Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 432 - Unpleasant experience of the crew
After yesterday's initial run-in, Chen Yu, Liao Fan, and Wang Qianyuan's tacit understanding has grown from scratch, and the three of them began to use Jianghu to communicate when communicating on the set.

To be honest, the pressure they put on people by poking into the dark corners of the set was really huge. Xia Yu and Li Yitong both doubted whether evil would prevail over good in the end?
However, according to the script, Chen Yu, Liao Fan, and Wang Qianyuan only appeared as an introduction to show the audience the chaotic situation on the Russian border at that time.

It can be said that the three people belong to a separate sequence in the series, and the cases they committed are not related to the main plot of "Operation Moscow".

Director Zhang Rui and the screenwriting team did this to leave a tail for the possible second part. The subsequent works will start from the three brothers who are on the loose.

Since Chen Yu, Liao Fan, and Wang Qianyuan are invited to guest star, director Zhang Rui must completely squeeze out the topicality and discussion that these three people can bring.

In addition, director Zhang Rui also plans to use the three brothers' performances and clever plot design to reveal the scandalous behavior of the Russian military and police unit in a subtle way.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and shock therapy caused Russia's overall public security situation to plummet, and military and police units also experienced large-scale arrears of pay and wages.

Therefore, from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, in order to feed and clothe their families and friends, the Russian army began to frantically sell weapons to society and foreign forces.

The Russian troops stationed on the border colluded with the police to provide protection to organized criminal gangs, and would even change their skins and commit suicide in person when the moon was dark and the wind was high.

This bad situation, which can be called corruption, did not improve until after the first Chechen war, because at that time a strong-armed politician was appointed to the throne.

As it restored and strengthened the powers of Russia's Federal Security Service and the General Intelligence Directorate and Foreign Intelligence Service of the General Staff, the security situation recovered rapidly.

Mobilize intelligence teams, agents, and secret plainclothes to reorganize the border military and police systems through deportation, frame-up, assassination and other unconstitutional means.

As a result, the crime rate at the border and along international trains instantly dropped below the red line, forcing gangs of all sizes to run to the Balkans.

In this way, the Albanian gangs, Kosovar gangs and Serbian gangs that dominated the European continent in the mid-1990s gradually established a framework.

The thieves who escaped from the Russian border and major cities established the code of conduct and organizational system for gangs in the Balkans, and peddled the concept of middlemen.

The vast majority of Chinese gangsters have laid down their weapons and become kind-hearted middlemen who mediate conflicts and are responsible for mental work such as selling stolen goods and passing on intelligence.

The industrial adjustment and iteration of gangs in the Balkans has allowed Chinese gangsters to transform and benefit a lot, and some of them even calmly washed their hands and came ashore.

Therefore, director Zhang Rui wanted to show the turbulent history from the late 1980s to the late 1990s through the perspectives of police and gangsters.

Then he told the domestic audience how much sweat, effort, blood and life the Golden Shield had given in the vast world that they could not see.

Director Zhang Rui and the screenwriting team regard "Operation Moscow" as their first work, and they plan to launch "Operation Tirana" to move to the Balkans.

At present, Xia Yu has made it clear her expectations for subsequent series, and Tencent also hopes that director Zhang Rui can create a classic criminal investigation series.

But to be honest, director Zhang Rui, who had just finished shooting the location in Moscow, was a little unsure because there were so many restrictions on the Chinese crew overseas.

Director Zhang Rui even felt that his crew did not receive equal and fair treatment.

He submitted the filming application a week earlier than the French crew, but the latter got the approval first.

If Director Zhang Rui didn't do public relations work, then he would admit defeat, but giving gifts and treating guests only resulted in being overtaken in a corner. How could Director Zhang Rui endure this?
Immediately, Director Zhang Rui, Xia Yu and others went to the Chinese Embassy to report the situation. After active contact with the officials and mediation, the crew moved to the location the next day. But what followed was the lack of cooperation between the Russian actors and the supporting filming units. We wanted to grab the progress, but they just followed the announcement of the day.

The total twenty-two days of filming experience in Russia left very bad memories for Director Zhang Rui. He vowed never to cooperate with Russians in the future!
Because Li Yitong listened to Chen Yu's suggestion and stayed in the hotel with Imada Mio, Jin Chen and others after work, he was never harassed or talked to.

On the other hand, directors Zhang Rui and Xia Yu, who couldn't rest, had quarrels and disputes with locals at stadiums and bars. Fortunately, neither party took action.

But it must be admitted that the people the crew met while filming in Moscow's central business district, Manezh Square and Gagarin Square were all very friendly.

Or if you can scold the Poles in a bar like Zhang Zhijian, you will get a free glass of vodka. Russia's hatred of Poland is equal to that of the United States.

In fact, the crew originally planned to shoot in Moscow for about four weeks, but director Zhang Rui really couldn't stand the disgusting face of his Russian counterpart's procrastination.

So after soliciting and receiving unanimous support from the creative team, I resolutely returned to China a week early.

At the same time, they all received the lowest scores on the feedback questionnaire specially sent by the Russian Film and Television Association.

"How well prepared can you give me a stunning start?" Director Zhang Rui walked up to the trio of ruthless gangsters who were further polishing their lines and movements.

Wang Qianyuan, who serves as Tongtian Liang and the fort and chief supervisor, said that there is no problem. To be honest, guest appearance in "Operation Moscow" is a small job for him.

At the moment, Wang Qianyuan, Chen Yu and Liao Fan are thinking about how to perform well to firmly establish the image of the three people in the series so that the audience will never forget them.

Tuo Tianliang and Liao Fan, the head of Liangtai and Shang Dynasty, showed the script and agreed to start filming. He wanted to see the visual effects.

Naturally, Chen Yu, who serves as the gang's perfumer, messenger, red accountant, and calligrapher, would not raise any objections. He also felt that there was no difficulty in this part of the scene.

"Turn on the camera in five minutes. You can go to the firearms administrator to check and familiarize yourself before making any mistakes." Director Zhang Rui warned the three of them very seriously.

In order to better highlight the authenticity, the crew of "Operation Moscow", like the crew of "Operation Icebreaker", carefully selected a batch of weapons from the Bayi Factory.

"Chen Yu should know a lot about guns. He probably plays with them a lot in the United States." Wang Qianyuan's movement of pulling and sliding the slide was very smooth, and he seemed to have studied it seriously.

Chen Yu's skill with guns can only be said to be the same as the average level of the Lone Star Republic police, but not proficient. He has participated in competitive shooting competitions but his results were poor.

He has been stopped in the second round of the semi-finals among 128 players for two consecutive years. The rifle competition was better, and he once reached the third round of the semi-finals.

"You must not kill those Russian actors later." Liao Fan cocked the hammer of his pistol. Wang Qianyuan also looked at Chen Yu with a smile after hearing this.

Although the crew of "Operation Moscow" had an unhappy filming experience at Lao Maozi's place, their actors must still be treated with courtesy when they come to China.

Chen Yu raised his eyebrows and said it would depend on the situation, what if those Russian actors wanted to challenge themselves and pursue truth.

Click, Chen Yu's pistol slide is reset and ready to be activated.

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