I become a big star after I sleep

Chapter 294 The Father Trapped in Time
"Director Qin, that part of your neck is..."

Ma Debiao saw the bandage on Qin Muchu's neck at a glance.

"Bite by a mosquito."

"Mosquito bite?"

Ma Debiao was taken aback, but he didn't expect the answer:
"Director Qin, you have to wipe toilet water on mosquito bites, your Band-Aid..."

"The mosquito has a big mouth, sucks hard, and has a big wound, so a bandage is used."

The corner of Ma Debiao's mouth twitched, was it a mosquito that sucked you?I'm afraid it's not a vampire, right?

If he couldn't tell that such nonsense was false, he would have spent so many years in vain. Knowing that Qin Muchu didn't want to say it, he laughed and left.

Early in the morning, from the hotel to the set, Qin Muchu couldn't remember how many crew members he met were concerned about what happened to his neck.

And the culprit of all this is Yang Mi who is giggling.

"Who made you have to take that piss last night, you deserve it."

Seeing her boyfriend looking over, Yang Mi's expression turned serious, but within two seconds she couldn't help laughing again.

Qin Muchu gritted his teeth in hatred.

He has done good deeds in his two lifetimes, and he has never planted strawberries for a girl. He never thought that he would be planted by a girl now.

It stands to reason that the act of planting strawberries is a way of expressing love between couples, leaving a mark of love on each other.

But when he was about to plant seeds for Yang Mi, Yang Mi avoided it directly and even laughed:
"What a pain, what strawberry, it's obviously a bruise, and I'm not stupid, so come over and throw me over my shoulder!"

OK, you wait.

Qin Muchu narrowed his eyes, and turned around to plant strawberries on your moon!
……

When we arrived at the "father's house", a large group of people were busy inside.

In addition to prop masters, lighting engineers, and photographers setting up the scene, the actors You Benchang, Gong Li, and Chen Daomin are already sitting on the sofa and holding scripts, and they have all put on their makeup. It's been a while.

The three of them also saw Qin Muchu and Yang Mi, but Mr. You didn't know Yang Mi.

"Baby, who is this female doll?"

Grandpa You asked with a smile.

"Old man, this is my girlfriend Yang Mi, who plays your youngest daughter and young nurse in the movie."

Qin Muchu introduced.

Yang Mi also played a role in the movie. There are not many scenes. There are only three scenes in total. After editing and adding together, there may be less than 3 minutes of shots.

"Grandpa You, hello, I'm Yang Mi. When I was a child, I really liked watching your performance of Ji Gong. Once I watched it late and didn't want to go to bed, and my mother beat me up."

Yang Mi respectfully bowed to the sofa where Old Master You was sitting, as if she had wiped honey on her small mouth.

Hearing this, Old Master You was elated, a smile appeared on his old face, and he said lovingly:

"Okay, okay, you are a blessed doll, and you will have a good life in the future."

With that said, he raised the fan in his hand and slapped Yang Mi:
"Grandpa's fan, this matter can't be wrong, haha."

Everyone at the scene will smile heartily.

Jigong used his magic power to realize his wishes by fanning a fan.

Yang Mi turned to greet Gong Li and Chen Daomin. Chen Daomin had worked with her before and was fairly familiar with her.

On the contrary, it was the first time Gong Li and Yang Mi met, but they had heard about it and knew that she was Qin Muchu's girlfriend, so their attitudes were quite kind.

It's just a pity that the "Qin Zeng" CP I knocked on at the beginning didn't make it, and she still occasionally looks up "Star You".

Leaving Yang Mi and the others to talk, Qin Muchu went to arrange the shooting, and there were still some things that he needed to decide on the scene.

In this way, about half an hour passed, and the time came to eight o'clock in the morning.

"All departments are ready, 3, 2, 1, start shooting!"

In the next room on the set, Qin Muchu sat in front of the monitor, holding a walkie-talkie and giving instructions.

Standing behind are Chen Daomin and Yang Mi.

There are no two of them in this scene, it is a rivalry between Mr. You and Gong Li.

The content is simple.

The daughter played by Gong Li hurried home and asked her father why he drove away the nurse, but the father said that the nurse stole her watch.

The door of the room opened on the monitor.

Gong Li walked in hurriedly, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted and looked for his father in each room.

In the end, I found Mr. You who was listening to the radio in a room.

The sound of the radio was very loud. The old man sat on the recliner, closed his eyes, and tapped the armrest with his fingers rhythmically to the sound of the opera.

"You are here."

Gong Li's voice made the old man open his eyes, he turned off the radio, and the room fell silent instantly.

"What are you doing here?"

Gong Li didn't answer right away, but went to the window and drew the half-opened curtains to light up the dark room.

Then he turned around and said his lines.

Qin Muchu's eyes lit up.

Pulling the curtains is a detail, which is not written in the script, and belongs to Gong Li's own creation, but this small gesture is full of life and is very natural.

But he still sighed inwardly.

This game is over.

But he didn't call to stop, but continued to watch the two perform.

It's just the first scene, and it can be corrected after the performance.

What follows is a quick and close conversation, and there's nothing wrong here.

Mr. You has considered all the details and performed perfectly.

From being dazed at the beginning of being questioned by my daughter, to gradually becoming impatient, and even my chest became undulating because of the too fast conversation.

This short scene alone created an image of an old man who is old but has a very strong and stubborn personality.

"OK, card!"

Qin Muchu shouted to stop, but didn't say "yes".

Just when he was about to get up and tell Gong Li about the problem, he heard Gong Li's voice on the walkie-talkie:
"Director Qin, is it a matter of pulling the curtains? Just now the old man said that I pulled the curtains too lightly, and I should pull the curtains with both hands. I think it makes sense."

Qin Muchu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said:

"The old man is right, Sister Gong Li, you are going to question the old man why he drove away another nurse, so the force you draw the curtains is a manifestation of your inner emotions, nothing else is a problem.

Let’s take another one, this time when you enter the room. "

Soon the second shot will start.

Originally, it would be enough for Gong Li to adjust the details of pulling the curtains, but the old man gave Qin Muchu another surprise.

After Gonggong pulled open the curtain vigorously, the old man still spoke the same lines as before.

But the rhythm has changed, or the node of attitude change has changed.

The process from bewilderment to impatience is shortened.

Because the action of his daughter pulling the curtains made him feel that her daughter came with "hostility".

"I don't need anyone, I don't need anyone's help!"

After saying this, the old man got up and walked out of the room.

However, Gong Li's expression changed from a tough question at the beginning, to lowering his head in an instant, and becoming sad.

"Card, pass!"

Qin Muchu shouted into the walkie-talkie.

The content of this scene is very simple, but it is not easy to act well, because many of the shots of Mr. You are close-ups with his face full of embarrassment, to capture his micro-expressions and eyes.

Not many actors can stand such a test. Even Gong Li and Qin Muchu dare not use so many and long close-up shots to shoot her face.

And Mr. You's performance can truly be said that every look, every subtle change of the face, and even every wrinkle reveal his acting skills.

This is not an exaggeration, but the real truth.

And this state is not accidental, it is the regular state of Mr. You.

For a whole day, except for a few misplaced moves that resulted in NGs, Mr. You never made Qin Muchu yell "block" because his acting skills were not up to standard.

Even those few mistakes in positioning were not real mistakes, but the places where Qin Muchu walked were not the best lighting spots selected by Qin Muchu.

"Excellent performance!"

This is what Gong Li said to Qin Muchu when work was over.

And Chen Daomin played three rival scenes with the old man today, not as direct as Gong Lina, but he couldn't help admiring:

"Acting with the old man, no matter how explosive it is, the old man is like an endless sea. He can tolerate and bear it, and then he can show you better."

Not only the two of them, Qin Muchu was also convinced by the old man.

There are a total of 212 scenes in the movie. It was originally planned to shoot 8 scenes a day, and the filming will be completed in about a month.

This progress is not slow anymore, a normal movie can shoot 6 scenes a day, which is considered fast.

Because each shooting requires a variety of props deployment, camera position layout, lighting color, etc., once it is done, it will start all over again.

A normal scene takes at least an hour to finish filming.

But now, in just one day, he has filmed 15 scenes. This is because he was worried that Mr. You would not be able to bear it, so he took a break from filming for a while, and then quit work early, otherwise there would be more.

This efficiency completely exceeded Qin Muchu's expectations, and it also made him realize one thing - he had to contact the remaining two actors and advance the time of joining the group.

Originally, it was fine for the assistant director to do this, but after all, he changed the time temporarily. Although it was only a few days earlier, there was no guarantee that there would be an announcement during this time, so he called in person to show respect.

……

After the play, Qin Muchu didn't go to the hotel, but went back to the courtyard.

If we shoot 8 scenes a day according to the original plan, there will be too little material, so there is no need to edit.

But 15 scenes is different, enough, he can edit while filming.

The post-production of the film is not difficult. During the filming, there are live sound recordings and no special effects. The only time-consuming part is the editing and soundtrack.

He plans to edit the shooting content of the day every day, and then send the part that needs soundtrack to the company's soundtrack engineer.

In this case, although the film cannot be completed right after the filming, it is still within a few days.

If everything goes well, Qin Muchu estimates that the entire film production can be completed in 20 days.

In this case, you can still register before the deadline for the Venice Film Festival on July 7.

Before Lao Mouzi asked him if he wanted to take this film for an award, he really didn't have that idea.

If you really want to compete for the prize, you will definitely not wait until June 6 to start the machine.

Because if the filming and production were carried out according to the original plan, the production of the film would definitely be finished after July 7th, and it would be too late to participate in Venice.

But now that conditions permit, Qin Muchu doesn't mind sending the film to Venice.

When they arrived at the courtyard, Zeng Li and Zhou Huimin were not there, presumably because Yang Mi and Qin Muchu had left, so they went back to their own homes.

"I'll go get some noodles."

"Forehead……"

Seeing Qin Muchu's distrust, Yang Mi said angrily:
"I'll make the noodles anyway! Wait, I'll kill you later!"

After finishing speaking, he strode towards the kitchen, ready to show off his skills.

The corner of Qin Muchu's mouth twitched. The state of his girlfriend last time almost made the world lose one outstanding young director.

Seeing that he couldn't stop it, he quickly shouted:

"Just serve the clear noodle soup, don't season it, I'll add the salt."

No reply.

Qin Muchu didn't know whether Yang Mi heard it or not, so he shook his head and walked towards the west wing, imported the material into the computer, and started editing the movie.

There are 15 scenes, each about 3 minutes, and the total duration is about one hour.

After editing, an hour was shortened to 6 minutes.

That's what a day does.

Press the save button, then copy a copy to the USB flash drive, and today's work is completed.

I got up and stretched, and looked at the time, it was almost eleven o'clock.

Rubbing his sore eyes from looking at the screen for a long time, he left the west wing and walked towards his room.

Yang Mi hadn't slept yet, she was leaning on the bed and looking through something, so absorbed that she didn't even notice Qin Muchu approaching.

"What's the matter? Are you still up so late to read the script?"

Qin Muchu sat on the bed and patted his girlfriend's head.

Yang Mi naturally leaned into Qin Muchu's arms:
"I can't understand the relationship between the characters and time in it, it's too confusing..."

Qin Muchu smiled:

"Disorder is normal."

In this movie, apart from the father played by Mr. You, the rest of the characters are played by several actors.

For example, the daughter played by Gong Li, there is another actor who also played this role, and this actor not only played the "daughter", but also played two nurses, that is to say, played three roles in total.

The reason for this is that the film is shot from the perspective of an Alzheimer's patient.

Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as senile dementia, mostly occurs in people over 65 years old. The cause is unknown and there is no cure.

It was also...the reason why the old dean passed away.

There are quite a few movies about Alzheimer's disease, but they are all from an objective perspective, shooting "abnormal old people" in the world of "normal people", and the old people belong to the observed.

So the logic is clear.

And Qin Muchu's shooting angle is "the sick old man", and the world in the movie is "the world of the sick old man".

Elderly people who are sick may not recognize their daughters.

In the world of normal people, the daughter has not changed, she is still her, but the old man can't recognize her.

But in the old man's world, it is because his daughter's face has become someone else's face that he can't recognize him, so he can say "you are not my daughter".

In his world, time, space, and characters are changing in a form that he does not understand.

Maybe one second he had just had breakfast in the morning, and the next second it was time for dinner; he thought he was living at home, but in fact he had changed his environment a long time ago, but he didn’t recognize it; he thought the person speaking in front of him was his own Relatives, in fact, they are the nurses who take care of themselves.

He is firmly trapped in his own time, unable to break free, just like the name of the movie - "Father Trapped in Time".

(End of this chapter)