101 "Saving the Ancestors"
On the outskirts of Dayang Village, the crew of "Saving the Ancestors" was on set.
Because of jet lag, Wu Xiaoqing arrived a little late, and the preparations on the set have already begun. Because it was a rainy scene, the fire faucet was pouring water on the heads of a group of actors in the play.
After Director Chen saw Wu Xiaoqing, he stood up and waved at him, and when Wu Xiaoqing sat down, Director Chen stuffed today's script into Wu Xiaoqing's hand: "Take a look, see what small details to move." β
The script in Wu Xiaoqing's hand was discussed by the search and rescue team with Director Chen many times during the rescue mission, and finally settled, which is not the same story as the version that Wu Xiaoqing originally told according to his experience. Now the whole story has become a time travel to the historical Dayu era to save the ancestors, because the director feels that this can resonate with the audience. Wu Xiaoqing didn't understand it at all, but he still pretended to look at it seriously, and then read out his own lines according to the tips of the search and rescue team's subtitles: "The prop sign on that door, will it be bright?" β
"Yes, this lamp has a close-up." Director Chen is a veteran director after all, and his crew has been running in for many years, and the details are very good.
Wu Xiaoqing went to see the actors' costumes and makeup again, in Wu Xiaoqing's opinion, they all looked quite similar, and many extras looked similar to real primitives. However, the search and rescue team can always find a little opinion: "Well, the teeth are too white, you should avoid the camera when shouting." The old man looks too old, the old man of the primitive man is only thirty or forty years old, and he is not so thin, this is not good...... What is it? β
Wu Xiaoqing asked, pointing to a huge weapon in the leading actor's hand.
"The king's axe."
"It's too big, it's too big," Wu Xiaoqing said, "primitive people lack smelting technology, and metal axes are rare and crude. This is a time-traveling realism, not a time-traveling myth. β
"Props, props!" The assistant director hurriedly shouted, "Go to the village to find an axe, the older the better......
"Actually, no," Wu Xiaoqing stopped, "The shape of the modern axe is determined, unless it is specially made. Just take a wooden spear. β
The assistant director glanced at the director, the director nodded, and then the assistant director followed the arrangement.
The actor who played Wu Xiaoqing himself, that is, the actor who was patted on the shoulder by Wu Xiaoqing and called Xiao Qin by the director, came to Wu Xiaoqing respectfully. His hair was made by the makeup artist to look like Wu Xiaoqing before, a yellow non-mainstream explosive head, when Wu Xiaoqing noticed this hairstyle, he didn't know why, he actually felt a little awkward.
"Teacher Wu," the young actor, who was four or five years older than Wu Xiaoqing, shouted respectfully to Wu Xiaoqing, "Can I disturb you?" I don't quite understand the script here. β
Wu Xiaoqing looked at the subtitles and nodded slightly. The cameras on the set have not yet started filming, but Wu Xiaoqing's performance has been starting - the most dedicated actor in the entire crew should be Wu Xiaoqing.
"That's right, Wang Li - the name of Wu Xiaoqing's character in the play - is a little hooligan who didn't graduate from junior high school, and he is also very unaccustomed to other college students in the village, why would he be willing to listen to the command of a professor he just met in action?"
The actor obviously didn't know that Wu Xiaoqing was the prototype of this character, and in their eyes, Wu Xiaoqing was a young screenwriter in a suit and leather shoes, so they naturally couldn't imagine that Wu Xiaoqing actually didn't graduate from junior high school. If he knew, he would definitely not dare to ask such a question - if he had followed Wu Xiaoqing's temper half a year ago, he would have picked up the bench and smashed the head of this blind guy now.
Of course, he didn't know that the script in front of him was based on a true story, in which there was a search and rescue team, but not in the script.
Wu Xiaoqing saw the answer given to him by the search and rescue team on the subtitles, he paused for a while, and silently read these lines twice in his heart before saying them: "Knowledge is a good thing, everyone knows this fact." Except for the truly stupid part of the population who look down on the possessors of knowledge, most people despise those who have a higher level of knowledge than themselves, not because they look down on knowledge, but because they value it so much that they sanctify it. In their subconscious, there is a huge gap between these familiar young people who are about the same age as themselves in the same village and these sacred knowledge. But as soon as he encounters a person who is truly recognized by the authority as a top knowledge holder, he will bow down and worship themβthese people have become sacred because of the knowledge they possess. β
Wu Xiaoqing didn't understand itβbut he could feel the power of these words, which seemed to describe his previous state of mind.
This Xiao Qin obviously didn't understand either-but he could feel the temperament that Wu Xiaoqing exuded when he spoke, and at this moment, he felt that Wu Xiaoqing in front of him was Wang Li in the play, telling him what was in his heart. It's no wonder that people can write movie scripts at such a young age, and this ability to integrate into the role really amazes him as an actor. Just listening to Wu Xiaoqing say this, Xiao Qin felt that he had already touched a lot of the veins of this character.
"Attention departments, is there any water pressure over there, is it enough? Line ......"
"The actors are on the stage, check each other's makeup ......"
Everyone began to get busy, Wu Xiaoqing sat next to the director, watching the assistant director run up and down, arranging every detail. This is a group scene, which can be regarded as the key scene of the whole movie.
The only traverser characters in the play are Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen - it should be the little rascal and the old professor in the script, when they walked out along the open door, they began to say lines that were completely absent in the real world, and then the indigenous king, that is, Dayu, still answered.
Well, modern people more than 2,000 years ago and primitive people more than 2,000 years ago BC chatted happily with each other in Mandarin...... Well, after all, art is higher than life.
When Wu Xiaoqing first came, he still cared about this movie, and felt that after all, it was a story that happened to him - if he could be seen by others, it would naturally make him feel a lot of pride. But after coming to the set to watch it for a while, he knew that Wang Li in the movie was just the Wang Li that the director thought that the audience wanted to see, he was not Wu Xiaoqing. Wu Xiaoqing would not talk in front of a large number of primitive people, and felt so actively worried about the lives of his ancestors - most of the time Wu Xiaoqing just did what the search and rescue team arranged.
And after two rescues, Wu Xiaoqing also knows that being too positive will not lead to good results. For example, in the scene in front of him, the changed script asked Wang Li to personally distribute meals to each primitive person, and then everyone was grateful in person when they shared it - not to mention the efficiency of this action, according to the meaning of the search and rescue team, the most serious consequence of this is to destroy the social organization form that primitive people originally had - so they still had to hand over this distribution power to Wang Hewu when they distributed food - this is also an affirmation of their own social order. In the kingdom of Elis, the logic of their behavior is the same.
There are some things that Wu Xiaoqing didn't notice the truth in this, and he didn't bother to think about it, but sitting on the set, when everyone around him was seriously busy, and only Wu Xiaoqing was bored and in a daze, he naturally began to subconsciously compare with the real events that happened in the past.
The lunch was a boxed lunch made from a snack bar in Dayang Village on the set, and it didn't taste very good. However, it is very familiar to Wu Xiaoqing. When the boss who delivered the meal saw Wu Xiaoqing, he took the initiative to come over to greet him, jokingly: "Wu Xiaoqing, you still owe me several meals before!" β
This is a rare question that Wu Xiaoqing doesn't need to read subtitles to answer in a day: "Old man Yan, didn't Yan San come to your family?" Not doing you a favor? β
Yan San was one of Wu Xiaoqing's former fox friends and dog friends in the village, and when he used to play well, he also fought with others together. Later, Wu Xiaoqing stopped studying, so he had no contacts. I heard that he went out to work after graduation, and he didn't come back for the Chinese New Year before.
"Yan San, I went to Ningzhou to work, helping people install elevators, more than 10,000 yuan a month!"
"That's good." Wu Xiaoqing said.
In fact, when the elevator installation team recruited people in the village before, Wu Xiaoqing also planned to go, but because his reputation was too bad, people thought that his hands and feet were not clean and did not bring it. Otherwise, he would have been doing an ordinary job somewhere in the city by now.
"Do you have enough for this dish, I also brought a few more chicken legs."
"No, enough is enough." Wu Xiaoqing resigned.
Old man Yan took the chicken legs to the director to sell them again, these chicken legs are made by the village braised meat shop, which is actually very undelicious, but the people in the village still think it is a good thing.
The set was filmed all day, and when the sky was right in the evening, the director announced that he would be on a job after filming the last rain scene before dark. Most people are tired enough, and the most relaxed person in the whole crew should be Wu Xiaoqing, not so much to work, but to say that he is here to relax and travel. Compared with fighting and killing people, the work of pointing at the filming scene is really simple.
Originally, the director invited Wu Xiaoqing to dinner in the evening, but Wu Xiaoqing refused, and now his daily itinerary is arranged.
Everyone else took the bus back to the city from Dayang Village, and Wu Xiaoqing walked home directly. When he saw his building in the distance, Wu Xiaoqing noticed that the lights upstairs were on. He walked to the door of the house and found a large truck parked in the door, with the words Happy Move written on it.
The two workers were smoking cigarettes at the door, probably waiting for him, and after seeing Wu Xiaoqing take out the door key, they asked him, "Are you Wu Xiaoqing?" β
"Yes." When Wu Xiaoqing saw the subtitles, he realized that these workers were called by the search and rescue team.
"Big brother, are you leaving?" Wu Xiaoqing only felt that he was chuckling in his heart, and almost subconsciously asked this sentence.