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Chapter 932 Restrain Your Distracting Thoughts

A sick person sees the world differently than a healthy person.

This is the most painful movie Zhou Xia has made, but it is also the most emotional one.

Many scenes and dialogues throughout the movie are very touching, making people feel the helplessness and misery of the patient's gray and cold world.

Xu Guangtou, Yu Nan, Yang Xinming, Zhou Yiwei, Wang Chuanjun, and Zhang Yu are all excellent actors.

After reading the script, they were moved by the power of the real story. The more they study the characters, the more they can empathize with the characters.

In addition to following Zhou Xia's instructions, several people went to contact leukemia patients in the first few months, experience life, and explore roles.

After the film was launched, they devoted themselves to character creation and mining every day, actively discussed, helped each other, and worked hard to present their respective roles more realistically.

What was filmed tonight was the ending scene where Cheng Yong's five-member team ate hot pot in the restaurant.

The emotional ups and downs of several actors are relatively large, and the rain scene is arranged outside the shop.

In addition, Stone City in January was very gloomy and cold. After the scene was played, Zhou Xia hurriedly greeted a few actors.

"Director Xu, Teacher Yang, Yu Nan, Wang Chuanjun, and Zhang Yu, everyone has worked hard, come sit here and bake."

These people were not polite, and soon came to the monitor with electric heater and little sun, and watched the replay with Zhou Xia.

"Well, everyone performed perfectly, well, today's shooting is over, that's it."

Seeing that no one was talking after watching the replay, Zhou Xia stood up and spoke.

"You can shoot it again, my emotions are a little out of place."

Xu Guangtou was still sitting, and said in a muffled voice.

"Okay, my Director Xu, I am the director of this movie, and I have the final say."

Zhou Xia smiled wryly and pulled Xu Guangtou up.

This acting has mesmerized people, and I always feel that the performance is not in place.

This scene was divided into seven shots in total, and more than 150 shots were taken in total. In the end, this shot was shot 34 times. In fact, he was satisfied with the 22nd time.

Several actors felt that their performances were not in place in each shot, and each of them actively asked for more shots. In this way, there were [-] of them.

"Okay, okay, everyone is up, when I have something to leave the crew tomorrow, Director Xu, you can film other scenes with everyone."

Zhou Xia clapped his hands and said to everyone again.

Tomorrow is the premiere of "Legend of Sword" on January 1, and then the movie will be released on January 28. Zhou Xia will be away from the crew for four days.

But such a large production team couldn't stop. Originally, the assistant director Wen Muye's B team would film some other scenes, waiting for Zhou Xia's return.

But when Guangtou Xu heard about this, he took the initiative to ask Ying to film these scenes with Wen Muye, and Zhou Xia simply agreed that day.

Seeing Zhou Xia formally give the order, people from other departments of the crew got busy and started to clean up the shooting scene.

Xu Guangtou didn't worry about the situation just now, and Yu Nan, Mr. Yang Xinming, Wang Chuanjun and others all stood up, bid farewell to Zhou Xia and left.

Zhou Xia and Xu Guangtou walked behind, and the two continued to communicate about the shooting in Shanghai dialect.

The stories involved in the plot of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" took place in Shanghai, but except for a few scenes in India, the others were all filmed in Stone City.

Some scenes are in the Western Alley of Qinhuai District, and others are in the area around the Olympic Sports Center in Hexi. The quiet area around the School of Economics and Management and Liuhe Dachang is also the filming location of the film. Even the extras in the film have some local leukemia patients. Patient.

According to the current shooting progress, it is estimated that by the time of the Chinese New Year, on the 38th day of the start-up, the shooting will be less than one-third.

The pre-shooting preparations for this film were very thorough.

When accepting the Oscar in March last year, Zhou Xia had the idea of ​​making this movie because of "Dallas Buyers Club".

In May, because of the leukemia fan, the preparations began, and the project was officially launched in August, and then started on January 2015, 1.

This preliminary preparation cycle is very sufficient. According to the expected plan, the shooting can be completed in at most two months.

In China, Zhou Xia will work crazy overtime, and these two months can be at least half a month longer than the two months of filming in the United States.

But obviously he underestimated the difficulty of acting in this film. Many times the actors were not emotional, including Xu Guangtou who would get stuck in the scene.

As a result, sometimes it takes half a day to shoot a shot.

Especially sometimes Xu Guangtou and a few actors are dissatisfied with their own performances and propose to do it all over again. In order to maintain the actors' creative enthusiasm and stimulate their subjective initiative, Zhou Xia usually agrees.

But as a director and a half-bystander, Zhou Xia knows very well that there is no such thing as perfect in making movies and acting in roles.

So he has been controlling the situation these days, preventing a few actors from being caught in the performance situation because of their roles, and affecting the entire shooting progress.

The creative enthusiasm of the actors cannot be destroyed, but the director can't act emotionally either. Due to the influence of creative emotions, he does not scientifically control the entire shooting.

Like some directors, such as Sunglasses King and Jiang Wen.

One is that many times there is no script, and the actors are left to create characters and lines; the other is that when shooting, inspiration often strikes, and some shootings are greatly changed, resulting in delays in funding and shooting.

Both directors are talented directors, but they are not the kind Zhou Xia wants to be.

Nor can he be.

Before the filming of this movie, he actually had a great desire to create and planned to make some changes to the storyline.

But in the end it didn't.

In order to pursue a dramatic effect, the original movie portrayed a failed middle-aged male protagonist who runs a difficult-to-make-a-life oil shop and even beat his wife and divorced his wife due to life difficulties.

Faced with the situation that there are old and young, the father is seriously ill and hospitalized, the custody of the son will be robbed in the early stage, and the rent of the small shop cannot be paid.

In order to earn money to support his family and change these situations, the male protagonist Cheng Yong took risks and smuggled Indian generic drugs under the temptation of profit. Then, in the contact with patients, he was affected and began to change. The kind side of human nature was activated and he grew into a 'The God of Medicine'.

This is a typical modern movie story shaping scheme, known as the "bad person" template, which conveys all the expressions of the story by embodying the changes and growth of ordinary people.

Lao Mouzi's "Thirteen Hairpins" and "The Great Wall" are two co-produced films, the male protagonists are all such routines, but the stories are poorly done, which makes people feel that the credibility is not high, so I feel that they are all routines .

When Zhou Xia first came up with the idea of ​​making this movie at the Oscars, she once planned to deny the model of the original movie.

At least it is intended to modify the initial character setting of the male protagonist, and create a less routine or more innovative male protagonist according to the deeds of the original protagonist 'Lu Yong'.

But in the end, after changing the script several times and comparing before and after, he rarely restrained his distracting thoughts, and decided it was better not to take risks.

(End of this chapter)