Night, at a crossroads in a mountain city.

Everyone in the "Crazy Stone" crew had their heads buzzing at this moment.

Because Zhang Yuan had just been hit by a car and was lying on the ground, without any movement.

"You...Fuck!" Ning Hao looked at the car owner and then at the ground.

Seeing that his expression was not right, and realizing that he seemed to have hit something just now, the car owner immediately opened the door, got out of the car, and came to the man.

I don't know this, I was shocked when I saw it!
A tall man of about 1.8 meters was lying on the ground.

The way he was lying on his back looked as if his arms and legs had been broken into pieces by himself.

"Fuck!" This person also said the same line as Ning Hao.

And if you take a closer look, the person lying on the ground looks quite familiar.

"Axe Gang Boss!"

The car owner is a middle-aged man. He may not have seen "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", but he is familiar with Stephen Chow's movies.

When he saw that the person he bumped into was a star, he immediately panicked.

The anger he felt when someone removed the doors of his car turned into fear at this moment.

"I hit a celebrity and killed him. How much money do I have to pay for this?"

Ning Hao was also panicking!
To him, Zhang Yuan is not only a star, but also an investor and a friend.

He was hit and killed while filming a movie. What should I do?

He suddenly recalled the bad experiences that happened to him during the filming of his previous movie, Green Grass.

He thought that all his bad luck in his life was exhausted by that movie.

Ning Hao squatted down and looked at Zhang Yuan carefully.

"Ok?"

At this moment, his eyes became blurred and he saw Zhang Yuan slightly opening one eye and twisting his mouth, as if gesturing to him about something.

"Is this a stroke?" Ning Hao asked puzzled.

Zhang Yuan: …

"Huh!" Suddenly, Zhang Yuan opened his eyes, shook himself and slowly sat up.

At the same time, he was shouting softly.

"Ouch, my elbow."

"Oh my, my Bolenggai."

"Ouch, my lumbar disc is hurt."

As he spoke, he continued to wink at Ning Hao.

This time Big Head understood and tilted his mouth towards Zhang Yuan.

The two of them exchanged glances and immediately confirmed their feelings.

"We can't let him go, producer, pull him aside and detain him!"

"Come on, some people, carry Zhang Yuan to the flower bed, let him rest, and find a doctor quickly."

The car owner was in a panic and didn't have the energy to analyze why the man was not sent to the hospital but instead called a doctor.

In fact, the car had just started moving, so the force of the collision was not that great.

Besides, he had practiced it before, so he could just turn sideways to avoid it.

But he didn't do that.

It’s all for the crew!
We can't let this car run away.

Otherwise, all the previous shots will be wasted and all the work tonight will be in vain.

All in all, the loss was at least one hundred thousand.

The crew is truly "one machine is worth a hundred taels of gold".

The car owner was under control, and Ning Hao quickly removed the car door and started filming!
"Forget about the scenes inside the car and grab the scenes outside the car."

"Haozi, aren't you being too inhumane?" Brother Liu Hua on the side said.

"Zhang Yuan has had a car accident, and you still have the heart to film?"

"He's pretending!" Ning Hao held back his laughter and said in a low voice.

"Pretending?" Dao Ge asked in surprise with a Tangshan accent.

The crew rushed to finish shooting that set of shots in more than two hours.

After finishing, Ning Hao came to Zhang Yuan's side.

"Do you feel better?"

He winked as he spoke.

"Ouch, my elbow."

"Oh my, my Bolenggai."

"Ouch, my lumbar disc is hurt."

Zhang Yuan was still muttering, but when he saw that he had finished the work, he immediately changed his tone.

"Oh, it doesn't hurt at all..."

Car owner:…

Wouldn't it hurt if you lay there for several hours?
"That's okay, you can drive away." Ning Hao patted the car owner's shoulder.

The car owner thought to himself, your entertainment industry is too dark!
The car owner put the car in gear and drove away cursing.

After Zhang Yuan stood up, Brother Liu Hua gave him and Ning Hao a thumbs up.

"How about you two work together?"

"It's the same kind of person indeed."

"Smart, right?" Zhang Yuan replied with a smile.

"They are all immoral!" Liu Hua said sarcastically.

……

The next morning, the crew arrived at Longxing Temple, which had been arranged as the jade exhibition site in the film.

In addition to a large number of porcelain bottles and jars, there are also many clay sculptures, as well as a transparent glass display case on a high platform covered with red carpet in the middle of the room, and the green "gem" inside.

Of course it’s fake.

If there really is an old mine imperial green jade the size of a pigeon egg, its price would be higher than the budget of the "Crazy Stone" crew.

But Ning Hao really has a bad taste.

It’s an old pit, and he designed it to look like it was dug out when he was building a toilet in a handicraft factory.

Real "old pit" jade.

"You can't do this!"

Zhang Yuan on this side has already changed into his costume. Apart from the one whose bag was stolen by Huang Bo, he is wearing a night suit that he bought from a small commodity market in the film. He also wears a black woolen hood, looking just like the bandits in the CS that was popular at that time.

But when he had just started warming up to prepare for the performance, he heard action director Luo Lixian and Ning Hao arguing.

"I just checked, the rope is much shorter, it can't be swung around."

"Just a little bit off."

"The rope is too short. Why don't we just add another piece?" Ning Hao felt puzzled.

"Oh, you don't understand, this..." Luo Lixian's Mandarin is not good, and when he is anxious, his words are not clear.

"I know what he means."

Zhang Yuan walked over and pointed above his head.

The next scene to be filmed is the one in which he plays the international thief Mike, who falls from the sky and steals the gems.

The crew built a scaffold inside the temple and installed pulleys on it.

When filming for a while, a group of big men will pull the rope and slowly let go, so as to create a shot of Zhang Yuan slowly descending from a high altitude.

It's a tacky "Mission Impossible".

“When you connect ropes, you get knots.”

"If there's a knot in the rope, the pulley will get stuck."

"Yes, yes, that's what I mean." Luo Lixian gave him an approving look.

[Received thanks from Luo Lixian, car stunt +1! ]

"Oh..." Big Head finally understood.

"What should I do?"

"It will take a long time to buy rope now."

"Props!" Ning Hao pointed at the props team and started scolding again.

"Alright, alright." Zhang Yuan pressed his shoulder.

"Whoever you scold hides behind me, and in the end you are scolding me. Take a break." He hurriedly advised.

"I think this is the way to go. If the rope is too short, then we should act as if it were shorter."

"Just change the script."

"The original plot was that I was hugged by Xiaojun when I was stealing the jade, and we fought each other, one in the air and the other on the ground, and eventually the alarm was accidentally activated."

"Now it's a little shorter, so I just changed it to when I got to the gem, I found that the rope was too short and I couldn't reach the stone."

"And Xiaojun deliberately teased me and made me lose face."

"The international thief is repeatedly fooled by the domestic petty thieves... Interesting!" Ning Hao clapped his hands.

“That way, it’s even more comedic.”

"It also saved us a fight scene, making it easier to shoot," Luo Lixian also said.

Then he looked at Zhang Yuan: "You have a lot of ideas."

"Not bad."

"But that's not right." Ning Hao thought.

"There's nothing wrong with your design, but the rope thing will seem a bit awkward."

"There's already a shot of going to the small commodity market to buy things, why don't you add a shot of buying ropes?" Zhang Yuan suggested, "It won't cost a lot of shots or money."

"It's possible, but it still doesn't solve the problem, which is that the rope is too short, which is very abrupt in the plot."

Zhang Yuan thought for a while and then spoke again.

"Hiss...you might as well design it like this."

"Mike's equipment was stolen. He must be upset, right?"

"Yes."

"Besides, this person claims to be professional and is very cold and arrogant, so he must want to ask the person who hired him to reimburse him for the money he spent on buying new equipment."

"To reimburse, you need to issue an invoice."

"If you ask the rope vendor to issue an invoice, he will definitely be reluctant. In order to make up for the loss, he cuts corners and gives less rope. Isn't that reasonable?"

"Great!" Ning Hao's eyes lit up.

In this way, foreshadowing is created.

Moreover, this foreshadowing not only fits the character's personality, but also fits the national conditions.

There is no business without fraud.

Since they have to pay taxes when issuing invoices, small vendors naturally cannot recover this part of their "losses".

"Okay, Xiaojun!" Ning Hao called Xiaojun, who was both an actor and a screenwriter, to discuss the content of the revision. Soon, a plan and lines were produced.

Shortly after……

"Pull it up...hard!"

Six or seven big men leaned over and pulled Zhang Yuan into the air using a pulley relay.

Then the guys wearing work gloves lowered it down little by little.

There is no way, I am still poor.

We can’t afford Lavia’s machines, so we have to rely on manpower.

This shot of him imitating Tom Cruise's classic look was shot over and over again six or seven times before it was perfect.

Many of the guys had their hands rubbed raw, and even wearing gloves they couldn't avoid getting hurt.

The original plan was to finish the shooting in the morning.

But due to the script problems, the rope was not long enough, and Ning Hao was very demanding, which resulted in half of the shots not being completed.

Gurgle... Zhang Yuan was falling and spinning in the air when he heard a loud noise coming from the stomach of his eldest brother who was holding the recording rod.

This is a burp!
And just like yawning, once one person yawns, it spreads to a large area immediately.

It's almost one o'clock now.

The men all set out at six o'clock and got up at five. They must be very hungry after being busy all morning.

"Director, let's eat." Zhang Yuan stretched out his hand to hold the cabinet containing the gems, barely able to steady himself.

“You can’t stop.”

"Once you stop, you will have to readjust it later. It is difficult to adjust the position and height to be exactly the same, otherwise it will be exposed."

"That's easy." Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Just keep me hanging and don't put me down."

"As long as you don't let go, there will be no problem, it will be solved."

Ning Hao's eyes widened: "Are you sure?"

"It's okay, just go eat quickly, and then continue filming after eating."

"Then what should you do?"

"I want to eat too. I have an assistant to feed me." Zhang Yuan called Zhao Xinxin over.

"Don't worry. I was on the set of The Return of the Condor Heroes and hung on wires for more than ten hours a day. I'm used to it."

"Hurry up and leave, everyone."

A bunch of starving men rushed to grab the food.

They all walked in a much younger gait, like high school students who had just heard the lunch bell.

Ning Hao was still a little embarrassed, but when he saw Zhang Yuan waving at him, he also went to get the lunch box.

Zhao Xinxin gave him mineral water to drink through a straw and fed him rice with a spoon.

After all, it is inconvenient to eat like this, and you eat very slowly.

Brothers Huang Bo and Liu Hua walked in with lunch boxes and ate.

The dishes are very local.

Twice-cooked pork, stir-fried chicken offal, and stir-fried lotus root.

"Look, big stars are different." Huang Bo walked over with a grin: "They need to be fed when they eat."

"Have you watched Modern Times? I should have given you an automatic feeding machine." Huang Bo said sarcastically to him, but took out a cigarette and a lighter from his pocket and handed them to him.

"Brother, you are this." Brother Liu Hua gave him a thumbs up.

"I didn't know you before and I haven't seen much of your work."

"Now that I see your attitude towards filming, I probably understand why you are so popular."

Liu Hua is a very simple actor.
"You're welcome. It's my duty." He lit up a cigarette and took a puff, then asked Zhao Xunxun to take away the half-eaten lunch box.

I can't eat much if I'm hanging like this.

"How much money did you give her to let the girl serve you like this?" Huang Bo turned around and glanced at the pretty female assistant.

"Ten thousand a month." Zhang Yuan replied.

Huang Bo: …

My pay for this play is only 10,000... Huang Bo muttered to himself.

Damn, I was lamenting that the little girl had to serve others, but it turned out that they earned more than me...

Huang Bo glanced at Zhang Yuan again and thought that this man was really generous to his own people.

He is so generous to his assistant, so you won't suffer any loss by following him.

Everyone knows that he kept everyone hanging to keep them entertained, and it is impossible for the staff to eat hot pot and sing songs and take several hours to come back.

In addition, he was the one who stopped Ning Hao from scolding people recently, so everyone respected him and rushed back in less than half an hour.

Let’s continue filming.

It took another half an afternoon to finish.

When Zhang Yuan finally put it down, his legs were not stable and he almost fell to the ground.

Then he stood up suddenly, his eyes went dark, and he almost fell down again.

After being hung for most of the day, he needed to take a break for the blood to flow back into his body.

"You're just being stubborn, but you're used to being hung for more than ten hours a day." Huang Bo quickly supported him and laughed at him.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuan’s role for the day was over, so he went back to the hotel and lay down for a while.

Ning Hao took Mr. Guo Tao, who had just joined the crew, to the riverside to shoot.

This is the highest paid actor in the entire film, earning 100,000 yuan.

He has starred in Zhang Yimou's "To Live", playing the second male lead Chunsheng.

He has also made great achievements in the drama world. He played the leading role in the first edition of Meng Jinghui's "Rhinoceros in Love", the most popular love-themed work in the history of Chinese drama.

His acting skills and professional attitude are first-rate.

But the offer was really little and the crew was small, so I hesitated for a long time.

In the evening, Ning Hao returned to his residence dejectedly.

"Damn it, it was so dark in the afternoon that I couldn't take any photos. Time was wasted again."

Teacher Guo Tao was also helpless.

Zhang Yuan then took them out to eat and drink to change their mood.

By the way, get familiar with Guo Tao.

Once the men started drinking, they were fighting each other in less than half an hour or an hour.

The drunk Guo Tao even pulled him aside and said that his girlfriend particularly liked the role of Li Xiaoyao he played.

Zhang Yuan thought that this man’s girlfriend should be his future wife.

Mr. Guo has a good love life and career. His wife is 15 years younger than him, which is a bigger age difference than that between Brother Qian and Sister Qian.

The next day, in a dilapidated warehouse.

A five-meter-long steel pipe, as thick as a man's arms, was lying in the middle of the room.

There is also a ten-meter-long ventilation pipe placed on the ground nearby.

A prop master is using a hot-melt glue gun to draw translucent glue threads around the ventilation pipe.

There is always a way to achieve success, and the prop master uses this method to imitate the effect of a spider web.

The ventilation duct was used to shoot the scene where Zhang Yuan got stuck.

The section of steel pipe will be erected later to be used for filming the scene of Huang Bo being trapped underground.

As soon as he entered the room, Zhang Yuan immediately covered his nose and hid aside.

Because the environment was simulated under a manhole, the makeup artist went to the ditch nearby to dig up a bunch of black mud and smeared it on the inside of the steel pipe for authenticity. The smell...

Huang Bo was even more miserable, his body was covered with black mud.

"What about my face?" he asked the makeup artist.

"You can use an eyebrow pencil to make it darker."

"That won't work, it definitely doesn't look like mud... Shit!" Huang Bo gritted his teeth and reached out to pick up a lump of black mud: "Just apply it directly."

"real."

"bring it on!"

After receiving the order, the makeup artist smeared black mud on his hair and face.

"Damn, it stinks!" After finishing, Huang Bo himself couldn't stand it anymore.

"Come and get ready..."

After a while, the steel pipe was erected. Huang Bo came into it, supported himself with his feet and hands, held on to the two ends of the inner wall, and climbed to the top of the steel pipe.

"Hey, Dao-ge."

"I haven't eaten in days."

"Think of a way quickly and save me!"

"Hey, Dao Ge, Dao Ge...Fuck you!"

"Good, awesome!" Ning Hao called for a stop, then clapped his hands.

Zhang Yuan also cheered.

He felt uncomfortable just by smelling it, but others put it on their faces without affecting their acting at all.

What is an actor?

"He will definitely succeed." Liu Ye, who played Dao Ge, said while shaking his head.

"From his attitude towards creation, I can tell that this person will definitely achieve success, 1000, 10,000 percent."

Huang Bo also came to rest at this time, and happened to hear him talking. The little black man was so happy that he showed his white teeth.

But Liu Hua suddenly changed the subject.

"It's just that it doesn't look good."

Huang Bo: …

After Liu Hua finished speaking, he found that there was a little black man next to him. Then he reacted and hurriedly turned back.

"Don't be fooled by his appearance, but he is always in front of the camera."

"Give it good light, find a good angle, and shoot it from the side. It still... looks quite human."

Huang Bo: …

Got hit twice in a short period of time.

Zhang Yuan thought to himself, this brother Liu Hua really likes to tell the truth.

"The most interesting thing about coming to this crew this time is discovering you two." Liu Hua pointed at him and Huang Bo.

"You two both have that energy among young people!"

"It's that kind of hard work when acting. I haven't seen it in a long time."

"You two will definitely be the dragon and phoenix of our Chinese film and television industry in the future!" Brother Liu Hua said with a smile.

But Zhang Yuan felt that his words were not good words...

A day later, several more people from the crew came.

Wang Xun, Xu Zheng, and even Fan Bingbing, whom he specially invited, came late... (End of this chapter)