In order to realize the scene of shooting the whole picture of Shaolin Temple with a long lens, Wang Xiaohu took Li Hanwei and Zhang Yimou, two main photographers, and dragged Zhang Yuan by his side at the same time. 【Reading.com】

Zhang Yimou looked at the types of cameras marked on the map, thought about it and said, "Mr. Wang, I'm afraid there are some problems if we all use shoulder-mounted cameras. ”

"Are you afraid that the picture quality will not be good?" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

"Hmm." Zhang Yimou nodded and said: "The area of Shaolin Temple is too large, we can't shoot it all at once, and the long shot is too much of a test of the editor's level, and some places still need to consider the angle and light, so I suggest that we still use the shoulder-mounted, lift, and rail car to shoot, such as these places that pass through the windows and walls and then raise the camera position, we can assume the aerial rail car, just shoot a few more times." ”

"Okay!" Wang Xiaohu said: "Just follow your suggestion, it seems that you already have an idea, right?" ”

Zhang Yimou smiled and said: "Well, I paid attention to it when you said the long shot, and I have been thinking about how to lay it out for the past half a month." ”

"The matter of arranging the track will be handed over to you and Avi, and the specific matters will be implemented by Zhang Yuan, and he will handle it for you." Wang Xiaohu left with peace of mind immediately after the arrangement.

Since the filming of "Shaolin Temple", Zhang Yimou's talent in photography has been fully developed, and his grasp of the lens is sometimes better than that of a veteran like Li Hanwei, so Wang Xiaohu is now very relieved to let the two make arrangements.

As a result, the newly renovated Shaolin Temple is full of bright and beautiful people, and it would be a big mistake if you think of these people as tourists.

These people are all staff members of the crew of "Shaolin Temple", under the command of Zhang Yimou and Li Hanwei, starting from the mountain gate to the Tianwang Palace, the Daxiong Treasure Palace, the Thousand Buddha Palace, the Bell and Drum Tower, the abbot's room, the dining hall, the monk's house, the meditation hall, the practice room and other places are erecting rail cars.

And Wang Xiaohu rarely had free time to see martial arts athletes such as Yu Hai, Jet Li, and Xiong Xinxin.

When it comes to Shaolin Temple, all Chinese will proudly say the phrase "the world's martial arts come out of Shaolin", Shaolin Kung Fu is the largest school of martial arts, with more than 700 martial arts routines, and because of Zen into martial arts, practicing martial arts and practicing Zen, it is also known as "martial arts Zen".

The original version of "Shaolin Temple" has made relatively few articles in this regard, Zhang Xinyan doesn't know much about martial arts design, and the crew has no martial arts guidance, so many actions are designed by the athletes themselves.

And Wang Xiaohu did not do this, he was on the basis of the athlete's good martial arts skills, fully excavated the culture of Shaolin Temple, for example, as soon as the Shaolin Temple was repaired, he took Yuan Kui to see the murals in the Thousand Buddha Hall for a long time.

The murals in the Thousand Buddha Hall are very famous and are treasures among the murals of Shaolin Temple. The back of the hall and the east and west walls are painted with colorful murals, the most famous ones are "Thirteen Stick Monks Save the Tang King", "Five Hundred Arhats Pilu Tu", the colors are gorgeous, the composition is harmonious, the clothes are fluttering, show the extremely high level of the murals of the Tang Dynasty, and there are also the bronze statues of the Buddha and the white jade Shakyamuni statues in the middle of the hall.

"Five Hundred Arhats Pilutu" is actually to show the Shaolin monks lifelike practice scenes, Wang Xiaohu removed several groups of symbolic surname actions, and the host of the Shaolin Temple for two days and two nights of exchanges, and with the help of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, the Shaolin lay disciples who escaped the catastrophe during the Cultural Revolution were invited back, so that they could join the entire Shaolin Kung Fu reproduction work.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Wang Xiaohu can't design Shaolin Kung Fu, what he hopes is that through the participation of everyone, the martial arts of "Shaolin Temple" will be more real and more historical.

I don't know if I don't study it, but when these real monks say the names of the boxing methods and equipment like a few family treasures, Wang Xiaohu feels that the array is big.

Not to mention anything else, in addition to the well-known Shaolin 72 stunts, Shaolin martial arts are also divided into boxing, sticks, marksmanship, knife, swordsmanship, etc., among which boxing has the difference between Southern Shaolin and Northern Shaolin, and it is definitely a difficult task to toss everything in a movie.

Therefore, there are four types of boxing methods that are finally displayed in front of Wang Xiaohu: Luohan Boxing, Shaolin Five Boxing, Seven Star Boxing, and Fuhu Boxing.

Shaolin 72 stunts are selected to be familiar with things such as iron head gong, eaves walking on the wall, one-finger Zen, iron sand palm, praying mantis claw, golden bell jar and so on.

Of course, the Shaolin Temple will definitely not tell Wang Xiaohu the exercises, everything has to be arranged by Wang Xiaohu himself, maybe this is all confidential for the current Shaolin Temple, for Wang Xiaohu, who has seen countless Shaolin movie themes in his previous life and seen countless "magic secrets", it is too pediatric, and he can completely make a set of seventy-two stunts to publish swagger and deceive.

In terms of equipment, Wang Xiaohu will not work hard, what Spring and Autumn Broadsword, three-section stick, meteor dart, nine-section whip, are the specialty of martial arts champions, in addition to the participation of athletes, the real monks of Shaolin Temple will also participate in the performance appropriately, after all, Wang Xiaohu is now shooting a movie to promote the culture of Shaolin Temple, and the country has fully cooperated, and the real monks are a little too much to say.

Among the more than 50 athletes, Xiong Xinxin is the most depressed, because what he wants to show in the film is the iron head gong and the golden bell jar in the Shaolin 72 stunts. And it was still a big winter, shirtless, and was picked up by several companions with sticks, although at the beginning Wang Xiaohu was in the purpose of protecting him, he would do something on the props, such as sawing off two-thirds of the wooden stick, so that it would be directly disconnected when it hit Xiong Xinxin, and Xiong Xinxin would not be injured.

However, the lack of heart and eye of this standard is not pestering the true monks of Shaolin Temple to learn this kung fu, and the monks can regard the golden bell jar as the treasure of the temple, how can it be easily passed on, so Xiong Xinxin took it seriously and forced Hu Jianqiang and others to take the stick to temper their bodies.

When Wang Xiaohu came to see them, he saw this scene.

"Xiong Xinxin, what kind of stupid are you on?" Wang Xiaohu looked at it and frowned.

"Director, didn't you say you wanted to be real!" Xiong Xinxin said.

Wang Xiaohu rolled his eyes, he really convinced this guy, he patted Xiong Xinxin on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, I will let those real monks go into battle during filming, you can be an apprentice next to you, anyway, everyone in Shaolin Temple is not a master, this kind of magic skill is not something that ordinary people can practice."

"Then why are those real monks so powerful!"

"They've been practicing for more than ten years, okay!" Wang Xiaohu really lost his patience for this heartless guy, and he had already thought about filming this kind of scene, both real and not too real.

It's really the golden bell jar and invulnerability of the monks of Shaolin Temple performing, and it's not really that Xiong Xinxin's role in the film is similar to that of Jueyuan played by Jet Li, they are all victims who have just come to Shaolin Temple not long ago, and they only started a month earlier than Jueyuan.

But this is the only plot that Wang Xiaohu has modified "Shaolin Temple", mainly to highlight Xiong Xinxin's role, and let Xiong Xinxin and Jet Li compare the two characters, reflecting one wooden and the other flexible.

"If you learn the golden bell jar in one day, then these monks should hang themselves."

"Why?" Xiong Xinxin still doesn't understand!

At this time, everyone in the room laughed, and Yu Hai took over the topic and said: "Xiong Xinxin, you can do martial arts when you jump out of your mother's womb?" ”

Xiong Xinxin shook her head and said, "No, I started practicing martial arts at the age of twelve, and two years later I entered the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region martial arts team, and it has been six years now." ”

"That's it." Yu Hai said with a wry smile.

Xiong Xinxin frowned: "But my character still knows the golden bell jar in the end, will the audience think that this thing can be learned at once after watching it?" What if someone imitates it and gets hurt? ”

Wang Xiaohu patted his forehead, and his eyebrows were twisted into Sichuan characters, it was obvious that Xiong Xinxin's seemingly heartless words were not impossible.

After the screening of "Shaolin Temple" in the previous life, a martial arts boom was set off in Chinese mainland.

Martial arts training classes have been opened one after another, and people are flocking to martial arts, and it seems that people have become martial arts enthusiasts overnight. Newspapers and magazines advertised martial arts training classes abound.

Wang Xiaohu remembers that in 89, after the little children in their village watched "Shaolin Temple", several of them signed up for the martial arts class organized by the local government.

Wang Xiaohu almost stole money to participate in some training class at that time, and later learned that in fact, many of these classes could not learn anything, and many "martial arts" were actually designed sparring routines, which were good-looking but not very practical.

What's even more outrageous is that Wang Xiaohu's neighbor, a childhood sweetheart named Zhao Juan, said to Wang Xiaohu mysteriously one day after watching "Shaolin Temple" that he was going to Shaolin Temple to learn art, and then he didn't see her for about half a month, and when he saw her again, she was sent back by the police.

Wang Xiaohu still remembered that he asked her: Have you learned kung fu in Shaolin Temple?

The little girl naturally wouldn't say that she didn't find the Shaolin Temple at all, and she was almost abducted by traffickers. Disdainfully said: "Shaolin Temple has changed now, they want monks at least a college diploma, and they don't accept female apprentices, I stood at the mountain gate for several days, and finally there was a white-bearded old man in the temple who was moved by me, so he accepted me as an apprentice, and after a few days of learning, he said to me that you have finished learning, and you can go down the mountain." So I came back. ”

"Aren't all white-bearded monks in Shaolin Temple? What is a Taoist priest? ”

(To be continued)