The staff of the crew was almost gathered, and Shao Shuaijun held a meeting in a hotel in the mountain city of Chongqing~Central~ District. Several of the main personnel were seated in chairs or beds, while others stood around, gathered together. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Shao Shuaijun clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to listen carefully.

"I am very pleased to have you join our crew of "Crazy Stone", and I believe that all of you here are leaders in the industry and will be able to complete the successful filming of this film. This is a black comedy movie that has no deep connotation, which is to entertain the public. I believe many people have seen Guy Ritchie's "Two Big Smoking Guns", which is full of cult flavor, and our film uses this multi-line narrative method, combined with the local elements of the mountain city and rural slang, to tell a story that makes people smile. ”

The young Shao Shuaijun grew a beard, with the intention of making himself look older. However, this mustache did not achieve its goal, but gave the originally delicate face a hint of masculinity and youth. As a director, Shao Shuaijun is really too young, which is amazing.

As an investor, as a director, and as a boss for a while in the future, even if everyone despises it in their hearts, they still have to show an expression of attentiveness on their faces.

"In this movie, I want to use exaggerated techniques to create jokes, this does not mean that the movie can be made up randomly, and the strict logic must be observed and implemented. All departments should pay attention to the fact that practicality is the theme of the film, and I hope that this can be reflected in every scene and every film, exaggerated and reasonable......"

After explaining the theme idea, Shao Shuaijun did not continue to speak at length, took a sip of mineral water, and said with a smile: "I will mention the idea of the movie first, in order to increase everyone's initial impression and understand the scope of his work." Now that everyone is just here, the work can be started slowly, so let's get to know each other first. As for me, my name is Shao Shuaijun, I am the investor, producer, director, and screenwriter of this movie, I have filmed a movie "Buried Alive" before, which has been sold to Huayi Brothers for distribution, and if it is scheduled, it will be released in the next three or five days. In the future, I will be in a crew, I hope you will give me more advice. Okay, who's next, director Li Kai? ”

Li Kai took over the conversation with a smile: "Thank you Director Shao for raising love and inviting me to be the assistant director." I used to be an assistant director in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and since then I have made several TV series. Compared with Director Shao's first movie "Buried Alive", the cost of less than 100,000 yuan was sold for 5 million, and my previous work was done in vain. So, I actually came here to steal the teacher. ”

After listening to Li Kai's words, everyone immediately laughed, and Shao Shuaijun also laughed, but he was thinking in his heart that Li Kai was really good at being a man. A "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" pointed out his own merits, and then elevated the status of the director, giving people a low-key and humble feeling, but his status cannot be ignored.

Such a person can succeed by seizing the opportunity.

With the beginning of Li Kai, everyone introduced themselves, and everyone knew each other. The next step is to discuss the quasi-script of filming, according to the storyboard script, Shao Shuaijun estimated a timeline, which time period to shoot which content. According to this timeline, the rental of the scene and the preparation of props are arranged.

Shao Shuaijun has been an assistant director for several years, and he is familiar with this arrangement, and in just one day, all the work is arranged, and everyone has received the job and can start work at any time.

In the evening, Shao Shuaijun, Zhao Cheng, and Li Kai found a small restaurant to drink.

"Director Shao, you impress me, really." Zhao Cheng drank a little wine and said with squinted eyes.

Li Kai also said: "Yes, when I first saw Director Shao, I was startled, and I thought in my heart, it shouldn't be that I met a liar, and this liar is not professional, at least I have to find an old man in his thirties and forties." If it weren't for Brother Zhao, I wouldn't have believed it if I was killed, but when I look at it today, I know what makes people more popular than death. I'm also making movies, and I'm not as good as Director Shao for this work arrangement, come, I'll respect Director Shao. ”

Shao Shuaijun doesn't like to drink, so after a few sips, he watched Li Kai and Zhao Cheng fight for wine.

The next day, the three of them split into two routes, Zhao Cheng went north to look for actors, and Shao Shuaijun and Li Kai looked for actors locally. Zhao Cheng is looking for five main actors, according to the list provided by Shao Shuaijun, looking for Guo Tao as Bao Shihong, looking for Liu Hua as Brother Dao, looking for Xu Yu as Feng Dong, looking for Huang Bo as Heipi, and Yue Xiaojun as Xiaojun.

It may be that the roles played by these four people in the original are too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Shao Shuaijun never thought of finding other actors to replace them. At this time, Guo Tao was a national drama actor, and Liu Hua was a TV drama actor, and his fame was not great. Xu Earn became popular because of "Spring Splendid Pig Bajie" and "Li Wei as an Official", but he is not a big name. Huang Bo is even more famous, he has just finished filming "Survival Migrant Workers", and he doesn't know where to wander. Needless to say, Yue Xiaojun has just graduated from Chinese opera and is unemployed.

With Zhao Cheng's connections, it shouldn't be difficult to find them to act in a movie.

Shao Shuaijun and Li Kai went to SC Province first, and found Wang Xun in the political ~~~ Zhibu Art Troupe. Wang Xun is the apprentice of the first top ten comedy stars in Bashu, cross talk master Yang Ziyang and comedy artist Shen Fan, and he is a big and small wrist in the SC literary and art world. However, due to geographical restrictions, there has been no big breakthrough, and it has become really popular.

In the reception room of the art troupe, Shao Shuaijun met this comedy star with big buckteeth and small eyes. Wang Xun is a drama maniac, he received the script, and after reading it for a few minutes, he danced and acted. Just by showing his hand like this, I saw his acting skills, which made people laugh.

"Brother Wang, how is it, can you take the role of Four Eyes?"

Wang Xun exclaimed: "Pick up, why don't you take it, this role is very suitable for me to play." ”

After getting Wang Xun and agreeing on the date, the two ran back to the mountain city non-stop, and found Peng Bo, the actor of the comedy troupe, in the mountain city comedy troupe, Peng Bo took over the role of Xie Xiaomeng without saying a word. The rest are all unremarkable roles, Shao Shuaijun did not look for them personally, and several roles were given to Li Kai to be responsible.

And he went to Hengdian and found Liu Sanxi: "Brother Xi, order Qi Anan, Sishui, Zebra...... Come with me to the mountain city to film. ”

Hearing that Shao Shuaijun was going to make a new movie, Anan and the others took refuge without saying a word, and the roles such as security guards in the movie didn't need too much acting skills, which was just right for them. And the size is also a supporting role, which can be regarded as officially stepping from a group performance to a supporting role, or a supporting role in a movie.

Just now, Zhao Cheng called over there: "Director Shao, there are two female characters in the movie, have you found an actor?" ”