Chapter 117: An Uninvited Guest
Originally, everyone thought that Leslie Cheung's words would make the scene suddenly cold. didn't want Lu Yan to smile indifferently, and even squeezed his eyes at Wang Zuxian and said, "See, this is your 'brother'." It's clear that taking you out as a shield is obviously cowardice! ”
"The director is right, I now think I should use real wolves for filming. Otherwise, the effect of the movie will be affected somewhat! "Wang Zuxian herself is a very cheerful person, not to mention that she is only eighteen years old now. At first, the reason why we didn't talk much was mainly because we didn't know each other very well. But the recent contact with everyone is obviously very good.
Seeing Wang Zuxian and Lu Yan singing and harmonizing, Leslie Cheung suddenly said helplessly: "Joey, you are pushing me into the fire pit in order to convince the director!" ”
In fact, as soon as the words just came out, Leslie Cheung knew that there was something wrong. So taking advantage of Lu Yan's faint introduction, of course he would not continue to use this topic.
"It's almost, it's obviously impossible to get a wolf to eat my brother now. And the wolfdog is ready, almost ready to start shooting! ”
Everyone is making trouble, but they are very careful about shooting. Hearing Lu Yan's words, everyone who had already finished eating also got up and began to prepare.
Originally, Lu Yan, who saw Leslie Cheung so resistant and afraid of shooting with wolves, thought that the other party would be afraid of dogs, but he didn't expect those giant wolf dogs to be Leslie Cheung's favorite animal.
Seeing Leslie Cheung's intimate contact with these big wolf dogs, Lu Yan twitched the corners of his mouth a little helplessly and said, "You're not afraid of them?" ”
"Don't be afraid, I like dogs. Especially these giant canine ......"
"Then you'll have to think of them as wolves!"
"No problem." Leslie Cheung nodded, he now gradually feels quite comfortable playing the role.
When everything was ready, Lu Yan shouted "action!" ”
Late at night, the wolves attacked, and Leslie Cheung ran wildly with a lantern. Especially when muttering about the lantern not to go out, the lantern happened to go out. Liu Weiqiang was responsible for capturing Leslie Cheung's expression, and Christopher Du was responsible for the filming of the scene. Everything just complements each other so well.
In Lu Yan's view, the development of technology is both a good thing and a bad thing. More advanced cinematic technology will help people achieve newer and trendier pictures, but it will also make people lose more imagination. Many movie stunts in later generations were done very realistically, but they lost the origin of the movie.
Because the most advanced technology of this era has been outdated to the point that no one uses it much. Now the visual effects created by the props, makeup, and stunts that once shocked the audience have also been reduced in the later era when CG is flying all over the sky. However, Lu Yan knows that there is one thing that will not lose its charm with the passage of time, and that is the imaginative details in the film. Perhaps visually, these details have lost their original effect, but in terms of emotion, in the creation of the film effect, and in the overall atmosphere, the function is still obvious.
Although Lu Yan is not in the right place to use CG to create an overall virtual background like now, it is difficult to create a complete eerie environment just by relying on those trees, scenery, and props. However, in order to bring out the gloomy atmosphere near Lanruo Temple, Lu Yan did not show a panoramic view of the environment, but used a method similar to that of hand-held photography, pressing the lens very low, close to the ground, and then moving quickly. The scattered branches, leaves, stones and other things on the ground will rush through the camera, which can easily stimulate the audience's nervousness. Coupled with the dim light in the lens, a sense of foreboding was born.
And this method was conceived by this generation of filmmakers. Liu Weiqiang and Christopher Doy have a deep foundation for such a lens. When it is difficult to create a panorama, filmmakers will develop their imagination and use a detailed shot to complete the atmosphere.
In Lu Yan's opinion, these are indeed very admired. And he himself is also trying to absorb a lot of shooting skills to arrange.
In the later part of the fight, Lu Yan completely obeyed Cheng Xiaodong's opinion. This martial arts instructor is obviously much more professional than Lu Yan in this regard. Of course, Lu Yan also added a lot of opinions and temporary changes to his lines on the basis of Cheng Xiaodong.
Ning Caichen, who finally ran into the small temple, bumped into two unrelated people competing here. One move and one style, all under his nose. This competition was filmed extremely spectacularly, showing Cheng Xiaodong's action skills. made the two of them play with the momentum of a melee between the two armies, and the sword wind almost came through the screen. In such a masculine picture, there is a little scholar who has nowhere to escape, and he is even innocently pointed at both sides of his face by two swords...... had to tell a set of crooked reasoning without thinking to persuade the two:
“…… That's right, he's right, you're really, he can't beat you anymore, and you still talk about him, isn't he so faceless! ”
"You're too, the bearded guy has avoided you, what are you still doing with them? It's better for everyone to put down the sword in their hands and use their sincerity to move each other, you must know that the universe is infinite, true love is eternal, you must love each other, don't kill each other, because love is the most powerful weapon......"
This preaching, in fact, Lu Yan temporarily borrowed Tang Seng's long-winded faction of flowers and plants in "Journey to the West" for revision. And Xiahou, played by Li Zixiong, finally couldn't stand it and withdrew his sword and said: "You have more words than him!" ”
In the evening shooting, the hardest person was not the hard-working scholar Ning Caichen. It's Wu Ma and Li Zixiong!
Compared with Li Zixiong, the big supporting role of Wuma has been captured a lot. And hanging Weiya in the middle of the night is actually a very dangerous thing. However, Ma Ye and the young and strong Li Zixiong had no complaints, and they said that they would be hanged.
I don't know if it's because the entire crew of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is very confident in this shooting. The continuous shooting was unusually smooth.
In fact, in the filming, there were not many people who stumped Lu Yan. Even in the scene of the dried corpse, after Lu Yan and Cheng Xiaodong's discussion, they also came up with a very smart solution!
Ning Caichen, who didn't know the details of Lanruo Temple at all, was ready to stay here. When he closed the window, he accidentally pricked his finger blood, and the dried corpses upstairs and downstairs smelled the smell and moved, and crawled bravely towards the little scholar one by one. The little scholar heard the strange sound, but he was not afraid, and stood up to look around, it was really stupid and bold, but the fool has a foolish fortune, just before he was about to make close contact with the dry corpse, he was suddenly attracted by the sound of the piano outside the window...... For the setting of the dried corpse. Due to the current technical limitations, the dried corpse is completely an "activity" realized by using props and shooting technology, so it is not possible to realize the direct interaction between the dried corpse and the real person in the same frame. This is also the solution that Lu Yan and Cheng Xiaodong came up with.
During the shooting, between the dry corpse and Ning Caichen, Lu Yan designed a lot of "accidents", so that they just couldn't get together. In this way, it seems that there is a lot less "excitement". But because there is always a suspense hanging, it will definitely make the audience even more worried about Ning Caichen. And the filming also made a lot of humor in many details involving the dried corpse, which made people inevitably laugh while being nervous.
The dried corpses made with props now look rough and stiff to move. And they can't interact directly with the protagonist, but it inspired Lu Yan to work the position, movement, and distance between the dry corpse and the real person. The details of such a paragraph are very dramatic. When the audience looks at the dry corpse, it is not only to see the "terrifying" appearance and "terrifying" lethality of the dry corpse, but to see the "competition" between the dry corpse and the real person, and to see the improvement of the atmosphere of the film by the dangerous character of the dry corpse.
I don't know when it started, Lu Yan paid great attention to many tips for shooting. And now, like Tsui Hark, he likes to improvise and make some detailed changes to the script during filming.
For this reason, Cheng Xiaodong and the others were angry several times. Because if Lu Yan makes small modifications, it is fine, and many times he pushes down large paragraphs of content. Even the part that has been filmed has been re-filmed because of Lu Yan's modification.
With the filming of "A Chinese Ghost Story", the progress is getting faster and faster. And at the beginning, Lu Yan chose a step-by-step shooting method, which quickly brought the actors into the scene.
Lantau Island is indeed a good filming location, although everyone has a hard time, but it is very suitable for the location shooting of "A Chinese Ghost Story".
"Brother, you're going into the water today, okay?"
Because of Wang Zuxian's 'elder brother', the whole crew now likes to call Leslie Cheung the nickname. Compared with Rong Shao's sense of distance, his brother is obviously much closer.
Leslie Cheung nodded, he was still a little confident about swimming: "No problem!" Isn't it just the plot of two falling into the water! ”
"Yes, that's fine." Lu Yan nodded, and then instructed the crew to go over to the filming scene of 'Water Dwelling'.
And at the same time as they were heading towards the 'water dwelling', a group of uninvited guests were coming to Lantau Island at the moment.
Some of them in the car had messy hair color, some had pierced ears and tattoos, and ......, "Big brother, how did you think of coming to such a place where birds don't to collect land fees this time?" ”
"Ask so much what to do, there are instructions from above. What's more, this director and I are old acquaintances! In the passenger seat, a middle-aged man with a cigarette smiled contemptuously.
"Wouldn't it? This director's "True Colors of Heroes" is very good, and the eldest brother actually knows him......"
"The True Color of Heroes" does affect the whole of Hong Kong, even if many of the younger brothers in the car are now wearing Brother Xiaoma's black trench coat......
(To be continued)