Chapter 287: The Blind Well
It's already past eight o'clock in the morning when I got back to the town, and today is the market day, and the town is bustling. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The info crew arranged for everyone to have breakfast first and then go back to the hotel to rest. Something so big happened that filming couldn't be done for the time being.
Wang Dalun has no appetite, in addition to noodles or noodles in Shanxi, it tastes good to eat occasionally, and he eats too much, which is really not used to being a southerner.
Many people, like him, have no appetite, and the main thing is that they have not recovered from the fear of the early morning. He returned to the hotel, washed his face, and fell asleep, in addition to physical fatigue, but also tired. In a trance, there are always the shadows of the miners shaking in front of his eyes, but he can never see their faces clearly......
"Uncle!"
In a daze, Wang Dalun was woken up by a hurried voice.
"Baoqiang, what's wrong?" he said as he opened his eyes a little blindly.
"Uncle, something happened, Hu Xiaoye ran away with someone, Sister Jing also ran away, and the director went crazy. Wang Baoqiang said eagerly, but his face was more frightened.
This scene is only halfway through filming, and the producers, props, and some actors have run away, so how should this be done? What he is most afraid of is that if this scene is yellow, he will have no money for 1,500 yuan in labor fees, and what will he take home for the New Year! He has been an extras for two years, and he has not seen this kind of scene go yellow for one reason or another in the middle of filming.
"Huh?"
Wang Dalun was startled, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter? How can this be?"
"I ...... I ......" Wang Baoqiang was in a hurry and even broke out the vernacular in the play, "I went downstairs to eat, and I heard that they ran away after eating, and the director was angry there." ā
Wang Dalun felt like he was taking a nap just now, and when he took a look at his mobile phone, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon.
He hurriedly put on his clothes and walked out of the door, and as soon as he arrived in the corridor, he heard Li Yang's extremely angry voice: "This bastard, how can he be like this! How dare he ...... like this?"
Li Yang's temper is really good, even if there are actors or staff who complain about poor treatment during the filming, he is the worst crew he has ever worked with, he will greet him with a smile, and if he can't do it, he will invite guests to dinner. But today was the first time that everyone had seen him so angry. Maybe he has been abroad for a long time, thinking that if he treats others sincerely, others will treat him sincerely. Unexpectedly, his sincerity was exchanged for betrayal.
His hair was disheveled, his face was flushed, and his bloodshot eyes contained a deep sadness.
"Apart from Hu Xiaoye and Jingjing, who else has run away?" asked Wang Dalun.
Wang Dalun is a salary in exchange for box office dividends, and in a sense, he is also the boss. Bao Zhenjiang, who was also angry, said: "Except that the two of them are props, makeup, drivers and a few assistants, they have already colluded." Hu Xiaoye was a bastard, and he didn't forget to take away all their labor fees before leaving, and even turned off his special mobile phone!"
The entire crew, counting the migrant workers who moved props, had only more than 30 people in total, and as soon as they left, there were one-third fewer people at once. To be honest, Wang Dalun didn't have a good impression of Hu Xiaoye as soon as he arrived at this crew, he felt that this person was very empty, and every time he went down the well, he complained the most, which also made Li Yang have a good temper, if he changed someone, I am afraid he would have turned his face a long time ago.
Hu Xiaoye is the producer, who usually manages the money and logistics of the crew, but fortunately, except for the labor fees of those who ran away, he didn't dare to touch the other money. After all, this is Li Yang's money, and if the money is really moved, it will not be a civil dispute, but a criminal case.
But no matter what, Hu Xiaoye and Jing Jing and others ran like this, coupled with yesterday's incident in the mine, the rest of the crew will inevitably be panicked, and the most important thing at the moment is to appease people's hearts, otherwise if someone runs away, then this scene will be yellow.
Fortunately, after some persuasion, Li Yang immediately calmed down, and the first thing he did was to convene a meeting of the remaining personnel. Although Hu Xiaoye and the female number one ran away, everyone saw that the three leading actors were there, especially Wang Dalun, who was a new actor, and everyone could insist, and everyone else naturally felt at ease, including Wang Baoqiang, who was still panicking just now and was afraid that he would not be able to get his labor fees.
However, although people's hearts have calmed down, they still have to face practical problems. The first is the problem of the site, the mine on Mine Manager Yao's side can't be filmed, and through this incident, they suddenly discovered that a small coal kiln like this, going down to the bottom of the mine to film, is simply tying their head to the waistband of their trousers, absolutely not, they must change to a big mine.
The second script problem, the female number one ran away, and there was a post office scene behind that was not filmed, and it was too troublesome to change people, so I could only revise the script.
The third is the problem of funds, for the filming some time ago, almost half of the money has been spent, plus the labor fees that Hu Xiaoye took away privately this time, it is 100,000 yuan less, which makes the originally stretched funds even worse.
For a whole afternoon, Li Yang asked friends everywhere to contact several large state-owned mines, including the Kailuan Coal Mine in Hebei Province, but the reply he got was that people were afraid that it would affect production and safety.
When eating dinner, Wang Dalun saw Li Yang looking dejected, and couldn't help but say, "Do you want to ask Teacher Liu Qingbang to think of a way?"
In his opinion, Liu Qingbang is the original work of this movie, and he has worked in the coal system for a long time, and now he is a senior reporter and editor of "China Coal News".
As a result, Li Yang's expression became scornful, and he later told him that because of the adaptation of the final ending of the script, he and Mr. Liu Qingbang were very unhappy.
It turned out that in Mr. Liu Qingbang's original work "Shenmu", at the end, Yuan Fengming told the mine owner everything he saw at the bottom of the well, telling the truth, and also said that Song Jinming was not his second uncle at all.
The mine owner only gave Yuan Fengming a little money and sent him home.
At the end of Li Yang's adaptation, Yuan Fengming did not tell the truth, he took the 60,000 yuan pension given to him by the mine owner, and then stood at the door of the crematorium and watched the smoke in the chimney rise......
Teacher Liu Qingbang is very opposed to Li Yang's adaptation of this ending, what he values most is the purity of Yuan Fengming's heart, and thinks that he should not become like that. However, Li Yang insisted on his own opinion, thinking that he knew etiquette and knew etiquette when he was honest, and knew honor and disgrace when he had enough food and clothing.
In this regard, Wang Dalun affirmed Li Yang's opinion, and he asked himself, even if he didn't have the dilemma of having no money to pay tuition for himself and his sister like Yuan Fengming, he might not be able to do it without taking this money.
Moreover, he also asked Wang Baoqiang in private, if he encountered such a situation, would he tell the truth? As a result, the stupid boy looked at him like a fool, and said as a matter of course: "If you don't take this money for nothing, you will be a fool to tell the truth." ā
He also said that no matter what happens, the mine owners can't be cheap, they make ill-gotten gains, and taking their money is robbing the rich and helping the poor.
However, Li Yang, who was forced by reality to have no choice, finally had the cheekiness to ask Mr. Liu Qingbang for help, Mr. Liu Qingbang ignored his previous suspicions, and he also very much hoped that his works could be moved to the big screen, and immediately helped them contact a state-owned mine in Henan.
On the last night before leaving, Li Yang locked himself in his room for a night, saying that he wanted to revise the script, and the next morning, when he came out of the room with red eyes, the script was revised and the name of the movie was changed.
"Hometown" became "Blind Well".
At first, people didn't understand. Li Yang spat out two English words, "Blind Shaft".
Blind means blind, blind, blind, and can be understood as blindness.
The noun shaft means well, shaft, while the verb means mistreatment, mistreatment, and deception.
The word blind well is completely invented by Li Yang, and the original meaning may be "invisible evil".
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The state-owned mine that Mr. Liu Qingbang contacted was a modern mine called Changchun Coal Mine, with inclined shafts and large openings in the mountains, which were paved with railroad tracks, and small cars automatically transported coal out.
Everyone watched it very steadily.
Most of the works created by Mr. Liu Qingbang reflect the life of coal miners, although he works in the capital, but every year he has to live in the mines, it is said that except for Tibet, almost all the mines in the country have his footprints. And his connections in the coal system are really not covered, and the local mining bureau specially arranged a section chief of the Xuan Traditional Warfare Department to be responsible for contacting the crew.
It is said that the section chief has received the favor of teacher Liu Qingbang before, and he helped the crew arrange it in a particularly authentic way, and the whole mine was suspended, because the underground light was too dark, explosion-proof lights were temporarily arranged, and dozens of people were also prepared to serve as extras. The comrades of the Propaganda Department of Changchun Coal Mine specially assisted in the filming and arranged special personnel to shoot the stills.
Not only Li Yang, but even Wang Dalun, Wang Shuangbao and other crew members were flattered, they were used to staying in the small coal kiln with difficult conditions in Shanxi, and it was a little uncomfortable to change to a large state-owned mine with good conditions.
However, there is one point, the coal mine specially arranged a local hotel with very good conditions and facilities for the crew to stay, which frightened Gao Hua, who Li Yang had just invited to be the producer, the crew's funds were too hard, and two people couldn't afford to live in one room at all. Later, there were only two main creators such as the director, assistant director, and leading actor, and the rest were a few people in one room, and the workers carrying equipment and props slept on the carpet of the hotel It was already very good.
It seems that everything is available, but it is not smooth when it is really going to be filmed, before the small coal kiln rises to the top of the dead, everyone still has a psychological shadow, most of the staff will inevitably hesitate when going down the mine, and Liu Yonghong This guy is very superstitious, and he resolutely does not let the female field record go down with him, saying that it is unlucky. The section chief who was accompanying him was dumbfounded, he probably didn't expect that these very high-sounding movie-making people would be so superstitious.
Shooting in the well, Wang Dalun and Wang Shuangbao are old rivers and lakes after all, although it is inevitable that there will be some drumming in their hearts, but they will be able to adjust it soon. But Wang Baoqiang's stupid boy can't do it, after all, he is still young, and when he hears the "creak" sound of the support, this kid is afraid.
There was a scene where he was going to shoot a sweaty shovel of coal, and the field workers had to constantly spray water on him to make sweat. But because of fear, this kid caused his movements to be deformed, and he filmed it over and over again, and finally because of the water spraying too much, this stupid boy actually caught a cold, plus he was nervous, and he couldn't control his emotions anymore, and shouted: "Director, I really can't act, I want to go to the well." ā
Li Yang also persuaded him in a good voice, Wang Dalun couldn't stand it, so many people went down the well, and if he didn't finish filming, he walked over and kicked him in the ass, glared and said, "What did you tell you last time, do you want to go home?"
Wang Baoqiang looked at him, his mouth was deflated, and he looked like he was about to cry, and he looked very bad. In the end, Li Yang comforted him, gave him some water, and gave him a red envelope by the way, which was considered to stop.
Rao is like this, this scene was filmed for more than 30 hours, setting a new record for the crew to shoot underground.
February 5th, the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, just after the New Year. The day before, the Mining Bureau specially invited the crew to have a meal at the famous local Juri Hotel, and everyone drank very happily.
It's been more than half a month since I went to the Changchun Coal Mine to shoot, except for some stumbles at the beginning, but then I got on the right track, and the filming progress was faster.
In fact, when the drama was filmed, everyone could even be said to have experienced life and death together, so they cherished the little time they had left. Because today is the last scene left, and it will be finished after filming.
At the same time, there was a faint excitement in everyone's hearts, not the excitement of completing the work, but just like Hu Xiaoye and Quiet, on the day they ran away, Li Yang said when he called everyone to a meeting: "If you stay, you may not get anything, but you have a real work." ā
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"Da Lun, Brother Bao, are you ready?" Li Yang stood up from behind the monitor and said with a serious face.
"Ready. ā
"Alright. ā
Li Yang nodded and shouted, "All departments prepare, action!"
In fact, at the beginning of this scene, Li Yang designed that Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang would go through a fight, and both were defeated, and Yuan Fengming, who was rescued by Song Jinming, fled in a panic, and finally with the sound of a cannon, the two guys who had committed a lot of crimes and had blood on their hands were buried in the coal pile......
In the original version, several actors did not dare to approach the coal wall of Wotou for their own safety, resulting in the camera not being able to shoot from a height.
But now Wang Dalun is also afraid in his heart, but he still has the necessary professionalism, and he shoots honestly according to the director's intentions. Even if Wang Shuangbao and Wang Baoqiang were also scared, they could only bite the bullet when they saw that he had no opinion.
With Li Yang's "action!" I saw Wang Dalun squatting on the left, tilting his head, and Wang Shuangbao squatting behind him on the right, holding two stones in his hands, and fiddling with them.
Two seconds later, Wang Baoqiang entered the mirror and said, "The water is here, Uncle Tang, you drink water." ā
"I don't drink it, give it to your second uncle. ā
Wang Baoqiang came to Wang Dalun again, sat down face to face, and said with a smile: "Second uncle, give!"
Wang Dalun glanced at him, with a tangle in his eyes, took the kettle and took a sip.
Wang Shuangbao also glanced at him, looking extremely penetrating, and asked, "Feng Ming, are you homesick?"
"Why, don't you want to?"
"Then let your second uncle send you home, right?"
"Not yet, I haven't earned enough money!" Wang Baoqiang said in a daze, picked up the kettle, and took a sip himself.
According to the usual number of roads, it was time to do it at this moment, but Wang Dalun held the pickaxe in his hand, but he didn't do it for a long time.
Wang Shuangbao was behind him, and he waved his pickaxe first.
And when Wang Baoqiang saw his movements, he couldn't help blurting out, "Uncle Tang, what are you doing?"
Wang Dalun was reluctant to do it, and he used various reasons to delay it before, Wang Shuangbao had already seen that he was soft-hearted, and at this moment he had already made up his mind, if Wang Dalun did it, forget it, if he still refused to do it, he would do it together, and then not only would no one share the money, but he could also get one more.
Wang Baoqiang's voice fell, and he saw that Wang Dalun's eyes suddenly opened, and he didn't have time to think about it, his center of gravity shifted, and his body fell to the side.
"Bang!"
Wang Shuangbao's pickaxe rubbed against his thigh and smashed to the ground, and the rubble splattered. Although the pickaxe was made of wood and painted, rubbing it on his thighs still made Wang Dalun feel a hot pain.
And Wang Shuangbao sneaked up from behind, he was 100% sure, but he really didn't expect it to fail, and he was stunned for a moment.
"Ahh
Wang Dalun rolled around twice in embarrassment, covering his legs, and his painful muscles burst out. He is not acting, but really feeling, at this time he was even more surprised, he didn't expect Wang Shuangbao to do it with him.
Wang Baoqiang was completely frightened, and stood up with a roll and shrunk to the side.
Wang Shuangbao didn't pay attention to him at all, only carrying a pickaxe, approaching Wang Dalun step by step. The two looked at each other, one fierce, the other cold, they didn't need to speak, and each other's thoughts were instantly transparent.
Wang Dalun looked at the other party coming to him, and was about to swing the pickaxe again, when he suddenly picked up a stone and threw it in his face, and then his hand supported the ground, and the whole person rushed forward.
Wang Shuangbao subconsciously turned his head, but felt a strong force coming from his waist and abdomen, and he was suddenly knocked to the ground.
With a "bang", the pickaxe was taken off.
Wang Dalun is on top, Wang Shuangbao is below, scuffling, tearing, punching, kicking, and the next second, he is under and the other party is on top.
The hard hats of both of them had been removed, and the miner's lamp was rolling out of the distance, with a bright light in the corner. One shines on the top of the cave, the rocks are intertwined with wooden beams, thick and high, like heaven, and the other shines on the ground, the rails are paved with coal, rotten and dirty, like an abyss.
The cave became darker, and only a lamp on Wang Baoqiang's head remained, weakly reflecting the two black shadows, rolling and colliding in the lacquered mine, like two wild beasts in the wasteland biting and killing each other.
"Whew!"
"Whew!"
In the claustrophobic space, there was the sound of heavy wheezing of the two people, and the rustling of clothes rubbing against the rubble.
"Ahh
At this time, I saw a certain black shadow flipping to it, grabbing the other party's head with both hands, and knocking it down hard. The man below screamed and stopped moving.
Immediately, the black shadow trembled up against the cave wall, staggered back two steps, took the pickaxe, aimed at the unconscious guy, and made up for it, but he used too much force and fell to the ground.
Wang Baoqiang immediately looked over, and the miner's lamp hit the black shadow's face at once.
As soon as the light turned on, I saw that face, as if it had just climbed up from hell, was covered with black stains, but its eyes were as red as a beast.
This black and red, intertwined, are so shocking, full of the taste of primordial blood, exposed to the light.
Wang Baoqiang finally couldn't support it, turned around and ran out, stumbling all the way.
"Didi!"
At this moment, outside the mine tunnel, a rapid whistle suddenly sounded, reminding everyone that the cannon was about to be fired.
Liu Yonghong carried the machine and slowly zoomed out the camera: in the empty mine, only the black shadow struggled to get up, but after several attempts, he was physically exhausted and finally failed to stand up, panting and unable to move.
Wang Dalun was lying on his back, looking at the mottled cave roof, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, I don't know whether he was relieved to save the stupid boy, or felt that his retribution had finally arrived, and at this moment he was finally relieved.
"Boom"
The camera is pitch black......