"The Night Banquet", on the set.
After Zhang Yuan "accompanied" Jiuji Zhang in her first scene, she had a preliminary understanding of the professional abilities of this most popular actress in China in recent years.
They really have something!
It should be said that among today's Chinese-speaking actresses, except for the supermodel Gong Li, in mainland China, Zhao Wei is the number one actress in TV series and Zhang Ziyi is the number one actress in movies.
Zhang Yuan doesn't know how he compares with those artists of the older generation.
But in the age group of 20 to 30, Zhang Ziyi's ability is indeed outstanding.
He is also a member of the 96 Star Class of Chinese Opera, and he also had "in-depth" contact with two teachers, Zeng Li and Yuan Quan.
Zeng Li's performance is quite satisfactory, covering all aspects of the performance, but there is no strong personal color that can easily create memory points.
Yuan Quan, on the other hand, has deep inner strength and a lot of aura, and underneath her steady appearance, she actually has a very lively and agile heart, so her performance is very energetic.
Zhang Ziyi is completely different. She is stronger than these two in terms of personal ability and performance energy.
The kind of performance tension that is like spring bamboo shoots breaking through the ground.
Watching her play is a very satisfying feeling.
It's almost completely opposite to Zeng Li's meek personality and acting style.
Zhang Yuan vaguely remembered that the first time he watched "House of Flying Daggers" in the cinema, he was amazed by Zhang Ziyi's dance with sleeves and drumming.
But the point is, in the plot, she is blind.
When he saw this, Zhang Yuan felt that Zhang Ziyi, a blind man, didn't do a very good job.
There is no real blindness at all, it feels like he is pretending to be blind.
He recalled Dong Jie's performance as a blind girl in "Happy Days".
That drama also starred Uncle Benshan.
Zhang Yuan will never forget the sight of Dong Jie walking around the room in his vest and trousers after taking a shower.
Her acting "blindness" is very strong.
Zhang Yuan made a comparison in his mind at that time and said that the International Chapter was not that good either.
Only later did I realize that Zhang Ziyi’s character was really pretending to be blind!
As for her role, she had to add another layer to her role as a blind person. The difficulty of performance suddenly increased, but she performed it perfectly.
You know, she was only twenty-five years old when she played this role.
Actors are very particular about luck.
Some actors are very talented, but their peak period comes too late, and they wear themselves out.
Zhang Ziyi is very talented, and her peak period comes early.
He is very capable and very lucky. He met a top director as soon as he debuted.
After losing the blessing of Lao Mouzi, his next phenomenal work has to be "The Grandmaster" by King of Sunglasses.
It can be seen that even as strong as Zhang Ziyi, without the support of noble people, he will quickly fall into mediocrity.
"Okay, this is perfect!" Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Li, who personally took charge of the camera, clapped their hands together.
Adjust your status and move on to the next game quickly.
Today was pretty good. Two scenes were filmed back-to-back, and they were still in sequential order.
What was photographed was the murder of Wan Hou.
According to the opinions put forward by Zhang Yuan at the previous study meeting, the script was temporarily modified so that the content changed to Wan Hou being shot in the back by an arrow, turning around to face the camera with a horrified expression, and then fell to the ground and died.
The open ending does not reveal who killed the survivor of "The Werewolf in the Palace".
"Director Feng, I have a little suggestion."
The makeup artist over there was applying makeup to the injured tattoo on the back of the international seal. Zhang Yuan touched his chin and found Feng Xiaogang, who was smoking with Zhang Li and studying the camera.
"Oh, tell me what you think."
These two brothers still trust him and have a good relationship.
The main thing is that in addition to his meaningful words, he has a good drinking capacity and can make these two drink beautifully every time.
"The purpose of our open ending is to let the audience guess for themselves, right?" He also lit up a cigarette, joined the two of them, and gave them a cigarette.
"Since you want everyone to guess, you can't give some misleading information."
"Just like a detective novel, various details must be used to mislead the audience before the ending is revealed."
"Oh." Feng Xiaogang heard the meaning of his words: "You mean, add some details."
“Let’s talk about it in detail.”
"For example, Wan Hou was killed, and now the prop team is using an arrow."
"The arrow has no specific direction, anyone can shoot it."
"But if the arrows are changed to the Yue Ren sword used by the prince I play..."
"I understand!" Feng Xiaogang took a deep breath and put out the cigarette.
"The prince was already dead during this episode."
"But the queen was killed by his sword, and there was a contradiction in the plot."
"This contradiction is enough for the audience to guess for a long time."
"Yes." Zhang Yuan nodded with a smile.
"I think not only this, but also some details must be added to the previous plot."
"For example, the eunuch looked strange, the palace maid's whereabouts were unknown, and the Yu Linwei behaved unusually, which added to the doubts." After listening to his words, Director Feng was suddenly inspired.
"Mysterious..." Zhang Yuan added.
"That's right, that's right. I'm just trying to make things mysterious. I'm just letting everyone guess."
"I don't even know the answer. Whatever they guessed is irrelevant." Director Feng suddenly felt a sense of humor.
Let the audience "think" on their own, just like reading comprehension in Chinese.
The original author didn't understand it, but the examinee and the question maker didn't understand it at all.
It made the original author "have a strange light shining in his eyes."
"At that time, we might be able to use the topic 'Who killed Empress Wan?' to create a wave of popularity on the Internet." Zhang Yuan added.
Director Feng became more and more excited as he thought about it, which would add a bit of uncertainty to the story.
He thought to himself that Zhang Yuan was a clever boy who had figured out the curiosity of the audience.
Moreover, it is also very important to use this to create popularity, which may be helpful to the popularity and box office of the movie.
[Received thanks from Feng Xiaogang, +1 for observation of words and emotions, +1 for script understanding! 】
The three of them discussed for a while, then Feng Xiaogang waved and called Zhang Ziyi, the makeup artist, and the prop artist over.
After talking about the creativity that a few people had just inspired, Zhang Ziyi pursed her lips and looked at Zhang Yuan aside.
"No wonder both Izumi and Li say he is good. He is indeed different from ordinary actors."
"At such a young age, he can have a lofty talk with the director, but the director is still willing to listen to him..."
Zhang Ziyi also feels that the revised content is more interesting.
These ladies are very ambitious and are not willing to just be actors.
At the end of last year, with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Memoirs of a Geisha", she already won the position of Oscar's lifetime judge, so she has been thinking about transformation recently.
This was one of the reasons why she left Lao Mouzi.
She knew she didn't have the ability to be a director, so her goal was to be a producer and investor.
Zhang Yuan is already involved in film and television investment and has his own unique insights into scripts and characters.
Zhang Ziyi thought, there is a high probability that such a person will be useful to me.
Coupled with the "double recommendation" of Yuan Quan and Zeng Li, the International Chapter is not only greedy for his ability, but also a little bit greedy for his body.
But she has a boyfriend now, so she can't act rashly.
It's not that she is a chaste and fierce woman, but that she doesn't dare to mess around behind her current boyfriend's back.
Because her current boyfriend, who has been dating for more than a year, is named Huo Qishan.
The prop artist and makeup artist worked together to change the makeup, changing the arrow that "pierced" the abdomen of the International Chapter into a Yue Ren sword.
In fact, she saw a prop Yueren Sword in half on the spot, fixed it on Zhang Ziyi's body front and back, and then spread crimson dye on the costume to act as blood. In this way, her seriously injured makeup was completed. .
"Ah!" As soon as the camera opened, Zhang Ziyi's eyes widened, her face turned pale, her body trembled as if in pain, and she slowly turned around.
Her expressions are spot on and her emotional changes are very delicate, but...
"Stuck!" Director Feng raised his hand to shout stop.
“Not enough status!”
"The tension is not enough, it must be strengthened."
We then repeated the filming five or six times, and Feng Xiaogang said the same thing every time.
Zhang Ziyi also gathered around the monitor to check.
"What I want is the feeling of being hoarse. Your character has reached the last moment of his life, which is equivalent to the last bloom before the fireworks go out. Do you understand?"
"If you want to be ferocious and painful, it's best to have blue veins popping out and disbelief hanging on your face."
His expressions are easy to control, which is what International Zhang thrives on, and he has extremely strong control over his facial muscles.
But it was not that easy to pop the veins. She held her breath and strength hard and continued to act. The meridians on her face did appear, but she still couldn't meet Feng Xiaogang's requirements.
"Why don't I ask my assistant to pinch my neck before we start shooting." Zhang Ziyi suggested herself: "This way the meridians and blood vessels on the face will be more obvious."
This lady is quite ruthless.
In order to film, I offered to suffocate PLAY...
But after trying it twice, it worked, but once I let go, these protruding veins due to suffocation will gradually dissipate, but the effect that the lens wants is gradually enhanced.
"Why don't you find a rope and tie it up." Director Feng suggested: "I'll let Zi Yi have a slight difficulty breathing. I can untie it quickly after the filming. Do you think that's okay?"
"I can do it." Zhang Ziyi agreed very professionally.
The makeup artist helped Zhang Ziyi take off her costume jacket and tied it with a rope around her ribs, trying to create an effect similar to a body-shaping garment.
But the makeup artist is a girl, she is weak, and the binding effect is not good.
The prop master was too strong and his teeth were straightened by the international Zhang Le. Seeing these amateurs wasting their time, Zhang Yuan couldn't help himself.
"There is a skill involved in kidnapping people..." He muttered.
"You know how to do this?" After hearing what he said, Director Feng and Zhang Li turned their heads.
"Understand a little."
He walked forward, said hello to Zhang Ziyi, and asked the makeup and props to make room.
"Don't be nervous. My technique of tying the rope is quite special. Although it will be uncomfortable to tie it tightly, it is very convenient to untie it."
"Okay!" International Zhang didn't hesitate at all.
Zhang Yuan picked up the rope and started wrapping it around her back.
"Do you think he can really do it?" Director Feng was still discussing with Zhang Li.
"This guy is very serious when filming. He never makes jokes. I guess he is really good at it."
"The question is, who can learn to kidnap people?" Feng Xiaogang said doubtfully: "Remember, when he was in "A World Without Thieves", he also had a lot of skills in small gangs."
Xiaowanmen is a common name for theft industry in Jianghu.
There are also different categories below: wheel money, friend money, black money, white money, high buy and so on.
Wheel money means spending money on transportation.
Friend money means attacking acquaintances or people you just met.
Black money and white money are the masters who work day and night.
Gao Mai is a clerk who specializes in stealing from gold and silver stores, jewelry stores, and pawn shops.
People from these sects cannot just divide the money among themselves after stealing. They have to hand it over to the local general manager, who will then distribute it according to their work.
The origin of Zhang Yuan's craftsmanship is Huang Zizi, the master of wheel money in the country.
"Oh, you can tell." After Feng Xiaogang reminded him, Zhang Li also recalled it.
"He knows how to do hand jobs, and he also knows how to tie people up... Isn't this guy a ginseng escort who ate raw rice before?"
Biao Shen is the Jianghu term for kidnapping.
Although the two of them liked him very much, when they thought about this, they became very clever.
Quickly look at his method.
Zhang Yuan was seen skillfully moving his body up and down Zhang Ziyi's body, twisting out several rope buckles.
"Is this the legendary... Five-flowered Bundle?" Zhang Li murmured with his eyes wide open.
The so-called five flowers are five rope buckles.
One on the back of the neck, one on each wrist of both hands. The one who clasps the wrists together with the backhand counts as one. Finally, it goes back to the neck, passes through the rope loop on the head and neck and pulls it back to the back. The total buckle that is tied again counts as one, so five buckles. Five flowers.
In modern China, apart from the veterans among the prison guards who use it to deal with disobedient death row inmates, only a few veteran guards participate in the Wuhua Dabu.
Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Li thought, this guy couldn't be a prison guard. If he knew how to tie people up, he must not be a good person!
How about we call the police?
But as they looked, the two brothers realized something was wrong!
"Why are there two circles on the chest?"
"Why did it go around the waist and pass through the crotch?"
"Is there such a way to tie up five flowers?"
"That's wrong..."
As the two of them looked at each other, they found that Zhang Yuan's technique seemed a bit familiar.
"Hey..." Director Feng held the cigarette in his mouth so hard that he forgot to light it: "Is this the kind used in the country next door where we had a good life?"
"It seems like I've seen it in... movies!" Zhang Li also clapped his hands.
Anyway, these two didn’t miss it.
"Oh, that's it. This guy is not a escort, he is just a playboy..." Feng Xiaogang showed a lewd smile.
The two brothers looked at each other, nodded vigorously, and then looked more seriously, with eyes full of study and research, and looked at it carefully.
Zhang Yuan's "rope-playing" skills are indeed not a big deal.
This is called turtle shell binding.
I got it from Mr. Nakamura Shido from a Kabuki family on the set of "Fearless", the guy who learned Cantonese after watching "Magic City".
The characteristic of turtle shell binding is that it is sexy... No, it does not affect the activities after being tied.
When Zhang Yuan found this attribute, he felt it was useless.
After all, he couldn't bear to use it on his own woman.
Now, I’ll put it to use today!
After tying the international seal, this person moved a few times.
It's a little difficult to breathe, and my lungs are very tight, but it doesn't affect the basic movements of walking and raising my hands at all, which is very amazing.
When breathing becomes difficult, the veins on his face immediately protrude.
This is what Feng Xiaogang wants.
Zhang Yuan wiped his sweat after finishing, and when he turned around, he saw Director Feng and Zhang Li giving thumbs up and giving them mean smiles at the same time.
Let’s take a photo now.
It took just two or three shots and it was very smooth.
It is not uncommon for actors to need external support when filming.
After the filming, Zhang Yuan came behind Zhang Ziyi and gently tugged on the reserved rope end. The entire rope wrapped around the body was instantly released, and it was separated from the other person's body with a tug.
"It's so amazing..." Jiezhang sighed.
Then he looked at Zhang Yuan with a wicked smile, leaned into his ear and whispered.
"Have you used this trick on both our Jiaquan and Li?"
Zhang Yuan:......
slander!
This is absolutely slander!
Be careful if I sue you for libel!
Although this technique is not serious, Zhang Yuan felt that he was the only serious person on the entire set. The rest, from the leading actor to the director and the director of photography, all looked at him...
The scenes on the first day were not too rushed, the main thing was to get everyone accustomed to the set.
After the show, everyone was invited to have dinner together by Feng Xiaogang.
The three people from the music group are there too.
While eating, drinking and chatting, Zhang Yuan discovered that Zhang Liangying had a very good drinking capacity.
After all, I have been working in a bar, so I can't handle it without ordering a drink.
Tan Dun is just average.
Teng Geer, a grassland man, is absolutely massive!
Everyone is familiar with Teacher Teng. His representative works include "Invisible Wings", "The Sun Never Sets" and "Learning to Meow"...
This person can drink more than two kilograms of ordinary liquor, and can still play and sing freely after drinking it.
Even at 70 degrees Celsius, you can drink it by the pound.
He is addicted to alcohol and spends hundreds of thousands on drinking every year.
At the dining table of the crew, after drinking happily, this man opened his voice and showed everyone his best Mongolian "Khumai".
The deep and melodious voice seemed to transport everyone to the vast and boundless prairie.
"How did he go from "Paradise" to "Learning to Meow"?" Zhang Yuan was listening.
"Could it be that "Invisible Wings" is broken?"
In fact, this strong, brave and passionate man also has weaknesses.
Teacher Tengger's transformation actually stemmed from the death of his young daughter.
Nothing can make a man more heartbroken than the loss of a daughter.
Daughters are different from sons, they are the father's pet.
Seeing the young girl passing away beside him, the tough man also collapsed.
What's more, this woman is a middle-aged daughter in her forties, and she is already doted on.
Perhaps, Teacher Tengger is just entertaining the public in a way that entertains himself, and at the same time completes self-dissolution.
After all, after this, nothing in the world was difficult for him.
What's the point of singing "Meow Meow Meow" with cat ears...
Brother Teng saw that Zhang Yuan had a good drinking capacity, so he dragged him to drink until he was drunk.
Before leaving, I even left his phone number and said that we would have a drink together if we had the opportunity in the future.
After eating and drinking, everyone returned to the hotel where they stayed.
After taking the elevator upstairs, Zhang Yuan first went to the smoking area at the end of the corridor to take a cigarette to refresh himself.
Tengger was so good at drinking that he was completely confused.
At this moment, the elevator door less than five meters away from him opened.
A tall and slim figure with waterfall-like black hair stepped out of the elevator.
Wearing a mask, sunglasses, and a baseball cap on his head, he looks like a standard celebrity going out.
This man glanced at Zhang Yuan and was stunned for a moment, clearly recognizing him.
But instead of saying hello, he turned around and walked away, quickly disappearing at the end of the corridor.
Zhang Yuan squinted his eyes and felt that this figure looked familiar.
It seemed like I had only seen him recently, and it felt familiar yet strange.
After he put out the cigarette butt and his mind became a little clearer, he thought about it for a while, and then he remembered who the other party was... (End of Chapter)