The movie " Peacekeeping Riot Squad " is now in theaters.
The film "Peacekeeping Riot Squad", produced by Liu Weiqiang and directed by Li Dachao, starring Huang Jingyu , Wang Yibo , Zhong Chuxi, and Ou Hao , was released nationwide on May 1 and continues to lead the box office list. As the first overseas peacekeeping-themed commercial film, "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" tells the story of the Chinese peacekeeping police riot squad performing missions overseas. In the view of producer Liu Weiqiang, when peacekeeping police go to a strange country and face many rioters, what they have to do is not how to fight, but how to protect the people who are suffering from war. This is the focus of the film.
Director Li Dachao has great respect for the peacekeeping police as a group. "Our peacekeeping police have no selfish motives or interests in going to other countries to maintain peace, so I used the dialogue between the squad leader played by Ou Hao and the foreign police in the film to portray the peacekeeping police." Put the spirit in.”
In addition to the main line of the peacekeeping police team performing tasks, the film also has a sub-line of Yu Weidong (played by Huang Jingyu) and Yang Chen ( Zhu Yawen). What director Li Dachao wants to say is the inheritance of the police. Peace cannot be obtained by one generation, but must be passed on, so he added the relationship between Yu Weidong and Yang Chen as both teachers and friends. Yang Chen passed on the concept of peace to Yu Weidong. Yu Weidong passed it on to Yang Chen's son Yang Zhen (played by Wang Yibo). Moreover, Yu Weidong also has a son, who has planted the seed in his heart since he was a child. He will also become a policeman when he grows up. Li Dachao said: "I want to integrate the concept of peaceful inheritance into the movie." A reporter from the Beijing News conducted an exclusive interview with director Li Dachao and producer Liu Weiqiang of "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" and asked them to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of the filming of the film.
collects real stories about ordinary heroes
In 2010, director Li Dachao saw a piece of news: the coffins of eight Chinese peacekeeping policemen who died in the earthquake disaster in Haiti passed through Chang'an Street, and many people spontaneously came to bid farewell to the martyrs. Li Dachao was deeply shocked, and that scene left a seed for him to later photograph peacekeeping police.
"Peacekeeping Riot Squad" producer Liu Weiqiang at the premiere of the film in Beijing. After
, he found Liu Weiqiang as a producer and worked on this project together. "I have never filmed before, and this is my first time contacting this group." Liu Weiqiang felt that the peacekeeping police could be filmed, and we started preparations together when filming " Chinese Doctor ".
Liu Weiqiang and Li Dachao have known each other for many years. Liu Weiqiang said that Li Dachao is an action actor and his moves are very powerful. He can "jump from the third floor." When he was a photographer, they filmed many scenes together. After that, Li Dachao collaborated with director Liu Weiqiang as an action director on many works, such as " Hurt City ", " Infernal Affairs 2", " Chinese Captain ", "Chinese Doctor", etc.
Liu Weiqiang told the Beijing News reporter not to label Li Dachao as an action director, "He is very good at filming literary dramas." "Chinese Doctor" basically has no action scenes, but Li Dachao was on the set. "When we were filming a drama, he would sit next to us and watch how we collaborated on the drama." Liu Weiqiang recalled.
At the beginning, Li Dachao didn’t know much about the peacekeeping police group. He interviewed many of the first batch of peacekeeping policemen. They were all elites selected from the border armed police and anti-narcotics brigade. The current peacekeeping policemen are policemen from all over the country. Elite. He collected many real-life stories of peacekeeping police officers, including their families. "What I want to present is the story of ordinary heroes. How ordinary they are, how their families are, and everything they have experienced must be understood." Li Dachao wants to restore them well and try to express their living conditions in the film. middle.
Director Li Dachao at the filming site of the film "Peacekeeping Riot Squad".
director Li Dachao said that the plots and stories in the movie are all based on prototypes, and then undergo artistic processing, and finally integrate multiple different stories into the story of a team.
During an interview to restore local living conditions in Africa in southern mainland cities
, director Li Dachao showed a book to the Beijing News reporter. This was compiled by the director and the team before the movie started. It contains detailed information on the entire process of the peacekeeping police mission, character lists of major events, a topographic map of Africa, where to shoot speeding cars, how to design the streets, which houses will collapse, etc. We have already communicated with the art team in advance. Director
and the art team did a lot of data collection, as well as architectural styles, vegetation, humanities, etc., and tried their best to restore the local life patterns and conditions. The film was shot in a coastal city in southern China. The director chose this location because the city has a similar latitude to a certain area in Africa and has beaches and jungles. The entire scenery building process took more than 200 days.
The exotic locations in Africa in the film "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" were all shot in domestic scenes.
The entire story takes place in a certain African country, and the film requires a large number of African actors. Director Li Dachao said that it was very hard for everyone, but fortunately they performed well. There are a lot of explosions and gunfights in the
movie. The crew first built the entire scene and then destroyed it, creating an effect of broken walls. There are many graffiti murals on the streets of Africa. In order to achieve the most realistic effect, the art team found some extras and spray-painted them to help them paint graffiti on the walls. "They really put their graffiti talent to use. After painting on the wall, the art team made it distressed and put many bullet holes in it." Li Dachao said that this was a complicated process, but after it was completed, the effect was particularly good.
Former peacekeeping police officers were invited to train actors to develop toughness.
Actors Huang Jingyu and Wang Yibo were working together for the first time with director Li Dachao and producer Liu Weiqiang. Huang Jingyu was born into a military family. His grandfather participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and his father was a soldier. Li Dachao joked that Huang Jingyu also "served in domestic entertainment" after entering the industry. He played many police and military roles and was considered half a soldier. "After several years of 'service training', we think he can be promoted to captain." Wang Yibo was chosen because Li Dachao felt that his temperament was very similar to the character Yang Zhen in the script.
In order to restore the "spirit and spirit" of the Chinese peacekeeping police, the director required the actors to be like the police and have the toughness in their bones.
The crew of "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" invited former peacekeeping police officers to train the actors so that they should behave like police officers.
"I want them to play basketball and grow vegetables under the scorching sun, get a little tan, get stronger, and have some muscles. Wang Yibo also did it. He gained 9 kilograms of muscle. His frame is very much like that of a trainer, and he has a tough policeman." image". Li Dachao said that he also invited former peacekeeping police officers to train the actors so that they should behave like police officers.
In order to truly restore the peacekeeping operations of the Chinese peacekeeping police and present the best shooting effects, there are a lot of action and explosion scenes in the film. The crew must take safety measures in advance to ensure the smooth shooting and the safety of the actors. The scene in the film where the peacekeeping team protects witnesses and runs across the bridge is very shocking. Before filming, the staff will wet the venue and test the explosion effects in advance, so that everyone can film with confidence.
There are a lot of explosions in "Peacekeepers".
Talking about the large number of explosion scenes in the film, Li Dachao said that safety must be the first priority, "The explosion scenes looked very dangerous. The blasters would show me the explosions at the scene. They would hold the explosive points with their hands and they would explode directly in their hands. , I believed him, otherwise how could the actor dare to run at such a close distance, and the scene where the whole body was on fire was also real, and the body had to be coated with fireproof glue before filming."
Sometimes the crew shoots a scene, but it may take a long time to prepare before shooting this scene. For the typhoon shot in the stilt house, the entire animation team worked hard on the stilt house for 20 hours, but in the end it was only a three-second shot in the final film, and no one had any regrets.
Beijing News reporter Teng Chao
editor Huang Jialing
proofreader Liu Jun
