In the past, Wu Zhenyu always felt that he was a genius in acting, an elite in the entertainment industry, and begged Duan Zihao to give such an important role, but in the end, he played him badly.

Seeing that Wu Zhenyu couldn't find a feeling all the time, Duan Zihao couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, and wanted to scold him loudly, but it was a little difficult to speak-acquaintances are so difficult.

Fortunately, at this time, Fa Ge came to the rescue.

Zhou Yanfa sat on the side to rest, but saw Duan Zihao constantly stuck because of Wu Zhenyu.

So he put down the mineral water, took the initiative to walk over, and said to Wu Zhenyu: "Zhenyu, your grasp of the role is too mechanical, in fact, the biggest difficulty for us as actors is to play the role like a person, not like a role." ”

"You have to remember that now you are not Wu Zhenyu, you are Ah Cheng, the suspicious Ah Cheng, so the tone of your speech, as well as the eyes of your eyes, must be changed - you must not be nervous, you must relax from the inside out, imagine yourself as a character, what will he do at this moment, how will he do it......"

"There is actually no skill in acting, if there is one that erases your own shadow and does not leave your own clues in the role, then you have succeeded in transforming."

……

Fa Ge taught Wu Zhenyu the tricks of acting, and Wu Zhenyu listened carefully.

Although Fa Ge didn't say much, Wu Zhenyu understood something.

When filming next, Wu Zhenyu really improved a lot, at least he didn't let Duan Zihao continue to get stuck.

Either way, the shooting continued.

The next thing to shoot is a major scene, and it is also the most classic scene of "The True Color of Heroes" in the previous life.

Ah Cheng betrayed Song Zihao and united with Taiwanese bigwigs to frame him, Xiao Ma Ge knew the truth and thought that it was all the Taiwanese guys, so he single-handedly broke into the nightclub and shot the Taiwanese bigwigs.

There is a Min interlude in this play. With Brother Xiaoma's chic and superb shooting action, it will be remade or borrowed from many movies in the future. One of the most talked about is that Fa Ge's strategy of hiding the guns in the flower plate one by one, and then breaking into Longtan alone, was used by Zeng Zhiwei to make a comedy.

At this moment, Duan Zihao asked the staff to set up the shooting track, the corridor was also arranged, and the position of the flower pots must match the position of the camera, because the waiting for Fa Ge is based on this. Assassination operations.

The rarest thing about action scenes is the trajectory of the character's action, and if you don't do it well, you will jump out of the camera and miss the focus, so you must design the trajectory of action in advance. It's like throwing a ball into the air, you have to grasp the trajectory of the arc so that the object always moves in the center of the shot.

Not long after Duan Zihao first became a director, he had only filmed a "The True Story of A Fei" before, but he was very skilled in camera transitions and scheduling, which even Wong Kar-wai, who was an assistant director in the early stage, was amazed.

But the play "The True Story of A Fei" is a literary film after all. Camera changes and scheduling are not so frequent and intense, and "True Colors of Heroes" is different. Due to the large action scenes in the play, the director is required to do a good job of pre-shooting the action scenes during the shooting, so that the actors can be accurate in their movements.

Duan Zihao himself was born in action movies. I also have the most contact with this kind of movie, so although it is the first time to shoot a gunfight scene, it is also very old-fashioned.

Everything is ready to go.

Duan Zihao took out a shooting draft he drew and told Fa Ge about the play.

When Fa Ge saw it, he couldn't help but be stunned. I saw that on the sketch draft, a man in a trench coat was vividly drawn, and then it was developed according to the plot. Various behaviors and mannerisms of the man in the trench coat...... It can be said that this draft can be read as a comic.

In fact, Duan Zihao learned the habit of filming action scenes and drawing drafts from his big brother Xu Ke. Xu Ke likes to do this the most, for example, when he filmed "A Chinese Ghost Story" and filmed "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", especially when filming "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" and "Di Renjie's Divine Dragon King", he drew a lot of unbelievable dream drafts.

It can be said that these drafts can almost be called works of art. Very collectible and retained.

Duan Zihao learned from Xu Ke, although the sketching skills were a little worse, but the meaning to be expressed was still very clear. So when he got the draft, Fa Ge took a few glances and understood the main content to be filmed later, as well as the essentials of the action.

After the play, Duan Zihao asked Fa Ge if he understood? Fa Ge said that he was relieved, and I would do it all at once if I started filming.

So Duan Zihao smiled and shouted: "Everyone prepare, everyone is in place and ready to shoot!" ”

With Duan Zihao's order, everyone took action.

As a photographer, Christopher Doyle throws away the cigarette in his mouth and turns the lens into focus.

Zhang Shuping, who was working as an artist, was also in a hurry to make a scene, just waiting for Duan Zihao's order to start filming.

All are ready.

"Prepare - Ike God!" After Duan Zihao gave the order, the scene reporter in charge of the clapper jumped out, took out the clapper and shouted: "The seventh act of "The True Color of Heroes", the thirty-ninth scene, starts!" ”

……

The camera focuses on the actor Fa Ge.

Brother Ma played by Fa Ge appeared in the camera, holding a toothpick in his mouth, holding a dancing girl left and right, coming in from outside, and then the familiar Hokkien song sounded.

In the camera transition, in a private room, Taiwanese bigwigs and a group of brothers are eating, drinking and having fun.

Then Pony walked down the hallway with the dancer in his arms, all the way, hiding the pistol in the flower pot around the corner.

His demeanor is so flying that people can't think of a killer who helps the big guy get revenge.

The camera close-up, his eyes fell on the private room of the Taiwanese bigwig not far away, and the door of the private room was guarded.

So Brother Pony pushed the dancer in his arms away, and then strode over. When the man on guard saw him, he was about to exit to block him, and he handsomely lifted his trench coat—

In the close-up shot, Brother Pony took out two guns from behind and shot wildly at the guards.

The next shot is in slow motion, as the guards and enemies who burst out from both sides fall to the ground and die.

Bullets fly out, blood splatters!

One shot, one life!

In this scene, Duan Zihao perfectly brought into play the violent aesthetics of John Woo in his previous life to the fullest.

There is no traditional flesh and blood flying, but blood blooming like a flower.

There is no traditional sword and sword, but bullets are fired like ghosts along with fireworks.

Of course, Duan Zihao will never copy all the scenes of this play in his previous life, on the contrary, he takes the essence and discards the mess. Remove some of the citrus roughness to add some more exciting images, such as bullet time.

The concept of bullet time comes from the previous Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster "Hacker Empire", in which when Neo played by Keanu Reeves was in a scuffle with the enemy, a series of bullets came, he bent down to dodge the past, and the bullets flew over his cheeks from above him, which was hailed as the most classic picture in sci-fi action movies.

Now Duan Zihao has transplanted this picture to this "True Colors of Heroes". Of course, considering that Xiao Ma is a human being and not a god, when designing this picture, Duan Zihao deliberately let him take a few shots when he bent down to avoid the bullets, fluttering, fluttering, and blood splashed on the camera lens, which is extremely realistic.

Here, in addition to praising Duan Zihao's design skills, I also want to praise Christopher Doyle's capture skills.

In the world of magic, there is a magic technique called "catching a bullet", in which a magician can grasp a bullet in his hand or bite it in his mouth with magical power.

And in the world of photography, the most superb photographers must also have the ability to "capture bullets".

Luckily, Christopher Doyle had this ability. Therefore, the scene designed by Duan Zihao was perfectly filmed by him, and the whole shot and picture can only be described in one sentence, that is: "Excellent!" ”

When the footage was edited, Zhang Shuping, as an editor, couldn't help but praise it, "This can even be shortlisted for Best Action Design at the Academy Awards!" ”

"Hehe, Hong Kong's action design requires realism, unlike Hollywood, most of which are special effects." Duan Zihao laughed.

And that's exactly what happened.

In the future, they will have to learn from Hong Kong filmmakers, and Chinese kung fu will be exported to Hollywood, but we will never learn from others.

This is the gap! (To be continued......)