Chapter 9 Self-protection on the set
"If your friend is in the circle, he can find connections and see if he can meet a director in person. That would be a bigger chance!" Ren Dahua proposed a very successful method.
However, this method is still useless for Long Jiahao. His current script is a gentle, delicate and delicate way. Nowadays, such scripts are unsatisfactory, unless the director is an art film director such as Xu Anhua. However, although Xu Anhua is a famous strong man, her new film "Tianshuiwei" is also unable to attract investment due to literature and art, which shows the current miserable situation of the art film.
His current script style is not suitable for the two directors Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui in "Initial D", and it is even more impossible to give Du Qifeng. However, Er Dongsheng is good at such literary and artistic themes, but Er Dongsheng also has his own personal screenwriter Fang Qing, and his hope is slim.
To be precise, the literary scripts written by Long Jiahao are not very good at all, and now the market is so miserable, how many directors have taken risks with their reputation to find scripts written by unknown screenwriters to make movies.
"By the way, A Yue, you have done makeup in "Spreading the Wings and Flying High", and you must have heard of the rumors about Cai Siting!" Gossip is not only a woman's favorite, but men are sometimes keen on such discussions. Lin Jiadong quickly raised this question: "Everyone said she was sleeping with an investment boss, so I asked her to be the leading female lead in this drama. Is this true?"
"Spreading Wings and Flying High" is a film produced by the crew that Chu Yue left midway. The rumors about Cai Siting are actually circulating in the circle, so who can't know. This big production with an investment of 30 million yuan actually invited Cai Siting, a second-tier actress, to be the leading female lead in the market. If there is no insider, no one will believe it.
"I don't know very well, I don't care much about these things." Chu Yue shook his head slowly, squinted his eyes and thought for a long time, and suddenly remembered something: "I remembered that when the crew entered, Cai Siting was driven by someone!"
"That should be it!" Lin Xue shook his big head with great enthusiasm and smiled: "Cai Siting has been working hard for several years. Now that she has such an opportunity, she might become popular!" When they were talking about these gossips, Ren Dahua and Liang Jiahui were just drinking, but were basically unwilling to interrupt.
"Today there are two actors here. As a newcomer, I would like to ask you the tricks of performing no matter what you say!" Chu Yue smiled and took a few glasses of wine, and handed them to Ren Daxia and Liang Jiahui respectively: "If you want to become a disciple, you should give me some advice after toasting!" Lin Xue and Lin Jiadong immediately started to cheer, saying that they must give me some advice!
After a brief look at the expressions of the two of them. Seeing that they were smiling, Chu Yue sipped the wine with sip. Ren Dahua suddenly lost his complexion and smiled leisurely, scolding everyone: "I am a student who has not graduated in the wireless training class, so you are very wrong to find us!"
"You are here today, we have no reason to look far away!" Chu Yue shrugged, smiled cunningly and poured wine for Ren Dahua and Liang Jiahui.
Liang Jiahui didn't want to be an actor at the time, but later he joined the crew in order to pursue the daughter of the big director Li Hanxiang. Unexpectedly, Li Hanxiang's daughter did not like her boyfriend as an actor, so she was separated for this reason. Ren Dahua was in the wireless training class that year, but later failed to graduate for some reasons (some say he jumped from ATV's predecessor to wireless), and his statement was quite convincing.
Ren Dahua and Liang Jiahui looked at each other, and Liang Jiahui laughed loudly, took a sip of wine, and glared at Lin Xue and Lin Jiadong: "You two are experienced old actors, what else do you need to know? I'll just tell A Yue about my experience!" Don't see that Liang Jiahui often has some strange hilarious sounds on the screen, but in fact his voice is very sexy.
"The most basic thing about acting is to stand and move, and you can completely relax in the face of the camera. Ah Yue, you do a good job, and many old actors may not be as good as you!" Liang Jiahui organized the language and looked at Chu Yue and said softly: "The second is character analysis. You have to understand the character of the character you want to play."
"As for acting, there are actually many things that cannot be taught in language. But I can tell you some tips, just like when you were filming that action scene before, you could move the position to achieve certain punch-to-fist effects." Liang Jiahui was a little worried, and some skills were not easy to display in the bar: "Also, there are usually scenes of falling to the ground in the play. If you fall down like that, it will definitely hurt!"
Ren Dahua and the others couldn't help but nodded. As an old actor, Ren Dahua knew very well how painful it was. Although he had been in the wireless training class, he could not learn much practical experience. Later, when he was acting in "Naked Lamb", many scenes where he could not use a substitute made his bones break.
Even Lin Xue was still scared when she remembered the two violent falls when filming "PTU". Normally, if she had to break a few bones like in that film, she would have to break a few bones. However, if the actors could know how to protect themselves, it would be different.
"Don't fall straight down. When you fall, your knees bend and your body should not be too straight. Your neck and head are slightly in the hall, so the camera cannot capture it!" Liang Jiahui introduced it roughly, and then suddenly laughed: "But don't worry, in that situation, you usually have soft things on your back or on your chest!" Chu Yue nodded repeatedly, but he remembered that it felt very painful to fall on the ground while filming that action scene.
Seeing Liang Jiahui talking so hard, Ren Dahua couldn't help but follow the conversation: "The most dangerous thing about shooting actions and police and gangster scenes is that there are many action scenes. Especially when fighting, you have to act very hard, so that you can sometimes easily fall, hurt your feet or something!"
Chu Yue touched his chin and felt that it was wrong. He clearly asked for the method of acting, but why did it suddenly become a complete set of self-protection on the set? But this is good, at least you have to protect yourself first and then talk about other things.
After talking about the self-protection collection on the set, Liang Jiahui seemed to suddenly remember that he had turned aside and smiled awkwardly: "As for acting, you must first ignore the camera and the people around the set, otherwise you will definitely be distracted no matter how hard you try. Then, such a shot will definitely seem to be not focused enough in the play and not level enough."
"One thing should be reminded that when there are scenes of beating people in the play, most of them are used to hit real people now!" Ren Dahua has obviously performed more fighting scenes than Liang Jiahui, especially the scene of his tattoos in "PTU", which can only be described as cruel. He gestured for a while and continued, "And it must be sufficient, otherwise it will be fake. Therefore, if you have experience, you will hit the palm of your palm first and then drag it over quickly. Or when the camera cooperates, you will hit it with your slanting palm!"
This tip is very useful! Chu Yue's eyes lit up, and he tried it and immediately understood. Whether it was palm or palm slanted, the purpose was to shift the center of gravity and not to beat the other party too much.
I had a lot of fun this night. Chu Yue also learned a lot of useful skills from these actors and learned some things that I was interested in or not. The most interesting thing is the difference between Taiwan and Hong Kong artists. Taiwanese artists are much more dedicated than Hong Kong artists. Of course, this does not include the comparison between older generation artists.
For example, Ren Dahua and Liang Jiahui are all extremely dedicated, but this is something that is not comparable to newcomers nowadays. However, after all, Taiwanese artists can better understand that the acting career is actually just a job. Many of the new generation of Hong Kong artists position themselves as high-ranking stars instead of treating this as a job. In this way, the difference is in the right place.
Liang Jiahui and Ren Dahua were very moved. In the past, when the film industry was prosperous, there was a lot of work, but everyone could clearly see their position. However, now it is depressed, and the impetuous and utilitarian mentality makes the new people unable to keep up with the life of their predecessors.
In fact, from Chu Yue's perspective, it is not just an artist, but the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry has an impetuous attitude. The film industry is too eager to restore its glory, but it is too overworked and gradually slides into the abyss. In recent years, many films have been far inferior to those from more than ten years ago, and they can't even attract audiences to the scene. This may be a kind of depravity.
Moreover, he always felt that the career of newcomers is too smooth, both in the record and film industries. Once newcomers are highly praised, they will immediately become famous overnight, but because of the lack of sufficient connotation, they will fade away again after two years.
In the simplest sentence, the newcomers today lack setbacks. Looking back at the years, many singers and actors had never experienced the ups and downs of their careers. Regardless of Fa Ge and Stephen Chow, Liu Dehua and others had all had a low period. Although Zhang Xueyou was called the God of Songs, he had fallen into the lowest point of his career for three years. These setbacks allow these senior stars to understand the principles of dealing with people and understand the value of their careers. Only those who have settled down are the most continually charming.
Chapter completed!