Chapter 351: Secrecy
"Why don't you reply to me? I may have to shoot for three months when I join the group this time, and I can't meet you just if I want to meet you, sleep, we're going to be in a long-distance relationship. ”
Gu Mian looked at these lines, and Ji Lingchuan's pitiful appearance begging for favor automatically appeared in his mind.
She put down her pen and typed letter by letter: "I see." I will think about you every day. "Then we should be satisfied.
Ji Lingchuan sent an emoji pinching the little girl's cheek in the next second, causing her to almost laugh out loud in the quiet library.
That night, Su Jincheng booked a private room in a private restaurant to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Ji Lingchuan and his party, and her senior brother Yuan Sen came with her.
Mr. Mei was old and didn't like to join in the fun, so he didn't come over, but he personally called Ji Lingchuan and welcomed his arrival.
For Ji Lingchuan to provoke the beam, Su Jincheng was naturally overjoyed.
She thought that she had missed this opportunity and would have to wait a long time to cooperate with Ji Lingchuan, but she didn't expect him to finally agree.
In the box, she picked up the teacup, replaced the wine with tea, and said with a smile: "I hope that in the next three months, we will work together to present the teacher's hard work perfectly." ”
Ji Lingchuan lowered his head, and hurriedly picked up the teacup and signaled to her: "Please give me more advice." ”
"Don't dare to teach, learn from each other." She said modestly.
Mo Qingwan has seen Tan Zhen's strictness, and he has also seen other directors tricky, and the first time he met such a good-talking director, he felt a little surprised, but he didn't know what Mr. Mei's attitude was.
It was five or six years ago that Mei Ruolin made a movie, and her connections couldn't reach him for the time being, so she didn't know the specific situation. But since he appointed Ji Lingchuan, he must be satisfied with him.
In the second half of the dinner, Su Jincheng talked to Ji Lingchuan about movie-related topics, including whether Ji Lingchuan didn't understand anything about reading the script alone before, and took this opportunity to ask her for advice.
Although Yuan Sen is silent, when talking about the script, he can also say a few insights, and every time he hits the nail on the head, Ji Lingchuan is empowered.
The meal was quite pleasant, and Mo Qingwan was also full of confidence in the next cooperation.
Early the next morning, Ji Lingchuan was arranged to go through the signing process, and once the name was signed, he officially became the absolute starring role of this movie.
The signing location was in Su Jincheng's studio, and Ji Lingchuan came here last time to audition, but when he came here again, he was in a completely different state of mind.
The same nervousness, but with several more complex emotions.
Su Jincheng checked the two contracts, confirmed that there were no problems, and returned one of them to Ji Lingchuan.
The phone rang just as she looked, and she answered: "Teacher." ”
What was said over there, Su Jincheng raised his eyes to look at Ji Lingchuan, beckoned him not to leave for the time being, and said to the person on the phone: "Mr. Ji is next to me now, okay, I'll tell him." ”
After hanging up the phone, she conveyed Mei Ruolin's meaning to Ji Lingchuan: "The teacher wants to see you alone, I have something to tell you." ”
Ji Lingchuan was slightly stunned, and subconsciously thought that it might be related to the movie.
After the contract is signed, it is time to put into the intense shooting, such a well-made movie, I am afraid he will not want to breathe a sigh of relief for these three months.
Thinking of his ridiculous words with Gu Mian last night, he couldn't help laughing, it was really a long-distance relationship.
According to the setting of the script, it is a story that takes place in a remote town, and the filming location will definitely not be in Beijing, let alone Shanghai. He doesn't know exactly where it will be.
Su Jincheng led Ji Lingchuan through a corridor to a room: "The teacher is inside, you can go in." ”
Since the teacher said to see him alone, it was inconvenient for her to go in.
Ji Lingchuan thanked him, raised his hand and knocked on the door, and when he heard a heart-wrenching "enter" from inside, he pushed the door and walked in.
I saw Mei Ruolin with his back to him, wearing the same long shirt as last time, bowing slightly, holding a pen in his right hand, brushing the cuffs of the long shirt with his left hand, and writing the first words with a wave of his big hand.
Ji Lingchuan is a shallow learner, and he doesn't know which talented person he wrote.
He was a little nervous in his heart, and wondered if what Mr. Mei Ruolin wrote had anything to do with the script? What if the gentleman tests him on cultural knowledge and he can't answer the answer? Then I thought that it would be good if Gu Mian was here, she was full of poetry and books, and it was estimated that it would not be difficult for her.
In a moment of thought, Mei Ruolin had already stopped his pen, removed the paperweight, picked up the rice paper and blew it, causing the ink to dry quickly.
Fortunately, he did not test Ji Lingchuan's cultural knowledge, but came up with other exam questions.
"Have you read all the scripts?" Merorin sat down and poured herself a cup of tea.
The old man's eyes were blazing, and his gaze fell on Ji Lingchuan's face, not as kind as he was at the audition, and he looked a little majestic.
Ji Lingchuan held his breath, stood up straight and replied respectfully: "I've finished reading." ”
"Is there anything you don't understand?" Merorin asked.
There are several places that I don't understand, and the lines in this kind of movie often have several layers of meaning, and they are not a simple expression.
However, at the dinner last night, Su Jincheng and Yuan Sen gave him a lot of guidance, and for a while he couldn't remember what he didn't understand.
He didn't reply for a long time, Mei Ruolin simply picked up a script that was about to be turned over, found a play he wanted to watch very familiarly, and clicked his finger: "Try this scene." ”
Ji Lingchuan was stunned and said uncertainly: "Now? ”
Mei Ruolin's eyes told him that he had heard correctly, that is, now, like an audition, he would play a scene on the spot. The only difference is probably that he has finished reading the entire script so far, and he is more confident in the positioning of the characters and the rendering of the plot.
Ji Lingchuan took a deep breath, but he didn't expect to start breathlessness before he officially entered the group.
He picked up the script and glanced at it, knowing which scene it was, and forced himself to calm down and memorize the lines, but fortunately, he had an impression in his mind after watching it several times before, and it took him a few minutes to memorize it.
He put down the script, stared at one place, and entered the role in three seconds, although his current image is a sunny and refreshing teenager, his eyes are full of the vicissitudes of life, and if you look closely, you will find that there is a faint flame in his eyes that are as calm as a pool of death, representing his desire for life.
It was a snowy day, and he limped to the door of the welfare home with his old canvas bag, and looked at the little girl who was squatting there, intending to ignore it. He himself is almost unable to get by, where does he have the kindness to take care of any child.
What's more, this is the gate of the welfare home, and after a while, the director will find that there is an abandoned child here, and then take it back to raise with those orphans.
But when he walked by, the afterglow unexpectedly swept to the girl's clear eyes, and the heart that was silent about the world was suddenly touched. He was moved by compassion and wanted to reach out to help this little girl who was as poor as himself.
Of course, Ji Lingchuan is acting in this scene now, and there is no little girl to play for him, it is all up to his imagination to perform without physical objects.
He dragged the crippled leg and squatted down slowly and hard, wanting to touch the little girl's face, but stopped less than three centimeters away from her face: "Don't you have any relatives?" ”
No one spoke to the lines, he paused for two seconds and continued to say his lines: "I don't have either, but I still have a home, do you want to come with me?" ”
Ji Lingchuan learned in the last audition that the protagonist is a criminal who has been released from prison and has a young daughter. Later, after reading the complete script, I realized that the daughter was the child he picked up and raised, not his biological daughter.
Seeing this, Mei Ruolin's eyes were filled with more enthusiasm for digging up treasures.
“cut!”
He shouted to stop, Ji Lingchuan closed his eyes, and after a while he withdrew from the play and turned his head to look at Mei Ruolin. The majesty he had just now was gone, and he reverted to a kind old man with a smile on his face.
"The lines are good, and I originally planned to use the original voice for this movie." Merorin commented on his performance just now.
Ji Lingchuan didn't have time to be happy, he changed his words: "The intensity of the performance is still not enough, otherwise I won't shout, but let you continue to perform." ”
The small flame that had just risen in Ji Lingchuan's heart was extinguished, Mei Ruolin seemed to know his thoughts, and suddenly there was a big turn: "It is commendable that you are very similar to the disabled, which is beyond my imagination, I also want to ask a special person to train you before starting the machine, it seems that there is no need." ”
This is also why he called Ji Lingchuan over alone to try out the play, by watching him act, he can judge what preparations he still needs to make, and strive to solve all the external problems before starting the film.
Mei Ruolin asked: "Have you specifically observed people with disabilities?" ”
There was a blind character in the movie he made before, and at that time, the actor was sent to a school for the blind to study for a month, and he ate and lived with the blind, and his daily life was the same as that of the blind, and the consequences were more suitable for the role when he came back.
It is difficult for normal people to empathize with people with disabilities, but Ji Lingchuan's performance just now was too realistic, which made him suspect that he had done his homework after getting the script.
Listening to Su Jincheng's meaning, Ji Lingchuan didn't want to take this movie at all at first, even if he did his homework, it would only take a few days, and it was impossible to achieve such an effect.
Ji Lingchuan was silent for a long time when he heard this.
What do he want to say, because his father is also disabled, he doesn't need to deliberately imitate and learn, and his father's usual actions are deeply engraved in his mind.
This is also one of the reasons why he took on this movie, and he is confident that he will play the role well.
He didn't answer, and Mei Ruolin didn't ask, and said with a smile: "Ji Lingchuan, I'm looking forward to your role as Chen Shen." ”
The movie will start soon, because the secrecy work is done well, the outside world has not heard any rumors, and even the location of their filming is not clear.
Even if there is a media outlet that wants to dig up news, there is nothing they can do.
Ji Lingchuan had already expected that in order to pursue reality, Mei Ruolin's film would definitely find a venue that was highly consistent with the scenes in the script, and the possibility of later construction was very small.
He was not mistaken, the group took a high-speed train for five hours to reach a remote city, and then took a two-hour bus ride to a township.
Mo Qing never thought that he would film in such a backward town before he came late, and I am afraid that the specific location of this kind of place cannot be found on the map.
The most desperate thing is that as soon as she got out of the car, she stepped into the stone pit on the side of Gu Bian, broke the heel of her shoes, and the three thousand pairs of high heels were scrapped.
She was in a slightly better situation, and the other girl in the car squatted on the side of the road and vomited when she got down.