The crew of "Resident Evil" chartered a bus and headed towards the city center 0 kilometers away. Most of the people in the bus were behind-the-scenes employees. The only actors were Li Jiaxin and Aishwarya. Among them, Aishwarya returned to India by the way.
Visiting relatives.
Li Jiaxin was very excited as soon as she got off the plane. She especially likes traveling and goes to Europe every year. This is her first visit to India and she is thinking about going to the Taj Mahal after filming.
But reality quickly poured cold water on Li Jiaxin. She saw countless garbage on both sides of the road, poor people in ragged clothes and dirty cows wandering around everywhere.
"Oh my god!" Li Jiaxin covered her mouth, stared ahead in stunned silence, and then closed her eyes suddenly.
I saw a car parked not far ahead. The driver got out and squatted on the side of the road. He took off his pants and pooped in public. As soon as he pooped out, a local dog ran over and wanted to eat it.
Fill your stomach with this hot shit.
"Drink!" The shitting driver waved his arms and drank the bitch away.
"Woof!" The native dog ran away for a distance and stared at the poop with eager eyes.
After the bus had driven a long way, Li Jiaxin opened her eyes and said, "How can Indians do this and defecate anywhere on the roadside!"
Aishwarya blushed after hearing this. She is also an Indian, so of course she knows what this country is like. Not to mention 1995, even 20 years later, most families in India did not have toilets, and people defecated everywhere in the city center.
Commonplace.
In order to reverse this disgraceful behavior, the Indian government specially hired police to patrol the streets and use high-pressure water cannons to drive away those who pooped and peed, but it was of no use.
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "This is an Indian custom."
"Customs?" Li Jiaxin was extremely confused.
Kang Jianfei said: "This custom originated from the caste system in India, where one level is superior to the other."
Li Jiaxin asked strangely: "Isn't India a democratic society? How come there is still such a system?"
"Although it is prohibited by law, it still exists in practice," Kang Jianfei said. "Most families in India do not have toilets because they lack a corresponding sewer system. Especially in rural areas, only dry toilets can be built, and such toilets require regular maintenance.
Digging out feces."
Although Li Jiaxin lives in the city, she still knows basic common sense. She said: "There are also dry toilets in the countryside of Hong Kong. The feces in the toilets can be used for irrigation and fertilization. Indian farmers do not need to fertilize their fields?"
"Haha, it's really not necessary. They farm the land without even digging furrows," Kang Jianfei continued, "Below the four major castes in India, there are also lower-status untouchables. They are untouchable and must wear bells when going out.
When higher-ranking people hear the bell, they will get out of the way to avoid contact with untouchables. Under the caste system, all jobs are fixed, and untouchables can only do such menial work as digging out excrement. And families with castes do not want untouchables to do it.
Enter their homes, so no one will pick up the feces in the dry toilets."
Li Jiaxin said: "Don't they pick up their own excrement?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "No, because the job of digging out feces belongs to untouchables, so dry toilets cannot be popularized in India. And India's infrastructure is very poor, and it is impossible to build modern toilets with drainage systems on a large scale."
Li Jiaxin flattered her with an admiring tone: "Brother Fei, you know so much."
"Hahaha." Kang Jianfei laughed. He didn't say that Indians don't use their left hand to eat because it is used to wipe their butts. If he said this, Li Jiaxin would probably not dare to eat in India.
Kang Jianfei was laughing, but Aishwarya felt very ashamed. She didn't feel much like living in India before, but after living in Hong Kong and the United States for two years, she could no longer accept these bad habits of her motherland.
The bus soon entered Kolkata city.
When the British colonized India, this city used to be the capital of India, but now it has become the second largest city in India, and will become the third largest city in the future.
You may not believe it, but Communistism and Maoist Thought here have a wide influence, and they often engage in left-wing and trade union movements. Today, West Bengal, where Kolkata is located, is governed by the Communist Party of India, and will be in power for 0 consecutive years.
And it was chosen through voting.
In the mid-1990s, Kolkata was in dire straits and was experiencing rapid economic development. Some foreign brands invested in and built factories here, especially electronics companies. There were very few high-rise buildings in the city, and most of them were concentrated in the XC area in the northeast.
They were all developed in the past two years.
The filming location of "Resident Evil" is in the XC area, where there is a skyscraper built just last year - it is five stories high and is the tallest building in Kolkata.
This is the second largest city in India. In terms of high-rise buildings, it is not as good as the Kowloon area of Hong Kong.
After entering the city, the impression is much better than that in the suburbs. Especially the way the women on the street dress, wearing gold jewelry and draped in saris, is very exotic.
In the afternoon of that day, everyone stayed in the hotel, and Kang Jianfei took the set designer to the scene to make arrangements. He was busy until it was getting dark, and basically completed the general work, and arrived at the shooting location in the XC area early the next morning.
Then Kang Jianfei exploded. He had promised to gather at seven o'clock in the morning, but it was almost eight o'clock, and the Indian extras he invited hadn't arrived yet. These lazy guys are not punctual!
In order to facilitate filming, the entire street was cleared, and the set designers continued to work on the remaining work from yesterday.
Nearby buildings were damaged, and the exterior windows of many buildings were deliberately broken. The streets were littered with abandoned cars and paper scraps were littered on the streets.
We only shot one scene today, and it was also the final scene.
Li Jiaxin rushed out of the building and onto the street in a daze. She looked around at the deserted streets, completely confused about the situation.
"Click!"
Kang Jianfei held his hand and shouted: "Helicopter! All extras get ready."
Next comes the big scene, with more than 2,000 extras alone. The assistant director and his translator kept explaining the movements, instructing them on how to move and not to run around. The rest was left to the zombies to perform freely.
It took most of a day to put on makeup for the troupe of 000 zombies. Fortunately, it was all medium and long shots, so you didn’t have to be too careful with your makeup. Some people just smeared some blood on their faces.
There are no drones nowadays, so aerial photography can only be done by helicopters, which Kang Jianfei rented at a huge price.
Du Kefeng sat at the door of the cabin with the camera, and the camera gradually lifted from Li Jiaxin, and then shot to the distance of the street. At first, there were just a few scattered zombies, wandering aimlessly on the street, until the camera continued to move forward, they would appear
Densely packed with countless zombies.
The video ends here.
"Resident Evil 1" is just the prelude to the entire series. The heroine was captured after a life-and-death struggle, and then escaped from the laboratory. As soon as she went out, she discovered that the zombie virus had completely spread.
This is digging a hole. When the audience sees the ending, they will definitely want to watch the second part. (To be continued)