Chapter 174: Ready to Shoot
When Li Tang woke up, he felt that his head was still a little dizzy, but it didn't hurt. I raised my wrist and looked at my watch, and the luminous display was almost half past six, but there was a slight light outside the window, and it was estimated that it was almost dawn.
He turned his head to look at the bed next to him, the quilt was bulging and quiet. He put on his clothes and got out of bed lightly.
"Smack!"
The light in the room came on, and the person on the bed next to him sat up.
"So early, Xiao Li!"
This man was in his early sixties, with a frowning and bitter face.
"Teacher Ge, I'm sorry to wake you up." Li Tang hurriedly apologized.
Teacher Ge waved his hand and smiled: "No, when you are older, you don't sleep much, in fact, you will wake up long ago when you are hungry, that is, you will be lying in bed." ”
The teacher spoke with an obvious Shaanxi accent, and then asked, "It's the first time you've come to Shaanxi for hungry people, aren't you used to it?" ”
Li Tang scratched his scalp and said: "I've been to Xi'an twice before, both for tourism, and this is really the first time I've come here." It's all good, the noodles are delicious, but the old Yulin last night was so energetic, I'm still dizzy. ”
I've been here twice before, and I've been here twice in my previous life, but it's the first time I've come to the northwest of my motherland.
"Haha, you were okay last night, I think in addition to the label, you have the best amount of alcohol in the group. Yesterday you actually had a hard time on the road. Teacher Ge smiled.
Li Tang followed Xiao Tengdao and they were the last to enter the group, and they were indeed tossed on the road yesterday. Yesterday morning, we took a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Beijing to Xi'an, then went to the train station in the city, and took a green train for nearly seven hours to arrive at Yulin, the northernmost city in Shaanxi.
When I came to the hotel where the crew stayed, it was already dark. The directors who arrived first, including the two leading actors, Mr. Ge Zhijun and Fu Biao, and other colleagues in the crew were very enthusiastic, and specially set up two tables for them to pick up the wind and wash the dust.
In the face of everyone's enthusiasm, Li Tang drank a little dizzy without paying attention, and finally returned to his room after being carried by Teacher Ge in the same room.
The crew has limited funds, and of course they can't afford to live in a star-rated hotel, so they chartered two floors in a hotel in the old town of Yulin, with a total of more than 20 rooms and a crew of nearly 60 people.
The crew of less than sixty people is probably the smallest crew that Li Tang has ever stayed in. In the end, there is no money, everything has to be carefully calculated.
Director Qi Xin is different from Li Tang's imagination, he is not the kind of petty bureaucrat who can only play official, he looks like he is in his early thirties and forties, wears a pair of black-framed glasses, and talks very elegantly. The most important thing is to have something to say, and have a deep understanding of the script, not like just being addicted to the director, but really doing something seriously.
The temperature here in the early morning is close to freezing, white smoke is emitted from exhalation, the streets of the old city are undulating, and the beacon tower of the ancient Great Wall can be seen in the distance. Last night, I heard the director's introduction, out of the Great Wall here is the Mu Us Desert, and there are often sandstorms in spring and autumn.
Li Tang ran two laps along the old street, and he didn't feel cold at all when his physical activity started, and there was even hot air on his head.
Back at the hotel, I happened to meet Fu Biao in the corridor who was going out to have breakfast. Last night, he and Fu Biao met for the first time, and they came here as early as the beginning of the month to experience life.
"Yo, Xiao Li, it's so early!"
As soon as Fu Biao saw Li Tang, his eyes narrowed into a slit, greeted him with a smile, and looked at Li Tang, who was thinly dressed and steaming hot on the top of his head, and said enviously: "In the end, it is a young man, and he is hot!" ”
"Brother Biao, you're early!"
Although it was the first time they met last night, the two were already very familiar with each other after a drink.
Fu Biao is also a disciple of the big yard, but he does not have the arrogance of the disciple of the big yard at all, on the contrary, he laughs at everyone for three points, and there is no shelf, which is especially easy for people to get close to.
In fact, in addition to the label of a comedian in Feng's comedy, Li Tang first knew him on the screen, and he was still the image of the third man with vicious means in the "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" directed by Zhang Yimou.
To say more, Director Zhang's "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" was co-produced with Shanghai Film Studio, but it was controversial after its release, and it was generally considered to be a film with a very poor standard of Director Zhang.
Li Tang revisited this movie after crossing over, Gong Li's performance was as brilliant as ever, and Li Xuejian and Li Baotian's performances were definitely palace-level. He really didn't understand how high the appetite and standards of the domestic audience, or more accurately the critical media and critics in China, would be to criticize such an excellent film.
"Hey, Xiao Li, will you come down for breakfast in a while?"
The ground floor of the hotel is a restaurant, where the crew's meals are all solved.
"Well, I'll take a shower and come down."
"Then what do you eat, I'll help you applaud in advance." Fu Biao said enthusiastically.
Li Tang didn't think about it, and said directly: "Oily noodles." ”
When you arrive in northern Shaanxi, how can you not taste the characteristics here?
Fu Biao immediately gave him a thumbs up and said, "Clever! ”
Then he didn't forget to take care of it: "Then you hurry up, it won't taste good if it's paste." ”
"Gotta do it!"
Back in the room, the old man had already changed into a costume, and saw that he was wearing a six-five yellow military hat crookedly on his head, and the most eye-catching thing on his upper body was the collar of a blue high-necked old-fashioned pullover sweatshirt exposed around his neck, and the outside was a loose orange velvet cardigan, and then wrapped in an army green old-fashioned public security uniform vest, and finally a black tunic. Interestingly, the collar of this tunic is also inlaid with a circle of yellow velvet, probably to keep warm and protect the collar into one.
The old man's dress is the image of Li Gong'an described in the script.
The old man was also about to go out, when he saw Li Tang coming in, he pointed to his bed and said, "The costume has also sent your clothes, you can change into the characters first in a while." Oh yes, what's for breakfast? ”
"Thank you, Mr. Ge, don't bother, I just met Brother Biao, and he has already called for me."
"Oh, then the hunger went down first."
As soon as the old man left, Li Tang quickly took off his clothes and went into the bathroom to take a combat bath.
The costumes were probably ready inside and out, except for the underwear, a plaid shirt, an old but thick flat-neck cardigan, and a coffee-colored leather jacket.
The pants are ordinary blue trousers, but the trouser legs are a little fat, and there is also a pair of basketball shoes of the pull back brand.
Li Tang dressed up in front of the mirror, and deliberately turned the collar of his plaid shirt over the outside of the flat-necked sweater. The memories of the original told him that this kind of dress was fashionable in the early nineties.
After dressing, I looked carefully in the mirror again, and the rustic atmosphere was unique to the fashion of that era.
Well, not bad!
He went out and went downstairs satisfied.
"Xiao Li, hurry up, the noodles have just been served." Fu Biao saw his figure and hurriedly raised his hand to greet him.
A bowl of hot oily noodles per person, and spices such as spicy seeds and vinegar are also placed on the table.
Li Tang suddenly thought of a line in the play, so he said to Fu Biao, who was sitting opposite and mixing noodles: "Do you want spicy?" ”
"Yes!"
"I'm coming!"
Li Tang picked up the fried red spicy seeds, scooped the top chili oil with a spoon and sprinkled it evenly on his bowl of noodles.
Then he asked, "Do you want vinegar?" ”
Fu Biao seemed to react, and deliberately didn't look at Li Tang and said, "Yes!" ”
"Do you want beer?"
Fu Biao quickly mixed two more noodles, ate noodles, and when he heard Li Tang's question, he nodded again and again: "Yes!" ”
Li Tang suddenly stopped talking and looked at him quietly.
After two or three seconds, until Fu Biao swallowed the noodles in his mouth, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, raised his head timidly, saw Li Tang's expressionless face, and hurriedly said, "Don't!" ”
As soon as Fu Biao's voice fell, there was a "pop" clapping sound next to him.
It turned out that the director Qi Xin was sitting at the table next to him, and he was just watching the interaction between the two with great interest, and he couldn't help but applaud when he saw the highlights. Fu Biao's performance in this key section is too exciting, especially when he looks up at Li Tang with trembling, which is particularly joyful.
Of course, he didn't forget to praise Li Tang and said: "Xiao Li, the preparation is good, but you also robbed Li Gong'an's play." ”
It turned out that the first sentence in the script asked "Do you want spicy?" It was Li Gong'an's line, and then Li Gong'an helped Fu Biao sprinkle chili oil, and asked him, "Do you want vinegar?" ”
When Fu Biao buried his head in his head and shouted "want" as a matter of course, Li Tang, who had been watching coldly, couldn't stand it, he had always been unaccustomed to Li Gong'an's kind of shouting and warmth to criminals, so he directly grabbed the vinegar pot, and while adding vinegar to Fu Biao's noodle bowl, he deliberately asked him: "Do you want beer?" ”
This scene is the beginning of the two completely different attitudes of Li Gong'an and Zhang Gong'an, played by Li Tang, towards the criminals escorted.
Hearing the director's praise at this time, Li Tang also said a little shyly: "Director, I'm playing with Brother Biao." ”
Ge Zhijun, who plays Li Gongan, and Fu Biao, who plays the fraudster Yu Tai, were both personally selected by the director, and of course he was quite surprised by Li Tang recommended by Director Xiao Teng.
Although the investment in the movie is not large, every director wants to make money by making his own films, and the choice of Fu Biao, who is currently popular, is for the sake of box office, and now with Li Tang's joining, it is the icing on the cake.
Although Li Tang said that this was a joke, Qi Xin still nodded with satisfaction, and then said to the two of them: "Baoning Fort has already done almost it, and it will be no problem to put the first scene there after the start of the film tomorrow, right?" ”
There is a small farm yard over there in Fort Boring, and the artists and props of the crew have been busy there for more than a week, and it is the hiding place of the fraudster Yu Tai played by Fu Biao, and the villagers there have been deceived by Yu Tai and his co-defendants, so they detained him and did not let him go. And Li Gong'an and Zhang Gong'an entered the village to arrest people and alarmed the villagers, so they took the guys to chase and intercept them, not letting them take Fu Biao away, fortunately, Li Gong'an was experienced and escaped from the villagers, and the two escaped from the village with Fu Biao very dangerously.
Fu Biao buried his head in the noodles and said, "I'm fine." ”
Qi Xin set his eyes on Li Tang again, in fact, he mainly asked Li Tang.
Li Tang pondered for a moment before he was a little conservative: "My side...... Uh, you can try. ”
First update!
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