Chapter 1624 Back to the war years
When most of the cast and crew gathered in the tent, Li Mu asked Wang Yuanlang and several on-site assistants to transport more than 100 bottles of wine he brought in and said to everyone: "We have worked hard here for so long. Seeing that the filming is about to be completed, I specially brought some pretty good wine to everyone. We will hold a celebration banquet tonight."
Spielberg smiled and said, "It seems that everyone will not get drunk tonight."
Li Mu said: "Stephen, hurry up and arrange the work at hand so that everyone can finish the work as soon as possible."
Spielberg nodded and smiled, "Our chef has already started preparing today's dinner. Today I drove to Chuncheng and bought all kinds of ingredients for two pickup trucks."
Li Mu said with satisfaction: "Today's celebration banquet is going to be grander. We will cooperate with a wave of media publicity to make the public feel deeper in the movie "Flying Tigers".
As he said that, Li Mu looked at the three male stars, Leonardo, Tom Hanks, and Liu Ye. All three of them were wearing costumes, namely the US Air Force jackets, black jackets, beige khaki pants, and brown high-top leather boots from World War II. Although it was very age-like, even if it was viewed from the current aesthetic, it was absolutely handsome.
Moreover, Leonardo's appearance is amazing and is now at the peak of his appearance. Such an outfit is simply perfect.
Liu Ye's appearance is also first-class, and he is tougher than most cream-like youngsters, so wearing such an Air Force outfit is no less than Leonardo.
Although Tom Hanks is older and has a slightly inferior appearance to a young actor, the best thing about this big brother is what he plays. When he dresses up, he says it is Chennard or Chennard. If he wears a pilot sunglasses and holds a cigar, he will definitely fascinate a large number of female audiences.
Li Mu suddenly thought, why not take advantage of the sunset outside and take a photo with the three main actors on the runway outside and in front of the fighter plane? Then post it on his Weibo. Needless to say, it must be very explosive, and the publicity effect must be so good.
As soon as he thought of this, Li Mu immediately asked Spielberg: "Stephen, do I have Air Force clothing that I can wear?"
"Yes." Spielberg blurted out: "We have prepared more than a hundred Flying Tigers uniforms. Do you want to give it a try?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "Find out for me, I will go out with the three male protagonists to take a photo together, and then post it on my Weibo."
Spielberg's eyes lit up.
He knew very well that the most popular celebrity in the world is not any star, but Li Mu.
If Li Mu posted a photo with the three starring actors on Weibo, it would probably take a day before the photo would spread all over the world.
Thinking of this, Spielberg hurriedly said to the assistant beside him: "Go and find a suit for Mr. Li, hurry up!"
Ten minutes later, Li Mu walked out of a single tent provided by the crew in a very well-fitting US World War II Air Force uniform.
As soon as they came out, everyone watched him applauded and applauded, and even several young Americans whistled long.
Li Mu shook his black bomber jacket and asked with a smile: "How is it, does it mean something?"
Du Wei stared at Li Mu with her eyes tightly and said seriously: "Brother Li Mu, although saying this will offend Brother Liu Ye, I still have to say that you should act the role of Brother Liu Ye in this movie!"
Anne Hathaway was also a little stunned when she looked at Li Mu. Recently, Oriental men have watched more or less filming in China. Although they have a good impression, from an aesthetic point of view, oriental men are not attractive to standard Western women like her.
She had a little bit of affection for Li Mu in her heart, and even often fantasize about the scene of giving her body, but what attracted Li Mu was not her appearance.
However, when Li Mu changed into an Air Force pilot uniform and came out with black pilot sunglasses, she discovered for the first time that Li Mu was indeed very handsome, even from the perspective of her Westerner, she was still handsome.
There was no mirror in the tent, so Li Mu himself didn't know what he looked like. However, when he stood side by side with the three male actors, Leonardo, Tom Hanks, and Liu Ye, even if he couldn't see his appearance, his heart suddenly seemed to have traveled back to that war-torn era, as if he was really one of the pilots of the Flying Tigers, as if he was about to be about to be with his Chinese comrades-in-arms and American comrades, drove the fighter jets with the image of a big shark not far away and fought with the fighter jets of the Japanese invaders in the sky.
Spielberg called the photographer of his crew over. This was his royal photography, but now he asked the other party to take on the camera work and let him take photos for Li Mu and the other three male actors.
Spielberg felt that the scene, momentum, and artistic conception were 20% in the equipment, 30% in the composition, and 50% in the use of light. If you want to take awesome photos, just like taking awesome movies, photographers must know how to use light, whether it is ambient light or instrument light.
So, the top Hollywood photographer picked up the SLR camera and took a photo of Li Mu, Liu Ye, Leonardo, and Tom Hanks in the golden and bloody sunset of the Yunzhou Plateau.
This is the time when the sunset is the most beautiful. The fire clouds in the sky are red and spectacular. They are wearing air force uniforms that are exactly the same as that of that era. They are airport runways with solid red earth under their feet, and behind them are several American-made P-40c fighter jets. The photos look particularly real, as if they suddenly make people return to that era of war.
The p-40c was the main model adopted by the Flying Tigers in China. At that time, all of these aircraft were painted with shark mouths in China. It can be said that it was the most familiar American fighter of World War II that the Chinese people are.
During the photo, the P-40c fighter jets at the airport were all painted with completely restored shark mouths. Moreover, Spielberg told Li Mu that all these aircraft were real P-40cs, which were found specifically from the American folk flying club, and were well-maintained and able to be launched.
According to Spielberg, although there are not many fighter planes on the airport, after the later computer special effects, the scene here will undergo earth-shaking changes, and the visual effect is at least ten times more spectacular than the actual situation.
Everyone on the scene was extremely satisfied with this photo. No matter it was the shooting technique, the expressions, movements, auras, or even the historical restoration of this photo, it could not find any faults.
Spielberg even said: "I really want to use this photo as a promotional poster. This photo looks much better than Tom Cruise's "Topgun"!"
"topgun" itself is already a very passionate Air Force-themed movie. It is understandable to say that it is the number one in the Air Force-themed movie today. However, Spielberg believes that after the release of "The Flying Tigers", it will completely crush "topgun" in various fields.
For example, the actual budget of "Flying Tigers" is higher than that of "Topgun", and the value behind the scenes and the starring team is stronger than that of "Topgun". Moreover, "Flying Tigers" is supported by Li Mu, and the publicity resources are more than one order of magnitude stronger than "Topgun".
More importantly, "topgun" is more like an idol drama overall, while "The Flying Tigers" is based entirely on real history. The latter's historical heaviness absolutely crushes the former.
Spielberg has made many war films, among which the movie "Save Private Ryan" directed by him is almost recognized as one of the best war-themed movies; and the "Brothers" produced by him is also recognized as the best war-themed TV series. Spielberg's experience tells him that from the perspective of historical heaviness, no theme can be compared with World War II.
Therefore, in Spielberg's eyes, "The Flying Tigers" will definitely become one of the top war-themed movies, and may surpass the achievements of "Save Private Ryan" and become the king of war movies.
Li Mu is also spared no effort to promote "Flying Tigers". Moreover, his goal is not only to make the Chinese and American people pay attention to this movie and this history. His goal is to attract the attention of the whole world and make the people all over the world pay attention to this movie and this history. Therefore, he traveled thousands of miles to visit the set and add some topic to this movie.
After Li Mu got this photo that made him very satisfied, he immediately uploaded the photo to his Weibo through his portable laptop, and wrote: "Visit the shooting scene of the crew of "Flying Tigers" to pay tribute to all the pilots who fought against the invaders over China during World War II for justice and peace!"
As soon as this photo was posted, it immediately became the biggest hit on Weibo.
Because the data between Weibo and Titter is completely interoperable, Li Mu is the one with the most fans, whether in the Chinese version of Weibo or the foreign version of Titter, so once his Weibo is updated, it will be popularized very quickly.
For those users who know the movie "Flying Tigers", when they see this photo, they not only feel that the four people in this photo are so handsome that they are attracted by the powerful aura in the photo, but they can also know at once that this is the movie about the story of the Flying Tigers invested by Li Mu. After seeing such a stunning still, they are full of expectations for the movie;
For those users who don’t know the movie “Flying Tigers”, when they see this photo, their first impression is also very cool and handsome. Moreover, most of them can find at least two or three familiar faces from it. For example, Li Mu, who already has a very high reputation worldwide, can be said to be well-known in countries and regions with networks all over the world.
Leonardo and Tom Hanks also have a large number of fans around the world. Although Liu Ye's global influence is much worse than the three of them, fortunately, he is very good in terms of appearance and image, so he will not drag him down on this photo.
Chapter completed!