The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 236 Good Omens

"is this OK?"

In the dressing room, Lu Yuan put down his phone and looked up at himself in the mirror.

He wore an old-fashioned brown coat on his upper body, a white shirt as a base, and a large gold chain around his neck.

His hair was long and messy, his skin was bronze, and his whole body was much rougher, looking decadent and dirty.

With an unkempt beard, he stretched out his hand to lift his chin, thinking that if he returned to the capital like this, Yaoyao would probably not recognize him as his uncle.

"Well, compared to Huang Bo and others, they are still a bit fair."

While the actors were experiencing life, makeup artists and costume designers arrived one after another.

They were not idle either, constantly negotiating with the casting director to come up with the most suitable look based on each person's characteristics.

The makeup artist was a girl with two patches of plateau red on her face. After hearing this, she looked at herself in the mirror with darker skin, and always felt that the other person was showing off in her words.

She regretted that she should not have followed the crew to the Great Gobi Desert in a daze. The old people were saying that Ning Hao was a life-threatening actor who could not sleep for 24 hours.

You can imagine how difficult the conditions were for the subsequent two months of filming.

She was secretly worried in her heart, but she flattered her: "Teacher Lu, you have a good foundation. You need to use some special foundation when the official shooting starts."

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "I'll have to trouble you then."

As easy-going as the outside world said, the makeup artist girl stared at his bronze face and said with a smile: "No trouble."

When she learned that Lu Yuan had joined the drama, she couldn't believe it.

In fact, there are no good-looking characters in Ning Hao's movies, and the actors used are all ugly.

From "Crazy Stone" to "Crazy Racer", the protagonists look more awkward than the last.

Lu Yuan's style doesn't match the whole crew, and Zhang San is a supporting character with few scenes.

In order to conform to the character's image, she had ruined herself quite a lot over the past month. In her opinion, the gain outweighed the gain.

Could it be that, as the media revealed, he has been unable to receive any resources after breaking up with Huayi?

She opened her mouth to ask, but she still endured it. The crew had many taboos, and asking about the actors was one of them.

Lu Yuan didn't know what the other party was thinking. In fact, for him, joining the crew was just an accident.

The total investment in No Man's Land was 1600 million yuan, which was not even comparable to a medium-production TV series, and the remuneration given to him was not much, only 50 yuan.

He doesn't lack a supporting role, nor does he lack a salary, not to mention it's hard to say whether the film will be released.

But when making a movie, you can't just focus on the immediate gains and losses.

On the one hand, Huang Bo wanted to give him a hand at the critical moment. He must remember this feeling and cannot easily refuse the other party's kindness.

On the other hand, behind Ning Hao, a new director, is Han Sanping.

He couldn't remember which media had reported that Han Sanping said to Ning Hao: "If you don't have money in your future movies, just come and tell me, I will invest in them. It doesn't matter how much they sell. The key is to make money, even if you only make money." If you earn 1 cent, I’m willing to invest for you.”

One can imagine the importance attached to Ning Hao.

He doesn't know what Han Sanping's private character is, and he doesn't want to know, but he has indeed played a positive role in promoting the development of the mainland film industry.

As the largest of the state-owned film groups, China Film Group plays a key role in achieving industrial development.

As the chairman of China Film Group Corporation, Han Sanping's influence and status can be seen as average.

Sooner or later, Lu Yuan will go to the big screen, so naturally he has to prepare in advance for matchmaking.

At the beginning of March, at the beginning of spring, the long-planned No Man's Land was finally launched.

One month of on-the-ground experience was extremely painful for everyone.

There is a saying in the industry that the more the actors suffer, the happier the director will be.

The final result made Ning Hao quite satisfied.

The originally kind-hearted Yang Xinming's skin turned dark red and became much rougher. His hair and beard were messy, and he looked more than ten years older.

After killing pigs in the slaughterhouse for a month, I drooped my eyelids and carried a butcher's knife, looking inexplicably cruel.

Xu Zheng lost about [-] pounds and looked indeed slimmer. He wore a wig, glasses, and a black suit, revealing the lawyer's unique shrewdness and hyena-like greed.

Dobjie is the black boss, and he is a kind-hearted person in private. Now he has shaved off his head, his temples are gray, and he is standing there in a black fur coat, like a lone wolf in the Gobi.

The boss lady played by Guo Hong has wavy curly hair, fake buck teeth, expressionless face, and hidden fierceness all over her body.

Huang Bo had a big bald head, a wrinkled face, and a crooked mouth. He was very ugly and cruel.

Yu Nan was wearing black stockings and painted nails. She had a bad figure and thick thighs, but she twisted her waist to show off the sexiness of a mature woman.

Except for Yu Nan, everyone's skin turned into wheat color, mixed with the northwest accent, and they were completely different from when they first arrived.

The Gobi zone in the west is desolate, with not even a decent green tree for dozens of miles.

At the beginning of the story, Huang Bo is lying on the Gobi Desert filled with yellow sand, covered in camouflage, staring at the million-dollar falcon not far away.

In front of the monitor, facing the wind and sand, Ning Hao waved his hands and shouted: "Start!"

"hetui~"

After saying that, he spat hard on the ground.

The weather in Xingjiang is moody. One second the sky is clear, and the next second there is sudden wind and sand.

The wind blew, swirled, and wrapped in the sand, rising into the sky like a rotating sand pillar.

The director's voice announcing the start-up was still echoing, and at the same time, a strong wind blew in the sky without any warning.

All the crew members turned to look at the figure behind the monitor.

Ning Hao: "."

Someone asked: "Director, are you still going on? Ah, bah bah bah."

"Continue, why not continue, hetui~"

"Action!"

"Card!"

"."

"Card!"

"."

Braving the dust all over the sky, I kept filming for two hours without even a single scene being filmed.

Helpless, we were forced to announce the end of work early at [-] p.m.

The staff silently packed up the props, but it was a bad start, and everyone couldn't help but feel a shadow cast in their hearts.

Lu Yuan looked at Ning Hao sitting behind the monitor and found that this guy was actually grinning.

He walked over, patted the other person's shoulder, and comforted him: "Director, are you okay? The weather in Xingjiang is changeable, so don't worry about it."

Ning Hao waved his hands and said with a happy face: "This is a good sign."

"Good sign?" He was stunned for a moment, maybe this person was crazy.

"Yes, a good sign." Ning Hao explained with a smile: "When we were filming "Green Grass", the same situation happened frequently, and it was quite difficult to shoot."

"At that time, we were filming on the border between China and Mongolia. During this period, there were many accidents. The tent caught fire before we started shooting, and the car overturned just as we started shooting. I remember it very clearly. It was my 27th birthday that day."

"The car carrying the actors accidentally overturned into a ditch, and many people were injured. After crawling out of the ditch, some people chose to leave. They thought the money was too little and the environment was bad, so they simply stopped filming."

"It was all evil at that time, and accidents happened to the crew every day. When we were just having a meeting to discuss how to deal with the car accident, a person ran over and said, "Hey, another car of yours has overturned. Later, I counted it, and it turned over three times in total."

"There were more than 60 people when we joined the team, but only 11 were left when filming was completed. The driver was promoted to production director, the prop master became art, the prop assistant worked on props, and the teacher of the young actors became assistant director..."

Lu Yuan: "." No one else has this kind of luck.

Ning Hao saw him stunned and smiled even more happily: "You know, I met Liu Dehua because of "Green Grass", and later received investment to film "Crazy Stone", so this is a good sign, look at the sky full of yellow Sha, the good wind will send me to the blue clouds with its power, "No Man's Land" will definitely be a hit."

Makes sense!

But the wind is so yellow. Is it possible? Maybe, maybe it means exactly the opposite.

Lu Yuan's lips twitched slightly, and his mind was racing with thoughts. What else could he say? He nodded and said his heartfelt blessing: "You are right, "No Man's Land" is a big seller!"

No Man's Land is very similar in style to a Western road movie.

All the scenes are on the road, and the scenery is also the same, from Shanshan to Devil City.

Starting from the very beginning, it was a small, shabby roadside hotel called the Royal Hotel.

Further ahead, there is a large road sign made of old tires and iron frames.

The sign, which is ten meters high, has white paint written crookedly on the small wooden board: Refuel, Accommodation, Car Repair, Cooking.

The most interesting thing is that on the top of this iron frame, there are three large characters "Night Paris" cast from iron sheets.

In each of Ning Hao's movies, there is a place called Night Paris, where there are songs, dances, and women.

Lu Yuan asked the other party, and his answer was very formal, saying that this was his imagination of the outside world.

In the past, we only focused on ourselves, but now, we are also starting to look outside. The name Paris Night is very exciting. Paris is already very powerful, but it is still Paris Night.

Ya's reality is just places like bars and nightclubs, fart imagination, and Director Ning's bad taste.

About a kilometer away from the road sign is a gas station. In the gas station's store, cheap lighters are printed with beauties in swimsuits, and satellite phones are hung grandly at the door of the store.

Next to the gas station is a small, roofless house. This location was built not long ago, but under the baptism of the yellow sand wind, it already looks like a shabby place that has existed for decades. Whenever the wind blows, the endless yellow sand Just sprinkle it on people's heads.

Lu Yuan, Huang Bo and others stood bent in front of the open window of the small house, staring inside.

The assistant director's name was Pan Xiao. He looked helplessly at the backs of the senior men and said, "I tell you, you are really prepared to keep staring."

"You don't like watching exciting programs?" I don't know who took the time to reply.

During the time I spent in the Gobi Desert, I was too plain. The mobile phone signal was not good. I looked at pictures online for a long time and there was no response. What normal man could stand it.

Lu Yuan remembers that when filming "Soldier Assault", in the later stages, when he woke up every morning, there was always a faint smell of descendants in the house.

The shooting in No Man's Land is relatively better, but not much better.

Pan Xiao scratched his hair and muttered: "At least make room for me."

No one ignored him.

It is said that the creative inspiration of "No Man's Land" actually came from "Green Grass" filmed in 05.

That year, Ning Hao and his companions were driving through Inner Mongolia and saw an eagle flying in the sky.

The companion was well-informed and introduced it casually as the Altai Falcon, which could be sold for millions abroad.

Ning Hao remembered it in his heart, so there was the beginning of no man's land.

The story of No Man's Land is quite simple. Unlike the Crazy series, it follows a single-line narrative.

It is said that in the desolate no-man's land of the northwest, the gangster Huang Bo captured an Altay Falcon worth millions.

Just as he was about to take it back and exchange it for banknotes, he was caught by a policeman.

On the way back to the police station, he tried to bribe him, but they refused.

In order to save him, Dobjie drove and killed the policeman.

Dobjie entered the bureau. In order to get rid of the charge of intentional homicide, he spent a lot of money to hire lawyer Xu Zheng.

Xu Zheng was only interested in profit. By relying on his business ability, he successfully distorted the facts and rescued Dobjie, even though he knew that the black boss was doing many evil things.

Afterwards, the boss said he had no money and wanted to write an IOU and promised to pay off the balance in ten days, while Xu Zheng greedily asked the boss to use his red car as collateral.

But he didn't know that the eagle was hidden in the car.

During this period, Xu Zheng met the Shuangbao brothers while driving on the road. There was a friction between the two. The windshield of the car was broken into pieces and his glasses fell off.

On the other side, Dobjie notified the gangster Huang Bo to intercept him on the road in order to get back the eagle.

However, before this fierce bandit could show off his skills, his glasses were thrown away. Xu Zheng, whose vision was blurred, kicked the accelerator until he fell unconscious.

The most ridiculous part of the entire script is that Xu Zheng mistakenly thought that he had killed the other party.

So he drove the car into a gas station in a panic. He wanted to buy some gasoline and planned to burn the car and the people together, destroying the body and destroying all traces.

Then he encountered blackmail from the gas station owner and tied up the business.

The so-called bundled operation means that if you want to cheer up, you have to watch the energetic song and dance performance first. You can cheer up for [-] yuan and perform for [-] yuan.

Cabaret performances are, to put it bluntly, a business of taking off your clothes.

There were ambiguous and explicit posters in the room. On the side by the window, Xu Zheng was sitting on a chair without squinting.

There was a clothes rack above his head, with a woman's bra and panties hanging on it.

Yu Nan turned her back to the photographer and was wrapped in a bright red blanket.

Although she is not famous, her strength cannot be underestimated.

As early as 04, she won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for the movie "Jingzhe".

She is a capable actress somewhat similar to Qin Hailu.

She stood up and quickly took off her coat, exposing her white body to the camera.

The movements were neat and easy, and there was no trace of shyness on her face. She took off her clothes until only the black bra was left.

Her figure was not good, and her protrusion was non-existent. She could barely be said to be plump. Perhaps it was because she had stayed in this poor place for so long. The men outside the house always felt that there was an inexplicable desire in her body.

Yu Nan kept moving her hands and began to unbutton her bra.

Xu Zheng felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles and quickly stopped him.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?"

"Ah, what are you doing?" She looked up, her eyes filled with astonishment, and she lowered her shoulders and asked, "Do you really want to watch the show?"

"Okay, I'll give you an extra hundred as a tip."

As she spoke, she slid out of bed, put on a blanket, turned on the recorder, and danced around the pole to the exotic music.

Then he threw the blanket away, walked up to Xu Zheng, and began to twist his hips and shake his breasts.

Lu Yuan stared at it for a few times and then looked away. The dancing posture could not be called graceful, but it was very provocative.

It can be seen that it has been carefully designed.

He shifted his gaze to Xu Zheng, who always gave him the impression of Zhu Bajie in his early years.

Looking back now, I find that this person's business ability is really good.

He is especially good at using facial expressions and body language to shape the character's psychological state.

While Yu Nan was dancing, he felt uneasy and kept pressing his index finger on the crack of the worn leather sofa.

The other hand kept clenching and unclenching his fist, while his eyes were floating, only occasionally passing over the opponent's body.

When Yu Nan was sitting on his lap, his hands were in a fist state without touching the other person's skin, and he only relied on the strength of his lower body to hold the other person up.

The character of a slightly mystical lawyer stood out instantly.

Xu Guangtou's handling of details is perfect.

"Amazing."

(End of this chapter)