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November has come quickly.

Several leading actors have successfully completed the martial arts training plan specified by Sang Lin and his team.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that Sanlin’s work is over.

The next filming was when Sang Lin really put a lot of effort into it. He and Wu Yuan discussed a lot of storyboards for the scenes. They would need to try them out one by one and then use the shot with the best effect.

This is also a very energy-consuming thing for the actors. They have to re-shoot a scene many times, and sometimes they have to change their actions on the spot.

This is why action movies are known as the most difficult to shoot among all types of movies.

Shooting this thing is really physical labor, it is the closest to the working rhythm of the working people.

Fortunately, the actors Wu Yuan found for "Mulan" were more able to endure hardships than the others and could not speak a single word.

November 4th.

After finishing training and resting for a few days, the starring actors of "Mulan" finally reunited with the crew members who were already ready to go and headed to the Central Plains Province together.

After Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei also entrusted their daughter to Liu Xiaoli, they took a private plane and arrived in Jiaozuo, Central Plains Province.

Here, there is a group of crew members who came from Hollywood and are already waiting for the couple.

"Mulan" is a Disney movie, even if Disney gives Wu Yuan full authority to handle the crew, there is no doubt that the main staff of the crew must be Disney staff.

This is like a domestic film crew going abroad to film a movie. Local people will be hired as part of the crew, but the core team must come from China and cannot be reorganized locally.

This time, 70% of the crew of "Mulan" are from Hollywood, and only 30% were hired by Wu Yuan in China. Of course, they also come from the era of light and shadow.

The majority of these Hollywood crews met up with the leading actors in Beijing before setting off, but several teams responsible for the scene and set-up arrived in advance where the crew would start filming.

That is the famous Jiaozuo Film and Television City in Central Plains Province!

The main attractions of Jiaozuo Film and Television City are composed of redundant film and television shooting landscapes such as the Chengmen Square area, Zhouwang Palace area, Lingtai, Shijing Street Street, Chu Palace Area, Genius Area, and outdoor scenic areas.

This film and television city has a construction area of ​​400,000 square meters. It is a group of antique buildings based on the culture of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States, Qin and Han, and the Three Kingdoms. It is one of the nine qualified excellent film and television shooting locations nationwide.

Of course, the reason why this film and television city dominates the country is mainly because its characteristics cannot be replaced by other film and television cities.

Just like Hengdian is a paradise for ghosts and Xiangshan is a world of martial arts and fairy dramas, Jiaozuo Film and Television City basically dominated the shooting of costume dramas in all dynasties before the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the area of ​​costume dramas, it is the same as Ming Dynasty in Hengdian, Huairou and other film and television bases. The dislocated competition between Qing-style buildings has filled the gap in the country that lacks film and television cities from the pre-Qin period.

"The Great Qin Empire Trilogy" was filmed here, as were films such as "Warring States" and "Mozi".

It can be said that Jiaozuo Film and Television City is the most Qin and Han style film and television base in China.

The filming location of "Mulan" was also chosen here.

No way, according to the setting given by the historical consultant, the "Mulan" movie is set in the Southern and Northern Dynasties period of China, that is, after the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and before the establishment of the Sui Dynasty.

Although the architectural style and cultural style of this period were very different from those of the Three Kingdoms and the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties, they were even more different from the later Tang and Song Dynasties.

Since there is no film and television city specially built for the Northern and Southern Dynasties in China, the best choice for the crew is Jiaozuo Film and Television City.

At least the Han Dynasty-style palaces, ancient cities, and ancient alleys here are very good. If you add a little more cultural elements of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, you can pretend to be the cultural style of that period. Unless you are a professor who specializes in this area, ordinary movie fans will not watch it. There is no sense of dissonance.

It’s better than going to Hengdian and Huairou to take photos in Ming and Qing ancient architectural style neighborhoods.

Several groups came to Jiaozuo Film and Television City in advance just to set up the scenery and arrange the shooting location.

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei arrived in the Central Plains Province and went straight to Jiaozuo Film and Television City. Under the leadership of the assistant director, they immediately visited the filming locations created by the set-up team.

Located in the Shijing District in the middle of Jiaozuo Film and Television City, it consists of Yuwang Temple and Shijing Street.

There are two streets and their buildings here that have been rented by the crew of "Mulan". As Hua Mulan's hometown, the story at the beginning of the movie will be filmed, that is, the Hua family received the conscription order, and then Hua Mulan decided to join the army in her father's place. , the experience of buying horses in the east market and saddles in the west market.

This part of the plot is also the biggest change from the original version in Wu Yuan's memory.

He really couldn't accept the embarrassing scene of Mulan's family in the Hakka earth building in the live-action movie "Mulan".

To be honest, the embarrassment of this scene was even more unacceptable to him than the ghost makeup that Mulan wore later.

Even though Hua Mulan's ghost makeup looks really ugly to modern eyes, in fact, the makeup is still very restored. It is the makeup that upper-class ladies would do from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, and it is also shown in the murals. can be seen in .

Later, the Japanese envoys to the Tang Dynasty also learned this style of makeup, and then modified it themselves, and then came the Japanese geisha makeup, which also looked like a female ghost.

This can only be said to be an aesthetic problem, but there is really no logical flaw.

But the Hakka earth building where the Hua family lives in the movie is really shocking, and Wu Yuan was embarrassed to see it.

Niki Caro just saw the photos of the Hakka earth building and thought that this place was beautiful, so she had to use the Hakka earth building for the scene, regardless of the historical background.

This thing is only available in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, and it is an architectural culture that appeared after the Tang Dynasty and was promoted in the Ming and Qing Dynasties!

How could Hua Mulan, a person from the Northern Dynasties who lived in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, live in a Hakka earth building?

Anyone who has a little understanding of Chinese history will feel embarrassed and shocking when seeing that scene, and will not feel the slightest bit of beauty at all.

Perhaps Niki Caro wanted the effect of "Big Fish and Begonia", but what was finally presented was the effect of "Black Mermaid", at least for Chinese audiences.

Niki Caro can be so stupid, but Wu Yuan, as a director of Chinese origin, really can't do that. Niki Caro will at most be criticized by domestic netizens, but if Wu Yuan does that, he may be expelled from his nationality immediately.

So he strictly required to build a Hua family and the county where the Hua family is located in Jiaozuo Film and Television City! (End of this chapter)