Perfect Life

The preparatory meeting before the shooting of "Red Sorghum" lasted only two hours. .

However, the various adjustments that followed took three full days.

Red, what kind of red do you want?

Yellow, what kind of yellow do you want?

What about cyan?

What kind of spectrum are these three colors in the mind of the director?

As a photographer, what kind of light do you need to capture?

Just these, not to mention the subtle adjustments in the middle of the shooting, just the debugging before the start, it took a day, and the film wasted a lot.

The actors are all old actors, and some of them are deliberately selected to be thin, but it still doesn't work. Contemporary people are well-nourished, even in excess, especially these actors are not short of money, even if they are The actors of dramas with not too high income are also urbanites with good food and drink, and they all have grease on their bodies.

How to do?

hungry!

Go hungry for a few days!

The chef specially appointed by the crew is specially responsible for opening a small stove for several actors in the crew. No oil or meat is allowed in the dishes, and the supply is limited, so that you cannot eat enough. There is only one triple-faced pancake made of sorghum flour, white flour and cornmeal per meal, and no fruit is allowed, because the sugar content in fruit is too high.

The peasants of that era were lucky to have a full meal. How could they have the lines of fullness naturally brought out by modern people? All actors who play the roles of farmers and shochu pot members do not require everyone to be skinny, but they must have a sense of age.

To put it bluntly, judging from the era of the Republic of China that the story is positioned in, not to mention that there are often scenes where actors show their upper bodies in movies, even if they are wearing clothes, they have to look skinny!

Without this kind of skinny feeling, the unique taste of the age will not come out!

Fortunately, I made it clear in advance. This group of veteran actors who were specially invited are all very cooperative. They eat whatever the crew arranges. Some people even started to lose weight a month ago, just for the sake of In line with the needs of the filming.

Considering that the crew will shoot some scenes that do not require too many characters, and start training with the male and female protagonists first, the time left for these actors can be less than 20 days, and then they will lose that sense of age. , the problem is not big - the main thing is everyone's cooperation.

To be honest, maybe in another ten years, when the atmosphere of the entire film market is really dominated by money, business is king, and interests are the first, those young actors should definitely not be able to bear such "torture", but at least At the moment, among these actors who have been performing on the stage of drama all the year round, the mentality of "working hard" and "playing well" has always been very positive!

Still the same sentence, China is too big, there is never a shortage of good actors, and there is never a lack of willingness to dedicate to art. If there are no good things and good works on the market, don’t blame others, don’t blame film companies or directors. , or the actors - in the final analysis, it is all the choice of the audience and the guidance of the market!

Then……

The color of the paint prepared by the makeup artist is slightly deviated, and I continue to adjust it. What I want is the kind of gray-yellow skin that faces the loess and back to the sky day after day, but this gray-yellow does not look like it. There is any feeling of dead ashes, and there is hot blood flowing under the gray-yellow and shriveled skin!

It has to be a vibrant grayish-yellow color!

And then... the clothing is fine, it's actually the easiest solution. Because the costumes of this play do not need any deliberate sense of beauty and design, they only need to restore the original simplicity of the year.

The clothes made two months in advance were starched and washed many times, and they were specially put away for the local villagers to wear for a period of time before they were collected and cleaned - Li Qian knew at a glance that the clothes were in place.

And the most important scene of the whole movie - the shochu pot.

The house was built on leased land a year in advance, and the walls were built with the help of local farmers, and then they were left to be hit by wind and rain for a year, showing the mottled age of that era. As for the roof, doors and windows, they were all taken down directly from some old dilapidated houses that have been preserved in several nearby villages, and they were transported and installed directly.

On the outside of the shochu pot, the large area of ​​terrain has been deliberately stacked and sorted by bulldozers to form the required terrain. Then, since the beginning of spring, people have been hired to apply herbicides every three days, and people are hired to clean the horns every ten days. The weeds in the corners are now bare and no grass grows there. Even after it rains, as long as the ground is a little dry and people and horses move, it will be dusty.

Everything has been formed.

The pale yellow land symbolizes the rich history of this nation that this land has carried over the past thousands of years, as well as the indomitable national character.

Dilapidated houses and thin people symbolize the current suffering and backwardness of this nation.

The red sorghum wine, people's unyielding eyes and thin bones, symbolize the invincible blood in the heart of this nation, and the arrogance that is not afraid of any disaster.

And the green, continuous sorghum that grows year after year without anyone planting seeds, the wild sorghum in the sorghum field breeds the inexhaustible future of this nation!

To do all this well, before the crew officially started filming, the staff had been busy for nearly a year!

And now, with the official start date approaching, everything that has basically taken shape is placed in front of Li Qian and the entire crew.

Looking at everything that took a lot of manpower and material resources and took a year to accomplish, I have to say that even the old partners who have made a lot of movies and TV series with Li Qian before, immediately understood: this time, with Li Qian Every time before, it was different!

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The weather at the end of August on the Gregorian calendar, the sun is fierce.

On the edge of the filming location, the crew deliberately built a pergola with four or five bamboo mats as the top. Under the pergola, although the air is still very hot, it is always better to have something on the top of the head to block the sun.

There are a few chairs, and two masters specially invited from the county seat are swiftly taking care of the actors.

There is still the last day left before the official launch. Today is the day for actors to try on outfits and take makeup photos.

Li Qian's head has been ignored for a few days, and a dark and stubborn stubble has grown. This time, the master shaves it, it is cool and slightly itchy, but he feels an indescribable refreshing.

He was the first to shave his bald head, touched it himself, was very satisfied, stood up, and turned his head to see Liu Chunhua, who had a wicked look, squinting and dozing off. The viciousness on his face was already blowing toward him—several people were staring at him.

In fact, although he is a person with few words when he usually interacts, he is quite kind.

He was the only actor who was favored by Li Qian as early as two years ago. At that time, Li Qian had already decided that he must be hired to play the bandit three artillery pieces in "Red Sorghum"!

When watching Zhang Guoshi's "Red Sorghum" in another time and space, one of the scenes that impressed him the most was that the bandit was bald. Moreover, it was also one of the lines that impressed him the most in Chinese movies for decades—

Bald Sanpao was hanged by the Japanese devils. When the man who was in charge of cooking and killing cattle under his command was forced to approach him with a butcher knife to skin him alive, the original bandit yelled angrily. !

Just one word:

dog!

scolded over and over again: dog! dog! dog!

Just this one word is so powerful! It's so heartwarming!

How many similar scenes with the same subject matter, how much effort was spent, how many powerful lines, but together, they can't match this one word!

This is the power of a national teacher!

In other words, I think that the national teacher of the year was really talented before he fell into the eyes of money!

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Liu Chunhua's head was also quickly shaved, and Wei Yizong, a teacher from the Huaxia Theater Academy who had been squinting and smoking in the awning, looked at him and smiled, "Xiao Liu, you are a badass professional. You really deserve your reputation."

Liu Chunhua smiled, "Mr. Wei, you have won the prize."

Wei Yizong smiled~www.wuxiaspot.com~ waved his hand, "Go in and do your makeup quickly."

Liu Chunhua agreed, turned and walked to the make-up room that had been set up temporarily.

Wei Yizong plays the scrawny man who is responsible for killing the bald three-shot cow in the play. He has a head, and his short and flat head is not easy to get out of shape. He has already put on makeup and changed his clothes. .

Especially when he was squatting under the pergola at this time, he already had the image of an old peasant.

Not long after, Qin Jingjing came out.

"Oh……"

Many staff members on the set couldn't help but widen their eyes when they saw her look.

Qin Jingjing's special beauty has been verified by the role of Diao Chan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It goes without saying, but at this time, she is different from Diao Chan, who dominated the world back then, in terms of requirements.

Actors are pretty or pretty, but make-up and costumes are...

At this time, her head was up, and she was dressed in old, old-fashioned cloth clothes, and it was old blue cloth that had been starched and washed white for many years, and her face was slightly yellow. , The whole person has a rural atmosphere!

However, this is nothing, because after a while, Li Qian came out shirtless.

"Wow!"

The entire crew was boiling in an instant!

Originally a proper male god! Even if it is shaved, it is still handsome!

But now, the lower body is a pair of old-fashioned sackcloth trousers, with an old sackcloth belt at the waist, a pair of old-fashioned shoes under the feet, and the upper body - full of khaki muscles!

It is a manly flavor full of local flavor, but it is too rough and sultry!

Under the silent gaze of the entire crew, Li Qian walked outside the pergola, stood still, and suddenly shouted, "Sister, go ahead boldly..."