Chapter Four Hundred and Thirty: Four Kings Bring One Bronze
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Just as Fang Jing was about to leave, Dapeng grabbed him, rolled his eyes and said, "You're already here, stay a little longer. I still have some things about the crew that I haven't reported to you."
"What's the matter? Tell me."
"It's a long story."
"Then let's make a long story short."
With a smile, Dapeng said: "Nearly 100 million investment, such a big deal, the crew has so many things going on every day, how can I explain it clearly in one or two sentences?" : :
"Stay here first, don't leave in a hurry. Let's wait and see. I invested so much money and didn't even hear the sound. I wouldn't be happy if it were me. I should give you investors an explanation."
"Okay, I'll watch it then." As long as the money is not mentioned, it's easy to talk about anything. Fang Jing doesn't need this little time, and he came today just to see how the crew is doing.
"Isn't that right?" Dapeng said with a fist, "Old Jiang, you and Mr. Fang are watching from the side and tell everything you know. I will come over in a moment."
"Don't worry, director, I'll take care of it."
Twenty minutes later, the crew started the first scene of the day. All the actors including Nazar, Dapeng, Xixi, Han Tongshen and others were in place.
The Sewing Machine Band is a comedy, but there is a little bit of other colors in the comedy. Cheng Gong, played by Dapeng, is a musician with dreams, but bad luck and he became an agent.
Hu Liang, played by Qiao Shan, fights to protect his hometown rock park from being demolished by developers. Ding Jianguo, played by Naza, is frustrated in love. The little girl Xixi loves music, the drummer Dynamite is looking for a lover, and the old man Yang Shuangshu has not loved guitar for many years.
The sky was white, men, women, old and young gathered around the Big Guitar Park. Six people gathered together to form the Sewing Machine Band.
This scene was filmed in an abandoned factory. In order to protect the Big Guitar Park, Hu Liang hired Cheng Gong with a high salary to help him form a band. Cheng Gong found several people through interviews, and many of the protagonists came together for the first time.
"Is this the person you're looking for?" Looking at the cripples, cerebral thrombosis, and minors, veins popped up on Hu Liang's forehead.
"Who in the right mind would form a band with you?" Cheng Gong bit his lollipop with a look of disdain on his face.
"What happened to me?"
"What's wrong with you? You're the lead singer even though you can't understand what you're saying." Turning to look at everyone, Cheng Gong said: "There will be a lot of problems in the first rehearsal. It's okay. Let's rehearse a short improvisation and let the problems surface.
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Looking at the drummer young man with his back to the others, Cheng Gong continued: "Dynamite, you can just play a short section first."
Without speaking, the young man sighed and began to beat the drum weakly. The rhythm was established, but anyone with long ears could hear the depression and weakness in it.
"This is so amateurish. Where did you find this person?" Hu Liang was so angry that he wanted to hit someone. "I can't tell the difference from time to time. I don't know how to do it at all."
Being said to be unprofessional, the young man rolled up his sleeves, sat up straight and started over again. In an instant, his sense of music was overwhelming, and a passionate and orderly chorus of drums and discs sounded out.
Immediately afterwards, bassist Ding Jianguo stood up with his bandaged feet and plucked the strings in his hands. The little girl Xi Xi and Yang Shuangshu cooperated one after another. In an instant, there were four kings with a bronze. Hu Liang was stunned on the spot with his mouth wide open.
"This drummer has practiced before." Outside the set, Fang Jing pointed at the young man playing the drum with his back turned.
Although Nazha and the actor who played Yang Shulin were not skilled in technique, Fang Jing could tell that they were at the level of beginners at best and not as good as the little girl Xixi.
You can't practice an instrument in a day or two. The sense of music is elusive, and it's easy to find it. But the young man was very at ease, not at all nervous about his body, and he was so natural that he didn't look like someone who had just learned the drums.
"Mr. Fang really has a keen eye for music. He deserves to be a musician." Lao Jiang gave a thumbs up and praised, "His name is Li Hongqi. He is a musician himself and specializes in drums."
"In addition, Nazha and Han Tongshen had no musical foundation before. Before filming, the director hired someone to give them more than 40 musical instrument lessons. Now it is not a problem to cope with filming. Xixi started practicing piano a year and a half ago."
Filmmaking does not require the actors to truly reach the level of the characters in the crew. Films like this have dubbing in the later stages. Dapeng's requirement is that the techniques and postures of the actors are correct.
"Among the main actors, except Xixi and Li Hongqi who are more professional, Qiao Shan is also pretty good. He learned to play the guitar very early, which saved a lot of training time this time."
Nodding silently, under Lao Jiang's introduction, Fang Jing found out that the old man who played the role of cerebral thrombosis was called Han Tongshen. He had very good acting skills and was very professional.
I have to say that Sewing Machine Band Dapeng put in a lot of effort.
There were a lot of lines in this scene, but few of them were seen because of basic mistakes. Dapeng's acting skills were also good, and even Qiao Shan was not inferior to actors with a background in the entertainment industry.
A three-minute scene was filmed for more than an hour. It was shot back and forth non-stop. After filming, I would watch the playback and continue filming if I didn't like it. No one on the crew dared to object, and the actors were very cooperative.
At around nine o'clock, this scene was shot and everyone could finally take a rest. The next scene was not here and had to wait until the staff set up the camera positions.
Taking off his black-rimmed glasses, Dapeng rubbed his eyes tiredly. Being a director and an actor, he was really tired. He took out the glasses cloth and wiped the dust off the mirrors, put them on again and looked for Fang Jing.
"What a great performance, you will definitely be a big star in the future." In the corner, Fang Jing squatted on the ground to encourage the little girl Xixi.
Generally, children of this age are jumping out of control and find it difficult to obey discipline. They either go to the house to remove roof tiles or graffiti on the walls, which tests the parents' mental endurance.
But Xixi was very good. She memorized lyrics and played the piano when she was supposed to. She didn't cry or fuss at all. She just thought about it now. After the filming, she threw away a lollipop and ate it with gusto.
"Then will you ask me to make movies in the future?" Xixi asked with her eyes widened, "I'm very good at acting."
"Okay." Fang Jing said with a smile: "I will find you if I have a suitable role in the future."
"Xixi, thank you brother quickly." Naza touched the girl's head to remind her.
"Thank you, brother."
"Xixi is so good." Fang Jing said, looking up at Naza, "What are your plans for the next film?"
"Not yet, but if Mr. Fang has any projects, I'm more than welcome to come to me."
After the salary limit order, life is not easy for actors in the entertainment industry, especially first- and second-tier artists. Their salary was originally high, but now it has been cut in half, and they have suddenly dropped several ranks, and they are suddenly back to seven or eight years ago.
After thinking for a while, Fang Jing said, "Yes, there is, but I don't have time to take pictures. It will probably take a few months."
Naza came from a major, his acting skills and appearance are both top-notch, and he is not very young. This kind of actor will be very popular in the future. As long as he is famous, there will be no shortage of movies.
In comparison, Reba's side is weaker. It's not that she's not good, but that the team behind her is different. It's okay for Yang Mi to praise herself, but it's not suitable to praise others, and she didn't choose the script well.
It can be seen that Reba has been with her for several years and has not made her mark. Even in her previous life, after playing the role of Bai Fengjiu for a while, Reba was out of action for seven or eight months, and her acting skills were also criticized!
The company behind Nazha is Tangren Film and Television, which produces TV series. Its vision and experience are several levels higher than that of Yang Mi Studio.