Actor: Thank you.

Chapter 817 Demons and Monsters

I sat at Fan Bingbing's house all night.

"Your house is quite fancy."

Zhang Yuan walked around her house.

The taste is average, but better than Liu Xixi's.

There are colorful flowers in the vase at home.

The decorative paintings on the wall are also colorful.

The overall look is not very harmonious, a bit messy, and not well matched.

How can one improve his taste?
experience.

And insight requires financial resources and status to support it.

Ultimately, it is the economic base that determines the superstructure.

She is not yet a "complete form", has not yet become a "carpet star", and has not yet come into contact with so many top brands and designers.

"Do you dislike me?" She followed with narrowed eyes.

"No, I just think there's a contrast between your inner and outer image."

"Of course. Outside I'm an artist, and at home I'm a woman, so naturally there's a difference." She was wearing very loose pajamas, and it was unclear whether she had left a few buttons unbuttoned on purpose.

In short, rich and generous.

"At home, you have to relax in private."

"Hehe..." Having said this, she gave Zhang Yuan a charming look.

"Aren't you too."

"When you're outside, you're serious."

"I didn't do anything serious in my bed last night."

"If I were in your bed and still acted serious, there would be a problem." He sat on the sofa.

"Are you eating?"

"can you cook?"

"I know how to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes."

It’s good enough that you can make instant noodles...Zhang Yuan doesn’t have high requirements.

As she said this, she went to cook herself.

After a while he came back with a plate.

"Here." She handed him a pair of chopsticks.

There was only a pair of chopsticks.

"You don't want to eat?"

I don’t eat what I made myself, so you won’t poison me, right?

"You eat this, and I'll eat the rest."

After saying that, she lifted the table cover and crawled underneath.

I eat her cooking and she eats me...

So all the protein I supplemented from eating scrambled eggs with tomatoes went to you.

I originally wanted to loosen the soil after dinner.

But a phone call from Ning Hao interrupted his operation.

"Hey, are you free here?"

"What's wrong?" Zhang Yuan patted Fan Xiaopang's lower back and asked her to rest for a while.

"Crazy Racing" resumed work after the New Year today."

"You didn't say I had a role left for you."

"Come over when you have time and shoot all the scenes."

Oh……

Zhang Yuan remembered that Ning Hao had called him before.

"Crazy Racing" has already started filming.

But he has been in other crews and had other things to deal with after the filming was completed, so he has been busy and has no time to go.

I invested in this movie, so you have to go!

"I should be able to find time in the next few weeks."

"I'll be right over, you make arrangements quickly."

After saying that, he stood up and put on his clothes.

"As soon as there was work, you left me behind." Fan Bingbing said dissatisfiedly as she lay on the couch.

"Business is more important." He stretched his body: "If we delay, we will be too busy."

"Okay." Seeing how much of a workaholic he is, Fat Fan actually admires him quite a bit.

Play when you should play, be busy when you should be busy, and be able to distinguish the priorities.

She herself is a workaholic, so of course she likes people of the same kind.

"Do you want me to help?"

“I also acted in Crazy Stone.”

"No need." Zhang Yuan took the clothes she handed over.

"Stone is a new director's new work, and we need your help to increase its popularity."

"The situation in Crazy Racer is much better than the last one, and there are no female characters suitable for you in the film."

"It's just a few minor roles, but I still forced my own people in."

"You are so kind to your employees and always think about them."

Fan Bingbing thought about it and realized that he had just arranged work for Jiang Xin and Zhu Yawen yesterday.

This adds some luster to the resumes of the remaining few.

Zhu Yawen and Jiang Xin were originally considered to be the weaker artists under Yang Siwei.

Yes, even though they are capable of standing on their own if placed outside, they are still considered weak under Yang Siwei.

After all, there are masters like Wang Baoqiang, Shu Chang and Huang Bo.

Zeng Jia's situation is more miserable, all of them are little Karami.

Originally according to Ning Hao's plan, there was only one casting requirement for this film.

Strange!
The weirder the character, the better.

What we want is that kind of weird comedy texture.

In fact, Ning Hao is very smart. He doesn't do this out of bad taste, or to use weird people to make people funny.

The underlying logic is actually to neutralize the difficulty of the film's script.

The script of this play is so complicated!

Crazy Stone has three main plot lines.

When we get here, there are six lines intertwined!
The protagonist is the banned cyclist Geng Hao.

Li Farah, the black-hearted health product businessman.

The killers are the postgraduate entrance examination duo.

A group of Formosa gangsters.

Police duo.

There are also Thai guys who sell drugs.

There are six story lines that have to be intertwined with each other and finally connected together to form a closed loop.

Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

So Ning Hao went over and over again, and it took him more than half a year just to create the script, and he revised it more than forty times.

This movie is only 120 minutes long, but it packs so much content in it. Its information density is several times that of an ordinary movie!
It can be said that every shot and every prop in this script were useful after it was designed to the end.

It's the kind of situation where if you're distracted for half a minute, you might not understand the meaning of the next plot.

Ning Hao summarized the experience of "Stone", which is the ultimate upgraded version.

This movie was born too early.

In fact, from a comedy perspective, it is much better than "Lost in Thailand" and "Lost in Hong Kong".

But times have changed and the market has not yet fully developed.

If he was born 10 years later, the box office would have been at least over billion.

And this movie is not just an ordinary comedy, it is a very high-level comedy.

It's not elegant, it's high-end.

His jokes come from the collision of different characters' different logics.

But if you look at the logic of each character individually, they all make sense. They are not the kind of nonsensical characters that are funny just for the sake of being funny.

If you separate the characters and the story, this is a serious drama.

But when put together, it becomes a comedy.

This is what makes Ning Hao so powerful.

But it is also because the story is so complicated and the plots are closely linked.

It's the type that requires you to use your brain when watching it, and you'll laugh out loud after a few twists and turns.

If we get a bunch of serious actors to perform, it will be even more difficult for the audience to watch.

Ning Hao deliberately chose ugly actors in order to use image and story to offset each other and relieve the audience's mental fatigue.

So during the audition for this film, I followed what Huang Bo said during the last dinner.

"All the monsters, goblins, and weirdos in the country have been gathered together by Haozi."

Ning Hao was also unconvinced and retorted.

"Is it possible that you are the most outstanding actor in the country?"

We are all good buddies and always talk like this in private.

Zhang Yuan had to talk to them several times before he arranged guest roles for three unknown actors, Zhang Tianai, Zhao Liying, and Wan Qian.

Zhang Tianai arrived the earliest, so we can’t let her down.

So they arranged a female cemetery salesperson, the one who was sexually exploited by the manager played by Xu Zheng.

Zhao Liying and Wan Qian became the hotel front desk duo.

He was really worried about these little brothers and sisters.

After leaving Fan Xiaopang's house, I picked up my assistant and makeup artist, went straight to the airport, and took the next flight to Xiamen.

"Crazy Stone" was filmed in Chongqing.

The Crazy Racer was chosen to be set in Xiamen. Because the race is about bicycles, it is just right to go around Xiamen, and around Chongqing... the ups and downs, plus the huge area, will make people tired to death.

Just like some foreigners asked, why there is the Tour de France bicycle rally but not the Tour of China.

All I can say is that bicycle rallies are meant to challenge the limits of human physiology, not the limits of life...

When participating in a competition, everything was fine before leaving, but when I got home, I found that my child was already three years old. This can easily lead to accidents.

Shancheng and Xiamen, two cities with different styles, eating habits and even languages, are completely unrelated, but they have one thing in common.

That is, they all have a large number of air-raid shelters.

The mountain city has so many air-raid shelters because it was built to defend against the Japanese army and the Third Front construction of the Red Giant in the north.

As for Xiamen, it was once the front line because of the long-term confrontation with Formosa Boulevard near Kinmen.

The small air-raid shelter contains the huge dark cloud that once hung over this nation.

Now that the world is at peace for the time being, the air-raid shelters in the mountain city have been transformed into hot pot restaurants that can be found everywhere.

The area in Xiamen has been converted into a mushroom growing base or a parking lot.

"You are such a big shot, you should have notified me to pick you up."

After arriving at the place, Ning Hao waved at him carelessly.

"Come, let me introduce you first."

This pulled him into the crew's rest area.

"No need for introductions, I know them all."

"Brother Rong Xiang, Brother Gao Jie."

Rong Xiang is the fat man from Taiwan whom Ning Hao and his friends met by chance in Yunnan.

He plays Duo Hai (the boss) in the film.

Gao Jie is a professional gangster actor from Taiwan, and he plays the number one thug Ajie in the film.

Brother Gao is really professional in playing the gangster boss because he has a real life.

His brother is a "walking jumper" near Tainan Airport, which is equivalent to a not-so-strong double-flower red stick.

His younger brother is also one of the leaders of the Kuhai Gang, a small local gang in Tainan.

He is the only one in the family who has not been involved in gangs.

Moreover, he has studied Western cooking and worked at the Grand Hotel.

The Yuanshan Hotel is equivalent to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Taiwan, and has state banquet standards.

Rong Xiang and Gao Jie have actually collaborated many times.

However, Gao Jie always plays the boss and Rong Xiang plays the younger brother.

But Ning Hao deliberately switched the identities of the two people in the film, creating a very interesting comedic effect.

Rong Xiang had been approached long ago, but Ning Hao only needed a phone call to finalize Gao Jie.

"This character is a gangster from Taiwan who went to the mainland to buy drugs, but ended up buying a bag of ashes."

Ning Hao was explaining the script to him and just said this sentence, which made Brother Gao laugh.

Ask him to send the notice over quickly.

"Hello, Brother Wang Shuangbao, I often hear Baoqiang mention you."

The brother-in-law in the postgraduate entrance examination duo is the main criminal in "Blind Shaft".

Originally, Ning Hao asked him to play a policeman.

But Huang Bo took a look at this face.

"Haozi, with his image, it's a waste for him to play a policeman."

So it was changed to "Professional Killer".

Just looking at this guy's face, together with Sun Honglei and Shi Zhaoqi, they are three gangster bosses.

The rest are more familiar, Xu Zheng and Wang Xun are both there.

"Senior Brother." Zhang Yuan stepped forward and grabbed Wang Xun's arm.

"Junior brother, I'm sorry. I was busy a while ago and couldn't get away, so I didn't go to Mr. Hou's funeral." Wang Xun apologized.

"It's okay, just thinking about it is enough."

Jiu Kong, who plays Li Fala, has to run for a show in Taiwan and a Hong Kong crew in addition to this crew.

I'm really busy, so I'm not here today.

The reason why Ning Hao looked for so many actors from Taiwan, besides for the plot needs, is also because variety shows from Taiwan, especially shows like "Kangxi Comes Here", are very popular these days, bringing about a Taiwan trend.

It’s okay for those who are familiar with him, but for those who are not familiar with the actor, they actually had doubts in their hearts early on.

Zhang Yuan's sudden appearance disrupted the crew's filming plan.

Everyone had to adjust to his schedule.

Where can you find such a big brand?
Everyone wants to see it.

At first glance, I found that the real person was quite polite and didn't put on airs.

It was very different from what they had imagined.

"I'll treat you tonight, let's have dinner together and get to know each other."

He made the appointment first.

After all, if you treat someone well, the cooperation will be smoother in the future.

"This is your script. It's pretty lighthearted, with basically no lines."

Ning Hao handed him a stack of notebooks.

Although he said that, Huang Bo on the side was grinning evilly.

Because the role assigned to him is a Thai drug dealer, one of the six main plots!
This character does not have any lines, but there are a lot of action scenes!

Because according to the setting, this is a Muay Thai master.

Zhang Yuan flipped through it and found that this role was not easy to play.

It's just slightly better than other characters in this drama.

Because the Thai guy was dressed as a woman when he first appeared.

Ning Hao is planning to destroy my image...

In other words, in the past two years, his reputation and image have stabilized and it is not so easy to be "turned gay".

If it were a few years earlier, he would definitely have pushed for this kind of role.

"Okay, I see."

"Well, let's go to the dressing room first."

Ning Hao asked the makeup artist to come to him and then picked up an electric shaver.

"What are you going to do!"

He was startled by the buzzing sound.

"Your image is too good, which doesn't fit the role, so you need to make some adjustments."

"You have to shave your eyebrows first!"

Zhang Yuan:!!!
You don't treat me as a human being!

No wonder Huang Bo was grinning just now.

Waiting for me here.

"Not only eyebrows, but also hairstyle should be changed to be cooler."

"And I'll have to cover your body with tattoos."

"Oh, I understand. Just make it so that even Cheng Hao can't recognize it."

"Yes."

"I kind of want to slap you." Zhang Yuan said holding his breath.

"You're thinking too early." Huang Bo walked forward in a servile manner.

"Take it off."

"What are you taking off?"

"Take off your clothes!" Brother Bo clapped his hands.

"Someone, take it off!"

Several crew members rushed in and tried to take off his clothes.

then……

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Two minutes later, Zhang Yuan stood in the dressing room where a strong man was lying on the floor and complained.

Huang Bo slapped his forehead.

"I forgot you were a martial artist."

I wanted to play this as a little prank as a "welcome gift", but ended up getting myself into trouble.

They stripped him for a mold.

As he was speaking, a professional mold maker came in carrying several buckets of resin.

The character of Thai guy is quite miserable in the film.

He was accidentally frozen to death in the cargo box of a truck transporting seafood and turned into an ice sculpture.

He can't do the ice sculpture himself, and it has to be hung with ice, but the human body is hot, which makes it difficult to do.

So we have to make a wax model.

To make a wax figure realistic, you have to make a mold from head to toe to improve the accuracy.

I could only take off my clothes down to my underwear in the dressing room and let the masters touch me all over.

"Fuck, it's so big!" Ning Hao sighed with inferiority when he saw that he had almost taken off his clothes.

Your evaluation is exactly the same as Fan Bingbing's last night... Zhang Yuan ignored him and pointed at Huang Bo who was holding the DV.

"Stop taking pictures. It's an infringement of my portrait."

"I have to record it for you as a behind-the-scenes video."

“Female viewers will definitely love it.”

Are there any good people in this crew?

It's only been one afternoon since I arrived at the crew.

His hair and eyebrows were shaved, and he was stripped naked and covered in a sticky liquid.

Fortunately, the next drama to be filmed is "Painted Skin".

In a costume film, you can draw eyebrows and wear a headgear, and it won’t have much impact.

On the other hand, the recorded "Wulin Zhengzhuan" program has been premiered on CCTV...

(End of this chapter)