Ninghang, a KFC in the old town, has been restored to its appearance in the 1990s. Although it doesn't look very modern, the seats and everything are brand new.
Chen Kun, who looked much younger, was eating burgers and French fries in the restaurant. Although he was 37 years old, after putting on makeup, he looked like a young man in his twenties, but there was not much innocence in his deep eyes.
There were other customers in the store, young couples and parents with children.
At this time, a man with a crew cut wearing a slightly wrinkled white shirt walked in from the door of the store. Ma Qingyang looked a little younger after putting on makeup. He held his resume in his hand, looked around, and walked upright to the front desk.
Looking at the delicate-looking waitress in front of him, wearing a red vest with a neatly ironed white shirt and tie, Ma Qingyang asked calmly, "Hello, I'm here to apply for a job. Is the manager here?
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The person who guest-starred as a waiter was a young actress from the company. Her only scene was with Ma Qingyang. Her expression was obviously a little flustered. Her originally upright body could not help but relax, and she lowered her head slightly to look at Ma Qingyang.
Li Qian in front of the monitor shook his head, and Qi Yukun beside him whispered, "Ma Qingyang is too calm."
"Yeah." Li Qian uttered a syllable, but did not stop.
Next came Wang Yaoqing, who played the role of KFC manager. He had enough aura, and even if he was wearing a suit that seemed a bit old-fashioned now, he looked like a successful person.
Wang Yaoqing glanced down at Ma Qingyang. Unlike the waiter, he looked at Ma Qingyang condescendingly instead of lowering his attitude.
He glanced at Ma Qingyang's whole body, casually took his resume, flipped it over casually, and returned it to him.
Speaking in Mandarin with a strong Baodao flavor, he directly refused, "Sorry, you don't meet our requirements."
Ma Qingyang was slightly startled, "Manager, I have read the recruitment requirements. I fully meet the above conditions, and I can speak English."
"We are a large international company, and it is not enough to speak a few words in English."
Wang Yaoqing pointed nonchalantly around the store. There were fashionable customers and waiters who were also well-dressed, good-looking and in good shape. They continued to speak awkward Baodao Mandarin and said with a condescending air, "Look,
, you are not suitable here."
"Okay, click!"
Li Qian patiently watched a complete scene play out before shouting "click". At the same time, he called Ma Qingyang and Wang Yaoqing over.
Bring out the scene that you didn't shoot just now and show it to them, mainly for Ma Qingyang to see.
"Dr. Ma, you see, the moment you walked in, your whole attitude was wrong. This is the first KFC in Ninghang, a high-end place, and you are here for an interview. You are too calm."
The first time, there were a lot of questions. Li Qian patiently explained point by point, "Those who have never acted before, don't think about how smooth it will be."
Ma Qingyang had a different opinion, "It's true. Back then, KFC was rarer than five-star hotels. But at that time, I brought students for interviews. It was this mentality. I remember it very clearly."
"But now you are not taking students for interviews. In the plot, you are just an ordinary job seeker, which is different."
It is true that Ma Qingyang was rejected when he applied for KFC, but as a university teacher, he brought 23 of his students to the interview. As a result, all the students were successful in the interview, and he was the only one who was rejected.
The plot only takes the core, that is, applying for KFC and being rejected, but Li Qian made changes to the details.
"In other words, I play a poor boy looking for a job?" Ma Qingyang asked.
"Then there's no need to be too conceited. As long as you're a little less calm, the rest can be shown from the contrast of the entire scene."
Li Qian pointed at Ma Qingyang's clothes and explained, "The shirt you are wearing has obvious wrinkles, but the waiters wear it straight and flat, wearing a red vest with a white shirt and tie, and what these guests are wearing,
Most of the adults with children are wearing neat suits, and the young lovers are all wearing more avant-garde clothes of this era, and this contrast comes out."
KFC was really high-end back then. Going to KFC was no less than a blind date for modern people. They dressed up beautifully. It was normal for adults to wear suits when going to eat.
"This contrast between the background and the characters shows the contrast. In this play, you are relatively on the weak side, including Wang Yaoqing saying that you are not suitable for this environment, which is a disguised form of contempt." Li Qian continued.
"When you say this, I understand. There are indeed many ways to make movies." Ma Qingyang understood, and he also watched movies, and he probably understood what was going on.
However, he was still a little curious, "But why highlight my weaknesses?"
Li Qian smiled and said, "Think about it, Mr. Ma, if the audience in front of the big screen sees someone like you, who also had this kind of job search experience, will he feel better?"
Ma Qingyang suddenly realized, pointing at Li Qian with a smirk on his face, "As expected of Director Li."
Lao Ma is such a shrewd person, and he is especially good at chicken soup. How can he still not understand the significance of Li Qian setting up this scene like this?
It’s also chicken soup. To comfort the audience, Ma Qingyang couldn’t find a job as a waiter back then, but he has become an Internet tycoon. You young people should not be depressed if you encounter some setbacks.
What the hell is that smile? Li Qian explained, "I'm just trying to give contemporary young people some confidence in the workplace through Director Ma's deeds. And next, it will be convenient for Yihe to play with Chen Kun. After all, as a living
People in their fifties should take a certain initiative in getting along with each other."
In fact, it is to ask Ma Qingyang to restrain his sharp edge. When he should be high-spirited later, he still has to be arrogant.
After Haosheng warned Ma Qingyang, Li Qian corrected Wang Yaoqing's performance again, telling him not to turn contempt into contempt and act like a villain.
Wang Yaoqing is from Baodao, and the KFC executive who rejected Ma Qingyang was also from Baodao. Moreover, at that time, there were indeed many people in Baodao and Xiangjiang serving as management in mainland companies.
In fact, even now, the management of many companies has a large number of people from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and it is common for them to look down on the mainland.
I carefully explained every detail of that shot and then continued shooting.
Wang Yaoqing's performance in this kind of role is simply true. He grasped it very well after mentioning a few lines.
Although Ma Qingyang is not a professional actor, he is a businessman and politician who is better than an actor. After I explained to him how to act, it became smoother and smoother.
After only five takes, Li Qian felt it was almost done.
"Okay, passed!"
However, Ma Qingyang seemed to enjoy the filming process. He took the initiative to get in front of the monitor, looked at his performance and said, "I think the expression here just now was not quite right. I can try it again."
Come on, he has a lot of things to do every day, and the big boss who makes millions every minute doesn't care about wasting time, so Li Qian just goes with him to continue filming, since there aren't many scenes anyway.
Ma Qingyang was really satisfied and took the photo two more times.
He was still not satisfied and kept striving for perfection. Li Qian quickly gave him a thorough analysis, mentioned a bunch of professional terms, and said that it was already perfect, so he was frightened into not insisting on reshooting.
More than two hours had passed, and then there was a scene where Ma Qingyang was about to leave KFC, but was stopped by the leading actor Chen Kun.
"Scene 124, two shots and one shot, let's start!" Question 7
"Rejuvenation" will be very long, with a script of more than 150 minutes, and the scenes will naturally be half as long as those in Li Qian's previous films.
After shooting a scene nearly ten times in a row, Ma Qingyang had almost figured out the film shooting process.
Of course, it was limited to his own performance. When the executive director called start, he silently said for three seconds to start the performance.
Compared with the confidence he felt when he came in, Ma Qingyang was in a slightly lower mood when he left. When he passed by Chen Kun, he was stopped by him. He had heard the conversation between Ma Qingyang and Wang Yaoqing just now.
"Hello, are you an English teacher?"
"Yes, I am." Ma Qingyang stopped.
"I heard just now that you want to find a job." Chen Kun pointed to the other side, his young face had a maturity that was very different from his appearance, and his eyes also had a very indifferent smile, "I want to learn English, and I just need a teacher.
"
"Learn English?" Ma Qingyang looked at Chen Kun, who appeared to be in his twenties, and felt a little strange. Judging from his temperament, he didn't seem to be a college student.
However, whether it is tutoring or learning from scratch, it is still a job, so Ma Qingyang sat down and talked with Chen Kun.
After chatting for a while, Chen Kun talked about the reasons why he wanted to learn English.
He looked into the distance, immersed in the meeting, and said leisurely, "When we were on the Beibang battlefield, our company surrounded a platoon of Mi Lijian Japs. Just when we were about to encircle and annihilate this army, suddenly the other side had someone.
A yellow-skinned man came out and shouted to us, "Don't shoot, I'm Chinese."
The company commander believed what he said and ordered the shooting to stop. However, the Milijians behind the two Japs seized the opportunity to counterattack, causing us heavy losses and even escaped from the encirclement."
"???" Ma Qingyang was confused.
Looking at Chen Kun steadily, I found that he was not crazy and there was nothing wrong with his ears.
Suddenly, Ma Qingyang was in awe, "It turns out that there are elders in your family who participated in the War to Resist Japan and Aid Korea. That Japanese Japs is called Lu Chaoran. I have heard about this. Every time he met the volunteers on the Beibang battlefield,
, would always shout in Chinese, "Don't shoot, I'm Chinese", and then fight back to kill the volunteers in exchange for trust, and he became famous for this."
Ma Qingyang directly ignored Chen Kun's first-person statement, taking it for granted that Chen Kun was telling stories about his elders in his family. As for whether he was making it up randomly, judging from his serious look, he probably didn't think so.
Chen Kun shook his head and did not explain, but said, "The company commander regretted it very much since then. He also thought about infiltrating behind enemy lines to seduce the Mi Lijian people, but we didn't look alike and couldn't speak English.
Only one person in the company can speak Bangzi, so he has no choice but to pretend to be a Nanbang army to deceive the Mi Lijian people and set up an ambush."
Listening to Chen Kun talking about the bloody war events, Ma Qingyang still felt full of passion even though there were no pictures.
Gradually, the passing waiter stopped nearby, and the guests next to him also turned their heads and looked at Chen Kun who was "telling stories."
After telling the story, Chen Kun said to Ma Qingyang seriously, "I was discovered by the enemy once. I wish I could speak English at that time. It would be perfect to pretend to be a South Korean army. I haven't had a chance for so many years. This time I happened to meet him. I’m here, so I want to ask you to teach me English.”
"No problem!"
Ma Qingyang agreed and already imagined a story about the grandson of a fighting hero who wanted to fulfill his grandfather's regrets and learn English.
There was a scene in the KFC store. Ma Qingyang applied for a job but was rejected, and then met Chen Kun. Chen Kun wanted to ask him to be his English teacher. Chen Kun told him a reason by the way. When he told the story, everyone in KFC was watching.
In the 1990s, there was no shortage of listeners for this kind of story.
In fact, Ma Qingyang didn't have many scenes, just four scenes.
First, they met and became the English teacher of the male protagonist. In the second scene, the two were surfing the Internet in an Internet cafe. The male protagonist chatted with Ma Huagan, who was dressed as a girl in the chat room, and Ma Qingyang. The three of them talked about the current Internet.
Internet cafes in the 1990s were all equipped with big-head computers. You can't find them in today's Internet cafes. Not to mention the machines, even the chairs, mice, and keyboards are all worn out, let alone the internal environment of the Internet cafes.
For indoor scenery, we set up a 1990s Internet cafe full of big-box computers.
The entire studio is divided into two rooms, one is an Internet cafe and the other is Ma Huagan's room.
Although Ma Huagan did not personally participate in the performance like Ma Qingyang, after hearing that Ma Qingyang was starring in a real person, he became more and more interested and offered to watch it live.
So, the two scenes were shot at the same time, with Li Qian and Ma Huagan connected to the video, while Ma Huagan was watching the monitor on the other side of the town.
"Director Ma, wait a moment, let's get ready."
Li Qian said hello to Ma Huagan, who was on the other side of the computer video call, and began to tell Ma Qingyang about the play.
"Dr. Ma, this scene is about you talking about the Internet, so when typing and chatting, your emotions must come out, because this is your future career, the excitement of meeting your soulmate, the clicking movements of the keyboard, and your expressions, The eyes must be in place, of course, don’t be too skilled and be a bit unfamiliar.”
After finishing speaking to Ma Qingyang, it was Chen Kun's turn again.
"It's still the same as before. Remember that you are a person who has experienced strong winds and waves, and has been back and forth several times. You are over fifty at heart. You are calm and wise. These are the two most important characteristics. You must show them."
"I understand, Director Li!" Chen Kun nodded and responded. After more than ten years of acting, if he can't even understand the character, he might as well go back to the film school and remake it.
"OK, let each department prepare."
Five minutes later, filming officially started.
Li Qian looked at the six monitors in front of him. Two of them were in the next room, where the young actors playing Ma Huagan were filmed. Another group of people were filming there, which meant that the three of them were chatting in real time.
Half of the monitors are the expressions of three people, and the other half are three computer screens with big heads. The interface is a few people chatting in a chat room.
By then, on the big screen, computer screens will mainly be used.
We have already started chatting. The actor who plays Ma Huagan is pretending to be a girl and chatting with Chen Kun and Ma Qingyang. The avatars are all girls.
"Dr. Ma, what do you think?"
This was probably the first generation of cross-dressing men, but it was a pity that they only pretended to be women to chat. There were no cameras in that era, otherwise they would have to wear women's clothes and make-up to deceive people.
Li Qian turned to look at the dried mahua in the video chat and asked with a smile, "Were you like this back then?"
A flash of memories flashed through Ma Huagan's eyes on the computer screen. He looked at the embarrassed look of the actor who was playing himself and chatting with people in a female tone. He smiled unconsciously and narrowed his small eyes behind his rimless glasses.
"It's a little different. I remember the first time I dressed up as a woman, I was not only very embarrassed, but also very anxious because I wanted to retain users, but after all, I'm not a woman, so I don't know how to chat with girls.
I often get anxious when I take it back, and want to continue chatting, but I’m not used to chatting and typing in a girl’s tone. I don’t know the way girls talk, and I’m afraid of being cheated on, which makes me even more embarrassed. You know that feeling, sometimes I just feel anxious again. I feel like I can’t talk anymore.”