Liu Qingshan didn't understand the difference, so he looked at Zhan Dui.
The latter nodded and explained with a smile: "The restaurant in the temple is only open to a very small number of local political and religious leaders who enjoy high prestige during the first month of the year. It is even rarer for a senior monk to personally lead the prayer!"
Liu Qingshan immediately understood the meaning and quickly expressed his gratitude. Danbadajie just laughed it off.
Seeing that the crowd was getting bigger and bigger, the people in the temple knew that enough was enough.
After they left, Director Feng gave him a hard punch: "Good boy, you are so good that you actually asked for such high treatment from the crew! Tell me, what did you pay for? Those scriptures?"
Liu Qingshan shook his head: "Not only that, but also some help in cultivation. You won't understand even if I tell you, so don't tell me!"
"Shanzi, the request you made is very important!" Xu Fang interjected, "The people who came here in advance said that it is not easy to command the people here. Money is one thing. You can come all the way here. , they are all people with a certain social status, and they don’t care about the money. The problem is that they feel that focusing on such a religion and filming scenes about pickpocketing is a blasphemy to the faith here!”
"But why didn't the monks in the temple raise this question?" Liu Qingshan asked strangely.
"Before we came, some monks also raised this reason. It may be because of you, but now I have never mentioned it!"
Director Feng was helping his wife prove it: "I'm also surprised. This morning Chengzi came to tell me that I don't have to worry about this problem. Originally, I was thinking of editing it in later!"
Chengzi is one of the assistant directors who came here in advance to prepare, and he is a well-known communicative person in the industry.
The rest of the shooting was uneventful, mainly doing some preparations for the scene. The specific plot shooting will not officially start until the afternoon.
However, the dinner time here is very late, because the working hours in the morning are from 9:00 to 13:00, and the working time does not start until 13:30 in the afternoon. There is only half an hour in between, so lunch is usually a makeshift meal.
The crew also followed the local customs, and the meals were packed lunches booked in advance at the Shanxia B&B, which were fast food such as rice, noodles, and dumplings.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, we officially entered the plot shooting part.
This film tells the story of a male thief Wang Bo played by Liu Qingshan and a female thief Wang Li played by Liu Ruying, a pair of pickpocket partners and a pair of desperate lovers.
The two set up a trap in a rich man's home, stole the man's BMW with lies and threats, and then traveled all the way to the west to sell the car.
Wang Li found out that she was pregnant, so she wanted to escape from this precarious life. However, out of shame about the identity of the two thieves, she doubted whether she and Wang Bo could be good parents, so she felt very complicated.
Wang Bo had no idea about this, and the two had several conflicts along the way.
On the return train, the two met a migrant worker named Shagen, who wanted to return to his hometown to build a house and marry a wife with the money he earned from working in the west.
Sha Gen did not believe that there were thieves in the world who insisted on taking the money on the road. Wang Li had a relationship with Sha Gen and was deeply moved by his simplicity. She decided to protect Sha Gen and the money in his bag and make him happy. The dream of a world without thieves.
But there was also a pickpocketing gang in the car who wanted to steal Shagen's money. Therefore, Wang Bo and Wang Li started a series of overt and covert battles with this gang.
What I want to shoot today is that the thieving couple came to the temple. Wang Li was kneeling down and praying devoutly, while Wang Bo was sneaking into the crowd and stealing.
On the way, he happened to meet Xiaoye, a female thief played by Li Bingbing from another group, so there was an early encounter between the two.
Liu Qingshan's early script stated that the film would fully use the most advanced shooting techniques, striving to create the suspenseful, ups and downs of a Hollywood police blockbuster.
The first scene in the film is embodied in the beautifying description of the skillful thefts in the temple square.
Moreover, this section will be played frame by frame in slow motion after post-production, which requires extremely high skills from the actors.
The original film used computer special effects to show a series of skilled "hands-on skills" of the thief king Bo, including the more classic one-handed peeling of eggs later on the train. Liu Qingshan planned not to use special effects and do all of it himself. Finish.
This required him to use some infuriating auxiliary means during the filming process. In order to avoid exposing the existence of infuriating energy in the slow-motion playback later, he had been practicing these actions for a long time.
Because the best way not to be exposed is to use as little infuriating energy as possible. Fortunately, the essence of his Eighteen Fall Techniques is quick hands and quick eyes. In addition, he is now in the late stage of foundation building, so he can do it without using infuriating energy. Just relying on the inner suction in the palm of your hand, you can pick up some small objects out of thin air.
And compared to the more widely spread Thirty-Six Moves of Flower Boxing, the Seventy-Two Divine Hands are circulated in a small area. His Eighteen Drops are rarely used during filming, but it does not mean that no one will know about it.
For example, people like Chen Long, Sammo Hung, Wu Jing and even Chen Zuming know that he has such skills in his hands. If this causes a wave of public opinion among the people, as long as someone among these people stands up to help him explain, it will be possible. Perfectly covering up the angry things.
After all, the Eighteen Falling Technique is a real martial arts routine. Liu Qingshan has been preparing for the popularization of the technique from the beginning. Making it shine through this movie is only the beginning of the goal.
Such scenes not only have great visual effects, but also play a very good role in shaping the characters, and will further promote the widespread dissemination of this film around the world. Regardless of the influence of the issue of the inheritance of Eastern martial arts or the income from investment, it will There is a huge promotion effect.
The reason is very simple. Things that cannot be copied by others are classics. Even a small movement for a moment will be a key factor in making the film last forever.
The original film can only be said to have caused a certain sensation in the mainland market. Strictly speaking, let alone the international market, it did not even have much market impact in the other two places across the Taiwan Strait.
It’s different now. Not only does he have countless fan bases around the world, but also the perfect combination of real action scenes without any technological components and realistic martial arts routines, he has gained a much broader market than the original version. Obviously, it is not Not too difficult.
Of course, making up for some flaws in the original version is a necessary prerequisite.
Therefore, Liu Qingshan's final script has actually shown significant progress in using film and television language for overall narrative, and has the quality to skillfully use commercial film techniques to tell a mature story.
Not only did he resolutely eliminate elements that occasionally appeared in the original film that undermined this smooth narrative, he also boldly deleted some jokes that were basically irrelevant to the plot.
But he kept the funny part about the robbery on the train. The other cuts were to avoid unnecessary scenes like a gift from a shrewd supermarket owner to regular customers.
In this way, the storyline is described more compactly, and the problem of speed mismatch between the front and rear backgrounds of individual shots or frames is minimized.
The most noteworthy thing is that there are more than 600 special effects shots in the whole film, and none of these special effects shots are used as visual highlights for the purpose of "showing off". They are entirely used as backgrounds to create a performance stage for the actors.
The person responsible for the production of these special effects is Snowland Studio. Starting from this film, Chinese film special effects are officially introduced to the market. It is crucial to have a good starting space, so the continuity of the plot is even more important for the impact of special effects. .
The first scene is the scene where the heroine kowtows. She needs to kneel on the ground and then lie on the ground with her whole body, palms down, hands stretched forward to scratch the ground, and her forehead lightly pressed against the ground. After getting up, the cycle starts over again.
At this moment, there are many devout Tibetans in the square who are prostrating themselves clockwise around the Jokhang Temple. They are reciting the six-character mantra, clasping their hands together and raising their heads above their heads, repeating the kowtow movement back and forth.
Therefore, the filming this time used a combination of covert tracking and shifting focus. The actors only needed to blend in with the crowd of people kowtowing in place and learn from the others.
These devout Tibetan believers who live far away from home travel across mountains and rivers, eat in the open air, and kowtow all the way. It may take them several years to reach the holy place in their hearts.
It is said that when they encounter water, they will kowtow to the river bank to cover the width of the river, and then try to cross the river.
It can be seen from this that the sincerity and loyalty on their faces do not need to be deliberately learned. You only need to feel it with your heart to be infected.
Therefore, Director Feng, who has always been worried about Liu Ruying's acting skills, put the filming of this plot on the symbolic first scene, because she only needed to show a pious expression.
Unexpectedly, although Liu Ruying has been in the music industry and her acting skills have been neglected for a long time, her strength still made Director Feng, who was watching the monitor screen from a distance, breath a sigh of relief.
Moreover, this woman's attitude towards work is as extraordinary as her attitude towards music. The complicated feeling of anxiety and sincerity when confessing her feelings to God on her face is full of realism.
This is a multi-character portrayal of a female thief looking forward to her journey of self-return. It contains both expectations and panic about the change of identity label, and she is also facing the mysterious gods and saints who are respected by countless people. It is rich in layers. The emotional perfection of feelings is particularly important.
Director Feng, who keenly caught this point, immediately gave the order: "Zoom in, close-up of the character's expression, hold for at least ten seconds... Five, four, three, two, one, very good! Pull back, all Shoot from a distance with the mirror, from near to far, OK! OK! OK! Just like that, hold it, and then slowly shake it back."
At the mobilization meeting a few days ago, he repeatedly explained it several times. He pointed out that due to the special nature of the shooting scene, in many cases the filming should be done in one shot. Therefore, actors who are not very good at handling their own emotions should go back In the end, when it’s time to ask a teacher, when it’s time to polish it in front of the mirror, be diligent, otherwise don’t blame him and scold him in front of many people.
