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Chapter 250 Shooting of the Seven Samurai!

Those rebellious actors couldn't help swallowing when they saw the scene in front of them.

After all, in their eyes, this scene was too scary, which made it difficult for them to accept it.

If you look at it this way, wouldn't people like yourself be even more worthless?

Thinking of this, they couldn't be prouder anymore.

They all keep their heads down like ostriches.

And Shen Lang also agreed to Ishida's participation in the production of this movie under Ishida's various arguments.

But it is not the identity of the director in the future to be the assistant to the director.

Because he noticed very carefully that other actors seemed to be afraid of this old man.

It should be that he was very strict when making movies, which left some psychological shadows on other people.

If they don't feel too much pressure during the shooting, it may have a certain impact on the shooting process.

With Ishida standing by his side in this way, those people should be able to perform naturally and normally.

However, after seeing this scene, Shen Lang was a little surprised. He didn't expect this seemingly kind and shameless old man.

To have such a high prestige in the actor circle.

It's not that he couldn't think of it.

Then the movie was ready to start shooting.

This film was originally directed by director Akira Kurosawa, and it is a film that has a profound impact on the history of world film.

It was even rated as No. 1 of the 100 films of the island country that year, and one of the [-] must-see films in the world.

This shows his status.

In fact, the main content of this movie is very simple.

Because in the previous era, there were very few movies, and the content was too complicated, and everyone couldn't accept it.

It is even possible that if some movies like Infernal Affairs were made in that era, no one would like to watch them.

This film mainly tells that during the Warring States Period, people in poor villages were ransacked by robbers.

So there was no other way but to raise money and find seven down-and-out warriors to fight off the robbers together.

The whole movie tells such a simple story.

But the content contained in it has a great impact.

It not only satirizes the cruelty of reality at that time, but also implies the director's own deep understanding of history.

It can be said to be simple but not minimalist.

In the Warring States Period, a mountain village full of desolate and poor mountains and bad waters was attacked by robbers every year when the wheat was harvested.

This year, the villagers decided to hire seven samurai to defend their village and harvest. The seven samurai are Kan Bingwei, Jiu Cang, Sheng Shiro, Goro, Qilang, Heihachi and the farmer Ju Chiyo pretending to be a samurai.

The samurai Kan Bingwei is a man with strong steps and rich combat experience. He is responsible for commanding the whole village to prepare for defense.

During the raid on the bandit's lair, the samurai Jiu Cang and Ju Qiandai killed several robbers, but the samurai Heiba ​​was shot and killed to save the farmer Li Ji.

The samurai and villagers defended the village with shovels and bamboo spears in their hands, cleverly repelling the robbers' attacks again and again, but Katayama Goro died in battle during the resistance.

On the day of the decisive battle, 13 robbers rushed into the village on horseback. During the fight, the robbers hit Jiuzang with a firecracker.

Ju Qiandai killed the last enemy with anger and hatred, and he himself was shot and fell to the ground.

The robbers were finally wiped out, but the villagers also paid a high price. Four of the seven samurai were killed in battle, leaving four samurai swords piercing the sky on the grave.

After the war, when the samurai left the village, Kan Bingwei, the leader of the samurai, could not help sighing: "This is also a defeat... It is not the samurai who win, but the peasants."

The historical timeline of this movie is actually not too long, because there are already such things as firecrackers.

But even so, some remote cities are still very wild, and it can even be said to be very cruel and bloody.

The lives of civilians were extremely difficult.

Under such circumstances, a dozen robbers can bring about a devastating disaster.

Pay a great price to annihilate them.

Until the end, the sentence uttered at the end sublimated the whole movie.

In fact, throughout the movie, the name of "Seven Samurai" also has a very profound content.

The Seven Samurai, as the name suggests, are naturally seven people.

And these seven people actually represent seven different meanings, and each of these seven people has a different personality.

The meaning of representation is naturally different.

Kanbei is the leader of the samurai, he is a symbol of the samurai spirit.

Kan Bingwei had participated in many wars, he was skilled in martial arts and proficient in tactics, but he could not escape the fate of becoming a ronin.

Kan Bingwei is upright. In order to rescue the hostages taken by thieves, he is willing to shave his hair and pretend to be a monk, and successfully completes the plan.

Kan Bingwei was honest. When the farmers invited him, he didn't put on airs, but told the truth about his real life of "eat the last meal without the next meal".Kan Bingwei was sincere, and was deeply moved when he saw the peasants asking him to eat white rice and eating barnyard rice by himself, so he agreed to serve the peasants.

Kan Bingwei was shrewd and used all kinds of tricks when selecting samurai, and got genuine samurai.

Kan Bingwei is good at fighting, and his command in the peasant village is determined, his tactics are changeable, and finally he smashes the bandits who are outnumbered and powerful.

Kan Bingwei is wise. When he defeated the bandits and won a great victory, he did not get carried away with complacency, but soberly stated the motto that farmers are the real masters of the land.

Characters like Kan Bingwei are the concentrated expression of excellent warriors, like a breath of fresh air in troubled times, blowing people's hearts.

The mad Aya of the samurai world.

Ju Qianyo's identity is the most special. Among a group of real warriors, Ju Qianyo is an out-and-out fake.

He is the son of a farmer, full of sense of justice and upward spirit, but lacks morality and martial arts.Kiku Chiyo tries to gain the title of samurai with his valor, which makes him far from the spirit of Bushido.

Ju Chiyo is always full of jokes: forcing Kan Bingwei and others to accept him, boasting about other people's samurai genealogy.

Greedy for military exploits, he rashly attacked and almost lost the position... But Ju Chiyo also has another side of showing value: knocking on the clapper to startle the villagers to get the samurai out of embarrassing situations, rescuing the peasants desperately, going deep into the enemy's rear and seizing firecrackers, and erecting battle flags to boost morale.

Risking his life to fight against the enemy, Ju Qianyo behaved like a samurai, even better than a real samurai.

However, the background valued by the samurai class made it impossible for Ju Chiyo to become a real samurai, and the grave where his remains were buried did not receive due courtesy at the beginning, which made people fall into deep thinking.

Does a real samurai get his name from his origin or military exploits, or does it depend on whether he has grasped the true meaning of bushido?

At this point, Ju Qiandai gave the world a reasonable answer with his actions.

The seven samurai have their own advantages and disadvantages, forming the hero group portrait of "Seven Samurai".This is the speculative embodiment of bushido: it is the expectation placed on the film, and it is also the eternal expectation of the world.

Jiuzang represents martial arts.

As a samurai, having high-strength martial arts is the foundation of his life. Even if a samurai is inferior to Miyamoto Musashi (famous swordsman) in martial arts, he must pursue the true meaning of swordsmanship.

Jiu Cang is a representative figure who has obtained the true meaning of kendo. He has high martial arts skills: he killed provocative samurai with one blow, killed a thief by himself and seized the gun, and always maintained the upper hand in the battle, which is really admirable.What's more precious is that Jiuzang's martial arts is strong but he doesn't show off. After making great contributions, he immediately hides aside to rest, and doesn't boast about taking credit.

Katsushiro's words of admiration were only exchanged for a faint smile, which is a very high embodiment of the realm of a samurai.

Shichiroji represents friendship and loyalty.It is Kanbei's old comrade-in-arms and old friend, based on which Shichiroji accepted Kanbei's invitation as soon as they met after years of separation.

The choice of a just cause reflects the true samurai spirit of Shichiroji, and his loyalty to friendship shows the moral code of a samurai.

Gorobei represents wisdom.

His foresight ability is extremely strong, whether he is being tempted by Kan Bingwei or fighting bandits, Goro Bingwei's wisdom is reflected.

He became a member of the Seven Samurai because of his admiration for Kan Bingwei's character and character, and he also achieved the samurai's professional ethics because of his death on the battlefield.

Flat eight represents optimism.Other samurai would choose various paths when they were frustrated, but Heihachi was willing to make a living by chopping firewood like ordinary people.

Such behavior requires a considerable level of thought, and optimism is an important aspect of Bushido.Without optimism, a samurai who is constantly in trouble cannot survive.

These seven completely different people make up an extremely good movie.

It even won a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival that year.

In the process of starting to shoot, according to the leftover scripts and shots, etc., it is indeed more difficult to shoot.

Because it's not just him, even many actors have difficulty mastering this rhythm.

In addition, the counselor I found temporarily was also very bad at this situation, and often went back and forth with Shen Lang's thinking.

This also caused their shooting progress to drop.

It is impossible for me to shoot such a classic film as quickly as possible.

Almost all of his previous films could be completed within two months, and some even within one month.

But now it looks like this movie is going to push all his previous limits.

With repeating over and over again.

Shen Lang's temper gradually reached the limit.

In fact, theoretically speaking, the level of this assistant director is not bad, even much better than the average person.

But helpless, what is required is too much, far beyond the level of ordinary people, and it is even difficult for ordinary elites to complete.

Under such circumstances, there was no other way but to let this guy Ishida step up.

Under such circumstances, there is no longer much room for choice.

And after the change of people, the filming process of the whole movie quickly came up.

These people are really more afraid of Ishida.

He watched from the assistant director's position, which could make their nerves even more tense.

But that's not the most important thing.

Ishida, who is proficient in various shooting methods of literary films, is very able to grasp the key points when shooting such detailed shots.

Sometimes it feels bad, and there is no need for Shen Lang to speak up, he directly vetoes it completely.

A lot of ideas don't require too much communication between two people at all, and can be completed with a few simple words.

This also made Shen Lang, who is a second-hand man of spoken language, feel a little more relaxed.

In the previous half month, the entire progress was only 1/10.

But after Ishida came in to help, the progress of shooting was doubled.

This made Shen Lang a little uncomfortable, these guys really watched people order dishes, and if he didn't scold them, he really didn't care!
After the filming, he gradually became stricter.

The shoot took three months.

Since Shen Lang made his first movie, it can be said that there has not been any movie that he has put in more effort than Seven Samurai.

Part of it is to pay more attention to the shots taken.

And the other part is actually his problem, because in terms of actors, these actors have never filmed this kind of plot.

I spent a lot of time thinking about characters.

And when shooting, Shen Lang's requirements are also very high, so he can only repeat the shooting over and over again.

Although the shooting progress was much slower, the finished product was very gratifying.

Even Ishida, a director who has been making literary films all his life, agreed very much after seeing this plot.

Next, we will see how to edit, but the shots of these movies can be said to be like textbooks.

Every shot is full of film understanding.

And during these three months, he didn't keep making movies, he likes to use his limited time in many ways.

During the filming break, he will also go to the animation company to see how the follow-up of Yu-Gi-Oh is going.

Some problems will be pointed out and they will be corrected.

Later, many employees were recruited, and some more experienced production companies also came.

There is no need for too much guidance to deal with all aspects of things.

They only need to simply explain the direction, and they can continue to move forward in this direction.

The quality produced has gradually stabilized.

Although there were some minor problems, Shen Lang felt that it was harmless, so Shen Lang didn't raise too many opinions.

After all, I will not be in the company most of the time in the follow-up, and will go to other countries.

They have to be able to handle some things independently.

So Shen Lang also appropriately gave them some freedom, allowing them to freely develop some small details.

But generally speaking, the general direction should be carried out according to his thinking.

Sometimes he feels that the chief director is really good, he almost doesn't need to do anything, he just needs to move his mouth.

Then countless people can help him make many plans, so as to make money continuously.

After the production team was finished, Shen Lang directly asked them to send all the materials to Ishida's studio.

This time he didn't need anyone else for the editing, and he planned to finish it with Ishida.

Apart from him, the person who knows the movie best is the producer and assistant director of the whole movie, and Ishida knows it best.

Knowing this, not only was he not at all unhappy, but he was extremely excited.

According to his words.

It is his honor to witness the birth of a legendary film in his own hands.

As for why this is a legendary movie, Shen Lang also asked the same question.

However, his answer was speechless.

"Intuition, asking is intuition!"

(End of this chapter)