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Chapter 490 Black Snow
The finalization time of "Zodiac" is in May, and it is expected to be released near the end of this year.And Fang Yi's new film is about to start preparations now, because it is a war film after all.

The preparation period for a film ranges from a few days, weeks to months, among which war films happen to be one of the longest, sometimes a few months are not enough, it takes a year or two, because it needs to be compared with historical materials match.

According to historical data, the entry of volunteers to participate in combat took place in October 1950, when there was heavy snowfall in North Korea, and a series of influential combat operations also took place during the winter, such as the battle of Changjin Lake from November 10 to December 11. , At that time, the temperature was as low as minus 27 degrees. During the Battle of Shangganling from October 12 to November 24, 30, the temperature was also minus 1952 degrees.

There is an introductory novel about the Korean war called "Black Snow". The author described the scene at that time: "Snowflakes fell from time to time in the sky, and the sky and the earth were vast, but under the bombardment of the mountains and plains, even the snowflakes on the ground were black."

——Now from a technical point of view, there are two ways to shoot this kind of scene, one is to go to the Northeast Plain and wait until winter, and find a similar terrain to obtain local materials, the other is to build a snow scene in the recording studio, Fang Yi chose the latter.

The shooting time of "Zodiac" reached five months. If the preparation time is counted, the shooting period must be longer.Once spring comes, the crew can only stare at the melting snow scene in a daze. According to the law of the industry, it is likely to take two winters to shoot, which means it will take at least nearly two years.

Sunglasses King and Chen Kaige could do this, but Fang Yi was unwilling.

However, even though the giant studio was booked early as the shooting location for the Battle of Changjin Lake, how far the base technology can be simulated, and whether it can completely replace the actual shooting, Fang Yi still needs to practice.They decided to do a small project to verify it first.

Lao Ke and William took the lead in making technical preparations, and soon came up with preliminary results:

It took base three days to build a small-scale scene, and asked special actors to put on military uniforms and lie on the green carpet without doing anything, just staring straight ahead with resolute eyes, as if there were a group of enemies in front of them.

Then it took another four days to make special effects, and the two big bosses went out to do the hard work in person, and asked Fang Yi to check after repeated verification.The video is only 27 seconds long, and the general content is that a sniper is lying on the snow field, keeping as still as possible to reduce physical exertion.After he found that there was no enemy, he gently pulled his hands back and rubbed them up and down.This is to keep the blood flowing, lest the hand be completely frozen and unable to pull the trigger.

Fang Yi met a veteran of the Korean War in the 301 General Hospital before. He said that he was too cold in the past, and when he found that the enemy was about to stand up and shoot, he was shot down.Because he thought he was moving desperately fast, but in fact, from the other party's point of view, he was so frozen that his actions seemed to be in slow motion.

This is the storyline of the short film, and it is the scenes of the short film that really show the kung fu.The heavy snow, the trenches lit by gunpowder, the yellow hospital tents with a sense of age, the simple but complete wards, the woods with rich light and shadow layers, and the fog in the forest are faintly visible... The details of the elements in the scene fill the atmosphere. , creating a realistic winter battlefield.

Fang Yi read it several times and asked, "What is true and what is false."

William answered before Old Ke: "A few simple wooden frames, a few curtains, these are real...the rest are all special effects."

Fang Yi was taken aback: "You mean even the tents are fake!"

"Yes, the curtain is real and the tent is fake."

"So, can you move this set? For example, set fire to the tent or something."

William chuckled, which meant that it must be impossible.He and Lao Ke looked at each other, and said: "It is definitely possible to do it regardless of the cost, but it is unnecessary. It is better to find a real tent to burn... We are here to verify the technology, what do you think?"

"Not bad." Fang Yi nodded. "However, there are still a lot of bugs, which were not made by the Volunteer Army at the time. You should refer to the Soviet-German battlefield. It was not like this at the time of the Korean War. You have to do more homework..."

Old Ke shrugged: "Hospitals, forests, field fortifications... I thought these could be applied anywhere."

Fang Yi didn't know what to say for a while.

After all, it has been decades, and it has been many years since I made this kind of movie, and Lao Ke is an American, so of course he doesn't know anything about the Korean War.

In fact, compared with the Battle of Changjin Lake, the subsequent blockade of Cheorwon was more in line with heroism.

Imagine that you are a soldier of the 189th Division, and your division commander received an order from a higher-level leader to be in charge of blocking the US military in Cheorwon for more than 3 days. There are about 189 people in the 9400th Division. There is no favorable terrain, no field fortifications, no field hospitals, and only light-armed infantry.In order to complete the task, the division commander made an unimaginable decision to break up the whole division into more than 200 small units responsible for more than 200 positions, requiring each position to hold off as long as possible.

On this 500-square-kilometer battlefield, you know you're just one of them, and you're likely to die here.You are thousands of kilometers away from home, and everything here is different from your hometown. You are only accompanied by birch forests, sunshine, a few bullets, self-use grenades, a handful of fried rice, and endless loneliness.

But you don't feel afraid, because the reason why you came here is for your home not to be as dilapidated as here.This was indeed the thinking of many people in the Volunteer Army at the time. It is recorded in historical materials that quite a few soldiers came to North Korea. The letter vowed to repel the enemy at all costs.

Fang Yi is quite satisfied with the effect of the experimental film made by Lao Ke.However, the actual filming of this kind of film project is not just for him to shoot his head alone, more people participate in the preparation of the film.If it works, it will not only be the base special effects company, but also the Republic Era, as well as the DJ drone provider that has not appeared for a long time, and a series of large-scale heavy-duty companies headquartered in the capital that have established connections through "Zodiac". Central enterprises in the equipment manufacturing industry... They will all participate in film production in various forms.

On the last day of May, the Republic held a meeting of directors.

Participants included Fang Yi, Guo Fan, Lu Yang, and representatives of other sponsors mentioned.Needless to say about the coordination work at the meeting, Guo Fan had doubts about the structure of Fang Yi's story, and he approached Fang Yi privately after the meeting:

"Modern people stumbled into the Korean War by mistake, and participated in the Battle of Changjin Lake and the Cheorwon Blockade... I won't talk about technical things. It can be done now. I mainly want to talk about the structure of the story. , this story structure seems to be a bit...uh..."

Guo Fan was euphemistic and euphemistic, "Top-heavy?"

(End of this chapter)