Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 134 War Drama

In addition, the characters that appear in both parts need to be decided by the two crews through discussion.

Because these roles span a long period of time, they are mostly played by veteran actors.

On the one hand, it will not involve too many interests of various parties, and on the other hand, the acting skills can reassure everyone.

For example, the actor who played Pei Ji, the chief of Li Yuan's old ministers, was played by Ni Dahong.

Most other famous characters in history are also like this, and almost all of the actors played by them are familiar to the audience.

From the current perspective, the drama has already been fully staffed in terms of cast.

After the actors are selected, the crew will then hand over the broken down script to each actor so that they can familiarize themselves with the characters and the plot in advance.

Chen Linfeng's group began to discuss the shooting plan and set a schedule with the director.

The other preparatory groups are not yet fully prepared and it may take more than half a month before the crew can officially start.

Chen Linfeng ran to the filming location of "The Reign of Zhenguan", which is the film and television city in Pingshi. The second phase of the project here was completed before the New Year.

The crew of "The Reign of Zhenguan" started preparations quite early and has already started filming.

Some of the ancient costumes and armor chosen by the crew were created by the studio that Chen Linfeng suggested his father set up.

Overall, it looks much better than the crudely made costumes and props in previous costume dramas. The level of sophistication is completely different.
As expected, the historical consultant we hired is very capable, and the studio’s creation capabilities are also very strong. This aspect can already be regarded as an advantageous project of the film and television city.

Chen Linfeng was not idle in the crew, but he focused on observing Ma Yue's performance.

Both he and Ma Yue played Li Shimin, but at different ages.

Chen Linfeng is the young Li Shimin, although his appearance is different from that after middle age.

However, some of an individual's movement characteristics and behavioral habits should remain unchanged.

So Chen Linfeng observed these contents in detail so that he could add them into his performance later.

The purpose is to make the audience connect with these two people, and feel that Li Shimin in middle age is what he becomes when he grows up.

Normally in this situation, the older actors would be tolerant of the younger actors, but here, because of Chen Linfeng's personal characteristics, the situation was reversed.

In addition, there was also Empress Changsun, who was played by two people.

Since the cast of "Li Shimin" was finalized, Tao Huimin was chosen to play the role of Empress Zhangsun, a good wife and mother, based on Liu Qianqian's appearance.

This actress, who had top-notch looks in the 80s, is now in her thirties. Even after putting on makeup, she is still dignified, elegant, bright and attractive.

More than 10 days later, the crew of "Li Shimin" completed preparations.

After discussions between CCTV and Huaying, it was decided to officially merge the titles of the two dramas and change it to "The Great Tang Empire".

In fact, it was just a nominal change and did not affect the specific production, so Chen Linfeng did not care much about it.

After joining the crew, Chen Linfeng had to learn how to ride a horse first. Strangely enough, he had already acted in two costume dramas, but had never experienced a circus.

The main reason is that the first two costume dramas are both mythological themes.

If the characters Nezha and Chenxiang really want to travel a long distance, they will fly and will not need to ride horses at all.

In the current drama, in order to fit the historical prototype, Chen Linfeng needs to ride more than one horse in the drama, and he needs to choose horses of different colors according to different battles.

Li Shimin's Six Horses of Zhaoling Mausoleum may be more famous than some historical figures.

There are a lot of famous actors in this play, most of them have experienced horse riding scenes, and there are few who don’t know how to ride.

The person in charge of the horse farm found a docile old horse for Chen Linfeng to try riding.

This is a black horse with slightly mottled hair, and it is being led by a staff member at the stable.

It's such a big thing, but it doesn't seem like much when you look at it from a distance.

When you get really close to it, you're still worried that it might suddenly kick you.

Chen Linfeng followed the instructions of his equestrian coach and slowly approached from the side.

The old black horse twisted his head slightly, but did not move.

"Yes, that's right. Don't worry. This horse is very docile and generally doesn't reject strangers."

Chen Linfeng walked forward, stretched out his hand, and let the horse get used to his scent.

At this time, other actors who were coming for training arrived at the racecourse one after another.

For example, Fu Dalong, who learned to ride a horse when he was very young, came here just to get familiar with it. He got the hang of it very quickly, and soon started to run around happily, and occasionally rode the horse quickly past him.

Chen Linfeng was really envious when he saw this.

After a period of familiarization, I was finally able to ride the horse.

He stepped into the stirrups and followed the coach's instructions to control the horse to walk slowly, until he became proficient in it and then tried trotting.

The feeling of sitting on a horse is quite wonderful. I never had such an experience in my previous life, but I have made up for it in this life.

Chen Linfeng's horse riding training speed was quite fast. After he had mastered the basic skills of horse riding, he only spent some time practicing after the performance every day.

By the time the horse riding scenes officially started, he could already be considered a skilled rider.

The first half of "The Great Tang Empire" mainly focuses on the process of unifying the world in the late Sui and Tang dynasties, with many war scenes.

Chen Linfeng also gave a full description of the war scenes in the script. For this purpose, he consulted a lot of information, including specific battlefield situations, terrain maps and other contents, all of which are reflected in the play.

During the actual filming process, in order to show the black-armored cavalry under Li Shimin's command, there were hundreds of extras wearing iron armor and able to ride horses.

The scene of them gathering together to charge, coupled with appropriate camera movements and editing, can create the feeling of thousands of elite cavalry.

In order to film the siege scenes well, the production team specially built ladders, catapults and other ancient engineering equipment in advance.

Instead of like in most ancient war dramas, a group of soldiers carried a ladder up.

This is also an inherent flaw in many film and television dramas.

The general ordered an attack on a certain city, so the soldiers behind him rushed forward carrying ladders, and then the attackers climbed the ladders, and then the defenders threw stones, causing heavy casualties on the attackers...

This was called ant siege in ancient times, and was usually used by siege forces with extremely backward equipment, such as peasant uprisings.

Formal regular armies all have professional siege equipment.

In addition, let’s focus on personal equipment.

The armor that Chen Linfeng wore during filming required more than a dozen steps to put on, with four layers of armor inside and outside.

After putting it on, it looks obviously different from the previous crudely made armor, adding a sense of being fully armed and more war atmosphere.

But the price is that the whole set of equipment is quite heavy, at least ten kilograms.

Fortunately, the materials used are all light, and there is no solid iron armor.

Many armor plates are made of titanium alloy, which is much lighter than stainless steel and more durable than aluminum alloy. It is more suitable as the protagonist's armor.

The armor worn by most extras is made of aluminum alloy, which is much cheaper and looks pretty good.

It took the crew about two months to shoot the entire war scene, and they traveled to many places.

It was already May at this time, and only some scenes of internal palace struggles were left to be filmed, which were shot at the film and television city in Pingshi.

The crew of "The Reign of Zhenguan", which is the second half of "The Great Tang Empire", has just used up the venue.

They have moved to the northern region to shoot grassland war scenes, which is Li Jing's home turf.

It is worth mentioning that the actor who plays Li Jing is Lu Shuming.

This "Guan Yu" had just played the Flying General Li Guang in The Emperor Wu of Han, and now he plays Li Jing.

In fact, there are quite a few actors who play Emperor Wu of Han in this drama.

Just like Li Le, who played Huo Qubing, played Su Dingfang in this drama, who was Li Jing's subordinate and half-apprentice.

What’s funny is that in the previous drama, Huo Qubing was still teaching Li Guang that the most important thing in a war is to win, but in this drama he has to obey other people’s orders.

　[Xixi]: I am almost done filming my scenes, so I will go find you soon

　　[Feng Yun He Bi]: Really? Is it fun to film a female hero?

　　[Xixi]: It’s not fun, it’s tiring, I will never do a martial arts movie again

　　【Fengyun Hebi】: Then it smells really good?

　　【茜茜】: What do you mean?

　　【Wind and Cloud Combined】: A wise saying that reveals the essence of human beings

　　[Xixi]: You are saying something incomprehensible again.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)