Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 261 Joining the Group
Liu Yifei asked Li Qiutang to shave regularly in the future. Piercing the mouth was secondary, the most important thing was to shave the chest and thighs.

Li Qiutang said that he was busy these days and had no time to shave, so he asked his girlfriend to shave her hair as well, as he wanted to see something different.

Liu Yifei told Li Qiutang that actresses usually do full body hair removal before wearing dresses to attend public events, just to look good in front of the camera.

Useless knowledge is added.

"whole body?"

"Ah."

"include……"

"Oh, you're still asking!"

Li Qiutang laughed and said, "I'll take a look later."

Liu Yifei was almost embarrassed.

The next day, Liu Yifei flew to Los Angeles to meet Thomas Tull and Toro.

Li Qiutang set off for Yunzhong. The filming of "The Ordinary Man" was about to resume, and he, as the fire-fighting director, had to enter the scene early.

Yang Shupeng didn't shoot much material in the first month, so Li Qiutang simply discarded all his material.

The script of "Ordinary Man" is very messy. Yang Shupeng and Zhang Xiaobei's script obviously has the problem of being greedy for everything. They want to write a little about brotherhood, a little about resisting the Japanese aggression and saving the country, and a little about personal love and hatred. As a result, the main line of resisting the Japanese aggression and saving the country is not prominent, and Fang Wangxiang's transition from a bandit to an anti-Japanese is very abrupt.

The cheat of Prince Jie is too big, so big that it gives the audience a sense of falsehood.

In terms of setting, most of the scenes in the script take place in underground bandit lairs. As an anti-Japanese story, it fails to give the audience a sense of the grandeur of the war visually, and the cramped space limits the excitement of the story.

There were still many problems. After discovering them, Li Qiutang invited Guo Junli, the screenwriter of "The Warlords" and "The Besieged City", to adapt the script.

More scenes were set above ground. Fang Wangwang's bandit den was not underground, but in the mountains. There were many such scenes, and it wouldn't cost much. But Li Qiutang also planned to use the underground scenes that the crew had already built.

The characters were also deleted. Li Qiutang directly deleted the character of Xue Baozi, played by Shao Ma Ye. The scene where Fang Wangxiang bit off three fingers to save others was also deleted. This scene was unnecessary at all.

An action scene was added in which the Japanese counterattacked after Fang Youxiang escaped from prison. The original script was very unreasonable. Fang Youxiang escaped from prison, but the Japanese did not react!
Many black and absurd scenes were deleted - Li Qiutang was not good at shooting these. But some necessary comedy parts were retained.

Just film it as a serious anti-Japanese drama.

Huang Xiaoming reassembled the crew. The actors and photographers were easy to deal with, but most of the staff such as props, stagehands, and talkie could not remain with the team when the film started. They took other jobs and would not continue with "The Ordinary Man".

There are such staff all over Yanjing, and Huang Xiaoming quickly gathered a group of people, but he didn't know whether Li Qiutang could get used to them.

Huang Xiaoming did not brag to the creators in advance about finding Li Qiutang to save the situation. Instead, Huang Xiaoming would call whoever Li Qiutang wanted to see.

Today we met with the leading actors, including Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Xinyi, Zhang Yi and Ni Jingyang.

"Didn't you say you found a director? Where is he? If he doesn't come, I'm leaving." If Huang Xiaoming hadn't paid the full amount and she was the female lead, Zhang Xinyi would have thrown out the film long ago. She didn't have time to waste on a failed production crew.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" If it wasn't difficult to change actors, Huang Xiaoming would have wanted to fire Zhang Xinyi. "If we wait any longer, we'll meet the director today and start filming in a few days."

Huang Xiaoming was obviously the boss who paid the money, but he always accommodated the actors in the crew and never said a harsh word.

Zhang Yi and Ni Jingyang were both looking forward to the director. "Pifu" was one of their few film opportunities, and they had a lot of roles, especially for Ni Jingyang, as the new script gave her a lot more roles.

Not long after, Huang Xiaoming answered a call from his assistant and said to the four people, "The director is here." Then he stood up and went out to greet him.

Huang Xiaoming is the boss who pays the money and is also the protagonist of the play. He doesn't need to be so humble, but he doesn't seem to be a big shot.

The other three actors went out with Huang Xiaoming whether they were willing or not.

Ding! The elevator door opened.

Li Qiutang was startled. The four people standing at the elevator entrance looked at him in unison. "What are you doing?"

"Is this the director you found?" Zhang Xinyi didn't believe it at first.

Not to mention Zhang Xinyi, the other two didn't believe it either, including the main creators who had been interviewed before.

He! Li Qiutang! The champion of the Spring Festival! The Golden Globe Award for Best Director!
In the middle of the day!

The investors waiting outside to give him money can line up from here to Liangma River!

To save you?!
No one would believe it even if I told a hundred people!
Huang Xiaoming said: "Yes, he is the director I found for you."

Before the actors spoke, Li Qiutang said, "Can you please let me out first?"

Four actors welcomed Li Qiutang in.

"No need to introduce myself, I think we all know each other."

"no, I'm fine."

Even though it was the first time that Li Qiutang met Zhang Yi and Ni Jingyang, she had also seen "Soldier Assault" and "The Sky of Eighteen Years Old".

After a brief greeting, Li Qiutang began to arrange the work, and the new script of "The Common Man" had already been sent to the actors.

"We don't have much time, so hurry up and memorize the lines. We'll be going to Yunzhong in a few days. In Yanjing, we'll read the script twice and get familiar with it as soon as possible. When will the other actors arrive?"

The actor coordinator who was on the scene said, "They will fly directly to Yunzhong in a few days and will not come to Yanjing to meet us."

"That's fine. Let's read the script carefully first and try to solve the script problems before filming starts. What about the props and set design?"

"Ah?" Huang Xiaoming didn't know, and neither did the staff on the scene.

"Have the props and set been dispatched?"

Still no one can answer.

"Call and ask, what are you waiting for?" This is the problem of not using your own team. If Li Qiutang's brothers were used, the overall coordination would have already started reporting.

After the call, the staff member came back and said, "Their car will leave from Yanjing this afternoon and will arrive by dinner time. They will enter the venue tomorrow."

"You're still going to go on set tomorrow? I have to wait for him to finish setting up the set? If I leave two days earlier, everything will be ready. Luckily, my first scene is outdoors, otherwise the start of filming will have to be postponed again."

None of the four main actors dared to express their feelings. Huang Xiaoming had worked with Li Qiutang before and knew that this was Li Qiutang's style in the crew.

Domineering and extremely controlling.

However, this is also what the crew of "Ordinary Man" needs most. The crew is about to fall apart, and they need a strong director to use tough means to hold this loose sand together.

"Okay, let's read the script first."

Li Qiutang spent the rest of the day with Huang Xiaoming, reading the script over and over again with the four actors and analyzing the characters.

Li Qiutang had never met Ni Jingyang before, but when she saw him today...

He had seen bandits, but he had never seen a 1-meter-tall female bandit!

Ni Jingyang is too tall. Standing next to Xiao Ming...

How to take the photo then? Do I need to put a box under Xiao Ming again?

(End of this chapter)