"Shaolin Temple" only has a small number of interior scenes, of which more than 85% are supported by exterior locations. [Full text reading]

But Concord Company is different, in "Raptors Across the River", Wang Xiaohu proposed to use foreign exotic scenery to enrich the movie screen, so that more audiences can understand the scenery outside Hong Kong, and when filming "A Tiger", a lot of exterior locations were also used, which played a good role model for the company's subsequent films, and this role model was played vividly in "Myth".

Many Hong Kong film companies also realize that the real scenery is more important than the beautiful and natural scenery, but they have no choice but to prevent the company's insufficient funds to select locations from all over China like Concord.

What made them vomit blood was that Concord Company made a special trip to the mainland to film even a TV series.

In the old neighborhood of Shanghai, the crew of "Shanghai Tang" has been filming here for half a month, and all the crew members have admired Zhao Yazhi in their hearts for half a month.

The proprietress of Concord not only did her job well, but also provoked all the matters of the crew when her husband was not there.

"Ah Zhi, take a rest." As the martial arts instructor of "Shanghai Tang", Yuan De came over with a yellow coat and said: "Don't work so hard, Ah Hu will feel distressed if he knows." ”

Zhao Yazhi smiled lightly and said, "It's okay." After putting the yellow coat on her body, she picked up the director's shooting plan and looked at it twice, "I'll go talk to the people from the Shanghai Film Studio, and arrange the shooting in Huangpu River tomorrow, so that they can cooperate with us in our work." ”

"Hey." Yuan De sighed, "It's better for me to go with you, those Shanghainese are always grinding and chirping, if it doesn't work, just call Ah Hu and ask him to come over and deal with it." ”

"Don't bother him." Zhao Yazhi walked to the crew cafeteria and drank a bowl of ginger soup, feeling that her body was no longer as cold as just now: "He has his job, not to mention that the pressure on his side is greater than ours, we can't cause him any trouble." ”

In front of a reed near the Yellow River crossing, three large camera lifts were raised high, Wang Xiaohu, Li Hanwei, and Zhang Yimou, who had been seconded from the photography department of the Yenching Film Academy in recent days, each in charge of a camera.

The scene to be filmed today is: Jueyuan and Bai Wufang escaped Wang Renze's strict blockade in order to escort Tang King Li Shimin, Bai Wufang decided that the three of them pretended to be married, and successfully escaped Wang Renze's cavalry.

In this scene, the three forces must be shown before and after, the first party is Jueyuan, Bai Wufang, and Li Shimin, the second party is Wang Renze's cavalry, and the third party is the twelve stick monks led by Tanzong.

In the first battle, Li Shimin was shot by Bai Wufang rowing a boat and escaped, leaving Jueyuan to fight Wang Renze's cavalry, and when the fight was about to start, Tanzong monk and others arrived quickly.

Wang Xiaohu sat on the first elevator and shouted to Yu Hai, Xiong Xinxin and others in the distance with a loudspeaker: "Are you ready?" ”

Yu Hai shook the long stick in his hand to indicate that he was ready to take his position, and the cavalry battalion led by Zhao Gang also nodded, Jet Li was wearing a red groom outfit and holding a single knife, and he was already standing in front of the reeds with a single sword.

This scene is nothing more than to show Jueyuan's big killing, and the monks say something like "excess", to put it bluntly, it is to find a good excuse for the monks to kill the bad guys.

As we all know, in the whole "Shaolin Temple", in addition to the old host is considered a high-ranking monk, other monks such as monk value, Tanzong and its thirteen stick monks are not standard monks, the whole film in the promotion of Shaolin Temple thousand-year-old temple "compassion for the embrace" of the article is very little, but to reflect the rebellious psychology of young monks, middle-aged monks pay attention to flexible interpretation of Buddhism according to the actual situation.

In fact, according to Wang Xiaohu's understanding, the old host represents the heart of compassion and the self-sacrifice of a great country, which is more like a true portrayal of China.

The monk value represents a person who is rigid and overly insistent on the old school style.

Jueyuan and others are lawless, or ignorant teenagers, more appropriately, Chinese young people representing the new era, who have a strong heart of struggle in their hearts, and use the story of "Thirteen Stick Monks to Save the Tang King", in fact, to educate the majority of young audiences to improve their patriotic enthusiasm.

The little monks do not look forward to the future, and they will definitely be criticized and suppressed by the old faction, so there is an old fritter monk like Tanzong who is circling and protecting in the middle, and there is also a master like Yu Hai who is deeply popular, so in the previous life, most of the audience, including Wang Xiaohu, felt sorry and angry in their hearts when they saw Tanzong die, and they all felt angry, and they hated to crush Wang Renze's bones and ashes.

(The above point is pure nonsense, don't sit down.) ）

So sometimes Wang Xiaohu admires the screenwriters of "Shaolin Temple" very much, they can add so much educational significance to a costume martial arts film, the content can not be muttered endlessly, but also healthy and positive, but also attract the audience, and reflect a little patriotism, this screenwriter is definitely a god-level existence.

After the departments were in place, Wang Xiaohu shouted loudly: "acttion." ”

At the same time as the three cameras were moving, Jet Li danced with a single knife to block the arrows that came from him, and a team of Shaolin monks galloping on horseback rushed in the distance.

Three groups of cameras are positioned in different positions, high or low, far or near, to capture these scenes.

Wang Xiaohu looked at Yu Hai and the others who were rushing in the camera, and nodded secretly in his heart, these guys had only practiced riding for two mornings with the help of the soldiers of the cavalry battalion, and it was commendable to be able to shoot such a good picture.

Just when Wang Xiaohu felt that it was okay, an accident happened.

According to the requirements of the script, Yu Hai and the others will at least rush to the front of the reeds, and will quickly jump off the horse and pick up the guy to help Jet Li resist the attack of Zhao Gang and others.

When Yu Hai jumped off the horse, I don't know if Yu Hai didn't grasp the timing or if the horse had an accident temporarily, in short, Yu Hai didn't jump off all at once according to the plan set earlier, but the whole person flew out!

“cut！” Wang Xiaohu saw it really in the camera, and he reacted one shot faster than others, and he was closest to Yu Hai's position, so after shouting, without waiting for others to react, he had already jumped down from the three-meter-high lifting platform and ran quickly to Yu Hai's side.

"Old Yu, are you okay?"

Yu Hai on the ground was grinning and moaning, the speed of the horse just now reached almost 40 kilometers per hour, and the reins were confiscated at this moment, and the accident of flying out can be imagined.

"It's okay, it's just a bruise."

Wang Xiaohu held Jiang Hai, and the medical staff of the crew also rushed over as soon as possible.

"Teacher Yu is okay, right?"

"Didn't break it, did you?"

"Master, Master, are you okay?" Sun Jiankui suddenly rushed to Yu Hai and cried in a hurry.

After checking it, the medical nurse said to Wang Xiaohu: "Brother Hu, Mr. Yu didn't wear protective gear, and his wrists and arms were partially bruised, so it's OK to rub some medicine and wine." ”

Wang Xiaohu breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly narrowed his eyes: "What's the matter, where is the protective gear in your clothes?" ”

This kind of real knife and real gun fight scene, it is indispensable to add some protective gear to the costume, just to prevent accidents, in the first few scenes, Wang Xiaohu emphasized the important surname of protective gear, I didn't expect Yu Hai to not bring protective gear today, it is strange that he is not angry and angry.

Yu Hai's old face was hot, and he said embarrassedly: "I just feel that thing is a little awkward in the clothes, so"

"So you removed all the armor, right?" After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking depressedly, he said to Sun Jiankui, Xiong Xinxin and others: "Are you also in this situation? ”

Everyone lowered their heads, it was obvious that what kind of master had brought what kind of apprentice, these guys definitely didn't have protective gear!

"Director, it's not natural to fight with that thing!" Xiong Xinxin is a little heartless, at this time, everyone is hiding behind and dare not speak, this thing is good, it makes sense to commit crimes against the wind.

"If it's unnatural, you need to work hard to overcome it yourself!" Wang Xiaohu pulled Jet Li over and said, "Jie Zai, lift up the clothes for everyone to see." ”

Jet Li sighed, untied the red groom's outfit, and saw that he was wearing a layer of underwear that was thinner than Sanda protective gear.

Don't underestimate this thin thing, this is specially made by Wang Xiaohu from the United States at a large price, since Jackie Chan had several accidents in "Police Story", Wang Xiaohu has paid great attention to the important surname of protective gear.

Although this thin layer of things is not as strong as body armor, it can also prevent some abrasions and accidental injuries in the filming of costume films, for example, Jet Li can just lose and hold a single knife to resist the "shooting" of bows and arrows, it is because of this layer of clothing.

And filming on a cold day, this protective gear also has the function of keeping warm, if it weren't for the limited technical level, Wang Xiaohu really wanted to add the arson function to this protective gear.

Yu Hai saw that Wang Xiaohu lost his temper, and knew that he was not doing something wrong in this regard, after all, Wang Xiaohu was in a measure to protect himself, not a casual tantrum, and promised not to happen like this in the future, and took the lead in putting on the protective gear that made him feel awkward.

"Director, I feel that this thing is still very good, don't be angry, my injury is fine, let's continue shooting!" Yu Hai grinned, and the others followed suit when they saw this.

Looking at these simple faces, Wang Xiaohu sighed, everyone has been practicing martial arts for so long, and that anger has also disappeared.

"Okay, okay, go back and bury your place, and do it all over again."

(To be continued)