After a long day of shooting, it was dark. Feng Xuan announced that he would call it a day after work, and the employees who had been tired all day put the props in their hands back into the equipment room, and while discussing where to go for dinner, whether to go to KTV and big health care (crossed out here) after dinner, they scattered one after another.

Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang were waiting at the gate of the base, the weather was strangely cold, Zhang Zi'an didn't want them to wait too long, and they were going to leave, but they were stopped by Feng Xuan.

"Xiao Zhang, is there anything wrong? Come with me and discuss something. Feng Xuan said, but his tone was unquestionable, "By the way, call Lao Yang too." ”

Zhang Zi'an had no choice but to send a message to Xiao Liu and Xiao Wang, asking them to wait a little longer.

He called Lao Yang again and came to Feng Xuan's simple conference room together, the external producer Xu Gang was also present, and Feimas also followed, lying quietly on the ground.

Xu Gang warmly shook hands with Zhang Zi'an and Lao Yang, and said sincerely: "Thank you two! Thank you so much! Today's shooting went unexpectedly, without you, I can't imagine how to make these murderous Tibetan mastiffs obediently cooperate...... To be honest, when I brought these wild Tibetan mastiffs from Tibet, I kept beating the drum in my heart for fear that there would be an accident during the filming process, and it would be troublesome if I hurt someone......"

Lao Yang absentmindedly coped with a few words, and at a glance saw a good cigarette on the conference table that was intact and unopened, and unceremoniously picked it up and clamped it under his armpit, knowing that this was a bet that Feng Xuan had lost to himself.

Feng Xuan was in a good mood, he didn't speak happily, holding a thermos cup and drinking hot cocoa.

Zhang Zi'an deserves Xu Gang's gratitude, because he really didn't do anything, everything was done by Pemmas, and Feimars yesterday and today are like a changed dog.

After a few pleasantries, a few people sat down.

Feng Xuan put down the thermos cup, and encouraged a few more words, and then got to the point.

He said: "Xiao Zhang, Lao Yang, Gangzi, your work is very good, and I am also very satisfied. After filming today's scene, it means that the filming work of our crew is about to enter the final stage, and there are only some scattered shots left. ”

Lao Yang smoked a cigarette with a smile, and Zhang Zi'an listened carefully.

"I called you over today to discuss with you what to do with the other dogs in the crew, including those Tibetan mastiffs, in addition to the German herds sent by Feimas, Chilong, the prince and other kennels after the finale. Feng Xuan looked at the three of them in turn and asked, "Do the three of you have any suggestions?"

Xu Gang had already had a draft, and was the first to speak: "Director Feng, let me say it first." Before these Tibetan mastiffs were brought from Tibet, it was agreed with the monks of the local monasteries and Tibetans that their lives should not be harmed, so my opinion is that these Tibetan mastiffs should be sterilized and sent back to the stray dog shelter in Tibet, and there is nowhere else to place them. ”

Lao Yang let out a puff of smoke, nodded and said, "It can only be like this." Let me tell you an example that you may not know: during the Yushu earthquake on April 14, 2010, the police dog brigade in Binhai City was also dispatched to rescue the disaster and search for the trapped people crushed under the rubble. When the relief work was over, I heard from the police officers with dogs who rushed to the disaster relief to tell me about similar situations. ”

The others listened quietly and did not interrupt him.

Lao Yang flicked off the ashes of his cigarette and recalled contemplatively: "You know that after a catastrophe, there will be a major epidemic, especially this kind of earthquake that causes heavy casualties, which is often very easy to breed epidemics. Yushu is the epicenter of the Himalayan marmot plague, and the earthquake caused the overwintering marmots to emerge early from their burrows. The Himalayan marmot is a rodent with two large teeth, which are very fluffy and cute, but they are the main bacterioprotective animals of the plague, just like flies, they are full of bacteria, but they will not get infected and die......"

He paused for a moment to take a breath, and then said: "In addition, there are a lot of rats in Yushu, no one has cats over there, mice have no natural enemies, and after the disaster, there are rats all over the ground, in groups, not afraid of people at all." Seeing that a major epidemic was about to break out, the disaster relief headquarters decisively decided to carry out a comprehensive anti-rodent work, whether it was marmots or rats, but they were stopped by local residents, because marmots are regarded as gods by the local people, and they have to be fed with good food every day, even if they can't eat enough. ”

When others heard it, they did feel that this was very similar to the current situation of the Tibetan mastiff, very tricky, and it was clear that directly killing the wandering Tibetan mastiff was the best solution, but it was limited to local folk customs but could not do so, even if it was forcibly done, people would not appreciate it, but it would cause internal contradictions among the people...... Once the contradictions intensify, no one can bear this responsibility.

Xu Gang asked with interest: "Then how did it solve in the end?"

Lao Yang shrugged his shoulders and said cryptically: "In that case, in the end, I was forced to have no choice but to slaughter the gods." ”

Other people understand, but the Yushu earthquake is a special circumstance, a force majeure natural disaster, which can be handled on a special basis, but it is not applicable to the present.

After discussion, no one had any other good way, so they decided to follow Xu Gang's proposal to sterilize these Tibetan mastiffs and then send them back to the stray dog shelter in Tibet.

After talking about the Tibetan mastiff, it's time to talk about the eliminated German herdsmen.

These German herds were bought as stand-ins, although they were not used, but it was impossible to return to the police dog base, and if they went back, they would die, so what should they do?

In fact, some people in the crew expressed their willingness to adopt one or two of them, but when they heard that they had to provide a guarantee from an insider in the police department, they were too troublesome to retreat.

There was no one in the room for a moment.

Feimas patted Zhang Zi'an's shoe with one of his front paws, he coughed lightly and said solemnly: "Director Feng, I want to say one thing. ”

Feng Xuan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Please speak." ”

"There are very few movies in China with animals as the protagonists, but there are quite a few movies and TV series with animal actors. ”

Feng Xuan nodded.

"I've seen a lot of Western animal movies, and the end credits of these films tend to say 'none of the animals were injured during the filming'. The movie "War Dog" obviously can't do this, whether it is the police dog that was injured during the previous audition or the big tooth and mastiff king who were injured today, or the sterilization operation to be carried out on these Tibetan mastiffs, it can be regarded as hurting the animals, we can't open our eyes and say nonsense, otherwise I'm sorry for our conscience. But we can settle for the next best thing and write another sentence at the end of the film - 'The animals in the film have been properly housed'. ”

Zhang Zi'an said meaningfully.

He was quietly putting pressure on Feng Xuan, hoping that Feng Xuan would not send these German pastors away, such as sending them to the local stray animal management center. It is difficult for these virtuous pastors to be adopted by ordinary people, and if they are sent there, they will inevitably be euthanized. No matter what, they at least acted as extras in the crew, and they didn't have merit and hard work, and they shouldn't be treated like rabbits and dogs.

Feng Xuan sighed in surprise, and couldn't help but look at Zhang Zi'an with admiration, because his wife had also said similar things to him before going to bed at night, but the starting point was different.

As a veteran movie fan, his wife said that how to treat the animals in the crew, whether it is a German herd or a Tibetan mastiff, determines the upper limit of the movie.

For the sake of illustration, she gave an example, which is the movie "Peacock".

There is a creepy scene in this famous movie where the actor who plays the mother pours a cup of poison into the mouth of a goose and pinchs its neck to prevent it from spitting out, and the goose struggles in pain on the ground for a long, long time.

Regarding the fate of the goose, there are no relevant subtitles at the end of the movie, but when participating in the international film festival awards, this scene was questioned by foreign judges and audiences. The filmmaker had no choice but to stand up and declare, saying that the goose was anesthetized, not really dead, so the film won the award.

However, the goose's struggle was so painful and real that it could never have been performed, and a discerning person would know at a glance that it was definitely poisoned, and it is likely that more than one goose was poisoned in order to shoot this scene.

Feng Xuan's wife told him this, which was intended to remind him subtly that if the movie "War Dog", which features animals as the protagonist, wants to go abroad and not be confined to China, then how to properly treat the animal actors in the crew has become the key.

Her opinion coincides with Zhang Zi'an, if you want "War Dog" to win international awards and further increase the ceiling of the film, you must type the subtitle at the end of the film - "The animals in the film have been properly placed", and reject all possible doubts with humanistic care.

His wife said this, and Zhang Zi'an, who was the chief dog trainer, also said so, Feng Xuan didn't think anything about it before, but after being reminded by the two of them in turn, he deeply felt the seriousness of this problem.

Tibetan mastiffs are leased, as long as they are neutered and sent back to the stray dog shelter in Tibet, and some additional subsidies are provided, so what about these German herdsmen?

After discussing for a while, Lao Yang extinguished the cigarette butt in the ashtray, coughed a few times and said, "I have a solution." ”

The others stopped speaking and listened to him.

"How about sending these German herds to a retired police dog nursing home?" Lao Yang proposed.

Zhang Zi'an saw the touching scene of Cui Yi and Baofeng at the gate of the police dog base, so he asked Lao Yang about the placement of retired police dogs, and Lao Yang mentioned the police dog nursing home at that time, but he didn't ask in detail, and Lao Yang didn't say in detail.

Feng Xuan, Xu Gang and Zhang Zi'an didn't know the specific situation of the veteran police dog nursing home, and whether it was "properly placed" if it was sent there, in fact, Lao Yang didn't know very well, he hadn't been there.

Everyone discussed for a while, but couldn't think of any other good way, so they decided that Zhang Zi'an and Lao Yang would go to the police dog nursing home to explore the truth.

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