Cultivation Superstar [Rebirth]

"Director Wei, you take good care of yourself. Do you have any secrets? Can you tell me?" After being stunned for a moment, Cui Shuo approached Wei Tao with envy on his face.

Wei Tao said flatly: "I can't." Then he stood up and said to the staff at the scene: "Let's set up the incense table."

Putting up an incense table and worshiping gods before the filming starts is a generally accepted rule of the crew, but Luo Lingxiu did not expect that Wei Tao, who is so out of tune with the world, would follow this kind of thing so seriously.

During this time, he inadvertently looked at the incense table a few more times, and vaguely felt that it was not very similar to the previous crews, so he didn't know what Wei Tao worshiped.

After the worship, the incense case was not removed, and several staff members put it aside with ease, as if this kind of thing had been done many times.

Luo Lingxiu stared at the incense burner on the incense table, the four sticks of cigarettes curled up, curled up and gradually disappeared into the air.

Three gods, four ghosts, four pillars of incense, Wei Tao wasn't worshiping gods, he was...worshiping ghosts?

"Luo Lingxiu?"

"Director Wei." Seeing Wei Tao approaching, Luo Lingxiu looked away, no matter what Wei Tao wanted to do, as long as it had nothing to do with him, he had no intention of interfering.

Since he stepped into Foundation Establishment, he has been unable to grasp the opportunity to advance for quite a long time. His body has already been fully prepared, but there is no sign of it in his mind.

Probably because he hasn't acted in any drama since "Jungle Game", which is also one of the reasons why he took on "Blind Cage" this time.

In any sense, "Blind Cage" is completely different from any TV series or commercials he has filmed before.

Wei Tao's previous silence didn't seem to exist, and he didn't treat Cui Shuo differently from others. In comparison, he paid more attention to Luo Lingxiu.

"I think you must have read the script, and I want to hear your opinion on it. It includes the whole story and the character you want to play."

The role Luo Lingxiu wanted to play, even though it was the main character, actually didn't play too much of a role.

Even though Qin Zhengqing told him to ignore Wei Tao's psychosis, he still read the script more than ten times, but the more he read it, the more disharmony he felt.

"This is not a story." Luo Lingxiu felt that feeling could not be fully expressed in words, so he could only say to Wei Tao: "It's very scattered, incomplete, and something is missing."

Although Wei Tao was wearing a mask, Luo Lingxiu felt that he was smiling at this moment, and the voice behind the mask was a bit distorted, "What's missing?"

Luo Lingxiu hasn't found it yet, so he can't answer Wei Tao, "I don't know. As for the traveler, I don't see the meaning of his existence in this script. Without him, there will be no change. He is redundant."

The traveler is the protagonist of this movie. He doesn't even have a name, so he is called a traveler.

"The story is incomplete without something, but the protagonist is superfluous. Luo Lingxiu, is this how you feel about "Blind Cage"?"

"Yes."

Suddenly high and low laughter came from the side. Since Wei Tao and Luo Lingxiu spoke, many people had been watching here, until Wei Tao said this sentence, most of them laughed.

It's not malicious, and of course it's not very kind. Most of the laughter probably contains exclamations such as "It's because of costume idol dramas and variety shows".

Just when they thought the director would express dissatisfaction with Luo Lingxiu, Wei Tao waved his hand to indicate that it was time to shoot without saying anything.

"Look for it yourself, what's missing, what's missing." Wei Tao dropped a sentence, and put on his hat that can cover most of his face.

The story begins on a cold winter night with heavy snowfall, a girl living alone on the top floor of the tallest building in the city struggles in her room, repeatedly hesitating between life and death.

Just then, someone knocked on the door of her house.

From the cat's eyes, the girl saw a man wearing a strange cloak with his face hidden behind the hood. His figure looked like a thin man.

In such a cold late night, with such a weird outfit, he looked like those vicious murderers in the movies.

The girl who was originally hesitant to decide whether to commit suicide decided to hand over her fate to fate, so she opened the door.

"Who are you?" Wei Tao didn't know where to pick the actress who played the young girl, at least the gossip Ye Zhun couldn't tell which actress she was in the circle.

Probably never been on screen, with obvious jerky and nervousness, even a little fear, dare not look at the camera, voice is weak, hands are shaking.

Like a real girl who encounters a murderer late at night, so appropriate.

Luo Lingxiu raised his face slightly, took off the hood from his head, and said in a low and hoarse voice, "A traveler."

The makeup artist turned him into a dusty body, with accumulated snow marks on his body, old and slightly messy robes, shoes with unusually worn soles, and mud and dust standing on them.

Speaking a language that is incompatible with the modern bustling metropolis.

"It's cold and the road is far away, can you stay overnight?"

The girl's hand touching the doorknob was still trembling, she didn't dare to look up at Luo Lingxiu, "Come in, come in."

Luo Lingxiu walked into the room without looking up, just went to the sofa and sat down.

The apprehensive homeowner brought him a cup of hot water, and then silently began to talk to himself, talking about her experience, her misfortune, her painful past and the future she couldn't see at all.

According to the general routine, at this time the traveler will participate in the interaction with the girl, and a story that may be touching, frightening, exciting, etc. is extended between the two of them.

The definition of watching a movie is a small fresh romance movie, a horror suspense movie or a youth inspirational movie.

Not here.

The more the girl spoke, the more excited she became, and the more she spoke, the more intense she became, and then completely ignored the existence of the traveler, and continued to walk around the room, sometimes depressed and sometimes excited, hesitating whether to commit suicide.

It was as if there was no one else in the room at all.

The traveler played by Luo Lingxiu just sat there, watching the girl quietly, as if watching the plot on the screen.

Seeing her talking to herself, she went to the kitchen to cook and eat all the food, browsed her favorite websites in front of the computer, cried hysterically, and flipped through the diary that was about to be rummaged.

Finally, the girl opened the window, climbed onto the window sill while the snowflakes were coming in, watched the snowy night and the city lights in the distance for a long time on the window sill, and then floated out like a snowflake.

Luo Lingxiu picked up the glass of cold hot water on the table and drank it slowly in one sip, and then sat until the east was pale and the sun jumped up from the clouds, and then left the girl's house.

This is the first paragraph of the movie. Except for the sentence "traveler" and "staying overnight", Luo Lingxiu's protagonist doesn't have any lines from beginning to end, and there aren't even many actions.

The whole passage is performed by the girl alone, and the plot is even more inexplicable and absurd.

If it is broadcast, as Luo Lingxiu said, the audience will have no idea what the meaning of the traveler's existence is.

He neither rescues a lost girl, nor is he a vicious criminal who robs money and sex, nor is he a romantic prince who wants to fall in love with someone at first sight, nor is he a ghost who comes back to take revenge after being wronged.

But now Luo Lingxiu understands why Wei Tao said he couldn't act, and he emphasized the reason for his eyes.

In this movie, the only thing he can convey to the audience is probably his eyes.

Until the first part of the filming was over, Wei Tao didn't yell out a "stop", even though the young actress who obviously had no camera experience made several mistakes, and the various expressions and body language were obviously not in place.

After filming this segment, he asked the actress to rest, and instead asked Luo Lingxiu, "What do you think of your performance just now?"

"Eh? Does this also need performance?" Someone came over, Luo Lingxiu took a look, but didn't recognize him, "By the way, Director Wei, is he really playing the leading role? Isn't it good to just sit there and stare blankly? "

"Hey, I also want to be such a labor-saving protagonist. It's so easy! You don't even have to memorize the lines."

As someone started, all kinds of discussions about the protagonist became intense. Without exception, they felt that such an easy protagonist was really a big deal, and envied Luo Lingxiu's good luck.

Wei Tao didn't stop them, and of course he didn't go along with them, he just stood beside Luo Lingxiu, held his hat brim with one hand, and asked again, "How do you think you behaved just now?"

"I don't know." After a moment of silence, Luo Lingxiu said.He felt that he was once again bewitched by this weird script and the atmosphere of the plot, and felt a little like Feng Xu Yukong had nowhere to step on it.

Wei Tao stretched out his hand and handed him a brightly colored object.

Lollipop?Adult men in this world generally don't eat this kind of thing.

Seeing that Luo Lingxiu didn't answer, Wei Tao simply peeled it off by himself, and then stuffed it to Luo Lingxiu, "It's delicious, really——During the audition last time, I said you can't act, but you actually didn't care at all. Bar."

He obviously didn't expect Luo Lingxiu to give him an answer, he was already very sure, "What now?"

After losing movement, losing language, losing interaction, losing expression, after only eyes are left, face the camera.

"In our industry, there is a very vulgar saying that the eyes can speak. Although it is very vulgar, it is very vivid. Few people can really do it. Those who can do it have a very thorough awareness. Not only for acting, It’s very thorough about the entertainment industry and about life—don’t you eat it? It’s really sweet.”

Luo Lingxiu glanced at the colorful lollipop, and he could already feel the sweet and greasy smell coming towards his face. He slowly put it into his mouth, which was really a bit redundant.

The lollipop sticks are sticking out, which should look silly.

There are bursts of sweetness on the tip of the tongue, and it is really sweet.

Wei Tao raised his hand, "That's how the taste of the world is. Sometimes it makes people feel tired, and it becomes tasteless in the end—come on, you act again, and I'll watch it again."

"Wait." Luo Lingxiu said suddenly.

"What's the matter, what's the problem?"

Luo Lingxiu said slowly, "I haven't finished eating the lollipop."

"...After we finish eating, we will come again."

It wasn't until the actors arrived and changed the venue that Luo Lingxiu realized that Wei Tao's so-called re-acting did not mean asking him to re-act the first part.

They went straight to the second paragraph.

It is no longer a winter snowy night, not only the seasons have changed, but even the times have changed, from a modern forest of concrete and steel to an ancient costume.

Only Luo Lingxiu's traveler still wore the same attire, only looking a little newer.

In the midsummer night when the cicadas sang, the dusty traveler knocked on the door of the farm couple and asked for a place to stay.

After being let into the house and getting a bowl of hot noodles, just like the girl before, the peasant couple completely ignored the travelers in the house and continued their ordinary night.

Discuss what to do in winter when the year is not good, the harvest is likely to be poor, and the tax is so high; the son is getting old, but he still can’t prepare a bride price and can’t marry a wife, what to do; The daughter married fool Wang from the neighboring village in exchange for his son's daughter-in-law money.

At the end of the discussion, the couple quarreled over the marriage of their children, throwing pots and bowls, the woman accidentally bumped into the corner of the table, and the man hurried up to check.

When the daughter in the back room woke up and came out to drink water, the couple had reconciled as before, and gave up the idea of ​​selling the daughter for a bride price, and decided that the woman would take the daughter to take care of the fields, and the farmer would go to the city to work for a rich family.

The traveler looked at the little girl who didn't know that she had passed the fate of being betrayed, drank a bowl of water with her eyes closed, and went back to the house unconsciously to sleep.

At dawn, the peasant couple went out separately. The traveler glanced at the sleeping person in the back room, and then left.

The entire "Blind Cage" is composed of such scattered fragments. Travelers walk on the road again and again, knocking on the doors of different people in different times, different spaces, different world lines, and asking for a night's stay.

Then look at the ordinary night of each family, some people live and some die, some cry and some laugh, some are passionate and some are drunk, some are ordinary and some are great, some are dirty and some are noble, some are excited and some are depressed.

Countless doors, countless nights.

During the two weeks of filming, Wei Tao never called a card once.

It's just that after each segment is over, Luo Lingxiu is asked the same question, "How do you feel about your performance just now?"

At the beginning, Luo Lingxiu would quickly answer, I don't know.Because of this kind of plot and his role in this role, he really doesn't know at all, he didn't show anything at all, where did he come from.

After several paragraphs, Luo Lingxiu's speed of answering "I don't know" began to slow down, and a rare hesitation appeared.

Wei Tao never took off his mask. He didn't know if this was his habit, or he was simply avoiding something or someone.

The incense table placed on the set has never been removed, and the four-pillar incense is always offered.

"I saw confusion, from your eyes, for the first time." Finally, after the ninth segment, Wei Tao said to Luo Lingxiu for the first time other than how he behaved.

Except for the fear that Luo Lingxiu felt when he handed over the control of his body to others when he and Qin Zhengqing were dual cultivating for the first time, Luo Lingxiu has always been steadfast and has only one goal in his eyes, which is cultivation.

But now he actually felt lost during the filming of such a movie, and felt the existence of the "traveler" itself when he was constantly participating in those clips.

He didn't know what to play, he didn't know how to play, he didn't know what to play, he didn't know why to play what.

He was indeed confused at the moment.

Wei Tao's voice seemed to be filled with sincere joy, and he said, "It's true that I chose you... Luo Lingxiu——Come on, you can act again, and I'll watch it again."

This time they did not continue to play the next episode, they returned to the original scene, Wei Tao meant to start again from the snowy night when the story began.

The girl who was hesitant to commit suicide heard a knock on the door again, and a traveler who was dressed in dust was ushered in, but this time, the traveler's eyes were different.

When Luo Lingxiu was sitting on the sofa and watching the girl's solo performance, the deep confusion in his eyes made the actors in front of him, as well as the actors and staff outside the stage, all subconsciously quiet down, silently. watch.

When the girl floated out of the window lightly like snowflakes, and the east was white, Luo Lingxiu picked up the glass of cold water and began to drink it one gulp, the tiredness and indifference and vicissitudes in his eyes made one subconsciously take a deep breath gas.

Usually at this time, there will be a picture of red blood falling on the snow, which looks poignant and expressive.

Wei Tao no.

After the girl jumped out of the window, it was as if this person had never existed in the movie. The camera only focused on the traveler and his eyes.

"Cut." Wei Tao's first sound cut off. Before this, he never spoke, just waiting for the actor to come down when the segment was over.

"Did you feel it?" He walked up to Luo Lingxiu, "Before the filming started, you told me that the script was incomplete and something was missing, and that the protagonist was superfluous and unnecessary."

Luo Lingxiu looked at the teacup in his hand, and the confusion in his eyes had faded away, "You filmed this because of the missing script and the redundant protagonist."

In "Blind Cage", those people of all kinds are blind, and in the cage are travelers who are incompatible with the world.

Wei Tao squatted down, looked up at Luo Lingxiu who was still sitting on the sofa, took off his mask and smiled at him, "Your comprehension is pretty good, you should be able to advance after filming this movie."

Luo Lingxiu was not surprised that Wei Tao knew that he was a cultivator. He even vaguely felt that Wei Tao might still know that he was a cultivator who did not belong to this world.

"who are you?"

This sentence is what the house owners in the movie often asked him, a traveler, and now he uses it to ask Wei Tao.

Wei Tao put his mask back on, "Ordinary people."

"What are you making movies for?"

"Find someone."

"did you find it?"

"Can't find it."

Cui Shuo, who had been chatting and laughing with the rest of the actors, suddenly walked over, as gentle as ever, and his voice was like a spring breeze, "Director Wei, you are really biased, you talk to Lingxiu all day long, and you don't tell us what's wrong with your acting." Well, it made me very nervous, for fear that Director Wei would replace me immediately if he was not satisfied."

Wei Tao touched his mask, "You did a good job."

Cui Shuo, who was not interested in drinking, cast his eyes on Luo Lingxiu, "Lingxiu, it's rare to finish work early today, how about treating you to dinner? Speaking of Lingxiu, haven't you thought about taking on some more roles, like Shangxian?" Like Su Guanyu?"

Luo Lingxiu saw that Wei Tao seemed to sway slightly when he got up, probably because he had been squatting for a long time and was a little dizzy.