Chapter 318 The Significance of Sugar-Free Coke
"Brother, I'm a little unsure about the character's emotional changes before and after this plot. Please help me sort it out."
"Boss, I don't quite understand this line. Would you mind explaining it to me?"
"Brother, how about this double ponytail style? It looks pretty good, doesn't it?"
"Boss, do you think I should add a scar special effects makeup? I feel that this can better highlight the character's positioning."
"Brother, I brought you milk tea with 70% ice and sugar."
"Boss, I just went to buy a drink and brought you a can..."
"Wait a minute."
Meng Bai held the can of Coke with condensed water droplets on his hand and stopped Bai Lu, who had a silly smile on her face: "I won't talk to you about the significance of sugar-free coke. You have discussed it with Zhu Zhu these days, right? Every time one of you goes out, the other comes over."
"Sister Zhu Zhu? No." Bai Lu looked innocent: "We just happened to think of the same thing."
"Hehe, then you two are quite in sync."
"Maybe." Bai Lu grinned habitually, "It means we are deeply immersed in the play."
Meng Bai looked at her with a half-smile. Bai Lu, who was stared at, tried to keep herself calm and drew a triangle around the other person.
"Okay, anyway, thank you for the drink." Meng Bai said, "I'll stay for a few days, don't hang around here. If there is really nothing to do, practice your lines more and correct your bad habit of dragging your voice."
"Don't worry, I promise to practice hard!" Bai Lu agreed with a smile.
After speaking, seeing Meng Bai stand up and tidy up his clothes, she returned to her usual cheerful tone: "Boss, are you going to the next door again?"
"Yes."
Meng Bai picked up a milk tea bag on the table and put the cold Coke can in it.
Bai Lu pursed her lips with some envy.
They are all movies, but the boss is obviously more concerned about the next door project.
Even during the time when he was in the crew of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan", he had to go there every day to take a look.
But then again, on one side is a sci-fi masterpiece with hundreds of millions of yuan, and on the other side is just an online movie with less than 20 million yuan. The gap is too obvious.
If it were her, she probably wouldn't care about the latter at all.
Alas, when can I act in such a big production!
...
The "next door crew" that Bai Lu mentioned is naturally "The Wandering Earth" which was filmed in the Oriental Movie Metropolis.
However, although it is "next door", because the filming base is very large, the two crews belong to different locations, so they are still far apart.
"Mai Mai."
Entering the huge "underground city", Meng Bai shouted to the front.
As soon as the voice fell, Zhao Jinmai, wearing a red protective suit, came over like a little penguin.
"Brother Meng Bai."
The little girl walked to the front with a sweet smile, but there was still some fatigue on her face.
The broken hair was close to her forehead, and her cheeks were spotted with sweat.
Considering the overall production efficiency, Guo Fan gave full play to the principle of "what can be solved in the early stage will not be left to the later stage", and the whole movie adopted a lot of real scene shooting.
The protective suits and combat exoskeletons worn by the main actors are all expensive custom-made wearable models.
Not only are they expensive, they are also heavy.
For example, the "combat models" worn by Li Guangjie, who plays the role of the coalition government army, weigh nearly 20 kilograms. Even
the "civilian models" worn by Zhao Jinmai weigh more than 10 kilograms. Moreover,
it is very difficult to put on and take off this look, so in order to save time, the actors put them on every morning when they arrive on the set, and then take them off only after the day's scenes are finished.
The key is that the shooting time every day is not short.
Even when the crew started shooting, there was a misunderstanding because of this.
At the beginning, the crew spent tens of millions to order six sets of exoskeleton models from Weta Digital in New Zealand.
As a result, after a few days of shooting, they found that the parts of this body began to fall off.
Guo Fan thought he was cheated by foreigners at first, but after communication, he found that the main function of this thing was to shoot literary scenes and pose.
If you really want to shoot action scenes, you usually use some props and match them with green screen special effects.
This is a routine process for Hollywood crews. But for the crew of "The Wandering Earth", it is not very suitable.
Finally, seeing that the props were about to collapse, Guo Fan could only use the "tape method".
If the parts that fell off can be installed, they will be installed. If they can't be installed, use tape to stick them.
If they still can't stick, wrap them twice more, as long as they can't be seen from the outside.
This is just the shooting intensity of a few supporting roles. As the leading actors, Zhao Jinmai and Qu Chuxiao are naturally "super doubled".
Qu Chuxiao was fine, after all, he was a standard adult male, but it was a bit difficult for Zhao Jinmai, a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old.
But this girl was also very strong and never complained of being tired. At most, she would take a break on the prop rockery next to her with her protective clothing open during the break in filming.
Seeing her face full of sweat, it was obvious that she had just finished filming, and Meng Bai handed over the milk tea bag in his hand.
"Here, as you requested, remove the ice and add seven parts of sugar."
Zhao Jinmai's eyes lit up, and she happily took the milk tea: "Thank you, Brother Meng Bai!"
After that, she inserted a straw and took a sip, and then showed a satisfied expression: "Wow, I feel like I'm alive again--"
After sighing, she suddenly thought of something and hurriedly looked around.
"Don't worry, I just gave it to you because your mother is not around."
"That's good." Zhao Jinmai breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled and gave Meng Bai a thumbs up: "It turns out that Brother Meng Bai understands me the best. Alas, when can I have milk tea freely!"
"You little brat is still lamenting about life." Meng Bai said with a smile: "Don't forget to destroy the evidence after drinking it. If your mother finds out, I won't admit it."
"Don't worry, it's okay."
Just after chatting for a few words, Guo Fan came over.
"Give it to Mai Mai every day, we can't get anything, right?"
"You are a grown man, why are you staring at the little girl's milky thing every day." Meng Bai said: "Wait a few days when Brother Jing comes back, I will bring you wheat juice."
Seeing that the two of them started chatting, Zhao Jinmai greeted Guo Fan, shook the milk tea at Meng Bai, and left smartly.
"Don't mention it, Director Wu's new movie is really hot." Guo Fan said with emotion: "It's only been ten days, and it's already more than 2 billion."
"Brother Guo, your news is delayed." Meng Bai said: "The data I just received today shows that the total box office has exceeded 3 billion after eleven days of release."
"So fast!"
Guo Fan was shocked: "I remember the box office record of "The Mermaid", wasn't it only 3.3 billion? It will be surpassed soon."
Meng Bai nodded: "According to the current growth rate of single-day box office, it should be surpassed tomorrow."
"Wow, this is really..."
Guo Fan sighed in shock and envy for a long time.
The current champion of the mainland film market is "The Mermaid" released during the Spring Festival last year, with a total box office of 3.39 billion.
This movie has the right time and place, and with the marketing of "We all owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket", it almost squeezed out the feelings and box office potential of "Star fans" for many years, in exchange for this championship.
Unexpectedly, it was easily surpassed by "Wolf Warrior 2" in just over a year.
(End of this chapter)
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