Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan.

In the story, a big battle between Nameless and Changkong was arranged by Zhang Yimou in a chess hall here.

Just to shoot such a fight, he did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money to build an ancient building in imitation of the architectural style of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and only a big director like Zhang Yimou can have such confidence.

Of course, compared with his old classmates, Zhang Yimou's handwriting is still a little smaller.

After all, in order to film "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" a few years ago, Brother Chen Kai spent hundreds of millions of dollars to restore the Qin Palace.

After the makeup shoot was taken, the shooting began.

Zhang Chu has a total of two scenes, one of which is a one-man fight against the seven masters of the Qin Palace, and the other is a duel with the nameless.

Zhang Yimou spent two days filming the fight between Changkong and the seven masters of the Qin Palace, and then it was Changkong and Nameless.

Because Li Lianjie was going to the United States to participate in a charity event, Zhang Chu waited a few days to meet the legendary kung fu emperor.

"I've seen your fight videos."

When the two met, Zhang Chu didn't have time to take the initiative to say hello, but Li Lianjie opened his mouth first.

"Actual combat kung fu, I'm not as good as you."

Li Lianjie is a national martial arts champion, and she knows not only those good-looking routines, but also her actual combat ability.

Yuan Heping once said to Zhang Chu that Li Lianjie's kung fu is extremely high and pays attention to practicality.

His practical kung fu covers a variety of different skills, including boxing, taekwondo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, sanda, as well as a variety of different Chinese martial arts such as Taijiquan, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Mantis Boxing, and many more.

Moreover, his kung fu is not rigid, he is very flexible in use, and he can respond quickly and flexibly when facing different opponents and different moves, so that the opponent can't parry at all.

Hearing Li Lianjie say it in person, his actual combat skills were not as good as Zhang Chu, and Zhang Yimou on the side was taken aback.

Zhang Chu originally wanted to have a discussion with this kung fu emperor, but when he said this, he didn't know how to speak.

Seeing that Zhang Chu was stunned, Li Lianjie smiled and said, "If you want to fight, I won't accompany you." ”

As long as they have watched the video of Zhang Chu's ring match, no normal person will think about competing with him.

There is no chance of winning at all, just to be able to compete with the masters, isn't it asking for hardship.

When Zhang Chu heard this, he couldn't help but smile embarrassedly, it turned out that his mind had long been seen through by others.

"If it was 20 years earlier, even if I knew that I couldn't beat it, I would have to compete with you, but now...... I'm old, I can't keep up with my reactions, and my strength is not as strong as before, so I'm fighting you, unless I'm crazy. ”

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this first, Li Lianjie and Zhang Chu don't fight, Nameless and Changkong can still fight in the play, how to fight in this scene, let's listen to the director."

Cheng Xiaodong has been looking forward to this scene for a long time.

Although in this movie, there are several big battles such as Nameless and Broken Sword, Nameless and Flying Snow, Flying Snow and Ruyue, and so on.

But what can really arouse Cheng Xiaodong's interest is only the scene of Nameless and Changkong.

Li Lianjie is the long-established emperor of kung fu, and although Zhang Chu is a rising star, his kung fu is unfathomable.

Before coming to the mainland, Cheng Xiaodong went to visit Yuan Heping.

Talking about Li Lianjie's kung fu, Yuan Heping was also full of praise.

said that Li Lianjie knows all kinds of martial arts, and is proficient in all 18 martial arts, which is a martial arts dictionary.

Evaluating Jet Li's kung fu style, Yuan Heping used the words "fast, accurate, and ruthless".

And when it comes to Zhang Chu, Yuan Heping only sighs.

said that he had never met anyone more powerful than Zhang Chu in his life.

Such two masters can perfectly present the movements he designed.

For this fight, Cheng Xiaodong referred to the wonderful fighting scenes of many movies, extracted the essence, and supplemented it with his action design style.

Now it's finally possible.

For the next week, the three of them discussed the fight every day.

Li Lianjie knows a lot, Zhang Chu has been a martial arts instructor, and Cheng Xiaodong will naturally not ignore the opinions put forward by the two.

So, during the non-stop discussion and rehearsal of the three people, the originally planned four-minute fight scene was directly doubled.

"Isn't it too long?"

Counting the dialogue between the two people, as well as other interspersed shots, the total duration of this scene is probably more than 10 minutes.

The total length of Zhang Yimou's plan is 110 minutes.

If you add the duel between Changkong and the seven masters of the Qin Palace, the proportion of this character in the whole film seems to exceed that of Feixue.

More than a tenth of the whole film.

Moreover, after such a long fight, the audience doesn't know if they will get bored watching it!

"I can't help it, I'm reluctant to delete every action, it's better like this, let's shoot it first, and then do we want to cut it in the end...... You're the director, and you're up to the mark. ”

Belch?

Why did this still kick the ball to me?

Then ...... Take a picture and take a look.

Hearing Cheng Xiaodong say this, Zhang Yimou couldn't help but wonder what kind of action design made Cheng Xiaodong reluctant to delete any action.

The next day, it started to rain early in the morning, Zhang Yimou was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the whole group to get ready.

When he arrived on the set, Zhang Chu changed his clothes, put on makeup, wide robe and big sleeves, long hair and shawl, and looked like a master.

Li Lianjie is also wearing a black power suit, with short clothes and small sleeves, which is the costume of the Qin warriors who have been analyzed by archaeologists.

The nameless character in the play is ostensibly a pavilion chief in the territory of Qin.

"Little pavilion chief, what are you doing?"

Zhang Chu said slowly, obviously not taking the other party in his eyes.

"Since I am the chief of the pavilion, this place is under my jurisdiction."

Zhang Chu's originally expressionless face showed a faint smile, as if he didn't understand, since a little pavilion chief knew his name, where did he get the courage to trouble him.

"How?"

"You are a wanted criminal by the king, I should arrest you."

The short conversation ended, and then it was said that the peak duel between the two masters in and out of the play was over.

Before filming the duel between Changkong and the seven masters of the Qin Palace, Changkong's marksmanship was sharp, strong and deadly, and there was no defensive style from beginning to end, only attack.

But now in the face of Nameless, as soon as Fang fought, Changkong felt Nameless's strength.

Jingle, the two hit a spot in the courtyard.

According to the original design, some of the actions were to be done with the help of WIA.

But Cheng Xiaodong didn't stop from beginning to end, and let the two have a good fight first.

Although every action is designed, Zhang Chu can feel that if Li Lianjie has the same reaction speed as him and his strong physical fitness, if he wants to win Li Lianjie, it is estimated that he will have to do it beyond a hundred moves.

Swords and guns come and go, and this big battle has not stopped from beginning to end.

Zhang Yimou and the crew were all stupid.

They are all perennial in the crew, and they have met a lot of kung fu stars, but they fight like this......

Unique.

Ha!

Zhang Chu shouted, jumped up, smashed the gun slammed down, Li Lianjie was in front of the horizontal sword, blocking upward, but at this time, Zhang Chu, who had already jumped into the air, suddenly turned sideways, flew over Li Lianjie's head, and hit the horse pistol back with a backhand.

Li Lianjie's reaction was also very fast, and he directly used an iron plate bridge, and at the same time sent the long sword in his hand behind him.

In an instant, the offense and defense changed momentum.

"Director Zhang, do you think I can be willing to delete any action?"

Zhang Yimou has nothing to say now, even if he doesn't know kung fu, he knows that the fight between Zhang Chu and Li Lianjie, as long as it can be filmed, is definitely a milestone in Chinese martial arts movies.

The two men in the fierce battle suddenly separated, one standing solemnly with a sword in one hand and a horizontal spear in front of him.

The old actor who played the blind piano master came over tremblingly at this time.

It seems that he felt the murderous aura, and subconsciously stood still.

"Uncle, please stroke another song."

After saying that, he took out a coin and put it in the blind violinist's bowl.

The melodious sound of the piano sounded again.

This paragraph pays attention to the rhyme of the piano and martial arts, although the two are different, but there are also similarities, and the emphasis is on the sound of the big sound.

and the duel between the nameless and the remnant sword in the back, the emphasis is on the stillness and movement of calligraphy and martial arts.

Next, in the play, Nameless and Remnant Sword have an ideological duel.

Of course, Zhang Chu and Li Lianjie couldn't stand still and let the audience imagine, so they hit one place again.

The guns and swords collided, making a piercing sound, and the two retreated quickly, finally ending this 8-minute fierce battle.

“CUT！”

Cheng Xiaodong shouted, and then took the lead in applauding.

Only then did the others react and applaud.

can see such a wonderful peak showdown, and everyone feels that this life is worth it.

The fierce battles that used to only appear in martial arts are now happening in reality.

"Director Zhang, what do you think?"

How else can you feel?

Zhang Yimou now wants to delete the characters such as Remnant Sword and Feixue, and only keep the story line of Changkong and Nameless.

With such a wonderful sky, what more residual swords and flying snow do you need.

However, it can only be imagined, if he really did that, the structure of the whole story would not exist.

He is not Wang Jiawei, he can't do such crazy things.

However, is it possible to extend the storyline of the sky?

Zhang Yimou quickly rejected this idea, because once the story line of Changkong was extended, it would definitely weaken the existence of the remnant sword.

In that case, the core content of using force to stop fighting will not be reflected.

However, Zhang Chu's good kung fu would be a pity if it only presented such a little.

has been in the film for so many years, Zhang Yimou has never been so entangled because of an actor.

"Keep it all!"

After speaking, Zhang Yimou got up and walked towards Zhang Chu.

"In the future, we will definitely have the opportunity to work together."

On impulse just now, Zhang Yimou almost promised Zhang Chu the leading actor of the next movie.

"Then, thank you Director Zhang."

Zhang Chu said, poking the spear the ground, majestic.

Zhang Yimou was stunned in an instant, and felt that the person standing in front of him was really a big hero standing up to the sky.

The thought that was hidden deep in my heart could no longer be suppressed.