After returning home, Wen Bixia went to the bathroom every ten minutes on average, not because she drank too much water, but to look in the mirror.
Kang Jianfei was quite speechless about this pretty little girl, but Li Saifeng was much more reliable. After coming back, he kept reading the script and asked Kang Jianfei some questions about how to make a movie from time to time.
It wasn't until the evening that Kang Jianfei sent Li Saifeng downstairs, called her a taxi to take her home, and at the same time told her to go back and read the script carefully, and rehearse more in front of the mirror.
As for Wen Bixia, this girl refused to go back no matter how much she tried to persuade her. She said she wanted to stay here and let Kang Jianfei teach her how to act, so as not to fail in her acting after she started filming.
Seeing Wen Bixia's behavior, she would not go back to the poor place in Jingling even if she lived or died. Kang Jianfei could only call her school to ask for leave, and then asked Principal Lin to tell Wen Bixia's parents.
Not long after, Hu Juncai came back with a takeaway meal covered in dust. The guy had been busy outside all day, helping Kang Jianfei arrange the time for the cast and crew to avoid any trouble after the filming started.
After Hu Juncai came back, he suddenly saw a little beauty at home and thought he had entered the wrong door.
Kang Jianfei introduced: "This is Wen Bixia, the heroine of "Happy Ghost". Axia, this is your brother Hu Juncai."
Wen Bixia didn't know who Hu Juncai was, but she was in a very happy mood now and greeted obediently: "Hello, Brother Hu."
"Hello." Hu Juncai smiled at her.
Dinner was cooked by Wen Bixia. Although this little girl was rebellious and pretty, the food she cooked was quite delicious and her cooking was much better than that of Li Saifeng.
During the meal, Wen Bixia no longer leaned over the table and took big bites of rice. Instead, she deliberately imitated the way Li Saifeng ate at noon. From time to time, she would diligently pick up food for Kang Jianfei and said softly: "Brother, you eat the ribs...Brother, I will Let’s remove the bones from the fish…”
Hu Juncai, who was practicing horse steps, was dumbfounded. When Wen Bixia went to wash the dishes, he quietly asked Kang Jianfei: "Where can you find such a sensible and well-behaved little girl?"
"Sensible means being sensible, but being well-behaved does not necessarily mean that." Kang Jianfei chuckled. He still clearly remembered Wen Bixia's fierce look after being hit by Wen Bixia outside the principal's room that day.
Wen Bixia's well-behavedness depends on the partner, and Kang Jianfei is also very clear about what she is thinking. Wen Bixia has lived in the impoverished mountains for 13 years, and was almost sold by her mother when she was a child. Kang Jianfei is the one she is currently out of. The only hope for Tiu Keng Ling was that she had to seize this opportunity regardless of the situation.
Although it was a bit too realistic, Kang Jianfei didn't mind. In his previous life, when he was wandering around at a young age, he was overjoyed even if a bandit was willing to take him in, let alone a rich man. In order to get ahead, Kang Jianfei spent all his money. He tried his best to please the thief and helped him loyally. In the end, the thief was really moved by him. Not only did he teach Kang Jianfei the technique of pressing the bottom of the box, but he also accepted him as his apprentice and taught Kang Jianfei the flying crane fist inherited from his family.
Later, the gang of thieves grew bigger and bigger, and Kang Jianfei also became a prince-like figure in the gang, and was trained as the boss of the next generation. Unfortunately, in just two or three years, their den of thieves was destroyed by the heroic police uncle Once the pot was over, Kang Jianfei was sent to a children's welfare home because he was underage. If not, Kang Jianfei would probably become the king of thieves in a few years.
After all, Wen Bixia and Kang Jianfei are the same kind of people.
At night, Kang Jianfei let Wen Bixia sleep in his own room, while he made do with lying on the sofa in the living room. The big sofa was soft and warm, no different from a big bed, but unlike the inferior small sofa at his cousin's house, which made his back sore after just ten minutes of sleeping.
Back pain.
Wen Bixia closed the bedroom door, and she was the only one left in the room. She suddenly laughed silently, jumped onto the bed and rolled around.
What a big, soft bed!
Wen Bixia buried her face in the quilt and found that the quilt also had a pleasant fragrance. Compared with this place, her home was like hell. Nine people lived in a 30-square-meter house. The bed board was narrow and hard, and the quilt was
It also has a musty smell.
If you can live in this kind of house all your life, you will have to live ten years shorter, Wen Bixia thought to herself.
That Mr. Kang looks very kind, and he is capable and rich. It would be great if I could marry him when I grow up. But when I grow up, men as capable as him must have already
get married.
Wen Bixia was thinking wildly on the bed for a while, rolling around and unable to fall asleep, so she got up again, put on her new clothes, and kept looking at the small mirror.
Early the next morning, Kang Jianfei left a key and fifty yuan for Wen Bixia, and went out with Hu Juncai.
There are still many sporadic filming locations that have not yet been decided, and they must be contacted one by one. These tasks should be done by Hu Juncai, the assistant director, but Kang Jianfei knows that he has no experience, so he can only take him out to discuss it in person, and then let him go after the negotiation is completed.
Contact coordination time.
Alas, it's hard work if you don't have anyone to help you. You have to take care of everything yourself.
The first thing I found was the school, because the school in the movie is an aristocratic school, and the dormitory building of Tiu Keng Ling Middle School was so bad that it was impossible to film. Kang Jianfei had to find a good school to borrow a dormitory.
I visited several schools in succession, but the school authorities all rejected Kang Jianfei's request on the grounds that it would affect teaching. As for the real reason, it was simply that Kang Jianfei was a new director with no reputation (the fame of the author of the novel was not counted), and he was unwilling to pay a high price.
Rent dormitories.
Of course Kang Jianfei was unwilling to pay a high price. He gave Tiu Keng Ling Middle School 18,000 yuan, not only because the sports meeting scene was very important, but more importantly, the school promised to mobilize more than a hundred students to be extras for him for free. These student actors,
But throughout the entire movie, it could at least save him tens of thousands of dollars.
Damn it, if I were a well-known director, in order to increase my reputation, these schools would probably not only refuse to accept money, but would instead provide funds to assist in filming.
In the end, Kang Jianfei rented several dormitories, sports rooms, and dance halls of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for a price of 5,000 yuan as the shooting location. In the next few days, he spent some money to contact Lai Yuan Playground, Sai Shawan Hotel, etc.
Waiting for the unit, we have sorted out all the shooting locations.
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After all the preparations were completed, "Happy Ghost" was finally launched.
Of course, there is one more thing to do before starting the machine, and that is to worship God.
On November 25, 1979, two months and twenty-three days after Kang Jianfei came to Hong Kong, the opening ceremony of "Happy Ghost" was held at the Clear Water Bay Studio.
Including the people behind the scenes, the core of the entire crew is only about ten people, and there are dozens of onlookers nearby.
Kang Jianfei moved the table with the set staff, and then placed roast suckling pig, roast goose and many fruits. After setting up the altar, Kang Jianfei led the entire crew to burn incense and worship the gods, clasped his hands together, held the incense, and murmured in his mouth
Said: "All the great gods wish "Happy Ghost" a smooth filming and a box office hit..."
After Kang Jianfei finished praying, everyone else lit incense and prayed one by one.
They performed the worship ceremony on the Clear Water Bay set, because the opening scene of the ruined temple was shot here, and the scene on the beach could be shot on the beach near Clear Water Bay. The filming equipment rented by Kang Jianfei is now lying on the
In the Clear Water Bay studio, if you shoot here first and then go to Tiu Keng Leng Secondary School, you can save a lot of time and freight.
When a movie is turned on to worship God, it will naturally attract onlookers. What's more, Kang Jianfei, a mainlander who has never made a movie before, leads a shabby crew that was put together together with a bunch of unknown actors.
This combination is really ridiculous.
"Kang Jianfei, does he think he's making movies instead of writing novels? If he could make money by just getting a crew to make movies, I would have changed my career to a director long ago."
"Young man from Mainland China, do you have any insights? I have been working on a TV series with Producer Wang for a few days, so I thought that making movies would be easy."
"I saw that when his movie was made, it didn't even have a chance to be released. He's so crazy that he dared to start filming without the support of the theater chain."
"Haha, I heard that this guy earned hundreds of thousands from writing novels. I think he will lose all his money."
"This kind of person is so poor that he doesn't use hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a house to increase its value, but he actually uses it to make a movie. It would be better if he jumped off a building as compensation."
"..."
These people talking and talking are all low-level people on the set. They are either extras or the lowest stage workers. Only those who are really capable have no time to come and watch the new director Kang Jianfei start the film and worship God.
The discussion and ridicule became louder and louder, and finally reached the point of being unscrupulous. The employees of the "Happy Ghost" crew were all attracted by Kang Jianfei with money or friendship. After hearing the ridicule, some people were angry
Holding back their anger, they wanted to rush over and beat those people up; some people felt embarrassed and had the idea of quitting the crew.
Kang Jianfei suddenly slapped the altar, pointed at the people outside, looked around and shouted: "You street boys have no ability to make movies, so what qualifications do you have to criticize me? I am a refugee from mainland China.
I was able to raise my own money to make a movie after two months in Hong Kong. So what if I lost money? At least I worked hard! And you, you are not even qualified to try to make a movie. You have no funds and no courage. You deserve to be without food for the rest of your life.
Eat! Uncle, I'm going to turn on my phone now. If you have nothing to do, get out of here. If you want to laugh at me, you can wait until my movie hits the streets in two months. But now, you don't have the qualifications because you don't even have one of mine.
Not even as good as your little finger!”
Kang Jianfei's voice was so loud that veins popped out on his forehead, and soon the originally noisy worship scene fell silent.
"Well said!" The first one to agree was Uncle Qi, who was in charge of the field management team. This old man took the lead in applauding.
Other crew members also reacted, applauded and shouted: "Well said, director!"
Wu Chenggang was also applauding vigorously. He originally thought that Kang Jianfei was mentally ill and could not be persuaded no matter how hard he tried. He insisted on making a movie by himself. But Kang Jianfei's words just now were like a wake-up call, and Wu Chenggang suddenly realized: Who do he have the right to question?
Kang Jianfei? Regardless of whether Kang Jianfei makes a profit or loses money, at least he has taken that step. He is much better than himself, a loser who has been living in Hong Kong for twenty years and cannot buy a house.
Zhong Zhiwen and Zhong Yuan were also applauding. Zhong Zhiwen was originally attracted by Kang Jianfei's storyboard and had no friendship with Kang Jianfei. However, Kang Jianfei's words now made Zhong Zhiwen, who is also a young man,
My enthusiasm was high, and I felt that filming with an enterprising young director seemed to be a good choice.
And what about Zhong Yuan? This fat man is in his thirties. He used to be a mediocre sound engineer at Jiashi. He laughed and laughed all day long, but he looked down on everyone in his eyes. He originally looked down on Kang Jianfei, and he only did it just to make money.
The words of Kang Jianfei, who came to the crew, slightly changed Zhong Yuan's impression of him. At least he felt that Kang Jianfei was not the kind of waste who didn't know the heights of the world.
Before the applause of the crew ended, a burly guy came over, pointed at Kang Jianfei's nose and asked: "Who the hell are you calling a street kid?"
"You're the one I'm scolding!" Kang Jianfei is soft when he should be soft, but tougher than anyone else when he should be tough. If he shrinks back now, how can he, as a director, have any prestige in the already loose crew from now on?
The director is like a commander and an army to the crew. If the director has no prestige, the situation will be very bad, and the quality and progress of the filming will decline. And now these people who laugh at him can just use it to establish prestige and increase the number of "
The cohesion of the cast of "Happy Ghost".
The strong man seemed to be a dragon and tiger martial artist who specializes in filming action scenes for movies. He had some real skills. After hearing Kang Jianfei's curse, he immediately came over angrily and punched him.
"Director, be careful!" the crew members exclaimed.
Kang Jianfei's current body is the result of more than ten years of farm work in the countryside of Bao'an. Whether he is planting crops or fishing, his muscles are strong and strong. Coupled with Kang Jianfei's fighting skills, he only dodged, hooked and slashed slightly.
He tripped the strong man to the ground and punched him on the back of the head.
"Bang!"
There was a loud noise, and the tall and mighty looking Longhu martial artist was knocked unconscious by Kang Jianfei's punch.
Kang Jianfei looked around again and said, "Who else is dissatisfied?"
There was silence all around.
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Um, I was so fascinated by watching "Godly Heroes" by the great master, I actually forgot to update...
