Millennium director

Under Wu Yuan's firm refusal, Marvel still chose to maintain the original plan. "Doctor Strange" will not start preparation until the summer of 2015, and will start shooting in the fourth quarter.

Wu Yuan can also breathe a sigh of relief, at least he can take a break after the shooting of "Riding the Wind".

In fact, he can't rest for too long, because he has to do the post-production work of this movie, and then he has to continue to take care of the post-production of "Ready Player One".

However, when he is not shooting, he only focuses on post-production, which is already very easy compared to the intensity of his work in the past one or two years.

As long as he doesn't start shooting new movies non-stop, he will be satisfied enough.

With this idea in mind, Wu Yuan spent a relatively "relaxed" half a month, shooting only half a day a day, and even had time to flirt with Liu Yifei.

Until half a month later, Wu Jing, who had recovered from his health, returned as a king, and the crew started shooting a large number of circus and war scenes again.

"Riding the Wind" is the movie that Wu Yuan has shot with the most extras.

Although he has filmed many big-budget movies before, he generally doesn't need too many extras. Both "Gravity" and "The Martian" are space movies, and a single digit of actors is enough.

As for other dramas and art films, there are no big scenes. The biggest scenes are also given by special effects, such as the meteorite landing in "Your Name".

The only one that uses more extras is the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, but the extras used in this series are only about one or two hundred people, and the biggest scene is just a melee of one or two hundred people. After all, this is a pirate movie, and most of the plot takes place on a ship.

This time in "Riding the Wind", Wu Yuan really felt what a big scene is.

In the war scene, he used nearly a thousand extras in total for the biggest scene, of which there were more than 500 cavalry alone.

Don't think that this number is small, but in fact, when nearly a thousand people are spread across the screen, it is already very crowded, giving people a feeling of thousands of black masses.

Especially when more than 500 cavalrymen charge together, it is even more magnificent.

After filming this scene, Wu Yuan couldn't help but sigh with Liu Yifei who was watching the show together: "In the past, when I read those historical materials, there were always large-scale battles involving tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, and it felt like it was just a number."

"But when I really saw it on the scene, even if it was fake, a war of a few hundred people was already oppressive enough. The charge of more than 500 cavalry just now made people feel suffocated from the camera."

Because the main camera was completely in front of the cavalry charge route, the feeling of facing the cavalry charge was really shocking.

"There are only a few hundred people."

"If it was really like those classical wars in history books, with thousands or even tens of thousands of cavalry charging, I really don't know how scary the scene would be."

"I completely understand why it is said that soldiers on the battlefield have to bear pressure that ordinary people cannot bear, and some people may even be scared to death on the battlefield."

Wu Yuan felt that he got the pleasure of shooting such a large-scale war scene.

It really makes people excited!

"Maybe if I have a chance in the future, I should also make a costume war movie, and let that damn Red Cliff go to hell!" Wu Yuan muttered.

Hearing this, Liu Yifei rolled her eyes to the sky: "Do you still remember Wu Baige?"

"It's been so many years, do you still remember Red Cliff?"

"I dare not forget it!" Wu Yuan gritted his teeth and said: "I have only been suppressed and bullied by Wu Baige in my life, how can I forget it."

"His Red Cliff is really bad, and it is even worse among the few Chinese costume war movies."

"I feel heartbroken when I think that young people in the future can only watch Red Cliff when they want to watch Chinese costume war movies."

"The Three Kingdoms was played to pieces by Wu Baige, I can also do the entire Battle of Hulao Pass."

"Li Shimin only used 35 00 elite soldiers in black armor were sent as vanguards to reinforce Hulao Pass, and Dou Jiande's army of more than 100,000 was defeated. Such a heroic battle is much less famous than the Battle of Red Cliffs. It is simply unreasonable! "

"The Battle of Hulao Pass, which laid the foundation for the territory of the Tang Dynasty and won Li Shimin the title of General of Tiance, is definitely better than the Battle of Red Cliffs, which only laid the foundation for the division of the world into three parts, right?"

"It's a pity that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is too famous, which makes the Battle of Red Cliffs widely known."

"Come on." Liu Yifei patted Wu Yuan's junior in annoyance. She didn't know much about the Battle of Red Cliffs and General of Tiance. You can't expect a returnee who studied in junior high and high school in the United States and returned to China to receive art education to know much about Chinese history.

But she knows another thing.

"You are busy enough with your work now, and there are other movies waiting for you later. Why are you still thinking about making a war movie?"

"You really only care about food and not fighting. Who was the one who complained to me a few days ago that there was too much work, no rest, and was exhausted?"

Wu Yuan, who was originally very excited, shrunk his mouth and sighed: "Alas, ideals are full, but reality is very skinny."

"I want to make a lot of movies, but I really can't arrange the work."

When Liu Yifei said this, Wu Yuan remembered "Bruce Lee" that he wanted to make earlier. This movie has not been put on the schedule yet, let alone wanting to make other new movies.

"Forget it, I can only think about it casually." Wu Yuan shook his head, cleared his mind, picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Everyone has rested for a while, one more shot!"

“Everyone get ready!”

In early January 2015, after 70 days of filming, “Riding the Wind” was finally successfully completed in Beijing.

As usual, after taking a photo of all the crew members and having a wrap-up banquet, the crew disbanded on the spot, and those who needed to go to school went to school, and those who needed to go to other crews went to other crews.

Wu Yuan also brought all the materials of “Riding the Wind” back to the headquarters of Light and Shadow Times, where the editors who had been prepared in advance were waiting for him.

As a big director, Wu Yuan no longer edits the film himself. He just tells the editors what effect he wants, and then asks them to edit. After the editing is done, Wu Yuan will make the final check, and modify the parts he is not satisfied with until he modifies the version he is satisfied with, and then it can be submitted for review.

This post-editing method is undoubtedly much easier than Wu Yuan did it himself in the past, but this behavior can generally only be used in commercial films. If it is an art film, Wu Yuan still prefers to edit it himself.

After all, in art films, sometimes a single shot contains a lot of emotions and deep meanings. Some shots are also deliberately shot by him. In the eyes of those with low "artistic aesthetics", this shot may be just an ordinary empty shot or a shot with wrong focus, but combined with the previous and subsequent plots, it may be a stroke of genius.

Only the creators themselves know this best.

Fortunately, "Riding the Wind" is just a commercial film, although it is a tribute film, so Wu Yuan was very relieved to hand it over to the editor.

And he himself finally ushered in a short break. (End of this chapter)