Chapter 498
If you want to film "Wolf Warrior 2", you need the cooperation of the military.
In "Wolf Warrior 2", tanks, tanks, assault vehicles, artillery, helicopters, destroyers... are dazzled.
The speed of ten real tanks, tail swing and collision, can be called the tank version of "Fast and Furious".
What's even more exaggerated is that the crew destroyed hundreds of cars, 2 20-ton equal-scale tank models and 1 aircraft model.
The news that Xu Qian planned to make a new movie naturally spread, and the military also agreed to cooperate.
Xu Qian has greater connections than Wu Jing in his previous life.
Wu Jing was actually an outdated star before filming "Wolf Warrior".
When shooting the Wolf Warrior, the military region supported a helicopter. There was a shot that was repeated several times but failed to achieve the ideal effect. The pilot was unwilling to fly and wanted to strike.
Wu Jing walked over and said, "Brother, let's fly for the last time." Finally, the shooting was successfully completed.
It is precisely this kind of professionalism that made the film "Wolf Warrior".
News of Xu Qian shooting a military film also spread.
The others were shocked and inexplicably: "Heavy Industry Action Movie? Can Xu Qian hold it?"
"My God, Xu Qian has transformed again? Can he do it?"
"I don't think it's good, I don't think it's good."
“Not anyone can shoot heavy industry movies?”
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Countless people expressed disbelief of Xu Qian.
Because Chinese people have never filmed "heavy industrial military films" before, because such films have a large investment, but the prospects are unknown.
But Xu Qian knew that heavy industry movies were a must-take.
Chinese movies do not lack comedy films that make big profits, nor do they lack excellent drama films, but what can this happen? They cannot have an impact on Hollywood.
In fact, Hollywood capital tycoons, and even the entire American film industry, don’t care how many low-cost and high-box comedy films China continues to shoot.
As for excellent feature films such as "I Am Not a God of Medicine", they will not be taken seriously by Hollywood. It is very simple. The unique cultural barrier makes it difficult for even the best local feature films to enter the mainstream cultural circles of Europe and the United States, and they will compete with them globally.
Even if one day, Chinese filmmakers really make new "Farewell My Concubine" and "Living", Hollywood will not be stingy with the superficial applause. Perhaps they will reward some "international leaders" with their lives as they have always been for Indian movies, Iranian movies and island movies, so that the majority of Douban young people and literary critics can also be "are honored" and regard it as the "worry of hardships" and "correct development direction" of Chinese movies, which deceives the public. This is to be "full recognition from the international film industry."
But if you shoot a heavy industry movie, it will definitely be boycotted by Hollywood because it touches their core interests.
Movies are always commercial.
Without business, it would die just like the Baodao movie. Hou Hsiao-hsien and others, who were praised by Douban movie critics, played the Baodao movie to death.
Hou Hsiao-hsien publicly confessed more than ten years ago: [The Baodao movie was killed by Yang Dechang and I.]
In 2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien even publicly said: [Also talk about art movies? Art movies have long been dead, and now they are only left in film schools and researchers.]
Mainland Chinese films must not be learned from them.
Next, Xu Qian started the filming of "Wolf Warrior 2".
The first step in filming of "Wolf Warrior 2" stumped Xu Qian.
People say that Wu Jing has unique vision and extraordinary courage, but he ignores the huge risks he bears and the sweat and blood he has paid.
At the beginning of "Wolf Warrior 2", Wu Jing's fighting skills in the water shocked everyone.
This scene of fighting in the water that was shot to the end made Sam amazed the action director of "Captain America". He said that he had never seen a scene that was shot to the end.
And it is for this short 2-minute underwater action scene that Wu Jing experienced unimaginable pain and trials, and even almost sacrificed his own life.
Just diving, Wu Jing jumped 26 times.
It was a 13-meter-high deck, 4-story building, which was 3 meters higher than the height of a 10-meter-high platform diving.
What greeted Wu Jing was not the calm water surface of the swimming pool, but the turbulent sea. As soon as he entered the water, he was washed away by the high-speed currents. A speedboat could save him from ashore.
In order to increase the diving speed, Wu Jing carried a 4 kilogram lead block on his back.
The diving speed increased, but it greatly dragged down his floating up.
After taking two shots, Wu Jing couldn't get on.
Seeing himself getting farther and farther away from the water, Wu Jing only had a thought left in his head:
Give it a sigh of relief.
When the lifeguard rescued Wu Jing, he had no strength to connect the respirator, and it was the lifeguard who pressed the respirator on his face.
This more than 2 minutes of fighting scene in the water is a microcosm of "Wolf Warrior 2".
The entire "Wolf Warrior 2" is a movie that survives blood and fire. Dangers and injuries are everywhere, like shadows.
During the action scenes, Wu Jing's arm was injured by a plate.
When shooting scenes, the eyes were rubbed by gravel.
When I was trying to shoot a Wiya scene, my wrist was wrapped in an iron chain.
He simply treated the wound, frowned and said, "It's OK, it's OK," and then continued to take pictures.
During the fight, Wu Jing asked to get the flesh and said, "It is only possible to make the audience happy if it hurts so hard that it can be enjoyable."
Frank Griro, who was fighting against Wu Jing, couldn't bear to attack, but he insisted that the other party slapped himself in the face with force.
If the water fighting scene at the opening of the film is a microcosm of "Wolf Warrior 2", then "Wolf Warrior 2" is a microcosm of Wu Jing's lifelong film career.
A picture of Wu Jing's physical injuries is circulating on the Internet.
From head to toe, Wu Jing had almost no good place on him.
"At the age of 6, my nose broke, my head opened at the age of 8, my arm broke at the age of 9, my lower limbs were paralyzed at the age of 14, my foot broke at the age of 17, and my stitches were almost 100. I have been in the industry for 19 years and insisted on not using a stand-in, and I did the actual combat, speeding, and explosions by myself.
The fingers were broken when filming "The Grandmaster of Tai Chi", the right eye was damaged when filming "Little Li's Flying Knife", the ligament was broken when filming "The True Color of a Man", and the foot was sprained in "New Shaolin Temple", and the heart attack was almost caused."
This water scene is also a great challenge for Xu Qian, but he cannot retreat. If he wants to make this movie well, he must endure hardships, be willing to endure hardships, and be able to endure hardships, and there is no other shortcut to take.
"Wolf Warrior 2" was very hard to film, but Xu Qian felt unprecedented fulfillment. He had not been so tired for a long time.
I have been tired and worked hard, and when I see the results later, I will be sincerely happy.
Three months later, "Wolf Warrior 2" was officially completed.
Chapter completed!