Xia Yitong had no doubt that if she said any of these three options, her future would be dark.
Finally, she had an idea and grabbed Lu Yinbing's wrist through her costume, pretending to slap her face, and said with tears in her eyes: "Teacher Lu, if I say something wrong next time, just hit me directly."
Lu Yinbing immediately pulled her hand back like a frightened rabbit, her eyes were panic-stricken, her eyes were wide open, and she was so shy that people wanted to hold her in their arms and love her dearly.
Xia Yitong was stunned: "You..."
Lu Yinbing retracted his hands, nervously retreated, and asked: "What... do you want to do?"
Xia Yitong: “Ah?”
How can this be considered ancient vernacular
Lu Yinbing: "I am the Sixth Prince of Chu State, the son of my father."
Xia Yitong: “…”
Lu Yinbing looked at her, his tone returned to normal, with a hint of displeasure: "You didn't memorize your lines?"
Xia Yitong: “…I memorized it.”
"Then why don't you take my role?"
“… I didn’t think of it for the moment.” Xia Yitong apologized, a drop of sweat running down her neck to her back.
This was such an unexpected scene that she almost reached out to hug her... It was a close call.
"We have nothing to do, so let's practice the same paragraph again. Don't forget it this time."
Xia Yitong's heart tightened, but her face remained calm: "Okay."
It would be better to have more scenes together as a precaution. If her true nature is exposed during the scene and she does something out of line, it doesn't matter if she embarrasses herself, but if she disturbs Lu Yinbing and is discovered by her...
Xia Yitong looked at her deeply and lowered her eyes. Lu Yinbing didn't notice it, took the water handed to her by Assistant C, drank a sip, and said, "Let's start."
"What... do you want to do? I am the Sixth Prince of Chu, the son of my father!"
"Of course I know you are the Sixth Prince." Seeing Lu Yinbing's dodging eyes and panicking but forcing herself to remain calm, Xia Yitong moved closer to her, almost touching her lips, and whispered, "... my prince."
Lu Yinbing stepped back and said, "That's not right."
Xia Yitong's heart was beating wildly, her face began to get hot, and she said calmly: "The line is, it's like this."
Lu Yinbing said: "Your demeanor and emotions are all wrong. You are such a scoundrel."
Xia Yitong, who was identified as a hooligan: "..."
"Forget it," Lu Yinbing said, "Now I am Chen Qing and you are Jing Xiu. I will show you how to do it."
"good."
After Xia Yitong finished reading Jing Xiu's lines, Lu Yinbing began.
"Of course I know you are the Sixth Prince." Her voice is unique. She usually speaks lazily and always sounds like singing. But when she plays Chen Qing, her voice is as clear and crisp as jade beads falling on a plate. It sounds very beautiful. I don't know if she has been specially trained to play various roles. Lu Yinbing slowly approached her and did not speak immediately. Instead, he stared into her eyes without blinking, as if he wanted to look into her heart.
The world around her suddenly dimmed, leaving only her pair of black and bright eyes, filled with clear water.
Xia Yitong felt as if she was about to fall into her misty and moist eyes. Just as she was about to break free, Lu Yinbing whispered softly in her ear: "... My Highness."
It was as if a feather was gently brushing past her, and her heartbeat uncontrollably skipped a beat, and then her ears turned red and she looked terrified.
When did she put it close to her ear? !
It can be said that he played the role very truly.
Isn't that a hooligan? She thought about it, and realized that she was indeed not as hooligan as she was.
Qin Hanlin, who had been watching from the sidelines, clapped his hands and laughed: "I think it would be a good idea for you two to switch roles. Look, Xiao Xia blushed very naturally. I didn't realize that you have such a good acting skill. I underestimated you."
Xia Yitong laughed awkwardly.
Lu Yinbing knew that Xia Yitong was not acting, but she glanced at Xia Yitong and strangely did not expose her. Instead, she turned her head and stared at Qin Hanlin: "Old man, try to say it again? Are you worthy of the thirty pounds of muscle I lost?"
Qin Hanlin felt insulted by the word "old man" and started to scream, roll up his arms and sleeves... He didn't have any sleeves, so he made a gesture of showing off his weapons: "Let's fight."
Lu Yinbing was wearing a costume and rolled up his sleeves, revealing his two white arms without any flaws. He said, "Come and fight!"
The two of them said in unison: "The fifth leader, six six six!"
Qin Hanlin: “Right!”
Lu Yinbing: "Big bomb! I win, hahahaha!"
Qin Hanlin: "You are a scoundrel!"
Lu Yinbing: “I don’t care.”
Qin Hanlin: “Right!”
Lu Yinbing: "King bomb! Over!"
Qin Hanlin took the initiative: "King bomb!"
Lu Yinbing came from behind and said, "King Bomb!"
Qin Hanlin was furious: "Fuck, how can there be two trump cards in a deck of cards?!"
Lu Yinbing was even more excited than him: "This is a two-deck hand! It's over, it's over, you lose!"
Xia Yitong was confused the whole time, her eyes almost popped out of their sockets. She seemed to need to digest what these two were doing. Then she looked at Assistant C who was calm, and she began to wonder if it was her problem. Fortunately, there was no one around, so she couldn't hear what they were saying.
The two of them played for a while out of boredom, then everyone put on makeup, tidied their clothes, and started filming again.
"Action!" The script supervisor hit the board and quickly walked out of the scene.
"Your Majesty has arrived..."
All civil and military officials bowed their heads.
The King of Chu spoke, the eldest prince stepped forward, the camera turned to Lu Yinbing, the court was in an uproar, the King of Chu was furious, and sent the Sixth Prince to the south to provide disaster relief, Jing Xiu reluctantly accepted. The whole scene was done in one go, in one shot, Qin Hanlin said: "Cut, it's over."
Joy blossomed on everyone's face. It was a great feeling to finally be recognized for all the hard work.
Xia Yitong breathed a sigh of relief and was happy, thinking that this segment was finally finished.
Qin Hanlin: "Okay, remember the feeling just now, let's do it again."
Xia Yitong: “…”
Qin Hanlin: "Cut, this time is better than before, everyone is great. Lighting, group A will be removed, let's try again."
A group scene was shot back and forth for an entire afternoon. When the last take was over, everyone was so tired that they collapsed on the floor and didn't want to move. At dinner time, the crew brought lunch boxes over. Lu Yinbing locked herself in the lounge. Xia Yitong ate lunch boxes with everyone else. She saw Qin Hanlin standing in front of the camera, eating and watching, so she followed him over to watch.
Qin Hanlin was watching the playback. When he heard the noise, he didn't turn around but called out, "Here I come."
Xia Yitong: “Yeah.”
Each shot had at least a dozen takes. Even if Lu Yinbing was impeccable, Qin Hanlin would not let her shoot just one. Qin Hanlin watched each shot one by one and asked Xia Yitong, "Do you see any difference?"
Xia Yitong shook her head embarrassedly: "No, has my acting improved?" But Lu Yinbing always acts very well and steadily, and with those veteran actors, it's not necessary for him to need Qin Hanlin to teach him how to act, right
Qin Hanlin laughed out loud.
Xia Yitong felt even more embarrassed when he smiled.
Qin Hanlin: "If you can tell that I haven't been in the director circle for so many years for nothing?"
Xia Yitong couldn't help but be curious and asked, "What's the difference?"
Qin Hanlin puffed out his chest and said, "If I pass it in one go, won't it make me look like I have no level?"
Xia Yitong: “…”
"Do you believe what I said?"
“No.”
"Why?"
"You are not that kind of person."
Qin Hanlin laughed again. He gave the position in front of the camera to Xia Yitong and said, "Take a closer look. Is there any difference?"
Xia Yitong looked at it carefully and said, "Light... color tone... sound... hmm..."
"How about it?"
"I don't know." Xia Yitong shook his head and said decisively.
Qin Hanlin smiled like a strange uncle and asked inducingly, "Does it look better?"
Xia Yitong took a look and saw that it was indeed the case. She nodded quickly, "Yes!"
"Right!" Qin Hanlin said, "I'm telling you, it takes skill to take a good-looking photo of someone..." Finally, Qin Hanlin said, "Are you interested in becoming a director? I'll train you. I have a lot of practical experience."
His expression was as serious as the one put up by a poster under an overpass: Don’t miss it if you pass by, ten yuan a time, and this is the only one.
Xia Yitong laughed dryly: "... Well, I just want to make a good movie now, and then I'll consider becoming a director later."
Nowadays, if a star changes his career to become a director, he will fail. People will call him Director X, and they don't mind if they make a fool of themselves. She doesn't want to wade into this muddy water and be laughed at. It's embarrassing to think about it. Besides, she is not a good actor, so she can't be too ambitious and have her eyes on the pot while eating in the bowl. It is said that Director Qin's homosexual lover was a Cannes Film Emperor in the early years. After coming out, he faded out of the entertainment circle and started a business. He used the money he earned to support Qin Hanlin in making movies. Qin Hanlin is also talented, and the two of them are doing very well. Lu Yinbing also said in an interview that she would consider changing her career to become a director if she was tired of acting. If she wanted to make a movie, she had to make more money while she was young, and she would make movies for her.
The ideal is very full, so full that it is a little whimsical.
Xia Yitong rubbed her face, breathed a sigh of relief, and laughed at herself secretly. Fortunately, Qin Hanlin did not notice her unusual behavior and watched the replay intently. Xia Yitong watched him frowning from time to time, holding his chin from time to time, and even forgot to eat. She felt emotional: People who can pursue beauty to such a level are also rare in the world.
The two of them didn't speak for a long time, and the staff came to take away the cold lunch boxes.
"I saw you acting with Lu Yinbing today. You can imitate her, but don't imitate her completely." Qin Hanlin said casually.
Xia Yitong was lost in thought when he suddenly heard something and looked up: "Ah?"
Qin Hanlin was doing two things at once, and said calmly: "The most important thing for a movie is not the actors, but the director. A good director can turn a bad movie into a good one, while a bad director can mess up a good hand. Even if he is given a Brigitte Lin, he can only make a Li Lianying, not a Dongfang Bubai."
Xia Yitong thought he was going to say something like "Everyone has their own way of performing, and blindly imitating others will only result in a poor result", and she couldn't help laughing when she heard the metaphor.
Qin Hanlin said: "The camera is just a medium. The director is the soul of a play. He has emotions to express, so he expresses them through the people in the camera. So when you watch a play, you can feel what the director likes and dislikes. You can feel whether you like the gentle "Für Elise" or the intense "Yellow River Cantata". A director who has emotions and the desire to express is a good director, such as Wong Kar-wai. His movies are almost all love movies, or they are about love in an implicit way. He tells love stories to the extreme. For example, everyone who watches my movies knows that I am superficial. I like beauty and like to express beauty."
Xia Yitong looked at him and felt that he shot the scene so many times and sculpted it over and over again, not just for the pursuit of beauty, but also for something else. An indescribable strange feeling was surging in her heart, cleansing her soul.
She said sincerely, "You are not superficial."
Qin Hanlin smiled and said, "I told you not to imitate Lu Yinbing because she is just one of the actors I used to express my feelings. You are one of them too. You have your own unique beauty. Don't erase it."
Xia Yitong nodded, not quite understanding.
Qin Hanlin turned his head and was serious for only three seconds, looking at her expectantly: "How about it? I won't tell ordinary people about this, will you do it?"
It just so happened that Lu Yinbing had successfully survived the catastrophe again, survived dinner, and came out of the lounge. She was tall and slender, with a beautiful face. She tilted her head while talking to her assistant while walking, and occasionally glanced around. She was like the first ray of sunlight that penetrated the woods in the morning, so hotly burning in Xia Yitong's eyes that everything in the world around her suddenly became colorful.
Xia Yitong stared at him steadily, curled up the corners of his mouth and said, "...Fuck."