"Lu Jia, Lu Jia!" Lu Xin wiped the sweat from her forehead, held her knees and took a breath, and had to continue running.

"Stop running, see if I catch you, I have to deal with you!" Lu Xin was furious and swore that she must not always run into the laboratory. It seems that she also needs to strengthen her physical exercise.

Lu Xin, who has been in the second year of university at the University of Science and Technology, has never been worried about her studies. The applied chemistry major in her studies not only received attention from teachers in every course, but also joined a professor's laboratory in the second year of university and became a glorious "scientific research dog".

Of course, Lu Xin, who has just completed her sophomore year, is still in the lowest class even among scientific research dogs. However, with her strong learning ability, she is already considered a new star in her small laboratory.

But under the heavy academic pressure, Lu Xin really has no time to do other leisure activities except for winter and summer vacations in the past two years, let alone exercise.

So much so that after just half an hour of traveling in this new "city", she was already feeling a little sore in her waist, legs and sweating profusely.

However, Lu Jia, who just graduated from the first grade of elementary school this year, has better physical fitness than Lu Xin under the guidance of the comprehensive development education idea advocated by the New Primary School Affiliated Primary School.

Xinke Affiliated Primary School has a luxurious rubber track in China in the 1980s, a large indoor swimming pool and a ball fitness center. Unlike most primary schools, sports, art and music classes can be occupied at will. Instead, these courses are greatly strengthened in Xinke Affiliated Primary School.

Of course, the expensive tuition fees for new primary schools are a considerable burden for non-new primary schools. But for this reason, the conditions for families who can enter new primary schools are not bad. Compared with ordinary students who have to study hard for the future, they have more capital to "do not do their jobs".

Lu Jia, who has just entered the first grade of elementary school, can run fast against the July sun with the energy he has trained from school. Lu Xin may lose her shadow if she is not careful.

Listening to Lu Jia's silver bell-like laughter flying around, he turned around like a hide-and-seek and teased Lu Xin, jumping and shouting to her: "Sister, come and chase me!"

After saying that, you can run away with nothing if you spread your feet.

The bluestone streets are surrounded by antique streets and palace communities. Sometimes, some people do nothing in shops that have opened their doors, but there are no people on the road in the huge city.

In the summer vacation of July 1987, Dingzhou Three Kingdoms Film and Television City, which was only half-complete, was almost as famous as the country. Moreover, the enthusiasm for Chinese tourists in the 1980s had not been developed yet, and at most it was just around their hometown. Although Dingzhou is not far from the emperor, its transportation is not as convenient as the future, and the flow of tourists is still under development.

As for the operator of the film and television city, it seems that it is not very anxious about the development market. The construction is tight, but the advertisement is a bit stingy. Of course, if the Romance of the Three Kingdoms being filmed is regarded as an advertisement film, the investment will be considered a big deal.

"You little slut, you can't calm down for a while!" After a while, Lu Xin finally caught Lu Jia who was running crazy and pulled her into her arms. No matter how hard she struggled, she would never let go.

"Sister, okay, I won't run away." Lu Jia jumped his feet and finally struggled to get tired. He pouted and compromised helplessly: "Can we go to Brother Hu to watch filming? Don't worry, I won't run away, I want to watch filming."

"Okay, let's go and watch the filming." Lu Xin exhaled and said angrily: "You two-faced guy, you always pretend to be like a little lady in your brother Hu's place!"

Lu Xin seemed a little resentful of the different treatment of her sister.

The Three Kingdoms Film and Television City in Dingzhou is directly built on the outskirts of the city, but the main body here is not the whole of the film and television city. Near the forest farm in the northern part of Dingzhou, a larger area of ​​land was drawn out and an outdoor shooting site was built.

Compared with the main body of the film and television city, there is nothing to see outside the city. It is nothing more than a ruined village along the river in ancient times, as well as an endless wilderness and forest.

However, the investment in this outdoor shooting location is no less than the palaces and urban buildings in the film and television city.

"The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should be established. In Jiazi, the world will be very lucky!"

On a huge playground, thousands of farmers wearing ancient costumes held torches. In the fierce wind, they stood on the temporary earthen platform and raised their hands high. At the same time, the farmers below also roared.

"Director Wang, I feel it's already very good!"

Hu Wenhai was sitting in a small stroll holding a telescope on the antique tower he built, looking at the extras below with some interest in practicing.

"No, no, it's still far away!" Wang Fulin held a loudspeaker in his hand, squatting in front of the director's small TV, and still frowned deeply: "Compared with the requirements of the storyboard scene you gave me, Mr. Hu, these people's level is too far inferior!"

As he spoke, Wang Fulin picked up the loudspeaker in his hand, turned on the switch, stood up and fed him twice, and then started shouting at the crowd below.

"Didn't you eat? I just had the braised pork at noon, so I shouted a few slogans and just dealt with it?"

"Do you know that the extras who hold torches below just now are over your head? It's really a shooting, it costs thousands of dollars in a second! Get some energy to get me started!"

"The Yellow Turban Army is so weak that you can hold a torch like this. Why can Zhang Jiao rebel? If Zhang Jiao is just looking for a crooked tree to hang it!"

"Start again!"

With Wang Fulin's order, the whole scene had to start again.

The crane with a crane of more than ten meters long, and the cameras set up returned to the predetermined position. Whether it is domestic movies or TV series, it is really a big problem. Apart from a few national-type Liberation War and Anti-Japanese War films that can be shot by the army, it seems that the kind of passerby actors in "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" can no longer be found in the late 1980s.

To put it bluntly, it is Stephen Chow's pursuit of "Although I am a dead supporting actor, I am still an actor" in the King of Comedy. The extras do not regard themselves as actors with pursuits, but as human sets that cost 200 yuan a day.

The master of this trend is undoubtedly the bad movie "Bright Sword". Hu Wenhai was a fan of Du Liang in his previous life. He has watched Liang Jian's novel many times, but because of Liang Jian's extras, he couldn't even watch a single episode of the TV series. Looking at the group of deadly runners like wooden stakes, it was embarrassing that cancer had all started.

The 1992 version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not that big. But the listlessness and monotony have already shown signs since then.

But this is not Wang Fulin's problem. As the best TV drama director in China, he trained him very well in Dream of Red Mansions.

However, the number of extras required in Romance of the Three Kingdoms is incomparable to Dream of Red Mansions.

Fortunately, Hu Wenhai, a big funder, has a lot of money for filming the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The salary of the extras alone costs ten yuan a day, and he even takes care of lunch. Such a high salary is really a good job for the surrounding farmers who have lost their land due to land acquisition in the film and television city.

But at the same time, as the director, Wang Fulin's vision unconsciously grew higher with Hu Wenhai's support. He used to think that he could tolerate a little bit of a flaw, but now he can make a promise to start over with confidence.

There is nothing else, I have money in my hands, I feel unhappy.

After I don’t know how many reshoots it was, it finally made the effect that Wang Fulin wanted to achieve. To put it, there was a big sun in the sky that could dry people, an extra in the ground wearing a long-sleeved costume holding a torch, and next to it was a director drinking an ice-cold Coke fan and holding a tower roof. With the money from running water, I spent it to see who can survive and who can get through?

After posting for two hours, everyone will be passionate and very real - just show your hatred for the director.

Wang Fulin held up the loudspeaker and shouted "It's over!" The actors below suddenly turned into birds and beasts and hid under the shade of the trees beside them.

However, after half an hour, the extras had to be driven out unwillingly. At this time, they were holding old farm tools in their hands, and some were able to assign some weapons that looked dilapidated on the surface, and then walked towards the next scene facing the riverside.

Hu Wenhai, who was very familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series, suddenly had his eyes lit up, knowing that this was the battlefield scene where Liu Guanzhang saved Dong Zhuo in the first episode of the filming.

To be honest, when Hu Wenhai first watched it, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this martial arts scene. However, he was not afraid of not knowing the goods and was afraid of comparing goods. After he watched "Gladiator", "Spartacus", and even "The Lord of the Rings", he felt a little regretful to watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Not to mention the basic skills of color language and lens language, looking back at the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is still a bit of a meaning. There is no way. Although Wang Fulin is considered the number one TV drama director in China, he counts back and forth, his works are only two or three. As for war films with large-scale themes such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is even a big girl who has taken the sedan chair. Being able to shoot the 1992 version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in history can almost be said to be a miracle for the Chinese TV drama industry at that time.

The 1992 version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is indeed a classic of a generation, but it is still too far from perfection. In literary dramas, Wang Fulin's ability is naturally unquestionable, but he lacks a lot in martial dramas.

"Thanks to Mr. Hu's support, I plan to make a highlight of the first episode of Liu Guan and Zhang's rescue of Dong Zhuo in the script."

Wang Fulin and the crew came down from the tower and said enthusiastically as he walked: "It turns out that I only planned to film this battlefield scene for three or five minutes, just give it a brief explanation. However, since Mr. Hu is not objecting, I plan to compress the first half of the first episode, and concentrate on showing this battle scene in the second half of the first episode and the second episode."

Hu Wenhai's eyes lit up when he heard this and quickly agreed: "Yes, Director Wang's idea is the same as mine. The story structure of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been perfect after hundreds and thousands of years of interpretation. The emotions and plots contained in it are very rich. But on the other hand, it is difficult to have any excellence in the plot, because everyone has already known it. If you want to start, catch people and use a fierce martial arts show is a good way!"

Wang Fulin laughed and said, "I have this confidence, mainly because Mr. Hu brought it. To be honest, I really have no idea how to shoot war scenes before! If it were the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, I could find a few old directors in China to guide them. However, the one we filmed was an ancient war after all, and how to shoot them, I really can't find a few experienced ones in China."

Hu Wenhai nodded silently. The level of domestic shooting of modern wars will definitely not be worse than that of the United States or the Soviet Union. Just look at the scene scheduling and actor level of the Great Decisive Battle series, the rendering and setting of props and atmosphere, dubbing and soundtracking and lens use, and various film techniques are definitely not inferior to American blockbusters.

According to Hu Wenhai's comments, the gap between the two movies of Saving Private Ryan and the Battle of the Great Decisive Battle of Pingjin is only the difference in camera clarity.

However, if we talk about the filming experience of ancient wars, the domestic political environment in the first thirty years did not have the survival soil for such war movies at all. Wang Fulin, a novice, has a bit of a big gap with the world's ancient war movies and TV series.

"Researcher Wang!"

Wang Fulin and the crew arrived at the filming site by the river, but there were already people waiting here at this time.

"Just as Director Wang calls me Wang Zhaochun. We are all from our own family. What a polite thing. Besides, I won't do research now, and I have already retired."

Wearing a simple old military uniform and a pair of toad glasses, Wang Zhaochun looks no different from an ordinary researcher. However, his existence is one of Wang Fulin's confidence in filming the ancient war scenes.

It really makes people wonder what expressions to describe Wang Zhaochun, the ancient war consultant invited by Hu Wenhai, is one of the top ancient military technology experts in China. However, before this identity, he also had a formal profession - a nuclear physics expert from the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences.

Before retiring, Wang Zhaochun was a researcher engaged in nuclear physics research at the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences. After retiring, he picked up the hobby of ancient military technology. However, it was this hobby and spirit of study that made him become a top expert in ancient weapons technology in China. Since 1974, he has published five or six ancient military technology monographs, and has become a dark horse and a leader in this field.

Before starting filming the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wang Fulin learned from him for a month about common sense of ancient wars. This was the basis for understanding ancient wars, and he would not imagine ancient wars as fighting.

In fact, whether it is ancient war or modern war, the reason why Hu Wenhai felt that the Three Kingdoms martial arts films were not bad is that to put it bluntly, it is because he is "not able to understand".

Not all big scenes are good-looking, and not all big investments can be called visual feasts. To be good-looking, the key is to have logic and make the audience understand it. A battlefield without front and back logic is just a larger group fight.

While enjoying the big scene, the audience should also have a sense of superior IQ of "understanding war", which is a good war plot.

In contrast, there are many battlefield scenes in the history of Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series, which always makes the audience feel confused about winning and losing. Of course, this is not only a matter of concept, but more because the historical Romance of the Three Kingdoms crew is still too poor.

After all, it is much more difficult to make martial arts dramas than literary dramas. Just investing in props and thinking carefully, the picture is still the same picture, and the cost increase by dozens of times cannot fill this hole.

Finally, with Hu Wenhai's support this time, I don't have to think too much about props. How to design the details depends on Wang Zhaochun's ability.

"Then I'm welcome, I'll call you Mr. Wang!" Wang Fulin laughed and shook hands with Wang Zhaochun.

Turning around, Wang Fulin walked towards the person behind Wang Zhaochun, and opened his mouth and said, "How many are you empty!"

"How many empty do you want!"

The one standing behind Wang Zhaochun turned out to be a Japanese man. He bowed his head and bowed to Wang Fulin. There was naturally a translator next to him to help the two of them translate.

"What do Mr. Kakugawa has any opinions on our shooting?" Wang Fulin shook hands with the Japanese Kakugawa Haruki and asked cautiously.

"Your official army generals have good qualities. I think they can fully meet your shooting requirements!" Haruki Kakugawa gave a thumbs up, first praised it, and then took out a stack of manuscript paper in his hand: "I have seen Director Wang's storyboard shot, this is my opinion, you can refer to it. In addition, I am very interested in your unmanned cameras, and I don't know if they can be sold to Japan?"

"Oh, Mr. Kakugawa is going to ask us Mr. Hu. I'll take a look at your storyboard comments first, and we'll talk later."

Wang Fulin took the manuscript paper from Kakukawa, which was drawn page by page with very exquisite storyboards. Needless to ask, this is the masterpiece of an animation film artist found by Hu Wenhai from the Magic City Art Factory.

Next to these storyboards are lined with Japanese lines. Below the Japanese is the Chinese translation that has been added to the translation. Kadokawa Haruki's opinions on these storyboards can be said to be clear at a glance.

"Oh, Mr. Hu, I'm so interested in your drone cameras. I wonder if I can sell this product to the Japanese market?"

Haruki Kakugawa walked towards Hu Wenhai and asked urgently.

The so-called unmanned camera is actually a drone with a movie camera. In order to support the shooting of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Hu Wenhai personally completed a rough PID flight control core. With it, after half a year, the New Academy of Sciences finally came up with a useful **********************. With the excellent stability of ******************* and the signal transmission equipment, it is no problem to create a unmanned camera for shooting movies in the air.

Hu Wenhai patted his chest and said generously: "No problem, Mr. Kakugawa, don't worry, as long as this TV series can be completed smoothly. You don't have to pay, I'll give you ten unmanned cameras."

"That's great! But I still hope to buy this kind of equipment in the Japanese market. Can our Kadokawa Group represent its sales rights in the Japanese market?"

"Well, I think there should be no problem." Hu Wenhai nodded with a smile: "After all, we have already had a good start, and continuing to cooperate is a good choice for both of us."

"Mr. Hu is so generous!" Haruki Kakugawa couldn't help but smile when he heard the romance.

Haruki Kakugawa said that his identity can be guessed by one or two points from his name. Yes, he is the president of the famous Kakugawa Publishing House. Since he became the youngest president of Kakugawa Publishing House at the age of 33, he has developed Kakugawa Publishing House to flourish. In the mid-1970s, he even deepened his tentacles into the field of image publishing. However, as the president of Kakugawa Publishing House, Haruki Kakugawa's daimyo was known as a director.

Hu Wenhai didn't have a deep impression of most of his movies, but the only one, "Heaven and Earth", was shocked after watching it.
To be continued...