Chapter 350 The assembly number is completed
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year.
In the snow on the bank of the Hun River, Xu Kun and Deng Chao, dressed in South Korean military uniforms, were making final preparations before shooting.
Deng Chao hugged an unshoeed foot and kept urging: "Kun'er, when are you going to see me?! Give me your boots quickly, I'm going to freeze to death!"
"What's wrong with the old man?"
Xu Kun pulled the tongue of the shoe hard, turned the boots over and looked at them, and said: "Yesterday, the props were given the wrong style for some reason. The one I disassembled is completely different from yours. If you accidentally cut off a piece of meat, , do you think it’s mine or yours?”
"Then why don't you use your own shoes?! Aren't the pairs just given out the same?!"
"Look at how pretentious you are~"
Xu Kun threw the boots to him: "It's not my pair that will be taken apart at that time. Besides, I don't think you are being rude..."
Deng Chao hurriedly put on his boots, stood up, and Fan stomped back and forth like a big head, cursing: "Why didn't you look when we were on the bus earlier? You have to come to this wilderness to trick me, right?" ”
"At that time, I was discussing with Director Feng whether we should reshoot the scene at the Martyrs' Cemetery."
"Why did you suddenly reshoot it? I thought your scene was pretty good?"
"Others are okay, except for the monologue after the bottle was taken away, which felt a little less interesting - I didn't feel it at the time, but now it still feels too overwhelming and a bit over-exerting. It should be calmer, it's just that sad The feeling that comes from it.”
Xu Kun said, sat directly on Deng Chao's horse, gave Deng Chao a live performance, and asked: "What do you think?"
"Not very good."
Deng Chao laughed and said: "Your face is frozen, your eyebrows, nose and mouth are moving, but your face is not moving much."
"屮~"
Xu Kun unpacked his luggage from behind, pulled out a hot towel from the thermos cup, and rubbed his face until he felt all the ice on his face melted away.
But before he could perform for Deng Chao again, Guo Xiaojun shouted that the mines had been laid and asked the actors to hurry up and get in place.
This video was taken: Gu Zidi [Xu Kun] followed Zhao Erdou [Deng Chao] on the Korean battlefield. During the makeup reconnaissance in order to guide the artillery to the enemy's coordinates, Zhao Erdou accidentally stepped on a landmine and was saved by Gu Zidi desperately. plot.
The two of them joined several other supporting actors and followed the stage manager's guidance to start moving and rehearsing.
After the rehearsal was over, someone else took a long-handled shovel and covered the footprints again with snow.
In fact, this shot is not that close. Even on the big screen, the audience may not notice the footprints that were stepped in advance, but the crew still made up for it meticulously under Feng Xiaogang's strict requirements.
This group of directors in the 1980s and 1990s each had their own shortcomings, but there was no doubt about the level of care they took in their films - of course, the situation was different around 2015.
While they were shoveling the snow, Xu Kun and Deng Chao both wrapped their faces in scarves and hunched their shoulders with their backs to the wind so that the muscles on their faces would be less stiff when filming later.
In other aspects, we strive to be truthful. With a stiff and numb face, we cannot strive to be truthful. Otherwise, our emotions will not be reflected, and perhaps we will be criticized for acting.
"Hey~"
Xu Kun suddenly thought of something, so he poked Deng Chao with his elbow: "Why do you think these old landmines are made to explode when they are loosened? It would be easier to just step on them and explode?"
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"Maybe it's because I'm afraid of danger during production. This extra process is an extra layer of insurance - besides, if there weren't such landmines, many war scenes wouldn't be able to be filmed."
While Deng Chao was talking, he couldn't help but stamp his feet: "Hey, my feet are itchy because of your treatment. Could it be that I've contracted athlete's foot, right?"
"Go away! You only have athlete's foot on your hands!"
Xu Kun said angrily: "I guess the soles of my feet were frozen just now, and they have melted a little now." At this time, Feng Xiaogang came over, and Deng Chao quickly put on a smile and called "Director Feng."
Feng Xiaogang ignored him and said to Xu Kun: "I just watched it again and think that the emotional problem is not big, but if you insist, we will reshoot it before the Lantern Festival."
"Let's reshoot it."
Xu Kun said without hesitation: "When the time comes, give me a day and I will prepare it in advance and make sure it is better than last time!"
After Feng Xiaogang left, Deng Chao said with envy: "The great director is still very arrogant. If it were him, I wouldn't dare to find this 'back-end'."
In fact, actors taking the initiative to request "changes" have become more and more frequent in the past two years, but there are really not many who dare to find fault in front of a great director like Feng Xiaogang.
Seeing that Xu Kun was speechless, Deng Chao bowed to him again and said, "If I become a director in the future, you have to play a guest role."
"Guest appearances are easy to say, but if there are too many roles, then you have to read the script, okay?"
"That's for sure. I'll find Teacher Tian and Teacher Liu Heng then..."
Just as he was talking, the tin horn sounded again. Xu Kun hurriedly pulled off his scarf and threw it to his assistant, revealing his unshaven face and urging: "Stop talking nonsense, we should go to the mines!"
This scene was originally mainly about the dialogue between the two people. Xu Kun's action of removing the shoe to suppress the bomb was not the focus.
But Xu Kun still practiced the 'sword technique' in advance. He couldn't say that he was fluent, but he could see that he had mastered the key of 'steadiness, accuracy and ruthlessness'.
When the camera was focused on Deng Chao's face, Deng Chao looked as if he was dead. When the camera moved down, he stared down, fearing that Xu Kun would accidentally cut off a piece of his flesh.
But the real test is the shot of Zhao Erdou [Deng Chao] walking with one bare foot in the snow and looking back.
This scene was filmed a total of thirteen times, and Deng Chao also waded in the snow twenty-six times. Even though he stuffed warm things in his socks in advance, he still developed frostbite afterwards and was unable to walk for half a month.
Xu Kun also squatted and kneeled in the snow intermittently for more than two hours.
In order to ensure that the expression does not change, every time I squat, I have to apply a hot towel to my face. This combination of ice and fire is almost like using a knife on my face - but without anesthesia.
As a result, when the scene at the martyrs' cemetery was re-filmed on the 13th day of the first lunar month, Feng Xiaogang said that the "farewell scene" was a bit redundant and might have to be deleted entirely during editing.
Xu Kun & Deng Chao: "..."
Xu Kun then used this suppressed and aggrieved energy in Gu Zidi's hoarse and choked accusation: "Old Liu, we don't... have to be pretentious with you... I didn't blow this trumpet.
Our ninth company... our forty-seven brothers... are obviously martyrs! Why did he become missing? ! You are lying here now, who can prove this to them? ! ”
No matter what the script is, at least Xu Kun has completely integrated into the character Gu Zidi at this moment.
When Feng Xiaogang shouted "Ka", Xu Kun not only did not stand up from the tombstone, but leaned against the tombstone, and just leaned on it without moving for a long time.
The former instructor of the Ninth Company who was blown into two pieces.
Instructor Wang Jincun was once frightened to the point of pissing his pants on the battlefield, but in the end he resolutely fired the explosives and died heroically.
In order to preserve the last trace of the Nine Company's blood, Jiao Dapeng, who was seriously injured and lied about hearing the assembly call before dying.
In order to defend his position, Jiang Maocai died with the enemy tanks...
Each image in Xu Kun's mind faded away from the familiar faces, but became more and more vivid and lifelike.
(End of chapter)