"Now Hengdian is getting more and more difficult to mix. Bai Zhantang sighed: "It's getting harder and harder for an actor like me who just has acting skills and good looks to get along." ”

Zhang Tong was curious: "Aren't actors just roasting their looks and acting skills? Although you are not as handsome as me, you look okay." (Bai Zhantang rolled his eyes) If your acting skills are good, you should be able to film. Don't they all say that Hengdian is the Hollywood of the East?"

"That's right, Hengdian is indeed the Hollywood of the East. Last year alone, I took on almost 500 episodes of TV series. You can think about the production volume of Hengdian's film and television works. Bai Zhantang nodded.

Zhang Tong was a little surprised: "How can there be so many? How can you be considered a second-tier star if you shoot 500 episodes a year, do you come here with a drama?"

"The second line of bullshit is all tricks, at most it is a little special. You know what Xiao Te is, right? I don't know, it's a special actor. is not the kind of special actor who comes to make a cameo appearance by a big star, or an actor who is one level higher than the dragon and has a few lines. The extras have two boxed lunches a day plus a salary of more than 100 yuan. Xiaote can get three or five hundred, because Xiaote has a relatively high requirement to read lines. Bai Zhantang pointed to himself.

"I'm Little Special. Small special actor. There is also a big special, a big special actor, who can get more than 1,000 or 2,000 a day. If it's a woman, it's a beautiful vase, and it's going to be eye-catching. The possible role of a man can be strung in two episodes of the TV series. It adds up to two or three minutes of scenes. ”

Zhang Tong nodded, as a person who had never been to Hengdian, Bai Zhantang said these things that he had not been exposed to. He thought it was interesting, so he asked, "That's okay." If there is filming every day, won't you get more than 10,000 or 20,000 a month?"

"I have to have so many scenes to do it! Acting is tiring and not profitable, which of us is not going to drift with the idea of being able to make a name for ourselves. Bai Zhantang shook his head helplessly.

"It's a pity that my ability is limited and I can't make a name for myself in Hengdian. ”

"What ability?" Zhang Tong raised his eyebrows.

"What other abilities can it be, the abilities that we returnees have! I'm hateful, when I was in the other world, my abilities were magical. That is, he runs very fast and has excellent light skills. Also, you can change your appearance at will. As a result, after coming back, this ability was not very useful, and I ran faster than ordinary athletes. The variety is completely gone. ”

"Originally, I thought I could join a sports team, a track team or something. At least mixed national level 2 athletes or something. Unexpectedly, now that the state has regulations, traditional sports events do not allow returnees and awakened people with abilities to participate. ”

Speaking of this, Bai Zhantang shook his head: "The Olympic Games have also made this regulation, have you watched the 2012 London Olympics?"

Zhang Tong shook his head: "No." I hadn't come back yet. ”

"The ratings for the London Olympics were very poor. Because of the appearance of the Ability Awakener and the Homecoming, the Olympics have become a bit boring to speak higher, faster, and stronger. The strongest of the Ability Awakeners can easily break various world records. I tell you more, Tokyo 2020 I assert that it will definitely get worse. Advance tickets are not optimistic, and I think traditional sports are definitely going to decline. ”

"You watch the NBA, right?" Zhang Tong nodded and shook his head, nodding because he had seen it before, it was still Michael Jordan's era, and AJ Jordan basketball shoes also entered Huaihai at that time and became a fashion sought after by many young people.

Shaking his head because he didn't watch the NBA during this time after he came back, because a lot of things were quite busy, BA had to postpone watching again.

"I'm telling you, David Stern is the world's best sports league guru. The heads of other sports leagues are much worse than him. David Stern made the best decision before retiring, and he carved out a new league outside of the NBA. Allow some Ability Awakeners to play basketball in the NE-NBA. "It seems that Bai Zhantang is very enthusiastic and familiar with these sports.

"While there are no returnees in the U.S., the NBA has gotten bigger, the hoops are higher, and the rules are more open. Awakened Abilities screened by the Alliance enter the Alliance to train and then compete. They can play more exciting, fluid and more confrontational games. It's not uncommon to jump off the three-point line for a dunk, a half-court jump dunk and then be intercepted from mid-air, and the NBA has become the most profitable sports league in the world outside of the NBA. What Bai Zhantang said made Zhang Tong stunned for a while.

"Will someone jump out and say that this kind of competition is unfair or something?" Zhang Tong was a little suspicious, there are few people in this world who can get things done, but there are too many people who can do bad things.

"There must be. But Lao Mei's side is different from us. - The NBA is the second league formed by the original NBA teams. Now that the Second League is starting to make more money, BA was the first to introduce the Ability Awakener to sports, and has received a lot of criticism. Some argue that the Awakener's sports games undermine the very nature of the game. ”

"I don't understand this kind of philosophical speculation and human nature issues. But I know that the NE-NBA game is more exciting, more confrontational, and more enjoyable. China can't see the full game now, only some highlights, you need to open a paid account on the NE-NBA official network to watch it. It's so troublesome, and there are millions of paying users in China. For example, I pay about $500 a year for the right to watch the season. ”

"I heard that the NFL (American Football League) in the United States is also preparing to follow the NBA's example. If rugby could bring in people with extraordinary abilities to play, the scene would be more popular and attract more people to watch. ”

Listening to Bai Zhantang say this, Zhang Tong was a little curious: "So, introducing strangers and returnees to participate in sports events can attract more audiences and make more money, why haven't I seen anything similar in China until now?"

"Our country has its own national conditions. Bai Zhantang was helpless: "If you do this in China, I'm afraid that a group of defenders will jump out and scold." Take all kinds of high hats of humanity, philosophy, and so on. And our country is different from the United States, everything in the United States is about money, and it would be nice to make money. This is still a bit worse in China, which has both advantages and disadvantages. But for those of us who have returned home, the disadvantage is that it blocks our way to make money. ”

Zhang Tong nodded, Bai Zhantang said well. When one thing is broken down and looks at two sides, there are always good and bad. It's like the most controversial question in the United States about whether guns should be banned or not. Gun ban supporters and non-gun ban supporters can fight in the United States, and each lists its own advantages and the other's disadvantages.

"So, a lot of people who have some abilities after returning from the other world can't find a suitable job for a while. So they rushed to Hengdian. ”

Zhang Tong was a little curious: "What are you doing in Hengdian?"

"Filming!" Bai Zhantang said as a matter of course.

"But do you have to play tricks in filming? Not everyone is suitable for filming. Zhang Tong was puzzled.

"Yes, it's true that not everyone is suitable for filming. But they can do special effects!" Bai Zhantang said a word that made Zhang Tong wonder.

I remember a long time ago I watched CCTV6's "World Cinema Journey", in which there were movie special effects, either with models or with computer synthesis. Zhang Tong remembered a documentary he watched in the 90s, because this documentary Zhang Tong remembered Spielberg and his industrial light and magic.

At that time, Zhang Tong watched "Jurassic Park", "Star Wars", "Titanic" and so on, and the visual effects of each movie were amazing. And there are industrial light and magic in it.

"Digital special effects are expensive, brother!" Bai Zhantang said earnestly.

"Digital special effects are worth millions of dollars in just a few seconds, where can we afford to use our domestic film and television works? After the crew pays the salaries of big-name stars, they can only shoot in Hengdian, and there is no money for the exterior scenes, and they still expect them to spend this money to hire a good special effects company? Many movies and television simply use the special effects templates that come with AE software to fool around. Do you know where the term Wumao special effects came from? These grandsons came up with it!"

Zhang Tong felt that Bai Zhantang was quite good, and said a lot of things that he didn't understand or hadn't been exposed to. He continued to ask, "So what do you mean by the returnees and the Awakened to go to Hengdian to work as special effects actors?"

"Hey~!Let me ask you, are there any returnees or ability awakeners whose abilities are fire control?" Bai Zhantang asked.

Zhang Tong nodded: "Yes." ”

"If you can control the fire, then let him control the fire and play a set of [Fire Cloud Palm]. ”

"Is there anyone who can control the ice?"

"yes. ”

"Then the special effects of the Frost Fist will be handed over to him. ”

"Is there anyone who still has the ability to control their minds?"

"That's right. ”

"Okay, the special effect of the Return of Ten Thousand Swords is also available. Bai Zhantang patted Zhang Tong on the shoulder and said, "Look, isn't that what special effects actors do?"

"There are also people who have the ability to pretend to be corpses or tear apart or something. These people are just right for close-up special effects. Some people have the ability to fall from a height without being injured, which is just suitable for shooting palms falling from the sky or something. ”

"Brother, think about it. How many special effects are needed in film and television works now? Good special effects are so expensive, hundreds of thousands of dollars a second. The bad special effects are cheap, but everyone is scolding the five-cent special effects. So, now the crew in Hengdian has simply transformed, completely eliminating the digital special effects of garbage, and changing to shooting real scenes. At least it's much better than the garbage effect. ”

"How much does it cost for a special effects actor to join the group? Twenty or thirty thousand a month, including food and lodging. Although there are not many scenes that require special effects, and you can't shoot a few scenes in a month by hiring an actor, it is better than spending money on digital special effects!"

"That's why I said, now it's getting harder and harder for actors like me to rely on their looks and acting skills. People ask me if this returnee has special effects. Brother, I'm a miserable mess. Hey~" After saying this, Bai Zhantang was silent for a long time.

Zhang Tong didn't know how to comfort him for a while, because he really didn't expect that so many people from the returnees and the awakened people would devote themselves to the filming of film and television works in New China.