Chapter 464: Wolf Warrior Is Still Too Conservative
Due to an accident, the program team of "Sisters Over Flowers" stopped recording for one day and resumed recording the next day.
In the early morning, before the camera started filming, several female guests gathered around Nazha, winking and murmuring, especially Ning Jing and Qin Lan, who were so excited.
"This complexion is different."
"Everyone looks radiant!"
"I didn't see anyone. Are you tired?"
"..."
Naza was overwhelmed by the ridicule and could only tell the truth with a grimace: "Where are you thinking? Nothing happened. The boss returned to the set last night."
"Isn't it?"
Qin Lan was very doubtful: "I don't want any of them. Wei Yang is not a vegetarian either."
Ning Jing was even more straightforward: "Are you here, or is he dying?"
Jiang Shuying was the more rational one and couldn't laugh or cry: "Sisters, what are you thinking? Even if you have an idea, there are so many people watching from top to bottom of this program. Boss Wei doesn't care about reputation. He also has to consider the filming of the program after that. ”
If these two people really did something good directly on the show team, the show team would probably have gossip behind the scenes from the recording to the completion of filming.
Wei Yang is lustful, but not impatient, not to mention Nazha is a fish in the net.
I always know how to avoid suspicion when filming, and I almost never spend the night in the hotel where the crew is located, let alone in a crowded show crew.
Only then did Ning Jing and others calm down. Indeed, they only thought about the state of mind of the person involved, but ignored the environment.
"That's not right. You didn't come back to the house after two hours last night, so you were just chatting in the house?"
Just when Ning and Qin felt bored, Jin Chen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly became speechless and refused to stop.
The guests of "Sisters Over Flowers" have limited funds, so they don't all share a room. Basically, they stay in pairs, and the last one stays in a double bed room.
In addition to the two hard-working porters, who among the five female guests was lucky enough to win the king-size bed room in the lottery was also a highlight of the show.
This time when I came to Bangkok, Thailand, Naza and Jin Chen lived in the same room, and they were the people who knew them best. Naza immediately made Naza jump.
"Aren't you asleep?"
"I was asleep originally, but I couldn't help but you kept giggling, so you woke me up."
Jin Chen showed his sinister nature with a smile: "I wanted to ask on the spot, but I was afraid you wouldn't tell me. This time, the eldest, second, and third sisters are all here, so hurry up and explain honestly."
"Fourth, well done."
Several other people became energetic, praised Jin Chen, and then continued the interrogation. However, no matter how hard Nazha forced him this time, he refused to kill him. There was nothing they could do, but they still refused to forgive him.
"Your face is red, you must have done nothing good!"
"I knew it. My eyes were watery yesterday. Even if Wei Yang can bear it, you little hooves can't."
"Fourth child, did she brush her teeth when she came back last night?"
"Don't move, let me look at your hands."
Nazhi couldn't withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of several fierce sisters, so she raised her hands to surrender. In order to avoid being surrounded, she took out a few wads of bills from her bag to divert her attention.
"Where did it come from?"
Nazhaheheyile: "Don't we have insufficient funds? I borrowed some from the boss and sent it over in the morning."
"500,000 baht, what's the exchange rate?"
"1:5.5, which would be a little over 90,000 RMB."
Ning Jing was very happy holding the banknotes. The denomination of the money in her hand was 1,000, so although it was 500,000 baht, it was actually about the same amount as 50,000 RMB.
"That's enough, that's enough. The consumption here is relatively low, and our funds are absolutely comfortable and enjoyable."
Jiang Shuying was also very happy. He had no experience in Paris before and the budget was spent ahead of schedule on the last day, which made him very embarrassed.
When they came back to Thailand, they originally planned to be prudent, but unexpectedly they invited foreign aid, and now they were able to have fun.
"But, will the program team let me use this money?"
"Why not let it be used? It's not our own money, so it's not enough to borrow it?"
"That's right, this is the income from our hard work. Is it easy..."
Before Qin Lan finished speaking, Naza covered his mouth and tickled him. Ning Jing laughed loudly and distributed the Thai baht to everyone.
"If each person hides one piece, even if he is discovered, the worst he can do is hand over part of it."
"My eldest sister is still smart."
Jin Chen gave a thumbs up, and Nazha finally made Qin Lan tidy up and obeyed him. He took a wad of money and talked about it while dividing it.
"Actually, it doesn't have to be that troublesome. We can just say we borrowed it. If not, we can just say it's making money... I'm talking about buying and selling... buying and selling things to make money."
Seeing that Qin Lan was about to start a scandal again, Nazar hurriedly explained: "I bought a lot of gadgets yesterday. The boss lent me money, so I gave him two. This can be said to be sold to him."
"Good guy, buy it for a few hundred baht and sell it for 500,000 baht. You two are laundering money here."
"This shows that we Nazha are good at doing business and have business acumen. Let's just say that the rules of the program for borrowing money are not mentioned, but it is allowed to make money. The program team has no reason to confiscate our money."
Ning Jing made a direct decision and planned to unite all the guests to exploit the loopholes. Even the two porters were attracted by her.
Not to mention how the crew of "Sisters Over Flowers" had trouble with a bunch of troublemaking guests, Wei Yang, who had just returned to the crew of "Operation Mekong", also started filming movies.
The plot of "Operation Mekong" is roughly divided into three stages.
The first stage is the cause. The villain Khun Sa attacked a Chinese merchant ship, brutally killed thirteen Chinese crew members, and hid drugs in the ship to confuse the public.
There was an uproar at home and abroad. Faced with the surging public opinion, the public security department attached great importance to it and planned to find out the truth.
This case is very complicated, because it is handled in a foreign country, and the official attitude of Thailand is relatively ambiguous, which inevitably makes people wonder if there may be something fishy behind it.
In this case, if the Thai side takes the lead in completing the case, then China can only watch. Not only will it not be able to punish the murderer, but the innocence of the murdered compatriots may also not be clarified.
Therefore, the public security department is ready to send a special task force, headed by senior criminal police Gao Gang, to investigate the truth and arrest the culprit and bring him back to China for trial.
After that, Fang Xinwu, played by Wei Yang, appeared. He is China's intelligence officer in the Golden Triangle and has mastered many local intelligence networks.
The instructions from above are that Fang Xinwu must investigate who the murderer is, and respond to the subsequent investigation team and provide various assistance.
This stage is almost a one-man show by Fang Xinwu. Through his own intelligence network, various investigations and even some means not recognized by the official, he finally determined who the murderer is.
The last stage is that the Chinese task force that got the intelligence came to Thailand, and with the help of Fang Xinwu, they found the whereabouts of Khun Sa who was hiding, and then Fang Xinwu and Gao Gang led the team to arrest him.
This scene is the longest, almost accounting for more than half of the share, and it is also the most exciting part of the whole movie, with disguise arrests, gunfights, explosions, car chases, spaceships and other big scenes one after another.
Naturally, these scenes are also the most difficult to shoot in the whole movie.
Wei Yang's previous action scenes were mainly costume dramas, and this kind of large-scale modern gunfight and explosion scenes is the first time, and his experience is limited.
Fortunately, this kind of scene is not a fighting action scene, and it mainly depends on the director and the on-site dispatch. As long as you adapt to it, the difficulty is not particularly high.
Not to mention, Wei Yang doesn't like fighting scenes, but he shoots this kind of modern gunfight film well.
Various tactical actions are very smooth and neat, and shooting is even more fun. Holding a submachine gun is half a magazine, da da da, it feels like a real CS.
Zhang Hanyu, who acted with him, had previously filmed war films such as "Assembly" and had more experience in filming such scenes than Wei Yang.
He taught him many skills in private. These skills have nothing to do with actual combat, but are more convenient for on-site filming, such as what actions to do to appear more handsome and cool.
"Change the magazine!"
During the filming break, Zhang Hanyu smoked and boasted: "This is what I heard from a Hollywood buddy. There are only a few shooting techniques. In fact, there is nothing new, but if you change the magazine well, you will look professional all of a sudden."
A teammate actor next to him also nodded: "Someone in Hong Kong also said this, but we change magazines less often."
Wei Yang understood. This is an old problem of Hong Kong films, unlimited bullets, and revolvers have the effect of Gatling guns.
Not only Hong Kong films, but many domestic dramas also play this way. There is rarely a change of bullets in a gun battle. Action movies that can change bullets in time can be praised by film critics separately.
But to be honest, sometimes it is not that directors do not understand the principle that [bullets will be shot out], but for the sake of continuity and pictures, this logic is sacrificed.
For example, when the gangs start fighting, a fierce general Yan Shuangying is possessed, holding two pistols and firing all kinds of weapons, suppressing dozens of people by himself, which is absolutely exciting for the audience.
But if "Yan Shuangying" shoots a few shots, he squats down to change bullets, the realism is improved, but the sense of crushing is no longer there.
Wei Yang is a veteran in filming, he understands these principles very well, film and television need artistic processing, and filming according to reality is not friendly to many audiences.
This is also true for "Operation Mekong", which is a successful main theme commercial film.
Since it has the word "commercial", we know that there are many fictional elements in it.
So don't look at the lively fighting in the movie, the raiding of the old nest, the big explosion, and even the helicopter in the end. In fact, in the prototype case, this case has no action scenes at all.
From beginning to end, it is more about the competition between several forces.
Rather than saying that the case was solved, it is better to say that China exerted diplomatic pressure and sent a special task force to investigate, forcing the relevant people to hand over the murderer, while Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos blamed each other.
You should know that among the 12 criminals in the prototype, 9 of them were active Thai soldiers. Later, under pressure, they surrendered voluntarily.
As for the main criminal Naw Kham, he was more of a searcher. He didn't know where he was hiding. Through various investigations and arrests of close confidants, he gradually narrowed his range of activities and finally arrested him.
Therefore, this extremely fierce [Khun Sa] in the movie, who even dared to send people to bomb the embassy, was really too high. In reality, he was actually a stinky rat hiding in the underground tunnel.
But the truth is the truth. If you really shoot according to the real prototype, you can't shoot if it's too sensitive, and it's a bit boring if you can shoot it.
So if you want to seek commercial success and wide publicity, you still have to shoot it according to the way of "Operation Mekong", and the audience will love to watch it.
Speaking of this, Wei Yang also remembered the stalk of the Wolf Warrior in Northern Myanmar.
When the electronic fraud was rampant in his previous life, many people ridiculed Wu Jing, and some people really thought about how to solve it, such as suggesting to send a small group of elite troops to rescue people or behead them like "Operation Mekong".
However, later facts proved that the four major families were exaggerated by marketing accounts.
They even used force to rescue. The real awesomeness is to issue an order and kill and strip the person with a few wanted orders. Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior" was too conservative...
Operation Mekong also has this problem. It looks exciting and exciting, but in fact, compared with the operation of the prototype case, it is somewhat naive and taken for granted.
If the superiors are willing to relax the scale and let Wei Yang shoot, he will focus on the upper-level game.
How the diplomatic and relevant departments exert strong pressure, how the senior officials of several countries are exhausted, how they blame each other, how they want to play tricks but are warned by China, and finally they can't hold it anymore, and they honestly hand over people and admit their mistakes.
In fact, it is shot like this. If the rhythm and details are handled well, the excitement is no less than those action blockbusters.
Korean audiences have a lot to say about this. They like to watch how the Blue House confronts China, challenges the United States, ravages Japan, and realizes the dream of the Republic of Korea being the third most powerful country in the world.
It's just that Koreans are dreaming, while China can really do this, and it will be even more exaggerated in a few years.
Wei Yang really thinks that the main theme propaganda of "Wolf Warrior" is indeed a bit childish compared to some real things that happened later.
The great powers are the kingly way!
However, although this kind of subject matter will certainly be popular, it will definitely not pass the review if it does not meet the above requirements.
So no matter how much Wei Yang wanted to film the role of "Rogue Rabbit", one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, he could only film the "Good Rabbit" that conforms to the mainstream propaganda of truth, goodness and beauty, and suppress all kinds of ideas about "Operation Mekong" and film it honestly in the way of action movies.
Even so, Wei Yang did not give up completely. The scenes of the public security department and diplomacy in the movie are more serious and domineering than the original version.
Originally, the director and screenwriter had some objections, and then Wei Yang took out the materials and documentaries to convince them.
When the prototype case was in a stalemate, the domestic military released a message through the media - [The specific actions of this case are the responsibility of the public security, and if necessary, we can also provide support].
Translated, it means: Now I give you face, be sure to keep it, otherwise I will slap you to death.
Compared with the prototype case, even after Wei Yang's changes, the relevant plot is somewhat restrained.
It's not that Wei Yang doesn't dare to write, but the public security department and Shanghai Film Studio stopped him. Some things can be done, but it's hard to say them openly. Rabbit is used to making a fortune quietly...