One

When I was a child, I often saw a certain star filming in Hengdian on the TV news. At that time, I naively thought that Hengdian was the name of a store, and I was still wondering what it was selling to be called "Hengdian". Later, when I knew a little bit about things, I realized that it was a town with the reputation of "Oriental Hollywood".

I shouldn't have had anything to do with this. I still like to be bright and bright, so I came to Hengdian as an extra.

"A town in the south of the Yangtze River", when I first arrived, I saw a huge rock wall carved with big golden characters. It's so powerful and domineering, I'm afraid that in ancient times, only the capital of the Son of Heaven could have it.

Two

According to the information I searched on the Internet, I first rented a house, because I was very short of money, so I chose a cheaper one, and then applied for a temporary residence permit. Then I waited until the afternoon of the next day to go to the actors' union to apply for an actor certificate.

I was sitting in a conference room in the Screen Actors Guild. The walls are plastered with photos of those dreamers, who are already half insiders and are famous in a small area.

I met a big brother who was from Hebei. The eldest brother said that he loves singing and acting, and 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 said.

There are so many people like my eldest brother that I can't count them endlessly. They come from all over the country, all over the world, and the three people mentioned the most in their mouths: Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Liying, and Stephen Chow.

Every time I hear it, I can't bear to interrupt the enthusiastic them, but I still say 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 professional class, and with him are Tony Leung and Wu Zhenyu!"

I got the actor card, and I also added a WeChat group for group performances. I went out with my eldest brother and added WeChat friends as we went. At parting, he asked me, "How old are you, young man?" and I: "Eighteen." Big brother: "It's only eighteen, I didn't expect you to be eleven years younger than me." ”

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

Three

"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 of filming, 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 were dirty, and the smell of sweat could penetrate into the nasal passages from afar. In the summer, a bunch of flies buzz around your clothes, making your ears and nose uneasy.

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.

"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.

Really nice 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 reality is that there are 30,000 group performers in Hengdian every day, and they don't have any work for ten yuan an hour.

Four

"Smearing blood, high temperatures, overtime, armor, kowtowing, lying corpses...... all cost ten dollars. For a group performance that costs ten yuan an hour, they all wish it would be hotter, play dead corpses, and wear armor.

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 later, and it would take a few hours to shoot it soon, and the last one, the last one, I can't remember how many words he said about the last one.

For ten dollars an hour, you have to brave 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.

I went back and wanted to give up, but I was short of money, so I decided to work 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 city tower, and a group of us who had just sat on the ground reluctantly got up, stopped and climbed up the city tower.

"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

Five

On a bitter day, a little sweetness can make people feel delicious. But if you put a grain of sugar in Coptis water, you will get bitter water.

My rent is $300 a month, and it stands to reason that as long as I can receive 10 notices a month, I can live in the world.

But I never expected that God seemed to think that I had not suffered enough. So I joined a WeChat group with almost no announcements, and I had to pay a 100 yuan mobile plan fee every month.

I can't imagine that 100 yuan is a salary for me to shoot for ten hours a day.

It's been a long time since I've filmed. Because there are so few announcements in the group. Every time the announcement comes out, everyone sends their names together to report the play, and soon the quota is full, and when I finish it, there is no longer my share.

In the dark, there may really be blessings and misfortunes. I lay down on the bed, the announcement came, gave my name as usual, closed my eyes, and didn't expect anything. But this time it was reported to the play.

I got up excitedly and arrived at the meeting point soon the next day. But the silence of these days has made me forget that today is the day to pay rent.

During filming, the landlord called me and asked me to renew the lease, but I didn't miss him money, because it was a lease renewal, and I had to pay the next month's rent. He sent me more than a dozen calls, I was filming, I couldn't answer at all, and I didn't call him back until the afternoon.

When he came up, he scolded him all over the place, naturally I didn't dare to argue, and I had to renew the lease.

I have said all kinds of good words and pleaded all kinds of begging, just for a place. But the landlord ignored me, just scolded me and asked me to pay for the renewal of the rent.

I don't have any money in my phone, and I have no financial resources for many days, so I have to make a living by nibbling on a pack of spicy noodles with five corners. I had to wait until I went back and explained to the landlord in person.

Well, I prayed in my heart ten thousand times that the director would be merciful and would call it a day soon.

To add insult to injury, the director dragged it out until the evening. By the time the work was over, it was already six o'clock. It took another two hours to take the crew bus back to the street where I lived, and it was already eight o'clock. When I walked to the accommodation, my landlord had already changed the lock.

I wanted to cry without tears, and my phone was out of battery.

I went to the phone store and begged me to charge it. As soon as my phone was plugged in, I immediately called the landlord, but the landlord was out and about, ignoring me. And my phone won't charge at all at this time.

By the time he returned, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.

I begged him to open the door, and he continued to curse me as if I owed him millions. But I'm just going to renew my rent when it's due.

The landlord wants me to get out!

I said open the door, my luggage was still inside.

The landlord said very politely, where do you have luggage, it's all garbage, and it's all thrown into the garbage heap.

I begged him to let me stay another night, and by the way told me where I had left my luggage and that my ID and glasses were still inside.

The landlord asked me to settle the utility bill and told me to move somewhere else.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, I was penniless, my phone was out of battery, my body stinked from filming, and my face was smeared black by the makeup artist.

I was like a piece of garbage, and then I was rummaging through the garbage heap and rummaging through my luggage.

I was extremely happy with every piece I found, I used to think that making money was the happiest thing, but at that moment, I felt that I didn't lose anything was the happiest thing for me.

I recovered filthy, foul-smelling clothes, backpacks, ID cards, and glasses.

Then I went to a nearby shop where I used to buy instant noodles and spicy noodles, hoping to recharge my batteries.

The shopkeeper glared at me, who had just come out of the garbage heap, and said, "This place only sells things, not recharges." ”

I still went to a mobile phone store farther away, plugged in the power supply, and the mobile phone kept showing that it was one percent of the battery.

Finally, one of them lent me a hundred dollars. I went to the hotel, spent eighty-eight yuan, took a shower, and washed all the clothes like rags.

I lay in bed and said to myself, this is just the beginning, and there will be more tribulations to come. Don't cry, don't cry......

I ended up going home, dejected. Hengdian belongs to stars, and you and I are just passers-by after all.