Next is a scene of two people queuing up to eat together. One is queuing up to get food, and the other is queuing up to get food. They are in two lines. They look at each other and smile, and their feelings are budding.
Originally this was just a cutscene, but it was easily handled by the acting skills of Li Tang and Zhang Ziyi.
Director Hou Yonggang shouted stop, and just as he was about to shout, Jiang Wen appeared: "No, no, Li Tang, your performance just now was wrong. The look in your eyes at Ziyi is too familiar. Don't forget that you have just met." "
Li Tang, who was feeling relaxed at first, was stunned for a moment. He had indeed overlooked this point just now, and he was so familiar with Zhang Ziyi that he might have brought it out naturally.
"Then do it again."
Li Tang raised his hand to signal, and at the same time looked at Zhang Ziyi with apologetic eyes: "I'm sorry, you are troubled!"
Zhang Ziyi rolled her eyes at him and snorted like a little woman: "De Xing, come on!"
Fortunately, this shot is relatively simple. Without re-adjusting the camera position, lighting, etc., the extras are in their respective places. Those who eat eat, those who queue up, and some people follow the prescribed route again to avoid getting in trouble.
Jiang Wen's question was correct, and Li Tang accepted it humbly and actively asked to do it again. Then the assistant director directed the extras to get in place. This series of operations only skipped the director Hou Yong who was sitting in front of the monitor.
Hou Yong was also speechless and had to watch the replay again. To be honest, when it comes to technical aspects such as lighting, art, photography, etc., he dare not say that he can compete with great directors such as Zhang Yimou and Director Chen, but he is definitely better than most directors. But when it comes to actor performance, he I have to admit that he is really not as good as Jiang Wen, who has a background in acting, and he is very meticulous.
For example, the shot just now is just a shot of a cutscene. Don't say that you didn't pay attention. Even if you did, you probably passed it. You won't be too demanding about it. After all, it's not sure whether it can be used.
everything's ready.
"start!"
The camera first showed Li Tang. In a medium shot, Li Tang looked at Zhang Ziyi who was in the queue next door with curious eyes. After all, there were not many girls as bold as her in that era.
When Zhang Ziyi stopped him in the cafeteria before, she didn't recognize him, so he was just sizing him up. When Zhang Ziyi said that they wanted to cook together, it was more out of politeness.
People's psychology will go through a process of thinking and adaptation. At this time, he may have just come to his senses. This girl may be interested in him. So there was curiosity and inquiry in his eyes.
In the medium shot of another camera, Zhang Ziyi obviously felt Li Tang's gaze, and glanced at Li Tang secretly. Their eyes met, like a frightened deer, and they quickly moved away, lowering their heads slightly while showing a shy smile.
At exactly this moment, Li Tang's eyes changed from curiosity to surprise. He was young and tender, and what boy wouldn't like it?
Just because he liked it, his expression became shy, and his eyes were no longer as calm as before. He began to dodge, but he couldn't help but peek at the red figure.
Zhang Ziyi, who was also shy, turned her head slightly and was looking at him. Their eyes met again, and they dodge at the first touch, then dodge again, until the third time, Zhang Ziyi mustered up the courage not to dodge anymore. Li Tang's eyes flickered for a moment, but in the end he did not leave. The two of them smiled at the same time, although they were shy, they were very innocent.
"good!"
Before Hou Yong could tell him to stop, Jiang Wen couldn't wait to stand up and applaud.
"Li Tang, this is good, very accurate!"
After saying that, as if he had just become aware of Hou Yong next to him, he turned around and said to Hou Yong: "Director Hou, what do you think?"
"Uh... ok, passed!"
…
Maybe it was Hou Yong's concession, or it was intentional. Let's be optimistic. In short, Jiang Wen became a non-staff director during the subsequent filming.
"Ziyi, this is wrong. Li is educated and well-educated. You can't act like an ordinary woman and live a decent life..."
However, Zhang Ziyi said dissatisfiedly: "Brother Jiang Wen, why did I act so recklessly?"
"Tsk, I'm not using an analogy. Don't show your face at all times. Your dissatisfaction can only be secretly suppressed in your heart. You have to confide it to your husband, and you have to force a smile on your face. Remember, you It’s educated, you can despise it, you can be dissatisfied, but you can’t be too obvious, okay?”
Zhang Ziyi had no choice but to say: "Come again."
This is a meal scene.
Zou Jie's home is in the countryside, in the urban-rural fringe to be precise. This year is a warm winter, and spring comes early. In mid-March, the rapeseed flowers have already bloomed. In order to get a scene of the rapeseed flowers blooming, Hou Yong hurriedly ended the shooting at Chedun Film and Television City, and the crew moved to Dongshan, Suzhou town.
Although Li, played by Zhang Ziyi, has been neglected by her mother since childhood and may have been treated coldly mentally, her material living conditions are still quite good.
But when I came to Zou Jie's family, it was an ordinary working-class family. Although in this era where family origin was the only criterion, such a family was very glorious. However, many factors such as eating habits, accommodation conditions, and sanitary conditions make Li incompatible with this family.
Today's dinner scene is a demonstration of Li's incompatibility with this family.
The highlight of this scene is Li played by Zhang Ziyi, Zou Jie played by Li Tang, Zou's mother played by teacher Xi Meijuan, and Zou Jie's sister all serve the role of Li.
Student Xiao Zhang may not be in a good state today. He failed five times in a row. Most of this scene was her interaction with teacher Xi Meijuan. Li Tang and the young actor who played Zou Jie's sister were responsible for eating, and they had to eat very delicious and greasy rice dumplings.
When the director shouted to come again, the young actor suddenly looked bitter.
One more thing, there was no role of Zou Jie’s sister in the original script. Zou Jie’s father died young and he and his mother depended on each other, which created Zou Jie’s character of being more obedient to his mother, which intensified the conflict between Li and Zou’s mother. .
But Jiang Wen felt that this was not representative. Even if his father died young, only children were rare in that era. In order to highlight the concept of family, he proposed to add the role of sister Zou Jie.
Zou Jie is motivated and promising and is the backbone of the family. Faced with an old mother and a young sister, Zou Jie later moved with Li to her parents' home in the urban area with better conditions, which was enough to prove Zou Jie's love for Li, and thus Zou Jie's various unreasonable troubles after Zou Jie were harm.
Due to Jiang Wen's strong arguments and his repeated rhetoric, Hou Yong had no choice but to accept his suggestion and asked the assistant director to temporarily find a suitable actor to play the role of Zou Jie's sister.
This role was not chosen casually. Teacher Xi Meijuan is quite tall. Coupled with Li Tang's tall and handsome image, the actor who plays Zou Jie's sister must also be tall and have a good image and temperament.
At first, Li Tang wanted his sister Xiao Xiaoke to make a guest appearance, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do it. After all, the entertainment industry is not a good place, and a young girl will easily get lost if she enters this kind of circle.
Xiao Xiao knew before that he was filming with Zhang Ziyi in Shanghai. Last Sunday, he took a few of his close classmates to the school where the crew was filming in the city to visit the class and chase stars. Of course, they came mainly for Zhang Ziyi.
As Li Tang's younger sister, Zhang Ziyi was naturally very welcoming, taking photos and signing autographs with everyone. She was also allowed to play a guest role next to him as a character who was not in the frame but had one line of dialogue, which made Xiao Xiao very happy.
After several interviews, the assistant director found a seventeen-year-old girl who was said to have practiced rhythmic gymnastics since she was a child and is currently in a technical secondary school. She was tall, fair, and had a decent body and appearance, except for her face shape. It is somewhat pointed, the facial features are slightly long, and the corners of the eyes and mouth are slightly drooped. It seems that the face is not soft enough and looks a bit mean, and also has a slightly bitter look.
As a result, Jiang Wen was very satisfied after reading it and thought it fit the character setting of the unruly sister-in-law very well.
But this little girl's name is quite nice, Jiang Shuying. Li Tang just thought it sounded good, but when Jiang Wen saw the little girl's name, he revealed the origin of the name. It comes from the two famous poems in "Little Plum Blossoms in the Mountain Garden" by the Northern Song Dynasty poet Lin Bu: "Sparse shadows are slanting across the clear water, and the faint fragrance floats in the moonlight at dusk." The implication is that when encountering difficulties, they are like plum blossoms in the mountain garden and are tenacious and unyielding, and continue to work hard. .
Who says actors are uneducated? This alone is enough to prove Jiang Wen's foundation in Chinese studies.
Being able to give a girl such a name shows that this little girl must come from a scholarly family. How could she go to a technical secondary school?
Okay, no more research.
At this time, when Li Tang saw the bitter look on the little girl's face, he felt quite sympathetic because he was also a little choked. The props prepared were all oily and big meat dumplings, which were too greasy.
"Hey, Xiaojiang, don't be too honest. If you can't eat, don't force it. You can still eat it later, but chew it in your mouth and don't swallow it. Wait until the photo is finished before spitting it out."
"Teacher Li, is this...is this okay?" the little girl said hesitantly.
The little girl had no acting experience. As the non-staff performance director of the crew, Li Tang could only teach her step by step how to act.
Li Tang smiled and said, "If you can do it, it's up to you."
As he spoke, he peeled off a rice dumpling, took a big bite and chewed it with relish. Then he took another big bite, chewing but not swallowing, his cheeks bulging.
He chewed it for a while before spitting it into the trash can brought by his assistant Xiao Zhao. He rinsed his mouth with mineral water and then said to the little girl: "See if you see it clearly. Just eat it like this."
As he spoke, he also told the little girl: "You must have never experienced it at your age. My little Chenguang rice dumplings are a good thing. I can only eat them once a year during the Dragon Boat Festival, so I must eat them well!"
The little girl nodded hurriedly and said: "Yes, I understand. Thank you, Teacher Li!"
Not to mention that the little girl's eyes are crooked when she smiles, a bit like peach blossom eyes, but she still looks very childish, and her mother is accompanying her during the filming.
Looking back, when Fan Xiaopang was as old as her, he could already stand alone. Moreover, Li Tang met and was attracted to Xiao Pang when he was that old.
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