At eight o'clock in the morning of May 12, a remote railway fork next to Kunming Railway Station. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The newly decorated locomotive and two carriages are parked on the abandoned railway. In the open space next to it was a table covered with red cloth, on which were placed chickens, ducks, fish and a huge pig's head, surrounded by bananas, mangoes, dragon fruits and pineapples, and three incense sticks were inserted into the incense burner in the middle. The two camera sets are mounted on tripods, each covered with red cloth, and are set up on the left and right sides in front of the table.

Then each person had three sticks of incense, and director Sun Zhou stood in front of the offering table first, slightly closed his eyes and chanted words, bowed deeply three times, and inserted the incense into the incense burner. followed by Gong Li, Tai Grouphui, Wang Dalun and other main creators who incensed one by one.

Wang Dalun has been filming until now, and there was no such start-up ceremony at the beginning, and later when filming "Platform", under the strong suggestion of Yu Liwei, a simple start-up ceremony was held.

Later, this kind of boot ceremony gradually became popular, but it was the first time that it was as formal or as big as today. It is said that when the Hong Kong side starts up, there will not only be a suckling pig, but also a statue of Guan Gong.

However, roast suckling pig and Guan Gong statue are only popular in a corner of Lingnan, and in most parts of my vast and great motherland, it is still customary to use pig's heads as offerings. is also specific to what god to worship, everyone will worship whoever they have in their hearts, Buddha, Bodhisattva, all kinds of gods or Guan Lao, the land father-in-law...... The main thing is to respect one's profession, have a sense of awe for what he shoots, and pray that the shooting will go smoothly and nothing will happen.

The crew actually relies on the right time and place to eat, and there are too many uncontrollable factors, if there is a god to bless, of course, you must worship sincerely, and if not, ask for comfort.

Although it was a worship to the gods, the scene was still very happy! After everyone finished worshipping in turn, some people started to coax the director to give a lecture. Don't look at Sun Zhou's endless talk when discussing the plot in private, but if he wants him to stammer, he stammers in such a public, and the meaning of a few words over and over again is that I hope God will bless us, everyone will unite and work together to make the movie well.

In the end, Sun Zhou and Gong Li, Wang Dalun and Tai Guhui, as the main creators of the crew, jointly uncovered the red cloth covering the camera. In the warm applause and cheers of everyone, the start-up ceremony ended.

Then filming officially began.

There is a row of bungalows next to the open space, which were originally placed with some sundries in the station. The crew rented their train, which cost a lot of money, and the station was very cooperative with the crew's filming. Of course, there is also a role played by Gong Li's fame, Gong Li's performance is definitely a blockbuster, and the station also feels that there is light on his face. So not only did three rooms be freed up for the crew, but all the train supplies, including railway uniforms, were provided.

There are three rooms, one for equipment and props, one for costumes, and one for makeup. Today's first scene is about Zhou Yu taking two carefully selected pastel porcelain bowls to Chongyang on the train to see Chen Qing, and was accidentally hit by veterinarian Zhang Qiang when he got on the train, and the bowl broke. A pair of beautiful porcelain bowls, but one was broken, which also indicates that the relationship between her and Chen Qing did not come to fruition in the end.

"Later, everyone got on the train in order, and they all took the train, right?...... That's right, just how you get on the bus as usual, and how you get on the bus today. Now let's rehearse, everyone line up and listen to my command......"

The assistant director was directing twenty or thirty extras with a large microphone. These are all passengers on the train, it is said that the quality is quite high, one of the gray-haired old men is still a retired university professor, widowed and living alone, just happened to meet the crew recruitment, so he took the initiative to sign up. There are several people in this situation, they are all idle at home, they are not greedy for a salary of 30 yuan a day, most of them are holding the mentality of having fun, it is still a very new thing to make movies this year, not to mention that you can see the big star Gong Li up close.

Wang Dalun was wearing a navy blue Oxford spinning shirt, with an open arms, a slightly lighter blue T-shirt inside, and the prop was a large travel bag, which was carried on his shoulder.

Gong Li wore a silk slip dress similar to a pale rust red, a short-sleeved shirt in blue silk, and a cotton woven mesh bag in her hand, which contained a pair of pastel porcelain bowls wrapped in newspaper.

Sun Zhou looked at the outfits of the two, he was very satisfied with Gong Li's dress, this was originally the image of Zhou Yu designed by him, short-sleeved shirt with suspender dress, and made several sets for this, some lake green, some light blue, and moon white.

But Wang Dalun's dress made him always feel that there was something shortcoming, he frowned, habitually touched his chin, and muttered: "Dalun, take two steps and take a look." ”

Wang Dalun was carrying a big travel bag, one shoulder was slightly tilted, and his footsteps walked back and forth quickly, and said, "Director, do you think this is okay?"

It should be said that Wang Dalun has no problem walking, much like a passenger who is in a hurry to catch the car with luggage, and even Gong Li said on the side: "I think it's very good." ”

She has always had a good impression of Wang Dalun, and when she filmed "Beautiful Mother" before, although Wang Dalun only made a cameo appearance, she and Sun Zhou were deeply impressed at that time. It was precisely because of that cameo that Sun Zhou chose him, and she also felt that it was very suitable.

"Da Lun, take two more steps. ”

Wang Dalun continued to walk, and he regarded himself as a passenger catching the train, and walked more naturally. But Sun Zhou squinted, smashed his mouth twice, shook his head, and said, "It's still a little worse." ”

Wang Dalun was very puzzled, he looked down at his outfit, took two more steps, carried the strap of the travel bag on his right shoulder with one hand, and shook it with the other hand, and hesitated: "Or, I will carry something more with this hand?"

"Smack!" Sun Zhou's eyes suddenly lit up, and he patted his thigh and stood up excitedly: "Yes, yes, Zhang Qiang is a veterinarian, and he should take a veterinarian-like outpatient box or something when he goes out, yes, hey, props, come on!"

"Director!" the prop ran in from the outside.

"Well, you give Da Lun a veterinarian's visit box. Sun Zhou stretched out two index fingers and gestured in the air.

Veterinarian call box?

The props were instantly confused, what was the veterinarian's out-of-office box? Not to mention that he was not prepared, he had never even seen it.

"Director, what's this veterinarian call box?"

"Uh......"

Sun Zhou has never seen it, if it is a human doctor, it is the kind of square artificial leather made of a box with a red cross in the middle, and barefoot doctors used to take this kind of box when they went to the clinic, and the veterinarian should be different, right?

"Well, you have to think of a way, just like that, hurry up, the filming will start later. He shook his hand and pushed the puzzle back onto the props. The details aside, the key is to look coordinated.

"Hey, I'll figure it out. The props had to respond and go out to figure out a way.

"Director, how should I act when Da Lun hits me? I was in front, he pushed me from behind, and the bowl hit somewhere else and broke, or was I getting in the car, and he squeezed from the side, and the bowl hit the side of the car door and broke. Gong Li said as she held the net bag containing the bowl and gestured.

The shots taken in the car are mainly two details, one is that Zhang Qiang inadvertently bumped into Zhou Yu, and the other is that the bowl was broken. There are only a few words in the script.

"Da Lun, what do you say?"

Sun Zhou is more or less a little careful about what he means.

In fact, this kind of thing is not difficult for him at all, repeating the scenes in his mind and selecting the most reasonable clips from them has long become a necessary lesson for him before filming.

He said: "The key is that Zhang Qiang inadvertently bumped into Zhou Yu did not notice it? I think it should be not, because Zhang Qiang first noticed Zhou Yu on the train, Zhou Yu walked by his seat, at that moment he was completely amazed, and then he realized that the two often took the same train, so he tried every possible way to get close to Zhou Yu." ”

Without Sun Zhou's judgment, Gong Li realized that her previous understanding was a little biased, and she didn't consider it in the plot setting of the whole script, but she was inevitably a little uncomfortable in her heart, and her tone was a little stiff: "Then how do you say you should act?"

Wang Dalun looked out the window, the assistant director on the train was still rehearsing with the gang of sub-troupes on how to get on the train, and said with a smile: "Sister Gong Li, otherwise, let's line up on the spot first?"

"Okay!" Gong Li stood up very briskly, although she was a little emotional, acting came first.

The three of them were just about to go out when the prop came in with a black cylindrical object.

"Director, do you think this will work?"

"What is this?"

Everyone was happy when they saw it, what kind of veterinarian visit box was this, it was clearly a box with a shrinkable tripod specially set up for the camera. Looking at the prop's helpless look, it is estimated that he is really out of options, so he took this to make up the number.

"Give it a try. ”

Wang Dalun took it from the props and carried it on his shoulder, this kind of cylindrical box is made of leather, the workmanship is more elegant, the length is about 60 centimeters, there are both straps and tows, and it looks like that on the back.

He tried it and said, "Director, if that's it, who knows what the veterinarian's call box looks like." ”

"So be it. Sun Zhou hesitated, but nodded, it was going to be filmed in the morning, and it was impossible to let the props come out, it could only be like this, fortunately, it was not an important prop, it just played a coordinating role.

When the three of them walked out of the small bungalow that was temporarily used as a dressing room and walked to the side of the train, it immediately caused a commotion among the group performers who were originally rehearsing. The group performers had not yet entered the previous opening ceremony, after all, they were not professional group performances, and many of them were originally for Gong Li.

"Hey, Gong Li, it's really Gong Li!"

"Gong Li is so beautiful, how many years have it been, and she is still so beautiful, almost forty, right?"

Hey, how can there be such a discordant sound?

"Who is that? The man next to Gong Li looks familiar. ”

"Alai, like fog, like rain and like wind in "Alai", he died in the finale last night. ”

"It's true, the hair is longer than in the TV series, but the real person seems to be more ugly than the TV ......"

Oops, why is there still an unfriendly noise?

The assistant director took the microphone and hurriedly shouted: "Don't mess up, everyone, rehearse normally, rehearse normally!"

The problem is not only the group performances that are still queuing up next to the car, but even those who have already gotten in the car have run out of the car to watch the excitement, or poke their heads out of the car window, shouting Gong Li's name.

"Please obey the director's command, I will work with you for a week, and we will have the opportunity to communicate with each other. Now we are going to rehearse with you, and we will shoot in a while, so please cooperate with you!"

After all, Gong Li was used to seeing this kind of scene, and took the initiative to take the big horn in the assistant director's hand to help maintain order. The big star came out, and the effect was immediately obvious, just now the assistant director shouted for a long time, no one birded him, as soon as Gong Li spoke, the group performers immediately quieted down.

"Hey, rehearse first, rehearse first, we have to shoot together for a week, and there is a chance. ”

"Ah, Gong Li doesn't have a shelf at all, hey, don't look at it, what about you, let's cooperate......"

On the contrary, many people spontaneously help persuade others.

The scene returned to an orderly state, Wang Dalun was carrying what we tentatively call a veterinarian on his left shoulder, and a large travel bag on his right shoulder, standing in front of the car door, and at the same time signaling Gong Li to come behind him.

"Sister Gong Li, you stand and pull this handrail. He pointed to the handrail on the side of the car door, and said to a middle-aged group performer on the side: "Big brother, you will block me later, and the action of getting into the car will be a little slower, will you?"

"Cheng!" said the middle-aged group performer excitedly.

He was a play, and he deliberately stopped Wang Dalun, and then got into the car with a very slow movement, and at the same time didn't forget to turn around and say, "Do you think this is possible?"

"Well, big brother, you move a little more naturally, and don't look back, just get in the car, just slow down. ”

"Oops, I see. The middle-aged group performer nodded again and again.

Gong Li, who followed behind, also smiled at this time and said, "I also understand." ”

As she spoke, she stood behind Wang Dalun, grabbed the lever handrail by the door with her left hand, held the net bag with the bowl in her right hand, and half-turned around and said: "You were squeezed in front of you, and when you retreated, you just happened to squeeze me, and then I turned around like this, and the net bag in my hand happened to smash on the carriage." ”

"yes, let's try it?"

"Well, try!"

In the script, it should be the train horn, which is about to leave, and Zhou Yu hurriedly ran over to get on the train.

"Okay, ready, action!"

Sun Zhou, who had been standing aside and watching them interact, also helped shout at this time.

Because the net pocket was filled with porcelain, Gong Li was very careful with it, the train was about to leave, she trotted over, grabbed the lever by the door, and prepared to follow Wang Dalun to get on the train.

This time, the middle-aged group actor was very clever and stopped Wang Dalun in front of him at the right time.

"Hey, big brother, you can't stand here......"

Saying that, his body was squeezed away by the middle-aged group performer, and the cylinder box on his left shoulder was against the car door at one end, and the other end happened to touch Gong Li behind him with the rotation of his body, and Gong Li stepped aside.

"Poof!", the net bag in his right hand smashed right on the carriage.

"Click, yes, yes, I think I can shoot for real. ”

A very simple shot, Sun Zhou still applauded happily, it can be regarded as a good start!