"Hey, He Xin!"

"Xiaohe, say a few words!"

As soon as He Xin got out of the car, he was stopped by reporters who had gathered at the gate of the studio early in the morning.

"Xinzai, Xinzai, how do you feel working with Nicholas?" one of them, a Hong Kong reporter with a mouthful of Gangpu in his mouth, craned his neck and shouted there.

New boy, new head!

Those who are familiar with him know that the thing he usually dislikes the most is that others call him Xinzi, Xinzi and the like. And what made him even more unhappy was that the Hong Kong reporter's tone obviously carried a tone that he was able to thank Wang for cooperating, which seemed to be an honor for him.

He ignored the Hong Kong reporter who was about to reach his lips with the microphone, and instead smiled at a few mainland reporters who looked familiar: "I already said yesterday that the director gave a gag order and didn't let us accept interviews casually, so don't be embarrassed for me." ”

As he spoke, there happened to be a props assistant or an assistant who didn't know which on-site producer was passing by, he quickly grabbed the little brother and introduced to the reporters: "Actually, you don't necessarily all stare at the actors, I suggest you interview them more behind-the-scenes heroes, they are really hard." ”

“......”

The little brother was pulled by He Xin and looked confused.

However, a reporter really asked, "Which department are you in charge of?"

"Can you tell us about the set inside?"

"Did the first day of shooting go well yesterday?"

Faced with such a variety of questions, the little brother was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand in horror and said, "No, we can't be interviewed either." ”

As he spoke, he hugged his head and ran away.

"Wuji" is another big domestic film production after the "Hero" of the National Teacher, and the media who surrounded the interview at the scene came from all over the country. Even if the crew gives a gag order, they have to guard it here, otherwise there will be nothing to write. And in their opinion, the more the crew is blocked, the more valuable the news will often be.

In fact, although the crew is blocked from the media, the directors, producers, or big-name actors of the crew can also chat with reporters when they are in a good mood, for example, Chen Hong accepted a brief interview with several familiar reporters yesterday, and Xie Tingfeng also chatted with several Hong Kong media after finishing work.

But these prerequisites are all familiar reporters, which the vast majority of reporters can't see, but they have to stay and try their luck.

A few reporters who asked themselves to be familiar with him in front of He Xin naturally aimed at him, but this guy was too cunning, so he temporarily pulled a shield, and he took the opportunity to jump into the makeup room next to him.

"New brother, morning!"

"Morning, hard work!"

At this time, the makeup room was already full of people, and those college students were wearing makeup and dressing in batches on the first floor. Several college students who were tied to He Xin in a pile during filming yesterday greeted him when they saw him come in.

He Xin also hurriedly responded with a smile.

Thinking about it, these people are really hard, it was almost eleven o'clock when they finished work last night, and then they had to come early to put on makeup and change clothes before six o'clock this morning.

It's better from Nortel, after all, their school is next door. It's just that these college students from Langfang Oriental University Town are suffering, except for the time spent on the road, they may not be able to sleep for a few hours at all. However, they still seem to be in good spirits, and they all feel honored to be able to participate in this big production of this big director.

The dressing room of the leading actors was on the second floor, and as soon as He Xin entered the door, he saw Li Jing and several old actors of the air administration already sitting there.

"Teacher Li is early!

Although these people are all cameos and group performances, their qualifications are there, and they have to make a good posture on their faces.

Fortunately, several actors who were not important in the troupe were originally in the group, and many things have been seen when they are older, no one relies on the old and sells the old, and deliberately wants to brush up on his presence in front of the new generation of actors.

"Xiaohe, you're early!"

Everyone responded with a kind smile, and a self-acquaintance even gave a thumbs up and said, "Xiaohe, you played really well yesterday." ”

"No! No, I'm still far behind the teachers. He Xin said modestly.

Li Jing hadn't had time to say hello because the makeup artist was helping her draw lip liner before, so she took time to smile at He Xin, who was sitting next to her, and said, "Xiaohe, you came early enough today." ”

"No way, after making up for yesterday's scene, the one behind me will have to put on makeup for hours. ”

Yesterday on the first day, because of the run-in problem and Xie Qiwang's clumsy performance, the shooting task was not completed as planned, and He Xin still had a scene that was burned and not filmed.

Of course, there is a special stuntman who was burned by the fire, and the last thing he needs to present is a conversation with King Xie Qiu lying in the snow in the dark and bloody flesh and blood.

Today is the first time he really wants to play against Xie Qiwang, and yesterday's few scenes, although there are dialogue links between the two, they are all filmed separately, and finally they can be combined through editing.

In fact, to complete a good work, it is really important to choose actors, such as "Shanghai Fortress", maybe screenwriter Jiang Nan and director Teng Huatao did not envision the final effect at the beginning, but Lu Liuhai Shengsheng played this film into "Liuhai Fortress".

Although Tenghua dumped Lu Liuhai in the end, it seemed a little unkind, but there was a sentence in him that made a lot of sense, that is, when evaluating Lu Liuhai's acting skills and his iconic Liuhai, he said helplessly: "This is an irreversible thing!"

In other words, their previous choice of Lu Liuhai was to choose to compromise with Xiao Xianrou and traffic, naturally not considering acting skills, and Xiao Xianrou must appear in the most handsome image, ignoring the real character setting.

There are compromises and there will naturally be sacrifices, but they sacrifice exactly the most important thing in the movie, and it is no wonder that they are backlashed in the end.

Of course, investors, producers, and directors are not fools, and the reason why they choose these little fresh meat with no acting skills is nothing more than for the consideration of the box office and their traffic. After all, if a movie with a big investment and big production wants to attract audiences into the theater, it needs a big star.

It's just that they made the wrong bet, and by the time the movie is released, the little fresh meat that was once popular in the market is already about to stink on the street!

So what to do?, you can only bite the bullet!

The same is true of "Inorganic", as a big production with an investment of up to 200 million, and then changed its name to 300 million, even if it is 200 million, if you want to recover your investment, you will have at least 500 million box office.

Such a box office figure is obviously unrealistic if it relies on the domestic box office alone, you must know that the total domestic box office last year was only one billion, and half of them were overseas blockbusters.

So you have to rely on overseas income, which is why you choose big-name stars in Japan and South Korea, such as Zhang Dongjian and Sanada Hiroyuki. In these years, don't look at the size of other countries, but the volume of the box office still exceeds that of China.

And Xie Qiwang and Zhang Baiju, whether in Hong Kong and Taiwan or in China, are definitely top-notch, targeting the domestic market. In this regard, domestic actors can't afford to shoulder this burden at present, just like He Xin, he can be regarded as one of the most up-and-coming actors of the new generation in China, and can even be said to be the most outstanding one, but is he more box office appeal than Xie Qiwang?

The answer is clearly no!

This is not to worship foreign countries, or deliberately belittle mainland actors, this is completely caused by the general environment. For example, at the end of the 80s, in the era when movie tickets were still a few cents a piece, the domestic movie box office reached nearly 30 memories.

However, in the early 90s, with the system and various reasons, the domestic film industry stagnated, on the contrary, Hong Kong films ushered in the most golden age. As a result, a large number of pirated videotapes and DVDs occupied the original film market, and the domestic film box office began to decline steadily. In 99, it fell to a historical low, with less than 300 million moviegoers and a total box office of 810 million, of which imported blockbusters accounted for two-thirds of this share, which means that the total box office of domestic films was less than 300 million.

As a result, domestic audiences will be more willing to watch Hong Kong and Taiwan stars for more than a decade in the future, and mainland film and television production companies will also be more superstitious about Hong Kong and Taiwan stars and their production teams.

So just like Zhang Ziyi, he can only match Zhang Baiju in "The Legend of Shushan", not to mention He Xin, who can get a big match in "Wuji", it is estimated that it is also because he has brushed up on various niche literary films before, and he is also a little famous overseas.

In a sense, the tone of the Hong Kong outside before that he was honored to cooperate with Xie Qiwang is also an objective reality.

Of course, the current King Xie is not as unbearable as the Lu Liuhai in later generations, and Director Chen has at least not fallen to the point of "I Hold My Son", and he is far more bottom-line than Tenghua in movies.

What's more important is that the audience in this year has not been poisoned by all kinds of bad movies and dramas with no bottom line, and they are relatively tolerant, and the whole environment is not as harsh as that of later generations. So even if Xie forced Wang to go out of the top bag case, he could still become the starring role of "Wuji".

Fortunately, he is also more ambitious than Lu Liuhai and others, and after being tempered by bad movies, he did not hesitate to pretend to be ugly as a match, and finally achieved Ah Si in "October Siege" and the fine ghost in "The Informant". After wearing a green hat, he can still reap the love of the diva, and at the same time, he can realize his childhood dream and finally become a glorious cook.

Okay, it's a bit of a stretch again, back to the point.

It is precisely because yesterday's shooting plan was not completed that He Xin had to change two looks today. At the same time, it also caused a lot of losses to the crew, after all, so many extras are not ordinary extras, and if they delay for one more day, the labor cost will be hundreds of thousands.

When he was putting on makeup, the assistant director greeted Li Jing and the dozen or so old group actors away, it is said that the director was not very satisfied with yesterday's scene of ten thousand arrows and slaughtering the people of the Snow Country, and he needed to make up a few shots.

His costume as a snowmaker is relatively simple, unlike the costume of the ghost wolf he played later, he had experienced it when he tried it on before, and he couldn't get off it in two hours.

It was still quite cold in mid-March, although he was wearing a three-piece Hanfu and had to wrap a military coat outside. In the brightly lit main scene in the studio, he was reshooting the footage, and he didn't go to join in the fun, avoiding the reporter at the front door, just wandering around the back of the studio.

This piece is full of props and various shapes, and many crew members are preparing props and the like for the next scene.

He turned around and happened to run into an acquaintance, the little brother he had been caught by the reporter before, who was stirring a bucket of unknown liquid in the corner.

"Hey, I'm sorry about the morning!" he leaned over to say hello.

Seeing He Xin come over to say hello in person, the prop brother looked flattered and hurriedly said: "Brother Xin, look at what you said, I know, it's just that those reporters are too annoying." I'm fine!"

He nodded, and glanced into the bucket, where the liquid was yellowish, slimy, and a bit like honey.

"What is this?"

"Kerose!"

Of course, the oil will not be the real oil, but it will only be made into the appearance of the oil, such as color and viscosity. The movie "Wu Ji" is still very particular about details.

The scene He Xin is going to shoot in a while is to pour fire oil on his body and then burn it. He couldn't help but be a little worried when he saw the slimy liquid, and asked, "What's in here?"

The prop brother obviously knew the purpose, and said busily: "Don't worry, new brother, here is water, thickener, and a little pigment, all of which are food-grade, even if you drink it in your mouth, it's fine." Believe it or not, lo and behold!"

Saying that, the little brother picked up the stirring stick, and actually made a gesture to lick it himself to prove it.

"Don't mind! I believe it. ”

He hurriedly stopped the little brother, this thing was poured on his body for a while anyway, and he didn't really want to drink it, but if he really let the little brother lick this stick stirring in the liquid, it would make him a little uncomfortable.

"I seem to be a little worried!" said the little brother as he picked up the stirring stick and looked at the long drawing under the stick.

Then I picked up a dirty bucket next to me, added a small half bucket of water into it, and after stirring it, I tried the length of the drawing with a stirring stick, and saw that it was a little frozen, so I nodded with satisfaction, grinned, and said with a mouth full of white teeth: "This is just right." ”

It's just that He Xin pointed to the water in the dirty bucket in surprise: "Just this water, you said you can drink it, I thought it was pure water?"

"Huh?"

This time it was the little brother's turn to be stunned, and he said after a while: "Brother Xin, this is tap water, it's clean, and you can drink it!"

Cut!

He Xin glanced at him speechlessly, patted his ass and left, not bothering to pay attention to this kind of ignorant guy. The eighteenth-tier starlets have to use mineral water to take a shower when filming, and Lao Tzu is also an actor, so you use tap water to deal with it?

......

"Xiaohe, how is it?"

The reshooting shot finally satisfied Director Chen, and after he shouted to stop, he turned around and shouted to He Xin, who was sitting in the corner with his eyes closed.

Maybe others may think that He Xin is resting, but the knowledgeable Director Chen knows that he is playing silently and building psychologically.

"That's it, Director!"

He Xin opened his eyes and stood up, took two deep breaths, and then took off his military coat and walked to his place in the scene.

The center of the scene is brightly lit, and because of the previous reshoot of thousands of arrows, the Snow Country people keep wailing and struggling, and the extras on the scene all seem to be in full swing. On the contrary, after He Xin took off his military coat, he felt cold and swishing on his body.

Before the filming of this scene started, he did not warm up as usual when filming, the purpose was to maintain this cool and swishing feeling.

He is the only one among all the Snow Countryers who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and in order to survive, he became a shameful traitor and became a slave of the Duke of the North.

There are no lines in this scene, and it is entirely up to his performance to embody the image of a traitor who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

At first, he designed it to be either weeping or skew-eyed, but these fixed images of traitors seemed too cliché or unreal.

So he put aside the fixed patterns in his mind and experienced the feeling of life and death on his own. He is a person who has died once, and when death comes, although the body has long been unable to move, the consciousness is clear. He was very unwilling at the time, but as the whole person felt colder and colder, despair, fear, and trembling...... Until finally plunged into endless darkness.

With this feeling, when you are in a desperate situation, it should not be crying, let alone obscene, but ecstasy, accompanied by uneasiness about the unknown.

Before the official start of filming, Director Chen still reminded him: "Xiaohe, let's fight for this again." ”

"Understood!"

Without him, this is a one-shot shot, he has to be drenched with those "fire oil" modulated with thickeners and pigments, if one is not enough, he has to re-apply makeup and change clothes, and the trouble is not counted and the time is delayed.

"Okay, all in place, ready!"

“act！”

In the shot, He Xin slowly squeezed out of the crowd.

At this time, I saw that his back was slightly rickety, his arms were bent and clamped, and his hands were unconsciously clenched into fists, this was not a posture to resist, because his whole body was trembling slightly, and his face was frightened.

Step by step, step by step, slowly moving forward, his eyes were always wide, not daring to look left and right, but he kept observing the surroundings with the afterglow of his eyes as wide as possible, and at the same time, on his face full of horror, the corners of his mouth were very weirdly upturned, and there seemed to be an inexplicable snickering joy.

"Tsk!"

Director Chen, who was sitting in front of the monitor, immediately showed satisfaction when he saw this scene, He Xin's expression and the body language he showed may be a little exaggerated in ordinary film and television dramas, but it was exactly what he wanted.

Because the overall style of this play is full of the combination of Eastern and Western elements and a strong Shakespearean tragic temperament, this is a new way of cinematic expression that he wants to achieve for three years.

In the picture, two guards in silver armor and black armor covered with white cloth came over and pushed him, and his steps were vain, his knees bent, and he knelt in the snow with a "plop".

He didn't dare to look down, like a frightened rabbit, his eyes wide and still looking around with his peripheral vision. Even when the guard picked up two clay pots and poured the "fire oil" from the top of his head, he didn't dare to close his eyes and let the viscous liquid slowly slide down his face......

"Okay, it's over!"

Chen Dadao stood up from behind the monitor with a smile and gave him a thumbs up from afar.

He Xin didn't care about responding at this time, he quickly took the towel sent by the drama and wiped his face indiscriminately, wrapped himself in the thick military coat, and then waved his hand to the director, and then bowed to the extras behind him who served as human flesh backgrounds to cooperate with his performance, and then hurriedly ran out.

Hurry up and take a hot shower and change clothes, or you will have to freeze and catch a cold!

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