Chen Long's fighting scenes have always been like this. The shooting takes a long time, because many of the actions require the cooperation of both parties in the fight. If you want to create a consistent thrill without losing the humor, you need to record it over and over again.
Often an inconspicuous action of turning over to dodge requires repeated back and forth several times, let alone filming a scene of dodging a roller coaster on a runway.
Don't think that the shooting effects of Chen Long's movies are so shocking. In fact, most of the wonderful fighting scenes are spliced together frame by frame.
After all, Chen Long's abnormal and strict requirements for action effects are his main weapon in the film industry. However, such scenes require the cooperation of his opponents, and not everyone is as willing to do it as crazy as he is. challenge the limit.
This is why Liu Qingshan's one-shot fighting scene was so shocked that Xiangjiang Martial Arts was so incoherent.
As early as the first time he came to Hong Kong to shoot his first work "Slaying the Wolf", he showed this ability during the filming of the first action scene.
That was the scene where he assassinated police officer Ah Le under the viaduct. The character of the plot was that of being crushed and beaten violently.
At that time, he only said one thing in the ear of Zhang Zhiyao, who played Ah Le, "You just need to remember to follow the strength of my hand and make the normal reaction you should have." So that set of actions came into being. It was completed in a coherent manner, and the opponent's state looked miserable, but in fact there was no harm at all.
The first time he showed his skills in Xiangjiang, he created a one-shot that is rare in action scenes, which is amazing. It is precisely because most of the martial arts scenes in Xiangjiang were shot through Chen Long's method.
Of course, it is not that Liu Qingshan is deliberately belittling the lack of ability of his colleagues in Xiangjiang. In real combat, a well-matched opponent is also needed.
The same is true for a duel in any arena. Only two parties with similar strengths can create more rounds and constant thrilling scenes.
There are also some one-shot action scenes in Hong Kong martial arts films, such as the duel between Hong Dabao and Wu Jing, and the entangled fight between Zhen Zijian and Zou Zhaolong. They are all regarded as classics in Hong Kong action films.
Why does it become a classic? The premise is that the two people are equally matched. There are indeed many masters in Chen Long's Chen family class, but there are almost no people suitable for his action style.
It's not that Chen Long is very talented, but that he is the only person with his style in the world of filmmaking.
To put it more vividly, if you let a master of monkey boxing compete with a UFC fighter of similar strength in a life-and-death showdown, the scene will only be horrific.
There are only two results. Either the latter is not adapted to the former's fighting method and is defeated by several strange moves, or the former is not adapted to the latter's simple and crude method and is forced to dodge all over the place. How can it be exciting? Word.
It is for these reasons that the fighting scenes in Chen Long's movies were designed and fought at the same time in actual filming. The success rate was of course countless in terms of time and film.
So by the time the filming of the entire scene was completed, it was already past three o'clock in the morning.
But the other actors could sleep in comfortably the next day, but he had to get up on time at six o'clock. After hurriedly washing up, he rushed to Matthew's house to serve the little one for breakfast.
In fact, he was not the only one who felt depressed. Matthew's parents were also very unaccustomed to the presence of outsiders at home early in the morning. And for a seven-month-old child, he will forget it after two days of trouble, so there is no need to work so hard.
But Liu Qingshan needed to increase the intimacy with him to ensure the smooth progress of the shooting, so he could only rush back and forth like this for the time being.
It doesn't matter much if the child and mother work as a hotel with the crew, but the problem is that the mother still has two children to take care of at home, and the other party will not sign the contract if she is not home for a long time.
Fortunately, after Liu Qingshan appeared, the crew completely let go of this troublesome problem, which only made him suffer. Situations like yesterday, where he only slept for two hours, had happened many times in just ten days.
This was the reason why he complained before. Unfortunately, Chen Long himself was a martial artist and knew very well that when Kung Fu reached the magical realm of Liu Qingshan, his need for sleep was no longer high.
What made him feel even more unbalanced was that the daily action guidance in the crew, except for Chen Long himself, was all handed over to him.
For example, today’s shooting content is about what happened at Flip Flop’s house.
The plot is that at the beginning, two debt collectors came to the door and splashed red paint. It happened that Flip Flop was not at home, and the nurse played by Gao Yuanyuan was in charge of looking after the children.
When Flip Flop returned from an outing, she was pestered downstairs by policeman Mo Shidi, who played a guest role by Yuan Biao.
The two were classmates and good friends from elementary school to high school, but Mo Shidi was angry with him and repeatedly violated laws and disciplines, so he would go to Flip Flop's house from time to time to conduct various searches.
At this time, Flip Flop didn't know what was going on at home, so he reluctantly asked the other party to go upstairs and check the house.
Unexpectedly, people sent by the gang leader also arrived at this time. They hung a rope from the roof and tried to break into the house and snatch the child out.
So after the several parties meet, it will be a big battle, and Chen Long's iconic humorous fighting style will be fully displayed in this small space.
One of the thugs is played by Lu Huiguang, whom Liu Qingshan has known for a long time. This guy's appearance this time made Liu Qingshan very happy. He shaved his head and painted a huge tattoo to cover his entire bald head. .
The character Bai Datong does not have many fighting scenes in the film, and the main focus is on Chen Long alone.
Because Liu Qingshan put down the child, he had to take care of action guidance. Fortunately, with Lu Huiguang's help, he was able to let the Chen family members who were unfamiliar with them before do what they wanted.
Now there is one more person who can be accepted by Little Matthew, and that is Gao Yuanyuan, a mainland actress.
Even if his mother is present on the set, she will not be too involved, otherwise the child will easily become dependent on his mother.
So little Matthew will be held by Gao Yuanyuan, and the crowd will watch Liu Qingshan's action guidance, which will still make the little guy giggle with joy.
The current crew has basically figured out little Matthew's routine, and it doesn't necessarily mean that as long as Liu Qingshan is holding him, or as long as he doesn't leave the little guy's sight, the child will be equally excited.
At this time, Fan Shengyang was arranged to go to the roof of the building, and the substitute hanging down along the rope was him.
Moreover, this house is a typical old building in Xiangjiang. There are only two small rooms inside. If they are filled with furniture, there is basically not much space left, and it really cannot accommodate too many people.
The crew actually booked the entire building. During the actual filming, little Matthew would be carried to other suites without fear of being frightened.
There are many plots that happened in this building, including the classic scene where Chen Long connected to the air conditioners on the outer wall and jumped from more than ten floors to the ground. The filming will be completed today.
The fighting in the room was serious and cumbersome, and it was in a rather small space, almost as crowded as a crowd.
With such a plot setting, there is no need for difficult action design, as long as the fighting process is tense and interesting.
Even so, it was enough to work from morning to evening. After hastily using the lunch box, everyone came downstairs again, waiting to take pictures of Chen Long jumping from a height of dozens of meters with his head covered with black cloth.
This height and difficulty are not difficult for Liu Qingshan. He can even accurately step on a few outdoor machines with his eyes closed and land safely without having to jump on dozens of outdoor machines one by one.
Although this one-shot jumping scene is a piece of cake compared to Chen Long's previous dangerous moves, it is still quite difficult for him who is over 50 years old at this time.
Therefore, during the warm-up jump before the official shooting, even though Chen Long was wearing wires, he still could not tolerate any mistakes, which made the onlookers on the ground so nervous that their palms became sweaty.
Sister Qiao didn't even come to the scene, saying she couldn't bear to see her husband still working so hard at his age.
During the actual filming, there was an episode that made people laugh and cry.
This is a rivalry scene with Yuan Biao. The original script line is that Chen Long was caught immediately after jumping to the ground. He would ask Yuan Biao: "Will the classmates be in elementary school or middle school?"
Yuan Biao would answer: "Elementary school", but he forgot the words during the dialogue and said: "Middle school, elementary school?"
Before Chen Long could pull off the black cloth on his head, he smiled at Yuan Biao and said, "I'll take one shot to the end. Brother, do you know how dangerous it is up there? If you say a wrong line, I'll have to do it again. If you don't take it seriously, Click here and I’ll kill you!”
Then the two laughed loudly, because this shot was completely possible for reshoots. Chen Long only had to jump off the last air-conditioning unit, and he didn't have to do it all over again.
It can be seen from this that the relationship between the two senior brothers is still very deep, and it is no worse than the characters in the film.
The next few days were equally busy every day, and before I knew it, more than half a month had passed.
"Baby Project" can be regarded as an original Chen Long movie.
Remarkable mainstream themes, coupled with Brother Chen Long's action comedy, bring the audience the visual enjoyment they deserve, especially the many action scenes with a strong Chen-style action comedy style in this film, as if they feel the same again It has the classic Hong Kong movie taste.
To be precise, it seems to have returned to the era of Chen Long's style and charm. Those flexible and hilarious fighting scenes are still vivid in our minds. For those in the Hong Kong film industry, it is equivalent to reliving those years. some scenes and feelings.
Liu Qingshan had anticipated this when he handed over the script. After all, what he promised Chen Long back then was to tailor it for him.
The reason is that Chen Long is his first big benefactor in his career. If he hadn't invited him to the "Myth" crew, Liu Qingshan would have to wait at least a few years for him to really develop.
