Huayu has been doing one good deed a day since 2001

Chapter 6 Fat Bing's Achilles' Heel

On September 9, the selection of scenic spots and the production of prop models for The Shallows were progressing smoothly. However, before Infernal Affairs exploded with its fame as a "world-saving work", the Hong Kong film and television industry was at its lowest point, with countless practitioners losing their jobs.

Li Wenyu was a new director and had no face. After Zhang Guorong took the lead, Brother Rong suppressed the crew for the sake of his face... Various behind-the-scenes teams still cherish the opportunity to have work and food.

The team behind the scenes is making rapid progress.

In a large villa in Hong Kong Island, Li Wenyu, whose fitness attribute has been increased to 70, which is already an excellent level, is learning to swim in the swimming pool under the guidance of several swimming coaches. Pang Bing is also learning.

No matter whether you can swim or surf in the sea before, it is essential to enter the sea, even if it is shallow water. In this kind of learning, the male coaching team watched Li Wenyu quickly improve from dog paddling to qualified levels in backstroke, butterfly stroke, diving and freestyle, and continued to soar after passing the test.

You will understand it as soon as you learn it!!

The coaching staff was a little confused, while on the other side, among the female coaches, Pang Bing was exclaiming and clapping and cheering.

After finishing another lap of freestyle training, Li Wenyu walked to the shore and sat down on a lounge chair. He complained to Pang Bing who was approaching, "You need to learn more efficiently. You've already signed the contract and can start the group soon. Poor swimming skills will only hinder your efficiency."

Fat Bing looked excited, "Director Li, don't worry. Sister Hua helped me turn down Mr. Huang Baiming's screenwriting project, paid the penalty for breach of contract, and even went to toast Mr. Huang on my behalf to apologize."

"With such a big game, I can't be a coward even if I train myself to death."

Although the project director does not have much experience, he is much better than Li Wenyu.

Huang Baiming’s title as a screenwriter is also not weak.

This was the decision Zhang Guorong made after she called and read the script on the evening of the 26th, knowing the details of the project. There was no need to be too gritted teeth, as everyone knew that Wong Pak-ming was also a king of bad movies, and that movie clearly drained the appeal of the Huan Zhu troupe, Su Youpeng + Jinsuo.

One of the worst films from the waning era of Hong Kong films.

Seeing that the male and female coaches were in the distance, Pang Bing raised an eyebrow. "Ayu, when can I nagged you again? If I nagged you once, I'll be the female lead? You're such a nice person. I'm so surprised. If it were Mr. Wang or Director Feng, they wouldn't give me a project without playing me like a fool."

"I've heard some stories from my seniors, so when they tried to trick me, I was really torn between my conscience and my conscience. It's not that I'm afraid of this, I should be playing supporting roles in big-name productions, not Mr. Hun Huang's crappy movies."

Li Wenyu was speechless. "You call me by my title when you're working on your business. I learned to swim so I could rescue you if you fell into the water while filming at sea. Even if there are professional rescuers, I still have to work hard, including learning some underwater filming techniques."

"How about we film a monologue of yours first? Try using a digital video camera."

The big villa with a swimming pool was borrowed by Zhang Guorong from a friend for them to learn swimming, and it was also used to store various props for the crew. Among them was a buoy tower that was placed directly in the swimming pool for the heroine to perform a few scenes, which was also quite nice.

It can be considered a period of adjustment. The Shallows was a process of adjustment between him as the director, the photographer, and the props team, and Pang Bing alone.

That scene was quite exciting. The heroine drifted from the surfing to the shark hunting area, rolled from the dead shark's back to the reef, and then to the floating buoy tower. She fought with another great white shark, was bitten by the shark, and then climbed up the tower to use an old signal gun to ask for help from the outside world.

Accompanied by the exciting music, every moment shows the charm of the heroine, which is cool, tragic, morbid and beautiful, and the sharp camera switching really requires a little bit of acting skills.

At that part, the heroine had not eaten or drunk for a long time, and her makeup looked sickly and desperate. In despair, she found a rusty and locked spare box, and hope was born to open the spare box to find the signal gun.

Gun in hand, flares dropped into the sea, surrounded by sharks lurking to bite her...

The heavy performance of emotions has a certain test of depth!

Anyway, the actresses of Pang Bing's generation can still play this vase role, but the later actresses like Yahuazi and Xiajie are definitely not worth the effort. Pang Bing's eyes lit up, "Okay, let's try it here? After all, with digital cameras, we don't have to worry about wasting film. We can use a film camera after the official start."

During the learning period, it is normal to perform acting skills a few times when you are tired of swimming.

More than half an hour later, the floating buoy tower was set up in the swimming pool. It wobbled like a tumbler on the water. Li Wenyu signaled the photographer to turn on the camera and shouted to start shooting. Pang Bing then began to climb the buoy tower nimbly and wobbly from underwater in the swimming pool.

The nervous fear of dodging a shark attack still showed in some of her features... It was a long monologue that lasted several minutes. After firing two signal guns, Li Wenyu finally spoke, "Cut, rest for twenty minutes, and try again."

During the break, he let Pang Bing watch her own performance through a digital camera. After watching, he smiled and said, "What do you think of your performance?"

Fat Bing thought for more than ten seconds, "There are many things that are not in place. It will definitely be a waste if we actually start filming."

Li Wenyu smiled and said, "Then act better next time."

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After several hours, Li Wenyu called out again, "Cut, take a 20-minute break, and do it again."

Fat Bing walked back from the water to the lounge chair on the shore. After slumping for ten minutes, he stood up and walked over to Li Wenyu, gritting his teeth. "Director Li? Do this for the thirteenth time? It's already dark."

Li Wenyu drank his juice calmly and said, "Think about Liu Jialing filming Days of Being Wild, mopping the floor 20 or 30 times. You're just scratching the surface! Back then, film cameras couldn't even show the results of a performance."

He beat Pang Bing many times just to train his opponent's condition. The early bird catches the worm, and practice makes perfect.

It's true. With his acting skills, he can reach the original level even if he endures for a long time.

Fat Bing opened his mouth, not knowing how to complain. The Jialing Li Wenyu was talking about was already a senior who had been nominated and actually won the Best Actress award.

Just as Pang Bing was about to complain about Li Wenyu comparing herself to the Sunglasses King, he patted her shoulder and said, "You don't want Yan Zi and A Ru to laugh at you for being a maid for the rest of your life, do you?"

This hit Pang Bing's weak spot!
She tiptoed and started biting. It wasn't a question of whether she would suffer a loss or not, but revenge was necessary. Once is raw, twice is cooked.

After a few minutes of smooth talking, a car arrived at the villa gate. Fat Bing quickly let go, "Is it Brother Rong and the others coming back to check on the progress? It's really Brother Rong's car. Mr. Li, wait a minute. I'll take a break and start over. I don't believe I can't perform this scene well!"

Manyu, Jialing, including Hua Ge and others, have all developed certain acting skills under the various tricky training methods of King of Sunglasses. As for Li Wenyu, he at least gave you a performance standard for you to ponder.

The various emotional state switches in the script are clearly written!
It's not like the Sunglasses King doesn't even know what state he wants to be in, so he just shoots randomly and then slowly edits it. For a scene, the actors don't know how to act and the director doesn't know what effect to expect, so they just do it over and over again.

Understand it slowly.

Li Wenyu generously gave you the general standards, and set the acting skills, movements, emotions, etc. for each time period. You will become proficient after doing it dozens of times.

When Pang Bing went to rest, Li Wenyu walked quickly towards Brother Rong.

At this time, Zhang Guorong's car had been parked and he got out of the car. Wong Zuxian was also with him. Li Wenyu's eyes lit up. Although the 34-year-old Wong Zuxian was not in as good shape as when she was in her prime, she was still a beautiful girl.

(End of this chapter)