This director needs to apologize

Chapter 233 Eye of Typhoon

Lin Feng is an actor who graduated from the actor training class of Hong Kong City TV Station and has been acting in TV series for more than ten years.

As we all know, actors in Hong Kong are either talented people like Tony Leung or TV stars like Lin Feng. The reason is that there are no academic colleges in Hong Kong.

Lin Feng's performance has obvious routine characteristics. It is difficult to hold up the leading role in the movie, but he is just right as a supporting role as a tool man.

The only obstacle is that the acting skills of Hong Kong actors are somewhat standardized, and when paired with mainland actors, their style seems slightly out of place.

This feeling of dissonance is difficult to eliminate by Lin Feng's own adjustment, because the influence of years of acting habits and the environment have been deeply ingrained, and deliberate self-correction will only make it more awkward.

Chen Yiming's approach is the opposite. Here, he lets the supporting actors add drama to him, and there, he focuses the camera on the protagonist.

On the one hand, it forces Lin Feng to step out of his own rhythm, and on the other hand, it keeps the audience's eyes on the protagonist.

As for the actual effect, it can be solved by constant attempts at reshooting. Anyway, Chen Yiming now has sufficient funds and enough say, so he has a lot of room for trial and error.

In principle, it is similar to the "torture" of Zhang Zifeng before, constantly putting pressure on Lin Feng and forcing him to jump out of his comfort zone.

All day long, the crew's motorcade kept walking and stopping on that grassland.

The Tara Grassland is large enough that the rut marks that will cause damage do not need to be reset and maintained by the setting team. If you cannot cover it in one place, you can just move it a few hundred meters to another place.

The patrol scenes were filmed for more than a week, which honed Lin Feng's sense of drama and the tacit understanding of the trio of Yu Nan, Lin Geng, and Lin Feng.

In fact, during the half-year training together, Yu Nan and her Thirteen Taibos rehearsed a lot, but no matter how much they practiced, the gap between the actual shooting and the actual shooting was still incalculable.

Just like a drama performance, a year of rehearsals may not be as good as an actual performance.

A new play by a troupe often does not reach its peak until the second half of the tour.

Chen Yiming is also becoming more and more satisfied with Yu Nan's acting skills.

"Mulan" is a movie with a female protagonist, and Yu Nan is the only core.

Just like the eye of a typhoon, no matter how violent the external changes are, the seemingly calm eye of the storm is the focus.

But is the eye of the storm really calm? Quite the opposite!

The magically adapted version of "Mulan" is different from Disney's "Mulan". Yu Nan's debut is a version of Dacheng as an adult. Whether it is martial arts or military skills, he has achieved great achievements. What is lacking is a stage to display his abilities and the experience in a strange environment. strain.

In this way, it is actually equivalent to self-castrating half of Yu Nan's acting style, giving up all emotional expressions, and can only take a restrained and deep route.

In the movie, with Mulan as the core, there are intricate character relationships in multiple directions, and the heroine has opposite roles with most of the supporting characters.

Yu Nan must perform a distinct sense of difference, and this is based on the inability to fully mobilize lines, movements and expressions.

The first patrol scene lasts less than ten minutes, but involves four groups of characters.

First of all, Mulan and Erlin are the trinity of fellow villagers, companions, and colleagues. They have a relationship between peeing and playing in the mud.

Then there are Mulan and Hang Xiaoming and Wan Qian who meet for the first time. Wan Qian is an innocent girl who falls in love with Mulan at first sight, and Hang Xiaoming is the young leader who has shouldered the fate of the entire tribe early on.

Next up is Mulan and Nie Yuan, who are fighting for the second time. After not knowing each other without fighting, the bond becomes deeper.

Finally, the mid-term villain, the Western Turks Chuyuebu, appears, forcing the first three forces, who have their own agendas, to temporarily unite together with Mulan as a link.

Yu Nan's delicate acting skills truly make one person have a thousand faces, and even two fellow countrymen show subtle differences.

Lin Geng is young, and he has set himself up as an impulsive younger brother.

Lin Feng is old, and under Chen Yiming's guidance (BI), he positions himself as a cool guy with a mother-in-law mouth shape. The talkative mother-in-law is in front of Mulan in private, while the cold-faced brother is in front of outsiders.

In this group of relationships, Yu Nan first showed the commonality, that is, the silent understanding unique to the small gang.

When interacting with Lin Geng, he rarely looks at him, uses gestures but never speaks. When facing enemies together, there is a sense of careless attention from an older brother to his younger brother.

When interacting with Lin Feng, it is similar to a parent who values ​​his opinions, trusts his judgment, and recognizes his abilities when facing a teacher visiting his home. His gaze is full of warmth.

If someone else's acting skills are not good enough, and they look at the same face and act cool the whole time, the emotional tension between the threesome will collapse.

The highlights that Chen Yiming added to the two supporting characters are like the sun hanging on the side of a black hole, and the light and heat are not reflected at all on the protagonist.

The result is that most of the costume idol dramas he filmed in his previous life became popular with the male protagonist's rival and younger brother, or the female protagonist's love rival and best friend, while the male and female protagonists promoted by capital became stepping stones to carry the sedan chair.

The first patrol scene is the same as the previous school scene. The martial arts drama is filmed with a literary drama, but the martial arts drama here is not a fighting drama, but a circus drama.

It begins with Mulan's team riding horses for a stroll. Under the majestic grassland scenery, Lin Feng finishes explaining the summary of the previous story, and the rhythm suddenly turns intense.

Mulan's team formed a formation to prepare for the battle, but found that close to them was a bright grassland girl, and behind her was a group of Huihe knights.

The little princess of Huihe, played by Wan Qian, is very interested in the "unique" temperament of Mulan. On the pretext of hunting, she removes the arrowhead and shoots at Mulan.

Lin Feng drew his bow at the speed of light and fired an arrow, which knocked away the little princess's "arrow of love" and overturned the little princess's wishful thinking.

Next, the Uighur Guards led by Hang Xiaoming appeared on the scene and collided head-on with Nie Yuan's team who was far behind and secretly watching Mulan.

After a horse-riding dance, the leaders of the three parties left the group and began to negotiate (not).

This is a drama with three parties and four people. Hang Xiaoming and Wan Qian are on one side, Nie Yuan is on the other side, and Yu Nan is on the other side.

The requirements for Hang Xiaoming are relatively low. As long as he restrains his aura of playing Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in his early years and replaces it with a certain degree of cunning, he can easily handle it.

Because Hang Xiaoming is different from the innocent Wan Qian. He deliberately tested the girl under the guise of worrying about the girl. The Tang Jun he dealt with on a daily basis suddenly changed people, which will obviously cause a big shock to the surrounding forces. Those who are interested will contact and test it. .

Nie Yuan was tempted by both sides. The reason why he was willing to stay in the frontier army system and not be promoted was not only because there was no one above him, but also because there were benefits to be gained from being trained as a contemporary.

As the saying goes, those who rely on mountains and waters rely on water. The Tang army's units stationed on the border actually had three identities: Tang soldiers who guarded the border, caravan escorts who pumped water, and grassland merchants who bartered.

Nie Yuan wanted to test not only "old customer" Hang Xiaoming, but also new colleague Yu Nan to see how he would do business in the future.

Yu Nan, with the intention of keeping calm, secretly observed the relationship between the two "local snakes" and their respective positions. As for the little princess Wan Qian, she is just a fangirl who is always looking towards her "loving brother" Yu Nan. She just needs to be a good vase.

According to the overall plot, this scene is the source of the "anti-Western Turkic coalition" in the second half. It seems to be a conspiracy, but in fact they are friendly forces.

So after talking about lotus, the atmosphere had just calmed down, and Chen Yiming immediately arranged for the villain BOSS to appear, and the arrogant and domineering Zhang Yu of the Chuyue Department attacked in a big way.

Hang Xiaoming was forced to endure outside neutrality, and the border troops of Nie Yuan and Yu Nan were forced to join forces to fight against foreign enemies.

After Zhang Yuyao showed his power, he brought the "private transaction" between Nie Yuan and Hang Xiaoming to the public.

The goods of more than a dozen horses secretly traded by the two men were all taken away as taxes and fees.

It turned out that Zhang Yu was not a reckless man on the surface. He was not willing to compromise his strength in a head-on conflict with the Tang army. His main purpose was actually to suppress the local neutral forces so that they would not dare to approach the Tang army.

Chen Yiming used the simplest and crudest way to distinguish the forces here. The Tang army, the Huihe tribe, the Tiele tribe, and the Chuyue tribe were all dressed in distinct ways. The audience knew at a glance that they were not the same group.

In fact, this is not the case in real history. Historians have long verified that these three grassland tribes are actually inherited from each other and are very close to each other.

Chuyue was one of the ten tribes of the Western Turks, and was later integrated by Tie Le, who was a vassal of the West Turks. Uighur itself was a branch of Tie Le, and after growing in strength, it came over and annexed Tie Le.

In other words, the three come from the same family, and there is not much difference in their customs and clothing.

Of course, it is simplified in the movie, not only among the grassland tribes, but also within the Tang army.

For example, in the first half of the movie, the frontier army commanded by Nie Yuan and the government army commanded by Mulan are dressed completely differently.

The armor and weapons of the border troops were relatively uniform and shabby. Except for Nie Yuan, the brigade commander, who was more conspicuous, his men all looked gray.

In comparison, the government army was a bit more messy, because historical records indicate that the Tang Dynasty's imperial army recruits needed to provide their own weapons and horses. Only armor and crossbows were controlled materials, so they were issued uniformly after entering the camp.

In the movie, the government army is not popular, and they are new recruits. The crossbows they receive are obviously not good ones.

The whole patrol scene was very tedious to shoot. In addition to Chen Yiming's intention to train the actors, there was also the reason why the horse did not listen to greetings.

There are three circus scenes before and after. The first one is a small test of skills, with Wan Qian and Lin Feng having a riding and shooting duel.

In the second game, three knights under Hang Xiaoming, Nie Yuan, and Yu Nan competed in equestrian skills in the name of polo competition.

In the third scene, more than a hundred elite members of the Chuyue Tribe led by Zhang Yu charged in a wall-mounted manner to show off their force.

The first two scenes are actually in the style of ordinary martial arts dramas, with panoramic views combined with local close-ups, and a high-frequency switching rhythm that is full of rhythm.

Chen Yiming certainly couldn't tolerate the filming method of TV series where no faces are shown in the mid-range shots and horses are not shown in close shots. He required all actors to ride horses themselves. Only for a few more difficult stunts, stuntmen could be used.

Although the actors involved in the scenes have undergone intensive riding training, horses are animals after all. They cannot understand human words and cannot always be obedient.

There is only one solution, and that is to repeat and repeat, using a large amount of materials to create a suitable one.

In more than a week, there were countless horse falling accidents. Even Yu Nan, who was basically just posing, fell off twice because the horse was frightened.

Although no actor suffered serious injuries due to careful protective measures, skin injuries such as bruises, redness and swelling are inevitable after all.

As for the last "drag racing" scene, all the people on camera were local equestrian masters, and even then it took a whole day to shoot.

In mid-April, the crew moved to the camp area to continue filming subsequent scenes.

First of all, we filmed Lei Jiasheng's scenes together. He was a guest star, and there were only three scenes in total.

The first scene is a conspiracy scene between Zhang Yi, Ashinahelu's dispatched military supervisor and dog-headed military advisor, and Lei Jiasheng, who plays Tiele leader Duman.

The two are pure villains. Zhang Yi is a conspirator similar to Littlefinger in Game of Thrones, while Lei Jiasheng is a person who is naive on the outside and cunning on the inside, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

The plot is also very simple. Zhang Yi seduces Lei Jiasheng, and the latter rises up at the annual grassland event, kills Mulan with a knife, and then frames Zhang Yu's head.

In this way, the Tang army will inevitably retaliate. Not only will the neutral forces such as Hang Xiaoming no longer be able to sit on the wall, Chu Yuebu, who has been fishing for a long time, will also have to withstand the first wave of counterattacks by the Tang army.

The second scene is an interior group scene. The plot line is before the first scene. The content is that the leaders of the neutral forces in the grassland gather to discuss ways to resist the oppression of the Chuyue Department. Lei Jiasheng is the second person under Hang Xiaoming.

The last scene is naturally the turning point of ambushing Mulan at the prairie festival. With the reminder of the little princess Huihe, Mulan narrowly escaped death, but the little princess died of her injuries.

Mulan had no time to express her grief and had to embark on an escape journey.

Hang Xiaoming, who had lost his sister, helped Mulan block the Chuyue Ministry guards. Lin Geng stepped forward and pretended to be Mulan to lure Zhang Yi's cavalry as a backup.

After Mulan escaped, she joined Nie Yuan who came to rescue him, and killed Tiele's guards with a single shot, ending Lei Jiasheng's sinful life.

At this time, the crew has been working together for nearly a month, and they have a tacit understanding of literary opera, martial arts, and circus. Therefore, it is not difficult to shoot these three scenes. Lei Jiasheng was announced to be finished four days after joining the cast.

In the following week, Chen Yiming continued his efforts and successfully completed filming the large group scene of the Grassland Assembly, and Wan Qian completed filming.

The group scene itself was not difficult to shoot, because Chen Yiming prepared detailed storyboards, and the Tara Grassland where the Imperial Town is located, because it is close to the tourist resort Shandan Army Racecourse, also has the tradition of holding the Naadam Festival every year.

Therefore, with the help of local elderly people, the crew easily restored the grand scene of the grassland conference.

The scene in the Gao Dynasty was Wan Qian's campfire solo dance. At this time, Mulan had integrated into the grassland life. She and the Tang border army represented by Nie Yuan established a harmonious and mutually beneficial relationship with the local tribes, so she was able to become a seat at the grassland conference. Guest of honor.

After years of getting along, Wan Qian's feelings for Mulan have continued to grow. The little princess performed a loving dance for her "sweetheart" to express her admiration.

This dance is the highlight of the role of the little princess, for which Wan Qian trained for several months in advance.

The dance is an authentic Western Hu Xuan dance. There is also a section of the same dance in Chang'an City, but it presents a completely different style, forming a sharp contrast between the before and after.

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