This director needs to apologize

Chapter 339 Every other line is like a mountain

Looking at Zhou Zhaolong up close, you can still detect the traces of time. He is also in his early forties. The wrinkles and sagging on his face cannot be completely restored by makeup.

Fortunately, the role he played was consistent with his acting style since his acting career, as a cold-faced killer, keeping a straight face and acting cool throughout.

This kind of personality has little to do with whether you look young or not. The same goes for being more mature.

After shaking hands with Zhou Zhaolong, Chen Yiming said with concern, "Teacher Zhou, if you feel that you are not sure about Diao Wei Ya, you can shoot this shot separately and put a layer of soft cushion underneath."

Zhou Zhaolong's hands are very strong, and you can clearly feel the hard and thin layer of calluses when you hold them. Looking at his strong and toned body lines, it is obvious that although he is old, he has not had the slightest problem in maintaining his figure. slack.

So his answer was obvious, "Master, I'm OK."

Well, the only problem with this person is that his Mandarin is relatively poor, and communication is a mixture of Hong Kong and English words.

Fortunately, in the movie, he plays an anti-virus program that keeps silent but only works, otherwise a voice actor would have to be assigned to him.

After hearing this, Chen Yiming accepted the request. In fact, it was he who originally made the request for continuous filming. Neither Xie Tianfang nor Zhou Zhaolong objected. His concern was somewhat "hypocritical", but it was hard not to be "hypocritical".

In order to keep this contrast at just the right level, when Lin Xiao designed the character, he deliberately removed the sunglasses or masks commonly seen in killer characters in movies. Zhou Zhaolong's head was bare and his head and face were unadorned.

Chen Yiming also noticed under the monitor that Zhou Zhaolong and Wia did not fully cooperate when they released their force, and their body postures became slightly stagnant.

It's like being a Transformer but being able to perform Tiyun Zong.

Under the monitor, Zhou Zhaolong, who is wearing a pure black straight costume, has sharp edges and corners, but his running and leaping movements are elegant and quick, showing a strange contrast.

According to common sense, such face-showing scenes must be given priority to positive characters.

Several camera positions up and down the steps were quickly set up. Mr. Xie personally checked the Wi-Fi equipment. After confirming that it was correct, he made a gesture to the assistant.

However, Xie Tianfang committed perfectionism and directly asked Zhou Zhaolong, removing the wire and jumping directly to Damta.

Chen Yiming was startled. After hearing the assistant's report, he quickly ran downstairs to find the two masters who were planning to "do it again."

Chen Yiming thought it was acceptable. After all, it didn't matter when he stood up at the end. He could completely avoid it with a jump cut.

Chen Yiming simply stopped going to the monitor and stood with Xie Tianfang, watching with trepidation as Zhou Zhaolong jumped for the third time.

A quarter of an hour later, the second shot was taken. This time the effect was better, but it was not perfect, mainly when rolling up. Due to the presence of Wia, the actor's body posture was always a little unnatural.

This is just Zhou Zhaolong's cold expression, paired with the master's temperament that he has practiced martial arts for many years, it is enough.

He first told his apprentice, "A Liang, loosen the button once," and then stepped forward and said to Zhou Zhaolong, "Long Zai, do it again, I want to feel like I can finish it in one go."

Wu Zhou's roles here are basically the same. Wu Yue acted as a stand-in for his dangerous moves, but Zhou Zhaolong had to act as a real person. As a director, Chen Yiming had to express his opinions on this "differential treatment".

Xie Tianfang shook his head like a rattle, "Yi Ming, if this kind of shot is released, it will destroy my brand. Don't worry, I know Aaron's skills. At 5 meters high, it is absolutely foolproof."

After receiving the signal, the field assistant hit the board, "action", and Zhou Zhaolong jumped out with a cold face.

Because he was also positioned as an action actor, Wu Yue's agent specifically said that it would not be possible to jump directly, and it would not work even if he paid more money. In the end, Chen Yiming had no choice but to give the full-face shot to Zhou Zhaolong.

A few seconds of footage passed by in a blink of an eye, but Mr. Xie, who was on the next floor, shouted "click" one step ahead of Chen Yiming.

"Thank you, Master. Teacher Zhou, I think the shot just now is enough. Let's continue shooting."

At the same time, it can also form a sharp visual contrast with Wu Yue, who is dressed as a social animal in the office.

Zhou Zhaolong next to him didn't say a word, just nodded to Chen Yiming, and walked straight to the upper floor.

Xie Tianfang waved his hand and said with a smile, "Little Case, when we were filming, we jumped off the second floor and had to protect ourselves. We would have been laughed at by our peers for a year."

Chen Yiming was speechless, can this be compared?
Is it true that one’s destiny in martial arts is not destiny?

Chen Yiming couldn't hold back Mr. Xie, so he could only look up nervously, praying secretly that nothing would happen.

In fact, this is Chen Yiming's own trap. He has always been a decoration in his crew and the production team. He is either unable to herd the sheep or reduced to a front-line drama manager, because the role of the producer has been taken over by himself.

This brings about a problem. When the current situation arises where the producer needs to be serious about the terms of the contract, Chen Yiming can't help but feel embarrassed. There is actually a functional vacancy within the crew. Similar situations have not only happened this time, Lin Xiao, Duan Yining, Sang Ping and even the makeup artist have all had times when they competed with Chen Yiming.

Often Chen Yiming has already said that he can live with it, but in the end the "professionals" strongly demand to do it again in the belief of excellence, and the final result is mostly Chen Yiming's compromise.

When something like this happened before, at most it was a waste of time and materials and a slight delay in progress, which was harmless.

But today's situation sounded the alarm for Chen Yiming. It seems that a full-time producer is very necessary. If he doesn't let things go, it doesn't mean that others don't let things go. The crew always needs an outsider to play the bad guy.

After "ACTION", under Chen Yiming's fearful gaze, Zhou Zhaolong fell from the sky like a roc with spread wings, then his legs landed on the ground and bent his knees, his body leaned forward and rolled smoothly to relieve force, and then he stood up and jumped forward.

The whole set of movements was smooth and smooth, but his face still maintained an expressionless look with focused eyes, as if there was no change from beginning to end.

As soon as the assistant said "stop", Chen Yiming ran up, stared at Zhou Zhaolong and asked, "Teacher Zhou, are you feeling uncomfortable in any way?"

The latter smiled back at him, and then made an OK gesture.

Xie Tianfang walked over slowly at this time, "Everyone said it's okay. Yiming is relieved. We are all professionals and we know how high we can jump."

After successfully filming the most dangerous location scene, Chen Yiming finally put his heart back in his stomach.

The subsequent real-life scenes basically consisted of running down corridors and climbing stairs, as well as a few sets of moves. For Wu Yue and Zhou Zhaolong, they might not even be able to keep up with the intensity of their daily training.

When Mr. Xie was doing the entire set of action design, Chen Yiming specifically requested that the focus be on parkour and the fighting was just embellishment.

Therefore, based on the terrain near Baixiangju, Xie Tianfang split the entire parkour segment into two groups, one running, one chasing, and each running separately. There are three intersections in each group, and all the tricks and fights are placed at the intersection. Everywhere.

The three intersections of running and chasing are all placed in relatively exciting scenes, such as a very close-up suspended battle in front of the cable car, or a vertical leaping battle at the top of the covered bridge. This kind of shot cannot be shot in real life, but needs to be shot in real time. Shooting in a studio.

The only complex real-life stunt was arranged on the rotating viaduct connecting the northeast blocks in Baixiangju.

Wu Yue, who only mastered some of the rules, used the anti-virus program to reduce the dimensionality here and instantly made up for the distance that had been opened before.

Because the autonomous AI played by Wu Yue only mastered part of the power of the rules in terms of settings, he could only jump down level by level. Without the 13th floor of the void to draw strength from, he could only run.

The anti-virus program played by Zhou Zhaolong can penetrate the restrictions of the rules and take shortcuts.

Visually, after Wu Yue used the cable car to get rid of Zhou Zhaolong, he ran up the rotating viaduct and fled to the block of stepped buildings, while Zhou Zhaolong fell directly from the sky and caught Wu Yue out of the blue.

This is the only long fight in the entire movie, lasting about half a minute.

It was said to be a fight, but in fact Zhou Zhaolong attacked Wu Yue's defense, fighting and running at the same time, mainly running.

The fighting style designed by Xie Tianfang is that Zhou Zhaolong attacks wildly with a fierce style, while Wu Yue parries awkwardly and laboriously, which strives to highlight Zhou Zhaolong's power and invincibility.

After all, it is an anti-virus program. There should be no opponents following the rules.

Zhou Zhaolong, who has played many villains, is very adaptable to this style, and his sense of power is so vivid that he basically needs no guidance.

Wu Yue, who has played many leading roles, needs some training time, because Xie Tianfang specifically requested that Wu Yue's unloading and dodging should not be like a Tai Chi master, but should show the heaviness of each other's strength being not on the same level.

This requires actors to perform logically and consistently in all aspects such as expressions, movements, reactions, postures, etc. The fighting is just a fake fight, but the effect must be real.

During the filming of this scene, Chen Yiming switched to movie-watching mode and watched as Mr. Xie kept stopping the filming to demonstrate to Wu Zhou. If he couldn't do it himself, he would ask his apprentice to do it for him.

He required that the movements should not only be precise, but also beautiful. Even if Wu Yue looked embarrassed throughout the scene, he still had to escape gracefully.

Chen Yiming was deeply grateful that he invited Xie Tianfang to do it himself. Not to mention whether he could design the effect of the old man, just describing the scene he wanted for the two actors to understand would be a lot of trouble. matter.

There are so many different lines, and action direction is already a completely new profession behind the scenes of a movie.

The fight sequence took a whole day to shoot, and then spent more than half a day working with the special effects artist to connect the photography materials needed for post-production. The scene of the rotating overpass was finally completed.

The next step is all the trivial water grinding work indoors. The difficulty is not great, but it is extremely troublesome to shoot. The depth of field is small, the space is narrow, and the lens is cut quickly. It is the same as the "Bourne Supremacy" in the previous life.

(End of this chapter)