As the plot of "In and Out" unfolded, Mei Zihan began to feel powerless.
Not only Mei Zihan, but even Zhang Ying, who has been acting in literary films all year round, felt that director Li Wei's request was becoming more and more perverted.
While he asked you to act out the indifference between husband and wife, at the same time he had to act as if he was trying to be loving. A simple eating scene was filmed 30 times back and forth, and he had to do it again.
"You two take a break and find out how you feel, let's shoot the other parts first." Li Wei was still not satisfied with the performance in the camera, "You two didn't show the feeling of longing for intimacy and hate between husband and wife. "
… What the hell is this feeling like
Both Mei Zihan and Zhang Ying were at a loss.
Some directors with hot eyes think it is too much, directors with cold expressions feel unattractive, and they really have nothing to do.
"This is a common thing, so don't worry too much about it. Every director has a different idea, so our performances will be different under the lens of different performances." Zhang Ying and Mei Zihan stayed together to rest, seeing Mei Zihan Han frowned, and expressed some comfort.
She can be regarded as a witness to Mei Zihan's journey all the way. No one in the entertainment industry can't see how much effort Mei Zihan has put in for this role? Zhang Ying had already decided on this role, so she naturally paid more attention to the male lead in "In and Out".
In fact, Zhang Ying knew that the role belonged to Mei Zihan when Mei Zihan first revealed the video of Li Wei's performance.
No director would reject such an actor.
Faced with the performance blow at this moment, Zhang Ying still comforted her so that Mei Zihan's self-confidence would not be blown away.
"Thank you, Sister Yingying." Mei Zihan thanked Zhang Ying for his kindness, "I was just thinking about how to meet Director Li Wei's requirements."
"Let's get stuck again dozens of times, but it should be fine." Zhang Ying couldn't help but replied with a smile, "If you get stuck a few times, you'll feel it."
It's a pity that they still couldn't finish filming this one on this day.
Mei Zihan had no choice but to call Jiang Ying's phone for help.
"Can't grasp the feeling?" Jiang Ying was a little curious, "Why do you say that?"
"Because I don't know what the story is like until now?" Mei Zihan said honestly, "I used to read the script before making movies and TV series, and then I have a certainty about the overall character of the characters. But now, I have only read a part of the script, and I am still confused about what the character Zheng Shan looks like."
"Maybe you can better grasp this character if you don't read the script for you?" After listening to Mei Zihan's words, Jiang Ying thought for a while and said, "This kind of thing happens often. Because some plots, if there is a turning point in the follow-up If you don’t give spoilers to the actors in advance, you can get the best reaction. I think the movie directed by Li Wei also uses the same method.”
"Turning?"
"Isn't "In and Out" talking about an actor entering the play first and then leaving the play? Then there must be a state of being out of the play in the follow-up."
"... But it keeps hanging on me like this, I can't help but think about it."
"No one told you not to think about it." Jiang Ying could understand Mei Zihan's inadaptability, "but the most important thing you should think about now is how to meet the director's requirements. Don't you expect yourself to be in the director Li Wei? What will it look like under the lens?"
"Pfft, it won't look good anyway." Mei Zihan knew her current appearance well, "If you saw my current appearance, you probably wouldn't agree to my confession."
"Then try it." Jiang Ying heard the answer she wanted, and said seductively, "You might as well bring it in, if you have always been like this, what kind of state will it be between you and me? "
"..."
"Want to get close, but dare not get close; want to get close to me and fall in love with me, but at the same time feel that I will never agree to you. This state overlaps with your current stage of acting, doesn't it?"
Jiang Ying's voice came out slowly from the phone, as if such a scene really appeared before Mei Zihan's eyes.
I am an ordinary chubby young teacher in his thirties, but Jiang Ying is a university lecturer with a good family background and a high degree of education...
Fuck, I can't think about it, I'm going to cry when I think about it.
So unless Jiang Ying is blind, how could she agree to my confession
Putting this gap in the novel is the classic model of dog-blood scumbags that are being attacked.
Mei Zihan was abused by her own brain, and Jiang Ying had to say a lot of sweet words to get over it.
Jiang Ying had no choice but to play a very fashionable "Voice Love" with Mei Zihan.
The shame level exploded.
After Jiang Ying hung up the phone, she blushed so badly that she went to take a cold shower and settled down in the bathroom before she calmed down.
... If this went on like this, he felt that he was going to take tonic in advance.
Mei Zihan has so many tricks.
Did you hold back a little too hard before
Although he couldn't eat, Mei Zihan was still satisfied now.
After having a hearty "doing" with Jiang Ying on the phone, Mei Zihan found that his mind was surprisingly sober, and his psychological speculation about the characters became deeper.
Well, men really are animals that think with their lower body.
Once satisfied, the brain immediately goes online.
Mei Zihan closed his eyes, trying to experience Zheng Shan's mental activities.
Zheng Shan at this moment should have two ways of thinking intersected.
When dealing with his wife and daughter, he is no longer the nice man he used to be. Instead, he seems to be a different person, but in every gesture, he is still the same as before.
Such a contrast is not acceptable to everyone.
Perhaps, Zheng Shan himself has some experience.
So when facing his wife, Zheng Shan hesitated, but couldn't help but want to use this opportunity to resolve family conflicts with his wife.
Wanting to get close, but not daring to get close.
If you bring me and Jiang Ying...
What will it be like
Mei Zihan fell asleep as he thought about it. When he was dreaming, a different picture always appeared.
In the dream, he was a teacher in his thirties who had achieved nothing. He was neither married nor found a boyfriend.
Then during a trip, I met Jiang Ying who was sought after by countless people.
In and out of the dream, it was his love at first sight for Jiang Ying...
During the performance the next day, Li Wei found that Mei Zihan was a little "opened up".
During the performance, the way he looked at his wife changed.
Zheng Shan knew that his wife was cheating, but the beautiful days before and his cute and well-behaved daughter kept reminding him how much his wife had paid for the family and how much she had paid for him? Everyone has time to do wrong things. There are so many couples in the entertainment industry who seem to be in harmony with each other, Zheng Shan has nothing to accept.
On the one hand, Zheng Shan wants to start from scratch with his wife, but on the other hand, he doesn't know how to start
Buy this or that for your wife? Or find another job for his wife
But in fact, he can't do both well.
Because he is just an ordinary little actor, and he can't afford too much expenses at all.
Looking at Mei Zihan like this, Zhang Ying felt a lot of emotions in her heart.
In just one day, Mei Zihan has recovered
This speed is too terrifying!
Although Zhang Ying was surprised, she was also unwilling to admit defeat. After Mei Zihan quickly entered the mood, she seemed to know how to act in this play.
If Mei Zihan was left behind in this drama, she could stop being a human being.
This state of mutual competition makes the two of them full of charm in the camera. This is the working state that Levi wants.
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Zheng Shan and his wife finally had their first quarrel.
"That's not what you said when you married me." His wife looked at Zheng Shan coldly, her disgust was beyond words, "You said you would work hard, you said you would give me a better future than the present, You said you would marry me in the best possible condition. I believed your words and quit the circle to get married and have children, but what about you? What have you done?"
"I've paid you so much for filming, and I've given you all of it." Zheng Shan trembled angrily, "What can I do to you?"
"You used to give me all your salary for love?" There was a sarcastic smile on the wife's face, "It's not even comparable to the price of a dress I paid back then."
"What about that man? Did he give you love!" Zheng Shan suppressed his anger, "Didn't I pay too little for this family?"
"...Since you have said that, there is nothing to talk about. I will go to my friend's house to stay for a few days, and it happens that my daughter has a summer camp these two days." The wife was silent for a while, and when she looked up at Zheng Shan, her eyes were clear. Already somewhat disheartened, "Zheng Shan, look in the mirror, how can you still be as energetic as before? You have become a guy who doesn't want to make progress, and will always live by sticking to the past. These days, you are even more Strange, I almost don't know you now."
The phrase "I almost don't know you anymore" finally hit Zheng Shan's bottom line, Zheng Shan took two steps back, with panic in his eyes that he didn't even notice.
She found out
She found something wrong with me.
But she wasn't on my side.
"That's better than you." Zheng Shan stared at his wife and said word by word, "You will never understand me, and you don't even know what I'm thinking or doing, so get out of here !"
The two broke up unhappy.
"Pass."
As the word fell, both Mei Zihan and Zhang Ying breathed a sigh of relief.
This is already the fourth time they have filmed.
This kind of emotional outburst, they have no way to do it again.
Mei Zihan took several sips of water and finally calmed down.
"Fortunately, all the previous fighting scenes were deleted." Zhang Ying breathed a sigh of relief, "It would be too troublesome if there is still domestic violence."
"No." Mei Zihan is quite confident about this point, "Both the male and female protagonists think that they are elegant people, so they will always get along like this. If you do something, it will destroy their elegance. Delete them." That's right."
The protagonist Zheng Shan and his wife, to put it bluntly, just can't let go.
Although they are not big stars, they all feel that they are big stars in their bones, so they always have a demeanor, and it is difficult to let go of the past. Although they haven't been popular in the past, they think it's the result of their marriage and children.
It is natural for such a couple to have conflicts.
After Zheng Shan began to integrate with the role, he became more and more rational and suspicious. The wife felt that such a husband was completely different from the people she knew before. The wife thinks that this is because her husband found out about her cheating, so the husband will have such a change.
Zhang Ying thought about it, and it was really the reason.
The relationship between this couple is indeed different from that of ordinary people. The only thing the two of them can show off in front of friends in the circle is their "relationship" and "family". The wife's former friends, whether they were popular or not, had a better life than her. But her friends occasionally envy his wife's life, which has become the only capital that his wife can show off in front of her friends.
The same is true of the hero Zheng Shan.
If Zheng Shan hadn't received the villain role and hadn't been in the play, then the conflict between the two of them would still exist, and the two of them would still be the hypocritical couple they used to be.
And now, they finally had their first quarrel.
"Hey, there are talented people from generation to generation." Zhang Ying touched her face that was no longer smooth. Even if she had an injection and worked hard to maintain her skin, her skin was still incomparable to that of a twenty-year-old girl.
Mei Zihan is younger than her, but she still has a lot of time to be an actor. Unlike her, her roles have become more and more restricted.
Not to mention, Mei Zihan still has such talent and understanding.
"You boy, don't forget me if you win the grand slam in the future." Zhang Ying couldn't help laughing.
"Sister Yingying, don't be joking, when will it be?" Even so, Mei Zihan did not deny Zhang Ying's statement.
Actor Grand Slam, this is indeed Mei Zihan's goal.
"I don't think it will be more than ten years." Zhang Ying admired Mei Zihan's straightforwardness, "When "In and Out" is released and won the award, there will be almost no domestic actors who can compete with you? What do you think about in the future? It’s just international fame.”
Unexpectedly, before, she and a few good friends guessed, who is the best male actor in China? Unexpectedly, none of the male actors they guessed made progress. Instead, it was Mei Zihan, an actor born out of nowhere, who reached his current level in just a few years
The reality is indeed more exciting than the movie.
"By the way, do you know what the next script is going to be?" Zhang Ying asked, "We've almost done the acting, so don't you know what the next story will be?"
"I haven't received it yet." Mei Zihan replied honestly, "But it should be soon."
"I really want to know what the ending is?"
"yes."
When he went back to rest at night, Mei Zihan had already received the final script from the director.
Mei Zihan's drowsiness disappeared instantly.
Fuck.
No wonder the director wants to divide the script to the director? It turned out to be because of this.
Four months later.
The crew of "In and Out" has already finished the last part of filming, and almost everyone else in the crew has finished filming, leaving only Mei Zihan and Zhang Ying as the leading actors.
Li Wei sighed slightly, but there was obvious joy on his face.
The time has finally come.
"It's time to start, get ready."
"Start shooting!"
Zheng Shan sat in the cinema.
What was shown on the screen in the cinema was not the suspense film he shot, but "Couple" shot by him and his "wife".
But the wife's face in this movie is not the one he is familiar with.
"Husband, the show is over." A strange yet familiar woman sat beside Zheng Shan, "Look, although the movie has been suppressed for three years, it's still released, right?"
The husband is a well-known actor in the entertainment industry, but three years ago he was too involved in the movie and did not appear in the movie for a long time. For this reason, both her husband's fans and her wife were very uncomfortable.
The psychiatrist said that if you want your husband to act, you have to act with your husband, and then wait until the movie is released, so that your husband can fully realize that he has left the world in the play, so that your husband will come back before.
Therefore, the wife dressed herself up as the actress in the movie, and accompanied her husband in acting.
"Zheng Shan" has never been an incompetent and useless character, on the contrary, he is a movie star and a well-known "play lunatic" in the entertainment circle.
The "Zheng Shan" at this moment is no longer dressed like an ordinary middle-aged actor, but a young one after losing weight and whitening.
It's just that there is still some confusion on his face.
He seemed a little unable to accept his current state, but felt that his muddled mind had finally come to his senses.
I got too deep into the drama, but I forgot that I was originally an outsider.
"Is the movie released?"
"Yes, it has been released. The box office results are also very good. Husband, how many awards have you won? They are all at home, and I got them for you." Seeing her husband finally sober, the wife couldn't help shedding tears. tears.
Several shots cut in.
in the wife's bedroom.
"Director, will the play you put my husband in recently really make him recover?" the wife was worried.
"The characters in this suspense film are designed based on your husband's previous personality. He should have become more rational recently, and he will doubt everything at home." The director replied.
"It's better, but..."
"We have to eat every bite. It's not easy for Mr. Zheng to recover."
…
"Director, my husband seems to regard you as the object of my cheating. Look, what should I do now?"
"Just let him misunderstand and let him get out of this family, it seems okay." The director affirmed, "He will change after all. Just break his inner cognition."
The camera turns around.
"Zheng Shan"'s eyes gradually cleared up, "I..."
He is not the little actor struggling in the entertainment circle, nor is he the incompetent husband whose family is on the verge of breaking up.
He is the actor.
His wife is a famous big beauty, who is also his childhood sweetheart.
And now, he's in the cinema, watching a movie he made three years ago.
So what about these three years
What has he done these three years
He turned his head, but what he saw was his wife's face full of sorrow and joy, and then he couldn't say anything.
"Let's go." His wife took "Zheng Shan" by the hand, "Your movie is over, but our life continues."
In three years, you should also come out of the play.
If it takes longer, she will hardly be able to hold on anymore.
"Zheng Shan"'s eyes gradually glowed.
"Come on, the movie is over."
The two held hands together and walked out of the cinema.
Outside the cinema, countless reporters were filming them with cameras.
The camera stops abruptly.
In the movie "In and Out", the first half is all about the hero's "into the play", but in fact the whole movie is the hero's "out of the play".
But even the leading actor himself didn't know whether he was on or off the screen. Therefore, Li Wei didn't show the script to Mei Zihan once, in order to achieve a subsequent contrast effect.
Both Mei Zihan and Zhang Ying played very well.
"Thank you." Li Wei came up and gave the two of them a big hug. "To borrow a sentence from the movie, our movie is over."
Both Mei Zihan and Zhang Ying pinched themselves.
Then they laughed in unison.
Well, the movie is really over.
When Mei Zihan received the second half of the script, he almost wanted to scold her.
Director, this is different from what I said before.
What about literary films? Why did it become a suspense film
Well, if you think about it, there is actually no difference, it's just that many parts have been reduced.
Furthermore, if Mei Zihan and Zhang Ying were careful enough, they would also find that there were actually some abnormal factors in the shots they took.
But both of them thought it was a design to reflect the entry of "Zheng Shan" into the play, but they never thought that it actually meant "coming out of the play".
"It's the last movie, and I want to play something different." Li Wei blinked his eyes, his face was very happy, "Besides, I did shoot it in the style of a literary film. There's nothing wrong with that."
"We didn't guess the teacher's script." Guan Yue and the other disciples also laughed, "Because what the teacher told us at the beginning was not the same, so we took it for granted."
"I'm not kidding you, neither Mei Zihan nor Zhang Ying can put on such a good performance." Li Wei was rather proud.
Mei Zihan and Zhang Ying: ...
What else can they say
They are just actors, as long as they play their roles well, as for what the movie looks like, it is entirely the job of the director.
A good actor is not necessarily a good director, but a good director must be a good actor.
They now fully understand the meaning of this sentence.
Director Li Wei is really an excellent director and actor.