Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 218 Li Tang, You Want to Lose Weight
At noon on June [-]th, Capital Airport.

The Buick business car stopped at the domestic departure gate, Li Tang opened the side door and got out of the car carrying a backpack, and the driver Shen Lin moved a large suitcase from the trunk.

"Master Shen, give it to me."

Li Tang reached out to take the suitcase.

"Boss, let me take you in." Shen Lin said hurriedly.

"No, I'll just go in by myself, you can't park here."

Li Tang put his backpack on his back, and took the handle of the suitcase from Shen Lin's hand.

"Boss...uh, have a nice trip!"

Shen Lin was not good at words, and said goodbye to him with an unnatural expression.

"OK Bye Bye!"

Li Tang smiled and waved to him.

There are crew members in the waiting hall who are responsible for the matchmaking. Zhou Xun and Chen Kun arrived earlier than him.

"Are you alone?"

Today is different from the past, now Zhou Xun and Chen Kun are accompanied by assistants, but Li Tang walked over with a suitcase alone, which seems very different.

"Originally, Jiajia wanted to come and deliver it, but it happened to be urgent." Li Tang said with a smile to the two of them.

After getting the boarding pass and checking in the luggage, Zhou Xun's assistant was very clever and hurried forward and said, "Brother Li, let me do it."

"Oh, thanks Tony!"

Don't get me wrong, Zhou Xun's assistant named Tony is a woman with short hair and flat chest. She usually likes to dress in a neutral way, and she even named herself Tony in English. Maybe she has that tendency.

However, she has been with Zhou Xun for several years, and the relationship between the two has always been very good, so it is not easy for Li Tang to speculate on that aspect.

On the other hand, Chen Kun's assistant, who is so stupid, looks like a rookie.

There are direct flights from Beijing to Zhangjiajie, three times a week, almost every other day.Those on the same plane were basically tour groups, but fortunately, the film crew booked them in business class, so they could not be disturbed through a curtain.

Xiaopang was too noisy last night. After the plane took off, Li Tang fell asleep drowsily after chatting with Zhou Xun and Chen Kun.

"Hey, wake up, the plane is about to land."

Li Tang opened his sleepy eyes and looked out of the porthole. Sure enough, the plane had already descended slowly among the mountains.

Fastened the seat belt, sat next to him Zhou Xun smiled and said, "Didn't you sleep last night? You slept so deeply!"

"No, it's just that these two days are quite busy." Li Tang could only laugh and say.

Looking down from the plane, Zhangjiajie looks like a valley surrounded by mountains, with a blue-green river meandering by the edge of the city like a streamer.

"Wow, this is the Tianmen Cave. The script says it is the Eye of Heaven."

When he got off the plane, he could see the huge stone cave standing on the top of the mountain like the eye of the sky from a distance, and Zhou Xun was shocked.

The tourists in the tour group on the same plane also took out their cameras to take pictures.

In the end, I boarded the shuttle bus under the urging of the ground staff. It may be that the spectacle of the sky eye was so shocking that the tourists didn't notice that there were three unusual passengers on the same plane.

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"Teacher Cong, long time no see, how good is it?"

In the hotel where the crew stayed, Li Tang met Cong Zhijun, who played the role of the little tailor's grandfather and old tailor.

"Good, good."

The old man happily shook hands with him.

The two had worked together when filming "Swordsman", and the old man played Linghu Chong's year-end friend, Qu Yang, the elder of the Demon Cult.The two have a lot of rivalry in the play.

The old man is over 70, and he is still in good spirits, but because of his height, he looks slightly hunchbacked.

"Mr. Wang, hello, I really like your "12.1 Shooting Murder Case". Your role as Dong Lei is really amazing."

Criminal investigation dramas were popular in the past few years. If Li Tang was asked to choose the three best criminal investigation dramas, then "12.1 Major Shooting Case" would definitely be on the list.It's not that the filming techniques of this show are so good, but that it is very real in the form of a pseudo-documentary.Especially Dong Lei, the leading male villain played by Wang Shuangbao, who didn't know it thought it was Dong Lei himself.

Wang Shuangbao hurriedly held Li Tang's hand with both hands, and said repeatedly: "Don't dare to be! Don't dare to be! Teacher Li, your Linghu Chong is still impressive."

Although Wang Shuangbao is many years older than Li Tang, he can only be considered a newcomer in the film and television industry, so his posture is very low, and he is completely different from the fierce Dong Lei he plays.Everyone is on the stage, flattering each other and improving each other!
Compared with Li Tang's handsome face, Chen Kun seemed restrained and introverted, and he only nodded his head hastily when greeting people, as if he was not easy to deal with.

Fortunately, Zhou Xun's enthusiasm broke the embarrassment, and when he saw Mr. Cong, he called Grandpa affectionately!

When Wang Shuangbao came to greet her, she made a fuss and said, "Wow, you are the captain, right? Captain, please take care of me."

Wang Shuangbao plays the ignorant and funny production captain.

There are only a few actors, and Wang Hongwei, who plays the role of Four Eyes, will not be able to report to the crew in a few days.

One more thing, Wang Hongwei is the actor who played Xiao Wu in the debut novel "Xiao Wu" by Chief Jia Kechang that Li Tang had seen and thought he had no skills.

Because all the lines of "Little Tailor" are in Sichuan dialect, the actors need to conduct surprise training in Sichuan dialect before starting the film.Of course, the original taste is not required, as long as it has this taste.

Chen Kun was originally a baby in Chongqing, so there was no pressure, and he even played a guest role as a teacher.Because Zhou Xun and Chen Kun are in the same company, they have worked together before, and they usually have a good relationship. In addition, they have already started to prepare, so they naturally learned well.

As for Li Tang, who is from Shanghai, everyone thought he was a poor family, but when he came up, he seemed to be quite upright.Chen Kun was also very surprised and said: "Brother Li, have you stayed in Chongqing? This is a Nan'an accent!"

"I haven't been to Chongqing, but I just learned from others temporarily. Maybe the person who taught me is from the south bank of Chongqing. Anyway, no matter what accent we have, we all sound the same."

Of course Li Tang would not say that he learned it from Jiang Qinqin.

Basically, he would have a phone call with Jiang Qinqin every week. Like many close friends, he would talk about everything that needed to be talked, and occasionally had some small interactions, such as Li Tang taught her Shanghai dialect, and she taught Li Tang Chongqing dialect.She is from Nan'an, so of course she has a Nan'an accent, which can only be heard by Chen Kun, a native of Chongqing.

The crew's costumes arrived this day. After all, it's a big crew, and it wouldn't be said that in order to save money, they collected some clothes from local farmers to make up the number.They were all measured by the crew before the actors, and then custom-made, and they were all aged to conform to the characteristics of the age.

An associate professor of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, who was in charge of the art and styling design of the crew, was also the art designer of "Ju Dou" and "Raise the Red Lantern".

The design of this guy is very interesting. The designs for Li Tang are all red series, such as red sweatshirts and red hurdle vests, while Chen Kun is in the blue series, blue tunic suits, blue sportswear and so on.

Li Tang doesn't know whether this art designer is intentional or simply pursuing the changeable color of the picture. According to his previous understanding, red and blue CPs have been produced since ancient times, and combined with the names of their respective roles, they are clearly a pair of red and blue Roman CPs. ah!
Of course, this is not the point. During the fitting that day, when Li Tang took off the loose-fitting Zegna long-sleeved T-shirt, revealing the well-defined muscles of his upper body, director De Sijie’s first reaction was not wonderful.

I usually see Li Tang's thin and tall appearance, but I didn't expect such a good figure hidden under the clothes, but the question is how could the educated youth of that era have such a good figure?

Chen Kun also looked dumbfounded. He was half a head shorter than Li Tang, and when he took off his clothes, he could see black and white. Then he looked at his fleshy body, and he realized that he was really weak.

"How about adding a person who loves fitness to Ma Jianling?" Assistant director Zhao Chunlin suggested from the side.

Dai Sijie remained silent. Although there were sports lovers in that era, there was no concept of fitness at all.There are people with good health, but Li Tang's body is too exaggerated.

After a while, he finally said, "Li Tang, can you lose some weight?"

Li Tang looked down at the muscles on his body. Could this be weight loss?Losing muscle is as difficult as building muscle.

"Then what about filming?"

"It doesn't matter, you already look very thin, let's shoot the scene of wearing clothes first."

In the script, the scenes of being shirtless and wearing a hurdling vest can only be temporarily moved back.

The only way to lose weight quickly is not to eat, and only add a little protein and water necessary for the human body every day.Thinking about how I was urging Xiaopang to lose weight some time ago, I didn't expect it to be my turn now, and I feel very ironic when I think about it.

Many of the trails in Tianmen Mountain are built with stone slabs one step at a time, and some are even carved out of huge stones.I heard from the locals that this road has been walked for hundreds of years and has been repaired for hundreds of years.

Two porters carrying suitcases walked in front with wooden sticks. Li Tang, who was wearing a slightly washed red sportswear with a slight whitish appearance, carried the luggage on his back, dragging behind him with a net bag containing a washbasin and tea mug. , Walking up the mountain step by step with difficult steps.

Chen Kun, who was walking in front, looked back at him occasionally, and then asked the porter who was walking in front to slow down a little.

This is a long shot, and the camera is set on the opposite hill. In the shot, there are only four ant-like figures trekking hard on the mountain road.

Li Tang really couldn't move anymore, and he was always good at physical strength, so he was not as good as Chen Kun who was walking ahead.

There is no way, people are iron and rice is steel, if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.Not to mention that he now only has two eggs and a little fruit every day, and he can only carry it when he is hungry.

Just when his eyes were full of stars and his legs were fluttering, he finally heard a "stab" from the walkie-talkie pinned under the clothes around his waist, and director Dai Sijie's voice came from inside: "Cut!"

The sound was like the sound of heaven, and Li Tang suddenly collapsed on the steps, and shouted weakly to Chen Kun and the porter in front: "Stop, stop, the director stopped."

The porter is an extra actor hired locally by the crew, and he got used to it after a few days of filming.He quickly put down the two wooden boxes on Bei Zai's body, with a relaxed expression on his face.You must know that in order for them to perform the real state of trekking, the assistant director Zhao Chunlin specially put bricks in the box for them to carry.

However, Li Tang and Chen Kun were no strangers to it. In their words, they had been carrying things on this mountain road since they were young, and it was nothing more than a hundred and eighty catties, let alone a few bricks.

There were not only bricks in the box, but also water. One of the group performers brought water from the box and spoke Mandarin with a strong local accent: "Teachers, drink water."

"Thank you!"

Chen Kun took it and handed Li Tang a bottle.

Li Tang lay on his back on the steps, because there was a quilt on his back, which was quite comfortable. He looked up at the blue sky, panting heavily.

Seeing Chen Kun handing over the water, he hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head and didn't take it.If you want to lose weight as soon as possible, you must also control your drinking water.

If Chen Kun was envious or even a little jealous of Li Tang's body at the beginning, now he only has sympathy.For example, at noon, when the staff brought food up, everyone else was eating, and only Li Tang hid far away.Don't talk about watching others eat it, just smell it.

It took about ten minutes before I saw the big troop coming over. The crew hired many local villagers. Apart from acting as extras, they also helped the crew carry equipment.

In this big mountain, every time you adjust the position of the plane, you have to carry it on your shoulders and hands, and transfer it from one mountain to another.It seems that the straight line is not far away, but the winding mountain roads take a long time to walk.

Especially for the two film cameras with wide-angle lenses, two French photographers ran up and down in their arms, and each was followed by two photography assistants to help carry the tripod, track, and film.

The long shots are done, and then the close shots.

Before taking a few breaths while holding the heavy camera, the two French photographers were busy looking for angles and arranging suitable ones.

Anyone with a discerning eye can understand at a glance that pulling out such a big battle just after the start of the film is just a matter of grinding the camera, so that the Chinese-French mix and match crew can get in touch as soon as possible.

"Li Tang, can you still hold on?"

Dai Sijie came over and saw Li Tang lying on the steps like a dead fish, so he squatted down and asked.

"Director, let me rest for a while."

The breath is flattened, but it is still necessary to accumulate energy.

Dai Sijie looked at the gradually setting sun, and said, "Take another 10 minutes' rest, and start filming after the camera position is set up. Hold on, and you won't have to run away tomorrow."

To say that the crew's equipment is absolutely top-notch, including the portable monitors and the full set of Arri's equipment, all shipped from France, and the operators are all foreigners.

"Okay, all departments are ready for... Action!"

Li Tangqiang cheered up, gritted his teeth, picked up the bedding, and climbed up the mountain road with a net bag.

To be honest, the French are absolutely top-notch in photography.The lens movement of this shot first gave close-ups of the dark and strong calves of the two porters who walked in front with wooden sticks and heavy wooden boxes, and their feet in straw sandals walked on the steps step by step. Heavy and solid.

Then the camera slowly zoomed out, from close-up to full view, heavy wooden boxes bent their waists, ragged clothes, dark skin, and rugged mountain roads constituted a picture of suffering.

The camera slowly turns, and Chen Kun and Li Tang enter the painting. Their confused eyes, messy steps, and luggage all show that they are newcomers.

　Today is just one update. There are too many things in the past two days. I owe two updates. There will be more work tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)