1990My Entertainment System

Chapter 63: The King of Green Jade Headdress, Gong Huang Completes Filming

Time quickly came to the end of October, and the shooting progress was very good.

A group of elite crew members from Yanying and Xiying are working step by step.

Summer is the most demanding season. I have to make plans, supervise the shoots, communicate with various departments, and edit small details every day.

After get off work in the evening, I still have to watch the sample films.

It’s a bit like Zhuge Liang, who personally took care of everything and paid attention to every detail.

But his health is much better than Zhuge Liang~
Sometimes there are night scenes, and in the summer it is often busy for more than ten or twenty hours.

During this period, he rarely went home to sleep and stayed in this courtyard all the time.

After all, I have been learning Peking opera since I was a child. Although I have never been on stage, I can be considered half a Peking opera actor.

The requirements for costumes and props in summer are very high, even harsh!
Even the costumes are completely “authentic”!
It is definitely not like most of the TV dramas and movies involving opera later on, which have that 50-cent plastic look and feel - revealing the petty and family atmosphere of a makeshift troupe.

Even the cloak used in the movie was specially made.

Opera is a stylized art form, so it is better to wear something torn than to wear something wrong.

All schools and appearances cannot be easily changed. It's very strict!
The costumes are all embroidered by embroiderers specially hired from clothing factories.

Originally, "Farewell My Concubine" and "The Drunken Concubine" were both representative plays of the Mei School.

But Xia Tian was worried about causing disputes and had to avoid the Mei family, so Yu Ji's outfit in the movie was deliberately changed to blur some of the genre characteristics.

When I asked someone to make Yu Ji's outfit, the old man who made the clothes criticized me - "What is this? It's neither Mei (school) nor Cheng (school)?!"

……

For example, the headgear that Mr. Yuan Si, played by Ge You, gave to Cheng Dieyi was originally made by someone by the crew. It was made entirely of rhinestones and was very beautiful and bright.

But Xia Tian was not satisfied, thinking that the specifications were not as good as those of the inlay kingfisher feather.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "I have a collection of kingfisher feather headpieces at home that could be used. Wait for me to get them!"

This thing was collected two years ago, not in the summer, but in Milan.

It was summer in the United States, and Ma Dudu, acting as a middleman, said there was something.

Milan didn't care about this sort of thing; she wasn't interested in collecting. So, if Xia Tian wasn't here, she wouldn't collect them. She'd talk about it when she got back.

But when she heard that it was a set of headgear worn by female roles in operas in the old days, she was attracted by it.

She had known Xia Tian since she was a child and knew that Xia Tian had studied opera.

So she bought it—Mr. Mi was so generous that he didn't bargain at all. Ma Dudu said it was genuine, so she just paid for it and took it away!

Look, it’s being used!

I won't wear this thing in the summer, I just keep it as a souvenir.

This thing will never be available again. To make it, you have to pluck the kingfisher's feathers alive. It's too cruel. Ban it!
……

Another thing happening this month is that Xia Tian’s album this year, “Summer of 1991”, has been released simultaneously in Hong Kong and the mainland.

This album does have Teresa Teng involved, but they didn't say it explicitly, so as not to tease the official nerves. They just wrote "Sister Teng", those who understand will understand~
Inland, there are a large number of people who know the truth and are very angry with Xia Tian!

Kill Tengu and snatch Lijun!

The sales were extremely hot at the beginning!
……

On this day, there was a scene where Duan Xiaolou was beaten.

Although he was an adult, he had angered his master with his gambling and prostitution, but he still obediently lay on the bench like he did when he was a child and let his master spank him.

That guy, many female comrades at the scene couldn't get rid of him!
He stretched his neck to look over here.

Zun Long didn’t think too much about it. He was really immersed in the role. Sometimes he didn’t even know whether he was recalling or acting.

……

Soon it was the turn of the play where Cheng Dieyi felt like smoking and Duan Xiaolou came to watch him.

In the summer, the director shouted "start", the stagehand clapped the cue, and then Arong, who had already been immersed in emotions, went crazy!
He hit the picture frame on the wall with a stick, and glass shards flew everywhere.

The scene was almost smashed to pieces before Xia Tian called for a stop. However, A Rong was already in tears and refused to stop crying.

Only then did someone realize that he had been too engrossed and the broken glass had cut off a piece of flesh from his finger!
……

There was one very tedious thing about filming "Farewell My Concubine", which was the opera makeup, heavy paint and eye shadow sticking, which was very time-consuming every time.

But that wasn't all that was needed. The logistics and atmosphere on set during the summer were excellent. But there was still the most tiring part of filming, which was during the exercise period...

I have already talked about my philosophy before, so in this section I will try to blur the background and highlight the people.

He chatted with Gu Changwei and several photographers about the shooting.

You can tell what he was thinking from the first shot of the opening film that Xia Tian was about to shoot.

The camera will overlook the entire old Yanjing City from the sky (an extremely detailed large-scale clay model), and then the camera will quickly descend. When passing through the city gate, a moment of black will complete the editing and switching, creating a realistic one-shot effect.

Anyway, the entire shot should tell the story from a cold, non-partisan, and even emotionless God's perspective.

Highlight the ups and downs of personal destiny in the torrent of the great era.

But if you don’t distinguish between good and bad, there is no right or wrong.

The large clay model of Yanjing City was made by finding veteran folk craftsmen in the summer. It took more than a dozen clay sculpture and micro-carving masters half a month to carve it. It is a detailed city model with a side length of 8.5 meters!

Wait until it snows in winter and then start shooting.

……

It was already the end of November, but the weather was still very hot.

Zunlong Arong and Gong Huang filmed this hysterical scene of betrayal, persecution and persecution, and an unclear triangle relationship over and over again until they almost collapsed from exhaustion.

In the end, Gong Huang's Juxian hanged himself, and the filming was concluded!

Xia Tian gave Gong Huang a red envelope. After all, the role is gone, so it's good for him to get rid of bad luck.
Before leaving, Gong Huang said to Xia Tian, ​​"I've been exhausted from filming these past few days! I'm exhausted both physically and mentally! But it's been so satisfying... If there's a role that suits me in the future, please definitely call me!"

Xia Tian nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry! Who else but you?!"

……

The crew's work began to relax because the summer and autumn scenes had already been filmed and now they were just waiting for the winter snow to fall.

So when work was finished early, Arong would often invite the crew and actors to have a cup of coffee together.

He bought many people their first cup of coffee.

Most people's comments are: "What is this? Chinese medicine? It's not even as good as Coke!"

In early December, Xia Tian handed the crew over to the executive director and went out for a few days.

Some scenes of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" have not been completed, mainly the part where Sun Ce kills Yu Ji.

There are very few scenes in this part. This time it is in the Three Kingdoms Film and Television City in Wuxi. A film and television base has been built here!
Although it’s cold, I still took pictures as if it were warmer.

Xia Tian stabbed Yu Ji with a sword: "If you are a god, why are you kneeling?!"

Then the people started crying.
Done!

However, before leaving, Xia Tian went to take a look at "Shu Han" and found a "blind spot"!
He went straight to Director Wang and said, "Director Wang, this flag of Shu Han is wrong!"

Wang Dao was startled and took a look. He saw a big word "Shu". That's right!
"what happened?"

Xia Tian laughed: "We call ourselves Shu Han, but Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang didn't call themselves that! They considered themselves the orthodox Han dynasty, so they called themselves Han! How can this flag be 'Shu'?!"

When Xia Tian said this, Director Wang slapped his forehead and exclaimed “Ouch!”
"Quick! Call other directors..."

Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and there's still time to make changes. We can just reshoot some of the already filmed footage and edit it in.

Xia Tian didn't care much about it, and he returned to Yanjing and stayed at home for one night.

In the evening, he discussed something with Milan, about sponsoring a batch of military coats for the Three Kingdoms crew!

The three colors of Wei, Shu and Wu: green for Eastern Wu, yellow for Shu Han and blue for Cao Wei.

It also needs to have the LiRen Clothing logo!

It can be considered a small advertisement!
Take advantage of the subsequent reporter's special interview with the Three Kingdoms crew to get some heat~
……

Taking advantage of the easy work load during this period, Xiatian started thinking about the theme song for the movie.

The original time and space found Li Zongsheng and wrote a song called "When Love Becomes a Thing of the Past".

It's a good song, but it feels like it has no connection to the movie.

Then, because of their joint singing of "When Love Is Past", Li Zongsheng met Lin Yilian, which eventually led to Li's wife suffering from depression.

However, Li Lin's relationship did not last long, and the two eventually broke up in 2004.

After breaking up with Lin, Li once said that he would never fall in love with anyone else, but he was later photographed by the media going out for a party with his girlfriend who is 27 years younger than him. It is said that the two have been secretly married for three years.
As expected of an artist~
(End of this chapter)