He said that, he was so disgusted, but he turned around and went back to the room, then took a small box from the room and handed it to Xia Yu, "I didn't buy it for you, it's a New Year's gift from your master's wife!"
He reluctantly made it clear that he was not such a pretentious old man!
Xia Yu took it apart and found a bracelet, but even a layman like Xia Yu could tell that it was very valuable. As for the value, what could come out of Mrs. Zhuang's hands was definitely extraordinary.
Mainly because when I visited Mrs. Zhuang last year, I heard that Mrs. Zhuang was in poor health. Xia Yu specifically asked her grandfather for a bottle of medicinal wine that the old man had collected for decades - that was when the old man was young and went to the mountains and countryside.
Of course, there are more than one bottle of high-quality medicinal materials obtained from the old forest again and again, and they are also used for various difficult and complicated diseases. In general, Mr. Yu’s medical books are not for nothing.
Although the medicinal wine could not be said to be a cure-all for all diseases, it did play a certain role in Mrs. Zhuang's body. After drinking it for a while, she did feel a lot better - it was a return of kindness.
Xia Yu smiled, "It's up to my wife to have a high emotional intelligence. I will call my wife soon and file a complaint!"
Zhuang He laughed angrily.
Zhuang He was more cunning than Xia Yu, but he also kept talking about the specialties that Xia Yu brought back.
She said that Xia Yu and her father's cooking skills are really comparable to chef Lin Xin's house.
"When your father retires, he can really open his own restaurant. It would be a shame to hide such good skills!"
The crew members returned one after another at five or six in the afternoon, but both of them were very tired, so they didn't have dinner together. The hotel had arranged it, and they just had to call it themselves. Besides, they couldn't wait to start filming early tomorrow morning.
Take the time to take a good rest.
Xia Yu also plans to take a break early, because starting from February, most of the scenes will be hers.
At about ten o'clock, Tao Zhang returned to the set and brought Xia Yu a New Year's gift——
Xia Yu originally planned to go to sleep for a snack made by Lao Zhang from Lin Xin Mansion, but when he heard it was from Lao Zhang, he quickly got up.
Honest and brave: "I haven't seen my senior brother for a few days. I miss the snacks made by Lao Zhang!"
After brushing his teeth again at 10:30, Xia Yu closed the door and thanked the guests, lay down on the bed, hugged Yuanbao, and entered the system course.
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I woke up on time at 5:50, because I saw the weather forecast last night and knew that there would be a sleet this morning, which was not serious. It had nothing to do with the filming. Most of the exterior scenes of the early war scenes had been shot.
But it will definitely have an impact on morning exercises. Normally, Xia Yu would just stare at the heavy rain and run for a while. It would be fine. He would just drink a cup of ginger tea when he comes back. But during the shooting period, he should pay more attention to not get a fever or cold.
, affecting your own status and shooting process.
Fortunately, Zhuang He's team had the foresight early on to build a temporary gym on the top floor when they rented the hotel. Due to the special nature of the crew, they also provided separate gyms for men and women to avoid unnecessary problems.
Xia Yu and Meng Dong packed themselves up and went directly to the gym——
When the two arrived, there was no one in the public area, but there was movement in the men's area. Xia Yu glanced sideways and stepped into the women's area.
It is said to be a women's area, but in fact, apart from a few treadmills, the main area is divided into a large dance room. On the edge are yoga massages and leg presses, and in the middle is a dance area with three large mirrors. The crew is also very thoughtful.
Xia Yu was the first to arrive. About a few minutes later, people arrived one after another.
"Happy New Year, Sister Xia Yu!" Zhao Xinhui, who plays Meng Shujuan, and her roommate——
After that, there will be another new actor named Shi San Chai.
Those who can be chosen for the role of Thirteen Hairpins all have a background in dance. They have been taking a little extra lessons in opera these days, with Xia Yu taking the lead. I don’t know what the newbies are thinking behind the scenes, but they are all working hard to keep up.
Got the rhythm.
So when it comes to dealing with these new actors who sometimes have big problems in filming, but are very willing to endure hardships and work hard, Zhuang He should scold them, but he is a little more patient.
Xia Yu first did a set of Baguazhang, and then did a complete set of stretching with a few new actors. He ended this early morning exercise at about 6:40, and left dripping with sweat, using Jinling
Said:
"I just sent out the red envelope, don't forget to collect it. Finish early, come down to have breakfast and review the script!"
"Okay, thank you, Sister Xia Yu!" xn
After all, he is a "big shot". Even if Xia Yu is stingy about things like red envelopes, he still has to give them out, and it's not random. There are so many people in the crew, one per person, 888 per person.
Of course, in order to get back his money, Xia Yu also asked Meng Dong to keep an eye on other red envelopes in the group, "Get as many as you can!"
Meng Dong couldn't laugh or cry, "As for it?"
Xia Yu closed her eyes and put on a facial mask, "Why not, my sister is still in debt. If I don't rob her, how can I have the money to pay you a salary?"
In addition, knowing that Meng Dong was an administrator in a certain Xia Yu fan group, she also asked her to help send out a red envelope, which was created by Chen Ning and has never been dispersed. In the past year, although she has not talked to Chen Ning anymore
Contact, but Chen Ning has also been busy promoting Xia Yu.
Although Xia Yu didn't create any fan support club and didn't think it was necessary, Chen Ning seemed to be Xia Yu's biggest fan. During the Chinese New Year, Xia Yu didn't forget to send red envelopes to people, neither big nor small, mainly
Thank you for your support along the way.
Back to topic.
I went back to the room to tidy up, took a shower, put on some body lotion, put on some simple clothes and went downstairs.
If you don’t make any extra preparations, what preparations are needed? Put on makeup all over again and do everything over again, so why waste so much time?
At around seven o'clock, everyone was basically up. Most of the tables in the restaurant were full, but only one was empty——
That's for the starring team.
Xia Yu didn't show any pretense, he said hello to everyone, got a breakfast with Meng Dong, and went to the front.
Gu Mingtao has almost eaten. Today's shooting, except for a few Jin Chai and students, mainly "Dai Tao, Instructor Li, and Wang Pusheng" will appear. Xia Yu has a role, but not much. In other words, this is an epic drama.
, although it revolves around "Zhao Yumo" and other thirteen hairpins, it is more about showing the details of the entire Jinling Massacre, rather than individuals.
At 7:30, all the actors who had filming duties were in the hotel dressing room, changing clothes and putting on makeup——
Xia Yu couldn't maintain it these days. The retro hand-push wavy hair style that was slightly maintained had long since faded away. She tidied it up again, put on makeup, and changed into costumes. She arrived at the set at about 8:40 at 8:50.
Thirteen.
Zhuang and his team had already set off when the leading actors had just woken up. As soon as the actors arrived, the set was ready.
Zhuang He asked Tao Zhang to check again.
Whether there are any omissions or details that may cause the camera to blur, it is up to the recorder to decide.
"The 22nd scene of "Jinling Festival", the first shot, shooting begins!"
Gu Mingtao and Tong Chengping have been waiting for a month, and Tong Chengping finally showed his face once. Gu Mingtao has been holding back and watching for a whole month, and he can't wait to play with everyone.
But it's a pity that the first show today is his one-man show.
The recorder made the call and the studio suddenly became quiet. Everyone turned their attention to Dai Tao, played by Gu Mingtao.
Xia Yu was watching next to Zhuang He. She didn't need the script. She knew every scene of "Jinling Festival" by heart. Even during this period, she had begun to learn to storyboard, so she also had this scene in her mind.
I simulated it several times——
How to shoot, which angle to shoot from, in addition to her own interpretation, she was already thinking about the script from the perspective of a "director". Even she herself was not aware of this, but Zhuang He was aware of it.
Seeing that she was fascinated and frowning from time to time, Zhuang He glanced over and couldn't help but crinkle the corners of his eyes.
What this scene tells is that on the day when the Jinling Massacre began, the officer Dai Tao, played by Gu Mingtao, failed in the battle and killed a group of Japanese invaders during the pursuit, and then sneaked into this cathedral——
And like a giant wild cat, he walked around the church territory to investigate. In the process, he saw everyone in the church, including the fourteen Qinhuai River women in the underground warehouse, and lay down outside the basement vent.
Half an hour.
The last shot of this scene is:
Zhao Yumo had a problem with his intuition and glanced at the ventilation hole. Dai Tao quickly ran away. The scene where the two people's eyes almost collided!
This scene seems simple, but there are a lot of details in total. In order to get it right, the final video of this scene was probably only one minute. It took two days of filming, until Xia Yu turned around and stared at the vent, Gu Ming
Tao was lying on his back outside the underground warehouse, recalling the pair of dark eyes and the half-open, looming exquisite body, and suddenly burst into laughter!
After this scene was shot, there was another location scene.
It talks about how Dai Tao and the 73rd Division led by him defended Central Road on the evening of the 12th. After dark, the superiors decided to retreat to the Jiangbei area. During this process, due to the fierce fighting, some incidents occurred among his own troops.
They rubbed together. When he and his adjutant arrived at the riverside, "Every inch of the beach on the riverside was crowded with desperate flesh and blood, and the sides of every boat were covered with desperate hands." There were very few boats to escape, but there were no escape routes.
The number of people on board was dozens of times the capacity of the ship's passengers - Dai Tao decided to stop his futile efforts and took his adjutant to squeeze back and fight to the death!
It is said that after many discussions with several screenwriters about this scene, Zhuang He finally decided to present this scene completely in the movie because it involved some issues. Although he knew that this scene was a bit bloody, in real history, it would definitely only be
It is even more horrific than the incomplete events recorded in the book!
The filming of this scene was quite difficult, just for the group performance - it was a riverside, a passenger ship, corpses everywhere, and it was necessary to create a desperate escape without anyone being injured. It sounds simple, but it is quite complicated to arrange.
difficulty.
Moreover, these scenes are not post-production synthesis, but the real deal——
This scene was shot for a total of fifteen minutes, but according to the length of the movie, only five minutes were left. However, it took nearly five days to shoot, which is equivalent to only one minute available at the end of every day of shooting!
This is one of the reasons why Zhuanghe's crew has always invested huge amounts of money, but they can't find actors.
The cost of such a scene is exaggerated.
But after filming this scene, the entire crew fell silent. Many people felt so uncomfortable watching those war scenes that they cried.
Those children who are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years old are different from the rest of the crew. Although they are not from Jinling, but from surrounding cities, there are several of them who are their grandfathers and great-grandfathers.
The elders all fled from Jinling to other cities after the massacre that year - they had heard their elders talk about it, but they didn't have much of a real idea until that day when they were shocked.
One of the children burst into tears on the spot, "My grandfather and my great-grandmother escaped from that massacre. My grandfather told me that at that time, Jinling was in chaos. Everyone ran in one direction, and the boats were stopped at the ferry.
They didn’t even ask for a boat ticket. They just asked whoever could climb up. The room was packed with people, and even if people were pressed one by one, the children below would cry. My grandfather, who was in primary school at that time, cried and followed me.
My grandma said, 'Mom, I can leave, don't abandon me.' My grandma said to my grandpa, 'Mom will not abandon you!'"
"When my grandfather was four years old, he walked from Jinling to today's Wuhu. He hid under the bed of a farmer's house. He was not very sensible at the time and was so frightened that he cried. Fortunately, there was a jar of sugar under the bed, and my mother-in-law was leaning on it.
This jar of candy coaxed my grandfather to survive in the end!"
"My grandfather said that all the children who survived at that time wanted to grow up quickly and go to war. This hatred was engraved in their bones and they cannot be forgotten to this day!"
After filming this scene, most of the entire crew was just shocked and silent.
The extras didn't leave either. They were just about to clean up and collect their pay, so they just sat aside.
But when the little girl told this incident, even the resolute men in the crew, which made up the majority of male members, couldn't help crying.
After a long while, after everyone had almost digested this emotion, Zhuang He asked Tao Zhang to continue arranging the subsequent shooting tasks.
The director team greeted everyone, "Get ready for the next scene."
The next scene was when Dai Tao and his adjutant were returning from the river. On the way back, a large number of people were still pouring from the city to the river. 'Dai Tao' also saw a soldier taking off a citizen's gown and pulling it off.
He exchanged his military cotton-padded clothes with the citizens, but the citizens would rather wear long coats with piles of patches, bare feet and shivering from the cold than wear military cotton-padded clothes.
'Dai Tao' originally raised his pistol, but thinking about the five bullets left in the gun, he hesitated. It was not until later that he realized that he had misunderstood. This scene has several meanings - the citizens cannot bear it, and the citizens dare not
.
But in the end, the soldier who became a citizen of Jinling turned around and returned to the battlefield!
After that, another seven or eight scenes were filmed, starting at 8pm and continuing until 6:30am.
Gu Mingtao is worthy of being a professional actor. During several consecutive days of filming, his total number of NGs was less than five. The minor accidents that occurred in the middle were basically problems with the group performance, but he maintained an excellent condition.
After five days and six nights, the filming of the approximately eight-minute scene where "Dai Tao" appeared was finally completed.
Time flies and it’s early March.
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(Double updates combined into one, four thousand)
(The monthly tickets are doubled at the end of this month. You can save some and vote for the works you like. I will forget it this month. Next month, I will beg for monthly tickets again!)
(When filming this film, I want to say that what I want to achieve is not Xia Yu, but Zhuang He - Xia Yu will have other films in the future, but in my arrangement, Zhuang He is the only one, and Xia Yu is through this
A film that has initially entered the world's attention. Zhuang He can only help her so much. The rest of the way is up to her own efforts!)
(I really like the movie Jinling Thirteen Hairpins, and I also like the novel. However, due to various reasons, many scenes were not filmed, so I want to say that I will continue to write novels to express these scenes~)