In a paintball shooting range on the outskirts of Beijing, there was loud gunfire and paintballs flying.
The crew of "I'm Not a Hero" is filming a paintball showdown between Chen Fei and Li Weicheng here. Although some difficult actions are completed by stuntmen, the actors still need to keep running, hiding, and shooting.
"Ka, OK, this one is passed! Get ready for the next one..."
Before Guo Jingyu finished speaking, he saw Li Hao holding the gun in his hand as a walking stick, bending over, breathing heavily, waving his hands with difficulty and saying: "Director, I can't do it anymore, take a break!"
"Okay, let's rest for fifteen minutes."
He Xin felt okay. Thanks to the morning jog every morning for so many years, the young man had good endurance. It was his first time to come to such a place, especially this kind of paintball gun that uses gas cylinders as its firing power.
It feels quite enjoyable.
Although it fires paintballs, the "chunk" power of this thing is very strong when the trigger is pulled. It really hurts when it hits the body. If the distance is close, it still has a certain lethality, so when tourists play, they usually
It is necessary to wear a helmet and a plexiglass mask to avoid accidental injuries. Of course, like their filming, in order to highlight the image of the actor and the aura of the protagonist, these are not needed. Fortunately, most of the filming is a separate shot, and there are very few scenes of shooting each other.
, reducing the possibility of accidental injury.
This paintball shooting range is built on a gentle hillside, surrounded by large trees. It has wooden bunkers, fences, bunkers built with tires and zigzag trenches. It is quite large and looks like that.
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"It's better to be young. Unlike an old guy like me, my old arms and legs can't stand the torment!" Li Wei sat in a very inconspicuous manner under a big tree, looking at him enviously as if nothing happened.
He Xin, who was still looking around like a curious baby, sighed.
Although the two played a pair of comrades in arms in the play, they were twenty years older than He Xin. They were among the first batch of students to graduate from the Nortel Amateur Performance Class after the reform and opening up, and were actors from the Hunan Repertory Theater.
However, this guy became famous very early, and developed in Beijing in the early 1980s. Because of his tall stature, thick eyebrows and big eyes, he fit in well with the aesthetics of that era. He has appeared in many classic movies. For example, Wu Ziniu's "The Twilight Zone", "Happy Heroes"
”, He Qun’s “Prison Car Going West”, “Fire King” and so on.
Especially in "Fire King", this guy wears sunglasses, rides a bicycle, has a traitor's hair parted in the middle, silk shirt, wide-mouthed cloth shoes, and carries two shell guns. He looks so handsome and looks like an alternative.
Li Xiangyang left a deep impression on He Xin, who was still in primary school and loved contact movies.
However, later on, his role as the treacherous, lustful and lustful Ximen Qing in "Water Margin" was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so he never returned to the villain's path.
Speaking of "I'm Not a Hero", the casting is really interesting. He Xin is well-known to the audience as the gangster Liu Huaqiang. This time, his partner Ximen Qing plays a positive role in the film.
In addition, teacher Wang Kuirong, who has always been shown as a sinister and cunning villain, also made a cameo appearance in the film as a strategizing and commanding police chief.
As for Jiang Tao, who plays the role of teacher Wang Fuli, who is known as "the best sister-in-law in the world", and the upright-looking deputy captain of the Criminal Police Team Wang Zhong, oh, this Jiang Tao is the one who plays Director Qiu of the Inspectorate in the popular "Rebirth"
That one, however, plays the big villain in the play.
There is a great contrast between the actor's image and the audience's perception.
"Uncle Qiang, you're not bad. I just saw that you're quite agile!" He Xin said with a smile.
As soon as he heard the word "Uncle Qiang", the smile on Li Wei's face suddenly froze, and he hurriedly said: "Okay, can I call you Brother Qiang? Please don't always be uncle, uncle, I can't bear it.
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In fact, in terms of age, Li Hao is only a few years younger than He Xin's deceased father. It is completely normal to call him Uncle. Didn't he call himself an old guy just now? But he can laugh at himself, but others say it feels different.
Yes, besides, the two of them are love rivals in the play!
He Xin also deliberately teased him. The two had been working together for nearly two months and had a good relationship. After getting acquainted, He Xin was surprised to find that this man, who was already in his forties, had never been married before.
Now I am still single.
"I didn't expect that there would be a place like this in the capital. It's really nice to come and have fun."
"Why, do you like playing with guns?"
"I'm just curious. Speaking of men, there are some who don't like playing with guns."
"This kind of thing is actually trivial. It can be found anywhere where you play with real guns."
"Really?" He Xin was suddenly surprised.
After all these years in the capital, he had actually heard of a place where you could play with real guns.
Li Hao smiled proudly, stretched out his hand and said: "Come on, give me a hand. I will take you to see it next time I have a chance!"
When He Xin heard this, he suddenly felt excited. Speaking of which, he had never touched a real guy in his entire life, let alone played with it. It was exciting to think about it. He quickly pulled him up and said, "Then you have to talk.
Count it?"
"Of course it counts!"
At this time, Guo Jingyu was heard shouting with a loudspeaker: "The time is up, everyone is ready for the next one."
"Okay, after two months of hard work, it's finally time to tremble." Li Wei patted his butt and picked up the paintball gun again, looking nonchalant.
That's right, today is the last scene of "I'm Not a Hero", and it's finished right after filming. And this scene was added temporarily. It is said that the owner of this paintball shooting range has a good relationship with the producer, and not only provides it for free
The venue also sponsored 200,000 yuan to the crew, which can be regarded as an advertisement.
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"Come on, come on, let's have a drink. First of all, we congratulate Director Hao on officially becoming a full-time employee, and secondly, we congratulate our Xiao He on finally starring in a work by a great director."
In the private room of a small restaurant on Dongdaqiao Xiejie Street, three friends gathered together for dinner again. Li Mengnan, with a glowing face, raised his glass and shouted.
Since moving to a new home, this place has become another regular place for the three of them to gather and drink. Since it is very close to the community where He Xin and Hao Rong live, they can walk there in about ten minutes without taking a taxi.
Secondly, although this small restaurant specializes in home-cooked dishes, it has a wide variety of dishes, ranging from south to north, and the key point is that the prices are affordable.
"Okay, okay, don't celebrate. It won't be good if people hear about it." Hao Rong pressed him down hurriedly.
The scandal involving the beating of Ren Ren and Director Huang has been fermenting for more than two months and has finally come to an end. Although He Xin is not sure about the specific details, he still has a general understanding.
Beauty is a disaster, and sex is like a knife to the head. This wise saying really does not deceive me. It is nothing more than that woman's feet are in two boats, and then she was severely beaten after being discovered by one party.
The other party was sympathetic and angry, so he asked the woman to call the police. At the same time, she advocated for expulsion, but no one said hello to any avail.
However, one party also has a background and is very powerful in the circle. How can one just watch the other party ruin the future of their own children, so they use all kinds of tricks to try to clear themselves and at the same time make the other party look bad and bring them down.
Speaking of the victimized woman, she was in her early twenties and living in two different situations. It was obvious that it was not true love. It was just the vanity of a typical shameless little girl. On the one hand, she was in love with the son of a big boss.
Trying to pave the way for future development, while on the other hand receiving care and resources from the other party, is the best of both worlds.
But what happened afterwards, He Xin estimated, was completely beyond the imagination of a little girl in her early twenties, but she still chose the party that was most beneficial to her, acted like a victim, and bit the other party.
Then only the other party was unlucky. Not only was he ruined but also imprisoned. Although he was later released due to lack of evidence or other private activities, he definitely couldn't survive in the school and could only resign sadly.
As a result, Director Hao, who had previously acted as an agent, was finally able to become a full-time employee smoothly, and fortunately became the only beneficiary of this scandal.
But I have to say that no one in this incident is innocent. Everyone has brought it upon themselves and suffered the consequences.
Hao Rong was of course very happy to be able to successfully become a full-time employee this time. This greatly shortened his struggle. But after all, the previous one was his teacher and his boss, so he still had to have the proper attitude.
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As for He Xin, after Director Chen had another talk with him, the two parties finally reached an agreement. On the one hand, in the face of Director Chen's favor, he could not and did not dare not appreciate it, not to mention his own appreciation for the actors in the play.
I am very interested in those stunts and green screen performances. On the one hand, the other party is very wealthy. After all, it is a big investment of 200 million, which is very generous. The salary of 1 million is still very attractive.
After winning the Best Actor Award in Venice, as well as the hits of "Chinese Divorce" and "Painted Soul", his salary increased again.
However, compared to the salaries of several other protagonists in the film, which are hundreds or even tens of millions, He Xin's salary can only be regarded as insignificant.
In fact, now he also thinks about it. Whether a movie is bad or not has little to do with the actors, unless the actor's acting skills are particularly bad, but it depends more on the script and the director's grasp of the movie.
For example, "Fortress Liuhai" is destined to become a milestone in the history of Chinese science fiction movies. Although Lu Liuhai's performance in it is extremely bad, the reason why this movie has become the worst movie among bad movies is that it is the fighter among bad movies.
, but also because of the cliché, thinness of the story and the lack of skill of the director.
Of course, it’s not completely unfair for everyone to blame Lu Liuhai in the end. Who made him get the most money?
After He Xin read the script, he found that the story was actually pretty good. No matter how controversial Director Chen was in later generations, he had certain literary skills after all, and he had proven himself to be a great director, even better at telling stories.
With such a big investment, it is impossible for him to choose a script with a weak story.
Moreover, the killer ghost wolf that He Xin is now determined to play is actually a very difficult role to play. As a killer, he kills without blinking an eye, but at the same time he is also an extremely greedy and fearful person. In order to survive, he is willing to be driven by the Duke to kill.
But then he experienced a huge change, and he took the initiative to sacrifice his own life in order to save others.
In addition, he had already tried makeup, and the look designed for him by the famous Japanese manga master was full of the ritual sense of a stage play, which also interested him very much.
How should I put it? No matter how controversial this movie will be in the future, for him, all he has to do is play his role well.
In addition, he hid some small dissatisfaction in his heart. He just wanted to work with the Xie Pa Wang who was only a few months younger than him, but had the highest salary and was highly sought after by the media. He wanted to talk about how good he was.