Chapter 171 Filming with an Encore

After getting down from Fan Bingbing's bed, Zhang Yuan, with regret, walked home with a bang, his whole body like a wooden character, and swaggered.

"Mr. Cao Xueqin, this is a brilliant idea!"

"It's better not to steal than to steal."

After being drunk all night last night, Zhang Yuan was still feeling the pain of missing out on a good chicken.

There was nothing I could do, so I had to take the bus back to the city and return to the small courtyard.

"Oh, this time it's quick. You're back in just a few days." Brother Qian was still watering the flowers in the yard wearing his blue and white striped shorts.

"It's just a small cameo role. It won't take a few days." Zhang Yuan took out a pack of cigarettes, took out two, and handed one to Brother Qian: "It would be great if I could star in a movie directed by Xiaogang one day."

"How old are you?" Yu Qian turned off the tap and lit a cigarette: "There will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

"Thank you for your good words." Zhang Yuan said modestly.

"Hey..." Brother Qian waved his hand: "In this life, luck is everything."

“Others may spend their whole lives begging for a small role but still not be able to get one.”

"But if you're lucky, Director Feng might ask you to film again in a few days."

Zhang Yuan smiled awkwardly.

"Don't disbelieve it, this is what we call fate!" Brother Qian said with the attitude of a veteran.

Drop drop drop...

The two were smoking when Zhang Yuan's cell phone rang. He took it out and answered it.

"Hey?"

A minute later, he put down his phone and extinguished his cigarette: "Brother Qian, I'm going out for a while. I may not be home for the next few days."

"What?" Brother Qian's hands shook and he was almost burned by the cigarette butt: "Didn't you just come back?"

"My fate has come to me." Zhang Yuan spread his hands helplessly and said, "Brother Qian, you are really a man of your words. Director Xiaogang called me just now and asked me to go back and be a consultant for the film for a few days."

Brother Qian: ???
Yu Qian frowned and scratched his "chrysanthemum" head desperately.

I was just saying it, to praise someone... I didn't expect my roommate to verify it right away!

And isn't it a cameo role?
Why was he asked to be a consultant again?
Yu Qian pondered over it and remembered Yang Tao, the boss of the Railway Art Troupe, who had also approached Zhang Yuan to discuss the script.

When you think about it this way, it doesn’t seem so strange.

Before living with Zhang Yuan, he always thought that he was among the best among his peers in terms of both ability and luck.

But now, compared with Zhang Yuan, I seem as ordinary as a birch tree on the roadside.

"Okay, I've heard that acting needs reshoots."

"But this is the first time I've seen a play with an encore."

……

After saying hello to Brother Qian, Zhang Yuan, who had just arrived home, got on the bus again and rushed to the crew.

This is a lot of back and forth...

However, this time when he returns, he is no longer a guest actor.

Director Feng gave him the title of "screenwriter consultant".

Obviously, they were impressed by his insight into the details of the script and his ability to adjust.

An hour or two later...

In the crew, Fan Bingbing was reading and reciting the script in detail.

But as she read, she kept losing her focus and thinking about what happened last night.

It has been nearly half a year since I broke up with my first love, Li Jie.

During this period of time, I have been working all the time. It’s okay when I’m busy, but when I stop, I always feel empty inside.

Of course, it seemed that it wasn't just her heart that felt empty.

In short, last night after she threw Zhang Yuan onto the bed, she took a shower and came to the bed wrapped in a bath towel.

I thought that Xu Fan had originally intended to bring them together.

Besides, compared with Director Feng's appearance, Zhang Yuan looks like a god from heaven.

Even if the fake becomes real, I won't suffer any loss.

But after shouting a few times and pushing hard a few times, she was somewhat disappointed and confirmed that Zhang Yuan was not pretending to be asleep, but was really drunk.

"Drinking will cause trouble!" Fan Bingbing and Zhang Yuan the next morning made the same sigh.

So, she is sexually unsatisfied and now feels a little listless and distracted from time to time.

He rubbed his eyebrows, raised his arms and stretched them, then yawned loudly.

After a few tears squeezed out of the corners of her eyes, she looked not far away with blurred eyes and then let out a soft cry.

"Hey, isn't that Zhang Yuan?"

In a trance, she saw a tall figure waving at her with a smile on his face.

He squeezed his eyebrows hard, and then rubbed them with the back of his hand.

"He just left and you started hallucinating."

"Do you miss him that much?"

Fan Ye laughed and said self-deprecatingly: "Could it be that I'm in heat?"

"Hi, nice to see you again." At this moment, a big hand was placed on her shoulder, causing her body to tremble.

He reached out and squeezed it hard: "Oh, it's not an illusion!"

Fan Bingbing stood up immediately: "Why are you back again?"

Then she rolled her eyes and whispered, "Not now, come to my room tonight."

Zhang Yuan: ???
"Zhang Yuan, you're finally back. Let's talk about the details you mentioned last night in detail."

At this time, Feng Xiaogang came up and pulled him aside.

Fan Bingbing opened her mouth. Although the set was indoors and there was no wind, she still looked a little messy.

I didn't come back to see you on purpose...

She took a few deep breaths and felt even emptier inside.

In the afternoon, according to the two details Zhang Yuan mentioned yesterday, the elevator and the mobile phone shutdown problem, Director Feng slightly modified the original script and obtained the approval of all the leading actors.

"Okay, you are really capable. With this change, the whole story will make sense."

In the next few days, Zhang Yuan was asked by Director Feng to revise the script during the day, and was asked by a few drunkards to drink and chat at night. He never found the time to report to Fan Bingbing's room.

Director Feng really treated him like a beast. He simply pushed the entire script in front of him and asked him to read it carefully and make suggestions for revisions.

"It's just a cameo."

"After becoming a consultant, he didn't mention money." Zhang Yuan complained: "Sure enough, these directors are all stingy."

But even though he had no money, based on the principle of building good relationships, he still tried his best to put forward many suggestions.

That night, Director Feng took Xu Fan, Zhang Guoli, Ge You, as well as himself and Fan Bingbing to the most luxurious massage center near the set, the formal one.

Zhang Yuan thought.

My family members, who understands? After being on the crew for so many days, I finally get some benefits!
But the cruel reality immediately slapped him in the face.

They came here not for massage, but to collect materials in advance and prepare for a massage scene later.

The movie "Cell Phone" has a lot of literary scenes, especially dialogues.

This massage scene is also an important plot turning point.

In the original novel, Yan Shouyi, Fei Mo, and Shen Xue were having a massage. During the massage, Yan Shouyi received a text message from Wu Yue asking for sex. His girlfriend Shen Xue found out and they had a big fight.

But Director Feng felt that the conflict in this scene came too suddenly, releasing the conflict between the two people prematurely, resulting in insufficient strength when the final conflict between Yan Shouyi and Shen Xue broke out.

It's like a pressure tank. If you hold the pressure until the end and release it all at once, or if you release the pressure several times in the middle, the former will definitely make a louder noise when it explodes.

Movies are not like novels. They are limited in length and the conflicts must be stronger to be interesting. So he led a group of actors and Zhang Yuan to conduct field investigations in advance to find inspiration for the revisions.

"There are three characters in this scene, Yan Shouyi, Fei Mo, and Shen Xue." Director Feng said while enjoying the little sister's leg massage.

"It's a bit difficult to figure out how to act. Zhang Yuan, do you have any idea?"

Pa pa pa pa...several young girls are beating their legs hard.

Zhang Yuan lay next to Fan Bingbing, and the two of them enjoyed the relaxation and happiness brought by sex.

"I think we need to first understand the relationships between the characters." The sound of Zhang Yuan being hammered almost turned into electronic music.

"Fei Mo and Yan Shouyi must be in the same group. They deceived Shen Xue together."

“But although Fei Mo helped his friend, he did not agree with his friend’s actions. He thought having an extramarital affair with a woman was troublesome!”

"Then this part should be the same as the previous scenes, Yan Shouyi is lying, Fei Mo helps to cover it up, but at the same time hints him not to go too far."

"Shen Xue was kept in the dark."

"Uncle Guoli, we are just like the group of people in a crosstalk, one is praising, one is making fun, and one is annoying."

When talking about crosstalk, Zhang Guoli nodded excitedly: "That's right."

"I think it's better to do this."

Zhang Yuan took out his cell phone and looked through the text message records: "My cell phone package includes a weather forecast text message service."

"Why not let Yan Shouyi pretend that what he received was not a message from a mistress asking for sex, but a weather forecast."

"Hmm!" Director Feng sat up from the massage bed: "This idea is interesting. Go on."

"How about this, Yan Shouyi pretends to have received the weather forecast and tells the other two people that there is a 50-50 chance of precipitation tomorrow."

"Then Shen Xue would ask, is it better to bring an umbrella or not? After all, it's half open."

"At this time, Fei Mo, who knows the truth, should take over and tell him to prepare for a rainy day and bring an umbrella, because you never know which cloud will bring rain."

After Zhang Yuan finished speaking, the remaining people were all confused and didn't understand at all.

"What does this mean?" Even Director Feng, who thought he was extremely smart, didn't understand.

"Hey!" Zhang Yuan smiled strangely and gave a look that everyone understood: "What do you think is called a small umbrella in real life?"

After hearing this, several people were stunned, then looked at each other and chuckled.

"Using an umbrella to hint whether to wear a condom or not, that's amazing!" Director Feng got very excited when he heard about this kind of thing.

[Received thanks from Feng Xiaogang, screenwriting foundation +1, art foundation +1, physical fitness +1! ]

Zhang Guoli raised his hand and pointed at him vigorously, expressing both admiration and blame.

You're full of bad ideas!
Teacher Ge You also covered his mouth and laughed in a very secretive way.

"Actually, hinting at whether to wear a condom or not is only the first layer, there is also a second layer." Zhang Yuan frowned slightly. Fan Bingbing, who was lying next to him, was covering his mouth and laughing wildly, while pinching his flesh with his hands to vent his anger.

"What?" They all stopped smiling and turned to look at him.

"After Yan Shouyi divorced, he found out that his ex-wife was pregnant and gave birth to a child that belonged to them both."

"The so-called bringing an umbrella or not can also imply that he got his wife pregnant. Don't repeat the same mistake with Wu Yue."

“At the same time, the umbrella here can also be interpreted as the umbrella in our hearts that protects our conscience.”

"If you still have a conscience, then break up with the mistress. This is what Fei Mo meant."

"The irony is that Fei Mo himself almost cheated on his wife in the end, and was discovered by his wife."

"He often teaches Yan Shouyi, but makes the same mistake." Zhang Yuan said with sadness.

The wheel of fate turns. No one can escape it!
"Great!" Director Feng praised immediately: "This way, this passage has two interpretations, vulgar and elegant, and it can also serve as a link between the previous and the next."

"Okay, okay. I didn't drink today. I'll make a note of that."

[Received thanks from Feng Xiaogang, comedy talent +1, drama theory +1! ]

Fan Bingbing patted his shoulder, gave him an admiring look, and nodded vigorously several times.

"How can you be so frivolous one moment and so serious the next?"

She found Zhang Yuan to be very strange. He could be both vulgar and elegant at the same time without feeling inconsistent.

A few days later, after helping Director Feng to almost finish organizing the script, the day came for this consultant to step down from the stage of history.

"Come, share in your good fortune. I wish you great success in the future!" Before leaving, everyone came to see him off.

Xu Fan took out a bright red envelope from her bag and handed it to him.

It looks thick, but when I touch it, it should be less than 10,000 yuan.

Zhang Yuan guessed that it was probably an auspicious number like 8888.

Just as he had expected, there was no money for the guest appearance.

How many people are willing to pay money to get a role in Director Feng's movie.

This red envelope should be his reward for helping to revise the script and acting as a consultant.

Not much, but it’s okay. After all, it only took a little over a week in total, so it didn’t take that long.

These were unexpected.

Besides, money is a small matter, while favors and connections are big matters.

After greeting everyone one by one and just walking out of the filming location, a beautiful female voice came from behind.

"You're just leaving like that?"

Zhang Yuan turned around and saw that the person who followed him out was naturally Fan Bingbing.

"Otherwise, you don't pay me."

"You wish!" Fan Ye laughed and scolded: "I don't have a salary, but I still have an autograph!"

Zhang Yuan then remembered that on his first day on the set, he was treated as a fan who wanted an autograph.

At that time she also said that she would sign an autograph for herself soon.

As a result, it has not been signed yet.

He had forgotten about it long ago. After all, as a fellow actor, there was no point in asking for her autograph.

But what he didn't expect was that the other party not only brought it up on his own initiative, but also made a surprising move.

Fan Bingbing first took out a pen from her pocket, then put her hands behind her back, as if groping for something.

After groping for a few seconds, she reached her arm through her collar again, stroking her shoulders while stretching and bending her arms forward.

After a few seconds, she pulled her arms out of her neckline again, taking out a pink and green underwear at the same time.

He took off the pen cap, signed his name on the inside of the underwear, and then threw it towards Zhang Yuan.

"Hey, my signature!"

She threw it very accurately, and the underwear directly hung on the head of Zhang Yuan who was still in a daze.

"Hahahaha!" Fan Bingbing laughed wildly, holding her stomach with one hand and raising the other hand high and waving at the same time.

"Haha, goodbye, hahaha..."

Just like that, she returned to the crew naked, and no one knew whether she would go back to her room to change into new clothes.

Zhang Yuan took off the original underwear which still had body temperature from his head, held it in his hand to look at it, then simply folded it and put it in his backpack.

“A souvenir…?”

Looking up at Fan Bingbing's almost invisible back, Zhang Yuan sighed.

"You are so rude."

I took the bus back home as usual, but as the saying goes, if there is darkness in the east, there will be light in the west.

He had just said goodbye to Fan Bingbing and returned home when he met another woman he had been longing for.

Humble wife.

(End of this chapter)