Huayu: Enjoy Yourself

Chapter 94 You're the one with a mental illness

Since the opening up, a wave of enthusiasm for going into business has swept across the country. ♦👍 ➅9ⓈʰǗχ.ĆＯ𝕞 💢♘

A similar trend of rural residents migrating to cities for work has emerged.

After the first group of migrant workers returned home, an even larger wave of migrant work began.

The current era is one that occurred after the first batch of returnees.

The script passed censorship the fastest of all of Chen An's films.

Now he has achieved great success, thanks to the combined efforts of Xi'an Film Studio and Beijing Film Studio.

Not only was it approved quickly, but the production team was also assembled immediately.

After gathering the actors, the crew quickly headed north.

It was only March, early spring, and the snow in the fields had not yet completely melted.

The total investment was one million, with Chen An's Guangnian Media contributing nine hundred thousand and the two production studios each contributing fifty thousand.

After signing the contract, they led a large group of people to the filming location.

Unfortunately, Gu Changwei is still in Jiang Wen's film crew, and the filming of "Devils on the Doorstep," which has been dragging on for several months, has not yet been completed.

However, Chen An still managed to pull Kang Xiaotian, the lighting technician, over to him.

This is a small village in northern China, and this is where everyone was filming.

And Ge You would keep reading the script every day, even when filming was almost finished, he would still be studying the script in his arms.

"Uncle Ge, you haven't gone mad, have you? I remember you're not an experiential writer." Chen An looked at Uncle Ge, who was lying in a chair reading the script and muttering to himself, walked up to him and waved his hand.

Uncle Ge waved away Chen An's outstretched hand and said with disdain, "Your script is so difficult, how can I not read it? You don't care about the affairs of the entire crew, but instead come here to cause trouble for me."

"I'm afraid you'll become obsessed and really turn into a psychopath. Method acting is good, but it's too damaging to actors." Chen An was genuinely a little scared.

If this kind of mental illness script were written by a genius method actor, depression might be the least of his worries; he could actually develop serious mental health issues.

Grandpa Ge waved his hand and said, "Get lost, you're the one who's mentally ill. I was thinking about how to express the difference between reality and fantasy." He told Chen An not to talk nonsense.

"Haha, okay, keep thinking about it. The machine will be launched tomorrow, so you can think about it carefully first." Seeing that the other party had no problems, Chen An also left with a smile.

Chen An plans to find a makeup artist to get the earmuffs that the other party wore in the landlord costume in "The Dream Factory" to create a dream collaboration.

It's good to let the other party think about it carefully. In their previous life, the other party's acting skills were completely assimilated by Feng Xiaogang's comedies, losing their previous extremes and humor.

It has a dark humor that is different from Feng Xiaogang's comedies.

She fell into the same trap as Jiang Wen, where every role she played sounded a bit like herself.

There weren't that many cars back then, and Chen An converted the car repair shop into a motorcycle repair shop.

Filming began here; the glass of the dilapidated repair shop was broken, and through the gap, Uncle Ge was repairing a motorcycle.

He was wearing a wig with a beard, earmuffs, and simple, dirty clothes, squatting in front of a motorcycle repairing it.

After resting for a while, he was scolded a few times by the boss, but he didn't care and walked out the door with his hands in his pockets.

It just walks with a swaying gait, and sometimes when it pulls its hand out, it seems to be hanging there as if it has nowhere to go.

"Cut! That's good, Uncle Ge." Chen An was quite satisfied with the performance that the other party had been working on for so long.

This means that this item has passed.

The other actor's performance is not exactly the same as the original. Wang Baoqiang has some unique qualities, and his image and temperament cannot be completely imitated.

However, Ge You's performance also had its merits. Unlike the former's intensity, just like the initial hiding in the darkness, the display of his posture and temperament was not as obvious as the former.

Instead, he is more reserved, rather than looking like a mentally ill idiot at first glance, but you can still sense that something is wrong with him.

Upon hearing the voice, Uncle Ge stopped performing and took off his earmuffs: "You specially found these, right? At first, they seemed a little familiar, but then I realized what they were."

As she spoke, she pointed to the earmuffs in her hand that were the same style as those in the movie "Party A and Party B," except they looked a bit old, and the original white velvet had turned yellowish-brown.

"These are the earmuffs from the landlord's house. But the landlord was overthrown and they've been stored in the storeroom for years, so they've turned yellow," Chen An said with a smile.

The staff around Chen An couldn't help but laugh when they heard his explanation.

The first take went smoothly.

Some people treat acting as a job, and Ge You is one of them. He gets into character quickly, but he also gets out of character very quickly.

As he himself said, acting is just acting; you can't let yourself get caught up in it, and you have to get out of it as soon as filming is over.

However, some people view acting differently, immersing themselves completely in the role, making it difficult for them to detach themselves even after the performance ends, to the point that it's hard to distinguish themselves from the character. Zhou Xun is an example of this.

Having come from an untrained background, she had no formal training, but her innate talent allowed her to embody characters in scripts, which led to some of her past experiences.

Often, even after a performance, she would still be the same as before. If the character wasn't a mute girl, Chen Anzhen would feel like she was talking to Zhang Xiaomei instead of Zhou Xun.

She seemed to be in the zone even before the shoot started.

A huge fire pit rises from the ground, and it doesn't need to be filmed in detail; it only requires a single shot in Mr. Tree's hallucination.

Mr. Tree's ordinary life took a turn when he witnessed his father accidentally hang his older brother and burn the body as a child.

This is a lingering shadow that haunts him and has led to his current situation.

This flame has been burning ever since, accompanying him throughout his life.

It can be said that Mr. Tree, who could have lived a normal life, had his life ruined by his own father.

This memory is like a nightmare, haunting me and seeping into my very bones.

As Ge You looked at the distant bonfire in front of the camera, it seemed as if he had returned to his memory, where his father paced back and forth beside the towering fire.

His eyes held a quiet, deathly stillness!

But when Madam Li Mingqi quietly walked up behind him, his previously unfocused eyes regained focus, and he took a puff of his cigarette and said dejectedly, "Mom, my eyes are blurry."

"What are you seeing? My eyes are blurry."

Grandpa Ge rubbed his eyes. "I didn't see anything."

The initial filming went smoothly, and the plot was unfolding step by step.

Mr. Tree's eyes were accidentally injured, and Duan Long, who plays the younger brother, also made his official appearance.

The newly issued banknotes appeared on camera as Duan Long, the younger brother, came to pay for his older brother's medical expenses.

Eventually, Mr. Tree was also fired by his boss, and things gradually began to get out of control.

"Honglei, you're teasing him, not trying to scare him. Tell him to tone it down. Uncle Ge is insignificant in your eyes; you're just making fun of him," Chen An said to Sun Honglei from the end of the corridor.

His appearance, combined with the imposing manner of his speech, made it seem as if he were ordering Mr. Tree to bring a blanket and sleep at the entrance of his factory.

"Okay, director, sorry, I'll do it again." Sun Honglei nodded immediately when he was asked to do it.

Sun Honglei, who was sitting in the middle of the table, looked the fiercest, even more ruthless than a bandit, but at this moment he appeared reserved, nodding repeatedly, which looked somewhat funny.

Chen An nodded and told the other person to adjust first, and then they could start filming later.

Sun Honglei appeared very reserved after his first performance failed. He probably figured he was still too inexperienced to handle the challenge, as he was still a newcomer to the industry.

However, Chen An was not in a hurry; giving the other party a little time would not be a problem.

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