The Whole Empire Raises Me - Chapter 73

The morning shooting mission was successfully completed.

Before filming started in the afternoon, director Li Mingzhou finished speaking to Wen Xingze and Chi Yan, and went around the photographic equipment twice before suddenly sighing, “Hey…”

No one from the whole crew talked to him.

The props and setting team is busy checking the details, the actors are reading the script and the lines, and the free makeup artists are pointing to the Weibo with the orchid finger.

Li Mingzhou: “…”

Li Mingzhou felt very frustrated, and was not reconciled to it. After two seconds, he brewed a good mood, and sighed again and again: “Ah-ah-ah -”

In the eyes of the whole crew, the assistant director had to bite the bullet and step forward to interrupt the cast: “Director Li, what’s wrong?”

“I’m worried,” Li Mingzhou immediately raised his moustache triumphantly when someone finally came to support him, and said worriedly, “Xiao Wen is the first time he has played with the King Chi in the afternoon.”

Although Wen Xingze must have played against Chi Yan when he was learning to act in the past, and the two of them also played a part in the audition of “Dust Planet”, but compared with the actual shooting, they were still a hundred thousand worse. Eight thousand miles.

——In the circle, more than 90% of actors and actresses will have “Chi Yan Syndrome” the first time they play with Chi Yan.

There is a saying that good actors will arouse the emotions of the whole crew. Chi Yan is definitely the best actor in this circle, but it is not easy to play against him: he is too’perfect’. If the actors who are playing against him are not strong enough, they can easily be led by the nose. Can’t keep up with Chi Yan’s rhythm.

Moreover, Chi Yan is a kind of existence that looks like a demon mirror, which will infinitely magnify the shortcomings of the opposing actors. This is the’Chi Yan syndrome’.

Even many of the top movie queens in the industry have this situation, let alone the newcomer Wen Xingze?

——”After cooperating with Chi actor, my acting skills have been improved by more than two grades. It can be said that without two months of experience, there would be no trophy in my hand at this time,” a certain actress is presenting the award At the ceremony, he said bluntly, “Do you want to work with the Chi actor again?…Uh, to be honest, I don’t really hope.”

If you compare acting to a high mountain, then Chi Yan is the Everest that every actor wants to cross, but cannot cross, and will appear as the protagonist of the nightmare many years later.

In fact, when the actual shooting in the afternoon came, the situation was much better than Li Mingzhou thought.

“……card!”

Li Mingzhou watched the replay together with the deputy director and the screenwriter.

This passage is about the protagonist Xia Huai and the bionic person’s mutual suspicion during the day and night getting together, to the dullness, and then to getting closer, Xia Huai went home drunkenly after harvesting the tattered life and threw a bottle of the bionic person. liqueur.

In a short and blazing time, for the first time in history, the two people let go of their grievances, put aside their country and species identities, and chatted in an empty space.

This is a relatively important scene in the early stage of “Dust Planet”, and it also paved the way for the climax of the early stage-shortly after this scene is the highlight of the entire first half. It is necessary to shoot with one lens to the end, which can be said to be the soul of the whole movie. .

Chi Yan’s performance was impeccable.

Wen Xingze’s performance is actually very good. If the actor in the play is not Chi Yan, Li Mingzhou will give him a pass.

but……

“It’s better to just… pass,” Li Mingzhou hesitated for a moment and said, “It’s actually not bad.”

He didn’t do this to shelter or release water, but out of mentality. Many actors have been ravaged by Chi Yan’s syndrome in the past. If Wen Xingze didn’t build confidence in the early stage, he was afraid that his mentality would collapse.

And the filming of this section is not bad, anyway, the deputy director and screenwriter can not see the shortcomings.

“I don’t think I can get through it,” a voice came in from the side and commented, “Xia Huai’s emotions are not in place at all here, especially the eyes in the middle of the few seconds, it is really messed up, very bad, remake.”

Deputy director:”???”

Who speaks so much? ! The screenwriter turned his head in shock and took a look. It was Wen Xingze… Oh, that’s all right.

Wen Xingze held the script, and at some point, he had already leaned into the viewfinder to watch the playback.

Wen Xingze criticized himself for not being merciless at all. He actually fought with Li Mingzhou for half a minute. Then Li Mingzhou finally let go and laughed: “Okay, remake, don’t regret it when you come!”

Li Mingzhou went to exchange details with the photographer. After a while, he couldn’t help but glance at Chi Yan.

Holding a cup of hot water, Chi Yan lowered his eyes to chat with Wen Xingze about the plot, reached out his hand to help him stroke his forehead, and then suddenly looked at Li Mingzhou.

Wen Xingze is the second actor who personally asked for a remake of Li Mingzhou in filming for so many years.

Chi Yan, many years ago, was the first.

They even had the same facial expressions when they asked for a retake, and there was a tendency to refuse to admit defeat.

Wen Xingze wanted to climb the peak of Chi Yan.

Chi Yan and Li Mingzhou looked at each other before continuing to talk to Wen Xingze. The more Li Mingzhou watched, the more he felt…Chi Yan seemed to be quite proud.

…Chi Yan is very proud, even a little complacent, just not knowing whom to show off.

Anyone who teaches a student like Wen Xingze will feel proud, let alone Chi Yan.

The sharp eyes when Wen Xingze looked at him, that kind of light, can slow down Chi Yan’s blood hypoxia and heartbeat every time he thinks about it, so slow that he can clearly hear every vibration and echo.

“…”

Of course, there is a reason why this mountain of Chi Yan has not been crossed for so many years. This is a gap drawn by talent, time, and dedication, and it cannot be filled easily.

“card!”

“……card.”

“Take a break, Card.”

For the next two full hours, they were reshooting this clip. Either Director Li was dissatisfied, Wen Xingze was dissatisfied, or Chi Yan was dissatisfied. This clip was successfully updated since the launch of “Dust Planet”. Retake the record.

“Xiao Wen, your basic skills are actually okay,” Li Mingzhou re-watched the latest replay and finally said, “Maybe it still feels a little bit…In this way, tonight happens to be Christmas Eve, I will give you a vacation.”

The crew was originally bustling, even if they were tired, the preparations that should be done still have to continue.

Upon hearing the word ‘holiday’, everyone pricked their ears.

Li Papi still knows to give people a holiday? !

But Wen Xingze was not so happy, even a little depressed, feeling that he was holding everyone back.

“It’s not a special treatment for you,” Li Mingzhou didn’t want to hear that Xingze misunderstood this and was emotional, patted his shoulder and said, “Our shooting efficiency was much higher than expected before. We saved a lot of time and gave you a holiday. Let you find the feeling. According to my experience, it’s better than forcing you to shoot by yourself… That’s right.”

Li Mingzhou said, “A friend of mine held a Christmas Eve banquet at Linshui Mansion. If there is no media, old friends and young people gather together. He told me before that he wanted to invite you…”

I don’t know how Ji Meng knew of Wen Xingze, but at that time Li Mingzhou considered that they were filming and he was not free, so he refused to help Wen Xingze.

At this time, Wen Xingze doesn’t have the mood to go out to celebrate Christmas Eve: “Thank you, Director Li, but I want to go back and read the script by myself. The banquet will be—”

“She’s Ji Meng, do you know Xiaowen?” Li Mingzhou finished the sentence.

“–It’s pretty good, I’m willing, what time tonight?” Wen Xingze immediately changed his words.

Everyone: “…”

grass.

Many of the actors present almost fell to their knees with a thump.

The living fossil-level goddess shadow queen, a woman who has been a legend in Chinese film history twenty years ago, how could she not know her? !

Although Ji Meng, who is in his fifties, has been retiring for many years, Yu Wei is still there, and Chi Yan was also instructed by Ji Meng when he first started filming. He is an enlightenment like Li Mingzhou.

Wen Xingze didn’t want to follow the flames, nor did he want to expand his contacts through the banquet, but he really wanted to meet Ji Meng. Hearing Xingze in the dark has a hunch, which will become the key to his breakthrough at the moment!

Li Mingzhou: “Okay, then I will tell her… By the way, it starts at seven.”

Their filming base was built in the suburbs of the capital, and it took more than an hour to get back by car. Then Wen Xingze had to set off now.

So it was decided.

Without saying a word, Chi Yan went to get Wen Xingze’s scarf and surrounded him. The driver waited not far away. The crew is quieter again, everyone, you look at me, I look at you…

Although there have been speculations before, but the atmosphere and interaction between the actor Chi and Wen Xingze, huh? !

Although it is all overwhelmingly forgotten friendship between the master and the apprentice, but really looking at the way they get along on the ground, what you don’t understand is either the mother and the baby are single or blind.

Wen Xingze said goodbye to the director and everyone, and then just as Chi Yan was about to get into the car, Li Mingzhou stepped forward to stop him.

Chi Yan’s eyes were confused: “?”

Li Mingzhou’s eyes were also confused: “???”

“I gave Xiaowen a holiday, but didn’t I give anyone else a holiday?!” Li Mingzhou was shocked that Chi Yan was able to escape work so brazenly and honestly. “There is still your scene in the evening.”

Chi Yan’s eyes were still confused: “But…”

Li Mingzhou whistled to the car: “Go! Go!!!”

Maybach carried Wen Xingze and disappeared at the end of the road, spraying car exhaust like everyone on the crew.

Chi Yan: “…”

At seven o’clock in the evening, Linshui Mansion.

At the entrance is a luxurious fountain, the doorman is separated on both sides, and various luxury cars line up in two rows on the parking apron. But there is no such magnificent and coveted atmosphere. The guests who come and go look very easy-going, and the ladies do not wear evening dresses.

As Li Mingzhou said, this is a private banquet. In the early years of the film queen, Ji Mengji was in Hollywood, and the group of friends he met in the inner and outer circles are mostly among the best in all walks of life. During the holidays, he would still abandon his status and status, and simply sit down and happily. Old friends have a drink.

Of course, in addition to friends, there are also some juniors who have been guided or optimistic about by Ji Meng, and the sons and daughters brought by each family. According to Ji Yinghou, a banquet without young people is always boring.

A cool motorcycle parked at the door.

“It’s so cool…” Next to Wen Xingze, a boy who had just gotten off from a Lamborghini circled the motorcycle twice, and the Harazi was almost flowing down, “AJS!”

Wen Xingze just didn’t see clearly, he turned a corner, and his eyes also showed a heart: “AJS!!!”

Di, it’s a secret code.

Wen Xingze and the boy looked at each other twice and established a very deep friendship in just half a minute.

The heavy locomotive is the ultimate romance and ideal of life for every man and boy. The two-wheeled supercar that once symbolized an era, with an open frame, and twin engines…The price is more than 50 million, and it has long been a patron of the museum.

Why would you stop here? Who is it?

In addition to the two of them, there are also many men around secretly looking around, or simply take out their phones to take pictures. It seems that everyone is similar.

Wen Xingze bet that all the men at this banquet can’t help but look at the door more. It is possible to be absent all night.

“You are Wen Xingze!” The boy and Wen Xingze talked about the heavy locomotive for ten minutes. After introducing themselves, the two happened to walk to the light and the boy shouted again.

Wen Xingze: “Huh?”

“I wanted to know you a long time ago, haha,” the boy said as he opened the door, “you will be besieged later, pay attention.”

Wen Xingze: “Huh???”

Before I had time to ask anything, the door was pushed open—there were a lot of people on the first floor, and they were all first-line actors, popular screenwriters, and supermodels.

And the first person who noticed the movement here turned out to be an old acquaintance.

“Aze!”

Fang Ruxue was chatting with people, she was very pleasantly surprised when she saw Wen Xingze, and walked over a few steps: “I didn’t hear my aunt said that I invited you, really…”

The last time I saw Fang Ruxue was probably when he was recording “Fantasy Cruise Ship”, more than half a year passed, and Fang Ruxue was still wearing that hosta. I didn’t expect to be able to run into it here, it is really fate!

Moreover, Fang Ruxue turned out to be Ji Meng’s niece? !

Wen Xingze: “!”

Wen Xingze was also very happy, and just wanted to talk to her a few more words, suddenly found that many eyes were focused on him on the first floor. Then, the entire first floor gradually became quiet.

The next second, the crowd moved again.

Just like the besieged city of zombies, many guests came to Wen Xingze politely and happily with champagne:

“Long Yang! Real people are even more handsome than photos!”

“I wanted to know you a long time ago, haha… Xiaowen, I heard that you and the actor Chi are masters and apprentices?”

“The group of paparazzi in the Pineapple News was actually subdued by you—”

The people present were all invited by Ji Meng, their personalities were not bad, and the circles weren’t crowded out and intrigued like the novel and TV show said–at least not here.

A celebrity like Wen Xingze who is good-looking, capable, and magically has a good relationship with the actor Chi, and even the Pineapple News doesn’t dare to make up for him. Of course, everyone likes and is willing to make friends with him. After all, there is only good and no harm.

It’s just because of Wen Xingze’s character, coupled with his busyness, everyone has hardly seen him on any social occasion, this is the first time!

Everyone was very enthusiastic, and Wen Xingze couldn’t handle it for a while.

Fang Ruxue was next to him, and she was also very happy to meet her old friend, and suggested to Wen Xingze: “Aze, it’s better to have a suona for everyone!”

Everyone was elated: “Yes, yes!”

Wen Xingze: “…”

Wen Xingze: “?”

Christmas Eve? Suona? ?

Is he having a problem or is this group of people having a problem?