Early the next morning, Jang Sung-won sneaked into the guest room, secretly kissed Lee Ji-hyun, who was still asleep, a few times, and then left the apartment to work in Paju. Originally, he wanted to take Yoon Eun-hye on the road with him, but Yoon Eun-hye resolutely refused to go, saying that he was going to accompany Lee Ji-hyun, and she was going to meet with Lee Do-hae today. Zhang Chengyuan didn't want to force her, and he didn't have time to convince her, so he had to let her.

As soon as Jang Sung-won left, Yoon Eun-hye jumped on Lee Ji-hyun's bed and hugged her to prepare to sleep together. is used to sleeping with Zhang Chengyuan, and she always feels that she has to hold something to sleep when she sleeps. Lee Ji-hyun was dim-witted, thinking that Jang Sung-won wanted to insult her while she was asleep, so he immediately woke up in fright, and when he opened his eyes, he was relieved to see that it was Yoon Eun-hye.

On this day, the actor training class of "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" hosted by Zhang Chengyuan entered the third stage of training, that is, the "actual combat" drill stage. The so-called "actual combat" does not mean that they are allowed to fight in real life, but that they are allowed to cooperate in the drill according to the martial arts instruction, that is, the fighting actions designed by Zhang Chengyuan and Wen Shicheng, or one-on-one drills, or one-to-many drills.

Perhaps after the hard practice of the first two stages, the actors have laid a certain foundation, whether it is physical fitness or proficiency in martial arts tricks, they are already quite good, so the difficulty of this third stage of training is greatly reduced. The actors were divided into several groups and practiced against each other, and they were still very rusty with each other at first, always with tricks or timing, but it didn't take long for them to gradually get along.

The reason why a tacit understanding was formed so quickly was also because the number of fighting moves in each fight scene was only a dozen or twenty moves at most, and each move was a move that everyone was familiar with. Basically, it can be performed as you like and smoothly as you like. Therefore, as long as you can adjust the timing, direction and speed of both sides' shots. Then this fight scene can be smoothly interpreted.

However, Zhang Chengyuan requires more than that, he requires not only proficiency and smoothness, but also showing momentum, speed, strength and beauty. In addition, when fighting, the actors' eyes and facial expressions should be vivid and natural, showing due emotion. Moreover, his requirements are not only for the main actors, but also for the dozens of stuntmen who will play various roles such as soldiers, killers, and swordsmen in the play.

And so it goes. The difficulty of the third stage of training has been increased a lot by Zhang Chengyuan, and it is not just two or three days to practice successfully, after all, for stuntmen, vivid facial acting skills are still more difficult, and it is even more difficult to take into account body movements and facial expressions at the same time. Fortunately, most of them just add some simple emotional acting skills, so as long as you practice diligently for a period of time, you can still play well.

In addition, when necessary, Zhang Chengyuan will naturally help these actors, and use his special means to let them practice their relevant acting skills in this TV series faster.

At this stage, Zhang Chengyuan, who has been sitting idly in Diaoyutai, also needs to go down to practice. In this drama, he is the male number one with strong martial arts. There are the most action scenes, and he has sparring scenes with almost every main actor, so he will inevitably have to do some sparring exercises with the actors from today on. But it's not the actors who cooperate with him, it's up to him to cooperate with the actors' movements.

In practice, he always asked the actors who fought him to let go of their hands and feet, do their best, and try to attack him with the fastest, most ferocious, and most graceful moves, while he cooperated to parry and counterattack. Because he is agile and familiar with each actor's moves, and can clearly judge the opponent's moves, even if he has no tacit understanding with the actors, but with a little practice, he can play smoothly and excitingly.

In this way, a lot of work was saved, which not only made it convenient for Zhang Chengyuan himself, but also allowed the actors to have a lot of time to practice other fight scenes.

It is worth mentioning that after Zhang Chengyuan began to practice, the actors who were once dissatisfied with his lazy behavior finally saw his tough side and couldn't help but respect him.

Just the momentum he showed before the fight was enough to make people frightened, and they almost didn't dare to come forward to make a move with him, and when fighting, his moves and styles seemed to have an indescribable charm, and it seemed that simple moves were used in his hands, but there was an indescribable beauty and unexpected effect, which made people feel that this was the real master style at a glance!

And no matter how everyone uses all their strength to attack him, or even deliberately attacks him without following the designed actions, Zhang Chengyuan can also deal with it easily. It's just that these unruly actors suffered a lot, and were swept by Zhang Chengyuan on the weapons they were holding with a stick, and then the whole person flew out a few meters away. Fortunately, Zhang Chengyuan's subordinates showed mercy and did not hurt them, but only made them hurt for a while.

When they saw this situation, all the actors couldn't help but be shocked, and then they clearly realized that Zhang Chengyuan was qualified to be a coach, and they were just students, because he did have this strength, and he could subdue the whole audience with one and ten. As a result, the actors on the training ground were even more afraid to challenge his authority, and their hearts that had been slacking off because of long-term boring training became nervous again, and they practiced especially seriously one by one, as if they were afraid that Zhang Chengyuan would call him over to practice with him, so as to "accidentally" hit him.

At the end of the day's training, Lee Jung-sub, the director who almost never comes to the action training school, unexpectedly went to the training hall and watched the actors' training for a while, and then found Jang Sung-won.

Lee Jung-sub asked, "How's your training going?" When can I finish my training? ”

Zhang Chengyuan said: "It is estimated that it will take two weeks!" Director, are you getting ready to start filming? ”

Lee Jung-sub said: "Yes, the TV station and the investor urged me to start filming as soon as possible, so as not to shoot too tightly and it will be too late to broadcast in the future!" ”

Zhang Chengyuan said: "Is this TV series really going to be broadcast at the end of November?" ”

Lee Jeong-sub said: "This is not true! Thanks to my efforts, the broadcast time has been changed to January 2 next year! ”

Zhang Chengyuan muttered: "Since this is the case, then the filming time should be quite abundant, why are you in a hurry to start filming?" ”

Lee Jung-sub said: "According to convention. Historical dramas are usually filmed a month or two earlier than fashion dramas. Or even longer. After all, the filming of historical dramas is more tedious, time-consuming, and there are more things to prepare, so most historical dramas will start filming four or five months earlier than the broadcast time. And now that the broadcast time is only about three months away, it makes sense that they are in a hurry to urge me. But listening to what you just said, presumably it is impossible for this drama to start filming immediately? ”

Zhang Chengyuan said: "Director, don't worry! As the saying goes, 'If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools', and these actors have mastered their moves. In the future, it will be easier and more time-saving to start filming, so the little time that is delayed now can be made up for later. ”

Li Zhengxie said: "There is some truth in this, I hope it can really be made up in the future!" But I haven't heard of the saying you just said, 'What you want to do, you must first do it?' ”

"Huh? Oh, it's a Chinese saying! Zhang Chengyuan forgot that the person in front of him was Korean, and it was normal that he had not heard Chinese idioms.

Li Zhengxie said again: "You speak Chinese very well? ”

Zhang Chengyuan said a little modestly: "It's okay, you can communicate normally with Chinese people when you get to China." ”

Lee Jung-sub said happily: "That's good! Isn't there something Chinese to be said in the script? In particular, Xu Lilu, played by Youli, talked the most. Since you can speak Chinese, and Youli is your girlfriend, why don't you teach her Chinese? This will also save you a little bit of overhead. ”

Zhang Chengyuan replied: "It's no problem!" "For him. It's just a gesture. And to be able to teach Cheng Youli Chinese justifiably and be her teacher. It's also fun to think about.

Lee Jung-sub said again: "As for the pressure on the TV station and the investor, I will resist it for another two weeks, well, these two weeks should be enough, right?" ”

Zhang Chengyuan said: "Enough! ”

Li Zhixiu nodded and said: "Then I will continue to entrust the training here to you, I hope that the training of the actors will almost be completed smoothly, at least the training of those action scenes in the early stage can be completed." ”

"I promise you!"

Lee Jung-sub smiled and said, "Okay, please." Well, I have other things to do, so I'll go first. It was a busy time at this time, and he didn't have time to chat with Zhang Chengyuan.

After sending Lee Jung-sub away, Jang Sung-won continued to supervise the actors' training, occasionally mentioning a few words in passing, and after practicing for more than half an hour, he announced the end of today's training. Although it seems that Lee Jung-sub is also in a hurry to start filming this TV series, Jang Sung-won did not think of forcing the actors to train more in order to start filming the TV series in advance.

One is that he thinks that two weeks is enough time for the actors to practice, and if it is really too late, he can also let the actors continue to train after filming starts, so that it will not affect the normal shooting of the TV series. Second, the actors usually work hard enough, and if they practice more, it may not have much effect, but is more likely to cause dissatisfaction among the actors, thereby reducing the efficiency of training.

After the training, he sent Cheng Youli home as usual, and taught her a few words of commonly used Chinese on the way, which made the return journey more fun. Then he went back to his apartment. At this time, Lee Ji-hyun had long since disappeared, but fortunately, Yoon Eun-hye was still there, so he enjoyed another round of good fortune that night.

Two weeks have passed in a blink of an eye, and on October 13th, "Quick Knife Hong Jitong" was officially launched.

On the first day of filming, there was a relatively large martial arts scene involving 40 or 50 people, and almost all of Zhang Chengyuan, Cheng Youli, several main actors, some action stuntmen, etc., had to be on the stage, which was an important moment to test Zhang Chengyuan, the martial arts instructor, and the students he taught.

In order to shoot this scene well and get off to a good start, Zhang Chengyuan deliberately took a group of actors to the filming set in advance and practiced for two days. Every day, I practiced from 8 o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock in the evening, and for this reason, all the action actors, including Jang Sung Won and Sung Yoo-ri, did not return to Seoul to rest, but stayed directly in a local hotel on the set.

Moreover, in order to allow the actors to have a better mental and living state and ensure the quality of the training in the past two days, Zhang Chengyuan even paid out of his own pocket to book the best rooms, the best services and the most delicious food for several main actors, and the treatment for other stuntmen who are used to playing tricks is almost the same, but there is no best room, after all, there are not many rooms for the best.

Of course, the best rooms, the best service, and the best food and drink are just dwarfed by the local conditions compared to the high-end hotels in Seoul. However, these are enough to show Jang Sung-won's sincerity, and enough for the actors to get the best rest. At the same time, the actors, especially those who play tricks, have changed their attitude towards Zhang Chengyuan a lot, and feel that his warm and kind side is not only shown to his girlfriend Cheng Youli.

After two days of hard practice, this fight scene was quite well prepared, so when the filming was officially carried out, it only took three hours to successfully complete the shooting, which was much shorter than the original three-day shooting time. Moreover, the shooting effect is also extremely satisfying to director Lee Jung-sub, and I feel that its excitement is not inferior to the fight scenes in Korean action movies, and even more realistic and thrilling.

In particular, the action scenes of the leading actor Jang Sung-won are not only clean and beautiful, but also majestic and thrilling, and there are many times when the blades in his opponent's hands are thrillingly slashed in front of him or in front of him a centimeter or two, as if the slightest carelessness will break his head and bleed or seriously injure him, but he can always dodge by a fraction of a second. And when he fights back, he is always as fast as lightning and skillfully knocks down his opponents one by one, which makes people's blood boil.

Director Lee Jung-sub and the crew thought they weren't filming, but watching a series of action shots that had been carefully edited and processed, and that they had been produced with CG stunts.

After filming this scene, Lee Jung-sub repeatedly watched the shots that had been filmed two or three times, and the more he watched it, the more satisfied and happy he became, thinking that if every fight scene could be so exciting, then this TV series would definitely have a pretty good rating. Overjoyed, he excitedly called Zhang Chengyuan to praise him, and then announced that he would add food to every actor today, including all the action actors who just played nameless roles. (To be continued......)

PS: Happy Chinese New Year's Eve and reunion!