Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 54 Midnight Takeaway
After Liu Yifei came to visit the class, Li Qiutang never saw her again.

The two stayed in the same hotel but never ran into each other, but they did run into Jackie Chan several times. The first time Jackie Chan saw him, he said, "Ah, I recognize you. Your name is Li Qiutang, right? I've seen your movie Comet, it's great."

Li Qiutang expressed her gratitude, saying that she was a fan of Jackie Chan and asked for an autographed photo. When they parted, Jackie Chan said, "I'll give you my phone number. You can contact me anytime. We may have a chance to work together."

The second time I met Jackie Chan was in the hotel lobby. He and his staff were sitting in the lobby lounge waiting for someone. Li Qiutang was about to go to the set, so he stopped her. The two chatted for a while, and she said, "I heard you were filming an action movie. I'll go see it sometime."

Li Qiutang naturally welcomed him, then said goodbye, got in the car and left.

The last time we met was in the early morning, when Jackie Chan had finished work and was having a midnight snack. He heard that the crew of "No One" had just finished work, so he called over a dozen people from the "No One" crew who were living there and treated them to a midnight snack.

During this midnight snack, Li Qiutang was a bit disrespectful and said before they even sat down: "We have a rule on our crew that no drinking is allowed, whether on the set or after work."

Jackie Chan's staff thought Li Qiutang was a bit too pretentious, but Jackie Chan was very considerate and said with a smile: "We'll drink, you guys can do whatever you want, eat, eat, eat."

On the contrary, Jackie Chan would think that Director Li is courageous enough to promote alcohol control in domestic film crews.

However, the next day's work of the "No One" crew was still affected by this midnight snack.

The crew drank while Li Qiutang was away, and they drank a lot. When they started work the next morning, the focus operator, the sound engineer and an assistant director were all late!

Li Qiutang waited for them on the set for two hours! When they arrived, Li Qiutang scolded them without any hesitation.

"After we finish filming, I'll bring you a truckload of wine. We'll drink until you die!"

"Can't you live without alcohol? If you want to drink, go home. Drink as much as you want at home. Don't come to my crew!"

In fact, Li Qiutang is not intolerant. He knows that a small number of people in the crew still drink privately, but so far it has not affected their normal work, so he just turns a blind eye to it.

But Li Qiutang couldn't tolerate the fact that Jackie Chan and I had a midnight snack together last night and had to delay today's work because of drinking.

All three were older than Li Qiutang, but no one dared to talk back after being scolded by the young man. In the end, the production director came over to smooth things over: "Don't drink while you're working. Okay, okay, let's get back to work. Let's start filming."

The production director emphasized again: "I'll say it again, on the set, whether you're working or not, you're not allowed to drink! If anyone drinks again, don't blame me for being rude! Stop watching, let's get to work."

Today we started filming Qin Niang's fight scene in the bamboo forest. Fan Bingbing, dressed in a dashing men's outfit, was practicing the final set of moves with the extras.

The weapons given to her by the martial arts director are a pair of short swords, and the action design is mainly aimed at showing her agility as a woman.

Li Qiutang and the martial arts director explained the play to her together.

"It's too dangerous to use a stunt double for the horse-falling scene." Qin Niang was going to fall off the horse and then fight with Yuwen Ying's minions.

Fan Bingbing had no objection to using a body double for this scene, as it was indeed too dangerous. Her body double was a martial artist of similar height to her, wearing the same clothes and headgear as her. She politely said to the martial artist, "Thank you for your hard work."

After finishing the play, Li Qiutang took Fan Bingbing to walk through the positions on the spot before letting Fan Bingbing get on the horse. They didn't do the actual shooting, but let Fan Bingbing practice a few times first.

Of course Fan Bingbing can ride a horse.

"When you reach this position, you can stop." The martial arts director reminded her again to make sure she got to the right position.

"no problem."

It must be said that Fan Bingbing still looks good in men's clothes, and he looks even more handsome on a horse.

"Gee!" Fan Bingbing came galloping in on horseback from outside. The first time she ran out of the range, the second time she was within the right range, but the horse took her around in circles. The third time her horse stopped before entering the painting, and the horse paced her into the original range, making Li Qiutang and others laugh at Fan Bingbing's poor riding skills.

Although there were many problems during the three drills, they were not big problems and were easily solved.

"Come on, let's take some real shots." Li Qiutang decided to take some real shots first.

As a result, the stuntman fell more than 20 times today, and Fan Bingbing rolled on the ground behind him more than 20 times, but they still failed. It was dark, and although they could continue filming with the lights on, Li Qiutang called it a day after falling so many times, considering the physical and mental strength of the actors. The next morning, they fell again.

"Kacha." The stand-in fell off the horse again. "Go ahead, Bingbing."

The staff led the horse away, and Fan Bingbing came in and stood on a stool.

"Start." Li Qiutang gave the order.

Fan Bingbing jumped off the stool and rolled on the ground imitating the postures and movements of the stuntman, ending with a handsome pose with one hand on the ground and the other holding a knife.

"Click." Li Qiutang called for a stop and Fan Bingbing came over to watch the replay.

After watching it twice, Li Qiutang said, "Bingbing, let's do it again."

"Okay." Fan Bingbing said nothing and walked towards the center of the field.

"Reconstruct the scene!" shouted the assistant director.

Fan Bingbing fell five more times before Li Qiutang passed: "Yes, that's it."

A horse-wrestling scene took more than a day to shoot, which is considered a normal pace.

Fan Bingbing held his waist with one hand and walked out of the set: "I am so old. Director, can you reimburse me for the massage therapy?"

"Report it." Li Qiutang said with a smile, "Come, take a break, we will shoot the fighting scene later."

After asking Fan Bingbing to sit down, Li Qiutang went into the set to supervise the arrangement.

The crew was busy until the sun went down, then they turned on the lights, turning the set into daytime, and continued working until after 10 o'clock in the evening. After shooting a few usable takes, they disbanded.

It was almost 12 o'clock when Li Qiutang returned to his hotel room, but he was not sleepy yet. He was still working on the script of "Famous", and he had almost finished 2/3 of it by now.

I wrote until around 1 a.m. and felt a little hungry. The assistant and the lifestyle producer might have gone to bed long ago. Li Qiutang didn't want to bother anyone else, so she put on some clothes and went out to find something to eat.

There are some barbecue restaurants and small restaurants across the street from the hotel. Li Qiutang plans to go there to find something to eat, but now is the off-season for tourism in Hengdian, and she doesn't know if those restaurants will be open so late.

"Hello, do you have dumplings?"

"Yes. How many do you want?"

"It's too late. We don't need too many. Just cook 10. Hey, did you make these dumplings yourself or did you freeze them?"

"They're frozen, and we don't know how to make dumplings."

"No more frozen ones." Li Qiutang might as well be killed if he wanted to eat frozen dumplings. "Grill me some skewers, this, this, and this, hurry up."

After eating, Li Qiutang returned to the hotel and took the elevator with a beautiful girl he had never seen before.

Coincidentally, the two of them went to the same floor, which was full of the crew of "No One"; was she looking for someone?
The elevator door opened, and Li Qiutang walked slowly on purpose, paying attention to who the girl was going to look for.

The girl didn't take Li Qiutang seriously at all and walked in front of her with her high heels clicking.

Li Qiutang caught a glimpse of her knocking on the door of the production director of "Arrogant".

What's not to understand? When he's hungry in the middle of the night, he goes out to eat, while when others are hungry in the middle of the night, they order takeout to be delivered to their door.

(End of this chapter)