Chapter 152: Filming of Painted Skin and Participating in the Golden Rooster Awards

"In order to keep this skin, you must devour people's hearts and wander around.

"No one knows who you are, you can only hide under this skin."

Zhou Xun wore a white fur coat, lazily leaning on the bed, revealing his jade-white shoulders and legs, and looking at the camera with a smile on his face.

"Okay, click!"

Wu Yuan shouted with satisfaction: "This one passed!"

He held the walkie-talkie and said happily: "Xun brother, you, the vixen, really acted well. ”

To be honest, before the official filming of Painted Skin, both the crew members and the investors such as Mr. Han were puzzled by Wu Yuan's decision to let Zhou Xun play a vixen.

What is your impression of Zhou Xun?

Quirky, cute, energetic, and carefree.

None of these words has anything to do with "vixen".

Even her appearance is not the type of charm. Her beauty is the kind of generous beauty, and her face shape is more round and smooth.

But when Zhou Xun really put on the costume, did the makeup of "Xiao Wei", and lay lazily on the bed, without any words, everyone could really feel the charm from her.

This kind of charm is not a stereotype The charm of "Da Ji" in the film is another kind of charm that belongs only to Zhou Xun.

In fact, the role of "Xiao Wei" is different from the stereotype of vixen. Although she can also seduce men, she also gives her heart to Wang Sheng.

Xiao Wei in "Painted Skin" is not at all dissolute. She fell in love with Wang Sheng after being rescued and wanted to replace Wang Sheng's wife. Everything she did was for love.

This is why the role of "Xiao Wei" is difficult to be disliked by the audience after the movie was released.

Wu Yuan does not need a "slutty" vixen, but a vixen with a true temperament.

In this case, Zhou Xun's performance is very suitable.

"The director is too good at casting." The crew's cameraman Brother Liu said to his assistant with emotion: "Everyone didn't think Zhou Xun would play a vixen before."

"I didn't expect that she would act so well in the real filming."

The assistant seems to be a fan of Zhou Xun. He said proudly: "Xun brother, what can he not act well? ”

“The most spiritual actress in the country is no joke.”

“The box office of “If Love” has reached 40 million!”

“The dancer played by Xun is so beautiful!”

Wu Yuan didn’t know that his subordinates were discussing Zhou Xun. After praising her, he carefully checked the filmed materials again and waved his hand with satisfaction: “Okay, let’s stop here today!”

“Call it a day!”

“We will move to Yinchuan tomorrow, pack up and go together!”

The crew responded excitedly and immediately cleaned up the set.

Zhou Xun also wrapped himself in a white fur coat, walked down from the bed barefoot, deliberately ran to Wu Yuan, and stretched out his hand to touch his chest.

“Director Wu, my fox spirit, is my performance vivid or not?”

Wu Yuan speechlessly slapped Zhou Xun’s hand, “Very vivid, very vivid, it’s worth it for me to choose you to play Xiao Wei against all odds. ”

There was no audition for the main roles in Painted Skin. They were decided when they were eating hot pot at Wu Yuan's house.

When the crew was preparing, Wu Yuan was arbitrary and directly sent invitations to these actors and asked them to sign contracts without even trying out the role.

In the eyes of Zhou Xun, Chen Kun and others, Wu Yuan's behavior was undoubtedly full of trust.

In order not to disappoint Wu Yuan's trust, they went all out and took the movie seriously after joining the crew.

No more joking, Zhou Xun looked serious and asked seriously: "Are we going to Yinchuan tomorrow?"

"Yes, we have filmed all the scenes on location, and we just happened to go to the Golden Rooster Awards together. "Wu Yuan responded.

Part of the scenes in "Painted Skin" were to be filmed in the Gobi Desert in the northwest, which was originally suitable for filming in Ningxia.

Now the Golden Rooster Awards are all held in Yinchuan. For Wu Yuan, doing two things at the same time is obviously the most time-saving and labor-saving.

The next day, September 8, Wu Yuan took the entire crew of "Painted Skin" and flew to Ningxia, Yinchuan.

There is a film and television city in Yinchuan, or a film and television base.

This film and television city was first built in the Ming Dynasty and was called "Zhenbeibao" at the time. It was a frontier defense fortress in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. .

Later in the 1980s, this place was discovered by domestic filmmakers and gradually became a popular filming location for movies and TV series.

The classic movie "The Shepherd" was filmed here, and Stephen Chow's "A Chinese Odyssey" was also filmed here.

The most classic building in this film and television city is the tall city gate.

It was on this city gate that Zhizunbao and Zixia Fairy kissed each other, leaving behind the classic line that became popular on the Internet ten years later.

"Look at him, he looks like a dog! "

Wu Yuan brought the crew of "Painted Skin" and moved all the staff here on September 10.

Of course, the current Yinchuan Film and Television City has not really become a film and television city, and the famous "Old Yinchuan Street" scenic spot has not been built yet.

The current Yinchuan Film and Television City still focuses on the simple, primitive, rough and desolate style, restoring the appearance of the historical ancient city.

Of course, "Painted Skin" cannot be simply filmed here.

In fact, one of Wu Yuan's assistant directors had brought people here a month in advance, and built the outdoor scene outside Yinchuan Film and Television City according to Wu Yuan's requirements and drawings.

After the crew arrived here, they basically rested in the film and television city after finishing work. To start work, they had to go to the outdoor scenes built five or six hundred meters away from the film and television city.

And right from the start, they shot a big scene.

Wang Sheng, played by Chen Kun, brought his Wang Jiajun back from the battlefield in the Western Regions. Xiao Wei was also rescued by Wang Sheng at this time.

It's not that Wu Yuan has never shot such a big scene with many people.

Whether it's the pirate battle in "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" or when he was the executive director in his dream, he has directed such a big scene.

Chen Kun, the male protagonist, is shooting a war scene for the first time.

Looking at Chen Kun, who is fully armed and wearing thick armor, Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

Unlike Chen Jiashang's version of "Painted Skin", as a well-known mainland director, Wu Yuan specially invited an expert in Han Dynasty costume archaeology from the Huaxia Archaeological Institute as a consultant when preparing the crew.

The costumes made by the costume department of the crew for the actors are all imitations of the Han Dynasty style, including armor.

The ugly ear-covering hat worn by Chen Kun in Chen Jiashang's film is impossible to appear in Wu Yuan's crew.

There is no way. When Chen Jiashang was filming "Painted Skin", most domestic films used Japanese designers for costume design.

Zhang Yimou has to take the blame for this. From "Hero" to "House of Flying Daggers", Zhang Yimou used Japanese designers, and "Curse of the Golden Flower" was also the same.

Later, Feng Xiaogang learned this when filming "The Banquet".

If the big directors did this, other directors would definitely follow suit.

So even if Chen Jiashang used a costume designer from Hong Kong Island, the costume design did not restore the Han Dynasty background much. Some very inconsistent costumes appeared, and even the soldiers wore chain mail.

Wu Yuan doesn't do this.

None of his team has been influenced by Japanese costume design. All of them are costume designers trained in China.

His costume designer is Mr. Li Jinxiang, the stylist who worked on the 1993 version of the TV series "Three Kingdoms".

With the off-site academic support of a professional costume archaeology professor, the costumes of "Painted Skin" will definitely not go wrong.

Chen Kun was wearing a set of black armor popular in the Han Dynasty, also known as Zhajia.

Because he was a general, he wore the highest-grade fish scale armor, with thousands of iron sheets densely sewn together and filled with tanned cowhide inside. It would not be very comfortable to wear, but it was full of security.

As for the soldiers and extras he led, each of them wore leather armor made of tanned cowhide to protect the front and back.

The crew spent more than one million yuan on the production of these armors for the soldiers alone.

In addition to the costumes of other actors and extras, the crew of "Painted Skin" spent nearly five million yuan on costume production alone.

This is called a blockbuster!

"Get ready, get on the horse and get ready to shoot!" Wu Yuan shouted with a loud speaker.

Fifty horse-riding shepherds recruited from Ningxia jumped onto the horses, stroked the horses' heads and calmed the restless horses.

Chen Kun also took a deep breath, adjusted his mentality, and rode his horse with the help of his assistant.

Yes, Chen Kun can ride a horse now.

Wu Yuan asked him to practice riding at the equestrian base in Huairou, Beijing, six months in advance.

Chen Kun had no complaints and practiced riding for half a year.

These days, all the movies of big directors require real shooting, including circus and so on. It is impossible to use a double or a fake horse.

Even TV dramas with stricter requirements must shoot horse riding scenes with real people.

Liu Yifei has also been learning horse riding recently because she also had a horse riding scene when she was filming "The Return of the Condor Heroes".

The big bearded man is so strict with the actors, it doesn't make sense that Wu Yuan would allow him to use a double just because he has a good relationship with Chen Kun.

After the fifty extras who acted as personal guards and Chen Kun rode on horses, followed by one or two hundred extras wearing leather armor, the group of people trotted quickly on the desolate Gobi Desert.

The dust rolled up the sand, and a scene of the army returning to the frontier emerged.

The desert, the smoke, and the sunset were the background, and the black and red army marched in it.

"Very good, raise the camera!" Sitting behind the monitor, Wu Yuan shouted excitedly.

This scene, this picture, is so beautiful!

He believes that after the movie is released, this picture will become one of the classic scenes of the movie!

[Director Wu Yuan's new work started shooting, after shooting high school students, he shot "Painted Skin"! ]

[China's first magic theme movie, Hollywood director Wu Yuan personally helmed! ]

["Painted Skin" spent 150 million to shoot in Yinchuan, Zhou Xun plays the most beautiful "fox spirit"]

["Painted Skin" officially started shooting, Leslie Cheung and Sun Li joined forces to "catch" Zhou Xun! 】

【150 million investment, a new oriental magical action art masterpiece! "Painted Skin" officially starts filming! 】

Although Wu Yuan rejected the opening ceremony of "Painted Skin" in Beijing that Director Han wanted to hold, it does not mean that Director Han will not publicize the opening of "Painted Skin" everywhere.

When Wu Yuan was filming "Painted Skin" in Yinchuan, from Sohu Entertainment on the Internet to major offline print media, all rushed to report the news of the opening of "Painted Skin".

The five main actors were also announced. The lineup of Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Zhang Guorong, Zeng Li, and Sun Li is considered good in the current mainland film industry.

After hearing the news, many fans had strong expectations for the movie "Painted Skin" and talked about it online.

"Filming Painted Skin? Is it an adaptation of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"?"

"Is it the mainland adaptation of "Painted Skin: The Yin and Yang Master" starring Wang Zuxian and Zheng Shaoguan?"

"No way, the last person to play the Painted Skin ghost was Wang Zuxian! Even if Zhou Xun is really pretty, she can't compare to her, right?"

"Why did Director Wu adapt the story of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"? This is a theme that has been filmed to death by Hong Kong Island movies."

"The story of Painted Skin is a bit too old-fashioned and boring."

It is normal to have voices of disapproval and opposition.

Before Wu Yuan, Hong Kong Island had filmed at least six or seven versions of Painted Skin movies. Throwing aside some romantic versions and some that did not make a splash, there is also the classic movie "Painted Skin: The Yin and Yang Master".

The Painted Skin ghost played by Wang Zuxian left a very deep impression on mainland audiences.

Now that Wu Yuan is also going to film "Painted Skin", he will definitely be compared with her. However, Zhou Xun and Wang Zuxian, at least on the surface, are really incomparable.

Wang Zuxian was the Asian goddess of the time. She was popular from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. She was the dream goddess of the whole Asia.

Now Zhou Xun is going to play a role that Wang Zuxian played. It is impossible to say that fans will not question it.

Of course, the voices of opposition and disapproval are still a minority after all.

"This is Wu Yuan's movie. Will he simply remake a Hong Kong movie? It must be a brand new magical story!"

"Didn't I see that the reporters said that this is the first magical blockbuster in China. Wu Yuan is the director who filmed "Pirates of the Caribbean". His magical blockbuster is really expected!"

"The more classic the story, the harder it is to film. But I am definitely looking forward to Wu Yuan filming "Painted Skin". He is the best director in China to film this kind of magical movie!"

"Is there any need to question Wu Yuan's movie? He is scrambled to be invited in Hollywood. He should be happy to come back to film for our mainland audiences!"

"Am I the only one who doesn't care about "Painted Skin" and only wants to watch "Pirates of the Caribbean 2"? "

After the battle of "Your Name", young people in China now have some blind worship of Wu Yuan.

Not only because of his status and strength in Hollywood, it is hard for people to compare with him.

But also because Wu Yuan really knows how to make movies that young people like to watch. He is the only director in China who really pays attention to the viewing experience of young people.

Many young people saw that Wu Yuan's new commercial film had started filming. Regardless of anything, they all supported it online, saying that they must go to the cinema to show their support.

I don't know if this is considered a so-called "fan circle".

Anyway, Wu Yuan was very pleased. What he wanted was influence among the young people.

Five or six years later, this group of young people was the main audience group during the box office explosion period of that movie!

It was they who brought their parents and children to the cinema and supported the box office explosion period of mainland movies from 2010 to 2015!

In this way, Wu Yuan, in a happy mood, gave the crew two days off.

It was not because he gave the crew a holiday because he was praised on the Internet.

But he, Zhang Guorong, Chen Kun, and Zhou Xun were all going to attend the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony.

Early in the morning of September 19, the four of them took a bus back to the city.

In the hotel arranged by the Golden Rooster organizer, the few people changed into formal suits and dresses under the arrangement of the stylist and went to the awards ceremony.