Chapter Seventy-Eight: Reality Is Always Crueler Than Movies
The turmoil passed, and Gu Xiaoqi started to work again.
Because of the events during this time, Gu Xiaoqi's popularity is high, and there are more and more scenes looking for her, but it seems that she is the kind of female number two with a very cold and hard personality, pure cannon fodder.
The few heroines in it are also some low-cost and crude online dramas, just to rub Gu Xiaoqi's popularity.
After looking around, Gu Xiaoqi was very disappointed.
People outside are jealous of her popularity, but her family knows her own affairs, and without the support of strong works, there will be no big director willing to favor her at all.
took on a few more variety shows with a good reputation, and Gu Xiaoqi was completely idle.
On this day, Shen Wan'er found her with a serious and solemn expression, "Xiaoqi, I have a book here, do you want to take a look." ”
Shen Wan'er rarely looks like this, and Gu Xiaoqi also pays attention to it.
Half an hour passed, and Gu Xiaoqi raised his head with red circles in his eyes, "I took this scene." ”
Shen Wan'er was overjoyed at first, and then said unspeakably: "Xiaoqi, the crew is relatively poor, and they may not be able to give you too high a salary." ”
"It's okay." Gu Xiaoqi was really moved by this script.
This is a story called "Tracking", which has no big story structure and no magnificent background, it is a fresh literary film.
But unlike the previous style of emphasizing compulsion, "Tracking" is very down-to-earth, it is the story of a pair of young sisters and brothers struggling to make a living in society, and the whole takes the road of black humor.
The role that Gu Xiaoqi wants to play is a twenty-year-old girl named Wang Lu. When they were fifteen years old, their parents died unexpectedly, and the siblings were oppressed by the best relatives, and they were swept away after robbing them of the compensation money.
In order to support her younger brother Wang Hai, who is three years younger than herself, Wang Lu washed dishes, picked up garbage, and worked as a cashier.
Younger brother Wang Hai is a sensible child, but without the love of his parents, he is rebellious and sensitive, and always causes trouble at school, which causes Wang Lu a headache.
Wang Lu was in the hotel, and was taken in by the boss and wanted to keep her as a lover, but Wang Lu was unwilling. But the boss has been constantly pestering, and Wang Hai has seen it several times.
Rumors and rumors filled them, and Wang Hai became more and more disdainful of his sister, and he wanted to run away from home.
Wang Hai knew in his heart that there was innocence between his sister and the hotel owner, and he just hated that he had no ability to protect his sister.
The urgent desire to make money made Wang Hai go the wrong way, and he was fooled into being a drug dealer's horse boy, helping the other party transport drugs and peddling them to fixed people.
Unexpectedly, he was arrested by the police for the first time he "did something", and Wang Hai was imprisoned in the Public Security Bureau.
After Wang Lu found out, the whole person collapsed. In desperation, she took the initiative to put herself on the boss's bed, just to save her brother.
Because of his young age, Wang Hai was not sentenced, but was sent to a juvenile detention center.
After staying in the juvenile detention center for two years, Wang Hai came out, but his life was completely ruined, he couldn't go back to school, no one wanted a job, he stayed at home all day, sat in his room, and stayed for a day.
After Wang Lu and the boss were together, the boss didn't treat her well, and she was beaten and scolded for three days.
Once drunk, the boss sent her to someone else's bed with her own hands, and that night, Wang Lu lay on the cold floor, watching the people on her body constantly change, and in the end she didn't know how many people she came into contact with.
Those people did not have a serious situation, Wang Lu went directly to the hospital, and after waking up, Wang Lu was humiliated and committed suicide.
Fortunately, Wang Hai has been with her, Wang Lu didn't die, but she went crazy.
The boss didn't dare to tell the truth to Wang Hai, he only threw down tens of thousands of yuan and left.
Wang Hai sent his sister to a mental hospital, and then he seemed to return to normal overnight, and directly found Wang Hai, flattering and flattering to ask the other party to give him a job to support his sister.
When the boss saw Wang Hai's appearance, he was relieved and left people to clean up.
Wang Hai lay dormant in the hotel, and half a year later, he used various means to kill those who had insulted his sister.
After killing the last man, Wang Hai turned himself in, but he was found to have a very serious mental illness and was not sentenced to death and was imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital.
In the end, the siblings were in a psychiatric hospital, leaning on each other, just like many nights before.
The story is simple, but some of the details are very moving.
Shen Wan'er's heart relaxed a little, but she was still embarrassed to speak: "Xiaoqi, that salary is 10,000 yuan, including food and housing." ”
10,000 yuan, filming day and night for more than a month, not including the preliminary preparations, which is an actor's remuneration, even a waiter in a big city earns more than this.
A crew that found Gu Xiaoqi before, the salary of the second female lead has reached 1.8 million, and Gu Xiaoqi did not agree.
But this, she still nodded, "No problem! ”
"And ......" Shen Wan'er was even more embarrassed, she felt that she was emptying the gloves for others.
"Say, what else do you want." Gu Xiaoqi is very easy to talk about now.
"The director wants you to try a scene, and if it's not suitable, he'll go again...... Find someone else. Shen Wan'er said a few words later, and her voice was so low that it was almost inaudible.
Fortunately, Gu Xiaoqi was very close to her.
Gu Xiaoqi sighed: The director who dares to love her may not necessarily take a fancy to her.
But at the same time, she is also very curious about what she can pay 10,000 yuan to ask her to be the heroine, and what kind of people she has to pick and choose look like.
"Okay, let's meet with the director at that time."
"No, no, he's just waiting outside the door." Shen Wan'er said anxiously.
"Outside?" Gu Xiaoqi was surprised, it had been almost two hours since Wan'er came in, and the person had been standing outside.
"Let him in."
Shen Wan'er agreed and trotted out.
Soon, she brought in a very tall and thin man.
The person who came was wearing a loose black casual suit, his face was pale and melancholy, much like a depressed version of Lin Xi.
"Hello, I'm Gu Xiaoqi." Xiaoqi greeted politely.
The man nodded without a trace, then snuggled into the sofa, hugged his shoulders as if he was afraid of the cold, and said, "Give you five minutes, just a scene." ”
His voice was hoarse, as if something was stuck in his throat, giving it a very eerie feeling.
Gu Xiaoqi didn't have time to think about it, she opened the script and picked a more challenging part.
This is the scene where Wang Lu commits suicide in the hospital, although there are not a few lines, but the emotions are very complicated.
Gu Xiaoqi lay on the floor cleanly, from this moment on, she was Wang Lu.
A drop of clear water slipped from the corner of her eye, and the expression on Wang Lu's face changed from despair to numbness, and finally there was no wave, she was like a shell that had lost her soul.
After lying quietly for a few minutes, Wang Lu struggled to get up from the ground, she walked over with a firm goal, picked up a knife, then turned her head and glanced out of the door, her eyes showed a trace of reluctance, and then annihilated.
The hand holding the knife no longer trembled, used all his strength, resolutely and fiercely slashed down, looking at the bloody wound on the wrist, Wang Lu smiled, first slightly bent the corners of his mouth, then slowly expanded, and finally smiled and laughed, and cried again, she fell to the ground, turned her head with great effort, and wanted to look at the door again, but she couldn't get by......
"Enough! I joined the group next Monday, and I went first. After the man finished speaking, he didn't wait for Gu Xiaoqi to react, and walked away.
Gu Xiaoqi got up from the ground, wiped the tears on his face, and was still a little unable to come back to his senses.
Shen Wan'er grabbed Xiaoqi's hand with a sad face, "Xiaoqi, don't blame him." The prototype of this story is him and his sister, but in reality, Wang Lu died that night, and he failed to save his sister's life. ”
Gu Xiaoqi's heart ached, and he was a little sad when he thought of the lonely and lonely figure just now.
Reality is always crueler than movies, just now he must have remembered the scene when his sister died, so he couldn't help himself.
Gu Xiaoqi took over the new movie, although there was no money to make, but it was a perfect stepping stone after filming.
People who have the same idea as her, as well as Gu Jiabao.
Gu Jiabao lost all his jobs overnight, and although he deleted all the news, the memories of netizens could not be deleted.
When it comes to Gu Jiabao, what they think of is the fragrant affair of polyamorous love and the cutout TV series she filmed.
In order to salvage the image of Jiabao, the Xia family deliberately invested heavily in a literary film to tell the young and beautiful love story of the 80s, and the director invited Kang Wei.
Although Kang Wei's movies over the years have not been blockbusters and the box office is very poor, he has won various awards softly.
The Xia family looked for him to win the prize.
Gu Jiabao accepted such an arrangement, she also worked very hard, in order to shoot this drama well, she deliberately went to the teacher to learn for a month, although her acting skills did not improve much, but after putting on makeup and costumes, she was still very able to bluff.
And it is worth mentioning that one of the assistant directors of this play is Jiang Gan.
He and Gu Jiabao are quite familiar, and this time they are in a group, and the relationship has grown by leaps and bounds.
Jiang Gan is not bad-looking, and she is quite talented, and Gu Jiabao is also a master who is unwilling to be lonely, now she is being watched by the outside world, and she does not dare to go out to provoke right and wrong at will, but there are ready-made goals around her.
After coming and going, the two rolled together, and they both hated Gu Xiaoqi, the common enemy.
So when Gu Xiaoqi was filming quietly, a series of poisonous schemes against her quietly appeared, and they were falling on her without a trace.
Gu Xiaoqi didn't notice it at all, she was now squatting on the side of the road to eat a boxed lunch, and the only thing that could be counted as meat in it was scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
This is still her "special treatment" as the heroine, and others, including the director, are all shredded potatoes, cabbage, and Gu Xiaoqi's little face is haggard, which is more in line with the image of the characters in the play.