Due to an accident, the "Sisters Over Flowers" program crew stopped recording for one day and resumed recording the next day.
In the early morning, before the camera started filming, several female guests surrounded Na Zha, making all kinds of faces and whispering, especially Ning Jing and Qin Lan, who were so excited.
"This complexion is different."
"The whole person looks radiant!"
"I don't see anyone. Are you tired?"
“…”
Naza was overwhelmed by the teasing and could only tell the truth with a bitter face: "What are you thinking? Nothing happened. The boss went back to the crew last night."
"No?"
Qin Lan was very skeptical: "He doesn't even want something that comes to his door. Wei Yang is not a pushover."
Ning Jing was even more straightforward: "Are you here, or is he no longer able to do it?"
Jiang Shuying was more rational, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Sisters, what are you thinking? Even if you have an idea, there are so many people watching you in the production team. Boss Wei doesn't care about his reputation, he still has to consider that Naza still has to shoot the show later."
If these two really accomplish something good in the program crew, it is estimated that the program crew will be filled with gossip behind the scenes throughout the recording until the end.
Wei Yang was lustful, but he was not impatient, and besides, Naza was already a fish in his net.
Normally when filming, they know to avoid suspicion and almost never stay overnight in the hotel where the crew is located, let alone in a program crew with many people and eyes.
Ning Jing and the others finally calmed down. Indeed, they only thought about the state of mind of the parties involved and ignored the environment.
"That's not right. You didn't come back to the room until two hours later last night. Are you just chatting in the room?"
Just when Ning and Qin were feeling bored, Jin Chen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said something shocking.
The guests of "Sisters Over Flowers" have limited funds, so not everyone will have their own room. Basically, they check in in pairs, and the remaining one will stay in a double room.
Apart from the two poor porters, one of the five female guests will be lucky enough to win a double bed room through lottery, which is also a small highlight of the show.
This time when they came to Bangkok, Thailand, Naza and Jin Chen lived in the same room. Naza was the person who knew Jin Chen best, which made Naza very angry.
"Aren't you asleep?"
"I was originally asleep, but you kept giggling and woke me up."
Jin Chen smiled and showed his dark nature: "I wanted to ask you right then and there, but I was afraid you wouldn't tell me. This time, my elder sister, second sister, and third sister are all here, so tell me the truth."
"Old Four, well done."
The other people perked up, praised Jin Chen, and continued to interrogate him. But this time, no matter how they pressed, Naza just refused to confess. There was nothing they could do, but they still went on the offensive.
"Your face is red, you must have done something bad!"
"I knew it. Your eyes were watery yesterday. Even if Wei Yang could hold it in, you little bastard couldn't."
"Old Four, did she brush her teeth when she came back last night?"
"Don't move, let me see your hands."
The girl couldn't stand the bombardment of several fierce sisters and raised her hands in surrender. In order to avoid being besieged, she took out a few stacks of banknotes from her bag to divert attention.
"Where did it come from?"
Naza chuckled: "We don't have enough funds, so I borrowed some from the boss and he sent it over this morning."
"500,000 Thai baht, what's the exchange rate?"
"1:5.5, that's a little over 90,000 RMB."
Ning Jing was very happy holding the banknotes. The denomination of each bill in her hand was 1,000, so although it was 500,000 Thai baht, it was actually about the same as 50,000 RMB.
"That's enough. The cost here is relatively low, and with our funds, we will definitely have a good time."
Jiang Shuying was also very happy. She had no experience in Paris before and her budget was spent on the last day, which made her very embarrassed.
This time when they came to Thailand, they had planned to be thrifty, but they didn't expect to invite foreign aid. Now they can finally have fun.
"But, will the production team let us use this money?"
"Why can't we use it? It's not our own money, can't we just borrow it?"
"That's right. This is what we earned from our hard work. Is it easy?"
Before Qin Lan could finish her words, Na Zha covered her mouth and tickled her. Ning Jing laughed and distributed Thai baht to everyone.
"Each person hides a copy. Even if they are discovered, the worst that can happen is that they have to hand over part of it."
"Big sister is still smart."
Jin Chen gave a thumbs up. Na Zha had finally subdued Qin Lan. He took a stack of money and divided it among them while muttering to himself.
"Actually, there's no need to go through so much trouble. We can just say we borrowed it. If that doesn't work, we can just say we made money... I mean buying and selling... selling things to make money."
Seeing that Qin Lan was about to start a dirty talk again, Na Zha hurriedly explained: "I bought a lot of small things yesterday. The boss lent me money, so I gave him two. This can be said to be sold to him."
"Good fellow, you bought it for a few hundred baht and sold it for 500,000 baht. You two are laundering money here."
"This shows that our Naza knows how to do business and has business acumen. Let's put it this way, the program rules don't mention borrowing money, but it allows making money. The program team has no reason to confiscate our money."
Ning Jing made the decision immediately and planned to unite all the guests to take advantage of the loophole. She even won over the two porters.
Not to mention how the "Sisters Over Flowers" production crew is troubled by a bunch of trouble-making guests, Wei Yang, who just returned to the "Operation Mekong" crew, also started to continue filming the movie.
The plot of "Operation Mekong" can be roughly divided into three stages.
The first stage is the cause, when the villain Khun Sa attacked a Chinese merchant ship, brutally killed 13 Chinese crew members, and hid drugs in the ship to confuse the public.
There was an uproar both at home and abroad. Faced with the surging public opinion, the public security department attached great importance to it and intended to find out the truth.
This case is very complicated because it is being handled in a foreign country and the Thai government's attitude is rather ambiguous, which inevitably makes people wonder if there may be something fishy going on.
Therefore, the public security department is preparing to send a special task force, headed by veteran criminal policeman Gao Gang, to investigate the truth and arrest the culprit and bring him back to China for trial.
After that, Fang Xinwu, played by Wei Yang, appeared. He is China's intelligence agent in the Golden Triangle and has control over many local intelligence networks.
Fang Xinwu was instructed to find out who the murderer was, and to respond to the subsequent investigation team and provide all kinds of assistance.
This stage was almost a one-man show by Fang Xinwu. Through his own intelligence network, various investigations and even some methods not officially recognized, he finally determined who the murderer was.
The last stage was that the Chinese task force, having received the intelligence, came to Thailand and, with the help of Fang Xinwu, found the whereabouts of the hiding Khun Sa, and then Fang Xinwu and Gao Gang led a surprise arrest.
This scene is the longest, taking up almost more than half of the total, and is also the most exciting segment of the entire movie, with disguised arrests, gunfights, explosions, car chases, spaceships and other big scenes following one after another.
Naturally, these scenes were also the most difficult to shoot in the entire movie.
Wei Yang's previous action scenes were mostly costume dramas, and this was his first time filming a large number of modern gun battles and explosions, so his experience was limited.
Fortunately, this kind of scene is not a fighting action scene. It mainly depends on the director and the on-site scheduling. As long as you can adapt to it, the difficulty is not particularly high.
It’s true that Wei Yang doesn’t like action scenes very much, but he is quite good at shooting this kind of modern gun battle movie.
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All kinds of tactical movements are very smooth and neat, and shooting is even more fun. Holding the submachine gun, you can fire half a magazine, "da da da", it feels like a real-life CS.
Zhang Hanyu, who acted with him, had previously filmed war films such as "Assembly" and had more experience in filming this kind of drama than Wei Yang.
I was taught a lot of skills in private. These skills have nothing to do with actual combat, but are more convenient for on-site filming, such as how to do certain actions to appear more handsome and cool.
"Change the magazine!"
During a break in filming, Zhang Hanyu smoked a cigarette and boasted: "This is what a Hollywood buddy talked about. There are only a few shooting techniques. In fact, there is nothing new. But if you change the magazine well, you will look professional all of a sudden."
A teammate actor next to him also nodded: "Some people in Hong Kong also say that, but we have fewer magazines to change."
Wei Yang understood, it was an old problem of Hong Kong movies, unlimited bullets, and the revolver had the effect of a Gatling gun.
It's not just Hong Kong films, many domestic dramas also play this way. Bullets are rarely changed during gun battles, and action movies that can change bullets in time can be singled out for praise by film critics.
But to be honest, sometimes it’s not that directors don’t understand the principle that bullets can be shot away, but they sacrifice this logic for the sake of continuity and picture quality.
For example, when a gang fight breaks out, a fierce general named Yan Shuangying is possessed. He holds two pistols and fires all kinds of weapons. He is alone against dozens of people, which is absolutely exciting for the audience.
But if "Yan Shuangying" fires a few shots and then squats down to change bullets, the realism is improved, but the feeling of crushing is no longer there.
Wei Yang is a veteran in filming, and he understands these principles very well. Films and television need artistic processing, and shooting according to reality rigidly is not friendly to many audiences.
The same is true for "Operation Mekong", which is a successful mainstream commercial film.
Since the word "commercial" is included, we know that there are a lot of fictional elements in it.
So don’t be fooled by the lively fighting scenes in the movie, with the raiding of the lair, huge explosions, and even the use of helicopters at the end. In fact, in the prototype case, there is no action scene at all.
From the beginning to the end, it was more of a competition among several forces.
Rather than saying that the case was solved, it would be more accurate to say that China exerted diplomatic pressure, sent a special task force to investigate, and forced the relevant parties to hand over the murderer, while Thailand, Myanmar and Laos blamed each other.
You should know that among the 12 criminals, 9 were active Thai soldiers, who later surrendered themselves under pressure.
As for the main culprit, Naw Kham, the focus was more on finding someone. No one knew where he was hiding, so through various investigations and arrests of his close confidants, the scope of his activities was gradually narrowed down, and finally he was arrested at his doorstep.
Therefore, this extremely ferocious [Khun Sa] in the movie, who even dared to send people to blow up the embassy, is really overstating him. In reality, he is just a stinky rat hiding in the subway.
But the truth is the truth. If we really want to shoot according to the real prototype, we can't shoot those that are too sensitive, and if we can shoot, it will be a bit boring.
Therefore, if you want to achieve commercial success and wide publicity, you still have to shoot along the lines of "Operation Mekong", which audiences will also love to watch.
Speaking of this, Wei Yang was reminded of the story of the Wolf Warriors in northern Myanmar.
When online fraud was rampant in his previous life, many people mocked Wu Jing, but some people really thought about how to solve it. For example, some suggested sending a small elite force to rescue people or to decapitate them, just like in "Operation Mekong".
However, it was later proved that the four major families were really exaggerated by marketing accounts.
They even used force to rescue. The real awesomeness is to issue an order based on a warrant. With a few wanted orders, they killed and stripped the person and sent him over. Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior" was shot too conservatively...
"Operation Mekong" also has this problem. It looks exciting and thrilling, but in fact, compared with the operation of the prototype case, it is somewhat naive and taken for granted.
If the higher-ups are willing to relax the rules and let Wei Yang take charge of the film, he will focus mainly on the upper-level game.
How the diplomatic and relevant departments exerted strong pressure, how the top leaders of several countries were extremely anxious, how they shifted the blame and cursed each other, and tried to play tricks but were warned by the Chinese side. In the end, they could not bear it anymore, and had to hand over the people honestly and admit their mistakes.
In fact, if the rhythm and details are well handled, the excitement is no less than those action blockbusters.
Korean audiences have a lot to say about this. They like to watch how the Blue House confronts China, challenges the United States, and ravages Japan, in order to realize the Republic of Korea's dream of becoming the third most powerful country in the world.
It’s just that Koreans are dreaming, while China can really do it, and it will be even more exaggerated in a few years.
Wei Yang sincerely felt that the main theme propaganda of "Wolf Warrior" was a bit childish compared to some real things that happened later.
The great powers are the king!
However, although this type of subject matter will certainly be popular, it will definitely not pass the review if it does not meet the above requirements.
Therefore, no matter how much Wei Yang wanted to play the role of "Rogue Rabbit", one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, he could only shoot the "Good Rabbit" that conforms to the mainstream propaganda of truth, goodness and beauty. He suppressed all his thoughts on "Operation Mekong" and honestly shot the film in the style of an action movie.
Even so, Wei Yang did not give up completely, and the scenes of the public security department and diplomacy in the movie are more serious and domineering than the original version.
Originally the director and screenwriter had some objections, but Wei Yang took out the information and documentaries and convinced them.
When the prototype case was at a stalemate, the domestic military made a statement through the media: "The specific actions in this case are the responsibility of the public security department, and we can also provide support if necessary."
Translated it means: I'm giving you face now, please bear with it, otherwise I'll slap you to death.
Compared with the original case, even after Wei Yang's changes, the relevant plot is somewhat restrained.
It's not that Wei Yang doesn't dare to write, but the public security department and Shanghai Film Studio stopped him. Some things can be done, but it's hard to say them openly. Rabbit is still used to making a fortune quietly...
(End of this chapter)