Planetary Museum

"Crack!" The director frowned and waved his hand, "Xiao Qin, the mood is still wrong. They are barbarians, and you are a modern person. You can't have the same expression as other people. Another one!"

"Saving the Ancestors" set, 17 scenes, 4 times.

This is an action scene, and it is also the highlight of the whole movie. After three cuts, the atmosphere on the scene began to become subtle. Although the director didn't say anything, everyone's expressions had already become serious.

"Make-up touch-up, prop inspection," the assistant director arranged, while pulling Qin Feng quietly and said, "Aren't you familiar with Mr. Wu, go talk to him."

Qin Feng glanced at Wu Xiaoqing, who was lying on a chair beside the director and was thinking quietly, hesitated for a moment, then nodded again.

The entire production crew now knew that this unattractive Wu Xiaoqing was a real genius.Genius does not mean that he came to make a movie at a young age, or sold a script - genius is that he can do things that no one can do under the eyes of everyone.

During the entire shooting process, Wu Xiaoqing should have done the least things and came the shortest time, but in private conversations, everyone tacitly agreed in their hearts that this person knows the entire shooting process best and is also the person who can solve problems best .

Now every time before shooting starts, the director will take a look at Wu Xiaoqing, and only when he nods will he start.Everyone said that now Wu Xiaoqing is the secret assistant director of the whole group.

In a group show with hundreds of people, Wu Xiaoqing can point out whoever's makeup symbol does not meet the requirements.

In a fighting scene, who is secretly paddling behind, whose actions are obviously out of the play, and Wu Xiaoqing can tell at a glance if there are elements of gangsters in the camera.

As for the arrangement of the scene and the arrangement of the shots, these tasks are things that Wu Xiaoqing, a consultant, needs to consider. Naturally, he does everything impeccably - the reasons he gives always satisfy the director.

Qin Feng went to make a cup of hot chocolate that Wu Xiaoqing always liked to drink, and brought it to him.

Wu Xiaoqing didn't seem to see him, he was still lowering his head, thinking about the script in front of him.

Qin Feng asked cautiously: "Mr. Wu, can I disturb you for a while?"

Wu Xiaoqing seemed to have a little reaction. He first unplugged the earphone in his left ear, then raised his head, looked at the drink in front of him, and the person who came, before saying a word: "Oh, thank you, what's the matter."

"No need...Ms. Wu, that's right, the director mentioned the emotional issue just now..."

Because the volcano erupted again last night, Wu Xiaoqing stayed up all night. When he came here today, he actually spent more than half of his time dozing off on the set.After getting acquainted with the "work" of the crew, Wu Xiaoqing already fully understood that he just came here to put on a show, and as long as he said a few words to the subtitles in the middle, his task could be completed.Although the entire crew is busy, it belongs to his work, and it is just a few words before the filming starts.

The actor who plays himself asks for advice, seemingly out of the scope of his job.Strictly speaking, the actor asked a question about acting skills. Naturally, this question is not within the scope of his work as a consultant. All performance-related content is under the supervision of the director.

Two rows of side-by-side subtitles appeared on the glasses, which were 1: "I suggest you ask Director Chen for his opinion on this question."

And 2: "I think your understanding of the characters is not deep enough..."

Wu Xiaoqing chose 2.After all, this actor is playing himself, and he is still interested in this topic.

"I've watched your first few performances, which overemphasized the fear of a modern person. Of course, it is the first time for a modern person to go to the battlefield and see so many crocodiles. Fear naturally exists. But this should not be the first One, because Wu Xiaoqing is not a soldier charging at the front line, he is in the rear of the team, he is a commander - and he has modern weapons in his hand, so he will be afraid, but more is still curious. Everyone else will be afraid, but Wu Xiaoqing will not. The whole perspective of this scene should be viewed from the perspective of primitive people-this is also the most dramatic part of the whole time-traveling scene. Who is Wu Xiaoqing in the eyes of primitive people Is the god who saves the world, will their god be afraid? You should show this kind of divinity more, you should have a kind of condescending disdain, just like when you see a crocodile in the zoo - you will be afraid of the cage The crocodiles in the cage? In front of the crossbow, these crocodiles are actually no different from those in the cage, and they will definitely fail."

Qin Feng tried hard to ponder Wu Xiaoqing's words, but it was difficult to translate this theoretical stuff into the performance.

"Well," Wu Xiaoqing walked to the studio that was being prepared, and turned to the director and said, "Director Chen, let me give him a demonstration."

Wu Xiaoqing picked up the prop pistol and stood in the middle of the scene—there was an empty space in front of him, only some green puppets as imaginary crocodiles—these puppets were prepared for later positioning.

The real crocodile war has two parts. They are the unilateral massacre of crocodiles by Wu Xiaoqing's Youjin tribe with the help of modern crossbows, and the bloody battle between Youzhou tribe and crocodiles.Because of the length of the movie and the needs of the plot, the content of these two parts was integrated into one scene. In this scene, the bow and crossbow team led by Wu Xiaoqing provided remote support, and there were soldiers in close combat in front of them.

So the Wu Xiaoqing in the play is no longer the Wu Xiaoqing in the original real environment, but out of the needs of the plot, it is a little bit bigger to that extent-the feeling of a little hooligan who is moved by the cause of saving the world and becomes a hero.

Coincidentally, the current Wu Xiaoqing is no longer the original Wu Xiaoqing. After the second rescue mission, to some extent, he is already very close to the character in the script.

So the search and rescue team thought he could go up and try.

The moment Wu Xiaoqing picked up the pistol, everyone felt the aura emanating from him.He didn't make any expression on his face, but everyone at the scene suddenly felt that the man in front of him was holding a real pistol in his hand. As long as he wanted, he would shoot at any target in front of him at any time.

"Aim! Aim at their stomachs!" Wu Xiaoqing shouted loudly.

"Shoot!" Wu Xiaoqing started to walk forward.There is no extras around him, but he acts as if he is surrounded by soldiers who are at his command at any time. He can even turn around and stare at the air—the position of the soldiers in the script, and continue to read out Line: "Don't panic, slow down, and be consistent!"

As far as reading lines is concerned, Wu Xiaoqing's skills can completely kill these so-called professional actors in seconds.Because professional actors delve into acting skills, whether they are experiential or methodological, they are essentially performing.But Wu Xiaoqing is different. It can be said that his acting skills have completely escaped the traditional stereotypes, and he has uniquely stepped out of his own genre-he is realistic.

For Wu Xiaoqing, whether it is in front of the camera of the crew now or in front of all the indigenous people before, his "job" is to read lines.But unlike pure performances, the situations he faces are almost completely real. The actor completes the performance by reciting the lines, and he needs to rely on the reciting of the lines to complete the real command or talk effect-there is no director in the war at any time. Shout out to him.Wearing a pair of glasses for a long time, accepting the temporary guidance of the "director" of the search and rescue team all the time, keeping in mind your performance identity and responsibilities anytime, anywhere, whether it is a knight, general, magic stick or god... long-term investment in a role , so that Wu Xiaoqing has been able to simulate the temperament and charm that an identity should have very smoothly and naturally.

No, it cannot be said to be a simulation, because Wu Xiaoqing personally experienced all the details of each of them, how a knight rides a horse, how a general commands, how a magic stick persuades, how an angel accepts worship... other actors It is after accepting the setting of the role, trying to get closer to the role itself, and here in Wu Xiaoqing, he has perfectly integrated with the role.

Just like now, even though Wu Xiaoqing in the script is completely different from the real Wu Xiaoqing who performed the rescue, the director has to admit that Wu Xiaoqing's performance made him see the true charm of this character.When Wu Xiaoqing walked back to his small bench and continued to "think" about the script, all the crew began to applaud sincerely.

"Brother Wu," Chen Ming said, patting Wu Xiaoqing's thigh, "If you had told me earlier that you could act, I would have let you play this role... What a pity, what a pity!"

If it wasn't for the fact that one-third of the movie had been shot, Director Chen would almost have the thought of starting over.

As for the actor Qin Feng who received the "guidance", he has already said 1 MMPs in his heart at this moment.He asked Wu Xiaoqing to guide, and the intention was to ask Wu Xiaoqing to provide some help - including persuading the director to accept his current performance state, or teaching him some small movements, or some small details - Wu Xiaoqing can naturally use these small details to complete the director. persuade.To use an analogy, the current Qin Feng is like a blind date beauty with blemishes on her face. Facing a picky blind date (director), she wants to borrow some cosmetics from Wu Xiaoqing, hoping to cover up the blemishes.

But Wu Xiaoqing's action is tantamount to suddenly tearing off the mask on his face, and telling the opposite blind date that it's fine to be as beautiful as her.Then the director took a look, and the original beauty was even more unreadable. The flaws that were not obvious at first looked so awkward no matter how you looked at them now.

But this has nothing to do with Wu Xiaoqing.Even after this scene was played more than 20 times in a row, Wu Xiaoqing never said a word to help that poor Qin Feng.At the end of the day, this one was still not passed, and Qin Feng was so wronged that he almost burst into tears——Wu Xiaoqing's performance was equivalent to erecting an insurmountable obstacle for him.