double promise

Wei Changning, one of the representatives of China's fifth generation of directors, whose name sounds like he has entered the wrong profession, is often dubbed the medicine of conscience and reassurance for domestic films.

Director Bailuzhou, whom Xie Guan had worked with before, was a leader in the sixth generation. Director Han Ke could only be regarded as a newcomer, and had not yet produced any works. These two were a whole generation lower than Wei Changning, and their reputation and popularity were comparable to those of Wei Changning. Wei Changning is naturally quite different.Moreover, Director Wei is known to be good at teaching people. If you join his group, even if you only play a small role with only two or three scenes, you can learn a lot from his guidance.

After the news spread, some people lamented that Xie Guan was talented and hardworking, while others envied him for his good luck. A few black people were still relentlessly hugging his thighs.But no matter how loud the outside discussion is, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this young man is going to be reborn and fly into the sky.

The parties in the center of the vortex have no time to pay attention to these voices.

Xie Guan sat cross-legged on the hotel bed, concentrating on holding the script...yawning.

"Bi Hai Chao Sheng" is scheduled for March, and it is currently in the promotion period. Xie Guan will cooperate with the crew to conduct road shows in major cities.Before he left City B, he met Director Wei Changning once.Director Wei gave him two scripts, one was the first draft and the other was the revised version, and asked him to go back and think about it.

Although the thin paper book is called "first draft", it is actually just a rough story frame, like a small box full of inspiration and ideas, fragmented and disorganized.Some places even show a kind of clumsiness of a layman.

The birth of the script "The Hidden Man" is very strange.A student of Director Wei was teaching in the journalism department of a certain university, and he opened an elective course called "Film Art Appreciation", one credit, no roll call, no exam at the end of the semester, open to all students in the school—in short, it is a one-stop course. Deducted water lessons.

The final assignment assigned by the lecturer is "use your imagination and write a creative script of no less than 2000 words".Among the more than 100 self-release stories that were submitted, there was an outline of a script that explored "chivalry" and "royalty", which caught the teacher's eyes.In line with the mentality of "appreciating wonderful writing together", he took the script and sent it to Moments, and shared it with some directors and screenwriter friends in the industry.

This script happened to be favored by director Wei Changning, and it was "The Hidden Man" in his hands.

"The Hidden Man" is a story about martial arts not like martial arts, and Gongdou not like Gongdou.It tells the story of a prince who was exiled to a small border town, met a bunch of strange people from the rivers and lakes, and finally regrouped and fought back to the imperial city, won the throne, and revealed a long-standing mystery of his life experience.Two male protagonists, one in the light and the other in the dark.Xie Guan is young, playing the role of the prince, who is the protagonist on the surface, and another well-known actor, Feng Qian, who plays the night watchman, is the protagonist in the real sense.

Director Wei has met Xie Guan, and he is generally satisfied with his performance. At the same time, he also pointed out Xie Guan's biggest problem at present: he does not have enough experience and understanding to fulfill the role of "Prince".

At the end of the story, the prince became the emperor, the old friend died in battle, or drifted away in the world, the former enemy became a friend, and the former confidant became a confidant.The person who should have killed him saved his life, and the person who should have received the reward was ordered to be killed by him... He was no longer that resentful, reckless political outcast.

The affairs of the world smoothed out some untimely edges and corners, but the chance meeting planted new seeds in his heart.When he finally ascended to supremacy, he matured and hardened.

What Xie Guan lacks is precisely this kind of "mature and firmness" after years of hard work.

His life experience is limited, so he doesn't come just as he says, so Director Wei gave him two scripts, intending to let him feel how this image gradually matured from a few ideas at the beginning, and became a mature character in the script.It's a pity that Xie Guan, this uncivilized piece of wood, has been practicing meditation on the script for three days, and he hasn't gained any epiphany yet.

Actually fell asleep several times.

Holding the script in his hand, he once again entered the mysterious and hazy realm. At this moment, there were suddenly two knocks on the door.Xie Guan shivered suddenly, and suddenly woke up from his drowsy pajamas.

He glanced at the time on his phone, it was 01:30 in the morning.

Xie Guan got out of bed, opened the door, the wall lamp in the corner emitted soft and dim light, and there was no one in the corridor.

On the carpet under his feet lay a kraft paper envelope, the most common kind, but it appeared at this moment, but it seemed to be some strange sign.

Xie Guan sighed, bent down to pick up the envelope, and went back to his room.

He stood in the entrance and tore open the seal, and poured out a few dry orange pips*, and a piece of printing paper folded in half. The thick black No. [-] characters were murderous, jumping into his sight with great impact.

--go to hell! ! !

This is his fourth road show and the fourth threatening letter he has received.The previous three letters also appeared at the door of the room in the same way.In addition to the fixed and unchanging white paper that says "Go to hell", there are also different hints of death, such as razor blades, sleeping pills, little paper figures with needles, etc.

This time it was a few orange pits.

Xie Guan was puzzled and thought: "What does this mean, cursing that I got stuck in the orange pit while eating oranges? Are the oranges out of season now?"

After thinking about it, he put the things back in the envelope as they were, found an opaque bag to pack it, and stuffed it into the hidden pocket of the suitcase.

He didn't disturb others, and after taking care of it quietly, he washed up and went to bed.I was drowsy when I read the script just now, but now I can't fall asleep.

Although Xie Guan was not afraid of receiving such things at night, it was inevitable that he would panic.It wasn't the first time he had received similar things. A sporadic letter could be regarded as a prank, but regular and fixed-point delivery like a serial drama was a naked threat and harassment.

who can that be?

He rolled on the bed full of doubts until three o'clock, and was finally defeated by the rising sleepiness, and fell asleep frowning.

Thousands of miles away, in City B.

Huo Mingjun stepped on the ground in his sleep, his heart twitched suddenly, and he woke up suddenly.

He sat up holding his violently chaotic heartbeat, let out a deep breath, the bedside luminous clock flickered with weak fluorescence, and the LCD screen showed that it was three o'clock in the morning Beijing time.

The next day, Xie Guan got up and prepared as if nothing had happened. Even his assistant Huang Cheng didn't notice anything strange about him. Seeing that he had dark circles under his eyes, he even prepared an eye mask for him, preparing him to catch up on sleep on the car to the theater .

Xie Guan was affected by last night's letter, and his heart was always tense. However, the whole performance was lively and lively, and there was no abnormality of disharmony.With the end of the event, Xie Guanxuan's heart slowly fell to the ground, guessing that the person hiding in the dark was probably still observing.

He went to the backstage dressing room to simply remove his makeup and change into a coat.Huang Cheng was guarding the small corner door at the exit of the stage. Xie Guan was packing up and was about to leave when suddenly there was the sound of hurried footsteps from the exit of the stage. A girl with a flushed face ran in panting, with a turtle on her back. A big backpack as bulky as a shell.

"Thank you Guan!"

Xie Guan took a step back reflexively, keeping a distance of one meter from her: "Please wait a minute, you are not a staff member, how did you get in?"

Because of the deep psychological shadow left by being chased by a car, and in a dressing room with few people, Xie Guan didn't dare to get too close to this girl, for fear of getting into some inexplicable trouble.

The people in the dressing room looked at this one after another, the girl's face burned even redder, she was so excited that she couldn't restrain herself, and successfully forced Xie Guan to take another step back.

She was like a crazy fan whose reason had been burnt out, while reaching for something in her backpack, she stammered: "Hello, thank you, I..."

With her hands behind her back, the girl took out a transparent glass bottle and unscrewed the cap in twos and twos.

At this moment, the smile on her face suddenly froze, and the facial features seemed to shift collectively, twisting into a completely different face, becoming hateful and ferocious.

She poured the contents of the bottle at Xie Guan and screamed frantically: "Go to hell!"

Xie Guan has grown up to such an age, has experienced so many things, and has received guidance and training in martial arts. His vigilance and sensitivity are much higher than ordinary people. The most intuitive manifestation is that when encountering sudden situations, he reacts more quickly than ordinary people. quick.

But the bad thing is his reaction speed like a rabbit.

As soon as the girl unscrewed the bottle cap, Xie Guan immediately felt a faint sense of crisis in his mind.Splashing medicine and sulfuric acid is not uncommon in the entertainment industry or social news, coupled with the reminder of the threatening letter in the middle of the night-in just a few seconds, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and the person opposite just raised his hand, thank you Guan's body instincts were faster than conscious actions, and he immediately took a few steps back.

But he forgot that his back was facing the stage entrance, and there was nothing behind him.

The stage of this theater is built slightly higher, and the dressing room is also raised accordingly. The exit is at least three meters above the ground, connected by a winding and steep staircase.

The transparent liquid rubbed against his falling figure, leaving nothing on it, and paid all the tribute to the wooden floor.

Xie Guan stepped on the ground, his body lost weight, and his heart suddenly "thumped".

At the first turn, his head hit the steps of the stairs, and his eyes suddenly went dark.

At the second turn, the body that was falling rapidly hit the handrail of the stairs, and something pinched the left shoulder, and there was a sharp pain in the heart.

Xie Guan deliberately adjusted his posture before landing to minimize damage.However, he was like a rag doll whose arms and legs had been broken off. There was no joint in his whole body to listen to. He could only roll all the way down by inertia and gravity, and fell down the stairs on his back in embarrassment.

The back of his head slammed heavily on the cold and hard marble floor, and the shaking figures, footsteps and screams in front of him all faded away like the tide.Xie Guan's fingers curled up feebly, as if he wanted to grab something, but he just squeezed a handful of air in vain, finally exhausted his strength, and slowly fell into the dirty dust.