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Chapter 96 The Condor Heroes

In the blink of an eye, the New Year is here again.

During the Spring Festival last year, Li Boda was filming for the TV series "Chinese Paladin", and the crew gave him three days off for the New Year.

And now during this Spring Festival, Li Boda is filming for the "The Return of the Condor Heroes" crew again. This time, the "The Return of the Condor Heroes" crew only gave him one day off.

We were given a day off on Chinese New Year's Day, but had to resume filming the next day.

Whether it is New Year or not is not important to the crew at all.

The crew even wished there was no Spring Festival.

Because during the Spring Festival, most of those who have moved to Hengdu and Beijing will go home to celebrate the New Year. They will have to wait until after the New Year, or at least after the 15th, before they can come back.

In other words, during the period around the Spring Festival, extras are very scarce, and it is difficult for the crew to easily gather a group of extras for a performance as usual.

For this reason, the crew had to increase the pay of extras. They used to get 30 to 50 yuan a day, but now they have to get 100 to 200 yuan a day.

The pay for extras has been raised so much, but when filming, there are still sometimes not enough extras.

Therefore, during this period, many film crews that do not take holidays during the Chinese New Year are competing for extras.

Throughout the year, around this time, extras are very popular.

Of course, the salary increase and popularity only apply to extras. As for the other actors, whether they are the main characters like Li Boda or some minor supporting roles, there is no difference between them and before. They will not be given a salary increase just because of the holidays. It is simply impossible. After all, they have signed a contract.

At most, during the Chinese New Year, the crew would give Li Boda and his team a red envelope.

Li Boda touched the red envelope given to him by the crew, which was quite thick. When he opened the envelope, he saw a stack of hundred-yuan bills, which was almost a full ten thousand yuan in the red envelope.

This amount is not low.

Therefore, although the pay of the main and supporting actors will not increase, everyone is actually quite happy to receive red envelopes of varying amounts.

So when filming, everyone in the crew was full of energy.

Finally, as the crew continued filming, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month had passed, and the extras who had left before had returned one after another. Some of them left during the Chinese New Year, but did not come back after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. However, there were also some newcomers who came to Hengdian or somewhere else out of curiosity or other mentalities and ideas to start their career as extras.

The extras no longer had to fight, so the crew waved their hands and restored the pay of all the extras to normal.

……

Liu Yifei was still wearing the same white dress. The blower in the distance was blowing, making her clothes flutter.

As time went by, the weather gradually began to warm up. Although it was still very cold, it was much better than before.

Liu Yifei, hanging on the wire, looked like a fairy descending to earth. Then, as arranged by the crew, she opened her arms and fell into the crowd.

In the crowd below, a group of people stretched out their arms, ready to lift up Liu Yifei who was falling from the sky.

To be honest, Li Boda had no feelings about this scene at all and had no idea what the point of filming such a scene was.

But just like what was said when he first joined the crew and signed the contract, Zhang Da Huzi is used to being overbearing. He says how your scene should be shot and there can be no changes at all. Even if most people think that this scene does not need to be filmed at all, but Zhang Da Huzi thinks it is necessary to shoot it, then it must be shot.

Li Boda stood outside the camera, watching Liu Yifei, dressed in fluttering white, falling from the sky, and then looked at the extras below who were stretching out their arms to lift up the falling Liu Yifei.

Li Boda suddenly frowned.

Because he found that among the crowd below, there were one or two people who were smiling particularly cunningly, or particularly obscenely, and even had their hands raised high, with their ten fingers moving slightly, as if they were ready to attack.

It was also thanks to the extraordinary magical power in Li Boda's body that he was able to clearly sense that something was wrong with those people.

So Li Boda squatted down and picked up two small stones on the ground.

Just as Liu Yifei fell from the sky, most of the people below began to support Liu Yifei's back, hands and feet and lift her up. At this time, the particularly wretched guy who had been noticed by Li Boda before stretched out his dirty hands.

With a flick of the finger——

Click!

A stone world hit the back of the opponent's hand, causing severe pain, so that the man quickly withdrew his hand.

"Cut! This scene is over."

Li Boda sneered at the extra who was holding his hands in pain after the scene was filmed, and sneered in his heart, taking advantage of the opportunity of filming, an extra took advantage of the heroine. This guy was really bold.

He never thought about what consequences he would face if he was caught.

You have to know that although Liu Yifei is cute and silly, she is not without any background. It is too easy for her to be an extra.

However, although this guy couldn't do anything because of Li Boda, Li Boda would not let him have an easy time.

Although Li Boda's blow didn't injure his skin or bones, it was still a significant blow. This guy's hand would be swollen for at least six months, during which time he wouldn't be able to use any strength. Even after six months, when the swelling subsided, he wouldn't be able to move as smoothly as before. From beginning to end, apart from Li Boda and the extra who was so cunning and wanted to take advantage of the filming opportunity, no one else knew about this matter.

Li Boda had no intention of speaking out and telling others about this matter.

Li Boda felt quite proud of himself for keeping his name and identity hidden.

……

Time flies, and everyone has taken off their cotton coats.

Even though Li Boda and the others continued to use the blowers, hair dryers and fans, they no longer felt cold.

The crew of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" also completed the filming mission at the Xiangshan Film and Television Base, and then moved to Xinchang to film.

However, coming to Xinchang also means that the filming of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" is about to be completed.

Because almost everything that needs to be filmed has been completed, there are only a few scenes left.

So, nine days later—

"Cut! It's done, this scene is done!" the director shouted loudly, then smiled and handed the loudspeaker in his hand to Zhang Da Huzi, who had been preparing for a long time.

Zhang Da Huzi took the speaker from the director and shouted with full energy, "I declare that the filming of The Return of the Condor Heroes has been completed!!!"

When they heard Zhang Da Huzi announce that the filming of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" was completed, everyone in the crew first breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to cheer loudly.

It was really tiring to shoot the drama "The Return of the Condor Heroes".

Not to mention the huge amount of shooting every day, the shooting cycle is also very long.

Since June last year, Zhang Da Huzi started the casting work for "The Return of the Condor Heroes". It took several months before the roles were finalized, and by the time filming started, it was already October.

The filming officially started in October and was not completed until April of the following year.

Putting aside the time for casting, the filming alone took six months. For a full six months, the average filming time was more than ten hours a day.

To be honest, this is the longest and most tiring film Li Boda has ever worked on.

When we were filming "The Four", it was already quite tiring, but that was because there were too many fighting scenes in the play, and the fighting scenes were too long-winded to shoot. However, we still finished shooting a drama of dozens of episodes within three months.

But The Return of the Condor Heroes took six months! A full six months.

Although there were quite a few fighting scenes, they were not too many either. However, it still took a full six months to shoot.

You can imagine that this drama took so long to shoot, and so many scenes were shot, but only a few were used in the end. The number of shots that were ultimately considered useless was almost as many as the number of shots taken during the filming of the movie.

But it’s okay, it’s finally finished.

Li Boda no longer had any intention of cooperating with Zhang Da Huzi.

Even if Zhang Da Huzi wanted to invite Li Boda to play the leading male role in other Jin Yong dramas in the future, Li Boda would definitely not accept it.

The main reason was that the shooting period was too long. Other people could finish a movie in two or three months, but it took him half a year, which was twice as long.

The average filming time for other people is only seven or eight hours a day, while Zhang Da Huzi's crew shoots for more than ten hours a day. But Zhang Da Huzi's pay is the lowest.

Well, Li Boda didn’t get any remuneration at all!

Anyway, the only Jin Yong drama that is enough is The Return of the Condor Heroes. There is no need to film any more Jin Yong dramas, or any other dramas.

"Li Boda, after finishing filming The Return of the Condor Heroes, what are you going to do next?" Liu Yifei opened her eyes wide and blinked at Li Boda.

"What to do? Of course I need to rest, then make some money, and finally find a new crew to film. What else can I do?" Li Boda said casually.

"Oh, I have to go back to school next." Liu Yifei sighed, with a hint of reluctance in her tone.

"As a student, what else do you want to do if you don't go back to school? Xixi! I think it's a good idea for you to go back to school and study hard. After all, filming does require some acting skills--" Li Boda made a gesture of pointing to the universe.

"Ah? What do you mean? Do you want to say that my acting is bad?" Liu Yifei glared at Li Boda.

"I didn't say that! You figured it out on your own." Li Boda spread his hands and passed the blame on to others.

Liu Yifei was so angry that she raised her leg and kicked Li Boda on the calf.

"Oh, I can't kick it!" Li Boda stepped back and dodged.

"Ahhh! I'm going to kick you to death!"

(End of this chapter)