Rebirth declares war on the honest

Chapter 489 483. Golden Triangle

The morning sun shines on the misty Mekong River.

The golden Buddha on the territory of Thailand is still holy, and the national ships and merchant ships are docked on the shore of the pier.

Wearing sunglasses, Gu Yun and Cheng Yingying stepped off the boat, packed a local car, and came to the Golden Triangle, about 20 kilometers south of the southern border, at the junction of the old Myanmar and Thailand.

The crew of "Operation Mekong" had a lot of shots shot in this peaceful and peaceful place.

In order to restore the real case, the director Lin Chaoxian led the team to prepare for a long time, collected a lot of information, visited the real anti-drug police, went to the Golden Triangle to take pictures and had in-depth exchanges with residents.

With a group of actors, the crew went deep into Southeast Asian countries to shoot 105 scenes, and the process was full of dangers.

As a well-known action film director in China, a major feature of Lin Chaoxian's works is the full live action shooting.

What's more worth mentioning is that this film full of gun battles and pursuits has almost zero special effects in production.

The tough guy starring Peng Yuyan and the new heroine Shen Qingcheng followed the filming throughout the filming process. Needless to say, it can be seen from the disgraced original makeup that they have suffered a lot.

"Crack! Okay, everyone, take a break."

When Gu Yun and Cheng Yingying arrived to visit the crew, it happened that the filming of a segment was over. Director Lin Chaoxian turned around and had a face-to-face meeting with Gu Yun.

"Boss Gu is here? Welcome, come and sit inside."

With a bright bald head, Lin Chaoxian patted Gu Yun's shoulder, and the wrinkles on his face rolled into a ball of laughter.

As early as when discussing the script, the director met Gu Yun, the script creator behind it.

When the director and the original are filming, there are often different differences. Fortunately, Lin Chaoxian has his own persistence, but the implementation of this persistence is not easy.

In other film script discussions, Lin Chaoxian often felt "very awkward".

"They are very extreme, saying that this is not okay, and that is not okay. If you follow their direction, then this movie basically doesn't need to be made."

However, Gu Yun, as the script author, began to discuss the filming with relevant departments in 2013. He combined the opinions of director Lin Chaoxian and prepared more than [-] drafts of the script, and he was extremely patient.

In the meantime, Lin Chaoxian went to shoot other films.

"You guys do it yourself. You discuss it yourself. I said I must, these are necessary. After discussion, if you think you can pass it, shoot it. If you can't pass it, don't shoot it. If you don't shoot it, don't shoot it."

Lin Chaoxian said at the beginning that when he really thought about "pulling it down", he was finally overwhelmed by Gu Yun's patience, and the two became good friends.

As the most mature and representative of Hong Kong films, gangster films often encounter "acclimatization" after Hong Kong directors enter the mainland market.

Many Hong Kong directors have complained that due to the restraint of the mainland film system and the lack of understanding of the way the mainland police handle cases, they don't know where to start with the mainland's police and robber themes, and they always face some embarrassing situations.

However, Gu Yun's script and filming suggestions have basically completely overcome the problem of Hong Kong directors who are not acclimatized.

Lin Chaoxian also said frankly, "If it wasn't for the theme of "Operation Mekong", it can be said that I would definitely not shoot the theme of public security. If I shoot a public security in the city, I don't understand many details of life. This is not to find a screenwriter. Problems that can be solved, life is different without personal experience; but when I accepted "Operation Mekong", because it was all overseas, there were basically very few domestic scenes, so I could treat it as a normal commercial film Going to shoot, basically because of this background, I will shoot public security subjects.”

In fact, the relevant departments have given strong support to this film. In the past, domestic subjects such as "holding guns abroad" have basically not been involved. "Operation Mekong" is a breakthrough.

"Burn" is the personal feeling of almost every participant.

As a main theme film, almost 90% of the time of the film focuses on the case itself, the plot advances at an extremely fast pace, full of crises and climaxes.

In the shooting, the details are exquisite, the IQ of the characters is online, the fight between the justice and the evil forces is evenly matched, the fairy tale that strips the protagonist's halo, and the price of blood and tears make the film more realistic.

Coupled with the background of the adaptation of real cases, all these make this main theme film full of stimulation that even makes people feel "overloaded", and it is not preachy emotionally, it is real and moving.

This time, the public security department did provide a lot of top-secret information.

For the purpose of protecting the police and avoiding abetting crimes, the methods of public security handling cases and criminal investigation methods in the past will not be shown in film and television works.

This time, it was the criminal police who handled the case back then who revealed a lot of first-hand information. Because of this, the crew broke the shackles and a large number of people came to the Golden Triangle to participate in the filming.

"Director Lin, is it almost finished? How do you feel?"

Gu Yun opened his trolley case with a smile, took out some special products brought from the capital to share with everyone, and chatted with Lin Chaoxian by the way.

"It's very cool, because it is filmed overseas, so the restrictions in many cities do not exist, and it is more free to shoot."

Lin Chaoxian seemed much more relaxed, stretched out a finger and waved it.

Seeing the crew's props all over the floor, guns and ammunition everywhere, Gu Yun picked up a gun, and the heavy feel made him realize that it might be a real gun.

"Boss Gu, pay attention. Although the ammunition used is not live, empty ammunition can still be lethal at close range."

Lin Chaoxian was just about to stop Gu Yun's movement, but after seeing Gu Yun's skillful assembly movements out of the corner of his eye, he stopped continuing.

The big boss has obviously played with firearms, such a person will not mess around, and he is more aware of the dangers of firearms than ordinary actors.

The scale that "Operation Mekong" will present is indeed rare in previous public security themes.

Child soldiers, killing prisoners, headshots, human bombs, many scenes are indeed full of violence beyond the level of censorship.

"Director Lin, where is our Qingcheng?"

While Gu Yun was playing with the gun, Cheng Yingying asked without seeing Shen Qingcheng.

"Xiao Shen, she might rest in the tent. The weather here is hot and there are many mosquitoes. She doesn't go outside every time she rests."

Lin Chaoxian pointed to a small tent not far away, and explained why Shen Qingcheng was not there.

In this dangerous Golden Triangle, for a delicate female star to take good care of herself, she really needs to consider every detail.

The preparatory work for this level of main theme film is long and meticulous.

In order to fight for the film co-production rights of "The Mekong River Case", in addition to providing the script for Paradise Entertainment, Bona Films once sent a group to the court where Naw Kham was tried, and recorded the whole story of the sentencing of Naw Kham and his gang. process.

The team also compiled interviews with all those involved in the case, including various front-line personnel, as well as senior leaders.

In the end, they handed over hundreds of thousands of words of recordings and videos to the crew for unified arrangement.

The subsequent location scouting work is also full of dangers that conventional movies will never match.

When the crew planned to go back to investigate the crime scene, they received strong opposition from relevant departments.

After all, the out-and-out "d-peddling village" in the Golden Triangle was shocked by the cross-border arrests back then, and the public security informants are not sure whether there are any remnants of Naw Kham's party in the area, and they will retaliate after discovering their identities.

Therefore, during the inspection process of entering Band Village, many scenes can only be peeked, and photographs cannot be taken.

"Because those small circles live in the wives and family members of big industry brothers like Naw Kham. In fact, those are very poor areas. Only this village is rich. Everyone in it is very rich. Everyone There are several cars and several floors of buildings.”

While Lin Chaoxian was chatting with Gu Yun, there was a sound of footsteps coming from the tent, and Shen Qingcheng trotted out stepping on his shoes, with an expression of joy beyond words.

"Here you come."

Shen Qingcheng stopped beside Gu Yun and took his own initiative to hold his little hand.

Many male actors in the crew turned their gazes over, like glowing eyes.

"Well, not bad, the hair grows pretty fast."

Gu Yun looked at Shen Qingcheng who had returned to short hair from head to toe, and couldn't help but sigh deeply, the beauty is beyond the skin, even if she came to the tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia to suffer, Shen Qingcheng still remained beautiful.

The fair skin is slightly darker, and with the short hair style, the girl is tall and tall, but there is a heroic spirit between the eyebrows, and the aura of the policewoman is fully revealed.

What made Gu Yun feel extremely distressed was that even in the hot weather, Shen Qingcheng was still wearing long clothes and trousers, while she, who loves sandals and exquisite high-heeled shoes on weekdays, was wearing a pair of ordinary high-top sneakers.

"I was bitten by bugs in ordinary shoes before, and it swelled up a lot, which is a bit scary."

Shen Qingcheng noticed the doubt in Gu Yun's eyes, stuck out her tongue and explained.

In the actual shooting, the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the tropical rainforest will also bring a lot of trouble, and even endanger life in severe cases.

When the crew was filming in a swamp in Malaysia, Lin Chaoxian was accidentally bitten on his ankle by a six-inch-long poisonous centipede. Fist-sized blisters immediately swelled from his ankle, and he even went into shock for a while.

Lin Chaoxian interjected, recalling this experience, as a director, he still has lingering fears.

"Yes, it's better not to show too much skin in this area. I was wearing sneakers at the time, so I was lucky."

"If it was another staff member, it would be more serious to be bitten while wearing slippers. The centipede is poisonous and will anesthetize your neuromuscular muscles. I found out that it has reached my thigh immediately. If I bite higher, I will definitely faint soon No, because it will paralyze the heart."

In addition, when shooting water battle scenes, the crew members were all attacked by leeches to varying degrees.

"Let me tell you, I'm not only afraid of bugs when I wear so many clothes, there are also leeches here."

Shen Qingcheng, who has always been strong and never complained in the crew, seems to have opened up the chatterbox, pulling Gu Yun to complain.

"Leech?"

Gu Yun had never been bitten by this kind of thing before, so he was a little dazed.

"Hmm, it's usually the kind that crawls up from the water to suck blood. Its saliva will numb your skin little by little, making you unaware that it exists."

"Many staff members don't know they have been bitten. When they go back to the hotel by car, someone suddenly sees a pool of blood on the ground. There is so much blood. Everyone check it out quickly. And if you find it, you can't beat it to death, because you stimulated it. , it will spit out the contents of its stomach, which may contain bacteria. So you can only let it bite, because it will go away by itself after biting. So everyone checks online how to deal with this kind of thing stuff, and wrap yourself all up, but it's hot as hell."

Shen Qingcheng vomited out all her grievances. In order to make this movie well, she, as a newcomer actor, has paid countless hardships behind her back.

The crisis in the film hardly subsides. When one incident is resolved, the other end of the danger rushes in again, and the time of each paragraph is very long.

After so much, Shen Qingcheng finally had time to take a breath as the film was about to be finalized.

"Director Lin, why are you in such a hurry? You don't care about Qingcheng's safety?"

Gu Yun frowned slightly after listening to Shen Qingcheng's description of the shooting environment.

Although the environment is very harsh, if the director did not compress the footage too quickly, there is a high probability that everyone will not be affected by the environment.

Lin Chaoxian shrugged and said: "I want to make a faster-paced movie this time, not just about a real case, the focus should be on the case, how it is roundabout, and how to lead the case out. What are the difficulties and how to catch them in the end. This is already an extremely full content in the movie.”

"If you can't figure out what is the key point, I don't think there is any need for cooperation next time."

Gu Yun pouted, for the sake of your artistic rhythm, let my woman risk being bitten by bugs?

No matter how high Lin Chaoxian's level is and no matter how good the artistic rhythm is, of course the movie still has a lot of artistic processing elements.

For example, Natu, the son of the villain, is a fictional character, and the setting of "mantis catching cicadas, and orioles behind" was finally arrested, which did not happen in real cases.

Brother Huangque Song in the movie is actually an informant of the police in real life.

"I can't help it, Mr. Gu. I didn't do it on purpose. I really tried my best. This case took eight months, but it's impossible to talk about it in a movie for eight months, so I can only compress it in one movie."

"The script is still great. I have been shooting police and gangster films for so many years, and none of the themes can achieve the rhythm of "Operation Mekong". Because it is a real case, how to advance these stories in the most intensive way is the most difficult. of."

Lin Chaoxian quickly explained.

Although he is a director in face, he can joke with Gu Yun, but how can he offend a financial master of this level?
"Qingcheng was bitten by an ordinary bug once before, and we never went into the rainforest after that, so don't worry about that."

Shen Qingcheng immediately tugged on the corner of Gu Yun's clothes, and shook her head slightly.

She also knew in her heart that the director could not be blamed for this matter, in fact, Gu Yun felt ashamed and just took the opportunity to get angry.

She could obviously hold a concert in a large gymnasium that is empty of thousands of people and enjoy a good life, but because of Gu Yun's casual words, she went to the deep mountains and old forests to shoot movies, and was bitten by unknown mosquitoes and became red and swollen. She endured for months .

No matter what scene, region or time, the owner must guard his puppy.

(End of this chapter)