Because of this little episode, it was already ten minutes later when Yan Sheng and Shen Yu left the dressing room and arrived at the shooting location.
Xu Musen had waited for a long time. These ten minutes won't make a difference. He simply waved his hand to signal everyone to take their seats.
This scene is about the confrontation between the gangster boss played by Zhou Yanqing and the senior superintendent played by Wang Jinsheng in the police station. The main lines are between the two big names. Although Yan Sheng, Tao Mu and Shen Yu also have shots, they are just background boards at best. Also in the background is Du Ze, who plays the gang leader, and a group of actors who play the police.
Shen Yu seemed very nervous. Because after this scene, he and Tao Mu will have to film opposite each other at the same shooting location. It is the scene where Zhou Yuanting was expelled from the police academy, joined the gang as an undercover, and fought with thugs from other gangs for a place. As a result, he was arrested by Yan Yu and other policemen on duty and taken to the police station on charges of disturbing the public order of Hong Kong. This is also the first rivalry between Shen Yu and Tao Mu after they joined the crew. There were so many people watching, and so many people related to him came to visit the set, Shen Yu didn't want to disappoint everyone.
Shen Yu has always had a simple mind and can only think about one thing at a time. Because he was thinking about the scenes he would be acting against, Shen Yu was a little absent-minded when filming the first scene. Whenever the camera scanned him, Shen Yu always looked worried and couldn't control his expression. His frowning and absent-minded look surprisingly echoed the feeling in the script, when Yan Yu saw his good brother going further and further astray after being persuaded to drop out of the police academy, and wanted to persuade him to mend his ways, but didn't know how to start.
Xu Musen was a little surprised, and after filming this scene, he praised Shen Yu's improved acting skills. In front of his family, Shen Yu felt particularly happy when he was praised by the director. He couldn't help but excitedly walked to Tao Mu and begged Tao Mu to rehearse with him in advance.
"We've been in the crew for so long, and this is the first time we're filming opposite each other. Mumu, I'm so nervous!" Shen Yu said, hugging the script with both hands in his arms. Looking at Tao Mu eagerly, "I heard from them that your acting is very good, Mu Mu. It's easy to bring the other party into the play. It's up to you from now on."
No matter how much he hated Shen Yu, Tao Mu was still very serious about filming. He immediately stood up with a serious expression and was about to date Shen Yu.
Shen Yu looked at Tao Mu with empty hands in confusion, and couldn't help asking, "Mu Mu, where is your script?"
"I don't need a script." Tao Mu had memorized the entire script long before joining the crew. Not just his own lines, but also the lines of all the actors acting opposite him. In fact, he is not the only one in the entire crew who can do this. At least Zhou Yanqing, Wang Jinsheng, Luo Daming and Yan Sheng could memorize the script. This can also help them better understand the role and the script.
In fact, long before joining the crew, Yan Sheng also watched Shen Yu memorize the script every day. Unfortunately, Shen Yu didn't persevere. At this moment, he could only look at Tao Mu with envy: "You are so good. I can't do that. I am very stupid and I forget everything I memorized very quickly. So I can only recite it again that morning."
After that, he asked Tao Mu what tricks he had for memorizing lines.
Tao Mu was born with a good memory. In his previous life, he remembered even those boring financial theories and business cases that could only be memorized by rote, very well. What’s more, it’s a classic script like “Black and White”. Not to mention that he has played the same role once in his previous life. He didn't know how many times he had played movie screenings. Over time, your memory will get better and better. After his rebirth, Tao Mu could memorize any information or lines after reciting them three times at most.
"Recite it several times. Especially when reciting lines, try to imagine the plot scenes in your mind. You can practice your expressions in front of the mirror, find a few cameras to practice your movements, and repeatedly hammer out the details." Tao Mu said very seriously.
Unexpectedly, when Shen Yu heard this, he didn't know what hit his funny bone, and he immediately chuckled: "Isn't that just imagination? It sounds like a psychopath!"
Several big names still on the set frowned at the same time. Yan Sheng, who had been paying attention to Shen Yu's every move, smiled gently and said, "In fact, being an actor is a very crazy profession. In one work, you have to experience a stranger's entire life. You have to understand his emotions and his thinking logic. You have to analyze a person's words and deeds from the inside. This is not an easy task. So a good actor needs to know a lot."
If you want to play any role well, you must have the deepest understanding of the character. So a good actor is also a master of life. Literature, history, philosophy, psychology, law, social sciences, as long as there is a need, one should be able to apply knowledge of all 360 fields.
For example, Yan Sheng himself was most serious when he was doing internship in the hospital for more than half a year, just to play the role of a doctor well. He even went into the operating room and did his rotation internship with a group of interns from the medical university. After finishing that movie, Yan Sheng will be able to get a nursing license.
In fact, Shen Yu spends every day with Yan Sheng. If he can get Yan Sheng to act with him, Shen Yu's acting skills will definitely improve quickly. Unfortunately, Shen Yu himself lacks perseverance, and Yan Sheng is reluctant to force him. When the two of them are together, they spend more time being meaninglessly affectionate. Especially after that layer of window paper was broken, the two of them had no scruples when they were together in private.
This has caused Shen Yu's acting skills to stagnate - even worse than at this time in his previous life.
After all, in the previous life, there was Tao Mu, a vicious villain, who had been suppressing him in an all-round way like a mad dog for ten years. Even if it was just to get through Tao Mu's harassment, Shen Yu had to be patient and work hard to make progress. Therefore, the food chain between the three of them has always been an ecological cycle in which Tao Mu bullies Shen Yu, Shen Yu complains to Yan Sheng, and Yan Sheng tries to suppress Tao Mu's play to avenge Shen Yu.
But in this life, after being reborn, Tao Mu repented and didn't want to follow the plot. When he withdrew like this, the driving force behind suppressing Shen Yu in the original plot disappeared, and Shen Yu himself was not a proactive and hard-working character. Just live day by day and take things as they come.
So the old saying that comfort makes people degenerate and hardship makes people work hard is not without reason.
Of course Shen Yu knew what Yan Sheng meant. But he always thought that he didn't need to work so hard. The reason why he joined the entertainment industry in the first place was simply because he thought acting was fun. He likes the feeling of being supported and adored by fans and moviegoers after becoming a star. But he only likes the glamorous side of being a star. If you make him pay the price for it, for example, he has to roll around in the mud during filming, soak in ice-cold water in the middle of winter and do NGs over and over again, or even be injured in an accident during filming like some actors and be hospitalized. Shen Yu was unwilling.
Just like teenagers love playing games. Even if parents and teachers try their best to stop them, they will still sneak to the Internet cafe if they have the chance. But if you ask them to drop out of school to become e-sports players, they will not be willing to do it, honing basic operations day after day, tirelessly checking guides and reviewing videos for a few points, and staying up late to play dungeons and fight bosses.
Shen Yu has the same mentality now. Without the persecution of the vicious villain Tao Mu, the little prince lived a particularly comfortable and stable life. Although his career started off modestly, he has support from fans and a happy love life. The only regret is probably that Mrs. Shen still refuses to forgive him. Let him return to the Shen family.
Then there is Tao Mu. She never agreed to be friends with him.
Thinking of this, Shen Yu couldn't help feeling a little annoyed. When filming the next scene, I will bring this little bit of emotion into the plot.
"A Ting, how did you become like this?" Yan Yu, wearing a police uniform, holding a transcript and a carbon pen in his hand, looked at Zhou Yuanting, who was handcuffed to a chair, with a look of disappointment on his face.
"With your ability, even if you can't be a policeman, you can still do other things. You are so smart, and you always rank first in the police academy assessment. We said at the time that you would be a policeman in the future, and you would definitely be a good policeman. But look at what you look like now? How many times have you been in prison this year? You actually mixed up with that gang of gangsters. Have you ever thought about how sad your uncle and aunt would be to see you like this? And Xiaowen? She loves you so much, how sad she would be to see you look like a ghost now - neither human nor ghost -"
"Cut!" Director Xu, who was sitting in front of the monitor, shouted.
Shen Yu immediately stood up and bowed to everyone apologetically, "Sorry, I failed."
Xu Musen waved his hand and said nothing: "Another one."
Shen Yu calmed down. Sitting in front of the camera, he read the lines righteously: "Zhou Yuanting, how did you become like this now——"
“Cut!”
"I'm sorry." Shen Yu took a deep breath and continued, "A Ting, how could you become like this... Do you know how sad your uncle and aunt will be——"
“Cut!”
"Sorry." Shen Yu rubbed his head. The temperature is hot in the summer, and it becomes even hotter when the lighting on the set is turned on. Shen Yu slumped in the chair, allowing the makeup artist to come forward and touch up his makeup.
Shen Yu's acting skills were originally at the bottom of the crew. He was filming opposite Tao Mu, and even though Tao Mu didn't say a single line, Shen Yu still felt uncomfortable. When reading the lines, I always pay attention to Tao Mu's expressions and movements. Then he was shocked by Zhou Yuanting's brutality. He stuttered and made many mistakes when reciting his lines. Plus Director Xu’s strict requirements. Just a few lines were NG more than ten times.
The lunch boxes have been delivered.
It’s like this every time, whenever we shoot Shen Yu, there will be NG.
Director Xu frowned. He felt that Shen Yu was in a good mood now and he should continue filming. If we wait until after lunch to shoot, I'm afraid Shen Yu won't be able to maintain his mood and won't even be able to meet the current standards.
But if they continue filming, Director Xu has no idea when Shen Yu will pass. The key is that Tao Mu is also hungry. In the morning, he accompanied Mr. Song and the two fathers to have morning tea. He got up very early and didn't eat much. I was hungry when I finished filming at around 10 a.m., but I managed to hold on until 12:30, and my stomach was growling with hunger. The sound from the radio was very clear.
This is a bit funny.
Director Xu was unsure. At the critical moment, Tao Mu spoke again: "Put the food in first."
In the spirit of "a friend dies rather than a poor one", Tao Mu asked to change the play: "Anyway, the script didn't mention the time when Zhou Yuanting and his gang were arrested and taken to the police station. Just think of it as lunch time. Yan Yu prepared a box lunch for Zhou Yuanting when he was recording his confession. It makes sense from the details. After all, the two of them were brothers who shared the same dormitory when they were in the police academy."
This idea...seems like a good one! It can also reflect Yan Yu's personality from the details.
Director Xu discussed it with the screenwriter. Finally, we decided to add this scene.
So when we started filming next time, there was this extra plot.
Yan Yu entered the interrogation room with a box lunch and handed it to Zhou Yuanting: "Eat first."
Zhou Yuanting, who was handcuffed to a chair, stretched out his legs and slumped, raising his handcuffed hands: "How do I eat, sir?"
Yan Yu shook his head and uncuffed Zhou Yuanting. Zhou Yuanting stretched his wrist, opened the disposable chopsticks, opened the lunch box, and lowered his head to eat.
Tao Mu was really hungry. So in the camera, Zhou Yuanting ate with particular relish, with bruises and wounds on his face from the fight, and he wolfed down the food, which made Director Xu and all the cameramen swallow their saliva.
Yan Yu sat across the table and shook his head: "You still have time to eat, but I haven't even eaten yet."
Zhou Yuanting ate silently. He ate in big mouthfuls and almost choked. Yan Yu hurriedly handed over a bottle of mineral water.
Zhou Yuanting unscrewed the bottle cap and drank it. The water bottle was hanging in the air, and the mineral water splashed down and wet my clothes. The camera moved downward from Zhou Yuanting's lips, and the water droplets slid down his chin, over his neck and Adam's apple, giving him a look of desolation that was being deliberately concealed.
Yan Yu looked at Zhou Yuanting's current appearance, and scolded him bitterly: "A Ting, how could you become like this? Even if you can't be a policeman, you can always do other things. You are so smart... why do you hang out with those gangsters? Have you ever thought about how sad your uncle and aunt would be to see you like this? And Xiaowen? She loves you so much, how sad she would be to see you in this state -"
Zhou Yuanting, who had been eating quietly, paused slightly when he heard the name Xiaowen. He interrupted Yan Yu gloomily: "You are together with Xiaowen, right?"
Yan Yu paused for a moment and said, "Xiao Wen and I got together half a year after you broke up."
Zhou Yuanting put down his chopsticks, licked his cheek with the tip of his tongue, and sneered.
Yan Yu frowned: "A Ting, don't be like this. Don't you believe me? We are good brothers——"
"Good brother?" Zhou Yuanting leaned back in his chair and raised his eyebrows in a frivolous manner: "Have you ever considered me a brother?"
Before Yan Yu could speak, Zhou Yuanting asked again: "What is your relationship with Yan Qi?"
Yan Yu's face suddenly turned pale, and he said unhappily: "I don't know this person. There is no such person in our Yan family."
"That's your family's business." Zhou Yuanting shrugged his shoulders and twisted his neck to stretch his muscles. "Yan Yu, the reason why you can sit here in a police uniform today is not because you are better than me, nor because you are more righteous than me. It's because you are luckier than me. You have a good brother who is trying his best to protect you. So don't talk about moral principles in front of me. No one in this world has the right to accuse me, Zhou Yuanting, of self-degradation, except you."
Next it was Shen Yu's turn to speak his lines. But at the critical moment, Shen Yu fell into his old habit of forgetting the lyrics again.
Seeing that another scene was about to fail, Tao Mu, who was slumped in his chair, glanced at Shen Yu. Break out suddenly. He raised his hand and scattered the remaining lunch box all over the table. Shen Yu was stunned. Director Xu in front of the monitor was also stunned. The entire crew was stunned.
"Good brother? A good brother who steals my career and sleeps with my woman? What qualifications do you have to stand here and lecture me?" Zhou Yuanting stood up suddenly, full of anger and pointed at Yan Yu with a ferocious face and shouted: "From the beginning to the end, you know nothing and can only stand here and pretend to be innocent. We are both cadets, but you can pass the review even though you have a brother who is a big boss. I just went out to the bar to play for a night, and you want to expel me. Why?"
"It's because I have a bad fate. I, Zhou Yuanting, am unlucky. But I tell you, I, Zhou Yuanting, will not accept my fate. It's not easy to mess with me. Sooner or later, I, Zhou Yuanting, will get back what I deserve."
Zhou Yuanting said this and kicked the chair in the interrogation room. The chair was kicked into the corner and bounced back, with broken armrest fragments flying everywhere, and finally fell to the ground, spinning for a while before stopping.
Shen Yu was shocked on the spot. The entire set was stunned. I never expected Tao Mu's outburst scene to be so scary.
The entire set was silent. After a long time, Director Xu, who was sitting in front of the monitor, finally reacted and shouted "cut" in a daze.
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