Since Wang Xiaohu's anger, the people of the three film companies are no longer the same as before, every time they shoot, the three representatives personally stay on the set to supervise their employees, if someone dares to be lazy or have a bad attitude, the three representatives go up directly to teach a lesson, and after a few times, they are more well-behaved than sheep. 【】

Wang Xiaohu saw it in his eyes and smiled in his heart. Throughout the ten years of co-productions between Hong Kong and the mainland, although there have been Hong Kong and Taiwan stars playing big names, in most cases, there are still professional guards of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars.

And there have been many battles between mainland and Hong Kong crews, and you will often see on the Internet or entertainment magazines that so-and-so quit a blockbuster, don't look at the superficial reports like this, but in fact, a lot of problems have been exposed behind the scenes, such things as happening in the crew of "Myth" are too commonplace.

At different times, there were not many Hong Kong crew members who entered the mainland to shoot in the previous life, and the extras and martial arts stand-ins were not professional, they were all selected from film and television bases near the mainland.

For example, your film is going to be released before Christmas, and now the filming is almost over, and the run-in between each other is almost over, once there is a conflict, OK, the mainland will withdraw the actors and staff, and directly cool you here, where are you in a hurry? How do you explain this to investors? Wang Xiaohu personally experienced such a thing in his previous life, as soon as the assistant director in the mainland withdrew the stall, the producers and directors in Hong Kong were completely dumbfounded, and in the end, they were reluctantly invited back to continue filming, and the price increased a lot.

The mainlanders have pinched that you are from Hong Kong, and you must use my people and my connections to make movies in the mainland, otherwise you won't be able to make movies at all! It seems a bit nonsense, but is the entertainment industry really that serious?

Therefore, Wang Xiaohu wanted to stop this evil trend from the beginning, and later made more films in the mainland, and they had the upper hand for the first time, and he wanted to raise his head in the future, even if Wang Xiaohu was a mainland boy in his bones, it did not mean that he was waiting to see the "crooked ways" in the mainland entertainment circle.

Outside the site of another canyon in the Jingtai Yellow River Stone Forest, 500 PLA soldiers stood in line according to the Daqin army formation.

At the front are lightly armed crossbowmen, the crossbows they hold in their hands are much larger than those used in the Qinling underground palace, and the lines are very rough, this kind of crossbow is not pulled away by arm strength, but requires soldiers to sit on the ground and fire with their feet.

Wang Xiaohu sat on a camera elevator raised high, controlling the camera to give a few close-ups of the strength in the hands of the soldiers, while stopping the camera on the crossbow arrows.

This crossbow arrow is very different from ordinary winged arrows, it is an uncommon three-edged arrow, with three sharp edges and corners, and the blood groove on the arrow makes people feel murderous.

Professor Yuan Zhongyi of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum told Wang Xiaohu that the shoulders unearthed in the terracotta warriors and horses pit are all shaped like this, and this kind of triangular shoulders have eliminated the wing surface, which should be considered to make the shooting more accurate, and they have carefully analyzed the arrows, and when the detection data is finally put on the table, the researchers are indeed incredulous.

The test results showed that the three arcs of the arrow were almost identical, which was a kind of near-perfect streamlined arrow.

The outline of this arrow is almost identical to the shape of a bullet. The shape of the bullet is designed to reduce air resistance during flight. It is reasonable to speculate that the Qin people designed this triangular arrow for the same purpose.

The Qin people empirically approached the laws of modern aerodynamics. This ancient arrow is a model for early flying machines, and it is in the same vein as today's bullets.

The Qin crossbow, together with the crossbow arrows it was equipped with, was probably the most high-tech weapon in that era, and the Qin people had indeed reached the point of perfection in manufacturing, and the Qin crossbow had also become an invincible weapon for the Great Qin Dynasty!

Don't underestimate the few close-ups that Wang Xiaohu gave to Qin Crossbow, when these arrows flew black in the sky, they were absolutely spectacular.

"Alright." Wang Xiaohu asked Zhang Yimou to put the elevator down, picked up the loudspeaker and said: "The second row, count the 12th soldier from the north, you fucking grin at the camera again, Lao Tzu will kill you directly!" ”

All the soldiers looked at the soldier, and the soldier's face was hot on the spot.

Zhao Gang had been following behind Wang Xiaohu, frowned when he heard this, and then shouted loudly: "Lin Jiangming is out of the ranks!" ”

"Yes!" Lin Jiangming was the soldier in the old laughing field, and the boss reluctantly stood out of the queue. Zhao Gang ran over and glared at him for a long time, and whispered in his ear: "If you smile at Lao Tzu again, I will treat you as a meat target tonight and start practicing, believe it or not?" ”

Lin Jiangming's face immediately changed when he grinned, "Leader, you still spare me, I promise not to laugh." ”

What kind of international jokes, Zhao Gang and Wang Xiaohu rarely win against each other, so Zhao Gang finds soldiers to accompany him to practice every day, and all the fighters who accompany him to practice can't get out of bed for three consecutive days, either Zhao Gang is dizzy and his head is swollen, or his back hurts from being kicked, and the whole camp shrinks his neck and pretends to be sick as long as he hears Zhao Gang's name.

Zhao Gang snorted coldly, then returned to the camera with satisfaction, patted his chest and said: "Lao Wang, he won't cause you any more trouble, you can rest assured and shoot boldly!" ”

"Every time I stand with you, I always feel a strong sense of superiority, do you know why?" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

"Why?"

"Because compared to you, I found that I was more sven, and all of you soldiers smelled of bandits!"

"Damn!" Zhao Gang used a new word he learned from Wang Xiaohu, shook his head and sighed and said: "It's not unladylike to meet people, and it's careless to make friends!" ”

Wang Xiaohu laughed.

The computer special effects in this year are still in the Stone Age, so it is very impractical for Wang Xiaohu to shoot the overwhelming and invincible rain of arrows in "Myth".

However, this is not difficult for Wang Xiaohu, and even more difficult for Hong Kong filmmakers who have never lacked inspiration.

Let's take a look at how he filmed "Rain of Arrows".

According to Wang Xiaohu's plan, he first filmed the scene of three rows of Qin crossbowmen sitting on the ground and pulling their bows hard, putting on three-edged arrows, and letting them raise their feet high and aim ahead.

Then, capture the trajectory of the crossbow bolt flying in the air from the rear, below, on both sides, and on the opposite side.

To be honest, this is definitely not a brisk job, let's just let these three rows of soldiers raise the same height of their feet, Wang Xiaohu has replaced half of the soldiers, if the soldiers' legs are of different lengths, the captured picture is not coordinated, if they lift at different angles, let alone the sense of picture.

After tossing for three hours, Zhao Gang only jumped to his feet in a hurry, which could be regarded as a perfect shooting of this action.

But then the second problem came again, the soldiers' reactions after hearing the launch order were different, resulting in the crossbow arrows shot first and later, far and near, in Wang Xiaohu's memory, the crossbow arrows that flew out should be connected together, black pressure flying all over the sky, that kind of density, that kind of momentum is spectacular.

But that's special effects, and you can't do it so precisely and in real life. When Zhang Yimou was filming "Hero", there were no crossbows and arrows in the hands of the soldiers, and those were added by the special effects company with the computer one by one, and the spectacular arrow rain in the air was also produced by special effects.

How can a human being compare the accuracy of a computer?

So after Wang Xiaohu let the soldiers rehearse for an afternoon, he finally accepted his fate! "There are times when the tried-and-true three-shot is sad!"

Wang Xiaohu sat on the yellow earth, depressed looking at the staff cleaning up the arrows all over the ground, although the picture of the arrows flying in the air could not make him very satisfied, but seeing the black and pressing arrows in this place, he was also surprised for a while, it is estimated that the movie "Myth" will be recorded in the history of Chinese film history in the future, who can shoot such a mind-baffling picture in such a loser way at the end of the 70s?

It's already half past four in the afternoon, the sun is still exuding the heat that makes people sweat like rain, Wang Xiaohu feels that his buttocks are going to be hot, the arrow in his hand is stuck in the loess, patting the dust on his buttocks and standing up and saying: "All departments pay attention, prepare to shoot the last scene, go back to the camp for dinner after filming, and have roast whole sheep to eat tonight!" ”

The soldiers listened to the music, it was not easy, the hot day was in the sun for an afternoon, and finally able to eat roast whole sheep to improve the food at night, the spirit is very good at the moment, no need for the assistant director Yuan Heping to shout, they have already set up crossbows and arrows, this time the height of the feet is surprisingly neat, the frequency of firing is rare and consistent, and the arrow array flying in the sky has miraculously become one!

"Damn, it's a miracle!" Wang Xiaohu patted his thighs and cheered after seeing this scene in the camera, and then he immediately came to his senses: "Have you captured Big Eyes, Sanmao, Wu Di, Avi, and Xiao Zhang?" ”

"Captured!" Zhang Yimou was the first to shout, he was in charge of the rail car directly opposite, and as soon as the soldiers over there started to shoot arrows, he asked people to pull the rail car and quickly run from here to there, seeing the neat arrow rain in the camera, he himself was surprised and couldn't close his mouth, it was spectacular!

"That's it!" Sammo Hung , Yuan Heping , Li Hanwei , and Wu Di also sent back good news.

"Hahaha, hurry up and clean up the guys, Lao Zhao, let your soldiers put away the arrows all over the ground, these arrows are bought with real money, don't pull down the next one." Wang Xiaohu was in a good mood, and said to Lao Zhao at the end: "What, we will move out the ten boxes of two pots in our stock, and celebrate it tonight." ”

Meng Yi held the long sword in his hand, the blood slowly dripped down the narrow sword body, the red tasseled helmet on his head had already been cut off, and the armor was also stained with the blood of the Qin army.

No one could give him an answer, because there was already a mountain of corpses under his feet, and another wave of Qin troops rushed up, with reluctance in their eyes, with awe, even fear, in the face of this general who had led them to the battlefield, they were reluctant to start.

Several Qin soldiers glanced at each other, threw the long sword in their hands on the ground, and then rushed over with the shield in both hands, this time, Meng Yi was tightly surrounded by the shield in the middle, and could no longer move.

"General, surrender!"

"General, surrender!"

"General, surrender!"

Meng Yi shouted, pushed the soldiers away with all his strength, gritted his steel teeth and cut down several Qin soldiers with a long sword with a sad expression, blood sprayed on his face and neck, he gasped, staring at the Qin army generals sitting on war horses in front of him

"Okay, this side is excellent, OK, cut over!" Yuan Heping shouted at the top of his voice.

Wang Xiaohu hurriedly jumped down, pulled up a few soldiers who pretended to be dead corpses, helped them wipe the tomato juice on their faces, and carefully asked them if they had stepped on them just now.

"Mr. Wang, it's okay, being stepped on by you is more comfortable than being thrown by Captain Zhao!" One soldier said with a smile.

Zhao Gang, who played the general of the Qin army over there, was immediately unhappy when he heard this, and came over on horseback with a black face and scolded: "Is your kid itchy skin!" ”

The soldier hurriedly shrunk his neck, made a grimace at Wang Xiaohu and ran away.

Zhao Gang didn't chase him, jumped off his horse and said to Wang Xiaohu: "How is it, my acting skills are not bad, right?" ”

"So-so, if you can take out the spirit of scolding just now to film, I believe the picture will be even better." Wang Xiaohu took off his armor with the help of Zhang Yuan, and took Zhao Yazhi's wet towel to wipe the tomato juice and sweat stains on his face, and then breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Old Zhao, our shooting in Jingtai Stone Forest is completely completed today, let the soldiers clean up the battlefield hard tonight, and leave for Yanjing tomorrow, I don't want to stay in this broken place for a moment." ”

"Haha, how nice this place is, with a wide view and fresh air, you can rarely see it in Hong Kong." Zhao Gang also began to take off his armor, "It's just that the mosquitoes are too fierce!" ”

"Huh. yes, we stay in this kind of good place from August to October, and if it weren't for filming, I would have gone crazy a long time ago! Wang Xiaohu handed Zhao Gang a glass of water, picked up a cup and poured it himself, and continued after burping comfortably: "Let's hold another camp party tonight, call everyone up, drink happily, there are not many scenes left, it is estimated that after tonight, most people should also part ways." ”

Zhao Gang sighed, nodded and said, "Okay, you can provide the food, I can take care of the drinks, but you have to give me some money first." ”

"Haha, you guy who wants money, don't I know that you got a lot of kickbacks for helping me buy groceries!" Wang Xiaohu scolded with a smile.

Zhao Gang's dark face turned a rare red, and he quibbled: "What I deducted is gasoline money, and I will be in a hurry with you if you talk about kickbacks!" ”

"Okay, gas money is gas money." Wang Xiaohu is too lazy to dwell on this issue, as long as the work goes smoothly and tens of millions of film investments have been spent, how can he care about this little money with Zhao Gang

That night, in the camp two kilometers outside Longwan Village, more than 300 PLA soldiers (not so many people were needed in the later scenes, and they returned to their respective units in batches. More than 200 staff members of Concord and the three film companies lit 10 bonfires, gathered in a group, roasted whole sheep, squatted fragrant pheasants, and sang and danced together.

"Come, come, let's raise our glasses and celebrate the sixty nights we've spent together!" Wang Xiaohu stood on the roof of the military vehicle, raised the rice tank in his hand and said loudly, and the eyes of more than 500 people focused on him for a moment.

Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "Thank you for accompanying "Myth" all the way, in these more than 60 days, everyone has worked behalf of the main creators of "Myth" crew, thank you for your support to the work, especially our dearest PLA soldiers, without your strong cooperation and hard work, our "Myth" would not have been filmed in just two months. ”

"Of course, as well as the leaders and employees of our three film companies, the costumes and props you provide are very well-made, and you are also the biggest contributor to this film, although there have been such and such unpleasant things between us, in the end we still helped each other to come over, it's not easy!"

It's not easy, the voice of everyone present, everyone is reluctant to give up in their hearts after hearing the news that they will leave tomorrow, as Wang Xiaohu said, although their cooperation was full of all kinds of unpleasantness at the beginning, in the end they all became good brothers, good sisters, and established a friendship behind them, which is really not easy.

"Come, drink this bowl of wine, let's eat meat to our heart's content, and have a carnival!" After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking excitedly, he took the lead in drinking the two pots in the rice jar, wiping the wine stains on his mouth, and the smile on his face was so natural and straightforward in the firelight

I don't know how many bowls of wine I have drunk, and everyone's mood has gradually become complicated, and many people have hugged each other and cried quietly.

When Wang Xiaohu saw this, his mood was also very complicated, he brought Zhao Gang over and said: "Come on, come on, don't patronize and wipe your tears, Lao Zhao, let your soldiers sing the song that was handed over to you for a while." ”

Zhao Gang put down the wine bottle, climbed onto the roof of the military vehicle, and said loudly: "The soldiers of the cavalry battalion and a platoon listen to my command, and we soldiers are ready to sing!" ”

"What is the difference between us soldiers and soldiers, just because we are all dressed"

"What is the difference between us soldiers and our soldiers, since we left our hometown"

The song was loud and loud, and it spread from the empty camp to far, far away

At the end of October 1979, Wang Xiaohu led the crew of "Mythology" to Yanjing, where the last scene was filmed, and by mid-November, the on-site filming of "Myth" came to a successful end, and "Mythology" was completed!

At the end of November, Wang Xiaohu returned to Hong Kong with his group after a half-month summary report meeting with the Ministry of Culture and three film companies.

(To be continued)