The crew of "Return to Youth" only spent four days filming in Lop Nur. After all, there were not many scenes.
The highlight was the speech. In fact, the first filming was enough to meet Li Qian's expectations. However, Teacher Li Xuejian was more nervous than anyone else about this filming. He waited until it was almost dark and his own throat was about to smoke, roaring
Until it comes out.
Li Qian did not stop such a "willful" behavior. For him, this was the biggest shame in his life, and it was also the only chance to wash away his shame in more than ten years. Li Qian could understand.
I lost a lot of weight in more than half a month and was close to 20 years old. I came to the Gobi Desert and endured the wind and sun for more than half a month just for this opportunity.
The speech scene took only one afternoon to shoot. Thanks to the order of the army, it was not that easy to change the extras.
The rest of the mushroom egg plot is a chamber drama, giving some shots to the scientists from the perspective of the male protagonist.
Each fast-paced shot will show on the big screen the spirit of the scientists of that era who used abacus to create the first mushroom egg.
These are chamber plays, with dozens of actors from various troupes playing guest roles.
Actors in a drama troupe are best suited to play such supporting roles with distinctive personalities.
Drama performance and film performance are two different concepts. A good drama actor may not be good at playing the leading role in a movie. Even if you have never acted in a film or television drama and have been acting in dramas, there is a high probability that you will not be good at playing the leading role in a movie.
But supporting roles are different. Supporting roles have few roles. For ordinary film and television actors, supporting roles with few roles and unimportant roles are difficult to perform and will not perform well.
But drama actors are most suitable for supporting roles with few roles. This is determined by the performance characteristics of dramas.
After leaving Xinjiang, Li Qian went to Xiangjiang, where he was also ready to take pictures of the national flag-raising ceremony for Xiangjiang's return.
In fact, Li Qian originally wanted to join in a scene about the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s and 1990s, and asked Cheng Long, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Chow Sing-chi and Andy Lau to make guest appearances. After all, it was a glorious history.
However, the space is limited, it is already 150 minutes, and in the film and television industry, it is enough to have "Journey to the West" as its representative.
The key thing is that it is easy to feel that the styles are separated. The whole movie is looking back at history in a love story, going through eras, Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s, and the overall style does not match.
Three exterior scenes were shot within half a month. The filming has just started, so it’s not appropriate to be too tired. There’s still growth to come, so it should be done step by step.
On October 23, the crew returned to the Magic City and began filming the scene where the male protagonist returned for the first time after leaving the Magic City.
It just so happened that "Beijing Meets Seattle" was also released for 25 days. After Tong Liya followed the crew to promote it for half a month, she took a ten-day break and officially joined the cast.
After experiencing the explosion of the National Day holiday, the movie is about to come to an end. The total box office is fixed at 740 million, failing to break the 800 million mark.
In the past year, several movies have exceeded 700 million. It seems that 800 million has become a hurdle that makes life and death difficult to get over. There is a gap between 800 million and 1 billion.
There are really no other movies in October, but there is a high-quality costume historical movie "The Tribulation of the Ming Dynasty". It should be one of the few rigorous high-quality costume movies this year.
However, there is nothing commercial about it, and there is nothing interesting about it. There is no need to talk about the box office, because few people go to see it.
The whole film captures a sense of integrity, charm and the theme of family, country and world.
The film was a hit, with a box office of 4 million, which was less than one-third of its cost. It also attracted many filmmakers, film critics, and more professional audiences to criticize the current film market.
Bad movies often cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, but no one cares about good movies.
"Tiny Times" was pulled out and whipped to death again.
Looking at the news on the Internet, Li Qian shook his head, "This is the market."
Qi Yukun frowned, sighed, and looked at Li Qian with confusion, "Is there no way to change this situation? Is there really no way for such a good movie to attract audiences to the cinema?"
Previously, "Labyrinth of the Heart" directed by him also faced the same situation, but it was slightly better, with sales of over 100 million.
It was Li Qian who helped him publicize this and posted on Weibo.
It was a hit but not a box office success. It had a great reputation and was praised everywhere, but the box office was cold.
"The market is so cruel. There is no way unless we properly add something that the audience is interested in."
Li Qian shook his head, "Hollywood can also attract audiences through the influence of the Oscars and Golden Globe Awards, and TV, online on-demand, and DVD rentals are also a source of income, but there are none of these in China."
Pirated copies can be found everywhere on the Internet. Even if someone buys a DVD, they don’t know whether they are buying a genuine copy or a pirated copy.
As for attracting audiences through awards and nominations, forget about Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers. Every year is not as good as every year. The more you do, the more you go back. There is not much bonus if you win the award.
Feelings about family and country, loyalty and righteousness can also be shot relatively "good-looking" under serious circumstances, but many ambitious directors don't shoot like this, and don't care about the box office from the beginning to the end.
There is no way around this, no solution.
"However, it is not easy to make this kind of subject highly watchable," Qi Yukun added.
"My boss's film "Return to Youth" does not have a sense of history, but it adds the main line of love that reverses growth. It is a perfect match. In fact, those movies with serious themes can be a reference." Su Lun said.
"Director Su is right."
Next to Chen Kun interjected, "No wonder I always feel that my character is a bit weird in many plots, especially the three previous outdoor scenes. It seems that it has nothing to do with me as the protagonist. It is more like a protagonist.
A spectator."
"The time is not long enough, there is no way, and looking back at history, it has been like this. For more than seventy years, participation has been too strong, and it is impossible to do it. Then we have to make a TV series."
Li Qian smiled and said, "You are the real leading actor in the main plot, and you will be the main protagonist for a period of time after that."
But looking at the filming process, it is indeed a bit strange. The male protagonist does not seem to be the most important. Instead, the historical figures and events in each plot are the protagonists in that section.
With so many events over the past seventy years, the male protagonist can only be a bystander, witnessing, experiencing, and being affected along the way.
For example, Li Xuejian's speech about making mushroom eggs not only excited the audience, but also affected the male protagonist in the movie.
Suffering, struggle, hardship, excitement, joy, and pride, all of which he experienced in the reverse growth process, affected his feelings for his biological father and the heroine.
"Okay, get ready..." Li Qian clapped his hands and sighed, he must continue to work.
I asked Chen Kun to touch up his makeup. When he came back for the first time, he was 25 years old in the late 1960s.
That is to say, the appearance of almost fifty years old is a watershed. At this time, Chen Kun will start to perform in real life.
After all, if he is still an old man, he really doesn't match the heroine.
"Yaya, you still need a bit of youthfulness at this time." Li Qian said to Tong Liya.
"Isn't that just acting in person? It's simple." Tong Liya said with a confident smile.
"Appearing in your true colors?" Li Qian slapped his forehead with his palm, "You were pretty much the same person three years ago."
"?" Tong Liya immediately glared and looked straight at Li Qian, "You said I'm not young enough?"
Li Qian grabbed the small hand that was close to his waist and said, "You are already thirty, but you are still young? That's really amazing."
As soon as he finished speaking, seeing Tong Liya's face becoming more and more dissatisfied, Li Qian quickly explained, "I mean you are getting more mature and beautiful."
Tong Liya then let Li Qian go, slapped Li Qian's arm several times with both hands angrily, and said angrily, "Don't say I'm thirty!"
Li Qian quickly shut up and stopped mentioning his age. Instead, he smiled and said, "Yaya, you know, you are the perfect candidate for this heroine."
"Huh." Tong Liya was unmoved by Li Qian's flattery.
"Look, the most touching part of this love scene is when the male protagonist comes back for the second time. The two of them are together in the most beautiful golden age of their lives. The most important thing is this scene. Now only you can play it.
It’s the best golden age, and it’s the time when a woman is most charming.”
"Not a word of truth!" Tong Liya rolled her beautiful eyes at Li Qian, smiled again, stopped talking to Li Qian, and turned around to touch up her makeup.
What we filmed today was a scene where the male protagonist returned to a nursing home to visit his adoptive mother after nearly twenty years, and happened to meet the female protagonist.
There were no lines. When she saw many of her childhood friends whom she had never seen before, Tong Liya was a little dazed at first, and then trotted forward with surprise on her face.
And Chen Kun sincerely praised, "After so many years, you have grown up and you are so beautiful."
Tong Liya's original joy at seeing her friend immediately changed. There was a hint of blame in the smile on her face, as if she was angry and coquettish, "Why didn't you write to me later?"
This change comes from the opposite sex's compliments on one's appearance, which brings the relationship between the two parties closer, and suddenly it is between good friends and ambiguity.
If there is no such beautiful compliment, even if you ask him why he doesn't write letters anymore, it will at best be a joking blame, rather than a coquettish blame.
but.
"Click!"
If you don’t pass the first time, try again.
At this time, the heroine, who is in her twenties, is not yet mature, so she will be curious about the letters the hero wrote to her, the sea and the war, and a series of other things. Because of this curiosity, she developed a good impression.
Only then did he confess impulsively.
Often in TV dramas, the hero and heroine are dismissive of each other at first, but because of something, they suddenly become curious and fall in love.
This is a characteristic of youth, it is easy to like someone.
Of course, the effect of alcohol is also needed. After all, although the male protagonist has a handsome face like Chen Kun at this time, he is still close to fifty.
In the original version, when the heroine confessed her love, she said that she had been with older people.
This is no problem in Hollywood movies, but in China, if it were filmed like this, it was still in that era, and Li Qian could be sprayed to death.
In the original version, the heroine takes the initiative to confess her love to a middle-aged handsome man. Age is not a problem. After all, even older people have been together.
Li Qian must have deleted this line here. Her confession stemmed from her childhood sweethearts and curiosity generated by the letters sent to her over the years.
After meeting, we went to dinner and watched a classical dance performance. The heroine was a dancer, and the hero had learned piano from an old man in a nursing home.
Music, dance, natural harmony.
In addition, after eating and drinking some wine, I am not mature enough yet, so it is natural to confess my love.
In the afternoon and evening, we filmed scenes of the two watching a song and dance. In the late 1960s and almost 1970s, there were entertainment activities in the Magic City during that period.
I chose classical dance instead of ballet, mainly because it was more suitable for Tong Liya to dance classical dance. Domestic ballet was also available at that time, and it was the foundation stage of domestic ballet career at that time.
In Chedun Film and Television City, the capital city, today also ushered in the filming of the last night scene of the evening.
There is a river in the film and television city, and there is a pavilion on the bank of the river, where the confession scene was filmed.
Before filming, I first filmed a dancing scene.
This is what Tong Liya is good at. In the dark night, only the bright moon hanging high in the sky and the river can bring a little light. There is also a bit of fog in the background. Accompanied by Tong Liyapan's charming and seductive dancing, it adds a lot of flavor.
After dancing for more than a minute, Tong Liya Shiran came to Chen Kun, leaned on the bench in the pavilion, held the back of the bench with her hands, looked at Chen Kun standing outside, and told about her time in the dance troupe
life.
"You know, our dance troupe looks pretty good, but in fact it's not that good. Many young men come to see my sisters all day long, and many people have also pursued me."
Tong Liya asked softly, "Are you angry?"
Chen Kun was not angry and said matter-of-factly, "You are so beautiful, there must be many people pursuing you."
Tong Liya smiled and leaned forward to kiss Chen Kun, but Chen Kun held her shoulders.
Tong Liya was stunned for a moment, took advantage of the alcohol, smiled a little narrowly, and leaned her head forward again.
Chen Kun still held her shoulders, and Tong Liya remained motionless.
"Don't be like this." Chen Kun said softly.
"You don't like me?" Tong Liya's voice gradually became colder.
"Of course I like you. I have been thinking about you for the past twenty years."
"Am I not pretty enough?"
"You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, but everyone only has one chance to be young." Chen Kun still had that gentle voice.
He could tell that she was driven by curiosity and alcohol. This was youthful impulse.
"I don't think you are old, and I will grow old too."
"Not today." Chen Kun still insisted not to accept it. Having experienced life and death, he had a better understanding of life and did not want them to be together because of impulse.
And compared to the other party's impulsiveness, he was not so easy to accept the transformation from a pure little girl to an emotional woman.
Talk about feelings first and then get together.
Moreover, the huge physical gap is also a factor. Just like the heroine who is in her fifties later, it is difficult to face the male protagonist who is twenty years old. She always wants to give the other person the best. This is love.