At noon, the sun is warm.
Li Tang was sitting on the balcony on the third floor of his home. The balcony was sealed with aluminum alloy glass, and the sunlight came in to form a small greenhouse environment. A cup of tea, a cigarette, a comfortable wicker chair, bathed in the sun, and feel sleepy.
The noise in the restaurant downstairs is very noisy. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Various units and departments on the street are treating guests, giving gifts, and paying New Year greetings. This period has always been the busiest time of the year for business.
Li Tang originally wanted to help, but Lao Li firmly disagreed. In his words, his son was tired from filming and needed to take a good rest. At the same time, it also avoids unnecessary trouble and harassment.
"Return the Pearl" became a hit. At that time, Lao Li blew the whistle and said that Li Tang was filming the sequel of "Return the Pearl" and was with Xiao Yanzi, Ziwei, Erkang and Fifth Brother every day.
Neighbors were dubious because at the beginning of the year, Lao Li also boasted that his son had starred in a movie and was the leading actor, but they haven't seen a movie starring Li Tang for such a long time, even though Lao Li repeatedly said that the movie would not be released until next year.
After Li Tang came back, when the neighbors saw him, they asked about Xiao Yanzi, Erkang and the others. Young people who were still in school came to him to ask for Xiao Yanzi's autographs and asked about the sequel.
Li Tang could see that these neighbors were inquiring, and they were somewhat probing. In order to take care of Lao Li's face, he specially asked Fan Xiaopang to ask the four leading actors, including Jin Suo himself, for some signed photos and send them over.
As soon as these sharp weapons came out, all the previous suspicions of the neighbors towards Lao Li were wiped away. Lao Li was absolutely proud of himself in those days. However, the two of them still underestimated the influence of "Returning the Pearl". Many movie fans came here because of its reputation, and relatives and friends from the neighborhood came all the way to ask for autographs and photos, which made the two of them extremely disturbed.
However, this has also indirectly boosted the business of our own restaurant, which is packed every day at noon and evening, and the tables have to be turned over frequently.
At this time, Li Tang held a script in his hand. Well, let's call it a script. It was just a dozen pieces of paper. It was a script for a short film.
The name is very interesting and straightforward, it's called "Criminals".
This book was given to him by Lou Ye. The director is one of Lou Ye's junior students, named Cheng Er. He is currently only a senior student in Nortel's directing department and is currently interning at Shanghai Film Studio. It is said that he is a very thoughtful young man who "gets along well" with Lou Ye.
Li Tang was surprised at the time. It was not easy to have a good conversation with Lou Ye. At the same time, he was also very curious about Cheng Er.
As for the script, Lou Ye thought the story was great and asked him for help. It was a short film that didn't take long to shoot, and it was also Cheng Er's graduation work.
Of course there is no pay.
At first glance, the story of this script is very ordinary. It tells the story of a young photography shop owner Hu Tian who wants to raise money to treat his mother's illness. He asks for help everywhere but gets nothing. In an accident, he picks up a huge sum of money and uses it to treat his mother's illness. And he embarked on the road of escape.
But the details described in it are particularly interesting. For example, Hu Tian ran a film photo studio. At this time, digital cameras were in the spotlight, and film was at its end. Hu Tian's situation was, in one word: poor!
Hu Tian has a younger brother named Hu Di. When the names of the two brothers are combined, they are very capable of doing mischief. Hu Di is a high school student. When he was in adolescence, he often watched movies while his brother was not at home, blushing. But when he saw Hu Tian inviting shop assistant Xiao Zhang to his home, he would call Hu Tian "rascal brother".
Hu Tian is a good man. When he saw that the book and newsstand in front of the store was burned by hooligans, he would take photos and leave evidence to show to the police when they handle the case. But later it was this newsstand vendor who reported him.
For another example, Hu Tian broke up with his ex-girlfriend. He fell asleep holding his ex-girlfriend's photo and couldn't forget it, but he still invited the girl to stay at his home.
"I miss you so much now. Do you want to come to my house?"
In the end, only the clerk Xiao Zhang came.
After a night of lingering with Xiao Zhang, he dismissed him with a few words. On the surface, he seemed ruthless, but he would leave money for Xiao Zhang before fleeing.
Upon reading these details carefully, Li Tang found them to be particularly real and fully demonstrated the complexity of human nature. From these details, Li Tang can see many people around him, even his own shadow.
Because of this, he was very interested in the role of Hu Tian, even if he was prostituted for free. He really wanted to chat with the young man named Cheng Er, but unfortunately he went back to his hometown in Hubei during the winter vacation and could not come over until after the New Year.
"Jingle Bell……"
A burst of cell phone ringing suddenly woke up the drowsy Li Tang.
These days, landlines have caller ID, but cell phones don’t have this feature yet, so you don’t know who is calling.
"Hello!"
When he heard the other party's voice, the corners of his mouth curved up obviously, and he said with a smile: "Little Fatty, tell me, what's the matter?"
After he left the crew, Fan Xiaopang often called him, sometimes to ask him about performance issues, but most of the time it was just for chatting.
"Teacher Li, do you want a signed photo?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Bingbing, what can I do for you?"
"Keke! Please, please have some moral integrity!"
"What is moral integrity? How much does it cost per pound?"
"Hahaha……"
Fan Xiaopang had a low point of laughter, and Li Tang's two witty words made her laugh out loud.
However, she burst out laughing, her eyes widened, and her mouth opened wide, which was really in contrast to her beauty.
She laughed for a while, then slowly stopped and said, "Teacher Li, please, stop teasing me, okay?"
"good!"
"Pfft!"
I am obviously very serious, why am I laughing again?
Li Tang simply stopped talking.
"Hey Hey hey……"
"here I am."
"Teacher Li, I have something serious to ask you."
"Well, tell me."
"There's a play in the afternoon, and I'm not very good at it."
"Which scene?"
"It was the rivalry scene between Jin Suo and Zi Wei after Erkang told Jin Suo that he would only love Zi Wei in his life."
"You haven't filmed this scene yet?"
Li Tang clearly remembers that this scene was in the episode where Xiao Jian appeared. He has been finishing the filming for more than half a month and has only filmed it now.
"Weren't we in a hurry to shoot the exterior scenes before? There were a few scenes at the Huibin Building that we missed, and we have to reshoot them in the next two days."
That's right, the Huibin Building is a set up scene and can be taken at any time.
"You said you don't quite act, what exactly do you mean?" Li Tang asked.
He remembered this scene. There were two obstacles in the emotional scene between Erkang and Ziwei, one was Qing'er and the other was Jinsuo. Qing'er liked Erkang at first, and the Queen Mother insisted on granting the marriage. Later, Qing'er was moved by the true love between Erkang and Ziwei, and voluntarily quit and persuaded the Queen Mother to withdraw the marriage.
As for the golden lock, it is much sadder. Because Ziwei almost died from a knife attack in the first part, she thought she would not survive, so she betrothed the golden lock to Erkang. After coming back to life, she regretted it in the second part. Because of Jin Suo's identity, she could not treat Qing'er like she did, so the two began to use their words to deceive Jin Suo.
"You also have the right and freedom to pursue love" and the like, blah blah blah, there are a lot of them.
But Jinsuo was an illiterate girl and couldn't understand these big principles, so she got into trouble.
"I just don't know what kind of emotions I should use to act." Fan Xiaopang said.
"Hey, Jin Suo has always had a crush on Erkang, right? Then after Ziwei was stabbed, he betrothed you to Erkang. Doesn't it feel like pie in the sky?"
"Well, it seems a bit."
"So now that Ziwei and Erkan are fine again, how do you feel?"
"Well... I must feel uncomfortable, but Ziwei is a young lady and Erkang is a young master. Their identities are not equal. Jinsuo knows that she is not worthy of Erkang, and she also knows that Erkang doesn't like her... Teacher Li , this is where I feel very contradictory, I feel a bit too angry and dare not speak out, so I can only suffer in silence."
"That's right, there must be conflict, so that there will be dramatic conflict!"
"Teacher Li, just tell me what kind of emotion I should use?"
"It's not that simple, it's the kind of thing where you are abandoned, like a rag that is thrown away after wiping the table."
"..."
Fan Xiaopang didn't say anything, and after a while he said, "I don't have this experience."
"Well, then you think about unhappy and sad things, and then bring these emotions into it."
"What kind of sad and sad thing?"
"That's what you want!"
Li Tang became a little impatient and said: "Your parents divorced and they don't want you anymore; or maybe your parents gave birth to another child and they gave all their love to the little one and no longer love you..."
"Hey, hey, why do you always talk about my parents!"
"If you don't tell me about your parents, who are you talking about? Do you have a boyfriend? If you want to feel sad, you have to attack the person you love the most. Do you understand?"
In fact, he was not aimless. These were more or less mixed with the sad emotions in the original memory.
"Ah? Then let me try..."
Besides your parents, who else do you love most?
Fan Xiaopang, who was on the other end of the phone, slowly put down his hot cell phone, and there seemed to be a vague personal shadow in his mind.
