China Entertainment started from Nortel 2002

Chapter 938: Criticism and Filming in Progress
If an ordinary person were to write an article like this, they would definitely throw it under the fire.

The worship of foreigners and sissy culture mentioned in it is very popular, but there are many so-called fan groups, and these people are very aggressive for their idols.

But for Li Mu, Zhang Yi and Chen Kaige, this was not a problem at all.

Like Li Mu, he is both a director and a capitalist.

These fans only pick on the weak and dare not say anything about the statement made by the Film Newspaper, let alone point their guns at Li Mu and others.

As this report from China Film News came out, it received rounds of applause.

Because in recent years, sissy culture has really become popular, and many male idols put on makeup more delicately than women.

Wu Jing criticized it two years ago, and although the general public applauded, she was still severely criticized by her fans.

But this time, netizens found that these fans did not dare to criticize anymore.

"I have to say, what Li Mu said is right. Indeed, I have discovered that in recent years, many people have almost forgotten the history of the past, and their memory has become even fainter. We need such movies to awaken the memory of our nation."

"Every fifty years, people close their history textbooks and prepare to forget. I hope that The Battle at Lake Changjin can make people open their history textbooks again."

"That's a good criticism. The sissy culture is too serious now and needs to be rectified. By the way, aren't those fans awesome? Go ahead and criticize them if you have the guts. Keep criticizing!"

"Hahaha, the people above don't dare. It might be okay to criticize Wu Jing, but if they criticize Li Mu and make him unhappy, their idols will be silenced in the circle. They are just bad, not stupid!"

"."

At the same time, Li Mu has no extra time to pay attention to these external affairs.

From the moment the filming of "Changjin Lake" started, it was destined to be a race against time.

You have to know that if this movie is shot by a single director, it will take at least one or two years. But now there are three directors and 16 teams of all sizes following them to advance the progress at the same time, and a crew of nearly 8000 people. Even under such conditions, the plan has been completed by May. You can imagine the amount of work involved in the filming.

A week after Li Mu and Zhang Yi started the project, Chen Kai brought the crew to Dandong.

The three directors and the shooting location slowly began to approach.

The first challenge the three people encountered soon came.

Because there are many war scenes in heavy snow in the movie, the chance of snowing during the filming process is difficult to predict, so everyone also prepared artificial snow.

However, a heavy snow came quietly at this time. At first, everyone was very happy because there was no need to create artificial snow scenes. It was much easier for the staff, and they quickly took out some snow scene shots to shoot.

However, the next day, when Li Mu and his colleagues arrived at the shooting site, they were dumbfounded.

Because the snow was falling very densely, the thickness of some snow did not match the thickness of the snow in the previous shots and the subsequent scenes had to follow up with the previous shots.

It would be fine if the shot was taken in a different scene or two days later, but it is impossible for this to happen in the same scene and at the same time, otherwise the audience will be able to find the flaw at a glance.

At this time, the one who arrived earlier than Li Mu and the others was Huang Jianxin. He was holding a mobile phone and seemed to be speaking very quickly, making one call after another.

"Director Huang, when will the staff be able to deal with this problem?" Li Mu explained to Wu Jing and asked him to tell the rest of the crew and take a break. Then he hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"One morning." Huang Jianxin sighed, "Director Zhang and Director Chen are in the same situation. The entire crew has to stop working for half a day today." "I didn't anticipate this situation at the beginning. I was negligent."

Li Mu was a little careless. It had been a long time since everyone had taken pictures of the snow scene, so they forgot about this problem.

"Then why not call Director Zhang and Director Chen to have a meeting? Don't waste everyone's time after get off work. This way we can shoot a few more shots in the evening."

Li Mu immediately thought of a replacement plan.

Nowadays, during filming, the directors’ team has their own meetings, and the actors also have their own meetings.

The cast even made a rule of their own, which was that after each day off, all the main characters of the Seventh Company would eat together in a room and talk about what they had filmed, what they would film next, what the director had talked to them about, and what they knew about each other.

If you have any ideas or questions, raise them quickly and discuss them with the director.

"Okay, let's do it this way. Otherwise, if we spend half a day here and half a day there, we won't be able to finish the filming in June, let alone May."

Huang Jianxin nodded and immediately made the contact.

The director team meeting naturally would not only include Li Mu, Zhang Yi and Chen Kaige. All sixteen team members would come, and the production team led by Huang Jianxin would also attend as observers.

However, the meetings are usually chaired by Li Mu, Zhang Yi and Chen Kaige in turn, and whoever has a question usually speaks first.

After everyone reviewed tomorrow's schedule, they began to feel a little worried.

"The thing we are most afraid of now is not the snow. If it snows, at most we can just re-plow the ground and return it to the same density as before.

If it rains, then there’s nothing to do. The snow that was previously laid will turn into mud, and we’ll have to find a way to solve it.”

Zhang Yi said slowly, then looked at Huang Jianxin, "We need to find the meteorological department to accurately understand the current weather conditions so that we can prepare in advance."

"Okay, I'll apply for it and try to get it resolved within the next two days."

"The plan is to go ahead until May, when the weather will be warm. How to recreate the severe cold weather of the Korean battlefield is also a problem, and we need to prepare for this problem in advance."

Brother Chen Kai also summarized the issues he thought of after the snowfall.

Because the subsequent scenes had to be shot in the cold winter, no matter which scene was moved forward, this problem had to be solved for the remaining scenes in May.

"I encountered this before when I was filming The Flowers of War. I used a large fan, but it was too strong for the actors."

Zhang Yimou had dealt with this problem, but it was obviously solved in a simple and rough way at the time.

"We've remembered Director Zhang's plan. Let's do it this way for now and optimize it later." Huang Jianxin nodded and motioned his men to write it down.

"By the way, Director Li, you have to ask Wu Jing and the others to finish their scenes half an hour earlier these days. The action shots here include a lot of large-scale performances, which require the cooperation of all departments in the early stage. We can't let everyone wait, and there's no time, so the actors have to prepare first."

Zhang Yi immediately asked Li Mu for the person, because Li Mu was filming the main part at that time, which took up some of the main staff's time.

"Okay, I'll adjust the shooting schedule and move their scenes forward a bit."

Li Mu knew that this was the problem of three people shooting at the same time. At this time, it was necessary to reasonably allocate manpower and scenes, which was extremely important in shooting.
(End of this chapter)