Chapter 902 Grand Scene

"Hey! Handsome!"

"Hu Ge's hand is pretty good, he's become very good with it."

"Zhu Yilong is not a bad guy. Each of his moves looks quite impressive."

"Director Wu, the actors you have found are indeed good and dedicated."

Standing next to the monitor, Cheng Long looked at the leading actors fighting fiercely on the set and couldn't help but praise them.

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Not that he made a fuss.

It's true that there are really not many young actors in this era who can take action scenes so seriously.

At least in the six or seven movies that Cheng Long has recently shot, all the "little fresh meats" in them are delicate and elegant. Not to mention the small things like having to bring four or five assistants to the set, just when shooting, they are a little bit careful With such a large movement, I cried for my father and called my mother, feeling that I was already exhausted from my dedication.

If you really want to shoot some more intense fighting scenes, you won't be able to do it yourself. You have to let the crew's martial arts stand in for the filming. I only contribute a few frontal scenes. The reputation is that as long as the audience can see this face. It's worth it, no matter who is doing the fighting.

Cheng Long has angrily criticized this kind of young actors in public and in interviews with reporters more than once, but to be honest, he can't change the atmosphere in the industry, and he often has to accept actors offered by investors.

Even if he is an international dragon, in front of capital he is just an actor who must obey instructions.

Unlike Wu Yuan, he is the capital himself. The film company that has been operating for more than ten years has become an industry giant, and he can choose good actors as he likes.

"After "Xiu Chun Dao", I haven't seen a mainland movie with such good fighting scenes for a long time." Cheng Long said sincerely.

In fact, the fighting scenes in "Xiu Chun Knife" are not very good. Many of the fighting scenes are also lazy, using frequent camera changes to show the sense of fierceness, instead of really punching to the flesh and fighting with swords.

But "Xiu Chun Dao" has indeed become the swan song of domestic costume martial arts films, which makes Cheng Long very regretful.

Although Cheng Long's acting career was not in the period of period martial arts films, the era when Cheng Long was so powerful was the era when Shaw Brothers martial arts films were sweeping across Asia. He actually had quite a filter for martial arts, and he was also moved by the loneliness of martial arts. Sentimental.

To be precise, I feel sad for the loneliness of Kung Fu movies.

"Brother, our "Mulan" is different from "Xiu Chun Dao". It is not a costume martial arts film. The fighting scene is only a highlight in the film, but it is not the focus of the entire film."

"This is a Disney princess movie after all, so don't get it wrong."

Wu Yuan looked at the monitor screen with a calm expression, but he did not forget to correct his thoughts for Cheng Long.

Although Cheng Long can't influence the director's shooting style on the crew, and he can't be a drama tyrant like he did on his own crew, Wu Yuan felt that it was still important for him to figure out the filming logic of this movie.

After all, Cheng Long's literary dramas are indeed very average. If you misunderstand the movie, the effect will not be good.

So he had to keep telling Cheng Long not to think of this movie as a kung fu movie or a martial arts movie after seeing a few exciting fight scenes. "Mulan" can only be said to be a movie with kung fu elements at best, but this The movie focuses more on fantasy and magic style.

The main line of the movie also revolves around the confrontation between justice and evil between Hua Mulan, who masters "qi", and the prairie witch who masters witchcraft.

Yes, in the end, the main plot of the "Mulan" movie still adopted the setting of "Qi". After all, "Mulan" is a movie for the global market, and for foreigners, most of the mysteries of China are inseparable. "Qi" is a mysterious and mysterious thing.

In the minds of foreigners, the mysterious "Qi" in China is probably similar to the magic in European and American culture. Mastering "Qi" can control extraordinary power similar to "magic".

This understanding is quite unified abroad, so Wu Yuan had to adopt this theory. After all, this is one of the few Chinese mysterious forces that has a "consensus" internationally.

As for the enemy's prairie witch, they naturally use witchcraft simply and crudely. After all, witches are very familiar to Westerners, and even more familiar to Disney princess movies. Eight out of ten Western fairy tales have All the villains are evil witches, this is so familiar

From the beginning to the end, Wu Yuan never said that "Mulan" is a costume martial arts film. He has always positioned the film as a Disney princess film. It is just a special princess. Who said Women are inferior to male princesses.

And he knew calmly that even if three Chinese screenwriters were hired to write the script at his request, the final film would most likely not be very popular in China, and it might not be popular with most people. For Chinese audiences, this movie is just a movie with a Chinese background that looks a little twisted and strange.

There is no way, the issue of cultural differences is really difficult to deal with. It is theoretically impossible to make a movie with an ancient Chinese background that satisfies domestic audiences and is understandable to European and American audiences at the same time.

Unless the day comes when everyone in the world speaks Mandarin and reads Confucius, it will be possible to achieve this step.

Just like in Wu Yuan's version of "Mulan", Gong Li still played a witch similar to a shaman priest. Even though her costume is completely different from the original version and tends to be in the nomadic style of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the "witchcraft" she used is still very European.

In the script, there is even a "magic battle" with Mulan. Mulan will hold up her family sword and use the "qi" that can only be stimulated by enough courage and justice to defeat the witch.

Just this plot, foreigners will only think it is mysterious and interesting, and Chinese people will definitely complain about it. This is destined to happen, and Wu Yuan can't do it both ways.

Coincidentally, this scene is going to be filmed today.

This is a big scene. There are more than 500 extras playing soldiers on both sides, plus more than 100 horses. Using special shooting techniques, it can already give the feeling of thousands of troops.

In the center of the battlefield, there is a watchtower built as the venue for this duel. The witch played by Gong Li will fight with Hua Mulan played by Liu Yifei in this watchtower, from long-range attacks to close combat, and finally being killed by Hua Mulan's sword.

In short, this is the most critical scene in the movie, and it is also the scene that will require the most special effects shots later.

That is why Cheng Long came to the scene specifically to watch the filming of this scene.

"Is Gong Li ready?" Wu Yuan asked when he picked up the walkie-talkie. After waiting for three minutes, he said in a serious tone: "Get ready to shoot!" (End of this chapter)