There is a reason for this. War movies are serious movies after all, and most of Fang Yi’s circle of friends don’t do youth movies, so I didn’t look for him much before.
The Korean War and the War of the Founding of New China. In the past few decades, directors have tried to recreate that war.
Perhaps this war is too artistic. So far, most Korean war films have achieved good ratings, and the average level is much higher than that of conventional war films.
"Shangganling" was first filmed in 1956. It was adapted from the literary script "Twenty-Four Days". It tells the story of the soldiers of the Eighth Company of the Volunteer Army who fought bloody battles with the enemy during the Battle of Shangganling and finally won. This film was a mission film, and at that time
Movies were made regardless of cost, so the studio that received the filming assignment went to the border for on-site inspections, interviewed hundreds of soldiers who had experienced it, and finally recruited two battalions of troops to dig holes and build roads to recreate the war as much as possible.
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The interlude "My Motherland" in the film is known as the second national anthem.
In 1964, he filmed the movie "Heroic Sons and Daughters". The movie's line "Fire at me!" will definitely be selected as one of the 100 most important lines in Chinese film and television dramas.
In the 1960s, the movie "Raiders" sold 100 million movie tickets for 10 cents each.
In addition to the above-mentioned movies, there are also movies that reflect military logistics such as "Railway Guards", "The Fierce Battle of the Unknown River" and "The Heart of the Eye"; "Hero Tanker" that reflects armored forces, and "Blue Sea and Red Waves" and "The Hero in the Sky" that reflect strangulation warfare.
Eagle" and so on.
In fact, the predecessors have shown everything that can be photographed and explored, and in the last era reached the artistic peak of the aesthetics at that time. Then China and the United States entered the honeymoon period, followed by decades of economic construction period, and photography was no longer encouraged.
Such movies have fallen into a vacuum period of "Korean war movies" both artistically and realistically.
This time point ended last year. The 2011 Golden Rooster Awards awarded the best documentary to the documentary "Ice and Snow Changjin Lake", which was the year when Fang Yi won the best director. The Golden Rooster Awards is an award ceremony that prefers the main theme.
The movies it awards seem to represent a certain attitude.
What does that mean?
We may no longer discourage the filming of Korean war films.
The reason why this double-negative mock-up statement is used to describe it is because there are no clear regulations. This standard has to be explored by the creators themselves. For example, a screenwriter once thought of a good idea, but found that this idea might
It didn’t pass, so I called my friend who was in charge of the review and asked directly:
“Is there something wrong with my story?”
"no problem."
"Then what if I can't pass the photo shoot?"
"have no idea."
"How could you not know? You said everything is fine, how could you not know?"
"Because I really don't know either."
Therefore, for a long period of time, no director spent money to film the North Korean war. Now there is a turn for the better, and directors are trying to apply with their notebooks, hoping to use today's technology to recreate that war.
The Korean war films were the pinnacle of art at that time, but looking back now, there are naturally many shortcomings, such as the characters are too facially portrayed, the scenes, special effects, weapons and equipment are not professional enough, especially the restoration of the US military, which is no longer in line with the standards.
Today's commercial war film requirements.
If someone else were to take the photo, they might not be able to solve these shortcomings. It would be better not to take the photo, so as not to be embarrassed.
Fang Yi has already proven himself. In the end, he was the only director to receive a filming permit in this wave of applications.
In mid-May, Fang Yi went to Tongzhou to see the preliminary results of base's special effects production.
The person in charge, William, showed him the produced video source in a closed space with the internet disconnected:
The fiery red convertible was flying at lightning speed, chasing closely under the wings of the jet. Fang Yi controlled the convertible to approach, and the elder brother Cheng stood up with difficulty, finally grabbed the edge of the wing, and jumped up violently.
At this time, the plane reached initial flight speed and began to lift its nose off the ground. Brother Cheng hugged the wings and crawled towards the door. Fang Yi, who was under the belly of the plane, was gradually thrown away...
This section is a combination of real shooting and special effects. At first glance, it looks okay. The moment the elder brother stood up and climbed, he had already entered the special effects stage. At that time, he was actually climbing a wooden model, but Fang Yi did not notice it clearly.
Special effects.
He praised: "The effect is better than I thought."
William is different from the original American Lao Ke. This guy is a cold-blooded guy. He said bluntly: "Because it's not difficult in the first place."
Fang Yi gave him a chance to show off: "Then what's so difficult?"
"In "Life of Pi," the tiger held by the protagonist has a lifelike fur and eyeballs, and the tiger has an expression. It's ten times more difficult than our special effects aircraft."
Fang Yi got used to his character, so he said: "What about war movies? "Zodiac" did not use guns. The movies I will shoot later involve the Korean War, and there are a lot of World War II weapons. I can get real ones to shoot.
, but it’s just a sample in your hand, it won’t be loaded... Can this be made real?”
"completely fine."
"really?"
William, a Chinese American, called Lao Ke, a white American, and the two Americans talked about Fang Yi's problem. Then Lao Ke said happily: "I am best at making war movies about Americans. I originally took on HBO's "Band of Brothers"
In the movie, when the Germans beat the Americans, the blood flowed wildly, and they were beaten so seriously that they screamed and screamed... I made it very realistic!"
Fang Yi was made to laugh by this guy and couldn't help laughing: "I almost forgot that Base originally started out with war movies."
Lao Keyou complained: "That was two years ago, and I hadn't sold the company yet. After I sold the company, wasn't that what... a leader came over?"
He is talking about American William Gao Hua.
William decided to examine the ingredients of Lao Ke. He said: "Ok Lao Ke is a white American. I'm afraid that making this kind of film will hurt his national sentiments. We should be considerate of him."
Lao Ke was too eager to make progress and said categorically: "What kind of national sentiment? I participated in this film out of justice. My moral values prevent me from sitting idly by. Director Fang, are you willing to give me a chance?"
Fang Yi respected Lao Ke's desire to make progress, but he also respected the authority of William, the current base executive boss. His eyes fell on Gao Hua, an American who had switched jobs from Industrial Light and Magic to Beijing.
William is not a fool. He knows that Fang Yi will look at him, which means that Fang Yi has been persuaded by Lao Ke. After all, Lao Ke has been working on "Band of Brothers" for a long time and is indeed rich in experience.
After a long while, William said: "I'm going to tell you the truth, you give me a hand."
Lao Ke: "Of course!"
The two then looked at Fang Yi together, and Fang Yi said: "Then it's settled, you two will take the lead."