After the press conference, Li Qian went to Huairou to check out the studio, and then he caught the Air China flight at 8:20 pm on Monday and took the crew to Indu.
The crew didn't have much time to prepare, only two months, and many areas were not perfected, but they took it step by step, and basically there was no problem.
We first went to Yindu to shoot the exterior scenes. There were no special arrangements for the exterior scenes there. We rushed to finish them in time for the upcoming rainy season. Then we went to Jinling to shoot the exterior scenes. At the same time, we sent a group of people to the Magic City to shoot some background shots.
Finally, we will go back to Huairou to shoot indoor scenes, but if the studio is set up in advance, we will shoot indoor scenes first.
After all, the actors also need to feel that when the characters first appear, and many key scenes are indoors, if you shoot and experience it first, you may get the feel for it, and you will be more comfortable later on.
The three stages can basically be connected.
And just when Li Qian stepped on the plane, dozens of media reported on the press conference of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" at the same time, without missing every detail.
Including "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is not an artistic film, but a commercial film.
The movie also has comedy elements. You can see the main characters smiling so happily on the poster, which the audience had never thought of before.
As soon as various media reports about the press conference came out, they immediately aroused widespread discussion. Ever since Li Qian announced the press conference in the morning, all movie fans have been looking forward to it.
"Here, you read that right, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is actually a commercial movie?"
"Weren't we talking about artistic films before? Why have we turned into commercial films again?"
"There is not much difference between literary films and commercial films. Li Qian is a director who pays attention to stories, and he will definitely not shoot something so mysterious. It is okay to call it a commercial film. After all, it has to sell box office. He also boasted that he would beat the box office of "Avatar"
record.”
"But Li Qian seems to be talking about a purely commercial movie. How do you say this?"
"How should I put it? In fact, Zhang Yimou's "Hero", "The Golden Armor" and "House of Flying Daggers" are not purely commercial movies. In fact, the core of their bones is still literary and artistic films. A truly pure commercial movie should be a narrative flow.
, the story is rich and complete, has a good sense of rhythm, and has a rich core. It is suitable for all ages and can be enjoyed by both refined and popular people."
"So, what exactly is "I'm Not the God of Medicine" about?"
"I understand! It must be a crime drama. I checked before and found that generic drugs from Indo cannot be imported, so the medicine the protagonist bought must have been smuggled over. There will definitely be a lot of action scenes, car chases, and police pursuits.
A big scene of gunfight.”
"I'm so crazy. How is that possible?"
"Shadow, even if it is such a plot, why did you choose Xu Zheng to act, and didn't look at the poster? That sloppy appearance is a smuggler?"
"I still think it's a comedy. Why don't we keep looking for Xu Zheng and Huang Bo? Moreover, it looks like a comedy on the poster. It makes you laugh so happily."
"I guess it's a tragedy. Comedy is not something that anyone can make. It requires talent. It must be a very touching tragedy."
"The possibility of tragedy is high. Looking at Hu Ge's appearance, he specially found a handsome guy to pretend to be ugly. It must be to highlight the tragedy!"
"Let's speculate, if it is a comedy, it would be too obvious to put this poster on it, so it is undoubtedly a tragedy. It is a movie that makes people cry. How happy the characters on the poster are laughing now will be how miserable it is in the movie."
...
In March, various companies made some small moves, buying some media and some trolls. There were some unpleasant voices at the time, but after a month of maintenance, they found that it didn't make much sense. It was still early for the movie to be released, and Li Qian ignored it.
They stopped.
Nowadays, the audience's voice is relatively rational. After all, Li Qian's reputation among the audience can be said to be the best. There is more expectation and discussion about the movie itself.
Various companies analyzed it and found no useful information from the content of the press conference. However, as Li Qian went to India to shoot, everyone became nervous.
Several big directors competing for the Lunar New Year slot are also nervous. No matter how many years he has been famous, Li Qian is now the box office record holder for Chinese films.
Directors who are not competing for the Lunar New Year film are also secretly paying attention to Li Qian's new film.
In the Chedun Film and Television City on the outskirts of Shanghai, Ning Hao, who was filming the new movie "The Golden Heist", was slightly stunned when he recalled the news he saw last night.
As a director famous for his comedies, he knows very well the special features of comedies. Ordinary comedy films are easy to make, but truly excellent comedies are not that simple.
However, there is a saying that the truly great comedies are actually tragedies.
That makes sense!
Ning Hao had a vague idea of what Li Qian's "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was like.
However, can Li Qian really produce such a great comedy?
It can handle all genres, and they are all classics, which is outrageous.
Ning Hao shook his head, somewhat unconvinced.
At this time, the executive director on the set saw Ning Hao shaking his head, so he raised his loudspeaker and shouted "Click!"
what happened?
The sudden call to stop made Ning Hao feel a little strange and looked at the executive director.
However, the executive director didn't know what was wrong with the shot just now. It was obviously perfect, so he could only raise a question mark to Ning Hao.
...
Another comedy director, Ma Xiaogang, still looked disdainful.
"He knows shit about comedy!"
Ma Xiaogang, a self-proclaimed comedy master, thinks that no one except Zhou Xingchi is qualified to compare with him in the field of comedy. He has been involved in comedy for many years and has already mastered this genre.
Comedy elements can be added to 90% of the themes, but certain themes cannot be added.
Otherwise, why didn't he add some appropriate comedy elements to "Assembly", "Tangshan Earthquake", and the new film "1942" that is being prepared? With his level, he can easily incorporate some appropriate comedy elements into it!
However, this kind of movie, especially the last two movies, is to guide the audience's emotions step by step until they shed tears. If the emotions are brewing halfway, and a funny plot suddenly comes, wouldn't it be a failure and a failure!
The pharmaceutical industry, or cancer like leukemia, is destined to be a tragedy. You can't just save all the leukemia patients through filming.
With such a heavy subject matter and the addition of comedy elements, isn't this just an old man hanging himself - seeking death?
...
Regardless of what the outside world said, Li Qian arrived in New Delhi at 1:45 a.m. local time after flying for several hours.
After a good sleep, the crew started working at six in the morning.
The location was an ordinary street in New Delhi. There was nothing special about this location.
When shooting abroad, China Film Co., Ltd. sends people to coordinate many things, such as the venue and group performances. The local film and television company in Indu will assist in the shooting.
Wen Muye was asked to bring a translator and arrange the next shooting with people from the Indian company. Xu Zheng was doing makeup, and Li Qian was discussing the next scene with Zhang Zhonghua, lighting boss Wang, and the artist.
In fact, there is nothing to discuss. In the past ten days, I have thoroughly reviewed the entire movie, including how to move the camera, and where tools are not needed and must be carried by hand to reduce resistance.
This is a typical realistic modeling technique that must be retained for realistic themes. The camera must follow the characters closely and participate in the actors' performances.
Use a slight shaking lens to emphasize the sense of uneasiness, immersion and reality, and use the camera as a perspective to lead the audience's attention.
"Lao Zhang, it's still the same as what we discussed before. Although we need to show a little bit of the customs and customs of Yindu, we still need to cut off the characters from the surrounding environment, and the depth of field should be shallow." Li Qian said to the director of photography Zhang Zhonghua.
There are many medium shots and even close shots in "The God of Medicine", and the depth of field is shallow. The purpose is to cut off the surrounding environment and highlight the characters.
If the depth of field is too large, the environment will be too solid and there will be too much background information, which will interfere with the characters.
After discussing for a while, makeup will take some time, and everything on the big screen is demanding.
Li Qian also walked the entire street. He didn't know much about Yindu, but there were many pictures and videos on the Internet, which were just like what he imagined.
Backward and poor.
And it is this backward place that possesses special medicines that can save countless leukemia patients in the country.
Half an hour later, Xu Zheng was also ready.
"Brother Zheng, shall we start?" Li Qian asked.
"No problem, I'm ready." Xu Zheng replied.
Li Qian nodded and sat in a shop on the roadside, where the monitor was.
He picked up the walkie-talkie and told Fumaki Ye, "Let's get started."
This time it was shot with a digital camera. China is currently vigorously promoting digital screens, and the number of digital scenes is increasing. With the advancement of technology, there is no problem in using digital cameras to shoot movies on the big screen.
Even though the picture of the film is still stronger, the film copy will be lost, and as the number of screenings increases, the loss will become greater and greater.
Li Qian is confident that "I'm Not the God of Medicine" can be released for half a month or even be a hit for more than 20 days. There won't be much difference in the digital photography world.
The digital machine also saves time. You don’t have to constantly adjust the position. You can just turn on the machine.
All departments were ready, and executive director Fumi Makuno was on hand to announce the official start of the movie.
"Scene 16, one shot, one shot!"
"start!"
This scene is about Cheng Yong getting off the plane and taking a taxi to the factory, passing through a street.
The streets were full of people, taxis drove very slowly, and the camera captured the entire street.
In Indu, I need to take some pictures of the dark food on the streets and the way people dress.
There were more than a dozen children chasing the car, even grabbing the car window to get up.
It’s an old tradition. Indians pick up trains, so there’s nothing strange about children picking up taxis.
These shots are nothing. In fact, this street is real and there is no need to act it.
Xu Zheng in the car was a little tired and kept waving his hands to push down the child who was holding the window open.
I got off the plane at 1:30 and slept for four hours before filming. Xu Zheng was in such a state of traveling long distances that he was perfect in supervising the production. In the movie Miley Yong, he also went straight to the factory as soon as he got off the plane.
Moreover, there was some disgust and contempt in his expression.
When I came to Indu, I got into a taxi and became the target of the Indu children.
He was a lowly person in China and began to despise this country.
It’s not difficult at all, it’s just that there are many people, and digital cameras can more intuitively see the content of the shot on the monitor. Basically, there is no need to send it to be developed and printed after the shot is taken to determine the quality of the lens.
However, there were still some uncontrollable factors, and the filming continued for two and a half hours.
The scene of going to the factory to negotiate the price was an indoor scene, and it was also shot locally in Indu, but not today, so the exterior scenes were shot first.
In the afternoon, we went to the beach to film the scene where Cheng Yong was preparing to smuggle the medicine he bought into the country.
"different! different!"
On the dock, a fat and somewhat funny Indian sailor held a bottle of medicine in his hand and kept talking to Xu Zheng.
Xu Zheng wore sunglasses on his forehead and kept waving his hands to emphasize, "Not different, not different!"
In the past, we smuggled Yin Du Shen Oil and other things through them, but this time we switched to generic drugs of Glenin, which are strictly prohibited from import. The fat man was bargaining.
"Dangerous! dangerous!" Fatty emphasized the danger.
"No dangerous! dangerous!" Xu Zheng waved his hand and emphasized that there was no danger.
"**********" the fat man said a string of Indian words.
Xu Zheng was so annoyed that he couldn't speak Mandarin at all, "Oh, don't speak Indu dialect to me, I can't understand it."
The two of them were chatting with each other, and Xu Zheng played the emotional card, "We are friends... friends, friends!"
"More money! more money!" The fat man rubbed his fingers to indicate the price.
Xu Zheng found it a little funny, "Damn it, you damn Indu Asan, you've learned so badly!"
I have to say that Xu Zheng's comedy talent is endless, and this somewhat awkward conversation has a completely comedic effect.
However, Xu Zheng also had moments where he laughed, especially in the long shots, when he went to unzip his satchel and take out money.
"Hahaha, cough..."
I couldn't hold back this smile, I almost got pneumonia from laughing, I bent over and coughed non-stop.
"Click!"
Li Qian's voice shouting to stop came from the intercom.
"Oh no, Director Li, how did you come up with these lines? I almost couldn't breathe." Xu Zheng held his waist and gasped loudly.
The Yindu actor in front of him didn't speak Chinese, and didn't know what Xu Zheng was talking about. He couldn't even understand the curse words Yindu Asan said. Seeing Xu Zheng's behavior, he was a little confused, but he also started laughing.