Heading to the hotel, when Fang Jing arrived, Brother Chen Kai and Ming Dao Yan Yalun had already arrived, leaving him alone.
"Sorry, I'm late." When they met, Fang Jing was a little embarrassed. He had just heard from the front desk that Brother Chen Kai and the others had been here for three days.
"It's okay, it's not too late." Brother Chen Kai waved his hand, "I know you are busy there, so I didn't want to disturb you, but the time here is limited. We only have a few hours a day, so there is really nothing we can do."
Chen Kaige's script is an urban drama, and it is all about real scenes. He can't go to Hengdian for filming, so he can only shoot in the city, disperse the crowds, close the roads, and rent the venue. Among the four directors, he is the most difficult to do.
In order to solve his problem, Xiangnan Satellite TV's head almost exploded. After talking for a long time, they finally reached an agreement with the traffic control department and closed a section of the road for them to film.
But with such a large flow of people in the urban area, we can't close the road every day for him to take pictures. We can only take a few hours out of the day. This is the maximum limit.
That's why Brother Chen Kai rushed to call Fang Jing back.
"It's okay. I'm already busy over there. I'm really sorry to ask you to make do with me."
Fang Jing picked up his script and read it. A courier boy with leukemia was going to have chemotherapy the next day and might die. Before he died, he wanted to get another haircut at an old shop on the street.
He has had his hair cut here since he was a child.
There is a pair of masters and apprentices in the barber shop. Mingdao is the handicapped master and Yan Yalun is the apprentice. The shop is about to close.
"How's it going? Do you have any questions?" Brother Chen Kai looked at Fang Jing. Fang Jing had just gotten the script and everyone else had memorized the lyrics by heart.
"No problem, let's go to the scene right now."
"Wait a minute!" Ming Dao raised his hand and asked Fang Jing, "Don't you even memorize the lyrics?"
"Memorize it on the road. I can memorize this few words in five minutes."
Awesome!
What can Yan Yalun and Ming Dao say? It’s such a long page with hundreds of words, and Fang Jing said he could finish it in five minutes.
Fang Jing shrugged. It was difficult for others, but very simple for him. A few hundred words seemed like a lot, but it was only a few dozen sentences. It brought the characters into it and he could memorize it easily.
This is still a movie mode, you can't change the lines, every word must be according to the script. If the TV series is more relaxed, it's okay to change a few words in a sentence, as long as the general meaning remains the same, and there will be someone to dub and correct it later.
It was the rush hour after get off work, and the four of them took a car to the shooting location. People were coming and going on the road. Without getting out of the car, Brother Chen Kai explained to Fang Jing through the car window.
"There is one main venue, this barber shop." Brother Chen Kai pointed to an old barber shop on the roadside and said, "Have you seen this tree? I went shopping for two days to find a barber shop with a tree in front of the shop."
Fang Jing looked intently and saw that the big tree in front of the shop was quite old. It was estimated that even an adult could hug it. It was three stories tall, with lush branches and leaves, and was full of vitality. It fit the story of the old shop in the script.
In the script, the barber played by Ming Dao is a family tradition. His father used to give people haircuts under this tree for one yuan each. Later, he opened a shop when he got rich.
And "he" also got his hair cut at that time.
"Besides here, I also found a traffic light. Where is the second scene. The street along our route will be closed. Starting from tomorrow, it will be closed from 6 to 7 pm and from 11 to 12 pm every day for three consecutive days.
sky."
Ask the driver to drive slowly, and Brother Chen Kai slowly introduces Fang Jing.
"We don't have much time left. What I want is for everyone to work harder. We usually close the door and rehearse in the room, and wait until the door opens at six o'clock."
Fang Jing looked at Brother Chen Kai with admiration. Xiangnan Satellite TV probably wanted to beat him to death. How much would it cost to seal such a long road?
Look at Guo Jingming, who shot the scene directly in Hengdian. I heard that they used their own crew for the movie, which saved money.
Asking the driver to stop the car, lowering the brim of his hat and putting on a mask, Fang Jing opened the door and got out of the car, "How can you see from such a distance? Just go up."
Fuck!
Yan Yalun was startled and had already gone down before he could hold Fang Jing back.
There are so many people on the street now, what should we do if we are blocked? They were afraid of causing a stir and did not get out of the car. They have been sneaking around in the past two days, or coming in the middle of the night.
Facts have proved that they were overthinking it. When Fang Jing got out of the car, no one looked at him at all.
"Director Chen, the key!" Fang Jing turned around and shouted to Brother Chen Kai when he found that the door of the barber shop was locked.
Brother Chen Kai had no choice but to give the key to the driver and asked him to give it to Fang Jing.
After getting the key, Fang Jing opened the door and murmured, "It's like being a thief, right? There's no one in the vegetable market or supermarket near my home who doesn't recognize me."
The driver didn't leave. He wanted to stand aside to protect him, but when he heard these words, the corner of his mouth twitched.
When he was not popular, Fang Jing still had bodyguards, but now they have been withdrawn and there is no heating. When he returned home, he often went out to buy groceries. People recognized him many times and said he looked like Fang Jing.
Sometimes being recognized is not a big deal. Most people just take a few glances from a distance, take a photo with their mobile phone and post it on their WeChat Moments, and that's it.
The brave ones stepped forward to take a photo with him, and he left after taking the photo.
He has never met a crazy fan who can chase after eight streets, but there are paparazzi who chase after eight streets.
"Wow!!"
After opening the rolling shutter door, the cabin was filled with sealed boxes and several pieces of equipment. It looked like Lao Chen had stepped through them in advance.
Mirror, scissors, hair dryer, scarf, shampoo, all available.
Brother Chen Kai wore a peaked cap and walked in secretly, "Is it okay? I went to the barber shop to buy these equipment myself, not props."
After picking up the shampoo and shaking it, Fang Jing found that there was only half a bottle inside. "Director Chen, it seems that you have been tricked. You must have never gone to an ordinary street barber shop to have your hair cut."
"How do you say it?" Brother Chen Kai became interested.
"The barbershops on the street don't use bottled shampoo. They sell it in wholesale buckets. Each bucket weighs seven to eight kilograms. There is fragrance in it, and the shampoo is very fragrant. In fact, the cost is only a dozen yuan."
Looking at the shampoo in his hand, Fang Jing said with a smile, "This bottle of yours costs fifty or sixty yuan, and it will be gone if you can't wash more than a dozen people."
When Fang Jing was a child, his hair was cut by an old man in the village for free. When he went to junior high school in the county, he went to a street barber shop and it cost five yuan to get a haircut. Now the price has increased and it costs ten yuan.
"Really?" Brother Chen Kai took the shampoo with doubts in his eyes.
"Director Chen, if you really want to do the details, it's best to go to some old street shops. As far as I know, there are still such old barber shops in Shacheng."
"A haircut that costs ten dollars is probably extinct, but you can probably find one that costs fifteen or twenty dollars."
He raised his hand and looked at his watch. Seeing that there was still time, Brother Chen Kai nodded, "Okay, let's go now."
Wandering towards the old town, within half an hour, we found a barber shop in a remote alley. Just as Chen Kai was about to go out, Fang Jing quickly grabbed him, looking embarrassed.
"Director Chen, let's forget this and find another company."
The young lady at the door had a cigarette in her hand, a perm and a short skirt. She glanced around flirtatiously from time to time and smiled when she saw the middle-aged men coming and going.