Her face was painted black, and her expression could not be seen clearly. Jiang Se approached her and said:
"Playing dead."
The other extras were somewhat excited after hearing this, and someone whispered:
"The crew should give out red envelopes after the filming is finished."
Just as Lu Baobao was about to ask, the head stage manager was already ordering them to quickly tie up the extras and push them onto the wooden stakes erected by the river.
Jiang Se had her hands tied behind her back and was pushed to the riverside. The knot of the rope was in her hand. The extras playing the Japanese soldiers were holding prop bayonets in their hands, waiting for the director's order.
The crew members came forward and installed the directional blood explosion device for everyone. A man holding a pen was explaining the plot to a woman:
"… When Gao Rong finishes his line, you say 'Pah'."
She had a line that made many extras look envious.
The woman nodded repeatedly, and the man with the pen turned to Jiang Se and others:
"When the prop knife swings over later, it will compress the blood bag, and you pour it into the river." He pointed to a safe area separated by the river, where there were still many people in the water: "Safety measures have been taken. Anyone who falls into the water will be rewarded an additional twenty yuan today."
After saying this, he clapped his hands: "Okay, get ready."
This scene has nothing to do with the movie emperor Liu Ye, nor does it have anything to do with the female stars mentioned by Lu Baobao. It is just a clip in "Rescue Operation".
Jiang Se was pushed to the riverside. There were five or six pillars on the riverside. Lu Baobao was lucky enough to be tied to a pillar and did not have to fall into the water. However, Jiang Se stood in the corner of the riverside, obviously intending to go into the water.
Everyone took their positions, and as the director shouted 'Action', "Try it once."
The script supervisor came forward with a chalkboard with the shooting sequence written on it. "Take one."
This was the first time this scene was filmed. As the sound of the board fell, the middle-aged actor in the Japanese military uniform said in a gloomy voice:
"If Zhou Mingchong doesn't hand over the things, all of you will die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone was stunned, and the director was furious:
"Card!"
Before anyone could react, the script supervisor who had been holding a pen ran up and shouted to a woman:
"Fuck, are you sick? Didn't I tell you that Gao Rong said the line and asked you to say 'bah'?"
The woman was scolded so much that she couldn't even raise her head. The man scolded her fiercely for a while, then waved his hand:
“Come again!”
Everyone took their positions again, the lights and cameras were aimed at Jiang Se and others, the actor called Gao Rong posed, holding the bayonet at his waist and said:
"If Zhou Mingchong doesn't hand over the things, all of you will die!"
This time, the woman who was scolded earlier reacted quickly and said hurriedly:
"Pooh."
She had just been scolded before, and this "Pooh" was said weakly, so the script supervisor holding the pen naturally became furious again:
"Can you do it? If not, find someone else!"
The woman was scolded so much that tears welled up in her eyes. She kept apologizing and started all over again after a while.
"Take three."
After the sound of the clapperboard, Gao Rong recited his lines again, but failed twice in a row. This time, the woman shouted loudly, "Bah!"
This time they were not stopped, but the stage manager said a few words to the director not far away, and when he looked over here, he frowned.
After the woman finished her lines, the middle-aged man who played the Japanese soldier gritted his teeth, cursed, and raised his gun.
The plot came to a temporary halt here. The director made a gesture and the stagehand called a temporary stop.
Gao Rong stopped and the gunsmith from the crew came forward to check the gun in his hand.
Jiang Se saw the gun shining with cold light from afar. It should be a real gun, but there should be no bullets in it.
For a movie like "Rescue" with a big budget, the crew probably won't use prop guns. Instead, in pursuit of realism, they would first shoot the gun itself with a camera, and then shoot the person pinching the blood bag after being shot.
The script supervisor once again communicated with the woman who had previously had lines. In the hot weather, Jiang Se could only feel the sweat pouring down his back. He stood for a long time. In order to film the embarrassment of being tied up, everyone was unable to move.
The makeup artist of the crew came forward to touch up the makeup for everyone. After the gunsmith checked the guns and confirmed that they were safe, the stage manager hit the cue again to start the game.
This time Gao Rong picked up the gun, but the woman who was speaking the lines earlier was perhaps too nervous and was slow to explode the directional blood explosion device, which caused her to be scolded again.
"Don't shoot this scene yet. Let's finish shooting the extras first."
The man wearing sunglasses sitting under the parasol had an impatient look on his face. After he said this, the script supervisor shouted and gave some instructions to Jiang Se and the others. The camera immediately turned in a different direction and aimed at Jiang Se and the others.
As the clapperboard made a sound, the camera first aimed at rows of guns. Jiang Se stood by the river and saw a man with a knife walking towards her. He raised the knife and made a gesture to swing it at her.
The knife hit her left shoulder. Although it was a prop knife and did not cause serious damage, the man's attack was not gentle and it still hurt.
Jiang Se's face showed pain. She screamed, remembering the instructions from the stage manager. The blood plasma bag on her body splashed with a "pop" sound under the action of the explosive device. Then she pulled the rope tied at her back without hesitation and fell into the river!
It was a very hot day and she was actually feeling very hot in her thick costume, but she felt much cooler after falling into the water.
The river water wrapped around her from all directions, and her jacket became heavier due to absorbing the water.
Fortunately, Jiang Se could swim, and the people who had been waiting in the river for a long time rushed over and pushed and pulled her to the shore.
The people who fell into the water around them came ashore one after another. Jiang Se wrung out the water stains on his jacket to reduce the weight on his body while wiping his face.
As a result, the makeup on her face was naturally spent some time. On the other side, the director looked at the camera and made a gesture, indicating a pause.
The filming had to be stopped for a while, so everyone naturally found a place to rest in groups of three or four.
Jiang Se was exhausted after all this ordeal. Lu Baobao, who was tied to the pillar, was also let down. There were bloodstains on her costume and she still had a look of shock in her eyes:
"I was scared to death."
She sat over and saw that Jiang Se was completely wet, with water still dripping from her hair, and couldn't help but say:
"I was scared when I saw you fall into the water."
Being an extra in a film crew was not as fun as Lu Baobao had imagined. Not only did he not see the stars, he also didn’t get to take photos with them.
"When that gun was pointed at me, it scared me, too."
She looked a little listless, with a bit of retreat in her eyes, and it was obvious that she regretted her decision to play a supporting role today.
Jiang Se reached out to squeeze the water out of his hair:
"The guns used by the crew should be real, but they have been checked by gunsmiths, so there won't be any problems." (To be continued)