I become a big star after I sleep

Chapter 252 Inception of the Dream Universe?

"Mom, I'm leaving."

Liu Xiqian said hello and put on her peaked cap, while the assistant carried the suitcase and was ready to leave.

Liu Xiaoli was a little bit reluctant:
"Why did you join the team so early? Isn't it still more than a month before the start-up?"

"It's time for training. This time there are action scenes and explosion scenes. You need to train in advance to prevent accidental injuries."

Liu Xiaoli looked at Liu Xiqian, opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end she just reminded with complicated eyes:
"Be safe and call me when you arrive."

This was the first time my daughter was filming and she didn't follow her. She was a little worried and a little disappointed.

"understood."

Liu Xiqian responded, and took the elevator with her assistant Cindy to the underground garage.

In the underground garage, the light is basically not very good, it is cold and dark, walking in the garage, the assistant complained:
"It's so troublesome. Every time I get out of the elevator, I have to go around a long way to get to the parking space. Especially at night, it scares me to death."

Liu Xiqian nodded in agreement.

The house she lives in now is a large flat floor in a high-end residential area that she rented. Since there were not many vacant apartments in the residential area when she moved in, the allocated parking space was some distance away from the elevator of her building.

But she soon smiled again:
"We will be able to move in and live in our big house in a few months, and we don't have to run away if we have our own garage, hehe."

Thinking about it, Liu Xiqian couldn't help but laugh.

This was the first house she bought with her own ability. Although it was much worse than the previous big manor in Shunyi, it belonged to her.

It feels very different.

"What a few months, it will take half a year." Cindy broke Liu Xiqian's fantasy.

She and Mother Liu were in charge of the house decoration.

The best materials are used, the renovation progress is fast, and the price is reasonable.

The most important thing is to ensure the quality and quantity, so you don't have to be afraid of being cheated.

Because the decoration team of the villa is the construction company under Chen Jingfei.

Mother Liu didn't let her tell Liu Xiqian about this...

……

Huairou China Film Digital Base.

The base has just been built this year, and not many production crews have come in to use it. The most famous production crew is "Dream of Red Mansions".

But not many people know that there is also a film crew who are also setting up scenes here to prepare for filming.

China Film Hotel, after the front desk verified the identity information, they gave the room card to Cindy.

"Sissy, it's just one room."

Cindy held the room card in her hand, and it was a little strange.

In the past, when she was filming with Liu Xiqian in other crews, the crew would arrange a separate room for her.

"Okay, one room is just one room. Maybe the room is very big, and there are several small rooms? No, why don't you open a separate room?"

Liu Xiqian didn't care, and followed the assistant to the elevator with a smile.

The two entered the elevator, pressed the floor, and the elevator door slowly closed.

"Hey, sorry, please wait."

An anxious voice came, and Liu Xiqian pressed the door open button.

"Hush, thank you, thank you."

A woman ran into the elevator, panting heavily.

While blocking the elevator door with his hands, he turned around and waved to the outside:
"Could you hurry up, why are you so procrastinating?"

It was only then that Liu Xiqian noticed that the woman's accent was a bit coquettish.

"Okay, you still said I was procrastinating, it's not because you brought so many things."

The man's peaked cap and black mask covered most of his face, and he kept complaining.

A suitcase in each hand, a small handbag on the suitcase, and a backpack on the back, as if fleeing from famine.

He was more tired than the woman who had just entered the elevator. Immediately after entering the elevator, he leaned against the elevator wall, bent over and gasped:
"I can't tell which of the two of us is the manager. Don't you think it's too much for the artist to carry so many things?"

"Cough cough."

The woman did not refute, coughed twice, and patted the man on the back.

"What are you doing... oh, cough cough."

Only then did the man notice that there were two other people in the elevator, and immediately stopped talking.

Standing up straight, he was still a little cold.

But this energy didn't last long, after seeing Liu Xiqian's face clearly, it disappeared:
"Huh? Are you Liu Xiqian?"

Liu Xiqian was taken aback for a moment, thinking that she met a fan, she showed a polite smile and was ready to say hello.

The man took off his mask and hat, revealing a familiar face.

"Zhou Jianlun?"

Liu Xiqian's eyes widened.

"It's a coincidence, are you filming here too?" Zhou Jiaolun laughed.

He and Liu Xiqian met a few times because of Qin Muchu, friends of friends, not very familiar, but not unfamiliar.

"Well, I just joined the group today."

Liu Xiqian noticed that Zhou Jiaolun used the word "also", so she asked:
"Are you filming here?"

"Yes, I also just joined the group..."

The two looked at each other, and suddenly fell silent.

"Are you... Xiao Chu's play?"

Zhou Jiaolun was a little uncertain.

"Yes."

Liu Xiqian nodded, a little in disbelief:

"You too?"

She did not expect that she would cooperate with Zhou Jiaolun in this film, just like Zhou Jiaolun did not expect Liu Xiqian to be in this film.

Qin Muchu kept it very mysterious, and didn't tell them who was involved in the film, and he didn't even say that the cost of the film was [-] million U.S. dollars.

The main reason is that these two people are very popular in China, and they are afraid that their team will "accidentally" leak the movie information because of the popularity, and the paparazzi will come to the set to make trouble.

The lineup of this drama is quite shocking, especially the group of foreign actors, enough to make the paparazzi lose their bottom line.

Pretending to be a hotel waiter, dressing up as a crew member to sneak into the crew...these are all cases.

Cindy in the elevator doesn't care about these things, her eyes are locked on Zhou Jiaolun now, her eyes seem to be breathing fire.

Zhou Jiaolun, Sissy is going to cooperate with Zhou Jiaolun!
Can I ask him for an autographed photo?

……

In Qianping's studio, dozens of people are running back and forth in it, and there are forklifts moving steel in it.

Eight rings with a diameter of ten meters form a hollow cylindrical frame lying horizontally, which is more than one meter high. Inside the cylindrical frame is a hollow "cuboid" embedded in it.

The interior decoration of the "hollow cuboid" is very luxurious, with paintings hanging on both sides, and a room door separated by a few meters, and lights are installed on the ceiling and the floor.

Looks like a hotel corridor.

"The ring must be sure to be round, and it must not be bumpy when it turns..."

Qin Muchu was holding blueprints to communicate with several engineers wearing hard hats. While they were talking, a person ran beside him:
"Director Qin, Teacher Liu and Teacher Zhou are also here."

Qin Muchu paused:

"Oh, well, I see."

In turn, he said to several engineers:
"Let's start the device first, try it once, see if it works, and adjust it if there is a problem."

……

On the other side, Zhou Jiaolun and Liu Xiqian walked into the studio together, looking around.

They have never filmed in such a large studio, and they are very curious about everything, secretly guessing which scene in the script this is based on the surrounding scenes.

"It's pretty hot in here."

Zhou Jiaolun touched his forehead, and after coming in for a while, he was already sweating.

Although Liu Xiqian was also hot, she didn't speak.

She was much hotter than this when she was filming "The King of Kung Fu" in the Gobi Desert last year.

"Come here and see where you will be filming next."

Qin Muchu came over, they were all acquaintances, and he didn't show courtesy to Zhou Jiaolun and Liu Xiqian.

But the moment they saw Qin Muchu, they all laughed out loud.

"Haha, why are you dressed like this, hahaha."

Liu Xiqian pointed at Qin Muchu and laughed so hard.

"It's quite 'fashionable'. My grandpa next door used to wear it when I was young."

Zhou Jiaolun stepped forward and touched Qin Muchu's white vest, then took the cattail fan in his hand, and fanned it:

"Even the fans are exactly the same."

Qin Muchu knew what the two were laughing at. He had a white vest on his upper body, shorts on his lower body, and he was holding a cattail fan in his hand. His appearance was indeed similar to that of the uncle who slipped in summer.

But there is no way, the temperature in the studio is very high, and it is normal to start with [-] degrees and [-] degrees.

This outfit is the coolest.

Take the fan back from Zhou Jiaolun's hand,

"After two days, you will be dressed like this."

"I would never wear it like this." Zhou Jiaolun curled his lips.

Asian king, hey, wearing such dirt is not to be laughed to death.

A "click" sounded.

Qin Muchu looked at Liu Xiqian:

"what are you doing?"

"Take a picture."

Liu Xiqian shook the phone in her hand and smiled happily:
"I want to send it to Mimi, haha, it's too funny for you to look like this, goose goose goose."

"Do you know what happened to the last star who liked to take pictures?"

Qin Muchu squinted his eyes, it was not embarrassing that such an ugly photo was kept.

"What happened?"

Liu Xiqian failed to get it, and her face was full of doubts.

"It's all over."

Just as Qin Muchu wanted to threaten Liu Xiqian, Zhou Jialun walked forward with his arm around Qin Muchu's shoulder, and poked him unhappily:

"Hey, don't imply others. He's not in the entertainment circle now, and he's having a good time."

Liu Xiqian followed behind, suddenly thought of something, and blushed.

Humph, just shoot!

……

"What is this for?"

Zhou Jiaolun saw the hotel corridors surrounded by huge rings at a glance.

"You'll find out soon enough."

Qin Muchu smiled.

It is right for Zhou Jiaolun to ask this question, the aisle of his hotel can be said to be built for Zhou Jiaolun.

There is a scene in the movie where the character played by Zhou Jiaolun fights with others in a weightless state.

The specific manifestation is flying randomly in the aisle of the hotel.

Qin Muchu specially built this device to drive the hotel aisle through the rotating ring, thereby visually changing the direction of gravity.

For example, if the circle turns half a circle, the hotel aisle will be turned upside down.

When the actor goes in, he is standing on the ceiling, and the camera is outside, and it looks like gravity is reversed.

Qin Muchu thought about this method for a long time. It is not impossible to use special effects in this scene, but the real shooting effect is better.

Zhou Jiaolun gave Qin Muchu a little goosebumps from laughing, feeling that he didn't think of anything good.

Qin Muchu took the two of them for a stroll around the studio, and they walked back and forth quickly.

This studio is mainly the installation in the hotel aisle, nothing else.

"Let's go, let's go to the next door and meet the actors by the way. Everyone else is here."

Qin Muchu said and walked out of the studio.

……

Compared with the somewhat empty studio just now, this room is much more substantial.

Inside is a Japanese-style building, similar to a Japanese izakaya, with two floors.

"Is this where the movie begins?"

Zhou Jiaolun remembered the scene depicted in the script.

"Well, there it is."

Qin Muchu replied, took the two of them upstairs, opened a wooden door, and walked in.

There were two people standing in the room, a man and a woman, both holding script books, and they were speaking to each other.

"Sister Li!"

As soon as Liu Xiqian saw the woman, she cheered and rushed towards her.

"Sissy."

Zeng Li was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that it was Liu Xiqian, he also smiled and hugged her.

Zhou Jiaolun also wanted to say hello to Zeng Li, but as soon as he raised his hand, he saw the foreigner next to Zeng Li, and was instantly numb.

"Tony Stark!"

Although "Iron Man" has been released for more than a month, Zhou Jiaolun is confident that he will never admit the wrong person.

He went to the cinema to see the film twice.

The first time I went, like most people, because I heard that Qin Muchu cameo.

The second time is because the movie is so exciting, especially Tony Stark, the genius with money and love, and the mecha.

Literally every man's dream.

"Hello."

Downey put down his script book, smiled and shook hands with Zhou Jiaolun.

Zhou Jiaolun shook hands with Downey a little excitedly, and then scratched his head shyly:

"I really like the role you play. It's a pity that I asked Xiao Chu last time that you have already returned to the United States. I didn't expect that we could film together."

"Thank you."

Downey is very calm, or he is used to it. He has heard a lot of similar words after playing "Iron Man".

After finishing speaking, he looked at Liu Xiqian again, and this time his smile was more sincere:
"Crystal, you are even more beautiful, in Chinese dialect, you live up to your name."

"Crystal" is Liu Xiqian's English name, which originally means crystal. When used as a person's name, it means a beautiful, noble and elegant woman.

Liu Xiqian also left Zeng Li at this time, and smiled politely:
"Donnie, you're even more handsome."

After a pause, she added:

"Besides, your Chinese is even better, and you hardly have an accent if you don't listen carefully."

Speaking of this, Downey looked bitter, pointed at Qin Muchu and complained:

"It's all Qin. You can't imagine what torture I have suffered. I am over 40, just like a primary school student. I am taught how to speak and correct my accent every day. I almost forgot how to say English."

"One month?"

Liu Xiqian was surprised:

"Have you joined the group for a month?"

"Yes, because there are still some things I don't understand about the script and characters, I need to communicate with the director and screenwriter...that is, Qin."

"..."

Liu Xiqian clicked her tongue, she was really dedicated.

One month to advance to the group, that is to say, there are three months left before filming before entering the group.

Normal movie shooting is only three months.

"OK, Uncle Ni, stop nagging, now that the actors are here, let's discuss the script first, and then I'll talk about the next arrangements."

Qin Muchu interrupted the greetings of several people.

"Uncle Ni?"

Both Zhou Jiaolun and Liu Xiqian were puzzled by this title.

"People in their 40s, why not call them uncle?"

Qin Muchu explained something, thought of something, looked at Donnie, and by the way pricked his heart again:

"Speaking of which, Liu Xiqian and I are not as old as you."

Downey's face darkened:
"But my heart is young."

"Didn't your heart be dug out and replaced with a reactor?"

"If you say any more, I'm going to wear armor!"

……

Qin Muchu didn't look for another place, so he held the meeting in this room.

Called a staff member to bring some chairs, and everyone sat down one by one.

"Aren't tatami mats for kneeling?"

Sitting on the chair, Liu Xiqian felt a little weird.

Make a high chair on the tatami, it feels like putting Zhang Simmons on the kang.

"You can also kneel and listen."

Qin Muchu flipped through the script, replied without raising his head, and continued:
"Let me tell you the story first.

To put it simply, the movie tells the story of a group of people entering other people's dreams and stealing their inner secrets.

What's more special is that they can decide what other people dream, create other people's dream world, and dream again in the dream.

There are at most three layers of dreams. If there are more, you will enter the Lost Domain. This layer is a public area, which means that all people who have more than three layers of dreams will fall here.Then as time goes by, I gradually forget that this is a dream, and get lost here..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Downey raised his hand in admiration:

"Brilliant idea! Right? This movie is going to be a hit!"

He was purely enlivening the atmosphere. During the month here, he asked Qin Muchu countless times about the script.

It can be said that besides Qin Muchu, he knows this movie best.

"Okay, Uncle Ni will ask the accountant for fifty cents later, you deserve it." Qin Muchu waved his hand.

"I think at least one piece is worth it."

Donnie held out a finger,
"I even applauded."

They didn't know how many times they made similar jokes this month.

Qin Muchu looked at the other three:
"anymore question?"

Liu Xiqian was the first to raise her hand:
"I don't understand what the awakening method of the dream is like."

"The awakening of the dream is related to the number of layers of the dream. To enter the dream, you need a medicine. You can understand it as a tranquilizer. A normal dream with one or two layers only needs an ordinary tranquilizer.

If there is only one layer of dream, then if you die or fall in the dream, you will wake up.

Hmm...like when you wake up from a nightmare.

And when there are two layers of dreams, it is still the same, except that you wake up in the first layer of dreams, and then die or fall again before you wake up in reality. "

"That means you wake up layer by layer, right?" Liu Xiqian asked.

"That's right, have you secretly grown your brain again this month?"

Qin Muchu originally thought it would be difficult to explain the script to Fool Liu.

"Hmph!" Liu Xiqian rolled her eyes arrogantly.

Write it down first, and I will send you ugly photos to Mimi in a while!

"The most special thing is the three-layer dream. If you want to create a three-layer dream, ordinary tranquilizers are useless, and you need a powerful tranquilizer.

But this also raises a problem, that is, one cannot wake up from the upper level of dreams through death, only through falling.

If one dies in any of the three layers of dreams, one will directly fall into the Lost Realm.

Moreover, people who passively enter the lost domain due to death will lose most of their memories, which means that it is easier to regard the lost domain as reality and get lost in it.

Only those who actively enter the Lost Domain will retain their memories, but they will gradually lose their memories after a long time.

The way to leave from the Lost Realm is still death or falling, but death must be unnatural death.

Because lost domain will only grow old, not die of old age.

Leaving from the lost domain, you will wake up in reality directly, no need to wake up layer by layer...Is there any problem? "

After a while of silence, Zhou Jiaolun shook his head:
"It sounds quite complicated, and I haven't thought of any other problems for the time being."

The rest of the people nodded in agreement, including Downey who already knew the script very well.

Even though he knows the script very well, sometimes he gets confused in the layers of dream dolls.

"It's okay, it's enough for you to know so much, let's talk about any problems during filming."

Qin Muchu didn't need them to fully understand the script, because the script itself was more difficult to understand than the movie.

Just ask them to know what they are acting in, and understand the main setting of the movie. It doesn't matter if they don't understand some details.

Clearing his throat, he talked about the work schedule again:
"We shoot very few scenes in China, mainly in three scenes, these two studios plus a courtyard.

The filming is expected to be finished in half a month, and then we will go to the United States to meet other actors, film the scenes in the United States, and then travel to various countries to film..."

……

At night, in the hotel room.

Two women with facial masks leaning on the sofa are chatting.

"Sister Li, are you playing Downey's wife?" Liu Xiqian asked.

"Correct."

"How did Qin Muchu think of you to play Downey's wife, a pairing of East and West..."

Liu Xiqian frowned, thinking of her film "The King of Kung Fu". One of the complaints made by fans is that she and foreigners are a couple.

"That's how the script was written...By the way, you don't know the hidden background of this drama, do you?" Zeng Li said suddenly.

"Is there a hidden background?"

Liu Xiqian sat up straight, the mask was not enough.

"Qin Muchu didn't give me the script."

"Actually, the lines in the script are also mentioned, but it's in Downey's script. I didn't know the complete hidden background until I asked Qin Muchu here yesterday."

After Zeng Li explained, he began to talk about the hidden plot:

"I played Li Er who came from the inheritance of Taoist Zhuang Zhou. The reason why Cobb played by Downey is so strong in stealing dreams is because he learned Zhuang Zhou's dream-making ability from Li Er's father."

"Zhuang Zhou? Why is it Zhuang Zhou?" Liu Xiqian was puzzled.

"Well, it should be an allusion to "Zhuang Zhou's Dream of a Butterfly"."

Zeng Li continued to explain,
"After Li Er and Cobb got married, they went to live in the United States and had a couple of children. Later, Li Er died, and Cobb was suspected of being a murder target. He was wanted by the United States and had to leave the United States.

And the pair of children were also taken back to the Heavenly Dynasty by their grandfather, Li Er's father, to raise them.

But because Li'er's father is a dreamer stationed in England by Taoist Zhuang Zhou, the child was brought up by the Taoist sect of the Celestial Dynasty.

The Tianchao Jixia Academy forbids any foreigners who are suspected of crimes from entering the country, and the two children are descendants of the Taoist sect, so Cobb can neither visit the children in the Tianchao, nor can the children go out of the country to see their father, Cobb, who is suspected of crimes. "

"Wait, what is Jixia Academy?" Liu Xiqian discovered another knowledge blind spot.

"I don't know too well, it's probably equivalent to the upper level of a hundred schools of thought, who is responsible for unified management of them... Qin Muchu said so.

In short, it is because Cobb can't see the child, that's why he worked so hard to help Saito plant his dream, because Saito can let the United States cancel the arrest of him, so that he can enter the Celestial Dynasty and see his child. "

Liu Xiqian was already dumbfounded after Zeng Li said such a big thing:

"Is Qin Muchu planning to make a second film?"

Taoist Zhuangzhou, Zhuzi Baijia, Jixia Academy... It feels like they are going to be filmed in a series of rhythms.

Zeng Li took off the mask, his beautiful eyes were shining brightly.

She was also shocked when she heard this hidden background.

Qin Muchu seems to want to export the ancient Chinese culture in another form.

At that time, she also asked Qin Muchu if he was going to make a second film, but Qin Muchu's reply made people dumbfounded.

"If you give me money, this one may not even be able to pay back, and I will pay for the next one."

"Tch, cheesy, he's still an award-winning director."

Taking advantage of Qin Muchu's absence, Liu Xiqian can feel free to complain freely.

Zeng Li pinched Liu Xiqian's face amusedly:
"How can I make a movie without money? The cost of this movie is already [-] million."

Liu Xiqian hugged Zeng Li:

"Sister Li, you don't know, Qin Muchu is rich, [-] million is nothing to him."

"Sissy, are you talking about dollars?"

"U.S. dollars? The cost of "Inception" is [-] million U.S. dollars!?"

(I owe three chapters, try to repay the debt)
(End of this chapter)