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green, taken from the blue and the blue and blue; Ice, water is cold for it - "Xunzi Persuasion"

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After all, in his previous life, "Smiling Proud Jianghu: The East is Undefeated" is a classic Chinese martial arts movie that has been unsurpassed since it came out in 1992, and even he privately thinks that in the foreseeable future, no one can surpass it.

And Yan Qing, who is increasingly perfectionist under the influence of "playing roles", has never thought of copying a movie shot 17 years ago in another time and space.

While it is true that many details such as the soundtrack, costumes, and martial arts of the original work are breathtaking, they are actually not impeccable.

Limited by many objective reasons such as technology, cost, and time limitations, some of the shots in the film can be said to be quite rough, and the first is the legendary Dutch gunboat that was filmed in a bathtub.

The plot is limited by the length of the movie, and there are also some hard injuries and bugs that make people feel like they are stuck in the throat.

So in fact, when he was writing the script before, Yan Qing had been thinking about a problem - how to recreate the original film to accurately convey the core he wanted to expound to the audience while conforming to the current mainstream movie-watching aesthetics?

"Standing on the shoulders of giants, if I don't do as well as the original, then am I not a qualified perfectionist in vain?"

In this way, with a grand vision beyond the original work, Yan Qing, who initially had the nourishment of love, officially opened his third solo directorial work.

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Imperial capital, Huairou Yanqi Lake

Whisper Pictures Film and Television Base

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Kempinski Hotel Yanqi is a high-rise main building, two single-family villas and other courtyard buildings built on the lake, and the contractor has decorated the entire island in the style of a Chinese private courtyard.

In order to ensure good privacy, non-hotel guests are prohibited from entering, and the crew of the heroic "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" spent a lot of money to rent the entire hotel for two weeks.

As soon as he settled in, Zhao Mu, the head of the drama team who took office as the new official, led a group of drama staff early to place five or six billboards in the conspicuous place of the entrance and exit of the hotel lobby.

In order to ensure the efficiency and quality of the shooting, the crew of "Laughing East" fully implements kanban management, the production team will make the shooting management plan formulated in advance, the specific daily shooting node tracking schedule, and the statistical list of the crew's whereabouts are all published on the board, and are responsible for real-time tracking and updating.

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Kanban 1: Cast information and plot synopsis overview (bilingual in Chinese and English)

List of main actors:

Undefeated in the East: Weng Huaijing

Linghu Chong: Yan Qing

Let me do it: Qian Dejun

Ren Yingying: Fei Jingyu

Yue Lingshan: Yi Yi

Xiang Wentian: Luo Xuyang

Yang Shishi: Zhang Yameng

Blue Phoenix: Zhou Peipei

Ape Flying Sun and Moon: Tatsumi Tanaka

Hattori Chijun: Hirofumi Ito

Dongchang Thousand Households: Cheng Youqing

Hong Menda: Luo Lixian

Huashan School Disciples: Several

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Synopsis:

In the Ming Dynasty, the Miao people in southern Hunan were perennially natural and man-made disasters, and they were miserable, coupled with the oppression of the imperial court all the time, the Miao people were called untouchables.

Dongfang was undefeated for the last dignity of his clan, he wielded his sword from the palace, practiced the peerless martial arts "Sunflower Treasure Book", controlled the Sun Moon Divine Cult and decided to raise troops to confront the imperial court.

After meeting with his friends from the Sun Moon Divine Sect as planned, Ling Hu Chong, a disciple of the Huashan Sect, will go to Niubei Mountain with other senior brothers and sisters to retreat and withdraw from the rivers and lakes.

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Kanban 2, crew information table

Production crew

Producers: Zhan Yunhuan, Kang Changling

Executive Producer: Shao Qing

Production Director: Luo Bing

Life Producer: Iri

Live Producer: Li Hanyuan

External Producer: Duan Shan (Whisper Pictures, Huairou Yanqi Lake Film and Television Base)

On-site co-ordination: Miao Miao

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Director's team

Director: Yan Qing

Action Director: Huang Jinbai (Huhai Film Studio)

Assistant Director: Zhao Zhongyi (Whisper Pictures)

Assistant Director: Zhou Siwen (Shanghai Film Studio)

Executive Director: Mo Ran

Action Director: Cheng Chaoping (Shanghai Film Studio)

Location selection director: Lu Yan (Whisper Pictures)

Notes: Lou Junwei, Wang Fuzhi (Whispering Pictures), Zheng Guanying (Shanghai Film Studio)

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Photography crew

Director of Photography: Curtis asked

Lighting Director: Liao Jingxi

Main photographers: Tan Sen, Mo Ran

Deputy Photographer: Chen Huaize (Whispering Pictures), He Qidao (Shanghai Film Studio)

Photography Assistant: Several

Machinery Operators: Several

Gaffer: Several

Lighting Assistant: Several

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Art Group

Art Director: Su Xiuzhen (Whisper Pictures)

Costume Guidance: Xie Wanying (Shanghai Film Studio)

Artists: Several (Shanghai Film Studio)

Costume Engineer: Several (Shanghai Film Studio)

Makeup Artist: Several (Whisper Pictures)

Prop Master: Several (Whispering Pictures)

Stuntman: Several (Shanghai Film Studio)

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Recording group

Recording Director: Au Chuxiong (Whispering Pictures)

Recording Engineer: Several (Whispering Pictures)

Recording Assistant: Several (Whisper Pictures)

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Drama crew

Drama Team Leader: Zhao Mu

Drama: Several

Drama Assistant: Several (Whispering Pictures)

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Clip group

Editing Director: Yan Qing

Soundtrack Direction: Yan Qing

Chief Editor: Liu Yuze (Whisper Pictures)

Live Clips: Several

Editing Assistant: Several

Main Composer: Yan Qing

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Kanban 3: "Smiling Proud Jianghu: The East is Undefeated" filming management plan.

The entire film is broken down into four volumes, 56 scenes, 2,878 shots, 105 minutes of plot, and an average shot time (ASL) of about 2.19 seconds.

The filming management plan scientifically and systematically organizes the five 6 scenes in four volumes into a controllable tracking list according to the categories of studio scenes, exterior locations, night battles, Wia, special effects, etc., and specifically lists the personnel who need to be in place for each scene.

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Kanban 4: Daily shooting node tracking schedule.

Zhao Mu, who is responsible for updating the schedule in real time, wrote with a variety of paint pens:

October 7, 2019 - Planning and Script Reading Session (Completed)

October 8, 2019 - Preliminary preparations (location selection, studio construction, art, martial arts style, etc.) (in progress)

October 9, 2019 - Preliminary Preparations, Actors Entering the Group, Kick-off Ceremony & Kick-off Banquet (TBD)

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Somewhere on location a few miles from the hotel

Bare loess

Scattered low shrubs

A large herd of xerophytic reeds that are gradually entering the wilting stage

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Lu Yanzheng, the deputy director of the selection of the Huairou Yanqi Lake Film and Television Base of Whisper Pictures, and the director of the "Laughing-East" crew, is taking Yan Qing to do the scene inspection, and they are also followed by the production team, director team, photography team, lighting group, art team, and recording team.

"Director Yan, this film is the location of the decisive battle of the crew of the martial arts movie "Lonely Smoke in Mobei", which should be the most suitable place to shoot the opening ambush plot in our Yanqi Lake base."

Lu Yan held the storyboard script and the "Scene Table of the Whole Play", and carefully introduced Yan Qing, who was holding the xerophytic reeds with slightly yellowed straws in his hands: "The xerophytic reeds with an average height of more than two meters, the landform of this piece was restored by our artist team one-to-one according to the real scene of the Great Northwest Desert, which is completely in line with the sense of vastness described in your storyboard script." ”

Li Hanyuan, who had never been with the crew, was a little confused, and she muttered in a low voice: "Isn't Heimuya in Miao Village in the western part of Xiangnan Province?" ”

"Kite, you don't understand, the plot of the shooting may be completely different from the released film, this is the magic of editing..."

Miao Miaohao is a teacher: "Martial arts movies have always valued artistic conception, kite, try to imagine..."

Seeing that Li Hanyuan was still a little stunned after Meow's overall explanation, Yan Qing smiled warmly: "Xiao Meow probably wants to describe the feeling of the sky and the earth, the chivalrous man performing light skills, and stepping on the tip of this reed. ”

"Well, it's most intuitive to look at the storyboard script, Brother Qing's painting is back to the previous level, you see this Fuso ronin samurai named Ape Fei Sun and Moon... Kite, let's go to the side and say..."

Seeing that the scattered group of people gradually reunited towards Yan Qing, Miao Miao pulled Li Hanyuan to the periphery and continued to explain.

"Director Yan, the elasticity and resistance of this wasteland have met the requirements, if we want to shoot the kind of horse galloping or galloping, the hard ground is not suitable, because the horseshoe has very little contact surface, and the horse is very likely to slip and cause the actor to be injured, and the consequences will be very serious, we prefer to choose this kind of sandy land, grass or dust-free fiber field."

Huang Jinbai, a senior action director appointed by Huhai Film Studio and a full-time action director of the "Xiaodong" crew, and Cheng Chaoping, an action director, signaled that there was no problem with their action team after strictly measuring more than a dozen randomly sampled soils.

"The Weiya hoisting that pursued that scene is a routine operation..."

Huang Jinbai, who is in charge of the Weiya special effects team, added: "The machinery and equipment at the Yanqi Lake base are very advanced, and we have worked together many times. ”

"With Lao Huang's guidance and Chao Ping's trouble, we can find someone to try a few more laps later, safety first."

After checking the Zongma scene, Yan Qing turned to Ou Chuxiong, a senior recording engineer from Whisper Pictures: "District guide, where are you recording?" ”

Ou Chuxiong also carefully measured the distance according to the sub-camera script, and after confirming the specific camera settings of several key lenses with Yan Qing, he also replied: "If the real-time live recording is controlled by a robotic arm with an extension rod, it is not a big problem." ”

After exchanging a few words, Yan Qing got to the side of Liao Jingxi, the lighting director who had been discussing with Mo Ran and Tan Sen about the route of the camera scheduling in the scene: "Director Liao, what do you say about lighting?" ”

"I also know it here, Mo Ran said that you will greatly adopt the method of close-up and upward shooting to direct this scene, and under the premise of abundant natural light, it is enough to use more reflectors moderately."

"Click! Click! ”

According to the picture description of the storyboard script, Su Xiuzhen has been holding a DSLR camera for framing and shooting throughout the whole process, and as the art director, she must ensure that the overall art style of the whole film tends to be consistent.

The art team led by Su Xiuzhen also expressed no objection to the selection of scenes, so Yan Qing communicated with the heads of each group one by one after the scene was realized, and then Miao Miao was instructed to confirm the selected outdoor shooting scene in the scene statistics table.

"This is the place where Dongfang Undefeated Mask fell, Chong Linghu rushed back and smiled, and I will remember to send it to Xiaoge when I am free."

Yan Qing also took out his mobile phone to take a picture of a big banyan tree standing abruptly in the desert landscape, and he asked Lu Yan with a smile: "Lu guide us to the next point?" ”

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The location selection team came to the natural fault zone of the two mountain ranges of Yanshan Mountain and Jindeng Mountain, which is the landform of the piedmont basin that Whisper Pictures invested heavily in artificially transforming three years ago.

The cliffs on both sides of the rift valley are like a ghostly axe and a magic knife to split into a general, the two compartments of the cliffs hold up the sky and confront each other, the inner wall of the rift valley is rugged and strange rocks in a thousand forms, in the middle is a winding stone staircase about 2 kilometers long, and there are several stone cliff corridors under the cliffs.

Standing in a safe viewing area, Yan Qing glanced at the bottom of the cliff, the rift valley stretched endlessly, and the naked eye seemed to be bottomless.

He raised his binoculars and looked again, the bottom of the rift valley was lush with wild flowers, dotted with herbs, moss-stained walls, large vines hanging, clear streams falling and falling, and sometimes birds chirping, quite a quiet, tranquil and deep atmosphere.

"The rift area is the gold medal location resource of our base, about 3,500 meters long, the valley width is 18 meters, the average height is 97 meters, the valley slope is steep, mostly about 80 degrees, the steepest part is four upright, and the height difference between the top and bottom of the valley bottom is 194 meters..."

Lu Yan treasures the data of his own outdoor attractions.

"This is much better than the conditions of Director Xu and Director Xiaodong back then... But safety has also become an issue..."

Yan Qing asked with concern, "What about the lowest altitude difference..."

"It's more than 60 meters, but there are a few stone cliff corridors that can be set up with a set platform to reduce the actual framing height to four or five meters."

Lu Yan's data is well memorized, and he replied like a stream: "Several high-cost disaster films in China have been filmed here, and we have also hosted several Imperial Capital International Rock Climbing Championships, so safety is definitely not a problem." ”

"Kang Changling also said before that there is a miniature model of the cliff here? Then the plot of the fall of the Black Wood Cliff can be filmed more exquisitely."

After taking out his mobile phone and clicking on the frame with Su Xiuzhen to take pictures for retention, Yan Qing pulled Lu Yan closer to his side, and he opened the last few scenes of the storyboard and asked carefully.

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The selection team took a golf cart and moved to the next scenic spot, the hilly bamboo sea.

Both sides of the road are slender and straight green bamboo, the highest bamboo is more than ten zhang, at a glance, like a sea of bamboo, full of verdant, the imperial capital is in late autumn, the bamboo leaves are still fresh and tender as if being coated with a layer of green paint.

The green bamboo covers the whole hill, the corner of Yanqi Lake is sandwiched between the mountains and mountains, Yan Qing looks at it from afar, the lake and the mountains, under the cover of the green bamboo, show a quiet dark green.

The bamboo forest is lush, thick like a bowl, thin like a small wine cup, the wind rises, the bamboo leaves of the forest rustle, the sound of the wind and the sound of the stream and the chic sound of the bamboo, people can't help but feel refreshed.

"The whole world loves to plant flowers, but the old man only plants bamboo! Mr. Itabashi is not a fool..."

Recently, Yan Qing, who has been immersed in Chinese studies, praised while taking pictures: "It's so beautiful here!" It fits perfectly with our drama of wearing flowers and moons..."

"Let the sea of bamboo blossom... In any case, it is more reasonable than the iron tree and silver flower that appeared inexplicably in the original film, and the only concern may be that the bamboo forest is too dense..."

After communicating with Lu Yan, Yan Qing learned that there was another elm forest with relatively open terrain as an alternative, and he was a little reluctant to have his own bamboo sea complex, so he asked Huang Jinbai for advice: "Director Huang, is there any difficulty in the operation of our WIA team?" ”

After discussing with Cheng Chaoping, Huang Jinbai threw the question back to Lu Yan: "Road guide, is it convenient to cut some bamboo?" ”

Lu Yan kept in mind Kang Changling's instructions to fully support regardless of the cost: "It's not a big problem..."

Yan Qing made the final decision: "Then let's settle here, and let's find a way together for other difficulties." ”

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There are a total of 5 scenes in "Laughing East" with lakes and rivers as the main background, and the location requirement for the last exterior of the crew is to connect the mountains and rivers.

Yanqi Lake naturally has no shortage of outdoor shooting scenes of forest lakes, where there are clear and translucent lake water, lush mountain vegetation, and lake beaches covered with fine white sand, all of which make Yan Qing extremely satisfied.

Lu Yan is familiar with the road and directly leads the scene selection team to investigate the various locations where the water depth meets the requirements of the script one by one.

Yan Qing noticed that Whisper Pictures even built a mobile comprehensive water shooting platform here, with all kinds of rocker arms, Wiaraso tracks and other equipment.

"This kind of location can be said to be much better than the original film at the time, standing on the shoulders of giants, I have no reason not to make a work that surpasses the classics."

Yan Qing's heroic spirit under the intertwining of lakes and mountains: "What's more, I still have a buzz, there is no retreat to speak of, I will take it!"

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