After filming the Panama Canal, Levi traveled to China in December to shoot the final part of his film, the spectacular part of the human column.

In fact, since the 90s, Chinese films have not been completely self-enclosed. Some films can already be filmed, filmed, and filmed in China. In the simplest example, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a work produced in Colombia, but it was filmed in China. It doesn't make sense to say that the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is treated differently because it is a Chinese-language film, because when Levy arrived in China, there was another American film being shot in China: the movie Kill Bill, most of which was also shot in Beijing. In Levy's memory, in future movies, The Mummy 3, Mission Impossible 3, these movies will also be filmed in China.

This kind of cooperation is not the first time in China.

And the reason why these films choose to shoot in China without tax rebates is, of course, difficult to simple: all kinds of costs are low and labor is cheap, which is the biggest reason. Quentin is shooting a B-grade film, and he doesn't like to play with special effects and explosions, preferring to use Zhang Che's method to sprinkle blood plasma in a sleeve, such a style of Chinese martial arts films in the 70s is naturally cheaper to shoot in China.

Similar to him, Levy's films feature the computer part of the human column that could not be filmed anywhere else but in China - populously Bollywood can do it, but Levy is always worried that their computer will suddenly dance......

Therefore. Coming to China to shoot is almost the only option.

Of course, I want to shoot a film in China. Another important issue is that the content of the shooting needs to be reviewed. If this side does not agree, then it is not allowed to shoot in China.

The U.S. has had this happen in the past: whenever they wanted to film the story of a monk, they simply didn't get permission from the Chinese side. Such films, they can only be shot in India. For the Chinese side, the film wants to be filmed. You can't go wrong in the big picture.

Levy knows the seriousness of this, even those who have offended the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for making films that have had a bad impact. They're all going to ban movies too.

In fact, China is not alone in doing this – for example, Levy's current film has a three-day volley that burns the Vatican to ashes. This part. Levy would never have been stupid enough to ask to go to the Vatican to shoot it on the spot - there is a great irony in this scene. He will never be allowed to shoot over there.

And in China, too, if you want to satirize China, of course, this side will not agree.

However, Levy is now very famous, and, although he has filmed the eavesdropping storm, he has also been banned in China, but. After all, it is not directly talking about Chinese movies, which will be separated by a layer. If it was five years ago. Maybe Levy will be restricted from coming to China, but after five years, Levy has become famous, and he has apologized, and he has developed some relationships in China.

In this regard, Levy also smiled bitterly: In his previous life, Jean. Jacques. After Arnold apologized, he went to China to shoot the wolf totem, and he scolded him very much, but now that he has to enjoy this kind of preferential treatment from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, he can't scold it.

However, no matter how preferential treatment he is, Levy knows that his film can't pass the line. Fortunately, there are not many parts that Levy wants to shoot in China, and these parts do not violate domestic requirements.

Because the story of the script has been moved to the United States, the historical memories that are most likely to cause problems have nothing to do with China, and naturally there is no problem. And in the story, although in the back, after the earthlings united, there were also Chinese soldiers who appeared, but the people from the five major countries all appeared, and, basically, they all played soy sauce, and the real highlight of Levy's changes was a policeman, and it was the American military who made a fool of himself, so they couldn't find fault with it.

Even the part of the filmmaker computer, Levy was worried that they would say that they would map and deny their own films, so he also specially exaggerated some of the arrogance and lasciviousness of ancient Rome, highlighting that this is a miracle that only Chinese can do - after these changes, his films have also been successfully shot in China.

After all, in his previous life, Levy dealt with them a lot, and how to avoid their sensitive points, Levy was still clear.

And this part of the shooting in China also went very well. This part is the part of the human column computer.

In this part, there is only one Chinese actor with lines, Qin Shi Huang. And after considering the candidates, Levy chose to find actor Chen Baoguo in China to play this role.

This role is actually just a big trick, but Levy has also thought about it a little. There is no need to find a particularly famous big star for this role, but to play this role, the actors needed must also have some acting skills. After all, he is playing a role like Qin Shi Huang, and if he plays it nondescriptly, the Chinese market will have to lose a lot.

Among the actors who are better at playing emperors in China, Chen Daoming is a little too quiet, which does not match the temperament of the whole play, Zhang Tielin can play the emperor with braids, but the kind of domineering that is a little contrived is not very suitable. Originally, Levi wanted to invite Tang Guoqiang, but last year he just acted in the Long March and played the leader, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television did not allow him to make some more movies that damaged his image.

Therefore, in comparison, Chen Baoguo is more suitable. Rigid and self-righteous and not angry and self-righteous is the temperament that Levy wants to show, and he has no problem playing this.

And except for him alone, basically everyone is a trick, and they only need to make moves underneath. While it's hard to get thousands of people right at once, it takes a long time to train, and it takes many shots to be completely successful, but for Levy, it's not a big deal.

Because on the Chinese side, the salaries of actors are too cheap.

At this time in '02, prices were really low.

In Beijing, for a role without lines, an actor is about 30 yuan a day. And if you go to a city in the mainland, some performing arts companies can even quote 10 yuan a day for an actor - of course, according to the rules, the crew has to take care of their working meals every day, and if they shoot in the suburbs, they also have to prepare vehicles to transport them back and forth, but considering China's labor costs, these are not much money.

An actor is 30 a day, that is, he finds 10,000 people, and he only has 300,000 yuan a day. According to the exchange rate of 1:8.27 at this time, it will not take 40,000 US dollars in a day, even if the filming process of the human train computer needs training, but if the time is calculated as much as possible, calculated according to a month, the price of these actors is not as much as the money of a big name.

What's more, Levy's movie doesn't use 10,000 actors - in Levy's memory, even the scene of the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games didn't use a large queue of 10,000 people, and his queue, of course, didn't use that big. One or two thousand people is enough for him. The rest can be done with computer technology.

And Levy's idea makes this part of the budget really cheap and surprising.

"In the future, we should film more in China, these actors are really too cheap."

Looking at this labor cost, thinking about the minimum company stipulated by the labor union in the United States, Alexander, who came with Levy, was simply blinded. The actors in China are paid about the same amount of an hour a day as they do in the United States, and they don't have too many weekends, which is the best place for Alexander.

"You have to take into account the Asian background, how many Americans love to watch it." Levi didn't say anything about it, the consumption level on both sides is different, Chinese film and television have a long way to go, and if he can tap their advantages, even if he helps to get home, he doesn't bother to do more things, "And you have to pay attention, the salary is already so low, don't make any more trouble." ”

In fact, although it seems that the salaries of the extras are very low, there are still disputes between the crew and the extras when they are actually filming. For example, in January 2002, Chen Kaige went on strike because the salary standard was not high enough. And when Zhang Weijian and others were filming, they also had the problem of arrears of wages during filming, not to mention some differential treatment and bad meals, which are commonplace.

On the Chinese side, some directors are more picky, the actors don't eat well, and the accountants in their crews are their relatives, these phenomena are common sense. Moreover, in recent years, with the increase in actors in Hong Kong and Taiwan, their requirements have increased, and the crew is used to them, and it has also happened from time to time that they are treated differently from mainland actors.

Levy is very clear about these things, but Levy doesn't want to encounter these problems.

"Don't worry, I won't make a mess. Usually they are unfair, that is, some big names or Hong Kong people work less and get more money. Those people are messing with themselves, and in my case, what's the difference?

Compared to them, Levy's film company is still full of discipline in this regard. After all, they have to be careful of making mistakes and being bombed out of China, so they still dare not do anything in arrears of wages. Moreover, Alexander had several strikes when he was in the United States, and he knew the seriousness of the problem, and he went on strike because of a meal, which in his opinion was not worth it. Why save money by investing in such a big movie? As for what kind of differential treatment there is, it seems to Alexander that it is even more unnecessary: in his eyes, they are all Asians, so what is there to be differentiated?

"You can rest assured that you can shoot boldly, and you don't have to worry about other problems. After filming here, our pre-shooting characters are basically over, the labor here is cheap and cheap, and we don't have a big burden, you just shoot, this part of excellence, it can definitely be shocking! (To be continued......)

PS: anhui can't hit ......