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The day quickly came to November.

Several leading actors successfully completed the martial arts training plan designated by Sang Lin and his team.

Of course, this does not mean that Sang Lin’s work is over.

The following filming was when Sang Lin really had to spend a lot of effort. He and Wu Yuan discussed a lot of fighting scene storyboards, which would then need to be tried one by one, and then the shot with the best picture effect would be used.

This is also a very energy-consuming task for the actors. They have to shoot a scene many times, and sometimes they have to change their actions on the spot.

This is why action movies are considered the most difficult to shoot of all movie genres.

Shooting this stuff is real physical labor, and it’s the closest to the working rhythm of the working people.

Fortunately, the actors Wu Yuan found for "Mulan" are all more hardworking than the other and they won't say a word.

11 month 4 number.

After finishing training and resting for a few days, the leading actors of "Mulan" finally reunited with the crew members who were already ready to go, and headed to Zhongyuan Province together.

After entrusting their daughter to Liu Xiaoli, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei took a private plane to Jiaozuo, Zhongyuan Province.

Here, a group of crew members who came from Hollywood were already waiting for the couple.

"Mulan" is a Disney movie. Even if Disney lets Wu Yuan take full charge of crew matters, there is no doubt that the main staff of the crew must be Disney staff.

This is like when a domestic film crew goes abroad to shoot a movie and will hire local people as part of the crew, but the core team must be from China and it is impossible to form it locally.

70% of the crew of "Mulan" are from Hollywood, and only 30% were hired by Wu Yuan in China, of course, also from Guangying Times.

The main force of these Hollywood crews met up with the leading actors in Beijing before setting off, but several teams in charge of the scene and set design arrived in advance at the place where the crew would start filming.

That is the famous Jiaozuo Film and Television City in Central Plains Province!

The main attractions of Jiaozuo Film and Television City are composed of multiple film and television shooting landscapes such as the City Gate Square Area, Zhou Royal Palace Area, Lingtai, Market Street Area, Chu Royal Palace Area, Generation of Heroes Area, and Outdoor Scenic Area.

This film and television city has a construction area of ​​40 square meters. It is an ancient building complex with the culture of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the Three Kingdoms Period as its background. It is one of the nine excellent film and television shooting locations in the country that meet the requirements.

Of course, the reason why this film and television city can dominate the country is mainly because its characteristics cannot be replaced by any other film and television city for the time being.

Just like Hengdian is the paradise of Japanese devils and Xiangshan is the world of martial arts and fairy tale dramas, Jiaozuo Film and Television City basically dominates the filming of costume dramas of all dynasties before the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the field of costume dramas, it competes with the Ming and Qing style buildings in Hengdian, Huairou and other film and television bases, filling the gap in the country's lack of film and television cities from the pre-Qin period.

The "Great Qin Empire Trilogy" was filmed here, and movies such as "Warring States" and "Mozi" were also filmed here.

It can be said that Jiaozuo Film and Television City is the film and television base with the most Qin and Han Dynasty style in China. The filming location of "Mulan" was also chosen here.

There is no way. According to the setting given by the historical consultant, the time period of the movie "Mulan" is set in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period of China, that is, after the demise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and before the establishment of the Sui Dynasty.

Although the architectural and cultural styles of this period were very different from those of the Three Kingdoms and the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties, the differences from the later Tang and Song Dynasties were even greater.

Since there is no film and television city built specifically for the Northern and Southern Dynasties period in China, the crew's best choice is Jiaozuo Film and Television City.

At least the Han Dynasty-style palaces, ancient cities and ancient alleys here are all very good. If a few more cultural elements of the Northern and Southern Dynasties are added, it can pretend to be the cultural style of that period. Unless the ordinary movie fans are professors who specialize in this area, they will not see any sense of incongruity.

It's better than going to Hengdian and Huairou to take photos in the Ming and Qing Dynasty style blocks.
Several groups arrived at Jiaozuo Film and Television City in advance to set up the scenery and arrange the shooting location.

After Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei arrived in Zhongyuan Province and headed straight for Jiaozuo Film and Television City, they immediately, led by the assistant director, visited the shooting locations created by the crew's set design team.

Located in the Shijing Street area in the central part of Jiaozuo Film and Television City, it consists of two parts: Yuwang Temple and Shijing Street.

There are two streets and their buildings here that were rented by the "Mulan" crew as Mulan's hometown. The story at the beginning of the movie will be filmed there, where the Hua family received the conscription order, and then Mulan decided to join the army for her father, buying a horse in the East Market and a saddle in the West Market.

This part of the plot is also the one that has been changed the most from the original version in Wu Yuan's memory.

He really couldn't accept the embarrassing scene in the live-action movie "Mulan" where Mulan's family was located in a Hakka earth building.

To be honest, the embarrassment of this scene was even more unacceptable to him than the female ghost makeup that Mulan put on later.

Although Mulan's ghost makeup looks ugly in modern people's eyes, it is actually very authentic. It is the makeup that upper-class ladies would do from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, and it can be seen in the murals.

Later, Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty also learned this style of makeup, and then modified it to create the Japanese geisha makeup, which also looks like a female ghost.

This can only be said to be an aesthetic issue, but there is indeed no logical flaw.

But the Hakka earth building where the Hua family lived in the movie was so shocking that it made Wu Yuan feel so embarrassed.

Niki Caro saw photos of Hakka earth buildings and thought they were beautiful, so she insisted on using them as the location for the film, without any regard for the historical background.

This thing is only found in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, and it is an architectural culture that only appeared after the Tang Dynasty and was developed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties!
How could Mulan, a person from the Northern Dynasties who lived during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, have a guesthouse in her home?

Anyone who has a little knowledge of Chinese history would find that scene embarrassing and shocking, and would not feel any sense of beauty at all.

Maybe Niki Caro wanted the effect of "Big Fish and Begonia", but what was finally presented was the effect of "Black Mermaid", at least for Chinese audiences.
Niki Caro can do such stupid things, but Wu Yuan, as a director of Chinese origin, really can't do this. If Niki Caro did this, at most she would be criticized by domestic netizens, but if Wu Yuan did this, he might be expelled from his nationality immediately.
So he strictly required to build a Hua family and the county town where the Hua family lived in Jiaozuo Film and Television City! (End of this chapter)