The distance between Xiangjiang and Yangcheng is quite close, only half an hour by plane. It's just that it is more troublesome to pass the customs, the procedures are more cumbersome, and it is not as simple as in later generations, and it takes a lot of time. By the time Zheng Dao and Fu Qi came out of the airport, it was already a little faster. They stopped a red taxi on the side of the road and reported it to the Provincial People's Hospital when they got into the car.

In August 1979, after repeated negotiations between the Yangcheng Transportation Bureau and the Xiangjiang Yangcheng Taxi Service Co., Ltd. operated by Liu Yaozhu, the first Guangzhou-Hong Kong cooperative taxi company in China - Yangcheng Baiyun Car Rental Company, was established in September of that year, which was officially put into operation in late November, and pioneered a new service model of "stop and go" for taxis in the mainland. This unique and convenient service method immediately caused great repercussions throughout the country, and quickly spread in major cities across the country, Beiping Huangmian, Tianjin Xiali, and Modu Jetta have become the new business cards of various cities.

Now the taxi fare starts at 1.5 yuan, and after 3 kilometers, it starts to jump the meter, 0.5 yuan per kilometer. Taxi is the transliteration of "TAXI" Yangcheng dialect, and taking a taxi is simplified to "ride" by Yangcheng residents. Due to the pronunciation, after being introduced to inland northern cities, "ride" was translated as "hit" in the same voice, and later even became a common word in contemporary Chinese.

Taxi driver is a very popular profession in this era, and some people even say that Yangcheng has three treasures, driver, doctor, and pork guy, and the income of these three professions is much higher than that of other professions. Thanks to access to high-end hotels that are not open to the general public, as well as other high-end occasions, taxi drivers have access to beautiful waitresses, flight attendants, and many girls become taxi drivers' wives. During this period, it was not uncommon for taxi drivers to marry flight attendants and models.

The taxi drove for a while, and Xu Wangqiu suddenly remembered that he and Fu Qi were in a hurry and didn't prepare gifts, so he asked the driver: "Master, we are going to visit the patient, we didn't bring any gifts, are there any flowers and fruits sold near the People's Hospital?"

The driver thought for a moment: "There are no flowers, but fruits and gifts do." ”

In Yangcheng in 1983, there were not many cars on the street, and taxis traveled all the way unimpeded, and soon arrived at the Provincial People's Hospital. Xu Wangqiu and Fu Qi got out of the car and bought some fruit at the store outside the hospital. They walked into the hospital, inquired all the way, and soon found Jiang David's ward.

Xu Wangqiu looked into the ward and saw Jiang David lying on the bed, talking to a fashionably dressed woman next to him. He knocked on the door and walked into the room with the fruit with him.

When the fashionable woman saw Xu Wangqiu, her face suddenly sank, as if she had seen an enemy. David Jiang was very enthusiastic, hurriedly sat up, and greeted: "Manager Fu, Director Xu, why are you here?"

Xu Wangqiu walked over, put the fruit on the bedside table, and said to Jiang David with a smile: "I heard that when you were practicing murderous qi, you were bitten by a pig and needed to be hospitalized, so let's come over and take a look." You don't have to worry about your injuries, do you?"

David Jiang didn't speak, and the woman next to him snorted coldly: "Let the pig bite a piece of meat off your body, and see if you want it." ”

Xu Wangqiu glanced at the woman, she was in her thirties, she wasn't particularly good-looking, but she had a good temperament. He was not familiar with the Xiangjiang actors, so he didn't know who this woman was, but he heard that the tone might be David Jiang's wife, so he asked David Jiang: "Who is this?"

David Jiang introduced with a smile: "This is my wife Li Lingling." Lingling, Mr. Fu, you know, I won't introduce it. I have to introduce this well, this is the famous director Xu Wangqiu Xu, who won the award in Berlin at the beginning of this year. ”

Xu Wangqiu thought that it was really David Jiang's wife, and stretched out his right hand with a smile: "It turned out to be Mrs. Jiang." I have long heard that Mrs. Jiang is beautiful and virtuous, she is a virtuous helper at home, and an excellent actor outside. When I saw it today, it really lived up to its name. ”

Li Lingling shook hands with Xu Wangqiu and said coldly: "I have also heard of you, the famous director Xu Wangqiu, a director who likes Hitchcock and does not treat actors as human beings like Hitchcock. ”

Alfred Hitchcock was a famous master of cinema, but he was also a director who loved to torture actors. He once said bluntly, I didn't say that actors are animals, what I said is that actors need to be treated like animals. Xu Wangqiu heard Li Lingling compare himself with Hitchcock, and felt a little aggrieved, he really is not a director who likes to torture actors, guiding actors has always been based on guidance, and David Jiang's pig bite was purely an accident.

Seeing that his wife didn't give Xu Wangqiu face like this, Jiang Dawei hurriedly pulled her arm and winked at her: "Lingling, don't mess around." He said apologetically to Xu Wangqiu: "Director, don't be angry. She's in a bit of a bad mood because I was bitten by a pig. You don't remember villains, don't take it to heart. ”

Xu Wangqiu waved his hand and said generously: "It's all because I asked you to practice murderous qi that you will be injured, and I am indeed responsible for this." How are you doing, are you seriously injured?"

Jiang David said nonchalantly: "It's not serious, it's just that a piece of meat was bitten off on the thigh, and it's not very convenient to walk." The doctor said that he only needed to rest for about ten days before he could be discharged. ”

Xu Wangqiu was relieved a lot when he heard this: "That's good." You have a good rest. You don't need to worry about the crew, let's shoot other scenes first. You should take good care of your injuries and wait until your injuries are completely healed before you are discharged from the hospital. If your injuries are not healed and you run out of the hospital, then I will definitely not film your film, and I will wait until you are completely healed before filming. ”

David Jiang laughed and said, "I know." After the injury is completely healed, I will go to the slaughterhouse to kill two pigs and return to the crew. ”

Li Lingling screamed: "Why do you still want to kill the pig, what if you are bitten again?"

David Jiang took Li Lingling's hand, stroked the back of her hand, and comforted her softly: "It's going to be fine." Others have killed pigs for decades and have never been bitten. My bite was purely accidental, and it couldn't have happened a second time. Seeing that Li Lingling was about to refute, he said solemnly: "Lingling, I am an actor, I have been in the industry for more than ten years, and I have acted in many plays, but the role of Zheng Yi is the most profound of all the roles I have encountered, and it is the role that any actor dreams of." Many actors can't meet such a role in a lifetime, it's my luck that I can meet it, if I don't play well, if I play badly, I won't forgive myself. ”

Li Lingling was speechless, she had read the script and knew that the role that David Jiang was going to play was very good. She is an actress, and she has watched a lot of movies, and it is the first time I have seen a character like Zheng Yi whose inner pillars were destroyed by reality one by one, and finally went completely crazy. As David Jiang said, such a role is what any actor dreams of.

Xu Wangqiu smiled: "I'm very happy to hear you say that." I have always believed that only actors who are willing to experience life are good actors, and you are undoubtedly good actors. But you've already killed the pig once, do you need to kill it again?"

David Jiang smiled bitterly: "When I killed last time, I was very nervous, my mind was blank, and I didn't feel that state properly. It's different now, I've killed a pig once and been bitten by a pig. When I go to kill pigs again, my psychological state will definitely be different from last time, and I will kill with a psychology of revenge or hatred, and this psychological state is closer to Zheng Yi's state of killing Huang Shilang's family. So, I had to kill it again so that I could find out the psychological state of the character. ”

For actors, it is difficult to really play a killer or murder scene, because the actor has no corresponding experience and cannot experience life. Playing a worker can make an actor go to work in a factory for a period of time, and playing a farmer can make an actor go to the countryside to work for a period of time, but playing a killer, it is impossible for an actor to really kill two people.

Due to the lack of corresponding emotional experience, it is not easy for actors to grasp the hearts of the characters when performing, and the performance is particularly easy to be superficial. Yu Nan is a very good actor, and he is also an actor that Xu Wangqiu likes very much. She played the killer in the movie "West Wind Spirit", and due to the lack of corresponding emotional experience, it took a lot of time to find the feeling of playing the killer.

In the story "Cold", the scene where Zheng Yi kills Huang Shilang's family is even more difficult to perform than ordinary murder scenes.

Zheng Yi is a psychologically traumatized character, Huang Shilang not only killed his parents, causing the tragedy of his childhood, but also manipulated the real estate market, causing property prices to plummet, many families became negative equity, Zheng Yi's wife committed suicide, and his friend also died in this series of events, he can be said to hate Huang Shilang to the core.

When facing Huang Shilang, he had a strong killing intent.

It's not difficult to perform a strong killing intent, and many actors can do it. The really difficult part of this scene is that although Zheng Yi is full of murderous intent, he has been a policeman for many years and is very calm when encountering problems. Even in the process of killing Huang Shilang's family, he was very calm, not the kind of hideous face that looked like he was going to eat Huang Shilang's family.

When Zheng Yi faced Huang Shilang's family, he looked very calm on the outside, just like facing an old friend, but under this calmness, he could feel a strong killing intent in his bones from the inside out.

In other words, when acting in this scene, the external state and inner emotions of the characters are completely opposite. To play this scene well, you must fully understand the characters and have the corresponding emotional experience.

Hearing David Jiang say this at this time, Xu Wangqiu was sure that he could play this scene well: "Then you will work hard for you." Zheng Yi killed Huang Shilang's family, first killing Huang Shilang's child, then killing Huang Shilang's wife, and finally killing Huang Shilang, he was taking revenge and wanted to make Huang Shilang suffer. If you can, when you kill a pig, you'd better look the pig in the eye and watch it pass by until it finally dies. I think this may give you a deeper understanding of the inner state of the characters. ”

David Jiang felt that it made sense: "Okay, when the time comes, I will stare at the pig that was killed." ”

Xu Wangqiu smiled and teased: "You have to be careful this time, don't let the pig bite again." ”

David Jiang laughed and said: "I already have experience in killing pigs, and I will definitely not miss this time." ”

Xu Wangqiu originally wanted to tell David Jiang that now the crew is spreading the rumor that your balls have been bitten by pigs, and it may not be long before it becomes a rumor known throughout Hong Kong. However, he saw that Jiang David was in a good mood, and he didn't want to affect Jiang David's mood, so he didn't say it.

After chatting with David Jiang for a while, Xu Wangqiu and Fu Qi got up to say goodbye. He told David Jiang to rest well, not to move, and strive to recover from his injuries as soon as possible, so that he could return to the crew to complete the rest of the scenes.

David Jiang nodded with a smile, saying that he would definitely recuperate from his injuries and strive to return to the crew as soon as possible.

After visiting David Jiang, Xu Wangqiu and Fu Qi rushed back to Xiangjiang non-stop to continue the filming of the movie.

That night, Xu Wangqiu and Yan Hao watched the sample film that had just been developed and returned to the room to discuss tomorrow's shooting task. Not long after they returned to the room, Liao Yiyuan walked in. He beckoned to Xu Wangqiu, and said with a solemn expression: "Wangqiu, you come with me, I have something very important to talk to you about." ”

It was the first time Xu Wangqiu saw Liao Yiyuan's expression so serious, and realized that something might be wrong. He hurriedly followed Liao Yiyuan out of the room, and asked as he walked, "Mr. Liao, what happened?"

Liao Yiyuan didn't explain: "Now is not the time to speak, you just come with me." ”