Chapter 362 Playing the Piano on the Set
From the way and attitude of Chen Heng in educating his daughter, we can know that he is perfect in dealing with people and things. It took him a month to compose "Autumn Moon". After Tian Yafu revised the script, he insisted on revising the music score, which took time, so that Liu Lan only got the official music score of "Autumn Moon" last night.
The prop master prepared a guqin for Liu Lan, which was borrowed from the Ancient Capital Folk Music Orchestra. Its quality was much better than Liu Lan's own copycat "Luqi".
As time was tight, Liu Lan did not film last night or today and spent all her time practicing the piano.
Lin Zhi was also very clear that Liu Lan was definitely not familiar with the piece, so he specifically asked her to come early in the evening to practice on the spot first to get a feel for it, so as to avoid mistakes during filming and waste everyone's time. No one wanted to work overtime late at night.
At the same time, enough time is also left for other staff members, such as the photographer to test the lens and the sound engineer to test the sound, in order to decide whether to record on site or do post-production dubbing.
The crew chose a palace with a pavilion at the film and television base as Princess Huayang's bedroom, and the prop master had already set up the scene one day in advance.
The staff moved the guqin to the pavilion.
Lin Zhi stroked his chin and asked Tian Yafu, "I think it would be better if Princess Huayang carried the zither herself and walked up, what do you think?"
"Oh, I understand what you mean. You want to say that Princess Huayang knew that the Chanyu was coming and played the piano for him on purpose."
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"That's right."
Tian Yafu thought about it and said, "This is also a good change."
While Liu Man was practicing the piano, the director and screenwriter carefully considered every detail, because this scene was also a ** scene. The success of a movie depends on whether these ** points can touch the hearts of the audience.
The staff brought a chair to Shen Heng and asked him to sit down and listen to the music, with Tang Tu standing next to him.
When the other crew members heard that Liu Lan was going to play the piano, they all came over excitedly to watch.
Liu Lan walked up to the pavilion and saw the crowd below. She actually had the illusion that she was back on the stage of the Conservatory of Music.
Because the plot takes place at night, when the princess is playing before going to bed, the prop master selected a gray-white Hanfu from Zhong Jiangnan's collection, and Miao Xiaomei applied light makeup to Liu Man, and her hair was simply tied up. The lighting engineer installed small lights at the four corners of the pavilion. When night fell, the dim light shone on Liu Man, which contrasted sharply with the dark palace in the distance. She sat quietly in front of the guqin, and before she even started playing, she looked like a classical and timeless ink painting.
"Director Lin, can we record a video of this?" Extra Lu Lu squeezed through the crowd to stand next to Lin Zhi and asked cautiously.
Lin Zhi half-jokingly and half-seriously asked, "Haven't you recorded enough? You only remember to ask me now!"
Lu Lu's neck shrank.
"Go ahead and record it, but don't post it online!" As soon as Lin Zhi finished speaking, everyone took out their mobile phones and pointed them at Liu Lan in the pavilion.
Liu Lan recalled the music score and this plot in her mind at the same time. She placed her hands on the strings and pursed her lips slightly. A very low overtone "buzzing" sounded. This was the opening, followed by a soothing and profound melody, which suddenly created an ethereal and solemn atmosphere.
In this movie, the character who deserves the name of "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace" is of course the heroine Wang Zhaojun, and the song "Autumn Moon" was created by Shen Heng around the core story of Zhaojun's journey to the frontier.
However, the director and screenwriter deliberately played it through Princess Huayang's hands, because this was exactly what Princess Huayang wanted to say to Huhanye Chanyu. She wanted to tell him that the real "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace" was Wang Zhaojun, and not her who was cowardly and incompetent and attached to a rich and luxurious life.
In fact, Princess Huayang was not without feelings for Huhanye Chanyu. During the 12-day filming, Liu Man had many scenes with Tang Tu. Tian Yafu deliberately arranged for the two characters to come into contact with each other by chance, and gradually changed Princess Huayang's view of Chanyu, from a barbarian, to a reckless man, to a warrior, and finally to a hero.
The distinctive and bold Shanyu made Princess Huayang feel excited, but she was very conflicted. Her feelings for Shanyu could not withstand the reality - the dangerous environment of the Xiongnu, the deep-rooted discrimination against the Xiongnu people, and the sense of superiority from having lived a life of luxury since childhood. After struggling for a long time, she finally chose to give up this inappropriate love and return to her lofty princess status.
Princess Huayang looked down on Wang Zhaojun at first, but after hearing her heartfelt words in front of her parents, she realized how narrow-minded she was. She admired Wang Zhaojun from the bottom of her heart. She did not have her courage, nor her determination to fight for freedom. She realized that compared with her family, country and the world, her little girl's thoughts were as insignificant as dust.
Her father doted on her since she was a child and said that she had the beauty of "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace", but in her heart, Wang Zhaojun was the real "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace".
After reading the new script, Shen Heng incorporated Princess Huayang's subtle and contradictory psychological activities into "Autumn Moon". Liu Man's piano music rose and fell, as if telling this story that has been passed down through the ages again.
An electronic amplifier was placed under the guqin, and the sound of the guqin floated from the pavilion to all directions.
It was the time when the film and television base was closing to tourists. The staff of the attraction held a loud speaker and urged the tourists who had not yet left to leave quickly.
Suddenly, some tourists heard the faint sound of a piano.
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