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Chapter 1030 It’s impossible to get off work! (ask for monthly ticket)

A small matter like a concert was just a matter of giving instructions, and Hao Yun didn't need to follow up.

He mostly accompanies An Xiaoxi for walks every day.

Chat with An Xiaoxi and the children.

After taking a walk, he waved goodbye to An Xiaoxi - and then went out to film.

An Xiaoxi felt like she was enjoying the peaceful days as she watched her husband go to work.

Little did he know that her reluctant attitude standing at the door made Hao Yun want to simply not go to work today.

This is impossible.

Fortunately, his workplace is not far away.

In order to shoot "Split", Hei Dou Media temporarily built a simple studio.

It is only a few kilometers away from Hao Yun’s home.

It is said to be simple mainly to compare it with the large studio under construction, but in fact it is enough for shooting a movie like "Split".

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to my rules, everyone should worship the god of the camera with me. This camera is the one I used when I filmed Labyrinth of the Heart. It has been with me for seven years. It helped me win my first Cannes Best Screenplay Award."

Hao Yun first made an opening.

Everyone at the scene immediately quieted down.

People are talking about Cannes, who the hell dares to disobey? I am full of awe for Cannes.

Then everyone took the three incense sticks given by the assistant, walked over one by one, bowed to the camera, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner.

"Most of this movie revolves around Kevin's multiple personalities. Your role may be much weaker, but there is still room for improvement. I hope you can act well. There will definitely be opportunities for us to work together in the future."

Before the first scene of the movie was filmed, Hao Yun did not forget to paint a rosy picture for Saoirse Ronan.

"Thank you, director. I will study hard." Saoirse Ronan didn't care what Hao Yun was talking about.

She just wanted to see Hao Yun's enchanting performance of entering and exiting the role in seconds.

After the Beijing University Student Film Festival, she returned to Miguo and asked her acting teacher about switching acting styles with ease.

Her acting teacher is a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and Saoirse Ronan is considered his outer disciple.

The professor was a little skeptical at first.

It is not uncommon to see such techniques of rapid switching during a performance, and many of them are used to fool laymen. As long as you calm down and observe, you can find the stickiness and unnaturalness before and after the switch.

It's like a clown performing a shaman act.

Whoever sees it will be embarrassed anyway.

But when he heard Ronan say that Hao Yun was not only able to switch quickly, but his performance after the switch was also very exciting and without any trace, he became serious.

Unfortunately, Hao Yun became famous in Hollywood as a director. If you want to see his directing style, "Whiplash", "Buried" and "Source Code" can all serve as references.

It's not easy to watch his performances.

Although he starred in "Whiplash", all the limelight was stolen by Berlin Film Festival winner Feng Yuanzheng.

I can only say that he has some acting skills, but I really can't see that he is as evil as Ronan said.

The professor did not doubt the truthfulness of Ronan's words.

Ronan is a very talented girl, otherwise he would not have accepted his friend's request to teach her.

There are indeed some monstrous geniuses in this world. They learn everything, and they are able to do everything at a very high level.

Ronan is talented, but she is not this kind of genius.

Benjamin Franklin, an important leader during the American Revolutionary War, was not only a politician, but also conducted many experiments on electricity, invented the lightning rod, and was the first to propose the law of conservation of charge. He also invented bifocal glasses, flippers, etc.

In addition to the title of painter, Leonardo da Vinci also has at least a dozen "homes".

Hao Yun only shines in the field of entertainment, and he is already a very "ordinary" genius.

The professor's advice to Ronan is:

When you come across such a talent, you must seize the opportunity and treat the experience as a learning journey.

If you really learn something, it will benefit you for the rest of your life.

Now that Ronan was standing in front of Hao Yun, she had no time to listen to his empty promises. She just wanted to see Hao Yun come in and out quickly.

Hao Yun understood the anticipation in her eyes and asked everyone to get ready.

The drama started with the first show.

The heroine tricked the nine-year-old hero and tried to get him to take them away.

The setting of this movie is very simple.

Most of the scenes took place in the "basement", which was naturally renovated in just a few days.

Some outdoor scenes and scenes set in the psychologist's home were also filmed on Tianjin Wudadao.

It is known as the "International Architecture Expo".

Of course, looking at the architecture now can be considered a compliment, but how the architecture came about is definitely not what counts as beauty.

"Scene 76, 1 shot, 1 time, ready, go!" Assistant Director Guo Ke shouted.

The heroine slowly woke up on the bed. With the subjective perspective camera, she first saw two female classmates shivering while huddled together on another bed, and then she saw Hao Yun sitting at the door.

Hao Yun at this time plays the nine-year-old personality of the protagonist Hedwig.

When the camera slowly turned to Hao Yun, he instantly showed his childish side.

For such a tall man, his manners, expression and language are all childlike and very natural, as if he had undergone thousands of trainings.

However, Saoirse Ronan was very sure that Hao Yun was just performing normally.

Suddenly I had a strange feeling. Would Hao Yun also be like the protagonist in the script, with many personalities, and more mature than "24 Billy", able to be controlled freely and cut seamlessly in seconds?

"Cut!" Assistant Director Guo Ke shouted. When everyone's eyes were focused on him, he quickly said, "The camera is moving a little too fast. We can zoom in a little more."

This time, Hao Yun brought all the people from the Young Directors Program.

Let them do odd jobs in the crew and take turns to work, so as to speed up the shooting progress.

For these people, working for free is not the point. The point is to perform well in front of Hao Yun, so that Hao Yun knows you exist and your level.

They learned from Lu Yang, the social media influencer, that Heidou Media currently has a large stockpile of scripts.

Among them, Hao Yun personally directed more than 20 films that have not yet been filmed.

In addition to the copyrights purchased by Heidou Media from outside and the new scripts created by the screenwriter team, there are at least thirty projects waiting to be developed.

Moreover, Heidou Media is well-known in the circle and has no shortage of investment.

Any random bidding event can attract the wealthiest capital from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong to contribute money and effort.

In the past, Hao Yun liked to find a lot of capital to make movies, with each of them taking a share.

Everyone thought he was mentally ill.

Now I see the power of this model.

However, it was too late for other film companies to follow suit, and they did not have the conditions.

Because other film companies cannot make as much money as Hao Yun's projects, this is the reputation and trust accumulated through long-term cooperation.

Guo Ke was not the first assistant director, he was only responsible for three days of shooting.

In 98, Guo Ke entered the "Jucai" artist training class founded by Hong Kong actor Fang Gang. After failing the entrance exam to Beijing Film Academy, he began to do odd jobs in the crew. During this period, he worked as an actor assistant, a stand-in, and later gradually became an assistant director.

In 2008, he directed the thriller short film "Er Ling Ba".

It didn’t get released in theaters and didn’t win any awards.

This year, when he saw the Young Director Program of Heidou Media, he signed up on impulse.

I didn’t expect that I would actually be accepted.

Before the filming of the movie, Hao Yun chatted with these assistant directors one by one. He didn't know how he was turned into a cuckold by Hao Yun and became the first concubine to sleep with him for "three days".

Hao Yun took a look at the filmed segment and agreed with Guo Ke's opinion, saying that they could shoot it as Guo Ke said.

Others were jealous.

This guy is so lucky that he can make improvements on the first shot.

The boss must have remembered him.

In the camera, Ronan saw nine-year-old Hao Yun about to leave, so he quickly stopped him and started to trick him.

When it comes to acting, you usually get stronger when you meet stronger opponents.

Driven by Hao Yun's superb performance, Ronan showed his extraordinary strength, and even the two female supporting roles performed very well.

If there was anything they didn't perform well, Hao Yun would point it out immediately.

I can even perform it to show them...

This is really incredible. A grown man can not only play a child, but also a girl, and he can play the role better than a real high school girl.

What’s creepy is that he demonstrates this and that, and then quickly switches back to his own role after finishing the demonstration.

After a scene, Saoirse Ronan asked cautiously: "...Don't you think this is a bit..."

She didn't know how to describe it.

"You think this is abnormal?" Hao Yun helped her to answer the question directly, and then said with a smile: "Actually, you can do it if you practice more. I gradually developed this skill while filming my last movie, Manchester by the Sea."

Ronan looked at Hao Yun's sunny and warm face and immediately believed what he said.

"However, I don't recommend you to do this..." Hao Yun decided to dissuade the other party and gave a reason, saying: "This state is not helpful for acting. On the contrary, it will prevent you from getting into the role deeply. After all, no director will ask you to get into the role so quickly."

"Thank you, I understand." Ronan nodded.

But I secretly made up my mind that I must give it a try. If I don't try it, how can I know what it feels like? Anyway, switching too quickly is not a disadvantage.

"You have great potential and a promising future."

The filming started today, and Hao Yun discovered that he was right about Ronan.

"Let's talk about the future in the future, director. Will there be a second part of Split? I think the script has an open ending and there should be unfinished stories." Saoirse Ronan asked curiously.

"Maybe, I haven't thought about it yet." Hao Yun said helplessly.

The ending of the script is that the male protagonist finally splits out his beast personality, but when he sees the scars on the female protagonist's body, he thinks that she is the same kind as him, so he lets her go.

The heroine was rescued from the zoo, but had to go back to face her beastly uncle.

Considering the main story of this movie, will the heroine also develop a protective personality like the hero?

"I'm looking forward to the director writing a new script about this." Ronan hopes to work with Hao Yun more often.

This way it would be easier for her to learn Hao Yun's real skills.

She also tried to switch her performance state, but found it extremely difficult. She couldn't even do one-tenth of what Hao Yun did.

"Director, isn't it time for you to change your clothes?" Guo Ke urged.

His English is very average and he is currently learning English from the assistant director. Many of his instructions need to be translated by the assistant.

"You are the director now, don't call me director."

Hao Yun replied to him and went to change his clothes to continue filming. He would change clothes a lot for this movie.

Every time a new personality appears, a new set of clothes will appear.

Don’t ask why, this is a way of expressing film language.

"Split" does not foolishly revolve around 24 personalities, but instead selects a few with very wide ranges of personality and depicts them in detail.

Focus on a few distinctive personalities.

For example, Dennis, a violent obsessive-compulsive patient, Hedwig, a 9-year-old boy who loves to chat, Patricia, a British woman, and Barry, a fashion designer.

This allows the audience to distinguish different personalities by their clothing and behavior, and in later stages, they can be distinguished simply by the subtle changes in facial expressions that are completely different between the characters.

The woman who is about to appear is Patricia.

This character seems to be a mother figure that Kevin both looks forward to and fears. The part he looks forward to is that she will always remind him or comfort him when Kevin feels like he is about to do something wrong; the part he fears is that as a female figure, she will reflect Kevin's mother's restless anxiety.

Hao Yun wore red clothes and jewelry.

He doesn't look like the nine-year-old boy at all, but he doesn't feel very strange either.

In fact, if you ignore his figure and temperament, Hao Yun is very handsome. He is the type of person who would not make people feel disgusted even if he wears women's clothes.

Uh……

It's the kind that people will say, "Even if I'm a man, I can do it."

"Wow, director, you're dressed very nicely." Another assistant director, Li Ruijun, was amazed.

He had a slight Gansu accent, but Hao Yun understood him.

But he wasn't that angry. It wasn't a big deal, and these assistant directors were all more or less artistic - or you could say they had low emotional intelligence.

"This is normal for making a movie. This is what we directors call professional!" Someone came out to smooth things over. His name was Wen Muye, and he had a slightly higher EQ.

"Okay, okay, hurry up and shoot. After shooting today, I'll leave work early."

Hao Yun was too lazy to pay attention to their poor performance. Look at Lu Yang and Guo Fan, they have high emotional intelligence and are comfortable with flattery.

Hao Yun was not joking when he said leaving get off work early.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the crew finished filming on time.

Several foreign girls thought they would have to work overtime for filming here, and they were wondering whether they should fight for overtime pay.

I didn't expect to get off work on time.

After finishing his work, Hao Yun simply left the set to the group of assistant directors and drove away.

"What's wrong, boss?" Zhang Dalei looked confused.

This guy started preparing for his debut film "August" two years ago, but he couldn't find any investment no matter what. This time he joined the Young Directors Program mainly to cheat money.

"Maybe he's thinking about women." Li Ruijun murmured.

Today is another day when I envy the capitalists, who are not only rich but also have beautiful wives.

"It's normal. His wife is pregnant and I heard she's about to give birth." Bi Gan recently worked as an assistant director on the set of "Dou Dou". He was a little familiar with Hao Yun's dog Hei Dou, so he knew a lot of things.

This was not a secret.

"Do you think... we should clean up these things?" Xin Yukun, who usually doesn't talk much, suddenly asked.

"What do you mean?" Guo Ke was the temporary director and he was responsible for presiding over the overall situation.

"Now that we have people and equipment, why don't we make a short film together for fun!" Xin Yukun had this sudden idea, but the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it.

It's only six o'clock and I'm off work.

Is this the point at which an ambitious man should leave work?
The leading actor left, the three foreign girls also left, and some staff members were also preparing to leave.

But it doesn’t matter!
It’s impossible to get off work!
They have more than a dozen assistant directors, most of whom can write scripts, and there is no shortage of people who are good at photography and understand lighting and sound effects.

For example, Xin Yukun was admitted to the advanced training class of the Photography Department of the Beijing Film Academy in 2008.

It's totally possible to form a small crew.

"Does this count as wasting company resources?" Wen Muye was a little worried, as all of them were actually in the probation period.

Whether he can truly become a contracted director of Heidou Media, or even get the company's virtual stocks, depends on Hao Yun's attitude.

If Hao Yun knew that they were using company equipment without permission, he might get so angry that he might fire them.

"I don't think so. Our task at this stage is to study. Now we stay in the classroom to study after class. Is there any teacher who doesn't like hardworking students?" Xin Yukun asked back.

"Damn, I suddenly feel that it makes so much sense. I'm almost moved by myself." Zhang Dalei said with a smile.

Others nodded.

As for calling Hao Yun for instructions, no one mentioned it and everyone selectively ignored the possibility that Hao Yun had forbidden them to study on their own.

There are more than ten people in their group.

All of them aspire to become film directors.

Frankly speaking, although Heidou Media has not said anything about the survival of the fittest, or how many people will be selected from them in the end, there is more or less some competitive hostility among them.

Now everyone is working together to do something bad, and suddenly they are united unconsciously.

"What kind of filming is suitable for this location? Why don't we create a script first..."

"This place is like a cage. Maybe we can make a movie about kidnapping here."

"The idea is a bit shallow."

"Then let's shoot Stockholm Syndrome. Our hostage has some special feelings for the kidnapper. Wouldn't that make it seem more profound?"

"The plot is not tortuous enough. I think it can be done in a flashback way. The kidnapper in the plot was actually a hostage. She fell in love with the kidnapper, but the kidnapper was shot dead by the police, so she kidnapped a man to find a spiritual sustenance..."

“It feels a bit perverted.”

"I think it seems feasible. What we are revealing is the complexity of human nature."

“I’m just worried that I won’t be able to pass the trial…”

“Is it important to pass the censorship? If you only make movies that can pass the censorship, then what’s the point?”

"The ending can be to have the kidnapper brought to justice, and then give the hostage an open ending, thus achieving an infinitely looping plot structure..."

"Ding Ziguang, aren't you from the acting department? Do you want to act?"

"I've never acted before. Xin Yukun doesn't look like a good guy. Why not let him play a kidnapper, the one shot dead by the police?"

A group of assistant directors quickly completed the script framework and began to enrich the details and design the scene plot.

Everyone performed their duties and the division of labor was completed quickly.

When several staff members heard that they were going to make a short film, they expressed their willingness to stay and work overtime.

Although it is only a small part, it is enough to make this new crew huge.

What the hell is this short film?

Just make a feature film.

As for whether the script has been approved or not, this group of people doesn’t care.

They suffer from lack of funds and opportunities. Many of them have only shot simple graduation works in college, which cost only a few thousand yuan.

Now that they have the best equipment and a "top" team, they can't wait to realize their ambitions.

They even set up the camera in a very realistic way.

Poor cameraman, he had already retired, but he was visited twice in one day.

In fact, the production director had already told Hao Yun about this before he returned home.

If he doesn't even have this ability, how could he be valued by Hao Yun?

But Hao Yun did not stop him.

It is indeed as Xin Yukun said, as a boss, who can refuse employees who voluntarily work overtime?

From Hao Yun's professional perspective, although this circular script is somewhat dark and shameless, it is not too outrageous to be made into a movie.

Maybe you can win a prize or sell it for money.

(End of this chapter)