Wang Xiaohu was worried at the beginning that his wife had not filmed in recent years, and at first glance would she play the role of a princess. 【】

As it turned out, he was overthinking.

In the first two days of filming, Zhao Yazhi did not perform very well, but with the increase in time on the set, after the ng reshoot again and again, she gradually found a feeling in front of the camera, these days she is like a demon, holding the script every day to ponder the princess's character surname, trying to make herself a princess, even after the filming, she also wore the white Han Dynasty straight saw robe and returned home, Wang Xiaohu persuaded her not to do this, but people just didn't listen, saying that it was easy to find a feeling, and she wanted to make the character live.

Wang Xiaohu almost fell on the spot when he heard this, it is obvious that Zhao Yazhi is now in the devil, that is, what everyone often calls a drama idiot, so she also specially asked Wang Xiaohu to borrow a few books from those professors in the mainland, saying that she would thoroughly study the living customs of women in the Qin and Han dynasties, including related materials from fathers and daughters in ordinary families to court maids and concubines.

It's really hard for a few old professors in the mainland, it took more than a week to mail a lot of relevant materials, and when he saw the 50 cm thick information, Wang Xiaohu could only roll his eyes.

"Ah Zhi, what we are filming now is not a historical drama, there is no need to be so serious." Watching his wife read at night, Wang Xiaohu was really distressed, and persuaded again.

Zhao Yazhi didn't raise her head, and her beautiful eyes stared at those ancient texts that even Wang Xiaohu had a headache and kept reading, "How can that be, you must know that I am the female lead, if I don't perform well on the screen, wouldn't the role of the princess be disappointing?" ”

"Then you don't need to put in such a lot of effort, do you?" Wang Xiaohu had a bitter face.

"Why not, you have put so much effort into photographing the historical style of the Qin and Han dynasties every day, and my workload is the least in comparison." Zhao Yazhi smiled, then put the information on the table, took Wang Xiaohu's hand and said, "Husband, have you thought about it, why is the princess wrong, is Concubine Li unable to smile when she faces the painter?" ”

Wang Xiaohu said aggressively: "Then do you still need to ask, she can't see Meng Yi, and she is lovesick." ”

Zhao Yazhi shook her head and said: "I don't feel right, Ah Hu, you think like this, Concubine Li is shouldering the mission of the country, leaving her hometown to come to the Qin State and relatives, not to mention that she has established a very deep relationship with Meng Yi on the road, even if there is no Meng Yi, after she came to the palace of the Qin Dynasty, she has no relatives around her, and she has to accept clothing, food, etiquette, etc. that are different from her own country's cultural background, so that even any woman with the same status as Concubine Li will be depressed in the end." ”

Zhao Yazhi paused at this point, and then continued: "So when she sees General Meng Yi, she will laugh, this kind of laughter must be from the heart, on the one hand, when she sees her lover who is thinking about her husband, her heart is overjoyed, and on the other hand, she sees her relatives in a foreign land, and finds relief that she can rely on and confide in."

Wang Xiaohu didn't expect his wife to be able to say such a bunch of big truths, analyze a simple smile so well, and even spontaneously tap the potential value of the character from the surface.

"Wife, it's a waste for you not to be a screenwriter or director." Wang Xiaohu said with emotion: "Really, what you just said is too delicate, admire, admire!" ”

"Okay, don't glam your tongue here, help me see how these places are translated." Zhao Yazhi chuckled and slapped Wang Xiaohu, and handed a volume of unnamed information in his hand to Wang Xiaohu, Wang Xiaohu saw the words on it, and his head suddenly became big: Grandma's, those professors can't mail vernacular texts over, this whole page of classical Chinese, a few words simply represent more meanings!

"This, that, cough cough, wife, I see why I should rest early today, and when I wait for Ming'er, I will go to Mingbao to find Lao Dou to help, he is definitely an expert in this regard." Wang Xiaohu broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, and thought of a good idea to ask Jin Yong for help, and immediately coaxed and deceived his wife to bed. Not to mention, Zhao Yazhi, who is wearing this white straight saw robe, has a special taste

A few torches and flashlights were particularly conspicuous in the dark Qinling underground palace, and they walked slowly, and every time they took a step forward, they were extremely cautious and stopped in front of a thick wall.

"Professor Gu, there's a wall here!" A man shouted excitedly, running over and touching the wall.

"Don't move! Watch out for the crossbow trap again! Another shouted a rebuke.

Professor Gu (that is, Yuan Hua), who was wearing a white tunic suit, walked to the wall, felt a chill on the wall, reached out and touched the wall lightly, nodded and said: "Tiger is right, it's almost to the outer city wall, if nothing else, we will soon be able to authenticate the core of the underground palace, everyone should take a rest." ”

After Professor Gu finished speaking, he turned around, and a smile appeared on the face of the archaeologist behind him, but this smile looked extremely strange under the flickering light.

"Cut, it's over!" Yuan Heping now took Wang Xiaohu's position as the director, shouting with a loudspeaker.

All the actors immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and Yuan Hua took a towel and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, "It's damn, it's terrible, it's just hot to death." ”

is now filming another scene in "Mythology", that is, after the first batch of archaeologists disappeared, Professor Gu, Tiger and local archaeologists formed a second group of archaeological teams to find or rescue the first batch of people in the Qinling Underground Palace.

In this process, the male lead actor Tiger will often dream of many scenes of the Qinling underground palace when he is resting, in the dream, he is the general of the Qin Dynasty Meng Yi, after escorting the princess back to Qin, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and others forbade Qin Shi Huang on the grounds that Meng Yi had been welcoming his relatives for too long and letting the princess travel a long distance to suffer, so Meng Yi was assigned to Lishan to supervise the construction of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum.

When he followed the archaeological team into the Qinling Underground Palace, he suddenly felt extremely familiar, and he began to doubt the scene in the dream.

So while everyone was resting under the wall, Tiger fell into a dream again against the wall.

Because the shooting location is in a narrow and dark secret passage, the air circulation is very untimely, and the small scene is full of more than a dozen staff, and now it is a May day, so it is strange that the weather is not stuffy.

So it took less than half an hour to shoot, and everyone on the set was soaking wet.

After the shutdown, Zhang Yuan hurriedly sent his staff to carry three high-power fans and blew at the five or six actors who were resting in the field.

Wang Xiaohu took the script and let Yuan Hua and Yuan Biao come to the light, and said to them the next scene: "Well, the next scene is that we opened this wall, and then we were greeted by a quicksand trap, after losing an archaeologist, we got through this trap, and then in front of us was the pit of weapons and armor, which were lined with rows of brightly colored armor and sharp bronze weapons."

What are the traps in the underground palace of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, no one in the world knows, even if Wang Xiaohu is reborn from the 21st century, he doesn't know. Therefore, when designing this scene, Wang Xiaohu could only make up for it through some tomb robbery movies he had seen in his previous life, such as "The Mummy" or "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, plus novels such as "Tomb Robbery Notes" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" that he had read at the starting point.

But if he wants to include all these elements in a movie, Wang Xiaohu thinks it's very unrealistic, so he can only use historical records, focusing on quicksand, dark crossbow mechanisms, mercury rivers, etc., as for what is the anaerobic space of the ever-bright lamp, if it is all oxygen-free, this scene will not be filmed.

Among them, the dark crossbow mechanism, they finished filming a week ago, and everyone in the crew was tossed enough.

In particular, Wang Jiaxin and Zhang Yuan, who made these organs, complained bitterly, because the "Historical Records" recorded that the Qinling Underground Palace "ordered craftsmen to make machine crossbow arrows, and those who penetrated shot them."

It was only through several phone calls with the professors in Yanjing that it was not until the drawings came that everyone figured out that it meant that a set of auto-firing crossbows was installed here. That is, in order to prevent people from robbing the tomb, Qin Shi Huang ordered craftsmen to set up hidden arrows at the door of the tomb, and once the tomb robbers approached, the arrows would be shot when they touched it.

So Wang Jiaxin and Zhang Yuan unearthed a long-range, high-tension crossbow blueprint according to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Tuku Pit of Qin Shi Huang, and tossed out a simplified version of this kind of crossbow that is probably difficult to pull apart by human arm strength alone, but it is very difficult to make these crossbows equipped with arrows show the function of automatic continuous firing.

Zhang Yuan's wit moved: "Two people stand behind a crossbow, and they will launch together after touching the mechanism!" ”

So the dragon and tiger martial artist was repeatedly trained for a whole day, and this scene was successfully passed, it is said that Zhang Yuan was tired enough that day, and he shouted his voice just by shouting slogans behind the scenes.

With the deepening of the filming progress, Wang Xiaohu also realized that there were various loopholes in his original directorial plan, but these are easy to say, after all, Hong Kong films have never lacked talents, and Zhang Yuan's smart surname in this shooting is very admirable to him.

And another person who followed the crew for two months to shoot was also deeply inspired, he was the great Hollywood director George . Lucas, Lao Qiao really opened his eyes this time, he didn't expect that Hong Kong people would use local methods and stupid methods to shoot these "unbelievable" scenes without the help of special effects, and the shooting effect is far more realistic and smooth than that of special effects.

When "Mythology" was released around the world, Lao Qiao found Spielberg to exchange the experience he learned in Hong Kong, thinking that this kind of movie type of raiding the treasure is very interesting, so the two joined forces to study the major tombs in the West, and finally locked it in the Bible, and there was the later "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, which made a lot of money in Hollywood, of course, these are all later words, at present, Lao Joe seems to have fallen into an unprecedented ocean of knowledge, crazy absorbing the "local stunts and special effects" techniques of oriental filmmakers.

The "Myth" crew officially started production in February 79, and by the end of June, they finally completed the filming task in Hong Kong.

It's not easy, for four months, in addition to normal rest, everyone stayed in this dark studio to film, and the stuffiness, exhaustion, and irritability also accompanied them for more than four months.

Especially Wang Jiaxin and Zhang Yuan, when they returned home, their families were shocked when they saw them, because these two people had lost nearly ten pounds in just half a year, which shows how much they sacrificed for this shooting.

Most of the Hong Kong personnel began to enter the stage of recuperation, because after half a month, they had to follow Wang Xiaohu to the mainland to shoot exterior locations.

And Wang Xiaohu, George. Lucas, Grant McQueen, Yuan Heping and other main personnel did not rest, the scene of the Qinling Underground Palace was filmed, but what awaited them was a more boring and boring special effects synthesis stage, this stage is far more important than shooting, it can be said that if the special effects picture synthesized in the later stage does not meet Wang Xiaohu's requirements, it must be re-shot.

Wang Xiaohu watched Lucas and Grant carefully put the developed film into the machine, and then worked in front of a very heavy and antique computer for a long time, the synthesis machine made a hoarse and heavy scream, and after half an hour, slowly spit out a piece of film from the end of the machine.

"How?" Wang Xiaohu couldn't wait to ask.

Lucas took the film and looked at it under the light and said, "This machine was improved just a month ago, and I don't know exactly what it is." ”

"Damn, you dare to use the machine you don't know!" Wang Xiaohu stared at the panda eyes, he hadn't closed his eyes for a day and a night, as the director of this movie, he knew better than anyone that the final picture would be perfect at the right time, and when he heard that Lucas actually used an untested machine to synthesize, he immediately burst into flames.

Lucas smiled awkwardly and said, "Boss, don't worry, according to my intuition, the film developed this time is very ideal." ”

Lucas was right, the film produced by the upgraded compositing machine with the help of an old-fashioned antique computer was indeed ideal, but when it was developed and played back in the projector, Wang Xiaohu was still a little disappointed.

Take the picture of Meng Yi and Concubine Li hugging and dancing in the Suspended Heavenly Palace, the composite picture is somewhat incoherent, when the shooting was filming, the two were tied to the Via suit and rolling in the air, and the expressions of the two on the screen seen so far are not very natural.

"Grandma's, why is it so awkward to shoot what should be the most classic place!"

(To be continued)