01

"A town in the south of the Yangtze River", such a mighty and domineering title, is simply the capital of the ancient Son of Heaven.

For a long time, I have only seen and heard of this name on TV and the news --- "Hengdian". At first, you may not believe it, but I thought it was really the name of a store, and I was still wondering what it was selling to be called "Hengdian".

It wasn't until I was a little enlightened and knew a little bit about things that I realized that the place was a town and had the reputation of "Oriental Hollywood".

02

I don't know why I'm here, but I guess I really like to be bright and shiny.

People generally like jewels and splendor. In "Dragons", it is said that the dragons are obsessed with collecting gold and all precious treasures, but they will snatch everything that shines brightly and use it as their own collection.

I'm also one of those beings who yearn for the stars.

Stars, stars, stars.

If I want to use one word to summarize the scenery of Hengdian and the style of Hengdian, then it must be "star".

The favorite of the star-chasers, the journey of the dreamers.

Maybe I want to see the birth of an actor with my own eyes, and I want to be born as an actor myself.

It took me two days to apply for an actor's card, enter the extras' WeChat group, and wait for the announcement at any time to perform a passer-by A and Soldier B.

03

"The largest anti-Japanese base area".

It is said that the devils killed in Hengdian every year can circle the earth three times in a row. It sounds like a joke, but after experiencing it myself, I feel a little bit like that.

On the first day, he played a devil. But I'm very excited, I've always envied those who can wear ancient costumes and hair covers in TV dramas, and think that they can participate in a TV series or movie, participate in and witness the production of film and television dramas, how happy it is!

But when the clothes come down, it seems that all the good things are just bubbles, which burst at the touch of a button.

The clothes are so dirty, and the smell of sweat can penetrate into the nasal cavity from afar.

I wanted to ask the crew if I could change it, but before I could open my mouth, a group of "actor teachers" who came much earlier than me and had already filmed many scenes quickly got dressed.

04

"Extras teacher" is a very connotative title that I have heard the most.

Is it a teacher, a temporary, or an actor?

reminds me of Stephen Chow's movie "The King of Comedy", "Actually, I am an actor. ”

When Xing Ye said that sentence, he had already become Xing Ye, but it still sounded extremely sad, full of helplessness and pain.

And like the extras filming in Hengdian, the extras are even more humble and miserable than Xing Ye at the beginning.

Maybe everyone is really just a little person.

When I was in high school, a movie called "I Am a Passerby" came out.

It took three years to prepare by the famous Hong Kong director Er Dongsheng, and all the leading actors were played by Hengdian extras. It also tells the story of the Hengdian extras, a story about dreams.

It's really sweet and beautiful. All the people in the play are outsiders, they have realized their ambitions in the play, and they have also taken a step closer to their ideals with the help of director Er Dongsheng outside the play.

But this is just a flash in the pan, a castle in the air.

The real reality is that there are 30,000 group performers in Hengdian every day, and there is no work for ten yuan an hour.

05

When I came, I met a big brother in the car, from Hebei. I added WeChat to him and I, and we still keep in touch with each other.

The eldest brother said in the car that he came here to be an actor, Wang Baoqiang was a grassroots at the beginning, and he achieved a counterattack by being an actor.

The eldest brother loves to sing and act, when he was working in Shenzhen, it happened that a certain crew wanted extras, so he was pulled to shoot a scene, and since then, he has a dream about being an actor in his heart.

There are many people like the eldest brother, and the most they talk about are three people: Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Liying, and Stephen Chow.

I couldn't bear to interrupt my eldest brother's words, but I was still saying in my heart: "Wang Baoqiang has been practicing martial arts in Shaolin Temple for seven years; Zhao Liying has been favored by Feng Xiaogang through the talent show; Xing Ye He graduated from the undergraduate class, and with him are Tony Leung and Wu Zhenyu!"

The eldest brother was still talking about the mountain, and when he got out of the car, he asked me, "Young man, how old are you?"

Me: "Eighteen. ”

Big brother: "It's only eighteen, I didn't expect you to be a full eleven years younger than me." ”

The eldest brother is twenty-nine, has no girlfriend, and does not have a serious job.

06

Gao Xiaosong said that his mother once said: "Life is not only about what is in front of you, but also about poetry and distance." ”

But netizens prefer this sentence "Life is not only about what is in front of you, but also about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." ”

I put on my dirty and smelly costume, and it was so hot in August that I felt like I was in a crematorium, and people fainted from heat stroke all the time.

From the very beginning, the field staff told us to put on our clothes and never thought about asking us to take them off. Just keep saying "shoot now, soon, the last one"......

He always said that he would shoot it immediately, but it would take a few hours to shoot it soon, and it would take a few hours to shoot it soon and it would take another few hours, and the last one, the last one, I can't remember how many words he said about the last one.

Ten dollars an hour, but you have to withstand the 38-degree heat, wear thick costumes, run before and after in the sun, and you don't know when to call it a day.

On the first day, it took 12 hours to shoot, and it was not until 8 o'clock in the evening that the director shouted that it was over.

07

I went back, thought about it, and decided to do it for a few more days.

The second announcement was in the Ming and Qing Palaces. That's right, the one-to-one ratio is exactly the same as the Ming and Qing Dynasty palaces built according to the prototype of the Forbidden City in Beijing. All the palaces seen in the TV series were filmed in Hengdian, because the Forbidden City did not let the crew be stationed.

This time he played a soldier, and the TV series is called "The Story of the River".

The armor is so heavy, and the cloth clothes inside are so stuffy, but with the last experience, I don't bother to complain.

The director shouted to the masses, and the masses had to go. The masses are bricks, and they need to be moved wherever they are.

The director shouted to the crowd with a loudspeaker and asked us to go up to the tower, and a group of us who had just sat on the ground got up with great reluctance and climbed up the tower step by step.

"Those little fresh meat, big stars, won't come at all, they will only cut out the pictures and take so much money!" a group actor scolded.

But few people paid attention to it, and everyone was roasted to death, and it was almost stewed meat.

went up to the city tower, and everyone stood in a row according to the director's instructions. Then, a young man in a purple dragon robe walked out of the house.

He stood in the center of the crowd, surrounded by officials and brocade guards, as if he were the master of the world.

I was short-sighted, I didn't wear glasses, and in a trance, I didn't see his face clearly, so I stood on my own, acting as a guard.

"Hey, look!" a friend on the side smashed my arm and poked my head. I followed his gaze again, squinting, trying to see the appearance of the "emperor" clearly.

"Ahh

Even if you can't hold the sun and the moon, you can get infinitely close.