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Chapter 227 Watching others serve dishes

The scenes of "Mulan" in the Imperial City location mainly focus on Mulan's growth line in the first half of the script.

The overall plot arrangement is closer to the Hollywood style, showing a staggered rhythm of ups and downs.

To sum it up briefly, you are looked down upon when you first enter the military camp, you make a fool of yourself on your first patrol, you show your strength in the team competition, you are suppressed when you return to the camp, you make friends with the locals to lay the foundation, you are suddenly betrayed and escape, your confidante is killed in the plot, and you take revenge at the critical moment. At a young age, Jian Bole won the title of Bole, and during the war, he became famous all over the world.

Behind a literary drama there must be a martial drama, and after the elation is over there must be difficulties and setbacks.

The whole paragraph ends with Mulan's extraordinary achievements in the decisive battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks on the grasslands. However, what follows is the intensification of the conflict with the early villain Wang Wendu, and the subsequent crisis-ridden trip to Chang'an.

For the movie "Mulan", Chen Yiming's core creative idea was not to show off his skills, but to honestly tell the story according to the routine of Hollywood commercial blockbusters.

Historical themes of ancient costumes have a certain threshold for viewing. Based on the original version of "Mulan", "Mulan" also changed the background to the early Tang Dynasty, which further increased the difficulty for ordinary audiences to understand.

Chen Yiming's response is to go back to basics and make the narrative rhythm fit the viewing habits of mainstream audiences to the greatest extent. His intention is to allow audiences who don't understand "Mulan Ci" to immediately immerse themselves in the plot of the movie. Go in.

Therefore, in terms of character depth, Chen Yiming did not play any tricks. Except for the protagonist Mulan, who has a complete growth line, the other characters who appear are tool people with a single task.

Take the grassland drama in Huangcheng Town as an example. The characters are represented by three camps. On one side is the northwest frontier army where Mulan is located, and on the opposite side is the Chuyue tribe under the Western Turks, which is close to the border of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, there are neutral forces composed of local indigenous people, mainly including the Uighur tribe led by the young Uighur prince Tumidu, and the Tiele tribe led by the Tiele leader Duman.

The frontier forces are divided into positive and negative forces. The local government army represented by Mulan is the positive side and is the open line. The second generation of the family represented by Wang Wendu is the negative side and is the hidden line.

The Western Turkic forces were divided into one leader and one auxiliary. The leader of the Chuyue tribe was the main leader, and the Western Turkic royal court sent envoys to the Chuyue tribe as the auxiliary.

The reason why the villains are divided into two groups is to connect the last major paragraph of the movie, the decisive battle in the desert with the Western Turkic Khan Ashina Helu.

The neutral forces are also divided into one positive and one negative. The positive side is Tu Midu, and the negative side is Duman who betrayed and planned to ambush Mulan.

The main perspective of the narrative naturally revolves around Mulan. The characters appearing in this line include Mulan played by Yu Nan, companions Lin Feng, Nie Yuan and Lin Geng, Mulan's Bole, and the leader Xiao Siye played by Gu Yuehe.

The villain Wang Wendu needed to find an actor who looked neutral but had a bad temperament. Chen Yiming went through many selections and invited veteran actor Hou Tianlai.

This senior has a nickname: he is a national first- and third-level actor.

Level one refers to his professional title, which is the highest in China's official actor system. Only this level is eligible for state subsidies.

The third level is his acting career. He is sanctimonious on the outside but mean-spirited on the inside. Because he has created many images of middle-aged perverts in his acting career, he is nicknamed the third level actor.

Wang Wendu performed the whole drama, and during the trip to Chang'an, he was stabbed by Mulan with great joy. Having Mr. Hou play the role will definitely make the female audience feel bad.

The villain's mini-boss, the leader of the Chuyue Department, is played by Zhang Yu, while Zhang Yi plays the role of the conspirator Wang Ting's messenger who stays behind him. Duman, who colludes with Zhang Yi to plot against Mulan, has a smaller role. Chen Yiming has Lei Jiasheng as a guest star.

The little prince of Huihe who sided with Mulan among the neutral forces was played by Hang Xiaoming. The little prince's sister sacrificed herself to protect Mulan. It was a high-profile role. Chen Yiming arranged for Wan Qian, who failed to audition for Mulan.

The official launch was in mid-to-late March, but in fact, Yu Nan and other actors had already settled in the imperial town after the Spring Festival, rehearsing martial arts scenes under the guidance of action director Wu Yuanrong.

Yu Nan and her Thirteen Taibao have been practicing horseback riding every day for nearly half a year. According to the evaluation of the coach at Shandan Military Horse Farm, although they cannot be called proficient in riding skills, they can still make a few gestures while riding a horse without falling off. Come down.

As for the fancy chores such as wielding a knife, stabbing a spear, and drawing a bow while riding, Wu Yuanrong also trained him for more than three months. It was definitely enough for filming and posing.

The assault training after the Spring Festival mainly involved a small number of tricks on the horse, as well as foot combat offense and defense after falling off the horse. The latter mainly involved actors Yu Nan and Zhang Yi. Also arriving at the imperial town at the same time as Yu Nan and other actors were the location crew led by Lu Ping and Lin Xiao, who needed to set up several locations on the Tara Grassland.

The largest and most complex structure is the border army stronghold on Mulan's side.

In the plot, this is the forefront of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest. The number of troops stationed exceeds 10,000, so it is quite large. It is more like a military fortress than a temporary camp.

After an early inspection, Lin Xiao chose the location of the military fort by a small river southwest of the imperial town.

The military fort sits south and looks north. There is a small river on the west side, a hill of 200 to 300 meters high on the south side, and endless grassland on both sides of the east and north sides.

The entire building is in the shape of an irregular trapezoid, with the main entrance opening on the short side in the northeast direction.

The military fort is a wooden structure as a whole, with the outermost periphery being a wooden wall two meters above the ground. Each piece of wood is the thickness of a telephone pole. It was specially purchased in bulk from Xijing and hauled to the imperial town in a large truck.

There are trenches and horse barriers outside the wall, sentry towers and watchtowers on the wall, and military tents, school grounds, warehouses, and all kinds of military facilities inside the wall. Even a beacon tower was built on the hill on the south side of the military fort. and a small fort.

Standing on the top of the mountain and looking down, the military fortress below is full of flags and flying, giving it a formidable atmosphere.

But in fact, this is just a fake, because there is no scene of the Western Turkic army attacking the camp in the script. The few interior scenes were shot in the studio, and there were only a few exterior scenes in the military fort, which were basically transitional scenes. use.

The second main exterior scene is Hang Xiaoming’s Uighur tribe camp. This is much easier to build than the military fortress. In the previous exterior scene of DTZ Khan, you can eat two things with one fish. If you change the set of flags and modify the decoration, it can be used as a Zhangjiakou. Yu's subordinates are at the headquarters of Yuebu.

On March 3, the day after Chen Yiming personally confirmed the location, "Mulan" restarted filming at the military fort location.

Chen Yiming was very dissatisfied with the so-called "one shot" of a good start, so the production schedule he approved showed that the scenes arranged that day were not low in difficulty, and they were both group scenes and martial arts scenes.

This is a group fight between dragons crossing the river and tigers sitting on the ground. The newly arrived government troops led by Mulan are facing off against the thorn-headed border troops led by Nie Yuan.

In fact, this scene was originally derived from the Disney animated version of "Mulan". In it, Mulan also had a miserable life when she first joined the army.

The technique is typical of expressing desire before suppressing it, and the plot also fits Mulan's character of a woman disguising herself as a man. However, the style of the animated version is a comedy, and the suppression of Mulan is not particularly obvious.

Now that the magically revised version of "Mulan" is following the orthodox route, the questioning of the heroine will definitely be greatly intensified. Chen Yiming therefore designed a group fight within the Tang army, using one scene to turn enemies into friends to bring out the three parties in the camp.

In fact, regardless of deliberate foreshadowing, Mulan's own image also needs a violent demonstration to establish her character.

Yu Nan is in his early 170s when he puts on thick-soled military boots. In addition, women are born with narrow shoulders and a thin waist, so they are the smallest among the soldiers.

But as Mulan's father's heir, and her prestige among her companions, she has a high status in the government army.

This feeling of contrast is particularly inconsistent in a military camp where the strong are respected.

The NBA has a rookie wall. The veterans in the military camp naturally want to repair the new recruits to show their qualifications and see who is serving them. The first choice target for provocation must be the skinny little Mulan.

So naturally, Mulan's first test after joining the army came.

　The second update will be later

　　

　

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