This director needs to apologize

Chapter 257 It’s hard to finish the filming

According to the usual rhythm of commercial movies, the big climax is followed by a small climax, and then the crisis comes.

The plot arrangements of "Mulan" basically follow the same rules, but the target of the crisis is changed, not the Tang army as a whole, but the protagonist Mulan.

Qin Zhilei and Yu Nan will stage a duel between female generals.

It was obvious that after repeated attacks by Tang Qi under Mulan on the east and west sides of the camp, the Western Turkic siege force commanded by Zhang Yi had been defeated.

The main infantry force on the west side has collapsed, and all the elite troops in the royal tent on the east side have been lost. What Zhang Yi can still manage effectively is the cannon fodder containment force on the north side and a small number of troops from his headquarters.

What they were about to face was a pincer attack from the east and west sides by the Tang Army's infantry and the Tang Army's cavalry who still had their hands full.

Chen Yiming directly skipped the scene of defeating Zhang Yi's troops. Zhang Yi, who had thrown away his helmet and armor, fled to the Ashina Helu main formation in embarrassment. One scene was enough to illustrate the changes in the battlefield situation.

Victory is no longer a luxury, and Ashina Helu's current pressing issue is how to escape unscathed from the current battlefield.

The big location scene was coming to an end, so Chen Yiming simply stopped skipping the filming and shot the last large group scene directly.

One advantage of shooting this way is that all the extras are on standby, making it easy for Chen Yiming to reshoot at any time.

In other words, the last three to five days were not only about filming the final scene, but also about checking and filling in all the previous outdoor scenes.

What we are filming today is Yu Rongguang and Zhang Yi’s final scenes.

The actual final scene of the two people in the movie has been filmed in advance. After filming today's scene, they can wrap up and leave the group.

Lao Yu was okay, he hadn't been in the group for a long time, and he didn't have much martial arts scenes. His only problem was that he ate a lot of sand.

Zhang Yi is the one who really "got his start". He joined the team for training at the end of last year and spent a full ten months on this movie.

What he plays is just a supporting villain with few roles.

But Chen Yiming had to admit that through his own research, Zhang Yi still injected something unique of his own into this relatively stylized villain.

The Ugo he plays is a functional supporting role, his main role is to promote and connect the plot.

In the first half of the movie, in the grassland chapter, he has very few scenes. He is a conspirator who hides behind the scenes and makes talk.

This type of character often has a gloomy temperament and a cold face, which is not easy for the audience to play, and certainly not easy for the audience to remember.

Zhang Yi used a relatively alternative way of interpretation.

In fact, before filming "Mulan", Chen Yiming was not very familiar with Zhang Yi.

When filming "1951", the company commander played by Zhang Yi was a rescuer, and his role was actually not much different from that of those students from the third school.

Due to the one-shot shooting method, the film's main perspective has always been on the two protagonists. Zhang Yi's appearance is looming, and the meaning of the scene is more obvious, and there is not much room for development.

Now that they have collaborated for the second time on "Mulan", Chen Yiming has truly experienced Zhang Yi's "spiritual spirit."

In terms of status in the industry, he had just become a little famous because of "1951", but after the filming of that movie, he joined the filming of "Mulan" not long ago. The little fame has not yet been realized, and now he is not even a second-tier actor. None of them were touched.

In terms of professional ability, anyone in the cast of "Mulan" who has more roles than him has absolutely no worse acting skills than him. Speaking of supporting actors who have opposite roles with him, Zhang Yu, Lei Jiasheng, Yu Nan, and Yu Rongguang are all top-notch. Acting.

When it comes to personal relationships, Chen Yiming and Zhang Yi have very few personal relationships. They haven't even exchanged personal mobile phone numbers. Their relationship is only slightly better than their working relationship.

However, in the crew, this guy really dared to ask for a reshoot.

Previously, Zhang Yi only had four scenes in Huangcheng Town, three interior scenes with opponents and one exterior scene with an ensemble cast.

The first interior scene, starring Zhang Yu, who plays the leader of the Chuyue Tribe, is a secret battle with each person having their own agenda.

In fact, Chen Yiming didn't set up much extended connotation in this scene, but the two supporting actors also had their own ambitions, and they were unwilling to let this rare appearance become a mediocre scene.

Both of them wrote detailed character biographies in advance and had full discussions with Chen Yiming, so the studio was filled with a "drama" atmosphere from the first test shoot.

Zhang Yu's expansion mainly focuses on the character itself. Compared with the original script, he further enriches the character design. In addition to highlighting the arrogant and domineering side of the tribal leader, he also adds his cunning side in private.

This interpretation did not break through the original script framework, and Chen Yiming was happy to see the result.

Zhang Yi's expansion is a more bold breakthrough. Ugo's biography is not a few thousand words, but tens of thousands of words. It is not a word-count expansion from birth to death, but a paragraph-like expansion that closely follows the script.

In this rivalry scene with Zhang Yu, Zhang Yi gave Ugo the disguise of a "love brain", paralyzing Zhang Yu's vigilance against him, and also provided him with a series of subsequent plots against Mulan. A compelling reason.

During the filming of that scene, Zhang Yu and Zhang Yi entered into a duel state as soon as they came on stage. They were quite tense and they were obviously well prepared.

Both performed the light and dark sides of the characters, clearly conveying the background of the internal strife in the Western Turkic camp to the audience.

In fact, acting to this level is enough.

Throughout the entire "Mulan" movie, the opposing Tang Dynasty and Western Turks are in fierce internal battles.

It's just that the internal fighting among the Tang army came to an end after Mulan's trip to Chang'an, but the Western Turks intensified, so much so that it directly affected the outcome of the final battle.

Just after Chen Yiming shouted, Zhang Yi, who had always been taciturn in the crew, suddenly raised his hand and said something unexpected. "Director, can you shoot another scene for this scene? I have some new ideas."

Although it was only an interior scene, Zhang Yi's behavior was enough to make everyone at the scene look at him with suspicion.

You must know that the people present are all veterans who have been on the crew for a long time, and they know very well what "the actors asked for a remake" means.

This is a privilege exclusive to top-tier celebrities, and it also depends on who the crew is talking about.

With Chen Yiming's current status as a double-gold international director, there probably won't be many actors in China who can ask for reshoots in front of him, and Zhang Yi is definitely not included among them.

Chen Yiming ignored everyone's strange looks and low and noisy whispers, because what he was thinking of was Zhang Yi's handwritten biography.

In his previous life, he had not encountered actors like Zhang Yi who were willing to study hard, but nine out of ten of them failed to make their mark. They were wasting their time playing all kinds of facial features in popular drama crews. Fresh little flowers who can appear on the screen with real people. It's a blessing to be on the show.

He couldn't do anything before, so why not give it a try now.

So after seeking Zhang Yu's consent, Chen Yiming stopped the transition and ordered Wang Wei to reset, giving Zhang Yi a chance to perform.

What followed was as many as a dozen reshoots.

Zhang Yi suddenly changed his tune and became possessed by a "love brain", which directly caused his opposite Zhang Yu to dodge.

After that scene, Zhang Yi seemed to be encouraged and couldn't control himself. He always applied for reshoots every time he appeared on the scene.

Even if the scene is complicated and the opponent is Yu Nan, it is a large group scene.

Only then did Chen Yiming confirm that Zhang Yi's creation of the thick biography was not a homework assignment. He was really prepared to "carry it out" in the actual shooting.

You must know that in the biography, Zhang Yi carefully considered and supplemented the character motivations and psychology behind every scene in which he appeared in the film.

This is not an easy task, because in the mind of the screenwriter Chen Yiming, the character Ugo is not actually a person, but the result of two tool men merging into one.

In other words, Ugo himself is a fragmented character, and there is no consistent character throughout.

In the first version of the script, Ugo belongs to the Uighur camp, is a subordinate of the little prince Hang Xiaoming, and an admirer of the little princess Wan Qian.

Wan Qian's special liking for Mulan, who is dressed as a man, is the trigger for Ugo's darkening rebellion.

This line is a bit bloody and deviates from the main line of family, country and world in "Mulan", so Chen Yiming hid it behind the scenes together with Nie Yuan's unrequited love line for Mulan. All individual scenes were cut off, leaving only a few. A suggestive shot.

However, Ugo's role was too thin, so Chen Yiming merged him with the royal messenger who was used to connect the previous chapters in subsequent revisions. This was Ugo played by Zhang Yi in the final script.

After cutting off the love line, Zhang Yi wants to create a completely upright creature.

In the first half, he disguised himself as a treacherous messenger with poor martial arts skills. At the end of the decisive battle on the grassland, he suddenly revealed his outstanding skills and escaped Mulan's liquidation. This also led to the plot of Ashina Helu leading the army eastward in the second half. .

In the decisive battle in the Gobi, Ugo was already the deputy commander of the Western Turkic Army, in charge of the three armies that besieged the Tang Army's camp.

Strategy, martial arts, and command, in just a dozen scenes, he has demonstrated his abilities in three aspects, and he is one of the best in the Western Turkic camp.

Zhang Yi needs to make his performance support the transformation of character status, otherwise what he presents to the audience will be just a tool man who works in series, and his weight will not be much more than Wang Chuanjun next to Nie Yuan.

Of course, as a commercial movie, Chen Yiming didn't originally intend to give Ugo, the villain's supporting role, much highlight, so he just had to perform it fairly.

But Zhang Yi obviously didn't intend to stop there. His second creation made the character Ugo "bad enough".

At least it made Chen Yiming's eyes light up.

For the final scene to be filmed today, his costar was replaced by veteran actor Yu Rongguang.

Exterior scenes, group scenes, old timers.

Zhang Yi is still the best.

Perhaps because of the impending conclusion of the competition, his leverage became even more intense, and he called a halt three times just for a single roll to announce his defeat.

Not only did he adjust his own acting, he also took the initiative to communicate with Yu Rongguang and "point out" the other person's acting.

At the beginning, Lao Yu acted in his usual "gangster" routine, with calm eyes and restrained eyes, and confident gestures. Looking at that posture, it seemed that the situation was unfavorable for Tang Jun.

Zhang Yi hoped that Lao Yu would bring out a bit of a stern look but a soft heart, so as to support Zhang Yi's calm appearance and panic on the inside.

Good guys, a bunch of good guys behind the scenes.

Is this the final act of madness? He took away all the director's work before it was finished.

Unfortunately, Chen Yiming, the real director, kept silent, Yu Rongguang, the hot-tempered one, was also very cooperative, and the others really had no objections.

In a slightly weird atmosphere, the filming of this scene stopped and progressed extremely slowly.

It has been difficult to wrap up the film.

(End of this chapter)