Chapter 58 Hengzhou Han Yueping
After seeing off Song Lao Hu [Zhang Yong], the crew immediately started filming around Wu Tian [Zhou Xiaoou].
After all, his main job is singing, and he can't just stay in the crew all the time.
This afternoon.
Just now, in a nearby star-rated hotel, we finished filming a scene where Wu Tian asked Zhou Guoquan for help in making peace and paying compensation to Liu Huaqiang and his gang.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were no other filming tasks at the moment, Xu Kun took Li Yixiang with him to demonstrate the highlight he had designed in a street telephone booth.
After reading it, Li Yixiang pondered and said, "After this change, the character transition is indeed smoother - have you asked Director Gao to read it?"
"Not yet. I have to ask you, Brother Li, to review it first." Xu Kun wiped off the sweat on his face that he had disguised with saline solution and asked, "Brother Li, do you think my performance needs any modification?"
"Well, the emotions here are a bit superficial. It's OK without a close-up, but once it's cut to a close-up..."
Li Yixiang pointed to the photo frame with his hand, indicating that Xu Kun should repeat the fearful expression he had before, and then shook his head and said, "It's mainly because your eyes don't match well. It's best to practice more in front of the mirror and think more about the things that scare you."
"The scary thing..."
What Xu Kun fears the most is definitely waking up from a sleep to find himself still locked up in a cell, and everything that is happening now is just a dream.
In the past, he tried not to think about it in this way, but since he wanted to use this emotion to act, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and dig it out.
Just as he was secretly making up his mind, he suddenly saw Liu Weiwei coming out of the big hotel alone. She picked up a willow branch from the roadside and walked towards the small hotel while unconsciously beating the weeping willows along the way with the branch.
Seeing her look extremely bored, Xu Kun called out from a distance, "Sister Wei, didn't you say you wanted to stay and observe? Why did you come back alone?"
Seeing that it was Xu Kun and Li Yixiang, Liu Weiwei brushed away the willow branch and spread her hands, saying, "Zhou Xiaoou tried several times but couldn't do it. Director Gao felt that too many people would make people nervous, so he asked everyone to wait outside. I thought there was nothing for me to do later, so I just came back first."
Currently, the crew is staying in a star-rated hotel, filming the scene where Wu Tian and Li Li become enemies and start fighting each other.
"How nervous are people?"
Xu Kun laughed and said, "This isn't a sex scene. It's just that Sister Jiang Shan is famous and Brother Zhou is too timid to do it."
Liu Weiwei repeated listlessly: "Yes, Sister Jiang is too famous."
In fact, she was quite resentful about Gao Qunshu choosing Jiang Shan to play the leading female role. When filming "13 Murder Cases" that year, Gao Qunshu had a hard time gathering the crew because he was not from a professional background and was filming a documentary that was not taken seriously.
That is to say, Liu Weiwei did not despise and played the heroine in Thirteen Murder Cases.
But now in the filming of "Conquer", she has become the second female lead.
It would be impossible for Liu Weiwei not to have any emotions in her heart, so she took the initiative to stay and wanted to watch Wu Tian [Zhou Xiaoou] beat Li Mei [Jiang Shan], at least to satisfy her urge.
Who knew that he didn't get to see what he wanted to see, but instead got even angrier because of Zhou Xiaoou's timid look.
Liu Weiwei felt depressed, so she asked casually, "Do you have any plans tonight?"
"Aren't you just waiting for me, Sister Wei?"
"I'm going to practice my cigarette-spinning skills again."
Xu Kun and Li Yixiang gave different answers, and then the two began to stare at each other.
Liu Weiwei chuckled when she saw this, and said to Xu Kun, "Then go call Brother Honglei over, and I'll treat you guys to a barbecue."
Got~
It turns out she was waiting here.
Because of the previous experience of drinking wine together, Xu Kun thought that the incident of giving wine for nothing that he encountered in "The Thirteenth Princess" would happen again today, but he was just wishful thinking.
It seems that no matter in or out of the play, the sister-in-law is always the "big brother's" person.
When will I be able to become a big boss?
In the end, Xu Kun notified Sun Honglei on behalf of Liu Weiwei, but did not go with him to be a light bulb. Instead, he stayed in the room and taught Li Yixiang the techniques of burning cigarettes.
But even without him as a light bulb, his elder brother and sister-in-law didn't seem to be able to create any sparks.
The root of the problem seems to be Sun Honglei.
Logically speaking, Liu Weiwei is only 26 or 7 years old this year, so she should be more tender and delicious than Ding Jiali, right?
Is he still thinking about Gong Li?
Time passed during the intense filming. By the beginning of July, Liu Xiaoqing's affair began to ferment. Within a few days, it became a hot topic and everyone knew about it. Almost everyone in the entertainment industry was in danger, and the saying that the new generation replaced the old was also rampant.
The four young actresses selected by Nandu at the beginning of the year: Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, and Xu Jinglei, also took advantage of the opportunity to be hyped and engraved in the minds of people across the country.
This once again proves the saying that crisis and opportunity coexist.
However, only three of the four young actresses benefited from it. Zhao Wei, who was originally the most popular among the people, still could not get rid of the military flag incident at the end of last year. She tried to issue some press releases separately, but after being scolded, she had to continue to lie down and pretend to be dead.
During this period, Xu Kun finally arrived at the few highlights in the entire play that were proposed for revision by him - mainly the three phone calls, and the final arrest and confession.
In the first scene, Han Yueping informed Liu Huaqiang of Feng Biao's address, and finally asked tentatively: "Brother Qiang, Wu Tian was raped by someone last night, is that right..."
As a result, Liu Huaqiang scolded him and told him to contact him less unless necessary.
In the original version, Han Yueping left directly after hanging up the phone, but Xu Kun added a gesture of scratching his hair in annoyance, paused for two or three seconds, and then turned around and left with a serious face.
In the second scene, Han Yueping discovered that the address he gave was wrong, but the innocent couple living there were still brutally murdered, so he called Liu Huaqiang again in panic.
Wait until Liu Huaqiang said, "Don't blame yourself too much. It's human to make mistakes. Don't call me unless you have something important recently," and then hung up the phone.
There are no more shots of Han Yueping at this point in the original version, but there is an extra eight seconds of close-up of Han Yueping played by Xu Kun.
He felt relieved at first, then wiped the sweat from his forehead and muttered, "Damn, two more lives were lost in this mess!"
In the third act, Han Yueping returned to Hengzhou from Jinling and contacted Liu Huaqiang's ex-wife through Liu Huaqiang's daughter, and got Liu Huaqiang's new number from her.
When he heard Liu Huaqiang ask a few brief questions and then asked him to meet on the first floor of the shopping mall.
Han Yueping didn't have any special reaction at first, but Xu Kun's expression became obviously stiff. He gritted his teeth and repeated the address: "First floor of Beiguo, right? OK, I got it. I'll hang up now."
After hanging up the phone, he leaned against the phone booth with his head tilted, and was stunned for a while. It was not until the boss reminded him to pay that Han Yueping [Xu Kun] took out a coin and threw it over, then hurried away.
The modifications to the first two acts were mainly to show that Han Yueping was frightened by the madness displayed by Liu Huaqiang.
Although he guessed that Liu Huaqiang was preparing to retaliate against Wu Tian and Feng Biao, he did not expect Liu Huaqiang to be so cruel and arrogant, and even accidentally killed two strangers because he reported the wrong address.
The latter made Han Yueping particularly uneasy.
The final decision on the modification of the third act was made by Xu Kun after watching Sun Honglei's performance - answering the phone and making a call were not shot at the same time, as the shot of Liu Huaqiang answering the phone had already been shot.
The emotions displayed by Sun Honglei at that time were somewhat fierce and even murderous, and it was obvious that he had become suspicious of Han Yueping.
So Liu Huaqiang suggested "less contact" and "don't call" twice in a row, but the third time he went against his usual behavior and without saying a word after answering the phone, he directly asked Han Yueping to meet at the mall.
Han Yueping is also a smart man, and he is also Liu Huaqiang's childhood friend. It is impossible for him not to notice Qiang's "abnormality" at all.
So in the later meeting scene at the mall, Han Yueping, played by Xu Kun, was also anxiously looking for Liu Huaqiang at the beginning, just like in the original version.
But the difference is that the later it got, the more listless he looked, like an eggplant hit by frost.
Because at this time "Han Yueping" had already confirmed that Liu Huaqiang had given up on him, or at least had become suspicious of him.
After being arrested, before Xu Kun started to confess after smoking a cigarette, he added an opening statement to Han Yueping: "I originally wanted to persuade Brother Qiang to leave Hengzhou together - haha, if it was Hua Wen who called, I don't believe that Brother Qiang had no way to meet safely."
As he said this, he gave a bitter smile full of self-mockery.
In order to achieve this self-deprecating wry smile, Xu Kun, with the help of Li Yixiang, practiced for a whole week and spent nearly two hours in front of the camera.
All of this is done to straighten out the logic of "Han Yueping" and make the character more three-dimensional and full.
But these changes actually have a problem, which is that they will make Han Yueping's betrayal less abrupt, weakening the original drama.
Therefore, Gao Qunshu was very hesitant for a while, wondering whether to adopt Xu Kun's modification suggestions.
But he was finally moved by Xu Kun's self-deprecating smile.
According to Wang Baode [Feng Biao]: This smile at least expressed ten years of love and hatred, grudges and grievances in the martial arts world.
Without this smile, he is just Liu Huaqiang's little brother; with this smile, he is Hengzhou Han Yueping!
(End of this chapter)
