I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 521 Daily Life (24)

"Changjin Lake" was filmed in groups. At the beginning, there were only two directors, the little poetry master and Xu Ke.

Director Dante Lam joined the crew last...

He also had to prepare for the release of "Emergency Rescue", and then Yu Dong persuaded him...

For Shen Liang, the opening scene of "Changjin Lake" was not stressful.

He rarely communicates with the director...

The character of Wu Wanli is bold, stubborn, reckless, disobedient, smart and alert.

Just like an untamed wild horse.

Wu Wanli wanted to join the army, but his brother didn't allow him. However, he was determined to go and left home alone without saying goodbye to his parents.

Of course, it is untrue that one could join the army directly without training - the recruitment of new soldiers for the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea was completed a few months before entering North Korea, and the soldiers were sent to North Korea after the training was completed.

How can you be sent to the battlefield without knowing how to fire a gun? That's simply setting a trap for the army. Your comrades will not trust you with their backs, fearing that you will accidentally fire and kill one of their own!
As for outstanding talent, even a god-like sniper like Zhang Taofang had to go through a lot of arduous training before going to the battlefield, and his performance was very poor at the beginning of training.

There are no geniuses on the battlefield!
However, in "Watergate Bridge", Wu Qianli has already died. Wu Wanli witnessed the US military airdropping the bridge, and the US military was slowly passing the Watergate Bridge. All the previous hard work and sacrifices were in vain. At that moment, Wu Wanli, who had already fired his last bullet, was almost completely desperate...

This paragraph is really good!

In the two films, "Changjin Lake" and "Watergate Bridge", according to the script, Wu Wanli completed the characterization and growth from a country boy to a soldier...

What Shen Liang doesn’t like is that the characterization of this soldier is too shallow!
Has his political and ideological level improved?

No!

In fact, until the end of the movie, Wu Wanli still didn't understand why the People's Army was stronger than other armies, and he couldn't explain whose interests the People's Army represented...

The so-called growth is nothing more than the transformation from fighting and making meritorious contributions to resisting aggression and sharing the same hatred of the enemy with comrades-in-arms. This kind of growth is valid even if the background is changed from the People's Army to the National Army.

What Shen Liang expects is that the two movies will allow Wu Wanli to be tempered through blood and fire into a proletarian fighter with a strong character, who will advance and retreat together with his comrades and has a solid ideological level!

These are not available...

But again, now that we are here;
Just shoot, don’t complain or have so many opinions!

……

The box office of "The Crowd" on the first day was 2.54 million, accounting for 87% of the market...

The second place is "The Violence", which was released for a week, with 1400 million...

"One Second" and "The Croods 2", which were released in the same period, grossed a combined 2200 million, with "One Second" grossing over million.

To be honest, from an investment perspective, a movie like "One Second" is meaningless!

If it weren't for Amou, it would have been difficult to get the project off the ground according to normal market logic.

First, the box office potential is low;

Second, the chances of winning are not very high;

Third, the censorship risk is extremely high.

Essentially, this movie is more like a "private film" shot by A-Mou to fulfill a dream...

So, the low box office is understandable!
However, when Shen Liang was live streaming, he saw a friend say "One Second is not as good as The Crowd..." He was still speechless:

"What criteria did you use to come to the conclusion that One Second is not as good as The Crowd?"

“Box office… I would like to ask, if box office is the only criterion for evaluating movies, why do we have so many film festivals and so many awards every year?

Wouldn't it be better to just award gold, silver and bronze medals based on the box office ranking? As viewers, we should just watch the movies. If we really like a movie, we might as well watch it twice or three times and enjoy it to our heart's content, but we must not put ourselves in the producer's mindset - which movie can make money faster?

This is what they think about day and night. Why are you following the climax? The money earned will not be shared with you. "

"Movies are popular art, and box office is one of the criteria for judging, but it is not the only criterion. As long as it involves art, it cannot be judged directly by money!

Xu Jiayin's achievements must be higher than Wang Jiawei's?"

"What do you mean by licking Ah Mou? I'm not that kind of person! In fact, director Zhang Yimou approached me for the movie "On the Cliff", but I really couldn't spare the time, so I didn't go..."

"'Raging Fire'... I told you, this is a movie directed by Rao Xiaozhi about chasing stars... I don't have any particular star I admire... If I have to say, I like Deng Chao very much!"

"...Hong Kong star...Liang Jiahui, I like him very much. He was chosen for the movie "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils"."

"Liu Dehua is a role model worth learning from and respecting... His seriousness in work is undeniable and it is impossible not to respect him and dislike him..."

"I am mentally exhausted... Yes, I am really exhausted. I am filming "Changjin Lake" and it is very tiring... The time is tight and the task is heavy. The movie is said to be released in the summer of next year..."

"Sing a song. I'm going to sleep...you guys order some songs!"

"Echoes of Twilight...Yes!"

Shen Liang cleared his throat and started singing, "Legend has it that there is a star in the vast Milky Way that is her. After leaving time, she still chose to stay. She is unspeakably gentle in the dark daylight, quietly guarding her regrets~"

……

The filming of "Changjin Lake" continued and moved to Meishan Town, Changxing.

Meishan Station belongs to the Jiaxing Train Depot of China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. It is a fourth-class station on the Changniu Line and was built in 1960.

The reason for choosing this place is that there is no electrified railway equipment such as contact lines in the station, which is very consistent with the environmental style at that time.

Moreover, the Meishan Station has a spacious venue, covering an area of ​​more than 8700 square meters, and can accommodate more than 2000 cast and crew members for filming at the same time.

"Changjin Lake" is a tribute film and the local people are very supportive of the film's shooting.

Taking advantage of the spare time at night when there is no shunting operation, the line was provided to the crew as a filming location, and two trains were mobilized specifically for filming.

It was also here that Shen Liang met Hu Jun, Li Chen, Han Dongjun and Jiang Qiming.

In addition, there are hundreds of extras!
These extras are basically demobilized soldiers.

After all, it is difficult for ordinary extras to have the temperament of a soldier...

Shen Liang, Wu Jing, Li Chen and a group of people followed the group of extras to run exercises and do some physical training - war scenes are the most physically demanding, so some training is definitely necessary.

Wu Jing... was like a fish in water. In order to shoot the movie "Wolf Warrior", Wu Jing went to a unit of the Nanjing Military Region to experience life. The original plan was to stay for three months, but he ended up staying for 18 months!

Familiar with these exercises...

Then, he focused on training Shen Liang.

Shen Liang has always been in good physical condition - three or four times a night is considered normal output!

But being stared at still made him uncomfortable, so Shen Liang immediately backstabbed Jiang Qiming: "Brother Jing, instead of staring at me, why don't you stare at Jiang Qiming? This guy can't even run 3000 meters!"

Wu Jing was not so easy to fool: "...Xiao Jiang is not the protagonist, you are the protagonist!"

“…This is a group play, there is no distinction between the main and supporting roles.”

"...Okay, whatever you want..."

(End of this chapter)