Coquettish Rebirth

Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has been more than halfway through filming. After shooting a series of shots in the capital, they are now going south to Ji'an Bamboo Forest in eastern Zhejiang for shooting.It was very difficult when this scene was filmed, because according to Jia Hongjian's understanding of Ang Lee, this buddy would have to toss the actors hard, for example, like the scenes in later movies-let the actors Hanging steel wires are hung in the air tens of meters high, "stepping on" bamboo tips, and then jumping again, spanning a horizontal distance of tens of meters and floating to the ground.It looks very beautiful on TV, but it is very hard when filming in reality, because it is impossible for the actors to say that they really know how to do light work, and they have to tie steel wires around their waists!One end of the chopstick-thick steel wire is on the actor's body, and the other end is on a crane, and then the actor is hoisted to a height of tens of meters, and then the crane swings the arm of the crane to swing the actor dozens of meters horizontally. It must be hard and dangerous to go up!

And you have to know that Ang Lee is not fully prepared for filming. Didn't he think it through in advance, and then come up with a full set of ideas to explain. After one, two, three points are agreed, everyone cooperates. , Come quickly and call it a day... All the scenes described above have nothing to do with Li Anzhen!What is Ang Lee's style like?Just use Jia Hongjian's one-night experience of filming in the capital that Jia Hongjian heard from Li Kuang's side...

As for the scene filmed that night, generally speaking, in the plot, Yang Ziqiong went to the capital and chased Yu Jiaolong who stole the Qingming Sword.The two fought on the streets outside the capital's Forbidden City.Originally, this scene was just such a scene, just two people chasing each other.If this kind of scene is filmed by Wang Jing, a well-known fast player in Hong Kong, it will definitely be done in one night!If you want to shoot for other directors, how can you finish the filming in two or three days, but what about Ang Lee?

Let’s not say that it took a few days for Ang Lee to shoot such a scene, but let’s talk about the specific situation when he was shooting-before he started preparing to shoot, Ang Lee didn’t think much about what he wanted.So on the first day, I came a few times according to the pattern of ordinary martial arts movies, and Li An expressed dissatisfaction.But then he was inspired.Then what.He proposed that this kind of shot should be like two fish chasing in the water. It should have a feeling similar to "aerial ballet". To and fro...and then.He also brought it up.Keep the camera over the two actors at all times.Follow the movement of two people, which is the same as the effect of aerial photography. You can shoot various scenes of two actors chasing and fighting in a nearby arc in a long shot!

Then after thinking about it.The photographer, the prop master, etc. had to temporarily stop shooting and hurry to get things according to Li An's idea!First, a 3-meter-high platform was found. After it was erected, an imported boom was found for shooting. The boom is 34 feet long, which is more than 10 meters long.In this way, the camera can follow the people underground first, then follow the actors all the way to the roof, and then chase their fights flying around in a circle!

Thought this was the end?No!With such a high platform and boom, the actor's steel wire needs to be hung at a higher place?Where is it hanging?In the end, I simply found two cranes to hang the actors' steel wires, so that the actors could fly around in a certain range non-stop. Otherwise, it would not be enough to rely on pulleys and manpower to pull the steel wires. of!

Thought this should be over?No!In such a shooting scene, if Ang Lee wants to have a good picture effect, he must have enough light!This actually sounds like a lot of things—it’s like some TV drama or movie actors, in an environment that’s not dark at all, and can see each other clearly, they have to act according to the plot and requirements. In the blinding scene.It's easy for the audience to complain, but the problem is that if the screen is not brightened, and the set is not brightened, what will the audience think?If it's true that you can't see your fingers, the picture is completely black. Don't the audience scold their mothers?Therefore, in the general scene at night, even if the performance is purely illuminated by moonlight, in fact, some lighting engineers deliberately turned on the lights, but the lighting is more like moonlight!

Similarly, in such a scene of fighting at night, Li Anna also asked to look natural, which requires a lighting engineer to adjust the lighting, right?But the problem is, this is not indoors, nor is it in a small courtyard. The characters are going to fly, and the camera is going to follow them!Therefore, it is inevitable that the lens must capture a very large area!And if the lighting is not well lit, it will be easy to reveal the truth - first of all, the lighting must be higher than the camera, so that the light bulb will not be photographed during the circular shooting, and then, it cannot appear that this side of the studio and the surrounding area The difference in brightness is too big, otherwise it will be too easy to reveal!

So in this way, how much range does it need to fill in the light?After discussing with Li An, and letting Li An stand on the stage and follow the camera for a while, this buddy gave an order - paint the surrounding square mile for me!How big is one square mile?One mile is 1.6 kilometers, so one square profit is 2.56 square kilometers!Is this fucking request enough to fuck?Think this is fucked up?Then you underestimate Li An too much!This buddy still has requests!

Next, after the lighting engineer managed to fill up the 2.56 square kilometers covertly, he looked at it and said that the lighting engineer did not do well enough because there were too many light sources. The solution that the lighting engineer thought of was Put some hidden lights in various corners of the surrounding "buildings", so that one side of the wall that will be photographed by the camera can be filled with light, and it looks like it is illuminated by moonlight.But Ang Lee expressed dissatisfaction with the effect, and also said that there was no light on the roof. In addition, he also needed the effect of a single light source, that is, let the lighting engineer light up the 2.56 kilometers like the moonlight. An effect similar to a single light source of the moon cannot be lit by many lights!

Is this perverted enough?Finally, in desperation, the lighting engineer thought about it for several days, and finally decided to use such a method - he found two industrial super-high cranes in the capital, the kind of big cranes that build skyscrapers, and let the two cranes stand on the ground. On the diagonal of the set, lights are hung on the booms of each crane to illuminate!Do you think that the requirements are finally fulfilled in this way, and the filming should go smoothly next?It's early!After Li An arrived here and the industrial cranes were installed, he still hadn't figured out what kind of specific shooting method to use when shooting the camera, because he didn't let others rehearse the whole fight!So it can be said that now, all the hardware facilities are ready, but how the actors will fly, how to fight, and how the camera will follow the shots in detail, these are still undecided!

Then it is already obvious how much time Ang Lee spent on such a scene?And the scene shot in the cemetery is even more so. It is obvious that two people are fighting, and then Zhou Runfa falls from the sky. If Jia Hongjian is to shoot such a scene, it can be shot in one night!It turned out that it was Ang Lee's side. Originally, this scene was scheduled to be filmed in 8 days, 8 days!Then, he filmed for 18 days! 18 days!He spent 20 days filming such a scene!

The next scene that will be filmed at Ji An's side is even more difficult. Zhou Runfa and Li Yuqiang will fly around on the top of the bamboo at a height of 30 meters, and they will have to bend the branches when necessary. They are all the scenes that Jia Hongjian saw in the finished films of later generations, but now, Ang Lee has brought people there, but he hasn't figured out how to shoot them yet!At that time, some industrial crane will be brought into the mountainous area, and then the actors will be filmed on wire. It is estimated that such a scene cannot be filmed in a week, and it will take about half a month!

When Li Yuqiang talked about this on the phone, she didn't complain at that time. Although she could hear that she was suffering, she felt that her acting skills had been honed a lot.However, Jia Hongjian felt that there might be something bad about Ang Lee—the filming time of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" agreed by Ang Lee and him was more than three months, but seeing that there is no scene at every turn. It took half a month and 20 days to shoot, which doubled the shooting plan?Looking back, will the whole drama suddenly change from more than three months to more than six months or even seven months?To be honest, he really doesn't like Ang Lee's habit of not thinking about it before shooting. This is simply disorganized and undisciplined, which extremely slows down the shooting process and wastes the budget, okay?From Jia Hongjian's point of view, many of these things can be done in advance - this thing is called overall planning!It is to arrange the sequence, just like making tea with water.

Suppose a person wants to drink tea, and there is no hot water at home. It takes 5 minutes to boil hot water, and then the cup is not cleaned, and the tea bag is not opened. It takes 1 minute to wash the cup and put the tea in it.Then the most reasonable and time-saving method should be to connect the water with the kettle first, sit on the stove and boil it, and then start to wash the cups and then make the tea leaves. In this way, when the water is boiled, just pour it in and soak it. In theory, it will be ready in 5 minutes The tea is brewed, which is more time-saving than simply waiting for the water to boil before washing the cups and putting the tea leaves, or washing the cups and putting the tea leaves first and then boiling the water, right?Overall planning is a study of how to save time and money!If Li An learned to follow the overall planning when doing things, Jia Hongjian could finish the filming in a month due to his shooting time.

Having said that, if the editing and post-production are done later, if Ang Lee is still procrastinating like this, if he still thinks about what to do while doing this, how long will it take?How can it be delayed until almost 2002?To be honest, although Ang Lee's photos are really good, Jia Hongjian just screams and looks anxious!He has never been so procrastinating in doing things, has he?So now he is thinking that he might as well intervene and start helping to coordinate and prepare a series of things, otherwise he will go back and shoot "Tang Xuanzang's Fantasy Journey". Five years?Even if "Youth Pie" didn't come out to stir up trouble, Jia Hongjian felt very uncomfortable after taking so long! (To be continued..)