Chapter 132 "Tears of the Knife" II
After filming a few scenes, Li Zhen also started filming. This scene is Li Zhen's appearance in this drama, and it is also the scene where he and Jang Sung-won meet for the first time in the play. The plot is like this: When Zhang Chengyuan took two subordinates, Quan Huibin and Ha Luha, to investigate the case and came to Eunuch Li's house to meet (eunuch, an honorific title for high-ranking officials), he unexpectedly saw the eldest lady of the Li Mansion and Eunuch Li's adopted daughter Li Zhen sitting on a pavilion playing the piano, and between the two looked at each other, they seemed to have a very subtle feeling, and there was also a hidden edge.
This scene looks very simple, but it may not be easy to shoot well, in addition to the look and eyes of love at first sight are not easy to interpret, the sadness hidden in Li Zhen's eyes is the most difficult to express.
Because of the requirements of the plot, Li Zhen wants to show a vague sadness in her eyes, and this sadness needs to be very deep and secret, because in the play, her current adoptive father is her father-killing enemy, but more than ten years of nurturing grace makes Li Zhen very grateful to her adoptive father, so she often hovers between the two emotions of revenge and revenge, and her heart is full of contradictions, which also exacerbates the pain in her heart. Although she can usually hide it well, the piano is the voice of her heart, and she can't help but reveal it when she plays the piano. After being unexpectedly noticed by Zhang Chengyuan's sharp eyes, Zhang Chengyuan not only felt some doubts, but was also deeply attracted by this sadness.
The feeling of love at first sight, although it is a bit difficult, but after Zhang Chengyuan and Li Zhen have cooperated in filming more than a dozen reversal dramas, they have already practiced makes perfect and cooperated tacitly, after all, they have already filmed similar scenes many times. But if this kind of sadness wants to be expressed perfectly, it is quite difficult for Li Zhen.
If it's just improvised, with Li Zhen's current acting skills, if she works hard, she can still easily show it, but after filming with Zhang Chengyuan for a long time, she unconsciously has strict requirements for herself, because if she doesn't do this, the effect of the two performances will be good and bad, which will be very asymmetrical, which will attract criticism from film critics and audiences.
After several test shoots, Li Zhen didn't need to look at the captured pictures to know that the effect of the road was not ideal, because she felt that she could not really immerse herself in that contradictory sad feeling at this time, so she immediately asked the director: postpone this scene first, and then go back to shoot again when she has filmed other scenes, when she has a deeper understanding of the script, and can really brew this complex sad emotion.
The director thought about it for a while and agreed, since the test shooting effect was not good, it would be just a waste of time and energy to shoot reluctantly, it would be better to give Li Zhen a little more preparation time, so that she could prepare more fully, and the shooting would be much smoother. So, he ordered the other shots to be shot first.
The next shoot went very quickly, and it was filmed fairly smoothly until dark. Since there are still many night scenes to be filmed in the future, the crew started filming again after having dinner and resting for a while. Although it is easy to feel tired when working at night, everyone is used to this kind of filming life day and night, and they also know how to take time to replenish their spirits and regulate their mood, so they all perform well! As for Zhang Chengyuan, an "extraordinary human" who can maintain full spirit and physical strength almost all day long, staying up late is nothing to him at all.
After filming the night scene, it was already more than ten o'clock at night, and Li Zhen and Quan Huibin felt very tired, so they held each other's hands and went to the rest place arranged by the crew to prepare for rest. And on the way back for them, Zhang Chengyuan naturally wanted to escort them by their side and escort them back. But they didn't really need his escort, because they were staying not far from the filming location, in a hostel near the folk village, and they were accompanied by crew members. Therefore, it is better to say that it is an escort, but Zhang Chengyuan insisted on saying this in front of Li Zhen and Quan Huibin, in order to show his manhood.
Every year, countless people come to the folk village to visit, tour or film, so the hostels in the neighborhood are doing okay, at least there are no rats or cockroaches in their rooms.
After Li Zhen and Jun Hye Bin finished washing, Jang Sung-won, who lived next door to them, entered their room, gave them a little massage, and talked to them a few words about their understanding of the script and the understanding of the role played by Li Zhen before returning to their rooms to rest, and Li Zhen and Jun Hye Bin also turned off the lights and prepared to sleep. However, although Li Zhen lay down, she didn't fall asleep immediately, but thought about and felt the role understanding that Zhang Chengyuan had just told her, and didn't close her eyes and fall asleep until she felt a little gained.
At around four o'clock the next morning, the actors were woken up by the staff, because the day's filming was about to start.
Today's first scene is a dialogue between Zhang Chengyuan and Li Zhen, in this scene, Li Zhen tells Zhang Chengyuan about the old story of her biological father Jin Dajian being beheaded by her adoptive father twenty years ago, but she did not reveal her true identity when she told it, and in order not to let Zhang Chengyuan suspect her, she also deliberately claimed that she believed that her adoptive father would never do evil, and hoped that Zhang Chengyuan could clear her adoptive father's innocence. Although she said it beautifully, the faint sadness in her expression once again aroused Zhang Chengyuan's suspicions.
While I was shooting, an unexpected thing happened, several roosters near the village suddenly crowed, and the sound was loud, in this quiet morning, the morning people in a radius of several miles could not hear it clearly. Maybe listening to the sound of chickens usually cheers up, but for Zhang Chengyuan and Li Zhen, who were acting at this time, it was a kind of noise, which completely destroyed the faint atmosphere of grief and lingering that they had been brewing for a long time.
Although Li Zhen tried his best to control his emotions, he was still made to laugh out loud by the constant cries of the rooster, and after she laughed, the people around her, including Zhang Chengyuan, couldn't help but laugh along.
Sometimes a small episode during filming can have an unexpected effect. After this episode, the crew suddenly felt sleepy and their spirits were much more uplifted.
Under the director's order, Jang Sung-won and Lee Jin re-brewed the appropriate emotions and started filming again. This time it went well, and although the rooster was still crowing, both men were unfazed and completed the shot smoothly, and it was done quite perfectly.
At this time, the sky was already bright, and it was supposed to continue filming the scene where Jang Sung-won was attacked by a sneak attack and was saved by Jun Hye-bin, but the sky at this time was not suitable for this kind of assassination and murder scene, so the director decided to move this scene to the night when it was dark.
Next, the crew changed venues and came indoors again to prepare to shoot the scene where Jun Hye-bin and Lee Jin took turns taking care of Jang Sung-won after he was injured. It looks like Jang Sung-won is going to enjoy a lot of good fortune, but it's not like this at all when it comes to filming. Because Zhang Chengyuan was injured in the play and lost too much blood and fell into a coma, in order to take care of this kind of injured person, it is common sense that he must be covered with a thick quilt to maintain the body temperature of the injured person. In this way, Zhang Chengyuan felt quite uncomfortable, after all, the weather in mid-August was still very hot, and Zhang Chengyuan quickly broke out in a hot sweat wrapped in a thick quilt.
Originally, he could use his true qi to suppress his body temperature, but the director said that after he was sweating, it just met the symptoms of the injured, and he didn't need to do relevant makeup in the future. Being said by him made Zhang Chengyuan dare not use his true qi, so he had to temporarily stop the automatic operation of his true qi in his body, and then everything went naturally, and after a long while, his forehead finally had a lot of sweat stains.
At this time, Quan Huibin had to use a wet towel to carefully wipe the sweat on Zhang Chengyuan's forehead and face, and in order to show the secret affection of the female catcher in the play for the official, while he was in a coma, Quan Huibin also had to gently rub his hand on Zhang Chengyuan's face a few times. To have the opportunity to touch Zhang Chengyuan's face openly, especially in front of Li Zhen, can be said to be a very lucky and happy thing for Quan Huibin, because in reality, she doesn't have such a beautiful opportunity, and Zhang Chengyuan almost didn't even let her touch it.
When stroking Zhang Chengyuan's face, Quan Huibin's eyes were blurred, and he completely showed his true love for Zhang Chengyuan in his heart under the camera, and the sincerity and intensity of his feelings made the director and photographer secretly amazed after watching it, thinking that she was very good at this kind of acting.
And Zhang Chengyuan, who was in a coma in formal form, easily felt Quan Huibin's true affection through the probing effect of the Yuan Shen, and felt unbearable, and secretly complained in his heart: "Sister Zhen'er is next to her, if her anger is aroused because of your actions, how can it be good?" I said Huibin, you just want to take advantage of me, don't do it at this time, it's a big deal I'll find another opportunity for you to touch enough! ”
At this time, Li Zhen was standing outside the room, because of the shooting, this room was actually semi-closed, so Li Zhen could see Jun Hyebin's movements without hindrance, although Jun Hye-bin was facing away from her, so she couldn't see Jun Hye-bin's loving eyes, but just from Jun Hye-bin's gentle hand movements, she could clearly feel Jun Hye-bin's state of mind at this time, because of similar behaviors, she and the three sisters had done it many times.
This made Li Zhen feel a little uncomfortable, no matter how generous she was, it was impossible for her to watch other women take advantage of her boyfriend and be indifferent, although this was just filming, but Jun Huibin was obviously mixed with true feelings. So, she took a deep breath, controlled her emotions, and immediately entered the acting state, saying her lines a few seconds in advance: "Is there anyone?" In order to interrupt Jun Hye-bin's move to take advantage of Zhang Chengyuan.
A gentle sentence immediately woke up Quan Huibin, who was intoxicated with her emotions, and she immediately stood up quickly, stepped forward to open the door, and welcomed Miss Li in the play in. At this time, she temporarily put aside her distracting thoughts and started acting seriously.
Li Zhen walked into the room, said a few lines to Quan Huibin, then walked in front of Zhang Chengyuan, squatted down, stretched out his hand and touched Zhang Chengyuan's forehead, and then put his hands on Zhang Chengyuan's left hand, slowly grabbed and held it tightly, the movement was very gentle, so as to show the affection of Miss Li in the play for the official.
Zhang Chengyuan woke up immediately, slowly opened his eyes, he wanted to wait a few more seconds before waking up, but he immediately changed his attention, because he felt that Li Zhen was secretly pricking the soft flesh on his palm with a few fingernails when he was holding his hand, and he knew that Li Zhen was taking out anger on him. Although this kind of small punishment didn't necessarily hurt much for him, in a panic, he just wanted to open his eyes early so that he could see Li Zhen's expression more directly, and then guess how angry she was in her heart. But he forgot that he was filming at this time, and the look on Li Zhen's face did not represent what she really thought in her heart.
When Zhang Chengyuan opened his eyes, Li Zhen let him go and concentrated on speaking to him. And Quan Huibin exited the room sadly, this mood is not only the requirement of the plot, but also the true emotion in Quan Huibin's heart at this time, in reality, in front of Zhang Chengyuan and Li Zhen, no matter what time and place, she can only stand aside, she can only watch them affectionate, Qingqing and me, and she has to force a smile and put on a look of not caring much.