When you focus on one thing, time flies.

For Lee Shengyao, that's how it feels.

Since Yanjing re-entered Hong Kong Island, he has devoted himself to the production of "Parasite", and the scene where the male protagonist, father and son ran wild on a rainy night took a long time and took six nights to achieve the effect he wanted.

The next plot was relatively easy to shoot, they moved quickly, and the on-set shooting of "Parasite" became more and more efficient.

It was under such circumstances that December quietly arrived, and the filming of "Parasite" reached the final stage.

At ten o'clock in the morning of this day, at the Mid-Levels Villa, the field workers arranged the scene, and the actors were also ready to be in place.

The assistant director shouted to start, and the actors immediately began to perform.

Today is the final plot of "Parasite", that is, the birthday party of the rich son, the man who has been hiding in the basement rushes out to take revenge and kill the hero's daughter, and the hero's wife rushes forward and fights with the man.

The rich man took his son to the hospital in a hurry, ignoring the hero's daughter, and at the same time, an action that disliked the poor completely inspired the hero, and the hero killed the rich man with a knife.

All the emotions of the movie are completely released at this moment.

This scene is not a big scene, and killing people is just sprinkling more ketchup.

However, this is the most trendy plot of the movie, and the actors need to have enough acting skills to support such emotions and infect the audience.

In Lee Shengyao's previous life, Bong Joon-ho's handling was still very calm, and the actor's emotions on the surface were not very much, but at the end the rich man showed a disgusted expression, and the camera here slowed down and zoomed in slightly to express the hero's shock and anger.

Although the top actor on the peninsula, Song Kanghao's eyes are very small, but the eye play is very exciting, he only took one shot, his eyes were full of anger, rage, and killing intent, and then he looked a little mechanical with a knife, and rushed forward to kill the rich man with a knife.

It's a very impulsive act, and he's still a little dazed.

Li Shengyao felt that the handling here was very good, and the emotions were in place, but it was not exaggerated too much, and at the same time, it shocked the audience and quickly brought it over, so as to give the audience more thoughts.

When Li Shengyao took the actors to the position, he focused on explaining the requirements of this scene.

All the actors must be as accurate as possible, they must be receiving, not too much light, and others must serve the outbreak of Liang Jiahui.

And Liang Jiahui wants to continue the overall style of the movie, and also try to have as few expressions as possible to shock the audience as much as possible.

The actors he chose can't be said to be all powerful, but at least there are no people who are holding back.

Overall, Li Shengyao is still relatively relieved.

It's just that filming such a dramatic plot and wanting to accurately convey expressions is not an easy task, especially when so many actors are combined, everyone needs to catch up with the corresponding rhythm.

The actors have been filming this scene for several days.

has not met the requirements that Lee Shengyao wanted.

Li Shengyao has already said when to meet the requirements and when to finish.

The Hong Kong Island media knows that "Parasite" is about to be completed, and many media are guessing about the film's closing day, some think it is December 21st, and some think it is December 23rd.

The reason why they guessed these two days is because these two days are good days in the lunar calendar.

Li Shengyao naturally disdained such a statement, he didn't believe in these things that gods and gods were talking about.

He still told the actors that if he achieved the effect he wanted, he would finish it immediately, which could be any day in the future.

At this time, the actors were in a state, the crazy man played by Ni Dahong staggered out, saw other people celebrating, and the actor's family was integrated into it, he was angry and was about to rush out, but one was unstable and fell to the ground.

Ni Dahong was also invested in acting, he immediately turned over, and then rushed forward and stabbed the male protagonist's daughter in the chest.

None of the others reacted, and only then did they scream and begin to retreat in confusion.

After a while, Li Shengyao shouted the card, and Ni Dahong was embarrassed to walk over, "Director, I didn't stand firm just now and fell down." ”

"It's okay, that part just now is very good, I will seriously consider whether to act like this, you can also think about it."

Ni Dahong's character was locked up for a day, his wife died, and he was hit physically and mentally double, in such a situation, it is normal to wrestle in a daze.

It can even be said that he fell and then got up and stabbed someone, further highlighting his anger.

When Ni Dahong heard this, he nodded thoughtfully.

On the other side, Liang Jiahui pulled a chair, then sat down with a frown.

He still felt that he hadn't captured his best state and that his acting was not accurate enough.

This scene has been filmed for several days, just waiting for the end, and he is under a lot of pressure.

However, as an excellent actor, in such an important movie, he knows that the opportunity is rare and he must give his best performance.

According to his previous experience, he is constantly adjusting and grinding it out.

But this time he didn't think it would work, he used to be more focused, but now that there are many things on Hong Kong Island, and his two daughters are also worrying him, he finds that he can't fully devote himself to it.

He wanted to take two days off to take a break, but he was a little confused.

After all, there are so many actors, and the field workers are waiting for him.

At this moment, Li Shengyao walked over, "Brother Jia Hui, what's wrong?"

"Director, I found that I couldn't fully devote myself to the role, I had too much information in my head these days, and I wanted to take two days off."

After hesitating for a moment, Liang Jiahui still said his thoughts.

Although Lee Shengyao is not an actor, he understands such behavior.

"Okay, then we'll rest for two days."

Li Shengyao did not announce it immediately, he didn't want to continue to put pressure on Liang Jiahui, and after half an hour, he announced it, on the grounds that everyone was in a normal state and would come back after two days of rest.

The other actors didn't know the situation, and thought it was their own problem, so they thought about it and dispersed.

Two days later, the crew of "Parasite" re-filmed the last scene, and this time the actors performed much better, especially Liang Jiahui, who felt very good to Li Shengyao, and Lao Liang could finally hold up the big emotions at the end at this time.

I saw that in the eyes of everyone, Liang Jiahui raised the short knife a little stiffly, and then stabbed it heavily into the rich man's chest.

In the shouting, the crowd scattered, and Liang Jiahui fled in a hurry, without the panic, excitement, and excitement after the killing, only the lingering confusion.

After shouting the card, Li Shengyao stood up and clapped his hands, "Very good, it's over." ”

The cheers rang out, this shot finally passed, and "Parasite" was finished.

Li Shengyao took over the loudspeaker and announced the completion of "Parasite", and then led the assistant to give red envelopes to everyone, and told everyone that they must go to the celebration banquet in the evening, otherwise they would not have a banquet.

……

At night, a bright moon hangs high in the sky, accompanied by several stars.

Still at the Victoria Hotel, facing the faint sea breeze and accompanied by the cheerful music of the orchestra, the crew of "Parasitic Difference" held a finale banquet here.

All the actors came, all the field workers also came, and Li Shengyao took a few assistant directors to toast the actors and field workers.

After two rounds of saluting in a row, Li Shengyao sat back at the main table, smiling and chatting with Liu Dehua and Liang Jiahui for dinner.

It can be seen that Liang Jiahui is very happy, and he raises his wine glass to drink again and again.

"Happy today, my wife explained, just drink, come on, Andy, I respect you."

"Da Hong, I respect you."

"Director, I respect you."

Liang Jiahui obviously overestimated his drinking, and after about half an hour, he was a little drunk.

Artists in the Hong Kong island entertainment industry really like to drink, that is, Liu Dehua has no good wine, and everyone else has it.

For example, Liang Chaowei is a wine Mengzi, and he is not happy every day without drinking.

For example, Zhou Runwei has thousands of bottles of good wine stored in the wine cabinet at home, and as long as he is at home, he must open a bottle and taste it.

Liang Jiahui should not be a wine Mengzi, but a person who likes the things in the cup.

Li Shengyao has seen the news, Liang Jiahui and Zhang Guorong like to get together to drink when they are filming.

At this time, mainland actors like Ni Dahong and Ding Jiali were a little surprised, but they didn't expect Liang Jiahui to drink so much.

Liu Dehua was not surprised, he chuckled: "Don't worry, Brother Jiahui has a good wine, he won't hit people, he won't shout, he just talks a lot." ”

Liang Jiahui laughed to himself for a while, and seemed to have regained some of his senses, and then he came to Li Shengyao with a wine glass, and said emotionally: "Director Li, I really want to thank you this time, I haven't encountered such a wonderful story for several years, and it is my honor to star in such a movie." ”

He picked up his glass, took a sip, and continued: "You are very powerful, worthy of being a great director who won the Palme d'Or, you know what story you want to tell, you know what effect you want, we don't need to guess, follow you to act, we have a goal, a lot of worry."

And the team is great, Ding Jiali, Liu Dehua, Ni Dahong, Liu Tao...... Everyone is excellent and serious.

The film crew is also very good, they follow you, they are very mature, arrange everything in an orderly manner, and it is really comfortable to film in such a crew.

Before filming "Uncle", you asked me to star in a very good TV series, this time the main "Parasite", I have another very good movie, thank you very much. ”

Li Shengyao raised his wine glass and touched a glass with Liang Jiahui.

"We cooperate with each other, no need to say thank you."

He can actually understand actors like Liang Jiahui.

has very good acting skills and has a very good reputation among the people, but in the general environment, there are really few good works.

wants to act in a good movie, but it can't be his turn.

If you want to support your family, you can only take any movie.

In the entire Chinese film and television industry, the luckiest actor is undoubtedly Liang Chaowei.

"In the Mood for Love", "Infernal Affairs", "Chongqing Forest", "Tricycle Driver", "Sea Flower", "City of Sadness", "Springtime" and a series of excellent movies.

According to media statistics, the award-winning movie played by Liang Chaowei is second only to the island country in Asia, and it can be said that there are very few actors in the world with the second highest thickness of works in Asia.

This is the reason why Liang Chaowei was able to win the Venice Lifetime Achievement Award later, and he may be able to win the Berlin and Cannes Lifetime Achievement Award in the future, the thickness of the work is too high.

And the big directors like Leung Chiu-wai, and other excellent actors on Hong Kong Island are relatively unlucky.

is like Wu Zhenyu, who has not won a heavyweight actor so far.

Liang Jiahui shook his head, "It's different, there are too many actors like me, but there are very few works like "Parasite", this movie is very exciting, and it will definitely win awards." ”

He then turned to Liu Dehua, "Did you say?"

Liu Dehua immediately answered, "Yes, I will definitely win the award." ”

Li Shengyao smiled and nodded, listening quietly to Liang Jiahui's speech.

He could feel that Liang Jiahui was very excited, very happy, and very eager for the film to win the award.

Liang Jiahui's great director luck is more ordinary, that is, he admires him more when he meets Li Hanxiang, but unfortunately he was banned after filming "Listening to Politics with a Curtain", and the back is mainly commercial films, and most of the movies, in terms of artistic achievements, are nothing worth saying.

Li Shengyao fully understands his mentality at this time.

Many people think that it doesn't matter if the movie wins an award or not, as long as the box office is high.

But the film and television industry doesn't see it that way, Brother Kaizi's "Farewell My Concubine" is touted by people for how he spoils it later.

In addition to being polite to Lao Mouzi, Brother Kaizi never hides his disdainful eyes from other directors in the mainland.

Xiao Gang Cannon has won several annual championships, and Kai Zige can't even look down on it.

Isn't it because the thickness of the movie of the small steel cannon is not enough and it has not been recognized by insiders?

Any actor or director who has a pursuit must hope that he has a thick enough work.

In this regard, Hong Kong Island is also Cheng Long, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Manyu, and Chow Runwei have confidence, and others are not very good.

Liang Jiahui drank too much, talked really a lot, I don't know when, began to talk about his two daughters, said that the daughter has grown up, and many decrepit boys are pursuing, worried about giving the pig arch.

chatted for half an hour, then left, pulling Liu Dehua to speak.

Li Shengyao was almost finished, and was about to take the assistant directors to pay another respect, and then he withdrew first, at this time, Chen Kexin, Wu Yusen, Huang Baiming and other Hong Kong Island directors came over.

"Director Li, congratulations on the completion, another very wonderful work is about to come out."

"Director Li, I will definitely support the new movie, and I believe that I can win the award this time."

"Director Li, I really envy you, you completed the filming so smoothly, and the next thing is the post-production, and then kill the Quartet."

The directors came, and soon some actors, production agents, came to congratulate Lee Shengyao.

Everyone said good things and said that movies could win awards.

Li Shengyao smiled in response, Liang Jiahui sincerely hopes that "Parasite" can win the award, and it is difficult for others to say.

In the midst of so much hype, the production team of "Parasite" is very excited.

Zhang Mo said to Li Shengyao: "Director, we will definitely win the award." ”

Bi Gan was next to him, he was also very excited, he went to Cannes in May this year, and he is very similar to going to Cannes next year.

"Let it be."

Li Shengyao stood in front of the glass wall and pretended to reply.

Victoria Bay is lit up at night, as if it were daytime.

Luxury cars are everywhere, a boy in a fancy costume, and a girl with a luxury bag.

From a distance, you can hear their laughter, the sound of high heels stomping on the ground, and the sound of glass clashing.

The air smells of perfume, red wine, and the evening breeze mixed together.

Looking out over Victoria Bay, Lee couldn't help but think of that night in May, when he stood on the podium at Cannes and was greeted by a group of showbiz celebrities from all over the world.

Comparatively, it is still cooler to stand on the podium in Cannes.

(End of chapter)