I'm almost a Muggle

Lin Dong didn't leave Quancheng until the next day.

Instead of going back to the capital, I went directly to the filming location of "The Lonely City". It was a distance of three or four thousand kilometers and could only take a plane.

First, I flew to Urumqi, and then waited for the plane at the airport tonight.

There is no way, there is only one shift in the morning and evening.

Otherwise you have to spend ten hours taking the train or driving there at the same time.

When we arrived in Kuqa, the journey was not over.

You can only drive the rest of the distance.

Fortunately, it was not very far away, and it took about half an hour to drive.

Such a remote small county town has a total population of less than 600,000, and there is an airport, which is actually very difficult.

The ancient city of Kucha has ruins.

It is located in Pilang Village, about two kilometers west of Kuqa County.

The ancient city has a circumference of nearly 8,000 meters, the north wall is 2,000 meters, the south wall is 1,806 meters, the east wall is 1,646 meters, and the west wall is about 2,200 meters.

The whole city is irregular square, with a height of about 2-7 meters. It is made of rammed earth, and there is one battlement every 40 meters.

Except for the three walls on the east, south and north that can still be identified, the western walls of the ancient Kucha are gone.

In 2013, the ancient city of Kucha was announced as the seventh batch of key cultural relics protection units.

The Cat Factory planned to invest 20 million yuan here to restore the ancient building, and immediately received strong support from the local area.

There are many types of cultural relics, and not all cultural relics are valuable.

First of all, this place has been subject to archaeological mining, and many places have undergone many repairs, but they are not really the original appearance.

Secondly, it is not a brick and stone wall, but a rammed earth.

There is no high preservation value.

Finally, a few half-collapsed earth walls and some earthen houses that were later restored really couldn't attract any tourists.

The idea of ​​the Cat Factory is to restore this important town in the ancient Western Regions and recreate the appearance of that year.

This is a great benefit to the local tourism industry.

Moreover, with the filming of "The Lonely City", it is possible to attract crews who need such scenes in the future.

It is precisely for this reason that the local area is very polite to the crew.

Local guides and staff were arranged to help the crew purchase and hire labor to build the shooting site.

Since it is only about half an hour away from the scene, the accommodation arranged by the crew is in the county town.

Even so, the conditions are terrible.

Almost never a crew wants to go to such a difficult place to film.

The appearance of many ancient cities in the Western Regions is actually shot in the film and television city on the other side of the capital.

If it were other crew members who dared to film in such a place, it would be difficult to find any decent stars. When they heard about your crew conditions, they would probably not give you a chance to negotiate a salary.

Isn’t everyone working hard to make a better life?

Screenwriter Wei Lai was so nervous.

He thought that he had been talking nonsense before and said that he wanted to invite someone to act, and that if someone in the past 10 or 10 people were already a luxurious lineup.

Unexpectedly, as long as it was mentioned before, all of them were signed.

He couldn't figure it out even though he thought about it.

Even if Lin Dong is a big director of tens of billions, he will not have such great influence.

In fact, Lin Dong is not a director with a billion yuan. Even if his "New Shushan" adds overseas box office, it is not enough to be a billion yuan level.

Moreover, Lin Dong only has one movie.

There are many flashes of time.

Who knows what level he will be next?

In Wei's opinion, Lin Dong's topic selection is very "deathful".

If you make a fantasy movie, you will be popular. If you don’t shoot "Shushan 2" and your company’s "Shanhai 1" will not shoot, you will actually film "The Lonely City".

This is not a dying thing.

If you are just thinking about it, you are probably talking about it.

The lonely city may become a good movie, may touch many people, and may have a big reputation, but it is destined to be a big hit movie.

A director who commits suicide, a movie that commits suicide.

Why do these people have to die together?

After a while, Wei Lai discovered that not only the actors who wanted to use had signed contracts, but some actors who had never thought about using had also come to the door.

When Fang Long contacted him and said he wanted to participate in the performance, Wei Lai almost fainted.

This is not exaggerated rhetoric.

It was really dark before my eyes and I almost fainted.

It took me a long time to recover.

Then ask what kind of character you want there.

Are you trying to make things difficult for me? This screenwriter!

I have written the script and the main actors of the crew have completed the signing. How many hairs do I have to pull off before I can insert you, the great Buddha, into it.

As a result, someone said casually, just look at the arrangement.

Fuck, has the sun hit the west?

At the level of Fang Long and others, no matter how easy the actors are to speak, their team will not say anything so stupid as to the arrangement.

Wei Lai felt that he was mentally retarded.

When you feel that everyone is abnormal, the abnormal person must be you.

This is the same as when you drive, you find that everyone is going against the trend.

Another heavy punch came soon.

Li Feihong also wants to act.

This person seems to be even harder to ask for, because his health is not as good as before, and he has almost stopped filming.

What crew did I join?

Wei Lai felt that he really had no future, he was aging before he got old, and his brain was funny.

When it was time to get real kung fu, Wang Shunliu and these people also came to attend the opening ceremony... Wei Lai put a hot water bag on the hot day and appeared at the crew's opening ceremony.

Lin Dong was not going to do any opening ceremony.

But everyone else in the crew thinks it should be done.

Since that's the case, then do it.

The opening ceremony usually requires worshiping God.

Worshiping gods comes from the rules of the opera world; there is another saying that worshiping heaven and ghosts and gods has been there since ancient times in China.

In just a few decades, it has disappeared from the atmosphere of atheism in the mainland.

And Xiangjiang retains this kind of cultural tradition.

The culture of worshiping gods was first introduced from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the mainland, and the gods they worshiped were Mr. Guan, Wong Tai Sin and others.

But Lin Dong opposed worshipping Guan Erye.

The grievances in this are not worthy of being told by outsiders.

The statue of Guan Erye in his office is still there.

It's just that no sacrifices are allowed.

As for why, Lin Dong didn't tell anyone, and he didn't ask any questions.

But in his heart, he made up his mind to starve to death by Master Guan Erxing.

Unless he asks him for mercy, he is willing to bless himself to lose money.

If Mr. Guan Er doesn’t worship him, Wong Daxian will naturally not worship him.

Just worship the camera, and the crew called this the God of War.

Logically speaking, "The Lonely City" is not a big production, nor has it particularly big scenes. There should be not many people when worshiping God.

Many people only have one or two shots, a short fight scene, and notify the actors to come over and finish the work in half a day.

It is not necessary to attend this opening ceremony at all.

But in fact, a large area of ​​people was crowded with people and almost couldn't stand.

They are all big names, so it is also a problem to stand.