Chapter 759

The preparatory meeting before the filming of "Red Sorghum" only lasted for two hours.

But the various adjustments that followed took three full days.

Red, what kind of red do you want?

Yellow, what kind of yellow do you want?

What about cyan?

What kind of spectrum are these three colors in the mind of the director?

As a photographer, what kind of light do you need to capture?

Just these, not to mention the fine adjustments in the middle of the shooting, just the debugging before the start, it took a day, and I don’t know how much film was wasted.

The actors are all old actors, and a few of them are specially selected to be thin, but it still doesn't work. Contemporary people have sufficient nutrition, or even excess, especially these actors are not short of money, even if they are Drama actors whose income is not too high are also urbanites who eat and drink well, and they all have fat on their bodies.

what to do?

hungry!

Go hungry for a few days before talking!

The chef specially assigned by the crew is responsible for cooking small cooking for the several actors of the crew. There is no oil or meat in the dishes, and the supply is limited, and they are not allowed to be full. Each person has only one pancake made of sorghum flour, white flour and corn flour for each meal, and they are not allowed to eat any fruit because the sugar content in fruit is too high.

Farmers in that era were lucky to have enough to eat. Where could there be the lines of fullness that are naturally brought out by modern people? All the actors who play the roles of farmers and members of the cooking pot, although everyone is not required to be skinny, but they should have a sense of age.

To put it bluntly, judging from the era of the Republic of China in which the story is set, not to mention that there are often scenes of actors showing their upper bodies in movies, even if they are wearing clothes, they have to look skinny!

Without this kind of skinny feeling, the unique taste of the age, just can't come out!

Fortunately, let me tell you the truth in advance. These specially invited old actors are very cooperative. They eat whatever the crew arranges. Some of them even started to lose weight a month ago, just to In line with the filming needs of this film.

Considering that the crew will first shoot some shots that don’t require too many characters to appear on the scene, and start with the hero and heroine first, the time left for these actors can be at least 20 days, and then let them lose that sense of age , the problem is not big - the main thing is everyone's cooperation.

To be honest, maybe in another ten years, when the atmosphere of the entire film market is really money in power, business is king, and profit is paramount, those young actors should absolutely not be able to bear such "torture", but at least At present, among the actors who have performed on the stage of drama all the year round, the mentality of "working hard to make a play" and "making a good play" has always been very positive!

Still the same sentence, China is too big, there is never a lack of good actors, and there is never a lack of spirit of dedication to art. If there are no good things and good works on the market, don't blame others, don't blame the film company or the director , or actors—in fact, in the final analysis, it's all the audience's choice, which guides the market!

Then……

The color of the paint prepared by the make-up artist is slightly off. I continue to adjust it, and I want the kind of grayish yellow that the skin faces the loess and the sky day after day, year after year. There is any feeling of ashes, under the sallow and withered skin, there is hot blood flowing!

It has to be a vibrant sallow color!

And then...clothing is fine, it's actually the easiest thing to fix. Because the costumes of this play do not need any deliberate sense of beauty and design, they only need to restore the original simplicity of the year.

The clothes made two months in advance were starched and washed many times, and they were specially sent to the local villagers to wear them for a period of time before they were collected and cleaned--Li Qian knew that the clothes were in place with a glance.

And the most important scene in the whole movie - the soju pot.

The house was built on leased land a year in advance, and the earthen walls were built with the help of local farmers, and then they were left to be beaten by wind and rain for a year, showing the mottled appearance of that age. As for the roofs, doors, and windows, they were all directly dismantled from some dilapidated old houses in several nearby villages, and they were transported and installed directly.

On the outside of the distillery pot, the large terrain has been deliberately piled up and organized by bulldozers to form the required terrain. Then, since the beginning of spring, hired people to apply herbicide every three days, and hired people to clean the horns every ten days. The weeds in the corners, until now, are bare and there is no grass growing there. Even after the rain, as long as the ground is a little dry and people and horses move, there will be dust flying.

Everything has been formed.

The pale yellow earth symbolizes the profound history of this nation and the unchanging national character of this land that has been carried for tens of thousands of years in the past.

Dilapidated houses and thin people symbolize the suffering and backwardness of this nation.

The red sorghum wine, the unyielding eyes of the people, and the bony bones symbolize the undefeated blood in the heart of this nation and the pride that is not afraid of any disaster.

And the blue, continuous sorghum that no one sows but grows every year, and the wild hemp in the sorghum field are pregnant with the future of this nation that will never fail!

To do all this well, some staff have been busy for nearly a year before the crew officially started filming!

But now, as the official launch date approaches, everything that has basically taken shape is placed in front of Li Qian and the entire crew.

Looking at everything that took a lot of manpower and material resources and took a year to complete, I have to say that even the old partners who have made many movies and TV shows with Li Qian before immediately understood: this time, with Li Qian Every time before, it was different!

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The weather at the end of August in the Gregorian calendar, the sun is venomous.

On the edge of the filming location, four or five pergolas with bamboo mats were purposely set up. Under the pergola, although the air is still very hot, it would be better to have something overhead to cover the sun.

There are a few chairs, and two masters specially invited from the county are quickly cutting hair for the actors.

There is one last day left before the official launch. Today is the day for the actors to try on costumes and take photos of their makeup.

Li Qian's hair has been left untouched for a few days, and it has already grown dark and thorny stubble. Now when the master shaves it, it feels cool and slightly itchy, but he feels an indescribable refreshment.

He was the first to shave his bald head. He touched it himself and was very satisfied. He stood up and saw Liu Chunhua, who had a sinister face, squinting his eyes and dozing off. The ferocious look on his face has already rushed to his face - several people are staring at him.

In fact, although he is also a person who does not talk much when dealing with him, he is quite kind.

He is the only actor who was picked up by Li Qian as early as two years ago. At that time, Li Qian had already decided that he must be cast in "Red Sorghum" as the bandit three guns!

When watching Zhang Guoshi's "Red Sorghum" in another time and space, one of the few scenes that impressed him the most was the bandit Tu San Pao. Moreover, it was also one of the few lines that impressed him the most in Chinese movies for decades——

Tu Sanpao was hanged by the Japanese devils. When the guy who was in charge of cooking and slaughtering cattle under him was forced to approach him with a butcher knife and wanted to skin him alive, the former bandit cursed angrily. !

Just one word:

dog!

Cursed over and over again: dog! dog! dog!

Just this one word is so sonorous and powerful! It's so exciting!

How many shots of the same subject matter, how much effort was spent, how many powerful lines were held back, but all of them together can't match this word!

This is the skill of the national teacher!

In other words, I think the national teacher back then was really talented before he fell into Qian's eyes!

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Liu Chunhua's head was shaved soon, and Wei Yizong, a teacher of Huaxia Academy of Drama who had been squinting and smoking in the shed next to him, looked at him and smiled, "Xiao Liu, you really deserve your reputation as a professional villain."

Liu Chunhua smiled, "Mr. Wei, you are too much."

Wei Yizong smiled and waved his hands, "Hurry up and put on makeup."

Liu Chunhua agreed, then turned and walked to the make-up room that was temporarily set up aside.

Wei Yizong plays the skinny guy in charge of slaughtering cattle for Tu Sanpao in the play. He has hair, and the short crew cut is not easy to lose shape. He has already put on makeup and changed his clothes. .

Especially when he squatted under the arbor at this time, he already had the image of an old farmer.

Not long after, Qin Jingjing came out.

"oh……"

Seeing her appearance, many staff members on the set couldn't help but widen their eyes.

Qin Jingjing's special beauty has been verified by the role of Diao Chan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It goes without saying, but at this time, she is different from Diao Chan, who was all over the world in terms of requirements.

Actors are pretty or pretty, but makeup and costumes are...

At this time, her hair was coiled up, and she was wearing old homemade clothes, and it was an old blue cloth that had been washed white for many years, and her face had turned a little yellow - her beauty was lost by three points at once. Needless to say, the whole person exudes a sense of country!

However, this is nothing, because after a while, Li Qian came out shirtless.

"Wow!"

The whole crew was in an uproar in an instant!

It was originally a proper male god! Even if he shaved his head, he would still be handsome!

But now, the lower body is a pair of old-fashioned coarse trousers, the waist is tied with an old coarse belt, and the feet are a pair of old shoes, and the upper body is full of khaki strong muscles!

It's a manly taste full of rustic flavor, but rough and seductive!

Under the silent gaze of the entire crew, Li Qian walked outside the awning, stood still at random, and suddenly raised his voice, "Sister, you go forward boldly..."