This director needs to apologize

Chapter 392 Getting on the Right Track
The scenes in the afternoon were still not difficult, walking around the streets, playing with cats and dogs, and the daily life of four gangsters.

The scene is also simple, a street-side billiard hall that can only accommodate three billiard tables.

The plot is even more clichéd. The protagonist's gang cheats people into betting on football, and they seamlessly switch between five dollars for a hand and five dollars for a ball. After cheating people, they attract another group of thugs, and then the two groups fight over a disagreement.

Chen Yiming still didn't give any instructions. He had organized a script reading before, so he started shooting right after going through the lines once.

Zhang Yu is the best actor in this kind of plot. When the assistant director shouts "ACTION", he immediately gets into the role, leaning his shoulders, squinting his eyes, holding the cigarette in his mouth, and taking a step without caring about his relatives, giving off the feeling of a real social person.

Li Mingliang and Fu Ting have been in the crew for two or three years now and have rich experience in playing different types of supporting roles. Therefore, they stand behind Zhang Yu on the left and right, looking like two little brothers.

Liu Haoran followed the three people alone, with his hands in his pockets, his shoulders slumped, his head slightly lowered and looking diagonally downward. He seemed a little dull and exuded a sense of alienation.

Seeing Zhang Yu enter the billiard room, looking around before opening his mouth to speak his lines, Chen Yiming picked up the intercom and shouted "Cut!" The assistant director called out to the four people, "Do it again!"

The four of them didn't say much, they exited the camera area and walked a second time.

This time was even worse than the last time. Before he reached the door, Chen Yiming shouted "Click!" again and called for another 15-minute break.

Zhang Yu was more experienced. He did not retreat to wait in the wings directly. Instead, he called the other three brothers to discuss the matter head to head.

During the third shooting, Chen Yiming found that the four people had changed their walking pattern, with Li Mingliang and Fu Ting in front, and Zhang Yu and Liu Haoran behind.

Unfortunately it was of no use, I was still stopped before I even entered the door.

The four were not discouraged. Except for Liu Haoran who was a newbie, the other three had filmed "1951" with Chen Yiming. They had seen with their own eyes how Chen trained and tortured Liu Dongjun. Compared with that time, today was just child's play.

Next, under the command of Zhang Yu, these people began to arrange themselves in various ways and added a lot of "spices" beyond the script during the walking process, such as fighting, bickering, teasing, chasing and other small episodes.

After taking 13 shots in two hours, I still couldn't get into the billiard hall.

The assistant director called for another 15-minute break, but the difference was that this time he called Liu Haoran.

Maybe because he had a similar experience in the morning, Xiao Liu was less nervous and more calm when he entered the prison shed this time. It could be seen from the way he sat on the small stool that he was not as straight as he was in the morning, but sat with some rudeness.

Chen Yiming nodded. Although none of the previous materials could be used, there was still some progress in character immersion.

He didn't say anything, but instead operated the keyboard to play two videos on the monitor, one was the first run of footage, and the other was the last run of footage.

After the film was over, Shen Ming on the other side asked, "What do you feel after watching it?"

Liu Haoran replied with shame on his face, "My acting is terrible. I can't compare to Brother Zhang and the others. I don't look like a gangster at all."

Actor Shen snorted, "Is that what I'm asking you? Do you think you acted like a real person and do you need to show the video? I called you in because you finally joined the gang after the last take. Think back to your inner thoughts when you filmed the last take. Remember them well. Don't forget to bring them with you when you shoot gang scenes next time."

Liu Haoran was a little confused again, and whispered, "Teacher Shen, I seemed to be following my feelings at that time, and I didn't think about anything else."

Shen Ming nodded slightly, "That's right, you don't think about it. You just think too much when you shouldn't. Go, and maintain the state you were in just now."

Liu Haoran responded loudly, then looked at Chen Yiming. Seeing that the latter did not express anything, he bowed and left.

Still waiting until Liu Haoran walked away, Chen Yiming smiled and said to Shen Ming, "Uncle Ming, should I say he is lucky or unlucky? He ran into you right after his debut. When you two film the rival scenes together as master and apprentice, I'm afraid he will be in trouble."

Shen Ming still had no smile on his face. He pondered for a moment and said, "This script is actually not fair to him. He only has the title of male No. 1, but not the real male No. 1. Not to mention me, the other supporting actors are also stepping on him to show off their talents.

I will teach him everything I should teach him as long as he is willing to learn, because I owe him that.

But Yiming, you caught a newcomer and plucked him out. Don't you feel guilty?"

When he said the last sentence, Shen Ming raised his eyebrows and curled the corners of his mouth, revealing an expression that seemed to be a smirk and also seemed to be sarcastic.

Chen Yiming spread his hands and said, "This book is tailor-made for Uncle Ming. Except for you, everyone else is just a tool. Isn't this as it should be?

By the way, which newcomer would feel that he is at a disadvantage when he plays opposite Shen Ming in Chen Yiming's movie? "

At this time, the fifteenth round of this scene had begun on the monitor. Zhang Yu had his arm around Liu Haoran's shoulders, with Li Mingliang and Fu Ting on the outside of them. The four of them were walking in a horizontal row in the middle of the street very arrogantly.

Liu Haoran smiled and looked at Li Mingliang who was dancing with joy, his two little eyes shining with joy. If the story of "Searching for the Heart" is a psychological experiment, then the process of filming "Searching for the Heart" is a psychological discipline for Liu Haoran who plays Xun Xin.

Xun Xin in the script has basically nothing in common with Liu Haoran except that they are of similar age.

Liu Haoran had no experience with childhood trauma, life at the bottom of society, genius IQ, or a strong memory. Even his indirect experience was pitifully little.

This means that almost every time a scene changes, it takes a long time for Liu Haoran to get into the role. After the scene change, they shoot more than a dozen times without saying anything, and then polish the shots to get a feel for it. This has become a common rhythm for the crew of "Searching for the Heart".

The intensity is naturally extremely high, and the efficiency is naturally extremely low. One week after the start of filming, the number of shots that have been recognized by Chen Yiming has not yet reached double digits.

If it were just this, Liu Haoran could still hold on. After all, although on the surface the whole group was playing with him alone, after shooting more than twenty times at most, Liu could reach the level of punching in and out of work. After getting used to this rhythm, the pressure of being in the spotlight was not that great.

The problem is that Chen Yiming is not a human being, which makes things more difficult for him.

After filming the fight scene in the billiard hall, Liu Haoran somewhat found the feeling of a gangster, but Chen Yiming announced a change of scene again and returned to the university town to find a classroom to film the scene of showing off in front of people.

He was still fighting in the streets yesterday, and the next morning he was standing in front of the blackboard pretending to be a top student. The change was really too big, and Liu Haoran naturally found it difficult to get into the state.

Unlike the previous scene, this scene in the classroom involves a large group of people. There are nearly a hundred people in the huge tiered classroom, all of whom are college students recruited from nearby university towns.

With so many people watching, it was a huge pressure to NG every time. Liu Haoran collapsed after Chen Yiming shouted "cut" for the fourth time.

He was retching, sweating, and had a pale face. It was clearly spring but he felt like he had a heat stroke.

Chen Yiming was not a demon. He immediately dismissed the extras and announced that they would finish work early. He asked the producer Li Yangyang to take Liu Haoran to the hospital.

It turned out to be all a psychological effect. I took him to a hospital near the university town and got an IV drip of glucose and he was fine.

Since everything is fine, let's continue. The next day, it's still the same classroom with the same large group of extras, and the same NGs over and over again.

Xiao Liu had a partner for the first two plays, but he had to endure the third one-man show on his own, as no one suffered with him.

Shen Ming gradually became restless in the prison shed and took the initiative to run out to give Liu Haoran some advice. His methodology was still the same old one, asking him to give up his fantasies and just go through the whole scene first.

It’s old-fashioned, but it works. By the afternoon, the third group of extras had switched, and Liu Haoran wasn’t cut out halfway through.

Afterwards, Professor Shen led Liu Haoran to polish the details bit by bit to get the feeling, and on the third day of filming, Chen Yiming finally gave the green light.

This scene was actually added to "Good Will Hunting". There was no such plot in the original "Good Will Hunting". The cute math genius was just a background board mentioned briefly in the film and was not portrayed in detail.

It's not that Dai Meng didn't use his talent to bully others, but his target was a mathematics professor, and he did it in a relatively private office.

Chen Yiming felt that this treatment was not satisfying enough, and the genius's arrogance was not reflected strongly enough, so he modified this passage.

A deeper consideration is to firmly hammer in the rebellious genius' "rebellious capital" and heighten the sense of gap in the character's transformation in subsequent plots.

The silly and cute character in "Good Will Hunting" is actually not realistic. The two reasons that contributed to his mental illness, the main one was his miserable childhood, and the second one was his arrogance, were not presented in depth in the movie, which makes the whole character float in the sky and lack the sense of reality in his bones.

As for Xunxin in "Searching the Heart", Chen Yiming made him closer to the life familiar to Chinese audiences. However, if he were a left-behind child, his life would certainly not be considered miserable. There are many young Chinese people in the same situation who are worse off than Xunxin, or even less miserable than Xunxin.

Since the innate causes of mental illness have been downplayed on one hand, the acquired factors on the other hand must be given more weight. Therefore, Chen Yiming strengthened the portrayal of Xunxin using his cleverness to "do whatever he wants" and made it appear in a step-by-step manner.

This is reflected in the movie as a series of pretentious and face-slapping moments with increasing pleasure.

It is obviously difficult to sustain blindly pursuing pleasure without regard to one's actual status and position. In the process, deep-seated psychological problems will gradually be exposed. At this time, the intervention of a psychological counselor will be more recognizable and acceptable to the audience.

After filming the classroom scene, the crew moved again to an open-air teahouse to shoot the date scene between the male lead and his girlfriend.

After the training of previous large-scale group dramas, Liu Haoran was able to get into the role much faster and completed it smoothly in one and a half days of shooting.

The filming of "Searching for the Heart" has since been on track and began to move forward slowly and steadily.

(End of this chapter)