Chapter 880: He was once a movie king, but now he is a street cobbler?
As for the heroine, she is quite interesting.
Xu Fangfang.
She is a veteran and powerful actress in Hong Kong. Although she has not won the Best Actress Award, she is still considered a golden supporting actress.
The reason why it is more interesting is that Xu Fangfang and Fang Zhisheng once staged a vigorous love affair.
It's just a pity that love in the entertainment industry has always been very luxurious, and the two eventually ended up breaking up.
Purely from the perspective of image and acting skills, Xu Fangfang is quite suitable, but it is particularly interesting that the former lovers are now playing an on-screen couple, and they are an old married couple.
After Li Yi informed the two of them, neither of them had any objections.
However, think about it, although Xu Fangfang has been married once, she has been divorced and is currently single.
Fang Zhisheng has had several relationships, but now he is still alone.
At the same time, Fang Zhisheng has actually always called himself Meng Qiguang's disciple, because he filmed many movies with Meng Qiguang back then. Although most of them were supporting roles, it can indeed be said that Fang Zhisheng was able to achieve what he is today because of Meng Qiguang.
They were trained by each other, so it was difficult for Li Yi to doubt whether Meng Qiguang's recommendation for them to play the couple in this drama was filled with personal gain, and he wanted to bring these two people together.
After the two male and female protagonists, Fang Zhisheng and Xu Fangfang, were finalized, the only ones left were the eldest son Luo Jinyi and the younger son Luo Jiner.
In fact, there are many candidates for this aspect, but because this time it is a Hong Kong film, and it is also of the genre of Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong, so in the end, I chose one of the young actors from Hong Kong who won the Hong Kong Film Awards this year.
Luo Feng won the Best Newcomer Award.
Ranwen
Instead of looking for the remaining actors in person, Li Yi directly left them to Zhuo Yixiong.
As for the scene, the street I chose was Wynn Street. This is the only street in the city center that has preserved the style of the 1960s and 1970s. However, the scene shown in the movie is actually Sham Water Walk.
Therefore, the crew also needs to spend a lot of effort on the layout of the scene. Not only that, but in the later stage, they also need to spend a lot of effort to remove the surrounding tall buildings and use computers to create the scene as it was back then.
According to the current situation, this street, which is the only remaining fruitful street, will be demolished soon after the filming of the film is completed. The records of the crew will probably be eternal memories.
Of course, for Li Yi, it was not that big of a feeling. After all, those were the memories of the older generation, not their current generation.
However, although the crew is ready and the scene layout has already begun, although it requires a lot of effort to restore the street scene of Wing Lee Street and add the street scene of Sham Shui Po to allow these traditional old shops to open
, so the workload is not small, but Li Yi’s movies are always cheap, so it’s nothing.
However, even if the crew is ready, it is still impossible to start filming immediately.
Because actors need to be given time to get into their roles. For example, Fang Zhisheng plays the role of a shoemaker in the film. Since he is a shoemaker, he must know the craft of making shoes. However, the professionalism of an experienced actor is not required.
Li Yi took the initiative to mention it, and he went to find an old shoemaker who had been making shoes for many years to learn from him.
Because the styles of shoes made back then were different from those of today. You can’t just find a shoemaker at random, but you have to learn from shoemakers who came from that era.
Not only that, because in the film he plays a poor shoemaker in his 40s, whose daily job is to mend shoes.
Therefore, when learning to make shoes, you must also learn to mend shoes.
For this reason, Fang Zhisheng even went out to make shoes and mend shoes with the seventy-year-old shoemaker he found.
In order to get into the role faster, Fang Zhisheng officially started his career as a real shoemaker apprentice after chatting with Meng Qiguang.
As for whether he would be recognized, Fang Zhisheng was confident. The main reason was that he directly used the image in the movie, slovenly, gray hair, cheap underwear and autumn shirt with pilling, etc.
He ran a stall with an old shoemaker, and many passers-by failed to recognize him as Hong Kong Film Award-winning actor Fong Chi-sheng.
It wasn't until a week later that the paparazzi discovered him.
At this time, Fang Zhisheng was able to start making shoes.
"He used to be a movie king, but now he is a street cobbler! He looks sloppy and will age before he gets old!"
Because "Thieves of Time" has not announced the specific content, nor the cast, many people do not know that Fang Zhisheng went to the streets to learn skills from an old shoemaker to experience life and learn how to make shoes.
In addition, his image is completely different from the past.
It is actually not uncommon for actors in Hong Kong to become street performers.
For this reason, the headline of that entertainment tabloid is very eye-catching.
After all, there are not that many movie stars. The movie king is reduced to a street cobbler, and his clothes are sloppy and his image is aging. No matter how you look at it, he is a loser!
Although Fang Zhisheng does not have countless fans and fans like Chen Weijie and others, he is still a celebrity after all. After the gossip magazine broke the news, he immediately attracted many movie fans and passersby to watch the next day.
It actually made business a lot better.
Fang Zhisheng didn't explain, he still acted like a serious shoemaker, helping customers mend their shoes, and also helping the masters accept custom-made shoes from customers.
I did take a lot of orders.
It's just that there must be traces for an actor's downfall.
However, Fang Zhisheng was still filming before, but now he suddenly fell into despair. The media quickly began to report that he suspected that Fang Zhisheng had gone to experience life for movies.
Later, Fang Zhisheng accepted an interview with the media and admitted this.
"Actually, I took part in director Li Yi's new play "The Thief of Time". Because I played an old shoemaker in it, I came to be an apprentice. The master taught me very carefully, so of course I had to study hard. And I don't agree with what some people say.
Yes, why are shoemakers so downtrodden? There are fewer and fewer people who know this craft now, but it was hard for me to find a master who has been making shoes for decades." Fang Zhisheng smiled as he faced the camera.
said.
"So have you learned it now?" the reporter asked curiously.
"I already know how to make shoes. Of course, my craftsmanship cannot be compared with that of the masters, but I can make high-heeled shoes, men's shoes, and children's shoes." Fang Zhisheng said with a smile.
Fang Zhisheng became an apprentice to learn shoemaking skills for filming, and was quickly reported by the media.
After all, on the one hand, this is indeed relatively novel news, and on the other hand, it is also because Li Yi's "Thieves of Time" has already become a key project focused on by local media in Hong Kong Island.
Years later, the main actors in the "Thieves of Time" crew all received special gifts from Fang Zhisheng, a pair of shoes made by him.
