Chapter 18: The Grass Stage Team (1)

Red brick walls, big red tiles, and wild grass all over the ground.

There were embroidered iron frames everywhere, cracks in the concrete floor of the tattered lighted stadium, and holes in the backboards. Overhead, several incandescent lamp shades swayed in the wind.

Looking out from the door of the stadium of lights, there was a small slope outside, and on the other side of the slope was a row of bungalows, where a few old people sat in the flower beds basking in the sun, and a few hens were rummaging in the soil boringly.

Everything seems so quiet, everything seems so dilapidated, everything is the taste of the state-owned enterprises in the 80s.

This is also the reason why the crew chose this filming location.

This is a machinery and equipment manufacturing factory in the city, and it is said that 20 years ago it specialized in lining or gearing for tanks. After entering the 90s, the state-owned enterprises were restructured, and everyone went to learn to swim in the ocean of commodity economy. As a result, the factory stopped production, and a sum of money was paid to buy out the seniority of the workers.

As a result, the plant ceased production, and it was almost 20 years old. In the past, most of the workers did not move to the city, and only the elderly still lived in the old dormitories to enjoy the rare quiet time in the metropolis.

However, this silence will soon be broken by the sound of rumbling machinery, and it is said that the land here has been sold to real estate developers, and by the beginning of spring next year, ground will be broken to build a commercial housing community of tens of thousands of people.

In other words, the filming time left for the crew is only four or five months.

The deadline is tight and the task is heavy, and once the filming is not completed by then, the problem will be serious. In today's rapid development, it is not so easy to find such a place with a strong atmosphere of the 80s. Therefore, the playwright of the original crew suddenly dropped the script and jumped to other places, which was undoubtedly a heavy blow to everyone.

As Sun Xiaoyu said, under normal circumstances, everyone doesn't think this script is very important, and the status of the playwright is low. But it's the most important part, without a script, you don't even have a story, what else can you shoot?

Therefore, Liu Zhang's arrival is simply to save people from fire and water.

The director and the crew were very enthusiastic about him, and when they met, they couldn't stop shaking hands, saying, Fortunately, Writer Liu, you are here, everyone is going to die in a hurry.

was shouted by a big writer, Liu Zhang was embarrassed at the same time, but he was a little proud.

He came today in a well-known Porsche SUV, wearing a haute couture suit and a Cuban cigar between his fingers. The main thing is to return your words to a favor. Debt of favor, repayment of favor, will not be paid off in a lifetime. A hundred words in a thousand words, if it is replaced by someone else, it is an insult. ”

"Yes, yes, Mr. Liu is a model for my generation. ”

"By the way, how to settle the manuscript fee?"

"Ten episodes at the end. ”

"Okay, let's make a contract, my bank card account number is XXXXXXXXX. ”

……

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The first burst was firecrackers, followed by applause and cheers.

That's right, today is the day when the 30-episode TV series that Yan Chengqi invested in was launched. The director has already called for a start-up ceremony on a lighted stadium where the factory is already surrounded by large openings.

Someone has long put a pig's head and fruit on the incense table.

The director took a group of leading actors, supporting actors and group actors to pinch the thick and thin high incense of ham sausages, bowing, bowing, bowing, and bowing, and they didn't know who they were worshipping.

Liu Zhang looked at it from the side, pondered for a long time, and said in his heart: Probably putting the muse of the god of art, right? No, no, what do we Chinese do when we worship the gods of ancient Greece, if we want to worship, we should worship Mei Lanfang. However, these actors are also too ugly, and there are ...... The scale of this crew is really small, and no matter how you look at it, it is full of scribbled evil.

There are only about a dozen directors, assistant directors, scene notes, lighting, and makeup artists in this crew, and two Jinbei cars can be installed. Although Liu Zhang is a layman, he can also see that the equipment in their hands is not very good, and he is also at the enthusiast level.

This can't be an online drama, right? I think it's a bit like that.

As for those actresses, it is not objective to say that they are ugly, if they wear makeup, put on modern clothes, and walk on the street, they can also gain a lot of heads. It's just that this drama is set in the eighties of the last century. It can be clearly seen that the actresses have made a slight facelift on their faces, they are all awl faces, Internet celebrity faces, standing together, they can't tell each other apart.

Please, you are filming the era of building a new socialist society in full swing, and what do you want to do with a group of bewitching women, this is not a costume drama.

You are doing film and television, a drama is filmed, it is on TV, how can you make it interesting for the audience, even if the plot is really boring, you have to let everyone remember a few of the main characters. As long as a character can stand up, the play will be considered a success. Literature and art, in the final analysis, are human studies, and Liu Zhang still understands this basic concept. Now that this group of actresses is a thousand people, and the faces of Internet celebrities are unrecognizable, how can the audience remember them?

In Liu Zhang's opinion, the faces of the female stars who are now popular are very distinctive. For example, the international giant Zhang Ziyi, such as the newly popular Kelan, Yan Bingyan, and Song Jia......

The casting of the director of this play seems to be really a bit problematic.

However, Liu Zhangjin's main purpose in the crew is to earn manuscript fees and make quick money, and this drama is to earn money in the end, and it has nothing to do with him. Anyway, a word, write, and go home after writing.

It is said that a playwright like him does not need to be a follower at all, and directly codes words at home. The code is good, and you can send it to the director team by email. However, after talking to the director for a long time, he understood. It turned out that the schedule for this play was too tight, and the playwright only wrote two episodes at the beginning, so he hurriedly went on the horse to make preliminary preparations. Then, while writing, I filmed, and rushed to work at the speed of one episode in four days. After filming here, the sample film was sent to the global film and television company for editing, dubbing, and post-production, which has the style of a chamber drama.

The radish is fast and does not wash the mud, and it is estimated that the quality is not much better.

There was no unity, tension, and serious atmosphere in the whole boot-up ceremony, and it was lively, and a group of men and women who didn't know where they came out burned yellow paper and worshiped the pig's head, and they giggled and laughed, which was purely a straggler.

The staff yelled for a long time, but they couldn't stop it. In the end, Director Gu of the crew couldn't bear it anymore and yelled: "It's on, finish filming this scene in the lighting stadium today, prepare all units, and prepare the hoses." "Everybody's quieting down.

Liu Zhang had never been in contact with the film and television industry before, so he suddenly became interested and stood aside to watch.

This is a rain scene, which is about the male protagonist meeting the newly transferred heroine to the unit after watching the unit's basketball game. The male protagonist is a ruffian young man, and when he sees the beauty of the heroine, he comes up and obsesses with it, which makes the heroine very annoying, very annoying.

At the sound of an order, everyone quieted down and dispersed.

A man and a woman change into their costumes and tangle on that small ramp outside the court.

I have to say that the costume is quite careful, and I don't know where I got two sets of army green clothes and thigh pants. The male protagonist is also wearing an autumn trouser inside, wrapping his trouser legs with socks, and matching them with pull-back shoes under his feet. As for the heroine, she is wearing a gray really good Lenin suit, and her big breasts are stretched out, which makes people red-faced and hot, which is quite characteristic of the times.

Both of them are holding black umbrellas, the woman is walking quickly in front, and the male protagonist is chasing wildly in the back.

"Very good, all units pay attention, the crew's funds are limited, so we must save film and strive for a one-time pass. Director Gu held the microphone and shouted: "Music, music!"

Suddenly, the radio horn hanging above Liu Zhang's head, which had been rusted and estimated to have been silent for thirty years, sang loudly: "Sweet life, sweet life, infinitely better ...... feeding" shocked him so much that he almost fell.

"Rain, rain. Director Gu shouted again.

A staff member turned on the faucet and sprayed into the sky.

Liu Zhang couldn't help but groan: "This is too simple, right?"

Director Gu: "Very good, it's officially filmed." ”

Then, the male protagonist caught up with the female protagonist and began to flirt with the girl from a good family. The heroine naturally did not follow, and the two began to fight fiercely. The amount of lines in this scene is staggering, and it is said to be ten minutes long.

The male protagonist shook off the oily middle part, smiled evilly, and realized that he was possessed by Brother Xiao Ming of the Huang family: "123,456,789." ”

The female protagonist just reported to the unit, and she couldn't tell the male protagonist's condition, and smiled: "456, 789." ”

The male protagonist continued to laugh, and his eyes were densely slit: "Jiazi Yi is ugly, spring, summer, autumn and winter." ”

The heroine was suddenly annoyed, apparently understanding what had happened to her: "123,456,789,ABCDEFG......"

The male protagonist was also angry, raised the rain fan high, and waved his right hand fiercely: "987654321......"

Liu Zhang was dumbfounded when he heard this, he was completely blinded, and touched his forehead with his hand: There is no fever: I must be sick, it must be. That's right, I must have schizophrenia, otherwise why can't I remember my marriage to Cheng Qi, how can I not remember that I am a billionaire? Otherwise, why can't I understand a word of what they say?

I remember that once upon a time, he read a novel called "Language". The protagonist wakes up one day and suddenly finds that he can't understand a word of what others are saying, and finally, after the truth is revealed, the protagonist learns that he has a serious mental illness.

Filming was taking place here, which naturally attracted the attention of the old people living in the factory, and soon, there were many onlookers here at the lighting stadium. Seeing that the hero and heroine were talking lively, they all laughed and leaned back. Not only them, but the other actors also laughed.

It is estimated that she was ridiculed by everyone, and the heroine couldn't accept it, her eyes were filled with tears, her voice became lower, and she said to the male protagonist: "Don't, we are still young, and we have to devote our youth to work and study, and it's not time to fall in love." ”

Liu Zhang breathed a long sigh of relief: I can understand, I am not sick.