Wang Dalun originally planned to avoid the peak of the Spring Festival and go back after New Year's Day. Taking advantage of the discount activities in the shopping mall on New Year's Day, he specially went to Xidan to buy gifts for his family.

In the past two years, the kind of fur coat that has been turned over has been popular, and he bought two for his parents. Dad is tall and burly, and if he buys the kind of big black collar, if he combs his back and puts on a pair of sunglasses, he will definitely look like the boss of the black society. The old lady has white skin, red, and a fur collar, and she must be beautiful and graceful after wearing it, and the old lady must like it. promised a lot of genuine HelloKitty dolls, and bought her a very fashionable down sweater.

I just packed up and was about to buy train tickets, but I was slipped by Zhang Yuan's phone call. Zhang Yuan was busy filming the MV of an album recently, and the assistant director took a leave of absence to go back, so Zhang Yuan called Wang Dalun over to make a cameo appearance as the assistant director.

Wang Dalun could be an assistant director, but Zhang Yuan opened his mouth, so he could only go over hard. When I arrived on the set, I knew that this was the assistant director, who was responsible for coordinating the scene, managing props, and ordering a box lunch. I had no choice but to work for the lion's head for half a month.

In mid-January, it was already the peak of the Spring Festival, and the entire Beijing station was densely packed with people, Wang Dalun inquired, the ticket from the capital to Hangzhou, not to mention the sleeper, even the special hard seat was very tight, and the date was already scheduled to the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Just when he was at a loss, the sissy Peter Chen suddenly called, saying that their company invited him to attend the annual meeting as a special guest, and their Beijing office also specially booked a plane ticket for Wang Dalun.

Their company headquarters is in Ningbo Bo, Zhejiang Province, more than 300 kilometers away from Wang Dalun's hometown, and the traffic in the province is very convenient. Wang Dalun got on the plane with the people from their company's Beijing office.

When he arrived at the clothing company, Wang Dalun was surprised to find that he was still quite sought after, and employees kept asking him to sign autographs. After inquiring with Peter Chen, I learned that "Thunderstorm" was recently being broadcast on Zhejiang Provincial TV, and in this era when TV dramas were still relatively scarce, the ratings were very high.

In fact, some things are quite strange to say, if you don't know this person, you won't be very impressed after watching TV, but if you pay attention deliberately, you will find that this person on the TV screen is very good. It is said that the proprietress loves to watch "Thunderstorm", and she doesn't pull a single episode, of course, people must pay attention to Zhao Wenxuan's kind of killer. However, at the annual meeting, the proprietress also came over to toast Wang Dalun with a glass of wine and praised his acting skills in the play, which made him very flattered.

This brand of clothing was originally developed from township enterprises, so it is also very practical to hold an annual meeting. The location is in the huge factory building that has not yet been put into use in the second phase, with more than 100 tables, and dozens of large stoves outside are stir-frying vegetables, full of local flavor. Wang Dalun was originally from the countryside and enjoyed this atmosphere very much.

After the meeting, the company also prepared New Year's goods for him. It is near the sea, and most of it is seafood, plus a box of Wuliangye. It's all hard goods, and Wang Dalun was so happy that he got into the car specially arranged by the company to send him home directly.

The Spring Festival of '97 was a peaceful, peaceful and happy Spring Festival. Wang Dalun was a little happy to stay in his hometown. Just after the Lantern Festival, he received a call from Lao Jia.

"When are you coming?" asked Lao Jia.

"Just stay in my hometown for two more days if I don't have anything to do. ”

"Come here, I have something to discuss with you. Lao Jia's voice was full of excitement.

"What's the good thing?"

Lao Jia usually doesn't like to show his feelings, and he originally had a face that was worried about the country and the people, which gave people a unique depth. But Wang Dalun still knows him well, in fact, this person is sullen. Hearing his eager tone on the phone, you knew that something good must be there.

"I've got the money!"

"How much?"

"200,000 yuan! The Hong Kong boss invested me to make a movie. Lao Jia was very excited on the phone, as if he was telling Wang Dalun a great news.

"Two hundred thousand, dollars?"

"Well, it's RMB. ”

200,000 yuan want to make a movie? Wang Dalun didn't know what to say. Let's just say that Zhang Yuan's "East Palace and West Palace" invested 250,000 US dollars, equivalent to 2 million yuan, and in the end, it was almost not enough.

"Then what movie did the Hong Kong boss ask you to make?"

"Whatever I want, I can make whatever movie I want. "Lao Jia is very proud, because this is the greatest freedom for him, and it is also what he wants the most.

Then he said: "I know that 200,000 is a little less, but I think it is enough to save a little bit to shoot, we can't afford to use 35mm film, so we can use 16mm, I must make a real movie with film." I want you to be the lead actor in my movie. ”

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"You're going to shoot this?"

Three days later, Wang Dalun sat in Lao Jia's house, flipping through a few pieces of paper in his hand, and his eggs hurt. What is the name and specialty of "Jin Xiaoyong's buddy, Hu Meimei's family, Liang Changyou's son: Xiao Wu".

Lao Jia was very anxious on the phone, Wang Dalun put down the phone and set off, and went directly to him without even returning to the rental house, but Lao Jia showed him this thing, and it was not finished yet.

"Then you're not going to shoot "Gentle Night"?"

Lao Jia shook his head and said: "I don't like to make any idol dramas, but I wrote it when Chen Yueqiang said that he could get investment." Now since I want to make anything, I am afraid of anything, then I want to make a movie for ordinary people. ”

When Lao Jia said this, his eyes flashed with fanaticism. Wang Dalun knows that this has always been his ideal, he wants to make a film that is different from others, he wants to make a film that can truly reflect the Chinese era and this society.

Lao Jia then said: "You have to learn Fenyang dialect." I wanted to use dialects in the film to make it more realistic. Because in the daily life of a small county, everyone will not communicate with others in Mandarin at all. I am in such a hurry to call you here, just to take advantage of the past few days to let you learn Fenyang dialect with me. In a few days, the photographers from Hong Kong will be coming. ”

"Okay. Since he promised Lao Jia, Wang Dalun has nothing to say.

Wang Dalun's ability to learn dialects surprised Lao Jia, and he was able to communicate with him in Fenyang dialect in a decent way in two days. In fact, Wang Dalun had a Fenyang worker who lived in the same dormitory as him in his last life, and that guy spoke Fenyang dialect, and he would naturally say a few words after listening to it.

A few days later, the Hong Kong photographer arrived, his name was Yu Liwei, very young, in his early thirties, not tall, with a very high hairline, it is said that he graduated from the Belgian National Film School, majoring in cinematography, and he sounded very tall. And this product actually mixed up in the Beijing Film Academy, lived in the student dormitory, and also made a documentary called "Beautiful Soul".

Yu Liwei and Lao Jia met at the Hong Kong Independent Film Festival, Lao Jia won the Gold Award for Independent Short Film and Feature Film for "Little Mountain Comes Home", and he won the Gold Award for Documentary for "Beautiful Soul", a documentary he made at the Film Academy. At that time, as soon as the two communicated, they hated to see each other late, smelled like each other, and hit it off. This time, Lao Jia specially invited him to come over and serve as the cinematographer of this film.

Yu Liwei is a self-acquaintance, and he greeted everyone very warmly as soon as they met. A few people in the film group had an impression of him, but Wang Dalun had no memory, but Yu Liwei said with certainty that he had seen him, but they had never spoken to each other.

Gu is the assistant director, Wang Hongwei is the production director, Lin Xiaoling is the recording engineer, Liang Jingdong is the artist, and Zhao Zhebiao, a Hong Kong classmate from the photography department who helped Lao Jia, serves as Yu Liwei's deputy.

In terms of actors, Wang Dalun is the male number one. The actress who plays the female number one was recommended by the actress Zhu Liqin in "Little Mountain Comes Home", she is a student of a model class in the Art Department of Beijing Normal University. originally said that she would be allowed to play "Gentle Night", but now "Gentle Night" will not be filmed, but "Xiao Wu" will be remade, Lao Jia thinks she should be Hu Meimei.

As for the other actors, it has not been implemented, but looking at Lao Jia's appearance of an old god, he should have a spectrum in his heart.

The preparations are in full swing, but Lao Jia's script has never been completed. Yu Liwei and Gu Zheng were going to Fenyang to see the scenery, and Lao Jia pulled Wang Dalun and Lin Xiaoling together. Lao Jia said that he was going to the field to find inspiration, and Wang Dalun was asked to listen to the most authentic Fenyang dialect. As for Lin Xiaoling, it is purely accompanied.

Early the next morning, a group of five people rushed to Lize Bridge long-distance bus station to take a bus. Early in the morning, there were few passengers at the station. Lao Jia called the four men to the empty parking lot outside to smoke, talking about Lao Jia's unfinished script. Lin Xiaoling was wearing a civilian officer's uniform and was alone in the waiting room looking at her luggage. This time, Lao Jia asked her to put on a military uniform and go to Fenyang, saying that this would have a deterrent effect. As for who he wanted to deter, Lao Jia didn't mention it, maybe he wanted Lin Xiaoling to be a bodyguard.

The car passed Shijiazhuang and entered Taihang Mountain. Gu Zheng, who was born in the magic capital, looked at the mountains outside the window and was very excited, but Wang Dalun scoffed, this kind of bare mountain is not beautiful at all, only the kind of mountain in his hometown is full of green, there are trees and bamboos, and the mountain is surrounded by streams, such a scenery is beautiful! He chatted with Lao Jia, who was also accustomed to seeing mountains, for a while, and then fell asleep in a daze.

When the long-distance bus arrived at the junction of He, Beitongshan, and Xixi, it was stopped by the traffic police. There were hundreds of cars that were stopped, and a long line was parked at the toll booth. Gu Zheng ran over to ask the traffic police what the situation was, and the traffic police's reply was that they had been notified that there was fog on the highway in Shanxi Province. But as far as the eye can see, the sky is clear in early spring. Later, it became known that there was a contradiction between the traffic police in Hebei and the traffic police in Shanxi, and they fought against each other in intercepting vehicles......

After sitting on the bus and waiting for about two hours, because they were worried that they would not be able to arrive at night, the five people had to take their luggage and get off the highway, intercept a minibus on the national highway, and squeeze in, all the way they could only stare at the roof of the car on their heads bumping up and down.