This director needs to apologize

Chapter 231: Seeing the True Chapter

The next day, we continued filming the scene where Nie Yuan and Yu Nan would not get to know each other without fighting.

When Chen Yiming imagined this scene, the first thing he thought of for reference was the long stick duel between Jet Li and Donnie Yen in the previous life "Once Upon a Time in China".

One party is willing to test and gradually increases the strength, while the other party has no choice but to take the move and hide its edge.

At the same time, the two people's fighting styles must be distinct and have clear differences.

Chen Yiming didn't understand martial arts, so his description was quite a stream of consciousness. Fortunately, Wu Yuanrong was experienced and understood Chen Yiming's ideas after repeated communication.

After putting pressure on Nie Yuan, we first filmed him "cutting into" the battle group to rescue Wang Chuanjun.

Wang Wei shouted "Start!", and forcefully pulled Nie Yuan forward, dragging him lightly to the outside of the Fu army's battle formation.

After landing, Nie Yuan shouted loudly, dwarfed and gathered his energy, and made a collision, knocking the Wu Xing he was facing directly away, and also knocked the Wu Xing in the adjacent formation to stagger and retreat.

Then Nie Yuan blocked Er Lin several times and pushed back Er Lin. He grabbed Wang Chuanjun, who was squatting with his head in his hands, by the collar and threw him out of the battle circle.

Finally, he slowly stood up straight, looked at Yu Nan who had been "watching the show" with a stern look on his face, and said slowly.

"Using force without authorization is the next offense. Don't you intend to give me an explanation?"

This section was still shot in seconds-level detail. Basically every shot had to be "stunted" for Nie Yuan.

For example, when taking off, there will be a close-up of landing on the ground, and the ground will have a special effect of cracking.

When he landed, it was a close-up with the dust flying around to enhance the feeling of heaviness. Of course, Nie Yuan's own weight could not achieve this effect. It was necessary to use a blower when shooting, and then modify it with special effects during post-production.

In addition, the flying martial arts must also be bound with coercion to show the power of Nie Yuan's impact.

Moreover, Nie Yuan's "knock-out" was deliberately aimed at Yu Nan and had a strong sense of provocation.

Wu Yuanrong designed a move for Yu Nan that was similar to Tai Chi's "dissolving" impact force, and "bringing" Wu Xing, who was flying over like a cannonball, to his side.

This leads to the key words of this duel between heroes, one is strong and the other is soft, one is offensive and the other is defensive.

If Nie Yuan's emotional clues are temptation, then Yu Nan's emotional feedback is restraint.

Chen Yiming and Yu Nan had many exchanges about Mulan's characterization in the first half of the movie. They both believed that Mulan was yearning for but confused about life in the military camp.

However, in terms of the protagonist's mentality change, the two have different ideas.

Yu Nan believes that Mulan's growth arc is mainly the process of finding the meaning of joining the army.

In this process, the first time he killed the Western Turkic enemy, the first time he made friends on the grassland, the first time he was suppressed by Shangguan, the first time he encountered betrayal, and the first time he lost his best friend were some of the important nodes.

Compared with the logical and clear growth line designed by Yu Nan, Chen Yiming pays more attention to the core of Mulan's character, which is stubbornness.

This is also the trait that Chen Yiming repeatedly "tortured" Zhang Zifeng to intuitively display the characteristics of Mulan in Girlhood.

The director's vision and the actor's design are not always consistent, especially for an actor like Yu Nan who has a strong sense of belief.

In this regard, Chen Yiming chose to let Shi Wei observe in secret. He had no desire to control in this regard. As long as it did not deviate from the general framework of the character, he welcomed any independent creation by the actors.

After all, scripts and storyboards are just fragments of characters appearing on camera. What a skilled actor constructs in his mind is always a three-dimensional and multi-faceted character image.

When Nie Yuan and Yu Nan received Wu Yuanrong's routine training, they were getting used to not only the back-and-forth martial arts cooperation, but also the literary and theatrical confrontation between fights.

Both of them are ambitious actors, especially Nie Yuan. Although he is a supporting role, he will not be willing to be a green leaf in his highlight scenes.

After walking through the scene, Chen Yiming was very satisfied with the emotional flow between the two and gave instructions to officially start filming. This scene started with Yu Nan holding his fists and answering with neither happiness nor sadness.

The two were nominally equal brigade marshals, but Yu Nan lowered his stance first.

"Xiao Fang (Lin Geng) is reckless. Cheng Shuai (Nie Yuan) forgives me. I brought a pound of coarse tea from my hometown. Please accept it. We should treat each other as friends. What do you think of Cheng Shuai?"

Wang Chuanjun jumped out again and said, "Who wants the pretty boy's tea? Do you think our brothers are country bumpkins? If you are sensible, just ask me to fight back, otherwise we will not be finished."

Lin Geng immediately retorted, "You're not done yet, I'm not done yet! If you dare to have a bad mouth again, I'll slap you every time I see you."

Yu Nan shouted, "Xiao Fang!", silencing the aggrieved Lin Geng.

On the other hand, Nie Yuan stretched out his hand, and Wang Chuanjun, who was eager to try, also became mute.

Nie Yuan said loudly, "I don't need a pound of tea from you. Since we can't reach an agreement, then let me see the real deal!"

Before he finished speaking, Nie Yuan pounced on Yu Nan and punched out to officially start the fight.

The next step was Wu Yuanrong's job, and Chen Yiming simply became the hands-off shopkeeper.

The actual shooting of the one-on-one fighting scene, which lasted less than 1 minute, had to be split into more than shots.

Nie Yuan and Yu Nan first shot frontal close-ups, and then Wu Xing stepped in to shoot partial close-ups. Mr. Wu was very strict, and it was common for each shot to be shot several times or more than ten times.

In addition, every shot needs to be "stunted", or add wall paint, or use wires, and the filming is all a waste of time.

What's even more difficult is that there is drama during the fight.

Nie Yuan was the one who took the initiative. When he first took action, he felt contempt or disdain, then he was surprised, then he was relieved because he noticed Mulan's "real skill", and finally put away his strength and turned the duel into a real sparring match.

Yu Nan, on the other hand, was the passive one. Every time Nie Yuan's mood changed, she had to respond and respond accordingly until the two of them truly understood each other and shook hands to make peace.

Originally, this kind of psychological change was not difficult for the two actors, but due to the fragmented shooting method of the martial arts drama, it was difficult for the actors' emotions to be coherent. At the same time, when fighting, the movements are predetermined, and emotions can only be conveyed through micro-expressions.

Therefore, when it came to actual filming, both Nie Yuan and Yu Nan compromised on the accuracy of their performances, and the progress was somewhat stumbling.

Chen Yiming is not in a hurry, because this scene is one of the more difficult martial arts scenes in the film. If there is a similar showdown later, it will not be this complicated relationship of turning enemies into friends, but a life-and-death showdown. .

Compared with the former, the emotions of the latter actors are more single and intense, and the performance is not difficult.

The routine, which took less than 1 minute, took two full days of filming before Chen Yiming declared it passed.

Now that the difficulty is over, filming the subsequent scenes seems to be smooth sailing.

After a battle, Nie Yuan has recognized Yu Nan's strength in his heart and no longer regards him as a gold-plated second generation.

But on the surface, Nie Yuan still has an indifferent attitude that rejects people thousands of miles away, highlighting his arrogance.

After filming the school scene, the crew moved to the grassland to shoot the transitional scenes.

According to the principle of concentrated shooting of the same scene, the scenes on the grassland were shot in jumps.

The first thing to shoot was the "horse racing" scene where the cause and effect were explained.

Sequentially, this section immediately follows the school scene. It tells the story of the first border patrol experience of the Fujun cavalry commanded by Mulan. It is a literary drama about riding horses at a slow speed on the grassland.

(End of this chapter)