However, epic blockbusters are completely different. Whether it is shooting time or early preparation, they cannot be done in a short time. Let’s take Heroes and Red Cliff as an example.
After filming "Happy Time" in 2000, Lao Tou decided to shoot a martial arts movie, and even found many martial arts novels for research. Finally, he felt that martial arts was a little worse, so he decided to shoot epic blockbusters. Finally, he thought about filming Daqin and the First Emperor.
The preparation and shooting took him three years to prepare and shoot.
It took him nearly a year to invite a few starring actors, and even said all good things to achieve it. The most difficult one among them was Li Jie who was soaring to the sky at that time.
Other pay is not a problem, at least it can be given a market price
Li Jie's pay at that time was really terrifying, so he played the role at a price of 70 million in various emotional cards, which controlled the total cost of the hero to 30 million US dollars.
"Hero" started filming in Dunhuang, Gansu in mid-August 2001. The filming work progressed slowly. The crews were divided into two groups A and B. Group A mainly filmed literary dramas, and Group B mainly filmed martial arts. The shooting location was very far from the city. The journey back and forth every day reached 5 or 600 kilometers.
It was not until late November that I moved from Dunhuang to Hengdian, and I fully interpreted the affair in the Qin Palace.
The entire shooting cycle is about 7 months. Including post-production, it was not officially completed in August 2002.
The producer and the director team spent almost two years doing various tasks. Even Lao Too spent at least 15 months on the movie and was unable to do anything.
The artists are much better, but during the shooting cycle, even characters like Changkong, have to take out about four months of schedule, and they also have to fly at both ends of Hengdian, Dunhuang, which is hundreds of kilometers back and forth every day.
Compared to heroes, Chibi is naturally much better in treatment, at least not a place where people are rarely visited, and they often have to eat sand.
Wu Baige was famous at that time, and the crew was very rich. The producers were not short of money or lacked appeal, but the movie was also not easy to shoot.
Because it is not consistent with the director's philosophy, the martial arts director was replaced by Yuan Kui in the middle of the process, and some of the previous scenes must also be re-shooted; the photographer Lu Le had to leave the group because of the schedule.
Fa Ge is dissatisfied with some changes in the script, new settings, breaking contracts in the middle, sets, costumes, etc., all have to be redesigned due to changes in the protagonist.
In addition, before the filming started, the filming was scheduled to be filmed in the Yangtze River in Hubei, but due to environmental protection issues, it had to be temporarily changed to filming in Hebei studios; heavy rains encountered during the filming period caused the shooting to stop again and again; the aerial vehicle crashed; a fire broke out during the filming, burning a staff member to death
Due to technical limitations, the Caojun Camp built in Hebei before shooting the war scenes, the reservoir used to shoot water wars and the surrounding mountains must be handed over to the later computer special effects department to make a three-dimensional model and brought back to the United States. At the same time, since the shape of the mountains in the north and the shape of the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River are completely different, it is necessary to use computer synthesis for post-processing through computer synthesis
They don’t have Qin Tian’s virtual reality camera, so they naturally have to wait for some basic special effects to come out before they can shoot or reshoot them. Therefore, the entire shooting cycle was very long and the elemental materials were also taken. Later, considering that the investment was too large and the elemental materials were too rich, it was changed to the upper and lower episodes. In fact, I only planned to shoot one at the beginning.
It is not enough because Chibi, which was originally supposed to be a movie, was made into two episodes, so it was very serious and there were even many completely unnecessary plots.
For example, the plot between Zhao Wei and Tong Dawei is completely unnecessary. Instead, it is more coherent and rigorous.
The filming preparation period of this movie is naturally not short, and it is also very tiring. It took about two years to go, and the shooting period reached about 8 months. It is precisely because of the long time that the crew filmed the filming and filming stopped and intermittently, which also caused the problems of paragraphs, scattered, inconsistent, and rigorous in the middle of the Red Cliff.
There are naturally many blockbusters after this, but epic blockbusters really don't exist
You can make money by relying on some 50 cents special effects and a few traffic-produced young and handsome guys. Why does it take two or three years? You may not be able to make money in the end?
If you have this money to buy real estate or just use it to buy a house, you may make more money.
On the other hand, it is really hard to shoot such epic blockbusters. There are not many artists in the Middle Ages who can persist, let alone those young and young actresses in the new generation.
But all the old guys are cast, it's really a big deal and very inconsistent, and the people don't seem to like this kind of subject matter very much, so it's basically extinct
This is also the reason why many investors were not optimistic about Qin Tian when he first said he wanted to film "Ten Days in Yangzhou".
Even Qin Tian made the final dividend ratio very high, but the investors made a lot of money.
Including the "Kung Fu Football 2" that is still being released, it can be said that it has brought out a group of little rich people. They really have to eat meat with Qin Tian. These people have made a lot of money.
Crowdfunding platforms are really popular nowadays, especially those who invested in "Yangzhou Ten Days", "Wolf Warrior 2", "Three Lives Three Worlds" series and "Kung Fu Football 2", basically have a return on investment of more than 300%. These projects are really profitable, and the "Cantonese Records of Luoyang" and "Kill Hu Ling" directed by Qin Tian himself were also very popular. For a time, Luoyang paper was expensive.
In fact, the Canaan Record of Luoyang is fine. It’s either in Luoyang or in Hengdian. It’s not very hard
The one that is really hard, very difficult, and the challenge is actually "Killing Hu Ling". That is far away from the city and tourist areas. You have to go to many remote places to shoot, and it may not be easier than Lao Too's hero.
This is also the reason why Qin Tian first filmed the Jialan Record of Luoyang. If he had filmed and killed Hu Ling first, Qin Tian would not guarantee that he would still have the idea of filming the Canaan Record of Luoyang. But if these two movies were not guided personally, Qin Tian always felt that it would be a pity. After all, in Qin Tian's opinion, the series of China's Five Thousand Years may not be the most profitable and popular, but it is a movie that can be remembered forever and left in history.
There are many special forces in Chinese history, among which the special forces of the Three Kingdoms period are the most famous, such as Gongsun Zan's White Horse Yicong, Yuan Shao's First Camp, Lu Bu's Crater Camp, Cao Cao's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and Liu Bei's White-Eared Soldiers
After filming "Happy Time" in 2000, Lao Tou decided to shoot a martial arts movie, and even found many martial arts novels for research. Finally, he felt that martial arts was a little worse, so he decided to shoot epic blockbusters. Finally, he thought about filming Daqin and the First Emperor.
The preparation and shooting took him three years to prepare and shoot.
It took him nearly a year to invite a few starring actors, and even said all good things to achieve it. The most difficult one among them was Li Jie who was soaring to the sky at that time.
Other pay is not a problem, at least it can be given a market price
Li Jie's pay at that time was really terrifying, so he played the role at a price of 70 million in various emotional cards, which controlled the total cost of the hero to 30 million US dollars.
"Hero" started filming in Dunhuang, Gansu in mid-August 2001. The filming work progressed slowly. The crews were divided into two groups A and B. Group A mainly filmed literary dramas, and Group B mainly filmed martial arts. The shooting location was very far from the city. The journey back and forth every day reached 5 or 600 kilometers.
It was not until late November that I moved from Dunhuang to Hengdian, and I fully interpreted the affair in the Qin Palace.
The entire shooting cycle is about 7 months. Including post-production, it was not officially completed in August 2002.
The producer and the director team spent almost two years doing various tasks. Even Lao Too spent at least 15 months on the movie and was unable to do anything.
The artists are much better, but during the shooting cycle, even characters like Changkong, have to take out about four months of schedule, and they also have to fly at both ends of Hengdian, Dunhuang, which is hundreds of kilometers back and forth every day.
Compared to heroes, Chibi is naturally much better in treatment, at least not a place where people are rarely visited, and they often have to eat sand.
Wu Baige was famous at that time, and the crew was very rich. The producers were not short of money or lacked appeal, but the movie was also not easy to shoot.
Because it is not consistent with the director's philosophy, the martial arts director was replaced by Yuan Kui in the middle of the process, and some of the previous scenes must also be re-shooted; the photographer Lu Le had to leave the group because of the schedule.
Fa Ge is dissatisfied with some changes in the script, new settings, breaking contracts in the middle, sets, costumes, etc., all have to be redesigned due to changes in the protagonist.
In addition, before the filming started, the filming was scheduled to be filmed in the Yangtze River in Hubei, but due to environmental protection issues, it had to be temporarily changed to filming in Hebei studios; heavy rains encountered during the filming period caused the shooting to stop again and again; the aerial vehicle crashed; a fire broke out during the filming, burning a staff member to death
Due to technical limitations, the Caojun Camp built in Hebei before shooting the war scenes, the reservoir used to shoot water wars and the surrounding mountains must be handed over to the later computer special effects department to make a three-dimensional model and brought back to the United States. At the same time, since the shape of the mountains in the north and the shape of the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River are completely different, it is necessary to use computer synthesis for post-processing through computer synthesis
They don’t have Qin Tian’s virtual reality camera, so they naturally have to wait for some basic special effects to come out before they can shoot or reshoot them. Therefore, the entire shooting cycle was very long and the elemental materials were also taken. Later, considering that the investment was too large and the elemental materials were too rich, it was changed to the upper and lower episodes. In fact, I only planned to shoot one at the beginning.
It is not enough because Chibi, which was originally supposed to be a movie, was made into two episodes, so it was very serious and there were even many completely unnecessary plots.
For example, the plot between Zhao Wei and Tong Dawei is completely unnecessary. Instead, it is more coherent and rigorous.
The filming preparation period of this movie is naturally not short, and it is also very tiring. It took about two years to go, and the shooting period reached about 8 months. It is precisely because of the long time that the crew filmed the filming and filming stopped and intermittently, which also caused the problems of paragraphs, scattered, inconsistent, and rigorous in the middle of the Red Cliff.
There are naturally many blockbusters after this, but epic blockbusters really don't exist
You can make money by relying on some 50 cents special effects and a few traffic-produced young and handsome guys. Why does it take two or three years? You may not be able to make money in the end?
If you have this money to buy real estate or just use it to buy a house, you may make more money.
On the other hand, it is really hard to shoot such epic blockbusters. There are not many artists in the Middle Ages who can persist, let alone those young and young actresses in the new generation.
But all the old guys are cast, it's really a big deal and very inconsistent, and the people don't seem to like this kind of subject matter very much, so it's basically extinct
This is also the reason why many investors were not optimistic about Qin Tian when he first said he wanted to film "Ten Days in Yangzhou".
Even Qin Tian made the final dividend ratio very high, but the investors made a lot of money.
Including the "Kung Fu Football 2" that is still being released, it can be said that it has brought out a group of little rich people. They really have to eat meat with Qin Tian. These people have made a lot of money.
Crowdfunding platforms are really popular nowadays, especially those who invested in "Yangzhou Ten Days", "Wolf Warrior 2", "Three Lives Three Worlds" series and "Kung Fu Football 2", basically have a return on investment of more than 300%. These projects are really profitable, and the "Cantonese Records of Luoyang" and "Kill Hu Ling" directed by Qin Tian himself were also very popular. For a time, Luoyang paper was expensive.
In fact, the Canaan Record of Luoyang is fine. It’s either in Luoyang or in Hengdian. It’s not very hard
The one that is really hard, very difficult, and the challenge is actually "Killing Hu Ling". That is far away from the city and tourist areas. You have to go to many remote places to shoot, and it may not be easier than Lao Too's hero.
This is also the reason why Qin Tian first filmed the Jialan Record of Luoyang. If he had filmed and killed Hu Ling first, Qin Tian would not guarantee that he would still have the idea of filming the Canaan Record of Luoyang. But if these two movies were not guided personally, Qin Tian always felt that it would be a pity. After all, in Qin Tian's opinion, the series of China's Five Thousand Years may not be the most profitable and popular, but it is a movie that can be remembered forever and left in history.
There are many special forces in Chinese history, among which the special forces of the Three Kingdoms period are the most famous, such as Gongsun Zan's White Horse Yicong, Yuan Shao's First Camp, Lu Bu's Crater Camp, Cao Cao's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and Liu Bei's White-Eared Soldiers
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