Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 147 Going Home
Early the next morning.

Zhou Mo boarded the plane back to Yanjing.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw Da Tiantian sitting in the living room.

"You're back?"

"How come you came back so soon? Have you finished filming everything for When a Man Falls in Love?"

In early June, Da Tiantian left the crew of "Chu and Han" and went to "When a Man Falls in Love" to record the last part of the plot.

Da Tiantian nodded: "Not yet, but it will be soon. Director Han and Brother Honglei discussed some shots and re-shot some scenes, so the time will be later."

"also."

Zhou Mo casually asked, "So how do you feel about the atmosphere on the set during filming?"

"I'm so happy. Nothing uncomfortable happened to anyone during the filming."

Zhou Mo raised his eyebrows: "Where did you learn this vulgar language?"

"Brother Honglei, sometimes when he speaks fast he would blurt out a few words in Northeastern dialect. As a result, in more than a month, our entire crew could speak Northeastern dialect."

Zhou Mo thought about it and felt it was not surprising.

There is a saying that goes well.

If there is one person from Northeast China in a dormitory, then after one semester, the entire dormitory will be full of people from Northeast China.

"What about acting? Is it going well?"

“It went quite smoothly.”

Talking about filming, Da Tiantian's eyes sparkled: "Zhou Mo, you don't know how good I am at filming this time. Many times I got it right in one take, even the scenes where I had emotional outbursts, I got it right in just a few takes."

Hearing this, Zhou Mo panicked.

"Tiantian, you have never bullied the director, have you?"

"What's that look in your eyes?"

Da Tiantian saw what Zhou Mo was thinking at a glance: "Even Teacher Li Guizhi and Brother Hong Lei praised my acting skills. If you don't believe me, call them to confirm."

"Stop talking, I'm sorry for talking too much."

Zhou Mo didn't say anything more.

Anyway, the finished film will have to be checked by him, and he will visit the set after a while, which will serve as the inspection result.

Went back to the house and changed clothes.

When I came out, I saw the TV and air conditioner were on, and Da Tiantian was lying on the sofa with a popsicle in her hand and a blanket wrapped around her.

Da Tiantian waved at Zhou Mo, stretched her arms out from the blanket, revealing the small sling under the blanket.

The rosy white skin makes people want to take a bite.

Zhou Mo took a few more glances and then looked away.

I took a bite of the popsicle and it really did feel a lot cooler.

"What kind of combination is this, turning on the air conditioner and covering yourself with a blanket at the same time."

"You don't understand, this is the highest level of enjoyment in the world."

"Hey, what a waste of electricity."

"Why are you like my mother?" Da Tiantian snatched the popsicle back and stopped Zhou Mo from eating it.

Zhou Mo glanced at the TV.

I found out that the last few episodes of "Victory" were being broadcast.

"Why are you still watching Victory? The second round should have finished airing by now."

"Actually, I haven't had time to watch the last few episodes. I was busy filming a movie in the past few months, so I might as well take advantage of these few days to catch up."

While Da Tiantian was speaking, she saw in a TV series that the reason why Zhang San and Li Si went from being good friends to lifelong enemies was revealed. The two parted ways because Zhang San accidentally killed Li Si's pet hamster, and she laughed so hard that she fell over.

Zhou Mo looked at her trembling body.

"As for it?"

"Why not?"

Da Tiantian wiped away the tears from her eyes: "I have wanted to see this scene for a long time. Zhou Mo, you don't know how difficult it was for Fei Ge and Yi Wei to perform this scene. The two of them laughed many times on the set because of those lines, and they almost drove Director Fu crazy. When the other actors and I were watching, we discussed whether you had a bad taste and deliberately tormented these two people."

Da Tiantian lay on Zhou Mo's shoulder and laughed for a long time before she came to her senses.

He held his stomach and it was cramping.

"Zhou Mo, what was your mental state like when you wrote the script? Why did you set the cause of the conflict between two important characters to be a hamster? It's too weird."

"What's so weird about this?"

Zhou Mo spread his hands, "Although Victory is a workplace legal drama and a serious film and television work, you can see from the script that many parts of this drama are not serious at all, but full of joy, and even have a sense of exaggeration. The reason why the protagonist and others become enemies is set as a squirrel, which is also to highlight this style."

Da Tiantian suddenly realized.

"Oh - I understand, Zhou Mo, so you want to tell the audience that although the law is serious, life is not serious. No matter what difficulties we face, we must face the ups and downs of life with a slightly frivolous attitude like the characters in the play."

These words left Zhou Mo stunned.

Didn’t I just write about a squirrel?

Does it turn out to have such a deep meaning?

He was impressed by the level of Da Tiantian's speech: "Tiantian, based on your summary just now, I won't have to worry about you saying the wrong thing in public in the future."

Many times, we really can’t overestimate the cultural literacy of celebrities.

Just in terms of public speaking, there are countless celebrity actors and actresses who have made mistakes.

First there is the "common people" of the princess, and then there is the ordinary girl who shouts that she "gets 16 points in math".

Unexpectedly, when Da Tiantian heard the compliment, she just smiled.

"Yes, right."

Zhou Mo looked at Da Tiantian's condition and suddenly felt that it was a bit of a cover.

Not right.

Ten or even nine points are wrong.

Under normal circumstances, with Da Tiantian's personality, she would have been so happy after being praised.

but now……

Moreover, based on Zhou Mo’s understanding of Da Tiantian.

Although what she said sounded nice, under normal circumstances, it was not something she should have said.

In other words, these words were definitely not spoken out of her heart.

Zhou Mo was determined and glanced at Da Tiantian. As expected, he found that she was hiding her cell phone behind her butt.

"What are you hiding?"

"no!"

"Hand it over."

"I do not!"

Seeing this, Zhou Mo grabbed her and did a somersault, easily suppressing Da Tiantian.

Da Tiantian still wanted to struggle, but Zhou Mo flicked her to the moon and she immediately stopped moving.

Turn on your phone.

Sure enough, there was a comment on the screen, and the content was exactly what Da Tiantian had just said.

"Good guy, you are a porter, Tiantian."

"I'm not a porter, I wrote this comment myself." Da Tiantian argued, "It's just that I used a fake account to write the comment to myself."

Comments to yourself?

Zhou Mo looked at the end of the comment and found that it was indeed a comment on the character of the heroine.

Let go of Da Tiantian.

"Kill two birds with one stone. What a good plan."

"Humph."

Da Tiantian turned over and sat up. She wanted to kick Zhou Mo, but before she could stretch her legs, her ankle was grabbed.

After struggling back and forth for a few times, I found that I couldn't get free at all, so I had to give up.

She remembered something important: "By the way, are you going to the premiere of Painted Skin 2?"

"Well, you should have received an invitation as well, right?"

"Correct."

"Shall we go together?"

"I won't go. I'll be back to the crew tomorrow. There's a schedule conflict."

Zhou Mo nodded and gave another reminder.

"Also, remember to read the script of Lucy a few more times during this period. We may start filming in August."

"So urgent?" Da Tiantian was a little surprised.

"The main reason is that there haven't been any projects in the past six months. It's just right that I can take advantage of the post-production time of "Chu and Han" to shoot "Lucy", and then wait until the middle of next year to release it." Zhou Mo explained.

"Just keep it in mind. I've memorized the script and lines a long time ago, so we can start filming anytime."

"That's good. Also, what do you think of the theories involved in the heroine's lines in the script? These things may become the subject of your interviews in the future."

Zhou Mo habitually began to arrange publicity plans.

Da Tiantian’s reply was also very direct.

"I don't understand."

Then she added another sentence.

"I don't know if I couldn't understand it, but after reading it I just wanted to sleep."

Hearing this, Zhou Mo smiled with relief.

Normal, this is the sweet girl he is familiar with.

"It's okay. I'll call you later. If it doesn't work, I'll give you a copy of the manuscript and you can just memorize it yourself."

Just after he finished explaining everything to Da Tiantian, Zhou Mo received a call.

"Director Zhou, good morning."

"Sister Hong, good morning. Is there anything I can tell you about? "

The person who called was Kaizi’s good wife Chen Hong.

Chen Hong got straight to the point: "Director Zhou, my film Searching will be released in early July. I'd like to ask you to attend the premiere. My film would also like to thank you for your help in promoting it."

Zhou Mo has no objection.

"No problem, I'll be there on time then."

We still have to give face to Brother Kaizi.

Judging from the script in Zhou Mo's mind, there will probably be many films in the future that need to be handed over to people of "status" like Brother Kaizi in order to be safely filmed.

Chen Hong smiled and hung up the phone.

She was still grateful to Zhou Mo.

Although my husband has always had a high status in the domestic film industry, he has not proven himself at the box office for some time.

Zhou Mo is well-known for not attending premieres if he doesn't think highly of a movie.

So, Zhou Moken's coming this time was to give him face.

Chen Hong firmly believed that Zhou Mo came to support her and Brother Chen Kai just for their sake.

As for "Search", will it have good results at the box office?

Are you kidding? As a wife, how could she not know whether her husband can make money from movie box office?
On the other side, Zhou Mo made a clicking sound.

"What's wrong?" Da Tiantian asked.

Zhou Mo explained: "This time, it depends on the fight between dragon and tiger."

"Who?"

"Big Wang, Big Wang, and Brother Kaizi. Previously, because of Yin Xiaotian's incident, Chen Hong used it to promote "Search", which was considered a big deal for Huayi. Now the two movies are colliding again, and I guess there will be a fight."

"But the two films are of different genres. Painted Skin 2 is a typical commercial film, while Searching is an art film."

"It has no impact. It is precisely because Searching is an art film that Chen Hong is promoting it so much. After all, Brother Kaizi's The Promise was considered a commercial film, right? Now, as long as Searching can make over 1.5 million yuan at the box office, Chen Hong will probably be able to promote it to a level that is even better than a commercial film that made million yuan."

Zhou Mo still admires Chen Hong.

No matter what, this sister is really strong in fighting.

(End of this chapter)