This actor doesn't look like a good guy

"Brother Jiang, there's nothing we can do about it. I didn't expect that I would get angry."

"We are also lucky. Speaking of which, we both worked as extras in the Beijing Film Studio and eventually became prosperous. Anyway, you can come with me this time. The salary may not be very high, only [-] to [-] yuan a month. Maybe there will be some bonus after the show is finished, but it’s still better than staying at home.”

"No problem! Brother Jiang, I will do whatever you ask me to do!"

"But Brother Jiang, since we finished filming "Soldier Assault", Chen Sicheng has always been looking for me. We have a good relationship. He also said that if there is a chance in the future, he would like to work with you again."

"He, that's easy to talk about, but I remember doesn't he want to be a director?"

"Yes, he wants to be a director, but for now he plans to make movies to gain experience and learn more, and then he can become a director after he learns how to do it."

"That's pretty good, Baoqiang, have you ever thought about becoming a director and making movies?"

"I can't do it. How can I have that ability? I don't even know how to be an actor now."

"Don't say that. Anyway, if you have any ideas, just talk to us more."

"Row."

A few days later, they took a plane to Xiangjiang together.

After arriving, Jiang Bai left the room to Su Rou to clean up, and then went downstairs with Wang Baoqiang and Wu Jing.

The main focus of filming in Xiangjiang is a fast pace, with tight schedules and heavy tasks. According to the schedule sent to him by Ye Weixin before, the first day came. Everyone got to know each other first, then held a script meeting, and then went to the crew to get familiar with each other the next day. We go to the venue, take a set photo, and then review the script with each other, and start shooting directly on the third day.

Filming takes place from morning to night every day. Actors who have no filming tasks can take a break, but they also have to familiarize themselves with the script and practice their movements during the break.

Time is money. One more day of shooting will cost at least hundreds of thousands.

This approach compresses costs to the extreme and spends money wisely.

Therefore, the actors in Xiangjiang at that time were all like model workers, and their overall strength was very strong.

Unless that kind of image is particularly outstanding, anyone who looks a little bit worse, has a little bit of acting skills, and is not efficient in filming on the crew will have been eliminated long ago.

There are a lot of actors available for a play, and famous people are still queuing up to be cast, not to mention those who are not famous are trying to get in.

So they felt the pressure as soon as they joined the crew. Jiang Bai and Wu Jing were okay because they had filmed many scenes in Xiangjiang, but Wang Baoqiang still felt uncomfortable.

"Brother Jiang, Brother Jing, why is it like this here? It's like a war."

"It's good to get used to it. Wang Jin once made five or six movies a year. Some movies can be shot in a week, even if the quality is slightly worse. But if you make six movies for one movie, as long as one of them is a hit, Then you can make money, and if you hit a few more movies, you can make even more money."

"Then what should I do now?"

"Now go and teach those martial arts practitioners the moves. Remember not to put your position too low. You are the martial arts instructor and they are your students. If they dare to contradict you or anything else, just tell me directly.

I'm an action director here, and I still have some power. If they can shoot it, they can shoot it, and if they can't, they can get out. "

When Wang Baoqiang heard these domineering words, he felt infinite admiration: "Brother Jiang, I feel that you are very handsome now!"

Jiang Bai grinned, showing two rows of white teeth: "Yeah, I think so too."

After Wang Baoqiang left, Wu Jing asked: "I talked to them just now. They said that the director originally wanted to hire my senior brother Zhen Zidan to shoot this movie, but then he decided to cast you. Are you right?" Did you go through the back door?"

"Why should I go through the back door? Do I still need to go through the back door now? Since Director Ye chose me, there must be a reason. Kung Fu is one of the reasons. Also, do you believe it or not, if I become the protagonist, the final box office will definitely be Is the box office higher than if he was the protagonist?"

"That's for sure. Who are you? How can any movie in our country win a box office of 20 billion?"

"So, Director Ye is not stupid. He makes movies just to make money. Although my salary is high, I can definitely earn him this money." After Jiang Bai finished speaking, he looked at Wu Jing and asked curiously: "When did you and Zhen Zidan have such a good relationship? Haven't you two always looked at each other at odds?"

"Hey, that's what I said, but the truth is that he doesn't really like me, whether it's the lead role or the action actor. If I let him be the lead actor, he might not be able to delete my scenes. Maybe... Sometimes you have to tease me through filming."

"Such a big hatred?"

"Oh, that's all in the past, let's not talk about it anymore."

Wu Jing didn't say anything, and Jiang Bai didn't ask any questions. Anyway, it was his own business.

After staying with the crew for two days, the preliminary preparation work was quickly completed, and on the third day, "Slaying the Wolf" was quickly launched.

After starting the filming, the director will naturally give some inspiring words and some precautions during the filming process.

There are only two directors for this play, the literary director is Ye Weixin, and the action director is Jiang Bai. In addition, Ye Weixin also brings two assistant directors, but they are actually his assistants.

After Ye Weixin finished speaking, he asked Jiang Bai to come up and say a few words.

"Hello everyone, my name is Jiang Bai. I believe everyone has heard of my name. In fact, my personal filming style is very similar to the filming style in the general environment of Xiangjiang. As long as it involves martial arts movements, it must be To be serious, it is inevitable that you will get some injuries during the fight. But I hope everyone can persist and persevere.

This includes the martial arts and all the stand-ins that need to appear on the scene. I don’t want to see anyone working hard for fear of getting injured during filming. If so, please leave.

In addition, all the movements in this movie were carefully designed by me. I have also arranged who everyone should learn their movements from. Wang Baoqiang was brought here by me. He is my assistant and one of the martial arts directors of this movie. One, if you have any unclear movements, you can go to Baoqiang to learn them. "

It is necessary to establish a reputation in the beginning. Although many mainland actors have begun to exert their efforts now, discrimination has always existed.

Jiang Bai didn't want some people in Xiangjiang to look down on the actors and staff from the mainland as before.

After Jiang Bai finished speaking, Hong Jinbao also said: "Yes, you are all martial arts practitioners. Jiang Bai is the action director of the movie, so you are his subordinates."

Hong Jinbao's words were tantamount to supporting Jiang Bai.

Because Jiang Bai has a good relationship with many of his senior brothers, including Cheng Long and Yuan Heping. They usually have good personal relationships and mentioned Jiang Bai when they were together at gatherings, so now Hong Jinbao’s impression of Jiang Bai is also very good. good.

Jiang Bai's words may not be effective in this crew, but Hong Jinbao's words are definitely effective.

Sure enough, after Hong Jinbao said this, the expressions of some of the people below immediately changed.

Although those martial artists may not disobey him, since Hong Jinbao said so, he was trying to support himself. Afterwards, Jiang Bai still thanked him specifically.

Hong Jinbao himself doesn't actually have a very good temper, but his bad temper depends on the person. It's actually pretty good for people he likes, not to mention Jiang Bai himself can cause trouble.

When we met, both of us loved watching each other's movies when we were kids. We were fans of each other and wanted to be like each other.So after the opening ceremony, the filming of the movie officially started.

On the first day, the scenes they were going to shoot had already started to get more intense. Yesterday, they had to shoot two car crash scenes. The first scene was very exciting. The witness who accused Wang Bao was killed when he went to testify. Halfway through, the second scene is when policeman Chen Guozhong, played by Simon Yam, goes to take revenge on Wang Bao, played by Hong Jinbao.

The car has been found in advance, and the stand-ins inside have also been arranged.

The first fatal scene was shot by Wu Jinglai.

In this movie, he plays the killer Aji.

Originally, the killer's scene was not long, he just drove his car and hit people to death, but Jiang Bai was an action director, so normally, these car crash scenes were part of the action.

So after Jiang Bai came over, he chatted with Ye Weixin, changed the script again, and arranged a handsome appearance for Wu Jing. The reason is that Wu Jing, as the fourth male lead in this movie, can give him a stunning appearance if he makes a stunning appearance. The audience was impressed.

What's more, there is a fight scene between Wu Jing and Ma Jun played by himself. Wu Jing's strength is laid out in the front, and it is easier to show later.

This reason was reasonable, so Ye Weixin agreed, and then arranged for the two screenwriters to revise the script.

One changes the front and the other changes the back.

The next day they came directly with the revised script. After reading it, Ye Weixin and Jiang Bai both said there was no problem, so they passed it directly.

In fact, there were not many changes in the script, except that Wu Jing was given a lot more shots, and the overall arrangement did not need to be adjusted.

And Wu Jing really cherished these opportunities and thoroughly understood the script while putting on makeup.

Including car crashes, he also asked himself to get involved.

With a bang, the silver-gray car driven by the witness directly crashed into the purple-red car.

With dyed yellow hair and a white suit, he walked out of the car coolly and looked at the witness inside who was not completely dead. He took a knife and used the handle to smash the cracked window.

Then, in the desperate eyes of the other party, Wu Jing directly stabbed the other party's chest several times with a knife, and finally inserted the knife into the other party's throat.

Although his body was covered in blood at the moment, as a killer he didn't care at all and went straight back to the car.

He released the handbrake, put the car into gear, and reversed the car in one go, and quickly drove away from the scene of the crime.

"Okay, pass."

Wu Jing's acting skills are still acceptable, especially since he has filmed many movies in Hong Kong in recent years and also played the villain in the movie "Jiang Hu", so these scenes are a direct pass.

Jiang Bai stood up and took the lead in applauding.

Passing the first scene successfully also bodes well for subsequent shootings.

"Go wash up quickly and change clothes." Ye Weixin said.

Jiang Bai stood nearby and praised a few words, but when Wu Jing left, he secretly gave Jiang Bai a thumbs up while no one was paying attention.

Then photographers quickly came over to shoot the scene. Although it was not written in the script, no one knew whether the script would be changed later to use photos from the crime scene.

After the filming, the staff came over to clean up the scene, while the props team started preparing new cars.

After that, the crew moved to the next road section to start filming the scene where Simon Yam hits Hung Kam-bo.

Both of them need to use stand-ins here, but before that, the scenes of them driving need to be filmed first.

First, Hung Kam-bo drove the car, and then Simon Yam hit him.

The photographer shot different angles in another car and in the back seat of their car, and they also had to have a fixed camera position in their car.

Jiang Bai and Ye Weixin watched from behind the monitor.

"There must be a way to pass here, otherwise I will have to find two more cars to come over."

Jiang Bai nodded listening to Ye Weixin's words.

The investment in this film alone is 1.8 million Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to more than 1.6 million yuan when converted.

But after reading the entire script, he couldn't figure out how to spend all the money.

You must know that "New Police Story" used all kinds of cool stunts and caused destruction everywhere, but the final investment was only tens of millions.

On the contrary, "Sha Po Lang" will use more than 1 million.

"Oh, it's still capital after all. No wonder Sun Quan claimed to have one hundred thousand troops."

He quickly figured out the trick, but as the leading actor and the action director, both were paid to do things, and what they did had nothing to do with him.

Whether or not you can make money from this movie has nothing to do with you, as long as your performance in this movie is good enough.

Anyway, making this kind of movie is good for everyone.

I got the pay and reputation, the director got bonuses and dividends, the actors got the pay, and the investors also made money in another way.

After shooting the two car crash scenes during the day, they started shooting the opening sequence of the movie at night, which is the gang fight, and a policeman came out to arrest them.

But this is Wang Bao's territory. Wang Bao is the local emperor here, and it is useless for anyone to come.

This scene was indeed shot with more passion. Although it is not as good as the martial arts battle where Jiang Bai was at the beginning, it is already a relatively explosive scene now.

Hong Jinbao, with his hair combed back and wearing a suit, slowly walked down the steps, full of aura.

"At the beginning, I wanted him to play Wang Bao, because only he can perform with such aura. After all, the person standing opposite to Wang Bao is Simon Yam. Without this kind of intimidation, I can't suppress him at all. Now you see Look at Ren Dahua, he looks much younger standing in front of Wang Bao."

Listening to Ye Weixin's words, Jiang Bai nodded. He recognized these words. (End of chapter)