By the way, China’s food culture is extensive and profound, and all kinds of delicacies often appear in film and television works. Before a TV episode is finished, I’m already full of saliva. It’s so tortured! Especially in palace dramas, emperors and princesses enjoy gourmet banquets from time to time; in urban dramas, the dinners of wealthy families are luxurious dishes that you have never heard of... It is really addictive. To be honest, this anchor belongs to the foodie group who roars in his heart, "Stop me to death with delicious food."

But, can you think of it? The "food" in front of the actors was not real food, but props that made them want to vomit every minute! For example, rotten chicken feet, uncooked rice lunch boxes, painted foam braised pork... It is said that the young master Anling Rongan gave the emperor a super realistic plastic shrimp, which almost broke the teeth of our emperor Chen Jianbin! This is really putting your life into a show of eating!

"Professional Level 8" will help you explain what "dish substitution" is

There are many delicious-looking dishes in movies and TV series, such as "Man-Han Banquet", "Like "You", "Mr. Good"... Many film and television dramas use food as a clue to lead to wonderful stories.

However, how are the exquisite delicacies that appear in these film and television works made? A few days ago, a "Professional Level 8" senior entertainment reporter broke the news.

Let’s talk about “Like You” starring Zhou Dongyu and Takeshi Kaneshiro first. While many fans in the movie theater are immersed in Takeshi Kaneshiro’s handsomeness and can’t extricate themselves, foodies are most concerned about the lobster fried rice and Witch Soup Pasta, Flowers from Hell... I'm drooling when I see them~~ Oh, and there are those posters full of dish names, celery, pumpkin, broccoli... they are the ones that make this book The foodie hooked into the cinema! Later I learned that in order to pursue the ultimate beauty of the food, the crew hired a professional advertising team to reshoot the close-ups of the food after the actors were finished filming. In order to create the feeling of smoke curling up and the food being bright, oil and water were added, which was a real effort.

Do you still remember that the male protagonist Sun Honglei in "Mr. Good" cooked Beef Wellington N times? You know, Steak Wellington is the noblest of nobles and a super classic dish in Western food! However, very few Western restaurants now offer steak Wellington. The reason is that this dish requires too much craftsmanship and the cooking time is too long. When filming the steak Wellington, the prop team prepared seven or eight spare portions. A semi-finished product is prepared for each process, and more than three copies of the finished product are generally prepared. The protagonist keeps changing steaks in the play, but the Western chef who is really behind the scenes has to keep cooking, and all of this is to present freshly baked hot dishes!

Zhang Tielin also revealed that when he was on the set of the TV series "Man-Han Banquet", due to the long filming time, the dishes he ate were basically cold, and many unnecessary ingredients were put into the dishes, and some dishes were even stir-fried. Take it out of the pan when it's half-cooked, just to make the color of the vegetables look better. Sweet, spicy, medium rare? Long-term consumption is not good for the stomach and intestines, and it is very difficult for the actors.

A breakdown of the delicacies in costume dramas that make people collapse

If you like to watch costume dramas, especially palace dramas, you will find that in addition to all kinds of ulterior motives and conspiracies, There are a lot of delicious food inside, isn’t it? From time to time, a full banquet of Manchu and Han Dynasties comes up, with big fish and meat, and the costumes are very exquisite. People can't help but sigh, it is good to play the role of Emperor Gege, and you can enjoy delicacies from all over the country during the filming. Humph, this foodie won’t say jealousy~~

The palace delicacies in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" left a deep impression on the audience. In order to verify the truth that "catching a man's stomach will tie a man's heart", the concubines of the Three Palaces and Sixth Courtyard all came up with their own masterpieces, Zhen Huan's date paste yam cake, steamed sea bass, Hua Fei's Dong'e donkey-hide gelatin and longan soup, Shenmeizhuang's lotus root powder and osmanthus sugar cake, the queen's lily and lotus seed soup with almond cake... not only tied the emperor's stomach, but also made many viewers salivate~~

< p> However, these super tempting-looking chicken, duck, and fish meats are all props! Tao Xinran, who plays "An Lingrong" in the play, revealed, "In one scene, I gave Chen Jianbin a shrimp and he almost broke his teeth. The shrimp was made of plastic." But the various pastries with attractive colors, It's true, "Half and half, if it's the kind that's stacked on a big plate, it must be fake."

Yu Zheng's version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which has been criticized by many netizens, not only stars in Their appearance is "outrageous", and even the dishes are unpalatable. There was a scene where Xiao Longnu was sitting alone in a restaurant feeling sad. People around her were drinking and eating, but the extras were eating vegetables from the lunch boxes. What? Although the extras have less roles, they can't be treated like this, right? What's even more incredible is that these dishes are "recycled". Actors rarely swallow the dishes when filming. If they fail to reshoot, they have to spit out the food in their mouths. After eating, they will spit out, and then eat. Until the shoot is finished.

According to the publicity personnel of Hengdian Film and Television City, the dishes on the table in film and television dramas are usually fake: "Those big fish and meat are all made of plastic. First make a shape, and then Paint it with some colors, such as red for tomatoes and earthy yellow for roasted chicken. It will look very realistic in the picture. "Ying ying ying, deceiving the feelings of foodies, how can we watch the Manchu Banquet well in the future.

Modern dramas cannot escape the clutches of the prop team

Not only are the delicacies in costume dramas used as props, but even modern dramas cannot escape the clutches of the prop team.

For example, while filming the movie "Blind Detective", Andy Lau ate sour chicken feet until he vomited. Although this foodie is a loyal fan of chicken feet, I still gasped when I saw the three words "rotten chicken feet". How can ordinary people eat sour food? The chicken feet used in that scene were purchased around 10 a.m. that day. When the filming started at 5 p.m., there was a gap of 7 hours, and the chicken feet were already smelly. What made Andy Lau collapse was that the scene took a full three hours to shoot, and he had to pretend to eat happily, and it was useless to plead with the director with sad eyes.

When He Bing, a national first-class actor, was filming a movie, there was a scene where he was shopping at a canteen and hooking up with the proprietress of the canteen. Without saying a word, he raised his head and drank the stuff the actress gave him. After Coca-Cola, I felt something was wrong. He immediately asked the props team and found out that because there was not enough Coke, the props team mixed some Coke with soy sauce and placed it in the back corner of the shelf. Unexpectedly, the actress accidentally took the inconspicuous bottle of "Coke" ". At this time, He Bing couldn't laugh or cry, and couldn't scold him. He could only swallow the bitter water in his stomach.

When Jin Dong was filming "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Ancient City", there was a scene where he was making hot pot and eating mutton while chatting leisurely and contentedly. He looked so uncomfortable. However, except for the starring table, the extras at other tables do not have such good benefits. They usually have vegetables on the table but no meat, and even the bottom of the pot is filled with boiled water, using the steam to pretend to be hot pot.

Oh, what a bitter tear~~

Those elixirs and poisons also have routines

Many film and television dramas will set up some magical elixirs that will cause people to die after taking the elixir. The drama of being able to bring the dead back to life is staggering to watch. Just a black pill or a medicinal decoction can bring back a person who is actually seriously injured and difficult to treat. Where can I find this medicine? Can I get a dozen? However, after all, film and television dramas are based on life being higher than life, and many of them are artistic techniques.

I remember the "Stretching Legs and Staring Pills" in "The Living Buddha Ji Gong". Although the description in the play is about the dirt on the body, some of which cannot be seen directly, but they are actually some things like Mai Li Su or Yang Mei Dan. The delicious food, Mai Lisu is probably still a childhood memory of many people. Moreover, "elixir" usually uses local materials and does not require special preparation. Only when doing close-ups, you will pay a little attention.

There are many scenes of drinking traditional Chinese medicine in movies and TV dramas. The weak heroine always has a grimace or adds some red dates and white sugar before drinking it. However, according to the prop master, these "Chinese medicines" are usually Coke or brown sugar water, but they look similar. The hot one is usually brown sugar water, and the cold one is usually Coke. From this point of view, they were enjoying their drinking, and at the same time they had to show an expression of extreme pain, admiration in capital letters, and their acting skills were great~~

There is also a routine where a bowl of wine is spilled White foam was rising on the ground, and the protagonist in the play shouted: This wine is poisonous! However, these "poisonous wines" frequently shown in movies and TV dramas are just mineral water or Sprite with a little sparkling agent.

After seeing these food props, does Ni Meng feel better? If the actors could publish a book called "The "Indescribable" Prop Food of Those Years", it would probably be a bestseller. However, except for some weird props, many delicacies in film and television dramas can still withstand food safety inspections. After all, the health of the actors still needs to be paid attention to. If you accidentally eat it, you will lose more than you gain.

The actors are also extremely dedicated. When faced with so many strange props, they can still remain calm and use their excellent acting skills to express the characters in the play. I hope they can display more stable and outstanding acting skills and present more excellent works on the screen.