What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 153 Bringing the drama to a successful conclusion
In fact, going to Zaozhuang is no longer arranging the location of the Flying Tigers' railway drama, but choosing the location of a guerrilla drama.

After Yang Shu began signing actors, he fully understood that the Zaozhuang Railway Bureau had undergone electrification, and there were no steam locomotives running on the entire road section.

Query information There are still two places in the country that use steam locomotives. One is the small train in Jiayang, Leshan, Sichuan. It has only a dozen kilometers of track. It is mainly used for tourism and viewing rapeseed. It has now been listed as a national industrial heritage protection list. .

But this is a small narrow-gauge train, much smaller in size, and it has been converted to a gas locomotive that does not burn coal.

The other is the coal train in the Shanxi Mining Bureau, but when Yang Shu called to ask, the Shanxi Mining Bureau told him that the electrification had just been upgraded in April this year, and there were steam locomotives, but the old wooden sleepers and rails had been dismantled. .

At that time, Yang Shu was a little dazed, what to do, there are no suitable railways and trains, why can't we build an old railway for filming?

But he quickly remembered that last year when Sister Tao was filming "Ode to Joy", she took time to go to London to shoot "The British Showdown". , although this movie has not been released yet, but there is always a place to shoot it, you might as well ask where it was shot.

If it is in the Shanxi Mining Bureau, it is equivalent to not asking.

He immediately checked the relevant promotional materials on the Internet, and one sentence in a report was very encouraging: "The crew only found a steam train that can still run on the railway somewhere in the Northeast, so they have been filming in the Northeast where the temperature is minus 20 degrees. "

Somewhere in the Northeast, I didn't even say where it was.

The railway transformation in Northeast China was earlier than that in Shandong, and there are still steam trains, which is a bit strange, but Yang Shu saw acquaintances in the starring list, which is easy to inquire about.

Wang Kai played a retired sharpshooter in "Railway Flying Tigers". He opened a small noodle shop next to the train station as the owner, and was called a counselor by others.

What a coincidence, Yangshu received Hei Niuchen and Bingbing in Zhuanta Hutong two days ago, and negotiated the role and the team's cooperation with the group performance, and Wang Kai was about to be invited for a role.

Poplar called him.

Wang Kai was filming "Ode to Joy 2" and seemed very happy to receive Yang Shu's call: ""Railway Flying Tiger" was filmed in Tieling, the only place in the country where there are old-fashioned steam locomotives, and there are Japanese-style ones."

"Why does Tieling still exist?" Yang Shu heaved a sigh of relief, but he was also a little strange: "The Northeast is a heavy industrial area, and it was rebuilt very early."

"Because there is a steam locomotive festival in Tieling, Tieling Diaobingshan Steam Locomotive Expo Park specially reserved a batch of locomotives and a section of old railway, and our scene was filmed there."

Yang Shu came to a sudden: "The Japanese locomotive should have been left by the Japanese back then, so is there a supporting old station in Diaobingshan?"

"No, but there is a place to set up the scene. "Railway Flying Tiger" was built by myself. It has a train station, a locomotive repair workshop, and a street in the Republic of China."

"Did you keep it after filming?"

Many movie sets are semi-permanent, and they are usually built in cooperation with the local area and can be left as tourist spots.

Brother Chen Kai likes to do this the most. After making a movie, he leaves a movie city, known as the contractor of the film and television industry.

Wang Kai sounded a little regretful: "No, we dismantled it immediately after filming."

"Railway Flying Tiger" invested [-] million yuan. I didn't expect so many things to be built and then demolished. Most of them didn't agree with the local issues.

Since there is a place where we can shoot, that's great, at worst, the crew of "Warrior" will also set up one.

Shandong was successively occupied by Germany and Japan. The old railway stations were either German-style buildings or Japanese-style buildings. However, after the renovation, they were basically demolished for modernization, including the rather artistic Jinan Railway Station.

Next, you might as well browse through historical materials, find albums and pictures of the year, and build corresponding stations and streets as needed.

Although Tieling is located in the northeast, it has the same northern urban style as Zaozhuang. With the setting and special effects, it is not difficult to restore an old-fashioned small town with a heavy industrial atmosphere.

Yangshu is relatively generous. If the scene built after filming is still usable, it doesn’t matter whoever wants to give it to someone for free.

But this is something for later, he invited Wang Kai to play a role, so we just talked about it together.

There are more than [-] main actors in "Warrior", and the lead actors are basically confirmed. Others are not a problem. There are many mature actors of the era.

Of course there are many villains in the play, but there is actually only one villain running through the plot, and that is the Japanese agent Nagano Shuichi who killed the captain based on Kawashita Taniki.

Yang Shu was hesitant to ask who would be more suitable for the role. Sister Tao recommended Zu Feng, and the two had collaborated in "Ode to Joy".

"Teacher Zu is famous for playing villains, so he is definitely qualified for this role."

Calling Zu Feng teacher is really not polite. When he was studying at Nortel, he was in the same class as Huang Jiaozhu and Chen Kun. After graduation, he stayed at the school to teach acting and lines. Ma Su and Yao Di were his students.

Although the prototype is only in his early twenties, this can be adjusted, and Teacher Zu's acting skills are definitely capable of it.

But as Sister Tao said, he is famous for acting as a villain, and the image of a villain is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even people in the industry like Yang Shu feel that he is not a good person when they watch "Ode to Joy", and they get angry when they watch it.

The Japanese army installed such a person to infiltrate, if the captain was fooled, it would inevitably make the audience feel stupid.

Many movies fall into this cliché, the enemy is not only stupid but also looks crooked, and in the end he kills the good guy, so what is the good guy who is even more stupid?
Therefore, Yang Shu intends to invite someone with a positive image to play the role of Japanese agent Nagano Shuichi. When the true face is revealed, the audience can be really surprised, and the enemy can feel the cunning and strength of the enemy, so the final victory is particularly valuable.

Like Brother Chao, Wang Kai has basically never played a negative role since his debut. The only not-so-positive role is Huang Kegong who shot and killed a schoolgirl when he couldn't fall in love.

His image is sunny and upright. If this kind of person tries to sneak into the organization, the possibility of success is relatively high.

In order to facilitate Wang Kai's acceptance, Yang Shu first introduced the character, and then talked about the design ideas for this character.

And he also changed the plot. Originally, it was arranged that after the hero captured Nanjing, he accidentally found Shuichi Nagano on the street, and shot him on the spot after a fierce battle.

Now it is changed to the male protagonist returning to China after fighting the Battle of the Han River, and accidentally found him on the streets of Shanghai, so he was shot on the spot after a fierce battle.

In this way, Wang Kai will be a character who has lived longer than Hei Niuchen, lurking until the end before being killed, drawing a successful conclusion to this drama.

Wang Kai didn't expect to be invited to play such a role. He didn't know how to respond for a moment, hesitating like Jin Dong: "I have never played a villain, let alone a ghost agent. This has to be considered, and I have to talk to my agent about it." discuss."

The follow-up results were the same as Jin Dong's, and Wang Kai replied the next day: "After careful consideration, I decided to give it a try."

So when it was confirmed that Wang Kai joined "Warrior", Yang Shu had already made it clear that the railway drama had to be filmed in Tieling Tiaobing Mountain, and in Zaozhuang, he only needed to inspect Weishan Lake and other locations.

In the afternoon of the next day, Yang Shu and Ning Song waited for a small boat to choose the scenery in Weishan Lake, humming the famous song with the wind blowing: "The sun in the west is about to set, and Weishan Lake is quiet...

The sun in the west is about to set, and the end of the devil is coming..."

"Railway Flying Tigers" also used this song, and Andy Lau was invited to sing it. It seems almost meaningless to film the Railway Flying Tigers without singing this song.

At this time, Liu Man called from the bustling crowd of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, telling her and Jiang Shiyu to leave for China tomorrow.

Also reported good news: "Today's box office is 4.5 million yen, equivalent to almost 3000 million yuan!"

(End of this chapter)