Shoushan Village was transformed from a barren burnt yellow to a gradual green. The time spent in the crew passed quickly, and the end of April came unknowingly. It has been
more than two months since the start of filming in February.
The shooting time of nearly three months is by no means short. There are few characters and scenes, and there is not even a formal supporting role. If it weren't for Lu Jiahong's nitpicking, this film could be finished in one month with another director.
I have to think about an emotional point over and over again, and I am forced to think about it by the director. There is no director to explain the play to you. I can only think about it myself after being stuck again and again. Why? What's not enough? If I were the character, how should I react? I am this character, what kind of emotion should I have?
It is very difficult to get out of the role when acting in Lu Jiahong's plays.
He takes a long time to shoot a movie, it takes him two months to shoot a movie that others take one month. He doesn't like "acting", he wants you to become the character.
In the early years, there was a marketing account that slandered Lu Jiahong, saying that he was a destroyer of talented actors and that actors should boycott such directors. It was nothing more than a dispute between the acting school and the experiential school. Sang Yuan, a famous director who was popular all over the country at that time, advocated the absolute separation of actors and roles, and sneered at the up-and-coming experiential director Lu Jiahong, saying, "If everyone follows his way, actors will be at loggerheads after each scene, and they will be finished if they can't play more than a few roles."
However, the dominance of one school of thought can easily lead to aesthetic fatigue. Gradually, people began to be dissatisfied with the movies made by Sang Yuan. The superb acting skills and precise emotions made people feel that the actors were amazing after watching them once or twice, but after watching them for a long time, they became boring. Watching Lu Jiahong's movies is always an emotional release. The actors and the audience are immersed in the movie. When the movie ends and the lights in the theater are turned on, everyone will unconsciously exclaim "Ah" and suddenly find themselves pulled out of a world. Only then do they realize that Lu Jiahong has created a utopia for them. This
is also the first time Xu Yan has worked with such a big director. In the past, he acted in those movies with third-rate scripts, third-rate actors, and low-level directors. He only thought about how to make some money. He chose actors with some popularity and good looks, and actresses with big breasts and long legs. He started filming like punching in for work.
When Lu Jiahong called out the character's name on the set - Wei Yuan, he could still be a little more excited, and Qingshu's reaction was a little more subtle. One month, two months, three months, until today, Xu Yan always felt that Wei Yuan was too much like Liang Yisheng. In the days before the killing of Qing, Xu Yan never took the initiative to talk to Liang Yisheng, and Liang Yisheng didn't take the initiative to ask anything.
Xiao Yuan, as the front-line number one CP fan of these two people, has been very depressed these days. She asked Cheng Xinlu what was going on with Teacher Xu and the boss, and whether her CP was really going to end. Cheng Xinlu has been an actor agent for many years, and has heard of Lu Jiahong's name for a long time. She can understand a little bit. She patted Xiao Yuan on the shoulder and said it was okay. She was afraid that she couldn't get out of the play, so she kept a distance outside the play.
Xiao Yuan seemed to understand, "Teacher Xu is still a newcomer, it's normal to be afraid of not being able to perform well. Is the boss also afraid of not being able to perform well?"
Xu Yan finished his filming a few days earlier than Liang Yisheng. After all, Liang Yisheng was the first in the movie version. There were also many single shots of Liang Yisheng, and Xu Yan didn't need to waste time on the crew to accompany him.
At the filming banquet, Lu Jiahong generously said to set up a table in the city. Xu Yan finished his filming, but the other teachers in the crew had to continue working the next day. He wanted to refuse. There is also a hotel in the village. Although the dishes are definitely not as rich as those in the city, the meaning is enough.
Lu Jiahong tagged everyone in the group and asked for their opinions. The big hotel in the city can be reached in 40 minutes by car. Should we go out for a meal or hang out in the village? No one spoke for five minutes. Liang Yisheng's avatar was the first to pop up. "Why not take good care of the inaugural party?
If it is exposed, he will be scolded and excluded from the crew?" Even Cheng Xinlu didn't think of this. Xu Yan didn't want to make it too big in the first place, so naturally everyone wanted to respect his opinion and didn't think so much. Besides, the important inaugural party is actually the last one. Whoever wins last will have the grand party. This is reasonable.
The crew finished work early in the evening, including the actors and the assistants of the actors' agents. The three cars of the crew couldn't accommodate them, so they had to borrow cars from the village. Xu Yan was waiting at the end. He heard the assistant on the set counting the number of people. He found out that Liang Yisheng was missing.
The assistant had just arrived in early April. He was a boy in his twenties. He had found a way to learn something from Lu Jiahong. He usually ran errands for the crew. The boy crossed out the name of Liang Yisheng on the notebook and said anxiously, "Eh? Teacher Liang was still in the car just now? Brother Zhang didn't seem to be in the car either. Did any of you see him?"
The car in the village had not been borrowed yet. Lu Jiahong was impatient and said that two more people would be added and the three cars would leave first. The assistant on the set scratched his head and asked Xu Yan, "Teacher Xu, then you and Sister Cheng or Sister Xiao Yuan will go in first? There are only two places."
"I..." Xu Yan paused, subconsciously looked back, and didn't know what he was looking at.
Cheng Xinlu glanced at him, as if sighing, and gestured to the boy, "Xiao Yuan and I will go first, ladies first. Let him wait here."
Xu Yan licked his lips and gave a look, but Cheng Xinlu rolled her eyes and wiped her neck with her hand in return.
"I think Teacher Liang has something to do, and the car hasn't been borrowed yet. Don't worry. If he doesn't come in a while, I'll call him." The three cars drove away, and Xu Yan comforted the boys who nodded.
The north in late April is not hot at all. The temperature is about ten degrees at night. If the coat is thin, you can still shiver from the cold. Xu walked towards the public toilet and saw the fog rising from the distance.
Someone was smoking in that direction.
"I don't know where I got the news that Xu Yan had been killed, but I think you're about ready too. I've been calling me these few days, asking about your arrangements and wanting to meet you. It's not good to block you, so if I don't answer, I'll call you another time... Don't ask for favors from you all the time. The people you get are worse than Xu Yan. At least Xu Yan is obedient."
"Tsk, just block him and that's it."
"That's so easy for you to say. Am I not afraid that you will offend people? And... I don't know what you think, do you like it or not? If you really don't like it, I'll deal with it."
"...Are you crazy or am I? What kind of person do I like?"
"Who knows you, do you like Xu Yan like that? Why keep him hanging?"
Xu Yan didn't go that way anymore, and Liang Yishen and Zhang Yuan didn't see him either, but he overheard their conversation inadvertently, and it would be embarrassing if he walked out. I only heard a few sentences, and I don't know who they were talking about.
Xu Yan didn't hear what Liang Yisheng's answer was in the last sentence. Liang Yisheng's nonchalant tone made Xu Yan afraid that what he said would make him sad.
After a 40-minute drive, Xu Yan sat in the inner seat of the second row. No one sat next to him. The remaining three crew members sat in the back row. Zhang Yuanyi and Liang Yisheng came back in time. Zhang Yuanyi opened the door. There was a seat next to Xu Yan and another seat for the co-pilot.
Zhang Yuanyi glanced at Xu Yan, his face didn't look good, and he said reluctantly, "Then I'll sit in the front. I just want to take a nap."
No one responded to his words, so Liang Yisheng pushed him away and sat directly next to Xu Yan.
"Damn." Zhang Yuanyi cursed in a low voice.
Xu Yan was not very comfortable. Apart from filming in the past few days, he and Liang Yisheng had not sat so close for a long time. He tilted his head to look out the window, but his heart could not calm down. He kept thinking about the question Zhang Yuanyi asked Liang Yisheng just now - So you like Xu Yan like that? Why keep him hanging?
His heart was pounding. He reached into his pocket to touch the earphones. When he put them in his ears, he felt isolated from the world. Sometimes Xu Yan also liked his deaf left ear. When he was at a loss, this sense of alienation could give him a great sense of security, but only occasionally.
He was a little anxious to flip through the playlist. He scrolled down one by one and saw that many of the songs he clicked on with a heart were covered by Liang Yisheng. This guy sings very nicely. When he lowers his voice to talk or sings a bass, he sounds like an old cassette.
Liang Yisheng was sitting next to him. He was reluctant to listen to Liang Yisheng's songs, but his fingers still turned on an old song that Liang Yisheng had sung a few years ago.
The music in his ears stopped abruptly before the prelude was over. Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, and he could feel that the earphones were taken off. When he turned around, he could only see Liang Yisheng's profile. With that nonchalant look, Xu Yan almost doubted whether his earphones were taken away by him. He
had to speak, "...Teacher Liang?"
Liang Yisheng still didn't look at him, and put his right earphone into his shirt pocket, and said in a peremptory tone, "I asked the doctor to use less earphones."
"Oh." Xu Yan blankly threw out a word in response.
He turned his head back and looked out the window. He had just run out of Shoushan Village. There was still a long county road. The cement road was full of potholes. The low-performance vans were wobbling. The night had completely fallen. Every few meters there were tall street lights, dim in color.
There were trees on both sides of the road, dense forests of poplar trees.
The gray-white tree trunks quickly retreated and formed a gray wall in front of Xu Yan's eyes. His nose was sore, and the wall could not be seen clearly.
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Hehe, I have finished writing my fourth update again! I'm sorry that I didn't update four times last week because I was on my period. I will definitely update four times next week! ! Can you give our little bird some starfish?