Chapter 15 Acting Thank you)
"Director, can you not take pictures of my front? I just need a back view." I asked.
"Hmm?" the director wondered, "You're really weird. Others want to show their faces. You're so good. You're actually looking for some characters who have no lines or no cameras. In fact, it's okay to play a small supporting role with your understanding. Do you know how many people are snatching a little eunuch? Otherwise, I'll talk to the director, and you'll play a eunuch."
"Well, I'm not interested in being a eunuch." I declined, "I still want to do some basic work so that I can exercise my acting skills."
"It's up to you, it's a pity that you are a literary youth." The director sighed, "Where is your wife? Yesterday the director told her to play a maid, but unfortunately she looks more beautiful than the female lead. The female lead is afraid that she will steal the spotlight and insists that the director change the other person. I have no choice!"
"It's okay, there are always opportunities, we are still young." I said without any worries.
"Yes, the young man has a good mentality, unlike the young people who are eager for quick success and instant benefits, and are determined to become famous." The director praised, "I will finish work after taking this shot. Let's wait for the announcement tomorrow!"
After filming this scene, I walked outside. Mu Shanshan was filming on another crew. I walked over. It was a palace time travel drama, telling the story of a modern girl traveling to the Ming Dynasty. A while ago, everyone rushed through the Qing Dynasty, but now it has changed to the Ming Dynasty.
Now is the era when time-travel dramas are popular, especially palace dramas. Those white-collar and petty bourgeoisie like to watch them the most, and it is said that there will be a strange feeling of substitution.
In the past, petty bourgeoisie liked to watch European literary and artistic movies, which were very decadent, cold and uninformed movies. Later, petty bourgeoisie started watching American blockbusters, and when they spent money to go to the cinema, they felt that they were unique. Now petty bourgeoisie started watching time travel dramas...
Mu Shanshan is quite popular here. She works on several sets at the same time, and she is very good at playing. She has many rules, such as not acting in a diving scene, not acting in a play of serving tea and pouring water, not acting in a play of beating, not acting in a play of a play of a series of lines... She just plays a vase role that stands there and does nothing.
Now she is standing behind a concubine in a palace outfit and doing nothing. According to her words, she is just experiencing life and learning how to take pictures. In fact, I am the only character in her documentary, and she just needs to shoot it in front of me. There is no need for photography skills at all.
The so-called drama is like life, life is like drama, we have been in Hengdian Film and Television City for a week.
Many things always look beautiful, and it is the same as being an extra. Of course, there are not many people who are picky like the two of us. Most extras are still relatively hard-working. Some people are for their hobbies, some are for their lives, and some are for their fame. So here is a performance of more exciting content than TV series every day.
Not everyone can be an extra here. You need an extra's ID and register. It is arranged uniformly by the management staff of the film and television city. Of course, there are many people here, that is, those women who send business cards on the street can just call them according to the phone number on the business card. They are very enthusiastic.
I asked at that time that I could go to the bank to apply for a bank card with this fake ID card. The other party said that they did not have such business, and this kind of business was generally handled by the local public security bureau, which was not the same system as them, so what we got was a fake ID card that looked very real.
"Let's go, go home!" Mu Shanshan said excitedly when he finished work.
We rented a house next to the film and television city. The landlord would not be bored to verify the authenticity of his ID card online. Just give him enough money. The two of us can earn between 60 and 100 yuan a day when we act, and wander around when we are not alive. Although this film and television city is just an antique building, it looks pretty good, especially when there are crews who can always see some gossipy things.
I felt that our days as fugitives were too easy, which made me very uncomfortable.
The house we rented was a two-bedroom and one living room, with good conditions. This is Mushanshan's space. She learned from the directors to set up a lot of cameras in the room. It is said that she wanted to capture exciting moments. Our daily entertainment program was to watch TV and play selfies.
"Do you want to call your home?" I reminded.
"I don't have a notice tomorrow. I can go to Hangzhou to make a phone call and then come back so that I don't have to worry about being monitored." Mu Shanshan said cautiously, "Anyway, I'll come out to interview often before, and they can understand."
I felt a little ashamed of this. I thought that after I arrived in Hengdian, she could fulfill her wish as soon as possible, but when she would become a monster was not controlled by me. Although I still dreamed every night, it was no longer all kinds of monsters. It seemed that the monster lurked in my body, leaving only an extraordinary body.
The next day, Mu Shanshan really left. I still waited at the management office of the film and television city. The general crew started work at 7 or 8 in the morning. If it was a night scene, it would notify in advance. Many extras would come here at about the same time, waiting for the crew to start the filming.
Today I filmed "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", which is a TV series co-produced by Hong Kong and mainland China. The director is from Hong Kong and tells the story of a vixen and a scholar. We extras are wearing ancient costumes and walking around the streets without any acting skills, as long as we don't look at the camera randomly.
This play tells the story of a scholar and a beautiful woman transformed from a fox fairy meet on the street, and then fall in love at first sight. Each person and a demon begin to convey feelings, hook up and get along, and you still want to talk...
Chinese people have a plot of fox fairy, and they always take it for granted that fox fairy must have turned into a beauty and then met a down-and-out scholar. Since I became a monster, I have followed Mu Shanshan to read the "Shan Hai Jing". There are records of fox fairy in the "Southern Mountains and Mountains".
"There are beasts on the mountain in Qingqiu. Its shape is like a fox and its nine tails, and its sound is like a baby. It can eat people, but those who eat are not gu."
I always think that "Shan Hai Jing" is a fantasy novel. Does the geography and scenery mentioned above really exist? Although many scholars in later generations have commented on it, there is always a sense of rumors. No one knows what the ancient times looked like now.
The scene was filmed very smoothly. This kind of idol script that joins a handsome man and beautiful woman does not need to be taken seriously. It is enough to make the audience pleasing to the eye. When they filmed a scene, I stood aside and watched it without doing anything.
The next scene is the scene where the fox fairy was cast by a Taoist priest and turned into a fox. The crew members really carried a fox out of the car.
Chapter completed!