This director needs to apologize

Chapter 91 Mu Xiaolin Qin Zhiliang

The power-on ceremony dragged on until noon, so we simply had lunch before going up the mountain.

As a result, before lunch was finished and we didn't wait to gather, the gentle God suddenly changed his attitude. A sudden strong wind blew on people's faces and hurt like a knife.

Captain Fan, who was on shift this week, got into the car by himself, but he earnestly persuaded the crew who were about to leave as planned.

“The top of the mountain has been pushed into patches of bald spots by us, and the wind is blowing so hard that we can’t even see the farts.

You don’t understand the weather in northern Shanxi. When the spring wind blows, it won’t stop for hours and a half.

Listen to me, you should stay at the station today. It is too unsafe for the bus to walk on the mountain road in this weather. "

With no other choice, Chen Yiming could only disband the entire team, drag the creators into the conference room, and read the script.

Originally, he wanted to skip this part, because he had been reading the script almost every day for the past ten days, but he read it separately.

During the day and behind the scenes, we measured the surrounding area of ​​Tianma Mountain, and the printed storyboards were turned over several times.

In the evening, I discussed with the actors how to present the characters, and the scripts in everyone's hands were all scratched.

Everyone on the crew is basically familiar with the filming content. What should be discussed, what should be compromised, and what should be cooperated have been studied and discussed for several rounds.

What else is there to read?
But everyone still came and no one asked for leave.

Anyway, beating children on rainy days is nothing but idleness.

Assistant director Xiangrui is still the narrator, starting from the opening description.

"Black screen, fade in, subtitles October 1951, fade in.

Exterior shot, high camera angle, long shot.Fire and smoke shrouded the distant mountains and forests.

An old Jiefang with smoke coming from the back turned around the foot of the mountain and approached quickly from far to near.

The car didn't stop, the door was opened, and the driver and co-pilot jumped out and rushed to the burning rear compartment.

Deep in the woods on both sides of the road, a group of soldiers ran out and rushed towards the car.

Push shot, medium shot.The driver climbed into the car without hesitation, took out a wooden box and handed it to the co-pilot who was standing under the car.

More soldiers came into view, two people climbed into the car and moved the wooden boxes together, and more people lined up in two lines under the car to transport the wooden boxes away.

Conversation fades into view. "

Everyone in the camera crew made guest appearances and started talking noisily.

"Comrades, hurry! Hurry!"

"Hold it tight and hold it tight!"

"Comrades, speed up!"

"You picker is coming soon!"

"Xiao Ma, run and call a few more people."

"There's no one else, they're all here."

"Lao He, the hem of your trousers is on fire, please get down and let me get up!"

"Grenade again? Why are there no biscuits and potatoes?"

"Why, you are picky! If the fried rice can't fill your mouth, it can't fill your buttocks, right?"

The photographers recited their lines with no skills but with emotions. Coupled with the dialect-rich Mandarin, everyone in the conference room seemed to be able to smell the burning smoke in the air.

The crew went through several rounds of heated debate about whether to use dialect in the lines.

The votes in favor are roughly [-]-[-] against, with the former mainly actors and the latter mainly producers.

If we talk about the ultimate restoration, we should really use the local dialect. After all, the concept of Mandarin did not exist in China in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and our soldiers came from all over the world.

However, the movie-watching experience is also an issue that must be considered. The dialect is too regional, and many words will be incomprehensible to the audience in another context. You cannot watch a domestic film without the help of subtitles.

In the end, "1951" took a compromise route between art and reality.

All lines in the play are in Mandarin with a local accent.

The main actors have a lot of lines, so they try to choose accents from Northeast, Sichuan, Hunan, Jincheng and other places.

The reason is very simple. The great people in the main theme movies basically speak their hometown dialects, and Chinese audiences are relatively familiar with the Mandarin spoken in these places.

For more than a month, the main actors recited their lines in dialect.

Duan Yining was originally from Yili, but now he has a cross talk accent.

Hou Yong is from Haizhou and speaks Xiangnan dialect every day.

Zhang Yi and Shi Lei are both from the Northeast. In order to create a better personality, Zhang Yi had to change his place of origin to Shandong Province.

Zhang Yu is from Guizhou Province. Liu Dongjun, who was selected to experience life in Guizhou Province, grabbed the spot and changed his name to Trump.

It was easiest for Shi Lei and Maodou to speak their hometown dialect directly, one was the oyster-flavored Bincheng dialect, and the other was the naive Zhongyuan dialect.

Xiangrui interjected and read the narration, "Pan the camera outward. The protagonist enters the frame and collides with a soldier."

Sang Ping's voice came, "Mumu, it's almost done here. Hurry up and carry the supplies into the forest. Move quickly!"

Liu Dongjun said his first line, "Okay!"

Xiangrui continued, "Chasing the mirror. Mu Mu ran to the cargo pile, picked up a wooden box, and ran into the woods."

Duan Yining's cross talk accent sounded, "Mu Xiaolin, is that you?"

Liu Dongjun: "I am four."

Duan Yining: "Transportation Regiment 23, 7th Company, 1st Platoon, 3rd Class, Mu Xiaolin?"

Liu Dongjun: "The enemies are the four of us." Duan Yining: "Okay, come with me after this move."

Xiangrui inserted: "Pan the camera, follow the camera. The two of them walked out of the crowd and walked side by side deep into the woods."

Duan Yining asked with a smile: "You just left with me without even asking a question. Aren't you afraid that I'll sell you out?"

Liu Dongjun shook his head: "What kind of question?"

Duan Yining laughed: "Hey! You really live up to your name. Let me introduce myself, the communications staff officer of the 14th Regiment, Qin Zhiliang."

Liu Dongjun stood still and saluted: "Hello, Chief!"

Duan Yining turned to look at him: "After the ceremony. Don't salute me when you go back to go on a mission. Remember this."

Liu Dongjun: "Okay!"

Duan Yining shook his head and was speechless, "Have you been to the Tianma Mountain position?"

Liu Dongjun: "The enemy."

At this point, Duan Yining suddenly stopped.

"Director, I feel something is wrong here."

Chen Yiming was stunned, why are you talking about something wrong with your opponent?

He continued smoothly, "Old Duan, what's wrong? What's wrong?"

Duan Yining opened the fluffy script, checked the lines again and said.

"I have no feeling for wood at this stage. I only regard him as a guide. After getting to know him initially, I am a little disappointed with his quality. Isn't that right?"

Chen Yiming blinked and said, "Yes, wasn't this discussed early on? There are basically no differences of opinion."

Liu Dongjun sat upright in his chair, his eyes looking flat, indifferent to the discussion between the two, as if the topic had nothing to do with him.

This kid has been crazy since he met Duan Yining. He learned some basics of the experience school from Lao Duan and started practicing it.

Now he looks dull every day, claiming to "get into the drama to find the feeling".

Chen Yiming didn't bother to care about him. Anyway, the character of the messenger was just dull and did not involve any borderline personality. Even if he was too deep into the play and couldn't get out, it wouldn't be a big deal.

What's more, there is still Lao Duan watching over him.

Duan Yining explained the reason for stopping, "I think it's okay to feel indifferent and disappointed, but if the topic changes directly here, my emotions will be cut off directly."

The middle fingers of his hands arched upward relative to each other, and then he pulled them apart suddenly, saying, "It's like a bridge rising apart from the middle. The bridge deck is separated and cannot be connected. If you cross the bridge, you can't walk, you can only jump."

Chen Yiming also opened the script and confirmed the next lines.

In the plot, the two said that they would go down to a trench and set up a hidden editing point through changes in height.

After the transition, it was still the same pattern of questions and answers between Duan and Liu, but Duan Yining changed the topic and asked Liu Dongjun, "Where are you from? The accent sounds like Kawachi."

He put himself into the scene and silently read and concatenated the lines several times without seeing anything wrong.

After all, this is just an opening scene explaining the characters’ backgrounds, and it’s not complicated.

Duan Yining explained, "The staff officer is the leader of the mission in the play. He knows how dangerous it is to travel through enemy territory to deliver orders. At the same time, he is also a veteran, familiar with the battlefield environment and rich in combat experience.

Under such a background setting, he should be very careful in selecting his partners, and even if the conditions are limited, he should try his best to achieve the best results.

Since the staff officer is indifferent and disappointed with wood, it is unreasonable for him to acquiesce. He should at least ask questions to confirm that wood is the only option within the range of options, and then reluctantly accept it. "

Chen Yiming heard Duan Yining's underlying meaning, so he needed to add words here!

What Lao Duan said made sense, so he made a mark on the script, interrupted and asked Professor Sha, and added two more lines of dialogue.

"Go ahead and review the script later."

The duo of Duan and Liu spoke to each other one by one, and the scene switched to the shelter where the regiment headquarters was located, which was the second editing point.

Xiangrui's voice reads the narration, "Interior shot, chasing camera, black screen gradually appears."

The regiment leader played by Hou Yong and the political commissar played by Li Jian appeared, and the conversation started in front of the map on the table.

In the finalized script, the political commissar of the regiment is no longer a background board, and his lines and presence have increased. It would be too unserious to just find a supporting role, so Chen Yiming directly invited Li Jian.

It doesn’t matter if it’s cooked or raw.

The acting in this section is already very skilled. After all, Hou and Li have superb acting skills, and they are even more skilled in playing the roles of our army officers. They can only switch between various templates with the effort of turning around.

After the Spring Festival, Hou Yong was stationed throughout the whole process, and Li Jian would come over when he was free. The two of them neither had to train nor kill pigs, so they had plenty of time to discuss the scene with Chen Yiming and Duan Yining.

Basically, the character design from Hou Yong's audition was followed, with the group leader being cold and hard, and the political commissar being gentle.

This is also the consistent way of handling the main theme movies in the past, with Li Yunlong partnering with Zhao Gang.

Chen Yiming does not intend to challenge the thinking inertia of the Chinese audience in such an irrelevant place.

As for the consultant's style in this scene, Duan Yining made many attempts.

At first, it went in the direction of traditional perseverance, but it was quickly abandoned. The connection between the front and back sections was too stiff.

Then I tried various styles such as confidence, grief and anger, and recklessness, but all of them were rejected again.

The final choice was a clever and naughty route, which was intuitively incompatible with the overall tone of the movie, but the result was very good.

If the staff officer, regiment leader, and political commissar are old acquaintances, and the two leaders regard him as a close junior, then it would be most appropriate to just go along with him in a playful way.

Consider the scene in "Wreath" where little BJ bids farewell to his military commander father. It seems that the only option for a son is to say goodbye with a smile.

The tone of this scene is set. The only inexperienced Liu Dongjun only has one line here, so the script reads quickly.

(End of this chapter)