A group of Chinese people took 3 years, 9.3 points it is worth it!

"The Land of the Gods", the Douban score is as high as 9.3 points,

It is the most recently rated domestic natural documentary.

Someone concluded,

It has BBC -level production level and picture texture,

At the same time, it has "very Chinese value background."

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Wild yak runs on a plateau at an altitude of 5000 meters

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The film records China's diverse landforms, beautiful landscapes and various wild animals encountered

There are four episodes of the documentary, 50 minutes each episode,

Talking about four kinds of special animals for the Chinese:

Wild yak, white dolphin, Asian elephant, Northeast tiger.

Behind the 200 -minute film,

It is a team of less than 60 people,

More than 1,000 shots "Don't life".

A director who interviewed Zeng Hairuo, the director who interviewed "The Land of the Gods",

Talk about the Oriental Aesthetics and Behind the Story in the film.

Written article: Lu Yuhan

Responsible editor: Ni Chujiao

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2500-3000 years ago, wild yak rock paintings located in the Niu Gougou in Qinghai Province

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More than 3000 years ago, people carved the tiger on the rock,

Think that they have the ability to communicate with the world

Compared with most natural documentary, the four animals shot in "The Land of the Gods" are a bit special.

They used to be the incarnation of God. At that time, humans were not as powerful as they are now, and we worship the power of these animals.

Wild yak, in the legend of Tibetans, is the livestock of the mountain gods. They swam earlier than humans in the mountains of Okinho, and are used as ancient totems, designed as masks, and painted on the rock wall.

White Dolphin has a "sea elf" in the folk. In southern Fujian to Guangdong coastal areas, white dolphins often appeared at the sea during the Mazu Festival and were regarded as the incarnation of Mazu.

Asian elephant, the largest animal on land, once distributed in the Yellow River Basin, China. In the classics of the Dai people, the elephant supported the heavens and the earth, so the world had this world.

Northeast Tiger, the most important god in Shamanism. More than 3,000 years ago, humans carved tigers on rocks, thinking that it played a role in traveling and getting worldwide and communicating all things.

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Plateau landforms in the Northwest area

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Southeast coastal fishing village

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Ginseng forest in the Northeast area

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Subtropical rainforest in the southwest area

At the same time, these four animals are flagship species in the four corners of northwest of China, southeast, southwest, and northeast of China. Putting them together constitute the entire China ecosystem and natural civilization.

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Various wild animals encountered during shooting

The director Zeng Hairuo once worked on CCTV, his last work "Third Extreme" tells the story of the Tibetan people and the severe natural environment on the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau, which scored a high score of 9.4 on Douban.

After filming "The Third Polar", he always has a sense of dissatisfaction, thinking that the story of people and animals has not been finished. "In the daily life of the Tibetans, whether wild animals and domestic animals have a special force, they can be discussed more deeply."

In his opinion, this "special power" is the "divineness" that people often call, which brings "the Land of the Gods" with a little "romantic imagination".

Looking down at "The Land of the Gods", it seems that I can really realize what is called "all things."

On the unmanned area of ​​Tibet, a small wild yak, a small wild yak was lost on the second day of his birth, and was picked up by the staff of the Wilderness Protection Station. It grew up in the protection station and regarded the staff as relatives, followed them in the morning and patrolled.

After the baby White Dolphin dies, the mother will always surround its body. For more than a week, it is trying to wake up her child.

In Erhai Township, Yunnan, the small elephant took the tires left in the sugar cane as a toy, and even "made a big shot" for this. More and more human items have entered the childhood memory of Asian elephants.

As the largest cat family, the Siberian tiger is like a big cat when stretching laziness.

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3600m of Wenbunan Village

The monk personality is listed as a wild yak mask, and is looking for the trace of wild yak

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Around the Spring Festival 2022, a bunch of tiger footprints appeared under the foot of Changbai Mountain

It shows that the Siberian tiger is about to spread to the top of Changbai Mountain

In order to reflect the magical nature of the animal, the language of the documentary was full of work. For example, using the perspective of supper to show the oppression of animals when facing humans.

A large number of aerial shots, the wild yaks of Mercedes -Benz on the wasteland, the white dolphin jumping from the sea, and the Asian elephant that meets the narrow road with humans, the Northeast tiger in the forest is difficult to find. ", Sacred inviolability.

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Wild yak has strong cardiopulmonary function and dense hair, which can adapt to the temperature of minus thirty or forty degrees

Facing these "high species", the shooting process is not easy. No matter how advanced the equipment is, how careful the action is, "you can only shoot only when they are willing to be photographed."

In the episode of wild yak, the protagonist "Kunlun" was not in the shooting plan of the director group. At that time, they were shooting herdsmen's cattle, and a wild yak suddenly appeared, ambush on the hillside, and only exposed.

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Kunlun suddenly launched an impact on the yak group

Prior to this, the team did not have a close contact with the wild yak that had been exposed to an abnormal machine. Now it is here. The first reaction of Zeng Hairuo is to write the close -ups first. The team tried to ambush, and walked forward little by little. "When you are close to it, you see that its eyes are wrong. At that moment, I probably knew that I was going to shoot this animal. "Sure enough, Kunlun rushed directly into the herders' home yak group. It just lost in the battle of the wild yak group on the mountain, and went down the mountain to "grab the relatives".

It is not the first time to mate with home yak, and his flesh and blood in the cattle. This year, the little yak who was selected by the herdsmen to the market was Kunlun's child.

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The dying Mavericks fell down

When the Mavericks were tied to the car, Kunlun appeared again. It seemed to be to save his child. Inherited the wild Mavericks of his father, and struggled in the car. He hit his body with blood, and the rope on his neck became tighter.

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The eyes of wild bak Kunlun are very domineering

The camera switches between Kunlun and the Mavericks. The calf's eyes are wet, with the childishness of the newborn, and Kunlun's eyes are full of anger and the pride of all beings. In the end, the calf exhausted his strength and died. Kunlun also seemed to be compromised and turned away.

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Elephants in estrus will become extremely irritable

At the end of the Asian elephant, the heart -painful picture also caught off guard: the second child in the group fell into the cliff and died, a small elephant misused pesticide death, and the remaining adult possibility entered the control zone. Since then, the mother elephant in the elephant group has never seen adults, and no small elephant was born in the elephant group.

Zeng Hairuo and the team have considered a long time, and finally decided to put such news into the main film. Whether the divine nature still exists, these are the question that "The Land of the Gods" to explore. "

The following is the director Zeng Hairuo.

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The wild yak Kunlun is in the yak group at home, and the body shape is significantly strengthened

The place of the gods involves the concept of the territory. Each animal has its own territory. The territory is not only related to its food, drinking, but also about its children's eating and drinking, as well as people.

But how should this place be allocated? Every episode we talk about this problem.

Wild yaks, they are the animals that best adapt to the plateau environment. People are equivalent to "holding their thighs" and raising a wild yak into a home yak. ​​They can get income by milk and selling cattle to survive on this wilderness.

But with a large number of grazing, the ranch of the yak is getting wider and wider, which is equivalent to eroding the wild yak's pasture. Not only are wild yaks, but also Tibetan antelopes and wild donkeys, they all share a pastoral field. If there are more yaks in the home, there will be fewer wild yaks and other wild animals.

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In order to find food, the white dolphin often appears near the fishing boat, looking for the fish that leaks the net

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After seven or eight hours, people finally successfully helped the stranded white dolphin back to the sea

Another example is the white dolphin, which is actually a very advanced animal, and lives in the sea by the sound of the sound.

Why do more and more white dolphins go into the inland river? Because there are all kinds of production activities in offshore, the sound of the ship engine, the bridge repair, reclamation, various infrastructure ... They are equivalent to in a very noisy sound field, many sounds do not know what it is It will have an impact on their sound systems and even their hearts.

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The near the shore is full of fishing boats and fishing boats

So can this simple humans retreat? no. Many people live there for generations, shepherds grazing, fishermen to fishing, they also need to survive, and it is unrealistic to let them leave.

It is not just a scientific way to solve it. Because science is just a tool, it can be used to understand animals, can also be used to expel animals, or even extinct animals.

In the end, I think it is a mentality issue. This returns to the original concept of "the land of the gods". We do not simply talk about the problem of protecting animals, but how to understand these animals.

If you really feel that they are divinity, you will be awesome, respect its territory, and respect its lifestyle.

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Asian elephant, Erhai County, Yunnan Province

The original source of inspiration of "The Land of the Gods" was the conflict of people in Yunnan.

More than a dozen local wild elephants often enter the place where humans live, but this is just a superficial phenomenon. The crisis of the real elephant group occurs inside it.

We mention the concept of "Elephant Map" in the film. The elephant has a strong memory. There is a map in their brains that record the place where they have been walking. It used to be very large, but later narrowed step by step.

Today's elephant map is actually completed by humans. Human -built houses, village houses, roads, highways, reservoirs, etc. have reshaped all the maps of elephants. Many places used to be their source of food.

At the same time, the habitat of the elephant was divided, and the elephant group could not find other similar types. Under this new map, the most important question of an elephant is how to obtain sufficient nutrition, how to reproduce, and how to transmit genes.

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The weather is too hot, the small elephant is playing in the water

Many people think that the assembly of the elephant is uncomfortable. To a large extent, the elephant is a large animal, a tall and brave species, but facing such a embarrassment problem. This feeling will make you unbearable. The local attitude towards elephants is also very interesting. The Dai people believe that they believe in elephants very much. They are called old elephants. They have a variety of claims, saying that the old image will not hurt the Dai people. They also like to name the elephant, saying that as long as I shout the name, this elephant will not invade my village and so on.

But when the elephant really came to invade the village, they would also be angry, would be angry, and even drove them with firecrackers, pots and pans.

When we went to Yunnan, we saw two farmers' feelings in order to prevent elephants from attacking at night, and to stay in the crops all night, and even had to fight the elephant to fight.

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Wild Asian elephant accidentally bent to the town

I didn't see the elephant at the time, and I said it would not come at night. The local protector told me that this group of elephants looked at us on the hill and looked at the fields. They would come and really come. It turns out that they came later.

In the end, they found that driving away was actually not much significant, so they produced people like the guard of forestry Zhao Ping in the film, responsible for monitoring the elephant group, and published these elephants many times a day. The locals can arrange work based on this "elephant time". You go to me and go back.

This is a new mode of getting along with elephants after a smartphone.

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The Northeast Tiger "Four Four" of the Northeast Tiger set up by the infrared camera set by the scientific team

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The Tiger Tiger's territory can reach hundreds of square kilometers, and they convey information by spraying urine and leaving marks

When modernization develops to a certain degree, people's awareness of natural protection will become stronger and stronger. The country has also made many policies, including the establishment of a variety of protected areas.

In the last episode of the Siberian tiger, we will see the results of the protection. A team of scientists followed a female tiger for 14 years, which brought 4 little tigers to the forest, and these little tigers would continue to reproduce.

At the end of the last century, because of human cutting and war, the Northeast Tiger population that could not be breeded in China was almost found in China. In this year, there have been places to realize the so -called "all mountains in all mountains", and even the number of other types of groups has risen.

People do doing such efforts, and nature is very cooperative. To put it plainly, as long as you want to do it, there will be some changes.

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Behind the scene of documentary filming

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The car's car trapped in the wild mud is the norm

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Seeing that the elephant group wandered, the crew of the group took out the equipment

We are not a pure team that shoots naturally. It adds up to almost fifty or sixty people and has gone through a long period of exploration process.

Because these animals are moving, there are many repetitive actions, and daily eating and eating. Therefore, we must master their laws, when do it in estrus, when do time to mating, when to grab relatives, when do you produce, and to shoot at these times.

When shooting, it happened to experience the epidemic, which will let us miss some key shooting periods, including the influence of the southeast coast and typhoons. Many shooting is fragmented.

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behind the scenes

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The camera team came to an elephant on the face and ran all the way

Animal shooting is also very thrilling. For example, when they patted wild yaks in Toshi Village, they patted it, and the wild yak rushed directly to the camera. Our people usually run with the camera for the first time. We must not let the camera hit, and our cameraman was injured when he escaped.

When I was shooting an elephant, I suddenly found that an elephant came with our photographer. The photographer didn't know at the time. It was a reminder that the drone was reminded that he saw that the image came, and the drone took a picture of them rushing all the way with the camera.

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The team pays special attention to the eyes of animals in the shooting

The hardest thing is not to shoot these animals, but the story of the animal behavior.

When we first talked about the concept of "the gods", these former gods appeared in the form of a story. Then when we talk about these animals today, we have to find their stories, or today's legends.

Before the shooting, we will investigate a story that we want to shoot, but the actual situation will change greatly. The initial shooting was almost a collapse, it took a lot of time, a lot of energy, but the effect of shooting was not good.

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At the foot of Yuzhu Peak at 4,900 meters above sea level, the photographer is shooting a wild yak that has just been attacked by the wolf

Like the white dolphin, we have considered whether to give up many times, because the cost of shooting at sea is very high. Each time we go to sea, we need to rent a boat and rent a good equipment, but we may take a few shots. On the next day, the white dolphin I have taken before is not known. Even if a lot of materials have been taken, I still feel that there is no way to tell a story.

Later I said, don't shoot it, but don't go. Our diversity director is also very attached. She stays there. She goes to the fishing village to chat with people every day to understand the new situation.

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The white dolphin that is trapped in the quagmire has been damaged, and can only observe the outside world through eyes with poor vision.

One day I heard that there was an elderly white dolphin trapped into the quagmire, and the villagers were rescued it, and we rushed over. We saw that "Lao Bai" had mud on the eyes of "Lao Bai", and kept stroking it. It usually does not use eyes, but at this time it can only look at you with the eyes, that is what we want to pass. In fact, a few hours before and after the rescue process. In a very remote place, the rescue person did not expect to shoot records. If you are not at the scene, you will have nothing.

For another example, Kunlun's story really took two days, but for the past two days, we spent a year or two waiting.

To put it plainly, you need to stay in the wilderness. After you stay long enough, the mountain god will give you some opportunities.

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The staff of the protection station and the small wild yak they picked up

"The Land of the Gods" was not a BBC natural documentary since its initial design. I also want to make it into a Chinese -style film, with the Chinese culture as the background, to tell the story between the Chinese and the environment today.

When planning "The Land of the Gods", I became more and more realized what the "divineness" was. In fact, to a large extent is a ability to communicate with nature.

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On the staff of Ono Yak and the staff of the protective station, patrol together

At the beginning of human beings, they had this ability. This is not a mysterious power. In fact, it means that people are relatively simple and less anxious. The ears can hear more things, and the nose can smell more information. For example, the previous farmers can predict the weather, and the hunter can smell the distance of animals, which is the instinct of survival.

In this sense, humans were also a member of the gods. It is just that this kind of communication is unnecessary in urban life.

We shoot "The Land of the Gods" itself is the process of communication. When you are in the wild, you are almost isolated and helpless. You can only mobilize your judgment on animals, and you feel natural. One thing to do in the entire "Land of the Gods" is to convey our feelings at the scene.

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The daughter of herdsmen and the little yak must get along peacefully

Why do I do this film? On the one hand, telling you the issue of the environment, or how people should get along with people and animals. But in fact, 99.9%of the audience did not have the opportunity to deal with wildlife, and we did not recommend that he would deal with wild animals.

I prefer to think about this problem from another perspective, that is, when you have been living in the city for a long time, you need to return to nature.

After watching the film, you breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that the world is very rich. Take your eyes a little away from the busy city life, understand the eyes of animals, experience the changes in nature, and restore the ability of some people to communicate with nature.

Part of the material source: Bilibili produced the documentary "The Land of the Gods"

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