fringe artist

Chapter 12 12. The Inexplicable Talent

At six o'clock in the morning, Chen Li'an got up from the bed, yawned, and brushed his long messy hair back.

Chen Li'an's room is very small, less than ten square meters. There is a single bed and a desk in the room. There are not many books on it, only a few new high school textbooks.

Almost all the people in the courtyard got up now, and Chen Li'an heard the sound of Uncle Qi punching in the courtyard.

This old man has practiced kung fu to the bone. Chen Li'an will support him for at most 3 minutes before he will be slapped on the ground and lie on his stomach.

In order to prevent Uncle Qi from finding out that he came back, and then dragging himself to ask questions, Chen Li'an brushed his teeth and washed his face at home, and only slipped out of the house after the old man finished punching and went out for breakfast.

This complex has three entrances, and there are six households in total. When Chen Li'an came out, there were a few young boys squatting at the door of the house, brushing their teeth sleepily.

When they saw Chen Li'an, they immediately put down the toothbrush in their hands and muttered, "Brother An."

Chen Li'an ignored his little brothers and left the courtyard with a gloomy expression.

A fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy with a cropped head looked at Chen Li'an's leaving back and muttered, "Brother An's expression is a bit scary, and someone who is short-sighted has offended him again, I hope he won't be beaten to death. "

If Chen Li'an knew that this kid was talking about him behind his back, he would definitely blow his head off after the movie was finished, as if he was a violent maniac.

Coming out of the courtyard, Chen Li'an didn't go to the steamed stuffed bun shop in the past, worried that he would meet Uncle Qi, so he simply took a turn and went to the deep-fried dough sticks stand on the other side of the alley, and bought two fried dough sticks.

Chen Li'an chewed on fried dough sticks, and reached out to stop a yellow taxi that had just left. The chubby little noodles looked very cute. This was specially approved last year to lower the entry threshold for taxis.

Although there are many taxis, the experience of taking a car is by no means good. The weather in April is okay, but it will be boring in summer.

In the taxi, Chen Li'an looked at the rising fare, and felt that his salary for filming the extremely cold film might not be enough for the daily taxi fare.

Chen Li'an is unwilling to take the bus. He is a person who seeks to enjoy himself, and he will not wrong himself as long as he has the conditions.

Chen Li'an also has the character of enduring hardships and standing hard work, but only in things he is interested in, such as filming and boxing.

In other aspects of life, Chen Li'an is unwilling to carry forward the spirit of hard work, which is very unsocial and very social at the same time, which sounds quite contradictory.

"It seems that we have to find a way to shoot faster, or find a place to live close to the set." Chen Li'an muttered, and finished the deep-fried dough sticks in his hand.

The car arrived soon. Chen Lian took out 12 yuan from his wallet and handed it to the taxi driver. The starting price was [-] yuan for ten kilometers, and [-] yuan for the next kilometer. It is also very profitable to drive a taxi these days.

Chen Li'an got out of the car, feeling a little dizzy, the smell of gasoline in the car was too strong, and he was a little motion sick.

When Chen Li'an arrived at the location agreed by the crew, no one came yet, he was the first to arrive.

Today's scene will be filmed at Wang Xiaoshuai's friend's house. If he has no money to rent a scene, he can only choose to attack the friends around him.

Most of the funding for the extreme cold is also the same, and a group of friends around Wang Xiaoshuai chipped in to support it.

It's really shabby, Chen Li'an leaned on a tree by the side of the road and looked boredly at the pedestrians rushing to work in the early morning.

Chen Li'an waited there for more than ten minutes, and then Wang Xiaoshuai came, together with Shu Qi.

Because Shu Qi has a car, his rich friend in Beijing lent it to Shu Qi.

Shu Qi is very friendly to mainland filmmakers. She has helped many films to be exported to overseas film festivals and is a very good film promoter.

He has assisted in overseas market planning for films such as The Great Eunuch Li Lianying, Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine, Ermo, and Pink.

And he also has a distribution company that has distributed many literary films.

People like Shu Qi have a lot of contacts. Although he may not be very successful as a director, he is very good as a filmmaker.

This is also one of the reasons why Chen Li'an chose to be extremely cold, hoping to get to know filmmakers like Shu Qi.

Well, Chen Li'an admits that his purpose in the beginning was not pure, but this does not prevent him from showing perfect acting skills.

Wearing a pair of glasses, Shu Qi looked very refined. She walked to Chen Li'an and said with a smile, "You came so early? I thought you would sleep in."

Chen Li'an stood up straight and stretched, "I went to bed early last night."

"You were really exhausted yesterday, today's scene is much more relaxed." Wang Xiaoshuai leaned over and smoked two cigarettes. The white stick of Zhongnanhai gave off a faint smell.

However, the white pole looks very beautiful, and it is the choice of many pseudo-literary youths. It is cheap and good-looking, and the price-performance ratio is extremely high.

Chen Li'an took out a silver zippo lighter from his pocket, with a few beautiful five-pointed stars engraved on it, which was a trophy he got from street fights.

The finger slides, and there is a crisp metal buckle sound, and the yellow flame of Chen Li'an's sliding machine grinding wheel suddenly bursts out, lighting the cigarette.

Wang Xiaoshuai looked at the disposable pink plastic lighter in his hand, then at Chen Li'an's steel-wheeled metal lighter, and said a little depressed, "Why are your lighters so handsome?"

Shu Qi couldn't help laughing and said, "If you change the lighter, you'll find that it's also handsome. It has nothing to do with the lighter."

These words didn't sound funny, although Wang Xiaoshuai didn't want to admit it, but looking at Chen Li'an's face, he still recognized the fact in his heart.

Chen Li'an is not proud of his appearance, and what his parents gave him was not obtained by his hard work and money, so there is nothing to be proud of.

Those who use the knife can still say that they have worked hard in exchange for it. What does it have to do with you? Parents should be proud of it.

Chen Li'an took a deep puff of his cigarette, squinted his eyes and said, "When will it start? I want to shoot faster."

The movements in Wang Xiaoshuai's hands paused, and then he lit a cigarette and asked, "Did you take on other scenes?"

"No, I just hope to save some money." Chen Li'an explained, but he didn't say clearly that he thought the taxi fare was too expensive, and the crew was so poor that they wouldn't reimburse him.

Shu Qi took a puff on her cigarette, looked at the passing cars and said, "The production team really has no money. Shooting faster can save a little money. You can think about the production team. You are a good actor."

This is the poorest crew that Shu Qi has ever supervised. Now he doubts whether there will be money for post-production after the film is finished.

Wang Xiaoshuai also thought that Chen Li'an was trying to save money for the crew, and he felt a little embarrassed. Everyone knew about the difficulties of the crew.

The three men stood on the side of the road smoking a cigarette with their own thoughts, and were silent for a while.

It wasn't until the rest of the crew arrived that the dullness was broken.

As soon as Ma Xiaoqing came here, she ran to Chen Li'an, and took out a photo from her vest pocket as if offering a treasure.

"This is the photo you took last night. It's really beautiful. Have you ever studied photography?" Ma Xiaoqing asked with admiration and curiosity.

The angle and composition of the photo taken last night were great, totally out of the ordinary for a novice.

If Chen Li'an is a novice, he is also a genius novice!

Chen Li'an took the photo and looked at it carefully, then put it in his pocket and said: "I have played a few times, I am not professional, I have time to learn from it."

Chen Li'an said that he played a few times, it was a SLR that he played on a whim in his previous life, but he was soon persuaded to quit by the cumbersome value adjustment.

That's why he doesn't know how to develop photos, and he is very curious about this technology that was later eliminated by the public.

It turns out that she is really a novice. Ma Xiaoqing was a little surprised by Chen Li'an's talent. Taking pictures is not only about technology, but also has her own keen perspective and feeling.

"Okay, after today's filming, how about I teach you? Your perspective is very special and very talented."

Chen Li'an didn't care much about Ma Xiaoqing's praise, he had heard Bai Qing say this too many times in the previous month.

I seem to be very talented in art, I don't know if it is the golden finger brought by rebirth.

(End of this chapter)