new kung fu king

Chapter 513 "Qin Mausoleum Underground Palace" has many organs

When Wang Xiaohu first started, he was also worried that his wife hadn't filmed in recent years, whether she would be able to play the role of the princess well at first.

Facts have proved that he was overthinking.

Zhao Yazhi did not perform very well in the first two days of starting the film, but as she spent more time on the set, and after repeated NG reshoots, she gradually found the feeling in front of the camera, and it was like being possessed these days , holding the script every day, pondering the character of the princess, trying to make herself a princess, even after filming, she returned home wearing the white straight-saw gown of the Han Dynasty, Wang Xiaohu advised her not to do this, but people I just don't listen to it, and say that it's easy to find a feeling, and I want to bring the character to life.

Wang Xiaohu almost fell down on the spot when he heard the words. Obviously, Zhao Yazhi is now obsessed, which is what people often say is a drama idiot. For this reason, she specially asked Wang Xiaohu to borrow a few books from the professors in mainland China, saying that she would thoroughly study Qin and Han Dynasties The living customs of women in the period, including related materials from ordinary family fathers and daughters to court maids and concubines.

It’s really embarrassing for some old professors in mainland China. It took more than a week to mail a lot of relevant materials. When he saw the 50 cm thick materials, Wang Xiaohu could only roll his eyes. How many days will that take?
"Azhi, what we are filming now is not a historical drama, so there is no need to be so serious." Watching his wife turn on the lamp to read at night, Wang Xiaohu really felt distressed, and persuaded again.

Zhao Yazhi didn't raise her head, she stared at those ancient prose that even Wang Xiaohu had a headache, "How can that be, you know I'm the leading actress, if I don't perform well on the screen, then how can the role of princess be?" Isn't it disappointing?"

"Then it doesn't take so much effort, does it?" Wang Xiaohu said bitterly.

"Why don't you use it? You put so much effort into photographing the historical style of the Qin and Han Dynasties every day. In comparison, my workload is the least." Zhao Yazhi smiled, then put the materials on the table, and pulled Wang Xiaohu's hand said: "Honey, have you ever thought about it, why is the princess... no, it's because Concubine Li can't smile when facing the painter?"

Wang Xiaohu said carelessly: "Then there's no need to ask, since she won't see Meng Yi, lovesickness will be a disaster."

Zhao Yazhi shook her head and said: "I don't feel right, Ah Hu, you think this way, Concubine Li is shouldering the mission of the country, and she left her home and came to Qin to get married. Without Meng Yi, when she came to the Qin Dynasty palace, she would have no relatives around her, and she would have to accept clothing, food, etiquette, etc. that were different from her own country's cultural background. Glum."

Zhao Yazhi paused at this point, and then continued: "So when she saw General Meng Yi, she would laugh. This kind of laughter must come from the heart. Lover, my heart is full of joy, and on the other hand, I saw my relatives in a foreign land, and found relief that I can rely on and talk to."

Wang Xiaohu didn't expect his wife to tell such a lot of truths, analyze a simple smile so clearly, and even spontaneously dig out the potential value of the character from the surface so well.

"My wife, it's a waste of you not being a screenwriter or director." Wang Xiaohu said with emotion: "Really, what you just said is too delicate, I admire, admire!"

"Okay, stop being glib here, and help me see how to translate these places." Zhao Yazhi smiled lightly and hit Wang Xiaohu, and handed a roll of unnamed materials in front of Wang Xiaohu, Wang Xiaohu saw the words on it , My head suddenly became dizzy: Grandma, those professors can’t send vernacular texts by mail. This whole page of classical Chinese texts has more meanings in just a few words!

"This, that, cough cough, my wife, I think it's better to go to bed early today, and tomorrow I will go to the Ming Pao office to ask Lao Dou for help, he is definitely an expert in this field." Wang Xiaohu's forehead was covered with cold sweat, thinking of it It was a good idea to ask Jin Yong for help, and immediately coaxed and lied to hug his wife to bed.Not to mention, Zhao Yazhi wearing this white jigsaw robe has a special taste.
A few torches and flashlights were particularly conspicuous in the dark underground palace of the Qin Mausoleum. They walked slowly, and every time they took a step forward, they were extra cautious and stopped in front of a thick wall.

"Professor Gu, there is a wall here!" A person shouted excitedly, and ran over to stroke the wall.

"Don't move around! Be careful to touch the hidden crossbow mechanism again!" Another person reprimanded loudly.

Professor Gu (that is, Yuan Hua) in a white Chinese tunic suit walked to the wall and felt a chill on the wall. After touching the wall lightly, he nodded and said, "Tiger is right, hurry up!" We have reached the outer city wall, and if there are no accidents, we will soon be able to reach the core of the underground palace, everyone, let's take a rest."

After Professor Gu finished speaking, he turned around, and a smile appeared on the face of the archaeologist behind his back, but this smile looked extremely strange under the flickering lights.

"CUT, it's over!" Yuan Heping, now replacing Wang Xiaohu as the director, shouted with a loudspeaker.

All the actors breathed a sigh of relief, Yuan Hua wiped the sweat from his forehead vigorously with a towel, "It's terrific, it's terrific, I'm so hot."

What is being filmed now is another scene in "Myth". After the first batch of archaeologists disappeared, Professor Gu, Tiger and local archaeologists formed the second batch of archaeological teams to search for or say Save the first crew.

During this process, the male protagonist Tiger often dreamed of many scenes in the Qin Mausoleum’s underground palace when he was resting. In his dream, he was Meng Yi, the general of the Qin Dynasty. Yi married for too long, and made the princess travel long distances to suffer and other reasons to silence Qin Shihuang, so Meng Yi was sent to Lishan to supervise the construction of Qin Huangling's Mausoleum.

When he followed the archaeological team into the Qin Mausoleum's underground palace, he immediately felt very familiar, and began to doubt the scene in his dream.

So when everyone was resting under the wall, Tiger leaned against the wall and fell into a dream again.

Since the filming location was in a long, narrow and dark tunnel, the air circulation was very slow, and the small scene was filled with more than a dozen staff members. It is May day again, so it is no wonder that the weather is not stuffy.

So after less than half an hour of shooting, everyone's clothes on the set were soaked.

After the shutdown, Zhang Yuan hurriedly sent staff to carry three high-power fans and blow them on the five or six actors who were resting on the set.

Wang Xiaohu took the script and asked Yuan Hua and Yuen Biao to come under the light, and told them about the next scene: "Well, the next scene is that we opened this wall, and then we were greeted by a quicksand trap. After an archaeologist, we passed the trap, and then there was a tunnel of weapons and armor in front of us, inside were rows of brightly colored armor, and there were racks of sharp bronze weapons."

No one in this world knows exactly what traps are in the underground palace of the Qinhuang Mausoleum, even if Wang Xiaohu was reborn from the 21st century, he doesn't know.Therefore, when designing this scene, Wang Xiaohu could only use some tomb-robbing movies he had watched in his previous life, such as "The Mummy" or "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, plus "Tomb Raiders Notes" and "Ghost Raiders" he had watched on the Qidian Chinese website. "Blowing the Lamp" and other novels to make up for it.

But wanting to include all these elements in one movie, Wang Xiaohu thinks this is unrealistic, so he can only use historical records to focus on aspects such as quicksand, dark crossbow mechanism, mercury, Jiangchuan, etc. If there is no oxygen, this scene cannot be filmed.

Among them, the dark crossbow mechanism, they finished filming a week ago, and they tossed everyone in the crew.

In particular, Wang Jiaxin and Zhang Yuan, who made these mechanisms, were complaining to the heavens, because "Historical Records" records: The underground palace of the Qin Mausoleum "made craftsmen make machine crossbows, and those who penetrated would shoot them."

Just a few words in the area, I had to talk to BJ's professors several times on the phone. It wasn't until the blueprints were obtained over there that everyone figured out that it meant that there was a set of automatic launch hidden crossbows installed here.That is to say, in order to prevent someone from robbing the tomb, Qin Shihuang ordered the craftsmen to set up a hidden arrow at the door of the tomb chamber. Once the tomb robbers approached, the arrow would shoot out when the mechanism was activated.

So Wang Jiaxin and Zhang Yuan, based on the blueprint of a long-range, high-tension crossbow unearthed in the gallery pit of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, tossed out a simplified version of this kind of crossbow that would be difficult to pull apart with human arm strength alone, but wanted It is very laborious to let these crossbows equipped with arrows show the function of automatic bursts.

Zhang Yuan had an idea: "Two people stand behind a crossbow, and they will launch together after triggering the mechanism!"

So the dragon and tiger warriors were trained repeatedly for a whole day, and the scene was considered to be passed smoothly. It is said that Zhang Yuan was exhausted that day, and his voice was shouted just by shouting slogans behind the scenes.

With the deepening of the shooting progress, Wang Xiaohu also realized that there were various loopholes in his original director plan, but these are easy to say, after all, Hong Kong movies have never lacked talents, Zhang Yuan showed in this shooting The agility is what he admires.

And the other person was also deeply inspired after two months of shooting with the crew. He is the great Hollywood director George Lucas. Old Joe really opened his eyes this time. He never thought that Hong Kong people would not have special effects. Under the premise of help, these "unbelievable" scenes were shot with native and stupid methods, and the effect of the shooting was far more realistic and smooth than the effect.

After "The Myth" was released globally, Lao Qiao approached Spielberg to exchange the experience he had learned in Hong Kong this time. He thought that this type of film that breaks through barriers and hunts for treasures is very interesting, so the two teamed up to make Western films After researching the various ancient tombs, they finally locked on the Bible, and then there was the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, which made a lot of money in Hollywood. Of course, these are things for later, and now the old Joe It's like falling into an unprecedented ocean of knowledge, frantically absorbing the "earth stunts and special effects" techniques of oriental filmmakers.

The days passed slowly like this. The crew of "Mythology" officially started in February 79. By the end of June, they finally completed the filming task in Hong Kong. When Wang Xiaohu stood at the highest position of the studio with a big speaker, he shouted: "Mythology" Qin Mausoleum Underground Palace special effects part finished", the whole crew cheered almost like relief.

It’s not easy, for the whole four months, apart from the normal rest, everyone was filming in this dark studio, and the heat, fatigue, and irritability also accompanied them for more than four months.

Especially Wang Jiaxin and Zhang Yuan, when they got home, their family members were shocked when they saw them, because these two people lost nearly ten catties in just half a year, which shows that they did it for their own sake. How much was sacrificed for this shoot.

Most of the Hong Kong people began to enter the recuperation stage, because after half a month, they had to follow Wang Xiaohu to the mainland to shoot the location.

The main personnel of Wang Xiaohu, George Lucas, Grant McQueen, Yuan Heping and others did not take a break. The scene of Qinling’s Underground Palace was filmed, but what awaited them was a more boring and tedious stage of special effects synthesis, which was far more difficult than filming. It is much more important. It can be said that if the special effect images synthesized in the post-production cannot meet Wang Xiaohu's requirements, it must be re-shot.

Wang Xiaohu watched Lucas and Grant carefully put the developed film into the machine, and then operated it for a long time in front of a very bulky and antique computer. A strip of film is slowly spit out from the end of the machine.

"How is it?" Wang Xiaohu asked impatiently.

Lucas took a look at the film under the light and said: "We just improved this machine a month ago, and I don't know the specifics."

"Damn, you dare to use a machine that I don't know!" Wang Xiaohu stared at the panda eyes. He has not closed his eyes all day and night. As the director of this movie, he knows better than anyone else that the final picture will be ideal. Hearing that Lucas actually synthesized it with an untested machine, he immediately became angry.

Lucas smiled awkwardly and said, "Boss, please rest assured. According to my intuition, the film developed this time is very ideal."

Lucas was right, the film processed by the updated compositing machine with the help of the old antique computer was indeed ideal, but when it was developed and played in the projector, Wang Xiaohu was still a little disappointed.

Take the picture of Meng Yi and Li Fei embracing and dancing in the floating heavenly palace as an example. The resulting picture is somewhat incoherent. At the time of filming, the two of them were tumbling in the air in Via outfits. The expressions of the two were not very natural.

"Grandma, why is the place that should be the most classic shot so awkward!"

(End of this chapter)