Chapter 058: Love Road and Turning to Australia
Teacher He Qing's role was completed on this day, and Li wanted to organize this dinner party to some extent, and the meaning of Teacher He Qing's finale banquet was there. He Qing met Li Xiang and Yang Mi in the hurricane crew, one is the director of the movie, the other plays his daughter, He Qing is gentle and kind, it can be said that the relationship between the three is quite good. When filming the hurricane, He Qing felt that the two were a special match, and later the two came together as he expected, and Teacher He Qing was very happy. But seeing the small posture today, He Qing was a little worried about the two children.
I booked a ticket to fly to the capital at half past nine, and Li Xiang naturally wanted to send it. So in the car, He Qing asked Li Xiang: "Xiao Xiang, what is the relationship between you and Lou Yixiao?"
Li Xiang was a little surprised, but still replied truthfully: "Aunt Qing, it seems that you haven't been on the Internet for a long time! "Li Xiang liked to call Yu Rongguang and Uncle Guang when he was in the crew, and He Qing was naturally Aunt Qing, so he got used to yelling.
"Then she doesn't have a little bit of it for you, I mean the relationship between men and women?"
"Yes, your nephew is so good, don't you have people who like me?" Li Xiang said very squealingly.
"Don't be poor, then you are still so close to her? You said that if you let the media photograph it, what do you make Mimi think?"
"Aunt Qing, don't worry about it, I take Xiaoxiao as my sister, she is something I grew up watching, I have more affection for her, as for the love between men and women, there is really nothing!"
"What do you know? Men chase women, women chase men, I can't say if you and Mimi will have a good future, but now that your relationship is so good, Aunt Qing doesn't want you to be sorry for Mimi. ”
"Knowing Aunt Qing'er, I will be measured. ”
"Okay, I'm not going to be verbose, save you young people from annoying. He Qing also knew that it was too much, he was an outsider after all, so it would be good to stop at the point.
"You're also very young, not to mention that I thought you weren't a few years older than me!"
"Nonsense, not a few years older than you, you call me Aunt Qing?"
"That's different, you're older, and it has nothing to do with your actual appearance!"
"I can't tell you, let's go!" When the taxi arrived at the airport, He Qing didn't use Li Xiang to enter the airport to see him off, and entered the waiting room with a small bag.
"Will I be okay with Xiaoxiao?" Li Xiang asked himself in his heart on the way back, and to be honest, he didn't have a very sure answer himself. Why do you think so much? The boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and there will always be a solution.
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At night, Li Xiang stands on the observation deck outside the room of his hotel room, and the whole Hong Kong has both bright lights and bustling and noisy metropolis style, as well as white clouds, hills and warm sea breezes. The blend of Chinese and Western cultures here brings a unique charm here. In this Oriental Hollywood, the scale of the film industry today is less than one-tenth of what it used to be. This is not only due to the impact of the economic downturn, but also due to the fact that HK filmmakers are eager for quick success and eat their old money. Nowadays, it is difficult for you to see a large number of excellent works, and occasionally there are one or two works above the passing line, and there is a clear gap compared with the HK films at their peak.
What's the use of thinking about this, you are not a savior, don't want to change anything, or honestly shoot your work is the key, Li Xiang smiled self-deprecatingly. It has been a month since the crew of "Genius Gunman" started, and in this month, the crew has completed 90% of the filming tasks, and now the only thing left is the shooting task in Australia. Xiao Lin and Xiao Tao need to go to Australia to take the STIC exam, and then take advantage of the time zone difference to send the answers back to HK, so that the cheating team organized by Xiao Ya and Xiao Bo can successfully pass the exam.
It's not always been a smooth month, such as the exam scene filmed on the basketball court at the University of Nuo, which needed to look spectacular. Li Xiangxiang filmed this seemingly boring exam scene as tense and exciting as an action fight scene. He used a large number of extras to make them shout and run in a disorderly manner before filming, creating a noisy atmosphere, and it is easy for a person to be nervous and uncomfortable in such an atmosphere. The effect of this little idea is very outstanding, and Chen Xiao's hands are even trembling nervously when he is acting in this scene.
Another example is that after receiving the answers, everyone rushed to the examination room on a motorcycle. Li Xiang needed to gather 100 motorcycles when filming this "Flying Car to the Exam", which is not a big difficulty, but fortunately, HK motorcycles are not difficult to find. Parking in HK is expensive, and a private car is impractical unless you are a full-time driver. There is no place to park on the side of the road, but temporary parking is still possible, just not for too long. Parking in front of the big hotel is 100 an hour, and the general parking lot is also 30 an hour, and the parking place is not easy to find. At this time, the advantages of motorcycles are reflected, there is no charge for motorcycle parking, there is a special parking area, open-air, especially convenient, so there are a large number of motorcycles in HK. Li Xiang sent someone to find 100 'Sanyo' large scooters, which made the final presentation effect of this "flying car to the test" very shocking.
Most of the actors in the crew have been completed, Li Xiang is very satisfied with Chen Xiao and Kan Qingzi's performances, and in the future, Lao Liu can tilt more resources to the two, okay, the studio is just three or two kittens, it doesn't matter if they are tilted or not. Now only Xiaoxiao and Huang Xuan are left in the gunman crew, as well as Hong Kong actor He Guorong, who Li Xiang specially hired to play the guest role as the director of the Australian examination center.
You may be confused at the mention of this name, who is he, but as soon as you see his face, you will definitely think of this person for the first time. Let's briefly talk about a few of the roles he has played: Gao Lijin, the governor of the Rakshasa country in Brother Pheasant's version of "The Legend of Deer and Ding", Vanness, the owner of a fashion store who can't help but kill a woman who wears rose perfume because his ex-wife who ran away with someone in "Forensic Record", and "Sister Tuogun", "Miao Cuihua", "Song Shijie", etc., there are too many TVB dramas with this foreigner.
That's right, he is an Australian, He Guorong is the Chinese name he gave himself in order to pay tribute to his brother, and his nationality just matches Li Xiang's movie. This Australian foreigner born in 1965 is an out-and-out fan brother of his brother. According to his recollection, as early as 1987, his brother went to Australia for a concert, and in order to get close to his idol, he became his brother's exclusive driver in Australia through various channels. In the same year, he resigned from his job in Australia, resolutely came to Hong Kong to develop and settle, worked as an English teacher in a private school, and began to learn GD dialect, and became a TVB special actor by chance half a year later, and soon after officially signed a contract artist under it.
It's a pity that the star journey has not been very smooth, and later it fell to the point of setting up a stall. It wasn't until 17 years when Leslie Ho was invited by Netflix to shoot a promotional film for the American war satire film "War Machine" that he regained his sight.
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Australia used to be one of the most desirable countries before Li Xiang went to college in his previous life. In 1606, the Duigroot of the Dutchman William Janes set foot in Australia and was the first recorded actual landing of outsiders in Australia, naming it "New Netherland". In 1770, the English navigator Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia, named it "New South Wales", and declared the land to belong to the British. The whites of this land were the first criminals exiled here by the British. Later, the black people and the yellow people gradually came to this continent, and together with the local aborigines of Australia, they formed the current Oceania.
After Li Xiang graduated from university, he gradually matured, and found that Australia was not as beautiful as he imagined. Among other things, racial discrimination can be seen everywhere in this land. For example, can you understand this sentence? A local white driver in Australia said to foreign tourists who came to travel, "We don't discriminate against other races now?"
In his previous life, Li Xiang had only been to XN with a tour group, and he was forced to consume nearly 10,000 yuan of goods, which caused him to have a very bad impression of XN. People are like this, it is difficult to be objective at any time, so Li Xiang set his shooting plan in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, and has been rated as the most livable city for many years. Fashion, art, music, television production, film, dance and other pop culture are all world-renowned, so you don't have to worry about extras.
The local Chinese community in Melbourne extended a warm welcome to the arrival of the gunman crew. The two sides had been in contact by phone before, and Li Xiang also found a suitable venue for filming the STIC exam through the help of the Chinese community - a local public library in Melbourne. The library is only closed on Mondays every week, so there is only one day left for Li Xiang and others, and if it can't be completed, then they have to wait a week before shooting. Similarly, Xiao Lin avoided the subway station where the director of the examination center was, and people were only willing to provide Li Xiang with less than 4 hours of time every day for filming during the subway station closure, which was in the middle of the night and there was no room for negotiation.
The crew came to Australia on Thursday, July 17, and the plan was to complete all the filming in Australia in four days.
Let's start with the easiest: the first thing to shoot is Xiao Min and Xiao Tao, the two of them talking and taking a group photo at the beach. After nearly a month of cooperation, Xiaoxiao and Huang Xuan have a lot of chemistry between them. At the same time, as a director who gave the role to the two, Li Xiang was pleased with the professionalism of the two. Xiaoxiao is not left-handed, in order to show Xiao Lin, a female genius who is a scholar, she has insisted on using her left hand as her usual hand for half a year, and this difficulty can be imagined. Huang Xuan is even more about to seal the demon, Xiao Tao is a genius in memory, Huang Xuan has to memorize his lines four or five times a day in order to play this role well.