fringe artist

Chapter 21 21. Fengyue (for further reading, for collection)

In the dim room, filled with the pungent smell of chemicals, under the dark red light, Chen Li'an was concentrating on developing photos.

Ma Xiaoqing stood beside her with a cigarette dangling from her mouth, looking at Chen Li'an's back, she felt as if she had lost.

Chen Li'an clamped the photo on the rope, then took off his gloves and looked at the water-stained photo, very satisfied with his selfie.

"How do you feel?" Chen Li'an turned around and asked.

Ma Xiaoqing looked at Chen Li'an in the photo, and it was difficult to describe the emotions represented by that expression, calm, crazy, paranoid, grotesque
Ma Xiaoqing couldn't find the right words to describe it.

This photo was taken by Chen Li'an after the shooting, and he said it was to pay homage to the dead "Qi Lei".

"Give it to me as a tribute to my love that died before it sprouted." Ma Xiaoqing looked at Chen Li'an and said resignedly.

Seeing Ma Xiaoqing like this, Chen Li'an couldn't help laughing, pinched her round face and said: "Love and lust are two different things, you are just greedy for me."

Ma Xiaoqing pushed Chen Li'an's hand away and said loudly: "I'm not lustful! I'm in love with you, can't I!"

Chen Li'an shrugged his shoulders and said: "You love Qi Lei, not me. From the first day I joined the group, that's not the real me, so that's not love at all."

"I just fell in love with you, it's not Qi Lei who fell in love with Chen Li'an!"

"Don't be a rascal, you said you'd forget it the next day after drinking too much."

"I didn't drink too much now, I remembered, I want you."

"You're still hungry for me."

"What's wrong with me being hungry!"

As soon as Ma Xiaoqing said that, she moved her hands and directly grabbed Chen Lian's pants and pulled him into her arms.

"Don't you like flirting? Didn't you say that this is just a physical impulse?" Chen Lian helplessly let Ma Xiaoqing's hands touch his body.

"Fuck the flirting, I'm going to be a hooligan today!"

It is really unsolvable for a woman to be a hooligan, and it is difficult for male victims to form effective resistance.

A weak and muscular man like Chen Li'an can only choose the principle of non-resistance in the face of vicious gangsters.

Fortunately, Ma Xiaoqing was a conscientious gangster, so she released Chen Li'an the next day.

When Chen Li'an left Ma Xiaoqing's house, he looked back and felt sorry for Ma Xiaoqing.

However, this emotion quickly disappeared. After all, the guilt brought by desire and the guilt brought by love have different shelf life.

Chen Li'an came to the street, found a phone booth and called Shu Qi.

"Is the audition mentioned earlier over? I'm done now."

"I know, you should come at nine o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow. I told Director Cheng about it."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Li'an touched his chin and recalled the movie Fengyue.

There are quite a lot of behind-the-scenes stories in this movie. The first heroine was Wang Jingying recommended by Tang Chen, but because of her poor acting skills, she was replaced by Cheng Kaige after filming started.

Later Chen Hong came, Zhou Xun came, Liu Jialing, Zhang Manyu, Wang Zuxian, Zhang Ting, and He Qing all came.

But these people were all rejected, Cheng Kaige still wanted Gong Li to act, and in the end Gong Li, who didn't come to the audition, became the heroine.

But Chen Hong met Chen Kai because of this drama, and they became a couple later.

Although Zhou Xun failed to play the heroine, he dedicated a very classic scene in this movie. This is also Zhou Xun's big screen debut, and he is still playing against Leslie Cheung.

In addition to Gong Li, this movie also has famous characters such as He Saifei, and the most beautiful Yang Guifei Zhou Jie.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Chen Li'an for the time being. He took the 1000 or [-] yuan salary that Wang Xiaoshuai gave him, and planned to buy some property.

This shitty world!
Chen Li'an held a brand new camera stand in his hand, and looked at the price tag of the same prototype in the window as he was holding in the roadside.

The price in the window was three thousand and four thousand, but the camera he bought in his hand cost him three thousand and eight thousand!

At this moment, Chen Li'an even wanted to go back to the original store, grab the boss and give him a set of old eight palms!
After spending an extra 400 yuan, Chen Li'an felt that he had been wronged.

After struggling for a long time, Chen Li'an gave up his plan to go back and find trouble with the boss, and who was to blame for not asking about the price.

After buying the camera, Chen Li'an went to buy a bunch of painting materials. The craftsmanship of oil painting should not be lost. Life is so boring, so there must be something to do.

When Chen Li'an returned to the courtyard with a pile of painting materials, Uncle Qi was playing chess with Uncle Li in the front yard.

The two old men are stinky chess baskets, and there is no old man outside to take them to play, so they can only play chess together in their own yard.

"Li'an is back, why did you go recently? Go to my place for a drink tonight." After seeing Chen Li'an, Uncle Li asked with a smile as he wiped the chessboard.

Uncle Qi, who was in sight of victory, blew his beard and stared angrily: "You old man, if you can't play chess, just play around! I'll be a dog when I play chess with you again!"

Uncle Li calmly picked up the teapot and took a sip, completely ignoring Uncle Qi's swearing, being a dog is not once or twice.

Chen Li'an didn't want to get involved in the war between the two old men, so he quickly said, "I went to shoot a movie a while ago, so I won't go tonight, it's too much trouble for you."

"Second masters, I'm going back to the house, and your two elders will continue."

After finishing speaking, Chen Li'an left, otherwise the master would have to drag him to judge.

After returning to his room, Chen Li'an sniffed his nose and asked for a musty smell, then opened the door to let the air out.

The calendar hanging on the wall is still in March, and it is already June now.

Chen Li'an turned the calendar to June, and couldn't help laughing at the models on the calendar.

Isn't this the Human Elf Weekly News? Thinking of meeting the real person in the Fengyue crew after a while, Chen Li'an couldn't help but picked up the camera and took a photo of Zhou Xun on the wall calendar.

After filming, Chen Li'an started to clean up. After more than 20 minutes of work, Chen Li'an took out a novel and started to read.

The name of the novel is the original novel of the movie "Flower Shadow", but the author Ye Zhaoyan scolded Cheng Kaige after watching the movie.

To bluntly say that my novel is not good, but Fengyue is even worse!

Tsk tsk, the director is really miserable. After the film was released, he was scolded by the original author. Before the film was released, he had an unpleasant fight with Wang Anyi, one of the screenwriters. Otherwise, he would not have asked Shu Qi to save the scene.

Oh, by the way, Cheng Kaige had a falling out with the producer, and the two never worked together again.

Later, Wang Anyi couldn't help complaining that Cheng Kaige was too selfish, um. Farewell My Concubine's screenwriter Lu Wei also complained, saying that Cheng Kaige's two best films were the ones that he did not participate in the screenwriting.

In fact, this movie is not that bad in Chen Li'an's opinion, it's just that Cheng Kaige added too many personal thoughts and lost the underlying logic.

In a word, Cheng Kaige is always based on self-expression, pursues expressiveness and ignores logic, immerses himself in self-woven dreams, and lacks the ability to perceive the audience's viewing needs

Chen Li'an couldn't remember who said this, but he felt that he was right.

In fact, Chen Li'an didn't care much about Fengyue's movie, but he liked the characters in it, twisted and contradictory.

All the characters are ugly and perverted, without any beauty.

Although Chen Li'an didn't want to admit it, but from the bottom of his heart, he also believed that human nature is evil, and that kindness is acquired and educated.

And most people in the world didn't learn very well when they received kindness education, so people will be contradictory and become cute.

No matter how kind people are on weekdays, sometimes they can't help being hostile.

For the role that he is about to audition for, it is also Chen Li'an's second favorite role in this movie.

The name is very interesting, called Duan Wu, the servant of the daughter of Qianjin, who was later recognized as the godbrother by the eldest lady's room, and finally became the head of the family.

Doesn't that look inspiring?
In fact, this movie is a metamorphosis.

Chen Li'an spent an afternoon reading "Flower Shadow", and finally came to the conclusion that the novel is indeed better than the movie.

It's just that the character of Duan Wu is not easy to figure out. Chen Li'an has never been a servant in a rich family, nor has he fallen in love with his eldest lady, let alone a pervert.

The most important thing is that the character Duan Wu really regarded the eldest lady as his god-sister at the beginning, but later he became psychotic after tasting the taste of lust.

If you want to play the Dragon Boat Festival well, you have to figure it out carefully. Chen Li'an carefully recalled the plot in the movie, and then substituted the characters from the novel into it.

We don’t have dry sisters, but there are good sisters. The most important thing is the emotional breakthrough of the characters, not the taboo desires.

After all, Chen Li'an doesn't want to go to German orthopedics
Duan Wu's wishes for her eldest daughter, from guarding, to heartache, to distorted possession, and finally destroying if she can't get it.

Uncomplicated but distorted emotional changes, love and desire destroyed Duan Wu and made him grow.

(End of this chapter)