Chapter 111: The Fake Son-in-Law Arrives (1)
"Not so fast!" Unexpectedly, Yang Jiayao, who was handsome and good-natured, was joking with him. But Shang Hanyou was not one to miss a joke, so he playfully punched him and laughed, "What, worried about not being able to do me a favor?"
"If you can really give me an exact date, I can do as much as you want!" Yang Jiayao said, displaying a very wealthy and arrogant attitude.
"We're out of wedding candy for now. How about some roast pork?" Shang Hanyou pointed to the roast pork on the altar on the other side, joking around happily.
After all, Yang Jiayao's mention of "wedding candy" greatly diminished his concern about Li Sishi's previous "wedding cake" remarks.
"Alright, it's almost time, stop playing around here!" Fu Xiu, who made a cameo appearance as the father's old friend in the movie, came over and greeted them.
Everyone undoubtedly respects Fu Xiu, and he was the one who came out to announce the donation figures during the final gathering of "Happy in Guanghua" yesterday. Li Sishi immediately acted like a naughty child seeing his parent and hurriedly returned to her position in the queue.
In contrast, Shang Hanyou, who had already become sworn brothers with Old Master Fu Xiu, approached him with a grin and put his arm around his neck, acting as if he were no outsider.
His cheerful demeanor always made him popular with elders. His casual embrace didn't feel abrupt but rather intimate. Fu Xiu, both amused and annoyed, dragged him to his place. The ceremony was about to begin.
People in the port city tend to believe in the power of good things, so they hold a prayer ceremony in advance whenever a movie starts filming, a concert begins, or a new store opens, in order to seek psychological comfort and ensure that everything goes smoothly.
As one of the film's lead actresses, Li Sishi, who had experience in worshipping gods, skillfully followed the group to offer incense and pray. After the ceremony, she politely accepted a small amount of pork belly and a sacrificial apple, which she considered her lunch for the day.
It's common knowledge in the industry that female celebrities are willing to be ruthless to themselves in order to maintain their figures in front of the camera. Xia Yingyun and Zheng Shuqiu ate even less than her. Hu Yunyi, who came to play the greedy and swindling stepmother, mainly takes the route of a female comedian, so she is not restricted. She held a fragrant pig's trotter and ate it with relish.
After lunchtime, once the set was ready, and with everyone present, the director arranged a group scene where the three fake sons-in-law visited their future fathers-in-law.
This film is also based on the framework of the most exciting ensemble scene in this plot conflict, and is tentatively titled "The Fake Son-in-Law Arrives at the Door".
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The plot of the movie is roughly based on the theme of bickering lovers turning fake love into real love: Lin Duozhu has three daughters and one son. Xia Yingyun plays the eldest sister, Lin Zhixia, who is a famous female detective in Hong Kong. She is righteous and skilled and has solved many major cases. Unfortunately, because she is a woman, she has always been suppressed by her superiors and has difficulty realizing her ambitions.
Lin Xiaoqiu, the second eldest sister played by Zheng Shuqiu, is a seemingly gentle and kind but actually quirky female doctor. Her beautiful face and slender figure attract countless suitors, but she doesn't like any of them and only cares about her own beauty.
As for the third and fourth children, they are twins, a boy and a girl, and because they were born one after the other on the last day of the year and the first day of the new year, they were named Lin Lingdong and Lin Fengchun respectively.
Li Sishi plays the third sister, Lin Lingdong, who works as a social worker at the Hong Kong City Elderly Care Centre after graduating from secondary school; while Chen Zhiyong plays Lin Fengchun, who, due to a problem with the year of birth registration, is inexplicably changed from being only half a day younger than her twin sister to being a whole year younger, and therefore can only obediently study in Form 5...
It has to be said that although Chan Chi-wing is two years older than Lee Sze-sze, his naturally youthful face makes him look much younger. If the two stand together, just looking at their appearance and temperament, everyone would think that it is a fairy sister with a handsome brother, rather than a young man with a cool sister.
The whole story begins with the fact that Lin Duozhu, an elderly father, is still very affectionate, maintaining pen pal relationships even in his old age; in contrast, there are his children—
The eldest sister, Lin Zhixia, is focused on her work and has no interest in love, feeling that men hinder her ability to draw her gun quickly. The second sister, Lin Xiaoqiu, has many suitors, but none of them catch her eye. The third sister, Lin Lingdong, is busy advocating for the welfare of the elderly at the bottom of society and has no time or energy to meet men.
As for Lin Fengchun, his younger brother, he wasn't against blind dates, dating, or marriage—unfortunately, as soon as he said this, his vigorous old father grabbed his flip-flops and sent him back to his room...
To this day, the old father, Lin Duozhu, is so worried that his newly dyed black hair has turned even whiter. Finally, he made up his mind, borrowed his old friend's cancer test report, and told his three daughters, whom he considered to be all alone, that he had cancer and would soon pass away.
His only wish as an elderly father was to see all three of his daughters bring their boyfriends to meet him before he passed away, so that he could leave in peace...
Unaware of the truth, the three daughters, upon hearing this "last wish," could only resort to their own methods to find someone to impersonate their boyfriends, so that their elderly father, who only had a few months left to live, could pass away peacefully without any worries.
Peace and happiness.
Lin Zhixia, the eldest sister, used her past experience of catching a criminal and rescuing a karaoke host to spend money on a top male host named "Wu Dian," played by Yang Jiayao, to spend a month with him to comfort her elderly father who was about to pass away.
The second eldest sister, Lin Xiaoqiu, met Lu Shiren, known as "the last virgin in Hong Kong," due to a misunderstanding. Perhaps because Cheng Erjian, who had not yet started wielding a machete on the big screen, currently had an overly innocent demeanor, this was not the first time he had played an innocent man. In the film, he was teased by the female lead until he blushed and was at a loss for words...
The first two couples both had a somewhat weak female-dominant dynamic, except for the storyline of Lin Lingdong, played by Li Sishi.
The story revolves around a kind-hearted social worker and a lively, unruly gangster who, through a series of twists and turns, persuade the prodigal son to turn over a new leaf, giving it a touch of "rescuing a prostitute."
However, unlike Hou Beihua's "If Heaven Has Feelings" from a few years ago, which is a kind of "Hong Kong style" melodramatic love story in the eyes of others, this is a classic Hong Kong comedy about the daily life of ordinary people at the bottom of society.
It could even be said that their storyline was responsible for most of the laughs in this Lunar New Year film...
Compared to the names of the four main characters, Xia, Qiu, Dong, and Chun, which reflect the changing seasons, the names of the three male protagonists are undoubtedly much more arbitrary. These two extreme groups of names perfectly demonstrate the director's ability to appeal to both highbrow and lowbrow tastes.
"Brother E, for today's scene, I hope you can relax a bit more because this is a Lunar New Year comedy, and we want everyone to have a good time and laugh non-stop..." Upon hearing the director's instructions, Shang Hanyou nodded knowingly.
His character this time is named Zhang Baiwen—of course, such a refined name doesn't fit his goofy gangster style, so in the movie, he was given the nickname "E mosquito" (white-striped mosquito) based on the homonym of "Baiwen." This nickname means that he is even more vicious than the notorious E mosquito, the main vector of mosquito-borne fever in Hong Kong, which has been featured in numerous television commercials to warn citizens to be wary of it...
Shang Hanyou was very satisfied with this role: He didn't know why, ever since he played the memorable "Fly Brother" in a film he co-starred in with Hou Beihua in his early years, the roles that came his way were all named Shi Shangfei or Shi Zhongfei—all of them strange things that all pointed to the nickname "Fly"...
Now it has evolved from a fly with an inextricable connection to Xiang into a white-striped E mosquito that sucks blood and is also poisonous. Hmm, I feel like the nickname has instantly become more sophisticated.
It looks much more upscale now.
He likes it!
Especially since his co-star was Li Sishi, a girl he quite liked—if they weren't careful, and the two of them developed feelings for each other while filming, he could really trick his old friend Yang Jiayao, who had already entered the grave of marriage, into giving him a generous red envelope as a favor…
However, reality is often cruel, and while ideas are always beautiful, after filming for several days, Shang Hanyou belatedly realized: Damn, why are all their scenes together these past few days so ridiculous and hilarious?
Under such circumstances, let alone developing feelings for each other, the two would often burst into laughter because of the plot and needed to pause for a while to recover.
The way Li Sishi subtly smiles whenever she sees his face is driving him crazy: if this continues, Li Sishi will soon develop a conditioned reflex of smiling whenever she sees him, and then how will he cultivate the romantic atmosphere between them?
"Hey, while we're still waiting for the set to be set up, let's go over our lines," Li Sishi, who had just returned from a phone call, suggested.
Shang Hanyou glanced at the script in Li Sishi's hand: So it was the scene where they had to run and act at the same time. No wonder Li Sishi wanted to go over the lines in advance.
The plot of this scene is that his character goes to participate in the club marathon, while Li Sishi's character asks him to help her pretend to be her boyfriend, so she keeps chasing after him and talking to him. The two of them run and talk back and forth.
Just before the finish line, Li Sishi's character ran a few steps forward to stop his character—and it was those few steps that made Li Sishi's well-behaved social worker character unexpectedly beat his gangster character, taking the number one spot in the marathon and receiving the award from the gang's elder...
This kind of scene, where you talk while running, is indeed not friendly to newcomers like Li Sishi who have never filmed this type of scene before, and it is also a problem in terms of physical strength.
If the shot doesn't turn out well, it might be a long take until dark.
"It's okay, I feel really motivated right now!" Li Sishi raised her hands in a standard muscle-flexing pose, "because I just talked to my parents on the phone, and they said they're coming home for the New Year, and they're already on their way..."
"And they'll be passing by this section of road where we're filming on their way back..." Li Sishi clenched her fist. "I'll try my best to film this scene well, aiming for a perfect take, and then I can ride home in my parents' car..."
"I hope so." Shang Hanyou nodded, and then seriously went over the lines with her.
However, even though he wanted to be serious, the lines in this scene were still too funny—especially when Li Sishi, following the character's persona, obediently and softly begged his character to help her see her elderly father who was dying.
The line Shang Hanyou was supposed to deliver was one that was both hilarious and absurd: "If your father saw me, wouldn't he die even faster...?"
After he finished speaking in the annoying tone of his character, Li Sishi didn't respond for a long time, so he couldn't help but move closer to her and tease her with a playful tone: "What? Forgot your lines?"
"Daddy, Daddy..." Li Sishi stared intently at what was behind him, her voice barely audible.
Having finally caught Li Sishi's address, Shang Hanyou jolted back and sat up straight, stiffly turning around to see a luxury car parked across the street—
The car window facing them revealed Attorney Li's face, which displayed an extremely complex expression...
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