Filming Lou Ye's movies is very hard, because they are all shot in real locations, and we also have to consider that the on-site radio will not be disturbed. We often choose to shoot indoor scenes in the dead of night, and there are many night scenes, so we often shoot in the afternoon. Work started at 0 o'clock and didn't end until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning.
After all, it’s all about having no money. If you had money, you could rent a studio in a film and television park, set up scenes, and do all the indoor scenes, easily and without any interference.
Fortunately, after Zhou Xun joined the team, Li Tang felt a little more relaxed, at least the director would no longer stare at him raking in the wool alone.
There are very few roles in "Suzhou River". In addition to him and Zhou Xun, there are also Xiao Hong played by Nai'an, Old B played by brother Lou Yeyi, and the bar owner who guest-starred as deputy director and external producer Yao Anlian.
In fact, brother Lou Ye only came to the crew to help at first, but ended up becoming the second male lead. This means that he and Zhou Xun are the only serious actors in the entire crew. The other actors and crew have digested themselves and tried their best to save the actors' remuneration as much as possible.
Xiao Hong, played by Nai'an, is Ma Da's ex-girlfriend, and Old B is Ma Da's underworld friend. Xiao Hong stayed with Old B after leaving Ma Da, but still maintained a friendship.
It's very interesting to say that the name of the character Old B was probably written by Lou Ye casually, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that B is two, or something like that. In the Chinese context, it is not a good word, it is a curse word. , so the character of Old B is a bad guy, a thoroughly bad one.
"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!"
Yao Anlian parked the van on the side of the road, opened the door, took out an insulated foam box, and shouted upstairs.
The crew was small, and in addition to being the assistant director and external producer, Lao Yao also took the initiative to take on the chores and chores. Everyone recognized his work in the food department.
It is said that he ordered the lunch boxes for the crew from a window shop next to the Writers Association on Julu Road. The so-called window shop is the kind that is opened in a resident's home and sells through a window facing the street.
This small window shop specializes in local dishes, including braised ribs, braised pork, pickled eggs, fried hairtail... cheap and good, but the key is that the taste is quite good.
"Is there any yellow sauce? I want to eat yellow sauce." Zhou Xun was the first to jump out.
Just kidding, after being tortured by the director for an entire afternoon, she was so hungry that her chest was touching her back.
"Yes, yes, I took special care of the ones left, otherwise they would have been sold out long ago." Yao Anlian laughed, picked two lunch boxes and handed them to her.
Huangjiang is a Shanghainese nickname for tofu-coated meat. Zhou Xun didn’t know it at first and thought it was a sauce like chili sauce or miso. After tasting it, I found that the tofu wrapped in fresh minced meat, and the rich and sweet sauce wrapped the tofu, was particularly delicious, and I fell in love with it immediately.
"Hey, I'll give you half of the meal."
She ate little rice, mainly vegetables, and gave Li Tang most of the white rice in her lunch box.
"Hey, such fat meat!"
Li Tang's vegetable box contained braised pork, which was very fatty.
"Braised pork is fat because it tastes good, do you understand? This is meat cooked in a big pot, all the oil and water are cooked out, it doesn't taste greasy at all, it's waxy and fragrant."
"real?"
"If you don't believe it, try it."
Li Tang smiled and handed over the vegetable box.
Zhou Xun hesitated for a while while holding the chopsticks, and finally shook his head and curled his lips and said, "I don't want to eat it. I can't eat it just by looking at it."
"Forget it if you don't eat."
Li Tang mixed some broth into the rice and took a big bite of the plump braised pork. It tasted delicious.
After eating, I looked around and saw that Zhou Xun had finished all the food, but he had only taken a few bites of the small half box of white rice.
"Hey, give me a cigarette."
Zhou Xun put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth with a tissue, and stretched out two fingers to make a cigarette-holding gesture towards Li Tang.
"You don't have one?"
Li Tang reluctantly dug into his pockets.
"It's over, hurry up, don't be stingy!"
Li Tang took out the cigarette box, took one for himself, and threw most of the box to her.
Zhou Xun smokes and is more addicted than him.
"Why do you always smoke outside? It's too strong." She lit up a Sanwu cigarette, took a puff and frowned.
Li Tang glanced at her and said, "My father used to be a cigarette dealer, so he is used to smoking."
"Don't your family own a restaurant?"
"I'm talking about the past."
"So how old were you when you started smoking?"
"Go to junior high school."
"Your father won't beat you?"
"Smoke secretly!"
Li Tang remembered that when he was a child, Lao Li was busy making money and no one was taking care of him at home, so he let himself go, secretly smoked, and fooled around with the gangsters on the street. As a result, his grades plummeted. After graduating from junior high school, he was still a father. The caretaker barely managed to attend high school.
After Li Tang finished smoking, he stubbed out his cigarette, packed up the lunch boxes for the two of them, and stood up with some difficulty: "Hey, hold on, I have to move."
There is a large terrace to the north of the room, next to the Suzhou River. The early summer night breeze is very comfortable on the face, but you can faintly smell the stench coming from the river.
Li Tang walked around the balcony twice, and then stretched carefully.
"Why do you have to exercise every time before filming?" Zhou Xun leaned against the door and smoked his second cigarette.
"Exercise can secrete endorphins and dopamine." Li Tang said while doing high kicks.
"Uh, what do you mean?" Zhou Xun looked confused.
She seemed to have heard of dopamine, but not what endorphins were.
"Because these two substances can stimulate people's emotions and feelings, making people more relaxed, and warming up can also prevent injuries." Li Tang explained briefly.
Well, he already knew that the little girl in front of him was not from a major and had a low level of education. She seemed to have attended an art school for three years after graduating from junior high school.
Maybe it was because a little girl was watching today that Li Tang acted on a whim. After stretching and warming up, he actually performed the Cai Li Fu Fist.
He had practiced this set of boxing for twenty years in his previous life, and picked it up again after time travel. He had already practiced it to a high level, and the routine was really beautiful to watch.
Zhou Xun was stunned, and said with surprise and excitement on his face: "It turns out you can also kung fu, it's amazing!"
"What's awesome?"
At this time, Nai'an came over with a smile on his face, holding two pieces of paper.
"Sister Nai'an, Li Tang is good at kung fu, he is very good, very... very good-looking." Zhou Xun said excitedly.
"You know kung fu?"
It was the first time Nai An heard it and he was also surprised.
"It's just some martial arts routines, just fancy fists and embroidered legs." Li Tang said.
"Oh, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Nai An suddenly sighed.
"What's wrong?"
Nai'an said excitedly: "That's great if you know Kung Fu. It's popular to shoot martial arts scenes now. You're from a major. If you know Kung Fu, you'll be very popular, you know!"
"Yes, yes, "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" has a lot of martial arts scenes. When I went to film, I saw Teacher Zhang Fengyi and the others practicing every day." Zhou Xun jumped to the side.
"But my martial arts routines and real kung fu are two different things." Li Tang said hesitantly.
Nai'an didn't see Li Tang boxing, but as an agent, every characteristic of an actor is a selling point, so he hurriedly said: "The filming is also fake, as long as you can make it look good."
As she said that, she couldn't help but giggle and said: "I was originally worried that I wouldn't be able to get a role for you, but now it's no problem. I'll ask my friends later to see if there are any suitable martial arts scenes."
Li Tang knew that Nai'an had been accepting movies everywhere recently, not only to help him accept movies, but also to accept movies for himself.
Without him, the production funds for "Suzhou River" were stretched thin. As a producer, she could only rely on TV series to subsidize the filming of the film.
In fact, Nai'an is still very popular as an actor. Several TV series she starred in in the past few years have won the Best Actress Award at the "Asia-Pacific Chinese Television Festival" and the "Chunyan Award" hosted by Beijing TV Station.
Li Tang sometimes got drunk thinking about it. Nai'an could obviously make a lot of money by acting, but he had to help Lou Ye make movies. As an agent, he went out to film on his own, and he doubted whether he was right or wrong in choosing this agent.
"Oh, by the way, this is for you. The director has made some changes for tonight's play. Please hurry up and take a look." Nai'an handed the two pieces of paper to them.
