The rain continued for another two days, and the sky finally cleared up. Because Yuanmou is located in a shallow basin on the Central Yunnan Plateau, the temperature is extremely high in May, with the surface temperature even reaching over 50 degrees during the day.
After the crew restarted work, He Xinzeng followed the crew for more than an hour to the Hutiaotan soil forest. Although the rock-hard soil forest there was beautiful, while he admired the miraculous workmanship of nature, he was still dazzled by the sun.
The high temperature of nearly 40 degrees is about to retreat.
Thinking about the more than a thousand extras who were either wearing heavy armor or fur costumes dressed as barbarians gathered at the scene, it was indeed extremely hard. This does not include those who were driven running through the valley.
Yak is even suspected of animal cruelty.
By the time it was his turn to film his scenes, it was already ten days after He Xin arrived there. Fortunately, his scenes were all night scenes. The temperature difference between day and night on the plateau is relatively large, nearly 40 degrees during the day, and about 40 degrees Celsius at night.
A little over 20 degrees, very cool.
And there is no need to travel long distances to the soil forest scenic area, the shooting location is in a mixed natural and artificial banana garden not far from the county seat.
However, most of his scenes this time were martial arts. He had to hang on a steel wire hanging from a large crane tens of meters high, and move around among the banana trees. The crotch was once again strangled, which was a bit unbearable.
On the one hand, the filming progress was delayed by heavy rains that lasted for several days in the early stage. On the other hand, the quality of the Haitang Jingshe built by the crew at Bigu Tianchi, a famous scenic spot in Shangri-La, which they spent a huge sum of money on, was not up to standard and did not meet the requirements of Director Chen.
It is still under construction working overtime, and the arrival time will inevitably be postponed.
So the original plan was to finish filming the Yuanmou scene in late May, but it was inevitably postponed to early June.
Night, banana garden.
Hiroyuki Sanada, wearing flower armor but without a helmet, his face covered in blood, was lying under a big dead tree. In mid-air, there were two figures with bare hands and rags, a black robe and a black hat, holding a snake-shaped sword.
Under the traction of the wire rope, he was doing difficult fighting movements.
I saw the snake-shaped sword flying faster and faster around the unarmed figure. The unarmed figure retreated step by step. The two figures were entangled with each other. At the same time, a kite turned over, and I saw the snake-shaped sword in the hand of the man in black reaching the unarmed figure.
At the neck.
"Stuck! Change the actor." Action director Lin Dian shouted loudly with a loudspeaker.
Whenever it is time to shoot an action scene, the action director replaces the executive director and assumes the authority of the director. In such scenes, Director Chen, who is sitting behind the monitor, is only responsible for controlling the completion of the entire scene.
And the overall effect will be enough. The specific details, as well as the call to stop, are all the responsibility of the action director.
This is also the main reason why many action directors eventually grow into directors.
In fact, there are not many action scenes in "The Promise". If it were an action movie like "Ip Man", then the action director would be equivalent to half a director.
The two figures with swords and swords just now were stand-ins played by the martial arts brothers. After they completed the difficult martial arts actions, it was time for the real actors to take over.
He Xin and Zhang Dongjian, who were watching the excitement, quickly ran over to take over the place of Brother Wu Xing. Both of them had belts for hanging steel wires around their waists. Brother Wu Xing helped them fasten the buckles of the steel wire ropes to their waists, and then
Zhang Dongjian was hoisted into the air with his feet up and his head down. He Xin, who was standing there, followed Lin Di'an's instructions. The two of them wrapped their arms around each other and put their arms around each other's shoulders.
"Axin, you hide the sword behind your back. When Mr. Zhang comes down, you raise the sword like this and place it on Mr. Zhang's neck. Remember, the movements must be crisp and clean, otherwise the photo will not look good.
." Lin Dian said while helping him demonstrate the movements.
"No problem, Brother Dean!" He Xin said confidently.
"OK, let's try it out a few times first. Once everything is OK, we can start shooting officially." Lin Dian patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile.
Because the ghost wolf played by He Xin is a killer raised by Wu Huan, he does a lot of fighting scenes in the film. In addition, although he has no martial arts foundation, he has strong comprehension and quick reactions. In Lin Dian's words, he is very capable of becoming a martial artist.
He has the potential to be a star, and the relationship between the two is good, including the fact that Lin Dian taught him a set of fitness martial arts routines that are very fancy but have no actual combat effect.
After trying it twice in a row, He Xin's movements were completed very quickly. In Lin Di'an's words, it was very good!
"Everyone is preparing for the actual shooting."
"A!"
In the camera, Zhang Dongjian, with his feet up and his head down, used the power of the steel wire to turn around in the air and fall to the ground. At the same time, He Xin put a hand on his shoulder and made a backhand with the snake-shaped sword hidden behind his back. The movements were extremely clean and neat.
He put the sword in his hand to his neck.
"Who taught you to run so fast?"
Zhang Dongjian raised his head and did not dare to move, his eyes were filled with confusion when he heard He Xin's words.
He Xin's originally ferocious expression slowly subsided, his eyes filled with disbelief, and he said, "Are you from the Snow Country?"
Jang Dong Gun remained confused and unmoved.
But He Xin subconsciously pulled back the snake-shaped sword on his neck, his eyes became panicked, and he murmured: "Then...I won't kill you!"
The snake-shaped sword was slowly withdrawn, and before Zhang Dongjian could react, the wire rope behind him tightened, and he rose into the air and quickly retreated out of the camera.
"Ka! Puffet!"
Director Chen, who was in a good mood, imitated Lin Dian's tone and spoke a sentence in foreign language loudly.
At this time, Hiroyuki Sanada, who had been lying on the ground for a long time as a human body set, also got up from the ground. Tonight, the scene with three powerful actors was completed so wonderfully that the work was completed nearly an hour earlier than expected, and the staff on site also
They all followed the director and applauded the three actors who gave superb performances.
Normally, he would have just waved to everyone and said thank you, but when Hiroyuki Sanada and Jang Dong-ken were both there, He Xin had to follow them and bow to the director and staff, solemnly.
to express gratitude.
Tonight's scene is He Xin's last scene in Yuanmou. According to the plan, he can leave the crew tomorrow and have nearly a month's vacation. Then he will join the scene at the Ulan Butong Grassland in Inner Mongolia for nearly ten days of filming.
Around this time, we will finally return to the studio of Beijing Film Studio to complete the final stunt shooting. It is estimated that the entire film will be successfully completed by mid-August.
When He Xin had just taken off the airtight black feather robe and put on his long-sleeved T-shirt, he heard Director Chen calling him: "Xiao He, come here, I have something to discuss with you.
"
"Director, tell me."
He hurriedly ran over. After such a long time together, he was already very familiar with Director Chen's words. Even though Director Chen said he was very polite and discussed things like that, in fact, he was often talking to you.
Just inform him of what he has already decided.
Director Chen is the boss in the group, so naturally whatever he says is what he says. He Xin is very clear about this, just listen, and don't take his words as a discussion with you.
"That's right, the trip to Inner Mongolia has been cancelled."
"Cancelled?" He Xin was inevitably stunned.
"I thought about it. There are grasslands over there in Shangri-La, and May and June are when the Begonia flowers, Gesang flowers, and Wolfsbane flowers bloom most beautifully there. The scenery there is far more beautiful than the grasslands in Inner Mongolia. In addition,
The local government also discussed with our crew and hoped to use the opportunity of our crew to shoot in Shangri-La to promote local tourism..."
At this point, Director Chen paused for a moment and said with a righteous expression: "I think it is our crew's unshirkable responsibility to help backward areas promote their beautiful local tourism resources and help them develop their economy. So we discussed it with the local government.
, it is initially scheduled to hold a grand opening ceremony in Shangri-La on June 20th with 40,000 people attending..."
Director Chen was talking eloquently, and He Xin was listening, but he was muttering in his heart, almost two-thirds of the filming of the film was completed, why did he suddenly decide to hold a grand opening ceremony with tens of thousands of people attending?
Moreover, hadn't the crew already done this once when they first came to Yuanmou? If it was necessary for the crew to change scenes once, they would have to hold a opening ceremony. How grand would it be?
He suddenly thought of the news that the media had recently reported that the National Master was going to hold an extravagant world premiere for "House of Flying Daggers" on July 10th.
Although Director Chen and the National Master never admitted that they were secretly competing with each other, this time Director Chen suddenly decided to hold a grand opening ceremony with more than 40,000 people attending on June 20. The reason was definitely not the same as that of Director Chen.
The guide's words were so high-sounding that people always felt that he was secretly having an affair with the Imperial Master.
Moreover, He Xin still vaguely remembered that the Internet seemed to have exposed and criticized "The Promise" for causing great damage to many of the original natural landscapes in the scenic spot during the filming of Shangri-La.
He couldn't remember exactly what was destroyed. Maybe it had something to do with Director Chen's temporary change of shooting plan and his attempt to secretly break up with the National Master?
Director Chen spoke with a high-level tone, and finally said: "So I hope you can go to Shangri-La to join the crew before June 20th to participate in the opening ceremony."
"No problem, director, I will report to you on set in advance!" He Xin nodded hurriedly and said with a smile.
After listening to Director Chen's teachings, Zhang Tong came over with a smile, and deliberately pretended to be sorry and said: "Brother, when you leave tomorrow, I won't be able to come and see you off."
"Okay, stop pretending, I know you have a show tomorrow, so behave well!" He Xin smiled and patted his shoulder.
This guy performed well on the crew, and Director Chen also noticed it. Tomorrow will be the last scene of the crew in Yuanmou. At that time, Zhang Tong, as the little leader of the red soldiers, leads a group of red soldiers, and there is a man who spurns the general Guangming.
The camera, and two lines of dialogue mixed in, made this guy extremely excited.