Chapter 134 War Scene
In addition, the characters that will appear in both the upper and lower parts need to be decided upon by the two crews.
Because these roles span a long time, most of them are played by veteran actors.
On the one hand, it will not involve too many interests of all parties, and on the other hand, the acting skills can reassure everyone.
For example, Ni Dahong was chosen to play the role of Pei Ji, the leader of Li Yuan’s veterans.
Most of the other famous roles in history are like this, and almost all of the actors are actors who are familiar to the audience.
At present, this drama is already full in terms of cast configuration.
After the actors are selected, the crew will hand over the decomposed script to each actor so that they can familiarize themselves with the character plot in advance.
Chen Linfeng's team began to discuss with the director to allocate shooting plans and formulate a schedule.
Other preparation teams are not yet fully prepared, and it may take more than half a month before the crew can officially launch.
Chen Linfeng ran to the filming location of Zhenguan Zhizhi, which is the Film and Television City in Pingshi. The second phase of the project here was completed before the Chinese New Year.
The crew of "The Reign of Zhenguan" has been preparing relatively early and has already started filming.
Some of the ancient costumes and armors chosen by the crew were made by the studio that Chen Linfeng suggested his father set up.
On the whole, it seems that it is much better than the shoddy costumes in previous costume dramas. It is not a concept at all in terms of sophistication.
As expected, the historical consultant hired is still very good. It's awesome, and the studio's production capabilities are also very strong. This aspect can already be regarded as an advantage project of the film and television city.
Chen Linfeng did not have nothing to do on the set, but focused on observing Ma Yue's performance.
He and Ma Yue both play Li Shimin, but they are at different ages.
Chen Linfeng, as Li Shimin in his youth, looks different from his middle-aged counterpart.
However, some individual movement characteristics and behavioral habits should remain unchanged.
So Chen Linfeng observed these contents in detail so that he could add them to his performance later.
The purpose is to make the audience connect with these two people and feel that the middle-aged Li Shimin is what he will become when he grows up.
Usually in this situation, the older ones tolerate the younger actors, but here, because of Chen Linfeng’s personal characteristics, it’s the other way around.
In addition, one role is played by two people, including Queen Changsun.
Since the cast of "Li Shimin" has been selected, Tao Huimin was chosen to play the role of Liu Qianqian, the virtuous wife and loving mother, according to her appearance.
This actor who had top-notch looks in the 1980s is now in his thirties. After applying makeup, he still looks dignified, bright and charming.
More than 10 days later, the crew of "Li Shimin" completed preparations.
After discussions between CCTV and China Film, it was decided to officially merge the titles of the two dramas and change them to "Empire of the Tang Dynasty".
In fact, it was just a change in name and did not affect the actual production. Chen Linfeng didn't pay much attention to it.
After joining the cast, Chen Linfeng had to learn to ride a horse first. Strangely enough, he had already acted in two costume dramas, but had never experienced circus.
The main reason is that the first two costume dramas are both mythological themes.
For the two characters Nezha and Chenxiang, if they really want to go a long way, they have to fly instead of horses.
In today's drama, in order to fit in with the historical prototype, Chen Linfeng needs to ride more than one horse in the drama. He needs to choose horses of different colors according to different battles.
Li Shimin’s Six Horses of Zhaoling may be more famous than some historical figures.
There are many famous actors in this play. Most of them have experienced horse riding scenes, and few of them can't ride horses.
The person in charge of the racecourse found a docile old horse for Chen Linfeng and let him try to ride it.
This is a black horse with slightly mottled hair, and is being led by the staff of the racecourse.
Such a big guy, you don’t feel much when you look at it from a distance.
When you get really close, you are still worried about whether it will suddenly kick you.
Chen Linfeng followed the method taught by the equestrian coach and slowly approached from the side.
The old dark horse's head twisted slightly, but there was no movement.
"Yes, that's it. Don't worry. This horse is very docile and generally does not reject strangers."
Chen Linfeng stepped forward and stretched out his hand to let the horse get used to his smell.
At this time, other actors who were coming for training arrived at the racecourse one after another.
For example, Fu Dalong, he has been riding since he was very young. This time he came here to get familiar with it. He got started quickly, and soon he started running around happily, riding a horse and flying past him from time to time.
Chen Linfeng looked really envious.
After a period of familiarity, I was finally able to ride a horse.
He stepped on the stirrups and controlled the horse to walk slowly according to the coach's instructions until he became proficient and tried to trot.
The feeling of sitting on a horse is quite amazing. I have never had such an experience in my previous life, but I have made up for it in this life.
Chen Linfeng's horse training speed is considered fast. After initially mastering the essentials of horse riding, he only spends a period of time practicing after the show every day.
By the time the filming of the horseback riding scene begins, he can already be called a skilled rider.
The first half of "The Tang Empire" is mainly about the process of unifying the world in the late Sui and Tang Dynasties, and there are many war scenes.
Chen Linfeng also fully described the war scene in the script. For this purpose, he consulted a large amount of information, including specific battlefield situations, terrain maps, etc., which were all mentioned in the play.
During the specific filming process, in order to show the black armored cavalry under Li Shimin, there were hundreds of extras wearing iron armor and riding horses.
The scene of gathering together and galloping to charge, coupled with appropriate camera movement and editing, can create the feeling of thousands of elite cavalry.
In order to film the siege scene well, the production team also specially built ladders and trebuchets, such ancient engineering equipment, in advance.
Instead of like most ancient war dramas, a group of soldiers carried a ladder up.
This is also an inherent shortcoming of many film and television dramas.
The general ordered an attack on a certain city, so the soldiers behind him rushed in carrying ladders. Immediately afterwards, the siege team climbed up the ladder, and then the defenders threw stones. The siege team suffered heavy casualties...
< br>This type of siege was called ant attack in ancient times, and was usually used by sieges with extremely backward equipment, such as the peasant uprising.
Formal regular armies all have professional siege equipment.
In addition, focus on personal equipment.
When Chen Linfeng was filming, the armor he wore required more than a dozen steps, including four layers of armor inside and outside.
After putting it on, it looks obviously different from the cruder armors in the past, adding a sense of full armor and a more warlike atmosphere.
But the price is that the whole set of equipment is relatively heavy, weighing at least ten kilograms.
Fortunately, the materials are all made of lightweight materials, and there is no solid iron armor.
Many armor pieces are made of titanium alloy, which is much lighter than stainless steel and more durable than aluminum alloy. As the protagonist's armor, it is more suitable.
Generally, the armor for group performances is made of aluminum alloy, which is much cheaper and doesn’t look bad.
The entire war scene took the crew about two months to shoot, and they moved to many places.
It was already May, and there were only some scenes of internal battles in the palace that had not been filmed. The filming location for this scene was the Film and Television City in Pingshi.
The crew of "The Reign of Zhenguan", the second half of "Empire of the Tang Dynasty", happened to have used up the space.
They have moved to the northern region to film the grassland war scene, which is Li Jing's home field.
It is worth mentioning that Li Jing is played by Lu Shuming.
This "Guan Yu" had just played the role of the flying general Li Guang in Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and now he plays the role of Li Jing.
In fact, there are many actors from Emperor Wu of Han in this drama.
Just like Li Le, who played Huo Qubing, played Su Dingfang in this drama, who was Li Jing's subordinate and half-disciple.
What’s funny is that in the previous drama, Huo Qubing was still teaching Li Guang, saying that the most important thing in a war is to win, so in this drama he has to listen to other people’s orders.
[Sissi]: I’m about to finish filming my scene, so I’m going to find you
[Wind and Cloud Together]: Really, is it fun to film a heroine?
[Qian Qian】: It’s not fun, it’s so tiring, I’ll never do a martial arts movie again
[Wind and Cloud Together]: Then it smells so good?
[Sissi]: What does it mean
[Wind and Cloud Together]: A wise saying that expresses the nature of human beings
[Sissi]: You are saying this again The words are incomprehensible
(End of this chapter)