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The venue is settled, and the crew of "Rooting" is waiting for the start-up, so the funding problem is temporarily forgotten.Xie Lansheng revised the shooting plan again, and combined all the scenes that needed to be shot in "Xuyi Township", and the shooting plan was accurate to the sky.

The male and female protagonists, Xin Ye and Ouyang Nannan, also began to recite their lines.

Ouyang Nannan had never been to school and was not very literate, so Xie Lansheng taught them every sentence and was very patient.Ouyang Nannan memorized it by rote, and she was still drawing beside her. When she saw the word "horizontal", she drew a horizontal line, and when she saw the word "vertical", she drew a vertical line for assistance. In this way, every time she saw A few symbols can recall the whole sentence.

Because she is smart, she can recite the word "Caifeng" through this method, but Xie Lansheng felt sorry for her daughter, so she bought some textbooks for children in the city, first taught her Chinese pinyin, and then systematically taught her how to read Recognize characters, ask for advice when you have time, and never stop.Ouyang Nannan was willing to work hard, and quickly learned hundreds of words.

Xie Lansheng said to Ouyang Nannan: "Ninny, if you don't want to go back to your hometown, you can continue to be an actor. However, if you don't know how to read, you can't read the script. Not every director can read every word. I taught you how to read."

"Yeah." Ouyang Nannan is 22 years old this year, with big eyes and fair skin, "Thank you, I will study hard."

Xie Lansheng patted her head: "Good boy."

"Director Xie," Ouyang Nannan said, "You brought me out to act and even taught me to read and write. You are my great benefactor."

Xie Lansheng felt a little awkward: "Don't say that, it should be."

"It's true." Ouyang Nannan said.When she was 18 and 20 years old, she was going to get married respectively, but both men died, one fell ill, and the other fell into a river, so she became "Kefu" and was shunned like a snake in her hometown.It was Xie Lansheng who sketched out another future for her, making her feel that although her wings were weak, she could still fly to the other side of the sea.

What Xie Lansheng didn't expect was that there was another person who needed to be taught and couldn't read.

Xinye.

However, unlike Ouyang Nannan, Xin Ye has a third-year junior high school level.There is no problem with the basic words, and 99% of the script can be read. Only some rare words are not known or understood.Xinye listens and speaks very well. His Mandarin is very standard. Almost no one can find that he is not a Chinese "indigenous".His handwriting is actually quite beautiful, but he can't write too complicated.He can speak Chinese, German, and Spanish, but his proficiency is not as good as English.

Xinye has a complicated background.His grandfather chose to drop out of school around 1937 to join the national army, and won the first-class medal in land, sea and air in xx province for injuries. In 1945, he participated in the national examination and was sent to the U.S. Army Staff College. In 1950, he went to the U.S. again as a member of the Chinese delegation to Japan, where he received a doctorate and studied with famous philosophers.Xinye's mother was born in 1948, and she gave birth to Xinye to a Chinese at the age of 22. In 1977, after Wen X was over, Xinye's father served the motherland but his mother was unwilling to leave. The two ended up in divorce. Year is eleven who.Therefore, since one of the biological mothers and biological fathers is an American nationality and the other is a Chinese nationality, Xinye has both nationalities and can choose at the age of 1983.However, no one thought that Xinye chose China independently when he was 18 years old. He was told that "if you think about it, you will come out". Only when a Chinese is admitted to Harvard can he show his ability. It sounds very nonsense at first glance, but Xinye is too erratic and amazing, and the people around him are not sure that he is nonsense. After all, "the road is too simple, too easy Now, I want to increase the difficulty of survival." This matter is really not impossible for Xinye.

All in all, Xinye's English is smoother than Chinese, and he can write good characters.However, because his biological mother and biological father are both Chinese and patriotic, Xin Ye has been speaking Chinese since he was a child, without any accent, which is much more authentic than ordinary people.He struggled to read and write, similar to those who just entered junior high school.

After realizing this, Xie Lansheng also "educated" Xin Ye.

Xinye circled a few words he didn't know with a pen every day, and waited for Xie Lansheng to teach his daughter before returning to his room to teach him.However, Xin Ye is smart, and the "basic" is also good. After Xie Lansheng reads it once, Xin Ye can remember it all.

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The night before the filming started, Xie Lansheng went to Ouyang Nannan's room to recite the lyrics with her. It took her two full hours to let her go through the script of "Growing Roots" from beginning to end, and finally she was relieved.

After returning to the room, he asked Xinye again: "Xinye, can you read the new content?" He added a few lines to Xinye last night.

Xinye threw it in a rhetorical question: "Go to Ouyang's place again?"

Xie Lansheng smiled: "Yes."

"Busy like a spinning top."

"I have to teach her." Xie Lansheng said, "She said that if she wants to be a professional actor, she must be able to read and write. I have taught her more in the past few months, so that she will have a way in the future." Xie Lansheng said, pulling out a bag A chair, across the wooden table, sat down opposite Xin Ye.

"You," Xin Ye propped his chin with his hand, looked at Xie Lansheng: "You are good to everyone, but you are not good to yourself."

"It's okay." Xie Lansheng didn't discuss himself, but asked again, "Xinye, is there any word you don't know?"

Xin Ye turned to a certain page of the book and threw it at Xie Lansheng: "There is one." He didn't know Chinese Pinyin and didn't learn it, so he thought it was very strange that "a" became "ah".

"Let me see..." The boss of Xin Ye's circle circled a dozen words at once, Xie Lansheng looked at it for a long time, and finally thought that the other party didn't know "嘬".

"Hmm..." Xie Lansheng said, "This word is pronounced "嘬", which means kiss, "the male protagonist sucks the female protagonist's face" means the male protagonist kisses the female protagonist's face."

In the end, worried that he didn't show Wang Fusheng's feelings, and that Xinye would interpret kiss as too gentlemanly and gentle, Xie Lansheng poked his head again, pursed his mouth, and sucked Xinye twice through the air: "That's it. Kiss, do you understand?" His neck was slender and fair, like a swan, and after making two popping sounds, he still curled his lips into a nice smile.

Xinye was taken aback for a moment, but lowered his eyes without answering.

Xie Lansheng didn't need Xin Ye, and she thought like her daughter. Seeing Xin Ye stopped talking, knowing that the other party was fine, she picked up the towel and went to the bathroom, and said, "Xin Ye, go to bed early, and check out early tomorrow morning. We went to Xuyi Village and started filming."

Xinye still didn't speak, he looked down at the word "嘬", and by a strange coincidence, he wiped it with his slender right index finger.

The scripts are all directly copied from Xie Lansheng's originals. Xie Lansheng's characters are very beautiful, and the word "嘬" seems to have magical powers.

It made him lose his mind for a moment.

So much so that after Xie Lansheng came back from the bathroom, looking at the other party's ruddy lips, he would still think of that word.He didn't know what was wrong, and he was disturbed even when he was sleeping.

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Early the next morning, Xie Lansheng went to the front desk to check out.

When he got the bill, he glanced at it, and stopped when he took out his wallet.

Pointing at the "555" brand cigarettes, as well as white wine, drinks, and snacks, Xie Lansheng asked the receptionist, "Excuse me, what's the matter with these things?"

"Ah," the little girl replied, "Someone of you bought it here, and he said it's fine to pay the bill."

"Who?" Xie Lansheng thought for a second, "Is he tall? Quite white and fat?" The photographer Luo Dajing is fat and white, and the sound engineer Zhang Jixian is dark and thin.

Little sister: "No."

"Then, pretty dark and thin?"

"Correct."

"Wait a minute." Xie Lansheng turned around and went upstairs, called Zhang Jixian to the front desk, and asked him, "Did you buy these things?" He stopped calling "Brother Jixian".

Zhang Jixian didn't say anything, which meant he had acquiesced.

"I pay for what I use," Xie Lansheng's tone was not harsh, only as if the other party really didn't understand, "The crew can't pay this money. We have a total of 25, and every cent has to be used wisely. The crew takes care of eating and sleeping. , the crew can't manage other things for the time being, please understand."

Zhang Jixian was silent for two seconds, and took out the money from his pocket: "Hey, I know. I forgot to bring the money before, hang up, and pay when I want to leave. I didn't expect our crew to come to pay so early."

Xie Lansheng just pretended to be fooled and passed by: "...well, that's good." After finishing speaking, he patted Zhang Jixian on the shoulder, "I'll go up and pack my things first, see you later. "Rooting" will start today Come on!"

Zhang Jixian said, "Well, see you later."

This episode did not affect Xie Lansheng's high mood - this is the opening day of "Rooting", and he was very happy.It can be said that from the time when he was two or three years old, he suddenly became obsessed with movies, to entering Nortel at the age of 16, to Xiaoxiang at the age of 21, and becoming independent at the age of 22.

After leaving the city with their luggage, they first took a car and then a donkey cart, and they all went to Xuyi Village.The village chief was very happy to see him. He shook hands with Luo Dajing, Zhang Jixian, Xiaohong and Xiaolu, and welcomed the group into the empty house. He introduced: "This is for you to rest! I specially asked the villagers to sort it out. !"

Xie Lansheng hurriedly thanked everyone and made arrangements for everyone.

There are two rows of bunks in the room, each of which can sleep four or five people, which is enough, Xie Lansheng is very satisfied, because it shows that other actors can also have beds to sleep after joining the group.He didn't let everyone rest, but followed Hollywood's practice to conduct a full-length dialogue-this allows the actors to familiarize themselves with the story and increase their chemistry with each other, while cultivating a state of excitement for the movie.However, he also admitted that the most important reason is that he has no film and keeps NGing, he needs to train, and he needs to save money.

Just as the dialogue in the whole script was over, Xiaohong and Xiaolu rushed in and said that the set of the first scene was OK.

Xie Lansheng took a deep breath and waved his hand: "Then let's go!!" They had no time to waste, and they had to start the machine on the day they came in.

When they arrived at the shooting location of the first scene in the east of Xuyi, Xie Lansheng asked Ouyang Nannan and Xin Ye to rehearse several times, until they were basically relieved, and then asked Luo Dajing to open the camera.

"Brother Da Jing," he said, "I said before that we don't have the money to look at the samples when the film is developed in the post-production stage. It depends on what it looks like. Please use the best technology to make the best film."

Luo Dajing said "OK".

So, start shooting.

This scene was not difficult to shoot.Shooting a simple scene on the first day is also a tradition in the industry, so it's good luck.The film and television industry is very superstitious. They feel that if they stumble and fail on the first day, there will be many twists and turns in the future.

Because the content said "wedding", the sound of firecrackers resounded through the valley, and all adults and children in Xuyi Village came to watch the excitement.Xie Lansheng glanced at the curious faces of these dozens of people, and suddenly remembered the first time he saw someone "shooting a film" - after watching the filming of Beijing Film Studio that day, he ran home excitedly, and said "Hey! You need to turn on the lights for filming!!"

For the "wedding" scene at the beginning, the actor performed perfectly.To Xie Lan's surprise, Ouyang Nannan was also very good. They passed in one pass, and there were still two firecrackers left.

Xie Lansheng gave the cigarette to Xiaolu, laughed, and said, "Xiaolu, put those two hangers away too, let's start the machine as a celebration!"

Xiaolu took half of the cigarette: "OK!!!" After finishing speaking, she turned and ran away.

While Xiaolu was making two whips, Xie Lansheng heard photographer Luo Dajing discussing a director's new film with sound engineer Zhang Jixian.The film is about an ordinary boy who is unloved and finally catches up with a beautiful girl who is popular.At the end, seeing Xie Lansheng listening, Luo Dajing asked: "Director Xie, you should also hate crap movies without art?"

"No," Xie Lansheng shook his head with a smile, "I don't know how to shoot myself, but how to put it, I think the anticipation of love in these films, or the delusion of love, is very beautiful."

Luo Dajing and Zhang Jixian: "..."

Xie Lansheng added: "People can hope, fantasize, and dream. It's beautiful."

Xinye turned to look at him.Xinye discovered again that Xie Lansheng would be moved by everything about people, including good, evil, strong and weak.Xin Ye had never seen such a hypocritical person, it was so hypocritical that he couldn't take his eyes off him.

Little Red and Little Green lit firecrackers, and the sound resounded through the countryside again.

Xie Lansheng watched and suddenly felt very happy.

He raised investment, he went to the casino, he asked for helpers, he looked for actors, he borrowed machines, he bought film, he vomited blood in exchange for the venue... But anyway, he finally stood here, "Rooting" really boot up.

His parents didn't let him make movies, fearing that he would have nothing to eat, and he did.

But he is happy.

"Xinye!!!" Amidst the sound of firecrackers, Xie Lansheng yelled at Xinye and asked, "Do you know Michael Jackson???"

"???" Xinye frowned and nodded. Michael Jackson's storm swept the world, how could I not know it.

"Then," Xie Lansheng was still shouting, "Can you dance Michael Jackson's dance???"

Xinye frowned again.

"I will!!!" Xie Lansheng laughed, "The people in the hotel taught me when I visited LA last year!"

After speaking, he ran over, and under the unfinished firecrackers, jumped out of several moves he knew one after another.Not to mention, he really does, very much like that.

Shino narrowed his eyes.

There was a fire above, brightly lit, and red debris flew all over the sky and floated down, landing on his hair and shoulders.The continuous crackling sound cut off the world, and he danced in it.

With some of his movements, some red debris was shaken off before he was close to his body, and flew around, like tender petals in early spring.

Xinye had the illusion that Xie Lansheng had been jumping all the time to get those red petals. He was in the middle, and the red petals were sprinkled from his body. He could do magic.

The author has something to say: The actor's parents: "Why is our experience so complicated?"

Panda: "Because the beginning of the story is in the 90s, the author doesn't want to attack the capital."