Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 159 One Day Short

After Liu Yifei finished her instant noodles, she hugged Li Qiutang's arm and chatted for a while. Then she said she was sleepy and wanted to sleep, and then she kicked Li Qiutang out of the room.

Afterwards, Li Qiutang said that she had comforted Liu Yifei, talked to her and gave her instant noodles.

Not to mention the two of them hugging each other.

Isn’t it true that we can chat and eat instant noodles together?
No more than a handful of people in the crew knew about the fact that Liu Yifei hid in her room crying because she couldn't follow the play and her mentality exploded, but Liu Yifei still felt a little embarrassed afterwards.

"This... seems a bit embarrassing." Li Qiutang didn't say anything nice on purpose.

"You..." Liu Yifei raised her fist to hit him, but Li Qiutang smiled and said, "Not many people know about it. It's nothing. Just act well later."

Li Qiutang only said that she was happy, but Liu Yifei felt the real feeling.

Liu Yifei's confidence in acting was crushed again and again, rebuilt again and again, then crushed again, and rebuilt again.

This feeling was very painful, but also very beneficial to her.

Li Qiutang didn't allow her to read on the set, nor did she turn a deaf ear to the outside world. During her rest time, she either watched other people's performances on the set, or walked around Hengdian like an ordinary tourist. This was also Li Qiutang's requirement for her. She was not allowed to stay at home too much and had to go out and experience the outside world.

When she was out and about, she had a habit of listening to other people's explanations.

Seeing a tour guide holding a small flag and leading the group in front, she followed happily behind and listened to the tour guide's explanation.

There were several times when he even went into shopping spots and bought a bunch of things without thinking, and Liu Yifei even laughed at himself for being so stupid.

But next time she followed the tour guide again.

Li Qiutang did not expect such a simple method to help Liu Yifei improve her acting skills. He just hoped that Liu Yifei could fully experience the world. The so-called liberation of nature is not just about playing a pig or a dog. What is more important is to open your heart, feel the world, and explore the world with curiosity. The good and the bad, the dirty and the clean of this world need to be witnessed and felt.

This is something an actor needs to keep doing throughout his life.

Of course, in order to take care of Liu Yifei's confidence, Li Qiutang moved her appearance forward. Lan Tiejun held a banquet for his daughter. At the same time, Yang Peng and others disguised themselves and entered the banquet scene and kidnapped Lan Xin.

Liu Yifei is very good at playing this kind of rich lady.

As soon as Liu Yifei came out after putting on makeup and changing her clothes, she won cheers and whistles from her colleagues in the crew.

Just one word - beautiful!

Liu Yifei has seen this kind of look from others many times and is not shy about it. However, she glanced in the direction of the monitor and found that Li Qiutang was not looking at her, but was communicating with two Korean special effects personnel.

Li Qiutang's assistant assisted Liu Yifei and said to Li Qiutang, "Yifei has finished her makeup."

Li Qiutang looked up and found that "just the right amount of beauty, incomparable beauty" was the best description of Liu Yifei's appearance.

Li Qiutang walked into the set and came to Liu Yifei: "You are so beautiful."

Liu Yifei smiled when she heard Li Qiutang praising her, but she still looked like a proud swan: "That's right!"

As he said this, he curtseyed to his colleagues on the set.

"The money spent on this dress was well spent." The dress Liu Yifei is wearing is from Dior, the jewelry is from Bulgari, the shoes are from Miu Miu, and even her hairstyle was done by a big-name hairstylist. The cost of this outfit is as high as six figures.

Li Qiutang said to Liu Ye: "You are going to kidnap her later."

"I'm crazy. Should I tie her up?" Liu Ye said with a smile.

The kidnapping scene was filmed first, and the banquet scene was difficult to film so it was put at the end.

Li Qiutang was explaining the play to the actors on the set. When Yang Peng kidnapped Lan Xin, Lan Xin resisted. Lan Xin kicked Yang Peng hard, and was finally knocked unconscious and taken away by Yang Peng's companions.

It must be a fake kick.

Liu Ye said to Liu Yifei: "Take it easy, I just got married."

Liu Yifei laughed, and the assistant director said, "Yifei, if you accidentally kick the wrong ball, his wife will not forgive you."

Liu Yifei laughed and said, "Then I can't promise that. You are about to kidnap me."

Li Qiutang was watching the fun from the side. He looked at the set and suddenly felt something was wrong: "What's wrong with this cabinet?"

"what happened?"

"Art, art assistant, art director." Li Qiutang pointed at the cabinet and said, "Didn't I tell you to leave a line for this cabinet? I told you three days ago that when I was shooting this scene today, there were more than a dozen art and props people, and they couldn't even make a cabinet properly."

It’s no wonder that Li Qiutang lost his temper. In “In Time”, dividing lines is extremely important. The gap between the rich and the poor, and the gap between classes, are all divided by lines in the presentation of the picture.

In the scene of kidnapping Lan Xin, the cabinet in her room is the most important reference object. On one side of the straight line is Princess Lan Xin, who represents the wealthy class, and on the other side is Yang Peng. When the kidnapping occurred, Lan Xin took the initiative to cross the dividing line to fight back against Yang Peng, which also foreshadowed that she would eventually stand in Yang Peng's camp.

This kind of dividing line appears in many places throughout the film "In Time".

Now that the dividing line is gone, the tension of the picture is completely broken, how can Li Qiutang not get angry. "You just listen to me and do whatever I want, is that so difficult?" I was originally in a good mood today, but because of a cabinet and a line, everything was ruined.

As an actor, Liu Yifei actually didn't quite understand the director's thoughts on the picture. Now after hearing what Li Qiutang said, she realized that he had even taken all these into consideration.

A line on the screen is so important.

Today's scene was completely ruined. The crew spent several hours doing nothing, and the actors put on makeup and changed clothes, but waited for more than three hours in vain.

The next day, the cabinet that Li Qiutang wanted was placed on the set, and the filming of this scene officially began.

The kidnapping scene and the banquet scene took Li Qiutang two weeks to shoot. These two scenes seemed to restore Liu Yifei's confidence. She performed better and better, and became more and more confident as the filming went on.

After filming the last scene, the director's studio was full of people watching the playback, waiting for Li Qiutang to say whether to approve or not.

Li Qiutang read it twice and felt that there was no problem. He said softly, "It passed."

Liu Yifei and Liu Ye were both very happy. They clapped their hands and ran back to remove their makeup.

Suddenly! The lights on the set were turned off!
"Hey? Is there a power outage?"

Then a few small lights slowly lit up, and then the big lights came on again, and the Life Producer came out pushing a cart:

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

Today, the 25th, is Liu Yifei’s 22nd birthday.

"Happy birthday to Yifei, happy birthday to you!"

Liu Yifei was still wearing the dress from the play, dressed like a princess.

"Ah, thank you everyone." Liu Yifei took the flowers from the Life Producer.

The Life producer smiled and said, "Today is not only a birthday for Yifei, but also a birthday for our director Qiutang."

"Ah!" Liu Yifei screamed, she really didn't know.

The Life producer explained: "Yifei's date is the 25th, and our director's date is the 26th, so we celebrated it together."

Li Qiutang stepped forward and said, "You can be stingy only to a certain extent. One cake for two people's birthdays."

The Life Producer said: "So I didn't write my name on the cake."

"Hahahahahaha!"

"Come on, come on, both birthday boys and girls, please stand forward."

Li and Liu stood in front of the cake, made a wish together, blew out the candles together, and took a photo together.

Li Qiutang also said: "Then I am exactly 3 years older than you."

Liu Yifei said: "Not yet 3 years old, just one day away."

"You'll argue with me one day."

"One day short of three years would not be complete."

"Aren't the two birthday boys going to share the cake with us?"

The two of them then stopped bickering and worked together to share the cake among everyone.

Of course they had to smear the cake halfway through eating it on the faces of the two birthday boys and the one who attacked Li Qiutang the most fiercely was Liu Yifei.

"Just try to touch me!" Liu Yifei threatened Li Qiutang who wanted to fight back, then grabbed a piece of cake and threw it on Li Qiutang's face.

"Hahahaha!" He laughed so happily.

Li Qiutang would never suffer such a loss. She pulled Liu Yifei over and held her with one hand.

"Let me go!"

"You want to leave after offending the director?!"

Li Qiutang put her arm around Liu Yifei's neck and said, "Give me a piece of cake."

Zhang Guoli was not afraid of the trouble: "Come on, this piece of butter has more butter, use this one."

Li Qiutang took the cake and slapped it on Liu Yifei's face without any hesitation.

He also laughed heartlessly.

(End of this chapter)