Chapter 30: The Night Companion

"Jingle Bell"

The phone on the desk kept ringing, and the little girl with a nervous face was looking at the phone in front of her hesitantly.

"Jingle Bell"

After hesitating for a while, the girl stretched out her right hand and picked up the phone and put it to her ear, but there was no sound from inside, and it was empty.

"Hello? Hello? The girl asked tentatively, probing the microphone.

"Meow!" A cat meow came out of the microphone, startling the girl.

Suddenly, the girl shuddered and closed her eyes, she felt something!

The girl opened her eyes and slowly lowered her head.

A little boy with a white body was looking at her by the arm.

"Meow!" The little boy opened his mouth and let out a cat meow!

"Click!" Li Xuan shouted excitedly: "I announce, the curse is finished!" ”

After saying this, Li Xuan suddenly hugged the fat man Wang who was pulling the curtain cloth next to him, and turned around the fat man several times as if he didn't feel the weight of the fat man.

"Put me down, put me down!" The fat man didn't turn around, but he fainted before two laps, struggling and screaming.

Excitedly put down Wang Fatzi, Li Xuan was just about to take the opportunity to hug Zhong Chuhong next to him, but he saw Zhong Xiaoniu, who already knew that he had bad intentions, viciously gestured at him with a small fist, and had to muttered down his open hands.

"Hey, posterior, finished filming?" An old man at the door of the office suddenly shouted to Li Xuan.

"Hmm!" Li Xuan's excitement had not yet passed, and he raised two fists and shouted: "It's over!" ”

Unexpectedly, the old man was not infected by Li Xuan's excitement at all, and said indifferently: "Let's leave quickly after filming, I will die if others see me!" ”

"Forehead......" Li Xuan was obviously hit by the old man's attitude, scratched his hair and said, "Let's clean up and leave immediately, uncle, don't worry." ”

This is Beacon Hill Elementary School next to Broadcasting Road, the second day of filming. It just so happened that the students and teachers were on holiday on Sunday, so Li Xuan bribed the old man who was the janitor to get in with 200 Hong Kong dollars and find a teacher's office to shoot the school scenes in the movie.

Gu's father, who happened to take Gu Ju to wash his face and wipe his body, came back, and several girls couldn't help it when they saw the cute child, and they crowded next to Xiao Zhengtai and pinched his little face. However, these chicks obviously didn't notice that the little guy's eyes had swept their boobs several times.

"This little pervert!" Li Xuan secretly glanced at Xiao Zhengtai with hatred.

"That, Mr. Lee. Isn't it ...... after the filming is over?" Father Gu walked up to Li Xuan and muttered.

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted, took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it over: "Father Gu, your son is very talented, if I lack this kind of child actor and look for him in the future, you will support him at that time." "Regardless, it's always good to have a good relationship with future stars first.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Father Gu touched the envelope and replied with a smile, this kid can cover half a month's salary for one day's play, can you not support it.

"Hey, Xuanzai." Wang Jin, who was packing up the film next to him, suddenly shouted.

"What's the matter?"

"What's the matter?" Wang Jin looked at Li Xuan with disdain and said, "The final banquet!" Lead the way! ”

"Well, this ......" Li Xuan said cowardly: "No, if there is, you have to wait for another month." ”

"Hit the streets, stingy!"

Now Li Xuan quit, and replied with words: "You don't know how much money I pay, I don't do soundtracks, editing, or negatives!" Uh, or do you sponsor something? ”

"Well, if you don't have a finale banquet, you won't have it, don't talk about money!"

"I'll go!" Li Xuan stretched out a middle finger at Wang Fatzi.

However, in the end, the money was not exempted, it was not Wang Jin's sponsorship, but Li Xuan borrowed 20,000 Hong Kong dollars from him, because Li Xuan's money was not enough. Li Xuan originally planned to find Wang Tianlin's relationship after filming, and then go to the Clear Water Bay studio to rent a cheap editing room to process the film. Clear Water Bay Studios is fully functional, and its post-production center is dedicated to post-production for Shaw Brothers films and TVB TV dramas. But as soon as Li Xuan inquired, he felt cheated! Now there are four TV series and six movies doing post-production there, and it's so busy that you can't rent any tools. Especially Li Xuan's deeply remembered Fengyue film director Li Hanxiang, his "Warlord Love History" has not been finished in the later stage, and the newly filmed "Ghost Calls Spring" has been brought again. Shaw Brothers made six movies in a month, is this looking for death? It's really not about quality, so you have to fill in the quantity.

There was no way, Li Xuan still found a relationship with Wang Tianlin, found a small film company outside that he had never heard of his name, and rented their editing room to handle his own films. But for such a small company, the rent is still 1,000 Hong Kong dollars a day, which is really a loss of money, and Li Xuan is so tired that he is now cutting films all night.

In this era, there are no personal computers, and there is no editing software that can directly edit digital footage. Now the editor uses scissors to cut out the parts to be edited from the film one by one, then repairs the edges of the film, sticks it with special glue, and finally uses a punch machine to make a few holes to connect the film.

Li Xuan is now doing special effects for the girl in the movie whose jaw dropped, which is not like the 21st century that can be edited directly by computer CG and seamless. Nowadays, special effects are either made directly on the spot with some special materials during shooting, or they are composited in post-production using the method of film superimposition and fitting. But now it must be impossible to remove the chin of a living person, Li Xuan simply bought some pig offal and made a bloody model and photographed it, and now he wants to paste these model films on the girl's chin.

In the silence of the editing room, there was only one observation light on the innermost table, and he had spent more than four hours on this three-second shot. Through the magnifying glass in front of him, Li Xuan carefully moved the small pliers in his hand, and the two films were carefully glued together.

"Whew"

Li Xuan took a long sigh of relief, put down the pliers in his hand, and finally completed this can be said to be the only high-special effects shot in this movie. Rubbing his eyes vigorously, Li Xuan had been looking at the chinless girl for four hours, and now as soon as he relaxed, he felt a gust of cold wind coming from behind. Sure enough, you still have to hit ghosts a few times to make ghost movies, Li Xuan laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Smack"

A slender palm suddenly landed on Li Xuan's left shoulder.

"Hey, are you done? Would you like to have a late-night snack? I'm going to buy it. ”

Li Xuan smiled, turned his head to Zhong Chuhong, who was standing behind him, and said, "I'm done, but I'm not hungry now." Do you want to see what your second sister has become now? ”

"Ah, no, no, don't ......" Zhong Chuhong hurriedly shook her hand and refused, but she saw the first frame of Li Xuan's post, it was scary enough, and now that it's all pasted, it's even more scary.

After a rare break, Li Xuan asked curiously: "You haven't gone back so late, aren't you afraid that your parents will worry?" ”

Zhong Chuhong glanced at Li Xuan: "What are you worried about?" I'm an adult, and besides, they don't know I'm here. ”

"Hey, hey." Li Xuan suddenly looked at Zhong Chuhong and laughed strangely.

"Why are you smiling so carefully? Be careful, I'll call the police to catch you. Zhong Chuhong folded his arms and looked at Li Xuan and said.

"Well, where are you cautious." Li Xuan pursed his mouth helplessly, and asked casually, "How is your Hong Kong sister's registration?" Any news? ”

"I don't know, it's still early, and the registration has just ended." Zhong Chuhong said boringly: "But I find myself a little interested in acting now." Oops, I should have signed up for the wireless acting Peishun class in the first place. ”

Looking at Zhong Xiaoniu with a longing face, Li Xuan couldn't help but say, "What training class are you still participating in, your acting skills are very good!" ”

"Really?"

"It's more real than real gold! I swear. Li Xuan raised his right hand and said with a serious face.

"Go, and you will comfort me."

At this time, Li Xuan disagreed, but sat on the chair and said, "What am I comforting you?" Your acting skills are really good, or if you come to my company, I will make a movie for you! Li Xuan said this sentence with a twitch in his brain, he seemed to remember that he had read several entertainment books before, and the male protagonist chased the heroine like this, did he also embark on this road?

"I knew you comforted me!" Zhong Chuhong glared at Li Xuan: "Just your leather bag company, who else is there besides you?" ”

"And a vice president!"

"Vice President?" Zhong Xiaoniu was stunned for a moment, and only after half a ring did she react and asked, "Wang Fatty?" ”

"He? He won't come to me. Li Xuan rolled his eyes rarely.

"Who's that?"

"You! You are the vice president, see how good I am to you. ”

At this time, Zhong Chuhong learned from Li Xuan, and directly threw a roll of the eyes at him: "You want me to come, let's talk about it when your movie is released!" ”

"Release?" Li Xuan was stunned, in fact, he didn't think about it so much at first, after all, this movie is a mentoring ceremony, and it is the best if it can be released, if it can't be released, it should be lost 60,000 or 70,000 Hong Kong dollars, anyway, it will be more than 300,000 yuan in a month. But now that Zhong Xiaoniu said so, even if it is not released, it will have to be released even if it is not released.

"Then it's decided! You wait. Li Xuan said categorically, and then immediately turned around and continued to edit the film.

Yes? Zhong Xiaoniu behind Li Xuan was stunned, what does this guy mean?

(Note: I watched the first part of the TV version of the curse five times, but I didn't find a reason to shoot the third day.) )