Chapter 306: The Cat Keeper

Zheng Si here, before he came, Jiao's father told him that he would pretend to be stupid if necessary.

What do you mean by "when necessary"?

For example, if you don't want to shoot, if you don't want to cooperate, if you don't want to cooperate, if you don't adapt to the location, when you are not feeling well or have an urgency, you can pretend to be stupid, pretend that you don't know how to act or just roll in place, who made him a cat, and how high can the people in the film crew be for a cat? The headache is for the team to deal with, Xiao Guo sent so many people over not to make soy sauce, it is said that Xiao Guo and Jiao's father did not negotiate in private, and Zheng Si didn't believe it.

However, this is good for him, Zheng Si understands, it's okay to be smart, but if you act too smart, it will make people suspicious, for some unnecessary trouble, sometimes it's safer to be stupid.

Zheng Si didn't shoot many shots before, but this time he was rare to endure, after all, this kind of documentary is different from advertising, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources, Zheng Si has to be responsible for this job, and these shots are very common for ordinary cats, and the boycott is really unreasonable.

Zheng Si is not very comfortable wearing "makeup", and he has to touch up the makeup every once in a while, especially the eyebrows and mustaches that are inadvertently rubbed off and have to be recolored, after all, Zheng Si's beard is black, and the cat beard in the photo is white.

Fortunately, Zheng Si's efficiency is relatively high, and the whole shooting is much less than Yang Yiji's drawing.

The people in the filming team thought that it would take a long time to shoot these, but they didn't expect this cat to be so cooperative, in their opinion, cat intelligence is naturally one of them, and more is the team that followed the few who heard that it was a special cat care team. The people of the filming team also pulled the team members sent by Xiao Guo to exchange experiences in their free time, but they didn't know that several people in the team were so smiling that their faces were almost stiff, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense about some facts, they had signed several contracts, and they would deal with what Xiao Guo said.

Now Zheng Si doesn't know how he acted, he can only see from Yang Yi's expression whether it is up to standard, and the specific effect can only wait for the production to be completed. The old man who played with Zheng Si looked more like Yang Yi's grandfather from the side, of course, he also wore makeup, and he tried to be more like. Plus some filming techniques. Zheng Si believes that when it is really produced, it should be able to satisfy Yang Yi.

Among them, Zheng Si also came into contact with some things commonly used in that era, such as furnace ash cat litter. At that time, almost every household burned coal. Easy to pack up. There are also handmade cat lanes. The people in the courtyard made their own for the little bastards who came in and out all day, opened a half-foot square hole and hung a curtain. Fat, larger cats will also drive bigger. There wasn't much high-tech, but it was very good at the time.

In addition to Zheng Si, Rice and Millet also made a cameo, and Yang Yi wanted to shoot some scenes where the cats were usually active and playing.

Among them, Xiaomi did a great job to Yang Yi's joy, that guy can immediately get high even if it is alone, schizophrenia kicking and scratching himself to bite the soles of his feet, running around quickly on the narrow wall, and after playing refreshed, the tail in the shape of an S shape is raised, and the chrysanthemum is facing the sunset, stretching his waist in a pouting style, and then, he began to call for food.

Everyone was happy when they were shooting. Zhao Le's mother also came to the scene in person, and she didn't care about her cat's embarrassing appearance at all, but felt that cats should be like this. Zheng Si can see that Zhao Le's mother takes Xiaomi very seriously, and it seems that Xiaomi has a very good appetite for this one.

And on the rice side, although there is no stage fright, it is too calm and quiet in comparison, standing on the high wall and not moving, Yang Yi doesn't know what to do, after all, this cat was requested by Fang Shaokang on his own initiative, so he has to shoot something, right?

"Are these two really brothers?" A member of the crew asked. He was referring to millet and rice.

"Rice is a girl!" Fang Mengmeng's ears were pointed, and he corrected after hearing it.

"Oh, girl, it's quiet." The crew of the filming team smiled, he didn't know about cats, and he didn't know how to determine the gender of some special cases based on patterns, after laughing, he looked at Fang Mengmeng and said, "Then can you make your rice Jiao smile?" ”

Smiling?

Can a cat smile?

Fang Mengmeng teased under the wall for a long time, the rice squatting on the wall finally moved, the front paws stepped on the spot twice, straightened his back, looked down, and finally pulled out a mad "laugh".

All the members of the filming crew watching: "......"

Nima, it's terrifying!

A few people scratched their arms unconsciously, feeling goosebumps rising.

Fang Mengmeng didn't think anything of it, because usually rice is only more natural when it is facing familiar people, once it is unnatural, it is either facial paralysis, or this kind of expression, even more so when he is in a bad mood, Fang Shaokang has a deep understanding of this.

Now the rice probably feels that there are too many people under the wall who don't know it, and the atmosphere is a little dull, it is not as active as millet, and it usually doesn't take the initiative to stretch out its claws outside, just now Fang Mengmeng teased for a long time and didn't see it stretch out its claws, and can only judge its emotional changes by facial expressions. Of course, it wasn't necessarily a smile from rice just now, but a change in his face and mouth, which looked like a smile. However, it can only be like this.

"Okay, the shot just now is good, every cat is different, we have to shoot the grade and the characteristics." Yang Yi was quite satisfied, at least he shot something new, and at the same time he was able to explain to Fang Shaokang.

At the end of this period, millet was taken away by Zhao Le's mother, and before leaving, Zheng Si also heard Zhao Le's mother talking about rice when chatting with the people next to her, and said in a happy tone that it was millet that was brought back, otherwise it would be depressing if you encounter rice.

On the rice side, Fang Mengmeng was even more glad that she chose rice, millet was too good to toss, and her own rice was obedient.

Maybe in some people's words, other people's cats are always good, but even if they praise other people's cats, in the hearts of cat owners, the first place is their own cats, regardless of whether they are stubborn or stuffy gourds, their own cats love their own cats.

This documentary does not only have those things about Yang Yi's grandfather, the film crew also interviewed some other people, although the subsequent interviews did not have Zheng Si. But Zheng Si can't leave yet, some shots may have to be retaken, Zheng Si has to stay for a while, just in case, so Zheng Si follows them to see those interviewees.

The first one to go was the house of an old writer and an old gentleman, and the old man and the old lady were there.

The interview is more life-like, and the shooting location is at the home of the two elderly people. The children were often absent, and the two old men had cats, and now they have a white country cat. When he saw Zheng Si, the cat was very curious and vigilant. has been hiding around the old man and the old lady and staring at Zheng Si.

Zheng Si walked around the house, and the cat didn't react, just stretched its neck and stared at Zheng Si until Zheng Si came to its cat nest. When approaching its cat rice bowl. The cat is fried. Rushed over, hunched his back, waved his paw at Zheng Si and roared.

"Hey, don't worry, that black cat won't fight." Yang Yi appeased the old lady who was a little worried. Then ask the two old men when they can start.

After Zheng Si left his job and the cat nest, the cat immediately ran back to the old man and the old lady.

The two old men don't know how many interviews they've given, so they can also deal with this calmly. The director will not deliberately let them do what to do,

The old lady reads and cooks, when the old man writes, when he listens to the radio, and the cat's reaction is filmed.

When the old man was writing, the cat jumped on the desk to make trouble, stepped on the old man's manuscript paper, and couldn't push it away, and if he pushed it again, he would lie directly on the manuscript paper, unless the old lady called it, and then got up slowly.

The old man was not annoyed, and smiled and scratched the chin of the cat lying on the manuscript paper with the end of the pen, "This guy is very arrogant, as soon as I sit here, he will come over and bully me...... Wife? My wife didn't talk about it, but asked me to write something to praise it......"

Looking at the old man's appearance, he didn't feel the grievances and annoyance of being bullied at all, but he was still very happy.

The old man said that the literati in the capital are good at raising cats, and also gave several examples of writers of the same generation.

In the literati's pen, the cats in the capital are a bit like the young masters who are spoiled in all aspects, although most of them have now changed from long-term workers who catch mice to eat and live in high-rise apartments, but there is no shortage of master flavor in their bones. They don't care whether they are dealing with literary masters or ordinary citizens.

What kind of virtue is Chu Hua's cat? Zheng Si thought about the few cats he knew, and after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that the few he knew were a little special, and they might also be representative of Chuhua cats.

In addition to the current cat, the old man also recalled the cats he had raised before, and the old lady also took out a photo album and sent it to everyone.

During the interview, the two old men were often immersed in memories, and sometimes they would think quietly, as if they had forgotten that there were people around them filming the interview, and there were several quiet scenes. However, neither Yang Yi nor the rest of the filming crew turned off or interrupted, and there was no impatient look on their faces.

Before coming, Zheng Si was told about this situation by Charlie, and he thought it was all Yang Yi's advice. After each silence, the old man's words were more vivid, very real, and very life-like. When talking about the last cat, the old lady's eyes were red several times, and the cat had been with the two old men for more than ten years, which was considered to be the end of life.

The filming team then went to interview a master of Chinese painting, the old man also took out a painting full of cat footprints during the interview, at that time the old man was painting fish, but his cat jumped on the table to make trouble, stepped on the ink marks everywhere, the old man then repaired the painting, and then framed it, collected, when the guests came to talk about related topics, the old man took out the painting to show off, saying that his cat is quite artistic.

Zheng Si also looked at that painting in the past, not to mention, it looks quite meaningful, worthy of being a master of Chinese painting, just like in the movie about Tang Bohu back then, it can always turn decay into magic.

Cinematographers are very good at capturing details that make the whole film more vivid and full of soul.

After the whole shooting, there were artists, educators, several famous schools in the capital, libraries, and some ordinary people's homes. Zheng Si followed the streets and alleys, different venue backgrounds, all kinds of cat breeders, cats with different temperaments, united, plus those professional production and polishing, Zheng Si believes that this will be a good film, no matter what others think, Zheng Si thinks it is very good.

I heard from the filming crew that after the production is made, the film is likely to be sent to the competition, but the production will have to wait until next year, and now it's the end of the year. (To be continued......)