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"Very well, thank you for your hard work everyone!"

“Let’s take pictures here first today!”

"knock off!"

Following Wu Yuan's shout, the tired crew members immediately started cleaning up the set with joyful smiles on their faces.

Especially the blond foreigners in the crowd, all of them were already chatting shoulder to shoulder about which bar they were going to in the evening and which bar in the city was good.

I can't help it, the filming during this period was really tiring.

It's not a physical hardship, but a mental one.

For Wu Yuan, this "Mulan" is his first time making a costume film, so many things are new to him, unlike his previous films with science fiction and modern background themes. So easy and familiar.

Even with an advisory group of up to five people, Wu Yuan was still relatively constrained during the filming.

Before starting the filming, he originally thought that the biggest difficulty in filming this movie would be the fighting scenes and Liu Yifei's adaptation. After all, she had not filmed for a long time after filming "Cai Wenji".

But I didn't expect that the biggest difficulty in filming this movie was Wu Yuan himself.

When most of the crew are foreigners, how to make a Chinese-style movie with a Chinese historical background is really torturous.

The more literary the drama, the slower the filming. It is common for the lens to be polished one by one.

Many times, the crew members felt that the filming was good, but Wu Yuan was not satisfied and had to re-shoot.

It could be as small as an actor's tiny salute, or as big as the harmony and composition of the entire scene. In short, Wu Yuan could easily feel dissatisfied with everything and have to reshoot.

It can only be said that it is the first time for Wu Yuan to make a period film and have to make such a blockbuster that will be released globally. It is still a lot of pressure for Wu Yuan.

The shooting that was originally scheduled to be completed in ten days will probably be postponed for five or six days.

Of course, the crew will not have any complaints about this, but they are indeed a little tired mentally, and they are more willing to relax and spend more time after work.

In contrast, director Wu Yuan is still busy after finishing work.

After returning to the hotel with the materials he shot today, Wu Yuan looked at these rough shots carefully, and wrote and drew with a small notebook, recording the problems discovered during the shooting, and imagining what he would shoot tomorrow.

"Honey, let's take a rest and have some midnight snack." At this time, Liu Yifei came to Wu Yuan with a bowl of wontons.

"I see you have lost weight these days."

Taking the wontons smoothly, Wu Yuan's eyes were still on the material screen, but he said nonchalantly: "Compared to before, the conditions are much better now."

"Nowadays, when shooting with a digital camera, you can watch the film directly after shooting. You can also rewind and rewind at will, and you can even edit the film on the spot."

“This has reduced a lot of the workload for the director.”

"I think back when I first entered the industry, when I was filming "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle", it was still the film era. At that time, after the filming was over every day, I had to take the film to develop it immediately, and then take it to the screening room and play it. look."

"At that time, the crew also had a special position, which was responsible for transporting pornographic films between the printing laboratory and the crew every day."

"By the way, I remember that there were still film runners at that time. After the movie was released, they had to be responsible for transporting the film to various theaters. They usually rode bicycles or motorcycles to deliver the film to ensure that each theater could follow the staggered schedule. Time to show movies.”

"If you say too much, it will be the tears of the times."

Wu Yuan also somehow remembered that he was a guest developer on the set of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle". Back then, he would deliver the film for development every day after filming on the set, and then bring it back with Wang Xiaoshuai. I reviewed the film in the small screening room and learned Wang Xiaoshuai’s directing techniques and ideas.

Thinking about the troubles at that time, and then looking at the advancement and convenience now, Wu Yuan no longer feels how tired he is now.

At least now, as soon as he finishes work, he can take the digital videos back to the hotel and slowly watch the footage he shot throughout the day. He can watch it however he wants, and he can even start editing directly.

"It's much more convenient now than before." Liu Yifei also sat next to Wu Yuan and reminisced with him.

She also experienced that film era and was deeply impressed by it.

"Movie copy disks were very expensive at that time. One copy cost 10,000 yuan, and 100 copies cost 1 million. Showing a movie was a very luxurious thing. The film runners at that time wanted to ensure that every Every theater can show it on time, which is even better than today’s takeaway guys.”

"Indeed." Wu Yuan chuckled and said cheerfully: "Times have changed."

"Yes." Liu Yifei reached out and took her husband's arm: "But the person has not changed."

The next day, the crew continued filming.

The plot to be filmed today is a bit special. It is about Mulan reuniting with her family after returning from the army and changing into women's clothes again. This part is also the scene at the end of the movie.

It corresponds to the sentence in "Mulan Ci": Open the door of my east pavilion, sit on my bed in the west pavilion, take off my war robe, and put on my old clothes. When the window is undressed, the hair on the temples is covered with yellow flowers in front of the mirror.

Liu Yifei was dressed in the style of a noblewoman from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, with beautiful hair and various expensive gold and silver headdresses. She was dressed in red and sat in front of a wooden table and a bronze mirror.

The extremely smooth polished bronze mirror reflected her beautiful face lightly painted with pink and white. The two maids were working very seriously on her "applique yellow" in the mirror.

The so-called Huahuang is a kind of facial decoration for ancient Han women. They use yellow powder to draw or cut golden paper into shapes such as stars, moons, flowers and birds and stick them on the forehead, or apply some yellow on the forehead.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, this kind of facial decoration was popular. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was gradually replaced by more complex and beautiful Huadian.

Huadian has three colors: red, green and yellow, with red being the most common. It is made of gold, silver and other materials into flower shapes and covered on the face. It was a popular jewelry in the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to plum blossoms, Huadian also has various shapes of birds, fish, ducks, etc., which are very beautiful and novel.

Huadian did not appear in the Tang Dynasty. Its earliest origin can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it has never been popular, at least not as popular as Huahuang. After all, Huadian costs more.

It was not until the Southern Dynasties that Princess Shouyang invented plum blossom makeup. It rose again in the Tang Dynasty because of Shangguan Wan'er and reached its peak. It continued to be popular in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms until it died out in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

At this time, Liu Yifei did not choose the beautiful plum blossom flower, but instead put a small yellow flower cut out of golden paper on her forehead.

Wu Yuan, who had never seen his wife dressed like this, was suddenly impressed.

His wife's appearance is really good. Even after seeing her for almost 20 years, she can still come up with some new styles from time to time! (End of this chapter)