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    "Raise it higher, raise the camera higher!" A red model helicopter was hovering over the seaside cliff of Bincheng Shicao, swooping over the cliff from time to time. An aerial camera on the nose of the aircraft was taking pictures of the cliff.  The scenery comes into focus.  Wan Xiaohu was sitting on a stone platform not far away from the top of the mountain, stretching out his head and giving instructions to the photographer operating the model helicopter from time to time.  Aerial photography is still a difficult method for film shooting in mainland China. From operating model machines to expensive equipment, it requires very professional people to take perfect pictures.  In order to take the aerial photography of Qiuzhuang well, the special effects team of "Harry Potter" came to the scene in person and collaborated with Wan Xiaohu on the shooting.  Strive to shoot the most beautiful pictures and the most shocking scenes.  ¡°Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing¡­¡± The model machine may not look big, but it costs millions to build. Flying in the sky, every minute is worth money.  The filming equipment loaded on board costs thousands of dollars per hour, as well as the wages of the staff.  In total, one hour of aerial photography costs RMB 60,000 to 70,000, so get out!  Of course, for Wan Xiaohu, money is not an issue. The issue is to take good pictures of the scenery and learn the techniques.  As an ambitious director, as long as you can improve your directing ability, this is the most important thing.  The entire aerial photography lasted three days. From the Shicao seaside in Bincheng, the outdoor scenes of Qiuzhuang were captured in all directions. More than 20 rolls of 400-foot film were used.  The aerial photography of Qiuzhuang is over, and then comes another big challenge: the restoration of the ancient town in Haijin City is completed.  More than 3,000 extras were also mobilized from Haijin City.  Most of the extras are residents from nearby towns, and the cost is 30 yuan a day.  Just put on your clothes and wander around the ancient town.  This section is a big scene at the beginning of the film to celebrate the Double Tenth Day of the Wang Puppet Government.  In order to restore history, the original appearance is restored based on precious photos taken at that time.  The crew chose Jiefang North Road in Haijin City. The entire street of Jiefang North Road is full of cultural relics. During filming, the surrounding traffic must not be affected, and the safety of the cultural relics must be ensured.  Shooting on this street requires permission from more than a dozen relevant departments, including the public security, transportation, and style office.  During the filming preparation period, when Wan Xiaohu explained it.  The executive producer hired from Huayi Brothers shook his head and said, "It's impossible." There were too many design departments and the relationships were too complicated, so there was no way to get a filming permit.  In the end, we searched for connections in various ways, spent two months, spent a lot of money, and invited a deputy mayor of Haijin City to come forward in person.  Only then did all the procedures go down.  After running down, according to relevant regulations, any ancient building on the entire street is a cultural relic, and nails cannot be used during the scene creation process.  Another few million were spent to establish a set headquarters to ensure the protection of cultural relics.  The entire street is restored as it is according to the old photos.  Then eighteen generator cars and more than 500,000 lamps were used to create a festive scene.  Then just for the makeup of the extras, the crew mobilized major makeup companies and opened 20 groups.  I started painting in the afternoon and continued painting until evening.  Camera Crane.  The rail locomotives and various equipment are properly arranged one by one.  That¡¯s why this Double Ten Festival drama happened.  With a scene of three thousand people, this is the largest-scale shooting of a domestic anti-war historical film.  In order to create a natural shooting style, Wan Xiaohu asked the photographer to first take a handheld follow-up shot, which is a slightly shaking shot.  The picture taken at the beginning was terrible, because there were people in front, back, left and right, so the photographer couldn't see the direction and couldn't stabilize the camera.  Wan Xiaohu held a loudspeaker and stood on the left side of the intersection, shouting from time to time: "Group A, group A, take your people away, don't surround the rocker!" "Group B, who is the leader of group B?  , Rearrange your route, it¡¯s a mess!¡± ¡°Where are the people from Group G, it¡¯s your turn!¡± ¡°Photography team, take away the 8-meter swing arm and replace it with a 12-meter swing arm!¡±  No, I stopped and stopped more than a dozen times before arranging the route. We started shooting at eight o'clock in the evening and finished this set of shots at 11:30 in the evening.  The next day, I shot a few more overlooking shots of the big crane before it was over.  That night in a small restaurant, Wan Xiaohu and several assistant directors drank wine and sighed: "It took nearly four or five months of busy work for two days of filming, and the cost was tens of millions, and it was finished in just two days.  "Tsk, it's all money!" "You get what you pay for. Such a big scene can shock the audience." "To be honest, our drama is different from ordinary anti-war movies. There is no fighting scene.  To make a movie look like a blockbuster, we can only work hard on the details. YesterdayThat night when I was standing on the roof of the building making arrangements, I had to say that scene was awesome!  "Liu Yang said. Wan Xiaohu nodded, a bit showy and preachy: "Actually, the layout of this movie is still a bit smaller, and the skeleton is also a bit thinner.  If you want to shoot this kind of main theme, you must at least set up the airs. Now that the plot cannot stand up, you can only work on the details.  Why do I want to take aerial photos of Qiuzhuang? Logically speaking, it makes sense for you to put the interrogation in a dungeon. Why do I want to arrange the Double Ten Festival? Logically speaking, it can be brushed off.  These plots are all designed to strengthen the pattern of this drama.  Seeing that the deputy directors were listening attentively, Wan Xiaohu continued to show off like a teacher: "In itself, spy wars are very subtle scenes. They are about inner scenes, and there are no hard-nosed scenes."  But one thing about the inner drama is that it can sublimate the concept of the movie. If you add some background of the big era, the taste of the movie will be improved at once.  The shelf of this movie is there.  ¡± ¡°Several assistant directors that I worked with before on movies have basically taken up the position of directors now.  I often tell them that movies are about telling stories, and the level of the director is the level of storytelling.  If the story is too straightforward, it should be cut into pieces. If the story is too trivial, it should be told in a jiffy. If the story is too hard, you should soften the shots. If the story is too soft, you should use scenes to prop it up.  For the same story, a good director can make a classic, but a bad director can only make a bunch of inexplicable things. This is the reason.  ¡± After drinking and chatting, all the exterior scenes are over. On May 12th, the entire crew moved into Bincheng Studio to begin the last and longest interior scene in Qiuzhuang. The scenes here have been rehearsed for a long time, it takes about a month  The filming time can be completed, which means that it can be completed in mid-June "Interviews with Yang Lan" also broadcast "Movies in the Eyes of Wan Xiaohu (Part 2)" in the second week, from "The Wind" to "The Movie".  "Saw", we briefly promoted it, and then we talked about life ideals, daily life, movies and colleagues. Wan Xiaohu is now more and more personable. He is no longer as smooth and impersonal as before, and his words are getting better and better.  I am more casual and no longer care about so much. I am more and more willing to express my own opinions about Chinese films. I no longer just praise other directors, and I will not be soft-spoken when it comes to criticism. For example, when talking about representatives of Hong Kong films.  Wu Yusen, Wan Xiaohu said with a smile that Wu Yusen has become impetuous since "Mission: Impossible 2" "I still admire Wu Yusen very much, "A Better Tomorrow" is too classic, and "Face/Off" also impressed me.  "Infernal Affairs" is influential, and "Mission: Impossible 2" is cool and classic.  But "Windtalker" exposed a lot at once. He has a strong sense of gangsterism. I think he should be a professional director who can make actors perform at their best. But in war movies and science fiction movies,  It's a bit far-fetched Of course, I'm looking forward to director Wu's "Memory Crack" and hope he can break the shackles and achieve greater success!  " Talking about Li Yu again, Wan Xiaohu said: "Li Yu is a director who has learned everything. He is the only director who can express Eastern philosophy in a Western form.  When you watch his movies, you don't see empty scenes, but the conflicts and meditations of his fusion of Eastern and Western cultures.  But then again, Director Li's films are basically literary and artistic films. It's a bit puzzling to suddenly make a commercial film like "The Incredible Hulk".  Of course, I also hope that "The Incredible Hulk" can get good box office results.  " At the end of the program, Wan Xiaohu and Yang Lan talked about how to make Chinese films rise. Wan Xiaohu thought for a long time before saying: "The growth of Chinese films should be a two-way choice. The audience, that is, the market, chooses directors and directors.  Movies, and directors, conceive and create according to the taste of the audience, and in this two-way sandstorm, they bring Chinese movies onto the normal track.  The country must improve various systems and not interfere too much in the market. It is not enough to wait for ten years. In twenty or thirty years, Chinese films will inevitably become the mainstream of the world market.  " As for his positioning, Wan Xiaohu also outlined it in the scrolling subtitles: "Making movies is my hobby and ideal. Directing is my chosen career. Maybe I have some part-time jobs.  I don¡¯t want others to call me a master, or say you are a great commercial director.  Just like calling someone who works in engineering a so-and-so worker, calling me a lifetime leader, I think this is enough.  " "I dare not say that all the movies I make will be good-looking, and I dare not say that the movies I make are all sincere works. If the movies I make are not good, people will criticize me and don't buy tickets to see them. It's okay. They will urge me to make more movies in the future.  good.  It's well shot. I'd rather go to the cinema and have a look, right?  The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and I like this distance.  ¡± With the two issues of ¡°Interviews with Yang Lan¡±, the controversy over Wan Xiaohu has been completely extinguished, whether for support or opposition. Wan Xiaohu is just a director behind the scenes, not a star performing in front of the stage. Just like a time network  Netizen [Arrow of Love God Leng Ruofei] said:?: "It feels like Wan Xiaohu is deliberately stripping away his celebrity elements, deliberately alienating and hiding himself. 'You see me, or you don't see me, I am right there, neither sad nor happy.' I like what he said, the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water.  "The outside world has gradually cooled down, but the filming of "The Wind" is in full swing.  In addition to rushing to shoot, Wan Xiaohu also took time to complete the editing of "Saw" and sent it to Lionsgate Film Company to arrange distribution, screening and publicity.  Then hide in the small world of the crew and continue to dominate
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