After going through a series of changes such as the replacement of the male lead, the change of investors, and the rewriting of the script, the ill-fated "Infernal Edge" finally officially launched in C City on August 19th.
On August 19 this year, everything goes well.
At the opening ceremony, the director seriously burned a stick of incense and said, "Good things take time."
It had only rained the day before, and the sky was still a little cloudy, but not too cloudy. The cool summer breeze blows away the residual heat in the air, making people feel refreshed. It was rare for Xia Rong to become superstitious, and he offered incense with a devout face: "Good things take time."
When I returned to the original position, I saw the heroine Zhao Meng talking to Su Chi. She was wearing a light-colored tight T-shirt with the hem tucked into the hot pants, revealing a slender waist and a hot figure. Her long hair was tied into a bunch High ponytail, Yanyan Yanyan, she doesn't look like a senior movie queen, but more like their peers.
She was asking Su Chi regretfully: "Where did you buy this watch? Isn't it limited worldwide? It was already gone when I went to buy it!"
Xia Rong heard it, and took the initiative to say: "I gave it to him, it's best to book in advance."
Su Chi also nodded slightly, and said, "It's a birthday present."
Because of the extremely special connection between each other's fates, Xia Rong still remembered that Su Chi's birthday was at the "end of July", so he flew to Milan in advance and ordered this famous luxury designer for Su Chi A limited edition watch.
Xia Rong hadn't studied the knowledge of gift giving much. He used to be simple and rude, the more expensive the better, the more expensive he gave, the happier the recipient; In the end, he still chose the local tyrant route he was more familiar with, but when he handed the gift to Su Chi, he was still quite uneasy.
The result was not too unexpected, Su Chi just looked at him with a smile, and said, "I like whatever you give me", and it was hard to tell whether he liked it or not. But after that, he did carry this watch with him, except when filming, he almost never left his body, which comforted Xia Rong.
Hearing what the two of them said, Zhao Meng glanced at them with a teasing but not annoying look, and said with a smile, "Oh ~ birthday present."
"It's not what you think." Xia Rong raised his forehead, and it's fine for the misunderstandings of the onlookers. The heroine has been with them day and night for nearly half a year, and she and the two of them have considerable rivalry and affection. He didn't want her to always look at Su Chi with colored glasses when they were playing each other, "We're just good friends."
Zhao Meng was not surprised when she heard this, but instead gave them a playful smile: "What do I think?"
Xia Rong choked for a moment, Zhao Meng's smile became brighter, glanced around, and whispered to him: "I know you are not in that kind of relationship... The atmosphere is completely different if you have slept or haven't slept!"
Xia Rong didn't expect her to speak so bluntly, but she blushed, clenched her hands into fists, and coughed against her lips: "Mmm, cough... as long as you can tell the difference."
"However, at least it's more than ambiguous, right?" Zhao Meng blinked her beautiful apricot eyes, and poked the two men standing beside her with her arms in a lewd movement that was completely inconsistent with her own temperament, "... I said Right?"
"No, Xia Rong hasn't promised me yet." Su Chi said seriously and shyly, "This, remember not to say it in front of outsiders in the future."
"OJBK!" Zhao Meng made an "OK" gesture, "Although you all develop slowly, I promise not to make any noise with 'outsiders'!"
Xia Rong: "..."
How can I get rid of the sudden urge to hit the cat? !
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Because the filming cycle was relatively long, the makeup artists in the crew were not all full-time with the crew, and some of them had completed their work elsewhere before rushing here.
For example, the makeup artist responsible for Xia Rong's makeup is named He, and everyone else calls him Joe. He came a few minutes late today, and apologized as soon as he came in: "I'm sorry, I was delayed in other places before, let's start immediately." .”
Xia Rong was playing and dancing with his mobile phone boredly, and the results in human form really didn't feel any sense of accomplishment, so he put down his mobile phone and started to make up in cooperation with Joe.
The process of putting on makeup is always complicated and long. Xia Rong closed his eyes and rested his mind, while listening to Joe and Amy, the makeup artist next to him, chatting about each other.
"Do you dare to be late for Director Xu's team?" Amy smiled, "Didn't you get raped when you entered the door?"
Joe chuckled twice: "When I came in, he was directing the set, and I sneaked in when he wasn't paying attention." He sighed, "I don't want to either, I'm filming Luo Jinghuan today and asked Keman to come How could it be possible for Keman to come? He just doesn't like everything, sometimes he thinks the light is too bright, sometimes he says the makeup is too oily, and everyone spends most of the day with him."
"That can't be helped. Luo Jinghuan is notoriously picky. In the past, only Keman could satisfy his requirements. Now that Keman is gone, he has to start all over again." Amy said, "The Keman people haven't been found yet? It's been a month?"
"...Keman disappeared?" Before Joe could answer, it was Xia Rong who spoke out, and he asked incredulously, "When did it happen?"
Keman is one of the top photographers in the circle, because he has a genius-level resume and a remarkable appearance, and he is only 30 years old this year, which makes him have a strong presence even in the fan circle. Although Xia Rong is the darling of the fashion circle now, at the beginning, he was not so much favored by the fashion circle as he was favored by Keman himself. It was Keman who overcame all opinions and allowed him to appear on the covers of five major magazines as soon as he debuted, throwing off the hat of "show star", and then making the fashion style rise with the flow of popularity.
It can be said that without Keman's Bole Eye, Xia Rong's later fashion resources may not be so rich and smooth. It's just that Keman pursues business affairs and is relatively withdrawn. Although he admires Xia Rong, he has almost never contacted him in private. It's also because Xia Rong has been busy with himself recently, and has no time to care about the rumors in the fashion circle. He didn't know that a man as old as Keman had disappeared!
"... Has it been less than half a year?" Joe replied hesitantly, "Actually, we are not sure. Almost half a year ago, Keman said that he would take a long vacation for himself and go abroad to have fun, so that no one would have to look for him for the time being. Who Knowing that it has been half a year, he still hasn't appeared, and all the acquaintances in the circle can't contact him, so we began to suspect whether he disappeared."
"Yes." Amy interjected, "The police checked his entry and exit records for the case reported last month, and found that he had no news records since three months ago, as if he had disappeared from the world. He There are no friends in the circle at all, and he doesn't know where his relatives and family are..." She sighed, "It's so pitiful."
Unexpectedly, Keman would disappear, Xia Rong frowned, and planned to send some people to check the situation after work was over.
However, it is not so easy to call it a day.
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The first scene that Xia Rong filmed after starting the machine was a seemingly ordinary daily scene - Fu Lin sat alone on the roof of the police station smoking a cigarette after finishing a case.
The scene of this scene is monotonous, Fu Lin is the only character from the beginning to the end, and there is not even a plot: people sit there, light cigarettes, smoke, and they are gone. Under normal circumstances, this should be just a shot in the film that will not exceed five seconds, and the director also said, first perform a daily scene, "transition transition".
Although Xia Rong didn't know how to smoke, but he convinced himself that he could smoke. In the character state, he could endure it for five seconds, ten seconds or one minute.
But it was this scene that made Xia Rong dumbfounded by the director's scolding.
"Card. It doesn't feel right, try again."
"Ca. It feels wrong to talk about the characters."
"Card. Come again."
"Card."
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"Xia Rong, will you act?"
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Looking back, Xia Rong realized that it was the end of summer and the heat was still there, but the scene they were filming was in late autumn. He dressed Fu Lin's autumn uniform perfectly and meticulously. Even though he was sitting on the roof on the top floor and there was a blower next to him to blow the air, making his hair and clothes flutter, Xia Rong's forehead still had a thin layer of sweat.
It was the eleventh time that he was NG. He was scolded by the director like this. Looking back, his eyes were blank, and even some people in the crew felt soft-hearted, and said: "His makeup is going to be worn out. I'll go and touch up his makeup first. Pause for a moment."
Xu Ping agreed, and casually threw the horn on the ponytail, watching the replay in the camera, with no expression of joy or anger.
Xia Rong lowered his eyelashes and let the make-up artist trot forward to wipe his sweat and touch up his makeup, not knowing why he was in a daze.
"I think everyday scenes are the most difficult to shoot." Su Chi walked over and watched the replay with Xu Ping.
Xu Ping looked at the camera for a while, but instead raised the corners of his mouth with a smile: "You're right."
"Did you see it? The way you perform is different from his." Xu Ping asked.
"Yeah." Su Chi nodded, "I used to watch him filming idol dramas, and I only thought it was natural and real. Only when I got to the scene did I realize that he turned out to be acting like this..."
"I haven't seen this kind of actor for many years. He is like a genius with experience." Xu Ping said with a sigh, "When you are filming, you first construct a character image in your heart. This person should be like this, this person should be like that, just make a decision." His emotions, all the little things and the little tricks designed for him...he's not. He's from here—"
Xu Ping clenched his fists and hammered his chest lightly: "You must truly believe that you are that person, he is still him, but the experience and the situation have completely changed. Xia Rong is still Xia Rong, just changed. The name is Fu Lin."
"The acting skills of this kind of actor are absolutely natural and real, or in other words, he has no acting skills at all, he is not 'acting', he is just making his own 'reaction'."
"...it's too dangerous." Su Chi couldn't help but shook his head, "Xia Rong, he..."
"Worried that he won't be able to come out?" Xu Ping lit a cigarette and slowly exhaled smoke rings in the curling smoke, "... Maybe I'm too selfish, for the sake of the movie, I just want him to 'walk in' first. "
Su Chi couldn't bear it and said, "Isn't that enough?"
"No." Xu Ping shook his head lightly, "For an actor of experience school, the process of becoming a role is like doing subtraction. A person's self is multi-faceted, like a large collection; while a role is destined to be narrow, It is a small set, and they do subtraction, which is to remove the part of the big set of self that does not fit the small set of roles, and take the intersection of them, so that it is both a self and a role.”
"Xia Rong's subtraction is not enough. The inherent superiority and clarity in him should not belong to Fu Lin, especially Fu Lin ten years later. I don't want to remind him of this." Xu Ping rubbed his knuckles , knocked on the screen of the camera, "He must rely on himself to remove this part of himself."
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The scene was not filmed in the end, Xu Ping then directly asked Su Chi and Zhao Meng to come over, moved the scene scheduled for tomorrow to today, and asked Xia Rong to go back and "think about it", if "thinking" is not good, there is no need to continue Filmed—Of course, the wording is still a more polite version: "If you don't understand, don't rush to shoot yours for now, let Su Chi and the others help catch up with the progress."
Su Chi and the others can speed up the progress, but can they only slow it down? Xia Rong also thought about what Su Chi mentioned earlier, the "military order" he had made with the director, saying that if Xia Rong failed the pass, he would accompany him until he passed the pass. But now it's just a single-camera scene, and it doesn't even need Su Chi, it has already stumped him. Su Chi must be very embarrassed on the director's side, right
Thinking of this, Xia Rong tossed and turned in the middle of the night, even more unable to fall asleep. He checked the time, it was past two o'clock in the middle of the night, and he didn't feel interested in checking Weibo, so he just put on his clothes and climbed up to the hotel roof to have a shower.
In the script, he has almost engraved the description of Fu Lin in his mind, but why is it wrong? No one ever said he was wrong before...
He couldn't help closing his eyes and feeling the night wind blowing with all his heart. He even took a cigarette and a lighter from the hotel room, lit them unskillfully, and put them to his mouth.
Obviously, he could restrain himself all day long, but for some reason now, he suddenly couldn't stand the pungent smell of smoke, which made him cough violently.
— Could it be that your acting skills have regressed again
Before he had time to grieve, he suddenly heard a rustle of movement behind him. Xia Rong was coughing until his cheeks were flushed and his eyes were glistening. Now he was startled again and coughed even worse.
While coughing, he turned his head away, opened his eyes wide, and by the moonlight, he could barely see a silvery gray, clean and beautiful silver gradient British shorthair cat, which jumped up nimbly.