There are no more than two kinds of people who recruit people at the gate of Beijing Film Studio, the assistant director of the crew and the group leader.

When the assistant director came to recruit people, he was generally high-spirited, looking at the sky at a 45-degree angle, like picking cattle, and there was a mess: "You, you, and you!"

The group leader often holds a notebook in his hand, which is convenient for registering the BB machine, landline, and mobile phone number of the group performance, so that he can contact him when he needs it later.

Zhang Ran looked at the notebook in the woman's hand and knew that it was a group leader, so he nodded and said, "Yes, do you have something?"

The woman didn't answer and continued to ask, "Which school are you from?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Jintian Art School!"

The woman was stunned, the image and temperament of these young people in front of her were particularly outstanding, not like art studies, but like students of Nortel, but how could Nortel's students come to the gate of Beijing Film Studio to play tricks, but she didn't dwell on this question: "There is a crew in it that needs extras, do you want to act?"

Zhang Ran took the students to experience the life of group performances, and waited for this opportunity: "Acting, of course acting!"

When the group performers next to him heard the selection of actors, they rushed over with a hula, surrounded the women in the middle, and shouted: "I'll go, choose me!"

"Choose me! I've made more than a dozen films. ”

"Pick me, I'm experienced!"

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In the end, the woman selected Zhang Ran and all of them, selected thirty extras, made a record, and then took everyone to the Beijing Film Studio.

Walking into the main entrance of Beijing Film Studio, walking through a row of advertisements, you will see the red main building of Beijing Film Studio, this Soviet-style building was built in 1952 and has the unique solidity of the buildings of that era. There are five golden typing on the building "Serve the people", the original purpose of Beijing Film Studio was to serve the people, but in the 21st century, this idea is obviously behind the times, and now the popular one is "to serve the yuan".

Beijing Film Studio is like this old building has declined, and most of the houses in the factory area are rented by private film and television companies, which feel that with the name of Beijing Film Studio, they can add some luster to the company.

Across a meadow is the famous Ming and Qing Dynasty streets of Beijing Film Studio, which covers an area of 14,000 square meters. In 1982, when the Beiping Film Studio was filming "Camel Xiangzi", in order to reproduce the style of Xisi that had been demolished, a street scene was built in the factory. Later, after the filming of the movie, the street scene remained, and it became "a street in the Ming and Qing dynasties", with five streets in the style of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Throughout the 80s of the last century, and even in the 90s, "Ming and Qing Dynasty Street" was the largest film and television shooting base in China, and there was an endless stream of filming and sightseeing every day. "Huanzhu Gege", "The Last Emperor", "Farewell My Concubine" and other world-famous works are all from here. Because there are many crews filming here, a group of extras waiting for work slowly gathered at the door of Beijing Film Studio.

However, since the mid-90s, film and television cities have begun to be built all over the country, and some are larger and more luxurious filming bases than here, and a street in the Ming and Qing dynasties has gradually declined.

Zhang Ran and the others are going to shoot a Qing Dynasty drama, and they need to change costumes and wear hoods. When they came to the shooting site, the staff took out a few sacks of clothing: "You choose the right size to wear!"

The clothes are like this, and the shoes are packed in two sacks in a mess, regardless of size, not only to find the right size yourself, but also to find two that can match a pair.

Huang Shengyi picked up a piece of clothing and found that there were stains, but after changing another one, there were still stains, and complained to Zhang Ran: "Teacher Zhang, why is this dress so dirty?"

Cao Bingkun has been a group performer at the gate of Beijing Film Studio for a year and has rich experience, explaining: "The clothes of the extras are almost not washed, and we are now wearing the clothes of ordinary passers-by, which are quite clean, but if they are dock workers and homeless people's clothes, they are more terrible, the clothes are scary, and they are all mud and sand." ”

Zhang Ran saw that the students in the class were all looking at him, his little face was full of grievances, and he knew that he might as well take the lead as a teacher, so he chose a dirty dress and put it on his body: "I can't stand it if it's so dirty, what if I let you play a beggar?"

The students saw that Zhang Ran had put on their clothes, and although they were not happy, they still changed their clothes one by one.

After changing costumes, you have to put on makeup, celebrity makeup has a special dressing room, and group performances are generally in the open space. There are a few ordinary triangular stools on the floor, and two tables with various bottles and cans and hair accessories, which is the makeup area.

Because it was a play of the Qing Dynasty, male actors had to wear a hood, and Zhang Ran and they each received a hood. The hood was so dirty that you could smell sweat when you held it in your hand. The headgear of the group performance is never cleaned, and it is used until it is broken and can no longer be used, and countless people have worn it, so it is naturally dirty and smelly. The treatment of girls is not much better, they have to wear wigs, which have been used by countless people, and they are also dirty and smelly.

Seeing the students looking at him aggrievedly, Zhang Ran could only take the lead, pinched his nose, buttoned the hood to his head, walked to the makeup artist, and asked them to put on makeup for themselves.

Wearing a hood is a technical task that requires flattening the hair and then applying glue to glue the hood. The sticky head is made of alcohol glue, which is suitable for human skin, and will not be allergic, but it is irritating, and it is particularly sticky, and it is very uncomfortable to stick to the head.

The students in the class were not happy, the boys looked disgusted, and the girls pouted so loudly, if Zhang Ran hadn't taken the lead, they wouldn't have worn this thing if they were killed.

Because of the large number of group performers, there is no suitable place for them to rest after putting on makeup, so they can only stay in the open space outside. Unlike celebrities who can stay in their rooms and rest, there are chairs to sit on and fans to blow. Now that the weather is hot, Zhang Ran is afraid that the students will suffer from heat stroke, so he takes them to hide from the sun under the wall.

Zhang Ran didn't wear a costume and walked two steps with his hands behind his back, feeling good about himself, feeling that he had the style of a generation of grandmasters, even if he couldn't play Huang Feihong, it would definitely not be a problem to play Ip Man.

Jia Nailiang saw Zhang Ran pacing with his hands behind his back, and immediately slapped his ass: "Teacher Zhang, you are so handsome in this dress, much more handsome than the fourth elder brother on TV!"

Others followed up: "Yes, yes, Mr. Zhang, you are definitely more handsome than Andy Lau, and you are angry with Chow Yun-fat!"

"Don't be a sycophant, be quiet, this is the set, you will be scolded for being noisy!" Zhang Ran felt beautiful in his heart, but he still stopped everyone from praising him.

There was not a single cloud in the sky, and the sun was not obscured, and it was spraying poisonous flames straight to the ground. The air was stuffy and hot, there was not a trace of wind, and even a match could light the air.

Zhang Ran and the others were all wearing costumes with three layers inside and three layers outside, and it didn't take long for them to be fished out of the water one by one, covered in sweat. It's okay to get the underwear wet, but what's worse is that the hood is particularly uncomfortable, because it is glued to it, the sweat can't be discharged, and the scalp is itchy to death. The hood is glued with glue, and it can't be removed, and once it is removed, it has to be re-glued, and it will be scolded to death by the makeup artist, so it can only be stiffened.

At first, the students were still chatting happily, but now no one spoke, they all stuck out their tongues like puppies, and their hands kept scratching their heads.

Zhang Ran saw that the weather was too hot, and he was afraid that everyone would suffer from heat stroke, so he touched two hundred yuan from his body and came out: "Cao Bingkun, you take two boys to buy two boxes of mineral water and come back, and then buy two boxes of Hexiang Zhengqi water!"

Cao Bingkun took two boys, ran out of the factory area, and soon came back with two boxes of mineral water. As soon as everyone saw the water, they were like sharks that had seen blood, and they gathered around them, picked up mineral water, and poured it with a gurgling mouth.

Zhang Ran remembered that Zhang Xinyi had a heat stroke, walked over with Lotus Fragrance Righteous Qi Water, and asked, "Zhang Xinyi, do you want to drink some Lotus Fragrance Righteous Qi Water?"

Zhang Xinyi remembered the taste of lotus fragrance and righteous qi water deeply, and she didn't want to taste it a second time, and her head shook like a rattle: "No, Mr. Zhang, I really don't need it!"

Wang Luodan took two bottles of water and handed one bottle to Zhang Ran's hand: "Here, Teacher Zhang!"

"Thank you!" Zhang Ran didn't expect Wang Luodan to think of himself as a teacher at this time, this girl usually babbles, Erli chirps, at this time, she actually knows that she cares about people, which is really a bit surprising.

Wang Luodan sat down next to Zhang Ran, unscrewed the lid, took two sips, and asked, "Teacher Zhang, when can we shoot?

Zhang Ran shook his head: "I don't know, maybe it's afternoon, maybe it's night, if it's unlucky, it's normal to wait for a day to not be able to shoot." In fact, we are not bad, the most unlucky thing is the kind of play that has to wear ancient armor, dozens of catties of armor on the body, but after waiting for a day in vain, I am so tired that my hair trembles and I can't get a penny. ”

Wang Luodan thought about what Zhang Ran said, and shuddered: "It's terrifying!"

Not far away, a young actress was lying on a chair with cucumber slices covered in her face, and a twenty-three or four-year-old girl next to her was holding a parasol for her, looking like she was not here for filming, as if she had come for vacation.

At this time, a young assistant walked over with a bowl of steaming porridge in both hands and handed it to her respectfully.

The female star cocked her orchid fingers, took the porridge and took a sip, her face changed greatly, she raised her hand and poured the porridge directly on the assistant's head, and scolded: "You said you want preserved egg and chicken porridge! Why do you buy preserved egg and lean porridge? You fool you!"

The assistant is a little girl in her early twenties, where has she been wronged like this, her eyes suddenly turned red: "There is no chicken and egg porridge, I was afraid that you would be hungry, so I bought you preserved egg and lean porridge." ”

"It's really a waste, you can't buy a porridge! Forget it, preserved egg and lean porridge will be preserved egg and lean porridge, you buy me a new one!"

"I'll go right away!" the assistant replied and turned around to buy porridge, but as soon as she turned around, tears began to fall.

When the students in the class saw this scene, they all felt that the actress in front of them was too much: "This woman is so hateful, too bullying!"

"A third-rate starlet, it's disgusting to put this kind of score!"

"If it's me, I'll buy a bowl of porridge and I'll put it on her head!"

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Zhang Ran shook his head, there is a saying that "the king of Hades is good, but the little ghost is difficult", there are not many big stars who play big names, but this kind of third-rate little star has his tail cocked to the sky, which is very bad for the staff. He looked at the students in the class and said, "You have also been extras for half a day, I hope you will remember today's experience, and when you become famous in the future, be kind to the staff, don't learn from her!"

"Teacher Zhang, we won't be like her!"

"Yes, how cute and kind we are, so that we will not be so vicious!"

"If anyone can't do it, we'll expel him from the division!"

Zhang Ran slapped Jia Nailiang with a smile, this kid has learned all my mantras: "Acting is human art, acting is acting as a person." A good actor must have a tolerant and broad heart, so that you can discover the strengths and shining points of others, and be prepared to grasp the characteristics of the characters when creating characters. So, if you want to play well, you have to be a good person first!"

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