Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 320 Not good enough

to be frank.

When he heard the on-site refutation that it was "over", Chen Nuo really felt relieved.

The moment when I threw the goggles into the sky was almost like the moment when I walked out of the examination room after the college entrance examination.

Three whole days.

As a native of Xichuan, I endured three whole days in the snowy outdoors with temperatures of more than ten to twenty degrees below zero, braving the biting cold wind.

He didn't know how he managed to hold on.

Every day when I returned to the hotel, my feet were almost numb and had to soak in boiling hot water for several minutes before they slowly regained consciousness.

Riding this snowmobile is much harder than riding a fucking horse. The key is to have two cameras shooting at the same time. If you deviate from the route even a little bit, you have to start over.

During these more than 70 hours, I had less than five hours of rest time a day. From morning to night, I applied countless frostbite ointments, moisturizing creams and various skin care products on my face, hands and legs.

Whenever he saw Michelle, the little black girl who grew up in the Sunshine City, wrapped up like a dumpling, running over to touch up his makeup and protect him from the cold and sun during breaks, he felt that life was really hard.

Now that I have finally made it through, I really want to roar to the sky.

However, he did not forget that he was not the only one who had been suffering these days.

He turned around and high-fived and hugged the three stuntmen who had worked with him in the snow for the past three days.

"Harry."

"Milton."

"Cherry."

"Thank God guys, great job, thank you."

The three Canadian snow stuntmen also grinned.

"It's okay. To be honest, I didn't think you could really do it."

"We were all betting on how long you could last, and you surprised us all."

"You're working too hard, Chen. You're already a superstar. There's no need to do this, really. It will cost us our jobs."

"Hahaha."

"Hahahahaha."

Several people started laughing, and Chen Nuo laughed along with them.

But only he knows how much ups and downs there are in my heart.

There's nothing to complain about.

What a superstar! Not to mention that he has not yet stepped into the super-giant threshold of the 2000 million club, he has not received a serious 2000 million film contract from any of the six major film companies.

Even if that really happens one day, look at Tom Cruise.

Even in their forties or fifties, they still ride motorcycles to jump off cliffs and climb the world's tallest tower.

What does this mean?
This fully demonstrates that in order to succeed in making such a commercial action movie,

The first requirement is not how good the protagonist is at acting,

But how hard you work!
No matter how bad an actor is, as long as he is handsome and hardworking, he can be Tom Cruise.

Even if you are not handsome but are willing to work hard, you can still be Jacky Chen.

If a person is handsome, willing to work hard and can act, then...
It seems that there is no such person yet.

Chen Nuo decided to fight for his life.

He must not let Nolan's picky group of monsters ruin his plans.

the next day.

Chen Nuo was holding a sniper rifle, lying on the ground, looking at the opposite side through the scope with a serious expression.

The next second, his eyes moved away from the sight, looking a little dazed.

His thick, slightly curved eyelashes trembled, and his pupils seemed to dilate, as if he saw an unimaginable person through a scope.

Ariadne whispered, "Cobb, no, she, she's not real."

"How do you know?" Chen Nuo's eyes moved to the side and he looked at her out of the corner of his eye.

Ariadne shouted anxiously: "She is just a reflection in your mind. Fisher, Fisher is the real one!" Fisher is the one they are protecting.

Chen Nuo put his eyes back to the sight.

Yes, within his field of vision, Fisher had just walked into the room opposite.

Behind Murphy, his wife Mel suddenly dropped to the floor from a gap in the ceiling.

Just as he hesitated, Fisher heard the sound and looked back.

Mel fired.

Fisher fell to the ground immediately.

Chen Nuo subconsciously pulled the trigger of the sniper rifle.

The next moment, two blood flowers bloomed on Mel's body and he crawled on the ground.

She is dead.

Chen Nuo took his eyes off the sight and breathed heavily.

Although he only pulled the trigger twice, it felt like he had run 20,000 meters.

The two cameras of 3Dmax are like a person’s left and right eyes, magnifying every micro-expression on his face with extraordinary clarity.

His brows were tightly furrowed into the shape of a "川" character, with a deep groove forming between his eyebrows.

His eyes were wide open, filled with shock and pain.

His nostrils flared rapidly, every breath was trembling, his lips quivered slightly, and the corners of his mouth drooped, as if he wanted to say something, but the words were choked in his throat.

So he could only squeeze out a few heavy breaths from his throat, as if the decision just now had drained all his energy.

Nolan sat in front of the monitor and shouted into the intercom, "Cut! Let Chen take a break."

The on-site director then shouted, "CUT! Chen, Christopher wants you to take a break!"

Chen Nuo woke up as if from a dream.

Everything in front of me disappeared.

No Ariadne, no Mel, no Fisher.

He knew that Ellen Page, who played Ariadne, Keira Knightley, who played Mel, and Cillian Murphy, who played Fisher, were watching him act with Christopher Nolan in front of the monitor.

Chen Nuo turned over, sat down on the ground, turned around and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

One of Nolan's regular cinematographers, Wallace Pfister, an old buddy who worked with him on The Dark Knight, half showed his face from behind the huge 3dmax camera and said with a smile, "Maybe he thinks you're too ambitious in your acting. Chen, relax, I don't think it's necessary to be so serious. You can't expect the Oscar judges to give you the Best Actor award for this movie, right? Unless you're willing to only make 2000 million at the box office."

Chen Nuo smiled, "Then I can only fuck Oscar. Vale, I just want money."

Waller Pfister also laughed. "Christopher should think the same as you. Okay, move quickly, Chen, this damn weather is too cold. I don't want you to look more and more like Edward in the camera later. That's good for female audiences, but it's definitely bad for our movie."

When Chen Nuo started to shake his arms and legs to warm up his body,
Nolan said to Gillian Murphy and Keira Knightley beside him: "See, this is different from ordinary movies."

Gillian Murphy and Keira Knightley look at each other.

Keira Knightley forced a smile and asked, "Director, what do you mean? Which aspect?"

Christopher Nolan spread his hands and said, "Every aspect. We only have two cameras, guys. You can think of these two as one. In this way, this movie cannot be arranged in multiple positions like the conventional one, and the shot and reverse shot in the dialogue scene can be shot simultaneously at one time to achieve two people in the same frame."

"This goes back to the original way of filming movies." "For single-person shots, if the actors in the same group are not there, you can only rely on yourself to perform in front of an empty camera, and you have to interpret the role and speak the lines facing the void. Needless to say, this requires your imagination,"

For professional actors, this is basic skills. Keira Knightley was not surprised by this, she just said "Oh" and nodded, "Got it."

However, she then asked, "So, we all have to act like Chen just now? I mean, in this case, shouldn't we shoot one shot at a time? Is it necessary to be so...coherent from beginning to end?"

Nolan shook his head and said, "No, no, no. You don't have to. You can just speak the lines one by one and perform at your own pace. Anyway, no matter how coherent and smooth the process is, in the post-production stage, I will cut it into a series of short shots, and then insert other people's dialogues as needed to complete the final shot assembly."

Ellen Page noticed that Keira Knightley was visibly relieved, and Cillian Murphy's serious expression softened.
She couldn't help but smile in her heart.

Keira Knightley spread her hands and asked, "Well, Christopher, why is Chen doing this? This is not a non-proprietary acting class."

Nolan coughed lightly and said, "Kayla, everyone has their own habits, and this is his acting habit. Chen is quite unique in this regard. You don't have to worry about him, just focus on your own performance."

Ellen Page didn't know whether Keira Knightley understood what she said, but she had already translated it automatically in her mind.

She thought that Director Nolan was saying, you are just a vase actress, stop asking so many questions. Please put yourself in the right place. Don't worry about how others act, that's the business of Oscar winners. Be honest and don't be so hard on yourself, OK?

OK, she said to herself.

"So, any questions?" Christopher Nolan asked.

"No thanks," said Keira Knightley.

Several actors were shaking their heads, so Nolan said, "OK, that's it. I'll go talk to Chen and shoot the second take right away. After this one, it'll be your turn."

Nolan is gone.

The remaining three people looked at each other, Cillian Murphy nodded to the two girls, and followed them silently.

Keira Knightley opened her mouth behind him, but no sound came out.

She cursed in her heart.

She had just watched the male lead's acting style and felt a little uneasy. She had originally wanted to compare her movements with this guy.

Fuck you, Irish weirdo.

Keira Knightley had no choice but to turn around and smile at Ellen Page, "Ellen, how are you doing here these days?"

Ellen Page raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a row of pearly teeth. Her smile was innocent and lovely, with shallow dimples on her cheeks and curved eyebrows. Anyone who saw her would think that she was a well-behaved lady.

But who would have thought that at this moment, she was screaming in her heart: Why don’t I want to fuck her now? What the hell is going on? What the hell is wrong with me?
"I feel fine, how about you?"

Keira Knightley forced a smile and responded in a muffled voice: "Me too."

The situation that Chen Nuo was worried about did not occur.

Nolan was not dissatisfied with his inner drama. He just came over to adjust the camera position and corrected his action of aiming the gun. After shooting it again, it was passed cleanly and neatly.

Now he had almost half a day's rest and could go back to have a good sleep. He was really exhausted these past few days.

But speaking of it, there was another more tiring thing that came to him again. Qi Yuntian told him that the production team of this year's Spring Festival Gala contacted him again and wanted to invite him to sing a song.

No mention of time or anything.

Sing?

He would rather ride a snowmobile in Yili for a month than take the microphone and embarrass himself in front of the people of the whole country.

After the scene was finished, he was not ready to be Ellen Page's partner. Just as he was about to take off his makeup and leave, Nolan pulled him aside and asked, "Don't you like Keira Knightley?"

Chen Nuo was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?"

Nolan said, "I noticed that you had almost no contact with her these past two days. Chen, what's going on?"

Well, it's finally here. Chen Nuo rubbed his nose and said, "Uh... is there?"

Nolan looked at him and said seriously, "Yes. Chen, your performance today was great, but to be honest, compared to your previous self, I don't think it's good enough. At least that's how I feel."

"But it doesn't matter. This is not a realistic subject, it's an action movie, and it's good enough compared to others. So I can pass. But, compared to yourself, compared to the Joker..."

"Chen, I know you, and I know how you like to act. You need to immerse yourself, and you need to put yourself and others in their proper places. But now Kayla has become an obstacle for you, right? I don't know what made you so repulsive to Kayla, but this won't work."

"I hope you can adjust as soon as possible before the big event for the two of you later. If you have any questions, please communicate with her, okay?"

……

……

"Fuck, fuck, Oliver, can you come and take me away from this damn place? I really can't stay here anymore."

After work that day, in the best three-star hotel in Yili Xibe Autonomous County, Keira Knightley, with red eyes, was talking on the phone to her agent Oliver who was far away in England, and there was even a hint of tears in her tone.

This scared the person on the other end of the phone: "What? Kayla, don't scare me, what happened? Where are Emma and the others? Are they with you? Now."

"No."

"WTF! Wait a minute, I'll book a flight right away. No, no, no, I'll contact the embassy right away. Now, tell me your location."

"Wait, Oliver, what are you doing? No, it's not what you think, it's not that serious yet," said Keira Knightley.

"Not...cotton?"

"What cotton, what are you thinking? No, it's not."

"Phew, you scared me to death. What happened? Was someone in the crew bullying you?"

"Yes!"

"Who?"

"Fuck everybody!"

Keira Knightley said viciously!
She wasn't talking nonsense.

Because ever since she joined the crew a few days ago, she discovered that many people in the crew looked at her strangely.

That kind of look was not the usual lustful look of a man, nor was it the look of a passerby looking at a star. Instead, it was a bit like looking at a monster. When he saw her, he always looked her up and down, which made people feel very uncomfortable and a little creepy.

"Keira." Oliver sighed softly on the other end of the phone, "I always say, don't be so sensitive. You are a celebrity now, not just in the UK, but wherever you go in the world, people will look at you."

Keira Knightley said: "No! It's not like that! It was the same when Nuo Chen and I first met! Do you know where he was secretly looking at me? Pussy! Is this because I'm a star?"

Oliven laughed and said, "Maybe not a star, but definitely a beautiful 24-year-old woman. Come on, Keira, relax. Remember what we said before? This is your big chance. You can become a star because of Pirates of the Caribbean, and if you make this movie, you will probably become a superstar."

"Shit superstar. I NGed seven times today."

"what?"

"Seven times! Christopher Nolan, I think he's just messing with me on purpose, he hates me so much."

"How is that possible? Haha. If that's the case, then how could you possibly pass his audition? Seven times, is that too many? I think..."

"I only have two shots, walk over and shoot!"

Keira Knightley shouted, "Oliver, seven times! I shot this move seven times, which even an extra can do. You don't need to tell me whether it's possible or not, I only believe what I see with my own eyes!"

"Not just him, but Nuochen as well."

"Shit, yes. What beauty? He definitely doesn't think so. I think he just hates me to death. But I don't know why. This is the first time he and I met. Do you know how many words he has said to me since we met?"

"Two! One is hello, Kayla, welcome to China, and the other is good luck. Wait, the doorbell rang. I'll go see who it is."

Keira Knightley walked over with her cell phone, looked out through the peephole, and was stunned.

Then, she subconsciously pressed the hang-up button on her phone and glanced at the time. It was currently 9: p.m. Beijing time.

Keira Knightley looked in the mirror by the door, quickly fixed her hair, opened the door and smiled, "Uh, hi."

"Hi, Kayla, are you free? Would you like to have a cup of coffee together?" Chen Nuo said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)