Chapter 51: Crew (on the shelves at 12 p.m.)
After the Spring Festival, "Police Story" is about to start filming.
Everyone in the crew has a little trace of the New Year on their faces, and they have gained a few pounds. Fortunately, the actors have been told to maintain their body and not relax too much at home, so they don't need to spend time losing weight.
Dozens of people held incense and held a start-up ceremony.
Looking at these people beside him, Director Chen knew that they would live together for nearly two months and create a work together.
Because of Zhang Jingsheng's fame, many reporters came to the opening ceremony.
During the interview, among the cast of famous and surnamed, the little-known Huang Lun passively stood out.
In fact, not being famous is not a problem, there have been many cases of amateurs directly participating in movies as the protagonist and finally winning awards. But there is such a rumor circulating in the circle, saying that the crew of "Police Story" invited dozens of people to participate in the audition, and finally chose Huang Lun, who was determined, which is equivalent to calling people over and slipping around.
None of us are recent graduates, so you can guess how Huang Lun got in. However, most of the reporters who came today usually have a good relationship with the producer, and their writing style is relatively mild, and there will be no provocative and sharp questions, which will make today's start-up fade from the festive.
After Zhang Jingsheng finished chatting about his questions, he was asked about his impression of Huang Lun, he talked about the trivial things of his previous martial arts training, saying that Huang Lun learned things very quickly and was very serious, everyone left after practice, only he continued to practice there.
The other actors talked about their confidence in the movie, and when the reporter mentioned Huang Lun, they all said good things and told a few small stories.
Huang Lun knew exactly when to keep a low profile, so he followed the answers prepared in advance. It's not a brilliant statement, but it's not wrong.
"We chose him because he has certain qualities that coincide with the character." Director Chen used this sentence to make a response to the rumors that were set inside.
As for the truth, then only the upper echelons within them will know.
Before meeting Mr. Tang, Huang Lun had the experience of making literary films, participated in film festivals with little reputation, and failed to go to theaters. Director Chen found the source of the film to see, Huang Lun in it cried and ran, looking at Baiyun and pretending to be melancholy, in the plot that he didn't know what to do, he had a sad expression from beginning to end and couldn't find the meaning of survival. The producer judged that perhaps Huang Lun would have a slight advantage in the confusion and painful struggle of [Daytime Version of Wu Ze]. And what can Director Chen say about this, he can't say that he is at a loss, probably because Huang Lun doesn't know what he is playing; Those forbearance pains and struggles are not as deep and painful as when Huang Lun was held by Mr. Tang, who was visiting the class.
However, Chen Yinxing has been in the business for more than ten years and is no longer a child.
They are engaged in art, and many people are too face-saving to pull down their faces to make money, so they can't make money. Interestingly, many people attribute the reason why they can't make money to their inability to pull their faces. Actually, it's an illusion. mistakenly thinks that you can make money as long as you kneel, but kneeling is only the first step to making money, and there is still a long way to go.
Huang Lun's acting skills are not outstanding, but they are not hopelessly bad, and Director Chen is not nosy, and does not criticize other people's private affairs at will. He only cares about his work.
Director Chen decided to polish and train Huang Lun during the filming process, grasp the big and let go of the small, focus on a few major scenes, and make a few shining points. This will not make him drag his feet too much, and the audience will not scold him for his bad acting skills after watching the movie.
Ups and downs, no ups and downs, no ups and downs. Sometimes a broken but wonderful fragment is better than something complete and mediocre.
The producer of the film is a good talker, allowing Director Chen to spend more time in several major scenes to refine and polish Huang Lun's acting skills, but correspondingly, the other parts should be filmed more efficiently.
Director Chen is not worried about this, because he has Zhang Jingsheng.
The time wasted on Huang Lun can be rushed back from Zhang Jingsheng.
Zhang Jingsheng is an old drama bone, he is very good at literary and martial arts, the role of [Zhang Jiaju] has great ups and downs in the play, and it is difficult to act, but it is difficult to stop Zhang Jingsheng.
When an old actor plays at this age, he will basically be ingenious when acting. Because of the effective performance experience accumulated over the years, they have become clear about how to win applause and praise for acting, and how to win awards.
And Zhang Jingsheng is different, as long as he performs, the viewers can sink into another world, and it won't make people feel that [he is acting], and the strength is just right.
Huang Lun's several flashes had to play against Zhang Jingsheng. Even if Zhang Jingsheng accepted the performance, Director Chen was very worried that Huang Lun would be crushed into a puddle of mud. So after training, before the Spring Festival, he has been keeping in touch with Huang Lun, guiding him to practice through video, telling him how to play Wu Ze well and find his own characteristics.
Telling Huang Lun about Guan Chen's understanding of the role is tantamount to harming him. Guan Chen, like Zhang Jingsheng, was born to eat the bowl of rice of acting, and their experience may not be applicable to ordinary actors. It's like an ordinary person asking a good-looking person how to put on makeup, essentially asking the wrong person.
When Director Chen was teaching Huang Lun, he would only tell him what to do, how to swing his hands, and where to look at his eyes.
Cinema is the art of directing. Let Huang Lun perform in a completely unconscious state, and then capture it in the camera, it is almost enough for Director Chen, there is no need to cruelly peel off his psychological layers, break him and tell him how to perform - this is what literary film directors like to do.
On the first day of start-up, in order to please a lottery and increase everyone's confidence, the selection of scenes for filming was relatively simple. The filming location is a quiet villa area, where the hero's fiancée lives here, and the villain has a role here.
When filming began, the producer and producer all wore headphones and sat behind Director Chen to watch him direct.
Director Chen is also under pressure, wielding an artifact like Zhang Jingsheng is also a rare experience for him, not to mention that Zhang Jingsheng himself has been a director, if the director can't convince the actors, the right to speak in creation will be taken away, which is not conducive to follow-up work.
Fortunately, Director Chen showed his ability to prove that he would not spoil the script and actors, and the producer did not find the wrong person. The staff dispersed as if nothing had happened, and he passed the first test.
Zhang Jingsheng is very efficient, and after a few adjustments, he probably knows what Director Chen wants, and he is very smart.
Director Chen praised endlessly, but he didn't dare to praise more, and if he praised too much, it was like patting a sycophant.
The heroine and the second male protagonist did not pull across, and the team got on the right track while running in.
At the end of the day, Director Chen was in a good mood like a chef getting a bunch of top-notch ingredients and was confident to make a good dish.
Of course, the premise is that Huang Lun's ingredient is also smoothly integrated into the dish.
Huang Lun's play was put on the second day.
At the end of work, Director Chen wanted to talk to Huang Lun about tomorrow's play, but he couldn't find anyone else. asked the drama management and said that he was picked up.
The meaning of being picked up by someone is that he was picked up by Mr. Tang.
This happened a few times when I was training in Joan.
Director Chen had no choice but to finish dinner, return to the hotel room, and have a meeting with the photography and lighting to think about the storyboard to be used for tomorrow's shooting.
After a few hours, Director Chen rubbed his neck to rest and took out his mobile phone to watch. found that his Weite number had been circled several times. Click on Weite and find that some celebrities have forwarded something, saying words of expectation or blessing.
It turned out that the movie "Police Story" was on the hot search. Although it was ranked very low, it was still on the list.
Actually, it's the way it should be.
Since Zhang Jingsheng became a director, fans have been worried that he will no longer act. Now that Zhang Jingsheng is back acting, and it is also a police and bandit action movie with a big investment, under expectations, it is normal for everyone to send the news of the start-up to the hot search, and it is also normal for the distributor to spend a lot of effort to get the hot search.
Director Chen clicked into the topic, and Zhang Jingsheng was naturally mentioned the most often, and the frequency of other actors being mentioned decreased in order of fame.
What is a little strange is that Director Chen found that Huang Lun was mentioned unexpectedly frequently.
Part of it is the content of today's interview, which is not interesting; The other part is a marketing account detailing Huang Lun's acting career and introducing the general background. Then some people who claimed to be Huang Lun's classmates ran to the [Vine Group] to break the news about Huang Lun's previous appearance and love history.
The actor is in love, this is not a serious matter. The revelations of those "insiders" did not particularly smear them, did not mention Mr. Tang, and did not show other suspicious and vague hints. The classmates who broke the news seemed to be Huang Lun's good friends, and in an admiring and friendly tone, they talked about some of Huang Lun's romantic and considerate details. So the image of an amorous prodigal son jumped on the page.
With Huang Lun's face, he soon had a group of fans.
Director Chen felt a little puzzled, I don't know if this is a means from Huang Lun's company, and the action is quite fast.
Back on the hot search list, Director Chen suddenly caught a glimpse of a hot search with a very strange title, called: [It turned out to be Shen He].