In fact, the film crew officially moved in as early as a month ago. The first thing the crew did after arriving was to quickly get into the story by watching their filming.
As the camera pushes, pulls, pans and moves, the Kaiping Diaolou with a heavy sense of history comes "alive". The film wipes away the vicissitudes of the Kaiping Diaolou frame by frame, bringing the real Kaiping Diaolou to the public.
This village is called Zili Village. The most beautiful watchtower, Mingshilou, is the home of the villain "Huang Silang" and is also the temporary residence of the crew. However, only a few leading actors are allowed to stay, and more people are arranged in In the simple tent behind Mingshi Building.
This building has a magnificent appearance. The pavilions, corridors and buildings all show the essence, spirit and spirit of traditional Chinese culture. The strong Western style and traditional Chinese culture are integrated into one, making it unique.
The interior of the house is filled with a dazzling array of imported items. Western-style furniture such as clocks and gramophones are placed in every corner. They have remained the same after 50 years, making people unable to resist taking a closer look.
But this is also the reason why more people cannot stay in it. Every simple furnishing inside has a high cultural relic value. It is also the foundation for the development of tourism projects in Zili Village and cannot be damaged.
The local government was very cooperative, and according to Liu Qingshan's instructions, a local tourism development company was specially formed to develop local tourism with the help of this movie.
During the filming of the film, this company served as a coordination group for all parties involved in the property industry. The preparations for filming were complex. The closed village had to be coordinated with someone, explained to the tourists who came after hearing the news, and reassured the villagers who had lost their income. wait.
The company's first manager, whose surname was Zhou, was an upright and straightforward man, a native of the country, and very familiar with people here.
On the day the crew moved in, Manager Zhou brought Liu Qingshan, Ge You, Zhou Renfa and others into the farmer's house to taste farm food, and took photos with these film and television actors. He showed his organizational skills and interpersonal foundation that day.
In return, Liu Qingshan agreed to let the crew leave most of the props behind when they left, so as to accumulate valuable resources for later publicity.
In fact, after that, it became one of the main filming locations in the mainland. The main filming locations of many movies came one after another. All of a sudden, stars gathered. The tourist area struck while the iron was hot and launched the "Star Encounter Tour" with travel agencies, attracting tourists from all over the world. With the continuous arrival, the attention of Kaiping Diaolou has also increased rapidly.
At that time, Manager Zhou was very fond of the scene when Liu Qingshan and his team first arrived, and almost told everyone about this experience because the life of the villagers in Zili Village was getting better and better.
This is something for later, let’s not mention it for now.
Several major cameos also arrived randomly, and the scenes about them were shot the next day.
But after the others left, Director Feng was deliberately kept by Zhang Dahu.
Yes, Zhang Beard is also here, invited by Liu Qingshan to assist him in his first directorial debut.
A small crew is already a lot of trouble, let alone managing such a large crew. Even if Liu Qingshan has the ability to fully control it, he still needs a step-by-step familiarization process.
Director Feng was left here to find fault. This person was famous for his irritable state at work, and some things were so harsh that even a veteran director with a big beard would feel inferior to him.
It is indeed necessary for the two of them to co-produce Liu Qingshan's director's first lesson, and it is also to facilitate him to get into the mood faster.
Therefore, the content of the next day's shooting is just some fragmentary scenes. The main purpose is to help Liu Qingshan understand more about the difficulty of driving.
Therefore, Director Feng stayed for three days. Before leaving, he said one sentence: This guy is a freak. His learning ability is terrible. He can never forget anything he does once he learns it!
In fact, this is also the case. Except that Liu Qingshan was still quite unfamiliar with issuing various instructions in the first two days, but from the third day onwards, he was in good shape.
Moreover, he has learned a lot about the directing state of the two great directors. When it is time to become strict, the intimidating power he displays will even shock Zhou Renfa, who is used to seeing scenes.
However, he was able to communicate very well with the crew outside of filming, and his kind energy made it easy for people to like him.
He even became familiar with everyone in the village within a few days. Whether in front of adults or children, he could become so familiar with each other that it seemed like he had known them for a long time. He could remember everyone's first and last name.
The plot of this movie is not complicated. During the Republic of China, Ma Bangde, who donated money to become the county magistrate, took office with his wife and entourage. When passing through a place in the South, they were ambushed by a gang of robbers Zhang Mazi. All the entourage died, but the couple survived. .
In order to save his life, Ma lied that he was the soup master of the county magistrate. Moved by the wealth promised by Master Tang, Zhang Mazi transformed into the county magistrate and rushed to Echeng with his men to take office.
Later, he never expected to be involved in the struggle between bandits and bullies. The sky above Goose City was filled with gloomy clouds, and bloodshed was inevitable.
The most exciting part is the frequent tricks between the various forces, the endless brain-burning plots, and the endless hilarious scenes.
For example, the scene with Feng Zhigang made the crew see what happiness is.
Until he joined the set, he didn't know his role and had never read the script. Once he entered the set, when Liu Qingshan suggested changing his hairstyle, he didn't say anything and left himself completely to the director and make-up staff. division.
Although "Let the Bullets Fly" is set in the Beiyang period, the characters in the film all follow the trendy male style. Feng Zhigang is also one of them, with a Beckham-style Mohawk haircut.
Liu Qingshan also specially prepared a pair of rimless round lens glasses for him. After the whole look was completed, someone on the scene shouted that Director Feng looked like the cartoon character "Seven Joy Boy". Director Feng himself couldn't help but laugh, laughing at himself that he had never been so fashionable.
His main scenes were with Ge You and Liu Jialing. Feng Zhigang, who had always sat in front of the monitor to watch Ge You's performances, this time he sat opposite Ge You and acted opposite him. He said that "it was a very fresh but difficult thing." I don't dare to look into each other's eyes at all, because I'm afraid of laughing if I do.
In one of the scenes where he had a great conversation with Ge You and Liu Jialing, he sang, gestured and danced, with rich expressions and a sense of joy.
But such a scene failed to pass N shots in a row. Either the staff couldn't help but laugh and affected the sound recording, or the cameraman who couldn't hold back his laughter and suffered internal injuries kept having "hands shaking". Director Liu Qingshan couldn't help it. Not pretending to be angry was what allowed this scene to be filmed successfully.
Many of the lines in the original movie were changed on the spot. It is said that because of the changes on the spot, Zhou Renfa was once very unhappy and frustrated for half a month.
This problem was avoided during this filming. The script was so detailed that every main scene was described in the form of paintings. Such precise script made all the actors feel happy.
Fa Ge was the most devastated when it came to changing lines on the spot. There was an original draft of the script before filming started. He didn't speak Mandarin well, so he found a language teacher to teach him and memorized all the lines before filming started.
As a result, he joined the cast the next day and started to collapse from the beginning of his acting. His lines changed drastically. Liu Qingshan would never allow this to happen again.
This is not only his first time working on a commercial blockbuster, but he has created another masculine cast. Most of the main actors have already started to exercise and lose weight for this movie before the filming started, and they also pay attention to diet control.
After joining the crew, Liu Qingshan made this kind of martial arts practice flourish again. Every morning, the largest open space in the village became a large fitness plaza, and even many local young people took the initiative to join in. .
There are a lot of action scenes in this film. For this purpose, he not only recruited Uncle Ping, the most famous martial arts instruction team in the mainland, but also Kunal and other Tianzhu people who were far away on the crew in Xiangjiang. Of course, Liu was also indispensable. Those disciples in Qingshan.
The joining of these people shocked everyone's jaws when they filmed the first action scene.
It was a scene where horse bandits wearing mahjong masks leaped from the air. These horse bandits were either galloping in the grass or riding on the water waves, all done by stand-ins. There was such a group of people who were above the fourth level of the acquired world. Wu Tai appeared, and it was completely displayed without the help of any wires. The shock of the scene and the thrills that made people's blood rush were so intense.
Zhou Renfa's lips even trembled on the spot as he repeatedly exclaimed: "No one has ever been able to gather so many real martial arts masters to serve as stand-ins in a drama. Just by having this scene, it's amazing." This film is destined to become a classic in film history!”
He is 50 years old this year and has been working in movies for 31 years. He has been on countless sets in the first half of his life, and he even experienced it personally in early Bruce Lee movies, although at that time he was just a bit player without lines.
But he had witnessed the most prosperous era of martial arts movies in Xiangjiang. He had seen too many so-called martial arts masters, but they could never compare with what he experienced that day.
There is a cliff drop of nearly 10 meters, which is the height of a four-story building, and it is in the wilderness without any on-site protection. Before landing, you have to make another forward movement similar to volleying.
These were created by relying on the inertia and huge impact force when jumping from high altitude. He had never seen this in real life.
Having experienced countless big scenes, he was far more knowledgeable than the other onlookers, but even so, he couldn't help but scream, with shock written all over his face.
What he said is absolutely right. Just the appearance of this scene will instantly kill all the current film and television dramas. It does not require any real Kung Fu with any props. Even the most advanced high-tech technology in Hollywood cannot replicate such reality. Come to the scary action scenes.
Yes, it is real, and there is no artificial trace of natural stretch. If coupled with the slow-motion playback in the later stage, the action scenes in this movie are already qualified to be branded as a peerless classic.
Chow Yan-fat's opportunity to star in this role can be regarded as another transformational work. It is not a breakthrough in performance style, but another turning point in the ups and downs of his career.
