1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 256: Awesome Culture Must Spread Abroad

"Brother, you're here?"

Zunlong saw summer coming and waved with a smile.

Maybe it's his nature, or maybe it's due to his experiences, but he is rather silent and seems a little melancholy.

But when Xia Tian was around, he talked more and smiled more often.

As for why he is called Xia Tiandi, it was when he was in Maxim before, Xia Tian joked: "Do you know why we are so handsome? Because we are long-lost half-brothers~"

After that, Zun Long called Xia Tian "brother".

"My brother, how are your preparations going?" Xia Tian asked.

Zunlong smiled and said, "Everything went well."

Xia Tian nodded and watched the staff on the side work together to roll up the carpet in the palace and take it away.

This is a genuine product handed down from the Qing Dynasty, and was originally intended to be used in filming movies. After all, Li Heizi also used genuine antiques in his previous movies.

But Xia Tian found the leaders of the Forbidden City, and finally they took away the easily damaged items such as carpets and replaced them with imitations.

After all, Li Heizi is a big antique lover. He would rather do something to himself than let the carpet be damaged, but this may not be the case for these foreigners.

They may not pay much attention to our cultural relics... No! They don't care much about their own either.

In Apocalypse, Xia Tian saw that the crew accidentally burned a carpet in the Hall of Mental Cultivation!
This is absolutely not possible!
Even though I have been lying on the dragon throne before, it was left by our ancestors. I can lie on it for a while, but I won't allow outsiders to damage it.
Before summer, I had emphasized to Bellucci many times the significance of this palace. Every brick and tile here has witnessed countless people and stories, and it must be taken seriously!
It seemed like the lighting engineer was planning to hammer nails into the pillars to hang up electric wires. Damn it... It's just that Xia Tian has a better temper now and doesn't hit people easily, otherwise I would have kicked him from the temple gate to the square!
Do you know how old this column is? Do you know how many processes it has gone through and how many times it has been repaired to survive until now?
If you dare to stand next to the pillar with a nail in your hand again, I will seal you into the pillar and drive you into the ground!
At that time, Xia Tian picked up the 1.8-meter-tall foreigner with one hand, which scared everyone!
Domestic staff are worried about diplomatic accidents, while foreigners are full of "kongfu~"

……

Because Xia Tian emphasized this many times and often went to the leadership for help, the management here is still very strict.

The management of the set was very strict. Peter O'Toole, who played Pu Yi's British teacher Johnston, was once turned away by the crew because he forgot to bring his pass - Xia Tian let him go.
The Forbidden City opens at 9 am every day to receive visitors~
A large number of crew members rode bicycles, or a few foreigners squeezed into the sightseeing bus, admiring the vicissitudes of the Forbidden City's scenery while heading to the palace where the filming was taking place.

There are at least dozens or hundreds of people each time.

Whenever the local boss chats in his spare time, he always sneers: What's so good about this crappy Forbidden City? This is where the emperor sleeps!

What? There are foreigners? Wait a minute! Hello, my dear foreign friends~ This Forbidden City is amazing...

I have to say that foreigners are rich now, they have a plan in place when making movies, and they pay attention to everything.

Let’s just talk about eating!
The crew hired an Italian chef to cook for the foreign members of the crew.

他一共带来了2万2千瓶意大利矿泉水，450磅意大利咖啡，250加仑橄榄油和4500磅面粉。

Xia Tian: I blanch~
Think about Pavarotti before, oh!

Sure enough, we need an opportunity to introduce ourselves to the outside world and change the outside world’s impression of our backwardness!

Fortunately, it’s not far away!
Wasn’t it previously confirmed that the 11th Asian Games would be held in Yanjing?

Now Yanjing has built 20 new venues, renovated or renovated 13 existing venues, and built the Olympic Center and Asian Games Village outside the Yanjing Fourth Ring Road!

This is the first time we show ourselves to the outside world, and then we have to wait for the Olympics!

Then, we need to combine hard power and soft power!
Come on!
……

"Tian'er, how's the food over there?"

In the Forbidden City, Xia Tian was holding a box lunch and walking on the stairs, eating in a very serious manner.

Then the big spring came!
As soon as he arrived, he set his eyes on the three boxes of lunches placed at Xia Tian's feet.

Xia Tian rolled his eyes and said, "Today we have braised pork and Mushu persimmons, let's eat!"

On this day, like a hungry ghost, he would come on time to ask "How is the food?" at mealtime. How is the food? Haven't you already eaten it?

In fact, when the movie "The Last Emperor" was being filmed, the TV drama production center also had a TV drama "The Last Emperor" filmed in the Forbidden City! The main character was Chen Daoming...

So Dachun, a staff member, is also here. But the food on both sides is quite different.
At first, because an international crew was filming inside, the higher-ups didn’t allow the TV crew to film in the Forbidden City. It took a lot of effort to convince them.
Xia Tian also knew that after the TV series was finished, they would not allow it to be promoted heavily, fearing that they would steal the limelight from the movie~
But this movie "The Last Emperor" is really awesome!

Xia Tian still remembers that this movie won so many Oscars? It was nominated 9 out of 9 times, and it won all the Oscars that this type of movie could have won.

The 35-year-old John Lone was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Unfortunately, given the current situation, it is impossible for Chinese people to win the Oscars for Best Actor or Best Actress.

Although they are American...

However, Megalosaurus later received a lifetime achievement award.

As for the Best Actress award, Michelle Yeoh won it, but it was a pity that the scene was so ugly.

She is still defending others, which makes people feel even more bored.

Whatever. It doesn’t matter.

Even though Chen Chong was badly criticized by domestic audiences last year, it was not in vain. She seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

In this movie she plays the last empress Wanrong.

She had just played a slave girl in an American movie, "The Tai-Pan," and thus gained some fame in the United States.

The most popular pure actress in China, the winner of the Hundred Flowers Awards, the young actress who held the audience's high hopes, ended up going abroad to play a Chinese slave girl for a white man...

I have to finish the road I have chosen even if I have to kneel down. If she hadn't turned back, I would have looked up to her. But in the end, she was just eating in the east and sleeping in the west!

……

The superiors also invited Li Wenda, another main writer of Puyi's autobiography "My First Half of Life", and Puyi's younger brother Aisin-Gioro Pujie to serve as consultants to the crew.

Xia Tian is half a "consultant" who specializes in solving "difficult and complicated problems".

The Yanjing government also allocated 20,000 extras to the crew - the students were students, and the officers and soldiers were the PLA F Army.

To play the role of Bannermen, 2000 soldiers shaved their heads.

The cadres persuaded them that this was to show international friendship with Italy and gave each soldier a bonus of $3.5.

In order to make wigs for officials in the court, hairstylists used 2200 pounds of hair!
In order to ensure the coronation scene went smoothly, the stylists spent 10 days training 50 Chinese employees so that they could make wigs and braids for 2000 extras within two hours.

To be honest, it was really spectacular to see dozens of people busy dressing up two thousand people.

Especially when you stand in front of the main hall, it feels like you are attending court.
Xia Tian: If you have something to say, please report it early. If you have nothing to say, please leave the court... Wait a minute, this isn't what the emperor said?!
In fact, Bellucci strongly requested Xia Tian to play a role and let him choose from all the supporting roles!
But Xia Tian declined the offer - she refused to act in a scene with pigtails.

However, he did recommend a good person~
It’s Sister Song Huaijia!
At that summer, I was teaching Chinese to Zun Long and Bellucci at Maxim's - as everyone knows, to learn a language, you have to start with the commonly used ones!

As a result, Sister Song heard that Xia Tian was teaching Zun Long and Bellucci to say "Niubi"!
Summer still holds up the thumbs up~
At that moment, Ms. Song's blood pressure went through the roof, her head buzzed, and she immediately shouted, "Xia Tian!!!"

Xia Tian: Who is doing Tai Chi? Is this the legendary lion's roar?
"Sister, I'm teaching them Chinese..."

"Is that what you taught me?!"

Sister Song looked at the "ignorant" and "innocent" Zun Long and Bellucci and gritted her teeth!

Xia Tian: "I am promoting traditional culture... No, learning a foreign language starts with swearing! Really!"

Xia Tian: The awesome culture must be spread abroad, so that every foreigner can learn to be awesome~
Because Bellucci had previously suggested letting Xia Tian play a cameo role - in the eyes of a director, such a handsome actor must appear in my movie!
In order to divert attention, Xia Tian immediately decided to recommend Sister Song!
Xia Tian: "We can let Sister Song make a cameo appearance! Look at how dignified and elegant she is! She is more than qualified to play the role of the Queen Mother!"

Sister Song couldn't stand this kind of praise, her blood pressure dropped~
"Me? I can't! By the way, why don't you let Milan make a cameo appearance?"

Xia Tian: Milan? She's okay in playing Xiaozhuang.
Finally, Bellucci invited Song Huaigui to play the role of Empress Dowager Longyu in "The Last Emperor".

Sister Song’s temperament is very suitable, and even her appearance is - she is not very beautiful, and her face is a little long, which makes her look more like the Empress Dowager in the Qing Dynasty harem!

In the Qing Dynasty, the concubines with status could only be selected from the bannermen, and the selection became more and more ugly~
Oh yes, even in the movie, the lamas who performed the ritual when Cixi died were real lamas!

Because Tibetan monks cannot let women get close to them, Bellucci even went to Hollywood to get ten male stylists.

Xia Tian also chatted with those monks with cockscombs, but unfortunately, nothing was gained.

Yes, it’s better not to get involved with those methods.

In addition, Bertolucci also sent assistants and deputy directors to search the Yanjing City for "faces of the last century" and "ancient-looking" extras, who had to have the right temperament~
This job took the most effort in the summer - I mobilized dozens of friends and contacted more than 40 street offices to help find people.
(End of this chapter)