Chapter 136: Overlapping Shadows (D)

The big stomach king hurriedly turned his head and looked at the dance floor, he was surprised to find that among the women dancing on the dance floor, the shadows of several people had disappeared, while the others were still there, but the women were dazed and ignorant, and continued their dance steps. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the big stomach Wang carefully observed, there were several women without shadows, and their clothes could match the shadows of the bar. His head was dizzy, and he didn't know if it was the effect of red wine, how could the shadow leave the person itself and go somewhere else?

In the eyes of the big stomach, the faces of the men and women on the dance floor are a little blurred. He was enveloped by an invisible fear, and the hand holding the glass began to tremble slightly. He seemed to see several shadows at the bar suddenly change direction, and a pair of invisible eyes were staring at him. Chilling in his heart, he couldn't stay any longer, and hurriedly fled back upstairs.

This night, although he was dizzy, he couldn't sleep, and there were always a few strange shadows dangling in front of him. It wasn't until the music stopped downstairs in the middle of the night that he felt a little sleepy. But soon I was awakened by the laughter of a woman upstairs, and finally understood why the crew called Director He to work at night in private, thinking to myself, the Hong Kong entertainment industry is chaotic, but you always have to worry about face, this chaos in the mainland entertainment industry is really blatant enough. But the trouble is that he can always hear the faint cry of a woman from the laughter and moaning, sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes long and sometimes trembling. As a result, the big stomach king basically didn't sleep all night.

Early the next morning, the big stomach king moved out of the Red House and stayed back in the hotel. But the rest of the crew didn't seem to be troubled by this, falling asleep for 100 days, and gathering in the Red House in the evening to film.

The problem arose at noon a week later, and everyone found that the actor who played the fourth girl, the sister who had been hiding in the dark in the script, was missing. I thought she was going shopping, but until the evening, her play was about to start, and she didn't see anyone. Director He asked him to page, but he didn't call back for a long time, and when he called again, he had pointed ears and heard the chirping of a pager that seemed to come from the basement.

Everyone went down to see that the small handbag and pager of Female No. 4 were on a broken wooden box, but there was no trace of the person. Someone found a large hole in the wooden wall in the corner. The planks around the wall had been torn off, apparently with bare hands, and the planks were thrown aside, and there were still some blood stains on them.

Director He arranged a bold drama, took a flashlight into the cave to take a look, and came back to tell Director He that it was very deep inside, and there was a passage of more than ten meters extending into it, and there was a room inside, the same as outside, there were seven or eight large wooden boxes, all nailed, I don't know what was put inside, but he searched all over, and there was no trace of the female No. 4.

Everyone was wondering where the female No. 4 had gone, and suddenly someone heard the sound of Suo Suo in the wooden box with the female No. 4 handbag, everyone was so frightened that they hurriedly dispersed, and the bold drama carefully removed the top plate of the box, which was not nailed. Looking inside, Female No. 4 was lying in the box and fell asleep, but her hands were dry blood clots, and several fingernails were peeling off, and it seemed that the wooden planks on the wall were picked open by Female No. 4 with her hands.

When everyone woke up Female Four, she didn't know what was going on, thinking that she was still sleeping in her room, until she saw the wounds on her hands, and she cried in fright. The crew hurriedly sent her to the hospital, although the injury was not serious, but the actress resolutely did not return to the crew.

As soon as this happened, everyone's hearts also beat drums, you can say that the actress is sleepwalking, and she wanders to the basement by herself, but how can she know that there is a hole behind the wooden wall that leads to another room? Even if she climbs into the wooden box and continues to sleep, how can she put the lid on herself, and how can she put her handbag and pager on it? The more everyone thought about it, the more crazy they became, Director He discussed it with the production director, and everyone moved out of the Red Mansion and went back to the guest house to live, and the crew of the disappearance of the female No. 4 said that it was her old problem of sleepwalking, and she left the crew due to illness, and the crew asked everyone to stop talking about it, and the basement was temporarily sealed. When filming night scenes, I only filmed until ten o'clock, and no matter how fast I was, I didn't work overtime.

The big stomach king reported the situation to Producer Lin, Producer Lin is really a bit difficult to ride a tiger, and now he will change the location, not to mention the delay in the filming progress, the prop art has invested a lot of money, and the part filmed in front is estimated to be wasted, these together are a big number that Producer Lin can't make. The most important thing is that once you move out, the mentality of all crew members will change, and it will be difficult to guarantee work efficiency and shooting quality.

Producer Lin hurriedly finalized the actor and rushed back to Beijing. Before returning to Beijing, he also asked a friend in Beijing to help find a master who could do things, and he decided to go beyond it regardless of whether the partners agreed or not. No one knows what's in this red mansion, so it's good that it doesn't make trouble anymore. To the surprise of Producer Lin, the heroine Cheng Manlin had already heard about the set, but she didn't see the slightest worry, as if it had nothing to do with her.

On the plane to Beijing, Producer Lin also asked Cheng Manlin on the side, how did he think that Cheng Manlin only said lightly: "There are no ghosts in the world who harm people for no reason, and there is no person who is killed for no reason, if you are destined to meet, what is the difference between hiding and waiting? What is the difference between morning and night?"

When Producer Lin returned to Beijing, Director He still organized everyone to continue filming, and the new female No. 4 was already in place, but there was a new situation when the 37th scene was filmed the next day.

The plot of this scene is very simple, the heroine washes her face in front of the bathroom mirror, the water vapor makes the mirror covered with a layer of mist, the heroine straightens up and wipes the fog on the mirror with her hands, and in addition to her own figure in the mirror, the image of a woman slowly appears behind her, the heroine screams, looks back, and there is no one behind her. The heroine turned her head in horror, only to find that the pale face of the woman in the mirror had come to the mirror, as if she was about to get out of the mirror, the heroine's cup fell to the ground, and the person was so frightened that she took a step back, and at the same time, the bathroom mirror was also broken into several pieces.

Of course, this is a scene completed by split-shot editing and shooting, first shooting a woman standing behind the heroine, that is, the female No. 4 found by He Daoxin, and then a close-up of the heroine looking at the mirror in horror, and the mirror at this time has been replaced by a broken mirror. Through editing, they are joined together, and the close-up of the woman's face in the mirror is done through post-production.

This is the first scene filmed by the heroine Cheng Manlin, and it was also temporarily added to the front, the purpose is to let Cheng Manlin familiarize herself with the shooting environment and find a feeling. Everyone was a little nervous, but fortunately they didn't need too much acting. But in the actual shooting, Cheng Manlin handled a very good sense of proportion, from the laziness in the calm to the loss of the soul in the fright, the transformation is natural and distinct, in just two sets of shots, the character characteristics of the characters in the play are vividly expressed. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and praised Cheng Manlin's acting skills.

Cheng Manlin was very modest, thanked him one by one, and specially came to Director He to ask if there was anything else to pay attention to, after all, she was still very unfamiliar with the life of this character. This kind of communication method without a star shelf, of course, Director He is very useful, the two talked for more than ten minutes, and they both talked about Hitchcock and Kubrick, as if this film is the next "The Shining", and there is a feeling of seeing each other late. But the photographer watched the film several times on the monitor on the side, and his face became solemn.

After Director He finished chatting, the photographer whispered a few words in Director He's ear, Director He looked at the photographer in disbelief, sat back next to the monitor, rewinded, and watched it twice, without saying a word, smoking silently. After everyone cleaned up the set and left after work, Director He quietly grabbed Producer Lin and pulled him to the monitor.

When Producer Lin played it for the first time, he didn't see any clues, but after watching it a second time, he realized the problem. In the second sub-shot, only the scene of Cheng Manlin retreating in horror and the glass in her hand falling to the ground, and the mirror was replaced by a broken mirror, due to the need for future post-production, there should only be an image of Cheng Manlin in the broken mirror, but if you look closely at the broken mirror, you will find that Cheng Manlin is not alone in the mirror, a woman's pale face is in the broken mirror, and the posture is like preparing to drill out of the mirror, but then, the lenses are scattered on the ground, and the woman's face disappears. Although it was only a short second, the three people in front of the monitor seemed to be frozen, and they could no longer move.

The three of them sat in front of the monitor for a long time, and Director He saw that the people were almost gone, and then told Producer Lin that he had discovered a strange place since he filmed this script, and this script didn't look like an imaginary book at all, how to say it? Like a documentary book, the screenwriter knows the whole story, the shooting scene, and the problems encountered during the filming process well, and everything is developing as the screenwriter expected, and even some small mistakes in the filming process will be corrected by the book, Director He is difficult to implant some of his ideas in, because it can't be realized at all, there will be a lot of accidents, and he has to return to the path set by the script. This is the first time He Daogan has encountered this problem in more than ten years.

Sometimes, this feeling makes Director He feel that the crew itself is a shooting subject, and there is an invisible camera filming their every move, which is not a feeling of being watched, but a feeling of unconsciously integrating into the script and becoming a part of the script. Could it be that there is a bigger script behind the scenes, and everyone unknowingly becomes the characters in the play, which is really a head-numbing idea.

(There are three letters in the world: one is that wisdom has everything that cannot be established, two is that strength cannot be lifted, and three is strong and everything cannot be defeated.) Therefore, although there is the wisdom of Yao but without the help of others, great achievements cannot be made; there is the strength of the black gain but no one can help them, and they cannot lift themselves; they are strong enough to be strong and nurtured, but they cannot be able to do so, and they cannot win for a long time. Therefore, there is no way to get it, and there is no way to do it. --"Han Feizi")

(To be continued.) )