Senior Superstar

Chapter Eight: The Late Male Number Three

Li Shixin drank tea leisurely for a while, and the second scene was ready.

He is old, and he was praised by the director in public just now. The people in the crew have a good impression of him. While everyone else was busy, Li Shixin borrowed the script of "The Last Forbidden" from the drama manager and glanced at it.

He thought that this drama was so well-produced that it must be a long episode.

In his time and space, this kind of era drama of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China is a perfect weapon for defrauding money. After all, TV series are sold according to the number of episodes, so this kind of period drama with a relatively large investment, in order to recover costs or make a profit, will often shoot forty or fifty episodes for you. Twenty or thirty episodes can be called conscience.

But to his surprise, the script of "The Forbidden City" only has twelve episodes!

This really made Li Shixin a little unbelievable.

The background of the story is that in 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces knocked on the country's gate, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled westward. In the troubled times, Ma Renchuan, the son of the protagonist Ma Enming, the foreign minister, is inspired by Li Shiqi, who appears to be an actor in Liyuan, but is actually a revolutionist, and gathers a group of people with lofty ideals to rise up and resist. Later, in order to return to Luan, Cixi not only negotiated peace with the foreign powers, but also executed a large number of princes, ministers and civilians who were listed as war criminals by the invaders.

The progress of the whole story is quite fast. Although the emotional drama between the protagonist and the heroine is soul-stirring, it does not seem abrupt at all when interspersed in the troubled times. On the contrary, it was the last scene; Ma Renchuan was arrested and was about to be executed. The heroine who had already escaped successfully wore red makeup on the day of execution, and sang the famous Peking Opera piece "Mandarin Duck Tomb" for the protagonist on the execution ground, and then died in love. It pushed the entire plot to a climax.

The plot is not very exciting, but it is compact enough and ups and downs.

The fly in the ointment is that the part of the third male lead "Saqia" in the play is awkward no matter how you look at it. Every time this character appears, not only is it useless to promote the plot, but also the lines and the character's mental journey from a dandy to a generous man with lofty ideals seem a bit hasty and far-fetched.

"Old man, why are you frowning after watching it? What's wrong, isn't the script bad?" Seeing Li Shixin's brows furrowed tightly, the drama director beside him pinched his cigarette butt and laughed.

Li Shixin shook his head, closed the script and returned it: "It's good, but I think the male number three is a bit redundant."

The drama manager laughed, and seeing no one around, lowered his voice and said, "This is a role requested by the management. The management appointed Liu Xin, a recently popular young student, to join the group. At that time, the script was written and changed temporarily!"

oh.

Li Shixin nodded deeply.

Just say it.

That makes sense.

I can't afford to mess with the little partner of the boss of the capital.

Compared with the first scene in the morning, the shooting of the second scene was obviously much smoother.

It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that Rongdian Film and Television City is the place where the most RB devils are killed, and tens of thousands of RB devils are eliminated every day. Although it is a joke, it also shows that there are really many anti-Japanese dramas in Rongdian.

Most of the ensemble performers present had played RB devils before, and they were already familiar with the scenes of burning, killing and looting.

This scene of foreign soldiers entering the capital can be described as flowing, almost one-way.

After a lot of work, it was noon.

Although there were some twists and turns in the two scenes in the morning, the effect of the big scene scheduling and the addition of it was good. The director was very happy and asked the drama manager to arrange extra meals.

Although Li Shixin mentioned his dietary requirements to the group leader before, he didn't really take it seriously.

As the body ages, the appetite decreases severely. Although he spent the whole morning on the set, he didn't feel hungry at all.

But thinking that there was still a show in the afternoon, and the studio was far away from the commercial area, so when he saw the crew having dinner, he walked over slowly.

To be honest, the crew's lunch was not bad.

There are two meat, two vegetarian and four dishes in the box lunch, and an extra chicken leg is added.

Li Shixin just took a lunch box from the field manager when he heard someone calling him behind him.

"Oops! Old man, I've been looking for you for a long time! Why did you come here to deal with it? The millet porridge and pickles from Huihuide Congee Shop are specially bought for you! Hurry up, the director is waiting for you to eat over there !"

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Shuo, the leader of the group, rushed out from behind, and snatched the lunch box from Li Shixin's hand involuntarily.

"Tsk, how embarrassing is that?" Seeing Zhang Shuo use chopsticks to pull the food in the lunch box back into the vegetable bowl, Li Shixin smiled and said with his hands behind his back.

"What's there to be embarrassed about, hurry up, the director is waiting for you to eat together!"

aside.

The group performers looked at the group leader who didn't even have a smile on his face, and invited Li Shixin to the special dining area of ​​the director's group like a dog's leg, all of them opened their eyes wide.

At this moment, they suddenly felt that the hard-won chicken legs in their hands were no longer fragrant!

"Old man, let me tell you about the scene for a while. Please pay attention to a few points."

After lunch, Guan Lan took a bottle of mineral water and found Li Shixin with the newly revised script.

"Your scene in the afternoon is a rivalry with the male No. 3. The scene is that after the Eight-Nation Allied Forces entered the city, the beggar character you played was beaten up by the RB soldiers and was severely injured. When you were dying, you met the male number three. No. 3. At the last moment of his life, you asked the male No. 3 not to care about you, and asked him to take up the sword to defend his home and country."

Hearing this, Li Shixin nodded.

When he read the script before, he felt that the role of the male number three from a dandy to a patriot was not very motivated, and the whole role seemed empty. After Guan Langa's scene, the male number three has more motivation to resist, and the whole character has a more obvious mental journey.

With the addition of such a scene, it seems that the whole plot is much smoother.

"You have five lines of lines. I'll give you the script later. You are familiar with it."

"Don't worry, it's just five lines, it's not bad!" Li Shixin nodded. He originally planned to play a trick to familiarize himself with the market, but he didn't expect to mix up a character with lines.

This was a pleasant surprise.

Seeing the confidence on Li Shixin's face, Guan Lan nodded and smiled.

But after laughing, he hesitated for a moment, and said, "Old man, although you have never acted before, I can see that your skills in dramas from decades ago are still there. That... the third male actor , relatively young. Maybe in acting. Hey. Let me tell you this, when you play with him in a while, you take him with your emotions."

Hearing from the field manager that the third male actor was temporarily added by the boss of the management, Li Shi already knew it in confidence.

He hasn't seen many actors like this before time travel.

Most of them are some traffic stars, and then they see which drama is more popular, so they come here temporarily to catch the light. Gain some exposure for yourself.

Don't expect such an actor to have acting skills.

But this is not something he worries about. Now that he is an old man, he is lucky to get the opportunity to play with the male number three.

In order to save enough applause and live longer, Li Shixin nodded deeply.

At 1:30 in the afternoon, the crew started to get busy again after finishing their lunch.

According to what Guan Lan told him just now, the male number three will arrive at two o'clock in the afternoon. There are a few lines in total, and he can call it a day and go home after filming in about ten minutes.

After lunch, Li Shixin took the script and recited his lines.

There are not many lines, and the gold content is quite high;

Old beggar: Don't be sad, young man.

Sa Qia: Old man, hold on!

Old beggar: If you can't stand it, you will die, the old man knows it well.

Sa Qia: Elderly, don't bother to talk, I have good medicine at home, and I will heal you right away!

Old beggar: Don't bother. The old man has been like a duckweed all his life, kneeling in this world for more than ten years. Now that he can stand upright and quench the spittle on that little Dongyang's face, even if this old bone dies, it's worth it! Take, pick up the knife to drive out the foreign captives, and restore China!

Just five lines.

Li Shixin recited it over and over a dozen times, and finally recited it fluently.

However, the lines are ready.

The male number three skipped the vote.

Sitting in the shed of the props team, Li Shixin watched the shooting of the three major scenes in the afternoon, the group performers who were out of the scene changed their clothes and went home, and Guan Lan anxiously urged him several times on the phone.

Wait until the sun sets, and the tired birds in the woods outside the set have all returned to their nests, and there is no shadow of the male number three.

The beginning of autumn has passed, and although the temperature is not low at noon, it is still cold at dusk.

At half past four, the sun was almost setting. Finally, there was a sound of an engine outside the set from far to near. Immediately afterwards, a Toyota Alpha nanny car stopped in front of Li Shixin with a long trail of smoke.

A tall, thin young man with big sunglasses and a peaked cap jumped out of the car.

After finding Guan Lan with a cold face in the crowd, he said lightly, "I'm sorry, director, I had some impromptu things just now. I'm a little late, let's start quickly."

After taking a deep look at the other party, Guan Lan turned around and yelled: "The legs are fucking rusted? Didn't you see Axin arrive? Still not working, waiting to stay up all night on the set to cultivate immortality?"

Obviously unhappy.