Chapter 274: Shooting

"Did I say it? I want a wooden fence on the stairs here!" At this moment, Wu Yuchen was losing his temper at the field staff and the prop team, and even the producer.

"Wu Dao, we thought you were talking about a wooden railing handrail..."

"A high fence-style handrail, understand? One side is a wall, one side is a fence! I want it to fill my lens, looking like a prison cage, understand? Not this kind of traditional stair handrail!"

The producer hurriedly came over to apologize: "Wu Dao, it's all our fault, we will find someone to redo it immediately, and it will definitely be done tomorrow!"

"If I find this kind of mistake again, let the person in charge get out!" Wu Yuchen roared.

It's no wonder he was angry. He had specifically emphasized how to make the handrail of this staircase when he was here before, but I don't know if the people below were distracted or didn't use their brains. The result was still the opposite of what he asked for.

The producer hurriedly took people to contact the workers, while Wu Yuchen was checking other props. He gave the actors 5 days to prepare, and he also used these few days to look at the crew's preparations everywhere to check for omissions before shooting.

The fence-style handrail he just emphasized might only appear once or twice in the film, but it is an important part of his symbol system for building stripes in the film.

The application of the symbol system is to make emotions and symbols in the picture appear at the same time. After repeating this many times, emotions and symbols are bound together in the audience's mind. After that, you can gradually use the bound symbols to imply and mobilize the audience's inner feelings and emotions.

This movie is called *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas*. This stripe is not just casually named.

"Teacher Chen, your lines have an 'er' sound~"

One point Wu Yuchen specifically emphasized: for the two little actors, don't mention the final ending of the movie to them, and don't emphasize the hatred for the Japanese to them first. Because what he wants to show in the movie is a child observing this world with his own eyes, and a reaction that a child should have through a child's perspective.

However, fortunately, the two little actors chosen this time are also very spiritual, especially this Fang Xi, whose personality is very similar to the role, so just a little guidance can shoot the effect Wu Yuchen wants.

For these older generation actors, I have to say a word of admiration. For the sake of acting, they can really give up anything!

For Hearing Gong Li and Chen Baoguo, it is basically reassuring. If you want any effect, you can present it as long as you describe it. The focus is actually on the two little actors.

"Son, a soldier must obey orders. I am trying to make the country better, I am trying to bring you a better life..."

For example, the barbed wire around the villa where they live makes the boy look like a little animal trapped in a cage;

For example, after the little boy moved into his new home, he sat on the steps alone, shooting from below, through the vertical stripes of the staircase reflected on him, matched with the cold atmosphere, so that although the plot is in the villa, it has a feeling of lack of freedom belonging to a prison;

There are also the blinds in his room used to look into the distance, which also have the same metaphorical image of a cage.

Wu Yuchen smiled, but he was not angry. He knew that Chen Baoguo could definitely do what he said.

And the name *The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas* will not be changed. It has psychological hints in it.

In addition to its surface meaning, in terms of image techniques, stripes also constitute a symbolic metaphor for cages and loss of freedom.

When the audience sees these, combined with the beginning showing that the little boy is a child full of curiosity about everything, then his desire to get rid of the cage that traps him, go to the nearby "farm", go on an adventure, and make a good friend, becomes a matter of course.

Chen Baoguo is a local from Beijing. The film and television dramas he has filmed over the years are similar roles. He is used to the Beijing accent.

After the movie was released, it was a great success. His role was vivid and was regarded as a classic, but he was sent to the hospital after filming. The doctor directly said that his eye was damaged in the retinal nerve and was permanently blind. Later, after treatment, it recovered to 0.5.

These are all things Wu Yuchen carefully designed. From the beginning of the film, stripe symbols in the picture constantly appear inadvertently, subtly imprinting them in the audience's mind. Maybe the audience doesn't care when watching, but their emotions have been affected by it.

Listening to Wu Yuchen's reminder, Chen Baoguo immediately raised his hand to signal apology: "Blame me, blame me, I promise not to commit it again!"

And these stripes combined with the striped shirts in the concentration camp later will have more meanings and interpretations. Therefore, shooting this movie is not so simple. Every detail must be done well to build the stripe symbol system in the movie and guide the audience's emotions into place step by step.

Not long after the movie started, after the little boy moved with his parents into the suburbs, various stripe symbols appeared.

In 1986, Chen Baoguo shot *The Divine Whip*. His role as the hooligan Glass Flower had one eye blind. Considering that his eye would definitely blink when acting, and his good eye did not meet the characteristics of a blind man, he found a glass button in that era without contact lenses, thinned and polished it, and put it into his eye. Even if it was uncomfortable when acting, he didn't say a word, silently enduring the pain, not wanting to delay the crew's progress.

Wu Yuchen has not shot children's plays. In the movie *My Brother and Sister*, it was the protagonist of several little actors. If the age were not exceeded, he would actually want to cooperate with the original little actors.

If you instill a bunch of things into the little actors before shooting, they can hardly show their innocent side.

What is being shot at this time is the words Chen Baoguo said to his son when he was moving because of a job transfer at the beginning of the movie. The country he spoke of is Manchukuo.

The boy Fang Xi looked and saw his sister chatting and laughing with a young and handsome officer at the courtyard gate, using Japanese. He knew this was a soldier under his father.

In fact, many puppet troops have Japanese soldiers inserted. Many generals are followed by a Japanese consultant, and sometimes the power of this consultant is even greater than the general himself. This is also for the Japanese to ensure that the puppet troops do not rebel. Otherwise, they would not dare to use them without any measures, then the Japanese would be really stupid.

And the young officer played by Huang Huang Xiao Ming is a Japanese officer under Chen Baoguo. Huang Huang Xiao Ming saw the superior's son come over, and his expression was very kind.

"Cut!"

Wu Yuchen called Huang Huang Xiao Ming over:

"Huang Xiao Ming, your expression just now is wrong. The officer you play is a very hard role. You are just trying to make a kind expression and tone because he is your superior's son, but you are not really showing that you seem to be a person who likes children very much. This will break the tone of this role."

"I'm sorry, Wu Dao, I will find the feeling again!" On the set, Huang Huang Xiao Ming didn't dare to call Teacher Wu anymore.

He also knew what Wu Yuchen meant. He had to be kind, but not really kind. The role had to be tough, and the temperament could not be lost. The degree in the middle is not so easy to grasp. Huang Huang Xiao Ming could only hurry to find the state.

"Cut! Huang Xiao Ming, explosive power, what is the use of shouting louder? What I want is the explosion of the whole person's momentum!"

"Action!"

The lens starts again:

"I want to use an old tire to make a swing."

"Swing, listen, great!" Huang Huang Xiao Ming squeezed out a smile and said to Fang Xi in somewhat lame Chinese.

Then he said to Shu Chang in Japanese: "Your brother should learn Japanese, and should not speak inferior language anymore."

Shu Chang immediately replied: "My father has already hired a tutor, and he will come in these two days."

Huang Huang Xiao Ming nodded, then he turned his head and looked not far away. An old servant wearing a striped shirt and pruning flowers and plants came into view. He shouted: "Shina pig, come here!"

The old servant dropped the shovel in his hand and turned to stagger towards this side. It can be seen that his legs and feet are not very good, and his whole body is a bit weak, and he looks a bit weak when walking.

However, his posture caused Huang Huang Xiao Ming's dissatisfaction. His momentum changed immediately, his face showed a fierce expression, and he shouted: "Baka! Hurry up!"

This shout not only made the old man's body shake and speed up his pace, but also made the little boy Fang Xi shiver, turned his head to look at Huang Huang Xiao Ming with a scared expression, and his feet couldn't help but retreat a little, wanting to keep a distance from him.

After the old man ran over, his whole body was half-bent, showing panic and waiting for Huang Huang Xiao Ming's instructions.

"Take him to the backyard, old tire, make him a swing, understand?"

The old man nodded hurriedly, not daring to breathe. And Huang Huang Xiao Ming turned his head to look at the boy again, showing a smile on his face: "Little ghost, go!"

"Pass!"

This scene was shot back and forth for a long time. At first, it was Huang Huang Xiao Ming's problem. Later, Huang Huang Xiao Ming found the feeling, but because the number of cuts was too many, the little boy's performance began to be unnatural, that is, the stress response to Huang Huang Xiao Ming's explosion was weakened, so it took a long time.

Shu Chang and the old man's performance didn't have any problems. The old servant actor here is Teacher Zhu Xu, who has acted in *The Last Emperor*, *The King of Masks*, *Shower*, really can be called an old drama bone, acting skills are nothing to say, and the image is also very suitable. This old servant is also an important supporting role in this movie.

In the lens, the boy Fang Xi is sitting on the table, and the old servant is bandaging his wound. He accidentally fell off the swing just now and his knee was bleeding.

"Do I need to go to the hospital?" the boy asked.

"No."

"But I am a bit painful, maybe it is a bit serious."

"It's okay, just a small injury."

"How do you know? You are not a doctor?" The boy looked at the old servant who was peeling potatoes on the side after bandaging him.

The old servant's figure stopped. He was silent for a while, lowered his head and murmured: "No, I am."

"You are lying, you are peeling potatoes~" The child is straightforward and does not hide his emotions.

The old servant moved again in his hand, and while peeling potatoes, he said:

"I used to be a doctor, before I... I came here."

The boy smiled and said: "Your technology must be not very good, otherwise how could you peel potatoes?"

Listening to the little boy's words, the old servant lowered his head and laughed, but after he slowly raised his head, the boy found that his eyes were red and swollen, and tears flowed out. Just looking at the boy with tears and smiling, an unspeakable sadness radiated from him, permeating the whole room. At this moment, the camera was aimed at Zhu Xu shooting, and every bit of his face was recorded.

"Pass! Very good! Teacher Zhu Xu's performance is very good, and Fang Xi is also!"

Wu Yuchen didn't spare praise in his mouth. The scene where Zhu Xu raised his head and shed tears just now had a silent power, which was very touching. Anyone who saw it could understand the bitterness and sadness in the old servant's heart. This is the fucking performance!

However, after Wu Yuchen praised it, he didn't let everyone rest, but took advantage of the good state to shoot the next scene immediately.

The lens after opening was aimed at Fang Xi again. He was a bit confused at this time, not knowing why the old man cried.

The next moment the old servant put away his complicated emotions and asked the boy with a smile: "Then what do you want to do when you grow up?"

Before the boy answered, he asked and answered himself: "I know, you want to be an explorer~"

The boy asked strangely again: "How do you know?"

The old servant laughed. His smile at this time was different from the smile just now, but a sincere smile from the heart. Only when facing such an innocent child could he, and dared he, laugh, just like a kind old man teasing his grandson.

The little boy could feel the kindness of the old man and asked him a question that his parents had never answered him: "Is it beautiful in the farm?"

When the old man heard this, he raised his head again, with a very confused expression on his face, farm?

At this moment, the sound of high heels stepping on the floor sounded, breaking the warm atmosphere in the room. Both the old and the young looked at the door. Hearing Gong Li dropped the vegetable basket in her hand and walked quickly to her son: "Xixi, what's wrong with you?"

It can be seen that while she cares about her son, she looks at the old servant with guarded and judgmental eyes, full of distrust. And the old servant also immediately returned to the cautious state before, and had completely lowered his head, not daring to look at Hearing Gong Li.

After learning from her son that the other party bandaged her son's wound, Hearing Gong Li couldn't help but look at the old servant in surprise. After she drove her son back to the room, the old servant's action of peeling potatoes stopped, and a few panic and uneasiness appeared on his lowered face, fearing that he would be implicated.

Hearing Gong Li took out the vegetables from the vegetable basket while looking at the old servant several times in succession. It can be seen that she had some hesitation and entanglement at this time, and even took a breath, opened her mouth and closed it again, and finally fixed her eyes on the old servant: "Thank you!"

The old servant paused slightly, wanting to raise his head, but finally gave up and started peeling potatoes again. Hearing Gong Li also felt embarrassed after saying this thank you, and walked away from here.

After Hearing Gong Li walked out of the room, the old servant dared to raise his head and looked at her back silently...

"Pass! Good, good, good!"

Although it is just an ordinary scene, the layering and atmosphere in this scene are fully expressed, and the images of several people have become three-dimensional and full because of the various details of this scene.

Wu Yuchen was very happy. He thought it would take a few days to shoot, but it was done in half a day. It was really right to invite Teacher Zhu Xu! ===== CHAPTER 275 =====