1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 135 The crew of "Behind the Curtain" met Ah Hui
When Xia Tian arrived at the crew, they were already having lunch.

But Director Li didn't eat it. He was waiting for summer!
"Oh! Now that you're here, I was afraid you would get lost!" He stood up and pulled Xia Tian to sit down.

Although it is the "boxed lunch" of the crew - someone is specially hired to cook it, it is not for sale at that time.

But Director Li specially waited for Xia Tian and prepared several dishes and a large pot of rice, which shows his sincerity!

Xia Tian was not polite, and said thank you for those foreign words - when people get along with each other, it is important to get along well with each other. People who get along well with each other really hit it off at first sight!
Well, many people hit it off with Xia Tian right away.

Hey, you don’t have any other skills, except making friends!
What kind of social succubus? !
Xia Tian sat down and picked up the chopsticks. "Are you afraid that I'll get lost? It's been so many years since you left this land. If I'm going to get lost, it's you who should get lost!"

Li Heizi was silent for a few seconds, then he laughed: "Yeah, yeah! I can't find the way back either!"

The two didn't talk about this anymore and started chatting about the movie, from the shooting progress to the actors, from the script to the storyboard, while eating and chatting.

Director Li talks a lot, Xia Tian listens a lot, but also eats a lot~
Halfway through the meal, Xia Tian noticed someone "passing by", and it turned out to be an acquaintance.

Director Li yelled, "Hey, what are you doing? You're sneaking around! Come here!"

The way he waved his hand made him look like a big brother in the underworld!
The handsome and recognizable man, with a slightly long face and a bit of evil charm, came over with lowered eyebrows.

Director Li pulled him over and said, "Let me introduce you. This is our male lead, Liang Jiahui!"

"This is summer, my friend!" Director Li acted more like a gangster boss!
Tony Leung: Is this the young man that the director took the time to meet? Is he someone important?

Xia Tian put down the rice bowl and smiled: "Hello, Lei!"

He stretched out his hand—I’ve heard a lot about you!
"Hello Lei, hello Lei!" He was very surprised - this handsome guy actually knows Cantonese!

Pretty handsome!
Liang Jiahui’s first impression of Xia Tian was that he was handsome, and his second impression was that he could eat!
He swore that he had never seen anyone eat so much in his life!
As for this meal, although it was just a "simple" working meal with only four dishes, we spent a full hour and a half eating and chatting.

In the summer, I ate like this for an hour and a half! I ate a bowl and a half of rice!

Liang Jiahui swore that he had never thought that a basin with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters would be used to hold rice!
By the end of the meal, the dishes were gone, but Director Li still asked the kitchen to prepare a few more dishes.

Xia Tian reached out to stop him: "No need, 70% full is just right."

Liang Jiahui——(⊙⊙), his eyes were staring straight ahead!

Anyway, although his appetite was a bit scary, Liang Jiahui thought this guy was unexpectedly good.

If you want to make friends with someone in the summer, there is basically no one you can’t make friends with.

It's nothing more than catering to his preferences!
Other people’s temperament, preferences, habits... as long as he wants, he can analyze them in a short period of contact.

Or maybe it shouldn’t be called analysis, it’s more like a feeling. It feels like I haven’t used my brain much!
It's just like people can naturally smell and feel cold and hot.

Tony Leung Ka Fai suddenly went to the mainland to film, and he didn't know anyone except some people from the original Hong Kong team. And he couldn't speak the language!

Both parties have to communicate by using gestures and speaking slowly, otherwise the other party won’t understand.

In addition, there is still a bit of a gap between Hong Kong and the mainland, and people look at each other as if they are looking at something strange, so there is less communication.

Apart from the heroine, Liang Jiahui doesn’t know many people from the mainland now!

Now it’s all right, this kid Xia Tian came at the right time, he’s just what I want!
As for Xia Tian's feelings towards Liang, let's not talk about the filters of later movies and TV series. The patriotism alone is enough. It's worth making friends with him!
Xia Tian stayed on the crew for three days before leaving. During these three days, Liang Jiahui mostly chatted with Xia Tian, ​​except when filming.

We are all young people, making friends is so easy!
Liang Jiahui calls Xia Tian "A Tian" and Xia Tian calls him "A Hui".

He even talked about how he was dating Director Li's daughter and was eventually roped in to play the male lead.

This is also the reason why he has a so-so relationship with many people in Hong Kong - on the one hand, he dares not offend the director "The Son-in-Law", and on the other hand, he looks down on "giggling women"!
Unfortunately, Xia Tian knew that he, Director Li's "son-in-law", not only failed to benefit from the fame, but was even affected by it.

As the first famous Hong Kong director from a non-Zuopai company who dared to return to the mainland to make films, Director Li was under heavy political pressure.
Originally Li Heizi was signed to Shaw Brothers, but he went to the mainland to make movies.

Uncle Shao Liu was a petty person, so he reported the incident to the island directly - after that, Li Heizi could no longer make any films in Hong Kong or Taiwan.

Although the literary and artistic circles on the island kept saying good things about Li Heizi, saying that he went to the mainland to make movies only for the sake of his film ideals and had nothing to do with ZZ, they also invited him to participate in the Golden Horse Awards.

But the literary and artistic circles are often powerless against the authorities, so the island simply refused to let him enter.

It was not until the 92 Consensus that relations between the two sides eased and they returned to the island...

Director Li has such a bad reputation, how can Liang Jiahui be any better?

Few people know that Liang Jiahui is actually a sprinter!
When he was in junior high school, he won the short-distance running championship with a speed of more than 11 seconds for the meters. This record broke the -meter record of all previous sports games in Hong Kong at that time.

So when he found out that Xia Tian ran the 10.67 meters in seconds, he was very surprised! He knew how amazing that was!

Unfortunately, his sports coach told him that his body proportions would be a disadvantage for him to become a professional athlete - his other talents were good, but his body proportions were not good.

So he gave up the idea of ​​becoming an athlete and after the college entrance examination, he was admitted to the graphic design major of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Yes, he is a graduate of Hong Kong Polytechnic University! In 80, when he just graduated, he found out that TVB was recruiting artists for the artist training class, so he accompanied his friends to sign up.

It’s still the same “old” joke – the one who registered was not selected, but the one who accompanied him was selected.

He and Liu Dehua became classmates in the 10th Artist Training Class.

In addition, classmates include Michelle Yim and Xu Jinjiang.

By the way, Liu Dehua also accompanied the examinee, and there was another candidate who “failed”, Zhou Xingxing.

During his studies, Liang Jiahui played supporting roles, but later he was not satisfied with the TVB contract because of the long working hours and low pay - Uncle Shaw was a notoriously demanding artist.

Because he refused to sign the 8-year contract, he was kicked out by TVB before completing the one-year training course.

Later he founded a magazine, in which he was responsible for interviewing, photography, editing, and printing.

During the period of founding the magazine, Tony Leung Ka Fai met Li Heizi's second daughter for the magazine cover shoot and started dating her...

We call it dating, the other side calls it dating. It's a lot more fashionable with one less word!
I was called to act in a movie without knowing why.

Liang Jiahui complained to Xia Tian: "Although I knew I was coming here, they didn't tell me to play the leading role! I haven't even played a supporting role!"

Liang can't speak Mandarin, so Xia Tian taught him. What a great thing! Damn it! You little bastard! Fuck you! What are you looking at...

I will definitely have a good time here in the future!

In 1984, 26-year-old Liang Jiahui won the Best Actor award at the Academy Awards for his role in "The Last Emperor", becoming the youngest actor in the history of the Academy Awards.

Then he refused to write a letter of guarantee to the island, and after being banned, he had no more roles to play, so he started selling things on the street.
After several years of being in the dark, he finally got the chance to make a comeback and became the actor with a thousand faces...

……

When Xia Tian came to the crew of "The Curtain", of course he didn't just come to meet Liang Jiahui. In addition to him, he also met the female lead Liu Xiaoqing.

"Wow! Big star! I've only seen you on the screen before, and today I finally meet you in person!" Xia Tian smiled and shook hands with the other party.

Liu Xiaoqing was very generous. He smiled cheerfully and shook hands with Xia Tian: "Don't tease me. I have seen your stills and life photos in "Popular Movies"! "Spiritual Transformation", right?!"

Liu Xiaoqing knew that this young man had a very good relationship with the director and the male lead in Hong Kong. He wondered where he came from?
Although Liu Xiaoqing was already quite famous in the mainland, he still had a miserable time in the crew which was mostly composed of Hong Kong people.

Not to mention the salary and food, we also can't speak the language.

She doesn't understand Cantonese, and Liang Jiahui doesn't understand Mandarin, so they are talking at cross purposes. Often, after she finishes speaking her lines, the other party is still listening - because they don't realize that the other party has finished speaking.

In the end, there was no other choice but for the two to act with a fan. Liang Jiahui kept waving the fan while speaking his lines, and as soon as the fan stopped, Liu Xiaoqing would immediately continue the dialogue.

Don't worry about what you say, you say yours and I say mine~
In addition to the male and female protagonists, Xia Tian also has two "familiar friends" - Emperor Zhang Tielin and Xie Yuan also starred in this drama.

In the play, one of them plays a minister and the other plays a eunuch...these two people look a bit alike!
I didn't get to know the two of them in the summer.

Instead, I went to say hello to the folklore consultant, who turned out to be the crosstalk master Hou Baolin! Unexpected, right?

This guy is amazing. He performed crosstalk for the teachers.

His son Yaowen later became the little black fat man's master.

Xia Tian greeted the man respectfully. The old man was in his early sixties, with a long face and a receding hairline.

He was very kind: "Xia Tian? Ha, I often see you in the newspaper! I even read it before I came here!"

Director Li and his team started filming at the Mountain Resort on August 8th, and summer was at its peak at that time!
Xia Tian quickly waved his hands: "I am young and frivolous, please don't laugh at me."

"Haha, what a joke. If you are not frivolous when you are young, will you be frivolous when you are old? I really like what you said - when talking about youth, you should repel mediocrity. There is nothing wrong with young people being a little sharp! Haha~"

Xia Tian agreed with a smile.

In fact, this was also an idea that came to him after he changed his mindset - if you are always too low-key, people with ulterior motives will think you are too thoughtful.

Sometimes, if there is nothing wrong with you, it makes people feel that you are too fake! Those who have no desires and no demands, want a lot!
So, it can be reassuring to have a passionate argument with someone in the newspaper!

Master Hou Baolin was born in the 1930s and is well versed in many things about the late Qing Dynasty. He is a very helpful folk customs consultant.

What makes Li Heizi even more proud is that the props made by his crew are all real antiques!
Tables, chairs, benches, screens, pen holders, four treasures of the study, plaques, calligraphy and paintings...

But he was so happy!
"Xiaotian, what do you think of my prop? I borrowed it from the museum, so it must be fine!"

Xia Tian got angry when he saw his smug look: It may be fine now, but after many years, it may not be the original one!

(End of this chapter)