Chapter 31: The pre-filming episode
"Heaven and Earth Ambition" has been filmed for several days, so the messy feeling that the film script gave Li Xuan before it was really gradually revealed with the filming process.
Although in fact, the crew only filmed a little plot fragment, and more stories have not yet started filming, and it is not possible to see the final style and level of the whole film.
However, judging from the situation that has been filmed so far, director Chen Jiashan seems to be too obsessed with some details in the story, and attaches too much importance to these details and emotional expressions. On the contrary, he doesn't care much about the coherence of the whole plot, and the effect of the film clips presented is not very in line with the sci-fi name and the entire framework of the movie.
As an actor, Li Xuan clearly feels that he and everyone are currently performing some scenes, and the plot is too blunt and twisted, more like a dull literary drama, which is not enough to meet the exciting rhythm of a sci-fi masterpiece.
It's just that as a small actor, and a supporting role in exchange for investment by Hejia Company, it is a bit awkward. In addition to being extremely careful to prove that he can do the role, he is unlikely to have the slightest influence on the director, producer, screenwriter and others.
For the time being, he only reluctantly thinks that he may be accustomed to all kinds of pure action movies, and he doesn't know much about the current genre movies with more than half of the narrative plot and a little action scene, and maybe Director Chen Jiashan is used to shooting the plot in terms of details first, and then filming a reasonable big frame and exciting plot later.
And this time, Li Xuan and Li Jiaxin and Liu Dehua are going to enter the city together today, which is obviously the specific details of the director's performance once again.
In the script, near the end, there was a scene of a football field, and the protagonist Liu Dehua, the heroine Li Jiaxin, and the supporting role Li Xuan have all appeared on it one after another.
This scene needed a football field, so the director pulled the entire crew to the Xiangjiang Stadium. After all, it is still a break period for football matches, and the stadium does not need to be used for the time being, so it is convenient for the crew to start filming. They shot the ending early, but it's nothing.
When Li Xuan and his party of three arrived at the Xiangjiang Stadium together and found the crew. In fact, it was still very early, and the director was still negotiating with the stadium staff, preparing to rent the right to use the stadium at night cheaply for filming.
So, while the other actors were temporarily closing their work to rest or work on the script, Li Xuan simply took a few hours off and went to the nearby city to do his own things.
Some things only need to be personally brought with enough documents and run a few more windows, so Li Xuan completed it in time and smoothly before those companies and offices got off work. He immediately officially gave himself a future, barely made some basic guarantees, and got rid of some worries as he wished. In the future, even if he encounters some Waterloo-like failure or dangerous situation, he will not really starve to death on the streets for the time being.
People who don't have a sense of security can only find ways to work hard to bring more security to themselves, which is Li Xuan's consistent style.
When Li Xuan rushed back to the Xiangjiang Stadium, it was finally getting dark, and it seemed that the time had come for that scene to be filmed. After all, the background of this scene in the script is mainly at night.
However, when Li Xuan rushed to the entrance outside the Xiangjiang Stadium again, he was surprised to find that not only did the crew still not be able to enter the stadium to prepare for filming, but there were suddenly more young gangsters!
What's the situation, this scene should not have the role of gangsters, could it be that the director temporarily changed the play?
Li Xuan immediately walked towards the crowd very unexpectedly, trying to get rid of the gangsters surrounded by the periphery, and went in the middle to understand the specific situation.
"Director Chen, when you go to the brothers' territory to film, you don't even notify us in advance, isn't it too shameful to give us face?"
Finally, when Li Xuan quietly squeezed into the crowd of gangsters on the periphery, without attracting the attention of the guys next to him, he clearly heard the position in the circle, a young man with a duck's voice, who was saying something to the director Chen Jiashan with some arrogance.
Well, it turned out that it was not the extras who came to act, but the real gangsters who came to collect protection money.
Hehe, but these gangsters are really bold enough, don't you know who the main producer of this "Heaven and Earth Ambition" is?
In addition, the date of the super event near the change of political status in Xiangjiang is gradually approaching, and it stands to reason that the underworld in Xiangjiang will be in the limelight recently, and their behavior should be very restrained. Now here, I didn't expect that there would be people who were not afraid of bad luck, and continued to come out and be domineering, and they didn't seem to be worried about being pulled out of the list after half a month.
In fact, in the past few years in the Xiangjiang film and television circle, Li Xuan has seen too many similar blackmail incidents in the past, but today he can still see the familiar gangsters who collect protection fees in the crew of "Heaven and Earth Ambition", but he is inevitably a little surprised.
After some unexpected thoughts quickly flashed in his heart, he took the initiative to push away the last two gangsters who were in the way and successfully entered the director's position.
"Director, my leave is over, and now I will cancel my leave to you. ”
Li Xuan has always looked down on those insatiable gangsters who don't work hard and get anything, and in his opinion, the mixed society also has to pay attention to morality. Therefore, he was deliberately speaking at the moment, in order to interrupt the threatening atmosphere that the other gangster leader in the field had created with great difficulty.
Director Chen Jiashan was quite helpless in the face of the gangsters' entanglement at this time, and his face was grim.
After seeing Li Xuan come back by chance, he nodded reluctantly, probably for the purpose of protecting the actors, he quickly pointed to the back and said, "Xiao Li, you go to the back to rest first, I'll talk to them first, and then film!"
At this time, Li Xuan hadn't responded, but the gangster leader took the lead in stealing the conversation: "What kind of filming, if you don't give enough money today, you don't want to have any chance to film! In addition, there are you, boy, you didn't see Lao Tzu talking to Director Chen, where did he come from, what did you say, believe it or not, Lao Tzu abolished you?"
"Don't believe it!"
Li Xuan, who had no intention of leaving, responded to this guy as soon as possible, and also showed a smile. Really, these gangsters look like they are the ones who are in the dark, and he's really not afraid.
"Yo he, there is such a horizontal one, no wonder your crew has the confidence not to pay protection fees. Come on, brothers, play with him twice, or they'll treat you all like decorations!" the little leader immediately turned around and waved to his companions.
Those gangsters who seemed to be very arrogant and domineering, when they heard the words of the eldest brother, they really laughed proudly one by one, and further gathered around Li Xuan, ready to make a move.
"Don't, this big brother, don't do it! we have something to say, he's an actor!" Seeing this, director Chen Jiashan was obviously a little anxious immediately, and hurriedly came out to take the initiative to defend Li Xuan, and at the same time hinted that Li Xuan should leave the place of right and wrong quickly.
Although Li Xuan played a supporting role in his play, he was not the first actor he wanted. But after makeup and Li Xuan's personal serious efforts, the supporting role met his requirements. Therefore, he did not have any opinion on Li Xuan himself. At this time, seeing that Li Xuan's situation was a little dangerous, he still took the initiative to come out to maintain it.
"What, the little actor is amazing? Haha, these days, any cat and dog can be an actor, why haven't I seen it? By the way, I seem to have seen Li Jiaxin just now, you help me call her out, and have a drink with my brothers, maybe when we are in a good mood, we won't teach this kid a lesson, and then we will waive your protection fee. The gangster leader suddenly smiled a little obscenely, quite shamelessly.
"Hahaha, the eldest brother is right, go and call Li Jiaxin out!" The little gangsters echoed excitedly, and their attitudes became more and more arrogant.