Chapter 66: Accidental Injury
The three days focused on filming Xu Zheng's scenes.
The role he plays as the commissioner's secretary is a small supporting role in the movie, but it is essential.
There are not many scenes where this character appears in the play, but it is very trivial, and he appears in many scenes.
Some scenes are very important and full of deep meaning, and such scenes are generally not filmed at one time. But Xu Zheng's time is limited, he only has three days to film, and he is in a hurry.
Fortunately, Cao Jiankui's storyboard design is very detailed, Gu Cancan singled out Xu Zheng's, and some scenes only shoot the picture where he appears, and then edit it in the future.
Even so, it is difficult to end all the scenes of the role of the commissioner's secretary after the filming is completed and it is difficult to end the normal shooting for three days, Gu Cancan modified the time of some scenes in the play, the time of the scenes happened at night, and the scenes of these scenes were changed to night shooting, and they were filmed until more than twelve o'clock in the morning for several consecutive nights, and finally all Xu Zheng's scenes were filmed.
In the past, Gu Cancan always felt that the profession of actor was very cool, comfortable and free to get more money.
It wasn't until I stepped into this circle that I realized that the difference between what I actually thought was quite big.
It is relatively easy to make money in the entertainment industry, but it may not be comfortable and free.
Filming winter scenes in the summer, one person wears a thick cotton jacket, and his face has to pretend to be very cold.
If you only shoot the upper body, it's okay, you can go bare-legged. Gu Cancan saw a picture taken in a costume drama, in which the actors and actresses are acting in the ice and snow environment, with affectionate expressions and beautiful scenes. But the legs that the camera doesn't shoot are all lifting up the clothes to expose the thighs......
It is more tragic to shoot summer scenes in winter, and those who have experience in the crew know that when filming summer scenes in winter, there are often scenes such as falling water and rain, and the actor is wearing cool short sleeves on his upper body, as long as it is not a panoramic view, and he is wrapped in a thick quilt below his hips. The overboard scene is even more tragic, when Aaron Kwok filmed the overboard scene, he was covered in plastic wrap, like Zhao Liying when she was filming whether she knew if it should be green, fat, red and thin, there was a overboard scene in the winter night, it was really jumping into the water, and the whole person was frozen after filming.
As for filming at night until the early hours of the morning, it is common to only sleep three or four hours a day.
If this was in Europe and the United States, it might have been complained to the Actors Guild a long time ago.
It's also a blessing that we have a group of particularly dedicated actors.
Almost all the scenes in the donkey are the rivalry between the leading actors and supporting actors, with the exception of one scene, which is the part where the American philanthropist Ross officiates at the wedding of the coppersmith and Jiajia, which has a band and an audience, and it is a group drama.
Gu Cancan rarely shoots group portraits.
The nightclub is also just a story that takes place in the supermarket, and the biggest scene is that there are dozens of people shopping in the supermarket when the supermarket is on sale.
The only group scene in the drama today was the one in the church.
This is also the only big scene in the movie Donkey Gets Water.
The church is a dzi church rented in Taiyuan.
The group performances in it are also students and teachers of film and television performance majors from Shanxi Vocational College of Arts.
Gu Cancan modified the image of the American philanthropist Ross.
The place where donkeys get water has always been criticized is the image of the American philanthropist Ross. In this movie where everyone has annoying characteristics, Ross is perfect like a holy father, he is kind and generous, for the cause of rural education in old China, he came to the East tirelessly, because a teacher was unfortunately killed (the coppersmith faked his death), and he took out all the money on his body with guilt, and later the coppersmith's fake death was exposed, and the kind Mr. Ross accepted their fool again, and enthusiastically held a Western-style wedding for the coppersmith and his fiancΓ©e.
This is simply Bolshevism in the West.
No wonder some people once ridiculed the connotation of donkey water, that is, only Americans can save China.
And Ross has a line in the movie: "Incredible China." Incredible China. β
This sentence was very unpleasant when Gu Cancan watched the movie at that time.
Let an American say this......
Gu Cancan changed the image of Ross to a patriotic overseas Chinese.
Simply compiled the background of patriotic overseas Chinese, he was originally from Changzhi, Shanxi, concerned about the education of his hometown, and his philosophy was to master the skills of the master to control the country, believing that China should learn from developed countries such as the United States, and the first condition for learning in developed countries is to understand English, so he decided to sponsor a local English teacher to encourage him to cultivate more talents who understand English.
Gu Cancan named this role Wang Lizhong, and asked a teacher in Shanxi Vocational College of Arts to play it.
He is the teacher of the film and television major in the college, and he still has basic acting skills, and this teacher also helped the crew to gather enough tricks.
Gu Cancan and the others rushed over early in the morning, and Cao Jianhui asked the extras to put on makeup early and change into clothes that fit the era.
There are not many opportunities for filming in such an art vocational college, and the teachers and students are very enthusiastic and hardworking.
The difficulty of the church scene is not high, but Gu Cancan has little experience in filming group portrait scenes, so she filmed this plot there for a day, and finally finished filming the church scene.
In the following days, Gu Cancan slowly filmed, and the actors became more and more into the state, but the filming progress was not fast. Because it doesn't mean that every scene actor passes particularly smoothly after performing it once.
Sometimes Gu Cancan watched the film and felt that the effect was not bad and could be passed.
But these actors of the acting school, keep improving, and they feel that they have a better performance, and they will take the initiative to ask for it again.
Xu Zheng also felt a little pity in his heart.
After three days of shooting, he knew that this was definitely a good movie, with excellent scripts and excellent actors, and word of mouth would inevitably explode after its release in the future.
It's a pity that I only have too many shots in this scene.
can only blame himself for not having a schedule, otherwise Xu Zheng wants to fight for the role of commissioner.
Xu Zheng's role was over in a hurry, and Gu Cancan's next step was to finish filming Qi Wei's scene.
Qi Wei's role is more concentrated. The coppersmith's wife she plays appears in a total of three scenes. The first scene is in the hall of the school, where she escorts her husband coppersmith to the school to find the woman who broke her shoes with the coppersmith. The second scene is on the grass outside the Rain Temple, where Wan Qian admits to her face that she hooked up with the coppersmith, and this is a wonderful conflict.
The third time was that the coppersmith and Jiajia were married by Rose in the church, and the coppersmith's wife came to the scene to make a big fuss in the church.
Gu Cancan knew that Qi Wei was in a hurry and was going to participate in the competition of my type of me, so she first filmed the rest of Qi Wei's scenes, and planned to end the filming of Qi Wei's scenes as soon as possible.
Qi Wei took the initiative to say to Gu Cancan: "Boss, I have decided to give up the competition of my type and my show." I didn't go to participate. β
"What?" This made Gu Cancan very surprised, because Qi Wei had shown that he was obsessed with this competition before, and even made a special request before signing a contract with Bright Times, to allow her to continue to participate in the competition.
Qi Wei figured it out for himself.
She is not a professional singer in the first place, and her voice is quite good in the amateur, but compared with the professional, it is still not comparable. In terms of singing, I'm afraid she won't have a particularly good development.
And now Gu Cancan gave her the opportunity to participate in the filming of the movie as soon as she entered the showbiz.
Such an opportunity is not available to many people who are professionally studying acting.
One more point.
The actors who work with Qi Wei are really basically powerful actors with acting skills.
Wan Qian, who she thought was a vase before, also amazed Qi Wei with her strength in the play.
Qi Wei knew that she couldn't be half-hearted anymore, between singing to participate in the competition and performing, she had to make a trade-off, and she could only choose one of the two.
Although Gu Cancan gave her enough freedom, she still annoyed her boss by running to participate in activities at other stations.
Before, she chose to continue to participate in the competition, but now she has changed her mind and decided to stay, study and research hard, and carefully observe and learn how these powerful people act.
For Qi Wei's decision, Gu Cancan appreciated it very much.
If you want to become an excellent actor, you must devote yourself to it and ponder your acting skills, so that you can have a better development.
Although Qi Wei decided to stay, Gu Cancan still decided to finish filming her scene first.
After Qi Wei's role was over, let her and the group seriously learn the acting skills of the acting school.
In this scene, Zhang Yiman admitted that she seduced the coppersmith and wanted to settle the matter with the coppersmith's wife.
In the green grassland, Zhang Yiman, played by Wan Qian, walked over with all kinds of charm, standing there slimly, the cheongsam on his body trembled slightly in the unknown, enchanting and moving.
"Eldest sister, my name is Zhang Yiman, I admit that I did this."
The coppersmith played by Huang Bo was cowardly and timid at this time, holding his head and squatting down.
Zhang Yiman just stood there, his eyes were neither happy nor sad, waiting calmly.
"Okay, it's you!"
Qi Wei rushed up violently, and should have slammed Wan Qian and pushed Wan Qian to a stumbling side.
But when she pushed Wan Qian, there was a moment of hesitation, and she temporarily retracted her strength.
"Stop!"
Gu Cancan frowned, Qi Wei's acting here is too fake, and he temporarily retracts his strength when beating people, making a joke?
Obviously, she didn't substitute the emotions of the characters.
"Qi Wei, what are you hesitating about? Your husband slept with the vixen in front of you, you should be eager to tear her apart, push her and retract it, the audience's eyes are not blind. Remember, you are now the illiterate rural woman, and the vixen in front of you is the vixen who seduces your husband, throwing away all grace and showing the anger of a woman, and starting over. β
Crowd at the scene: (*Ξ¦ dish Ξ¦*)
Qi Wei nodded and said embarrassedly: "Good director." β
This time, Qi Wei's strength was big enough to push Wan Qian directly to the ground.
Wan Qian couldn't help but scream, a painful look on her face.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Sister Wan Qian, are you okay?" Qi Wei hurriedly went to help Wan Qian.
Gu Cancan also interrupted filming, and everyone at the scene hurriedly surrounded him.
"Wan Qian, are you okay?"
"Are you alright, what's the injury?"
Qi Wei pulled Wan Qian up, only to see Wan Qian's expression of pain and shame, and she reluctantly took a step back, not allowing the gay men present to see the injured parts.
"Sister Wan Qian, are you okay, are you hurt?" Gu Cancan squeezed over and asked with concern.
God forbid, don't let the heroine be seriously injured.
Wan Qian's face was a little red, she leaned into Gu Cancan's ear, and whispered: "It shouldn't be a big deal, the stone has reached the buttocks." β
Gu Cancan was speechless for a while.
I still want to laugh.
A few words drove away the gay man, Gu Cancan and Qi Wei helped Wan Qian to the place where the person was back, and Gu Cancan looked at Wan Qian's indescribable parts with an inexplicable mood.
Fortunately, there is a lot of meat there, and it seems that Wan Qian is fine, and there should be no injuries to the bones.
After grinning and recovering for a while, Wan Qian tried to take two steps by herself, feeling that there was no big problem, and said to Gu Cancan, "Director, continue filming." β
"Is it really okay? If not, you can take a day off. β
"It's okay, it's not a bone-break, it's nothing, go on."
After walking a few steps in pain, Wan Qian's expression gradually faded, and when she walked to the position, her face was already expressionless, her eyes were fearless and meaningless, and she had entered the state of a character.
Gu Cancan looked at Qi Wei, she also stood where she should be, her face was solemn, she let out a long breath, and nodded at Gu Cancan.
Those present confirmed that it was correct, and the scene continued to be filmed.
"Smack!" The field note board quickly retreated.
"Eldest sister, my name is Zhang Yiman, and I did this thing. Let's solve it in another place. β
"It's really you, okay little girl, you really bring seeds."
Qi Wei's eyes widened, his chin raised, his mouth gritted his teeth, and he rushed over and pushed Wan Qian's shoulder, pushing her to a stagger.
"Admit it now, what the were you thinking just now?"
She raised her cigarette pouch and pot to hit Wan Qian, but Jin Shijie who rushed over hugged her waist.
"Eldest sister, eldest sister, I have something to say."
Wan Qian didn't seem to have been injured just now, she licked her lips, and said in a slightly faster tone: "It's okay, it's okay, eldest sister, aren't you going to beat me, come and let's change places." β
After speaking, he turned around and strode to the other side, and his back was decisive.
The camera pans to follow her.
"Click! Okay, too. β
Gu Cancan affirmed this performance.
Wan Qian's acting skills are really good, Zhang Yiman has always been enchanting and elegant, walking swayingly, and when Zhang Yiman turned around and walked forward, Wan Qian's steps were very fast and very fast, showing Zhang Yiman's forbearance and grief to the fullest.
Grief and indignation are not directed at the coppersmith's wife, but at colleagues.
Gu Cancan looked at Qi Wei again, the expression of anger on her face had not gone down at this moment, and she looked at Wan Qian's eyes with strong anger.
It's good, this is a rivalry between two women, and both of them are in the groove.
"Next Preparation. Sister Wan Qian, you turned around and walked forward. β
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After the filming of the afternoon scene, Gu Cancan saw Wan Qian limping when she walked.
When she returned to the hotel, Wan Qian's walking was even more difficult.
It can't hurt the lumbar spine or hip bone, right?
"Sister Wan Qian, let's go to the hospital for a check-up, I'll send you."
"I really don't need to, I know it myself, it's a flesh wound. Just help me to go to my room and rest. Wan Qian insisted on not going to the hospital.
Gu Cancan and Qi Wei had no choice but to help Wan Qian into the room.
Lying on the bed, Wan Qian said with a very painful expression: "It is impossible to hurt the lumbar spine at the location of the injury, and it is difficult to hurt the hip bone there." I've got bone-setting cream in my bag, yes, it's the black bag. β
She instructed Gu Cancan to take out a box of ointment: "That, which of you will help me take the medicine?" β
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