In early May, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" started filming at the No. 1 Glacier in Tianshan.

According to the rules of Hong Kong and Taiwan, you must worship God when you start the filming process, bless the shooting process and the box office will be a big hit.

Li An took the staff together with incense and worshiped the West.

This is because the snow in the Tianshan Mountains melts into a river, and water comes from the west. Water represents wealth and should worship it at the source of wealth.

After the computer was turned on, it started raining in the local area. The people were very happy and said that you worshipped so well that you brought the rain, and there was always a lack of rain.

But it is not worth being happy for the crew. Most of the filming in Tianshan are outdoor scenes, and it is impossible to shoot when it rains.

Especially for the colorful city, it takes sunlight to capture unpredictable colors.

Rain is just one aspect. As soon as the crew members arrived in Tianshan, many people had altitude sickness and chest tightness and headaches.

Li An has always lived in a big city, and he had to take medicine to maintain his altitude sickness.

Since there is no experience in shooting on the plateau, everyone is not prepared enough.

There is also the actor's problem. The first shot was at the foot of Tianshan Mountain. Luo Xiaohu looked at the flock of sheep, Yu Jiaolong walked out of the Kazakh tent, and the two watched the sunset together outside the tent.

This was originally a very beautiful picture, but Zhang Zhen and Xu Jinglei, who played Luo Xiaohu, were not familiar with each other.

The two of them were neither enthusiastic nor felt, and the picture was not natural at all.

Zhang Zhen came to Beijing in March and had no problems communicating with mainland actors, but he didn't know each other before, so he became a little slow to get into the role.

Li An didn't say anything, he was in a bad state.

The deputy director from the mainland called Lin Zixuan and told him about this situation that the actors could not act and the director did not speak much. The crew members were quite confused and didn't know what to do.

Generally speaking, when an actor is not good at acting, the director should talk about the drama and direct the actor.

Moreover, this is a crew of mixed crews between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three regions, not Li An’s own team.

In this case, the director should show his skills as soon as he comes up, show off his skills, and intimidate everyone, so that he can control the leader. Otherwise, the people below would be fooled by seeing the director being incompetent.

Being a director is sometimes a kind of performance, and the performance shows people how you direct it.

Some directors like to swear, maybe they don’t really want to swear, it’s just a means of shock.

Lin Zixuan told the deputy director that it would be fine to do things with peace of mind and don’t worry about how Li An did it.

Li An is also a Hollywood director who has directed many films. This little thing is not difficult for him. Each director has his own style, some are rough and some are gentle.

Anyone who can get to the level of a big director has two tricks, which is not that easy to bully.

This time filming may be unfamiliar with Li An, and there are many problems, but Lin Zixuan believes that this is temporary.

There are five deputy directors in the crew, two from Xiangjiang, two from the mainland, and one from Baodao.

The assistant director of Baodao is Li An’s director assistant.

Xiangjiang's deputy director listens to Jiang Zhiqiang, and mainland deputy director listens to Lin Zixuan. Although Lin Zixuan did not follow the crew, he had to always understand the crew's shooting progress and the endogenous things of the crew.

This does not mean that you don’t trust Li Yan, but that you can resolve conflicts and disputes in a timely manner.

Once the filming starts, the crew will spend a lot of money every day, and it is best to have everything go smoothly.

Li An’s approach is to explore and observe clearly first, so that he can know what to do below. He feels that he cannot set a boundary first, so he will not be able to freely move during the shooting process.

People in the crew prefer to have a clear direction as soon as the filming starts. If the director is determined, everyone will be convenient for their work, otherwise they will be confused.

Li An usually enters the state after halfway through filming, and at least one-third of the filming is not going to look like it, and there will be bumps and bumps in front.

Do it, adjust the deviations, and have the opportunity to open up a larger creative space.

Fortunately, Li An is a big Hollywood director. Although she doesn't look reliable and does not have the attitude of a big director, the crew still does their own work and prepare what they should be prepared.

This is the credit issue.

If a new director does this, he will definitely be questioned. Li An has made many films and won many awards. This alone can almost stabilize people's hearts, at least no one will object immediately.

So, the crew of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" started working in this state.

After Li An adapted to the altitude sickness, he began to intervene in the shooting of the martial arts.

In Xiangjiang, literary opera and martial opera are carried out separately, and it is difficult for literary opera directors to interfere in martial operas.

If you point fingers next to you, you will be an outsider who guides an insider, making the martial arts lose face and even causing conflicts.

In the crew of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the literary drama is directed by Li An and the martial drama is controlled by Yuan Heping, which is Yuan Baye.

But Li An was worried about the shooting techniques of Xiangjiang Martial Arts, and wanted to keep the overall style and content of the movie consistent.

It cannot be said that the literary scenes he filmed have a literary atmosphere, and the actors are very elegant. Once they are filming martial arts, the actors become brave and cruel people, which seems to be schizophrenia.

Therefore, he spent a lot of energy to communicate with Yuan Heping and design various actions.

When filming, they were divided into two classes day and night, filming literary dramas during the day and martial arts at night. Li An asked both classes to stare at each other, talk about it next to him, and make his own requests.

If he were not a Hollywood director, he would probably have rebelled long ago.

Even so, Yuan Heping was quite helpless.

Li An was actually studying it carefully. He had read martial arts books and visited famous martial arts masters, but he still felt that it was light on paper. When he was actually shooting, he realized that it was two different things.

He lacks eyesight and cannot see whether the actors and martial arts are in place.

For example, if you kick and punch, will the actors respond just right?

This is not a real blow. I saw the fist hitting me and having physical contact with the actor, but it actually had no strength. At this time, it depends on the actor's performance, whether it is exaggerated or whether it has made the correct reaction.

It is very important to take a proper position here, otherwise the audience will feel fake.

This is not a comedy movie after all, and there is no need to exaggerate it.

The first martial arts scene of the crew was Yu Jiaolong flying up and kicking down four bandits. The big man who played the bandit was kicked to the ground by Xu Jinglei.

In Li An's opinion, the bandits flew up and stood on the ground with their backs, which looked pretty good.

However, Yuan Heping didn't think so. The bandit seemed to be on the ground with his back, but in fact he didn't fall. He hit the ground first and removed the force. He didn't really fall, so the man didn't work hard.

As a martial arts, you should not be lazy when doing things.

Now I have a steel wire to help unload the force. In the 1980s, the martial arts army in Xiangjiang fell from the second and third floors, and they worked hard to get up when they reached the ground.

So, the Xiangjiang Kung Fu movies were good at that time, and now not many people are willing to work so hard.8
Chapter completed!