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Oriental Movie Metropolis is really a great place.

Not only does it make the crew feel comfortable during the filming, but there are also so many places to eat, drink and have fun that it's overwhelming.

Wu Yuan's crew has seen the world. Which film and television bases across the country have they not visited?

But Oriental Movie Metropolis still conquered everyone in the crew, and they even felt that they were not here to work, but to work and vacation at the same time.

This miniature city created by Wanda is really fun. I can only say that they are worthy of being in the real estate business. No wonder Wanda Plazas can be opened all over the country!

However, no matter how fun Oriental Movie Metropolis is, everyone’s main job cannot be delayed.

Thanks to the world-class hardware at Oriental Movie Metropolis, the filming of "The Monkey King" went very smoothly.

Although most of the scenes were shot in a studio surrounded by blue curtains, the materials were added with blue sky and white clouds after post-production, just like normal location scenes, so the audience would not notice that it was shot in a studio.

This is also the way most special effects blockbusters are shot.

Like the New York battle in "The Avengers", when watching it in the movie, it seems as if a battle was really filmed in New York, but in fact two-thirds of this battle scene was shot in the studio, and only one-third was actually shot on the streets of New York, and only some ground scenes were shot.

The really intense battle scenes were all shot in the studio, and then through post-production synthesis, the footage shot on location in New York was cut in to create a fully real-life film effect.

Another advantage of shooting this way is that there is no need to worry about key plot shots being leaked.

After all, for a highly anticipated movie like this, if it were really shot on location, there would probably be hundreds of paparazzi and Reuters telephoto cameras staring at the filming scene, and no matter what was filmed, it would appear on the Internet the next day.

There will be no such worries when shooting in a studio, and the plot of the movie can be kept confidential.

This is the case with "The Monkey King". Most of the scenes shot in the streets of Shanghai were fragmented plots on the ground, and most of them only involved ordinary plots, such as the battle between the Dapeng Demon King and Sun Wukong, the sealing of the Dapeng Demon King, the battle between Sun Wukong and the Dapeng Demon King, and other important climax scenes had to be shot in the studio.

For example, today, the crew is filming the scene where Sun Wukong fights against the demon king Dapeng.

Zhang Hanyu, who plays the role of the Dapeng demon king, has put on special effects makeup. Not only does he have two large black custom-made wings attached to his exposed back, but his face is also made into a bird head by molding.

The cost of his special effects makeup alone is hundreds of thousands. Whether it is the custom-made bird head or the two extremely realistic wings, the cost is very expensive. Even the feathers on the wings are real Roc feathers, inserted one by one, purely handmade.

It takes a full two hours to change into such a set of clothes.

In comparison, Liu Xiao Ling Tong's makeup is much simpler. He still has the classic Monkey King Sun Wukong look. Not the leopard print shorts he wore when he went on the Journey to the West, but the armor he snatched from the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas. He is so handsome!
Looking at Liu Xiao Ling Tong who had just changed into his costume, Wu Yuan praised him generously: "Teacher Liu, you don't look any older at all. You look exactly the same as you did back then!"

Putting aside other things, Lu Xiu Ling Tong has indeed maintained himself very well. Even after thirty or forty years, he can still maintain the same condition as before, which is really amazing.

"I'll leave it to you today." Wu Yuan said with a thumbs up.

"Hey, we're filming. No matter what you ask, it's what I should do." Liu Xiao Ling Tong waved his hands covered with yellow hair and took a deep breath: "Then let's start filming!" "Okay!"

"Every unit prepares!"

Superhero battles in the era of special effects look cool in movies, but when they are actually filmed, they are not that exciting, and are not even as good as the martial arts films of the 1990s.

After all, the martial arts films back then really needed professional martial arts instructors to teach the actors with every punch, but nowadays most of the special effects blockbusters just involve flying in the sky with wires.

However, what makes "The Monkey King" different from Hollywood superhero movies is that Sun Wukong relies on the Ruyi Jingu Bang to fight, so the battle plot of this movie is mainly based on close combat.

While Liu Xiao Ling Tong and Zhang Hanyu were flying in the air hanging on wires, one used his claws as a weapon and the other wielded a golden hoop, and they were fighting back and forth.

The still-sharp Liu Xiao Ling Tong wields the Ruyi Jingu Bang with fiery force. As an actor who has engraved the role of "Sun Wukong" into his bones and has devoted his entire life to studying this role, Liu Xiao Ling Tong can definitely meet any difficult fighting scene requirements of Wu Yuan.

Needless to say, Zhang Hanyu is a tough guy and he is very unambiguous. He acts the way the director asks him to, and practices hard in private if he can't do the moves.

Under the guidance of these two veteran predecessors, Zhang Yishan, a young actor who is relatively immature in action scenes, is also rapidly enriching himself. Under the guidance of Liu Xiao Ling Tong and the martial arts instructor, he strives to adapt to action scenes.

Whether in the movie or in real life, he has a feeling that he is indeed inheriting the role of "Sun Wukong", which for a time made him unable to distinguish between reality and movies.

However, this was a good thing for Wu Yuan. At least it made the filming of the crew much smoother. Zhang Yishan, the "second generation grandson", was indeed able to endure hardships. He did not complain even though he had a lot of bruises from practicing with the stick every day.

The crew continued filming smoothly in such a harmonious and hard-working atmosphere.

Time quickly came to the beginning of June 2018, and "The Monkey King", which had been filmed for more than three months, was also entering the final stage of filming. After Tang Yan, who joined the crew last, and Zhang Yishan performed several emotional scenes together, the filming of the film was basically completed.

On June 6, the crew of "The Monkey King" completed the filming of the final scene in a low-key manner at the Oriental Movie Metropolis. After everyone ate the final cake together and took a group photo, the crew disbanded on the spot.

Wu Yuan also led the post-production team to seamlessly start the post-production work of the film.

Although Oriental Movie Metropolis also has a top-notch digital audio-visual center that can provide complete post-production special effects hardware equipment, and even one-stop processing for soundtracks, Wu Yuan still chose not to stay here, but returned to the light and shadow era of Beijing.

After all, over the years, Guangying Times' own post-processing center has become very mature, and the special effects company has continued to poach people from Hollywood, and its level has reached the top international level.

After returning to Beijing, he plunged into the company's own post-production center and started the post-production of the film with the special effects department.

Wu Yuan has always been feeling a sense of urgency. It is now the middle of 2018, and there is less than a year and a half left before the next film winter. Time is running out!

He doesn't want "The Monkey King" to be like "Investiture of the Gods", which was delayed for more than three years before its release!
The 2019 Spring Festival movie season must be caught up! (End of this chapter)