zhou Yi explained the fighting moves quickly and clearly, neither dragging mud and water, nor showing any messiness, and all kinds of difficult actions were done perfectly, without the assistance of Hang Weiya, showing the super skills and outstanding demeanor of the eighth section of the national arts.
Everyone discussed and discussed just now, and it was decided that the scene should be filmed in real time, and try not to hang Weiya.
Zhou Yi assured that as long as the difficulty of the action does not exceed the limit of the human body, he can do it, without worry.
It's true, he can really do it.
This fight scene, which is only a few tens of seconds, can definitely be played to the point of excitement and breathtaking.
Even the four Gurkha swordsmen were very impressed by Zhou Yi's action scenes and thought they were gorgeous.
This is what the industry often says that it is better to be able to play than to act, not to mention that Zhou Yi himself is also extremely capable of fighting.
The four Gurkha swordsmen all felt that Zhou Yi was indeed a master of actual combat, and his skills were obviously extraordinary, and some movements were not masters and could not be done at all. They don't know Zhou Yi's true identity, but with the sharp eyes of their retired special forces, as well as the keen intuition cultivated from martial arts training since childhood, they can be sure that Zhou Yi is definitely a real master of national arts, and it is very dangerous, and he is definitely not that kind of showy actor.
It's better to be famous than to meet, everyone thinks that Zhou Yi's action scenes are indeed too good-looking and exciting.
There is no permanent situation, but each move must have a momentum, and the situation is different.
Water has no permanent shape, but the flow must be tangible, and the change is always there.
That is to say, every move of Zhou Yi can be integrated into the modeling, which can give the audience a cool and handsome action modeling, so that everyone can enjoy the gorgeous soaring posture and enjoy the ultimate exquisite and luxurious dynamic experience. For action scenes, the actual combat ability is strong, and it is not as good as the action posture.
The same action, played by another person, really can't be done. It's definitely an action talent.
Even the fighting action of the feature film can't overwhelm this easter egg fight scene, which is really powerful.
Director Lou and Director Reconciliation all feel that there is really no one in today's action movie actors who can surpass Zhou Yi's level, at least they lack this extremely amazing action talent, no matter what their strength is, they don't have the gorgeous temperament of this kind of action superstar, and the level is obviously a lot worse!
The classmate Zhou Yi in front of him is indeed a future Chinese action superstar, and he really lives up to his name.
Shui Yuexun is really a hero this time, and the little girl is actually very decisive and smart.
In fact, the scarlet moon sword has always been very smart, but she usually likes to pretend to be cute.
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