There are not many characters in "Eggplant". In addition to the extras and a three-year-old child, there are only six actors in total. The setting is simple, and more than 80% of the scenes are concentrated in a high-end apartment.
This high-end apartment is located in Chongqing's "Bund" - a building called "Haike Yingzhou" on Binjiang Road of the Yangtze River next to Chaotianmen.
Facing the Yangtze River, there are three tall buildings lined up in a row. This is probably the best area in Chongqing, and may be equivalent to the "Tomson First Grade" on the bank of the Huangpu River in Shanghai in later generations.
Because the unit price is relatively high, sales are average, and the current occupancy rate is relatively low, it is more suitable for closed shooting. Of course, the developer chose to shoot here, and the developer paid a large sponsorship fee, which is regarded as embedded advertising.
Including the original script in which Momo, a girl in a photo studio, uses a camera to record the people and things around her, but instead uses a mobile phone. Because that mobile phone, which focuses on taking photos, also has embedded advertising.
It is said that just two product placements have recouped half of the investment in this drama, which makes He Xin very embarrassed. You must know that the "Stones" that he invested in did not go smoothly in terms of advertising investment. The original script was used for acting.
The double-act scam cans and BMW cars are both good product placements, but when negotiating with the brand, it did not go smoothly, and it felt like the store was trying to bully customers.
On the morning of the second day after arriving in Chongqing, He Xin met with director Zhang Baibai and several behind-the-scenes creators of the crew. He simply grabbed a few changes of clothes and moved into the building.
Although he originally took the role for Hu Jun's sake, it was also because the script was good and the characters were very distinctive. At first, He Xin thought that he could handle the role of a security guard. But after studying the script carefully, he realized that he wanted to
It's not easy to play this character well.
He reviewed the biographies he had written at the beginning. The security guard Liu Fendou, who was responsible for guarding the underground garage, was born in poverty. Like himself, he might have lost his parents in his early years and was an orphan, or his relationship with his family was very indifferent, otherwise he would
Nor will he give up his life easily in the end.
He may not have graduated from junior high school, but he dropped out of school when he was fifteen or sixteen and came to work in a big city. He must have done a variety of jobs, such as a construction site worker, a restaurant waiter, etc., and finally came to work as a security guard in this building.
During his years of working as a migrant worker, he was undoubtedly used to the ups and downs of the world. Otherwise, he would not have told Momo that they are they and we are us.
His part-time job experience helped him develop a realistic character. He always talks about money in everything he does and is willing to take risks for money.
He took on this drama at the beginning of the year, but he spent five months filming "Qiao's Courtyard" and then for more than half a month he was busy promoting "Seven Swords". In the end, he had no time left to prepare for this drama.
Less than two weeks later, this was still due to the refusal to start the business.
If it really starts filming around August 10th as originally planned, he may not even have time to prepare. How he will play the character of Liu Fendou then, he really doesn't dare to think about now.
Of course, it doesn't mean that his performance is not good, it may be that he is dull, neither good nor good, and has no sparkle. With a score of over 70, he is at most a superficial and superficial character.
Whenever he picks up a script these days, he always feels that the character of a very simple security guard seems to be covered by a veil, making him vaguely unable to see clearly.
Especially in the end, he put a dried rose and the two wads of money he took from Qian Yu in the bank safe. He put them neatly without using any money. Finally, he also put the key to the safe together with the password.
He handed it over to Qian Yu. He still couldn't understand this.
Just last night, he reviewed the script from beginning to end again. The four main characters in the script, Zheng Zheng, Qian Yu, Liu Fendou, and Liang Xiaoxia, in the intricate relationship between the four of them, always revolve around two things -
—Love and money.
The other three people will ignore him for the time being. The most important thing is that Liu Fendou has always been faced with the choice between love and money.
Driven by curiosity, he became more and more obsessed with love, but he knew the reality well and knew that the life of the upper class could not belong to him. Leaning on the high wall, he looked towards the rose mistress Qian Yu in the glass flower room on the roof.
Salute, I feel like I am admiring a fairy.
Originally it had nothing to do with the right and wrong, but because he regarded the right and wrong as an opportunity, he exchanged collusion chips with Qianyu again and again: from money, to a cup of coffee brewed by Qianyu himself, to peeping at the hostess's body, to the desire to possess. Step by step,
Just like a poor man who smokes cinnamon, he becomes more and more addicted each time, but he feels the emotional crisis more and more involuntarily.
But in the end, he chose to take all the blame and put the key in Qianyu's hand. At this moment, he trusted her. In fact, maybe it was not just trust, but also the desire to finally express his love.
In this society, in the eyes of the rich in the upper class, too many people at the bottom who are financially poor are accustomed to using money to measure their own value. Even though Qianyu gave him money, he did not touch a cent. There is no one who is greedy for money because of greed.
Enjoyment, on the contrary, he put the money and a rose he asked for from Qianyu every time in the bank safe, because he couldn't spend it with peace of mind? No, money actually didn't have much use to him.
He was just blindly chasing the love in his heart, but other than selling his soul to make a deal, he didn't know how to seize the opportunity to get in touch with Qian Yu in the upper class. So every time he got the money, he counted them one by one, and returned the money.
Ask Qianyu to look at him and count.
Qian Yu said that what she hated the most was Liu Fendou’s countenance. She never cared about the money and would not miss him. She wanted to leave several times, but Liu Fendou insisted on making her watch him count the money. In fact, Liu Fendou wanted to leave.
The struggle is not because he is afraid that Qianyu will give him less money, but because he wants to see and spend more time with Qianyu.
In his eyes, Qianyu would only come down from the tall glass house when he needed to make the next plan and needed someone to cooperate. Only then would he have the opportunity to have an intimate contact with the lady he had long admired, and even get an undue favor.
satisfy.
He Xin always felt that Liu Fendou was a very poignant character. He was curious about the life of the upper class, and this curiosity also led him to develop a tightrope-like secret love game for Qian Yu, an upper-class lady.
Qianyu is usually a goddess playing with roses in a high-ceilinged glass flower room. Due to her status disparity and work responsibilities, she is unable to realize the completely different love in her heart, so she has to use the most despised and disdainful method in the upper class society.
Come and fight for the only chance to deal with Qianyu and take the opportunity to get close.
He increased the number of transactions again and again. In fact, he didn't really want to take advantage of the situation and make a fortune. He just wanted to stay with the goddess in front of him for a while, who was far different from his own life. Or he deliberately made Qianyu embarrassed once and asked him for help.
Satisfy the vanity of being a man, or even just want the upper class to bow their heads in front of you and gain instant respect.
It seems that He Xin has fully understood the character Liu Fendou in the script, but understanding the character is one thing, letting himself be involved in this character and making himself believe in this character is another thing.
The character Liu Fendou lived an extremely depressed life, and in the end he gave up life easily. Whether he was himself in the previous life, or the original He Xin who merged with himself, the only thing they have in common is probably that they are optimistic at heart
and positive.
In his previous life, he was still reluctant to leave before he died, while Yuan Hexin has been working hard to return to his father's hometown.
It is precisely because of this that he realized that what he currently lacks most is the fit for the role.
There is only one way to make up for this lack: experience life!
Just like when he was filming "Conquest", to understand a character you don't know well, you can only go deep into his daily work and life. In the process, you wipe yourself clean and change yourself into another identity.
Although the time was very tight, when the crew started filming on August 25, He Xin was already standing in front of the apartment building very skillfully and directing traffic in a security uniform.
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In the industry, the region with the most actors is undoubtedly Northeast China. Among this large group of actors from Northeast China, in a specific place, the largest number of actors are definitely from Harbin. So much so that He Xin is always welcome wherever he goes.
I can meet my fellow countrymen, and it's very close.
For example, today he met another fellow from Harbin.
Song Jia is the same age as him, but a few months younger than him. She just graduated from a drama school last year. During her schooling, she filmed several TV series, and she was basically either a minor player or a supporting actor.
He Xin met her for the first time after watching "Crossing Guandong" in his previous life. At that time, he felt that this girl was very cool! Later, Jiang Dayan in "It's Hard to Marry a Girl" introduced him to a very free and easy girl from Beijing.
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Of course, what impressed him most was the charming Lin Hui in "There is a Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind". Perhaps because of his age, he, who was already in his early forties at the time, particularly liked this kind of revealing look.