This director needs to apologize

Chapter 262: Parting Sorrow

The dance scene in the restaurant obviously couldn't be finished in one big night. About one-fifth of the scene was shot on the first day.

However, most of the time was spent on behind-the-scenes debugging. As various parameters were finalized one by one, the shooting speed increased in the following days.

This scene is not very demanding on performance, but it places high demands on the emotions of the drinkers in the building, requiring them to remain wanton, wild and full throughout the whole process.

Pretending to be excited is actually very tiring, even more tiring than being really excited, so the intervals between each line will be longer to help the extras recover.

Fortunately, the filming of the movie is nearing completion. It can be completed before August anyway. The progress is under control, so everyone is relatively calm.

For the last two scenes inside and outside the restaurant, it doesn’t matter if it’s slower, everyone has enough patience.

Chen Yiming even had the energy to follow Da Zhuang to meet with the big shopkeeper in Xiangcheng to discuss the shutdown ceremony.

That's right, because the local power-on ceremony failed to receive positive feedback from Chen Yiming, Xiangcheng was not reconciled and positioned the "trouble" as the time to shut down the machine.

This time Chen Yiming had no choice but to agree happily.

The scene will be huge, with representatives from several management companies of "Mulan" attending, and Mr. Ma and Boss Yang rushing over to support the show.

For the crew, the wrapping banquet can only be postponed until after the shutdown ceremony. The backstage backbone and leading actors will all appear, including actors such as Guyuehe and Hang Xiaoming who have finished filming and left the crew.

There is no other way to cooperate with the Tangcheng Film and Television Base's node promotion, which was previously written into the cooperation agreement.

As filming approaches, the atmosphere in the crew inevitably becomes a little restless and melancholy, and minor problems occur from time to time.

For example, the protagonist Yu Nan made several stupid mistakes, which caused Di Liza to dance the Hu Xuan Dance a few more times.

This is a rare situation. It can be said to be a group performance NG, which makes Yu Nan feel quite ashamed.

During a short break, Chen Yiming stood up from the director's chair and came to Yu Nan, who was drinking water.

The assistant producer assigned to Yu Nan cleverly grabbed Yu Nan's assistant and walked away.

The actor's resting corner is located at the innermost side of the first floor of "Leyouyuan". On one side is a decorative staircase and on the other side are three side-by-side screens, forming a relatively closed small world.

Since Diliza had to touch up her makeup every time she stopped filming, a dressing room was specially assigned to her on the second floor to save her the trouble of running up and down. After all, the dance clothes she wore were quite heavy.

So at this moment, Chen Yiming had a rare opportunity to be alone with Yu Nan.

Speaking of which, for nearly a year since the filming of the movie, the number of times Chen Yiming and Yu Nan communicated can be counted on one hand. The most talked about time was actually during the audition.

Chen Yiming is a director who doesn't like "guiding" actors, and Yu Nan is an actor who is not good at communicating with directors. By chance, the movie was almost finished filming, and neither of them had much communication about performance.

If he had to give instructions to the actors, Chen Yiming would be more willing to "tip" Yu Nan's partner.

Because Yu Nan will consciously adjust his performance method according to his partner, if Chen Yiming wants to achieve a certain clear effect, it will be more efficient to give guidance to Yu Nan's partner.

Chen Yiming took a chair and sat down. He put his hands behind his head and leaned back on the chair. He said casually, "Teacher Yu, are you reluctant to finish the project?"

Yu Nan, who was staying in his own world, suddenly realized the changes in his surrounding environment. After raising his head and looking around cutely, he glanced at Chen Yiming, then lowered his head and answered in a low voice.

"Director Chen, I'm sorry. I haven't been in good condition these past two days and I've caused trouble to the crew."

Chen Yiming chuckled and said nonchalantly, "There is no need to say sorry to me. Your performance before has far exceeded my expectations. We have enough time to waste."

After Yu Nan was silent for a moment, he didn't know what he thought of, and he put his head in his hands and leaned on the back of the chair. His whole figure seemed to relax all of a sudden, and he somewhat regained his usual free and easy attitude.

"I will always remember this year of Mulan. It was so good."

Chen Yiming changed the subject and continued teasing her, "It seems that you are a hard-working person. You rarely make mistakes in fighting dramas and circuses. Now you are acting as a spectator in the atmosphere group, but the situation is constant. If I had known, I should have changed the script so that you and Di Li Let’s dance together.”

Yu Nan ignored Chen Yiming's "teasing" and suddenly turned his head to look at Chen Yiming and said sincerely, "Director Chen, I have never said thank you to you. Instead of saying it after the filming is completed, I would rather say it before the filming is completed."

Chen Yiming smiled and said, "Why are you so serious? I should also thank you. I like actors like you. You don't have to worry about me at all. It saves me so much."

Yu Nan shook his head and lowered his eyes, "No actor would be half-hearted in Director Chen's big production.

I really don’t want to finish filming, so I just keep acting like this without any distractions. "

Chen Yiming took a deep breath and did not answer.

After a moment, Yu Nan seemed to be talking to himself, "Teacher Song told me after joining the group that it was a pity that you didn't ask her for Mulan's audition. Before leaving the group, she told me that she was very lucky to be able to perform in this show." Wu Zetian, it's so enjoyable." Chen Yiming didn't know how to respond, because he could understand the emotions of Yu Nan and Song Jia.

It may be difficult for an actor to meet a favorite role throughout his life. Only when he enters the circle can he understand that there are too many helpless factors that come before acting.

Yu Nan and Song Jia are both "old Qingyi" who are pursuing their fourth career. Their acting styles run counter to the current popular themes, and they are faced with an increasingly narrow scope of employment.

So what if he is a lunatic? So what if your business capabilities are strong? There is simply no space for actors like them in the industry.

If they haven't received any mainstream heroine scripts in the past two years, they will have to play mother-like roles to support the little flowers and fresh meat.

Or maybe you dive headlong into the big pit of literary films and never look back on the road to non-mainstream crazy movies.

Looking at the commercial directors in several circles, Chen Yiming is definitely an outlier among them.

The four senior directors, Sun Wangquan, Wang Xiaogang, Chen Huaikai, and Jiang Huiwen, are not second- and third-tier acting talents.

Sun and Wang prefer newcomers, otherwise there would be no talk of Miss Sun and Miss Wang.

Jiang only shoots movies with male protagonists, or in other words, he only shoots movies in which he is the male protagonist. In his movies, he himself is the absolute protagonist, and everyone else is a supporting role.

After the literary and artistic Chen Huai became famous, he liked to use all-star lineups. Of course, he also had the capital to form a game.

Directors from the Hong Kong film industry who went north favored the "integration of mainland and Hong Kong" approach, using male stars from the Hong Kong city to pair with actresses from the mainland, with the latter mostly playing the role of a vase for people to watch.

Like Chen Yiming, the actor team consciously excludes big names and only uses second- and third-tier actors and unknown newcomers, which is the only one in China.

If you add the characteristic of not treating actors as tools, it will be even more valuable.

It's no wonder that Yu Nan's mood fluctuated before the filming was completed. Chen Yiming's crew can be said to be the spiritual harbor of the drama lunatic. After staying here for a period of time, it will be hard to leave.

It's a pity that there is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever. Once the movie starts shooting, it will be finished.

Chen Yiming thought about it for a while before speaking to comfort him, "There will be opportunities for cooperation in the future. We at Bo Jue are very nostalgic."

Yu Nan turned around with a smile as bright as a flower, "Director Chen, I take it seriously. You must have a book that suits me. I'm looking forward to it."

Chen Yiming had no guarantee of winning, so he could only smile vaguely, "There is a chance, there is a chance."

Saying goodbye to Yu Nan, who was recovering emotionally, Chen Yiming walked upstairs alone.

He felt that it was unnecessary for him to worry about this. As Yu Nan was a veteran in the industry, there was no need for him to comfort her.

After Chen Yiming sat on the director's chair, Lin Xiao and Wang Lizing also discussed the adjustment plan, and filming started again.

Diliza continued to dance the whirlwind dance steps for an unknown number of times, and the drinkers started making noises, making "Leyouyuan" fall into a joyful atmosphere again.

No matter how reluctant Yu Nan was to give up, the last two scenes inside and outside the restaurant were filmed in late July.

In the martial arts scene after the dance scene, Wu Yuanrong exhausted all the weaponry routines he had learned in his life. He racked his brains to avoid getting the ninja flavor of his childhood.

After all, the selling point of this scene is the flashy surprise attack and the subtle counter-attack. If you are not careful, it will become a Japanese martial arts.

Perhaps because martial arts requires full concentration, Yu Nan made no mistakes again.

It's just that the one who made the mistake was Hou Tianlai. After all, the master of the third-level film is in his fifties. Even with a professional martial arts stand-in, the small number of close-ups were still quite difficult to complete.

This scene is similar to the previous dance scene, and it also needs to be shot several times under different lighting conditions in order to provide enough material for post-editing.

Fortunately, the shooting was just a little slower and there were no insurmountable technical difficulties.

At around two o'clock in the morning on July 7, two days before the shutdown ceremony planned by relevant parties in Xiangcheng, all shots of "Mulan" were completed and officially announced.

After a long night, everyone was exhausted and sleepy, and had no interest in cheering and celebrating. Even Yu Nan had no special reaction.

Finish work in a calm manner, disperse in a calm manner, everyone gets in their own cars, and everyone goes back to their respective rooms.

It wasn't until noon the next day, when the crew gathered again in the hotel restaurant, that Chen Yiming felt a little bit of an atmosphere of separation.

(End of this chapter)