Millennium director

In a big battle scene, the official shots in the movie should only be about 15 minutes, at most 20 minutes, but it took Wu Yuan nearly a week to shoot.

Because this scene involves the most complete actors, from the two big names Gong Li and Cheng Long to all the male protagonists in the main group, they all have their own roles in this scene.

After all, this is equivalent to the scene of the battle with the purple potato spirit in "Avengers 4", of course all the actors must be present.

For Wu Yuan, shooting such a big scene is also a test of his directing skills.

Again, Wu Yuan has not had many opportunities to shoot big scenes over the years. The movies he shot are mainly dramas centered on several leading actors. Sometimes in extreme cases, only 1-2 leading actors and two or three minor supporting roles are enough.

However, over the years, he is not without experience. A National Day tribute film "Riding the Wind" and a "Ready Player One" have trained his experience in shooting big scenes.

Especially "Ride the Wind", because "Ride the Wind" was originally about the story of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, and there were many scenes of the cavalry regiment charging, so for him, there was still a lot of experience in shooting this kind of horse battle scenes.

Coincidentally, there are a lot of horse battles in "Mulan" this time, after all, it is a war with nomadic people.

It's just that the hot weapons were changed to cold weapons for all the members. In terms of capturing the camera, Wu Yuan was still a little unfamiliar at the beginning of the shooting, but after adjusting for a day or two, he quickly got the hang of it.

The actors were very cooperative. Even though it was winter now, they all had frozen faces, and again and again on the Hulunbuir grassland in this cold winter, they played a classical cold weapon war that simulated a thousand years ago.

In this way, after a week of shooting, this scene, which was considered the most difficult scene in the whole film, was successfully shot.

Many extras got frostbite during the filming, and they also had a lot of frostbite on their bodies. For this reason, the crew not only invited a medical team specializing in frostbite to come in, but also paid these extras double the salary, which was barely enough to appease them.

In the end, Wu Yuan couldn't stand it anymore. He saw several extras lying in a corner of the set licking their frostbitten skin with saliva, and he also paid injury subsidies to these injured extras.

Even Zhang Hanyu, the leading actor, got frostbite during the filming, Hu Ge's lips were scratched, and Zhu Yilong's legs were frozen and numb for a time.

Finally. On the day the filming was completed, Hu Ge and Zhu Yilong almost threw away their weapons. It is estimated that their excitement and happiness may be higher than the day of the final shooting.

It was really too torturous to shoot the cruel war scenes in such a cold weather. The leading actors felt that it was a rare opportunity, but in fact, it was even more difficult for the extras, because sometimes the extras had to lie on the ground for several hours, waiting for the leading actors to repeatedly shoot the fighting scenes, and they were just the fallen soldiers in the background.

Wu Yuan also had to temporarily give all the crew members a three-day vacation, allowing them to go back to the city to have a good rest, massage and bath, and soothe their bodies and minds.

He also moved into the most luxurious five-star hotel in the city with his wife, and personally took frostbite ointment to apply medicine to his wife.

Yes, the leading actors were more or less frostbitten, and it made no sense that Liu Yifei, the absolute heroine, would be fine.

In fact, because she had the most scenes and the longest shooting time every day, even if she had tried her best to keep her warm, because for the sake of the picture shooting effect, her hands were always exposed during the shooting, and the same was true for her face, so she was inevitably frostbitten and had a lot of frostbite.

But it just so happens that such "natural" frostbite is very suitable for the characters in the movie. After all, it is impossible to say that it is not cold and not frostbitten in ancient winter wars. This image is more in line with reality, and the character image of Mulan is also more resolute.

It is hard for the heroine Liu Yifei.

Wu Yuan can be sure that although she also had a hard time shooting in the original version of "Mulan", she must have never suffered such hardship, and her face would not be frozen red.

After all, there is no snow on the prairie in New Zealand.

But this life is different. The winter in Hulunbuir is really torturous, which makes Wu Yuan unexpected.

After all, when he came to scout the scene, Wu Yuan felt Hulunbuir in summer, which was beautiful and cool, and made people feel relaxed and happy.

As for Hulunbuir in winter, he only saw the photos he brought at that time, and photos cannot convey temperature. Just looking at the photos will only make you feel that Hulunbuir in winter is also beautiful, and even has a kind of soul-shaking beauty, but you can't experience the cruelty of Hulunbuir in winter.

So when the shooting location was decided, Wu Yuan thought it was a vacation, and he thought the foreigners would be happy here.

But when the shooting started, he knew it was not a vacation at all, but a winter hell trip. The foreigners complained every day except the first three days, which was really beautiful. It was getting harder and harder!

So he had to give everyone three days off after completing a big scene shooting, otherwise he was really afraid that the crew members would not be able to hold on.

"Does it hurt?" Holding the frostbite ointment, Wu Yuan carefully applied it on Liu Yifei's red right hand, blowing it while applying it.

Liu Yifei looked at her husband who was applying the ointment in front of her with tender eyes, and her lips curled up slightly: "It hurts a little now."

"But I really didn't feel any pain during the filming, and I didn't even feel cold."

"That's because you were too focused during filming." Wu Yuan frowned and said with some dissatisfaction: "Other actors know the pain, why don't you know it, and you still shout stupidly that this time is not good? Try another one.”

To be honest, Liu Yifei is the wife of the director. Otherwise, if she were another director, in such a cruel shooting environment, she would take the initiative to shout that she wanted to do another one and try it again. Such words would definitely be resented by other actors in the same group. On!

Isn't this a fool?

"No way." Liu Yifei pouted. She was obviously a young woman in her thirties, but she could still see a lot of girliness in her body. Just when she was about to retort a few words, Wu Yuan's cell phone suddenly rang. When he got up, he had to stop chatting temporarily, picked up the phone and took a look at it, then answered the call.

"Hello."

"Um, um, oh."

"I see."

"Are you sure it will be on the Spring Festival schedule?"

"I have no objection. I have no right to control this matter anyway. I hope it will be released smoothly and be a big hit at the box office."

After a few simple words, Wu Yuan hung up the phone.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yifei asked curiously after listening to the whole process.

"Bruce Lee is scheduled to be released in mainland China." Wu Yuan said with unexplained meaning: "I didn't expect that after all the twists and turns, Disney still hasn't given up on releasing it in domestic theaters!" (End of Chapter)