There are not many staff members from Hong Kong, and most of them are from the mainland. Several of them, including Li Huatong and Niu Le, have worked on the set of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle".
Two days later, He Xin officially joined the group.
The first thing to do is look. Hu Jun’s look has already been decided, that of a domineering president. And He Xin is thinner than him, and he plays a student. The crew’s artistic director and costume designer Zhang Shuping specially designed a plaid shirt and a pullover for him.
The sweater, and the collar must be turned out, is said to be Japanese style.
The story takes place in Beijing from the mid to late 1980s to the 1990s, when this would have been popular.
Although He Xin's hair had grown a bit longer, Zhang Shuping was still dissatisfied, so he simply added a hood, which was long at the back, with the sideburns half covering the ears, and parted in the middle.
He looked at himself in the mirror, and it magically overlapped with the vague image of Lan Yu he had imagined in his mind. He couldn't help but admired it. After all, the whole morning's work was in vain. It seemed that this big-nosed uncle really had two things.
Take the brush.
"New boy!"
"Director, you..."
"Oh, I forgot again, Ah Xin, haha! Come, sit down together."
During lunch, Guan Jinpeng called He Xin over.
When working with people in Hong Kong, he is most annoyed by people calling him "Xinzi", although this is the way they are accustomed to calling him. Just like in Beijing, some people also called him "Xinzi", and he is also not used to this kind of address.
When it comes to addressing people, I always correct them and call them "Xiao He" or "A Xin".
Although He Xin's current identity is from a small town in the northeast, at heart he is still the same He Xiaozu who was born and raised in a small county on the southeastern coast. Growing up, everyone called him "Azu".
"Here, this is what we are going to shoot tonight." During lunch, Guan Jinpeng took a piece of paper and handed it to He Xindao.
"puff……"
He Xin took it and took a look, almost spitting out the rice in his mouth, and said with an incredible look on his face: "Director, I...I, this is my first scene to shoot?"
Although it is impossible to shoot according to the script, you have to leave some time for the actors to gradually adapt, and then shoot some more intense scenes, such as kissing scenes, boat scenes, etc. Even if He Xin has only made one movie
, also know the common sense.
Unexpectedly, Guan Jinpeng came up and arranged a boat scene for him, and it turned out to be a success.
What is this operation?
"This is the first time Lan Yu and Han Dong have met, and it's the first time he has experienced this kind of thing. What I want is that sense of strangeness and tension..."
Guan Jinpeng talked a lot about it, and then asked He Xin to think about it by himself.
Thinking?
He Xin didn't know what to think about at all.
In the afternoon, the camera was moved, and then the two rehearsed. Although it was the first time for him to work with Hu Jun, He Xin could clearly feel that the other person was a little nervous.
Because there was no coordination at the Friendship Hotel, the crew moved to the North China Hotel to shoot the scene at night, from 8pm to early morning.
To be honest, this was the most careless scene He Xin had ever filmed, and he was confused until the end. Quan Guo, he was not afraid, since they were all big men anyway, so he just thought they were in a bathhouse.
But he was passive throughout the whole process, and many of them were subconscious stress reactions. For example, there was a scene where Hu Jun came to him after taking a shower and said: It's getting late. At that time, he was agitated, and he obviously felt like he was shaking all over.
I got goosebumps.
But Guan Jinpeng was very satisfied with this shot, saying that this was what he wanted.
(I have no choice but to write the plot in too detail.)
Guan Jinpeng is a very delicate and gentle person, he always has a smile on his face, and He Xin has almost never seen him get angry.
During the second filming, He Xin inevitably compared him with Wang Xiaoshuai and found that the two directors had similar styles, except that Guan Jinpeng loved to chat, and was particularly good at chatting.
He did not shy away from his gay identity and told them about his true experiences and the separation and reunion between him and his boyfriend for more than ten years. He burst into tears when he was emotional. He Xin and Hu Jun were shocked to hear this, but
I had to be moved by it.
The filming lasted for more than ten days, and almost every day was non-stop, reshooting, and stumbling all the time. In contrast, He Xin found that the problems mostly occurred in himself.
I locked myself in a room, read the script over and over again, studied Lan Yu's character traits, analyzed the character in detail, and used my own emotions to feel and embody it.
On this day, the shooting was still not going well. After finishing the work, He Xin returned to the room dejectedly. As soon as he sat down, there was a knock on the door of the room.
"Uh, director?"
When he opened the door, he saw Guan Jinpeng standing at the door with a smile on his face. Then he glanced at an open bottle of red wine and two goblets in his hand.
"Axin, let's have a drink together?"
"Okay! Oh, director, please come in."
The two sat down at the coffee table and poured two glasses of wine.
"Director, I respect you!"
To be honest, He Xin felt a little guilty. He knew that his performance was not good today, so the director's visit in person would definitely not be unintentional.
He picked up the wine glass and signaled to Guan Jinpeng, then toasted directly, looking like he was apologizing.
Guan Jinpeng looked at him in astonishment and sighed: "A Xin, this is not how you drink red wine."
As he spoke, he shook the wine glass in his hand, first put his nose to it and smelled it, then took a small sip, held it in his mouth and tasted it carefully before swallowing it.
He Xin could only sweat and say: "Um...director, I'm not very good at drinking."
"It's okay, it's okay."
Guan Jinpeng poured a little more into his glass, continued to shake his glass, and said: "A Xin, I think you go back to your room after work every day and don't go out. Don't you have a girlfriend?"
"Well, no."
Logically, he and Hu Jun lived in this room together, but the eldest brother finished work every day and would go home with his wife no matter how late it was, so it was easier for him to stay alone.
The hotel was in good condition and there were hot showers every day. He Xin didn't want to go back to his rental house at all.
"I suggest you find one, even if it's temporary."
"Well……"
He Xin didn't understand what Guan Jinpeng meant. What does temporary work mean?
"What I mean is that you don't push yourself too hard and relax appropriately."
"It's okay, director."
He Xin said sincerely: "I know my performance is not good these days, but don't worry, director, I will definitely work hard..."
Guan Jinpeng shook his head and interrupted: "You still don't understand! Let's put it this way, your performance is exaggerated, or too deliberate and unreal. There is something wrong with you."
As he spoke, he pointed to his head and said: "Because you don't believe it, you don't believe this is true. So I ask you to relax, find a girlfriend, and experience that feeling for yourself..."
At the end of the sentence, Guan Jinpeng smiled and patted him on the shoulder, jokingly saying: "Ah Xin, you are a handsome boy! Go to the bar below and walk around, I'm sure you can catch one!"
Hey, you old glass!
Guan Jinpeng was encouraging him to experience the real state.
He couldn't help but say that he was completely joking. He Xin thought about it carefully and felt that there was indeed a "performance" in his performance. To put it bluntly, he still had obstacles in his heart.
Most of a bottle of wine goes into Guan Jinpeng's stomach. Hong Kong people like to drink. Although He Xin doesn't drink much, he still likes to drink white wine or rice wine. He has no interest in foreign wines and wines, and he can't drink well.
bad.
After Lao Zizi left, he was really ready to make a move on the proposal he just made. It has been more than a year since he came to this era, and he has never had a woman. It's not that he doesn't want to, but it's the inferiority complex that always exists in his bones.
In his previous life, he was short and poor. Except for his wife, no woman could look up to him, and he was unwilling to spend money.
These days, he has a good skin. As Lao Guan said just now, he is a handsome boy. He wanted to put on clothes and go downstairs to the bar to try his luck, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't take this step.
"I'm still cowardly!"
He sighed, lay down on the bed, picked up the script as usual, and began to think about tomorrow's play.
Reading the lines in the script, he imagined in his mind the scene of Lan Yu and Han Dong having sex together. He suddenly remembered what Guan Jinpeng said to him inadvertently before leaving: "Don't care about the other person, you need to believe that you really love this
People are enough."
He thought about this sentence over and over again, and unexpectedly fell asleep that night...