Reborn as a little director

Four weeks after Zhong Yang's movie was released, Xie Siqing called Zhong Yang to report to the crew.

At this time, there are still three days before the official launch.

There is still a lot to do in these three days.For example, directors and actors communicate on the script, actors get familiar with each other, and so on.

Xie Siqing is used to talking with all the actors one-on-one first, and discussing the problems that each of them will encounter in a targeted manner, and then he let several main actors know each other.

In addition, there is another makeup test.I have tried it before, and I have also taken makeup photos, but this time it is finalized.

The day before the start-up, a ceremony was held as usual.

There was a press conference after the ceremony.

This will be the only public interview before the crew wraps up.The main creator and actors have signed a non-disclosure agreement, and they are not allowed to promise any media invitations.

To Xie Siqing's surprise, at the press conference, the reporters focused on Zhong Yang.

They kept asking: "Why did you return to acting?", "Do you have any new goals?", "Why did you choose this role?", "What's so special about this role?" and many other questions.

As the director, Xie Siqing was almost ignored.

It was Zhong Yang who directed the conversation to Xie Siqing from time to time.

……

On the day of the official launch, in the morning, Little Putao, who was just a scene recorder, shouted: "It's started, it's started, it's started! In order to make a good film, we started! In order to win the audience's love, we started! In order to win many awards, we started Let's start! In order to climb to the top of the world, let's start!"

The parallel sentence is like a horn of attack, resounding on the ground of the set.

Everyone: "..."

Only Xie Siqing patted Little Putao: "Well said, Little Putao."

"Hey hey hey~"

Xie Siqing went to see Zhong Yang's makeup.

Zhong Yang was ready at this time.

Xie Siqing raised Zhong Yang's face and looked at the makeup carefully.

Zhong Yang also looked at Xie Siqing, then suddenly turned his face away.

"...How do you let me know your makeup?"

"..." Xie Siqing turned Zhong Yang's face back, but Zhong Yang's gaze fell elsewhere.

"..."

This guy--

"Are you nervous?" Xie Siqing asked, "Acting again."

"Nervous?" Zhong Yang looked at Xie Siqing suspiciously.

"Correct."

"Oh." Zhong Yang immediately said something completely opposite to his expression, "Yes, I am very nervous."

"It's okay." Xie Siqing reassured, "Be more confident, tell yourself that you are fine, and it will be much better if you are confident. You have the honor of the actor, which fully shows your ability... Even if you haven't acted for a long time, you can still do it." Enter the state quickly. If you can't do it, what should you do as a newcomer?"

"……Um."

"If you are still nervous," Xie Siqing said again, "massaging the subauricular gland can relax the nerves."

This is also taught by others. It is said that there is an acupuncture point there, which can relieve a lot of pressure.

"How to press?"

Xie Siqing put his finger under his ear: "That's it, under the ear, walk in this direction, swipe across from here, stop here, repeat a few more times."

"here?"

"No."

"here?"

"No."

Zhong Yang asked again: "Where is it?"

"..." Xie Siqing had no choice but to stretch out his hands, hold Zhong Yang's position, and demonstrate to him, "Start from here, follow this line, and end here."

Zhong Yang narrowed his eyes, as if he was very comfortable.

"There is also temple pressing." Xie Siqing said.

"how to do?"

"...Don't you know about the temple?"

"……Oh."

Zhong Yang's place was almost done, Xie Siqing went to Zhao Qing's again.

When asked, Zhao Qing was also a little nervous.

But she is a newcomer, so she can fully understand.

Xie Siqing also taught her some relief methods, and then chatted with her to relax her.

Only then did Xie Siqing know that she used to be a teacher who taught primary school Chinese.

"So," Xie Siqing asked, "don't you go back to work?"

"Yeah." Zhao Qing replied, "I didn't want to go."

"Oh why?"

"The price of the subway has increased, I can't accept it."

"..." Xie Siqing said, "How about being serious?"

"Isn't that a decent reason?"

"..."

"Okay." Zhao Qing said again, "I don't think it's suitable for this job, and it will be a bit depressing to do it. I want to try other things, such as acting is very interesting."

"...Well." Xie Siqing felt that she was quite cool, and she resigned as soon as she said she would resign. For any person, it takes courage.

Then, Xie Siqing asked again: "How does it feel so far?"

"It's not bad." Zhao Qing replied, "I don't regret this decision, although I miss it occasionally...the children are very cute. This feeling is a bit strange. At that time, I wanted to leave, but when I think about it later, I remember Everything seems to be good... It's like having an inappropriate boyfriend. You know you have to break up, but you still feel a little bit reluctant to let go of the good times, because you know that after turning this page, you can never go back. Maybe, Disgust can't last long, what can stay in my heart are all sweet things."

"Hmm." Xie Siqing asked again, "Lovely children...give me an example?"

He often chats with actors about some light topics, so that they don't get too tense and relax.

He is different from Zhong Yang in this regard.

"For example..." Zhao Qing thought for a while: "For example, the composition I was revising before I resigned... the title is 'I got to know you again'. There are three types of students' composition, one is being abused by parents, Then I suddenly realized that it turned out to be love; the second category was abused stepparents, and then I suddenly realized that this was also love; the third category was friends who turned against each other, and finally realized that it was still love... In short At such a young age, everyone lives in love and hatred, but the examples given are all trivial things."

Xie Siqing also smiled.

After chatting like this for a while, Zhao Qing seemed to be much better.

Over there, Wu Yisen had personally inspected the set.

Mike also arranged the cameras and put on a light gray filter, because he said that it is best to use different tones in several periods, and he will use gray in the Cultural Revolution.

After the preparations are complete, it officially begins.

The camera pushed over, and Little Putao blankly hit the slate.

It can be seen that Little Putao is not very relaxed in the real battle, quite different from the energetic little Putao before.

Getting the first shot is not the real beginning of the movie.

This plot is that the protagonist’s father is getting old and wants his son to inherit the family business. However, the protagonist thinks that there is no future for making bows in this society, and says that this kind of thing has been abandoned by the times. If it is gone, it will be gone. It's not a pity.In order to make him change his mind, his father told him many things about the past, telling him how difficult it is for the only handmade bow and arrow shop in China to survive until now... One night, the protagonist looked at the bow hanging on the wall, and if there was any Suosi slowly fell asleep.Then, in his sleep, he went back to the past several times one by one, stood in the shop with different identities, and watched the ups and downs of the vicissitudes - his grandfather went around raising money for his dream to set up the shop, and during the war, his uncle even took money. Gong went out and wanted to secretly release a few cold arrows to help kill the Japanese. When the old shop was smashed, his father secretly hid a best bow... He felt something inside. It was a kind of sustenance. There is no thunder, but it has the most tenacious vitality, allowing this family to go through a long night of suffering.

In these few scenes, the technique is like a montage cutscene like a period drama, the past is mixed with himself, and it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the truth.

These scenes were filmed in sequence from back to front.

Today is the scene of breaking the four olds.

"." Xie Siqing said.

Zhong Yang stood there, looked around carefully, and raised his sleeves to look at the clothes he was wearing.

The protagonist's father is sitting at the side blankly at the moment.

The actor's name is Wan Zhongyi. Although he is not well-known, his acting skills are very good. He has played the roles of the previous generation in many movies.

"Throw away the plaque," the father said to the protagonist.

The protagonist turned his head to look at the door, and the plaque was riddled with holes on the ground.

In the film, the shop has just been smashed to pieces by the Red Guards. Even if the shop has been renamed "Sporting Goods Store" to avoid the catastrophe, bad luck cannot be avoided.

The protagonist goes to the plaque and picks it up, not knowing where to throw it, so he just puts it there against the wall.

"You go too." The father said again, "I can't hire you anymore."

It turned out that in this dream, the protagonist was a shop assistant.

The protagonist didn't speak, but his expression was worried.

After all, that was his father.

"Cut." Xie Siqing sat behind the monitor, "Okay, no problem."

Then the next scene.

The protagonist's mother came in, looked at the mess, and asked her husband carefully: "All collections...are they all destroyed?"

"..."

"That's it, it's all gone..."

"Nothing, nothing." Wan Zhongyi continued to speak his lines, "I hid a handful."

"……what?"

"I have hidden one, it is the best bow."

"……Are you crazy!"

"I'm not crazy."

"They will come again! If you didn't find it today, it's your luck. What will you do next time?" As she spoke, she pointed to her surroundings: "The house is only this big! Where do you want to hide?"

"I've thought about it." The father spoke slowly but firmly, "Saw it in half and put it in the wood pile."

"..."

After finishing speaking, the father looked at the protagonist who was still there: "Come and saw for me, I really can't do it."

The plot continues.

The father touched the bow carefully, made a gesture of drawing the bow to aim, then sighed, and handed it to the protagonist.

Here, after Zhong Yang took the props, he couldn't help touching the bow with complicated emotions.

"Very good." Xie Siqing said.

Originally, there was no such action in the script.

Then, the protagonist put one side of the bow on the bench, raised his leg to step on it, let the other side of the bow hang in the air, bent down and started sawing.

The sound of sawing wood is particularly harsh.

Here, the protagonist saw a few times, looked up at his father, then at the bow, gritted his teeth and continued to saw.Sawing and sawing, I felt that the thing in my hand seemed to be losing its life gradually, and it was screaming.

His father's sadness stimulated him, and in this oppressive atmosphere, he gradually began to feel pain.

Under the effect of the reflector, Zhong Yang's face looked three-dimensional.

Because Zhong Yang is bent over, the person playing the board has to kneel on the ground, which can be seen to be very hard work.

"The expression at the end is very good." Xie Siqing said suddenly, "Push the No. 4 machine over, hurry up, and give him a close-up."

Then, just a few seconds after the close-up started, Zhong Yang suddenly raised his eyes and stared straight into the camera. Those eyes were so beautiful that Xie Siqing's heart couldn't help beating a few times.

This guy... Xie Siqing thought, why is he so handsome all of a sudden...

"...cut." Xie Siqing just wanted to say to start over, don't be handsome, don't discharge, and then suddenly realized that the period before Zhong Yang raised his eyes was just enough, so he changed his words abruptly, "It's over."

After this scene, they rested at noon.

After lunch, Zhao Qing gave all the creators a flying alarm clock.

When the alarm clock rings, it will fly upwards, and people have to get out of bed to sit up or even stand up or jump up to get it. In this way, the problem of staying in bed can be solved.

Zhao Qing has a problem, he likes to give away things, it can be said that he is too generous.

As long as she sees something interesting, she wants to give one to each of her friends, so that everyone can see and own this thing.

Or every time she saw something good on sale, she would screen it in her head to see which friend would be suitable for it.

As for herself, she seldom buys anything for herself. The money is used to give away things to others. She has given away many expensive things, but she has never owned them.

If you are reluctant to buy something for yourself, you are very willing to buy it for others.

So, just a few days after we met, Zhao Qing had already sent five things to Xie Siqing.

Xie Siqing fiddled with the alarm clock, and also brought over the alarm clocks of Chen Zhengzhi, Mike, Wu Yisen and others, and let them line up in a character for a while, a line for a while, fly up and fall down for a while.

"Are you playing house?" Zhong Yang walked over.

"Hmm." Xie Siqing said, "I was thinking, is it possible that these alarm clocks are actually ufos, flying saucers of aliens, usually disguised as alarm clocks, and when every household on the earth has one, outside The aliens will issue an attack command, causing them to fly up in various homes in the middle of the night, killing all the people on earth in an instant."

"..." Zhong Yang said, "Your play is too bloody."

"..." Xie Siqing stopped making up stories by himself, and turned to Zhong Yang, "This morning, you performed quite well."

"..."

"You can feel it yourself, don't you?"

"Ah."

"I always feel like I'm dreaming." Xie Siqing said again, "You will act in the first play."

Xie Siqing had never dared to think of this kind of luck before.

Zhong Yang said: "I never thought about becoming an actor before."

The two of them, because they met each other, changed the path they should have taken, and made the two trajectories intertwined and entangled together.

"...It's almost time, let's prepare for the afternoon show." Xie Siqing said.

Zhong Yang nodded.

"Aren't you nervous this time?"

"...When you say that, it's really a little bit."

"But you were perfect just now, what else is there to be nervous about?"

Zhong Yang took it for granted: "Even if you take the first place in the exam every time, you will be nervous during the college entrance examination."

"Then do it again as I just said. Massage the acupuncture points and give yourself a boost."

Zhong Yang asked again: "Is there any other way?"

"Other methods?" Xie Siqing was stunned for a moment, "You can also relax by listening to some jokes."

"...Are you telling jokes?"

"It's also okay."

"..." Zhong Yang thought that Xie Siqing could only tell bad jokes.

"It was quite funny to hear something that day." Xie Siqing said, "After a party, a group of animals rushed into the 7-11 convenience store to buy things. The clerk beat them all out, but left the lamb alone. Inside the store. May I ask why?"

"……do not know."

"Because the 7-11 convenience store is open 24 hours a day."

"..." Zhong Yang immediately felt that Xie Siqing could only make cold jokes.

"There is one more." Xie Siqing said again, "A man met God. God decided to fulfill one of his wishes out of kindness. The man thought about it and said, I heard that cats have 9 lives, which is so enviable. Give me 9 lives too. God promised him. After the wish was fulfilled, he wanted to try it. Anyway, there are 9 lives, and it’s okay to die. So he lay on a railroad track, The train passed by, but he was completely dead, why is this?"

"I don't know." Zhong Yang answered quickly, he never thought about it.

Xie Siqing said: "Because that train has 10 carriages."

"..."

"...That's enough." Xie Siqing felt that something was wrong, so he didn't talk about the next thing, but said, "Hurry up and prepare for the afternoon show."

In the afternoon, shooting continued.

After the bow was sawn in two and hidden in the woodpile, the protagonist played by Zhong Yang looked at his father's grief and wanted to comfort him.He stepped forward and said softly: "The shop will definitely open again in the future."

Father shook his head.

"Really." The protagonist took his father's hand, "Believe me, it won't stop, don't despair, the shop will never end here."

……

——Just as the filming of the afternoon film was about to finish, the boss of Pineapple Cake came to visit the class.

Today is the first day of official filming of the plot, so come here as an investment to see the situation.

However, in the whole process, he was not very satisfied.

Finally, during the discussion at the meeting before the end of the day, the owner of Pineapple Cake asked Xie Siqing, "Why is there no drama about Zhao Qing?"

"Not yet." Xie Siqing said, "The main purpose of letting her come here today is to get familiar with it. After all, Zhao Qing has never been exposed to acting before."

The owner of Pineapple Cake said: "I think she should have more scenes, more!"

He still likes to repeat important points twice.

Xie Siqing felt a little strange.

The boss didn't interfere too much before, why did he change immediately after meeting Zhao Qing.

"Also, Zhao Qing is so beautiful and has a good figure. If you are bold, more people will see her."

"……Um?"

"I feel that her appearance in this drama is too conservative, and she can't see how good-looking she actually is. It's a pity."

"..."

"Show more, cooperate with the publicity, it's a gimmick, you can change it, change it."

How keen is this boss on gimmicks... When selecting actors before, he always emphasized gimmicks, and he wanted to invite the biggest star that could be hired. If it weren't for Zhong Yang's willingness to join, there would most likely be a third-tier starlet Come to play.

However, Xie Siqing still said very gently: "Let's not change it, it's not necessary in this drama."

Xie Siqing can understand this boss.Now investing in movies has more losses than profits, and some people have even calculated that 70%-90% of them are losses. It is common for investors to intervene.

"Why isn't it necessary?" the boss of Pineapple Cake said, "A movie needs to be talked about. It doesn't matter what the main character is too fat, or if a slingshot shoots down a plane, it can all be talked about. What about our movie? , the male lead is so handsome, and the female lead is so beautiful, if you make it bolder, it can attract people, so don’t make it difficult for people to see it. I’ll put my words here, and you can modify it according to this idea.”

Xie Siqing smiled, but still shook his head.

"Look at that, the latest one," the other party said again, "there is sm in the play, there are whips and waxes, and it is still made in 3D, which makes people feel immersive. It has not waited for the release, and it is talked about everywhere."

Having said that, Xie Siqing also became tougher, and he said slowly: "In my opinion, using breakthroughs to attract people to look at the new lower limit is called wickedness."

The owner of the pineapple cake had a hint of anger on his face: "But this is the current status of this industry."

"I don't think so." Xie Siqing's tone was not fluctuating, "If this is the current status of this industry, then I am ashamed to be in this industry."

"..."

In fact, Xie Siqing is much better now.

At the very beginning, Xie Siqing stubbornly believed that directors just want to shoot what they want, and care too much about how many people watch, talk about, and like. That’s what politicians do, not people who are engaged in art. .At that time, he often felt that movies were like his life, every movie was an integral part of his life, and he had to be the master of the plays he directed.However, later, Xie Siqing also gradually understood that no matter what, the director has to be responsible for the investors, and he has to be responsible for taking the people's money, and there is no way to be too arbitrary.In the following years, for Chi Wenyue, he has changed a lot. Although he still does not make concessions on many issues, every time he is unwilling to make concessions, he is grateful for the director-centered mechanism in China, because In Hollywood, the power of the producer is above all else.

Chen Zhengzhi on the side suddenly interjected: "I also don't think it's necessary."

"Oh?"

The producer should represent the investor, so the boss is willing to listen.

Chen Zhengzhi said: "This movie of ours is not aimed at the group you mentioned. The investment in this movie is small, and the audience market itself is enough to pay back. If it is neither fish nor fowl, it may lose the original target audience. I have been in this industry for many years, please You trust my experience."

"...Oh," the owner of Pineapple Cake said after seeing the very experienced Chen Zhengzhi, and his tone softened a lot. "I feel that I can't see how beautiful she is. It's a pity... a pity."

Neither Xie Siqing nor Chen Zhengzhi answered.

The owner of the pineapple cake didn't say anything more.

Then, Xie Siqing looked up at Zhong Yang.

——I found that the other party was looking at me quietly, and my eyes were full of things that were difficult to understand.