Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 30

Zhang Yuanjun was half a month away from filming, and the crew members were very friendly to him during the last period.

Guo Jin'an and others even took the initiative to invite him to watch a movie.

Zhang Yuanjun thought about it, there are no good movies in this schedule, so why not go to the video studio?

Needless to say, there are now more people watching video halls than going to movie theaters.

"Let's go see "The Day After Tomorrow," a Hollywood blockbuster."

Only then did Zhang Yuanjun think of "The Day After Tomorrow", which was released a few days ago. This film has a strong background. It was written by the master of disaster films, Roland Emmerich.

The simultaneous global release means that there is no impact and diversion from pirated discs, and it can better reflect the true performance of the film in the domestic market.

Before the screening, domestic distributors and theaters were very confident about the film, and believed that it was conservatively estimated that "The Day After Tomorrow" could earn 4000 million at the domestic box office.

The performance of "The Day After Tomorrow" did not disappoint Huaxia Film Distribution Company, and scored 1400 million yuan in three days in the first weekend.

Cinemas in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities even saw a rare hot scene of queuing up to buy tickets. The golden show at eight or nine in the evening was sold out early, and audiences had to wait for an hour or two to buy the midnight show.

Zhang Yuanjun didn't want to spoil the fun, so he agreed to go to the movies together.

In the theater, except for Zhang Yuanjun, most of the audience were amazed at the special effects scenes of "The Day After Tomorrow".

The special effects of "The Day After Tomorrow" are of course good, even if Zhang Yuanjun looked at them 20 years ahead, but he has seen too many good special effects, and the scenes of "The Day After Tomorrow" are not enough to arouse his amazement.

Instead, he paid more attention to the story itself under the surface of the special effects.

After watching the movie, someone asked Zhang Yuanjun's indifferent attitude, "Isn't it good?"

"It's beautiful. The special effects are really good." The only thing Zhang Yuanjun can boast about is the special effects, "However, his story is too crude and unimaginative."

Guo Jin'an and others didn't expect Zhang Yuanjun to say that. Currently "The Day After Tomorrow" has a good reputation and achievements in China.

Zhang Yuanjun explained: "Emmerich told a simple story of a father saving his son in a doomsday environment. Leaving aside the big scene of the disaster, the story of "The Day After Tomorrow" itself is very clumsy, and Emmerich didn't handle the narrative rhythm well. It was too random. A few emotional scenes, love, father-son relationship, husband-wife relationship, doctor-patient relationship, etc., were stuffed too much in it, making the film emotionally complex and bloated.

"But it's a disaster movie, and Emmerich does a great job of it, and it's still one of the best disaster movies to watch in years."

Actors in Hong Kong Island have a shortcoming, because they lack systematic college education, and most of them are after simple training, and then they keep running groups to hone their acting skills.

So they can act very well, and they can teach you how to act on the spot, but if you want them to do theory and analysis, Hong Kong actors often can't open their mouths.

Zhang Yuanjun's analysis of "The Day After Tomorrow" made these Hong Kong people renew their impression of him: Is he really just a 19-year-old sophomore?
But it makes sense to hear him say that.

In fact, these things are relatively simple, and an old producer and supervisor can say the same thing.

It's just that most of the people who came out to watch the movie today were young people from the film crew.

Few of them come from serious colleges, and their theoretical foundation is very weak.

As far as special effects are concerned, the mainland and Hong Kong Island are actually the same. At this time, Hong Kong Island may still be a little ahead. There is a company called Xiantao Digital that fills the door - it made a big splash in "The Wind and Cloud Heroes", and is now working on special effects for "Kung Fu".

The mainland is poor. There are special effects companies, but they can only do simple jobs.

If Zhang Yuanjun remembers correctly, the well-known MOREVFX (Mojing Tianhe), Tiangong Yicai and Beishi Media will not be established until two years later.

After coming out of the theater, it was already early in the morning. There was still a show tomorrow, and everyone had no intention of supper, so they all went back to the hotel.

What Zhang Yuanjun didn't know was that after he left, his Hong Kong colleagues said to him: "After learning some theoretical knowledge, I show off when I don't have half a bucket of water. They also say that Emmerich's story is simple, his feelings are bloated, and he wants to be a husband before he graduates. Go to the street!"

But in the next few days, Zhang Yuanjun felt the warm hospitality of his Hong Kong colleagues while filming.

A small drink for three days, a big gathering for five days, so lively.

In the last week, they actually took Zhang Yuanjun to play cards together.

But I'm sorry, Zhang Yuanjun won't.

He only knows how to play some of the simplest poker games, such as Doudizhu Zhengshang. He saw that his mother had been playing mahjong for more than ten years, but he didn’t learn it. He seemed to lack this muscle in his mind and couldn’t understand the logic of mahjong.

He is not interested in playing cards, and he doesn't want to learn if he can't read them.

Seeing that he didn't understand, his colleagues in Hong Kong Island worked harder and said they would teach him how to play Hong Kong-style mahjong.

Zhang Yuanjun was framed and beaten a few times, lost some money, and was really not interested, so he simply let go of the game.

His colleagues on Hong Kong Island were not annoyed with him, and even offered to fight the landlord with him.

Zhang Yuanjun faintly felt that something was wrong, but he didn't think much about it, and fought against the landlord again.

He is not an opponent in mahjong, but Zhang Yuanjun dares to boast that he is the God of Gamblers in Fighting the Landlords!
Zhang Yuanjun didn't want to play big games, so he only said 10 yuan a game, and the winning or losing in one night was only a few hundred yuan, which cost him thousands of dollars.

But my colleagues in Hong Kong Island disagreed and insisted on playing big: "10 yuan is boring, let's play with 100 yuan."

Zhang Yuanjun had to agree that on the first day of fighting the landlord, the three of them won and lost evenly, and Zhang Yuanjun lost 200.
Win 1000 the next day.
Lose 800 on the third day.
Win 2700 on the fourth day.
On the fifth day, Hong Kong Islanders proposed to play 200 rounds, and Zhang Yuanjun lost 4600 yuan that day.

On the sixth day, Zhang Yuanjun realized slowly that this group of people wanted to take advantage of the last few days to kill themselves.

His salary is not much, 6000 yuan per episode, and the total salary is only 15. In this way, they are already playing very big, and they can lose one episode of salary a day.

After reacting, Zhang Yuanjun was favored by the goddess of luck, and won back all the previous losses that day.

On the seventh day, Zhang Yuanjun officially wrapped up at noon. As the first among the four main actors to wrap up, the crew held a grand wrapping up meeting for him.

Deng Yancheng and Wang Jing delivered speeches to thank him for his hard work for more than two months.

Zhang Yuanjun wrote on the final message board: "It's fun to be a hero."

After the finale, Guo Jin'an and others dragged him to fight against the landlord, and Wang Jing even got involved that day.

It was finished and he was in a good mood. Zhang Yuanjun won them 2 yuan in one breath, and he let out a sigh of relief.

They lost both the money and the game, and Zhang Yuanjun's not-so-good image of Hong Kong film and television professionals has become even worse.

Zhang Yuanjun has reason to believe that this is not the first time they have done this.

After wrapping up, the production team readily settled Zhang Yuanjun's remaining salary.After agreeing to dub in the capital three months later, Zhang Yuanjun packed his bags and prepared to go home.

Xiao Zhao, the temporary assistant assigned to him by the film crew, also finished her job. She enjoyed working with Zhang Yuanjun very much for more than two months and nearly three months.

"Will we meet again in the future?" Xiao Zhao was very reluctant, but Zhang Yuanjun didn't have the conditions to take her away at this time.

"We will definitely meet again." Zhang Yuanjun also likes this little girl very much, "You should study hard and familiarize yourself with the art test materials I compiled for you. Don't delay the culture class. I look forward to seeing you in the film school."

After a brief farewell to the crew, Zhang Yuanjun officially ended his life in the crew of "No. [-] in the World" and set foot on his way home.

(End of this chapter)