This director needs to apologize

Chapter 85 Mu Qiang’s Psychological Lao Cao and Lao Fan
The crew meeting that day ended quickly. The heads of each department and the actors introduced themselves, exchanged contact information, and disbanded in less than 30 minutes.

Lin Xiao and Mr. Sha went into the mountain to supervise the work as usual and took away the main behind-the-scenes staff and three producers. Xiaomei and Life Producer led the convoy to follow behind and transported the large amount of materials in first.

The actors continue to train, and starting today, Liu Dongjun will also join in. The new recruits are also soldiers. Although the protagonist in the story has a weak military flavor, he still needs to have basic military qualities.

According to the original plan, they would train until New Year's Eve, and then take three days off to go home for the New Year.

After returning from the holiday, I started to practice live-fire shooting. I became familiar with the sounds of gunfire, artillery and explosions. I then fired at a high volume until I felt the smell of gunpowder smoke all over my body. The training was considered complete.

Liu Dongjun is still an exception. He only listens to the sound but does not touch the gun.

Chen Yiming did not follow the large troops into the mountains, but went to the resident multimedia classroom to watch movies alone.

In 2010, the military garrison has kept pace with the times, and the content on the local area network is quite rich, especially domestic and foreign war movies and documentaries.

Chen Yiming first pulled out the videos of several domestic military parades in the past 40 years and watched them over and over again, studying and comparing each close-up.

Facts have proved that memory did not deceive him. The state of the soldiers in the military parade after the border war was indeed completely different from the other times.

The veteran's murderous intent is not just a fantasy, it is real.

Then he began to pull out a large number of films, watching war movies at home and abroad, but what he recorded was not the shooting techniques, but his own emotional changes.

He doesn't look at the protagonist who has his own highlights, but only the supporting roles and supporting roles. He pulls out all the clips that he feels are dead enough and does not appear to be abrupt, and analyzes them frame by frame.

This method helped him filter out low-quality plot kills and sensational kills, saving a lot of time and energy.

Then in the imagination space of his mind, he replaced yesterday's Duan Yining with the actor in the original film, and re-screened it again combining the upper and lower parts.

The results were mixed.

The good thing is that the texture and atmosphere of the clip really improve.

When the role was replaced by Lao Duan, the act of decisively dying in the original film became more complex and diverse. It was no longer a simple "fighting one's best" and "seeking death", but had a sense of expectation of "surviving to create a miracle". .

The bad parts are also very prominent, which are incompatible with the previous and subsequent plots, and the overall rhythm is completely messed up.

The first one to bear the brunt is the protagonist. The emotional outburst stimulated by the death of the supporting character is either inadequate or too excessive. In any case, it is very low-level.

Then there are the other teammates and enemies, who are either so stupid that they burst into flames, or they are so evil that they are inhumane, which is not a good image anyway.

If you want to regain the rhythm, you have to increase the "intensity" of other actors accordingly.

If you don’t want to be robbed of the spotlight by a strong person, then your teammates and the protagonist must also be strong people.

And the enemy that can make a strong man fight must also be strong enough.

However, when it is filmed like this, who is the protagonist and who is the supporting role?
At the end of the process, Chen Yiming suddenly discovered that behind the war movie, it was actually the innate human desire to be strong.

"Soldier Assault" is a typical group drama, but what left the deepest impression on Chen Yiming was not Xu Sanduo, whose character arc was complete, but Yuan Lang, who only appeared halfway through the performance.

The protagonist of "Black Hawk Down" is obviously the Ranger team leader played by Josh Hartnett, but no matter how many times he replays the film, the target of emotional projection is still the Delta soldier played by Eric Bana.

Is it Duan Yihong who overwhelms Wang Baoqiang with his acting skills?Or does Eric have more aura than Josh?

Obviously it's not the case. It's purely due to the character. The strongman flavor is the most eye-catching in war movies.

It can be seen that Lao Duan's strongman acting method is actually not worth promoting, because it is impossible for every real army to be a king of soldiers, and similarly, the cast of war movies cannot be all Rambo.

However, when it comes to "1951" specifically, it's not necessarily completely impossible. Maybe there is room to try.

Because the supporting characters in this drama appear in stages in a relay style and will not appear at the same time, and the enemies are crushing and invincible, either cannons or airplanes.

This makes Duan Yining's strongman temperament less eye-catching due to sharing and hedging.

Only the protagonist Liu Dongjun is the unavoidable victim. Like Tang Monk on the way to seek Buddhist scriptures, he is always shrouded in the light of a bunch of strong men.

Fortunately, the character of Xiao Liu is a newbie, a half "outsider" on the peninsula battlefield, or a "human body camera".

In order to go to Europe's three major awards, Chen Yiming portrayed the growth of the messenger with great restraint. Until the end of the movie, the character's ideological state was only in the middle stage between "fulfilling the duty of a soldier" and "being angry about nuts".

In this way, the character is more similar to Xu Sanduo in the first half of "Soldier Assault". The impression given is deplorable, pitiful, and hateful, but definitely not cute.

Chen Yiming thought for a long time and felt that this design did deviate from the tone of Chinese war movies and had a bit of the dark and residual flavor of Western anti-war movies.

He couldn't help but laugh and cry. Is this middle school for physical education and Western learning for practical use?The main theme of the Westernization Movement?
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The reason why Chen Yiming mobilized a large number of troops to the station before the Spring Festival holiday was because he planned to conduct a script reading for the entire team.

Three days is just enough time to read the script completely, so that each department and all the main creatives can clarify their tasks, understand their respective boundaries, and be aware of it.

Now that Duan Tiancai's wishful thinking was completely disrupted, Chen Yiming had to make other adjustments.

Although he had vaguely made up his mind, he did not rush to discuss it with anyone. Instead, he found time to visit Captain Fan first in the evening.

Lao Fan and the political commissar of the regiment were stationed in northern Shanxi before the Spring Festival, but one of them would be stationed on the mountain to lead the team. Today happened to be the day when he came back to change shifts.

The entire engineering regiment is "borrowed" here, so the living conditions of Lao Fan, the regiment leader, are also average, just evolving from an eight-person room to a double room.

When Chen Yiming pushed the door open and entered the room, Captain Fan was sitting on the edge of the bed, stepping on the smoking basin with his bare feet and holding a large teapot sipping hot water.

At the other end of the room, there was another person with his back to the door, writing something at the desk next to the bed.

Chen Yiming bowed and nodded, saying hello, "Good evening, Uncle Fan. Hello, comrade. I'm sorry to disturb you." Old Fan was familiar with him, so he just nodded and put down the big teapot to help introduce him.

"Old Cao, this is a tribute to the director of the film, Chen Yiming. Even though he is young, he is already a great director with a box office of over [-] million."

"Xiao Chen, this is my partner, the political commissar of the Engineering Corps, Cao Bing. You can just call me Uncle Cao."

Chen Yiming quickly stepped forward, shook hands with Political Commissar Cao, who stood up and turned around, and said hello.

Comrade Political Commissar is a middle-aged man of medium height. His face and palms are rough, and his specific age cannot be determined. He has an average-looking face and is not tall or strong.

He has a very gentle temperament, and when placed next to Lao Fan, he feels a bit like Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.

Political Commissar Cao put down his pen and was about to go out quietly. He obviously planned to leave the room for Chen and Fan to talk, but he was stopped directly by Lao Fan.

"Listen up, Lao Cao. We work here in shifts. You will have many opportunities to deal with Xiao Chen later, and you will get to know each other well."

Then he turned to Chen Yiming and asked, "Is there any change in the construction plan? I just came down from the top today and the progress is pretty smooth."

Chen Yiming shook his head and said, "It has nothing to do with setting the scene. I came here to ask you a few questions."

Lao Fan laughed and said, "This is rare. You, a great director, come to me, a rough guy, what can you ask me?"

Chen Yiming smiled in agreement, and then asked, "Uncle Fan, you are a veteran and have seen a lot. You have really fought and seen bloody soldiers. Do you think your temperament is different from ordinary people at a glance?"
I know that Uncle Gao is a first-class meritorious man, and he must have been through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but when we met in the teahouse that time, why didn't I feel any difference between him and you? "

Old Fan dropped the smile on his face in astonishment and asked seriously, "Why do you want to ask this?"

Chen Yiming recounted to the two the story of Duan Yining's "manifestation in front of others" today, and then continued.

"I don't know if Teacher Duan's acting really matches the original appearance of a battlefield veteran.

But I carefully studied the video today and found that the troops reviewed in the 84 military parade were indeed different from other times. The majesty and evil spirit that affected my spirit was definitely not an illusion.

In fact, in terms of neat queues and neat clothes, the 84th military parade was the most ugly. "

Fan and Cao looked at each other, and Lao Fan thought for a while and asked, "Xiao Chen, I roughly understand what you mean. You want to ask what veterans who fought in the border war are like, right?

Na!Boss Cao over there had fought in the south, and his personal merit was second-rate.

Do you think there is anything unusual about him? "

Chen Yiming looked at Political Commissar Cao in surprise. He really didn't realize that he was just a county contractor based on his appearance.

The latter didn't say anything and smiled at him, showing two rows of shining white teeth.

Chen Yiming took advantage of the situation and asked, "Uncle Cao, when you first came down from the front line, did you feel any changes in yourself?

When you went home to visit your relatives after the war, did your family feel any change in you? "

After asking Chen Yiming, he felt a little stupid. After seeing life and death, returning to normal life, isn't it natural that there will be changes?It would be strange if there is no change.

After recalling for a moment, Cao Bing's answer seemed very sincere and he did not think that Chen Yiming was making trouble unreasonably.

"I didn't feel any difference myself, I just felt very lucky. I was just an ordinary soldier at that time, and more than half of the squad was disabled. Only three people, including me, had to be killed.

After that, my comrades transferred to other jobs and were demobilized. Only I stayed in the army. I have been wearing green leather until now, and I can't feel any change.

However, when I returned to my hometown for the first time after the war, the attitude of the people in the village towards me changed quite a bit. "

Chen Yiming became interested and couldn't help but listen more carefully.

"On the first night I came home, my mother didn't let me sleep in the house and made me sleep in the woodshed all night, saying it was to ward off evil spirits.

At that time, I also said that my mother was feudal and superstitious.

But my eldest brother has just held a baby for half a year. I cry as soon as I enter the house, but I stop crying when I go out. Do you think it's strange or not?

Before I joined the army, I was well-known as the king of children in the village. Because I was naughty, all the young boys loved to get behind me.

But it was different that time when I went back. No one came near me at all, and all the children in the village took a detour when they met me.

When I went back to my hometown to visit my relatives two years later, it was the same as before.

I didn't take it seriously at first, but now that you ask about it, I suddenly remembered it.

It really surprised me at the time, so I remember it very clearly.

Looking back now, the evil spirit you mentioned might really exist. As for why it disappeared later, it probably has something to do with me not fighting anymore. "

Chen Yiming continued to ask for confirmation, "Uncle Cao, have any of your comrades ever been in a situation similar to yours?"

Political Commissar Cao looked embarrassed, "I didn't even ask about this. After so many years, I can't find many people."

Captain Fan interjected with a serious face, "Yes, your Uncle Gao is an example.

He was seriously injured and was taken away from the hospital, and he stayed in the hospital for more than half a year.

No matter how tight the beds were, the hospital would still arrange a private room for him. It was not because he was a meritorious official. He had not yet judged his merits at that time. It was also not because of his high military rank. At that time, he was just a second lieutenant and deputy platoon leader.

But no one wants to live with him, saying he can't sleep well and keeps having nightmares. "

(End of this chapter)