Beijing, in a studio at the Beijing Film Studio.

The crew of "The Undertaker" is filming the first act.

In the small studio, it is arranged as a "picture within a picture".

In human terms, it is the plot of the movie that is going to be filmed next when the people in the movie are filming.

To be precise, it is to shoot the "mortuary teaching video", which is the plot encountered when the actor in the movie accidentally joined a mortuary company after losing his job, and it is also a little funny.

The plot here is not the same as the reality.

In reality, there is no such company specializing in the funeral industry in China, at least in 2000, and funeral homes are responsible for this work.

But it is impossible for the actor to go to the funeral home for an interview to find a job inexplicably.

So Wu Yuan retained the setting of this burial company, and the actor saw on a small advertisement on a telephone pole that "there is no age limit, a high salary is guaranteed, and the actual working hours are extremely short." We are looking for a Travel Assistant. I joined the company by mistake.

As a result, I didn't expect this company to recruit assistants for the deceased.

"Are you all ready?"

The executive assistant director held the walkie-talkie, and after urging all the staff of each group to prepare for lighting, filming, and radio, he trotted to Wu Yuan's side: "Director, it's time to start filming." ”

"Hmm." Wu Yuan nodded flatly.

is different from when filming "The Night the Comet Comed", this time the crew of "The Undertaker" has more than 60 staff, and the coordinator and assistant director are also complete, and Wu Yuan does not have to do everything.

Just a glance signal, the assistant director picked up the loudspeaker: "The first scene, the first shot!" ”

“Action！”

The camera starts slowly on the laid rails, and the frame is focused on the small stage in the studio.

On the stage, several staff members were busy, arranging the stage to look like a funeral hall, and Mr. Li Xuejian was sitting next to him, holding the script in one hand and glasses in the other, seriously pondering the script.

"Knock knock."

As soon as the perspective switched, Zhang Guorong, who was dressed in a suit and leather shoes at the door, but had a somewhat submissive momentum, cautiously pushed open the door and walked in.

Seeing the busy appearance of the staff in the studio, he was a little helpless and hung at the door.

"New?" A staff member stepped forward and asked.

"Uh, yes!" Zhang Guorong smiled shyly.

"Okay, click!" Wu Yuan shouted steadily: "It's over, you don't need to keep one." ”

It is customary in the rivers and lakes that the first scene of the new movie is as simple as possible, and it is best to go through it all over again, just to be auspicious, and I hope that the next shooting can be so smooth.

Teacher Li Xuejian and Zhang Guorong can naturally do it, and the first scene was filmed with ease.

Wu Yuan's heart began to shoot the next shot without any fluctuations.

“Action！”

The camera ran again, and Mr. Li Xuejian, who was sitting on the small stage, took off his glasses and stood up, greeted Zhang Guorong who walked in, patted him on the shoulder, and introduced with a smile to the other staff:

"He's new today."

Zhang Guorong also immediately introduced himself: "Hello everyone, my surname is Lin, and my single name is a Wu character, everyone can call me Xiaolin or Xiao Wu." ”

After the monitor, Wu Yuan bowed slightly, very satisfied with Zhang Guorong's performance.

In the bland, it is precisely the most challenging actor's acting skills.

This scene requires Zhang Guorong to introduce himself in a few seemingly bland sentences, showing the nervousness, crampedness, and panic of the characters starting again in their thirties.

The actor's name was finally set as "Lin Wu", but the word "Wu" is too suitable for the actor.

Throughout the movie, the actor has actually been comprehending, comprehending the meaning of the profession of an undertaker, and understanding the relationship between life and death.

The name "enlightenment" is the most appropriate.

On stage, filming continues.

After Zhang Guorong introduced himself, Mr. Li Xuejian patted him on the shoulder again and said to the other staff with a smile: "Xiaolin is our model today." ”

"Models?" Zhang Guorong's face was full of surprise, he didn't mention this stubble during the interview?

The look of doubt on his face was just right.

Before he could react, a group actor who played the staff stepped forward and took the initiative to pull him backstage, and said as he walked: "You can start after changing your clothes." ”

"Come, come with me, I'll take you to put on makeup and change clothes."

These group performances of the staff were all introduced by Beijing Film Studio, and they can be regarded as character actors who have cooperated with Beijing Film Studio for a long time.

In fact, before Hengdian got up, the street outside the Beijing Film Studio was the largest gathering place for group performances.

Like Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, and Zhang Yi came out of the North Drift actors.

It's a pity that Wu Yuan has never met any of them, and he has no luck to recognize the best of these North Drifting actors.

The group performances introduced by Beijing Film Studio are all long-term cooperation with Beijing Film Studio, which can be regarded as knowing the roots, and the acting skills are thorough, and Wu Yuan is quite comfortable to use.

After two more scenes were saved, the filming was successfully completed.

Zhang Guorong also went to change clothes and redo makeup.

Taking advantage of this time, Wu Yuan continued to shoot Mr. Li Xuejian's one-man show.

Teacher Li Xuejian's acting skills naturally don't need to be said, he needs to give a stable and mature temperament, then he can be put in place immediately.

The two positions kept switching between the script in Mr. Li Xuejian's hand and his face.

"When the burial ceremony is held, the body of the deceased needs to be wiped with a cotton cloth......

"This is to wash away the suffering of the rolling red dust for the deceased, and to cleanse the ......"

It is obviously a very plain line recitation, but when it is read from the mouth of Mr. Li Xuejian, it has an inexplicable charm, which makes people feel relaxed involuntarily.

"The Undertaker" is the first play of Mr. Li Xuejian's comeback after suffering from nasopharyngeal cancer.

Although his vocal cords were damaged due to nasopharyngeal cancer, his vocal cords are not as damaged as they were 20 years later.

Wu Yuan is very fortunate to be able to feel the almost complete body, Mr. Li Xuejian's line skills!

This kind of performance, which can only be given by the top actors of the older generation, can be called an audio-visual feast!

While staring at the monitor carefully, Wu Yuan inevitably deserted.

If you have the opportunity, should you make a high-quality movie that only this kind of old drama can perform the essence?

For example, the film "Love", which killed the whole of Europe and won the Palme d'Or, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the European Film Award for Best Picture, and the French César Award for Best Picture?

If you miss this era, wait another five or eight years, and these batches of film actors born around 1940-1950 will be completely retired from filming.

If you don't collaborate on a movie with this group of old artists who have grown up with the Chinese film industry, you will definitely regret it for a lifetime in the future!

"Director, the actors are ready!"

A reminder from the staff woke up Wu Yuan, who had deserted.

He looked up and just saw Zhang Guorong coming out of the dressing room, and then smiled.

At this time, Zhang Guorong had already stripped off all his clothes, only wearing a pair of oversized adult diapers, and from his chest to his face, he also painted a miserable white dead man's makeup.

"Hahaha, Zhang Sheng, you look like this, the audience shouldn't scold me for selling meat when it's released, right?"

"Asian superstar Zhang Guorong sacrificed hue and appeared naked in the new film, what do you think of this title?"

Zhang Guorong, who has long stripped off only a pair of underwear in "Happy Spring", is not afraid of Wu Yuan's ridicule, and at the level of his ridicule, he can't even compare to a single hair of the Hong Kong Island media.

Zhang Guorong was not a little shy, and a very kind smile appeared on his face, "Director Wu, can you start?" ”

"Cut, boring." Muttered, Wu Yuan waved his hand: "Go and lie down on the stretcher!" ”

"Today's play is the most relaxed, just play a corpse throughout the whole process!"

"Okay, all units ready!"

“Action！”