Chapter 241 "Casting Names" (II)

"Director, what you said about not wanting a Weiya has been completed!" On the third day of March 2007, that is, on the morning of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the day before the Lantern Festival, Cheng Xiaodong found Chen Kexin with an expressionless face.

"Where is it?" Chen Kexin put on his clothes and sat up angrily.

"I called my brother and brought Xiao Jin to take a look at the sky together. Cheng Xiaodong's eye sockets were sunken, and it was obvious that he was extremely tired.

Half an hour later, Jin Zhongming was tied to a large thick rope, and across a pulley, three strong men grabbed the other end of the rope with their hands.

"Xiao Jin, you must sit on the horse below when the rope is lowered, you know?" asked Cheng Xiaodong standing on the cliff.

"Don't worry!" Jin Zhongming agreed from afar, and he did complete it all smoothly. Easily fell, sat firmly on a white horse supported by someone below, made a throat cutting motion in the air, raised his legs, and swinged the rope to step on the cliff and was pulled up by the strong man above.

"Do you want to use this plan?" Jin Zhongming untied the rope and walked in front of Chen Kexin and Cheng Xiaodong, it was not only the two of them who were exhausted these days, everyone in the crew was suffering with it.

"Isn't this still Dangweiya?" Chen Kexin no longer had the strength to get angry.

"No!" Cheng Xiaodong was also very calm, and it seemed that he didn't have the strength to roar. "Without Wia, director, have you seen any Wia?"

"Isn't that a rope so thick? Chen Kexin asked with a glare.

"You also said, it's a rope, not Weiya, what you want is real, right? So Jiang Wuyang was put down by his bandit brother with a rope, which is real and feasible!" Cheng Xiaodong stretched out his hand and pointed at Jin Zhongming and said. "It's as if Kim Jong Ming was put down by my brothers, it's real. And it hasn't used WIA yet. ”

"But!" Chen Kexin instinctively wanted to refute.

"But what? What did I fail to do what you asked?" Cheng Xiaodong asked angrily.

Chen Kexin glanced at Cheng Xiaodong speechlessly, and then at Jin Zhongming, who was obviously not in a very good state, wanted to say something but didn't say it, so he had to cover his face with his hands.

And almost at this moment, all kinds of complex emotions are paved, expectation, relief, anger, depression, sadness, helplessness, and self-blame. There was even a hint of relief.

"I know!" Chen Kexin put down his hand and said calmly. "Your plan is good, just do it! Let's start shooting in the afternoon!"

"That, Andy seems to be resting in the capital. An assistant of Chen Kexin next to him reluctantly explained a situation.

"Let him get over, he signed the contract, and he will film in the afternoon!" It was not Chen Kexin who spoke, it was Cheng Xiaodong, who may have been looking forward to Andy Lau these days, or maybe he was too tired these days. So now the tone is heavy.

"That's it!" Chen Kexin glanced at his assistant and added coldly.

"Then I'll call him!" the assistant nodded, turned and left.

"I'm going to take someone to perfect the set-up. Cheng Xiaodong pointed to the cliff behind him, turned around and left.

In an instant, in the northern wilderness of Nuoda, it seemed that only Jin Zhongming and Chen Kexin were left.

"I really want to give up!" Chen Kexin looked at the busy Cheng Jiaban in the distance, directly pulled out a thatch on the ground, tore off two thatch roots, chewed one himself, and handed one to Jin Zhongming.

"Put. Give up?" Jin Zhongming took the thatched root sluggishly, and he stammered when he spoke. "Not the director of this movie?"

"That's right!" Chen Kexin spat out the grass residue in his mouth. Sighed again. "There are too many problems in this play, do you know? Although Andy Lau accepted the friendship price, that friendship has nothing to do with me, it is a friendship with Junru. And the only person I had a friendship with at the beginning was actually Takeshi Kaneshiro, but he couldn't come alive or dead, so I found you in a hurry. I didn't expect you, who had only known me for less than four months, to be the person who helped me the most in this movie, and I could only find you when I even talked to you. ”

"What am I helping? we haven't even filmed a single scene!" replied Kim Jong-ming, chewing on the slightly sweet thatched roots.

"Here's the problem, I've had so many troubles with Cheng Xiaodong, and at the beginning, many people were helping to persuade me, and now you're the only one left to help mediate. As he spoke, Chen Kexin brushed up the gray hair on his head. "It's remarkable. I'm also grateful. ”

"But my actions like this won't help!" Kim Jong-ming smiled bitterly.

"Yes, the contradiction is too deep!" Chen Ke explained with a hard face. "Things have been delayed until now, and the rain the day before yesterday is not enough, mainly because of the contradiction with Cheng Jiaban in action design, which is the lowest part before. This time the action design is completely a process of exploration, this is not to create any new movements, but I completely pursue a sense of 'real' and 'energetic' in the action, without the usual Weiya in costume films, and I don't do anything on the camera. But this makes other people very insecure, not only Cheng Jiaban, but also many other staff members always say that I have destroyed the only strength of Chinese martial arts films. In addition, because there are so many big scenes in the film, the communication in this aspect is also extremely complicated. ”

"But I appreciate you very much for this!" Jin Zhongming said a kind word about Chen Kexin unexpectedly. "It's not a slap on your ass, it's something about your behavior that I admire. ”

"What kind of behavior?" Chen Kexin asked in surprise.

"Patience!" Jin Zhongming said calmly. "You are a very stubborn person, and it is difficult to change what you have identified, and this contradiction is indeed confirmed by this, but when you listen to other opinions, even if you have made up your mind not to adopt this opinion, you still listen patiently. ”

Chen Kexin also nodded when he heard this: "That's right! I always thought that filming always wanted to do something I couldn't do, but what I didn't expect was done." Although this is the film I have invested in the most, I still have a lot of creative space on set. With so many great people together, I had to accommodate everyone's emotions and expressions, even if I knew I wouldn't be used in the film, I wouldn't interrupt them at the time, because you might capture the moment you wanted. And in the end, what I have to do is to put everyone's expression on my track. ”

"You are so great, how can you think of giving up because of the conflict with Cheng Jiaban?" Jin Zhongming felt a little incomprehensible, and directly asked a question with a wry smile.

"Do you know where the root of the problem is?" Chen Kexin also smiled bitterly. "I mean the Cheng family class problem that made me want to give up. Because in fact, I know very well that I have to take more than half of the responsibility for this problem, and I am incompetent!"

"Where do you start?" Jin Zhongming was surprised.

"I've never filmed a fight scene, let alone a war scene with thousands of extras. So, I invited one of the three best movement directors in China - Cheng Xiaodong. Cheng Xiaodong is nicknamed 'Weiya King', and he is best at using multiple Weiya in a row, allowing actors to fly in the sky. The action style is elegant and smart, and Peter Pan is all over the sky. Have you watched "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Hero", "Golden Armor", "Shaolin Football"? ”

"But you need to be real, but you as a director don't know what truth is!" Kim Jong-ming also came back to his senses.

"That's right, I, a director who doesn't know how to make martial arts films, has to pursue realism, and they can't understand what he says, so it's difficult for Cheng Xiaodong's group to do it. Chen Kexin generously and honestly confessed.

"Since they don't understand what you're talking about, wouldn't it be nice to find a translator?" Jin Zhongming suddenly remembered something. "Why do you want to give up? Not to mention that you found me as the leading actor, how embarrassing is it for me to stay here when you leave?"

"Translation?" Chen Kexin wisely ignored the second half of Jin Zhongming's sentence. "What do you mean?"

"Wouldn't it be nice to find someone who understands martial arts, actors, directors, and movies to be your bridge and translator with Cheng Jiaban?" Jin Zhongming spread his hands indifferently.

"Who? Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan? I can't afford to invite them!" Chen Kexin's mind was confused.

"Director, your IQ is really good!" Jin Zhongming shook his head speechlessly. "What about Jet Li? Let him stop doing any One Fund, let him be a translator tomorrow as soon as the Lantern Festival is over!"

Chen Kexin stood up suddenly.

"Yes, Jet Li, such a good translation, why did I forget? I gave him 100 million!"

"Ready!" a staff member in the distance suddenly shouted loudly. "Mr. Andy Lau will be here in an hour and a half, director, can you let the group performers change their clothes now?"

"Okay!" Chen Kexin replied energetically, causing the people in the Cheng family class on the other side to look at each other.

"Then I'm going to put on makeup too!" Kim Jong-ming took off his baseball cap, revealing a big bald head with green skin.

When Chen Kexin compromised, this action scene, which dragged on for three days, was almost completed in only 30 minutes under Jin Zhongming's excellent performance. In fact, the crew who struck while the iron was hot immediately engaged in a group fight, which was not necessary, but allowed the cinematographer to capture the insertion and design of the shot for easy editing.

After filming this scene, the whole crew was very happy, after all, the drag on the scene in the first three days was too demoralizing. Immediately, this happy mood became even more hot after Chen Kexin announced that the Lantern Festival would be a one-day holiday during the day and eat glutinous rice balls together at night. And in this mood, Andy Lau suddenly grabbed Jin Zhongming's shoulders.

"Xiaojin, are you still used to living in the mainland these days?"

"Of course!" Kim Jong Ming immediately smiled. "Definitely, it's not bad, the crew is also good, except for the director's affair with Brother Xiaodong, there's nothing to worry about. ”

"That's good, that's good. Andy Lau smiled very brightly. "I just heard the director calling Jet Li, do you know what's going on?"

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