Chapter 463: Filming Progresses Slowly, Disappointing Hollywood Invitation

"I'm so tired today, I finally started filming my war scene, and the Changbanpo drama is really difficult to film! Dressed in a cape, holding a spear, riding a white horse, fortunately I have practiced, and I have also practiced equestrianism and marksmanship, otherwise I would definitely always be NG,! ”

"It's so dangerous, it's really dangerous today, I almost hung the lottery, a stray arrow shot directly at my forehead, and at the critical moment, the prop gun in my hand picked it open, this ancient battlefield is really dangerous! I can't imagine how scary it would be to have a stray arrow flying at any time! No wonder the ancient generals died young, I'm afraid I dreamed of arrows in the sky, right? ”

"Oh my God, war scenes are really hard to film! The scene is chaotic, the progress is scary, there are always places to go wrong, and the patience is worn out again and again! ”

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Since joining the crew, Brother Chic has been fighting for more than a month, but what are the achievements of this month? It's very simple, he is still fighting hard in Cao's army, and he hasn't even seen 'Mrs. Gan', so he will continue at this pace, but this scene, he may have to shoot for three or four months (in reality, Hu Jun filmed from Lixia to winter, and filmed for more than half a year).

To be honest, there is nothing wrong with his performance, whether it is martial arts or literary drama with dialogue, he almost never let Wu Yusen worry too much, at most a few NG times, he performed very well.

After all, this is just a commercial film, not a literary film that digs deep into the inner drama of the characters, as long as the plot is smooth and the action scenes are in place, then the director will not be too harsh to pursue too much.

However, the problem is that the war scene in Nagasaka Slope is a group play! This is not a fight between two martial arts masters. And then you come and go. It's easy to get it done.

Zhao Yun played by Tang Xiaosheng is no problem. But the other actors, even the ones who played Cao Bing, often made mistakes.

Either there is a joke, or there are small supporting actors who make a mistake in their performance, and there are even dangerous scenes.

For example, if the dragon stabs Zhao Yun with a spear, Zhao Yun will sweep it all away with the spear in his hand, and then the whole person will lie on the back of the horse, and let the horse under the crotch send the camel to safety. Then he swept the spear and swept all the soldiers who came up to attack the horse, and then a member of Cao came to Pegasus, and was stabbed to death by Zhao Yun.

That's how the director talks about the play, and it seems to be very simple, but in fact, it's not easy to do it at all.

Because the action director of the movie, Yuan Kui, still has to teach everyone how to do each action, and at the same time, those who should hang Weiya also hang Weiya, such as the dragon set that was swept away by Zhao Yun's shot, they had to hang Weiya, and then they were touched by his spear. They all had to spit out the ketchup in their mouths, and at the same time, they were all dragged upside down by Wia.

And that's not even the most difficult. What is really a headache is that when Zhao Yun rushed to kill with his horse, there were dead corpses played by the dragons lying everywhere on the ground! If this is a careless horse's hooves on any person, then it will be a big problem, at least a fracture.

With these factors, the filming progress here is naturally not fast, it is like squeezing toothpaste, at the slowest time, only two or three shots were shot in a week, and the rest of the time was constantly NG, grinding Wu Yusen's hair white.

No way, there are so many people in the crew! People eat horses and chew, and every day of delay will have to pay hundreds of thousands of yuan more, this price is really too great, can you not be in a hurry as a director?

There was no way, Wu Yusen could only order the filming to be filmed separately, divide the whole drama into several parts, and hand over some unimportant literary dramas to a few assistant directors to control, while he personally stared at the big scene of Changbanpo, even if it was grinding, he was determined to grind it out.

It was also at this time that he was glad that his choice was right, because as one of the absolute protagonists of this scene, Tang Xiaosa, a person with real kung fu, really saved him a lot of time and energy, any action, any idea, as long as Yuan Kui did it, he didn't need to say it a second time, he could easily do it, and it could also ensure the quality, which made the martial artists of the entire crew amazed.

Yuan Kui sighed countless times: "Chic boy, you should really take the route of kung fu superstars, now Ah Long and Li Lianjie are almost immobile, the kung fu actors in the Chinese film industry Zhen Zidan and Wu Jing can hold it up, you should really take on this responsibility and continue to carry the banner of real kung fu movies!" ”

In this context, Brother Chic can only bored on the Internet every day, update his blog, and post every day's shooting anecdotes on the blog, which makes many reporters and fans regard his blog as one of the best windows to understand the progress of "Red Cliff".

Of course, Wu Yusen allowed the release of these things, and he didn't disclose the plot, at most one or two photos, which is equivalent to indirectly maintaining the popularity of the crew, and Wu Yusen, as the director, of course, agreed for no reason.

On this day, when a small supporting actor's actions went wrong again, and when Yuan Kui gave him a play, he was covered with blood and dust, wearing a wig and combing his hair in a bun, and he looked extremely embarrassed.

Of course, Li Minghao, the assistant, also followed into the crew, he held a wrung white towel in his left hand, and a bottle of pure water in his right hand, came up and handed the water to Brother Chick first, and then saw that he had drunk enough, and then asked: "Boss, the big beauty Lin Zhiling just joined the group, and she showed up here just now, but she left immediately!" ”

"Oh, let's go in! The air here smells so bad, I want to leave! ”

Brother Chic was stunned at first, but soon he returned to normal, after all, the most important thing in the entertainment industry is beauty, he has seen a lot of it now, even if it is the so-called "No. 1 beauty on Treasure Island", he is just a little curious for a long time, not very eager to see her.

"Boss, they are the best beauties! You didn't see how excited those tricks were to see her just now! ”

Brother Chic threw the bottle to her, then patted him on the shoulder and said, "If you are really idle and have nothing to do." Then help me think about it. Do I want to go to the United States or not? After all, the first three parts of the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series are all classics, and now the fourth part is being filmed again after 19 years, I think it is likely to cause a strong response, especially Spielberg + George. The combination of Lucas and these two directors is indeed a rare opportunity. ”

"But it's just a small supporting role!"

Li Minghao said: "And he still plays a mercenary who was bought by the Soviet KBG, this is a villain role, and the total duration of his appearance was only less than 2 minutes before he was killed, this kind of scene is really meaningless." ”

"Yes. The character is a villain, and the time is a little shorter, but don't you think this character is actually very brilliant? ”

Brother Chic pursed his lips and said with a smile: "If I don't get killed by a sniper rifle, I am absolutely invincible in it, and this drama can fully show my skills, which is what I value the most." ”

Li Minghao opened his mouth and was about to say something, but Brother Chic continued: "And the most important thing is to cooperate with Spielberg." This will definitely be beneficial to my future development in Hollywood, the only unhappiness is that there are too few scenes. The lines are only a few short sentences, which is really uncomfortable! ”

Li Minghao can see that for this opportunity, Brother Chic's mood is still very complicated, on the one hand, because the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series is very famous, he doesn't want to miss this opportunity, and on the other hand, because the opportunity is too small, he feels that he can't play it well, and he is a little uncomfortable.

But it can't be helped, because that's the normal situation for Asian-American actors to develop in Hollywood.

Fang Chenglong took more than 10 years, Li Lianjie could only play the villain + supporting role at the beginning, and Zhou Runfa? In fact, he played soy sauce in Hollywood, and the few movies he acted in did not leave much of a deep mark at all.

And now, he wants to enter Hollywood, even if he has already made a name for himself in the world, and he still signed a cooperation agreement with CAA, a giant of American economic companies, but he cannot be pushed to the starring role all of a sudden, because the roots of Hollywood are still in the American market, and the American market must use Americans (mainly whites) as the starring role, even "Rush Hour", the best Hollywood work sold by Jackie Chan, the producer still painstakingly arranged a black American actor for him as a partner. This is to ensure the American component of the film.

You must know that Jackie Chan's movies have always been the only protagonist of him, and everyone else can only be a supporting role, but his Hollywood movies have to make an exception, this is because it is difficult for American fans to recognize movies starring non-Americans.

Li Minghao shook the empty bottle in his hand and said unwillingly: "I'm really not very willing, after all, they took advantage of your fame, but in fact they let you go to make soy sauce, this practice is really disgusting." ”

But no, thanks to the credit of the carrier of the Internet, not to mention in China, the name Chinese-Tang, in the hearts of young people in Europe and the United States is still very loud, every day countless people click to watch his performance video, every day there are new fans to join the Chinese-Tang this European and American fan forum, his video with the highest number of clicks on Youtubi, now has to exceed 2 billion times.

It stands to reason that with such a strong popularity, it should be very simple for him to enter Hollywood, not to mention the starring role, but the big supporting role must be no problem, right?

But in fact, what I want to invite him is a small-scale independent film, or a literary film.

Giants like Universal and Paramount, they don't have this idea at all, because they all have their favorite actors, and they don't have to go to great lengths to revise the script, after all, he is Chinese, and if he is replaced as the starring actor, the script will have to be rearranged.

So, in fact, there is really no market for Asian actors in Hollywood, unless it is a specific action movie, but there are not many such movies, and there are even fewer good scripts, and there are even fewer good scripts, haven't you seen Zhou Yunfa, Li Lianjie and Fang Chenglong have begun to actively return to the Chinese film industry?

Brother Chic shook his head silently, and suddenly said categorically: "Don't worry, I will definitely not suffer, if the salary is less than 2 million US dollars, I won't accept it!" ”

He has already figured it out, he is still very young, although Hollywood will go sooner or later, but he can't be too low, and it is impossible to lose his face and dignity in order to step into the threshold.

It's okay to play tricks! Let's get ready for a salary of $2 million! (To be continued......)