1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 257 Director Chen wants to kill me?

"Good!" Bellucci shouted with the megaphone raised, and the shot was passed.

Two assistants rushed over to help Zunlong take off the "fortune-telling" props and costumes on his body - the emperor's court beads and topknot, etc., there were quite a few of them.

To be honest, it’s all thanks to Zun Long. If it were someone else, this outfit would be really ugly.

No wonder directors like good-looking and distinctive actors. The former are aesthetically pleasing, while the latter are memorable.

"Brother, you're here?" Zunlong greeted Xia Tian with a smile while picking things down.

Xia Tian handed him a bottle of water and said, "Great acting!"

He smiled and said nothing.

Zun Long’s acting skills are really good, and he is quite different from those veteran actors in China.

He learned Peking Opera as a child, and later studied drama. He also attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and acted on Broadway and Hollywood.

He has performed in many plays and dramas on Broadway and won awards.

In terms of movies, the first movie role was a Chinese chef on a ship - the movie turned out to be the gorilla "King Kong" series~
One of the roles that made him stand out in Hollywood was in the 84 film "The Iceman".

He plays the protagonist, a primitive man who was frozen 40,000 years ago, and now thawed and came to modern society~
The difficulty of this film lies in the fact that primitive people cannot speak.

Throughout the entire film, he doesn't have a single line of dialogue from beginning to end, and can only rely on his eyes, expressions and actions to interpret the psychological changes of a primitive man who returns to the world after being frozen in ice for 40,000 years.

He acted very vividly and thus became famous.

Last year, he starred in the crime film "Year of the Dragon", playing a Chinese gangster boss.

He is handsome, cool, and very stylish, quite like a Hong Kong gangster boss, ruthless and capable, dealing with both external and internal issues.

But the movie is not very good, only the role he played is very successful.

I spoke to old Palo over the phone a few days ago, and he talked about this movie. He had seen it and had a high opinion of John Lone's role!

This role made him famous overnight and he quickly became one of the most popular Chinese actors in Hollywood.

This gave me the opportunity to act in "The Last Emperor".

……

In the summer, I usually come to the Forbidden City and leave after an hour or so, mainly to see if there is anything I need help with or anything that needs to be dealt with; and then to chat with Zun Long, Bellucci and others.

Zun Long is a very pure person. Apart from acting, he doesn't have many hobbies. At most, he goes to Maxim's for a drink and listen to those bands after "getting off work".

As for antiques, finance, humanities and so on... Bellucci is very interested, but he is not very interested in any of them.

Quite a lonely person!
However, Xia Tian could talk to him about Peking Opera.

When talking about Peking Opera, he has more to say.

It can be seen that he does not miss that time, but those are the only memories he has.

According to him, at that time he practiced from morning to night, and practicing and singing was basically work, which lasted about eight to ten hours!

Things like handstands, splits, back bends, leg hangings, singing, reciting, acting and fighting are all strenuous work and very painful.

The play is also sung over and over again.

Moreover, the atmosphere in the troupe was quite bad, and people would get beaten up at any time.

To take a line from "Farewell My Concubine": How did they become such stars? How many beatings did they have to endure?

Oh, by the way, his Peking Opera master is a famous artist in Hong Kong, “Pink Chrysanthemum” from the Spring and Autumn Opera Society!
Xia Tian suddenly remembered something. It seemed that Uncle Nine, Lin Zhengying, also learned acting at the Spring and Autumn Theatre Society. Later, he worked as a martial arts stuntman, then a martial arts instructor, and finally an actor!

They are brothers?!

If you think about it, Xia Tian and Zun Long really have a lot of similarities.

First of all, they are very handsome~
Secondly, he is good at Peking Opera - Zun Long learned the role of Wusheng and he is also good at Huashan.

And he can sing, whether it is jazz, English, Chinese, Cantonese, or opera excerpts.

Although Xia Tian is not very proficient in Peking Opera, he can sing and act most of the roles. And he is a practical martial artist~
Singing is her old specialty. She is so good at singing female voices that it is hard to tell whether they are real or fake.

It's not an exaggeration to say that they are half-brothers who have been separated for many years.

Zunlong calls Xia Tian: My unruly younger brother who is out of tune with the world!
Talking about Xia Tian: He seems to be very peaceful to everyone, but he is very arrogant to the world. He is like a philosopher who lives in seclusion!

Xia Tian did not admit it, saying that he wanted to leave the world but was reluctant to do so, just like an ordinary person who was neither close nor distant.

……

Seeing that there was nothing to do today, Xiatian had a free lunch and then was about to leave.

He hadn't walked far when he suddenly stopped and turned around to look - he seemed to see a familiar face?! He looked at the person carefully, hey, this person is...

This man had never seen Xia Tian, ​​that was for sure. With his memory, if he had seen him, there was nothing he could not remember.

But this face looks familiar. Could it be… No! Isn’t this Director Kai? This is the young Director Kai? !

Although I have never met the great poet Chen in this life, I have seen many photos of him in my previous life. No wonder he looks so familiar.

At this time, Director Chen had a blue headscarf on his head and a circle of stubble around his mouth - no wonder Xia Tian didn't recognize him.

Isn't this Director Chen? I haven't seen him for a few years. Is he so different now?

I, the great poet Chen, have always paid great attention to my image. How could this happen?

Xia Tian waved and called a staff member nearby, "Are these people also actors in the crew?"

"Ah, Brother Tian! That's right, they are all actors, some small roles or background characters."

"What's that guy in the blue turban doing?"

"It seems like... a guard?"

"Oh, okay, I get it."

Xia Tian did not expect that Director Chen would have a cameo in this movie~
Maybe Xia Tian’s question made the staff curious, so the young staff member ran to Director Chen to chat with him and ask some questions.

I only found out after asking this - wow, there is actually a director!

"You graduated from Yandian? That's such a coincidence. Isn't that the same school as Brother Tian? That's great!" The staff member was excited to hear that.

However, Director Chen didn't think so - he was able to come here to play a minor role because this was a film produced by an international director, but what was Xia Tian?
Although he is a little famous, he hasn't even graduated yet. I am already a famous director!
Do I still want to take advantage of his light?
Do you know "Yellow Earth"?
Director Chen looked towards the eaves of the Forbidden City, pretending to be deep, and said: "Xia Tian, ​​he has to call me Senior Brother. After all, he hasn't graduated yet, and he still has a long way to go~"

The staff member was probably a fan of Xia Tian. When he heard this, he couldn't help but tilt his head to look at Director Chen: That's enough!

Look at you, just an extra, eating a box lunch in the corner.

The director asked Xia Tian to play a role but he refused.

As soon as he came to the crew, everyone from the director to the leading actor took the initiative to talk to him.

Even the young actress Chen Chong took the initiative to talk to Brother Tianer, but Brother Tianer ignored her.

Look at you again...

The young man glanced at Director Chen, his eyes filled with inexplicable pity.

As he stood up and left, he asked, "Brother? Are you still living in a feudal society?!"

Director Chen's face suddenly turned red, and he was so angry!

I am such an outstanding person, I am full of talent... It's all your fault! Xia Tian! Can you please die for a while? !

Xia Tian didn't know yet, so she went to find out what role Director Chen played in the crew, but Director Chen wanted to kill her?!

Of course, even if they knew, they probably wouldn't take it seriously. Director Chen has lived in a dream for most of his life, so there's really no need to pay attention to him.

Xia Tian: There are many people who want me dead, who are you? Go to the back and line up to get a number~
……

While Xia Tian is slacking off on the set of "The Last Emperor", in Zhengding, Xiao Xu, Zhang Li and others have already started filming the final scenes of the Ning and Rong mansions.

At the same time, the already filmed shots of "Dream of Red Mansions" began to be edited!

I have to go and see it in the summer in a few days - it’s the final stage and I can’t miss it.

On August 8, Xia took Milan on a bicycle to Shougang to watch the fun!

There were a lot of people watching the fun this time, probably thousands or even tens of thousands!

The reason was that Shougang Corporation imported a set of steelmaking equipment from Belgium.

It's just a steelmaking equipment, what's there to see?
But this is an extra-large steelmaking furnace!
It's a bit like the oversized items in later generations that require extra-long trucks to load, with warning lights at the front and back.

The entire street was under control, and all the power lines crossing the street were cut to make way for it.

Because it was so huge, it was transported very slowly, only a few kilometers an hour—and there were so many people along the way! There were so many people, even people standing on the roofs!

Looking at these large equipment, many people seem to have a feeling that China has entered the era of mechanized production.

In front of this giant steel object, one does feel insignificant.

This kind of feeling is actually easy to understand, just like when someone in a snowy area rolls electric wires into a beaded plate and believes that it has the power of thunder and lightning.

This is people's worship of the unparalleled power of modern industry!
In later generations, there are still many people in India who worship trains very much and often offer human sacrifices to them.
(End of this chapter)