The reshoots of "The Darkest Choice" went more smoothly than expected. When Liang Sizhe arrived, many things that were difficult to deal with before were solved. Even Pang Ying, the most difficult actress before, heard that Liang Sizhe would participate in the reshoots, and the originally given one-day schedule was immediately relaxed to three days.
After a few months of silence, the WeChat group of the project production team became active again because of this reshoot. Producer Xu Anqiao would send photos of the reshoot every day, taking photos of Zeng Ran, the studio staff, and the crew meals. But the most photographed is Liang Sizhe.
Cao Ye occasionally clicks one or two to take a look, but most of the time it is over. Old news is swept away by new news. Those photos that have not been clicked are like gravel washed to the shore by the tide, and they are quickly washed away. forgotten.
One afternoon, Cao Yuning came to Cao Ye's office. Cao Ye was feeling sleepy after lunch. A few photos came from the shooting group, and the phone buzzed on the table. Cao Ye took his mobile phone and clicked on a photo. The photo showed Zeng Ran and Liang Sizhe standing together and talking about a play. Liang Sizhe looked down at the script in his hand and turned sideways to the camera.
He only glanced at it, and Cao Yuning came over and grabbed his mobile phone: "So handsome!" Then he swiped his finger on the screen and flipped through the photos.
Cao Ye didn't care, laying his upper body on the table, resting his head on his arm, squinted at him, and asked lazily, "How are you doing?"
"It's alright! It's a bit boring to read the script every day." Cao Yuning said without looking up. After flipping through the photos posted in the group today, he started flipping forward again, shouting dissatisfiedly, "Brother why don't you click on it? These photos are out of date!"
"I'm free." Cao Ye buried his head in his arms, too lazy to pay attention to him.
"You didn't even click on Liang Sizhe's photo, that's how you treated my idol!" Cao Yuning complained loudly.
Cao Ye buried his head and sneered, his voice sounded a little dull: "He is not my idol."
"It's all overdue..." Cao Yuning muttered angrily again, still scrolling forward.
Cao Ye lazily propped up his upper body from the table, and propped his chin in one hand to send him off: "Cheng Duan is a propagandist, he should save these photos, you can go to him to see."
"Didn't you say you would take me to the crew to watch Liang Sizhe?" Cao Yuning put the phone back on the table and looked at Cao Ye, "It's been so many days without any movement."
Cao Yuning was very noisy, Cao Ye couldn't take a good rest, he played a stand-alone game absent-mindedly, while chatting with him: "I said I would take you with me when I went to the crew, but I don't need to go to the crew recently. "
"When can you go to the set?!"
"I don't need to go there for reshoots. I'm in charge of investment, and I go a lot in the early stage." Cao Ye explained while playing the game. I couldn't help but smile, "If you go over by yourself, I'll let Xu Anqiao pick you up."
"No," Cao Yuning said dissatisfiedly, "Xu Anqiao took me there, and Liang Sizhe would not be interested in getting to know me."
Cao Ye attacked his enthusiasm: "I will take you there, and Liang Sizhe may not be interested in getting to know you."
Cao Yuning remarked: "You are the president of Lomon, the main cast of "The Darkest Choice". You introduced your cousin to him, how could he give you face."
Cao Ye glanced at him, smiled and said, "You really value me, thank you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the mobile phone on the table vibrated. Cao Ye took it to read the news, and Cao Yuning also came over to watch it with him. The news was sent by Xu Anqiao: "Mr. Cao, the crew discussed it this morning. The remake of the drag racing scene where Scar was chased by the police would be better, but there may be some difficulties in funding. Director Zeng would like to chat with you. Chat, when do you think you have time?"
Before Cao Ye could reply, Cao Yuning snatched the phone from his hand and stared at the news: "Is it an investment thing? I understood right? Can I go to the crew?"
It is indeed related to additional investment, but this trivial matter does not need to go to the crew at all... Cao Ye wanted to say this, but seeing Cao Yuning's expectant expression, he suddenly couldn't bear to attack his enthusiasm, so he smiled and said: "right."
"Then I'll help you get him back, go this afternoon?"
"Do whatever you want." Cao Ye turned his attention back to the computer game.
"Then it's this afternoon." Cao Yuning finished replying the message, put the phone back on the table, slumped onto the sofa and lay down, "I'll go when I wake up, brother."
Cao Ye took a look at the phone, and Cao Yuning replied, "I will go to the crew to talk to him in the afternoon." The reply was quite official.
In the afternoon, Cao Ye was busy with his own affairs, and at Cao Yuning's urging, he drove Cao Yuning to the crew.
The crew was in an urban village on the outskirts of Beijing, which was remote and the car drove for two hours to reach the destination.
Cao Yuning slept and woke up in the back row, and kept asking if he was there. Cao Ye's answer ranged from "I'm up early" to "There's still a while" to "It's coming" to "I'm here". Cao Yuning lay on the car window and looked curiously at this dilapidated urban village. This place was very new to him. Cao Ye parked the car in front of the crew, and when he pushed the door and got out of the car, he looked up at the low gray and white walls around him. And the cobweb-like wire line, he felt that this place was really more than Yinsi. He even remembered the way of climbing the wall back then, but the corner of the low building in front of him was not equipped with an exposed drain pipe, so it should not be easy to climb up. .
The shooting progress in the afternoon has already progressed to the second half, and Liang Sizhe is playing a confrontation with Wu Boyi. Wu Boyi hunched his back in the corner, trembling all over his body, his expression a little broken, Liang Sizhe lowered his head and leaned in to watch him speak, one hand slowly kneading the back of his neck, as if he was treating a disobedient domestic animal, It's obvious that the movements are ordinary and the voice is low, but it is full of slow torture.
Cao Ye remembered this scene. He had seen Huang Qianshi's version. In that scene, Huang Qianshi was completely different from Liang Sizhe. He pinched Wu Boyi's neck and slammed Wu Boyi's head against the wall. , until he knocked him unconscious.
The main line of this film is a ridiculous kidnapping case of a wealthy family. It is based on a real incident in Hong Kong in the last century. The cause of the kidnapping case was to compete for family property. Qin Nanming, the youngest son of the Qin family, made an agreement with the kidnapper Scar, and the two sides cooperated to make The illusion of kidnapping and using media pressure to coerce Qin Zhongxian, the old man of the Qin family, to give out a huge amount of property in exchange for his son's life. But I didn't expect that in the process, Knife Scar tore up this paper agreement, did a fake show, really kidnapped Qin Nanming, and used this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Qin Zhongxian several times...
The scene in front of him is that Qin Nanming, played by Wu Boyi, tries to escape from Scar's control, but is caught by Scar and his accomplices in the middle.
Liang Sizhe's hand that was holding Wu Boyi's neck slowly changed its angle, pinched his throat, and then his fingers suddenly tightened. Wu Boyi was tortured to the point of mental breakdown, and his life was suddenly threatened. , his throat was strangled, and he could only make a meaningless "uh, uh" sound, which sounded frightening and helpless, and it sounded very disturbing in the closed shooting venue.
"CUT!" Zeng Ran shouted to stop behind the monitor, and after a few seconds the crew that had been quiet just now gradually became agitated.
Cao Yuning, who was standing next to Cao Ye, was just stunned. He breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, but before he regained his senses, he murmured, "Mom..." Then he stepped forward and took a few steps, thinking about it. To see Liang Sizhe clearly.
Xu Anqiao saw Cao Ye coming over with sharp eyes, and hurried over to greet him: "I was watching their filming just now, but I didn't notice you coming, Mr. Cao."
"It's alright," Cao Ye smiled, "I watched it for a while, but it's not the same as the previous version, has the script changed?"
"No, the screenwriter didn't work with the crew this time, and basically filmed it according to the previous script," Xu Anqiao explained, "but Xiao Wu gave him a half-month schedule and stayed in the crew every day, and Director Zeng said that the two of them The opposite scenes do not have to be based on the previous ones, so Si Zhe can play according to his own ideas."
Cao Ye nodded: "It's good."
"Yeah, needless to say about Si Zhe's acting skills, mainly because Wu Boyi plays against him, which is much better than against Huang Qianshi. You also saw the previous version, Xiao Wu was hit by his head against the wall, There's not much room to play, but the scene just now has a clear sense of hierarchy, and the tension between the two is relatively strong."
Having said that, Zeng Ran also put down his work, got up from behind the monitor, and walked towards Cao Ye. The two stretched out their hands and shook hands. Cao Ye looked at him and smiled, "Director Zeng looks in a good mood." Cao Ye still remembered his shyness in the conference room half a month ago, as if the sky was falling Like, at this moment, there is light in the eyes, and the whole person looks in good spirits.
Xu Anqiao joked: "Director Xiao Zeng and Si Zhe are in a relationship recently, and they are in a very good mood."
Cao Ye heard the joke in Xu Anqiao's words, but still raised his eyebrows: "Huh?"
Zeng Ran has always been taciturn, but this time, he rarely picked up the conversation and smiled restrainedly: "Producer Xu always makes this joke, but it's not wrong to say this, Si Zhe can always give me what I want most. that feeling.”
Xu Anqiao is more than a round older than him. He is an old fritter from the crew. He points at him and laughs: "I'm still blushing. I said Director Xiao Zeng, you won't really fall in love with Liang Sizhe, right?"
Zeng Ran could hardly resist Xu Anqiao's ridicule, and tried his best to bring the topic back to the right track, using his film language: "The comparison between Si Zhe and others is like the difference between film and digital CMOS imaging. It's picky, but the fineness and texture of film cannot be replaced by digital in any way... Si Zhe is just like film, and the things he performs have a grainy delicacy."
Xu Anqiao patted his shoulder and smiled: "Director Xiao Zeng, do you want to be so serious..."
"A kind of grainy delicacy..." Cao Ye repeated his last sentence, the corner of his mouth tickled lightly, and he smiled playfully.
Xu Anqiao laughed exaggeratedly, Zeng Ran was annoyed at "playing the piano to the cow", and raised his eyes to look at Cao Ye, hoping that he would give him a response of approval. Although he is about the same age as Cao Ye, Cao Ye is almost a Bole who excavates him. They have talked about movies several times, and Zeng Ran has always felt that Cao Ye understands movies. But looking up now, Cao Ye is also laughing. Although it is not as straightforward as Xu Anqiao's smile, his smile seems to be inexplicable.
"What is Mr. Cao laughing at?" Zeng Ran was a little confused.
Cao Ye was about to speak, when he raised his eyes, he saw Liang Sizhe approaching at some point, standing diagonally behind Zeng Ran, with his pocket in his pocket and his head lowered slightly to listen to them, but he didn't know when he had stood here. "No," he smiled and shook his head, and continued to say to Zeng Ran, "your metaphor just gave me a strange association."
Zeng Ran asked, "What association?"
"You still don't need to know," Cao Ye stopped laughing. "The comparison between film and digital is quite vivid... By the way, aren't you talking about the additional investment in reshoots? How do you plan to reshoot?"
"Tell Si Zhe to come over and talk." Zeng Ran said, and turned to look for Liang Sizhe, "I just found someone to call him."
The direction he looked at was just opposite to Liang Sizhe's position. Liang Sizhe raised his hand and pressed his shoulder: "I'm here."
Just now, he was joking about Zeng Ran, but no one noticed that Liang Sizhe came over. Xu Anqiao looked back at him in surprise: "Hey? When did you come here?"
"It's grainy and delicate, let's do this," Liang Sizhe said.
Cao Ye laughed softly again.
This time, even Xu Anqiao was a little curious: "What did Mr. Cao think of?"
"It's not important," Cao Ye looked at Liang Sizhe with a smile and changed the subject, "Director Zeng said he was in love with you, didn't you hear that?"
"That's no wonder Director Zeng praised me like this just now," Liang Sizhe said with a relaxed smile, "Xishi is in the eyes of a lover."
Anyone with discernment could see that he was joking, so this sentence not only humbled himself, but also relieved Zeng Ran's embarrassment.
Xu Anqiao went to the project team to ask for a plan for this reshoot. Zeng Ran made a 3D model on the computer ahead of time, saying that he had some new ideas for this reshoot, which might be different from the previous version. He also left the set and went to the lounge to get his computer.
For a while, only Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe were left standing face to face.
It's silly to just stand and not speak. Cao Ye lit a cigarette and smoked it. He seemed more comfortable with the cigarette in his hand. He took a deep breath and asked, "So you and Cao Xiuyuan were in love before? "
Liang Sizhe looked at him for a few seconds. He didn't speak at first. After a while, he said, "Cao Ye, don't say you don't understand what Zeng Ran's love means." After a while, he said, "I dare to say that if If the actors and directors do not touch this passion, their cooperation is likely to fail, and the final film is likely to be of inferior quality."
His eyes were open, and his tone of voice was calm. Cao Ye suddenly felt that he had nothing to do, so he nodded and looked in the other direction, then smiled: "Don't be serious..."
In the past few years, under the incitement of the media, many people were speculating whether the relationship between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan was tricky. After using it time and time again, it was not enough to hold him as the youngest actor in the Chinese film industry. A few years later, he personally took him to the position of the best actor in Cannes.
Cao Ye never doubted whether the relationship between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan was innocent. He knew that Liang Sizhe was not that kind of person. So even he himself couldn't explain why he brought up the topic about Cao Xiuyuan just now.
"So what did you think of just now?" Liang Sizhe looked at him and changed the subject, "A kind of grainy delicacy."
"Guess." Cao Ye turned his head to look at him and smiled, intending to imitate his tone.
"Can't say it publicly?" Liang Sizhe actually guessed.
"I still want to remind you..."
"Just wanted to confirm the answer."
"Then tell me?" Cao Ye didn't believe he could guess it at all.
Liang Sizhe lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, put his hands in his pockets, leaned his upper body towards him, leaned closer to his ear, and whispered in a low voice, "Did you think of a bump condom?"
Cao Ye was stunned for a moment, but he couldn't help laughing out loud. He glanced at him and said, "Hey, you're an actor, it's best not to be so shocking..."
Liang Sizhe straightened up and asked him in a normal tone: "Why, is there a rule that movie stars cannot use condoms?"
Cao Ye was amused by him: "How did you come up with such a ridiculous association?"
"You said first, didn't you?"
Cao Ye still couldn't stop laughing: "Okay, yes."
"I guess," Liang Sizhe looked at him and smiled, "You don't have any serious associations with your expression."
Cao Ye thinks this situation is really funny. Liang Sizhe, a movie star who is sought after by the whole crew, actually stands in the corner with him and tells pornographic jokes. Besides, this association is really ridiculous, even he himself doesn't know how. Such an incongruous idea would suddenly pop up, and Liang Sizhe would have guessed it right away...
He laughed for a while without stopping, until Cao Yuning walked up to him and called out "brother", Cao Ye realized that he had just been chatting with Liang Sizhe here, and he had forgotten Cao Yuning completely. , I don't know when he came here, did he hear the conversation between them...
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Cao Yuning had just chatted with Wu Baiyi not far away for a while. During the chat, he turned his head to look at Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe from time to time, hoping that his brother would find out with conscience and call himself over to introduce him to Liang Sizhe. a bit. But after waiting for a while, Cao Ye still chatted with Liang Sizhe on his own, and seemed to have forgotten that he was not alone on this trip...
Seeing that he kept turning his head to look over, Wu Boyi sensed his thoughts and suggested, "Let's go and have a look?"
"Okay," Cao Yuning wanted him to say this, and when he walked over, he quietly asked Wu Boyi, "How is Liang Sizhe?"
"It's pretty good." Wu Boyi said honestly, "It's nothing to brag about, it doesn't feel the same as what I heard before."
"Really," Cao Yuning slowed down and lowered his voice, "so is he a double?"
Wu Boyi glanced at him: "How can I know this..."
"Did he show you..." Cao Yuning continued to guide.
"No." Wu Boyi categorically denied, then looked at him strangely, "Why are you asking about this?"
Cao Yuning leaned into his ear and whispered something, Wu Boyi looked at him with wide eyes: "..."
Cao Yuning looked at him: "Do you think there is hope?"
"I think you're dreaming." Wu Boyi looked at him incomprehensibly.
Seeing them approaching, Cao Ye looked at Cao Yuning and Wu Boyi in surprise: "Do you know each other?"
"Well, we stayed in a middle school," Wu Boyi greeted Cao Ye and asked with a smile, "Why do you have time to come here today?"
"Come to supervise," Cao Ye joked, and asked again, "How does it feel to reshoot?"
"I feel that I have performed better than the last time," Wu Boyi was young and experienced, not forgetting to mention Liang Sizhe next to him, "I have learned a lot from Brother Sizhe.
Cao Ye nodded. Judging from the performance in the clip just now, Wu Boyi did perform better than the previous version. A good actor can lead an opponent's play, which has been fulfilled in Liang Sizhe.
When it was decided to shoot the script, the filmmakers had a lot of headaches about casting. First of all, the role of Qin Nanming is not easy to determine. It is really difficult to choose an actor who is in his twenties and has excellent acting skills. In the end, after several rounds of finalization, they settled on Wu Boyi, a niche student from the mainland, to play the role.
Wu Bo unexpectedly fits the shape and has decent acting skills, but as the protagonist, he seems green and thin, so the casting of the other end of the scale - the kidnapper's scar is particularly important. The acting skills are brought up, and secondly, there must be a good audience relationship to fill the green and thin part of Wu Boyi. They quickly identified Huang Qianshi, who won last year's Academy Award as the best actor. From that point of view, Huang Qianshi was not only suitable for the role of kidnapper, but also the news that he won the best actor is still hot, which will bring a considerable amount of money to the film's box office. help.
But now it seems that Liang Sizhe is more suitable than Huang Qianshi. Cao Ye thought of the public opinion report Cheng Duan showed him a while ago. Netizens said that the film party was "a blessing in disguise" this time. I have to admit that this statement seems to be correct …
Cao Yuning was a little anxious when he saw that the topic was not falling on his head for a long time, and called "Brother" again.
Only then did Cao Ye remember the main reason for this trip, "Oh, this is my cousin, Cao Yuning," he put his hand around Cao Yuning's shoulder and introduced him to Liang Sizhe, "Your fans, today is a special place for you. I'll come and see you." Looking at Liang Sizhe again, the joking expression just disappeared disappeared, and the usual sense of distance was restored.
"Your uncle's son?" Liang Sizhe asked, extending his hand to Cao Yuning, his attitude was not enthusiastic.
Cao Yuning was very excited, he quickly reached out to hold it, and called out sweetly, "Brother Si Zhe."
Cao Ye replied to what Liang Sizhe just asked: "Yes."
"Your dad and your uncle look a lot like you, but you two don't look alike."
"We're several years behind." Cao Yuning said before Cao Ye.
"When he was your age, he was not like you either." Liang Sizhe looked at him and said.
"Well... My brother looks like my mother, and I'm more like my father." Cao Yuning said quickly, and it could be seen that he really wanted to chat more with Liang Sizhe.
But Liang Sizhe smiled and said nothing. He raised his eyes and looked in the direction where Zeng Ran had left, as if he had exhausted his patience.
"What were you laughing at just now?" Cao Yuning turned to ask Cao Ye. He saw that the two of them were chatting and laughing just now, as if they were very familiar, but as soon as he came over, neither of them laughed. After realizing that he seemed unpopular, Cao Yuning didn't seem very happy.
Cao Ye felt a little embarrassed. Could it be that he wanted to tell Cao Yuning that he was just talking to Liang Sizhe about bump condoms
Liang Sizhe's eyes fell back to his face again, this time it turned into a playful smile on his face.
"I'm talking about the difference between digital and film," Cao Ye said sternly, "You know that many directors prefer the texture of film because film has a grainy and delicate..."
Liang Sizhe suddenly looked at him and laughed out loud. He shook his head while laughing and said, "Cao Ye, you are really cute."
Cao Yuning didn't know what Liang Sizhe was laughing at, or how cute Cao Ye was, and what the difference between digital and film was. Isn't this topic very boring? Is it worth the fact that they just laughed like that