Chapter 342 Apple Incident
During the filming process, Xu Kun was completely focused on acting and had no time to pay attention to anything else.
However, during the lunch break, he recalled the morning's filming and found that although the crew had invited professional instructors to train everyone, they did not arrange any professional military actions.
This is probably because most of the main actors have not received professional training. If the training is too professional, they may not be able to do it well.
Moreover, the overly professional tactics fail to highlight the cruelty of the scene - the ambush scene is difficult to shoot.
Therefore, the crew gave up some professionalism for the sake of story and scene.
Ordinary people can’t see any problems anyway, and military fans are neither that big in size nor that difficult to please than ordinary people.
However, Xu Kun felt that when he was shooting a new movie, it would be best to gather people together for training like he did with "Soldier Assault".
He was not pursuing professionalism, but wanted a smoother scene, preferably one that made people look powerful without knowing it.
The core idea of Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" is to highlight the cruelty of the battlefield and the complexity of human nature. It strives to be brilliant based on the cruel reality.
Moreover, the grand war scenes are actually auxiliary, and the subsequent plot of Guzidi's continuous petitions is the icing on the cake.
Xu Kun's tendency is to strive to make the scenes more realistic and cruel in terms of the degree of excitement.
As for the complexity of human nature...
Even though it is wrapped in the guise of saving heroes and enhancing national pride, his definition of the new film is still a popcorn movie.
As for the depth of the plot and the exploration of human nature, those are just trivial matters to him - if the movie is not good, everything else is in vain.
So in terms of business approach, he is actually more pure and more utilitarian than Feng Xiaogang.
After writing down what he thought in a small notebook, Xu Kun picked up his lunch box again and was about to start eating when he suddenly heard a noise not far away. He stood up and looked over, and saw that a car had driven into the filming site.
Seeing Guo Xiaojun running towards them quickly, Xu Kun asked hurriedly: "Brother Guo, what's going on?"
"Zhao Benshan sent several hundred kilograms of apples!"
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Click, click~
Xu Kun was sitting on a bench, with Wang Baoqiang on his left and Ren Yan on his right. They each held an apple in their hands and chatted while eating.
The content of the conversation among the three people had nothing to do with the drama to be filmed in the afternoon, but was mainly about the Golden Eagle Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards in a few days.
I don’t know if it was discussed in advance, but the two awards were held on the same day. Fortunately, one was held in the morning and the other was held in the evening.
Otherwise, someone like Xu Kun, who was nominated by both sides, would be doomed.
Of course, it is quite troublesome now. He has to arrive in Changsha one day in advance, and then fly directly to Hangzhou to participate in the Hundred Flowers Awards after participating in the Golden Eagle Awards. The Golden Eagle Awards at least have some gains, but the Hundred Flowers Awards are basically just a foil for others.
“It would be great if these awards could be held in the same place, so we wouldn’t have to run around so hard.” Ren Yan sighed sincerely, “I find that being an actor now is much more troublesome than before. I’m too busy in real life to handle the online stuff…”
Baoqiang nodded silently. Although he did not have any worries in this regard for the time being, he had also seen everything Xu Kun had experienced after he became famous.
More fans is a good thing, but it also means more trouble.
A while ago, a female college student jumped off a building. Because there was a poster of Xu Kun hanging above her bed, some people made a big deal out of it, saying it was a repeat of the Andy Lau incident.
Fortunately, the matter was quickly clarified. The girl committed suicide because she was dumped by her boyfriend. It had nothing to do with Xu. The matter finally calmed down online and offline.
Xu Kun shook his head and said, "If we really gather them together, more awards will probably appear soon, and then we will be even more exhausted."
Ren Yan thought about it and could only nod helplessly. Film and television awards are very regional. No matter whether it is the Beijing circle or the Shanghai circle, they will definitely not accept the other side dominating the world.
When it comes to television awards, Mango TV is also a big player that cannot be ignored.
As he was speaking, the electric horn sounded again. Ren Yan quickly put the half-eaten apple aside, stood up and walked towards the shooting site.
Xu Kun and Bao Qiang stood up, started to chew the apples vigorously, and then threw the cores into the woods on the side of the road.
The shooting in the afternoon was still not going smoothly, or rather, it was even less smooth.
Because the camera switches were too fast and too frequent, it often needed to be rechecked and adjusted based on the original footage. Plus, what was filmed was the chaotic battle after an ambush, so there were more room for error.
At the end of the day, all the main actors were absent. Xu Kun was better. After dinner, he was able to muster up some energy and review today's shooting with Feng Xiaogang and Chen Guofu.
As a result, he was in the makeshift tent, holding his lunch box and pointing at the camera, when suddenly a production manager rushed in and said, "Director Feng, it's bad, someone has been poisoned!"
"what?!"
Feng Xiaogang was startled and asked, "Did you get bitten by something?"
"No, several people were feeling sick and dizzy..."
Hearing this, Guo Xiaojun, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stood up with a pale face and said, "I, I feel a little uncomfortable too, but I just didn't feel comfortable..."
Halfway through his speech, he staggered out of the tent.
Feng Xiaogang hurriedly led everyone to chase him out, and saw him squatting in the open space outside the door and retching loudly. There were several other people with the same symptoms as him, including Ren Al.
"It's an apple, it's an apple!"
At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Look, there are undigested apples in what they vomited!"
Upon hearing this, Guo Xiaojun also cried out, "Is there poison in the apple?!"
Everyone was in an uproar when they heard this. Some people who had no symptoms originally felt a little nauseous and dizzy, and those who had symptoms felt even worse.
Feng Xiaogang's face turned frighteningly pale, and he muttered, "How could it be? It can't be that serious? This is too..."
He said it was impossible, but from the look on his face it was obvious that he believed it to some extent.
Xu Kun also thought it was impossible. No matter how arrogant Zhao Benshan was, he couldn't poison the apples just because Feng Xiaogang didn't go to pay his respects, right?
Even if you want to poison, you have to find a more covert method, right?
After a closer look, he found another common point and said quickly, "Don't talk nonsense. Who didn't eat apples at noon? It's normal to vomit it out. Look at these people who were poisoned. Did they all accidentally inhale fertilizers?"
After Xu Kun's reminder, everyone suddenly realized that the possibility of poisoning from fertilizers was obviously higher than that there was poison in the apples.
The poisoned people were then sent to the hospital, and the test results confirmed Xu Kun's speculation.
Feng Xiaogang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then scolded Guo Xiaojun in the hospital.
In fact, Feng Xiaogang didn't need to scold him. Guo Xiaojun himself regretted it very much. If Zhao Benshan had heard that he was shouting that apples were poisonous...
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Because the poisoning was not serious, filming went on normally the next day.
After three days of continuous hard work, less than one-third of the opening battle scene was shot. It can be said that the team has just been well-coordinated.
As a result, several of the leading actors had to temporarily take time off to attend a TV film festival.
This made Feng Xiaogang even more irritated, but he also had to attend the Hundred Flowers Awards, so he couldn't vent his anger.
And the very next day after Xu Kun and others left, Xiao Zhao, exhausted, also rushed to the filming site.
"Are you here to visit the studio?"
The production manager who stopped Zhao Liying looked her up and down in confusion. She looked familiar, but he couldn't recognize her. So he shook his head and said, "You really know how to choose the time. The director and several leading actors are not here. They went to participate in the Golden Eagle Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards."
"what?!"
Xiao Zhao was confused. Why couldn’t it be delivered?
"What's your name? Whose class do you want to visit?"
The stage manager took out a small notebook and asked, "I'll write it down first and come back later... Hey, what are you doing?"
"No, I'll come next time!"
Xiao Zhao, who had finally mustered up the courage, fled in panic.
(End of this chapter)
