Chapter 582 The Three Irons of Life
[My finger is festering from the stuffiness. I take off the band-aid and wipe the blood off while typing...]
The crew of "The Founding of a Republic".
After hanging up the phone, Xu Kun couldn't help but shake his head. It was okay that the little girl was clingy, but he didn't expect that an old woman would also do this.
It’s a pity that they haven’t been combined yet.
He walked out from behind the tent and returned to the shooting site. From a distance, he saw Huang Jianxin arguing with Jiang Wen, who had just joined the crew. When they were still about ten steps away, Jiang Wen, who was dressed in a Kuomintang military uniform, suddenly turned around and left.
"Jiang Wen, where are you going?!"
Huang Jianxin chased after him and shouted. Jiang Wen suddenly turned around, raised her hand and lifted the frog-shaped glasses on her nose to her forehead, then pointed at Huang Jianxin and threw out two words: "Wait!"
WTF?
Xu Kun walked a few steps closer to Huang Jianxin and asked in confusion, "Director Huang, why are you doing this?"
"Nothing else."
Huang Jianxin was also a little confused. He pointed at his eyes and said, "I just think that frog-eye glasses don't match the character well. Then Jiang Wen ran away without saying a few words."
As he was speaking, Jiang Wen strode back and handed dozens of pages of paper to Huang Jianxin, saying proudly, "Look for yourselves!"
Xu Kun leaned over and looked at it for a while, and found that it was full of arguments about how frog-eye glasses were popular all over the world in the 1940s, and even included several photos of the Republic of China.
Xu Kun smiled and said, "Brother Jiang, you came prepared. You showed us your power right away. Director Huang and I thought you were going to get some weapons just now."
"Hahaha~"
Jiang Wen laughed loudly, patted Xu Kun on the shoulder and said, "This was originally prepared for you, but I didn't expect Director Huang to take the bullet."
Then he turned to Huang Jianxin and said, "Director Huang, now you know how well I have prepared, right? Let me tell you, if you had chosen me to play Chairman Mao, I would have definitely..."
"Go talk to Teacher Tang Guoqiang."
Huang Jianxin interrupted him with a headache, and then said: "Also, your energy is not quite right with the script, right?"
"Oh, I specifically asked the elders about this, and they can't be wrong."
"But the script..."
"A script is a script, filming is filming, and I'm just a minor supporting role. If you insist on making it so cliched, our play will be boring."
He is worthy of being the one who can make Lu Chuan cry.
Xu Kun interrupted and asked, "Brother Jiang, you have been released from the ban, so if you want to play the role of a teacher, just direct and act in it yourself."
Jiang Wen, who was very active just now, suddenly fell silent. After a while, he shook his head vigorously and said, "Forget it, at least not now."
Then he took off his hat to the two of them and said, "Directors, please go ahead and do your work. I have to go and rehearse the lines."
Watching Jiang Wen walk away with big strides, Huang Jianxin couldn't help but shake his head: "Everyone wants to make changes. If we really change it beyond recognition, I'm afraid the higher-ups will have to skin us alive."
"Let's talk behind the camera."
Xu Kun consoled him, "Anyway, such an inappropriate performance would not be acceptable to me. If you don't want to play the villain, then I'll do it."
Huang Jianxin shook his head again, but did not say anything more on this topic. Instead, he changed the subject and said, "The crew will be heading to Shanghai in two days. Have you made arrangements there?"
"Don't worry, both the people and the scenery are ready."
When Xu Kun got to this point, he suddenly flipped through his script and said, "Actually, I feel like there are some areas in my script that need some fine-tuning. For example, the scene where I meet Du Yuesheng seems a little bit lacking in momentum. It would be better if there were less honorifics in some places..."
"How come you..."
Huang Jianxin felt overwhelmed. He pushed the script in Xu Kun's hand and said, "You are the director. If you openly make exceptions, how can we keep order?"
"I understand. I'll change it secretly and won't tell anyone!"
"You, I...then show it to me and Mr. Han San after you finish revising it."
"How about you help check it now?"
Xu Kun quickly took out another revised script and handed it to Huang Jianxin.
Huang Jianxin took it helplessly, and before he could say anything, he heard the stagehand come over to report that Jiang Wen and Chen Daoming had quarreled because Jiang Wen insisted on adding "national quintessence" to the lines, and in turn criticized Chen Daoming's performance for not being lively enough.
"This ginger pattern."
Huang Jianxin poked his temple with his index finger, shook the script in his hand and said, "I'll call Mr. Han San and ask him to come over and check it for you."
The combination of Xu Kun + Huang Jianxin is usually intimidating enough in the crew, but it doesn't work so well when they meet someone like Jiang Wen.
"Now?"
Xu Kun pointed to the makeup tent.
Huang Jianxin said indifferently: "It's okay, they are old acquaintances, and a few quarrels will not lead to a fight. If a fight really starts, it won't be too late for us to go over."
They certainly didn't fight, but it was obvious that Chen Daoming couldn't win an argument over Jiang Wen. In a scene in a car where they were plotting to eliminate democratic figures, almost every word spoken by Jiang Wen's character "Mao Renfeng" was full of traditional Chinese culture.
Huang Jianxin was a little unhappy at the time, and was about to go up to argue with Jiang Wenli, but was stopped by Xu Kun.
Then Xu Kun frequently asked the two to reshoot:
"Brother Jiang, Teacher Chen, one more!" "Better than last time, one more."
"It's still a little bit off, let's try again..."
"Come again..."
"Protect one..."
After more than a dozen NGs, Xu Kun finally shouted "Cut".
Huang Jianxin also came to his senses at this moment, and went back to the room silently to film the rivalry between Zhang Guoli [Lao Jiang] and Mao Renfeng.
Although Jiang Wen was a bit eccentric, the rules of hierarchy in the play had to be observed, and the whole scene was filmed properly, with only three lines passed.
By noon, Xu Kun and Huang Jianxin went to the editing room at the same time, and simply spliced together a pure version from the dozen or so "national quintessence" - Jiang Wen's national quintessence was all spontaneous, and there would definitely be changes every few times.
However, after watching the pure version, Huang Jianxin and Xu Kun frowned again.
"Why don't you leave a message?"
Xu Kun said to Huang Jianxin: "If there is no 'fuck' at all, it will be out of touch with the character he created."
"Damn, he's just so unruly!"
Huang Jianxin cursed, but had no choice but to agree with Xu Kun's suggestion.
After the rough cut was done, Han Sanping came in through the curtain and asked with a smile, "How was the shoot? Did it go smoothly?"
He deliberately waited until the matter was done before coming. Firstly, he believed that the two of them were capable of solving the problem, and secondly, he didn't want to face Jiang Wen.
Huang Jianxin sighed: "I guess I managed to cut it out."
"Thank you for your hard work. I'll treat you two to dinner tonight." Han Sanping said, and turned to Xu Kun: "Have you seen the Sina blog? There's nothing else to say, but you need to clarify the claim that you broke your promise in selecting the female lead."
"What's the meaning of breaking a promise and getting fat?"
Xu Kun was puzzled. It was also Aunt Liu's fault that she was only thinking about meeting him in the evening and forgot to tell him the reason for meeting him.
It was only after Han Sanping reminded him that Xu Kun saw the article, so he quickly posted a statement on Fanfou, saying that the candidate selected through auditions was the real female lead, and Liu Yifei was playing the second female lead.
Then, by the way, they advertised the "Sisters Group Variety Show", implying that everything that everyone is interested in and wants to know will be gradually revealed in the program.
As a result, just a few minutes after it was posted, there were a lot of comments below.
The comment with the most likes was: "Brother Kun, did you get the goddess? Please give me a hint."
Then under this message, fans who thought Liu Yifei was flawless and haters started to have a fierce fight.
Because it quickly escalated into a war of words, Xu Kun was hesitating whether to call the technical department to deal with it.
Suddenly, Huo Siyan left a message below: That blog post is completely a rumor. How could I possibly pull Liu Yifei against Yiyan? The two of them are the three strongest people in life.
This one quickly replaced 'transparent' and became the subject of heated discussion. Before ordinary netizens could figure out the trick, those who were knowledgeable on the internet had already begun to delve into the connotations of these 'three irons of life'.
Currently, the most widely circulated definition of the three ironies of life on the Internet is: studying together, carrying guns together, and visiting prostitutes together.
As we all know, Jiang Yiyan and Liu Yifei are classmates, so they naturally meet the first definition of classmates.
But if Huo Siyan was referring to this relationship, wouldn't it be better for her to just say that they were classmates?
So is it possible that the relationship between the three major characteristics of life includes all three items?
Carrying a gun and visiting a prostitute are completely the same thing!
Well, now the ‘thorough’ question has an answer.
The internet expert's statement quickly attracted the approval of a large group of people. Of course, there were also those who disagreed, such as the persistent fans of Tianxian.
[How could Huo Siyan be so sarcastic when she wants La Fifi to fight Jiang Yiyan? ]
[The definition of having solicited prostitution is that a monetary transaction took place. How could our Yifei... slander, it is slander! ]
[It's far-fetched. They are talking about the relationship between classmates! ]
【Alpaca%^&$%@#……】
Although these rebuttals are often drowned out by ridicule and comments like "Master, I understand" as soon as they are posted, some people still grasp the key points.
If the "three irons of life" are referring to Liu Yifei and Jiang Yiyan, then it proves that Huo Siyan has no intention of winning over Liu Yifei to join forces to fight against Jiang.
This is why?
Yeah, why is that?
Xu Kun was also very curious about why Huo Siyan would reject this natural ally.
So he sent a text message, and soon he received a photo - a photo of Huo Siyan hugging Liu Shishi.
But Xu Kun didn't believe that Huo Siyan did it out of friendship. This woman must be planning something in secret.
However, when she sent another message, Huo Siyan changed the subject and asked Xu Kun to find the person who posted the rumor on the blog first.
(End of this chapter)
