He Xin looked at the screen of his mobile phone to video chat with his baby daughter who was thousands of miles away. In the picture, Qijin was sitting in Cheng Hao's arms. At more than five months old, she had begun to recognize people, and she knew the face that appeared on the screen.
The person who usually hugged her, comforted her, fed her milk powder, and took her out to play. She was just curious about why this person suddenly became so small, and she waved her little hands to grab the one in the small box.
people.
"Oh, the baby misses his father. Does he want his father to hold him? Dad is at work and can't hold you anymore..."
He Xin looked at his daughter on the screen and imitated her usual tone of nagging. He had only been away for two days, and he missed his daughter very strongly. He wished he could make a video whenever he had free time to see what his daughter was doing.
Her mother took pictures of her sleeping, and he watched with great interest.
"Okay, okay, stop looking. If you look at it again, your eyes will be damaged."
Cheng Hao moved the phone away from Qijin. He Xin could still hear his daughter's cries of disobedience through the screen. At this time, he heard Cheng's mother's voice again: "Okay, dear, let's not watch anymore, grandma."
Take you out to play."
Qijin was carried by Cheng's mother and walked out the door, and her crying stopped immediately. He Xin couldn't help but laugh. Children are full of curiosity about everything around them. Since she can see some things clearly, she has become more and more interested.
The more she likes to go downstairs to play. As long as the weather outside is nice, Cheng’s parents and Cheng’s mother will carry her downstairs for a walk almost every day, and sometimes they don’t want to come back.
"Has the house been cleaned up?"
Cheng Hao's face appeared on the screen, with his hair tied into a bun and a headband. The skin on his face was supple and tender. It looked like he had just applied a facial mask.
"It's all cleaned up."
The house in Shanghai has not been lived in for a long time. Although workers usually come every half month to ventilate and clean the house, it is inevitable that they will be perfunctory after a long time. He Xin spent two days to clean the house.
Everything was cleaned inside and out, the floors were vacuumed and waxed, the furniture, furnishings, and lamps were wiped spotless, and everything in the house was neatly arranged.
Even though he was extremely reluctant to let go of his precious daughter, he came to Shanghai in advance at the urging of his wife this time because he could not enter the character state at home.
Including this time when he came to Shanghai, he personally cleaned up the house as a way to find the feeling of the character. He wanted to play a thorough character that is closer to his own personality. For example, he also has mysophobia, and he is very planned in doing things.
"It's just that the quilt can't be dried, so I have to stay in a hotel for the next few days."
He saw from the video that the sun was shining brightly in Beijing, but in Shanghai in early April there was always continuous spring rain. He looked at the weather forecast and said that the sun would not be seen for the next week.
He has a slight mysophobia, and he can't cover himself with a quilt that has been left out for a long time.
Cheng Hao knew what was wrong with her husband, curled her lips and asked, "Has the boot time been set?"
"I discussed it with Haozi yesterday and initially decided on the 18th of this month, but the details will depend on the progress of preparations."
Ning Hao arrived here almost a month before him. During this time, the crew was busy setting up scenes at Chedun Cinema. 80% of the interior scenes in the film were shot in the studio, and more than 50% of them were shot in the studio.
The exterior scenes were also completed in the studio.
Cheng Hao on the screen asked casually: "Have you contacted Sister Qinqin?"
"Uh, no. They are filming in Songjiang. When I have time later, I will go visit the class and coordinate the script reading with their crew."
The reason why the start-up time is set two weeks later is that in addition to the scene preparation, a week of script reading time is also required.
He Xin has always insisted on this habit, especially for the dramas he values and this link must not be omitted. Similar to a tight schedule, the filming will start tomorrow, and the actors will only report to the crew tonight. This situation will definitely not work for him.
He would rather not use actors. Even if Jiang Qinqin is filming "The Art of the Heart" this time, he still has to squeeze in a week to participate in the script reading.
After talking about his side of things, he listened to his wife complaining about her work. For example, the quality of the current batch of students she teaches is significantly different from the previous two batches, let alone going to school with them.
Compared with the times, they were all stupid and stupid, and the homework they handed in was terrible.
Since giving birth to a child, one of the most obvious changes in Cheng Hao is that she has become nagging, and her temper is much more irritable than before. She gets angry at every turn. It seems that the intellectual and considerate goddess she used to be will never come back.
.
Even if He Xin was not interested, He Xin listened attentively to what she was talking about in school. He would also agree with her from time to time, and sometimes express some different opinions of his own.
The lessons from his previous life made him realize that marriage needs to be managed, that the element of love cannot last forever, and that the most taboo thing between husband and wife is having nothing to say. Besides, they have been together for so many years, and the love they once had has long since faded away.
Family affection.
After all, only if everyone is willing to complain to each other and listen to each other can such a marriage last long, just like Cheng's father and Cheng's mother, who will always be amidst Cheng's mother's nagging and stay together until old age.
After talking on the phone with his wife, he communicated with Ning Hao about the situation of the script. During this time, Ning Hao, in addition to focusing on the preparations before shooting, spent most of the time alone in the hotel room next to the film and television city.
The final improvements to the script were made, as well as various storyboards.
He has strict requirements on scripts, which is his consistent style, and he definitely has something in common with He Xin. After working in this industry for a long time, He Xin became more and more aware of the meaning of the phrase "the script is the foundation of a play". Why did later generations
There are so many bad movies, but in the final analysis it is still a problem with the script. With a good script, no matter how bad the acting is, it will still be very popular. On the contrary, if the story cannot withstand scrutiny, even if it is full of veteran actors, it will be in vain.
To be honest, the story of "The Crowd" is not big, it is not a big production, and there are basically no big scenes in the whole film. However, if you want to film this story well, you can only work hard on the details.
Ning Hao, who was stimulated this time, really used all his skills to create extremely delicate and complicated designs within a small structure, striving to make the whole story exquisite in structure, compact in plot, full of baggage, and even every frame contains hidden meanings.
A kind of ingenuity.
In his words, this is like reading Jin Yong's martial arts novels. His favorite martial arts is not the Eighteen Palms to Subdue a Dragon, but the Lingbo Wei Step. The former is a simple and crude example of subduing ten movements with one force. The latter is a simple and crude example.
He moves around in every square inch, trying his best to change things.
Creating the book "The Crowd" was a small step, every coincidence was wonderful but seamless; it was reversed to make it unexpected, but it was reasonable; the echoes before and after must be rigorous, which not only promotes the plot of the previous story, but also adds to the story.
There are foreshadowings in the following text.
This guy also said proudly that He Xin's original idea was just a ball of extremely tangled wool, and what he has to do now is to knit this ball of wool into a strong and gorgeous sweater using the most exquisite stitches.
Comes with crochet jacquard.
Ning Hao has been called a "genius director" by the outside world for his two "Crazy" series. The high box office is on the one hand, and the biggest reason is that compared with the "Crazy" series and Feng Xiaogang's movies, which are also comedies, Ning Hao is not
Relying on a large number of lines to shake off the baggage and create laughter.
There are not many lines in "Stone" and "Racing", and they rely purely on the plot and character performances to create a sense of joy. This creative technique has very high requirements on the script, the director, and even the actors' performances.
Improper, either without joy and tasteless, or easily vulgar.
The success of the "Crazy" series, in industry terms, is very high-end. Ning Hao is also obsessed with this, which also makes his film output never high.
In addition to the careful consideration of the plot, the characters in the script must also be fine-tuned based on the confirmed actors. For example, Chen Xiaomeng of Brother Teng needs to emphasize that the character has no perseverance, is lazy, and does not strive for progress. He will easily fall into trouble when encountering difficulties and setbacks.
Labels like decadence, pessimism, sloppy life, lack of planning, etc.
There is also Li Xiang, played by Jiang Qinqin, who also has a perfect plan for everything and is very serious about everything she does. She looks strong but is actually very fragile and pessimistic on the inside, so she has to plan everything in advance.
, but will get stuck when encountering unexpected situations. It is precisely this kind of character of hers that finally brings her and Zhou Quan together, because they are the same type of people at heart.
Including He Xin, who has been trying to figure out the characters during this period, he also has some opinions of his own. He plans to go there tomorrow to have a good encounter with Ning Hao.
The two calls lasted for more than an hour. Just as he hung up the phone and was about to go out, his cell phone rang again.
Caller ID: Jiang Qinqin!
He was stunned for a moment and answered the phone.
"Oh my God, it's really hard to make a call! Are you talking on the phone with your wife again? I've been on the phone for almost half an hour, and the line is always busy!" As soon as the call came through, Jiang Qinqin could be heard complaining.
"No, I was just talking to Haozi about the script!" He explained hurriedly.
Jiang Qinqin said "Oh" on the other end of the phone, and then said angrily: "Then why didn't you notify me when you arrived in Shanghai?"
"No, I told Cheng Hao earlier that I would wait two days to come and visit the class! Oh, by the way, Sister Qinqin, have you arranged the time for the script reading?"
"How dare I disobey your teacher He's instructions? Otherwise, I wouldn't be working day and night these days! I finally had time to finish work early today, and I wanted to give you a call, but the result is now
Just got through! Okay, enough nonsense, are you free, let’s have a meal together?”
"Well……"
He trembled for a moment and finally agreed: "Okay, are you in Songjiang now?"
"No, I just went home." Jiang Qinqin said.
"Go home?" He was stunned.
"Hehe, don't you know that I also have a house in Shanghai..."