Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 318 The significance of sugar-free cola

"Brother, I'm a little unsure about the character's emotional changes before and after this plot. Please help me sort it out."

"Boss, I don't quite understand this line. Would you mind explaining it to me?"

"Brother, what do you think of this twin-tail look? It looks pretty good, doesn't it?"

"Boss, do you think I should add a scar to my special effects makeup? I think it will better highlight the character's positioning."

"Brother, I brought you some milk tea, but you should remove the ice and 70% of the sugar."

"Boss, I just went to buy some drinks, so I brought you a can..."

"You wait a moment."

Meng Bai held the can of Coke with condensed water on it and called out to Bai Lu, who was smiling foolishly, "I won't talk to you about the significance of sugar-free Coke. You and Zhu Zhu have discussed this over the past few days, right? Every time one of you goes out, the other comes in."

"Sister Zhuzhu? No." Bai Lu said with an innocent expression: "We just happened to think of the same thing."

"Oh, then you two are quite in tune with each other."

"Maybe." Bai Lu grinned as usual, "It means we are deeply immersed in the role."

Meng Bai looked at her with a smile on his face. Bai Lu, who was being stared at, tried to keep calm and drew a triangle around her with her eyes.

"Okay, anyway, thank you for the drink." Meng Bai said, "I'll only stay for a few days, don't hang around here. If you really have nothing to do, practice your lines more and correct your bad habit of dragging your voice."

"Don't worry, I promise to practice hard!" Bai Lu agreed with a cheerful look on her face.

After saying that, she saw Meng Bai stand up and tidy up his clothes, and she returned to her usual cheerful tone: "Boss, are you going next door again?"

"Yes."

Meng Bai picked up a milk tea bag on the table and put the cold Coke can in his hand into it.

Bai Lu pursed her lips with some envy.

They are both movies, but the boss is obviously more concerned about the project next door.

Even during the time when I was on the set of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan", I would go there to take a look every day.

But then again, on one side is a sci-fi blockbuster worth hundreds of millions, and on the other side is just an online movie worth less than 20 million. The gap is too obvious.

If it were her, she probably wouldn't care about the latter at all.

Oh, when will I be able to act in such a big production?

……

The "next-door crew" that Bai Lu mentioned is naturally "The Wandering Earth" which was also filmed in Oriental Movie Metropolis.

However, although they are "next door", because the shooting base is very large and the two crews belong to different locations, they are still far apart.

"Mike."

Entering the huge "underground city", Meng Bai shouted towards the front.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Jinmai, wearing a red protective suit, walked over like a little penguin.

"Brother Meng Bai."

The little girl staggered towards him with a sweet smile, but there was still some fatigue on her face.

Her hair stuck to her forehead and her cheeks were dotted with sweat.

Taking the overall production efficiency into consideration, Guo Fan gave full play to the principle of "don't leave anything that can be solved in the early stage to be done in the later stage", and the entire film adopted a large number of real-life shooting.

The protective suits and combat exoskeletons worn by the leading actors are all expensive custom-made wearable models.

This thing is not only expensive, but also heavy.

For example, Li Guangjie and his team, who played the role of the United Government Army, wore "combat gear" weighing nearly 20 kilograms in total.

Even Zhao Jinmai and his colleagues’ “civilian version” weighs more than ten kilograms.

Moreover, this look is very difficult to put on and take off, so in order to save time, the actors put it on every morning when they arrive at the set, and then take it off only after the day's scenes are finished. The key is that the shooting time every day is not short.

There was even a misunderstanding when the crew first started filming because of this matter.

The crew spent tens of millions to order six exoskeleton models from Weta Digital in New Zealand.

As a result, after only a few days of shooting, I found that parts of the body started to fall off.

At first, Guo Fan thought he was being cheated by the foreigners, but after communicating with them, he found out that the main use of this thing was for filming literary scenes and posing.

If you really want to shoot an action scene, you usually use some props and then combine them with green screen special effects.

This is a normal procedure for Hollywood crews, but it is not very suitable for the crew of "The Wandering Earth".

Finally, seeing that the costume could not hold up any longer, Guo Fan had no choice but to use the "tape method".

If the parts fall off, put them back if they can be put back. If they can't be put back, use tape to fix them.

If it still doesn’t stick, wrap it a few more times, as long as it can’t be seen from the outside.

This is just the shooting intensity for a few supporting roles. As the leading actors, Zhao Jinmai and Qu Chuxiao, the intensity is naturally "super doubled".

Qu Chuxiao was fine, after all he was a standard adult male, but for Zhao Jinmai, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, it was a bit difficult.

But this girl is quite strong and has never complained of being tired. At most, she would take a break on the prop rockery next to her with her protective suit open during the filming.

Seeing her face covered in sweat, it was obvious that she had just finished filming, so Meng Bai handed her the bag of milk tea.

"Here, as you requested, remove 70% of the sugar from the ice."

Zhao Jinmai's eyes lit up and he happily took the milk tea: "Thank you, Brother Meng Bai!"

After saying that, she put in a straw and took a big sip, then revealed a satisfied expression: "Wow, I feel like I'm alive again--"

After she finished her sigh, she suddenly thought of something and looked around quickly.

"Don't worry, I only gave it to you because your mother is not around."

"That's good." Zhao Jinmai breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and gave Meng Bai a thumbs up: "Brother Meng Bai, you really understand me the best. Alas, when can I have milk tea freedom!"

"You little brat are still lamenting about your life." Meng Bai said with a smile: "Don't forget to destroy the evidence after drinking. If your mother finds out, I won't admit it."

"Don't worry, it's fine."

After chatting for a few words, I saw Guo Fan walking towards me.

"We just give it to Mai Mai every day. We can't get anything at all, right?"

"You are a grown man, why are you always staring at that little girl's milky thing?" Meng Bai said, "Wait for Brother Jing to come back in a few days, and I will bring you some wheat juice."

Seeing the two of them chatting, Zhao Jinmai greeted Guo Fan, shook the milk tea at Meng Bai, and left smartly.

"Don't mention it, Director Wu's new movie is really popular." Guo Fan said with emotion: "It's only been ten days, and it's already over 20 billion."

"Brother Guo, your news is delayed." Meng Bai said: "The data we just received today shows that the total box office has exceeded 30 billion after eleven days of release."

"So fast!"

Guo Fan was shocked: "I remember the box office record of The Mermaid, wasn't it only 33 billion? It will be surpassed soon."

Meng Bai nodded: "According to the current growth rate of the single-day box office, it should be able to exceed it tomorrow."

"Wow, this is really..."

Guo Fan sighed in shock and envy for a long time.

The current champion of the mainland film market is "The Mermaid", which was released during last year's Spring Festival, with a total box office of 33.9 billion yuan.

This movie had the right timing and location, and with the marketing campaign of "we all owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket", it almost squeezed out the years of sentiment and box office potential of "Star fans" to win this championship.

I didn’t expect that in just over a year, it was easily surpassed by “Wolf Warrior 2”.

(End of this chapter)