Perfect Superstar

Nearly a month has passed since the first part of the martial arts movie "Swordsman Out of Huashan" was officially launched in Ningshan Film and Television City, but the shooting work is not going smoothly.

At least it has not reached the planned progress, and it is basically certain that there is no hope of landing in domestic theaters during the summer vacation.

This demoralized the crew a bit.

You must know that Chen Fei Media has prepared for this big movie for nearly a year, and the preparations in all aspects can be said to be quite sufficient. However, during the actual shooting process, they still encountered many problems.

These problems are mainly focused on martial arts.

"Crack!"

Chen Guozhi put down the microphone in his hand, shook his numb legs, stood up, clapped his hands and said, "Let's stop here today, and continue tomorrow."

On the set, both the actors and the crew members all heaved a sigh of relief.

Today's filming is extremely tiring. There are both literary and martial arts. The two directors, Chen Guozhi and Lu Chen, are personally in charge, and they attach great importance to it. Naturally, everyone is dedicated and does not dare to slack off.

Since the filming started at 7 o'clock in the morning, it is now more than 9 o'clock in the evening. Everyone's nerves are tense, and they are very tired physically and mentally. Now they have finally persisted to the end.

But with so much hard work and sweat, there are not many qualified shots, and I have to reshoot tomorrow, which will be a new round of suffering.

Lu Chen stood up and said, "Everyone, go to bed early and don't stay up late..."

Of course he could see that everyone was not in high spirits, but that's how filmmaking is, and it would never be an easy thing to make a truly high-quality film.

Behind the success, there are often too many unknown hardships. The excitement and enjoyment that the audience sees in the theater requires them to work hard in obscurity.

Lu Chen can only find a way to make up for it, and will never relax his requirements because of this. In fact, many of the shots taken today are already excellent in the eyes of an insider, but they haven't realized what he wanted 100%. the effect to be achieved.

The crew members are under a lot of pressure, which is naturally reasonable.

At this moment, Chen Guozhi said to him: "Xiao Lu, let's go back to the hotel and talk for a while?"

Lu Chen was slightly taken aback, and quickly replied: "Okay."

When we got back to the hotel, it was already 10pm.

The place where Chen Guozhi and Lu Chen had a conversation was not in the room, but in the small restaurant. Also present were Chen Feier, the producer, the cameraman, the crew, and Chen Guozhi's assistant. confidant.

In fact, similar small meetings have been held several times during the filming process.

It's already so late, the hotel's restaurant must have closed long ago, but the crew of "Swordsman" stationed here are not ordinary guests, the service provided by the hotel is extremely considerate, no matter how late it is, there is no problem if you want to order a meal , Supper is no exception.

Chen Guozhi is getting old, he pays attention to health preservation and doesn't have such a good appetite. After eating a bowl of mushroom noodle soup, he is full, and then he pours a cup of Longjing tea and sips slowly.

Lu Chen and the others knew that he had something to say, so they ate something to fill their stomachs, asked the waiter to remove the plates, and drank tea with him.

After drinking a cup of tea, Chen Guozhi said in a deliberate tone: "Xiao Lu, our current shooting progress is quite behind, have you considered speeding up?"

The shooting progress was lagging behind, mainly because of the part that Lu Chen was in charge of.

In addition to playing the leading role, Lu Chen also served as the action director of "Swordsman". Action directors appeared very early in the film industry at home and abroad. They are mainly responsible for the design and guidance of the fighting in the film, and they are in charge of all action scenes. A leader in shooting, scheduling and editing.

However, Lu Chen's action director is different from other peers. According to his definition, the action director of martial arts films is based on the subjective and objective conditions of the script, director, actors, scene environment, etc. during the creation of martial arts action films. The overall person in charge of artistic creation activities such as the design, training, arrangement, scheduling, shooting, and editing of action scenes,

The importance is not below the director.

There are fundamental differences between "Swordsman" and other action films, including ghost films and the like. It is precisely to deepen this difference that Lu Chen has extremely strict requirements on the shooting of action scenes.

As a true martial arts movie, "Swordsman" has a lot of martial arts scenes. Lu Chen's pursuit of authenticity in action and fighting is to achieve an artistic sense of reality through artistic and technical processing.

Therefore, he must balance the relationship between truth and falsehood, and strive to reasonably "embed" martial arts actions into characters and plots in the logical relationship of the storyline, so as to make all martial arts actions in the film as natural as possible and exciting. .

And to achieve his goal and meet his requirements, it is undoubtedly a huge pressure for the actor!

"Swordsman" is not "A Chinese Ghost Story". The background of the film is grand, involving Shaolin, Wudang, Wuyue Sword School, Sun Moon God Sect and many other sects. There are many actors, but most of them lack this aspect. experience.

Using martial arts can undoubtedly solve a large part of the problems, but it is impossible for martial arts to replace from beginning to end, and it also requires corresponding training and cooperation. In addition, many group performers also have to learn basic routines.

As a result, there are really not enough people in the Lu family class. Many times, Lu Chen has to go off the stage to demonstrate in person and help the actors correct it repeatedly. It is a strange thing that the shooting progress is not behind!

Fortunately, all-digital photography does not use film now. In the past, I didn't know how many discs I would have wasted, and the cost was unbearable.

Delaying the schedule is a problem, and the bigger problem is the psychological pressure on the actors and crew.

Chen Guozhi's tone was not serious, but there was still a hint of questioning, which quietly made the atmosphere in the small restaurant solemn - was he expressing his dissatisfaction?

Lu Chen felt the pressure from this great director, he thought for a while, and replied in a deep voice: "Director Chen, according to the current situation, it is difficult for us to speed up the progress, I think we must first ensure the quality and effect... "

"We don't rush the schedule!"

About the same thing, Lu Chen told reporters before, but now he is answering to Chen Guozhi.

Chen Guozhi is the director of "Swordsman", Lu Chen's words inevitably challenged his authority.

Several important members of the film crew present couldn't help but panic. If the two have conflicts at work, can this film continue to be filmed like this?

Lu Chen's answer was too direct, can't he be more tactful? Or is it better to compromise?

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