Chow Yan-fat has experienced the ups and downs of Hollywood for several years. From a supreme superstar in the Chinese-speaking region, he was eventually reduced to a dispensable supporting role in Western society and a box office poison. His psychological journey can be seen to be tortuous and unbearable.
So Liu Ching Shan appeared. With one year left on his overseas contract and almost no films to film, he was keen to find him and asked him to come out and help him create a gorgeous film that would make him return to the Chinese film industry.
To be honest, after hearing that it was directed by Liu Qingshan himself, he was hesitant. No matter how strong his personal ability was, he would never be able to achieve the same results in his first directorial work.
His anxiety never really subsided until he joined the group, but he couldn't miss this opportunity to cooperate, at least to ensure the foundation of cooperation with the other party.
Today's shooting phenomenon immediately crushed all his worries to pieces. Before, he might have had some intention to support Liu Qingshan, but at this moment, it turned into a deep feeling of joy in his heart.
He knew that the peak of his career was coming again, because the current crew was a place where legends were created. He was lucky enough to participate in it at the first time, and he was even happier to be a witness on the scene.
He also knows that the future film will not be as simple as whether it will be a hit or not, but like the age-reversing special effects patent in Liu Qingshan's hands, it will open up a new development model for film history, a modern genre that will update the genre. The era of martial arts movies may have been born.
Just because he knows that no one in the world can hire so many real folk masters as a crew, and these people are willing to be martial arts substitutes without any chance of appearing in the scene, but the kung fu scenes they perform are unique and real scenes.
But the excitement at this time was just an appetizer. The same scene shot that afternoon once again refreshed everyone's understanding of countless things.
That was Zhang Mazi, played by Liu Qingshan. He had lines for the first time in filming. Several shots missed the moving train. In his thick and rough deep voice, he said the most classic sentence in the future: Let the bullets fly for a while. !
Then, as the high-priced rented trucks rolled by and dozens of trailer trucks escaped, Zhang Mazi and a group of horse bandits on the hillside put on mahjong masks and rode straight down.
The scene was much more shocking than the original version, with a length of dozens of meters and a drop of three or four meters on the canyon hillside. Even ordinary people would use their hands and feet to climb it.
They, however, jumped directly into the air on horseback, and the grass and bushes did not affect the horse's leaping into the air at all. This kind of driving technique could no longer be described in terms of simple riding skills.
Moreover, due to the ups and downs of the terrain within a few tens of meters, there is no condition to assume that any special effects auxiliary props will jump to the flat ground on the side of the railway track, and all the horses will be running at high speed along the way.
What’s even more unbelievable is that starting from the high-altitude leap on horseback, it was shot in one shot, which means that the actors who played the second to seventh sons only showed their faces while sitting on the horse.
After putting on the mask again, everything was done by the stand-in. Compared with the previous flying off the cliff, which was a reflection of personal qualities and abilities, when filming this scene, it was an overall scene of riding a horse, jumping and galloping. The complex environment of the scene determined It is impossible to complete so many coherent actions in one go.
But these people did it, turning action scenes that would take other crews a whole day or even days to shoot into just a few minutes.
You must know that when Liu Qingshan put forward the order of one shot to the end, everyone was shaking their heads. No one believed that such a complex and uncertain plot could be filmed in one shot.
It's just that Liu Qingshan is the on-site director and has absolute say. Everyone else only needs to follow the instructions.
It’s not that no one tried to stop it. For example, everyone kindly reminded me that the reckless shot was finally taken. If there is a "click" situation, not only will it not save time, but it will waste more manpower and material resources. copy.
Don’t forget that this scene can be considered a big scene. There were as many as 300 people needed before and after, and the train with several carriages hanging on it but requiring horses to pull it didn’t need any manpower. From the shooting scene Returning to the starting point, it takes dozens of minutes to arrange everything at once.
If the shooting is broken down into sections, only a small part will be used. In this way, even if the camera keeps clicking, only a few people will be tossing it back and forth.
It's just that Liu Qingshan insisted on doing this, and there was nothing anyone else could do. Perhaps many people regarded Liu Qingshan's persistence as being emotionally exhausted when directing for the first time, but lacking sufficient psychological preparation to deal with changes.
But they never expected that the live scene of such a large project would be completed in one go, and there would be no loopholes in the process, especially when they fell on the flat ground and were on a horse galloping at high speed, the person on the horse could actually do something Even professional prairie wranglers can't do difficult bullet-dodging actions.
When Liu Qingshan shouted "Ka", almost everyone cheered and ran to the actors who were stopping their horses, including the cameramen hidden in different camera positions.
Their strong surprise was not that they could return to camp early by hand, but that they once again witnessed that the impossible shooting scene had actually been completed to perfection.
As one of those who create miracles, their excitement comes more from the joy of success of those who have personally experienced it.
Even Ge You and Zhou Renfa, who were nearly fifty years old, were jumping up and down to express their excitement. Although they did not run forward to celebrate like young people, the surprises on their faces also came from the sincerity. Feelings of joy.
In fact, after today's two surprises, in addition to feelings, the two of them also have a common understanding, that is, they have a new understanding of Liu Qingshan.
This person's decision, which seemed like a newborn calf not afraid of tigers, now seems to be neither reckless nor arbitrary based on youth, but based on strong strength.
Perhaps at this time, they will truly connect the person in front of them with the person who has been causing trouble overseas in recent times.
Without the guarantee of strength, without precise planning that calculated every step of error, how could he escape from a major incident unscathed?
No wonder he dared to produce such a large-scale movie for the first time in charge. In fact, he has the management ability to take charge of the overall situation, and the scene design ability that others cannot do.
Don't forget that he also wrote the script himself. It turns out that his real strength is his accumulation of experience, and his overall planning ability that counts down to the details is the reason why he dares to be the first in the world.
In the next few days, Liu Qingshan's voice in the crew further increased, to the point where even an extra had to look up at him when he wanted to go to the toilet while waiting.
Of course he would not interfere in everything down to the smallest detail. In fact, he had already arranged most of the things for other people within his power, and he just stayed in the director's position and commanded remotely.
For example, for the two children who came with him this time, Pajay and Che Geng, he arranged specific tasks and did some chores within the scope of field work.
He even handed over the entire action design team directly to Kunale, instead of Ma Shengli and Wu San, in order to hone his experience in action guidance.
Even for Shi Hui and Park Hye-jin, who are non-staff members like Cha Geng and others, he arranged specific work and was responsible for announcing some of the shooting progress on that day, as well as the entire logistics support team.
Wang Jinghua also came with him this time, firstly to worry about Liu Qingshan's first directorial debut, and secondly to help him with some work for the reception.
The intense shooting every day made time pass very quickly. During this period, various people continued to come to visit the studio. She was mainly responsible for the reception in this regard.
At this time, Zhang Dabeard was called away by a phone call, but another great director came, he was Zhang Yimou.
This person has just finished filming his new film "Ride Alone, Thousands of Miles", and he came directly from Lijiang, Yunnan Province. The filming situation of Liu Qingshan's film has not been kept secret, so they came here specially after getting news from the media.
Therefore, in addition to himself, there are also several partners from small island countries on this trip. Of course, among them is the hardcore star Ken Takakura who has influenced many Chinese people.
As early as 1978, "Pursuit" starring Takakura Ken was the first foreign film to land in China after the Cultural Revolution. It caused a huge sensation in the mainland, and Takakura himself became the idol of a generation in mainland China.
This 74-year-old man is one of the very few people from the small island country whom many Chinese people respect, or perhaps the only one.
His character is obvious to all. He is humble, gentle and upright on and off the screen. He is recognized around the world as a positive image of a man who is positive, hard-working, responsible, calm and confident.
A recent piece of gossip may be able to directly verify this person's character traits. It is said that in June of the year before last, when Takakura Ken returned to the hotel to rest after a movie shooting, the local producer of the small island country arranged a woman for him. I want to reward him.
After knowing the purpose of the woman's visit, he shouted angrily: "Please don't do such a thing!" The woman was kicked out.
This incident caused a big fuss at the time, because he ran out and stood in the corridor shouting, and there were reporters following him on that floor, who captured the scene.
Of course, this is just a small microcosm of his glorious image. What is more famous is that after he married the famous singer Eri Chiemi from the small island country, he suffered a miscarriage and a house fire. In addition, he was busy with work and neglected to take care of his wife, which eventually led to Eri Chiemei died of alcoholism.
Takakura felt very guilty and chose not to get married again as a way of repenting. Although the two of them had divorced before his wife died, and sure enough, since then, he has never been around other intimate women.
This person is 1.8 meters tall, which is rare in the small island country, but facing Liu Qingshan, who is 1.93 meters tall, he still needs to raise his head to speak.
But Liu Qingshan didn't dare to make any mistakes. When speaking face to face, he mostly bent over and acted like he was listening.
