The filming of "Out of Amazon" has a strong pursuit of truth. In the film, except for Hou Yong, who plays Henry Hui Wang, who is a soldier, the other leading actors are not soldiers. Many foreign actors are still overseas students. Because this film reflects the training life of special forces, actors should have the characteristics of special forces in addition to ordinary soldiers. Therefore, when shooting, you need to complete many thrilling actions that should have been handled by stunt or acrobatic body double, such as climbing the net wall, drilling barbed wire, climbing cliffs, diving by plane and so on. It's really a severe test for actors.
In the scene of "airplane dive", the crew invited 20 marines to assist in filming. These athletes usually train for platform diving, which is completely different from jumping off a flying plane when shooting. Before diving, because the water attracted the plane too much, the team members all had nosebleeds, so they had to go upstream for nearly two meters. But they are fearless and fearless. This also gave great encouragement to the actors. In order to ensure the smooth shooting, the actors are very serious and brave when trying to jump on the grass. During the filming, with the constant encouragement of the director and translator, they didn't take any insurance. Although some foreign actors trembled with fear and didn't know what to say, the performance was very natural, and they bravely jumped into the sea one by one from the air more than 20 meters high.
The wonderful "crocodile war" in the film will definitely leave a deep impression on the audience. In fact, except for three crocodile specimens, all the others are real crocodiles. Before shooting, the crew did a lot of preparatory work. First of all, it is located in the mangrove forest in Sanya, where there is a winding river. The prop artist went to the local crocodile farm and rented two boxes of crocodiles, but the river leading to the sea would let the crocodiles escape. What shall we do? Just when the prop master was at a loss, the comrades on the farm came up with a good idea: wrap the crocodile's mouth to death with transparent tape, then tie their feet together with wire, and then the prop master pulled the wire in the distant water, so as to prevent the crocodile from eating people and escaping.
Suddenly, the crocodile opened its mouth wide. At the critical moment of preparing to eat American students, Henry Hui Wang pulled out his dagger and stabbed the crocodile several times in one breath. Suddenly, the river turned red and the fierce crocodile could not move. When the audience is thrilling, they will never think that this is just a trick of carving insects captured by the prop artist: there are several blood bags hidden on the crocodile specimen.
Early military films
Dong Zhang, Director of Research Office of Literature Department of Bayi Film Studio: Military films have been very popular with audiences since 1950s and 1960s. At that time, most people liked to watch military-related movies. Movies have a profound life background, just like many writers and artists who came from the war years, they are very familiar with the things on the battlefield and the people in the army. They put these things in the movie very well, and everyone thought it was real and interesting.
Ming Zhenjiang, director of Bayi Film Studio: Many viewers are familiar with Soviet films during the Great Patriotic War, such as Liberation, which was a sensation. The liberation screening lasted for eight and a half hours. Our Armageddon, Liaoshen, Huaihai and Ping Jin added up to 1 1 half an hour, regardless of length, scale and participating troops.
Out of Amazon
Yeming Song, director of the feature film department of Bayi Film Studio: After planning this film, the factory leaders at that time grasped this theme and wanted to make new creations.
Screenwriter Wang: There are few films that reflect the life of the special forces and few things that reflect the reality of the troops. Special forces are the elite of this kind of troops, so I think this theme itself is more attractive. Not limited to training in military camps, but going abroad. The thing itself is that the place where he went abroad is in the Amazon valley, and it is the jungle and mountains. Anyway, it's exotic scenery. I think it is more attractive on the whole.
Zhao, a screenwriter in the script editing room of the literature department of Bayi Film Studio, is an action film and a drama film. In fact, it combines the characteristics of many movies and has various elements. So when I talk about script creation, the prototype of life provides a strong visibility for film creation. To say the unity of the three natures, there is no problem in its ideology, artistry and visibility. So I think this is a good theme of our film. I classified it as a military action film at the University Student Film Festival this time, because I think it has a strong impact. If you classify it as melodrama, it also contains suspense and some plots. In fact, these are all for a good movie element.
The Development of Contemporary Military Films
Ming Zhenjiang: Themes are often divided according to different industrial themes, rural themes and military life themes, but this is not the case in the world. Divided into thrillers, romances, gangster movies and action movies. There are some established things and some regular things, that is, we should take a road of military film creation with China characteristics and learn from foreign good practices and experiences.
Yeming Song, the first-level editor of the Literature Department Research Office of Bayi Film Studio: Now the audience is not just listening to your stories. He found a feeling, some art, some music, some appreciation, and the appreciation level was very high.
Ming Zhenjiang: Because the works of Bayi Factory will eventually go to the market and be tested by the audience. Therefore, whether we can win the audience, win the market and achieve a win-win situation under the premise of serving the vast number of officers and men in the army is also our greatest goal.
Zhou: Judging from the attendance rate, there are always many people watching war movies, so I think it is ok to talk about whether China's war movies can seize their own advantages.
Zhao: The world has entered today. What about our army in China? As President Jiang said, can you win? Now our audience in China, young people or college students in China, or ordinary people in China are also very concerned about this issue.
Wang: He is also a person who lives in modern society. His thoughts and feelings, his way of life and ideas should be synchronized with modern society. So I think besides training and showing his dedication and fighting spirit, we can also find some points of comparison and shooting with modern society, which can arouse the voices of a wider group besides soldiers.
The development of military films
Dong Zhang: Now there is no such battlefield, no such big scene and no raging fire. How can military films attract audiences? Depending on the characters and distinctive military images, every era has its own military images and different heroes.
Yeming Song: Although soldiers don't fight now, they have something in common. After all, from the past theme to the present theme, we still hope that the film can reflect some heroic things. The existence of a soldier, that is, society, after all means that he is a part of a contest.
Ming Zhenjiang: We should also innovate in the concept of film. In the choice of theme, the excavation of theme, the shaping of characters and the method of expression, we pursue innovation and integration with the world. The purpose of doing this is to carry forward the revolutionary heroism and patriotism of our army and shape the image of contemporary soldiers. Use all artistic means and methods to express such a purpose.
Dong Zhang: After being far away from the war years, there is something more humane and universal, which makes the audience particularly moved. Not to tell you how to fight this war, who wins and who loses, but to tell you how individuals can survive in this environment under the background of this war. This is a very important matter. (Contributed by Movie Channel)