The plot of the film to be filmed is not complicated:
Wu Qianli, a college student, traveled to South Korea and went all the way north, gradually arriving at a city called Cheolwon on the border between North and South Korea. Due to historical reasons, this place was divided into two parts: North Korea and South Korea. The fighting was quite fierce and many martyrs were left behind.
garden.
According to the historical data of the Chinese, North Korean and United Nations forces, the Chinese army is the only army that has never committed any crime in either North Korea or South Korea, and its discipline is excellent. Therefore, this small martyrs garden has been allocated and maintained by the South Korean government. The remains of the martyrs are
been properly accommodated.
However, this is a foreign country after all, and it is impossible for Koreans to come to pay homage to "outsiders", so the Martyrs Garden is relatively deserted. After Wu Qianli heard about this, he bought a bouquet of flowers and planned to go to the grave alone. He solemnly offered
After the flowers were spent, I gazed at the names of the martyrs written on the tombstones, reciting each one silently in my heart.
He discovered his name.
This is a burial mound, marked as missing, but no bones were found. The Koreans took inventory after the war and believed that they must have died somewhere in the mud somewhere in Cheorwon, or were burned to death by incendiary bombs... In short, they gave a "sacrifice"
"Equal treatment and buried together with his comrades.
In Wu Qianli in 2013, he stared blankly at the tombstone with the same name as himself, feeling a sense of familiarity and fatigue. He couldn't help but sit there and take a nap. Soon after, when he opened his eyes, he was already in the forest and mountains. Just now
The names on the tombstones appeared in front of him one by one.
Mei Sheng, Yu Congrong, Lei Gong... and Tan Ziwei. He was in the marching team, the camera zoomed out, and tens of thousands of people entered North Korea quietly in the dark. He came to 1950.
——The story is simple, but hard work has to be done elsewhere. Directors often have a so-called royal team during the creative period. Fang Yi’s royal team is Jin Dong, Bai Yu and others, so these two people pre-booked the roles and played them respectively.
The English-speaking instructor Mei Sheng and the sniper Pinghe.
Being able to speak English can satisfy Jin Dong's desire for expression.
Fang Yi asked other people in the Republic Era: "Besides the ones mentioned above, do you have any recommendations for role candidates? Our show is quite famous now. I have received a lot of people asking for advice. You must have some too... Don't be afraid.
, recommend it.”
Guo Fan asked him: "There won't be any auditions this time?"
Fang Yi shook his head: "It's too late for auditions. We don't want young actors. We want professional actors who can withstand the test, preferably those who have worked together before."
Lu Yang, who was filming "Xiu Chun Dao", also took the time to attend the meeting. He is Fang Yi's fan. He knew Fang Yi's acting career very well, and he immediately blurted out: "Since we are looking for someone who has worked with us before, there are actually not many candidates."
"for example?"
"Duan Yihong, Zhang Yi, Chen Jianbin...and what else, it can't be director Feng Dapao."
Fang Yi thought about the ones mentioned by Lu Yang in his mind - they are indeed good actors. As long as they are available, there is nothing wrong with finding them.
Zhang Yi plays the role of the firepower platoon leader, and this time he is asked to be an official. Duan Yihong plays Tan Ziwei - Tan Ziwei, Fang Yi thinks of the man on the hospital bed, with his twisted character, which is really similar to that of Lao Duan
Real people are very similar.
Duan Yihong is suitable to play such a person.
He then asked: "There are still some roles left. They may not appear much, but they are still famous and need reliable people to play them. Do you have any recommendations?"
Guo Fan said: "Now all our actors are from Yang Opera. I think it would be better to find them all directly from Yang Opera. This is also a topic... You don't need auditions, and you have to find people who can act. Now your main actors are...
They are all in the center, so just do it to the end."
Fang Yi looked at Lu Yang.
Lu Yang said: "I also support Guo Fan's idea, but my starting point is different. This drama is a men's drama, a war drama, and brotherhood is very important. But objectively we don't have much time for actors to cultivate relationships every day, so we directly find colleagues
It’s best if you graduate from the same school. There is a sense of camaraderie between teachers, so it won’t be awkward when we meet.”
Guo Fan slapped his thigh: "Yes! That's what you said."
The two of them talked to each other and convinced Fang Yi. He originally thought that he should find someone from another school, so as not to cause some trouble and make people in the circle speculate that Fang Yi was nepotistic. Now he doesn't care anymore, after all, the movie is being shot.
Good is the most important thing.
In the republican era, this film company could not afford to be politically correct.
He spent about ten seconds thinking about it, drawing circles in his notebook, and finally wrote: "Let's make it this way, all members of the Central Committee will play together."
He added: "For a war movie of this level, except for the core actor Wu Qianli, the other actors are not irreplaceable. What is really important is the production team, and our production team involves cross-strait and three places. We are very diverse.
of."
Then in a few words, other actors were decided: Li Xuejian, Chen Jianbin, Hu Jun... and others. Whoever has a schedule will come on, just plug and play.
There are several lines in this story, which the audience must get after watching the movie. For example, how the protagonist finally reunites with his comrades has been conceived before; the other is the protagonist's mental journey, how is he a modern person?
He adapted to war life, took up arms to protect his family and country, fought until the last moment, and finally returned to modern times by some strange combination of circumstances, and had to join the People's Liberation Army again.
"I found a problem. We need to have a wedge and a credible reason to show the change of the character. Wu Qianli is not a gangster, he has a conscience and justice, but he will also be frightened by the cruel war. Although he will not become a deserter
, but he may not be the bravest person, especially since he has long known that the war has been won. As an individual, whether he fights hard or not will not affect the outcome..." Lu Yang said. "But he must become
A brave man, so who makes him a hero?"
Guo Fan starts from the perspective of commercial films: "Love?"
"The style of the film changed. I'm not saying that love is bad, but we didn't have much time to shape the love line." Lu Yang said.
Guo Fan: "So, unfulfilled love?"
Lu Yang was stunned, unable to judge, and looked at Fang Yi.
Fang Yi said: "There is no need for a love line. Life and death are at stake. There is no time to talk about love. Even if there is, it is kept in mind. We don't need to shoot like this. The comradeship is great enough, and this is also in line with historical data."
However, Fang Yi added: "We really need a female character, otherwise the movie will be too tough. And if there is no female character, it may affect the movie's box office, because female audiences tend not to watch men's movies."
Guo Fan continued: "How about female comrades? Female comrades are also comrades, and they are also comrades. It is consistent with historical data and artistic."
In fact, this kind of conflict can be easily resolved. The three of them all thought of one thing: adding a nurse character.
On the battlefield, nurses are not always at the rear like most literary and artistic works. In fact, due to the harsh combat conditions of the volunteers in the early days of the Korean War, nurses often had to carry heavy bullets and risk their lives to pull injured comrades back, and even
It's bandaged on the spot.
The 1956 movie "Shangganling" is a wonderful war film. The entire film describes a certain Eighth Company of the Volunteer Army fighting bloody battles with the US military in a tunnel. Faced with the danger of water and food shortages, the soldiers finally persisted for 24 days and waited until they arrived in China.
A major counterattack by the Allied forces.
So what is the most famous part of this film?
Is it an extremely fierce battle, or the sacrifice of the soldiers... It doesn't matter. The most outstanding part of the movie is the intermission period between the enemy's attacks. During a quiet time, Wang Lan, the health worker in the tunnel, sang in order to boost morale.
Ballad:
"A big river has wide waves
The wind blows the fragrance of rice flowers on both sides of the bank
My family lives on the shore
…”
When a story is cruel, warmth becomes unforgettable; when the story is tender, cruelty acquires the same status.
A nurse must have a nurse role. Don’t be too pretty, showy, or girl-next-door style.
Fang Yi thought of a person in his mind, so he took out his mobile phone and sent a text message.
Other things were also discussed at the meeting. For example, such a large-scale war scene requires an experienced explosive props team, and the ones here are real ones. It is a "hot explosion" not a "cold explosion", which is currently lacking in the republican era.
Foreign aid may need to be brought in.
People who are good at explosion scenes in China are mainly concentrated in Hong Kong and some old people from the original studios. Fang Yi needs to contact these people as soon as possible.
In addition, all actors must undergo a certain degree of military training. They are not required to become sharpshooters, but at least they must show some discipline. They must not be hunched over or have awkward legs or feet in front of the camera.
Various tactical actions in the film must be as consistent as possible with historical facts. If necessary, the organization must even be requested to find active soldiers to serve as stand-ins. Fang Yi wants to restore the "three-three system" of the People's Liberation Army infantry team's assault tactics in the film.
This is an infantry team assault tactic that originated during the Anti-Japanese War, matured in the War of Liberation, and was widely used in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. The core idea is to appropriately disperse the force density to avoid the destruction of the enemy's intensive firepower, emphasizing close coordination, layer by layer,
Advance and alternate cover attacks.
The Korean War is a rich mine for literary and artistic creation, but whether it is North Korea, South Korea, or American films, they all describe the Volunteer Army's exquisite assault tactics as "human sea tactics". The essence is even worse. What they filmed is not "human sea tactics".
Instead of adopting the "Human Sea Assault" tactic, they twisted it into the "Pig Rush" tactic used by the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese War. This is a barbaric, inhumane, and backward tactic, and the intentions behind it are quite sinister.
During World War I, the Maxim machine gun caused 60,000 casualties to British soldiers within one day of use. This marked the disappearance of the "pig attack" tactic, not to mention the large number of heavily equipped United Nations troops. Obviously, the volunteers in their movies did not meet the requirements.
Historical facts do not even conform to basic IQ.
For example, in the Korean movie "Highland War" released last year, the volunteers were crowded together, as if they were gathered in the square to watch the Spring Festival Gala. In the narrow valley, tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers were squeezed in...
No, that's not how we defeated you back then. So the ratio of casualties to casualties was less than one to one.
There is no way to stop outsiders from doing this for some purpose, but our own people shouldn't be so stupid.
——These all require the overall planning of Director Fang, and Director Fang himself has a series of other plans. For example, he who is 187cm and weighs 78kg needs to lose weight to less than 60kg within two to three months, and needs to lose weight from a muscular boy.
To the point of being skinny.
why?
Li Xuejian once played the role of Commander Feng Shi in "Born Out of the Sky", which describes the history of New China's test of atomic bombs in Lop Nur. According to the data, the prototype of Feng Shi's character "was thin and dark because of the difficult conditions.
..." And Li Xuejian was more rounded than his rival actors at the time, which made him extremely regretful afterwards and considered it the only regret in his career as an actor.
So, in extreme circumstances, how can a soldier who can only eat snow and even eat no fried rice be a muscular man? There is no need for others to impose requirements. Fang Yi is a core actor and has to lose weight. And once he loses weight,
It has a great impact on the audience outside the screen.
It is definitely a wonderful performance that can sweep several major awards in mainland China.
Fang Yi pressed his eyebrows. The pressure was indeed much greater than that of "Twelve Zodiac Signs".
"The movie is called "I Come from the Future"? Are you sure you won't change it, such as "Changjin Lake" or "Cheoyuan"?" Guo Fan suddenly asked.
Fang Yi: "That's the nomenclature of the series."
Guo Fan: "Our movie may be quite big, equivalent to two movies. Doesn't director Wu Baige want to make a Chinese version of "Titanic"? It is said to be divided into two parts like "Red Cliff"
department."
"I'm not old enough to make movies like this yet."
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Two weeks later, Song Yi, who was rehearsing a drama, received a task from the school, asking her to be the host of the new Yangxi Opera Alumni Dubbing Exhibition.
Every session of the CCTV Alumni Dubbing Exhibition is broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV, and it is now a well-known professional program in the industry. The host is a popular position and has always been held by particularly outstanding students (with backgrounds).
This exhibition is different from the past. It is said that alumni will participate in the filming of the same movie and show off their skills to the graduating students before filming. The film may be the most heavily invested war film in mainland China in recent years. The Republic Era, China Film
, Yinghuang, Ahli Culture, and Sohu Films have invested a total of nearly 400 million yuan, which is bound to set a super benchmark for mainland war films in the new century.
Therefore, this exhibition can be regarded as a preview for the film's creators. Its significance has far exceeded that of a school performance. It has been favored by many mainstream media. More reporters applied for interviews than alumni who watched the exhibition.
French director Luc Besson, who recently visited Yang Opera, was also very interested in this. At his request, Yang Opera temporarily arranged a preview symposium between him and director Fang Yi.
Song Yi knows why she can be the host, because she plays the role of "Nurse Wang" in the play, and because she is Fang Yi's classmate.
But it may be that Fang Yi sent a message and asked for this?
Who knows?
Who else in the central drama nowadays can not respect his face?
Song Yi got the script and the list of dubbing programs in advance, and spent an afternoon practicing the lyrics. As a professional actor, she had also worked part-time as a host before. She was already familiar with this kind of thing, but now she is a little distracted and sometimes falls into
I was deep in thought, and my face turned red as I thought about it: