China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 18 Shooting
On the third day after the filming started, Cai Zhuoyan, an artist under Yinghuang, officially joined the group. She didn't have many roles, so the contract was only signed for 2 days.Cai Zhuoyan plays a hot singer in the movie. The protagonist's initial task is to protect her from going to and from the concert safely.

During the filming of the concert, when Cheng Long guarded Cai Zhuoyan to leave the scene, Li Mu took the initiative to step forward to demonstrate to the actor who played the killer, and later even practiced the tricks with Cheng Long himself.

The high-definition images of the previous life movies in Li Mu's mind, coupled with his good physical fitness, Cheng Long has made action movies all his life, and has extremely rich experience, so the effect of his and Cheng Long's combo is surprisingly good.

For a moment, Chen Musheng even had the idea of ​​letting Li Mu act as the killer.Cheng Long was also full of praise for the movements designed by Li Mu. After the scene, he kept saying that Li Mu had talent in this area. If he had been born decades earlier, he might have become a kung fu star again.

However, this also made the members of Cheng's class slightly dissatisfied with Li Mu.

Action scenes are the specialty of Cheng Jiaban. I never thought that today, on Cheng Jiaban's own territory, in Brother Cheng Long's own movie, Cheng Jiaban's people were used to act as killers, and in the end, an outsider, a hairy young man The people instructing Cheng's class are coming to shoot an action scene, where do you let the people in Cheng's class save face?

After this scene, several members of the Chengjia class approached the action director Li Zhongzhi to complain about it.

"Brother Zhi, what is this Li Mu's background? Isn't he just a screenwriter and an assistant director, why does it feel like this kid wants to get involved in everything?"

"A young man with a hairy head, a newcomer of the younger generation, he has no sense of being a junior in front of Brother Cheng Long. Those who don't know think he is Hong Jinbao."

"Which kind of god is this? Brother Cheng Long has a good temper and self-cultivation. He doesn't have the same knowledge as him. He really thinks he can be on an equal footing with Brother Cheng Long?"

"Let's just talk about the scene just now. Cai Zhuoyan flew here from Xiangjiang to film the scene. Such an important scene ended with four punches. The audience didn't see what was going on. Was it fun to watch? I’m an audience and I’m going to scold people! Why don’t you arrange a few more killers, or arrange for a better killer, so you have to fight for two or three minutes, so it’s fun to watch! This kid also knows how to guide movements ?”

"After watching two foreign action films, I really feel that I can be an action director? Many action directors in Hollywood still use Xiangjiang filmmakers!"

Li Zhongzhi, a member of Chengjiaban, a well-known action instructor in Xiangjiang, has a tough and concise martial arts style, but also has explosive power.

If there is no accident in history, he will also become the action director of Cheng Long's movie "Baby Project", and cooperate with Wu Jing to serve as the action director of "Wolf Warrior 2", which created the box office myth.

This person has a high level, and he agrees with the martial arts moves designed by Li Mu, but as a member of the Cheng family class, he has to consider his brother's ideas.

"Everyone calm down, this Li Mu is the person appointed by Xiying, and Xiying is the investor of this movie. They have spent tens of millions on this movie. If you want to make trouble, let them make trouble. Let's talk about today The effect of that scene was actually not bad, Brother Cheng Long and Director Chen Musheng also agreed, since the higher-ups are all satisfied, what else can we do?"

Some people were dissatisfied and said: "Today's fight scene is just two people, and the fight scene between two people is the simplest. I don't believe he can handle it when the melee scene is filmed later! Brother Zhi, let me tell you to wait until the melee scene." You simply stand by and let him toss around, and when he can't continue playing, we will come out to clean up the mess."

"That's right, see you in the melee scene."

Li Zhongzhi couldn't help reminding: "Everyone is calm and calm. We are action directors, and the film will always have the greatest effect. Nothing can be done at the expense of film quality. He may not be able to handle the action scenes in the future. I must be the first Handle it well, we can't fight with others in this matter, if you make big brother angry, everyone will have nothing to eat."

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The domestic scenes were filmed for a total of 6 days, and then the whole crew flew to France. After arriving in France, they gave priority to shooting scenes with Liu Yifei, because "The Legend of Condor Heroes" directed by Zhang Jizhong is also about to start.

The first scene after arriving in France was the airport scene. In this scene, the character played by Li Mu had to get close to Liu Yifei as a fellow countryman, and then left the airport in a carpool with Liu Yifei and her best friend.

Before the official filming started, the actors rehearsed in advance, and Liu Yifei took the initiative to come over to chat during the rehearsal interval.

"Director Li, is this your first time acting?"

Li Mu didn't answer, but instead asked, "Do you know which movie I like the most?"

"Which one?"

"A Chinese Journey to the West"

"I also really liked that movie." Liu Yifei said.

"Then do you know which line I like the most?"

"There was once a sincere feeling in front of me and I didn't cherish that sentence?"

"No, it was Princess Iron Fan who said, 'When you could use me, call me brother Li Mu, but now you don't need me, call me screenwriter Li.'"

"That... no... I think, calling this brother or that brother with your mouth open and shut is like pretending to be cute, and it will look particularly greasy."

"Okay, I accept your apology."

"Whoever apologized to you is really thick-skinned."

"By the way, you just asked me if this is my first time acting? What do you want to do? Do you want to see me make a fool of yourself and be scolded by the director?"

"I didn't... But now that I have this idea, I really want to see how you are scolded by the director for non-stop N-phone."

But it is obvious that Li Mu disappointed Liu Yifei. His scene is very simple, just relying on his good looks to strike up a conversation with a girl to carpool. In his previous life, he has been in the entertainment industry for 20 years, and he has played countless various roles. Today's small role is not too simple for him.

On the contrary, Liu Yifei was called out twice, which made her very embarrassed in front of Li Mu, after all, she just said that she wanted to see Li Mu being scolded by the director.

Liu Yifei doesn't have many scenes in this movie. It is one part where Liu Yifei is taken away from hiding under the bed, and another part is when he is finally auctioned off by rich people.It is worth mentioning that in the original film, the heroine was pushed onto the stage wearing only underwear for rich people from all over the world to choose and bid for, but in Li Mu's script, the underwear was naturally replaced by normal clothes.

Three days after the crew flew to Paris, all of Liu Yifei's scenes were wrapped, and she and her mother flew back to China to start filming "The Legend of Condor Heroes".

In 03, "Golden Fan Family", "Dragon Babu", "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in 05, and "The Legend of Condor Heroes" in 06, Liu Yifei has really made a fairy start in recent years, relying on the foundation of popularity laid by these dramas , even if she made bad movies for ten years in a row, these few dramas can still guarantee her a large number of fans in China, which is something no other actress can envy.

The crew quickly filmed the main scene of the film, that is, the scene where Cheng Long broke into the tiger's lair alone and wiped out all the villains in the den of thieves, and rescued a girl by the way. Three days before the filming of this scene, That night, Li Mu went directly to the room of action director Li Zhongzhi.

Li Mu is not a showy person, but he is not a person who sacrifices the quality of the movie in order to impress others. He obviously has a very classic action design in his mind but does not show it. That is not Li Mu's character.

When Li Mu went, a dozen or so people had already gathered in Li Zhongzhi's room, all of whom were members of the Cheng Family Class. When everyone saw that Li Mu had come to the door on his own initiative, they thought that the most difficult melee scene would be filmed in a few days. , so everyone knows what's going on.

This is probably because the limelight was enough a few days ago, and now it's the highlight, knowing that I can't handle it, so I asked for help.

"Hey, Director Li is here. It's really a rare visitor. I remember that there will be a lot of action scenes to be filmed in two days, right? Director Li should go to bed early and get up early to recharge his energy. In two days, he will direct a lot of action scenes. .”

"In the past, I only heard that martial arts turned to actors and directors. I didn't expect that there are still directors who switch to martial arts. It's really new."

"Everyone, don't say a few words!" Li Zhongzhi restrained a group of members of the Cheng family class, then turned to look at Li Mudao, "Director Li, do you have something to do with me?"

Li Mu nodded, and took out a stack of papers from his bag to Li Zhongzhi: "This is the detailed fighting plan I designed and an overview of how it will be edited in the later stage. You can refer to it. If there is something unreasonable, let's talk about it tomorrow." Research, you have a good idea, let's discuss it together, nothing else, that's fine, I'll go back first."

"I'll send it to you."

"No need, you are busy."

After Li Mu left, everyone opened the things drawn by Li Mu together. First of all, they were shocked by Li Mu's painting skills, and then after seeing the things drawn by Li Mu, everyone had to admit that although everyone looked Mu is not so pleasing to the eye, but this kid really has two brushes in motion design.

(End of this chapter)