It’s harder than Wolf Warriors! Revealing the Tactical Design in the Movie Wolves

Special feature of 1905 film network As one of the few military action movies this year, it has gained a lot of praise since its release. The anti-terrorist elite launched a defense war abroad, which made fans excited, and the hard-core play of the wolf pack team made the audience more enjoyable. All these wonderful presentations are inseparable from the fact that the crew invited Wu Xinlei, a special soldier who served in the French Foreign Legion for ten years, to serve as military guidance.

In the preparation period, he cooperated with the director to polish the script, accompanied the actors to analyze the performance, and partnered with production designer to discuss the setting. During the filming period, he went to the scene to deal with various departments such as Fuhuadao. Wu Xinlei was one of the busiest figures in Wolves. He not only matched the exclusive equipment for the members of "Wolf Team" according to their signs, habits and division of labor, including M4, glock 17, M1911, G36K and other firearms, but also gave professional advice on the application of various weapons.

In this issue of Behind the Scene, today we will have a dialogue with Wu Xinlei to reveal the unique tactical design of Wolves.

"Wolves" thanIt’s harder to "fight"

Military action movies with different themes will choose different ways to design actions for actors. Wu Xinlei introduced that the "Cold Front" played in the Wolf Warriors series was formerly a PLA soldier, and the "Dragon Commando" in Operation Red Sea was an active soldier, so their fighting and fighting actions were very close to what the real PLA had learned.

However, it is different from the two. Wolves focuses on the stories of seven anti-terrorism elites. The story does not explain their true identities and past experiences in detail. It only knows that they have a certain operational foundation, but they are not from regular troops. "This means that the tactical actions of Wolves cannot be referenced like Wolf Warriors and Operation Red Sea, and it becomes more difficult."

After reading the biographies of the characters of "Wolf Squad", Wu Xinlei had to bite the bullet and face the difficulties, and design action styles according to each person’s different personality characteristics.

For example, everyone called her role in the film "the monster". She claimed that she had never lived a normal life and had a miserable life. "People who have this experience will not choose to openly challenge their opponents, but will take them down when they are not paying attention, so you see that she has a scene, first turning to the roof and then ambushing the enemy in the corner, which reflects her character." Wu Xinlei said that the weapons of the "monster" are hidden in clothes, and the weapons used can be flexibly folded, which is also in line with her low-key personality and her identity in charge of intelligence work.

Jiang Luxia has been practicing martial arts since childhood, and once played the gunner "Tong Li" in Operation Red Sea. There is no doubt about his action skills and performance experience. Therefore, Wu Xinlei didn’t give her too much action training, but only asked her to be "steady, accurate and firm" when "fighting". He is more staring at the back of the camera, afraid that she will turn into "Tong Li" if she is not careful, and use the PLA moves. "This is inconsistent with the requirements of Wolves."

In the "Wolf Pack" crew, there are also those who also have a profound martial arts foundation. Wu Xinlei once trained Max Zhang in tactical actions. He praised Max Zhang for his "spirituality". He had just taught him some simple movements. Later, Max Zhang was able to combine his own foundation to weave a new set of movements, and his design often "opened his mind" and quickly formed his own style.

At the end of the film, the old Diao played by Max Zhang has a fierce dagger-knife battle with the villain leader. It was put forward by Max Zhang that the play used cold weapons to start a confrontation. At that time, the villain had just joined the group, and he learned that the other side was good at using butterfly knives, while the members of the "Wolf Team" were all equipped with short daggers. In order to increase the visibility of the fighting scenes, Max Zhang came up with the idea of "short dagger" pk "butterfly knife", and finally presented a hearty "battle of highlights".

"Brother Jin is not the actor who shoots the most war scenes, but his actions are really fast and beautiful!" Wu Xinlei emphasized that "to make a military film, we should consider both the practicality of weapons and the appreciation of film art."

In order to achieve "the best of both worlds", as a military guide, he often "compromises" with the action guide.

The cartridge case played once gave Ke Tong a dagger gun. In military operations, the dagger gun is generally used by scouts. Besides being a dagger, it is also a gun that can fire bullets. Come in handy at any time in a crisis. In the original script, Ke Tong was prepared to use this weapon when he was in trouble when chasing Aikebaier. However, in this regard, the action guide bluntly said "inappropriate", and this detail needs to be considered.

"Think about it, the man and the villain are locked in a fight, and when they are about to be killed by the villain, they suddenly take out a dagger gun to fight back, which the audience may feel a little abrupt. On the other hand, decent characters should subdue others with the power of justice and light instead of using hidden weapons. " Wu Xinlei said that at the end of the discussion, he was completely convinced and no longer insisted on highlighting the attributes of the dagger gun. "It became a prop to distinguish the pros and cons in the play."

The wonderful confrontation between the pros and cons contains the tactical background of both sides.

In the cognition of many audiences, military guidance is only responsible for tactical action design. In fact, everything from the location and layout of scenes, the choice of weapon models and the collocation of actors’ costumes to the overall strategic layout belongs to their "work scope".

For example, he has carefully compared and considered whether the battlefield is in the desert or jungle, what models of fighter planes and transport planes are respectively, what brand of vehicles the rebels should use, and even whether the battlefield hospitals are plastered with white tiles or green tiles.

In the preparation stage of the film, he not only spent a lot of time searching for suitable clothes, glasses and helmets for the main actors on the Internet to get close to their different role characteristics, but also personally arranged the clothes for foreign group performers.

"You will find that the villains are dressed like terrorists in Afghanistan or Pakistan. The way members of government forces wear berets is different from that presented in other plays. " Wu Xinlei said that these details all stem from his battlefield life experience.

As one of the few military instructors with real combat experience, Wu Xinlei has worked hard for the strategic layout of both sides of Wolves.

The first "highlight" of Wolves is the battle between the two sides in Taku village. In just a few minutes of firepower competition, there is actually a tactical contest between the pros and cons. As one of the strongholds of terrorists, Taku village is built on the mountain, which cleverly avoids the plain and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Wu Xinlei revealed that because the other side is an anti-government armed force, if they build their stronghold on the plain, government forces can attack them with mortars or planes at any time. They set up their stronghold on the mountain, which can not only defend the government forces, but also facilitate going out to rob property. "This is the villain tactic."

For the wolf squad, how can they get rid of the "armed forces" that even the government forces can’t handle? The tactics Wu Xinlei designed for them are — — Relying on high-tech means.

One of the decent weapons is a stray bullet gun, which will fly a lot of mosquitoes after being shot. These mosquitoes’ eyes are equipped with lasers, which will scan all the terrain, corners and other places that can’t be directly observed by human eyes, and help the wolf squad to examine the whole battle. "So the wolf captain played by Max Zhang can logically command the members to yearn for the village to break through from different directions according to the specific situation." Wu Xinlei said.

The wolf squad successfully entered the village, and "Fly" and "Fireball" were ordered to destroy the enemy pressure regulating valve. The "monster" turned over to the next roof, while Ke Tong watched from a distance. "In case the two members who destroyed the pressure regulating valve were suddenly attacked, the’ monster’ would shoot at the roof to cover it. If’ Ke Tong’ discovers a suspicious vehicle coming from a distance in advance, he will immediately shoot the driver of the vehicle to ensure that the team members who carry out sabotage in the house have time to evacuate. This is a decent response. "

Wu Xinlei said frankly that it is the value of Wolves to be able to shoot good and evil and to shoot a strong and weak confrontation. But seriously, there are too many things that need to be taken into account in this creation, and it is really lacking in skills, and there are some regrets.

What is worth looking forward to is that the producer of "Wolves" said in an interview with 1905 Film Network earlier that he signed three film contracts with the film’s main creator at one time, and "Wolves" may be developed into a series in the future, and continue to focus on the stories behind the members.

Perhaps in the next work, Wu Xinlei can once again become the hero behind the scenes of the "wolves", make up for the unsatisfactory regrets and bring you wonderful, high-burning and exciting military movies. ……