Entertainment 1998

Chapter 796 Chapter 795, Worship at the Imperial Ancestral Temple

According to Feng Xiaogang's rules, he absolutely has the final say in the crew!

How to shoot a movie? When to shoot? How long is each scene? Which actor should appear at what time? How should the script be adjusted? And so on.

The final decision is entirely up to Feng Xiaogang!
Even if Mr. Wang from Huayi Brothers Media, the film investor, came to the crew to talk, it didn't work.

In a word, you have to listen to me when you are in my territory.

But this time, Feng Xiaogang made an exception.

Just before Ge You went on stage for filming, Jiang Feng raised his hand and greeted him.

"Director Feng, we need to shoot this scene in one take!"

One shot is a professional term in film shooting. Simply put, it means the shot is not cut.

Upon hearing this, Feng Xiaogang wanted to object immediately, because the one-shot shooting method is a huge test for the director, photographer, and actors.

It requires that the start and end of the lens must be precisely designed and controlled...

But there was no choice. When he saw that Zhao Laonian, Zhang Yimou, Fan Wei and Ge You were all very interested in this, and that his own photographer Zhang Li was also eager to try it, Feng Xiaogang reluctantly agreed.

Even though this long shot, which lasted more than 5 minutes, might cause great trouble to post-production editing, Feng Xiaogang gritted his teeth and agreed.

grass…

The main thing is that I can’t afford to offend these bastards.

But no matter how much he complained or cursed, Feng Xiaogang still took the filming work very seriously. The moment Ge You came on the scene, this guy put on headphones and sat quietly behind the director's monitor.

It's a long shot that goes from one shot to the end. Even though I can't direct it, but seeing how you guys perform..., there's no problem.

When Feng Xiaogang saw this, he was immediately shocked.

Zhao Laonian, with his cross-eyed face, raised his double-barreled shotgun fiercely and pointed it at Ge You's forehead at the first opportunity.

"Don't move, this is robbery!"

With the gun pointed at his forehead, Ge You was stunned for the first moment. He raised his hands and stepped back mechanically.

In the past, when filming a movie, no matter how big the star was, everyone had to rehearse their lines and practice their movements before filming.

Because this will make the shooting go very smoothly.

But this time, Ge You only knew his own plot and lines. He was completely unfamiliar with the four robbers in front of him and had no idea what they were trying to do.

Just as Ge You was thinking about whether he should continue speaking the lines according to the movie script, Zhang Yimou, wearing a mask and speaking in northern Shaanxi dialect, appeared.

"Come on, take out all your money and put it in my bag."

"As long as you pay quickly, our robbery process will be fast. If our robbery process is fast, you won't suffer at all."

"Hey, sister, how can you be so uncultured? You actually took off your shoes when you were out on the train. Believe it or not, I can kick your shoes under the train."

"Ha ha…"

Zhang Yimou, who speaks with a Northern Shaanxi dialect, became a chatterbox on the set. He held a large woven bag and asked people to throw money and mobile phones into it while he kept on nagging.

When Feng Xiaogang saw this scene through the director's monitor, he laughed out loud.

Fortunately, this is a comedy movie, so it doesn’t matter even if some of the extras sitting in the car laugh.

While everyone was having fun, Fan Wei and Jiang Feng appeared, each holding a shiny axe in their hands.

"All kinds of cards, cash, cell phones, necklaces, hurry up and throw them all into the bag."

"Here, bring the bag, you hear me?"

"If you don't bring it to me, I'll chop you down!"

Compared to Zhao Laonian's cross-eyedness and Zhang Yimou's chatterbox, Jiang Feng and Fan Wei's partnership is more ferocious. No matter whether they meet an old man or an old lady, they threaten them with force.

"What is this?"

Jiang Feng asked with his index finger raised.

At this time, Fan Wei's eyes became interesting and he nudged Jiang Feng beside him with his elbow.

"Big brother."

"Yeah." Jiang Feng raised his head.

"Brother, wait a moment, I want to rape you." After saying that, Fan Wei, with a lustful look in his eyes, raised an axe and walked towards Shu Qi and Liu Tianwang.

"IP IC IQ card, tell me the password."

"Report a robbery..." At this time, King Liu raised his hand.

"We don't have IQ cards here."

"Why not?" Fan Wei asked.

"I have an IQ, and you don't?"

"If you give it to me, won't I have it?" Fan Wei was angry with an axe in his hand.

...

"Ha ha…"

Sitting behind the director's monitor and watching the real-time images from the shooting site, Feng Xiaogang laughed like crazy.

Is Fan Wei so fun?
On the set, his performance directly outperformed the two directors Jiang Feng and Zhang Yimou and the Northeastern comedian Zhao Laonian.

There was just one thing that left Feng Xiaogang puzzled.

The performances of these four people were obviously very good, and even someone like me who has a very high sense of humor was made to laugh out loud by them. However, there were very few movie extras who laughed at the scene.

Even if some extras burst out laughing, they were able to quickly collect themselves and then play the role of passengers seriously.

Unable to figure out what was going on, Feng Xiaogang wanted to ask, but as soon as he raised his hand behind the director's monitor, his wife Xu Fan leaned over.

"Xiao Gang, do you want to ask why there were so few extras laughing at the filming today?"

"Yes." Feng Xiaogang was stunned, and then said: "I just feel very strange, the same group of extras, but their state is completely different from the previous two days."

"Before the filming, Jiang Feng asked the assistant director of our crew to hold a meeting with the extras and told them that whoever laughs the least in today's scene will get the highest salary."

grass…

Before Xu Fan could finish his words, Feng Xiaogang cursed.

Otherwise, Jiang Feng was smart. He could immediately control these people's emotions by just slightly changing the way the extras were paid.

Just as Feng Xiaogang thought of this, the performance of the four-man robbery group consisting of Jiang Feng, Zhao Laonian, Zhang Yimou and Fan Wei came to an end.

At the same time, the actors playing police officers in the carriage stood up from their seats, pulled out their guns, and pointed them at Fan Wei, Zhang Yimou, Zhao Laonian, and Jiang Feng.

These four people were knocked to the ground by everyone.

"OK, passed."

The moment he saw everyone's performance, Feng Xiaogang, who was behind the director's monitor, raised the walkie-talkie in his hand.

"Thank you, director!"

"Thank you Director Jiang!"

"Thank you, Teacher Zhao!"

"Teacher Fan Wei, your acting is really great."

Upon hearing the command, the extras and professional actors in the train carriage, as well as three big names, Shu Qi, Ge You and King Liu, all stood up and pulled up the four robbers lying on the floor.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Fan Wei had the lowest status, and he was a little uncomfortable hearing everyone's praise. After putting his hands together to express his gratitude to everyone, he quickly hid behind Zhao Laonian.

Sometimes, being too good at acting is a sin.

"Okay?"

This question was asked by Zhang Yimou.

"Jiang Feng, Teacher Zhao, do you think our performance was okay?"

"It's already pretty good!" Zhao Laonian said with a smile.

"Ok!"

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "If Director Feng is not satisfied, then we can come back to shoot tomorrow. We are all in Beijing anyway, so it won't be a big deal to come here.

And when we arrived at the set of A World Without Thieves, Director Feng even treated us to a meal.”

"Ha ha…"

Hearing Jiang Feng say this, Feng Xiaogang, who had just gotten out of the carriage, laughed and shook hands with everyone.

“It was very well acted, very well done.

Jiang Feng, Director, Mr. Zhao, I promise you that I will not cut even a single second of this 5-minute and 16-second scene."

"Director Feng, is this what you said?"

"I told you to wait and see the finished film when you go back." Seeing Jiang Feng's face full of disbelief, Feng Xiaogang patted his chest.

……

Finished the play.

Jiang Feng, Zhao Laonian, Zhang Yimou and Fan Wei went to remove their makeup.

As for removing makeup, the four of them were not in a hurry because it was a friendly guest appearance, and according to the rules of the industry, friendly guest appearances are not paid. Well, the most they could get was travel expenses from the crew.

Of course, the director who makes a friendly guest appearance must be provided with meals, because it is a friendly guest appearance... If he doesn't even eat, then he is forcing the crew to pay for his work.

So, Zhang Yimou and Jiang Feng, who had nothing to do in the afternoon, took off their makeup and strolled around the filming site of "A World Without Thieves".

Take a look at the train carriages, and then take a look at this greenhouse used for filming movies.

"Jiang Feng..."

"Ah."

"You think these four train cars are pretty good? I mean if they were filming the movie Train to Busan!"

"It's pretty good, but some parts need to be changed."

"What about?"

"The seats in the carriages should be more luxurious, the connecting doors between carriages should be changed to electric horizontal pulls, and two rows of huge LED screens should be installed outside the carriages to play the scenery along the way from Seoul, South Korea to Busan..."

At first, Zhang Yimou was just listening.

But later on, he just took notes. Sometimes when he wrote too slowly, Zhang Yimou would ask Jiang Feng to say it again.

In response, Jiang Feng agreed with a smile.

While the two of them were chatting, Fan Wei and Zhao Laonian were following them and listening to them talk about the filming precautions of a movie called "Train to Busan".

time flies.

In the blink of an eye, it was 5:30 in the afternoon. According to the shooting notice of the movie "A World Without Thieves", the crew had to finish work at 6:00 in the evening.

Seeing that there was still half an hour left, Jiang Feng, who was talking dryly, signaled Zhang Yimou, Zhao Laonian, and Fan Wei, "Let's go to the rest area of ​​the crew to have some tea together."

But just as Jiang Feng was pointing to the crew's rest area, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated. He took it out and saw that it was a text message from his agent Wang Jinghua.

[Jiang Feng, are you watching TV? ]

〔No.〕

Jiang Feng felt a little strange about the text message sent by his agent.

Didn't I inform you before coming here? Feng Xiaogang asked me to write a song for him, but I didn't agree, so I came here to play a small role for him.

Just as I was complaining, Wang Jinghua's text message came again.

[At 2 p.m., the National Television News Comprehensive Channel broadcast a piece of news during the hourly news that starting this year, the country will exempt farmers across the country from agricultural taxes.

Not only that, the news also said that starting this year, the state will provide subsidies to farmers who grow crops.

Well, in the news, the relevant department mentioned the movie "Hidden in the Dust" which you wrote and directed! 】

[Jiang Feng, I just checked Tianya Forum and NetEase Forum. There are discussion posts about the news of agricultural tax exemption. On Tianya Forum alone, there were as many as 150 million posts within two hours.

Netizens all said that apart from the relevant leaders, you, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li are the three who deserve to be enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. 】

[Well, also, isn’t your next movie, Get Out, going to be released in the global film market on June 6st?
Netizens on Tianya Forum have said that no matter whether they like Hollywood movies or not, or who won the Oscar, Golden Globe, or Oscar, as long as the movie is released in China, they will buy tickets to support it as soon as possible. 】

Wang Jinghua's three short messages should have been edited long ago. When Jiang Feng replied, her three long short messages came instantly.

Jiang Feng read these three short messages three times in a row, and tears welled up in his eyes every time he read them. Especially when Jiang Feng saw the four words "worthy of being enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple", he felt that his life was worth it!
It's not about the money.

This is doing something good for the people across the country, which proves that my journey through time was not in vain.

Perhaps it was because Jiang Feng stood still that attracted Zhang Yimou's attention; or it might be because it was the first time Zhang Yimou saw Jiang Feng's tears and he felt curious.

So he walked over quietly at the first moment and touched Jiang Feng with his hand.

"what happened?"

"What happened?"

"If you really have any difficulties, you might as well tell me. Although I don't have much ability, I can still get to know a few people there."

Zhang Yimou felt a little embarrassed. The movie "Train to Busan" was obviously intended to train students of the Beijing Film Academy, but he ended up getting it first.

So now, seeing Jiang Feng in tears, he decided to lend him a hand to make up for his guilty feeling.

But before he could say that, Jiang Feng stuffed his phone in his hand.

"Director, take a look."

"what?"

Zhang Yimou took the phone and looked at the screen.

At the beginning, Zhang Yimou had a knowing smile on his face. The news of exempting agricultural tax was spread before the meeting. It was said that it could be done this year, and hundreds of millions of farmers across the country would no longer have to pay agricultural tax reserves for farming.

What’s more, the country provides subsidies for farming!

But when Zhang Yimou saw the four words "enjoy the sacrifice in the Taimiao", tears of shame instantly flowed out.

This is not just a certain netizen making fun of Jiang Feng, himself and Gong Li, but the affirmation of millions of netizens for his performance in the movie "Hidden in the Dust".

It was himself, Gong Li and Jiang Feng who, at the critical moment, allowed the relevant leaders to see the real countryside, and then enabled them to make the right decisions.

This abolished the agricultural tax that had existed in China for more than 2000 years. From this point of view alone, the four-word evaluation given by netizens, "worthy of being enshrined in the Taimiao", is absolutely appropriate!

The news on the Internet spread very quickly. Just when Jiang Feng and Zhang Yimou were looking at each other in silence with tears in their eyes, their cell phones started ringing violently.

"Brother Feng, have you read the news? Millions of netizens have spoken highly of you, saying that you deserve to be enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple."

"Director, have you seen the news? Millions of netizens praised you within two hours, saying that you deserve to be enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple."

(End of this chapter)