Entertainment 1998

Chapter 512 511, What you can’t get is always the best
Jiang Feng left Dunhuang Mogao Airport in a nanny car, but he replaced the driver with Qin Chuan.

Originally, Li Xing had helped Jiang Feng get a motorhome, but he gave it to Zhang Manyu.

The meaning is very simple. You have to share the treatment that belongs to us. As for whether we enjoy it ourselves or take care of our colleagues in the crew, that is our business.

Seeing that Li Xing was so adept at using this little trick, Jiang Feng immediately gave her a thumbs up.

lunch.

The crew ate in the hotel restaurant. Since they missed mealtime, the chef in the hotel kitchen made everyone the local specialty Dunhuang donkey meat yellow noodles.

In Dunhuang, there is a popular saying about food: dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground. In other words, in Dunhuang, on the edge of the desert, the best food is donkey meat.

Look at the yellow noodles again, they are as thin as dragon whiskers, as long as golden threads, flexible and resistant to stretching. They can be used to make soup or add to other dishes, and their fragrance is overflowing.

After lunch, according to the crew's arrangement, the staff and actors will rest in the hotel. Because the city of Dunhuang is 170 kilometers away from the filming location, and the one-way trip takes two and a half hours, everyone needs to conserve their energy and set off at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Actors like Jet Li, Jiang Feng, Manyu Zhang, Fan Jiuyi and others who have a show tomorrow have to put on makeup while traveling.

As the leading actor, Jiang Feng's room was arranged on the 6th floor, implying smooth sailing during filming. But just when Jiang Feng pushed his suitcase to the 6th floor and was about to go into the room to rest, Chang Xiaoyang, the first assistant director of the "Hero" crew, came over to greet him.

"Brother Feng, quickly put your luggage in the room. The director wants everyone to have a meeting in the room. Um, the director's room number is 666."

"Ok!"

Jiang Feng responded, handed the luggage to Li Xing and walked towards Zhang Yimou's room.

Although Jiang Feng had never filmed a movie with Zhang Yimou before, he had heard from his classmate Guo Xiaodong that Zhang Yimou loved to pay attention to details and liked to make preparations in advance.

What scene will be filmed tomorrow?

He would take the actors to his room to go over the process the night before, and he would carefully observe and correct the actors' movements, emotions during the performance, and even the little movements when speaking the lines.

And today, he asked me to come here, probably to do this.

Sure enough, as soon as Jiang Feng walked into room 666, he saw Fan Jiuyi had arrived.

Well, not only has she arrived, but she has also been trained by the director and the action director.

At this moment, Fan Jiuyi was sitting backwards on the chair, simulating the movements of riding a horse while looking into the distance with a firm gaze.

"Yes, Xiao Fan, that's it."

"You are worthy of being someone who has been trained in horsemanship for two months by the crew. You straddle, clamp, move up and down, and slap your butt when you are excited..."

wipe…

Jiang Feng almost swore when he heard the command from action director Cheng Xiaodong.

Is it that the movements taught by this guy are too ambiguous, or is it that my mind has become dirty, why do I always associate some images that are not suitable for children in my mind?
Just as he was complaining in his heart, Zhang Yimou came over.

"Jiang Feng..."

"Ok?"

"There are cigarettes on the table, smoke if you want, and there is beer on the table, drink if you want, but when you smoke and drink, you must listen to me carefully."

When he was in college, Zhang Yimou smoked and drank, and his alcohol tolerance was quite good. But later, due to stomach problems, he quit smoking. As for drinking, he now only drinks two taels of white wine and at most two bottles of beer.

Even though Zhang Yimou didn't smoke and basically didn't drink, he still invited Jiang Feng to smoke and drink with him, which made Jiang Feng feel a little flattered.

"Director, just say it."

"Well, okay, I'll start talking."

At this time, Zhang Manyu, who had just washed her hair in the room, and Jet Li, holding a teacup in his hand, also walked in from outside the door. After they sat on the sofa next to Jiang Feng, Zhang Yimou stood in front of them and began to tell the story.

"My idea is to first shoot from the air, with a large camera movement. The Qin people prefer black, and Jet Li, wearing a black training suit, stands in the east. The sun is rising in the east, which means hope. The Canjian played by Jiang Feng standing in the west, and the sword slave Fan Jiuyi behind him are from Zhao. The Zhao people prefer white, so you two are wearing white Confucian costumes.

The reason why he used Confucian clothing was because Canjian at that time had realized a profound truth: if he wanted to end the years of war on Chinese land, the country must be unified.

The person who was best at promoting unification was naturally King Qin Ying Zheng..."

Zhang Yimou explained the play in great detail, from the costumes to the positioning, to the cameraman's camera movements, he covered everything he could think of.

After half an hour, it felt about right.

Zhang Yimou then sat down in front of a few people, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and asked.

"Do you guys have any questions?"

"Well, I don't have any more."

The first person to speak was Jiang Feng. To be honest, he didn't quite like this kind of directing style, because if a director took care of every detail, it would basically wipe out the creativity of the actors.

It is no wonder that Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, and later Nini, Dong Jie and others could no longer produce decent film and television works after leaving him.

"Director, I don't have any more either."

It can be felt that Zhang Manyu doesn't like this way of narrating plays. In comparison, she probably prefers the directing method of Hong Kong directors.

Maggie, please help me achieve the effect I want.

"Well, I have a question, Director."

The person who said this was Jet Li.

"Director, I mean we're going to shoot the first scene tomorrow, but I can't find the feeling of the nameless hero yet. Well, I don't know what kind of emotion I should use to interpret this role."

“Well, there’s me, the director!
You can let me ride the horse facing the camera or with my back to the camera, and I have no problem with that. Even if you don't let me use a body double, I have no problem with that.

But what kind of expression should I use when facing Wuming? After all, I am just a sword slave, and he is a hero. "

……

Jiang Feng and Zhang Manyu left first.

Because both of them felt that there was nothing wrong with them, Jet Li and Fan Jiuyi, who had problems, stayed in the director's room and listened to his lectures.

It is told in pieces, starting from the character itself and going all the way to the source of the emotion, that is, why this character must have such emotion at this time and place.

"Um…"

After coming out of Room 666, Zhang Manyu was a little nervous and pointed to the room diagonally opposite.

"Ah Feng, the coffee my assistant brought from Hong Kong Island is very good. Would you like to go over and have a cup?"

"No, I'm a little tired and I want to go back and rest." Jiang Feng smiled and pointed to Room 658.

"Well, I don't mean anything else. I just want to discuss with you, if you are a film director in this situation, how should you explain the play to the actors?"

"It's very simple. It's just like what Mr. Jin Yong once said: The greatest heroes serve their country and their people.

Well, Jet Li didn’t even have to think about the script. He just had to transplant the footage of Huang Feihong he filmed in Hong Kong Island into this movie.”

"Yeah, that's what I thought too."

At this point, Zhang Manyu reached out and pulled Jiang Feng's hand and said, "Let's go to my room and talk, since our views are so consistent."

After saying this, Zhang Manyu pushed Jiang Feng into the door without further ado.

(End of this chapter)