Life is really peculiar.

Not long ago, Lin Chen was a student at Yan University and had just graduated.

And now, he and Michael Coppola have become particularly good friends.

Lin Chen was one of the first twenty people sent to the United States by the New World.

It's different from other people's dreams of becoming a director and a special effects artist.

Lin Chen joined Timo's crew as soon as he came to the United States.

Then Lin Chen discovered a strange thing.

In China, the planner who belongs to the power floor of the crew has a very high status in Hollywood.

After a long period of observation, Lin Chen found that the work of the planner is particularly important in the filming of the industrial system.

This position is responsible for the desk work of the film in addition to the script, to put it simply, in addition to the script, the text work of the entire crew must be done by this person.

In this way, this position involves almost every work of the crew.

Therefore, when Lin Chen arrived at Timo's crew, he decided to start with the field affairs first.

And his goal is to become a good planner.

This is completely different from what I experienced as an intern in my home country.

In Hengdian, the big positions are all teachers.

For example, in the night play, in order to reflect the lighting, it is necessary to arrange smoke.

This is done by burning something and then using a fan to fan out the smoke.

That's it, the director, the field manager, the assistant director, these people don't know what the person in charge of this job is called.

When shouting, you also have to say "Field teacher, Ministry of Smoke." "Teacher Smoke, one more lap!"

However, this kind of verbal respect is of little use.

Because of this kind of work, I am generally on the set all day, but in fact, the monthly income is four or five thousand, and if I work overtime and add red envelopes, it will be seven or eight thousand.

Moreover, their work basically does not require the use of brains.

This means that there is no room for growth.

However, Lin Chen now finds that there is actually huge room for growth in this work.

And the reason is standardization.

What is the indoor temperature, what is the outdoor temperature, and what is the air humidity? How much smoke is needed to reach the moonlight scene depicted in the script.

In fact, it can be quantified.

You don't need the photographer to see that the effect is not good, and then verbally shout 'smoke teacher, do it again'.

In fact, it should be the photographer who tells the planner what kind of shooting effect is needed.

Then, the planner has to write down all the preparation work needed to shoot the shot, and how much content there is.

It is then distributed to every type of work.

You don't need to communicate ineffectively, don't force the director to go crazy, you can do a good job.

Therefore, Lin Chen is now in the crew of "Lord of War", with only one goal.

That is to reduce the number of times Han Zhou goes berserk.

And Michael Coppola, it was because of Lin Chen's carefulness that the two became friends.

The reason is that there is a scene where Michael Coppola wants to show Yuri's sense of loss, so he decided that this set of shots requires a wider shirt.

to highlight the image that Yuri's character is not full enough in this state.

Although this can only give the audience a little bit of feeling.

But it is this feeling that makes Michael Coppola a recognized actor.

However, what Michael Coppola didn't expect was that when these scenes came, the costume and makeup teacher came over to change his clothes.

Michael Coppola noticed that the copy in their hands clearly depicted that they needed to change into a shirt of the same style but one size larger in this scene.

Michael was surprised, so he looked at it and found that the preparation was very thorough.

I often see all kinds of copywriting that is ready to write what is needed.

And he saved a lot of heart.

This kind of shooting with you is very cool, you don't need to move your mouth, you don't need to move your mouth, as long as you start shooting, all the conditions are the most suitable.

Therefore, Michael chatted with Lin Chen and talked about why Lin Chen arranged it this way.

Then Michael learned that after Lin Chen started filming, he got a copy of his own information.

Generally speaking, who doesn't know Michael? No one will look at the materials.

But Lin Chen wrote down all the information.

After the filming of the scene in the evening, during the break, Michael lit a cigarette and found Lin Chen to chat again.

Lin Chen was wearing glasses and was writing with his head down.

Michael: "How many times were you scolded by the director today?" ”

Michael knew that Lin Chen was doing a challenge, that is, a challenge not to be scolded by Han Zhou for a day.

Lin Chen raised his head and smiled: "Zero times." ”

Michael was surprised: "Wow! It's time to complete the challenge! ”

Lin Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Before the end of the day, it is the time when Director Han is furious the most." ”

Michael shrugged: "So, Han Zhou is like a big director in the sixties and seventies, a tyrant on the set, not like the current director." ”

Lin Chen: "But you can't deny that filming under Director Han is too easy and simple." ”

"He seems to have an inexhaustible amount of knowledge in his head."

Michael smiled: "With your ability, you can actually challenge to be an assistant director, not a planner." ”

Lin Chen stopped writing: "In the last play "Twilight", Director Timo thought that I did a good job in field affairs, so this time he took me and asked me to be the assistant planner. ”

"Maybe for the next play, I'll be the main deputy planner."

"In the next play, maybe it's an assistant director, I will be an assistant director a few times, and finally I will become a director one day ten years later."

Michael: "However, Han Zhou is only twenty-four years old. ”

Lin Chen smiled bitterly: "If Director Han's knowledge is like an ocean, then I am at most a well." ”

"When I have a lake of knowledge one day, it's not too late to be a director."

At this time, under the light, next to the monitor, a loud voice came: "Lin Chen!" ”

"You're here!"

Michael sighed: "Oh, I've been scolded again, and I still haven't been able to complete the challenge of not being scolded, we still have two or three days to finish." ”

Lin Chen got up: "In other words, I only have two or three days to learn more things from Director Han." ”

When he arrived next to the monitor, Lin Chen leaned closer to Han Zhou: "Dao'er!" ”

Han Zhou: "This empty shot, is it a plan written by you?" ”

Lin Chen glanced at the monitor, which was an empty shot, to be precise, the façade of an apartment building.

In the plot, Yuri lives here.

And now this apartment building is actually newly renovated, and no one has moved in after the renovation.

So the crew filmed here.

When I actually photographed the interior of the apartment, it was in a different place.

At this time, in the picture, it is a night scene.

This building, there are a lot of windows.

Lights are on on almost all floors.

However, there is a vertical row of lights that are fully on.

The other vertical lights are turned on randomly, and less than 20% of the lights are turned on.

Han Zhou pointed to the picture: "Lights, what do you think?" ”

Lin Chen is very confident that he will definitely do nothing wrong this time.

"Director Han, that's what I think."

Han Zhou's face sank like water: "You say." ”

Lin Chen pointed to the picture: "This shot is expected to be preset to about nine o'clock in the evening in the plot." ”

"According to the overtime hours of the contract, the vast majority of rich people should be at the end of the overtime and return home."

"So, I expect the living room of the whole building to have the lights on."

Lin Chen pointed to the lights that were turned on vertically: "These are the living rooms." ”

"These dark rooms are bedrooms."

"There were some people in the bedrooms, so the lights were on in the bedrooms."

"Most of the bedrooms don't have the lights on yet, because the average time to go to bed is after 12 o'clock."

After finishing speaking, Lin Chen was very confident, he definitely did nothing wrong this time.

Han Zhou: "Come, this is the car key, drive around, remember not to scratch, scratch yourself to pay." ”

Although Lin Chen had doubts, he still did it.

Because he knows that if Director Han thinks there is something wrong with this picture, then there must be a problem.

But what exactly is the problem?

That's where you need to see for yourself.

Director Han doesn't say the answer directly every time.

Because Director Han believes in it, he verifies it himself, and his memory is more profound.

Soon, Lin Chen was stunned in the night of New York.

Mi people, why don't you turn off the lights?!

Damn it!

Soon, Lin Chen drove back to the crew.

Han Zhou was looking at other shots.

After Lin Chen came over, he came to Han Zhou: "I'm sorry Director Han, I'm delaying the progress." ”

"I mistakenly substituted the domestic environmental conditions into the United States."

Han Zhou raised his head: "It's good to know, re-write, and find Chen Dayong to re-shoot after writing." ”

"This guy doesn't see a rabbit and doesn't scatter an eagle, you have to ask him to reshoot this empty shot, don't buy a cigar, please don't move."

Lin Chen smiled bitterly.

This month, I have invited Chen Dayong to two boxes of cigars.

It's not good to learn anything, you have to learn how to smoke cigars, it's too expensive.

However, Lin Chen didn't go directly, but asked: "Director Han, why don't the people of Mi turn off the lights?" ”

Han Zhou: "When the Chinese people let others protect the environment, they shout loudly, and when it is their turn, they pretend to be fools." ”

"At present, the per capita electricity consumption in the United States is 380 degrees per month, and the domestic electricity consumption is 67 degrees."

"The 1.4 billion people in the country consume 15 million barrels of oil every day, while the 300 million people in the country consume 20 million barrels of oil every day."

"If you check the data yourself, you should know that in the United States, especially in the night scene of a big city like Twist, the lights should be brilliant."

Lin Chen smiled: "Mi Guoyan is really not a good thing. ”

Han Zhou: "It's good to know." ”

"I remember what it was called, it was called ...... Thieller's female singer, whose private jet flew hundreds of thousands of kilometers last year, is comparable to the carbon emissions of a small African country in the whole year. ”

"That's it, there are a lot of them in the United States."

Han Zhou looked at Lin Chen: "So, you remember, in the future, how to shoot the picture of the United States, how to be extravagant and wasteful, how to design." ”

"You can only design that is not extravagant enough, and you can't design too much."

Lin Chen made the mistake of experience this time, in his usual cognition, a building, at eight or nine o'clock, should be in a state where the living room lights are fully turned on and the bedroom lights are almost all turned off.

And after arriving in the United States, the crew of "Twilight" has been in a small place, so he has not been to a big city much.

Recently, when shooting these shots, Lin Chen was very busy and didn't have time to go shopping, so it was normal not to know this knowledge.

However, this empty shot is still difficult to shoot.

The main thing is to bribe the apartment manager to turn on the lights and then shoot the footage downstairs.

With this shot alone, it took half an hour to set up the venue.

After talking about why, Han Zhou looked at Lin Chen: "You are a little stupid, but in your same batch, no one wants to do this job, and you are the only one who comes." ”

"Use dim sum, don't study for a few years and return to China, you won't know anything."

"I'm a director, I help you every day, can't I do it myself?"

"Use your brains."

After Lin Chen was scolded, he would continue to write copywriting, Michael: "What was scolded today?" Brainless? Or is it a pen? ”

Michael's pronunciation of 'bad pen' is quite similar, which is enough to explain the frequency of Han Zhou's mouth spitting out this lyric.

Lin Chen smiled: "What I scolded today is not using my brain." ”

Michael patted Lin Chen's shoulder: "You are already very attentive." ”

"If you can't stand it, just mess with me, and I'll introduce you to other crews."

Lin Chen shook his head: "No." ”

Michael tilted his head: "Addicted to being scolded?" ”

Lin Chen: "Every time I am scolded, I will learn something that others usually don't care about and won't tell me. ”

"It's growing every day."

"If no one really scolds me, either I've already learned, or I'm already dead and can't continue this business."

Michael smiled: "You are already very good, but it is rare to see a tyrant on the set like Han Zhou now." ”

Lin Chen: "Actually, it's very good to do things with Director Han, and he will never make a mistake, if he makes a mistake, he will definitely guide him." ”

"As for swearing...... This is also something that can't be helped, there are hundreds of people in the crew, everyone will do wrong things every day, and many of them need him to correct them alone. ”

"Correcting hundreds of mistakes every day, no matter how good-tempered a person is, he has to scold his mother, right?"

Michael: "It seems that you have been conquered by his charisma. ”

"It's like those people in the sixties and seventies were conquered by those big directors."

Lin Chen: "Now the United States can't produce that kind of big director, which also shows that ...... The film industry in the United States is going downhill again. ”

Michael lit a cigarette: "Recently, a TV drama crew invited me to star, the first three episodes, 70 million US dollars." ”

Lin Chen was a little surprised: "The first three episodes? So much money? ”

Michael nodded: "Our TV series here are all filmed and broadcast one episode, and the investors pay to shoot the first three episodes according to the specifications of the movie, and invite the film director and movie actors." ”

"After tricking the audience into the car, they are changing."

"But lately, the bids for TV dramas have been getting higher and higher. Film Industry ...... It's getting more and more sluggish. ”

Lin Chen thought inwardly.

Michael: "What are you thinking?" ”

Lin Chen: "I want to learn everything I need to learn before Hollywood dies...... Ahem, I'm thinking that even if the film industry in the United States is not good, it is better than the Chinese film industry, and I still have to study hard. ”

"After all, it doesn't matter if an industry lives or dies, and it doesn't matter to individuals."

"Even in the worst era, there must be a good crew."

Lin Chen is telling the truth, but well, it is better to be subtle or subtle when talking to Michael, an American.

Michael didn't care about this, took a puff of cigarette, and looked into the distance: "I communicated with the Chinese people in the crew, and they all said that Director Han was very powerful. ”、

"But I rarely communicate with Director Han, is he really good enough to do anything?"

Lin Chen: "You can't say anything. ”

"I can only say that he will, I can, I won't, I need to learn from him, I don't know if he will, but when I need to know something and I can't, go and ask Director Han, he will definitely be."

Michael: "That's not the same thing, it's anything?" So, omniscient and omnipotent? ”

Lin Chen was stunned for a moment, Michael: "It seems that there is a reason why his book fans call him god." ”

"But I don't believe he can do anything."

Lin Chen smiled: "I don't know anything else, one day I saw the chef of the crew, asking Director Han how to cook." ”

Michael, who was smoking, choked: "Ahem, ahem, ahem...... Han Dao still cares about this? ”

Lin Chen: "I don't believe you'll go and see it tomorrow." ”

Michael really didn't believe in this evil, and the next day, his free time slipped to the logistics.

After staying in this crew for a long time, Michael is quite accustomed to eating Chinese food, and he can eat unheard of but delicious things every day.

Today, I saw the nearest old friend, peanuts.

Michael asked the chef what to eat today.

The chef's translation of the name of the dish is shocking.

What a couple's lungs, what a braised lion's head.

Michael knew that the name of this strange dish meant that the dish must be delicious.

Recently, Michael is particularly fond of eating peanuts, which is used to make sauce in the West, and there are many ways to eat it in China, especially fried with chicken, which is called what chicken is called diced, it is delicious.

When I inquired today, I said it was a strange peanut?

Unheard of, how weird is it? Michael waited to give it a try.

Then, Michael saw that the cook was in trouble, and after the cook looked up the recipe, he did not start to fry the peanuts, but was thinking about a problem.

Since peanuts need to be fried at low temperatures.

If it is not fried thoroughly, it will not be crispy enough, and if it is overfried, it will be old, so how can you tell if the peanuts are fried well?

You must know that the peanuts are starched, and the naked eye can't tell whether they are fried or not.

In the end, he chose to ask Han Zhou.

Because Han Zhou knows how to cook very well, he often tells the recipes of dishes he has never heard of and asks him to make them.

And the recipes of the dishes he doesn't know very well, Han Zhou also knows.

Therefore, this time it is more convenient to ask Han Zhou, which is more reliable than on the Internet, after all, there are many wrong answers on the Internet.

But when cooking, the wrong answer is used, that is, it rolls over.

After the cook asked Han Zhou, he got the answer in seconds, and happily went to try the strange peanuts.

After Michael's staff in China translated, they probably knew what he was asking.

Michael is also curious about how this kind of undetectable dish can be fried just right.

And then Michael stayed here, waiting for an answer.

As a result, the cook did what Han Zhou said and quickly fried the peanuts.

The answer is also very simple, peanuts can't be fried, whether they are fried or not, throw something that can visually measure the temperature and go down to fry it together, won't it be over?

Throw a clove of garlic down, the garlic is fried slightly yellow, and the peanuts are good.

Michael has been in the crew for a long time, and he has become more and more curious about Han Zhou.

This Chinese man seems to be really as capable as the staff said.

But Michael has a regret.

That is, I have heard many people say that Han Zhou's acting skills are particularly good.

But this time, Han Zhou is only a director, not an actor.

Michael would love to play a rivalry with Han Zhou.

It's a pity that "Lord of War" has been filmed to the last moment, and it will be finished immediately.

In this circle, the next cooperation will be decades away.

Another day passed, and "Lord of War" was finished.

Michael brought a bottle of wine and gave it to Han Zhou.

Han Zhou felt a little strange, he and Michael didn't have much personal friendship, and they weren't very familiar with each other, why did an actor give a gift to the director?

The point is, I didn't prepare gifts to send to each other?

After Michael handed the wine to Han Zhou, he spoke: "Han, I hope to have the opportunity to play opposite you." ”

Playing a rival role?

Han Zhou smiled: "There will be a chance in the future, maybe I will come to Hollywood in a few years." ”

Michael Coppola shrugged: "Or can I go to China for your film shoot?" Get in touch with a chance. ”

Finally, Michael: "I know that the Chinese staff in the crew say that your knowledge is as rich as the sea. ”

"So, I have a question for you."

Han Zhou smiled: "You say." ”

Michael whispered, "It's just that a man, after doing too much of that, will ...... Well, you know, what to do? ”

Han Zhou held back a smile: "I really don't know this." ”

Michael: "You know for sure, you want to hide your secrets, don't you?" What is the exclusive formula? I can spend my money. ”

Han Zhou: "I really don't know, but I can ask someone to help you find an old Chinese medicine doctor." ”

Michael excited: "Okay!" ”

This arduous and glorious task fell to Yang Hong.

Yang Hong was puzzled.

Han Zhou is young, why is he looking for an old Chinese medicine doctor to treat this area?

Could it be that recently in the United States, there are too many golden retrievers in the crew, and the vitality is greatly damaged?

……

Timo Chen Dayong and Lin Chen bid farewell to Han Zhou, and then continued to fight in the United States.

Han Zhou wanted to return to China as soon as possible.

The annual Spring Festival Gala is about to start again.

This year, the program team did not invite Han Zhou to perform.

But Han Zhou was still invited to watch.

At the same time, Han Zhou was also invited to guide the military choir on the spot.

Because this year, "My Motherland" will be performed at the Spring Festival Gala.

Director Ren opened this mouth, of course Han Zhou couldn't help but go.

However, Han Zhou's main mind is all on the film market.

The investment in Kung Fu is too great.

It stands to reason that as long as Kung Fu can win the annual box office championship, according to the current movie box office market, it will definitely not lose, and it will make a lot of money.

But how hard is it?

And this time, after a long time, Han Zhou once again had a variety show plan, mainly on variety shows to promote "Kung Fu".

This time, New World, completely independent shooting, production, and distribution of a film.

Everything has to be done by Han Zhou.

If you don't get it right, you'll hit the streets.

If you get it right, then it's time for a new movie to be on the agenda.

……

The Spring Festival Gala, as always, is decreasing in the overall ratings.

This year, Wang Chuyang appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

Of course, it has nothing to do with the new world, it is operated by Wang Xiya.

New World did not arrange for anyone to log in to the Spring Festival Gala this year.

Although Director Ren said that he could fight for three places for Han Zhou.

But Han Zhou felt that now was not the time.

Lu Jin is not suitable for the party now.

After Li Xinqi's comeback, she has not made her first album.

Han Zhou himself is not available.

The current three giants of New World are not suitable to participate in the Spring Festival Gala, so there is no need to consume the favor of Director Ren.

After the Spring Festival Gala, Han Zhou called his mother.

Sure enough, neither the old mother nor the old man had slept yet.

Yanjing during the Spring Festival was empty, and Han Zhou spent the year in the Yanjing branch.

In the morning, the main creative team of "Kung Fu" gathered together, and the target was the Bauhinia Cinema in Luowangfu, the premiere of "Kung Fu".

At the same time, the main creative team of "Predecessor Loop 2" also held a premiere in this cinema.

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After the tooth is extracted, say it hurts, and it doesn't hurt.

It's just uncomfortable.

As much as possible.

I don't think this chapter is well written.

I wanted to take a day off, but I ended up writing a chapter, and I'll adjust it tomorrow.

Ask for a commuter pass.

(End of chapter)