Chapter 139 Tribute to the Classics

There was nothing to say all night, and it was dawn the next day.

Zhang Yuan arrived at the crew on time and greeted the director and screenwriter.

He was somewhat surprised to find that Li Huizhu and Chen Shisan's attitudes towards him had become much softer and more intimate.

Before yesterday, when Li Huizhu spoke to him, her tone was serious but with a hint of severity, like a superior instructing a subordinate.

It always makes her feel superior and dignified.

After the press conference yesterday afternoon, Director Li spoke in a much softer tone.

After all, seeing that he had a close relationship with Yang Dengkui, he became more cautious afterwards.

This made Zhang Yuan feel that the other party's display was very exaggerated, but he always felt that he was being very cautious.

But it was different now. There was admiration in his expression when he looked at him.

"It seems that they were very satisfied with my performance last night." After thinking for a long time, Zhang Yuan had an idea in his mind.

The crew is a small society, and you have to speak with strength.

"Zhang Yuan has no show this morning." Chen Shisan turned and asked Li Huizhu.

"Yes, but he still came on time."

"I didn't expect that he is so dedicated at such a young age." Chen Shisan sighed again: "It seems that we chose the right person."

The morning scenes mainly focused on the leading roles of Ning Caichen and Xiaoqian.

Xiaoqian, played by Xu Xiyuan, was relatively okay, but Chen Xiaodong suffered more. He spent the entire morning shooting three hours of exterior scenes, all of which were scenes of rushing through the mountains.

At lunch time, he was gasping for breath, unable to lift his chopsticks, his lips were pale, and sweat was breaking out on his head.

"You're not suffering from kidney deficiency, are you?" Xu Xiyuan teased with a head full of hair accessories.

This actress is particularly bold when speaking privately, which fits Zhang Yuan’s stereotype of Hong Kong and Taiwan actresses who “know how to have fun”.

"Ahem..." My deskmate Wu Jing almost laughed out loud but managed to hold it back.

Chen Xiaodong gritted his teeth and glared at his Xiaoqian fiercely.

"Brother Xiaodong's symptoms should not be kidney deficiency." At this time, Zhang Yuan spoke steadily after observation.

Chen Xiaodong's current condition is exactly the same as Hu Jun's condition when he visited the set yesterday afternoon after filming the fight scenes and circus scenes.

"This should be altitude sickness." Zhang Yuan continued, "Brother Dong, since you came to the crew, have you felt shortness of breath? You get out of breath easily when you move, and you have headaches from time to time?"

Chen Xiaodong was stunned, then nodded vigorously, but immediately stopped with a grin.

I can't shake my head, or I'll feel dizzy.

"That's altitude sickness. Let the crew prescribe some medicine later." While speaking, Zhang Yuan stood up and walked to Chen Xiaodong's side.

"I know some massage techniques that can help you temporarily relieve the pain. Lean your head over here." Zhang Yuan shook his arms.

Chen Xiaodong was skeptical.

To be honest, he was a little afraid of Zhang Yuan.

He is so talented, popular and handsome, which puts him under a lot of pressure.

But he felt really uncomfortable now and had no other choice but to nod slightly.

Wu Jing and Xu Xiyuan, who were standing by, were also quite curious and watched Zhang Yuan put his hands on both sides of Chen Xiaodong's head.

Zhang Yuan pressed his right index finger, middle finger and thumb on the Tianchong, Fubai and Qiaoyin acupoints near the ear respectively.

The left hand presses on the three major acupoints: Yuzhen, Fengchi and Houding.

Use slight force with both hands and press gently.

Within two minutes, Chen Xiaodong felt a slight heat where he was pressed.

At the same time, the body seemed to be lighter than before.

My breathing became much smoother, and my headache and dizziness were significantly reduced.

Complete recovery is impossible, but it has at least relieved the pain by more than 30%.

[Received thanks from Chen Xiaodong, singing foundation +1, singing skills +1! ]

“It’s really much more comfortable.”

After Zhang Yuan received the attributes, he slowly stopped.

Chen Xiaodong showed a look of gratitude.

Now his hands holding the chopsticks no longer shook, and he had a better appetite. However, his impression of Zhang Yuan became mixed.

"Maybe I'm too narrow-minded..." Chen Xiaodong said with some self-blame.

Zhang Yuan knew very well that Chen Xiaodong was not like him and Wu Jing. He had a foundation in martial arts and was physically stronger than ordinary people.

We had just shot a lot of outdoor scenes and walked at least several kilometers of mountain roads in the morning, which made the altitude sickness worse.

The oxygen is indeed thin at high altitudes. Just like cars, naturally aspirated vehicles are prone to lack of power when they reach high altitudes.

The turbocharged models are much better.

When facing altitude sickness, breathing oxygen is equivalent to solutions such as forced air intake such as turbines.

Zhang Yuan's massage is more like a method of clearing the oil circuit and the air intake system. It does not strengthen the patient's body with external force, but allows the patient's own cardiopulmonary function to be better exerted, thereby increasing the oxygen content in the blood.

"Brother, your move..." Wu Jing asked curiously when he saw him stop.

"Natural Massage Kung Fu."

"Oh..." Wu Jing licked his back teeth with the tip of his tongue, thinking to himself.

He knows so much!

At the same time, another thought came to my mind, a thought that any martial artist would have.

"Find an opportunity to compete with him."

"I want to see how capable he is!"

Seeing that Zhang Yuan's massage was really effective, Xu Xiyuan, who was next to Chen Xiaodong, pretended to be coquettish and said in a sexy way.

"Zhang Yuan, can you give me a massage sometime? I often have headaches too."

After saying that, he twisted his body and leaned towards him.

Zhang Yuan looked at the leading actress with a "shoe-horn" face and protruding ears, and his heart was calm.

Not to mention that the two are not familiar with each other, just talk about their appearance.

Gao Yuanyuan, Chen Zihan, Lin Jing, Liu Qianqian, Shu Chang, Liu Tao, Cheng Hao, Jia Jingwen...

I have eaten and seen it myself!

I saw a long line of beauties, and any one of them I picked would be able to beat this one.

Therefore, after his aesthetic threshold was raised, he really had no interest in "Shancai".

What's more, he also knew about the various fights she had with her mama's boy and her son in later lives, as well as her bizarre love story with an old man from South Korea.

Zhang Yuan really doesn't want to have anything to do with such a woman.

Besides, she is Yang Dengkui's girlfriend. If I flirt with her, someone might report me to Lao Deng.

I'm still eating other people's food, I can't do anything stupid.

Zhang Yuan put on a smile and replied kindly: "There will be a chance in the future."

"It's a deal then. You'll give me a full body massage."

I think you don't want to massage your whole body...

Zhang Yuan gave an awkward but polite smile.

After dinner, Zhang Yuan took a stroll to digest his food while reciting his lines as he walked.

After wandering around and returning to the crew, I heard Li Huizhu and Chen Shisan arguing heatedly with the male and female leading actors.

Seeing this, he immediately took out a handful of melon seeds from his pocket and walked forward.

Wu Jing and a few others were also in the crowd, and Zhang Yuan even gave him some melon seeds.

“We feel this scene is not good.”

"It's not appropriate to act like this."

"You can't act like this..."

After listening for a long time, he finally understood what was going on.

The play is called "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the story naturally involves scholars, ghosts, and foxes. Especially the beginning, it is very similar to the most famous version, the one starring Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong.

It was all because Xiaoqian met the scholar Ning Caichen by chance, and was eventually forced to marry the Black Mountain Old Demon.

However, in the TV series, Xiaoqian became a fox demon, and the one who forced her to marry was not a tree demon, but a spider spirit.

The setting of the tree demon grandma was added to the mother of the Seven Night Demon Lord, played by Zhang Yuan, the Queen Mother Yin Yue.

But generally speaking, the TV drama script designed by Chen Shisan is slightly similar to the beginning of the movie version, but...

Chen Shisan is known as a "genius" screenwriter in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

He is not only talented, but also shrewd and has unique ideas.

Look, the biggest news in the entertainment industry in recent days is Leslie Cheung’s “leap of faith”.

Seeing this, he suddenly came up with an idea.

His idea was called "riding on the popularity" in later generations.

Since our movie has the same name as Leslie Cheung's movie, we might as well make it even better and have the same plot!
So he temporarily changed the script and added the classic scene where Xiaoqian hides Ning Caichen in the bathtub.

This original scene is a classic among classics!

Zhang Yuan believes that Wang Zuxian's image with thick eyebrows, beautiful eyes and a purple dress is a perfect embodiment of the four words "a beautiful head and beautiful eyebrows".

Moreover, Tsui Hark deliberately let Joey Wong's feet half exposed, with a silver anklet on her ankle. Wow... I have to say, Tsui Hark is a connoisseur of goods, just like Quentin Tarantino.

The scene where the two of them kiss each other wetly in the bathtub captures the "desire" in Hong Kong movies to the extreme.

This kind of desire is obscure and advanced. In another film by Tsui Hark, "Green Snake", the scene where Fahai and Xiaoqing are entangled in the water also reflects this kind of obscure desire.

Xu Laoguai is Xu Laoguai, he knows his stuff very well.

But Li Huizhu is not Xu Ke, and the TV series is not a movie.

When Chen Xiaodong and Xu Xiyuan learned that Chen Shisan was a replica of the original, they immediately opposed it strongly.

"This is plagiarism!" Finally, Chen Xiaodong gritted his teeth and said straight to the point.

They are the investors' people, so they are qualified to argue with the director.

In fact, it doesn’t matter to the two of them whether it is plagiarism or not.

What’s more important is that they both knew very well that no matter how well they acted, they would only be a laughing stock if compared with Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong.

While the two sides were arguing, Zhang Yuan patted the melon seed shells on his hands, thought for a moment, and then walked forward with a smile.

"Director Chen, are you planning to pay tribute to the movie version of A Chinese Ghost Story?"

After hearing this, Chen Shisan immediately reacted: "Yes, I am paying tribute, not plagiarizing."

"Don't talk nonsense, or I'll sue you for defamation!"

"What salute?" Chen Xiaodong frowned when he saw him coming forward.

"I think you have all seen Stephen Chow's movies." Zhang Yuan said with his hands behind his back, talking freely.

"In Tricky Brains, the scene where Cheng Kui-an opens the door and falls from the building pays tribute to Buster Keaton's The Week."

"In "The Soul", the looks of Stephen Chow and Karen Mok paid tribute to "Léon: The Professional."

"In 'The King's Woman', the dancing scene pays homage to 'Pulp Fiction', and the male protagonist's transformation pays homage to 'The Mask'."

“The beginning of “Lord of Destruction” pays tribute to Schwarzenegger’s appearance in “Terminator”.”

Zhang Yuan specifically used Stephen Chow as an example. When it comes to paying tribute, he is the top Chinese in terms of both frequency and level.

"Most of Stephen Chow's films have imitation plots, but the audience loves watching them, and no one accuses him of plagiarism."

Zhang Yuan actually deliberately switched the concepts. After all, what Stephen Chow did was a spoof, while Chen Shisan was pure imitation.

"Since Master Xing can pay tribute, we can pay tribute as well."

"Just think of it as a gift to Brother Leslie Cheung."

"Yes, I am paying tribute to Leslie Cheung." Chen Shisan followed up on what Zhang Yuan said and said quickly.

Chen Xiaodong was silent.

He lowered his head and remained silent for a long time.

As a singer, as a Hong Kong and Taiwan singer of that era, who has not been influenced by Leslie Cheung?

If it's a tribute... he sighed, it's not impossible.

Besides, Zhang Yuan had just given him a massage to relieve his altitude sickness. How could he not give him face when he was speaking to him?

He said nothing, but Xu Xiyuan still disagreed.

"Sister S, are you afraid that you can't compare to the original? But your figure and appearance are no worse than Joey Wong." Zhang Yuan felt guilty when he said this.

But his encouragement and praise immediately took effect.

"Of course not." Xu Xiyuan's eyebrows almost flew up when he heard him compare himself to Joey Wong: "I just think..."

"After you film this scene, people will think of you when they mention Joey Wong."

"is it?"

That’s true, but I’m not sure whether I’ll laugh or scold after thinking about it... Zhang Yuan still had a smile on his face.

Li Huizhu kept the two of them chatting for a while, and they were indeed not so resistant anymore.

"This kid is amazing. He got it done with just a few words." Chen Shisan pushed his glasses and smiled proudly.

"Indeed, words have a different taste when they enter his mouth." Director Li also laughed and said, "And he really knows a lot."

"You can use Stephen Chow's movies as examples, and in such detail. You must have done a lot of homework."

"Yes, I do know a lot. I even know Buster Keaton, who is a comedy master of the same generation as Chaplin, but he is less famous in China."

Chen Shisan is a famous screenwriter with a wide range of knowledge and experience. Of course he knows the name of Buster Keaton.

But it is rare for a young actor to know this, and he immediately looked at Zhang Yuangao several times.

"Haha, don't be too happy too soon. This kid is very smart. He won't do anything without a reason." Li Huizhu stroked her hair: "He won't help for nothing."

"I helped with the filming set last time, but we had to take on the role of the Seven Nights Demon Lord. Of course, now it seems that we made a profit on this deal."

Li Huizhu asked Chen Shisan to be patient, and soon Zhang Yuan returned.

"Director Li, there is something I want to discuss with you."

Director Li gave Chen Shisan a look.

Look what I said.

"It's like this..." Zhang Yuan told him everything about his box lunch company.

He greeted Cao Jianjun and the others yesterday and asked them to prepare to welcome the next crew. Since then, he has been looking for an opportunity to speak.

Just by chance, he found an opportunity at this moment.

"The crew of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils used someone else's lunch boxes, and they ended up pooping... Have you read the newspaper?"

Director Li and Chen Shisan's faces turned pale and they nodded in acknowledgment.

“After that, all the cooking for Tian Long was done by my people, and there have been no problems since then.” Zhang Yuan vowed.

Li Huizhu and Chen Shisan looked at each other.

Fine……

It's not an exaggerated request.

Moreover, the food poisoning incident on the set of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" is indeed "notorious", and I didn't expect this guy was involved.

Besides, I had just done them a big favor and secured the two leading actors. It would seem a bit inhumane to refuse now.

"Okay." Director Li asked the production staff to arrange it without hesitation.

Zhang Yuan saw that his goal had been achieved, so he said hello and turned away with a smile.

Wu Jing, who was standing by the side the whole time, looked confused.

"He took over the business while we were chatting and laughing?"

“Why does it seem like it’s so easy for him to make money?”

“It’s so infuriating.”

Wu Jing shook his head, his face full of worry, and he breathed out angrily through his nose.

"I'll eat him till he's broke!"

(End of this chapter)