247 [From actor to director]
In their previous lives, Zhou Xingchi and Li Lizhi met in Weiwei, when Zhou Xingchi was a role actor that no one paid attention to, and Li Lizhi was a new TV director. Both of them like to fantasize about some whimsical episodes, which makes them good friends. So much so that after Zhou Xingchi became famous, he did not forget to promote Li Lizhi.
In the 13 years that the two have worked together, they have made many popular movies: "Love Saint", "Lucky Dragon", "Domestic Lingling Paint", "King of Comedy", "God of Food", "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", "King of Destruction" and so on.
However, the two good friends disagreed on the movie "Shaolin Football" and parted ways after filming.
"Shaolin Football" can be said to be Zhou Xingchi's life and death work, when he just came out to establish his own film company.
In the past, Zhou Xingchi was a wage earner, and the boss of the employee who could make money must love him, but when Zhou Xingchi became a competitor, the old employers jumped out to sing him down.
At that time, it was also a low period for Hong Kong films, and if "Shaolin Football" had not been filmed well, Zhou Xingchi might have really become a salted fish and would not be able to turn over.
Therefore, Zhou Xingchi attaches great importance to this movie, and the degree of harshness has also reached the highest state, and even threw away all the clips that Li Lizhi had already filmed, and reshot them all in person with the sentence "not enough jokes", which made Li Lizhi very embarrassed as a director, and the two broke off from then on.
But now, due to the appearance of Song Zhichao's "butterfly", he inadvertently flapped his wings, which made Zhou Xingchi speed up a little on the way to be a director, and the "harmonious relationship" between Zhou Xingchi and Li Lizhi began to break down because Li Lizhi was seized power at this moment.
But no matter what, Cai Bin, as the producer at this time, boldly used Zhou Xingchi as the interim director of the finale of "God of Food", which still surprised everyone. And Zhou Xingchi also went from hesitating at the beginning to becoming ready to move in his heart.
As the saying goes, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier.
Similarly, an actor who doesn't want to be a director is definitely not a good actor.
Zhou Xingchi was born with a lot of ideas and ideas, and since the filming of the drama "God of Food" began, he has grinded a lot of ideas and bridges in front of Li Lizhi, and it is not wrong to say that he is half the director of this play.
Now, there is a chance to really try to be a director, although Zhou Xingchi feels a little sorry for Li Lizhi, but he is a little excited, after all, he has had such a dream, he is in charge of the guide, and the whole audience obeys his command, how majestic and multi-style it feels.
Although everyone at the scene was very skeptical of Zhou Xingchi's directing ability, there was producer Cai Bing behind to support him, and others had nothing to say. After all, he is just a part-time worker, and people like Wu Mengda, Luo Jiaying, and Liu Yida don't speak, so why should they be strong.
In fact, the reason why Cai Bin suddenly promoted Zhou Xingchi to direct the finale at this time was not because of his whim, or because he was dissatisfied with Li Li and wanted to take away his power. It's because Cai Bing found that Zhou Xingchi is the real soul of this drama from the beginning of supervising the production, whether it is in or out of the play.
By chance, Cai Bing saw Zhou Xingchi talking to Li Lizhi about filming "God of Food". And argued with reason, saying how and how to shoot, it would be better.
Cai Bin listened to it on the side, and felt that what Zhou Xingchi said was very reasonable.
It's just like this once, but during the filming, Cai Bin encountered such a situation not ten times but eight times, and every time Zhou Xingchi's suggestions and ideas made Cai Bong, the producer, have an amazing feeling.
It would be fine if Li Lizhi could accept all of Zhou Xingchi's ideas with an open mind, but in order to maintain his authority as a director, Cai Li found that Li Lizhi deliberately gave Zhou Xingchi's "ideas" to PASS several times.
The authorities are obsessed with bystanders, Cai Wei can see clearly, and Li Lizhi's mind is a little narrow-minded.
Now, the finale of "God of Food" is very important, and Zhou Xingchi mentioned one or two very fresh ideas, such as "Gloomy Ecstasy" fried rice was designed by Zhou Xingchi. At first, Li Lizhi despised this idea very much and rejected it, but after a test shooting, Li Lizhi immediately changed the direction and began to "respect" Zhou Xingchi's idea, and even directly regarded it as his "idea", and also showed it in front of Cai Bin, saying that it took him how many days and nights of hard thinking and meditation to come out, which made Cai Bin, who knew the truth of the matter, a little unhappy. To be a man, you must know how to be proportionate.
Of course, none of the above is actually the main reason why Cai Bin promoted Zhou Xingchi to be the director of the finale.
The main reason is that Song Zhichao is making ghosts in the back.
As the owner of the "Phantom World" film company, the investor of the drama "God of Food". Song Zhichao once interviewed Cai Bing several times under the pretext of "drinking tea", and at first the content of the conversation was nothing more than the theme of food that Cai Hui liked, and later involved the play "God of Food", and then mentioned Zhou Xingchi.
What makes Cai Bing unbelievable is that Song Zhichao seems to know Zhou Xingchi very well, this understanding is not to read gossip news, or lace news, and then understand Zhou Xingchi, but a kind of cognition of Zhou Xingchi from the heart and from the bones.
To be precise, Song Zhichao put Zhou Xingchi's skin and bones in front of Cai Bin, and told Cai Bing that this star boy is not only a super comedian, but also a super good director.
Cai Bing was surprised, he didn't understand why Song Zhichao said this, and why he valued Zhou Xingchi so much.
And Song Zhichao explained to him that you can know if you observe it carefully. That's why Cai Bin paid attention to Zhou Xingchi, and he had a new understanding of Zhou Xingchi, so he was so bold to use Zhou Xingchi as the director of this final scene.
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The finale of "God of Food" finally started filming.
At this time, Zhou Xingchi, who was in charge of the guide tube for the first time, got rid of the little nervousness at the beginning, and lost the appearance of a nonsensical ghost horse in the play, but had a serious expression, like a general sitting in the army. He raised the camera and shouted, "The last scene of "God of Food", everyone is ready to --- Eksh!"
The scene reporter who is responsible for the clapper slaps, and the board is slapped with a snap!
The camera starts to focus and the camera starts running---
Without the obstruction of others and the mustard of communication, Zhou Xingchi at this moment can realize and photograph his inner thoughts as he wants.
Seeing that Zhou Xingchi is becoming more and more proficient in directing, and more and more comfortable, he was able to use the limited space and resources that he already had to shoot this "God of Food" scene so majestic and exciting, Li Lizhi was surprised in his heart, but also had some indescribable taste...... Is that admiration, or is it ...... Eat one's heart out?
"CUT!" Just as Li Li was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a burst of shouting, only to see Zhou Xingchi raise his horn and shout: "I announce that "God of Food" --- finished!"
After a brief pause, there was a bang, and the entire crew erupted in enthusiastic cheers.
Day and night of hard work, day and night of anticipation!
Toil and fatigue!
Sweat and hard work!
The "God of Food", which everyone worked side by side to create, was finally completed at this moment!
What does it feel like?
It's like the graduation exam, like the first successful interview, the joy, excitement, and indescribable!