Chapter 22: A Little Supporting Role
In the evening, Zhang Chengyuan said goodbye and left. After this reunion, the relationship between Jang Sung-won and Lee Hyori's four daughters became closer and closer unconsciously. However, both parties are very busy with work, and I don't know when we will be happy to get together again for a whole day.
A few months have passed in the blink of an eye, and Jang Sung-won feels that his acting skills have greatly improved compared to when he first filmed commercials, and he has recently run countless tricks in many filming locations, and he is no longer a stranger to the filming of TV dramas, so he took the initiative to propose to Park Byungyeol that he wanted to challenge for more advanced roles.
Park Byungyeol has long had this idea, an artist with qualifications like Jang Sung-won has run more than 100 tricks in a few months, almost every day, which is really a waste of resources, many peers think he is a stupid big fool, holding a treasure mountain and not knowing how to excavate, so many people also came to the door to poach Zhang Sung-won, Park Byungyeol naturally would not agree, but he also felt extremely helpless about his peers' comments on him. This is none of his business, but Zhang Chengyuan's idea.
Because he is very optimistic that Jang Sung-won can become a top superstar, for the sake of renewing the contract in the future, Park Byung-yeol does not want to have a bad relationship with Jang Sung-won, and thinks that Jang Sung-won's ideas are more far-sighted, so he not only did not force Jang Sung-won to take over some more dramatic roles, but also tried his best to support Jang Sung-won in all aspects, and treated Jang Sung-won almost as close as his own son.
After receiving Jang Sung-won's request, Park Byung-yeol immediately found a small role for Jang Sung-won in the crew of "Famous Doctor Xu Jun" who could show his face and speak lines. If it weren't for Jang Sung-won's idea of gradually circulating and laying a good foundation, with Park Byung-yeol's connections and means, and with Jang Sung-won's high popularity in the advertising industry, even if he found a role like the male number three, he could easily do it.
"Famous Doctor Xu Jun" began filming in early October, and when Jang Sung-won joined the crew, the TV series had already aired several episodes on TV stations, but Jang Sung-won only played a small role with very few scenes, and only appeared in one or two episodes at most, and it was also a small role temporarily added by the screenwriter under Park Byungyeol's vigorous public relations, so it was not criticized for joining the crew at this time. In fact, the actors and staff basically don't know who Zhang Chengyuan is, after all, they don't match the advertising modeling industry, and the only impression of Zhang Chengyuan is: "This kid is really handsome, why don't you go to shoot a love idol drama, but come here to shoot a historical drama." I don't know how much time this kid will waste when he waits, and how many times he will be scolded by the director. ”
There is a big gap between historical dramas and youth idol dramas, not to mention capital investment, personnel flow, performance methods, etc., just reading lines can make today's young actors' heads numb and frequently NG, because in recent decades, in order to carry forward the so-called Korean culture of its own country, South Korea has greatly rejected the Chinese culture inherited from Chinese civilization, so that the vast majority of young people can't recognize many Chinese characters at all, and naturally they are very unfamiliar with the ancient Korean language closely related to Chinese. I'm afraid I can't even figure out the names of ancient Korean palace buildings.
Heo Jun was a famous doctor in ancient Korea (equivalent to the Ming Dynasty in China), and the author of the book "Dongyi Baojian", which is said to be comparable to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", so his position in the history of Korean medicine is equivalent to that of Li Shizhen, a Chinese physician and pharmacologist of the same period, in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. In view of the fact that the number of famous doctors in ancient Korea is far less than that of famous doctors in China, its reputation is naturally more prominent in Korea, and it can be said that it is a household name, and women and children are well known. However, in the eyes of Zhang Chengyuan, a cultivator, Xu Jun is just an ordinary doctor, and his medical skills are only worthy of being a disciple at most compared with the famous doctors Zhang Zhongjing and Sun Simiao in ancient China.
The TV series "Famous Doctor Xu Jun" tells the difficult process of Xu Jun growing up into a generation of famous doctors and his chivalrous and compassionate life, of course, it also shows the love of his children. If you don't show the side of love, it is estimated that the audience will be less than half immediately. In recent years, Koreans have taken their personal health very seriously, so the drama has been enthusiastically followed as soon as it was broadcast, and the ratings have been climbing. Otherwise, Jang Sung-won would not have been managed by Park Byungyeol to get into this crew.
Compared with the historical prototype, in order to attract the attention of the audience and cultivate the national pride of Koreans, the TV series inevitably elevates the great image of Xu Jun infinitely, although it also shows Xu Jun's shortcomings in some aspects, but in terms of personality, the protagonist Xu Jun is almost a selfless medical man.
Of course, the TV series has just begun, and the current Zhang Chengyuan doesn't know the intentions of the screenwriter, otherwise he will definitely scoff at it even more. But work is work, even if Zhang Chengyuan is proud of the Chinese people in his heart and looks down on Xu Jun, now he can only obediently obey the arrangements of the crew of "Xu Jun".
After reporting to the crew, Jang Sung-won followed the crew to Jirisan Mountain in Sancheong-gun, South Gyeongsang Province. The main filming here is the scene where the protagonist Xu Jun follows the famous doctor Liu Yitai to learn medical skills, especially the scene of collecting medicine.
This time, Zhang Chengyuan played a mountain boy who grew up in the mountains since he was a child, hunting and gathering medicinal materials for a living, and his martial arts are extraordinary. Of course, this is just a script setting, and it is impossible to really let Zhang Chengyuan fight with the tiger, not because he is afraid of the danger of the actor, but the current tiger is more expensive than a person, and the price of inviting a tiger from the zoo is dozens or even hundreds of times more expensive than that of a stuntman.
The first scene to be filmed was Jang Sung-won's appearance in the TV series. As soon as he appeared on the stage, he was fighting with a tiger, in order not to steal the limelight of the protagonist, and in order to save time, the scene was not set in detail, and the fighting link was also very casual, and the martial arts instructor said a few words casually, so he asked Zhang Chengyuan and the actor who played the tiger to practice by themselves.
When the shooting began, Zhang Chengyuan was shirtless on the upper right side, holding a pair of light wooden two-strand forks and a tiger in a "fierce" fight, after a hard fight, he finally ran away from the tiger, and then chased the tiger, and after a few steps to catch up, he raised the wooden fork and stuck the tiger to death.
In order to keep up with the camera, the tiger ran very slowly, estimated to be a little faster than a three- or four-year-old child, forcing Zhang Chengyuan to use slow motion, and at the same time to run very hard, so that Zhang Chengyuan was not awkward, but he felt even more sorry for the stuntman in tiger skin, who didn't make much money, but was as tired as a dead dog. In order to shoot more realistically under the existing conditions, before filming, the stuntman and Zhang Chengyuan practiced many times, because they couldn't see the road ahead, the stuntman didn't know how many times he tripped over stones and grass roots, and twice he almost rolled down the mountain, thanks to Zhang Chengyuan's agility, he grabbed it and avoided a pain.
The more Zhang Chengyuan filmed, the more he felt that this scene was a bit of a child's play, and when filming this scene, Zhang Chengyuan secretly almost broke his belly with laughter. Anyway, the crew wants to give a better prop, how can it be possible to kill the king of beasts with a wooden fork, I'm afraid that even the tiger skin can't be pierced. In order to avoid making people laugh off their big teeth after the episode was broadcast, Zhang Chengyuan had to work hard to show the fierce and brave side of this mountain boy, not only his eyes were intimidating, but he also used his true qi to blow a wind behind him to blow up the fallen leaves to boost his might.
After filming this scene, Zhang Chengyuan used too much of his true qi, and he was tired enough, secretly lamenting that he was a small role that was not taken seriously, and he wanted to shoot a good role, but he had to be self-reliant.
When filming this shot, the protagonist Xu Jun was also filming on another hill picking herbs. Xu Jun's role as Quan Guanglie is also quite pitiful, he is in his early forties, and he has to wear hemp straw shoes, climb the rugged mountain road with a medicine basket on his back, and even often climb some rock walls in order to show the hard work of collecting medicine, although there is the secret help of the staff, but it is also extremely hard. After four or five hours of continuous shooting, Quan Guanglie finally couldn't stand it anymore, vomited profusely, and almost vomited all the bitter gall, which made the crew nervous for a while, for fear that he would be hospitalized because of this, which would affect the filming progress.
After Zhang Chengyuan saw this scene, he thought: "Filming is much more tiring than filming commercials." However, I can still do what others can do, and I want to do it better, at least my body is much stronger than that of ordinary actors, and I can endure hardships more. ”