Chapter 58 Smooth Shooting

Anshan, Xiuyan County, Chaoyang Town beside Shaozi River.

The crew of "Departures" has been shooting here for more than half a month.

Today we are going to shoot a special scene, where the male protagonist participates in the burial of the deceased for the first time.

The deceased is an old lady who lived alone. She was found by her neighbors more than two weeks after her death because of the stench.

In the small old-fashioned apartment building, all the camera positions have been prepared, and the extras who play the corpses have also put on "dead makeup" and are lying on a small wooden bed.

In the room next to the apartment where the scene is set, behind the monitor that has been set up, Wu Yuan is also chatting with two actors.

"This scene is not difficult to shoot. Zhang Sheng, you have to show the discomfort, fear, and fear of the male protagonist when he sees a corpse for the first time."

"Teacher Li Xuejian is calm and indifferent. It is not the calmness of life and death, but the calmness of being used to it."

"It is like a worker who has worked on an assembly line for 20 years, or a fitter who has been tightening screws for a lifetime. His job has become his body's instinct, and he will not have any extra emotions at all."

Zhang Guorong and Li Xuejian nodded frequently while listening to Wu Yuan's talk about the play.

To be honest, Zhang Guorong is very satisfied with his cooperation with Wu Yuan.

Compared to the art film directors he had met before, he is much better!

Yes, I am talking about Sunglass King.

Sunglass King's film aesthetics are really great, and he is one of the top directors in the world.

But being an actor in Sunglass King's crew is definitely a torture.

He never talks about the play to the actors. If the actors fail, he will not say what is wrong. If he asks, he will just feel that it is not right.

When the actors wanted to know what the feeling was, the Sunglass King didn't tell them, just kept shaking his head and asked the actors to do it again.

Zhang Guorong once failed to pass the scene after several NGs. He really didn't know how to act anymore, so he questioned the Sunglass King.

As a result, the Sunglass King played him a piece of music, and he listened to it for half an hour. After listening, he asked faintly: "Do you understand this emotion? This is what I want.

Understand shit!

After shooting for an afternoon that day, the Sunglass King was still not satisfied. In the end, he simply said that the emotion of today's scene was not in place, and he didn't shoot it anymore, and called it a day!

Zhang Guorong was still okay.

Zhang Manyu was once driven into autism by the Sunglass King's shooting method. After a week of grinding a scene, it was still not passed. When asked, he didn't tell her why. As a result, Zhang Manyu went back to the hotel and cried every day after work, wondering if she was not worthy of being an actor.

In comparison, Wu Yuan is a very easy-to-deal-with director.

Before each shooting, he would talk about the scene, explain the emotions, actions, and states he needed, and then if the actors failed, he would directly tell them where the difference was. .

And he is not as strict as Stephen Chow, who has to demonstrate every action himself. If the actor's action and expression are different from what he demonstrated, he has to start over.

As long as the actor can give the right emotions, even if there is impromptu performance or change of the play, Wu Yuan will accept it if it is appropriate, and will also praise the actor for his performance and give excellent actors a certain amount of freedom to play!

It is very comfortable to film with such a director.

Zhang Guorong, who has been tortured by the King of Sunglasses many times, wishes he had not met Wu Yuan earlier. This is what a good director looks like in his mind!

Without him noticing, Zhang Guorong subconsciously has already regarded Wu Yuan as his director benchmark, and he wants to be such a director.

"Okay, this scene is like this, if there is no problem, let's start shooting."

Wu Yuan's words brought Zhang Guorong back to his senses. He nodded, looked around again, and asked curiously:

"Director Wu, the foreign guy who follows you every day is gone?"

"Gone. "Wu Yuan glanced at Zhang Guorong, "What's wrong?"

"Director Wu, are you going to Hollywood to make a movie again?" Zhang Guorong asked with some envy.

When Wu Yuan and Jerry were chatting in the crew, they did not avoid other staff members. Anyone who listened carefully could hear that Wu Yuan had taken on another Hollywood movie, and it seemed to be a movie from a big company, because they mentioned Disney frequently during their conversation.

It would be a lie to say that Zhang Guorong was not envious. When he was an actor, he also hoped that he could break into Hollywood, but he never succeeded.

Now that he wants to transform into a director, his desire to pursue Hollywood has faded a lot, but when he sees Wu Yuan going to Hollywood to make a movie, he still can't help but envy him.

"This time I'm not shooting my own play, I'm just working for someone else." Wu Yuan shook his head and said in a flat tone.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, let's start shooting! "

Wu Yuan waved his hand, indicating that Zhang Guorong and Li Xuejian could go to the next room to start filming.

Seeing this, Zhang Guorong, who had something to say, had to hold back his words and followed Li Xuejian out of the monitoring room.

He didn't understand Wu Yuan's calmness.

That was Hollywood. It was a great thing to be invited by the six major Hollywood studios to direct a movie. Why was Wu Yuan so calm?

There was not much time for him to think about it. The two walked to the door of the filming room, and the voice of the assistant director sounded from the intercom on the staff next to them.

"Actors, take your positions!"

"Start filming!"

As the camera started, pieces of film were swallowed and put into operation. Teacher Li Xuejian immediately got into the state, frowned slightly, bent over, passed through the door curtain, and entered the room.

Frowning, because the room was full of stench.

In order to simulate reality and to help the actors give better feedback, the crew's set design team really put a lot of items that emit stench in the room.

Meals that had been left unattended for several days, food that had rotted and was crawling with maggots, and rotten and spoiled fruits.

Even a prop master smeared some dog shit on the ground to make the smell strong enough.

Teacher Li Xuejian's frown was a completely real reaction, and he even tried to restrain himself.

Zhang Guorong, who came in behind him, did not need any restraint. When he took the first breath of air, his face immediately wrinkled into a ball, and he was about to vomit.

He quickly reached out to cover his nose and mouth, and Zhang Guorong subconsciously said, "It stinks."

Teacher Li Xuejian ignored him, but continued to walk in slowly, and took out a pair of medical rubber gloves and put them on while walking.

After walking a few steps forward, they saw the deceased's feet exposed outside the quilt, pale and swollen.

Zhang Guorong, who had just adjusted to the air and put down his hand covering his mouth, immediately covered his mouth again, and the fear in his eyes was spreading.

This was the first time that Lin Wu saw a real dead person, not the one he played.

Teacher Li Xuejian's expression did not change at all. He stuffed a pair of rubber gloves on his hand to Zhang Guorong, took two white sheets from him, and walked to the bedside with steady steps.

"Come here."

Zhang Guorong had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk in. He stepped on a rotten banana after two steps and almost slipped. His stomach rolled again.

"Come and help." Teacher Li Xuejian urged again.

He had to endure the discomfort and continue to walk in.

In the monitoring room next door, Wu Yuan looked at the close-up of Zhang Guorong's face and nodded with satisfaction.

His eyes widened, his lips tightly closed, and he tried to resist the feeling of vomiting. The corners of his mouth kept twitching, and you could even vaguely see that his masseter muscles under his cheeks were biting hard.

This series of facial micro-movements well performed the discomfort and fear of the character at this time.

"Cut!"

"The actor performed very well!"

"Add a few more facial close-ups!"

"Get ready for the next shot!"

Both Zhang Guorong and Li Xuejian have definitely honed their acting skills to their peak.

It is also a very comfortable thing for the director to work with such actors.

The whole day's shooting went very smoothly, and both actors were able to give the emotions that Wu Yuan wanted very well.

The shooting, which was originally expected to be completed in an afternoon, took less than two hours, and it was all finished at a little after three in the afternoon.

After giving a 50-yuan red envelope to the extra who played the old lady's corpse, the crew called it a day.

In fact, this extra only showed a pair of feet from beginning to end, but it is a convention in the underworld to give an extra red envelope to the corpse to get rid of bad luck.

The next period of shooting was still very smooth.

The actors of "The Night the Comet Came" also arrived in Anshan one after another to guest-star as the family members of several important deceased people in the movie, and then successfully finished the scenes and left.

Everything went very smoothly.

It went so smoothly that not only did they make up for the progress that was delayed by Jerry, but the crew also finished filming three days ahead of schedule.

Wu Yuan even felt a little dazed and unreal.

This was his first art film!

In theory, art films are more difficult to shoot than commercial films, and they take more time.

But this film was the smoothest one Wu Yuan filmed!

Whether it was the actors or the crew, they were very good at it, and a lot of shots were done in one take.

Actors such as Zhang Guorong, Li Xuejian, Chen Hong, and Wu Yanshu are good at acting and dedicated, and it is so comfortable to use them!

We still need to work with outstanding actors more!

At the wrap-up party, Wu Yuan raised his glass and thanked them sincerely: "It is really a great pleasure to work with you all on this movie!"

"I believe that "Departures" will become a masterpiece that will still be frequently mentioned ten or twenty years later!"

After a wrap-up party where everyone drank to their heart's content, the crew of "Departures" officially announced the wrap-up in Anshan on December 6, 2001.

The pace needs to be slightly faster. I feel that it will be a bit monotonous to keep writing and filming movies. I have to get into the emotional line.

In fact, I really prepared the emotional line of this novel with my heart.

The heroines in many entertainment novels have little presence, they are all the same, without any color.

I want to write a heroine with flesh and blood, a distinct personality, and someone who can be remembered, so this book has a single heroine.

I hope the performance I write can be recognized by readers.

Let me reveal that this is a book about a girl chasing a boy, because I have no experience chasing girls, I was always chased by them~