There are no accidents when filming, whether it is a TV series or a movie.
Man proposes, God disposes. This saying is even more prominent on a set with a large number of people and complex on-site conditions.
After all, there are all kinds of people in the world, and every word and idea of each one is enough to make you suffer.
Therefore, Zhang Yuan particularly admired the organizational ability of the revolutionary martyrs. Whether it was the Four Crossings of the Chishui River or the Long March, even if we put aside the tactics and strategies, it was a miracle that tens of thousands of people were dispatched without any mistakes.
Accidents are prone to happen on the film set, and fight scenes are one of the types most prone to accidents.
Li Lianjie had suffered many injuries on the set before.
Now that he is a big star, apart from the shots that show his face, he also uses a lot of body doubles even for the fighting scenes.
Not only him, but Fangshilong is also like this, and everyone admits it.
But there is still a group of fans who always put their idols on the spot, insisting that they never use a stand-in.
Zhang Yuan knew that although the movie "Huo Yuanjia" was a big investment and the protection measures were very thorough, Li Lianjie was still injured, and even seriously injured once!
This is also the reason why he agreed to make another guest appearance.
Firstly, he had to give face to Lao Li, and secondly, he was very curious. With all the protection, how did Lao Li end up in such bad luck?
"That singer is going to come to the set and sing for me in person?"
After Zhang Yuan told Lao Li about Jay Chou's little thoughts, he wiped his sweat while speaking.
"Okay, you're quite sincere."
"But I can't guarantee whether it will be used or not." Li Lianjie drew a line first and said the ugly words in advance.
"It's okay, I'll call that person over."
Zhang Yuan immediately called Jay Chou.
"Hey, I've talked to Brother Jie, come on over."
"Okay, I'll be there in a few hours. I'm already at the airport."
Zhang Yuan: …
You're so excited.
Looking at his attitude, he will come whether he is allowed to or not, because he must see his idol.
"Come on, I'll take you to meet the crew." Then Li Lianjie took him for a walk.
This film will use many foreign actors.
Because the subsequent fighting scene is about Huo Yuanjia fighting against overseas masters.
These foreign actors are by no means ordinary people.
The overseas masters in the film, except for the last guy who lives a good life by using shady tricks, are three white people.
An American strongman weighing more than 200 pounds.
A Spanish fencing champion.
A coach of the Royal Belgian Knights.
Equivalent to Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi plus Lin Chong...
The three people invited by the crew are all real masters.
The actor who plays the strongman eats six meals a day. In addition to the boxed lunches from the crew, he also has a separate snack for each meal just to maintain his body shape.
Zhang Yuan saw his fist and thought that most people would be shattered to pieces if hit by it.
This guy is more than two meters tall and is said to weigh more than 200 kilograms, but in fact it weighs almost 300 kilograms.
He is an Australian professional wrestler.
Li Lianjie told him that if this guy stayed in a hotel, he would have to put three beds together to sleep comfortably.
"This foreigner who is wielding a sword has very flexible wrists." Li Lianjie introduced him: "He is the German fencing champion."
"During the audition, he and I fought with swords, and I broke eight swords in one afternoon!"
"The movements are fast, accurate, and powerful."
call!
As he was speaking, he heard a sharp and bleak voice.
The two turned around and saw a foreigner named Gentleman Hu holding a spear and gesticulating sharply.
"This is Brando. His ancestors were old Italian nobles. His pistol skills have been passed down for hundreds of years and are very exquisite."
Old Li took him on a tour and introduced him to almost all the masters on the set.
The staff were still grumbling.
"Brother Jie was leading that kid around in circles. I thought he was going to play some important role."
"When I asked, it turned out that he was just a guest star."
"It's just that Brother Jie, who was a guest star, personally led the way to greet people. Is it such a big deal?"
"Who knows? I guess he has a big background."
"From what I've seen from Brother Jie, he seems to like this guy very much."
"Apart from this guy, it seems that the only junior who can make Brother Jie so polite is the one who was stuffed into the crew..."
"Shh, stop talking. People at home are very fierce. If you say something wrong, you might get beaten up."
Zhang Yuan didn't know that the staff were talking about him behind his back, he just chatted with Brother Jie as they walked.
"Ah, you've also been to an island country to film a movie."
Li Lianjie was surprised and said, "It's not easy to go abroad to film at such a young age."
"The Hong Kong crew was just filming in the island country." Zhang Yuan said modestly: "That's where I met the singer who is coming soon."
"That's not easy. It's always good to go out and have a look." Li Lianjie has mixed feelings about the overseas market.
After all, you can make a lot of money there, but you are always looked down upon.
"By the way, our crew also has an actor from an island country. You've been to an island country, so I guess you'll have something in common with him."
As he said that, he led Zhang Yuan to the front of a burly, bearded Japanese man.
This guy is called Nakamura Shido, and he plays the role of the man who poisoned Huo Yuanjia in the film.
Don't be fooled by his rough appearance, he actually comes from a family of Kabuki actors.
That’s right, it’s that profession where you have to paint yourself white, wear exaggerated costumes, put on exaggerated expressions, and perform traditional island dramas.
Kabuki not only features seductive women wielding fans, but also men dressed as samurai or generals.
Just like Peking Opera, there are sheng and dan, and of course there are also male dan and female old sheng.
The early Xiaonan Niang belonged to...
Anyway, they dressed up like in the Ukiyo-e works of the island country and performed a show.
It must be said that as he comes from an artistic family, this Nakamura brother is quite dedicated.
I knew I was going to come to China to film a movie. Although my character was an islander, I only had to speak a little Chinese.
And the director said that I can just imitate the voice and there is no need to really learn it.
But this guy not only hired a Chinese teacher to study Chinese in the island country for several weeks in advance, but also watched TV programs every day after coming to China to develop his sense of language.
He is so serious about a few lines, which shows his work attitude.
"Hey, you know a few words of Japanese, and he knows a few words of Chinese. You two can communicate more and complement each other." Li Lianjie has a lot of rivalry with this guy.
He immediately introduced Zhang Yuan’s strengths.
Zhang Yuan knew that Lao Li was helping him with his connections and was taking good care of him.
On the set, as in any other workplace, you don't have to worry about your boss assigning you work; you have to worry about your boss ignoring you and letting you sit there doing nothing.
If the company gives you the opportunity to communicate with other employees and takes the initiative to introduce them to them, it means that it is very optimistic about you.
When Mr. Nakamura heard that he had been to the island country to film a movie, he also became interested and pulled him aside to start chatting.
The director happened to talk to Lao Li about something, so he walked away.
More than ten minutes later, when Li Lianjie returned, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.
All I saw was Nakamura Shido squatting on the ground, wiping his eyes with his hands and sobbing softly.
She cried like a little wife who was angry.
A big man with an untidy beard looking sad, just imagine what the picture is like.
Zhang Yuan was touching the other person's back and comforting him from time to time in the Japanese language mixed with Chinese.
"Did Zhang Yuan make Xiaori cry while I was away?" Old Li scratched his head and walked over with a puzzled look on his face.
"What... did you do to him?" Li Lianjie looked at Zhang Yuan with strange eyes.
Their current state is somewhat like a man comforting a girl after having sex while drunk.
"You can't be..."
Zhang Yuan looked at Li Lianjie's weird eyes and thought to himself, who do you think I am?
What did you experience and see in Hong Kong?
Zhang Yuan stood up with a serious face.
"Brother Jie, it's like this."
"I just had a conversation with Mr. Nakamura."
"He took the initiative to chat with me using the Chinese he had learned, and then I discovered some problems."
"What's the problem?" Old Li looked doubtful.
"After get off work every day, he would go back to the hotel to watch TV programs and develop his sense of language."
"But he was watching the TV station in Magic City."
Old Li's eyes widened: "So... he learned the dialect of the Magic City."
"No." Zhang Yuan waved his hand.
"It would be better if it was in the Magic City."
"He was watching the drama channel of Magic City TV."
"That channel broadcasts TVB dramas, and they are all in their original language without dubbing."
Li Lianjie: ...
Zhang Yuan spread his hands.
A friend from an island country came to China and learned Cantonese through the Shanghai Channel. What kind of spirit does this show?
It's very energetic!
Zhang Yuan didn't know how he could have taken such a tortuous learning path.
Now this person starts by saying, "Good people may be deceived by others, but God will not."
I'm still watching "The Greed of Man". That guy is really imitating Ding Hai.
Zhang Yuan thought to himself, that's why the stock market has been falling recently.
"Is he... okay?" Li Lianjie was stunned after hearing this.
"Yuan-san!" Nakamura Shido stood up from the ground, hugged him while crying, and patted his back hard: "Arigato!"
This person said a lot of gibberish.
The general meaning is to thank him for reminding himself, otherwise he would still be learning blindly.
[Received thanks from Nakamura Shido, Tortoise Shell Binding +1! 】
Zhang Yuan: …
He glanced at the attributes given by this person.
"Your Kabuki family, is he serious?"
Li Lianjie was also very embarrassed. Others were so serious, but he still learned the wrong thing.
How is this done?
If we talk about this time, it has to be Zhang Yuan.
Give this old man some comfort. "It's okay, I'll teach you a sentence in Chinese, and when you learn the island language, I guarantee that everyone will know that you have acted in a play in China and learned Chinese."
"Red bean paste (really)?" Nakamura looked at him.
"Come on, say it after me." Zhang Yuan cleared his throat.
"1, 2, 3, go..."
"You Chinese have an old saying: He who knows the current situation is a hero."
Nakamura followed up.
"There is a lonely saying in Nimen China, Xixi Wujie Wei Junjie."
"Right!" Zhang Yuan patted his shoulder and said, "Just practice. I guarantee that everyone who hears you will know that you have performed in China before."
Li Lianjie on the side covered his face.
This guy is more biased than the Magic City TV station...
After being a street stalker for a whole day, I received a call from Jay Chou after dinner.
"I have arrived!"
When Zhang Yuan arrived at the entrance of the film and television city, this man jumped and bounded towards him.
After the two men bumped fists, this man asked anxiously.
"Where's Brother Jie?"
"Take me to see him now, I can't wait."
To be honest, he had never been so anxious even when Hou Pei-ce appeared in the bedroom wearing a burgundy lace pajamas with one shoulder strap hanging down and her breasts half exposed.
This guy is also an old straight man.
"Don't worry, don't worry, let me make a call first." Zhang Yuan was also a little fed up with this person.
Jay Chou is a slow-warm person, he's arrogant and slightly socially anxious, but once you get to know him, he can actually be quite lively.
"Okay, okay, I'll be right over."
Zhang Yuan put down his phone: "Brother Jie is free, let's go to his room."
The two of them went around in circles and finally took a car to the hotel where the crew was staying.
In the presidential suite on the top floor, after the two knocked on the door, an assistant opened the door and welcomed them in.
Zhang Yuan glanced around as he walked, and saw a lot of children's toys scattered in the corridor of the room.
"Hehe, Lao Li really values family and keeps his children with him."
"Huh..." Li Lianjie happened to be sitting on the bed meditating, and the two were just finishing their practice at that time.
"Li, Li, Li..." Jay Chou spoke tremblingly, very excited.
"Brother Jie, this is the singer I was talking about, Jay Chou."
"Hello, Huang Feihong!" Jay Chou finally managed to say this after holding it in for a long time.
Then he took off the guitar on his back and asked: "Can you sign it for me?"
Old Li was quite polite. After asking the two to sit down, he waved his hand and signed the guitar.
Zhang Yuan gave some advice, telling Jay Chou not to be nervous and to just behave as he usually does.
Next, he asked his assistant to take out a portable speaker, put in the mixed CD prepared in advance, and then he was ready to start singing.
Zhang Yuan took a glance at it and realized that the guitar was brought here purely for signing and was not to be used for performances at all.
Soon after, rhythmic, powerful music and singing could be heard from inside the house.
“In a small town, time flies by.”
"Clear courage..."
"Washed memories."
"I remember you, and live with pride..."
Jay Chou pinched his throat and sang in a very non-standard Peking Opera voice.
“Hohohoho, hohohoho!”
Then he exerted his strength suddenly.
Li Lianjie, who was watching him sing, hid back when he saw this, muttering to himself.
"Wow, wow, wow, wow..."
Damn, what the hell is this young man singing!
When the song ended, Zhang Yuan clapped his hands.
It’s great that you can watch the show for free without having to buy tickets.
But Lao Li's expression was completely different, and he looked embarrassed.
"Zhang Yuan, your friend is...very nice."
“But I feel like it’s not very understandable, and it’s not very suitable for our film.”
Li Lianjie only spoke while hugging him to save his face.
If it were someone else, he would have simply waved his hand and refused.
Seeing this, Zhang Yuan thought about it.
That’s right, Lao Li is from a different era.
What he likes must be songs like "A Man Should Be Self-reliant", the theme song of "Once Upon a Time in China", which are concise, clear and powerful.
That was a collaboration between James Wong, David Tai and George Lam.
James Wong is one of the "Three Great Lyricists" and it is no exaggeration to say that his lyrics are works of art.
Dai Lemin is even more amazing. The theme songs of "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Swordsman", "Once Upon a Time in China" and "Fong Sai-yuk" are all his works.
Coupled with George Lam’s upright and majestic voice, it can indeed show the vicissitudes and thousand-year foundation of Chinese martial arts.
But, times have changed.
Zhang Yuan was just about to persuade and say something good on Jay Chou’s behalf.
After Jay Chou's performance, he saw that Lao Li was unhappy, his face turned green and he kept biting his lips.
But at this moment, a gentle female voice came from not far away.
"JET, times have changed."
It just said what Zhang Yuan wanted to say.
“You don’t understand what young people like.”
Zhang Yuan and Jay Chou both turned their heads and looked towards the door of the room.
At this time, a tall figure with short hair, who was not young but still graceful, leaned against the door frame, crossed her arms, smiled and raised her arms to greet the two of them.
"Hi there."
Then, she walked to Li Lianjie with sexy steps, swaying with every step.
This person is the former "Miss Asia", one of the so-called "Three Treasures of ATV", and the "football star" Li Zhi who was all the rage when she first arrived in China.
Just now when Jay Chou was performing, this person happened to be returning from shopping with his children and was listening at the door.
Now that I saw that my husband didn't like the music, I spoke up.
Zhang Yuan was puzzled when he saw this person.
"Why did Mrs. Li come here with two volleyballs on her chest... Shit!"
After looking for a long time, he finally reacted.
Otherwise, it is said that this person walks with "three shakes with every step".
Zhang Yuan turned around and saw that Mr. Jay also looked shocked.
The two looked at each other.
I confirmed with my eyes that I had never seen anyone this big.
Among all the actresses Zhang Yuan had met on the set, Yang Mi was considered to be a big name.
They sway back and forth when they run and jump, like two lively white rabbits hanging.
But in fact, the biggest one was when he met Qin Hongmian and Ye Erniang in "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".
The two actresses who played these two roles, Pang Dan and Shi Lan, are both real murderous weapons.
Especially Pang Dan, who also worked in the Hong Kong circle and was once famous for her proud figure.
Zhang Yuan was not sure about the sizes of these two elder sisters.
But he knew that Yang Mi, who already had excellent visual effects, was 36D.
And what about Li Zhi?
Her height in her peak period was a terrifying 36F!
Some people may not know that the standard for bust is the difference between the upper bust and the lower bust.
The numbers are the lower measurement and the letters are the upper measurement.
The lower circumference is equivalent to the body dimensions at the foot of the mountain, and the upper circumference is the dimensions at the top of the mountain.
In other words, when the foot of the mountain is the same size, Li Zhi's mountain is two sizes higher than Yang Mi's!
Now you know how exaggerated this person is and why he is famous.
Now that she has given birth to a child, her waist is thicker.
When she was young, she had the body of a Japanese cartoonist.
Li Zhi sat down on the edge of the bed and put his hand on Lao Li's shoulder.
"You don't listen to current pop music much, so you wouldn't know."
"He's so famous that it's hard to buy tickets for his concerts."
"And he has a lot of music works that promote Chinese martial arts, all of which are very good."
"And your daughter loves to listen to it, too."
"Really?" After hearing what his wife said, Mr. Li began to reconsider.
"Yes, yes, yes..." Zhang Yuan and Jay Chou nodded in unison.
She is so old now, whatever she says is right.
We men are so simple.
Zhang Yuan thought of Ji Chunhua who once complained that Lao Li abandoned his wife and children and found a busty girl.
He also felt that Lao Li was a little unkind.
But now the facts are in.
Who wouldn’t be confused when seeing this thing!
Both he and Jay Chou had seen and experienced this before, and they were both shocked.
"Mr. Li is in poor health. Is it because marrying her is too tiring..." Zhang Yuan began to doubt.
"Okay, let me think about it and ask the director and Mr. Ba to listen to it together."
"Okay." Li Zhi smiled and patted Lao Li's shoulder gently, then said to the two of them.
"You're all tired, aren't you hungry?"
"I just happened to pack a few servings of double skin milk at a nearby Hong Kong-style tea restaurant. Would you like to eat some?"
Zhang Yuan swallowed.
Do you think I should eat it or not... (End of this chapter)