Chapter 246: Self-inflicted
Xilong Province, Xiahe County, "out of nothing" railway station.
The reason why it is called "making something out of nothing" is that director Feng Xiaolong was afraid of being put on the line, so he directly took the name "making something out of nothing" to save trouble.
And the price of fictitious station names is also very huge, in the past two months, the crew of "No Thieves in the World" has built an entire platform and track, which can be called wealthy.
The entire movie invested 40 million, half of which was paid by Yuexiang Media, and Zheng Qian also felt a pain when he heard that Feng Xiaolong had built a whole railway platform.
However, fortunately, Zheng Qian is still very confident in the future box office of this movie.
Not only Zheng Qian is confident, but the entire crew is also very confident.
First of all, Feng Xiaolong, the top domestic commercial film director, is in charge, and secondly, in terms of actors, the two major movie stars Liu Yihua and Ge Yun, as well as the singer Xu Ruoying, in addition, Zheng Qian, who is now in full swing, also joined in surprise, and then there are many powerful actors, such as Liu Bingbing.
Although Liu Bingbing belongs to Huaying Media and is the earliest investor after the project was established, although he later withdrew his investment, Feng Xiaolong did not do anything perfectly, and Liu Bingbing is indeed very in line with Feng Xiaolong's vision, his appearance and acting skills are very good, and the most important thing is that the salary is very cheap.
For this reason, Feng Xiaolong also specially asked Zheng Qian, he also knew that there had been some contradictions between Zheng Qian and Huaying Media, and now Zheng Qian is the largest investor, so he naturally wants to ask.
Zheng Qian is also generous, just saying that it is okay to do business.
As soon as Feng Xiaolong heard this, he immediately started Liu Bingbing, but in terms of salary, it was pressed again and again, according to the price of a pure newcomer actor, it could be regarded as an explanation to Zheng Qian.
However, after Liu Bingbing received the offer letter, she was simply grateful, for an actor like her, opportunities are more important than salary.
The movie "No Thieves in the World", not to mention the script, just this cast has crushed most of the films.
At this time, it is approaching the middle of December.
The crew of "No Thieves in the World" has been filming for more than a week, mainly filming the rivalry between the actor Andy and Xu Ruoying, the outlaw man and woman.
It is worth mentioning that on the first day of construction, Andy's flying car accidentally fell into a mud puddle and almost overturned, but fortunately it was not injured, but it also shocked many people in the crew into a cold sweat.
Andy is a superstar after all, and his worth is extremely high, but no matter how the crew persuades, Andy still refuses to act as a stand-in, which can be regarded as a lesson to the juniors of the crew.
Zheng Qian knew that Andy had just finished the movie "Latent".
Now he has come to the northwest non-stop to shoot "No Thieves in the World", and he is simply a model worker in the industry.
Although Zheng Qian does not have many scenes, in order to invest in the situation, Zheng Qian also came to the crew a week in advance to observe.
Eats and lives with the crew every day, gradually becomes familiar with the entire crew, and laughs and scolds with the actors.
During this period, Zheng Qian also personally visited the Golden Rooster Award actor Ge Yun to ask about acting skills.
Zheng Qian is not from a professional class, and he has taken on a few pheasant films before, but he can't get on the stage at all.
And although "Latent" has faced many bigwigs, there are not many scenes, and it was completed after only one or two days of filming.
So taking advantage of this opportunity, Zheng Qian also used the script of "No Thieves in the World" to ask Ge Yun for advice one after another.
Ge Yun doesn't care whether Zheng Qian is a popular superstar or not, he only thinks that Zheng Qian is a pure man who loves to learn, and his attitude is lukewarm, and he communicates with each other without a match.
But the more they communicated, the more surprised Ge Yun became.
He never expected that in the process of communicating with Zheng Qian, he was also inspired to burst out frequently, and golden sentences broke out one after another:
"What is the most expensive in the 21st century?"
"The hearts of the people are scattered!
"I'm most annoyed by you robbers, you don't have any technical content at all. ”
"Organized, undisciplined. ”
"I can tell you very responsibly that Uncle Li is very angry, and the consequences are serious. ”
This back and forth suddenly made Ge Yun look at Zheng Qian.
Especially when I knew that Zheng Qian was a cadre of the General Political Art Troupe, it was even more pleasing to the eye, and when there was no filming, I pulled Zheng Qian to sit on the rocking chair and talk.
"You're a civilian cadre?"
"Yes!"
"How many levels?"
"Uh, level eight. ”
"That's okay, I'm level six, and I'm higher than you. ”
Ge Yun laughed, the big gold teeth on his mouth shone brightly, "But you, Uncle Ge, and I belong to the Federation of Trade Unions Art Troupe and represent the masses of workers...... Unlike you, who go to the barracks all day long to give condolence performances, we are very comfortable, and we can perform a drama for a year. ”
Zheng Qian paused and said, "I belong to the General Political Creation Office, and I usually don't have the opportunity to perform at the grassroots level. ”
"Oh, you've got a good idea. ”
Ge Yun's sense of superiority disappeared suddenly, but he was still very satisfied with Zheng Qian overall.
For some of Zheng Qian's advice, he also gave him careful guidance, and in the end, he said directly: "I see that you have never been exposed to the acting industry, it is feasible to sing and act well, but the premise is to practice acting more, a graduate of Beijing Film Academy recently opened a crash course in acting, let me introduce you to learn?"
Zheng Qian was a little suspicious: "Is it useful?"
"It worked. Ge Yun said seriously: "This head teacher is not big, he is in his early thirties, but he is a very powerful acting school, although there is no masterpiece for the time being, but I think that as long as this kid seizes the opportunity, he will definitely be able to become an instant hit." ”
Zheng Qian was curious: "Who is the head teacher?"
"Huang Haiyu. Ge Yun said: "Don't look at people who look ugly, but this kid has been in a band before, and he is very chic, calling himself Haidian Liu Yihua." ”
Zheng Qian felt unreliable no matter how he heard it, but Ge Yun strongly recommended it, and even asked for Zheng Qian's phone number on the spot and sent it to Huang Haiyu in the form of a text message.
It didn't take long for Huang Haiyu's call to call, and he asked for a tuition fee of 2,000 for a week, and because it was introduced by Ge Yun, the tuition fee was halved.
A mouthful of Lu Dongfang dialect.
Zheng Qian was silent, quietly found a reason and hung up the phone.
In "No Thieves in the World", Zheng Qian plays a painter, but his real identity is a policeman, who follows Wang Shu and Wang Li, two professional habitual thieves, all the way, and threads the needle throughout the movie, which is the finishing touch.
The so-called finishing touch, simply put, is to pass the review.
In the original script, there was no such character, but after Zheng Qian's revision, the ending of this script became Wei Guangzheng, and the darkness will eventually be shrouded in light.
The most important role in the play is silly root, this role was won by Zhang Bingqiang, the winner of last year's Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer, Zhang Bingqiang has a simple appearance, and his appearance is a pure image of a migrant worker, but Zheng Qian has been in contact with Zhang Bingqiang several times, and feels that this person seems to be honest, but he is actually very shrewd, although he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer, but he was not arrogant.
After filming the scenes between Andy and Xu Ruoying, director Feng Xiaolong began to shoot the story line of Silly Root again.
By mid-December, there were still two days left before the filming of Zheng Qian and Ge Yun's scenes.
At this time, the MAMA Awards began to be held in Hong Kong, which was the first music award that Zheng Qian was nominated for, and it was also a little famous in the whole of Asia, and Zheng Qian was also a little concerned, so he left the crew and went to Hong Kong.
MAMA will be held at the Hong Kong International Convention and Exhibition Centre, with a seating capacity of 6,000 people in the entire awards ceremony hall, and after a short stage rehearsal, the convention and exhibition center will open for admission at 6 p.m.
The award ceremony was broadcast live by South Korea's Mnet Cable TV, Star TV and Fuji TV, mainly for audiences in China, Japan and South Korea.
When the audience began to enter, Zheng Qian also came to the exclusive rest room backstage early.
This time, Ren Xin, Mao Miaorui and others also came to the award ceremony together, ready to share the joy immediately, because according to the convention, all guests who are invited to perform on stage and are nominated for awards will basically receive awards.
Zheng Qian was nominated for two awards, namely the "Overseas Audience Choice Award" and the "Best Work Award", if it was just an "Overseas Audience Choice Award", Zheng Qian might have been directly absent from this award ceremony, but the second "Best Work Award", that is, the Best Album Award, is what Zheng Qian cares more about.
His EP album "Humble Child" was nominated for the "Best Work Award".
This album contains six songs, including "I Really Love You", "Sea and Sky", "Moonlight Serenade", "Red Sun", "Under Mt. Fuji", and "Love in Glass".
To date, the EP has generated 2.1 million copies and gone through seven reprints, not counting the number of pirated discs, otherwise the sales would have been even more terrifying.
And the album "Humble Son" has also become the highest-selling album in the entire Hong Kong music scene this year, although it is a Mini album, but the gold content is still terrifying.
This album also made Zheng Qian a top singer in Hong Kong.
Compared with the next two official albums, this "Humble Son" represents the best result of Zheng Qian's album works so far.
Zheng Qian summed up the reason, thinking that it may be because the Cantonese sound rhyme is relatively rich, which makes people listen very comfortably, unlike the Chinese language, the words are correct and round, and the hazy dream is missing.
Therefore, Zheng Qian sang a Cantonese song at the MAMA awards ceremony this time.
Coming to the exclusive lounge, Zheng Qian sat down, Artemisia Youfan began to put on makeup for Zheng Qian, and Ren Xin and others also began to check tonight's program list.
Just then, there was a knock on the door, and a group of people walked in.
There are a total of five people, wearing a unified non-mainstream costume, with oblique bangs, an explosive head, and bright decorative strips everywhere on the costume, as soon as they saw Zheng Qian, the five of them bent down together, bowed to Zheng Qian, and then began to introduce themselves neatly: "Hello seniors, we are a KTBOSY boy group!"
"I'm Jin Yun Hao Smecta!"
"I'm Park Chang Min Smecta!"
"I am ......"
Zheng Qian stood up, silently watched them introduce themselves, vaguely remembered the humble appearance when they first debuted five years ago, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
When they finished saluting, Zheng Qian smiled: "Hello, I'm Zheng Qian." ”
"Hello senior, we love your songs!"
"You're also a top superstar in South Korea!"
The five members of the boy group looked very excited, and expressed their admiration to Zheng Qian one by one.
Zheng Qian smiled and was forced to ask for a group photo, and after the five of them left, the whole room finally quieted down.
Ren Xin said: "Why have you become a senior too?"
Zheng Qian sighed: "The years in the rivers and lakes urge people to grow old!"
As soon as the words fell, there was another knock on the door, and seven young girls in golden tight short skirts with delicate and graceful bodies walked up, each with excitement and joy on their faces, and after standing in a row, they covered their chests and said in unison: "Hello seniors, we are SummerGirls-Summer Girls!"
After finishing speaking, they bowed to Zheng Qian with a brush.
Zheng Qian: "......"
For a while, I really don't get used to being treated with such respect.
The girls looked very excited, their eyelashes were longer and longer, and they looked at Zheng Qian frequently, their moist eyes sparkling and full of anticipation.
Zheng Qian smiled and said, "You have worked hard, come on!"
With the encouragement of their seniors, the members of the girl group bent down and bowed excitedly again one by one, and finally asked for a photo with Zheng Qian or left happily.
In less than ten minutes, two waves of people had already come to greet him, and Zheng Qian began to feel that resting at the makeup artist might be a luxury.
Sure enough, in the next time, there were countless artists who came to knock on Zheng Qian's door, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and even Japan - singer Hayakawa Naka, a Japanese female singer who once wanted Zheng Qian to invite a successful song.
"Mr. Zheng, it's a pleasure to see you again!"
Compared with the babbling Korean artist group, Hayakawa cuisine is much quieter, and after saying hello to Zheng Qian, he quietly left the lounge, which is really an outlier.
In terms of Zheng Qian's current debut years, it is not enough for all artists to visit, so according to the rules, Zheng Qian also wants to visit those senior artists who have debuted for a longer time.
But Zheng Qian sat on the Diaoyutai platform, standing still, and even drinking tea quietly.
He felt that he would never have anything to do with this group of Korean sticks, and he couldn't recognize all these Korean artists, so why bother.
And when these Korean artists came to visit him, Zheng Qian obviously felt that in addition to reverence, there was also a little ambiguity in their eyes, which reminded Zheng Qian of what was hyped by Han Yun'e some time ago.
This incident caused a stir in South Korea, but almost no one reported it in China, although he was used, he didn't care too much, there was no strong work to support, and he couldn't get mixed up for a long time by hype alone.
And using herself as the object of hype can be regarded as Han Yun'e lifting a stone to shoot herself in the foot.
Because of the greetings between Song Weifeng, Wei Yehong and others, some of Han Yun'e's commercial performances in China were also quietly canceled, and even the popular "Dream of Jinying" was also forced to cancel some program promotions that originally belonged to the actors of this crew due to various reasons.
In short, you can make waves in South Korea, but in China, there is no market for you.