"It's me who you want to take the camera to photograph you."
Liang Sizhe walked to the camera, and Cao Ye's words sounded in his mind.
After Cao Ye left, Liang Sizhe couldn't hold back and called Zheng Yin. He wanted to find Cao Ye and return the role to him.
After Zheng Yin heard the news, he put down the matter in his hand and searched for Cao Ye all day long. Cao Ye seemed to have disappeared from this world.
Liang Sizhe knew from that moment that when Cao Ye wanted to hide, no one could find him even if he dug three feet into the ground.
Auditions went ahead as scheduled. The original competition between two people turned into a one-man show for Liang Sizhe.
Cao Xiuyuan walked into the studio, Zheng Yin whispered a few words to him in the past, probably because Cao Ye hasn't come back yet, should the audition be postponed or not.
"The entire crew is waiting for him alone? Absurd," Cao Xiuyuan glanced at Zheng Yin and reprimanded in public, "You are ignorant when he is making a fool of yourself?"
Zheng Yin immediately fell silent, sighed, and followed Cao Xiuyuan to the front of the monitor.
Seeing Cao Xiuyuan's anger, the studio that had been slightly noisy a few seconds ago was suddenly silent, and even the humming of the machine's operation could be clearly heard.
Cao Xiuyuan sat behind the monitor and threw a sentence at Liang Sizhe: "The part where Yan Xiaoman followed Peng Yan." Then he said to Zheng Yin, "Give him a violin."
I didn't hand over the script, I didn't say where to start, I didn't say where it ended, I didn't even say how long it took to prepare, I just had a violin in my hand. Liang Sizhe took over the violin, thanked Zheng Yin, and began to recall the content of the script.
The atmosphere was so dull that it was impossible to calm down and get into the mood.
If only Cao Ye were here, the atmosphere would soon be lively. Liang Sizhe couldn't help but have this thought.
On second thought, if Cao Ye was there, Cao Xiuyuan would not be so black-faced - at the beginning he wanted them to compete for this role, but now Cao Ye disappeared without a word, completely disrupting Cao Xiuyuan's plan. It's just... If it was him who left without saying goodbye, would Cao Xiuyuan still be so black-faced
"Are you all right?" Cao Xiuyuan urged.
Liang Sizhe regained his senses. He didn't calm down at all to prepare, he just thought about it, but Cao Xiuyuan had already opened his mouth, so he could only bite the bullet.
The few steps in front of the camera with the violin in hand, Liang Sizhe's mind was in chaos, the conversation between Peng Yan and Xiaoman, the discussion between him and Cao Ye about this paragraph, the situation in which they were sitting on the roof during the discussion, many scenes It flashed back so quickly in his mind that it was difficult for him to settle down and think about how he should act this part.
Walking in front of the camera, the dark camera is facing him, obviously he should be a little terrified, but all the boiling thoughts suddenly sink to the bottom, there is only one sentence left in his mind: "You just want to take the camera and shoot your That's me."
At this moment, Liang Sizhe actually calmed down, and the content of the script unfolded scene by scene in front of his eyes.
Xiaoman follows Peng Yan... Counting the scene forward, that afternoon, Xiaoman was carrying a violin and was beaten by a group of gangsters for money. Peng Yan happened to pass by and scolded the gangsters for him... Let's start from here.
Liang Sizhe hugged the violin, lay down on his side, curled up to protect the violin, and then stood up staggeringly with one hand on the ground. He grabbed the violin and ran a few steps, looked back at the gangsters, saw that they didn't follow, slowed down, then stopped a few meters away from Peng Yan, and followed her lightly.
A little nervous, the fingers holding the violin moved unconsciously, just plucking a string.
The sound of the strings sounded, the stalker Xiaoman didn't expect it, was startled, stopped in embarrassment, and looked at Peng Yan who looked back at her.
"Thank you, thank you," Xiaoman opened his mouth, tightening his hand on the neck of the piano, hesitatingly said, "I mean, just now..."
"Where did you think about the strings?" Cao Xiuyuan interrupted him.
"No," Liang Sizhe escaped from Xiaoman's state, "I accidentally bumped into it."
"Then why don't you stop?"
"I think when Xiaoman touched the strings, his reaction was similar to my initial reaction, and the performance continued without disturbing the overall plot."
Cao Xiuyuan stared at him for a few seconds, the expression on his face did not change.
Liang Sizhe didn't know how his performance was just now, and suddenly thought that Cao Xiuyuan stared at him with the same expression in front of the breakfast stall at Lao Du Noodle Restaurant that morning, saying that people like him are either geniuses or stupid in terms of acting. talent.
At this moment, he doesn't seem to care so much about the evaluation of geniuses and idiots. He just hopes that his audition performance will live up to the opportunity that Cao Ye gave. If Cao Xiuyuan is not satisfied with him in the end and chooses another actor, he will not know how to face Cao Ye after that.
Cao Xiuyuan did not comment on whether he was acting well or not, but beckoned to call the stylist A Chi and asked him to cut Liang Sizhe's hair on the spot.
Zheng Yin came over to discuss Liang Sizhe's hairstyle with the stylist: "Just follow the shape we set before, only one point. Brother Yuan thinks the child's eyes are a little too beautiful, so the hair in the front is longer to cover it a little, but it is also Don't exaggerate, be natural..."
"Understood Brother Yin," the stylist responded, "it's that kind of time when you're about to get a haircut, but it's not yet time to get it cut."
"Ah, yes," Zheng Yin smiled, "Your description is accurate."
When Zheng Yin was staring at the stylist cutting Liang Sizhe's hair, Cao Xiuyuan sat on the chair beside him and changed the script, occasionally instructing Zheng Yin to say a word or two: "Remember to give Sizhe the new script."
"I know Brother Yuan."
"The violin is too old. If it's over, buy a new one."
"Okay, I'll tell Brother Hui later."
"The lighting in Xiaoman's bedroom is still a bit white, and it has to be adjusted again."
"Row."
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During this one hour haircut, Cao Xiuyuan had to instruct more than a dozen things. He thought of where to say it, piecemeal and unorganized, and he didn't know how Zheng Yin wrote it down. Liang Sizhe thought of what Cao Ye said to himself, "Uncle Yin is like Doraemon, but there is nothing that my dad can't do." After sitting for a while, Liang Sizhe understood this sentence. Personal experience.
After the hair was cut, Zheng Yin called out "Brother Yuan", Cao Xiuyuan looked up, nodded and said, "Yes", and asked Liang Sizhe to stand up and walk in front of the camera, turning back and forth, left and right as he did at the time of the audition.
Then Cao Xiuyuan got up from behind the monitor and looked at Liang Sizhe: "Start up next Tuesday. You and Zheng Yin are going to familiarize yourself with the filming location in the past few days. Also, lose another ten pounds."
Liang Sizhe responded, "I know Mr. Cao", and Cao Xiuyuan turned around and walked out of the studio.
As soon as he left, Zheng Yin started to call one by one. The lighting team, the props team, the art team, the scene setting team… all of them called over and over again, and explained the requirements that Cao Xiuyuan had just made in turn. He explained it more carefully than Cao Xiuyuan. As soon as the call came down, even Liang Sizhe had a general understanding of Cao Xiuyuan's instructions.
After he finished the phone call, A Chi next to him said with admiration, "Brother Yin, what kind of brain do you have, and I counted, you haven't forgotten a single thing that Director Cao just explained."
"I dare to forget?" Zheng Yin took out a cigarette and bit it in his mouth, lit a fire and said with a smile, "This is the bowl of rice to eat."
A few days later, the movie "Thirteen Days" started, and Liang Sizhe officially joined the group as Xiaoman.
The actors who play with him are all seniors who have been famous for a long time. The actor Liu Yuande is highly respected and has won awards at many domestic film festivals. The actor Hu Yusi of Peng Yan is currently hot and sexy. Powerful actresses, even those who play the owner of the butcher shop next door, who do not have many appearances, are also gold-medal supporting actors who appear in various major films.
The team is strong, only Liang Sizhe is a newcomer. When filming, almost the entire crew revolves around him. Every senior who plays with him will give him a few pointers. Cao Xiuyuan even teaches him hand by hand. common thing.
Just when Xiaoman was doing his homework, Aunt Fang asked him to add water. This shot of him getting up and walking to the door in less than ten seconds took two days.
Be impatient, but not too impatient. After answering, you have to linger for a while before getting up, but you can't linger for too long. When you get up, you have to mumble a word or two, but what you mutter is something that is not written in the script, you have to play it yourself.
The two weeks after joining the group was the most painful period for him.
Liang Sizhe thought again of the statement Cao Xiuyuan told him about genius and idiot. He thought that he should be the idiot Cao Xiuyuan said, otherwise, how could he have played dozens of times and failed to meet his requirements
Cao Xiuyuan was very patient. Sitting behind the monitor, no matter how many times he shouted "cut", he would still look serious. He would not be impatient or angry. He sees.
The scene where Peng Yan taught Xiaoman to smoke was filmed until 3:30 in the morning, and the entire crew breathed a sigh of relief after work.
Liang Sizhe feels sorry for the crew. He has always disliked the temper of bothering others, but because of his own reasons, hundreds of people in the crew are spending time with him. It's really wasteful. It took almost twenty times to film it. Shot from 8:00pm to 3:30am.
After finishing work, Liang Sizhe didn't go back to the hotel with the crew's car. He was in a bad mood. He walked back a few hundred meters by himself, and there was a car horn behind him.
As soon as he turned his head, Zheng Yin followed behind in his car and pressed down the window: "Come up."
Liang Sizhe didn't want to get in the car at first, he just wanted to walk clean and clean by himself, but Zheng Yin insisted that he go up, so he had to open the car door and sit in.
"I can't hold on to this?" Zheng Yin asked him while driving.
"No, I can persevere." Liang Sizhe said. This opportunity was given to him by Cao Ye. How many people dreamed of such a team and co-actor. Even if he smashed his teeth and swallowed blood in his stomach, he had to insist on finishing the play, otherwise he would not be able to follow Cao Ye confessed.
"Does that mean you have no confidence?"
Liang Sizhe was silent for a moment: "I remember you said that I may not be suitable to be an actor."
"You can listen to what I said," Zheng Yin laughed. "Since Director Cao nods you to join the group, you are a good actor as an actor. Besides, where did you go? Zhang Minghan was a five-year-old at that time. The second shot was shot for a whole week, but it was still polished and finally won the Newcomer Award. You only have the shot that you just joined the group for two days, which is already good."
Liang Sizhe's filming has been quite depressing these days, his emotions are fermented in his stomach, and he is a little stronger. He doesn't want Zheng Yin to mistakenly think that he can't hold on because he has been grinding too many times. Yin said his true thoughts: "It doesn't matter to me. I used to practice the piano hundreds of times, but I felt a little sorry for delaying the time of hundreds of people in the entire crew."
Unexpectedly, Zheng Yin laughed a few times when he heard the words: "You... I think something is really different from what I think. I thought you wouldn't care about other people's thoughts at all." After a while, he said, "Don't think too much about the crew. It's too superficial. They accompany you to grind the show not because of your face, but because of Director Cao's face. Director Cao asked them to grind dozens of times and hundreds of times, and they willingly followed suit, because everyone knows that this is for the sake of the movie. , not for a certain person, everyone believes in him, and you have to believe in him."
Liang Sizhe made a sound of "um".
The crew is really a magical place. When he returned to the hotel that night, Liang Sizhe lay on the bed and thought that he didn't like Zheng Yin in the past, but since he started filming, he saw Zheng Yin circling among the various groups, dealing with various emergencies, and suddenly felt He is a very nice person, no wonder Cao Ye always affectionately calls him "Uncle Yin".
So did Cao Xiuyuan. After being in contact with him for the past two weeks, he could fully understand the admiring tone of Cao Ye when he mentioned Cao Xiuyuan.
If it was Cao Ye who joined the group at that time, maybe his relationship with Cao Xiuyuan would have eased a lot. Liang Sizhe was stunned at the ceiling. Cao Xiuyuan seemed to be more patient with actors than he was with his son.
After more than two months of shattering and reshaping, Liang Sizhe gradually entered the show and really became Xiaoman.
After entering the role of Xiaoman, the play began to play more and more smoothly. When a senior actor in the play temporarily added a line that was not in the script, he could also naturally catch it.
But his mood didn't get better, on the contrary, he became more depressed, and he could feel Xiaoman's depression without any trace. At the same time, there is also an infatuation with Peng Yan. He would stare at Hu Yusi in a daze during the filming. .
Cao Xiuyuan said that this is the best state for a rookie actor. Not everyone can enter a role without reservation. In order to let Liang Sizhe enter the play more thoroughly, he requires that all actors must follow the instructions in the movie as long as they enter the set. Characters to speak and get along with.
Therefore, apart from Hu Yusi, Liang Sizhe has no friends in the crew, and everyone watched him fall into the role bit by bit, become Xiaoman, and live a lonely and depressed life. When Xiao Man was alive, the play was completed, and everyone in the crew was tacitly aware of this point.
"Thirteen Days" was filmed for more than a year, and Cao Xiuyuan took the trouble to reshoot it again and again. Every scene had to meet his requirements before moving on to the next filming. Most of the time, Liang Sizhe didn't know what he was acting or how he was acting, he just followed his feelings. Cao Xiuyuan just adjusted himself until Cao Xiuyuan nodded.
As for Cao Ye, since he entered the show, he rarely thinks of Cao Ye.
Yin Si seems to have become quite distant, like a dream whose authenticity cannot be determined. That vivid and vivid youth is also far away from Xiaoman's life. Xiaoman is very lonely. There is only a vivid color of Peng Yan in his life. He can only keep peeping, peeping, peeping, his happiness is stolen , hidden, unspeakable.
The climax of the film was filmed in June of the following year. Xiaoman was about to discover Peng Yan's secret, and his fantasy was about to be shattered.
At the end of June, there was a sudden flu in Beijing. First, the lighting engineer kept sneezing, and then the flu spread quickly in the crew, and the sneezes came one after another, almost to the point of affecting the shooting.
Until the cameraman also unfortunately contracted the flu, a sneeze disrupted the shooting progress, Cao Xiuyuan finally got angry again, threw the script and said that the whole group had a three-day vacation, and whoever sneezed again would just leave.
Three days later, the crew resumed work, and sure enough, no one sneezed again.
Two major scenes were arranged that day, the scene where Peng Yan was raped in the morning, and the scene where Xiaoman was murdered in the afternoon.
The shooting of the morning scene went well. Hu Yusi and Jia Fan met Cao Xiuyuan's requirements after three shots. So in the afternoon, the whole group entered the state and prepared to shoot the scene of Xiaoman's murder.
The filming location was in a dilapidated tube building. Liang Sizhe sat on a wooden stool prepared by the crew to read the script, preparing for the scene where Xiaoman went up the stairs for a while.
When he was entering the state, the temporary assistant assigned to him by the crew came to call him, saying Si Zhe, you have a friend coming to you.
"Huh?" Liang Sizhe raised his head and asked, "Who is looking for me?" He immediately realized that the person looking for him should be Cao Ye.
The assistant didn't know Cao Ye and said with a smile, "A pretty boy, he said he was your friend, Si Zhe, your friends are all so good-looking too."
Sure enough, except Cao Ye, no one would come to the crew to look for him.
After closing the script, he rolled it up and held it in his hand. Liang Sizhe got up and walked over to where the assistant pointed. In fact, I was still a little dazed on the way, and it didn't feel like it was real. After staying in the play for a long time, life and play often couldn't tell the truth from the fake.
Running out of the alley, he saw Cao Ye standing not far away. The young man's shoulders were straight, as if he had grown a little taller, standing in the sun shining like white jade, he was raising his chin slightly and looking in the direction of Tongzilou.
Suddenly, Liang Sizhe came out of Xiaoman's state, and the repressed emotions that had shrouded in his heart for nearly a year suddenly disappeared, and his mood instantly brightened. Hu Yusi passed by him and he didn't notice it. He didn't notice until she greeted him. He hurriedly turned his head and responded, but he didn't stop, and he walked towards Cao Ye at a faster pace.
He walked in front of Cao Ye and looked at him, his hair half covering his eyebrows couldn't stop his expression of surprise and joy: "Why didn't you say anything in advance when you came?"
Cao Ye seemed to be stunned by the air, but Liang Sizhe walked over to him without realizing it, and Cao Ye regained his senses after he made a sound. Looking at him, he muttered, "You cut your hair."
"Well," Liang Sizhe smiled, raised his arm, and scratched his fingers in his hair, "Is Xiaoman's style alright?"
Xiaoman is a character, he is Liang Sizhe, this idea has not been so clear in the past year.
"It's beautiful," Cao Ye said.
"When did you return to China?" Liang Sizhe asked. He quickly realized that Cao Ye's mood was a little off. He seemed a little depressed, and he seemed a little lost. "What's wrong? What happened?"
Cao Ye fixedly looked at him and said nothing. Liang Sizhe saw the beads of sweat on his forehead and his slightly dry lips.
It was very hot, and there was no wind at all. The sun was especially strong today, which made people's mouth dry. Liang Sizhe looked up at the sunny sky above his head, squinted his eyes, and then reached out to hold Cao Ye's wrist. He walked under the tree not far away: "Are you in the sun? Go, go under the tree over there."
It was a normal action a year ago, but this time Cao Ye broke away and ducked his arm back.
"What's wrong?" Liang Sizhe turned his face to look at him.
"No." Cao Ye said, still looking uninterested.