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Chapter 177 Xiao Zhang: I suspect you're getting revenge on me!

The sound of car engines echoed slowly along the long road through the woods.

"Hurry up, are you all still asleep?!" Yang Zhigang, playing Balang, shouted with a megaphone and a stern face.

Behind the vehicle was a sparse group of "new recruits".

A blower nearby was blowing white smoke at them, and the wind was cold and strong.

The new recruits in the beast camp staggered, panting heavily, their foreheads covered in sweat.

It wasn't acting; I was genuinely exhausted!
Their backpacks were bulging with heavy bricks, and after running only a few steps, they were already out of breath.

Zhang Ruoyun, along with He Ziming, who plays Lu Yan and Zhang Chong, are at the front of the group, gritting their teeth and persevering.

Even though you're exhausted, you have to pretend you're fine.

Behind the two, Qi Hui ran slowly without changing his expression.

Compared to the others, he seemed to be on a spring outing.

"Brother Yu!" Zhan Dapeng ran up from behind, panting, his lines incomplete: "Zhang Chong and Lu Yan... they run fast... so, never mind..."

"Did you...drink...stimulants...or take...power pills today?"

The director didn't call "cut" because he read his lines like that; that was the effect they wanted.

"Hehe, that's a secret." Qi Hui, playing Jiang Xiaoyu, smiled smugly, his face full of schadenfreude amidst the swirling mist.

People can't help but laugh.

Inside the director's tent outside the venue, Guo Jingyu and others watched Qi Hui through the monitor and were speechless for a moment.

"Do you think our protagonist's expression is acting, or is it real?" Guo Jingyu couldn't help but ask.

The way he was slacking off would make even the squad leader in the army want to punch him, let alone the squad leader.

Screenwriter Feng Ji glanced at the monitor and laughed, "This is exactly how I envisioned Jiang Xiaoyu."

"Cunning and sly, full of petty tricks."

“This doesn’t look like acting at all,” another assistant director laughed.

"He looked like this during pre-filming training," another assistant director chuckled.

"Several times the instructors were so angry that they wanted to hit people, but he had the audacity to say that he was studying the role in advance."

"Actually, it's just laziness... hahaha."

He was the assistant director who brought Qi Hui and the others out of the military camp.

"The instructor didn't hit him?" Guo Jingyu asked, his eyes darting around.

The assistant director shrugged: "We fought, but we didn't."

"He arranged a fight with the instructor, and he beat the instructor up."

At this point, the assistant director was also a little surprised. Why was Qi Hui's bayonet fighting skill so good?
Could it be that the army is really good at teaching?
“Fancy stuff…” Guo Jingyu shook his head: “If actors don’t improve their acting skills, all that stuff is useless.”

"Isn't he acting quite well?" Feng Ji raised his chin and pointed to the footage on the monitor.

"Who knows if this is the only kind of role he can play?" Guo Jingyu said, pursing his lips.

This is not surprising; some actors can only play one type of role well.

For example, playing a fool, playing a madman, or simply not knowing anything and only having a cold face.

Whether he has real talent and can act well remains to be seen in the upcoming scenes.

Jiang Xiaoyu is not like Xiao Zhuang or Chen Liang, who are just trying to look cool.

This character is incredibly complex; he's a real estate agent, a top soldier, and all of those roles combined.

On the other side, the director called out, and the actors, who were exhausted, could finally stop.

"Ah... I'm exhausted!" Zhang Ruoyun lay on the ground, loosened her backpack, and panted heavily.

"Not bad, right?" Qi Hui walked over slowly, his face unchanged and his breathing not even disordered.

"No, I'm exhausted..." Zhang Ruoyun's face was covered in sweat, and her breathing was labored like a bellows.

"Tsk tsk... Junior brother," Qi Hui said slowly, looking down at him, "A man can't say no!"

Upon hearing this, He Ziming and some other actors' expressions changed slightly. They gritted their teeth and slowly stood up.

Zhang Ruoyun rolled her eyes: "Senior brother, you...you're not getting revenge on me...for scolding you, are you?" Before starting the run, there was a scene where Lu Yan angrily berates Jiang Xiaoyu for being useless.

Although there was no evidence, Zhang Ruoyun felt that Qi Hui was retaliating against him!
hateful!

"Nonsense!" Qi Hui glared. "Do you think I'm the kind of person who holds grudges?"

"We've known each other for so long, don't you know what kind of person I am? Generous and easygoing..."

Qi Hui kept rambling on and on, and Zhang Ruoyun rolled her eyes, too tired to speak.

His senior brother had more scenes, had an easier time, and was better than him.

This is absolutely outrageous!
……

The monotonous filming continued every day; either shooting training scenes or on the way to shoot training scenes.

The filming of movies and TV series is all done according to a shooting plan.

The principle followed in formulating the shooting plan is to put scenes with similar or identical emotions together.

Since we're filming training scenes now, we'll naturally film most of the training scenes together.

The effect is very good, and it was relatively easy to shoot.

The only downside was that the actors were exhausted, almost to the point of quitting.

Actors suffer a lot, they get infamy... oh, no infamy.

A few days later, a new announcement came down, and finally it was no longer a training scene.

Moreover, they are not in the play.

Because the director wanted to film the scene where the protagonist, Jiang Xiaoyu, enters the army, which is a scene outside the barracks.

Therefore, apart from Qi Hui, the others were able to get a rare rest.

Logically speaking, the emotional expression in this scene is different from that in the training scene, so it shouldn't be filmed now.

But plans are plans, and changes are changes.

The scene needed to be filmed at a cemetery. During filming, the crew of twenty or thirty people rushed into the cemetery. At this scale, they had to apply to higher authorities and wait for approval.

Therefore, once the approval is granted, the production team must finish filming as soon as possible.

As for the impact on the actors' lines and emotions, that's something only Qi Hui can adjust.

This scene marks the first appearance of the protagonist, Jiang Xiaoyu, and is one of the important scenes in establishing the character's image.

If the performance is not good, then the character of Jiang Xiaoyu will not be good.

If the male lead, Jiang Xiaoyu, is in bad shape, then the whole drama is bound to be in bad shape too.

"Qi Hui, are you sure you can handle this?" Guo Jingyu asked casually, a cigarette dangling from his lips. "This scene is different from the training scenes we filmed a while ago."

"You can't play Jiang Xiaoyu well just by slacking off and showing off."

Jiang Xiaoyu, who did not join the army, worked as a middleman, acting as both a real estate agent and a cemetery agent.

In order to make money, they even sell the same grave twice, and they talk nonsense and keep deceiving people.

Those smooth-talking businessmen can't be photographed just by showing off and striking a few poses with a cold face.

It requires real skill.

Having a good figure is useless if you can slack off; what matters is real acting skills!

Upon hearing Guo Jingyu's words, many actors looked at Qi Hui, then at Guo Jingyu, unsure of what to say.

To be honest, they were also a little worried.

Director Zhang, in particular, although Qi Hui's performance has been good recently, it always gives people the feeling that he is just playing himself.

It makes people feel that this is not his true ability, but rather that he is too well-suited to the role.

Just like Allen from Happy Twist playing a fool.

"Ahem... Lao Guo, don't talk nonsense." Director Zhang coughed lightly, saying politely, "Qi Hui isn't just someone who slacks off and shows off."

Faced with the gazes of many people, Qi Hui scratched his head and remained silent.

He's just a greasy, slick businessman... He's wearing a hood now, and his hair is the normal length, which makes his scalp very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)