At one o'clock in the morning, the investors of "The Darkest Choice" kept sending new news. Producer Xu Anqiao was broadcasting the shooting situation in real time.
00:34 It was raining heavily. The traffic police closed the road just now. All teams were ready. The team borrowed from the traffic police to maintain the road conditions was also in place, and filming could start in a while.
01:05 Director Zeng directed the group performers to try out the play, and they cooperated well.
01:17 Si Zhe and Xiao Wu finished putting on their makeup, they have come out to wait, and they can start shooting at any time.
01:29 When the group performers saw Si Zhe's excitement, Zeng Dao almost couldn't control the scene... [cold sweat]
01:46 Okay, now the group performance is finally back to normal. Si Zhe and Xiao Wu have just walked away once, and the filming will start immediately.
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The mobile phone on the coffee table was buzzing non-stop. Xu Anqiao was chattering in the group all the time. Several other investors probably fell asleep at this point, and no one responded to him.
Cao Ye was trapped in the leather sofa in the living room. I wonder if it was disturbed by the vibrations. Most of the hypnotizing monster-fighting movie that was picked tonight was broadcast, but he was still not sleepy.
Said to be able to block the group chat, or just turn off the phone, but he didn't know why he didn't do that. He threw the phone back and held it in his hand, waiting for it to vibrate.
After waiting for a while, the phone in his palm didn't vibrate anymore, he typed a line and sent it: "How's the shooting?"
Xu Anqiao didn't know what happened. He didn't reply for a long time. Cao Ye was absent-mindedly watching the fighting scene on the screen, thinking that it was boring enough... Such a boring film has no hypnotic effect at all.
I don't know how the filming went on. Xu Anqiao didn't reply after so long, so there won't be any changes, right
When Huang Qianshi was filming the drag racing scene in the previous version, he was almost thrown out by a tail flick of the car. Fortunately, another actor who was riding a motorcycle at the time caught him quickly with his eyes and hands. ACCIDENT.
But it is said that after the accident happened, all the crew members were a little scared, and cooperated with the screenwriter to coordinate the action guide to urgently modify the fight scene, but Huang Qianshi's agent refused to let Huang Qianshi film the fight scene again, so in the end, only Allows the stand-in to complete subsequent shots.
Thinking about the fighting scene of the drag racing scene is really thrilling, there will be no more accidents this time, right? Cao Ye lowered his head and turned on the screen of his mobile phone. More than ten minutes later, Xu Anqiao still didn't reply, and he became more and more at ease.
He threw the remote control to the side, got up from the sofa, and changed his clothes when he went out - he couldn't fall asleep either sideways or vertically, so he just went to the filming site to take a look.
It was still raining outside, and the floor-to-ceiling windows were full of water marks left by the raindrops. When he was changing his clothes, he looked out from the living room, and the street lamps on the street not far away were shrouded in dim yellow and fuzzy halos. A rainy night in my memory is very similar.
The phone in his hand finally shook when he pushed open the door and went out. Cao Ye glanced down, Xu Anqiao still didn't reply, but Lin Yan replied with a useless nonsense: "You haven't slept yet, Ye Zi? Which girl? A piece?"
Cao Ye turned off the screen and ignored it. He closed the door and got off the elevator, leading directly to the underground parking lot.
The car started and drove out of the underground garage. The phone placed in front of the gear lever vibrated again. He stepped on the brakes and glanced at the news. This time it was a voice from Xu Anqiao: "It went well, the racing scene just now was so exciting. Now, I forgot to send a message when I saw it, and Mr. Cao hasn't slept yet?"
... Actually, he forgot to send a message because he was so engrossed in it. Cao Ye was a little speechless. He took the phone and replied with a voice: "I didn't sleep, call me in time if there is anything."
As soon as the news was sent out, Lin Yan also replied with another voice, Cao Ye opened it, and Lin Yan said "tsk", "I really care about Liang Sizhe, why don't you go take a look at the scene?"
After being hit by him, he really wanted to go over and take a look. Cao Ye put the phone back, thinking that it wasn't that Liang Sizhe was concerned about it. If something went wrong, it would be bad for the entire crew. It was time to go to the filming site to see it.
The location for the supplementary filming was on a sparsely populated highway in the suburbs of Beijing. The crew specially chose the time of the middle of the night to close the road for filming. Cao Ye knew early on that the filming location was 60 to 70 kilometers away from his residence, and it took more than an hour to drive there.
There were not many cars on the road late at night, and the wipers swayed back and forth quickly, constantly scraping away the water stains on the windshield.
In the middle of the night, I went to the crew to watch the filming. It was the first time for Cao Ye, but I felt a little uneasy. Although the security measures were in place, I also asked for a reliable action guide. But no one can guarantee that there will be an accident in this weather.
This drag racing scene was decided to be reshot a week ago. The crew has been waiting for the opportunity to rain at night, until the other reshoots have been completed, and finally the heavy rain came.
Fortunately, there was abundant rain this year, and it happened to catch up with the rain at night during the signed supplementary shooting period. Otherwise, for scenes like this big scene and big scheduling, the crew's artificial rainfall is really not easy to operate.
A few kilometers away from the shooting location, Cao Ye called Xu Anqiao, Xu Anqiao picked it up, and said in surprise, Mr. Cao, why haven't you slept yet
"I'll watch the filming," Cao Ye said as he drove the car. "The road is closed, right? Can the car still drive in?"
Xu Anqiao was even more surprised when he heard it: "Oh, why did you come here in the middle of the night?"
"Can't sleep, come and have a look."
"Then I'll go out to pick you up. It's closed outside, and the traffic police are guarding it. You can't drive in by yourself."
Cao Ye replied "OK" and hung up the phone.
The car drove for a few more minutes, and the filming location was brightly lit from a distance, and the lighting boards of the crew were shining brightly in the dense rain curtain.
Xu Anqiao stood on the side of the road, holding an umbrella and waiting for him, Cao Ye stepped on the brakes to slow down, Xu Anqiao opened the car door, bent over and sat in, took the umbrella and closed the door: "It's raining, what are you doing? I came here without saying hello, and if it’s half an hour later, I might have to call it a day… Just drive straight ahead, the crew’s cars are parked there.”
Cao Ye drove forward in the direction he pointed.
"The big scene of the racing scene was very smooth, and the group performances cooperated well. It's over after three shots, and now I'm filming the fight scene, just stop there," Xu Anqiao pointed forward through the windshield, "Just now Si Zhe I got hurt a little…”
Cao Ye was stepping on the brakes and fell backwards, the brakes under his feet were a little harder, the car stopped suddenly, Xu Anqiao's upper body swayed, and his back leaned heavily on the seat, "Ouch".
Cao Ye glanced at him: "Where is it hurt?"
Xu Anqiao hasn't recovered from the palpitations just now: "You are driving this car, and it rains again in the middle of the night, so be careful..."
"Speaking of the serious business," Cao Ye urged, "is it serious?"
"Oh, the injury isn't too serious. I just rubbed my arm on the ground when I was fighting close to the ground, and I kept soaking in the rain. I'm afraid I won't get infected tomorrow..."
Cao Ye breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought something like the last time happened again." He released the brakes and continued to fall backwards. He stopped the car next to an RV rented by the crew, "Is the wound not bandaged?" said He pushed open the door and got out of the car.
Xu Anqiao hurriedly came over to give him an umbrella: "I can't wrap it up, this scene is all wearing short-sleeved fights, and the arms are exposed, it looks too obvious when a bandage is... Look there," Xu Anqiao stood beside him, raised his hand and pointed diagonally forward. Pointing, "See? It's hitting."
Cao Ye looked in the direction he was pointing. The lights of the crew reflected on the wet road. Liang Sizhe, dressed in black, was filming a fierce chase scene with actors in police uniforms.
"Si Zhe's fight scene is really good," Xu Anqiao sighed beside him, "the action is beautiful, and there is a lot of ruthlessness. At that time, Huang Qianshi was very worried when he was filming this scene. Before filming, I asked Si Zhe, he has never filmed fighting scenes, he has always filmed literary dramas, but I really can't tell that this is the first time to fight..."
"Yeah." Cao Ye walked over to the filming side. The crew members of the crew met him along the way, with some unexpected expressions on their faces, and they remembered to say hello only after reacting.
Seeing their reaction, Xu Anqiao smiled and said, "Look, I'm surprised, I didn't expect you to come here so late... Just before I finished speaking, Si Zhe's first time filming a fight scene, I think it's a publicity point, I'll film it in a while. After that, I will come and interview with the group's publicity meeting, and when we go back to the publicity period, let's focus on this point to publicize, the audience is all interested in Liang Sizhe, and the box office conversion rate will not be low."
"Okay, look at the arrangement." Cao Ye said and walked under a row of canopies on the side of the monitor. He stopped and watched the shooting scene not far away.
Liang Sizhe's action scene is really beautiful, his movements are both ruthless and accurate, his punches are in place, and he expresses Scar's deadly ferocity to the fullest. Just looking at it makes people break into a cold sweat.
Cao Ye has seen a lot of fight scenes, some of which are long and boring, and make people want to doze off, but obviously this one is not of this type, it is the kind of fight that makes the audience watch with a heart play.
After watching it for a while, he thought about it and said, "It's a good propaganda point for a play, but..." He stopped halfway through, and Liang Sizhe was knocked to the ground by the actor on the opposite side. He received a few heavy blows on his body, and it looked quite painful. . Although I know that it was a scene arranged in advance by the action director, it was quite disturbing to watch.
"Just what?" Xu Anqiao asked, hearing the concerns in his words.
"Oh," Cao Ye came back to his senses, "I just remember that there seemed to be a negative report about the fight before Liang Sizhe. Will there be public opinion deliberately going in that direction?" Liang Sizhe said this while looking into the distance. He rolled quickly on the ground, and then quickly took advantage of the situation to suppress the opponent, and slammed the man on the ground with a ruthless stranglehold on the neck.
"It's possible," Xu Anqiao thought for a while, "you still think carefully, but that incident has passed for a long time, even if someone deliberately guides public opinion, it should not cause any splash... Speaking of that incident back then It's really strange, Si Zhe doesn't seem to be such an impulsive person, how could he beat reporters at a press conference, when dozens of cameras are facing the scene..."
"Then who knows," Cao Ye said, "you have been on the set all the year round, you have heard more of this kind of gossip than me?"
"Hey, it's all gossip," Xu Anqiao smiled, and she told him about the gossip she had heard, "I heard that Liang Sizhe himself offered to hold the press conference, and he said he would answer any questions at the time. , I can ask anything, but I didn’t expect that when I came to the scene, I wouldn’t cooperate well, and it was unpleasant on stage and off the stage, and finally I didn’t know why I had a conflict with one of the reporters…”
"With so many cameras facing each other, there are always live recorded videos, right?"
"There are, but there are, but in the end, I can only see someone come over and say something in Liang Sizhe's ear, and then Liang Sizhe's face changed, and then he ended up hitting someone. Who can guess what angered him... "
"It's so appetizing."
"Yeah," Xu Anqiao said with a smile, "The seven unsolved mysteries in the entertainment industry were ranked first a few years ago, and there was a lot of trouble back then."
"Really?" Cao Ye replied casually.
When the incident of Liang Sizhe's beating of a reporter caused a stir in China, he was dealing with his mother's funeral abroad and was very busy. In addition, they had just broken up at the time, so he was not in the mood to pay attention to Liang Sizhe's related reports.
The beating incident caused a lot of uproar at the time, which almost caused Liang Sizhe to cause a boycott from the entire media industry. Offending the media was not a trivial matter. At that time, many media followed the trend and criticized Liang Sizhe. Nothing.
However, Liang Sizhe went to film for two years without saying a word, and turned his head and returned with a Cannes Best Actor award, leaving the media who had criticized his acting skills dumbfounded and had to obediently praise him. Movie altar.
Textbook-like bottoming out, Liang Sizhe's turnaround battle was so beautiful back then. After being silent for more than two years, he established his unshakable position in the Chinese film industry with the help of "The River of Wangchuan", which has no presence in mainland theaters.
The director shouted "cut", and the fierce chase not far away was passed. Liang Sizhe stood up and pulled up the opposite actor who had just been suppressed and beaten by him. The two stood and said a few words.
Song Qingyan ran to hold an umbrella for Liang Sizhe. She was short, and she was holding a bath towel and coat for Liang Sizhe in her hand, so she couldn't spare her arms to raise the umbrella higher. Liang Sizhe was talking to the actor, and reached out to take the umbrella over. The black umbrella was big enough to cover him and Song Qingyan.
After saying a few words, Liang Sizhe walked over to the canopy on the side of the monitor. The canopy was more than ten meters long, and Zeng Ran was sitting behind the monitor in the middle. Cao Ye didn't plan to go to the middle since he came, and has been standing in a place with few people next to him. He always knows not to disturb the progress of the crew. Artistic creation requires freedom. As an investor, he just lets the crew control the process.
Liang Sizhe entered the canopy, took the umbrella and handed it to Song Qingyan, who quickly threw the bath towel in his arms over him. Liang Sizhe wiped his soaked hair with a bath towel, walked behind Zeng Ran, and bowed slightly to look at the one just passed. When the staff standing next to the monitor saw him coming, they consciously made room for him.
"Hey Sizhe," the director Zeng Ran saw him coming over and dragged the screen just now with the mouse to show him, "this time the effect is very good, the car crashed here, the last time you thought it was not smooth, this time there is no such problem. ."
"It's alright," Liang Sizhe said while looking at the screen, "it's better than the last time, I want to take a look at the place close to the ground at the back."
Song Qingyan stood at the back and looked at the abrasion on his arm. The wound was no longer bleeding, but the surrounding area was soaked in the rain and turned white. The fight just now seemed to have added new injuries. It looked a little shocking, she urged in a low voice. : "Brother Sizhe, do you want to go to the car and bandage it? The doctor has been waiting inside for a long time."
"Oh yes," Zeng Ran also remembered, turning his head to look at his wound, "Si Zhe, hurry up and wrap it up, there is no problem this time, it's very good."
"It's not a few minutes away, just read it again," Liang Sizhe looked back at Song Qingyan, "Go and call Cao Ye, and I'll finish it when you come back."
"Mr. Cao is here?" Song Qingyan opened his eyes slightly when he heard this, and turned his head to look around, "Where is it, why didn't I see it?"
"Over there," Liang Sizhe straightened up and raised his chin toward Cao Ye's position, "Watch on tiptoe."
"Oh," Song Qingyan knew that he was short and stood on tiptoe, only to see Cao Ye who was chatting with Xu Anqiao under the canopy a few meters away, "I see, I'll go right away."
"Run if your legs are short," Liang Sizhe joked to her, "If you don't run, he will run."
"Got it!" Song Qingyan responded while running.
"Mr. Cao is here?" Zeng Ran also stretched his neck and looked in Cao Ye's direction, his voice was incredulous, "In this rainy day, I didn't say hello before that I wanted to come..."
"He often comes over to stare at the filming?" Liang Sizhe turned his eyes back to the monitor screen and chatted with him in a normal tone.
"Mr. Cao doesn't come to watch the scene very often. Usually, Mr. Ding from Lomon comes over occasionally. Mr. Cao will only come when he needs additional investment."
"Oh, did Huang Qianshi watch when he was filming this scene?"
"No," Zeng Ran retracted his gaze and guessed, "It won't be urgent at this point, right?"
"No, it must have been said long ago if there was an urgent matter." Liang Sizhe said.
His tone was firm, without even a hint of guesswork. Zeng Ran felt that it was reasonable, and quickly dispelled his concerns, and continued to watch the playback screen on the monitor with Liang Sizhe.