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At [-]:[-] am the next day after arriving in Qincheng, all the cast members of the crew of "The Calyx's Brilliance" held a meeting at the hotel and officially started the three-week group training.

Previously, during the filming of "Longevity" and "Looking for Fragrance", Lu Li also received some targeted training.But after all, there are many differences between dramas, and the content of the training is of course also unique.

As a film aimed at "recreating the style and style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty", the training of "Flower Calyx" naturally includes teaching about the culture, etiquette and manners of the Tang Dynasty.

As small as the gestures of sitting and standing, saluting, holding a pen, and holding a knife; as large as the process of the court meeting and the movements of riding and shooting, all are guided by experts in history, and strive to restore them as much as possible-such details are of course not for the sake of the big What kind of "historical fundamentalism" is going on? After all, commercial films still have to give priority to visual effects, but some exquisite details will enhance the audience's reputation for the film.

In fact, this kind of teaching and training has another great advantage: it allows the actors in each group to quickly become familiar with it. Except for the heroine who has played for Shen Xing, almost all of the ten core actors of the crew of "Flower Calyx" are cooperating with each other for the first time - three of them are Japanese, communication and cultivation of tacit understanding are the key It seems more and more important.

It's finally March in the blink of an eye.The Mo River splashes green and the spring breeze brings warmth. Tens of thousands of peach blossoms, plum blossoms and apricot blossoms that have been planted in New Tang City in the past two years are blooming one after another.

On an auspicious day, "The Calyx's Brilliance" was held at Chengtianmen Square, and this was the first official launch of the entire New Tang City.

Since good things come in pairs, the media will naturally follow.Long guns and short cannons lined up along the Chengtian Gate, and one or two hundred members of the crew came on stage in a file. This scene is really a bit of a spectacular scene of the first day of the court.

Among them, the most notable ones are of course the main actors.Both Shen Xingxuan and Lu Li were dressed in costumes, one was as handsome as a fairy, the other was delicate and lingering; the first and second women who were traveling together were also beautiful.There were also Chinese and Japanese veterans who appeared on the stage together, which suddenly attracted the sound of shutters like a rainstorm.

After starring, the director, producer, screenwriter... appeared one after another.However, few people noticed that there were several pink-skinned Europeans and Americans in the crowd that followed.They also went to the countryside and held the three pillars of fragrance, but their expressions were more curious than serious, obviously they were just here to join in the fun.

This is a special effects team invited from Hollywood, which has created many classic visual works that hit Oscars.The service period signed by the team and the crew is one month, so several major scenes involving special effects makeup in the play will be concentrated in this month.After one month, the American team will leave, leaving only one expert to guide the Chinese project team to carry out sporadic follow-up work.

For the actors, this is good news—after all, the temperature in March and April is suitable, and wearing various silicone prostheses will not be too stuffy, and the connection between the prosthesis and the body will not shift due to sweat. bit, increasing the trouble of repeated touch-ups.

So, from the second day after the machine was turned on, Lu Li and Shen Xingxuan lived a hard life of getting up at three or four in the morning to put on makeup.It will take about two or three hours to glue the headgear first and then make up.

Shen Xingxuan is fine, but needs some scars occasionally; Lu Li is different - he has a half-human, half-fox fake face in the play, which is simply a mask.Although the mask was completely modeled on his face, it would take at least six hours for it to be pasted seamlessly and then modified.

Fortunately, these foreign make-up artists insist on an eight-hour working day and refuse to work overtime easily.Every afternoon, the crew ended on time, leaving a lot of time in the evening.

But even if he was free, he still couldn't move his mind.These days Lu Li and Shen Xingxuan can be said to be inseparable. It is common for them to visit each other at night and review scripts together. However, even if they lie on the same bed, they still behave well. Later, I was even more afraid of excessive indulgence, unable to get out of bed the next day or having big dark circles, and being scolded by the makeup team for no reason.

No matter how hard you work, you must persevere in the career you choose.Now that things have happened, Lu Li can only comfort himself, "A dual-career family is hard work."

But dual careers also have many of the joys of dual careers.

Since almost all the special effects makeup is bundled with the martial arts, "Flower Calyx" chose the shooting process of first fighting and then writing.Although there are few lines in martial arts, the degree of difficulty is quite high if you want to complete a full set of high-quality martial arts moves in one go.

In the two weeks since filming started, Lu Li and Shen Xingze have already faced off in several martial arts scenes.The fighting moves are all designed and guided by the well-known "Li Jiaban" martial arts chief instructor in the industry. They are ingenious but not fancy.

In the play, Qin Shanai fell in love with a Tang knife with a straight handle that never left her body.This kind of cold weapon, which looks like a sword but not a sword, has a set of elegant movements and postures from wearing, pulling out to using.Lu Li absolutely loves this pitch-black and sharp weapon. He would play with it from time to time while waiting, and occasionally dance with a few knives, attracting nympho and ridicule from the convincing young ladies.

Compared with him, Shen Xingze is often silent and steady.If he's not reciting his lines, he's listening to his assistant relay the company's situation.

Only when Lu Li got a little too loud, he couldn't help it, and used the guise of "play rehearsal" to grab people to his side.

Of course, such happy and relaxed time is still rare after all.Most of the time, filming martial arts is still a chore.The pain mainly comes from a large instrument of torture—Wia.

Today, hanging wire has almost become a compulsory course for costume drama actors.Whether it is the light work of flying over the eaves and walls, or the flying swordsmanship of the flying fairy, or even some dangerous movements on the ground, the essence behind it is a few millimeters thick steel wires and lifting devices.

However, compared to the vertical lifting height, what Lu Li is more afraid of is the physical and mental trauma caused by the wiayi - the design similar to medieval torture put a lot of pressure on his lower body. After a long time, his inner thighs and lower back became sore. It is not uncommon for the body to be bruised and purple.

And Wia has some more terrifying ways to use it.To give a simple example: Wrap the wire rope around the waist of a lying actor and twitch it quickly. The actor uses the power of the wire rope to rotate and stand on the ground.This is a very beautiful martial arts movement, and it is also very difficult.

As a former victim, Lu Li knows how important it is to "strictly obey orders" when completing these actions - once he just stretched his arm a little, a small piece of flesh was cut off by a sharp steel wire.

Physical fatigue coupled with high mental tension, after a whole day of filming, no matter whether Lu Li or Shen Xingze, they would often find that their bodies were bruised, purple, red and swollen.Although the crew is equipped with a doctor, there is no need to trouble others for such trivial matters.Taking the script and a bottle of medicated oil, Lu Li went to Shen Xingxuan's room, and the advantages of a dual-career family were revealed.

Rubbing and rubbing, Lu Li would always sigh, saying that as a proletariat, he was short of money and spent his life on the job, but Shen Xing chose a super rich second generation, and he was eager to do these idle jobs. Could it be that there was something hidden in his bones Masochistic tendencies.

Shen Xing chose to ignore his chattering most of the time, but if he was in a better mood, he would fight with him on purpose.Fighting and fighting and then kissing together can be regarded as a kind of joy in bitterness.

In the third week of work, they ushered in the most mysterious and romantic plot in the play: Chang'an City at midnight after the curfew, filled with fog.Ming Chongyan and Qin Shan'ai witnessed a grotesque competition on the empty Zhuquemen Street—two funeral teams claiming to be from the two evil temples in the east and west, each using their magical powers to compete.

This is a night scene, and it needs to create a thick fog effect, so it has to be shot in the studio.There are twelve studios in the Qincheng Base, and Studio No. 8 is a medium-sized Grade A studio located inside New Tang City.Not only is it brand new, but the supporting facilities are also complete, including prop warehouses, service rooms and lounges.

In order to film this important scene well, the prop setting team has built a 1:1 real scene of Suzaku Street in the shed - an empty and flat rammed earth avenue, and the drainage ditches on both sides are two meters wide.A small bridge is erected over the ditch, surrounded by towering locust trees, and behind the tree is a three to four meter high rammed earth square wall, which is no different from the real scene in Xintang City.

And all these physical scenes are surrounded by a huge liftable blue screen, which is convenient for post-processing to synthesize vistas and night scenes.

The set is all ready, and then it's time for the props and actors to come on stage.

There are many group performances participating in this scene, with two to three hundred people in front and back.In addition to the general "dragons", there are male and female students directly invited from the dance class of the art school and professional performers from the acrobatic troupe.

Some time ago, all these group performances were divided into two groups, and rehearsals were carried out according to different divisions of labor.Today is the official shooting day.The two Chinese and American makeup teams started at four in the morning and spent six hours finishing all the basic and special effects makeup.Put on costumes, take props, and slowly enter the waiting area under the instructions of the walkie-talkie.

The lights at the scene have been dimmed, and the huge dysprosium lamp hanging from the height of the studio started to work, casting a cool light like moonlight.There was no need for the director to signal, all departments were automatically in place, and the studio quickly quieted down.

But before starting the machine, there is another prop that must be on the stage in advance——

People from the pyrotechnics team pushed a flatbed cart with a few white disc-shaped smoke cakes on it.The main ingredients are dry, compacted solids of sulfur and wood dust, which produce unpleasant-smelling white smoke when ignited.Under the gentle blowing of the electric fan, the smoke slowly diffused into the constructed scene.The cold light of the dysprosium lamp forms beams of light in the mist, mysterious and charming.

When the level of light and the density of smoke are just right, the director gives instructions through the walkie-talkie.Recording and video recording confirmed the start-up, the assistant stepped forward to play the board, and the extras began to enter the venue.

This is a mighty team of hundreds of people.Walking in the front are two rows of young girls in plain skirts, holding lanterns, gold censers or copper pots of incense soup in their hands, and burning incense quietly as a guide.Then came the guard of honor holding spirit flags and banners, all of whom were tall and handsome young men.

After the ceremonial guards are acrobatics, some of whom have already done special effects makeup, while others have covered half of their bodies or even their entire heads with blue screens, waiting for post-modeling processing.

After the juggling, eight tall horses came slowly, and two of them pulled the topped cart.The car is full of weird papered furniture, utensils, and dowry cages.

Afterwards, more than a dozen strong and middle-aged men joined forces to carry a huge wooden chariot. On the chariot was a large piece of three-to-four-meter-high mountain-shaped foam plastic covered with blue cloth. Made multiple marks.

After the giant chariot, there are also hearses and monks and priests. It takes about 10 minutes to complete all hula la.After all the members passed, the director called cut, and the assistant director immediately picked up the loudspeaker to direct the group performance, preparing to reposition.The field staff also rushed forward, and took the time to clean up the paper money that had fallen all over the floor.

While the extras were repeatedly cutting the stage, Shen Xingze and Lu Li had already finished their final preparations and were ready to appear on stage.