Chapter 1021 Corruption

This is a Columbia studio in Los Angeles.

Lu Lingxi came here one month in advance, and with the help of Du Yihua, he obtained a small studio from this large studio. After careful remodeling, it will become the next movie "Autumn Fairy Tale" The filming location of a large number of indoor scenes.

In fact, Minghu Culture also has several studios in China, and it is completely possible to complete such modifications for shooting. In that case, no matter how you calculate it, the cost will be greatly saved.

But it doesn't work that way.

Coming here, although the cost of eating and chewing is a bit higher, and renting a studio in Columbia is definitely a lot of money, but the crew started the first filming from here, but it is very important for the whole crew, especially It is very helpful for actors to understand and integrate into this cultural atmosphere in the United States.

This point is definitely different from filming an indoor scene in China, and then running over to directly start filming street scenes in the United States.

Besides, the money spent on Colombia is not actually spent on outsiders.

Anyway, the fat and water don't flow to outsiders. Lu Lingxi proposed that the indoor scenes also want to be filmed here. Li Qian only hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement.

Anyway, as long as his total budget is not overrun.

But at this moment, in this studio, an old building has been temporarily built—the place where Chuan Touchi and Li Qi lived in the script. Of course, in this setting, there is no urban light rail overhead. It just simulates the light and shadow changes when the light rail passes by during shooting, and plays a certain amount of sound to match the shooting.

In the film, scenes such as Li Qi's emotional injury and gas poisoning will all be filmed here.

Lu Lingxi, who is directing a film for the first time in her life, is not stage frightened.

As the winner and queen of the Berlin Film Festival, both Li Qian and Qin Jingjing have been thinking about the film and their roles since a month or two ago, and of course they don't suffer from stage fright.

But the first scene of "Autumn Fairy Tale" was NG thirteen times.

There is only one reason, the thinking of the two actors is not on the same line.

In fact, the play is very simple. On a rainy night, the little girl Li Qi took care of when she worked as a nanny for a Chinese family couldn’t sleep. She called and asked Li Qi to sing for her. The little girl is sleeping—the sound insulation in this building is too bad, and I live in Chuantouchi, who is only one staircase away from her downstairs, and I heard her singing, so I poked my head up to look up.

For this shot, Lu Lingxi will shoot it in one shot. Of course, the position of the camera has been arranged in advance, and Fu Xuelong is carrying the camera. This is definitely no problem.

Li Qian was dressed in a sloppy look with an unshaven beard. He was sitting in the downstairs room with a copy of "Three Hundred Sentences in Practical English" in his hand.

But here comes the problem. From the first time, Li Qian acted very relaxed, not acting like acting at all, but Qin Jingjing felt that she couldn't get into the feeling of coaxing a little girl.

Ordinarily this is not considered a real rivalry, but in fact it has to be classified into the category of rivalry. One of the two is tense, and the other is unusually loose——When the camera turned to Li Qian, he was seen squinting on the monitor. With closed eyes and a slight smile on his face, he raised his head and looked out of the corridor, Lu Lingxi felt an unusually uncomfortable feeling in his heart.

The reason why I chose such a scene as the beginning is precisely because it is not too difficult a shot, but at the beginning, there will definitely be a running-in period.

After passing by for the first time, Lu Lingxi yelled Ka, walked into the venue himself, and told the play to the two people.

She asked Li Qian to put it out a little more, to maintain this "loose" state, but not too loose, and asked Qin Jingjing to "loosen" a little, not to be so tight.

Good actors, of course, will start to have their own unique understanding of the characters and roles in the play after receiving and reading the script, but they will definitely follow the director's request and the entire crew's Situations, including the status of other actors, to adjust the direction and severity of one's performance in a timely and appropriate manner.

So, thirteen times, Qin Jingjing became "looser" each time, and Li Qian became "tighter" each time.

Gradually, even Li Qian felt that her voice became much looser when humming.

In the middle, Lu Lingxi deliberately stopped shooting, went to the two of them to put forward specific requirements, and directed the performance, but the two of them, after the best actor dubbed the film, continued to NG all the way. It was not until the tenth filming that Lu Lingxi felt that they were right. but she still said, "Fine! But, one more time!"

Finally, after taking a simple shot for an hour, she was satisfied.

Then, she ran over excitedly, and first said to Qin Jingjing: "Just remember this feeling! This is a love scene, and there is nothing too dramatic, there is no life and death, and there is no catastrophe. From now on, you will stick to the scene just now." Find the way to play and find the feeling! Don't force me so hard, relax a little! Be natural!"

Seeing Qin Jingjing nodding her head, she turned to look at Li Qian again, and said, "Actor, you did a good job, you have a good grasp of the emotions of the characters and the tension of the whole story, but I know that you actually don't have much acting experience, so you Just remember one thing, next, you have to be responsible for supporting Jingjing a little bit, if she gets too aggressive, you just pull her back, understand?"

Li Qian is an old director and the screenwriter of this play, and he has another classic version in his mind as a specimen for reference, of course he understands.

So he nodded and said, "No problem, I see."

In fact, Lu Lingxi means: Hey! Help, Jingjing is too tense, since you know what kind of rhythm and tonality this play should be, take it easy when acting, and help her relax!

This is of course a matter of course.

However, he soon realized that this matter did not seem to be easy.

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Although this is the first film directed by Lu Lingxi, as a director, she is considered a veteran. Li Qian's acting experience is not too much, but considering that he has acted a lot in his previous life, and has directed so many plays in this life, in fact, he has always kept the feeling of acting, and he is also an old driver.

Ordinarily speaking, Qin Jingjing is also an "old" actor. After all, she is three years older than Li Qian. In 2005, she will be 30 years old, and she has graduated for eight years. She has acted in large and small dramas And the characters, there are as many as 20 or 30 films, but on the set of "Autumn Fairy Tale", even though she, the Berlin actress, has spent two months trying to figure out the script and characters, she still feels very immature .

She couldn't grasp the degree of "relaxing" that Lu Lingxi asked for.

She would exert too much force at every turn, but when Lu Lingxi or Li Qian said it, she restrained her hands and feet again, which seemed too gentle - it took only one day for her to understand that she was weightless.

On the first day of filming, the crew shot a total of a dozen shots, and none of them were too dense or important. The efficiency was not high, but it didn't matter. The important thing was that Lu Lingxi was very unhappy with Qin Jingjing's performance. Satisfied——in the simplest scenes of life, her performances are tense. Although Lu Lingxi or Li Qian say a little bit, she can make adjustments immediately. After several trials, she can finally find Lu Lingxi The kind of feeling I want, but this is obviously not the level that a Berlin actress should have!

And Qin Jingjing was obviously very dissatisfied with this.

When it was announced that today's filming was over, she offered to take a car with Lu Lingxi back to the hotel where the crew was located. In the car, she couldn't wait to ask: "Sister Lu, I have to adjust, I can't grasp what you want I felt that when I was acting, I also obviously felt that Li Qian and I were not on the same line."

Lu Lingxi nodded, admiring her attitude, and asked, "Then how do you want to adjust?"

Qin Jingjing asked her: "What do you think is my problem? Do you have any good suggestions?"

Lu Lingxi thought for a long time, and said, "I think the most important thing is that you have too little experience with boys."

This really made Qin Jingjing speechless.

She was beautiful since she was a child, so her father told her, "Be careful! Don't pay attention to all those boys who approach you actively. They all have bad intentions and want to pick you up!"

Later, when she grew up slowly, in junior high school, high school, until she entered Shuncheon Film Academy, she would deliberately keep a distance from her male classmates and even male teachers—of course, the coldness and arrogance in her temperament, coupled with In fact, she is indeed not sociable in the first place, even among female classmates, she hardly has any close friends.

In the past few years, she has a good relationship with Liao Min and Lu Lingxi. Besides, she has become so popular, and she still has few friends in and out of the circle.

So, if you take a play, whether it is ancient or modern, she sorts out the characters and conflicts in the play, and she knows it well. The environment and atmosphere substituted into the play, Ka Ka Ka, the whole character is excavated, It was from head to toe, every move of the hand, every throw of the foot was full of drama, the acting was really good!

Even, the more dramatic, the more time-honored, and the more intense the conflict, the more stable, accurate, and exciting her plays will be.

But life drama?

Sorry, she's a sucker for life.

However, "Autumn Fairy Tale" is full of the kind of plain feeling only in life.

Qin Jingjing uses her excellent acting skills to match her simulated life feeling, no matter how she sets it up, it doesn’t feel right—the sense of history, the times, and the characters, these are often things that exist in books and imagination, her outstanding Her excellent acting skills and her ability to understand and grasp the characters make the characters she plays feel really good and true. This character and this era should be like that. But life is different. Daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea are experienced by everyone every day, but there is no imagination at all.

Because most of the audience can tell at a glance whether you are acting in the taste of life.

For the vast majority of actors, even actors with low standards are very familiar. They just need to find the right path under the guidance of the director, and they will be able to get in soon. The level of coming is also different.

But this point seems to be a bit difficult for Qin Jingjing.

She seems to have no idea how to get along with each other in a normal life.

This was a question that neither of them thought of before the filming started.

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Liao Liao has a big villa in Los Angeles, so if Li Qian is filming here, of course he will live in that villa. It's just that dozens of people came to the production team at once, so they must find a hotel near the set and book some rooms to arrange accommodation.

Liao Liao is currently busy preparing for her second North American concert tour. After Li Qian came, she only came back and stayed for two days, then left soon to check the arrangement of the venue and talk to the stage designer, The team communication of lighting design, etc., there are simply endless things to do.

Therefore, Li Qian actually lived in that big villa alone.

Even his assistant Qin Nuo, who came over to be the executive producer, lived in the hotel with the crew.

But on the second day after the filming started, after finishing the afternoon shooting, Li Qian was packing up his things and preparing to drive home, but Qin Jingjing brought Lu Lingxi over, found him, and said, "Can you stay in the hotel? I want Usually I can spend more time with you."

Li Qian turned to look at Lu Lingxi. Lu Lingxi shrugged and said, "Jingjing's condition is indeed a bit wrong. We talked about it, and we both feel that she lacks the experience of getting along with people. So, if you Being able to live in a hotel, even if it is to chat, play chess, or play cards, should be helpful for her to find that sense of 'life'."

Li Qian thought for a while and said, "That's fine."

Of course it is more comfortable to live in the big villa, but since Liao Liao is not there anyway, the big villa is empty, which is actually not interesting. As for Li Qian himself, the requirements for the living environment are actually not that high. It is normal to live with the crew when filming.

So, after only staying in the vacant room for a few days in the big villa, he moved into the hotel where the crew was located. Soon after, the suite he lived in became an "event room" for several people in the crew.

Lu Lingxi, Qin Jingjing, Qin Nuo, and then pull Li Qian up to play cards.

Childishly speaking, lost stickers.

Qin Jingjing's talent in poker seems to be lower than her emotional intelligence.

On the first night, when everyone else's face was clean, only a pair of eyes were left on her face-just because she had to leave eyes to see the cards. In fact, the little notes were all stuck to the arm.

The next night, she was tapped again.

Looking at her grievance and anxiety, she seemed to feel a little shameful, but she couldn't win no matter what, whether it was Lu Lingxi, Li Qian, or even Qin Nuo, they were obviously poked at the point of laughter, the whole night Everyone's laughter was one after another, and it was hearty.

And Li Qian has been in this time and space for more than nine years and almost ten years. He has never participated in public activities such as playing cards and playing mahjong among friends. This time, he actually felt that he had a good time playing.

For the first time since time travel more than nine years ago, he began to feel decadent.

After the shooting finished in the afternoon, he began to think about the night's card game in his heart. After dinner, he was no longer reserved. When Qin Nuo and the others ran into the house, he didn't refuse, and started immediately.

Such a depraved thing, he actually felt so exhilarated.

I don't write scripts, I don't write novels, I don't write songs.

All go ball, play cards!

Three days later, Qin Jingjing actually began to show some signs of turning defeat into victory.

For the first time in history, at the end of the game, there were as many as five small notes left on Li Qian's face—although Lu Lingxi laughed, Qin Nuo was also very happy, and even plastered his face all over his face as usual. Qin Jingjing, who took the note, also looked very happy when she saw the note on Li Qian's face.

Then, as time went by, as the games started and ended again and again, Li Qian gradually discovered that maybe...it is very possible that he is actually the one with the lowest IQ among the four?

Because of just a few days of hard work, the note on his face has started to be evenly matched with Qin Jingjing!

Qin Jingjing's card skills have improved rapidly.

What is comparable to the speed at which her card skills are improving is the relaxed performance she showed during filming—this proves that playing cards can really improve her acting skills!

For a moment, Li Qian even thought about whether to officially spread and promote a game called "Werewolf Killing" among a group of actors from Minghu Culture, or some crews of Minghu Culture in the future, to help the actors Improve your acting skills.

Of course, he felt that the possible negative effects of doing so would be more obvious.

The way of playing cards to improve acting skills is probably only useful for people like Qin Jingjing.

As for the others... Hmph, one night when he was alone and sleepless, Li Qian inadvertently calculated, and suddenly realized that after playing cards for seven or eight days recently, he seemed to have missed a lot of manuscripts...

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The shots to be shot in the studio in Los Angeles are all indoor scenes, and this studio belongs to Columbia. Of course, it can be arranged anyway, but there are still many scenes in the film "Autumn Fairy Tale". It needs to be filmed on the spot in some cities in the United States.

So, after 11 days of filming in Los Angeles, when Du Yihua called and had already contacted the local government and police station in New York, the crew could go to the location to shoot. Lu Lingxi immediately decided to rush there immediately. After finishing the shooting of that part of the street scene, I will come back to continue the shooting here.

Of course Li Qian had no objection to this.

In fact, he is really just a simple actor in the film "Autumn Fairy Tale". All the filming progress and plans of this film are under the control of Lu Lingxi, Qin Nuo and Du Yihua.

However, the day before he was about to leave for New York, John Dyce suddenly came to the set and told Li Qian, "James called and knew you were in Los Angeles and wanted to meet you."

The James mentioned by John Days is of course his old friend, James Cameron, the highest box office record holder in the world film industry, a commercial film master and a pioneer of film technology.

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