This actor needs more money

Before a movie is released, no one knows whether it can make money. Star bonus can only be used to attract traffic in the early stage. If it relies solely on stars to achieve box office, Chow Yun-fa will not be called box office poison.

On the set, Ding Xiu handed out red envelopes to the actors one by one.

Those who received the red envelopes smiled and expressed their gratitude.

"Thank you Brother Xiu."

"Thank you, Director Ding."

"Thank you, Director Ding."

"Director Ding, where is my red envelope?"

At the end, Gao Yuanyuan playfully reached out to Ding Xiu for a red envelope.

She was filming here in Hengdian, and when she found out that Ding Xiu and his crew were coming over, she joined in the fun.

Ding Xiu slapped her palm and said angrily: "No."

Gao Yuanyuan was unhappy: "Why do they all have it and I don't?"

"Because you are not an actor on my crew."

"I can be too."

Ding Xiu rolled his eyes: "Don't make trouble, I have no role for you."

Xiuchundao is a drama about the male protagonist, and 80% of the scenes are played by Shen Lian, Lu Jianxing, and Jin Yichuan.

Even the heroine Zhou Miaotong doesn't have a few scenes.

What can Gao Yuanyuan do if she comes here?

Playing a little maid, a maid?

It's unrealistic.

"Just arrange a supporting role for me." Gao Yuanyuan thought for a while and said: "It would be best if there is a martial arts scene, the kind that can be completed after one scene."

Her schedule was tight, and even if Ding Xiu wanted to give her an important role, she didn't have time to act.

It is hard for her husband to become a director, and it is unreasonable for her not to support him in any way, so coming over to make a guest appearance is considered support.

Ding Xiu was a little embarrassed, touched his chin and said: "There is a fight scene in the siege of Wei Zhongxian that can be adjusted. Then I will get you a character disguised as a man. Can you do swordsmanship?"

"Yes, you forgot, I filmed The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slaying."

Gao Yuanyuan often shoots costume dramas, including Heaven and Dragon Sword, No. 1 in the World. She also filmed the martial arts scenes herself. One of the two characters used a sword, and the other used a knife.

So she can play with swords.

"Okay, I'll ask the screenwriter to find a role for you, and you can arrange the schedule."

It was just an ordinary supporting role, which did not affect the overall plot and was harmless. Ding Xiu agreed.

Without letting the crew make do with her, Gao Yuanyuan said: "No, after you finish it here, set the time, and I will just come over at that time."

There were not many people who came over to make guest appearances and had to make do with the crew's time. Ding Xiu was so moved that he immediately stuffed Gao Yuanyuan with a red envelope.

After opening the red envelope and seeing that it was worth twelve yuan, Gao Yuanyuan rolled her eyes: "Your crew is really stingy."

Ding Xiu laughed and said: "The ones for actors are all shining, this is for ordinary special guests."

"If you're not a family member, you don't know that firewood and rice are expensive. The crew spends money everywhere, so just save it if you can."

Once the machine was turned on, it cost money like water. It was more expensive than an ICU ventilator. Ding Xiu's heart skipped a beat when he saw the daily expenses reported by the financial department.

Gao Yuanyuan collected the money and put it in her pocket, and gave the empty red envelope to Ding Xiu: "I accepted the red envelope. If you don't have enough funds, you can contact me. I have money in my card. If not, I will sell the courtyard."

"Thank you. It's all my money." Ding Xiu almost cried.

His cards are kept for Gao Yuanyuan, and the courtyard is also his.

Emotions are left-hand and right-hand.

Standing on tiptoes, patting Ding Xiu on the shoulder, Gao Yuanyuan smiled and said: "Isn't your money my money? Why do we separate it so clearly? Remember, if you don't have enough, ask me for it."

"I have some drama over there, so let's go over there first. You can finish work and have dinner together in the evening."

…

"All departments prepare!"

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

"start!"

In addition to directing, Ding Xiu also works part-time as a starring role. He cannot direct during filming. Deputy director Lu Yang will direct.

In the dark night, two watchers were chatting, talking about Wei Zhongxian who had just collapsed. When they walked to an alley, they heard a strange noise and leaned over.

"Who, come out!"

The lantern in his hand was close, and in the darkness, it reflected a cold face, thick eyebrows, high nose bridge, thin lips, slightly weathered skin, and sparse stubble on the lips.

When the light turned down, I saw that the other party was wearing a Feiyu suit with an embroidered spring knife across his waist. He was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

"Jin, Jin, Jin."

"Jinyiwei is handling the case, get out!"

Shen Lian, who was wearing a black flying fish uniform, spoke and walked out of the alley immediately. Behind him was a group of Jin Yiwei men, all wearing flying fish uniforms and embroidered spring knives. Everyone had a murderous look on their faces.

After walking a few steps, we arrived at the door of Chen's mansion.

With the help of his two men, Shen Lian climbed up the wall easily on their thighs and jumped in as light as a swallow.

In front of the monitor, Lu Yang shouted before putting down his headphones.

"Only Brother Xiu can film this scene."

"The four-meter-high wall is so fucked. I just jumped in without rehearsing at all."

Four meters is indeed not high, but for an untrained person, the feet will feel numb for a while after jumping down, and jumping up on the thighs is so smooth. Lu Yang feels that people who have trained may not be able to do this. Effect.

If it were another crew, they would definitely have used martial arts or parkour people as stand-ins for this scene.

"continue!"

Ding Xiu adjusted his collar, turned around and said.

The camera followed him all the way to a certain room in Chen's mansion. After a while, two disheveled women were pulled out and took Shen Lian to Mr. Chen's study.

At this moment, Mr. Chen is arranging things for his younger brother, asking him to take the wanted criminal Xu Xianchun to Xizhimen.

"Sister-in-law, what's going on?" Mr. Chen's brother asked in confusion.

The two women looked like concubines and did not dare to speak.

Until Shen Lian's figure walked out from behind the two of them: "Master Chen, Shen Lian is in the Xiabei Town Fusi."

"Master Shen, even if he is a Jin Yiwei who broke into my mansion in the middle of the night, he should have an explanation."

"My lord knows why I am here."

"boom!"

After the literary drama, a martial arts drama started. Master Chen's brother immediately attacked Shen Lian and cut with his sword. Unfortunately, Shen Lian crushed him with one hand. His entire arm was pierced and his nose was bruised and his face was nailed to the table.

In this scene, the actor who plays Mr. Chen's younger brother is a martial artist. He has been practicing martial arts for more than ten years and is extremely skilled in action scenes. When working with Ding Xiu, it seems to be a perfect fit, and there are no mistakes.

There were only three shots of this martial arts fight, and Ding Xiu kept the last shot of the effect.

When he came to Mr. Chen, Shen Lian directly threatened him with Mr. Chen's daughter and wife. He had the intention of coming to his father's side in a minute without saying anything.

"Don't touch my daughter, she is only fourteen years old, I say, I say."

"Click, pass!"

"I lost it!"

Lu Yang put down his earphones and said to Ding Xiu, who came over to watch the replay: "Who is the talented writer of this scene? Jin Yiwei has been hacked very hard. This is not Jin Yiwei. It is even darker than the underworld."

The first scene was filmed tonight. Jin Yiwei is a complete villain, and Shen Lian is a strong martial artist, but despicable, cold-blooded and cold-blooded general.

This is different from the previous image of Jin Yiwei. In previous film and television dramas, the camp where the protagonist belongs is generally righteous, with mostly good people. Even the notorious Jin Yiwei will become upright and punish rape and eliminate evil.

Ding Xiu is good. Whenever he stars in a movie, wherever he goes, there will be a nest of villains.

"I made up this scene." Ding Xiu said calmly: "I'm being merciful. The real Jin Yiwei is much darker than this one. I didn't restore the real scene mainly because I was afraid that it would not pass the trial."

That was the Jinyiwei. How many people were killed in the three major crimes of the Ming Dynasty. Even the Jinyiwei in the later period were frightening.

What scares people is not their notoriety, but the way they do things, including all kinds of subjugation, coercion and inducement.

For example, in today's situation, if Mr. Chen really didn't tell Xu Xianchun's whereabouts, the guards would take turns to check on his family members in minutes.

The plot is as exciting as the Sakura Kingdom movie.

Afterwards, his family members were sent to the Jiaofang Department.

Lu Yang sneered: "If you restore it, everyone in our crew will have to go in."

"Don't worry, let's watch the replay." Ding Xiu skillfully sat in front of the monitor and watched the replay.

Mainly watching the literary and opera parts.

Fortunately, it was only the first scene and there were only a few lines in total, so there was no problem.

Five minutes later, the second scene was set up.

According to Ding Xiu's instructions, a lot of mud and some rotten vegetable leaves were sprinkled on the street, and both sides of the street were arranged to look like they were inhabited.

The Ming Dynasty in his memory was almost like this.

In terms of details, Ding Xiu is the most meticulous director Lu Yang has ever seen.

Taking the house as an example, it's almost enough to follow the routine of a general director. Anyway, we don't shoot the inside, it's just a street scene.

Ding Xiu was different. He asked people to arrange beds in the house, test the quality of the windows, and design the chimney to make it look like someone was living in it.

The second scene was a chase scene. Jin Yichuan chased Xu Xianchun and wiped the opponent's man's neck with two clean knives.

Combined with Shen Lian's previous methods, their team of Jin Yiwei became a proper villain.

Xu Xiancun stopped after running out of the alley, because right in front, Lu Jianxing was waiting for him with a long sword in his arms and a dozen Jinyi guards holding crossbows.

After catching the man, the three brothers reunited. They were not as happy as they had imagined for their meritorious service. The eldest brother Lu Jianxing sighed and said that the eunuchs had fallen, and all the jobs assigned to them by the superiors were work that offended people.

The third child, Jin Yichuan, wanted to borrow money, and the second child, Shen Lian, gave him two taels of silver and told him that this was not the way to go.

Jin Yichuan seemed to have something unspeakable in his words.

The crew started work at eight o'clock in the evening, and after filming these two scenes, it was already twelve o'clock, and the crew called it a day.

The other actors returned to the hotel, and Ding Xiu continued to watch the replay. It was not until Gao Yuanyuan called that he remembered that he had an appointment with her, and then ran to eat.

The next day, filming continued.

The crew is divided into two groups.

One took pictures of Shen Lian and Zhou Miaotong, and the other took pictures of Ding Xiu and Jin Yichuan.

In Nuanxiang Pavilion, Liu Sisi was lying on the bed dressed in gauze, with firewood crackling in the brazier next to her.

Shen Lian was adding firewood inside.

"Come up and sleep." Zhou Miaotong, who woke up, was not curious or yelling, but said calmly.

"No, I'm fine here." Shen Lian stood up and sat on the chair. He didn't look at Zhou Miaotong's figure, but looked straight ahead.

Zhou Miaotong said: "Come to Nuanxiang Pavilion, spend money and not have sex, it's just you."

Shen Lian lowered his head, his throat rolled, but he still said calmly: "When I save enough money, I will redeem you."

Outside, the prostitute who wanted to find Zhou Miaotong was shouting loudly, clamoring for Zhou Miaotong to clean up and accompany him. The madam was persuading him to wait a little longer and he would be there later.

The two people in the room heard such a loud sound, but pretended not to hear it, as if they were used to it.

Zhou Miaotong's calm face showed a hint of ridicule: "My Lord General, can you redeem me with your salary?"

"Besides, this is Jiaofangsi's brothel. No one can get out without a document from the Ministry of Punishment."

After the words fell, Zhou Miaotong's face became calm again, her tone was very low, and she had already accepted her fate.

"Click!"

"Sisi's expression should not be so obvious, use your tone to express your emotions."

Lu Yang stopped and corrected Liu Sisi's performance flaws.

Ding Xiu also nodded in agreement and told her the story: "It can be said that Zhou Miaotong is today because of Shen Lian. Her whole family was killed. This is a blood feud. She is a weak woman who cannot kill Shen Lian. She has been here for a long time. She has resigned herself to being ruined by men."

"That's why she doesn't appreciate Shen Lian. Underneath her calm face is Riliu's inner struggle. Be more cruel when mocking."

Liu Sisi scratched her head, puzzled: "Brother Xiu, what does it mean to have a calm face but struggle inside?"

Ding Xiu stood up, I'll act for you, you act Shen Lian and cooperate with me.

Facts have proved that Ding Xiu still has two skills. Not only can he act in martial arts dramas, but he is no weaker than Liu Sisi in female dramas.

For some reason, Liu Sisi suddenly had the idea that if a man gets aroused, it really won't be a problem for a woman.

Liu Sisi followed Ding Xiu's example and it was not difficult at all.

This scene passed without any danger.

Next door, the scenes between Zhou Wei and Song Yang went NG several times, never up to standard, and the assistant director looked sad.

Zhou Wei's performance was very good, with no faults, and Song Yang was also good, but I don't know why, but it seemed almost meaningless.

Zhou Weidu collapsed: "Director, why don't you give me a standard and I will act accordingly."

He changed four or five ways of acting, because the character Ding Xiu appeared eating steamed buns. He had eaten more than ten buns now, and his stomach was very full.

The sight of steamed buns makes me want to vomit.

"Brother Xiu, you came just in time." The assistant director saw Ding Xiu's figure, stood up and waved: "Can you use your understanding to act out Ding Xiu's appearance?"

"Why, didn't you take a picture?"

"That's almost true. It's different from when you were reading the script before. Why don't you tell them about the play?"

"I'll watch the replay first."

Sitting in front of the monitor, Ding Xiu quickly watched the performances of Zhou Wei and Song Yang, then stood up and came to the venue and said to Song Yang: "Let's do it again, I will play Ding Xiu, you will be the same as before."

This scene is Ding Xiu's home field, and the main focus is on Zhou Wei.

He has to act "himself" to the other party.

Act yourself, don't say anything, it's weird.

Asking Zhou Wei to give him the Miao knife, Ding Xiu took a few steps back and walked out of the darkness, holding the knife and eating a steamed bun.

"Senior brother." Song Yang said.

No one came to talk immediately. Ding Xiu came over while eating, bent down, lowered his head, looked up, and asked nonchalantly, "What are you looking at?"

It’s been years since I’ve eaten steamed buns, and I felt a little choked. Ding Xiu swallowed a bit.

"I'm afraid your friends who are on duty will see me. Don't worry, they are all far away."

"Brother, take the silver and leave quickly." Song Yang took out two taels of silver.

Seeing Qian's eyes open, Ding Xiu threw away the remaining half of the steamed bun, wiped his hands on the clothes on his chest, this was a sign of respect for Qian, and then sighed:

"No matter how small a fly is, it is still meat."