A guest director?
The man hesitated for a moment. During this gap, other people in the group also approached one after another. Looking at the people walking towards him, the expression on his face showed a slight unnatural stagnation.
He was suppressing his excitement.
This is an inevitable emotion after a long absence...
There is no doubt that the man in front of him who calls himself Xiao Jia is He Tianran who has walked into the world of black and white.
The power of Buddhist beads can travel through the past and the future, so it is not surprising that He Tianran chose to come to the "present moment".
But even if He Tianran can walk and communicate normally in this world, the faces of all living beings are no longer cloudy, and others can feel his presence, but sadly, the scenery and characters in front of He Tianran are still black and white...
This is exactly the same as the experience he had when he traveled to the future. This must be what is happening to Cao Aiqing...
According to the two people's previous speculations, this indicates that the soul in their body does not belong to this world...
In other words, there is no causal relationship between the person "He Tianran" and the sentient beings in this world. Li Wang, Hu Yue and the others have no memory of "He Tianran" who was once their common best friend.
The person in front of them now is called Xiao Jia, the name of passerby Jia.
After his previous time travel experiences, He Tianran did not dare to reveal too much information about himself, so he hesitated when faced with an invitation from an old friend to make a guest appearance.
"Senior, please do me a favor. It won't take long!"
Gu Ling was the first to speak. It is easier for girls to talk when they act coquettishly. Maybe she saw that He was mature and standing in front of the film school, so it was normal for her to think that He was a classmate of the same school.
Cai Jueming was a little dissatisfied with his ex-girlfriend's behavior and said abruptly:
"You are already a senior and you still call someone a senior. Maybe someone else is a junior?"
Gu Ling's delicate expression just now suddenly became unbearable and turned cold instantly. This was a secret mockery of her pretending to be young. Now that everyone was here, she was too embarrassed, but she couldn't help but give a warning:
"Teacher Cai, please don't be emotional, please?"
Li Wang was really helpless when his photographer and the female lead were in such trouble, but now he could only continue to put on a good face, make a haha, and then continue to ask the man opposite if he was willing to make a cameo, and his intention was transferred. Everyone’s topic.
He Tianran was also surprised that Cai Jueming and Gu Ling had developed such a contradictory relationship. If he refused rashly at this time, the atmosphere in the small crew would be even lower. Anyway, he could get along with this group of friends again. It was something he wished for, so he smiled and said:
"Haha, I'm also a senior in college. Everyone is of the same generation. I just have the time, so it's no problem to make a cameo."
Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this reply.
Due to the needs of the plot, the film was shot in the small black box theater of the film school. Thanks to their luck, He Tianran once again entered the film school after a long absence.
The so-called black box small theater is naturally not as good as the large theater hall used by the film school for evening parties, or for staging large-scale plays and graduation plays. However, generally the performance department's homework reports and some experimental plays are held here. It is a kind of performance. A performance venue that is more flexible and has a stronger atmosphere.
After the crew arrived, they began to set up the scene. Li Wang took the storyboard and was communicating with Gu Ling and Cai Jueming about the scheduling and positioning of the filming. The three of them were standing on the stage, and at this time, a beam of chasing light happened to circle them. After seeing them, He Tianran, who was sitting in the theater seat, watched quietly...
Although he could only see black and white, this did not prevent his eyes from showing the brilliance of memories.
If you are still in film school, you should be busy working on your graduation project now...
"Hey, hey, bro! Your scene may have to wait for a while. We still have a few scenes to shoot. How about we go out and smoke a cigarette? I'll tell you about your next scene by the way."
A flirtatious, playful voice sounded in his ears.
This call, "Brother," was really slippery and greasy. He Tianran knew who it was without even looking.
Hu Yue handed over a cigarette, He Tianran took it, stood up and smiled, and the two walked out of the theater.
At the door, Hu Yue held a lighter and helped He Tianran light the cigarette, then lit it himself, took a nice puff, and said very familiarly:
"Brother Xiao Jia, I'm sorry. Director Li is busy making arrangements and can't greet you. Please wait a moment. Don't be in a hurry. By the way, my surname is Hu. I come from Shanshan Mountain. You can call me Xiucai. All the brothers around me call me that."
The small crew didn't have much money, so a "good actor" like He Tianran who was caught off the street and didn't even have to pay for a guest appearance on camera had to be coaxed. If he couldn't film after a while and turned around and left, the whole crew would be in trouble. Rest vegetables.
This is the case for student works. The equipment is provided by free prostitutes, the actors rely on classmates, and the scenes are switched back and forth between the school and nearby streets. Fortunately, this is a film school with good enough shooting conditions, and several major students can work together. Otherwise, the film would not have been completed. Quality is really hard to guarantee.
He Tianran smiled, blew out a puff of smoke, and said casually: "It's okay, I understand. By the way, Xiucai, what is your budget for this shooting?"
Hu Yue did not expect that the other party would call him so smoothly. He was stunned for a moment and then said with a wry smile:
"It was 30,000 at the beginning, but I couldn't stop it, and it quickly rose to 40,000 and almost 50,000."
"Oh~ that's a lot."
"Haha, indeed..."
He Tianran thought about the afterglow of the library. The Film Association of Hong Kong University also has a plan to shoot a micro-film, but the budget is controlled at 800 yuan a day, and the filming will be completed in four or five days. Among student works, any cost exceeding 10,000 yuan is considered a large-scale production. .
But looking at Hu Yue's behavior, it seemed that he suddenly became melancholy when he mentioned this.
Calculating it based on the current time point, He Tianran said:
"However, your graduation project is still in the filming stage. Isn't it a bit late?"
Although the graduation process and time schedule of each school are different, the thesis defense at the University of Hong Kong has now ended, while at the Film School, Li Wang and the others are still working on their graduation projects, which is really too late.
Hu Yue sighed: "Yes, to be honest, Brother Xiaojia, we have been shooting this little film for almost three months."
He Tianran was surprised: "Ah? Did it take three months to shoot or three months to prepare?"
"It took three months to shoot." Hu Xiucai was very helpless: "Director Li was too late in filming and too detailed. Originally, we finally finished it last month. Later, when he was doing post-editing, he felt that there was something wrong. A few scenes didn't go well, so they dragged us here for reshoots today. No, when we met you, we had just returned from filming the location."
"Just because of the meticulousness?"
He Tianran knew Li Wang's filming style, and although it was a bit rough, it wouldn't take so long.
In three months, a TV series can be filmed.
"Hey, it's also our reasons. This is our senior year. Many people are no longer in school. Today we are short of photographers and tomorrow we are short of actors. We finally managed to get it together. Director Li can't shoot more than one scene in a day. Everyone We all wanted to polish this film, but it was just a last ditch effort. It could be regarded as an explanation for the four years of college, so I didn’t rush him.”
"Ah...I see..."
He Tianran paused for a while and then asked: "Xiucai, just now I saw that the photographer and the heroine of our crew seemed to be in conflict?"
"Brother Xiao Jia, you also heard the thorn in their words, right?"
Hu Yue explained with a click of his tongue: "Tsk, oh, you've got to laugh. They were lovers before. It's just that our actress signed a contract with the company not long ago and is not allowed to fall in love. And the photographer Lao Cai has a stronger self-esteem." , and now they are still hanging around with some crews, doing odd jobs here, working as cameramen there, the future... I can only say that the future is promising, so they can only agree to stay well and meet at the top someday. chant."
After being explained like this by Hu Xiucai, He Tianran didn't know whether to laugh or sigh...
There are very few college lovers who can talk about staying together after graduation. He Tianran couldn't comment on this. After being silent for a few seconds, he could only say:
"Normal... quite normal..."
"Hey, Brother Xiaojia, which major are you in? I've never seen you in school before."
There are really not many students in the film school compared to ordinary colleges. It is not uncommon for people in the same grade to know each other even if they are from different majors.
"I'm not from the film school. I'm from the University of Hong Kong next door. I studied finance. I originally wanted to visit the film school today."
"Hey, I thought you were from our school. Brother Xiao Jia likes movies, right?"
"Maybe I came to your school to become a celebrity?"
He Tianran was joking, and Hu Yue looked him up and down.
"Haha, you don't look like a star-chasing person. When you said you were studying finance, I immediately felt that you were one of those elites who drinks a glass of iced Americano every morning, then stares at the stocks, and analyzes the market conditions with classmates and colleagues. Intellectuals.”
"Are you being stereotyped? If I didn't say that I studied finance, wouldn't you still think that I am an artist? Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to make a guest appearance, right? In fact, you can't just judge people by their appearance. I am really He's not exactly a young man, he's just a Liba man, he's still rooted in the land, and his hobbies are things that the masses like to hear about."
Hu Yue felt that this little brother A was really interesting, and he and he were both back and forth.
He smiled and asked: "Hobby? For example?"
"For example...reading a book or something."
"If you say you like Latin American literature, this is not what you like."
"No, I only read books on the Internet, and I especially like to read the kind of books about the Dragon King's son-in-law. For example, the book I read a few years ago is called "The Dragon King's Son-in-law: The God of War Comes to the Door from the Inner Volume." I thought that book was very interesting. Super cool, super awesome, super great!”
He Tianran had a fanatical expression on his face, and Hu Yue's face turned red visibly...
The way he looked at He Tianran changed, thinking that one of his readers recognized him, so he said that on purpose.
But Hu Yue has never exposed his information on the Internet, and he has never seen the man named Xiaojia in front of him before. Could it be said that he has really met a living reader in reality?
As the author of this book, Hu Yue would really die if he encountered this kind of thing!
"Hey, Brother Xiaojia, when you say that, I feel like you might really come to our school to be a celebrity..."
Hu Yue changed the topic stiffly, while He Tianran smiled and said nothing.
"Well, you know, don't look at the slow pace of our director Li's filming. Last year, he was also the one who went to Venice and walked on the red carpet of the film festival!"
"Ah? Really?"
He Tianran was pleasantly surprised.
Seeing that he successfully changed the topic, Hu Yue and Yourong Yan said smugly:
"At last year's Venice Film Festival, our director Li participated in the film "When the Rose Fades" that won the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture!"
After saying this, Hu Yue regretted it a little, because when he thought that the people who could watch his son-in-law's cool writing probably would not overlap with the type of people who watch literary and artistic films...
So I don’t know if this beep can be faked successfully.
Sure enough, he saw a look on Xiao Jia's face.
"Ahem...it doesn't matter if you don't know. Let me explain to you this way. The Venice Film Festival is one of the top three film festivals in Europe..."
"Are you talking about... the one filmed by Wen... Wen Liang?"
"Oh, brother, you know! Hahaha~ Yes, yes, that's the one!"
"……Um."
Suddenly hearing the news about the girl again, He Tianran lowered his head and took a puff of cigarette, not wanting to show his current expression in front of others...
In his original memory, the movie "When the Rose Fades Fades" was only nominated and did not win. But now the situation has changed. In other words, even if he disappears from this world, Wen Liang and Li Wang are still involved in the movie. .
It seems that Ah Liang really changed his destiny after being freed...
"Hey, brother, are you shy...? Why, it turns out you are a fan of Sister Liang? Oh, it's not shameful, I understand, I understand, hehehe~"
When Hu Yue saw He Tianran turning his face, he raised his eyebrows and teased in a coquettish way.
He Tianran quickly regained his composure, raised his head again, turned around, threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and said:
"Xiucai, do you know Wen Liang?"
"Of course, Director Li's girlfriend is Sister Liang's best friend. She studied management and is now Wen Liang's assistant. And our heroine Gu Ling this time, they are all roommates. We have a great time. alright."
"Then...don't you want her to play a role in your film?"
He Tianran asked cautiously.
Hu Yue said carelessly: "The filming has been completed long ago. She is a guest star just like you. She is too busy now. She can squeeze out time to do two scenes. It really helps us a lot. It's not easy now." Come back once…”
At this point, he changed the topic: "Hey, Brother Xiaojia, are you going to watch the show tonight?"
"What show?"
"It's their INTERESTING's farewell performance. It's at the Live House in Yanjiao Alley on the other side of Universe Street. Don't you know?"
He Tianran heard a buzz in his head.
"Say... farewell to the show? You mean... their band is going to disband?"
Hu Yue also threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and sighed.
"Yes, isn't it because Wen Liang is focusing more and more on film and television work, and her career is getting better and better. As the lead singer, she has no other skills. It's normal for the band to break up and go their separate ways..."
(End of chapter)
