"Mom, I'm leaving."

Liu Xiqian said hello and put on her cap, while the assistant carried the suitcase and prepared to leave.

Liu Xiaoli was a little reluctant:

"Why did you join the group so early, isn't it more than a month to start?"

"You have to train intensively, this time there are action scenes and blasting scenes, so you have to train in advance to prevent accidental injuries."

Liu Xiaoli looked at Liu Xiqian, opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end she just reminded with a complicated look:

"Stay safe, call me when it's time."

This is her daughter's first time filming, and she doesn't follow, so she is a little worried and a little lost.

"Got it."

Liu Xiqian answered, and took her assistant Cindy to the underground garage by elevator.

Underground garage, the light is basically not very good, cold and dark, walking in the garage, the assistant complained:

"It's so troublesome, every time I get out of the elevator, I have to go around a lot to get to the parking space. Especially at night, scare the individual to death. ”

Liu Xiqian nodded in agreement.

The house she lives in now is a large flat in a rented high-end community, because there are no more vacant houses in the community when she moves in, so the configured parking space is some distance from the elevator of her building.

But she soon smiled again:

"Wait a few months for our big house to move in, and we don't have to run around anymore if we have our own garage, hehe."

Thinking about it, Liu Xiqian couldn't help but be happy.

This is the first house she bought with her own ability, although it is much worse than the previous big manor in Shunyi, but this is her own.

It feels very different.

"What a few months, it has to be half a year younger." Cindy shattered Liu Xiqian's illusions.

The decoration of the house is what she and Liu's mother are responsible for.

The best materials are used, the decoration progress is also fast, and the price is fair and reasonable.

The most important thing is to ensure quality and quantity, and don't be afraid of being pitted.

Because the decoration team of the villa is a construction company under Chen Jingfei.

Liu's mother didn't let her tell Liu Xiqian about this......

……

Huairou Zhongying Digital Base.

The base has just been completed this year, and not many crews have come in to use it, the most famous of which is "Dream of Red Mansions".

But not many people know that there is also a crew here to set up a set up and prepare for filming.

China Film Hotel, after the front desk verified the identity information, it gave the room card to Cindy.

"Sissi, it's just one room."

Cindy was holding the key card in her hand, and it was a little strange.

used to follow Liu Xiqian to film in other crews, and the crew would arrange a room for her separately.

"Okay, one room is one room, maybe the room is very large, how many small rooms are there? No, you can open a separate one. ”

Liu Xiqian didn't care, and followed the assistant to the elevator with a smile.

The two entered the elevator and pressed the floor, and the elevator door slowly closed.

"Hey, sorry, bother, etc."

An anxious voice came, and Liu Xiqian pressed the door button.

"Huhu, thank you, thank you."

A woman ran into the elevator, panting for air.

While blocking the elevator door with his hand, he turned around and waved outside the door:

"Can you hurry up, why are you procrastinating so much?"

Only then did Liu Xiqian notice that the woman's accent was a bit of a bay.

"Okay, I said I was procrastinating, and it wasn't that you brought so many things."

The man had a cap and a black mask, covering most of his face, and he kept complaining.

A suitcase in one hand, a small handbag on the suitcase, and a backpack on the back, as if fleeing the famine.

He was more tired than the woman who had just entered the elevator, and immediately after entering the elevator, he leaned against the elevator wall, bending over and panting:

"I can't tell who is the agent of the two of us, don't you think it's too much to let the artist carry so many things?"

"Ahem."

The woman didn't retort, coughed twice, and patted the man on the back.

"What for...... Oh, ahem. ”

Only then did the man notice that there were two more people in the elevator, and immediately stopped talking.

Standing up straight, he was still a little cold.

But this momentum didn't last long, and after seeing Liu Xiqian's face clearly, it disappeared:

"Huh? You're Liu Xiqian, right? ”

Liu Xiqian was stunned for a moment, thinking that she had met a fan, and was ready to say hello with a polite smile.

I saw the man take off his mask and hat, revealing a familiar face.

"Zhou Jiaolun?"

Liu Xiqian's eyes widened.

"It's a coincidence, are you filming here too?" Zhou Jiaolun said with a smile.

He and Liu Xiqian have also met a few times because of Qin Muchu, friends of friends, not very familiar, but not unfamiliar.

"Well, I just joined the group today."

Liu Xiqian noticed that Zhou Jiaolun used the word "also", so she asked:

"Are you filming here?"

"Yes, I'm also new to the group......"

The two looked at each other, and suddenly they were silent.

"Are you...... Xiao Chu's play? ”

Zhou Jiaolun was a little unsure.

"Yes."

Liu Xiqian nodded, a little incredulous:

"You too?"

She didn't expect that she would cooperate with Zhou Jiaolun in this play, just like Zhou Jiaolun also didn't expect Liu Xiqian to be in this play.

Qin Muchu was very mysterious, and did not tell them who participated in the play, and did not even say that the cost of the movie was 100 million US dollars.

The main reason is that these two people are very popular in China, and I am afraid that the team of the two will "accidentally" leak the movie information for the sake of popularity, and the paparazzi will come to the set to make trouble.

The lineup of this drama is still quite shocking, especially the group of foreign actors, which is enough to make the paparazzi lose their bottom line.

disguised as a hotel waiter, dressed as a crew member to blend in with the crew...... There have been cases of these things.

Cindy in the elevator didn't care about this, her eyes were locked on Zhou Jiaolun now, and her eyes seemed to be about to breathe fire.

Zhou Jiaolun, Sissi is going to cooperate with Zhou Jiaolun!

Can I ask him for a signed photo?

……

In the studio of Qianping, dozens of people are running back and forth inside, and there are forklifts carrying steel inside.

Eight rings with a diameter of ten meters form a hollow cylindrical frame lying horizontally, erected more than a meter high, and within the cylindrical frame is a hollow "cuboid" embedded in it.

The interior of the "hollow cuboid" is very luxurious, with paintings hanging on both sides, and a room door a few meters apart, and the ceiling version and the floor are equipped with lights.

It looks like the hallway of a hotel.

"The ring must be sure to be round, and it must not be bumpy when turning......"

Qin Muchu was holding the drawings to communicate with a few engineers wearing hard hats, and while a few people were talking, a person ran next to him:

"Director Qin, Teacher Liu and Teacher Zhou have also arrived."

Qin Muchu paused:

"Oh, okay, I got it."

Then he said to a few engineers:

"Let's start the device first, try it once, see if it works, and then adjust it if there is a problem."

……

On the other side, Zhou Jiaolun and Liu Xiqian walked into the studio together and looked around.

They had never filmed in such a large studio, and they were very curious about everything, secretly guessing which scene in the script was based on the surrounding scenes.

"It's hot in here."

Zhou Jiaolun touched his forehead, and after only coming in for a while, he was already sweating.

Although Liu Xiqian was also hot, she didn't speak.

Last year, when she filmed "The King of Kung Fu" in the Gobi Desert, it was much hotter than that.

"Come over here, let's see where you're going to shoot next."

Qin Muchu walked over, they were all acquaintances, and they didn't have a polite relationship with Zhou Jiaolun and Liu Xiqian.

However, the moment they saw Qin Muchu, they all burst out laughing.

"Haha, why are you dressed like this, hahaha."

Liu Xiqian pointed at Qin Muchu and smiled backwards.

"It's 'trendy' enough, when I was a child, my grandfather next door wore it like this."

Zhou Jiaolun stepped forward and flicked Qin Muchu's white vest, then took the pu fan in his hand, and fanned the wind:

"Even the fan is exactly the same."

Qin Muchu knew what the two of them were laughing at, he had a white vest on his upper body, shorts on his lower body, and a pu fan in his hand, which was indeed similar to the uncle who slipped away in summer.

But it can't be helped, the temperature in the studio is very high, and it is normal to start at 40 degrees and 50 degrees.

This outfit is the coolest.

snatch the fan back from Zhou Jiaolun's hand,

"You'll be dressed like this in two days."

"I wouldn't wear it like this to death." Zhou Jiaolun pouted.

The king of Asia, wearing such soil is not to be laughed to death.

There was a "click" sound.

Qin Muchu looked at Liu Xiqian:

"What are you doing?"

"Take pictures."

Liu Xiqian shook the mobile phone in her hand and smiled happily:

"I'm going to send it to Mimi, haha, you're so funny, goose goose goose."

"Do you know what happened to the last star who liked to take pictures?"

Qin Muchu squinted, this kind of ugly photo was not embarrassed to die.

"What's going on?"

Liu Xiqian couldn't get it, and her face was full of doubts.

"It's not going to end up."

As soon as Qin Muchu wanted to intimidate Liu Xiqian, Zhou Zhuolun hooked Qin Muchu's shoulder and walked forward, and poked him unhappily:

"Hey, don't be contemplative. He is not in the entertainment industry now, and he is quite happy. ”

Liu Xiqian followed behind, suddenly thought of something, and blushed.

Hmph, just shoot!

……

"What is this for?"

At a glance, Zhou Jiaolun saw the hotel aisles covered with huge rings.

"You'll find out soon."

Qin Muchu smiled.

Zhou Jiaolun is right to ask this, his hotel aisle can be said to be built for Zhou Jiaolun.

There is a scene in the movie where the character played by Zhou Jiaolun fights others in a weightless state.

The specific manifestation is flying in the aisle of the hotel.

Qin Muchu deliberately built this device to drive the hotel aisle by rotating the ring, so as to visually change the direction of gravity.

For example, if the circle turns half a circle, the hotel aisle will be upside down.

When the actor goes in, he is standing on the ceiling, and the camera is outside, as if gravity is reversed.

Qin Muchu thought about this method for a long time, it is not impossible to use special effects in this scene, but the actual shooting effect is better.

Zhou Jiaolun gave Qin Muchu a little goosebumps when he smiled, feeling that he didn't think of anything good.

Qin Muchu took the two of them to walk around the studio, and soon went back and forth.

This studio is mainly the installation in the hotel hallway, and nothing else.

"Let's go, let's go next door and have a look, by the way, meet the actors, everyone else has arrived."

Qin Muchu said and walked towards the outside of the studio.

……

Compared to the somewhat empty studio just now, this one is much more substantial.

Inside, there is a Japanese-style building that resembles a Japanese izakaya, with two floors.

"This is where the movie begins?"

Zhou Jiaolun remembered the scene depicted in the script.

"Well, that's it."

Qin Muchu replied, took the two of them upstairs, opened a wooden door, and walked in.

There were two people standing in the room, a man and a woman, both holding a script book and talking to each other.

"Sister Li!"

As soon as Liu Xiqian saw the woman, she pounced with cheers.

"Sissi."

Zeng Li was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that it was Liu Xiqian, he also smiled and hugged her.

Zhou Jiaolun also wanted to say hello to Zeng Li, but as soon as his hand was raised, he saw the foreigner next to Zeng Li, and he was instantly stunned.

"Tony Stark!"

Although "Iron Man" has been screened for more than a month, Zhou Jiaolun is confident that he will never recognize the wrong person.

He went to the cinema twice to watch this film.

The first time I went was the same as most people, because I heard that there was a cameo by Qin Muchu.

The second time is because the movie is so exciting, especially Tony Stark, a genius with money and a heart, and a mecha.

It's every man's dream.

"Hello."

Donnie put down his script book and took the initiative to shake hands with Zhou Jiaolun with a smile.

Zhou Jiaolun shook Downey's hand a little excitedly, and then scratched his head a little shyly:

"I like the role you play very much, but it's a pity that you have already returned to the United States last time I asked Xiao Chu, I didn't expect us to be able to film together."

"Thank you."

Downey is very calm, or rather accustomed to it, and he has heard a lot of similar things after acting in "Iron Man".

After speaking, he looked at Liu Xiqian again, and this time his smile was more sincere:

"Crystal, you're prettier, and in the Celestial Empire, you're as your name suggests."

"Crystal" is Liu Xiqian's English name, which originally meant crystal, and when used as a personal name, it means a beautiful, noble and elegant woman.

Liu Xiqian also separated from Zeng Li at this time, and smiled politely:

"Donnie, you're more handsome, too."

After a pause, she added:

"Moreover, your Chinese is better, and you hardly have any accent if you don't listen carefully."

Speaking of this, Donnie looked bitter and pointed at Qin Muchu and complained:

"It's all Qin, you can't imagine what torture I have suffered, I am in my forties, just like a primary school student, I am taught how to speak every day, correct my accent, I almost forget how to speak English."

"A month?"

Liu Xiqian was surprised:

"Have you been in the group for a month?"

"Yes, because there are still some things I don't understand about the script and the characters, and I need to write the script with the director...... That is, Qin communication. ”

“……”

Liu Xiqian sighed, she was really dedicated.

One month to advance the group, that is, to join the group three months after leaving the shooting.

It's only three months to shoot a normal movie.

"OK, Uncle Ni, don't chatter, since the actors are here, let's discuss the script first, and then I'm talking about the next arrangement."

Qin Muchu interrupted the greetings of several people.

"Uncle Ni?"

Zhou Zhuolun and Liu Xiqian were puzzled by this title.

"People in their forties, why don't you shout uncle?"

Qin Muchu explained, remembered something, looked at Donnie, and pricked his heart by the way:

"Speaking of which, Liu Xiqian and I are not as big as you combined."

Donnie's face darkened:

"But my heart is young."

"Didn't your heart dig into a reactor?"

"If you say I'm going to wear armor!"

……

Qin Muchu didn't look for another place, so he had a meeting in this room.

A staff member was beckoned to bring a few chairs, and everyone sat down one by one.

"Aren't tatami mats sitting on their knees?"

Liu Xiqian sat on the chair and felt a little weird.

Making a high chair on a tatami mat feels like putting Zhang Simmons on the kang.

"You can also listen on your knees."

Qin Muchu flipped through the script, replied without raising his head, and continued:

"I'll tell you a little bit about the plot first.

To put it simply, the movie tells the story of a group of people who enter other people's dreams and steal other people's inner secrets.

What is special is that they can decide what other people to dream about, create other people's dream worlds, and can dream again in their dreams.

There are up to three layers of dreams, and if there are more, then you will enter the Lost Domain, which is a public area, which means that all people who have more than three layers of dreams will fall here. And then as time passes, gradually forget that this is a dream, get lost here......"

As soon as he finished speaking, Donnie shook the scene with admiration:

"Brilliant idea! Is that right? This movie is sure to be a hit! ”

He was purely enlivening the atmosphere, and in the month he was here, he didn't know how many times he asked Qin Muchu questions about the script.

It can be said that this movie, except for Qin Muchu, belongs to him best.

"Okay, Uncle Ni will find the finance for five cents in a while, you deserve it." Qin Muchu waved his hand.

"I think at least one piece."

Donnie held out a finger,

"I applauded."

They don't know how many times they have made similar jokes this month.

Qin Muchu looked at the other three:

"What's the problem?"

Liu Xiqian was the first to raise her hand:

"I don't understand how dreams wake up."

"The awakening of dreams is related to the number of layers of dreams, and entering the dream requires a potion, which you can understand as a tranquilizer, and a normal one-layer or two-layer dream only requires an ordinary tranquilizer.

If there is only one layer of dreams, then you die or fall in the dream, and you will wake up.

Well...... It's like you're woken up with a nightmare.

And when there are two layers of dreams, the same is true, except that you wake up in the first layer of dreams, and then die or fall again, and then you wake up in reality. ”

"That means waking up layer by layer, isn't it?" Liu Xiqian asked.

"That's right, you've been secretly growing your brain again this month?"

Qin Muchu originally thought that it would be difficult to explain the script to Liu Duzi.

"Humph!" Liu Xiqian rolled her eyes arrogantly.

Write it down first, and I'll send you ugly photos to Mimi in a while!

"The most special thing is the three-layer dream, if you want to create a three-layer dream, ordinary tranquilizers are useless, and strong tranquilizers are needed.

But this also raises the problem that you can't wake up from a dream from the upper layer through death, but only by falling.

If you die on any of the three layers of the Dream Realm, you will fall directly into the Lost Realm.

And because of death, people who passively enter the Lost Domain will lose most of their memories, which means that it is easier to take the Lost Domain as reality and get lost in it.

Only those who actively enter the Lost Domain will retain their memories, but they will gradually be lost over time.

The way to get out of the Lost Realm is still to die or fall, but death must be an unnatural death.

Because the Lost Domain only grows old, not dies of old age.

If you leave the Lost Domain, you will wake up directly in reality, and you don't need to wake up layer by layer...... Still have questions? ”

After being silent for a while, Zhou Jiaolun shook his head:

"It sounds complicated, but I didn't think there would be any problems for the time being."

The rest nodded approvingly, including Donnie, who already knew the script well.

Even if he knows the script very well, sometimes he will be confused in the layers of dream dolls.

"It's okay, you know enough of that, let's talk about any problems during the shooting."

Qin Muchu also didn't need them to fully understand the script, because the script itself was more difficult to understand than the movie.

Just ask them to know what they have played, just understand the main setting of the movie, and it doesn't matter if they don't understand some details.

Clearing his throat, he talked about the work schedule again:

"We shoot very few scenes in China, mainly in three scenes, two studios plus a courtyard.

It is expected that the filming will be completed in half a month, and then we will go to the United States to meet with other actors, shoot the scenes in the United States, and then travel to various countries to film......"

……

Night, inside the hotel room.

Two women leaning on the couch with face masks on them are chatting.

"Sister Li, are you playing Donnie's wife?" Liu Xiqian asked.

"Yes."

"How could Qin Muchu think of letting you play Donny's wife, the ...... of the East and the West?"

Liu Xiqian frowned, thinking of the "King of Kung Fu" she filmed, and one of the big points that fans complained about was that she and foreigners were a couple.

"That's how the script is written...... By the way, you don't know the hidden background of this drama yet, do you? Zeng Li said suddenly.

"And the hidden background?"

Liu Xiqian sat up straight, and the mask was not enough.

"Qin Muchu didn't have the script for me."

"Actually, the lines of the script are also mentioned, but in Downey's script. I also found out about the complete hidden background when I came here yesterday and asked Qin Muchu. ”

Zeng Li explained, and began to talk about the hidden plot:

"I play De Li'er from the Taoist Zhuang Zhou inheritance, and the reason why Cobb played by Downey is so strong in dream-stealing is because he learned Zhuang Zhou's dream-making ability from Li'er's father."

"Zhuang Zhou? Why Zhuang Zhou. Liu Xiqian was puzzled.

"Well, it should be an allusion to "Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly".

Zeng Li went on to explain,

"After Lier and Cobb got married, they went to live in the United States and gave birth to a pair of children, and later Lier died, and Cobb was suspected of being the target of murder and was wanted by the United States, so he had to leave the United States.

And the children were also brought back to the Celestial Empire by their grandfather, that is, Li'er's father.

But because Li'er's father was a Taoist dream maker stationed in England, the child was raised by the Taoist sect of the Celestial Empire.

The Celestial Empire's Jixia School Palace forbade any foreigners suspected of committing crimes from entering the country, and the two children were after the Taoist sect, so Cobb could neither visit the children in the Celestial Empire, nor could the children leave the country to see the father Cobb who was suspected of committing a crime. ”

"Wait, what is the Jixia School Palace?" Liu Xiqian found another knowledge blind spot.

"I don't know very well, it's probably equivalent to the upper level of the hundred schools of thought, responsible for the unified management of their ...... That's what Qin Muchu said.

In short, Cobb can't see the child, so he will work so hard to help Saito plant dreams, because Saito can make the United States cancel his want, so that he can enter the Celestial Empire and see his child. ”

Zeng Li said such a big pass, Liu Xiqian was already dumbfounded:

"Is Qin Muchu planning to shoot the second part?"

Taoist Zhuang Zhou, Zhuzi Baijia, Jixia School Palace...... It feels like it's going to be the rhythm of a series.

Zeng Li took off the mask, and his beautiful eyes were shining.

She was also shocked when she heard about this hidden background.

Qin Muchu seems to want to export the ancient Celestial Empire culture in another form.

At that time, she also asked Qin Muchu if she was going to shoot the second part, but Qin Muchu's words back made people cry and laugh.

"If you give money, this one may not be able to pay off, and the next one will be returned."

"Hey, cheesy, it's still an award-winning director."

Taking advantage of Qin Muchu's absence, Liu Xiqian can rest assured and boldly complain casually.

Zeng Li funnily pinched Liu Xiqian's face:

"How can I make a movie without money, the cost of this movie is already 100 million."

Liu Xiqian hugged Zeng Li:

"Sister Li, you don't know, Qin Muchu is rich, 100 million is nothing to him."

"Sissi, are you talking about dollars?"

"Dollars? The cost of Inception is $100 million!? ”

(Owe three chapters, try to pay off the debt)

(End of chapter)