Snow Town has a long snow season, frequent snowfall, and a snow accumulation period of up to 7 months. It is known as the most snowy and snowy place in China.
The real scenes of the forest farm and Erlong Mountain in "Crossing Guandong" are in Snow Town. The crew built two piles of houses at the foot of a mountain, with the forest farm on the front and Erlong Mountain on the back.
During the filming after arriving in Snow Town, the crew of "Enter Guandong", from Zuo Le to ordinary extras, felt the same.
It's so cold...
If when we were filming at the Golden Field before, everyone was as cold as grandsons, now when we come to Snow Town, they are as cold as great-great-grandsons... No, it should be like great-great-grandsons.
The average outdoor temperature reaches above minus 36 degrees, and even approaches minus 40 degrees at night.
It is no exaggeration to say that if you stand in the snow with your shoes on, you will lose consciousness for up to five minutes.
Anyone who dares to take off his gloves and bare his hands outdoors for more than a minute is an iron (hun) blood (hun) true (da) Han (sha) son (bi).
When the crew first arrived, they filmed a scene where Zhen Sanjiang held a banquet at the Erlongshan village and toasted with the bandits.
Among the prop wines, the crew used mineral water instead, but unexpectedly it fell down and the water froze into ice in just two minutes.
At that time, everything about the actors and actresses had been arranged, and it would be too late to change the water into wine. Zuo Le simply changed all the shots to long shots, not daring to take a picture of the bowl in the bandit's hand. The secret would be exposed as soon as he took the shot.
Just like that, the crew of "Crossing Guandong" finished filming the scenes in the forest farm and Erlong Mountain under extremely difficult and cold conditions.
During this period, there were two scenes that left a deep impression on Zuo Le. One of them was the scene of Xian'er escaping in the snow.
The actor couldn't run in the waist-deep snow, but the plot required the character to run away desperately, so Song Jia could only grit her teeth and run while rolling and crawling.
Getting caught in the snow, falling down on the snow, crawling twice, getting up and continuing to run, is a huge drain on your physical strength.
Halfway through the filming of this scene, Song Jia was running and crying, which was exactly in line with the panicked state of the character running for his life in the play. Zuo Le looked at this scene afterwards and patted his thigh and applauded.
Song Jia was so angry that she sat paralyzed next to him, wishing to bite him to death...
However, Song Jia was still doing well. She was tired, and the photographer who was taking the photo was even more tired.
In order to ensure this shot, Zuo Le used three cameras, one long shot and two medium and close shots.
In other words, when Song Jia ran, there were two photographers accompanying her.
They are not like Song Jia, who can just run with their heads down. They also have to carry the machine and hold the camera steady. If the camera is not held down, the shot will be blurry.
Sorry, I have to do it again.
And because it was a snow scene, this shot was scrapped. The venue had been touched and could no longer be used. It had to be replaced with new snow.
Then you have to find new scenes, control the camera, select camera locations, reshoot actors, and other things, which is extremely troublesome.
Therefore, when filming this scene, the photographer was actually more stressed than the actors, for fear of making mistakes.
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Apart from this scene, another thing that left a deep impression on Zuo Le was Zhu Chuanwu, played by Gu Xiaoge, wiping the snow naked.
In the play, Zhu Chuanwu wanted to join the forest farm, but he was faced with difficulties by the one-armed boss of the forest farm. He asked Zhu Chuanwu to come to him within three days on the pretext of celebrating his birthday. If the job was done, Zhu Chuanwu could stay.
Zhu Chuanwu, who was obsessed with hunting wolves, squatted in the snow all night, but he didn't know that he was deceived by the old one-armed man. There were no wolves at all where he went.
If Xian'er and Sister Hong hadn't taken action to pull Zhu Chuanwu back from the snow, then rub him in the snow to warm him up, and rescued the frozen Zhu Chuanwu, the old Zhu family would have died prematurely.
When filming the scene of rubbing her naked body in the snow, at the beginning, Gu Xiaoge took off his shirt and lay on the kang. Xian'er, played by Song Jia, and Sister Hong, played by another actress, were holding snow props, and then they
Rub it all over him.
After filming for a while, Zuo Le felt dissatisfied. The snow prop was too fake, but it looked okay. But when he rubbed it with his hands, anyone with a discerning eye could see through it immediately.
Gotta use real snow!
And you can't just give it in small handfuls, but give it in larger quantities. After all, this is about saving people.
People are almost freezing to death, and they are racing against time against death. It is not realistic at all for you to rub a little bit of snow on your body.
So Zuo Le discussed with Gu Xiaoge whether he could use Zhen Xue Shang. Gu Xiaoge was a dedicated actor and agreed immediately.
But Gu Xiaoge's assistant quit her job. What if she gets frostbite? She has to be responsible for her artist, even if Zuo Le is her boss.
In addition, the producer and several assistant directors did not agree to take risks. Gu Xiaoge was the leading actor, and the rest of the scenes basically depended on him. If something happened, even if it was a cold, it would affect the filming progress of the crew.
There was a lot of opposition, but Zuo Le couldn't force it, so he was ready to give up. However, after watching the replay, Gu Xiaoge also felt that the prop snow was not effective, and took the initiative to ask to use real snow to shoot.
Gu Xiaoge himself made a strong request, and it was director Zuo Le who brought up the matter. The two most important parties involved planned to shoot with real snow, and it was useless for others to object.
Since the scene is a temporary construction, the heating effect is average, and the indoor and outdoor temperatures are almost similar. The Kang in the room is also a prop kang. Although it can be burned, the heating effect is greatly reduced compared to a real kang.
Seeing this, Zuo Le asked someone to put three layers of electric blankets under the kang mattress to heat the room as much as possible without affecting the camera shooting.
Originally, he wanted Gu Xiaoge to drink liquor, but Gu was afraid of affecting his condition, so he only drank ginger tea.
During the official filming, Zuo Le asked people to bring four baskets of snow and put them in the house. At the same time, he told Song Jia and another actor to rub it hard, which was considered as artificial heating for Gu Xiaoge, and then try not to make any mistakes. It was best to go through it directly.
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Perhaps influenced by Zuo Le's serious instructions, the two actresses were somewhat nervous. Song Jia was okay and her mentality was relatively stable, but the other actress was not so good.
When he took the snow basket and poured snow on Gu Xiaoge, he couldn't stop himself, and most of the basket of snow covered Gu Xiaoge's body.
This was a mistake, but not serious. There was too much snow, so I stretched out my hand to pull the excess aside and then continued to act. This is what Song Jia did.
In the end, the actress was dumbfounded, probably because she was the one who made the mistake, and she froze, leaving Gu Xiaoge in vain.
This made Zuo Le so angry that he rarely got angry on the set and almost made the actress cry.
Fortunately, Zuo Le had to take advantage of Gu's good health to film the snow-making scene without wasting any more time, otherwise it would not be so easy for the actress.
This scene was filmed intermittently more than a dozen times, with a total duration of more than 40 minutes. The two actresses' hands and Gu Xiaoge's body were all red from rubbing, and Zuo Lecai nodded.
Afterwards, even Gu Xiaoge himself expressed regret, saying that filming this scene was too painful.
Those thermal insulation facilities may be of some use in the early stage, but will have almost no effect in the mid-term.
Moreover, the snow compress and hand rubbing were very irritating to the body. However, at that time, he was acting in a frozen state, unable to move and having to hold his breath. It was definitely an unspeakable torture.
After filming this scene, Gu Xiaoge couldn't help but shudder when he saw the snow for several days, almost leaving a psychological shadow...
