Chapter 1630 It's Like a Lifetime

? Nearly 20 Toyota Coasters, carrying several old Flying Tigers and their relatives, went to the shooting base of "Flying Tigers", which is the airstrip restored by the crew.

When the old people followed the car to this red land, Li Mu could see that each of them had a different kind of excitement and excitement on their faces.

Although the airport used for filming was not rebuilt at the original site of the year, because the airstrip was also on such a red land back then, to the elderly, it looked just like it was back then.

What excites them the most is actually the dozen or so P-40C planes parked at the airport. It is said that half of them are real planes and half are replica props.

Li Mu couldn't tell which of these planes were real planes and which were props, but these old people had unique eyes. But there are so few planes that look indistinguishable.

Ning Hao praised in front of Li Mu, "These old men have really good eyes. I've been here for so long, and I can't tell which is real and which is fake. They can tell at a glance."

Li Mu asked with a smile, "You don't know which is true and which is false, how do you know that the old men are right?"

Ning Hao smiled and said, "I can't tell the difference, but remember the fuselage number, odd numbers are real machines, and even numbers are props."

"Okay." Li Mu nodded and walked to the old man Sun Xiaozhong. At this time, he was stroking the propeller of the P-40C in front of him with trembling hands, and he moved the propeller slightly, his face full of excitement and excitement.

Li Mu asked him, "Mr. Sun, do you want to take a picture with this plane? I'll ask the photographer to come and take some pictures for you?"

When old man Sun Xiaozhong heard this, he was excited at first, then looked at himself, and found that he was wearing the most common white short-sleeved singlet today, and said a little embarrassedly: "It's not suitable for me to take pictures with it like this, I'll talk about it later. Well, I'll dress more formally then..."

The old man Han Zili on the side also nodded again and again, and said in a joking tone: "If you take a photo with these old guys, how can you dress so casually, at least you have to wear a Zhongshan suit?"

Han Zili's son couldn't help but say, "Dad, why don't you just put on your former pilot's clothes and take a photo with him? It's so memorable."

The old man Han Zili said with a smile: "It's simple, the Flying Tigers sent me my uniform. I wore it until the end of the Anti-Japanese War, and then I changed to the uniform of the National Army. That suit has always been treasured, but when I went to Taiwan in 1949 ,

He was detained for overweight luggage on the plane. "

Li Mu slapped his forehead and said, "Our crew has replica uniforms of the Flying Tigers. Let the crew take you to try them on. There are always hundreds of uniforms that suit you."

"Really?!" The two old men and the other two veteran Huaxia members of the Flying Tigers looked at Li Mu in surprise.

Li Mu nodded immediately and said, "I borrowed a military uniform and took a photo yesterday. I told the director and asked him to arrange it."

After speaking, Li Mu greeted Spielberg and told him his thoughts in English, saying, "Stephen, I will ask the staff to bring some old gentlemen to change into suitable military uniforms, and ask the photographer to come and give them to them. Take some pictures, it means a lot to them."

Spielberg nodded without hesitation and said, "Then I'll make arrangements. Our aerobatic pilots are still there. Do you want them to come out and fly the plane for a few old gentlemen?"

Li Mu asked in surprise: "You can fly at any time? Don't you need to apply to the military region?"

In Li Mu's impression, Huaxia's airspace is managed by the Air Force, and the flight routes of civil aviation also need the approval of the Air Force, and the crew's planes have to be approved by the Air Force.

Spielberg said: "It is common sense to apply for a few days before each flight, but our local military district gave us a lot of support for this film, knowing that we were going to shoot aerial footage, so they gave us a privilege. , before the plane takes off, report directly to the military region, as long as the military region nods, it can fly immediately."

Li Mu asked again, "How long does it take for the military region to approve it?"

Spielberg said: "For a minute or two, we are directly contacting the air traffic control of the Air Force. Our area is not on the route of civil aviation, so as long as the military determines that it has no activities in our area, and has not received any other general aviation companies. flight request, we will be granted permission immediately.”

After speaking, Spielberg added: "Our P-40C, as well as our camera helicopter, can basically take off at any time."

Li Mu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then let the pilots of the flight team prepare. When the old gentlemen change into their military uniforms, they will take off to pay tribute to them."

For the large and medium-sized film and television companies in Hollywood, they have very high requirements for the quality of the film. In the process of filming, special effects are only used for scenes that must use computer special effects. Because only the real scene is the most perfect, take Tom Cruise's "Top Gun" as an example, the reason why it has become a classic in the eyes of many audiences of air combat films is largely due to the large number of real fighter shots in the play. If All computer effects are used, and the scene will definitely be greatly reduced.

Therefore, in "Flying Tigers", many of the shots about air combat are real shots. The ordinary aerial shots are completed by helicopters, and the special shots of air combat chasing and rolling are handled by an aerobatic aircraft, which is intended to reproduce the flight of the year. The real scene of the Tigers fighting the enemy in the air.

To this end, the crew specially invited an aerobatic performance team from the United States to be responsible for shooting aerial footage.

Li Mu suddenly remembered many war movies and TV dramas in the later generations of China. In his impression, all the domestic war movies and TV dramas he had watched used the special effects of 50 cents when they involved the shots of the planes. Even the war TV series NO. 1's "My regiment leader, my regiment", the shots about the plane are also all clumsy special effects, which is extremely unpleasant.

Originally, the expeditionary force had to fly to Myanmar, which was originally a very tragic thing, but on the screen, there was a plane on a tattered dirt and rubbish ground. At a glance, you can see that the props were made too carelessly, and the special effects shots after the plane took off were even more clumsy and messy. A three-year-old child could tell that the plane was fake.

It is true that this is also related to the budget of film and television dramas, but why can't the budget be tilted towards quality? So that the TV series in the future will cost 200 million yuan, and 180 million yuan is the actor's remuneration. As for how to shoot, it doesn't matter, just deal with the special effects for 5 cents, so there are many cut-out film and television dramas.

Li Mu feels that he may not be able to influence the development direction of Huaxia film and television dramas in the future, nor may he be able to improve the industry's overall requirements for film quality, but at least he can set an example and make a few high-quality films first, so that the Chinese film industry can benefit from it. Make a sample.

With their wild thoughts, several old people changed into their fitted uniforms of the Flying Tigers one after another and walked out of a large army green tent. Although they were old and old, they changed into pilot uniforms and put on pilot sunglasses. , that feels really impressive.

Among these old Flying Tigers, there are Chinese faces and American faces, just like the old photos of the Flying Tigers back then, but the valiant young people in those days have now become old and old people. However, Except for their bodies, everything seemed the same as back then.

The uniforms are still the same as they were in those days, the airports are still the same as they were in those days, and the planes are still the same planes as they were in those days.

At this time, the aerobatic pilots had already got into the six P-40Cs, the planes were launched, and they were lined up to the end of the runway.

The old people did not expect that these planes had already started just after changing their clothes, and they were surprised to ask why.

Li Mu said to the crowd: "The members of the aerobatic team will lift these planes into the sky to pay tribute to all of you, and let you see the scene of this plane flying in the blue sky once again."

The old people nodded excitedly, their eyes fixed on the planes, and they were reluctant to blink.

The military region has given the flight team permission to fly. The radius of 20 kilometers and the ceiling below 5,000 meters are completely open. Therefore, the six P-40C fighters accelerated, lifted the wheels, and lifted off one by one, completing the formation in the air. , began the performance flight.

While applauding, the old people happily watched the plane fly in different ways over the airport. After the plane made a few low-altitude transitions, Li Mu carefully found that every old man had a smile on his face, but there were also tears on his face.

Sun Xiaozhong said: "Watching these planes shuttle back and forth overhead, all I think about are the scenes of myself flying the same fighter jets and fighting the enemy in the sky. This feeling is like a lifetime, and it seems to be right in front of me. ."

The six planes flew in the air for half an hour, performing many thrilling flying poses, and then they landed on the runway one after another. After the six planes were parked side by side, Li Mu said to the old people, "We can go there now. Take a picture."

Several elderly people nodded and stood in front of a P-40C plane. The elderly from the two countries supported each other and took pictures in front of the plane as they did in the past. An old American Flying Tiger team member sighed while wiping away his tears. : "When we used to take pictures, I always liked to climb on the wings, on the fuselage, and now I can't climb anymore."

The old man Sun Xiaozhong patted him on the back and said with a smile: "John, those days are over, we used to sit in the cabin and take these guys to the sky with our own hands, now, we don't have this chance anymore, it's not us anymore. It's time."

The American Flying Tigers player named John nodded lightly and said, "I'm satisfied to see them again, touch them, listen to their engines, and watch them fly in the sky..."