Chapter 177: Double Play (Part I)

"What, it took two weeks to finish filming your "Little Crayon Boys"?"

After Wang Jing listened to Lin Xi's request, the whole person was stunned.

Lin Xi said in a tone without any discussion: "My scripts are all written, no need to fly paper, and the script has been refined to which shot should be filmed, you just need to arrange the camera position, and get it according to the content above, in two weeks, if you think you can't do it, I'll find another person!" ”

The so-called flying paper boy means that the director only has a story outline before filming, and after the start of filming, he can only pass on the content to be filmed that day, this kind of thing is very common in Hong Kong film shooting, but Lin Xi has always felt that the root of the decline of Hong Kong films in later generations, and too much improvisational speculation in creation is definitely one of the reasons, so all the movies he handled were filmed after the script was written.

"Okay, I'll shoot! I'll shoot! ”

Wang Jing immediately changed his words, he had seen the script written by Lin Xi when he was filming "Happy Ghost", it can no longer be called a script, it can be directly said to be a storyboard script, if it weren't for Lin Xi being injured by Wang Guxian "jumping off the building" and hospitalized for three days, that drama would have been completely filmed in half a month, and this was still under the condition that Lin Xi directed and acted himself.

"As my first shot to accept the Shaw Brothers Cinemas, this drama must be ←, so don't think about shooting it indiscriminately to deal with things, the quality of this movie will determine how much budget you can have for the next "Frog Prince...... I think it seemed to be mentioned in your script that the play needed to be shot in Hawaii, right? ”

Wang Jing nodded.

Lin Xi patted Wang Jing on the shoulder: "I am satisfied with the filming of "Crayon Little Boy", I will charter a plane for you to take the crew to Hawaii for three days before filming!" ”

Wang Jing asked more: "Then what if the shooting doesn't satisfy you?" ”

Lin Xi instantly turned cold, "Then you don't have to go to Hawaii." Aren't you going to shoot it? It's good to go to Thailand! ”

"Then it's better to go to Hawaii, don't worry. "Crayon Little Student" will definitely satisfy you! ”

After Wang Jing finished speaking, he didn't wait for Lin Xi to speak, he pushed open the door of the conference room and slipped in.

As soon as I saw Wang Jing come in. The whispers in the conference room stopped abruptly.

"Director Wang, is there any new film to make?" Zhou Xingchi whispered to Wang Jing through Liang Chaowei and Zhang Yurong.

As soon as the people around heard the word "new film", they also looked over curiously.

Wang Jing didn't dump Zhou Xingchi, but only said: "You'll know right away!" ”

Zhou Xingchi was about to say that Wang Jing was not interesting enough, but Lin Xi pushed the door and walked in, so frightened that he hurriedly blocked his mouth with his hand.

Lin Xi walked to the conference table and stood still, his eyes scanning below.

The company officially took over Shaw Brothers Cinemas in June, and it happened that the 1st of that month was International Children's Day, and the company also prepared a movie related to children. I discussed it with Director Wang outside just now, and now the list of actors will be announced, first of all, the actor. ”

Zhou Xingchi looked at Lin Xi expectantly, hoping that he would say his name, but he didn't expect Lin Xi's gaze to just sweep past him, and finally fell on Wu Mengda, who was sitting in the last row.

Wu Mengda lowered his head and hummed a little song, not realizing that Lin Xi was looking at him, but Liu Dehua next to him reminded him in a whisper, and then raised his head suddenly.

"I play the male lead?"

Wu Mengda pinched his face hard. Make sure you're not dreaming.

"Haha, I'll play the leading role!"

He suddenly got up from his seat, dancing with excitement and not being able to stop at all.

"Cut. Neuropathy! Zhou Xingchi turned his head back angrily and scolded in a low voice.

Although I feel lost because the male protagonist is not myself, but from the heart. Wu Mengda got this opportunity, and Zhou Xingchi was still happy for him.

Lin Xi pressed his hand against Wu Mengda. "Alright, Uncle Da. You can sit down first. ”

Wu Mengda sat down unsatisfied, but the whole person became much more energetic, and when he continued to listen to Lin Xi's speech, he was more serious than everyone else.

"There is also a male protagonist in this play who is a three-year-old child, Uncle Da, you have to cooperate well with him!"

As soon as Lin Xi's words fell, Zhou Xingchi couldn't help laughing.

Hahahaha!

He stood up and walked to Wu Mengda's side, took Wu Mengda's hand and pretended to be emotional: "Acting with a three-year-old child, Uncle Da congratulations!" ”

This action immediately amused everyone in the conference room.

"Humph! Hypocritical! Wu Mengda angrily shook off Zhou Xingchi's hand, and was about to discuss with Lin Xi if he could change his role, but Lin Xi had already shifted his gaze to Liu Dehua beside him at this time.

"Andy, this drama also needs a male number two, a timid male high school student, because he was Huang Feihong in his previous life, he beat too many people, so he can't fight with others in this life, and finally find his true self with the help of Uncle Da...... It's up to you to play this role, is there a problem? ”

As a new actor who joined the Oriental Film and Television Company, Liu Dehua didn't expect that he would be able to act as soon as he came, and replied almost without thinking: "Question! ”

"Uncle Da, please take care of me!"

Looking at Liu Dehua's outstretched hand, Wu Mengda hesitated for a moment, and finally shook hands with him.

"And then this drama still needs some cameo roles, Xiaomin, Xiaoxian, Ah Zhen, this time I have to work hard for the three of you to play high school girls, right?"

Zhou Yimin and Qiu Shuzhen nodded together.

Wang Guxian originally had something to say, but seeing this situation, he had to temporarily hold down his words.

Lin Xi clasped his hands, "Okay, that's all for the role assignment in this play, do you still have any questions?" ”

Wu Mengda immediately raised his hand.

"Mr. Lin, what is this drama filming, can you reveal a little bit to me first?"

Wu Mengda's question could have been asked in private, but at this time, he actually wanted everyone present to know that although he was working with a three-year-old child this time, he was definitely not playing the kind of naΓ―ve and boring role.

"The story is about a ghostly three-year-old child, Xiaosheng, who ran away from home in anger because his father married a new wife. In the wanderings, I met Uncle Da, a school worker, and was finally taken in by Uncle Da after many entanglements. Uncle Da has a crush on a blind girl who sells flowers, and pretends to be a rich man to buy flowers from her every day to give her, hoping to help her cure her eye disease......"

When Zhou Xingchi heard this, he couldn't help but interject and said, "Mr. Lin, this bridge feels so familiar!" ”

Lin Xi was not angry because of Zhou Xingchi's interruption, but encouraged him to continue.

"It feels a bit like Chaplin's "City Lights", an unemployed homeless man, a blind girl selling flowers, and a touching love story." Under Lin Xi's intentional guidance, Zhou Xingchi watched a lot of books and movies on comedy performance, so he was able to discover this problem.

"That's right, this story was inspired by City Lights, and it can be said to pay homage to the film." Lin Xi admitted this.

"Wow, I played the role that Chaplin played, that's not awesome!" Wu Mengda couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this.

"By the way, I almost missed a role, the role of the blind girl in the film, there are not many appearances but it is very important, so please ask Miss Zhong to make a cameo!"

Seeing Lin Xi's gaze towards him, Zhong Chuhong nodded without hesitation.

Now Wu Mengda is even happier, and he can actually cooperate with a big beauty like Zhong Chuhong.

was happy, Liu Dehua next to him suddenly said a very disappointing sentence: "Uncle Da, in Chaplin's "City Lights", the homeless man and the blind girl are not together in the end!" ”

Wu Mengda immediately retorted: "How is it possible, Mr. Lin just said that this movie is a tribute to "City Lights", and did not say that the plot of this movie is the same as "City Lights". ”

But the plot that Lin Xi said next was exactly the same as Liu Dehua guessed.

Uncle Da served in a group of stubborn students in the high school, Uncle Da went to the Wulong Temple to learn art under the reminder of Xiaosheng, and treated a group of stubborn students well, I thought that I could get the 500,000 bonus rewarded by the school to help the flower girl cure her eyes, but during the period, because Uncle Da used hypnosis ** to help the student Ah Wu return to his previous life, he became Huang Feihong and beat the gangster who harassed his girlfriend, but he never thought that the gangster was the son of the director of education, so the 500,000 bonus was in vain.

Xiao Sheng saw that Uncle Da was disappointed, so he took him back to his home to steal money, but unfortunately it failed, Xiao Sheng covered Uncle Da to leave with the money, and caught him himself. Uncle Da took the money to pay the flower girl for the operation, and returned to Xiaosheng's home to turn himself in, only to find out Xiaosheng's life experience.

Because of Uncle Da's care for Xiaosheng, Xiaosheng's father decided to forgive him. Uncle Da went to find the flower girl, but found that the street stall was no longer there, and the flower girl had cured her eye disease and opened a flower shop by herself.

The flower girl found Uncle Da, because of his simple appearance, she mistook him for a beggar, and suddenly recognized from the voice that this was her benefactor, and the flower girl was grateful. Uncle Da found out that the flower girl had a boyfriend, so he had no choice but to deny himself and then turned away, leaving a lonely back.

Zhou Xingchi ran to Wu Mengda and sat down, leaned his head on Wu Mengda's shoulder after listening to the story, and applauded while pretending to wipe his tears: "It's so sad, it's so touching!" ”

"I feel like you're a big-headed ghost!" Wu Mengda pushed him away.

These words made Zhou Xingchi catch the pigtails, "What, you actually dare to question Mr. Lin's script is not well written?" ”

Wu Mengda hurriedly looked at Lin Xi and explained, "I didn't, Mr. Lin, I really didn't mean that!" ”

"Okay, Xingzai, don't make trouble, I see that you are so interested in this movie, why don't you go to it and play a cameo role! Ah Wu has a little brother next to him called the fine hairy turtle, just you will play it! ”

Wu Mengda clapped his hands happily when he heard this, and when he was done, he turned his head and touched Zhou Xingchi's head and said, "Hello, little turtle!" ”

"Turtle, you bastard!" Zhou Xingchi angrily opened Wu Mengda's hand.

Lin Xi arranged the role in public, Zhou Xingchi couldn't refuse, so he had to reluctantly agree. (To be continued......)