Huayu: Reborn in 97, transferring to the Central Academy of Drama's star-studded class

"You mean, this guy named Ma Dasan, wanting to avenge his villagers, just blindly charged into the POW camp with an axe, and actually managed to get inside and kill a bunch of Japanese soldiers?"

"right!"

"Fine, let's say he's really good. He killed Japanese soldiers, and this Nationalist officer actually wants to execute him?"

"That's true!"

"Isn't this also stained with the blood of our compatriots? Why?"

"Why do you think so?"

"Boss! If I knew, I wouldn't have asked you."

Jiang Wen tilted his head, looked at Jiang Lai, took a comfortable drag of his cigarette, and smiled smugly, "Do you think this is absurd?"

"Absurd." Jiang Lai nodded.

"Is it absurd?"

"That's absurd too."

"Is it absurd?"

Jiang Lai looked puzzled. "Boss, what kind of philosophical questions are these? They're bound to be absurd. What's the difference between these three terms?"

Jiang Wen smirked, "Your level of education is a waste of your name."

Jiang Lai was speechless. What did this have to do with his name?

"Absurdity lies in the absurdity of this action, ridiculousness in the absurdity of this logic, and absurdity in the fact that the entire reality is utterly unreal!"

Jiang Wen snorted and exhaled a thick cloud of smoke.

Jiang Lai thought to himself, "Fine, I'd better go memorize my lines."

It's this stage again.

Jiang Lai put on his military uniform, struggled to put on his plaster cast, and was ready at any moment.

Since Jiang Wen also had to act in this scene, assistant director Zhao Yijun was put in charge of directing and coordinating it. After checking that everything was ready, Zhao Yijun immediately shouted, "Action!"

Jiang began by saying, "The Japanese pirates have surrendered! The war is over! Peace has arrived!"

"But!" he changed the subject, "just two days ago, someone brazenly damaged the international peace environment jointly created by our Chairman Jiang, President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill, and His Excellency Stalin, blatantly violating the Botswana Agreement, disrupting public order, and creating terror!"

Jiang Lai seemed a little flustered while reading his lines. Putting aside the absurdity of the label, Jiang Wen really dared to use a certain surname, no wonder he had to argue about it.

He looked down at Jiang Wen, who was tied up and bleeding from his head. Jiang Wen said that he originally wanted to use human blood for realism, but the hospital wouldn't sell it. Jiang Wen even thought that he might as well just give himself a beating. Everyone was afraid that the director would be ruined before the filming was even finished. The props team quickly suggested that they use animal blood instead. Jiang Wen thought about it and agreed. The props team quickly sent someone to the village to find some. They found a pig butcher and bought a bucket of pig blood.

Jiang Lai pointed at Jiang Wen below the stage and said, "This person! It is Ma Dasan in front of you all! Some people may say that Ma Dasan killed Japanese devils and resisted the Japanese! What is resisting the Japanese? Fighting the Japanese army in bloody battles and driving the enemy out of the country is the true heroic act of resisting the Japanese! Ma Dasan's killing of unarmed Japanese prisoners who had lost the will to resist is a despicable act of pseudo-resistance! Some people may say that Ma Dasan has a deep hatred and was forced by the Japanese army."

Jiang Lai looked at the people around him, raised four fingers, and said, "Of our 400 million compatriots, who doesn't harbor deep hatred for the Japanese invaders! My parents died under the relentless bombing of the Japanese army, and now my left leg!"

Jiang Lai lifted his leg in the cast and patted it, almost falling over because he lost his balance. Everyone laughed, and he cleared his throat awkwardly.

"This left leg was shattered in the last battle against the Japanese army! Who had the most right to kill these little devils? Who had the most reason to avenge them? It was me! And who was the least qualified to do so?"

Jiang Lai patted his chest forcefully. "It's me again! Because I'm a soldier, I must obey orders. I take this opportunity to warn you once again: only the National Revolutionary Army is the sole and legal recipient of the surrender to the Japanese army!"

"War not only brought devastation to our land, but also caused calamity to the Japanese invaders. Aren't those Japanese devils human beings?"

Jiang Lai silently said "no" to himself.

"I ask you, which of you would want to see your husband go out to buy groceries and find out he's been chopped up?" Jiang Lai shouted, raising his arm. "Anyone?!"

The common people's perfectly chosen response: "No!"

"Ma Dasan! What else do you have to say?" Jiang Lai pointed at Jiang Wen.

The guards pulled the rag out of Jiang Wen's mouth. He knelt on the ground, gasped for breath, and then looked up at the sky and let out a few loud cries.

Braying of a donkey.

"Gag him!" Jiang Lai waved his hand. "Listen to this, everyone! He's braying like a donkey! What's the difference between this kind of scum and an animal? You don't deserve to be called a Chinese person, or even a human being!"

As Jiang Lai was reciting his lines, a donkey actually walked into the frame and onto the stage in front of him. He glanced at the assistant director, Zhao Yijun, without making a sound, and since the other didn't yell "cut," he continued acting.

"How could our soldiers allow their hands to be stained by a scoundrel like you! Sakazuka Inokichi!"

"Hey!" The Japanese officer stepped forward.

"I order you to execute Ma Dasan! Shoot him on the spot!"

"Sir, we have surrendered and are no longer allowed to use our weapons. However, we must obey your orders! Our knives are our personal weapons; may we use them?"

Jiang Lai waved his hand impatiently, "Enough talk! Enough talk! Give them the knife!"

"Cut! Very good, everyone, thank you for your hard work." Zhao Yijun called for a stop.

The staff quickly went up to untie the director.

"Ugh! Ugh!" Jiang Wen, still with his mouth gagged, stared wide-eyed and whimpered.

"Oh! Sorry, Director, I forgot." The young man smiled awkwardly and quickly removed the rag.

Jiang Lai took off his cast and walked over comfortably. The long monologue he had just delivered was quite challenging, requiring a single take, and he used all his skills to deliver it perfectly.

He watched Jiang Wen rubbing his chin and knees, and thinking about how the other man had been tied up and kneeling on the ground the whole time, he couldn't help but give him a thumbs up: "Boss, you're awesome."

Jiang Wen blinked in confusion, "Okay, okay, you're awesome too."

The scene was filmed several times from different angles. When Jiang Wen heard Zhao Yijun talk about the donkey that had wandered into the shot, he found it very interesting and arranged another scene where a pig ran out when the scene was being called "Sakezuka Inoyoshi".

After that, Jiang Lai didn't have much of a role. He was basically just a background character watching Ma Dasan be executed. He just watched as the Japanese soldier Hanaya Kosaburo, whom Ma Dasan had saved, raised his katana and brandished it at Jiang Wen's neck, and then inexplicably flicked away an ant that had crawled onto his neck.

Jiang Wen turned his head and revealed a mocking smile. Kagawa, who played Hanaya Kosaburo, was provoked and shouted, swinging his knife down.

Jiang asked, "How do we film the scene where this person's head is chopped off?"

Jiang Wen didn't say anything, but Gu Changwei pulled out a ball.

It's a spherical camera, connected to a shot of a sword being swung down, showing Kagawa hitting the ball away.

Gu Changwei said, "This thing is really tough, it won't break."

Jiang Lai was instantly shocked by the old man's directness.

"This thing alone would cost two hundred to rent!" Jiang Wen proudly pointed to his chest with his thumb. "But I borrowed it!"

"Whom did you borrow it from?"

"Oh." Jiang Wen scratched his head, a cigarette between his fingers. "I borrowed it from Kun'er."

"Who is Kun'er?" Jiang Lai continued to press.

"Tsk, Quentin, Quentin."

Oh... Jiang Lai Ran, the one who said "awesome" on a talk show in the United States.

The entire film was shot in black and white film, but Jiang Wen said that after Ma Dasan's head was cut off, the whole picture would turn into color, colorful and vibrant, and finally turn into an extreme red.

He also said that it was precisely because of this touch of red that the entire film was shot in black and white.

It sounds like someone made a whole batch of dumplings just for this plate of vinegar, but Jiang Lai found it quite interesting and was particularly curious about what the final product would look like.

Because they also need to film the frontal view after the head is cut off.

Although Jiang Wen strived for realism, he couldn't actually cut off the guy's head, so he dug a hole in the ground, placed a wooden board on it, made a hole so that Jiang Wen's head could just stick out, and then sprinkled soil on the board, making it look quite realistic.

Jiang Lai doesn't have any scenes in this part; he follows Zhao Yijun and hides behind the monitor.

In the video, Jiang Wen blinked, then closed his eyes completely, his scalp twitching as he moved his facial muscles.

He smiled.

A man who, after the victory in the War of Resistance against Japan, killed Japanese soldiers in a fit of rage to avenge his countrymen, was ultimately beheaded by Japanese soldiers under the command of his own people.

This scoundrel left the world with only a smile in his final moments.

Jiang Lai gasped, his hair standing on end and his scalp tingling.

After filming ended, a bunch of people ran over with wicked grins, taking advantage of Jiang Wen's inability to move. It was a chance for those who had grudges to get revenge. They took turns taking photos with the head on the ground, grinning mischievously. Who told him to make such a torturous movie?

Jiang Wen was furious: "Damn it! You bunch of bastards, let me out already!"

Gu Changwei walked over with a smile and put a cigarette in the girl's mouth. "Don't rush. After we finish filming, you can smoke a cigarette to mourn yourself."

Jiang Wen, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, was so angry at these guys that he laughed.

Jiang Lai also eagerly posed for a group photo. Recalling the beginning of the script, he asked, "The scene where Ma Dasan is beheaded echoes what was said earlier: when a head falls to the ground, it spins nine times, blinks three times, and then smiles in the afterlife. So, does Ma Dasan's final smile mean he smiled in the afterlife?"

Jiang Wen didn't reply, but Gu Changwei shook his head and said, "I think he meant, 'Get lost! This shitty world!'"