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Chapter 125 Preliminary preparations

The drama "The Grandmaster" has always been criticized by everyone. This place is Ma San. Zhang Jin's Ma San is too exaggerated. Every time he grits his teeth, he is full of Xiangjiang style. This form of performance is not only inconsistent with the overall style, but even in his acting skills, it can make people see that he is the worst performer in the movie. But such a person won the best supporting actor after appearing in this drama, which makes people really unable to think.

When Shao Yingxiong, who was decided to play Ma San by Wang Jiawei, was considering how to act in this drama, his initial idea was that Wang Jiawei asked Zhang Jin to intentionally perform an over-strength performance, which not only highlights the villain under everyone's restrained performance, but also proves that the bad guy always carves these two words on his face in the movie. But when Wang Jiawei broke up with Shao Yingxiong, he pulled Shao Yingxiong's idea back in one sentence. He said simply: "You understand my style, right?"

This sentence is so meaningful. Wang Jiawei never has any roles like Ma San in his movies. This is also the reason why Wang Jiawei only uses big names. He can make good and better, but he cannot let a person who doesn't know how to learn it.

With this sentence, Shao Yingxiong was relieved. He still had to learn Xingyiquan. He had to practice the entire set of moves well in the remaining time.

Xu Haofeng, the original screenwriter of the movie "The Grandmaster", is a martial arts practitioner. After the release of "The Grandmaster", someone interviewed Xu Haofeng and asked him who played the best in the whole movie. When Zhang Zhen was answered in the heart of the reporter. After all, Zhang Zhen won a martial arts award when the play was released, which was also one of the publicity stunts, but in fact, the answer given by Xu Haofeng was Liang Chaowei.

In the rainy night battle against Liang Chaowei, a professional player was a professional player. In the long shots that lasted for more than ten consecutive shots, Liang Chaowei's freedom of dealing with each other and unique eyes showed how much effort he put into Wing Chun for this play.

The fun thing is that when Ye Wen's apprentice Liang Shaohong helps Liang Chaowei to train a warrior temperament, he will spray water on the other party's eyes with a water gun. All this is to make Liang Chaowei adapt to the eyes of a martial arts figure in a rainy night battle. Even if the raindrops fall on the eyes, they cannot be wiped with their hands. The eyes still have to be in the play and the introverted performance contains the warrior's cold light.

Of course, the reason why the whole drama was hyped up in the jokes of movie fans can be used as a "computer desktop" is not only because of the actor's beautiful moves, but also because Shao Yingxiong, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Zhen, and Zhang Ziyi were collectively sent to martial artists to practice kung fu hard, Wang Jiawei went abroad with a sum of money alone. He wanted to find equipment.

The machine that shoots "The Grandmaster" is not an ordinary camera, but a high-speed camera retrieved from Hollywood. Compared with the average camera, 24 frames per second. High-speed cameras can achieve an effect of 1,000 frames per second according to the different types of cameras, and even more so, it can reach 2 billion frames per second. The things shot by this camera are currently generally used in sports competitions and movie special effects, and the most common one is "ballistic testing". (Interested friends search for the pictures taken by high-speed cameras online. There should be...)

This is also the reason why Ning Caishen never imitates the original picture when he used an ordinary camera to shoot "Dragon Gate Escort Agency". What's funny is that when someone watched "Dragon Gate Escort Agency", he actually thought that Ning Caishen was to hack "The Grandmaster".

With a good machine, a good handheld machine, and a good team, this is where the very beautiful scenes in "The Grandmaster".

Here we must mention the photographers Song Xiaofei and Philip Taylor of "The Grandmaster" at that time. One of them won the Golden Horse Award for "Bulfighting" and the other was a photographer of "Seven Pounds". They have no say in terms of strength.

When Wang Jiawei sent Shao Yingxiong and the others to the master to practice tricks, he not only had to go abroad to find a machine, but also to find a photographer, because these two things made anyone feel worried about him. However, Shao Yingxiong did not expect that Wang Jiawei was not Philip Taylor, but a expensive photographer!

This person is named John Thor. His resume clearly states "The Years of Passion" and "The Brave Heart". You should know that these two movies are the films that won the Oscar for Best Photography twice in a row in the 67th and 68th!

When Wang Jiawei excitedly passed the news back across the ocean, Shao Yingxiong asked with a flat mouth across the phone: "How much did it cost?"

Wang Jiawei only responded: "Don't always care about money."

When Shao Yingxiong heard this, he knew that it would definitely not be cheap!

John Thor's name is not just heard. It is said that the most popular photographer in Hollywood must be a big production. The drama "The Grandmaster" is a small meaning in both investment and cast. Can Wang Jiawei tell such a big-name photographer to join, besides having enough money, can there be other ways?

Later, when the group was established, Shao Yingxiong heard the actual price. John Thor came not for money. First, Wang Jiawei used his connections and persuaded him when he went to find John Thor. Then he used the mysterious Eastern World as a guise. He tried two pairs of people to persuade John Thor to come to China to shoot movies and travel. They came with a playful attitude. Even so, Wang Jiawei still killed 20 million of the investment amount while looking for machines and photographers in the Hollywood journey!

This is equivalent to spending Huayi's reserve funds almost the same. Even if the set of "The Grandmaster" is built to save the death, the actors' salary, film, and crew artificially combined together will be 75 million, which is barely enough. Otherwise, Shao Yingxiong would have given 25 million reserve funds?

Make it.

Shao Yingxiong sighed and continued to practice Xingyiquan. He went through hell-style training in the master's training. When he first went there, he thought he was as relaxed and comfortable as he went to the "martial arts class", and at most he was sweating. But when he arrived, all the big stars were all in a bad way. Several senior brothers came over to teach their legs first, and waited for you to press them out of the gap. The senior brothers and brothers worked together and pressed them down their shoulders.

Click.

Shao Yingxiong swore that he could hear the sound of bones. The last time he heard this sound was still at the Beijing Film Academy, which was in the physical class.

The moment the sound came out, Shao Yingxiong split the split. This split was six or seven years since he last split, which directly caused Shao Yingxiong to lie on the ground while covering his thighs and rolling on the ground. That hurts so much!

Sweat all over my body in pain!!!

This has never happened in action movies before. Even if you follow Yuan Heping, people only emphasize the connection between action and camera. This is a real practice.

He has watched the documentary before the release of "The Grandmaster". In the documentary, Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Zhen both screamed when they cheated. At least in the documentary, the group of brothers were gentle enough, but unlike these people, they sent Shao Yingxiong to the hospital directly.

There are many actors in China who can shoot action movies, but when they are not practicing martial arts, how can they force splits? It is a blessing that Shao Yingxiong has a slightly strained ligament instead of breaking it.

After staying in the hospital for a week, Shao Yingxiong, who was a little lame in his legs, knew that he was not seriously injured and went back to continue training immediately. He couldn't use much effort to learn basic movements. He felt pain on his legs and practiced his hands and watched the video tape when he was swollen. That's it, Shao Yingxiong practiced for more than half a month.

It only took a month to get injured and practice, but after this period, Shao Yingxiong found that his temperament in the mirror had changed!

Men who have practiced martial arts are the same as men who have practiced dancing. The temperament that can be distinguished at a glance is particularly obvious. This is the reason why Zhang Zhen looks a little different from other stars. This is also the reason why Zhang Zhen’s eyes always show a sense of ruthlessness in the original film of "The Embroidered Spring Sword".

Zhao Benshan called Shao Yingxiong during his miserable years, and the content was that he had found all the scenes he was looking for. Just say hello when the crew goes to film.

Shao Yingxiong naturally thanked him very much.

"What are you doing now?" Zhao Benshan didn't want to die so soon, otherwise he would have asked casually without any politeness.

This opened Shao Yingxiong's chatterbox: "Prepare to film."

"You're just filming, and you're still ready to do it? You're not amateur, why are you doing this scene?"

"Isn't this what Wang Jiawei asked for? Not only me, Liang Chaowei and Zhang Ziyi have to practice. I didn't practice well two days ago and I also strained the ligament of my big hips. It still hurts now." Shao Yingxiong felt that his life was so hard. This is not the battle against Hollywood blockbusters has become like this. In the future, if you really want to fight for the Hollywood blockbusters that are preparing to land on the beach, you may still suffer.

Zhao Benshan responded with a snicker: "Wang Jiawei... Hahaha... Xiao Shao, can you stand filming with a big sunglasses? I heard that he makes filming movies over and over again, and sometimes one shot can be used for a whole night."

Hi.

Shao Yingxiong didn't say anything, just sighed.

"I want me to say, don't block my heart's picture. Lao Taozi is not a ruthless person, but Zhang Weiping... Otherwise, I will tell you about peace and harmony, I am quite familiar with these two people." Zhao Benshan is enthusiastic and has done many jobs as peacemakers in his life.

"No, even if someone says that this battle can't be stopped." Shao Yingxiong was telling the truth. Both companies are pointing to this topic to speculate on box office. Even if there is a real peacemaker with enough weight, the two companies may be able to resolve the conflict, but the topic cannot be terminated. Once the topic is terminated, the loss is profit.

"That's OK."

Zhao Benshan died, he understood this truth.

As soon as the phone was hung up, Wang Zhonglei's number began to flash. Before the music could be heard, Shao Yingxiong picked up the phone. Wang Zhonglei's voice came from the microphone and said, "How are you doing this time? You're pretty?"
Chapter completed!
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