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Chapter 972 Influence ([-] updates per day, please subscribe~)

"Huo, it's really hot here!"

The crew left London and came to Tangier, Morocco, which is located in a coastal country in northwest Africa. The weather in Morocco immediately made the crew of "Inception" feel a different temperature.

Zhao Fei fanned his hat and couldn't help complaining.

Tangier is located at the entrance from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea at the northern tip of Morocco. The urban area is distributed on the seaside hillside, and the beach stretches for more than 10 kilometers. The scenery is beautiful and the climate is mild and pleasant.

Because Morocco belongs to the Arab countries, there are many Arab buildings in the old city, such as the Great Soko Square, the Kasbah Castle, and the Sultan's Palace.

The plot filmed here is mainly the plot where the dream builder Chen Daoxuan finds the pretender Duan Yihong and the pharmacist Liu Yunlong, and also includes a chasing and fleeing scene of Chen Daoxuan.

Wu Jianye smiled and said to Zhao Fei: "Don't complain, the shooting here is a test for you, is there any problem?"

Regarding the scene of Chen Daoxuan's rapid escape, various shooting methods such as hand-held Steadicam, wide-angle shooting, and walking shooting will be used. It is indeed a test for Zhao Fei.

Usually, photographers can use rail cars and rockers to reduce camera shake when shooting on the move.

But Steadicam has great flexibility and convenience.

It can take longer shots than the rocker, and the track needs a flat ground, but the Steadicam can adapt to more environments such as mountains and steps, and can complete more complex mobile shots.

This is the difference between them and the characteristic of Steadicam.

Steadicam is a highly man-machine-integrated device. Not all people can wear it to achieve the desired effect. Steadicam needs to adjust the walking posture, the angle of the waist and shoulders, the easy-going degree of the arms, the distribution of fingers, and the three-axis of the machine. Special training and calibration are carried out in several links such as balance. In fact, Steadicam is a special type of work in the professional field.

Nowadays, there are very few people using this technology in China, and more Hollywood film companies will use it, because if you want to use this thing well, you must carry out scientific exercises and professional calibration.

The use of Steadicam technology has appeared in the 70s.

In 1976, Stallone's "Rocky" was one of the first feature films to use a Steadicam. In the play, photographer Garrett Brown climbed the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to show Stallone's heroic posture, and everyone was fascinated by it.

This shot is one of the most memorable in the film, a shot that was unattainable before the invention of the Steadicam.

In 1980's The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick used a Steadicam shot to capture the hallways of a haunted house, and another shot of Jack Nicholson walking through a snowy fence path.

Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and many other directors have used extremely complex Steadicam lenses to show the inner world of characters and scenes.

In 1990's "A Thief," Scorsese used a Steadicam to transport viewers into a bustling restaurant on Copacabana Beach.

In one five-minute-long shot, the audience watches as Reliota walks through the kitchen through the back door and up the stairs to the bar area before pausing to greet customers.This is one of the most engaging shots in the movie.

Steadicam was also used in special effects shots.

In 1983's "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi", the photographer Garrett Brown took the camera to walk slowly in several places in Redwood National Park in California for the scene of the car chase. .

The special effects crew fast-forwarded these shots and spliced ​​them with blue-screen shots of the actors in the automatic cars to get such an exciting set of car chases.

Without the Steadicam, these lenses would shake when fast forwarding.

In order to shoot the scene in Tangier, Wu Jianye specially transferred a photographer from Phantom Pictures to provide one-on-one tutoring to Zhao Fei, and now it is to see the effect of Zhao Fei's learning.

Zhao Fei smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have been learning this technique a few years ago, and with this special training, I guarantee there will be no problems!"

Wu Jianye smiled, he was very reassured about Zhao Fei, there was no pretending to understand between the two of them, as long as Zhao Fei said there was no problem, Wu Jianye would believe that there was no problem with him.

In the shooting in Tangier, not only the shooting technique was a difficulty, but also in the chase scene, the crowd was also a very difficult scene to control. performance appears.

At the same time, this also means that the crew needs to invest more manpower and material resources to help those guest performers. These people are not all group performers, but local people.

After the crew checked into the hotel, Wu Jianye found Chen Daohuang.

Chen Daoxuan's role here is the top priority. After all, in everyone's impression, Chen Daoxuan has never filmed such an action scene, although before that, Chen Daoxuan has received action training and also starred in "Eternal Night" this movie.

But the martial arts in "Eternal Night" and the action scenes in "Inception" are two concepts.

However, Chen Daoxuan didn't feel too difficult about this scene, instead he comforted Wu Jianye.

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Although you are confident, you can't be too careless about this kind of thing. After all, this shooting is different from "Eternal Night". Tomorrow, the crew will shoot other scenes first, and Tan Yang will take you Familiarize yourself with the situation at the scene first, and do some advance training at the same time, so as not to have any unexpected problems during the shooting!"

Although the crew took various protective measures when they started preparing, in order to avoid accidents during filming, especially for some action movies, if accidents occur, the filming of the entire crew will not be possible. A very uncomfortable thing is the possibility of postponing the shooting at every turn.

In another time and space, in Tsui Hark's "New Dragon Inn", the corner of Lin Qingxia's eye was almost pierced, and later she had to act as a stand-in to help complete the subsequent filming.

During the filming of "Once Upon a Time", Li Lianjie was also injured, and the subsequent shooting can only be staged.

The most serious thing is that at the beginning of Cheng Long's "Brothers and Tigers", when he fell from a tree, he almost died. If it wasn't for the best doctor giving a lecture in the local area at that time, Cheng Long's consequences would be disastrous.

Although the action scene in the movie "Inception" here is not too dangerous, but not too dangerous does not mean that there is no danger.

Now the filming of the whole film is over halfway, if Chen Daoxuan is injured at this time, the whole crew has to stop and wait for Chen Daoxuan to recover.

It was because of this problem that Wu Jianye became more careful.

Chen Daohuang has no opinion on Wu Jianye's arrangement. Although Chen Daoxuan is confident in his acting skills, the more he is an actor, the more he will protect himself, because they all know clearly that movies are never a safe shooting process.

Any accident may happen, the more inconspicuous the place, the more likely to be injured.

On the second day, Wu Jianye really took shots of other people first, and asked Tan Yang to take Chen Daoxing to familiarize himself with the venue.

Before coming to Tangier, the vanguard of the crew had already arrived here, and also got in touch with the Tangier local government, who was also very supportive of Wu Jianye's ability to film here.

And gave great help, the local officials followed the crew and helped the crew with all communication.

Tourism is a very important industry for Tangier locals. They also know Wu Jianye's global influence, and hope to use Wu Jianye's movies to advertise for their local area.

Although Huaxia's tour group has not yet become an important contributor to the international tourism industry, Wu Jianye's influence has never been limited to Huaxia. Starting from "The Last Emperor", Wu Jianye has already had a certain influence in the world Power, after the release of "Jurassic Park", the influence will be even greater.

To give a simple example, after Wu Jianye's movie "The World of Chu Xing" was released, although Qiong Province experienced a real estate bubble, the filming location of "The World of Chu Xing" became a tourist attraction.

Many tourists will go there to visit.

There are countless such examples in later generations, such as Feng Pants' "If You Are the One" series, the two "If You Are the One" brought RB's Hokkaido and China's Hainan into flames!
Later, Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown" series also made Sawadika popular
These are actually the magic of movies. At that time, Huaxia's movies did not only drive the interests of the movies or peripheral products. An excellent movie may even drive the tourism industry of the shooting location.

But that was Huaxia 20 years later.

During this period, Wu Jianye was the only Chinese filmmaker with such influence!

What the Tangier City Government now values ​​is not the China behind Wu Jianye, but Wu Jianye's global influence, especially in Europe and the United States.

"Director Wu, you are very welcome to shoot your new movie with us. During the filming period, I will be in charge of everything your crew does here. If you need anything, just let me know!"

Officials sent by the Tangier government talked with Wu Jianye with a smile through an interpreter.

Morocco belongs to the Arab countries, Arabic is the official language, but the common language is French, so this official also speaks French.

Wu Jianye does not understand French
Through the translation, Wu Jianye expressed his gratitude to the other party.

In fact, the filming here was really smooth because of the presence of the other party, especially when shooting Chen Daoxuan's scenes in the next few days, it became more prominent.

Because the local folk customs are different from those in China, it is very likely that there will be problems when shooting outside because of these seemingly unimportant things.

For example, the first movie "Peacock Princess" starring Wu Jianye before, because it was filmed in Yunnan Province, many local customs are different from those of the Han people. If there were no teachers watching from the sidelines, there might really be problems. up.

The same goes for the shoot in Tangier.

At the same time, because of the company of their local officials, the communication with the local people went smoothly.

At least after Wu Jianye made the request, the other party could help Wu Jianye solve it.

But even so, because those ordinary people are not professional actors, they would often look at the camera inadvertently during filming. It was precisely this kind of performance that made Chen Daoxuan's scene filmed for five days. time.

Every night when I go back, I can see Chen Daoxuan already paralyzed.

However, regarding these difficulties, Chen Daoxuan never opened his mouth.

Later, it was Zhao Fei who suggested finding a local masseuse to help Chen Daoxing regain his strength. Otherwise, after the five-day filming, Chen Daoxing would have to lie down exhausted!
After the filming of this scene was over, Chen Daohuang couldn't help but said: "Why do I feel that filming this scene is more tiring than filming "Eternal Night"!"

Jiang Yun smiled and said: ""Eternal Night" was filmed in China, and the actors who acted with you are all professional actors, so it is naturally easier to pass. This time it is different. The common people here have no shooting experience at all, your own performance is fine, but they can't."

In fact, Chen Daohuang himself knew about the problem Jiang Yun mentioned, but he simply complained now that the filming was over.

Wu Jianye laughed beside him and said, "It's too early to be tired. We have just finished less than half of the plot, and we still have a few tough battles to fight!"

Chen Daoxing sat up straight at this time, and said, "Director Wu, don't worry, I'm just talking casually, we can do whatever we want for the next filming, there's no problem!"

Regarding Chen Daoxuan's major, Wu Jianye naturally believed it, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, the movie is not finished, I won't let you off so easily!"

Everyone smiled when they heard it.

For people like them, in fact, they don't take the difficulties and fatigue they encountered during filming very seriously, and they don't think about the actors of later generations, who are so precious, and a little scratch on their hands is a great dedication .

For them, the most important thing in their hearts is always the film works, and they have their own awe for their own work!

Why in later generations, when filming "Looking for a Gun", Jiang Yun was so strong in the middle and late stages, because he found that the director did not have enough ability to control this movie.
If the director's ability is enough, they will not have more ideas, just finish filming their own scenes seriously!
Directors and actors are mutual achievements. A good director can stimulate the potential of an actor, and a good actor can also drive the director's ability.

Of course, if a director is deadwood, no matter how good an actor is, it’s useless. In the end, he can only guarantee that he can keep his acting skills in bad movies!
(End of this chapter)