Huayu: Are you even sitting up straight? You're going to be the director?

Chapter 128 A movie that can turn the world upside down!

The production of "Li Yannian, a Man of Both Literary and Martial Arts" progressed smoothly. After carefully reading the script, Director Zhai of the August First Film Studio readily agreed to produce it.

In his view, the script had a focused theme, well-developed characters, meticulous tactical details, and clear prototypes, which gave him a natural affinity for it.

Most importantly, this drama highlights the importance of political work in our army!
This is rare in the Chinese film industry, and he didn't mind working with Tsui Hark and Mao Weining, so the deal was settled. Zhai Junjie was soon seconded to the Beijing Film Studio.

Cao Zhong also continued filming the storyline of "We Live in Nanjing".

Set construction for Group B was completed quickly, and Dante Lam joined Group B for filming. Because Cao Zhong strongly demanded that Dante Lam focus on the content of Jing Tian's shots, Jing Tian did indeed feel the pressure that a real actor should bear.

Cao Zhong also began to quickly advance the plot. For some shots that Cao Zhong had mastered, he let Lu Yang take charge of the execution.

In Group A, since there weren't many special effects shots, the shooting efficiency was extremely high.

The storyline for Group A was filmed from the end to the beginning.

This section is actually the main part of the scenes featuring Chen Daomin, Wang Zhiwen, Wang Jinsong, and Fan Bingbing.

The acting skills of Chen Daomin, Wang Zhiwen, and Wang Jinsong are truly superb.

After finishing the first monthly exam of the second semester of his senior year, Bai Yang, played by Cao Zhong, gave Banxia a time capsule.

In order to achieve the time capsule's ability to travel through time, Bai Yang began to focus on eliminating distractions and reducing the sense of purpose.

Simply put, the carrier cannot have all the exact information about the goods. At least two people are needed to bury the time capsule. The person who knows what the time capsule is cannot know where it is, and the person who knows where it is cannot know what it is.

In the storyline, Cao Zhong asked his classmate, who is actually Yan Ge (played by Qi Jiuzhou during a cameo appearance on set), to take the time capsule to Crescent Lake and hide it.

Qi Jiuzhou then recorded the location in an MP3 file.

That evening, while communicating with Banxia via radio, Cao Zhong put on headphones and played the climax of "Love You Till I Die" for himself. The content of the MP3 was then transmitted to Banxia via radio.

Furthermore, he demanded that Banxia absolutely not reveal the location of the time capsule.
After playing it three times, Bai Yang deleted the recording from the MP3 file.

Thus, the double-blind principle is achieved.

Afterwards, Team B will film the scene where Jing Tian goes to Crescent Lake to retrieve the time capsule, and finally edit in the interaction between him and Cao Zhong's team.

Bai Yang wrote a letter about this.

That evening, while communicating with Banxia via radio, Bai Yang overheard the details of his letter being captured by Banxia twenty years later.

Then his expression changed drastically.

Cao Zhong's monologue was well-acted. Although there was no sound in the earphones, Cao Zhong seemed to hear something despairing.

He slumped dejectedly in the chair, his face reflecting bewilderment, surprise, panic, and fear.

Is the end of the world really coming?
Then Cao Zhong pushed open the bedroom door, his eyes glazed over, and ran wildly toward his father's room, played by Wang Jinsong.

"Dad! Wake up! Something terrible has happened!"

"Click, passed."

Lu Yang fulfilled his role as a tool well.
After watching it, Cao Zhong felt that his acting skills still needed improvement. After communicating and learning from Chen Daomin in detail, he decided to keep one more close-up shot of facial emotions.

The dramatic scene that followed shocked both Cao Zhong and Lu Yang.

Faced with such an outrageous incident, Bai Yang was torn between telling the truth or keeping quiet, and chose to go to her parents.

In reality, this is what Chinese children truly are like: when in doubt, they turn to their parents, which is actually a good thing.

Afterwards, Wang Jinsong called in Zhao Bowen and Wang Ning, and the original radio crew reunited. The three then began to put on a dramatic performance.

After Bai Yang recounted what had happened, the three began to theoretically discuss the possibility of this event occurring.

"Is it encrypted?" Chen Daomin frowned, his tone short and abrupt. "Impossible." Wang Jinsong shook his head.

"How sensitive is the radio monitoring by the Radio Management Committee?" Chen Daomin asked again.

“Full frequency coverage throughout the city,” Wang Zhiwen said calmly, but his tone was hesitant. “Unless they are using encrypted military channels, it’s impossible not to hear it.”

“This is strange,” Chen Daomin stood up, paced back and forth, looking back at Wang Zhiwen and Wang Jingsong. “What kind of new technology is this? Or is it electromagnetic magic?”

He looked Bai Yang up and down, then peeked out to see if there was anything else under the radio.

"Professor, what are your insights?" Wang Jinsong asked.

“I won’t make any judgments,” Chen Daomin narrowed his eyes. “Seeing is believing. We need to see for ourselves. Regardless of whether what Yang Yang said is true or not, let’s have him try to connect to that girl’s voice again. Then we’ll figure out where the signal came from, and then trace it back to the source. That’ll reveal the truth.”

After several days of filming, the project attempted to interpret the absurdity of the poplar story.
Then several big shots started acting like geniuses, trying to send a time capsule to Banxia in their own way.

After numerous setbacks, they finally conceded defeat and decided to adopt Bai Yang's double-blind method.

After that, they received feedback from Banxia, ​​confirming the authenticity.

Even the copper sulfate pentahydrate (blue) mixed into the time capsule, after a long period of time,

In reality, just one day later, in Banxia's radio response, it turned into anhydrous copper sulfate (white and transparent).

The three veterans each put on a spectacular show.

They looked at each other and fell silent for a moment.

Then they had a brief meeting, which started as a discussion but quickly turned into an argument.

Chen Daomin felt that physics simply didn't exist anymore: "Isn't the propagation speed of electromagnetic signals also the speed of light?"

Wang Zhiwen slammed his fist on the table. "If word gets out, who will believe it?!"

Wang Jinsong was lying flat on his back, smoking in a chair, muttering as he spoke, "It's all over..."

"Crack!"

After Lu Yang yelled "Cut!",
Cao Zhong quickly came over to look at the camera, and the three veteran actors also came over to discuss it.

The three of them thoroughly enjoyed the role. They had acted in various genres before, including period dramas, spy dramas, and even plays, but they had only ever seen such hard science fiction in foreign science fiction films.

"Those people online are still going to criticize Director Cao." Chen Daomin couldn't help but laugh when he thought about it. "People, some of them really are short-sighted."

"Just these details alone are enough for other film directors' entire careers," Wang Zhiwen said bluntly. His performance in this film ignited hope for Chinese cinema.

"I'm really happy that Director Cao called me," Wang Jinsong said. "I have some doubts about how much box office revenue this film will get if the publicity and distribution are done well."

Upon hearing this, the three of them dared not think about it.

They looked at Cao Zhong, their eyes wide with surprise. As participants, they were naturally deeply moved by Cao Zhong's film.

They could sense that if Cao Zhong's film were to be released, it would likely be a game-changer.

Fan Bingbing was equally shocked.

Because Jing Tian went to Group B, which was some distance from Group A, Fan Bingbing had the opportunity to act recklessly.

It just so happens that Chen Daomin and his team were filming intensively for several consecutive days.

Every day, Fan Bingbing goes to Cao Zhong Physics to study scripts.

She hoped Cao Zhong could break down the movie plot for her, dissect it, and give her a good shock!

(End of this chapter)