This scene is the first rivalry scene of the hero and heroine in the Red Mansion, and it is a group play. The content of the www.biquge.info play is a family banquet, the actor's surname is Zhang Zhenting, he is a well-known actor in the Hong Kong film industry, and a future star of hope. Sure enough, the interaction and tacit understanding between the two people added a lot to this scene.

The scene is in the hall on the first floor of the Red Mansion, and the European-style long dining table is three meters long, and the important characters in the play sit on both sides of the dining table. The beginning of the play is that the male protagonist gets up and holds a red wine glass to welcome the two sisters back to Beiping, the two sisters in the play are surnamed Jin, their father is the shopkeeper of the largest Peking Opera team in Beiping, but he died mysteriously in the Red Mansion. The male protagonist is the apprentice of the father of the two sisters in the play, and has been helping the Jin family to take care of the business of the theater, and he himself is a popular Peking Opera student in Beijing.

I read the script of the play carefully, and at the beginning everyone would think that the golden shopkeeper was killed by the male protagonist, after all, once the golden shopkeeper died, his apprentice was the one who received the greatest benefits, and he was the most likely to control the entire theater troupe. But in fact, as the plot unfolds, everyone will slowly discover that the golden shopkeeper actually colluded with the Japanese who occupied the Northeast, and used the theater as a cover to help the Japanese spy on the intelligence of the politicians in Beiping.

The actor has been persuading the master, but because of the friendship between the master and the apprentice, he has not hurt the killer, on the contrary, because he has been hiding in the shadows, and the two sisters think that the other sister who died early has an inexplicable emotional entanglement, and has been in a contradictory state of mind. But when I saw the heroine played by Cheng Manlin and the little sister played by Xiao Ye, I realized that in the little memory left when I was a child, the object of the two little guesses may not be the disfigured sister, but her little sister.

So in this scene, Cheng Manlin's character believes in his heart that the actor killed his father, and the actor is reminded of deep memories of the past. When the male protagonist toasts, the heroine should be as cold as ice, and repeatedly stimulates the male protagonist with words, but the male protagonist never answers, deliberately dodging the topic, but makes the heroine sit on the suspicion that the male protagonist killed his father. Some other people at the dinner table, the aunt of the shopkeeper Jin, the younger brother of the actor, and the manager of the theater, all restored the accidental death of Boss Jin from their own perspectives, and the spearhead was aimed at the hero.

At the dinner table, only Xiao Ye recalled the stories with the male protagonist twenty years ago, and he didn't believe that the male protagonist did it, and he kept excusing the male protagonist. There are a lot of dialogues in this scene, and it is naturally very brilliant to show the causes and consequences and emotional entanglements of the characters in the play, and it is the most important scene in the whole movie.

But as the filming progressed, I also discovered a few strange places. One is that everyone is very involved in the play, no matter whose dialogue it is, the attention of the others is on the dialoguer, and the facial expressions will change with the dialogue, this is not one character, but all the characters, and it seems that everyone has entered the storyline. Wu made a gesture, and his camera assistant quickly turned on the cameras of the other two auxiliary cameras, as if he had also noticed the situation and did not want to miss any of the actors' expressions.

The other is that everyone's dialogue is different from the dialogue in the script, but this difference is not a mistake that the words are not right, but it seems to be deliberate and prepared, but the key is that these changes are just right, which sets off the atmosphere well and shows the character traits of the characters. It wouldn't be surprising if such a change was the impromptu play of a certain actor, but it would be difficult to make sense that all actors had such a play.

Director He's assistant obviously also noticed such an anomaly, and pointed to the script beside Director He, Director He waved his hand, meaning to continue and not interrupt the performance, but his eyes never left the screen of the monitor.

What surprised me the most was the state of the actors' performances. Xiao Ye once told me that good actors have a good sense of the camera, no matter what state they are performing, they know the position of the camera and the direction of the lens, and even the depth of field used by the photographer, so they can show their best side in front of the camera at any time. But in this scene, I can feel that the actors' lens sense is not facing the camera, as if there is an invisible camera in this room, which is shooting silently, and the lens sense of all the actors is pointing here.

I was about to guess where the invisible camera was, when Wu suddenly left the main camera, walked to the backup camera, took the camera, carried it on his shoulder, and walked to the main entrance of the hall, which was just enough to be photographed by the main camera. On Director He's monitor, you can even see Wu photography in the distance. But Director He did not call to stop, and the actors were not affected at all, and the performance continued.

This is a ten-minute uninterrupted shooting, everyone watched this wonderful performance with bated breath, not only the actors, but also every staff member deeply entered the atmosphere formed by the collision of strong feelings, until Director He shouted to stop, everyone was still silent, it seemed that this scene was not over. On the contrary, the actors all collapsed in their chairs, panting as if they had just finished a full marathon, and looked at each other in amazement, as if they were not performing themselves.

Director He didn't speak, and watched a performance clip recorded by the monitor, with a look of disbelief on his face. Then he stood up abruptly and took the lead in clapping. Then all the staff applauded excitedly, as if they had just watched a wonderful stage play. The actors were relieved, got up one after another, and like stage actors, they bowed to everyone with a smile, and then shook hands with each other warmly.

I saw that Wu Photography was already sitting on the ground in front of the hall door, holding the camera tightly in his arms, and staring at the dining table in a daze. I followed his gaze, it was Cheng Manlin and Zhang Zhenting who were hugging each other, and then turned around and hugged Xiao Ye next to them, and the two of them whispered and didn't know what to say, but at this time I noticed that under Cheng Manlin's feet, there was not only one shadow, but two, one long and one short, standing still in the colorful swaying crowd.

After the shooting, the actors gradually got better, as if everyone found themselves from the characters in the script, and there was a super-level performance every day, and even I heard the staff communicate in disbelief: a scene is often a one-time reshoot, at most one reshoot, too rare, too rare. And Director He is becoming more and more like a documentary director, rarely telling the actors anymore, but paying more attention to the small details such as costumes, props, and lighting, showing a meticulous posture.

Wu Photography became very silent, sometimes not saying a few words a day, and kept walking around the set before filming started every day, looking for the best camera position, and after filming, he would look at the previous footage over and over again. I gradually understood his motives, very simply, Wu would have a camera in his heart before the shooting, and he kept walking around, trying to find a better camera to overturn his previous inspiration from nowhere, but unfortunately every time it was in vain. I could sense what he was thinking, because every day after the shoot, I would go to the camera selected by Wu Photography, and the dementor bell in the bag would make a soft crashing sound.

Among all of them, only Producer Lin's face became more and more solemn. Two days later, Producer Lin found me and told me the reason for his inner anxiety, the filming has completely deviated from the original setting of the script, but the improvisation of each actor seems flawless, so he has to continue in the direction of deviation, Producer Lin is worried that if this continues, the set will eventually get out of control, and behind the smooth shooting during this time, is there a greater crisis hidden?

I comforted him with certainty, in fact, in my opinion, the current situation is no longer a problem of finally getting out of control, but the crew is completely controlled by an invisible script, and I am not sure whether I am also a character in the script.

A few days later, I found a day without Cheng Manlin's drama and took her to Xiaoxitian's China Film Studio. On the way there, we deliberately got out of the car at Jishuitan and chatted with her as we walked, gradually introducing the topic to what had happened recently on the set.

"Xiao Cheng, everyone has performed very well in the past few days, but I feel as if all the actors are in a very excited state, and it seems unusual for everyone to enter the play like this, right?" I glanced at Cheng Manlin, her expression was very calm, as if she was enjoying the scenery on both sides of the road.

"Uncle Chang, I don't think it's strange, when filming horror movies in Hong Kong, many directors specially choose some haunted old mansions to shoot, many actors who have just entered the industry are afraid of not being good, and if they shoot too much, they don't think there is anything, anyway, they did magic things before the start, at most, they were too involved in the play during the performance, like a ghost, but it didn't have any impact after the performance. Cheng Manlin replied lightly.

"You mean the Red Mansion is also a haunted mansion?"

"Isn't it? If not, what did Producer Lin pay a lot of money to ask you to do? Why did a few more actors leave the crew inexplicably? And what are you looking for in the Red Mansion?"

"Xiao Cheng, if you don't want to answer a question, you can not answer me, but I must ask. I stopped and looked at Cheng Manlin, who had a rare serious expression. "When I was filming, I noticed that there was a shadow following you all the time, as if it was still a child's shadow, do you know this?"

Cheng Manlin paused, bit her lip, and stopped, and we stood on the edge of the moat. Cheng Manlin's face became as pale as a frozen river. The cold wind was strong at this time, and there were faint small snow flakes flying down. She took a sharp breath of cold air, and as if she had made up her mind, she spoke slowly.

(Mo is here, Fu is there, so it can be used.) The good ones of the ancients, like a hook and approaching the abyss, bait and cast it, will get fish. Therefore, it is said: The main thing is becoming successful, but people do not know, and the main soldier is victorious, and people are not afraid. The sage seeks to be in the yin, so it is said that the god is in the yang, so it is said that the so-called master is in the day, and the people are safe, and they do not know why it is profitable. Accumulate goodness, and the people do not know why, and the world is better than the gods. The victor of the main army day often fights without fighting, and the people do not know why they obey, they do not know why they are afraid, and the world is better than the gods. --"Strategy")

(To be continued.) )