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Chapter 581 New Year's Eve on the set!
The winter in the capital is coming to an end, but the cold current is still entrenched in the city.

Today is New Year's Eve.

The flow of people on the street is much less than in the past. Except for those commercial districts that are still popular, the third ring road is basically empty. As for the most lively places, except for Chaoyang Gate and inside and outside, Li Zhifan feels that it is the film and television station where the crew of "Wolf Warrior" is located. base now.

Because he doesn't have time to go for a walk outside.

At its peak, the crew of "Wolf Warrior" had more than 1400 people, and the recorded number of staff has exceeded 2000, including more than 1200 ensemble performers from home and abroad.

Among them, there are more than 200 scene construction workers, who build a scene almost every day.

However, these group performances are only a few scenes. After the filming is completed, the staff will be reduced to more than a hundred people, and the workers who build the scenes must complete all the work as required by the end of February. Get them back and dismantle them.

morning.

The most thrilling tank battle in this show is about to start filming.

For this set of shots, the crew prepared for a whole week. Not only did they borrow tanks, they also used scrap iron sheets and several pickup trucks to be scrapped to restore three "fake" tanks in 1:1 for blasting.

"Zhifan, can you drive a tank?"

Wei Chaoxian got out of his busy schedule and came to the shooting scene. If it wasn't because of the shooting of this scene today, he might not have been able to come.

When Li Zhifan was practicing tank driving skills, Wei Chaoxian was not there.

"Of course!"

Li Zhifan said easily, "Director Wei, today I will show you what real technology is."

Wei Chaoxian had a look of disbelief, but the tank soldiers sent by the military area were all smiling, because they followed from the beginning to the end. The tanks were transported from Inner Mongolia, to the actual practice, and to today's official shooting. Not for a moment.

They also include technical training for driving tanks.

But what surprised them was that Li Zhifan was able to play better than them after only one hour of training, while Ao Lei had to train for a full week before reaching one-third of Li Zhifan's level.

"Zhifan!"

Wei Chaoxian repeatedly asked, "Don't make any mistakes. The tank must be preserved, and you must be preserved. Life is the most important thing!"

"I know!"

Li Zhifan waved his hands nonchalantly, turned around and asked the assistant director, "Can we start?"

"That's it!"

The assistant director said, "The scene has been cleared, Ole has already entered the tank."

"okay!"

Li Zhifan took a walkie-talkie, pressed it and said, "Ao Lei, Ao Lei, please answer."

"I'm Ole!"

"OK! Follow the drills in advance, don't make mistakes, and strive for a success!"

"understand!"

Holding the walkie-talkie, Li Zhifan walked to his tank, and the two climbed up without borrowing any assistants.

On the left front of the tank, under the barrel, Li Zhifan sat in the driver's seat just enough to poke his head out. The operation shots inside the tank are easy to shoot, and you can do many fake moves, but the shots outside the tank are the real challenge.

"Shoot the collision scene first!"

Li Zhifan picked up the walkie-talkie, "Olei, are you ready?"

"OK! I can't wait!" Ole exclaimed excitedly.

Two camera vehicles were on both sides of the tank, and several masters carrying cameras also took close-up shots.

There is also a remote stick shooting is also ready.

When the assistant director called out to start, the two tanks started slowly.

"Accelerate! Accelerate!"

Li Zhifan shouted to Olei on another tank, "I'm going to shift gears!"

"OK!"

Ole yelled.

In a short time and short distance, the speed of both tanks is instantly increased.

The entire factory was full of dust and gunpowder smoke. After the two tanks went around the field for a week, they both found their sense and began to shoot the shots of the collision.

The cameramen were running around, almost getting hit by tanks on many occasions.

And the wonderful shots are shot in this thrilling moment, and almost everyone is shooting with their lives.

Ao Lei's face was ferocious, and Li Zhifan's veins were bulging from his cheeks to his temples. When the two huge tanks were controlled and collided like agile racing cars, both of them quickly downshifted and braked immediately.

This Type 76 tank uses brakes to brake. After cutting off the power, the tank still draws five meters away before stopping.

"so close!"

Li Zhifan climbed out of the tank, yelled after jumping off, and turned to look at Ao Lei.

He rowed farther than Li Zhifan, and he was still sitting in the tank in shock.

After running over to appease Ao Lei, Li Zhifan went to the monitor again and looked at the effect just now.

There are more than a dozen shots, with different angles and directions, and they are played on the monitor at the same time. Li Zhifan scanned all the screens at a glance, and after a general look, he replayed several shots.

The assistant director asked, "How is it?"

"no!"

Li Zhifan shook his head, "Say, can you cut into the camera from this angle and take a close-up shot of the impact?"

"That won't do!"

The assistant director shook his head repeatedly, and the American photographers also shook their heads, and explained, "It is impossible for us to lie down in that position, unless we attach a camera to the tank, but that will shake, and it is not certain whether we can get an image at one time, let alone What's more, the impact of the tank is so powerful that the entire tank will shake after the impact, and it is impossible to take a complete and fixed picture!"

"Let's find a way to try it once!"

Li Zhifan said, "Otherwise we will drive slowly, and send a cameraman to hang the wire to take a bird's-eye view of the sky. Can we zoom in on the camera, and we will bump into each other, and then stop!"

"This……"

After hearing Li Zhifan's suggestion, everyone immediately began to study feasible solutions.

Over there, Olei was resting in his coat to calm down. Hearing that there was another shot, he rushed over immediately.

"Li? Isn't the shot just now not good?"

"It's not impossible, but the visual effect is not shocking enough!"

Li Zhifan explained to him, suddenly thought of something, and said, "By the way, I have another idea!"

"What?" Ole asked curiously.

Li Zhifan did not answer him, but immediately went to the props team, pulled a props master to the front of the tank, pointed to the right front of the tank and said, "I want to hit this piece of iron when the two tanks collide." It sucks, can you modify it?"

"This is a tank! This thickness is no longer an iron sheet, but an iron plate!"

The prop master was surprised, "Such a solid iron plate, if you want to smash it, you have to dismantle it and put a piece of iron sheet that can be smashed."

"Okay, just do as you said, how long will it take to finish?"

"Aren't you kidding me?"

The prop master said bitterly, "It will take a lot of time to remove this piece."

A tank soldier standing on the side said, "It doesn't take long. We often remove this piece for maintenance. There are know-how and methods."

"Then leave it to you!" Li Zhifan immediately looked at him happily, "Brother, thank you so much!"

"It's okay!" The tank soldier smiled shyly, "If you really smashed the tank, there would be nowhere to get the parts. These were all forged with the best military steel back then, but now whether it's just now or a machine, nothing Eliminated, this tank is also a retired product, it is not easy to repair, and it is not worth making a model."

"Don't worry, it won't break!"

Li Zhifan held his hand, "What kind of tool do you need, please trouble you!"

"We brought it ourselves!"

After finishing speaking, the tank soldier brother went to get the tools.

On the other hand, the shooting plan has been solved, but the tank must drive slowly, but the camera can be processed faster in post.

And Li Zhifan told him about the new plan he had just thought of—that is, smashing the iron plate on the right side of the tank.

In this way, many shots in the front could not be used, because there were no crashed scenes and the crashed pictures were edited together, and it would inevitably go wrong, so it had to be redeployed and shot in an all-round way.

After getting ready together, the filming started again.

This time it can be said that they are familiar with each other, Li Zhifan and Ao Lei no longer have to shout at each other like they did the first time.

Moreover, the speed of the tank was much slower than before just taking pictures of the impact. After the impact with the second gear on, Li Zhifan saw that the iron sheet he made had been torn apart after being squeezed, so he immediately turned the direction and braked to stop.

"OK! This one is over!"

After seeing the shooting effect, Li Zhifan shouted, "Which group of shots will be shot next?"

The scene manager immediately came over and handed over the previous page of the script.

Li Zhifan took a look and said, "The tank crushed the plane! Is the wreckage ready?"

"Ready!"

The prop group responded.

"OK! Everyone, let's get ready!"

Li Zhifan shouted.

The shots of him in this shooting are all posed shots, and when shooting these groups of shots from the macro scene, the people in the tank are all stuntmen and those tank soldiers. They come in because there are scenes that require them to show their faces.

Ten tanks in all, plus two "fake" tanks.

Exciting tanks pressing down on planes, the scene is huge and overwhelming. One scene is divided into several shots, but they are all done in one shot.

Time gradually reached the afternoon.

There is only one scene in the afternoon - tank drifting!
This is the scene that put "Wolf Warrior 2" on the altar, at least in Li Zhifan's heart, the tank drifting in such a small space is far more than just icing on the cake, and it also dents the special effects of domestic films.

This is not CG production, not computer special effects, but real tanks, amazing drift.

Even those Hollywood working teams were amazed by the conception of this scene.

Because Hollywood's film technology is advanced enough, when they deal with this kind of scene, they rely on post-production, and they have the ability to make the tank realistic.

But no matter how realistic it is, it is only realistic, it is still fake, and there will still be "fake" elements visually.

But no one will say that the scene shot today is fake, because even a computer can't do it.

Most of the time, the tanks were operated by tank soldiers. Their familiarity with tanks was far beyond that of anyone present. They were climbing hills, accelerating impacts, and exciting drifting scenes. The filming lasted for an hour. Li Zhifan shouted happily to stop.

After shooting for so long, they are all material, and there are only a few shots that can really be edited into the movie.

"I declare! Today! We! Call it a day!"

Li Zhifan shouted, "Everyone, thank you for your hard work. Today is New Year's Eve in the Chinese lunar calendar. We spent this year at the film and television base. In the evening, we will eat dumplings and have a feast together!"

……

The film and television base not far from the project.

There are more than a dozen large pots boiling boiling water, and the chefs in the later stage of the film crew are busy preparing.

The dumplings are purchased directly from several dumpling restaurants in the urban area. They weigh more than 200 catties, which is calculated on the basis of the head, and the weight is one catty per person.

In addition to dumplings, there are whole chickens and ducks, two roasted pigs, three roasted sheep, and there are beer, liquor, drinks, etc. in the corner.

Those who can survive to this day are all indispensable staff members in the group. Although there are only two hundred people, it is still not a small number.

After Li Zhifan returned triumphantly with his men and horses, Wang Yue and the others were already ready to eat.

When he saw Li Zhifan, he immediately complained: "Oh! Look at "The Truman Show". The entire group was on vacation two weeks ago. What about us? We will stay in the group for the New Year!"

Li Zhifan couldn't help laughing and said, "Brother Yue, you can go home! You haven't had any shows during this time, and you live in the capital, why are you here on New Year's Eve?"

"I'm not worried about you!"

Wang Yue seemed to have prepared his speech long ago, he put his arms around Li Zhifan's shoulder and said, "Besides, we brothers, it's not easy to celebrate the New Year together for the first time!"

Besides Wang Yue, Fu Cai, Zhou Shilei and Wang Ye were also there, and only Sun Youbin went back to Taiwan for the New Year.

The three of them were not "idle", they used the "name" of helping the cook to steal food for a while, chatted with the actresses of the crew for a while, and chatted with the tank soldiers who came down from the army.

The last three people came to Li Zhifan one after another.

As soon as he was seated, Li Zhifan said first, "Come on, you guys stop sitting down and go say hello! You are all masters and responsible persons. For this year, please arrange for everyone to have a good time!"

"Then why are you sitting here?"

Zhou Shilei's eyes widened, and he asked dissatisfied.

Li Zhifan spread his hands and said, "Because I just came over from filming, have you worked hard? Don't you know that today's tank scenes exhausted me."

"how is it going?"

Wang Yue hurriedly asked, "Have you finished filming the tank scenes?"

"not yet!"

Li Zhifan shook his head and said, "There are still a few more scenes, and maybe we need to make up for today's filming. It's difficult!"

"Oh! That means you haven't finished filming!"

Wang Yue tutted, "Have you found a substitute yet?"

Zhou Shilei immediately rushed to say: "I've searched for it. I just asked those tank soldiers. Brother soldiers can tell you that they participated in and filmed several scenes together. What about our director? host."

"go with!"

Li Zhifan laughed, these soldiers really did a lot of hard work.

At this time, his cell phone rang suddenly.

Li Zhifan saw that it was Liu Yuan's and immediately picked it up.

"Zhifan!" Liu Yuan said bluntly, "I just want to inform you, remember to watch the Spring Festival Gala! The Spice Girls are going to be on stage!"

(End of this chapter)