Coquettish Rebirth

To shoot, you have to make a plan.The plan is how long to shoot here, and where to go in the next stage, what kind of actors to cooperate with in the next place, how many lunch boxes, how many rooms to book, and what equipment - for example, you may need various The tower crane came over to turn on the lights to supplement the light and so on.And Nolan is not a procrastination like Ang Lee, he will definitely set up a better plan.Even in fact, Ang Lee himself has a plan, such as where to shoot at the first time, and then where to go.It's just that Ang Lee doesn't want to think about where and how to shoot in advance, so he often delays the shooting plan. For example, he has to wait 20 or 30 days to finish shooting something that can be shot in three days, but Even so, he still had a plan overall.

After Jia Hongjian and the others arranged the plan, they were about to start preparing to leave.As for the departure this time, the battle is quite big, and basically it is necessary to bring a bunch of people to go there together.Not only is Nolan’s good friend photographer here, but also a group of sound engineers, costumes, makeup, art props, etc. who have a tacit cooperation with the United States, and even the stars and their assistants. Ah, you have to take everything with you all the way - after all, Jia Hongjian has a special plane here!Fast!If Sophie Marceau and the others take a civil aviation plane, it will take more than ten hours to get to China, even if they are in the first class, it will be tiring!So it's better to just go with Jia Hongjian's plane!

So this time there were only 20 people coming with Jia Hongjian's special plane, and the plane was almost full.Then, in addition to being full of people.In the cargo hold of the plane, I brought a full two tons of goods to China together—these are all kinds of ordered costumes, films, cameras, props, cosmetics, and even lighting systems and lights. Lamps and so on a series of stuff!So it seems that making a movie is quite simple, but in fact it is quite troublesome to make a movie, there are so many miscellaneous things!And there are a lot of troubles!

It's like the Panavision series of cameras dedicated to Hollywood. This camera is not as affordable as the Arri cameras used in China!This Panavision is only for rent and not for sale!And it only has a company in the United States!You said that it is not rented in the United States and then brought to China, what else can I do?Similarly, for things like film, because they are all made in the United States, if you go to China to buy them, they will be imported for the time being. It is better to buy them directly in the United States and bring them there!At the same time, the lighting system and lighting fixtures are also the same-lee-lighting, the largest lighting rental company in the UK, has a branch in the United States, and this time Nolan and the others chose Spielberg's "Harry Potter" The lee-lighting lamp of the same style that was rented in ".Neither the lamps nor the lighting system has any business offices in China.It is also impossible to rent, so you must rent it in the United States and bring it with you!

Flying with such a lot of things, it obviously consumes more fuel than usual, and what about the gas money.Needless to say, it must not be counted in the cost of the film-is it because Jia Hongjian is bold or stupid.It's because the "boss" is actually Jia Hongjian!The investment in this movie was directly invested by Jia Hongjian himself.Looking back, I will just walk the path of DreamWorks agency distribution.His left hand and right hand are his money!If the investment of [-] million US dollars cannot be spent, it will be returned to him in the end-he himself is watching from the side, so Nolan will not take everyone to spend money unexpectedly?so.If the cost of the film is included, on the surface Jia Hongjian did not pay for it himself, but in fact he paid for it, and he will not give him an extra share of the profit because he spent more money. After all, the proportion of profit sharing is early. It's already settled!Since the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are full of meat, why are you still so fussy about taking official accounts?

After flying to China, to be more precise, after flying to Shanghai, I stayed in the hotel I booked.This time the hotel was of course the Xijiao Hotel. There are sentries standing guard at the entrance of the Xijiao Hotel, so there is no fear of all kinds of reporters or random people coming over.What's more, in order to make Sophie Marceau feel safe this time, Jia Hongjian and the others even covered up the first floor of the hotel, and put a special "female driver" in the elevator to watch, so as not to let Others go to the top of their bag!

After coming to Shanghai, Jia Hongjian and the others didn't think about running to the northwest again.Because the first shooting plan now is not to go to the northwest to film, but to shoot in the Huaxia Film and Television City here in Kunshan!After several years of filming, the Huaxia Film and Television City has almost been built—not only the real city pools such as the Forbidden City in the capital, but also the "Film and Television City" of various dynasties.For example, "Republic of China City", there are various landscapes used in the period of the Republic of China, such as Shanghai Bund, concessions, rickshaws and a series of things, and even a special place in the ruins of the Old Summer Palace A part of it was re-enacted in this film and television city in equal proportions, so if you want to shoot a Republic of China drama, you can actually go to the Republic of China City here to shoot!

In addition to the "Minguo City", there is also the "Qing City". Needless to say, it is a replica of the Forbidden City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The Forbidden City is completely in proportion. It can be said that the Forbidden City in the capital is built exactly like the Forbidden City in the capital using modern construction technology!Even for the sake of the surrounding landscape, some construction was carried out around the Forbidden City according to the appearance of the old capital.For example, Jingshan was specially created in the north, and Zhonghai and Nanhai were specially created in the west!Basically, it can be said that if you want to shoot Ming and Qing dramas, you don’t need to go to the capital, and you can shoot the whole thing directly here-and the roads, houses, and buildings around the Forbidden City are quite "uncharacteristic", so I say In fact, even if it was to shoot scenes like "Going to the South of the Yangtze River" in the film, it seemed to have traveled a long way, but in fact it was just two streets away from the Forbidden City!Even at the end of these dwellings and streets, there are two specially engraved city gate buildings, one with a smaller size, which is used as the background of ordinary cities, and different "signboards" can be replaced at any time when necessary. Then it can be transformed into all the cities in China.

And the one with the larger specifications, needless to say, must be the city of the capital!Because according to the previous rules, the height of the city wall of Tianzi City is obviously higher than that of other cities!So this high-standard city is naturally the city of the capital, and the name on the city can also be changed-after all, there were still two capitals in the Ming Dynasty, one in the south and one in the north, in case it needs to be changed. That still needs to be used!

In addition to the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are also buildings from the Tang and Song dynasties, and even the Three Kingdoms and even the pre-Qin and Han dynasties!It can be said that basically if you want to shoot costume dramas in China, coming here is the most suitable and the most high-end!Unless you are making Grandma Qiong Yao's film and don't pay attention to historical truth, otherwise, it is absolutely right to come here!Even "Swordsman" was filmed here!

Of course, Jia Hongjian and the others chose to shoot here, and they chose to shoot here in Tangcheng.The shooting of this Tangcheng is to build a city similar to Chang'an in the past according to the historical records as much as possible.Isn't it the most suitable place to shoot "Tang Seng's Fantasy Journey" here?

In the shooting plan, Nolan and the others are preparing to shoot the scene where Tang Seng took Monk Sha out of customs, and then shoot the scene when he comes back 17 years later—that’s right!Although in the story of the movie, one is the beginning and the other is the end, although there is a difference of 17 years, but who said that making a movie must follow the linear order in the story?When we make a movie, we must pay attention to a plan, and we must pay attention to saving money!Although it is said that the entire film and television city belongs to Jia Hongjian and his family, but it has been delayed for too long and it will affect their ability to earn other people's money!So in the end, the order of the shooting is that Kunshan is now shooting head to tail, and then the stuff in the middle, and then go to the northwest or even abroad to shoot.

It is actually not difficult to shoot the scene where Tang Seng left the customs at the beginning.The first scene is Drifting Monk as a guide, bought by Tang Seng’s master and others as a gift to Tang Seng, and then Tang Seng and the others were about to leave the customs, but the official did not give them a “passport”, and finally they simply smuggled out among the monks.Nolan planned to finish filming such a scene within 2 days. Of course, in order to save some space and time in the plan just in case, he set a time limit of 3 days.But in fact, the filming was finished in just 2 days - when an actor like Chen Daoming came over, it was really a one-off!The style of performance can be said to be similar to that of the United States. They are all in a plain style, not the exaggerated style of Japan and South Korea, so the director and actors work together like ducks in water!

After filming the exit, it is time to shoot the scene of entering the customs more than ten years later.Tang Seng's makeup is about to change a lot - after all, after more than ten years, the overall makeup will be older, darker and thinner!Then after such a change, he cooperated with Chen Baoguo and others who came to play Li Shimin, and it was over in two days!It can be said that the rhythm of this filming is really fast!It's much faster than that guy Ang Lee's filming pace!The filming here took a total of four days. If it was filming for Ang Lee, why not film for half a month?

After the filming here was finished, just as the crew was preparing to go to the Northwest and began to let the producer go to the Northwest to make an advance stop, Jia Hongjian and the others ushered in the flight shooting platform made by the 602 Institute... ( To be continued..)