This actor just wants to verify.

Chapter 24 You have paranoia
After most of the actors had arrived, Jiang Wen decided to hold a script reading session.

He learned how to read the script together when he was filming "Furong Town" with Xie Jin.

It doesn’t mean that we should all revise the script together.

Nothing like that.

Jiang Wen's script was revised over and over again from the finalization to the shooting, and even on the day of shooting.

But this modification is basically his personal show.

The director team, some staff members, and some main actors gathered together to read the script, just to have a deep understanding of the script.

The main reason is that Jiang Wen’s movies are very obscure. Many of the lines have deeper meanings. He likes to leave blank spaces for the audience, as if he wants to say something but stops himself, like holding the pipa and half covering his face.

However, you can be mysterious in front of the audience, but not in front of the actors.

How can an actor perform if he does not have the most basic understanding?

Some movies say in their promotions that the actors don’t actually know what they are playing, which is simply fooling the audience as if they were fools.

The script of "Looking for the Gun" is said to have been revised nine times.

Hao Yun can testify that he witnessed more than nine major changes with his own eyes.

However, the main force behind the script change was not Lu Yu, the director and screenwriter.

But it’s Jiang Wen!

It's not just about changing the details, even the ending can be changed.

Lu Yu's version is similar to the original, written rather roughly, and tells a very realistic suspense story about a policeman who lost his gun and finally found the gun and the murderer.

The murderer is set to be an "old tree spirit".

A pitiful and hateful misfit in this world who lost his genitals on the battlefield and was persecuted when he returned to society.

This is definitely not something Jiang Wen would like.

change!
The murderer was changed to the mutton noodle vendor named Jieba Liu.

A passerby with only two scenes and no sense of existence, the "most unlikely suspect" in the detective novel.

He claimed that his family was destroyed by Zhou Xiaogang's fake liquor and he stole the gun just for revenge.

At the end of the movie, he was captured by Ma Shan and accidentally shot and killed Ma Shan.

Ma Shan accomplished the heroic feat with his own sacrifice.

After death, the soul leaves the body, finds the lost gun, punishes the real culprit, unloads the burden, and completes the mission.

It is like a tragic epic, composing a heroic hymn for ordinary people.

However, such a script could not avoid being clichéd, so Jiang Wen began to modify the style of the script.

"Looking for the Gun" has been transformed from a suspense work into a surrealist work, which is full of the protagonist's imaginary world, with unpredictable changes in reality and fiction, and a weird and psychedelic style.

Which normal person wouldn’t be confused after receiving the script?

Jiang Wen said that we should read it together, so let’s read it together.

"Not yet, you have to shave your head." Jiang Wen looked at Lu Yan.

"What, shaving your head?" Lu Yu was a little skeptical about life and subconsciously thought it was a joke.

With his long flowing hair and a cigarette in his hand, he leaned against the door in the corner, exuding a strong literary and artistic atmosphere.

Now they want him to become a boiled egg?
no way!

Do you know how long it took me to become so elegant?

I would rather die than cut my hair.

As a result, Jiang Wen refused to hold a script reading, and the entire crew was at a standstill for two days.

In addition, the production director did some ideological work on Lu Yan, saying that Jiang Wen would require the directors to shave their heads for every play, and the staff and some actors would follow suit.

It's not directed at you, so don't suffer from paranoia.

It’s September now, and the filming has to start on the 10th.

Lu Yu soon became timid. He went out at night and came back with a shiny bald head.

Hao Yun asked Jiang Wen if he wanted a haircut.

Jiang Wen said that the character he played was actually a repeat offender, and he would definitely go to jail often. If he went to jail, he would have his hair cut. It would be fine to cut his head bald now, because when it was his turn to act, he would have a buzz cut.

Hao Yun turned around and went outside to shave his head.

This is what Jiang Wen admires about Hao Yun, he is very straightforward.

Compared to Hao Yun, Lu Yan is just a woman.

A group of bald men locked themselves in the room and attacked the script.

Just like a group of sheep are locked in a sheepfold.

This is the time when sparks of thought are most likely to emerge, and a lot of wisdom can be easily gathered. Hao Yun was not polite at all.

I pull them out during the day and use them to read and study at night.

The most important thing for him is to take the Beijing Film Academy's professional course examinations, but his scores in cultural courses cannot be too low, otherwise when he becomes famous in the future, it will be revealed that he only scored over 200 in the college entrance examination.

People would say he is an illiterate superstar.

The film will start shooting on September 10th.

The start of filming for "Looking for the Gun" was more low-key than that for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

A lot of reporters were invited to film "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" at that time, and some reporters even fell to the ground and couldn't get up due to the crowd.

"Looking for the Gun" did not invite any reporters, so everyone just took a group photo and then cut the cake.

Treating the entire crew to cake these days is definitely a big deal - although there are not many actors and staff in this play.

"Hao Yun, Hao Yun, come here!" Jiang Wen shouted.

Who is in charge of the crew?

Is there any need to ask? The investment was attracted by Jiang Wen. With him on the side, the investors don't even need to send people to look after the place.

Most of the actors are from the Central Academy of Drama, and they are either Jiang Wen’s classmates or his fellow apprentices.

When the staff saw Jiang Wen, they were all very happy. Who could have remembered that Jiang Wen was not the director of this play, but Lu Yu who was looking at Jiang Wen pitifully was the director.

Now everyone is waiting for Jiang Wen to cut the cake for the first time.

I didn't expect him to suddenly call out someone called Hao Yun.

It's a bit weird.

Everyone else looked at Hao Yun, wondering why they were calling this unknown young man.

After the crew moved, Hao Yun was assigned a small single room, so people who came later didn't know that he and Jiang Wen had slept together.

"Here I am." Hao Yun was originally standing in the corner, waiting to have a piece of cake.

I didn't expect to hear his name called.

"Aren't you Hao Yun? Come and cut it and see if you can bring peace and good luck to the crew." Jiang Wen didn't believe it. He just wanted to give Hao Yun a chance.

"Then I'll cut it off." After spending these days together, Hao Yun knew that Jiang Wen didn't like people who were nagging.

Lu Yan looked a little gloomy at the side.

He... is the director!

Hao Yun took a long fruit knife and divided the cake into small pieces. Then, with the help of the staff, he put them on plates and distributed them to everyone.

After finishing my work breathlessly, I finally got to eat the cake.

It's over. He thought it was an easy job, but it turned out that he had to stand while others sat and watch others eat. It was a tiring life.

Jiang Wen, oh no, it’s Director Lu Yan who is very efficient at work.

After we finished eating the cake, we started filming over there.

There are no stills or makeup photos.

When Hao Yun first started, he didn't have any roles, so he didn't need to do anything. He just studied on the side.

By the way, various acting skills.

He had previously extracted a lot of acting skills from Jiang Wen, but the special actor certificate could only hold 250 points, and if left out for 24 hours, they would be gone.

Moreover, it is used every time I act with Jiang Wen.

It simply cannot be saved.

It is not his turn yet, so he must quickly fill up his 250 acting points.

In addition to Jiang Wen and Ning Jing, many people in this play are actually great names in the performing arts industry, but they are not known by ordinary people.

For example, Wu Yujuan, who played Mashan’s wife, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and is a first-class actor of the Guo Jia Drama Theater.

Wei Xiaoping, who plays Liu Jieba, was admitted to the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 79, graduated in 84 and stayed on to teach at the school. He is a teacher in the Directing Department of the Central Academy of Drama.

Liu Xiaoning, who plays Chen Jun, is also from the Central Academy of Drama.

Shi Liang, who plays Zhou Xiaogang, holds a bachelor's degree in French literature and a master's degree in French from Beijing Foreign Studies University. He also majored in acting at the Franco-American Film and Drama School.

Hao Yun gained countless attributes from them.

He saved some for backup and used the rest.

It wouldn't be a pity to use it up, as he could learn acting skills from the person who provided the acting skills during the process.

In the past, Hao Yun was only an average performer among extras.

And now Hao Yun is absolutely outstanding.

Even if he didn't shoot the attribute, he should be able to audition for the role of Yin Zhiping.

"Calm down. There is a reason for the original novel to be written this way, but what we are doing now is film art, and everything must revolve around the core idea..."

When Hao Yun heard Jiang Wen "persuading" Lu Yan in a serious tone, he knew that Lu Yan was going to compromise again.

In the morning, Hao Yun accidentally heard Lu Yan talking on the phone with his father.

The other side seemed to hear Jiang Wen shouting "Start" on the set, and asked with concern why it was Jiang Wen who shouted "Start".

Lu Yan's nose felt sore and he almost cried.

(*)
He tried hard to hold back his tears and comforted his father, saying that Uncle Jiang would take care of him and that he would follow his instructions in everything, and that he was just helping other actors rehearse.

It's not that they took away his position as director and completely sidelined him.

The listener is sad and the listener sheds tears.

However, Hao Yun was too lazy to sympathize with Lu Yan.

What the hell is sympathy?

He simply modified someone else's novel and used it as a script, and passed it to Jiang Wen through powerful characters.

Jiang Wen took the script, raised investment, and invited various talented actors to act.

He revised the script at least nine times, and it has become unrecognizable compared to the original manuscript.

Follow each scene one by one, and help check each shot one by one.

We will definitely provide excellent service for the subsequent editing.

Don't steal his directorship or projects, just dedicate yourself silently.

If Lu Yan came from a grassroots background like him, she would never have dared to dream of being so imaginative.

Moreover, from Hao Yun's unprofessional perspective, Jiang Wen's level is indeed higher.

Lu Yan now has some talent, but he is too immature.

Jiang Wen quickly convinced him, put down Lu Yan's director's chair, and called the actor over to change this scene that had been shot several times but always felt not right.

This guy was also very competitive when he was filming "Red Sorghum" with Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou was so angry that he drank several large bowls of sorghum wine.

Now Lu Yan is just crying, it’s no big deal at all.

He also called Aunt Hua's boss Wang Zhongjun and cried about all the bullying he had suffered at the hands of Jiang Wen, but he didn't know what the other party said, and he cried even harder.

Of course, Hao Yun did not see this scene in person, but he heard the gossip from other members of the crew.

(End of this chapter)