This director needs to apologize

Chapter 259 The inextricable chess game

When Chen Yiming first prepared "Mulan", he insisted on his own opinion and added a sentence at the beginning of the script: "The plot of this drama is purely fictional, and any similarities are purely coincidental."

Regardless of whether it was Da Zhuang, Mr. Ma, or several other investors, they actually disapproved of it.

Among them, Hou Peijuan, the spokesperson of Boss Yang in Hong Kong City, is strongly opposed.

In their view, making period blockbusters and adapting real history is a very powerful selling point, and Chen Yiming's approach is tantamount to destroying his career.

Not to mention that the origin of "Mulan Ci" cannot be verified, but it is not an exaggeration to say that it has been adapted from history. Even if it is really fictional, it should be vague in actual operation. How can you expose your own shortcomings?

Chen Yiming did a good job. He hired experts and scholars to pay close attention to the details of the scenes, props, costumes, titles, etc. After all the trouble, he erected a purely fictitious archway.

Who are you doing all your hard work for?

However, those who contributed money could not resist those who spent money, so the sentence was still retained according to Chen Yiming's opinion.

Of course, he did not do this to leave a way for unexpected bugs. Movies are originally created for entertainment purposes, so it is normal for there to be omissions.

Even true history books are bound to contain hearsay and subjective assumptions, let alone movies.

His intention is actually to invite you to the urn, and his focus is on future publicity, which is sinister.

They used fictitious flags to lower their posture and seduce Gang Jing and Heizi to jump out first, so that Lao Jia and the others could guide the tap water to "counterattack and calculate."

At present, the Chinese film industry is still in the pre-marketing era. Friends and businessmen are still superstitious about the "opinion leaders" role of the media and professional film critics, and have little understanding of the anti-authority tendency of tap water netizens.

Correspondingly, there is no risk in taking a low-profile, down-to-earth route, and you will not be directly attacked by hostile navy forces taking advantage of troubled waters.

To raise a fictitious banner is tantamount to surrendering.

At this time, it is even more important to pay close attention to the setting, makeup, and props, at least to create a visible gap with other blockbusters based on true history.

In this way, during the publicity period, people on the Internet will have a sense of superiority and participation, and the topic raised by Lao Jia will become quarrelsome.

Of course, the crew will not completely follow the opinions of experts. Lin Xiao will make improvements based on modern people's aesthetics.

For example, the skirt worn by the female character in the film is not completely in line with the "bold" style of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but has a waist-cinching design that shows off the figure.

Loose where it should be loose and tighten where it should be tight, so that you look happy both physically and mentally.

As an ancient war film, female characters are a very necessary embellishment and the main source of "fiction".

Among the several female characters, the protagonist Mulan is the most illusory image, but also has a realistic style that is most consistent with real history.

Whether it is the dress-up appearance at home or the armor-clad appearance on the battlefield, they all "follow the crowd" and are very close to the image of the extras in the film, without being unique as the protagonist.

The female supporting characters each have their own unique characteristics, and they are more like the protagonist than Mulan.

The little princess Wan Qian of Uighur has two costumes for her appearance, a hunting costume and a dance costume, both of which are extremely exaggerated and complicated, standing together with the simple and unpretentious Mulan, forming a sharp contrast.

The Western Turkic female general Qin Zhilei is also the most eye-catching child on the battlefield.

He has a white horse and a silver spear, a fierce cape, a high crown and a young tail, a showy face with a majestic look, and a white horse and white robe knight behind him. His appearance alone shows that his strength is unfathomable.

According to the setting, she serves as He Lu's personal bodyguard, and her fashionable dress makes sense.

The duel between Yu Nan and Qin Zhilei, a female general, did not follow a realistic route, but was full of exaggerated comic style.

Qin Zhilei is riding in white with white armor, and behind Yu Nan is riding in black with black armor. They are clearly distinguishable. As July approaches, the scenes on location in Dunhuang finally come to the last scene.

The night before, Chen Yiming held a closing banquet at the crew hotel to bid farewell to Yu Rongguang and Wang Jinsong, the two "special guest stars" who had finalized and left the film.

Also accompanying the filming were Zhang Yi, Nie Yuan and many other former Taibos who worked hard filming the circus, as well as Guyuehe, who spent most of his time as an infantryman.

The progress of "Mulan" has been 80% completed. After filming the riding battle scene between the two female generals, the crew will go to Xiangcheng to film the Chang'an trip.

That means that the filming of "Mulan" is officially completed.

The female general of the Western Turks played by Qin Zhilei is a role whose form is greater than its content. This role is arranged for one purpose, to look good.

The movie "Mulan" is said to be "purely fictional", but in fact it closely adheres to historical facts, including the war scenes in it, and tries to restore the real war history as much as possible.

And this duel between female generals is the only exception.

"Mulan" is a story about a woman disguising herself as a man, but "Mulan" is not like this.

The protagonist Mulan is not a pure female figure in the film, nor does she assume the function of a heroine. In fact, her functions are divided among the other three female characters.

The three glimpses of Wu Zetian are the side of history. The powerful Empress Wu provides the rationality for Mulan to use her daughter to make achievements.

Wanqian is the aspect of freedom, representing Mulan's inner pure yearning, so she withered at the most beautiful moment.

Qin Zhilei is the side of resistance, representing what Mulan subconsciously resists, trapped by it and unable to break free.

"Mulan" is a realistic movie. Only in the scenes where these three female characters appear, the camera language and picture style are all gorgeous and unexpected.

This was of course Chen Yiming's deliberate decision.

For example, for the duel between female generals to be filmed next, Chen Yiming asked Wu Yuanrong to design a very formal martial arts scene.

One side is pure white, the other is pure black. The two cavalry groups change formations and form a horizontal line during the march, launching a head-to-head charge.

After three confrontations, each of them lost dozens of horses. After the horse speed slowed down, the two sides began to engage in close combat.

Yellow sand, red blood, black and white knights.

Under the wide perspective from a high camera position, it is like unfolding an inextricable chess game.

At Tianyuan, those who were entangled were Yu Nan and Qin Zhilei, the chief generals of the two armies.

Throughout the entire film, this is the only multi-round fight for the protagonist Mulan.

Before that, whether it was Lei Jiasheng with his hand, or Wang Wendu who was killed in counter-attack, they were solved at the speed of light with the knife in hand, without any delay.

Only this scene followed Wu Lianjing's kung fu routine. It was a full minute and a half martial arts scene, still on a horse.

Not only did Yu Nan and Qin Zhilei have to fight with weapons on horseback, but they also had to do a lot of jumping-off-the-saddle movements, all of which required power.

While the two men were focused on the battle, their men were encircling the territory like Go. The Tang army's black pieces gradually divided, devoured, and picked up the white pieces of the Western Turks, eventually forming a siege on Qin Zhilei.

In the end, Yu Nan knocks Qin Zhilei off his horse and freezes it in close-up. Yu Nan starts to persuade her to surrender, but Qin Zhilei kills herself with a knife.

(End of this chapter)