Chapter 397 Slight Smile

Chapter 397 Slight Smile

Chapter 397 Smile

In a military training camp near Shangjing, Wang Hao met some crew members of "Wolf Warrior 2".

In addition to Wu Jing, the leading actor of the "Wolf Warrior" series, there are also Yang Yang and Xie Miao who appeared in "Wolf Warrior 1", as well as some new characters of the "Wolf Fang" special forces team.

Of course, as the heroine of this movie, Wang Zhi, who plays Han Duoduo, also underwent arduous military training with them.

At least when Wang Hao saw them, their skin had become much darker. Even Yang Yang, who had always been an idol, had gotten rid of his former frail temperament, shaved his hair short, and looked a lot leaner and stronger.

When they saw director Wang Hao, they were all very happy because they knew that their hard days were finally over.

"Director Wang, if you hadn't come, we would have thought you had forgotten us."

Wu Jing, the leader, grinned, revealing a row of big white teeth, and stepped forward and punched Wang Hao on the shoulder.

"You don't know how we have been living in the military camp for more than a year!"

In the past, experiencing life and professional training have always been the most important part of the early preparation stages of a film for some aspiring actors and crews.

Although we often say that a film's director and script are extremely important, having only these two is not enough.

Without good actors, no matter how good the director is, or how good the script is, it is useless.

For a good actor, experiencing life is an essential task before joining the crew for filming.

This is the creative foundation for actors to go from rational script analysis to truly entering into the character's life and then deeply feeling the character's inner world.

When Chen Chong was creating the character of "The Last Emperor", she spent half a year working in the Forbidden City every day, walking on bluestone slabs, completing the long life experience process of the character of Wanrong.

In addition, Robert De Niro was nominated for the Best Actor at the 49th Academy Awards for his role as a taxi driver in "Taxi Driver".

In order to complete this role, he spent a whole month driving a taxi for up to 12 hours a day, and experienced the daily life of a taxi driver for a long time.

Duan Yihong once went to experience life 1000 meters below a mine for a role; in order to shoot Farewell My Concubine, his brother Leslie Cheung turned down all other performances and activities, as well as unnecessary social engagements six months in advance, and came to BJ specifically to learn Peking Opera; Zhang Ziyi actually went to live in the countryside for a few months in order to shoot My Father and Mother.

There are countless examples like this, and it is this long-term and in-depth life experience that has allowed the older generation of actors to subtly develop the habits and actions of the character's life, and to possess the character's temperament and perspective.

Therefore, when performing, they do not need to deliberately design the character's external movements or behaviors. They will subconsciously perform the character's movements and reactions. At this time, we say that they have become the character.

In comparison, new-age artists and crews are extremely lacking in terms of experiencing life.

On the one hand, young artists cannot endure hardship. On the other hand, after capital invaded the entertainment industry, actors’ salaries skyrocketed and the value of artists’ time increased rapidly.

For many young artistes nowadays, being able to not overlap with other filming schedules is already considered dedicated enough. Instead of spending a few more months experiencing life just to make good dramas, they and the agencies behind them might as well take on more commercial performances, which would make making money easy and enjoyable.

Fortunately, Wang Hao's crew has very high requirements for actors. In addition, the Galaxy Group and Wang Hao himself are very prestigious, and the actors they find are also dedicated enough.

So this time in order to film "Wolf Warrior 2", after Wu Jing and his team confirmed that they had taken over the script, just like Jing Tian and his team had previously entered the army a year in advance to experience the life of special forces in order to film "Gravity".

During this time, everyone crawled and fought in the military camp, eating and training with the other soldiers. It can be said that it was extremely hard.

"Of course I see your hard work."

Wang Hao looked at everyone with an approving smile on his face.

“You are all very good and have given a lot, but I promise that all your efforts are worth it.

"Wolf Warrior 2" is different from "Wolf Warrior 1". This time the scenes of the movie will be bigger, the story content will be more exciting, and the requirements for the actors will be higher.

It can be seen that after this period of training, everyone has undergone gratifying changes, which will surely promote the improvement of the quality of the film.

After the movie is released in the future, you will surely reap the sweet fruits of your hard work.”

Wang Hao's praise made everyone present smile happily, and some dissatisfaction caused by the long-term hard training in their hearts also disappeared, but this was not the end.

"In addition, I am here today to tell you that Wolf Warrior 2 will start filming in June this year. In the next period of time, you can relax a little and don't have to work so hard."

For the "Wolf Warrior 2" crew members in the training base, Wang Hao's last sentence is real good news.

Many of them jumped up with joy, and even Wu Jing smiled even more brightly when he heard this.

"Just resting is not enough," Wu Jing smiled and pulled Wang Hao's arm, "It's rare for you to come today, and we are about to leave the training base, so we have to get together in the evening and have a few drinks."

"It seems that you have not only improved your physical fitness in the military camp, but also improved your drinking capacity." Wang Hao joked with him.

"Of course." Wu Jing looked very proud. "No one is allowed to find excuses not to attend tonight."

He stretched out his hand and pointed at the people present. Among them, some young people like Yang Yang immediately looked embarrassed, but helpless.

Wang Hao chatted with them for a while, but didn't talk too much. He said goodbye and went to see the leader of the training base.

After all, I used their venue, and I also needed their support in terms of equipment and personnel for the subsequent filming of the movie, so I had to thank them in person during this trip.

At night, a farewell party was held at the training base to welcome Wu Jing and other members of the "Wolf Warrior 2" crew.

Wang Hao also joined in and started drinking with Wu Jing and the others, and he didn't leave until he was drunk.

After Lingding got drunk, he rested in the guesthouse of the base for one night. The next day, Wang Hao took Wu Jing and others to leave the training base. The supporting actors naturally had free time to go home to rest or relax. However, Wu Jing, the leading actor, was not so lucky. He had to go back to Galaxy Pictures with Wang Hao to discuss matters related to the film production with the crew members behind the scenes.

After all, in addition to being the leading actor in "Wolf Warrior 2", he is also the action director of this film, and many things related to film production require his contribution.

In fact, Wang Hao himself had also considered training Wu Jing to be the director of this film. After all, the previous work "Wolf Warrior 2" was also directed by Wu Jing.

[Galaxy Cinematic Universe] is getting bigger and bigger. Even though Galaxy Group itself has trained several young directors, there is no such thing as too many new directors.

However, after actually testing Wu Jing's directing skills, Wang Hao gave up this idea.

After all, when Wu Jing directed "Wolf Warrior 2" in his previous life, he had already directed several works before.

In comparison, Wu Jing is undoubtedly lacking in experience and is temporarily unable to take on such a heavy responsibility.

Since April, Wang Hao has focused most of his energy on the preparations for Wolf Warrior 4.
Compared to the first part which only took place in the jungle of the Golden Triangle area, the second part is set in the African continent which is farther away from China and more vast.

The Wolf Warriors will face greater threats, perform more difficult tasks, and fight against stronger opponents. At the same time, they will also usher in a wave of upgrades in battle scenes and technological equipment, and the movie will have more highlights.

In addition, because of the location where the story takes place, they will also go to Africa for filming this time.

As for the indoor studio scenes, in addition to the one in Shangjing, the sea view photography base in Hangzhou Bay will also be used.

With the strong support of the local municipal government, the [Oriental Galaxy Movie Metropolis] on the Hangzhou Bay side had already broken ground for the first phase of the project in March this year.

By the time they return from Africa in July or August, the first seascape photography base will probably be built and put into use.

Time passes quickly in busy work, and people always feel that it is not enough.

On that day, after communicating with the head of the photography team who had gone to South Africa in advance for location scouting, Wang Hao reviewed the design drawings of the new weapons in "Wolf Warrior 2".

When all the work was finished and I returned home, I saw Jing Tian, ​​who had gone out for a commercial performance, had returned and was sitting on the sofa, holding a tablet and watching it with relish.

"What are you looking at? You're laughing so happily."

Wang Hao changed into slippers and moved over, hugging Jing Tian and asked gently. Her soft and slender body felt as light as a feather in his arms, and there was a faint fragrance that made people want to kiss her.

"I'm watching your company's new TV series, Love O2O. It's pretty good, you know what."

Jing Tian slightly turned sideways and placed the tablet in front of Wang Hao, and they looked at it together.

Playing on the screen is the plot of Bei Weiwei and Xiao Nai, who went from being a couple in the game to meeting each other in reality.

As one of the spin-off TV series of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", although "Love O2O" has an original novel, some adaptations have been made in order to better integrate into the movie universe.

Of course, these adaptations are not big. After all, if we really talk about the timeline, this part of the plot of the TV series should be considered to be before the events of "Wolf Warrior 1".
Xiao Nai, played by Yang Yang, is still studying on campus at this time and has not joined the army because of his special talents, so "Love O2O" is still a youth campus idol drama.

Wang Hao was not very interested in the sweet interaction between the male and female protagonists in the TV series. However, the actress who played the female protagonist Bei Weiwei made Wang Hao look at her a few more times.

In the original TV series "Love O2O", the heroine Bei Weiwei was played by Zheng Shuang.

Although this girl is very crazy and has done a lot of shocking things after becoming famous, her appearance is still very good. She is the No. 1 sweet girl in film and television dramas.

That is to say, her subsequent problems were exposed and she was banned from the mainland entertainment circle. Otherwise, other actresses who also took the sweet girl route might not have been able to make it.

Of course, when Love O2011O was filmed at the end of , her personal problems were not that serious.

It's just that she herself is not a contracted artist of the Galaxy Group. As the Galaxy Group has a good production network and a bunch of young female artists on hand, it is natural that they would not choose to let outsiders take advantage of such a small-investment self-made sweet drama.

The actress who played the leading role Bei Weiwei that Wang Hao was seeing in the TV series was Zhao Yihuan, another young female artist signed by their company last year.

That’s right, it’s Zhao Yihuan, who is as famous as Jingtian in the duo “Nan Yihuan and Bei Jingtian”.

This girl is from Jilin and graduated from Xie Jin Film and Television Art College of Shanghai Normal University. In 2010, she made her debut in the sitcom "The Big Bang of New Life" co-produced by Ku6.com and the Ministry of Aerospace, and was then signed by Xingdou Culture of Galaxy Group.

Later, she was successfully selected by the original author of "Love O2011O" in an internal audition in and became the heroine of the TV series. This also changed the girl's life.

Because according to the historical process of Wang Hao's previous life, this girl should have signed a contract with Guangying Huashi after graduating in 2011, and then starred in the youth campus-themed online movie "Adolescence" in July of the same year, and since then she has become the lover in the hard drives of many teenagers.

Now that she has signed a contract with Xingdou Culture and plays the role of Bei Weiwei, Zhao Yihuan is certainly luckier in terms of a starting project, but it is hard to say whether she can become famous with this role.

The only good thing is that with the support of such a big tree as Galaxy Group, it will have more choices in the future, which can be considered as its own luck.

As for whether Zhao Yihuan is suitable for the role of Bei Weiwei, she is not as sweet and pretty as Zheng Shuang, but Bei Weiwei in the original novel is not like Zheng Shuang either.

In the original novel, Bei Weiwei is a beauty, and a super beauty of the vase type.

[Beautiful eyebrows, seductive eyes, always bright red lips, hot body, even if Bei Weiwei went out wearing the ugly school uniform of A University, no one would think that she is really a student of a prestigious university. ]

"Long and beautiful legs", "black hair like a waterfall", "skin like jade", "soul-stirring brightness", "a beautiful woman with beautiful looks and enchanting figure", these are how she is described in the novel.

Judging from these physical conditions alone, Zheng Shuang is not suitable at all, so when she played Bei Weiwei in her previous life, especially when she was wearing the game costume in the play, her skinny figure also attracted a lot of complaints.

In comparison, although Zhao Yihuan's temperament is a little worse and she lacks appeal among female audiences, her figure is indeed very "outstanding".

(End of this chapter)