"Happy Teahouse" is the first time that it is lively without opening the door, and there are only about a dozen main actors in the crew, but there are more than 30 miscellaneous drama personnel. Although there have been several discussions before, many of them are meeting for the first time, so I invited them to meet them at our own store.

If you want to quickly build a good interpersonal relationship with people in China, talking at the banquet is also a shortcut.

Those who are in the recording, lighting, and props team, which one is not a well-established character in the circle, and when I see a hairy young man who also learns to make movies, the first impression is distrust. But I can't bear that people are big moneymen, and they will serve you with good food and drink, and they will eat people with soft mouths and short hands, they take all of them, so let's work obediently.

During the banquet, the old man Kai also came out to greet him in person, stood in the middle of the field with his hands in all directions, and said with a full sense of anger: "You are all leaders in the film and television industry, just me as a layman." This is my grandson's first film since he returned from school, and it took months of preparation to start it. Watching him work from 5 to 9 in the morning every day, I don't understand those things...... To be honest, there are only two of us left in the family, he has been sensible since he was a child, but as a grandfather, he can't see him suffering, and now he is finally going to start filming. Young people are inevitably vigorous, and if there is anything offensive in the future work, I hope you will take care of it for the sake of this feast. I bow to all of you and wish you all a smooth success. ”

The old man is a lot older, who can bear this bow.

A few familiar people hurriedly shouted "don't dare to be", and even Siqin Gaowa, the star with the highest qualification in the field, hurriedly stood up to help the old man. It was the first time she heard that the young man was still an orphan, and she originally thought it was a rich man, and the relationship was that the two of them depended on each other, and she also had a little more admiration in her heart, so she pulled the old man to sit down and said: "Old man, don't worry, everyone is professionally engaged in this industry, and there is still a responsibility to do a line of love." Even if you don't have a professional attitude in the industry, no one dares to desert if you give you today's instructions. Don't bow anymore, everyone can't afford to bow again. Tired of you, the director doesn't give you small shoes. ”

She picked it up interestingly, and it also made the big guy laugh.

The old man is arrogant, for the first movie of his grandson's career, it can be regarded as an open-minded release, "The big guy is open to eat, he can order whatever he likes, and the chef in the kitchen is waiting around the clock today." If you want to come to my teahouse again in the future, you will be given a half-price discount. ”

"Okay—"

A group of people are pulling their throats and coaxing, who is not happy if there is a discount.

"Happy Teahouse" is not bad, the original style of the Republic of China, is also famous in the famous Dashilar of Beijing, who doesn't hear of these old Jingpiao, but I didn't think it was the director's industry. If you make a movie now, you can also get a long-term discount coupon, and bring your friends to dinner in the future.

So, this pre-boot banquet was a joy for the guests and hosts.

Among all the actors, in addition to Siqin Gaowa is a star, there is also the well-known actress Xi Meijuan who plays the role of her old best friend, who has a lot of roles in the movie. Both of them are veteran actors, and they are also familiar with each other, so they naturally get along more harmoniously. In front of the two old qualifications, Liu Ye only had to serve tea and pour water, and he couldn't sit anywhere.

"Xiao Xiaokai, is the little actor of the male protagonist here today, I have to go and meet him in advance." Siqin Gaowa ate happily in this antique teahouse, greeted her happily, and began to think about the movie, and wanted to have a good relationship with the actor in advance.

"Don't see you again." Happy but didn't agree, "I specially sat you apart." ”

"Hey, why is that?" Xi Meijuan on the side was puzzled.

Happy explained: "Do you recall, in the early stages of the story, what was the attitude of children towards the heroine? Strangeness, suspicion, indifference, distrust...... After all, it's a child, and if he is familiar with you now, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to get into that state when he actually shoots. Aunt Siqin Gaowa, don't worry, let's slowly change from strange to familiar during filming, so that the shooting effect is more realistic, and it is also helpful for young actors. He plays against you the most, and I'm afraid you'll have to bring it with you when the time comes. ”

Siqin Gaowa was thoughtful, but he didn't expect him to think so much, but he was also refreshed, and waved his hand and said: "Then we won't meet in advance, I'll be a cold face." ”

nodded happily and said, "By the way, ask the two of you to bring more casual clothes at home, if you don't bring them, we have to make some more preparations here." ”

"All of them are brought, don't worry."

Liu Ye suddenly said: "Director, I took a month's leave from the school, can I follow the study." If you have any work, you will call me. ”

smiled happily: "There are also self-recommended coolies, you just follow Teacher Siqin Gaowa, what needs do they have, you can do it, you must serve the two teachers well, can you do it?" ”

Liu Ye is naturally full of promises, this is what he wants. Being able to learn from an actor of this level, something that can't be beaten by eight poles is much better than in school.

I was happy and had something to do, so I didn't stay long, and said: "Those few will take care of themselves, and someone will send you to Nanjing after the banquet, I still have something to do here, so I can't accompany you." ”

Siqin Gaowa waved his hand and said, "You go and get busy, no one dares to keep you." Leave us alone. We are not some pampered big stars, it is enough to have small leaves. ”

……

"The heroine Ah Duo is writing letters for illiterate people at the Nanjing-Beijing Central Gate Bus Station, and she charges one yuan for writing a letter, and if she needs to send it on her behalf, she will add another yuan. On this day, Lina came here with her nine-year-old son Tian Tian, because Tian Tian had always wanted to see his father, whom he had never met. ”

Ah Duo and his neighbor Arlene took pleasure in reading the letters they had written during the day, sending the letters they thought were important, throwing away the others, and if they disagreed, they would put the letters in a drawer and decide another day, and the letters they sent to their father every day were among them. The next day, Lina and Tian Tian went to the Central Gate Station again and dictated the second letter to Tian Tian's father, but as soon as they left the station, Lina was killed in a car accident...... Driven by motherhood, Ah Duo finally agreed to take Tian Tian to a strange city to find his father, and the scenery along the way became more and more unfamiliar, but the two became closer and closer. ”

- This is the general synopsis of "Grand Central Station", and the characters are not very likable:

A cunning and vulgar old woman with a wrinkled face and a fat body, indifferent and disguised as kind.

Children are also precocious, and their pupils are full of annoying suspicions. When you think back to your childhood, you will definitely like you at that time, and even tears are not pity.

It's a world full of ** and suspicious smells. No one can be trusted, no one can be relied upon, and evil is scattered between evil. But in any darkness, there will still be a flash of humanity that pushes you to tenderness.

For his first movie, Happy has taken all his energy to hold the director, after all, the opportunity is not easy to come by, if the first movie is not done well, in the case of the market deciding a qiē, he is a newcomer, and the burden of opening his own company is heavy, but there are not so many opportunities to tinker with the second and third opportunities to take charge of the guide.

The joining of Siqin Gaowa and Xi Meijuan, two old drama bones, has solved a big problem of happiness, and some of the remaining characters can enter the state under their drive even if they have no acting skills.

When all the qiē was ready, it was September 10, 1997, Teacher's Day, and the opening ceremony of the "Central Station" was set on this day.

The opening ceremony in Hong Kong must worship God, celebrities can wait, worship God can't wait. This is already a commonly known rule, the older generation of Hong Kong filmmakers think that the filming of movies sometimes alarms the cows, horses, snakes, and gods, so it is a kind of comfort to worship God for peace.

In the past, the mainland did not pay attention to this, but in recent years, more Hong Kong capital has entered the mainland, and some places seem to have become popular, mainly depending on the willingness of investors or directors.

However, the filming of "Central Station" was silent, and a series of artillery battles were not released, for fear of causing too much movement.

Rao is like this, in the old bus station in the early morning, it is still surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside. As soon as the people heard about the movie, "Yo, how fresh", they didn't hurry up and take a look.

Filming here, but I gave the station 5,000 yuan, and there were only three days of shooting, and I had to add money if I exceeded it. This is the first time that someone has come to make a movie at this bus station, and the leaders think it is a good thing, and they specially sent security guards to maintain order.

In order not to delay the filming, Happy couldn't care about the expenses, so he began to hire a large group of performers with a wave of his hand. Even a few security guards at the station have become free actors.

When there are more people, there are more things.

Zhang Zhengwu was holding a loudspeaker and kept shouting to this group of performers, "Remember, don't look at the camera, do whatever you have to do, your expression should be natural, just like you usually ......" His voice was hoarse, and he finally looked a little bit. But it's still embarrassing, look at these majestic and high-spirited, those who don't know still think they're fighting devils. This appearance is naturally not easy to photograph, so I happily discussed with Zhao Xiaoding and decided to use a fast-forward lens to show the people coming and going at Xiàn Station.

Fast-forward lenses naturally can't see their faces clearly, no matter how high their morale is, it's in vain, only in that inconspicuous corner is the main place that the camera takes care of.

Siqin Gaowa was dressed plainly, without any makeup on her face, moved a small bench and a small table, and sat down in the corner of the station selling snacks. A sign is erected next to it, "Write a letter on behalf of you".

The profession of writing letters on behalf of others is not unique to Brazil, as long as there are illiterate people, there is no shortage of them.

I made a special inquiry that in some remote areas, where the cultural coverage rate is not high, there is still this kind of occupation. They often squatted in front of the post office to write letters on their behalf. He remembered reading a report that seemed to be an old man named He Shenghua in Nanchong City, who was already sixty or seventy years old. Since the 80s of the last century, he began to write letters on behalf of people at the door of the post office, and now nearly 30 years have passed, and the old man still works rain or shine, from 7 o'clock in the morning to 5:30 in the afternoon.

The old man had studied in high school before liberation, and he was a rare "showman" in the village. When I first started this profession, due to the underdeveloped communication tools at that time, letters were an important means of communication, and the cultural popularization rate at that time was far less than it is now, so the "business" of the elderly was extremely "hot", and it was common to write more than 10 letters on behalf of others every day.

With the passage of time, Uncle He's profession of making a living began to become depressed, and now few people ask him to write letters on his behalf, but he is often asked to write contracts, agreements, reports, applications, etc. Uncle He's fee is very low, generally an article charges 2 yuan, so down, his monthly income is almost 200 yuan, plus the subsistence allowance he enjoys, Uncle He is very content.

Only with the rapid informatization of society, this profession has also been drowned in the torrent of history along with many other professions.

Happy took the "Central Station" sub-shot script that she had printed, and explained to photographer Zhao Xiaoding how to shoot the first set of shots later, Siqin Gaowa and several main actors sat aside, and she was holding a script in her hand and was stepping up to memorize the lines.

"That's pretty much it, Brother Zhao!"

"Got it!"

Soon explained the precautions in the first act to Zhao Xiaoding, the photographer with the heaviest task, and got up happily.

"Lao Zhang, are you ready?" shouted at Zhang Zhengwu, who was sweating profusely.

"No problem, the big guy is high-spirited, just waiting to turn it on!"

Seeing the photographers and actors in place, waiting for him to give orders, the excitement in my heart is indescribable. This is a new life, and from this moment on, he has stepped into another life. In his previous life, he liked to watch movies, but he was like a mountain, and he was just an authentic movie fan. In this life, I never knew which tendon was wrong and went to the United States to study and learn to make movies, and then I dreamed of one day my movie could shine on the big screen, and I studied hard for four years without desertion...... Now, he has finally taken the first step in this new life.

At this moment, he is already standing behind the camera, controlling Yiqiē, as long as the movie is filmed, he is a new self.

The future will always be in your own hands.

"Clear!"

"Ready to shoot!"

The props crew, who were still busy, packed up their things and pushed out of the camera range, and the actors also packed up their moods, waiting for the moment to hit the board.

“Action！”

A shout opened a new curtain of life.