Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

After Chu Zhongtian took the soap with a helpless look on his face, Xia Yuan took out another "prop".

It was actually a little yellow duck toy, the kind of bathtub toy that makes a sound when you squeeze it.

He silently handed the little yellow duck to Eddie.

It’s a small one. The little yellow duck feels small and delicate in the big palm of the little black fat boy Eddie.

The little black fat boy took the little yellow duck with a look of disgust and grinned: "Shit!"

Among the three main actors, two of them are really disliked.

Edward Chris was the only one who looked normal, without any sign of disgust at all.

Because for him, it was already a blessing that he had a movie to shoot. He had always been a person who could not live happily and his life was dark. Now it was Xia Yuan's existence that gave him a chance, a chance to return to normal life and start over.

Not to mention just making a movie with such an outrageous plot, although according to the script, the movie is indeed outrageous to the point of being outrageous, but in fact, with the open culture of America, this kind of diversified and abstract work was still very popular during the period when he was active.

At that time, America had no constraints on creation and was generally in a very free stage of creation. Brilliant artistic expressions emerged one after another, and many classic works were produced.

It was in recent years, especially after 2018-2020, that the situation changed. The atmosphere in America and Hollywood changed.

Various civil rights movements became more rampant, and these people became more and more extreme, even starting to nitpick over the presence or absence of certain elements in certain works of art.

Even if there is a relatively beautiful female character in a game, they will scold you to death, thinking that you are objectifying women and that only beautiful women can play games. Once they put such a label on you, it means that you are disrespecting those women who are average-looking or even ugly. Or they will take to the streets to protest, smash and rob, and denounce your game.

As a result, the game hasn't had any female characters with "human form" for a long time. It's hard to describe them all. Even if there is one, it can't be human. Otherwise, it must be a female bronze, or a man who turned into a woman, otherwise they will definitely be caught.

Even some very ancient myths, myths of the Aryan white people, which happened in ancient times, will be made fun of even if there are no black people in them when adapted into literary and artistic works.

They didn't care whether there were black people in Europe at that time, or not. At that time, black people were still eating raw meat and drinking blood on the prairie lands of Africa, and had nothing to do with the Aryan white people.

In short, you have to have black people! And they can't be marginal characters, they have to be the past of a certain country, or princesses!
What? You don't like it?

Well, I'm sorry, if you're unhappy we'll make trouble, and if that doesn't work we'll shoot, and if that doesn't work we'll indiscriminately shoot on the streets.

The environment for artists is becoming increasingly tight, and they are becoming more restrained, worrying that if they do something or some detail incorrectly, they might offend some extreme group of radical elements.

There are too many such groups. If you fail to pay attention to one of them, you will be doomed.

But no matter how much they complain, there is nothing they can do but endure it. As the situation has developed to this point, the entire American cultural market is actually quite distorted, and the market is shrinking.

But again, these are just the current situation.

But many years ago, or even just a few years ago, Hollywood was not like this, and America was not like this either.

At that time, it was truly an era of flourishing Hollywood. There were not too many restrictions on artistic creation, and there were no shackles. This created batches of excellent works and cultural treasures.

So Edward Chris knew very well that such a film was not really outrageous. If it were released a few years ago, it would be a very normal comedy of a satirical nature.

And
Xia Yuan gave him this opportunity. Not to mention playing a role that would ruin his image, if it could help him cheer up and rekindle his hope for life, then what would it matter if he was really allowed to make a small movie, even a male lead movie?

He had had enough of that hard life! He had had enough of being treated like a nobody!

Xia Yuan also smiled: "Very good, now that everything is ready, let's get ready to start filming!" Immediately, preparations for the first scene began.

As the first scene, Xia Yuan arranged a confrontation between the three main actors, which was the first plot intersection where the three protagonists intersected in the film.

This plot tells the story of John Yang (Chu Zhongtian) who, in order to better retaliate against the judge's son Biederman (Edward Chris), bribed the boss of the male gang in prison, the fat black man Barry (Eddie Isaacs).

John Young fooled Barry and sold Biederman to him, hoping to "give" Biederman to Barry and make money. Barry was naturally happy to accept the "white chocolate" that was delivered to his door.

So, this scene was the first time the three of them met in the bathroom.
After a period of preparation, the crew members were ready to start filming, and the actors and extras also took their corresponding positions.

"Okay, "Cellmates" scene 21, first section, fourth shot, first line. Three, two, one, action!"

Snapped!
The script supervisor was making decisions in front of the camera with an excited look on his face.

As for why he was so excited? The reason was simple.

Of course he was excited. After all, it had been so long, more than two years, since he had filmed with Director Xia and hadn't made decisions for Director Xia.

Now they can finally return to their previous life, and this is also the starting point of their conquest of Hollywood, how can they not be excited?

At the same time, this is also the feeling in the hearts of everyone in Xia Yuan's crew at this moment.

After the script supervisor finished clapping the board and walked away happily, the camera moved and the actors began to perform.

Chu Zhongtian and Edward Chris stood under the shower head and started taking a bath.

The fat boy Eddie enters the room, showing the camera a thick black back, and begins to speak: "What should a pretty white boy like you do in a place like this?"

The camera switched to position one, aiming at Eddie's face. There was an inexplicable look on Eddie's face as he stared at Edward Chris.

His chest hair is almost touching his face.

Chris appropriately portrayed the state of being overwhelmed.

On the side, Xia Yuan sat in the director's seat, controlling the whole scene and nodding.

It's still pretty good. He originally thought that Chris hadn't filmed a movie for several years, and after such a long period of time, his condition might not recover very quickly. He was even prepared for a lot of NGs to give Chris a chance to find his condition.

But unexpectedly, Chris's acting was quite good. His expression was natural, his micro-expressions were spot-on, there was nothing abrupt, his aura was exuded all at once, and even a casual glance became the highlight of the play, the center of the storm.

This made Xia Yuan reveal a hint of admiration in his eyes.

But then there comes a hint of doubt.
This state is so good, and the acting is also very good.

Logically speaking, in this magical place called the American film and television industry, everyone's moral bottom line is very active.

What happened to make Chris become what he is today?

Normally, Chris's mistakes wouldn't be considered a big deal for many American movie stars, right? And with his excellent acting skills, he shouldn't be short of roles to play, and that shouldn't be a reason to stop investors from hiring him to act.

But why? (End of this chapter)