Chapter 248: Wrap up

"Cut!" Wu Yuchen suddenly called a stop.

Jiang Wen turned his head and saw Wu Yuchen shouting at him: "The expression of the last line is wrong!"

Jiang Wen touched his face and walked back to Wu Yuchen, watching the monitor playback with him: "No problem?"

Jiang Wen felt that his acting taste was very right.

Wu Yuchen pointed directly:

"Still no problem? Keep your expression, don't make it look like you've been reborn! This is an explosion in a desperate situation where you are forced to be helpless. You are determined to die. What I want is a feeling that is more inclined to sadness. I would rather you be paralyzed now, without expression, than being as excited as you are now!"

Jiang Wen said immediately: "No, Wu Dao, it's because he knows he's going to die that he will have this transformation..."

Wu Yuchen interrupted him: "It's like this from Lu Jianxing's perspective. He can transform, but only half. His scenes and emotions must also serve the overall movie and Shen Lian. Shen Lian is the protagonist!"

This scene of killing the superior can provoke the audience's emotions and play a role in accumulating emotions, but it cannot really ignite this emotion completely, because this must be done by the protagonist Shen Lian, and the release of emotions must also be left to the final battle scene to vent.

Jiang Wen still wanted to say something, but Wu Yuchen waved his hand firmly: "There is nothing to talk about on this point. It is impossible to disrupt the story rhythm and the tone of the whole movie for Lu Jianxing."

When Jiang Wen was about to draw his sword to fight, more than a dozen arrows shot through Yu Nan directly. Jiang Wen looked around, and a large group of Embroidered Uniform Guards holding crossbows and Embroidered Spring Knives had surrounded him.

Jiang Wen's next scene was to draw his sword to kill Zhao Jingzhong. After all, this guy was the culprit who caused the three brothers to fall into the current situation. It's just that Zhao Jingzhong had already taken people to kill Shen Lian himself, which made Jiang Wen miss him, but instead bumped into Wei Zhongxian's adopted daughter Wei Ting and a large wave of subordinates, and the two sides fought a battle in the snowy night.

These were all details specifically optimized by Wu Yuchen, which was to make the audience subtly produce a kind of helplessness and sadness that little people are controlled by big people, and every move is involuntary. Lu Jianxing killed his superior at the beginning because he wanted to explode, but it ushered in a more ruthless suppression, which was also to deepen the audience's feelings.

Seeing that Wu Yuchen's attitude was very firm, Jiang Wen knew he couldn't convince Wu Yuchen, so he could only return to the field and reshoot the last scene.

Looking at the large circle of people surrounding him, Jiang Wen showed a miserable smile. Although he had already determined to die and wanted to resist, in front of these big figures, he was just like an ant.

And Wu Yuchen was thinking about going to Qian Yanqiu to ask if his *Detective Di Renjie* had been written. If it was written, Miracle Film and Television would directly invest and take this series down.

However, Wu Yuchen didn't specifically film the specific process of the snow night battle here. When the time came, he would explain the encounter at the beginning, then flash back to other places, and when he came back, it was already over. As for the reason, it was still that point: he couldn't add too much to Lu Jianxing, and it was enough to be the same as Jin Yichuan's scenes, and he couldn't threaten Shen Lian's scenes.

Liang Guanhua was happy. He would wrap up after filming today's scene. Being able to get this sentence from Wu Yuchen, letting him keep himself in his heart, was undoubtedly the best affirmation.

"Then I have to thank Wu Dao~ Just call me if you need anything!"

In the lens, Jiang Wen stood with his sword, his silver official robe was covered in blood, he was panting heavily, many corpses were lying on the ground, and Yu Nan opposite him was holding a sword and rushing towards him again.

In the room, Jiang Wen was pressed to the ground, and at this moment, two people were standing and sitting a few meters in front of him. Standing was Ni Dahong, who played the Donglin Party minister Han Kuang, presiding over the autopsy of Wei Zhongxian, always wanting to take the opportunity to capture Wei Zhongxian and completely wipe out the eunuch party. The young man sitting with quite a demeanor was none other than Deng Chao, who played the newly enthroned Chongzhen.

He added this scene because he wanted to enrich Lu Jianxing's character. In his past life, the director of *Brotherhood of Blades* later accepted an interview and talked about some regrettable parts of filming, which was that the movie funds were too small. In fact, the *Brotherhood of Blades* script had a story line for each of the three brothers. He wanted to show the resistance of little people to controlling their own destiny in the era from each of them. But because there was no money, Lu Jianxing's was basically all cut, and Jin Yichuan's was also cut in half, only the part related to Ding Xiu was preserved.

At this time, Jiang Wen's head was pressed to the ground, and he couldn't even lift his head. Deng Chao wore an official uniform, lifted his fingers lightly, and the two who escorted Jiang Wen lifted Jiang Wen's head so that he could see the situation in front of him clearly.

He wanted to draw his sword and fight again, but a large net directly covered Jiang Wen, and he was slaughtered like a fish that couldn't break free.

"It's okay, it's okay, this is all as it should be~" Liang Guanhua had switched to his usual happy smile, a simple and honest look.

Just now, Liang Guanhua was pinched by Jiang Wen for a long time, but it was really pinched. Now there was still a red mark on his neck.

Wu Yuchen praised Liang Guanhua: "Teacher Liang, your acting is really good. I'll look for you again if there is a suitable role in the future!"

After this scene passed, Wu Yuchen said to Liang Guanhua with a smile: "Teacher Liang, you've worked hard!"

Wu Yuchen didn't lack this fund, and he could add a lot of scenes for these two people, but he wouldn't really do that. At most, he would add such a little scene for Lu Jianxing, making him balanced with Jin Yichuan and Shen Lian, and the character would be fuller and make his own voice, but the scenes couldn't be too many, overwhelming Shen Lian's scenes. Commercial movies, the primary and secondary must be clear.

Deng Chao, who was sitting high on the chair, looked down at Jiang Wen kneeling in front of him and asked indifferently: "Lu Jianxing, did you let Wei Zhongxian go?"

"Yes."

"Where is he?"

"Don't know."

"Who instructed you?"

Jiang Wen said in a dead-like manner: "No one instructed, no one conspired, Lu Jianxing did it alone."

At this time, Ni Dahong suddenly spoke: "Nonsense! How could you have such courage?"

At this time, Jiang Wen turned his head and looked at Ni Dahong, showing a mocking smile on his face: "The company commander vacancy left by my father was stuck for ten years. The imperial court couldn't give it to me, so I could only ask Wei Zhongxian for it."

Obviously, Jiang Wen wanted to carry this pot himself, and at the same time satirized the rotten Ming Dynasty.

This was also Wu Yuchen's satire on the institutional collapse of the Ming Dynasty, which was about to fall, through Lu Jianxing's mouth. In the hearts of many officials, Wei Zhongxian was more trustworthy than the imperial court.

Ni Dahong pointed at him, his face full of anger: "You..."

At this time, Deng Chao lifted his hand again, glanced at Jiang Wen coldly, and asked people to take Jiang Wen down.

Ni Dahong immediately bowed his hands to Deng Chao respectfully: "Your Majesty, please hand over Lu Jianxing to the minister for interrogation. I will definitely pry open his mouth and wipe out everyone involved with Wei Yan!"

Deng Chao didn't look at Ni Dahong, who was bowing, but looked outside the door: "I have already killed hundreds of people, even Yuan Chonghuan has built a living shrine for Wei Yan. Do you want to kill him too?"

Yuan Chonghuan was the student of this Han Kuang, so this remark made Han Kuang unable to answer.

Subsequently, Deng Chao stared at Ni Dahong: "Do you want me to have no one to use?"

Ni Dahong immediately bowed down again: "The minister is dead and dare not!"

Subsequently, Deng Chao withdrew his gaze and said indifferently: "Don't let Lu Jianxing bite anyone else, kill."

"Pass!"

After Wu Yuchen shouted this sound, he also breathed a sigh of relief. After this scene, most people could wrap up. Later, film Jiang Wen's beheading scene, and only the final big battle was left.

Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, Ulan Butong Scenic Area, where the scenery is beautiful, the water and grass are beautiful, and the flowers are everywhere. It used to be the Royal Mulan Hunting Ground of the Great Qing. And now, Wu Yuchen brought *Brotherhood of Blades* to the Red Mountain in the scenic area to film the final decisive battle scene.

However, the crew members had already been reduced a lot this time. The actors who followed were only the three brothers of the protagonist, Ding Xiu, and the big villain Zhao Jingzhong.

Wu Yuchen didn't come up to film the fighting scene directly, but first filmed the scenes of Jiang Wen and Wu Jing. In fact, Jiang Wen and Wu Jing were already dead. The scenes they came over were not much, just the scene of Shen Lian imagining the three brothers riding horses and galloping happily on the grassland.

Naturally, a valley with the most beautiful scenery was chosen here. Wu Yuchen and the photographer sat in the car and followed the three galloping horses to film. The performance difficulty of the actors was not great, but the key was to maintain the dynamic filming of the distance between the horse and the car, and the car had to be stable enough. Such a scene was filmed back and forth for a day.

After filming, the scenes of Jiang Wen and Wu Jing were also wrapped up. When returning at night, Jiang Wen insisted on pulling Wu Yuchen to drink mare's milk wine, but was rejected by Wu Yuchen. Jiang Wen's scenes were wrapped up, but he still had to continue filming tomorrow!

Jiang Wen was helpless, so he had to toast with Wu Jing, but he also complained to Wu Yuchen: "Wu Dao, filming with you is not enjoyable."

Wu Yuchen also knew what he meant and said with a smile: "If you were allowed to be enjoyable, the scenes behind me would be chaotic!"

Jiang Wen curled his lips. He knew it was such a reason, but he wasn't a director. This time he came to vent the emotions in his chest through the role of Lu Jianxing.

Originally, according to his vision, he wanted Lu Jianxing to have an outburst before his death, completing his personal transformation before heading toward destruction. Furthermore, he wanted a high-angle shot at the execution ground, rotating from the sky, showing him looking up, laughing with tears in his eyes, and then playing a segment of Lu Jianxing's fantasy before he was beheaded.

Wu Yuchen accepted his suggestion, but only accepted a little bit at the beginning, and suppressed everything behind him, not letting him play freely, making him hold this breath halfway and couldn't spit it out, so he was quite depressed.

Subsequently, Jiang Wen said again: "Wu Dao, our Chinese martial arts movies are all about romanticism. You are cruel enough, and you don't leave any hope at the end."

Jiang Wen had read the script. On the surface, Shen Lian survives and eventually goes to the south to reunite with Zhou Miaotong, and at the very end, a scene of the three brothers' beautiful fantasy was specifically filmed. But in reality, this fantasy is fake, implying that the illusory beauty is easily shattered, just like the Great Ming Dynasty, which would collapse at a single touch. Before long, the invaders would arrive, and there would be no more fertile land left in the world; no one would have a good life anymore.

Wu Yuchen said with a smile: "The audience won't think as much as you do. The big revenge is reported, and seeing the male and female protagonists about to reunite is enough to satisfy!"

*Brotherhood of Blades* can also be considered a good ending on the surface. The three brothers are miserable enough. If you make a tragic ending again, then the box office of this movie will not be thought of. He, Wu Dao, still cares about the audience's emotions very much.

Jiang Wen felt that Wu Yuchen was not very straightforward on this point, as he considered the box office and the audience too much when making movies, skimming over many areas that could have had depth. He himself never cared about box office revenue when making movies; he only cared about his own satisfaction.

This time, he didn't have a good time filming *Brotherhood of Blades*. Jiang Wen planned to go out to see if there were any other good books looking for him. He didn't believe that everyone was Wu Yuchen. In front of most directors, he, Jiang Wen, still had a lot of say.

After Jiang Wen and Wu Jing left, Wu Yuchen continued to take Zhang Guorong, Zhao Wenzhuo, and Duan Long to stay and film fighting scenes. This time, he had to find more than a dozen people to play Tartar cavalry. He directly looked for local nomads, all of whom could ride horses, and just picked them.

The fighting scene was divided into two parts, one was the one-on-one between Shen Lian and Zhao Jingzhong, and one was Ding Xiu's one-on-many.

This design was also very interesting. Judging from Ding Xiu's previous performance, he was a very self-centered person and definitely wanted to kill Zhao Jingzhong himself to avenge his revenge. But when he saw Zhao Jingzhong colluding with the Tartars, he took the initiative to meet him alone. That is to say, the sequence of killing Tartars here was ranked before revenge.

Therefore, although it was not explicitly stated, this move of taking the initiative to stand up and fight the Tartars also greatly added to Ding Xiu's impression in the audience's hearts, and many people no longer regarded him as a bad person because of this.

From the perspective of the posture, Ding Xiu fighting more than a dozen cavalry alone was more outstanding, and the record was also more awesome. However, the protagonist here was Shen Lian, so the fighting scene design of Zhang Guorong and Zhao Wenzhuo was more wonderful.

This scene was carefully designed by Yuan Heping's team, and of course, it followed Wu Yuchen's requirements, letting Shen Lian fight Zhao Jingzhong with the Goose Wing Knife, Goose Feather Knife, and Mandarin Duck Short Knives of the three brothers in succession, and finally killed Zhao Jingzhong with his own Goose Feather Knife.

It's just that this fighting process was naturally more wonderful than the original version. In the original version, their fighting was in the woods, but in fact, this terrain didn't reflect any effect in the fighting at all. The two of them fought just like the effect of fighting on the grass outside, just pure weapon connection.

And this time, this world's number one martial arts director Yuan Heping was different. He used all the conditions such as the trees in the woods, the fallen leaves on the ground, and the dark and interlaced light between the trees in this fight, making its wonderful degree several times higher than the original version. Wu Yuchen was very satisfied with the effect filmed.

By the time the crew finished filming and returned to Beijing from the scenic area, it was already ten days later. ===== CHAPTER 249 =====