Since 1983

Like Journey to the West, A Dream of Red Mansions has only one camera for a long time. The shooting progress is extremely slow, about one episode can be shot a month.

In the later period, Ren Dahui borrowed two more sets, and sped up a little, and could shoot one and a half episodes a month.

The production crew started for half a year, and according to the content of the script, at most 20% of the filming was done. Because the location is not easy to do, all kinds of wind and clouds wait for birds to fly by.

Just like Xiangyun Drunken Mian peony bushes, the crew visited the peony garden in Xishan Park, Hangzhou in the first year, and in the second year to catch up with the flowering period. As a result, it was cold that year, and many flowers did not bloom, so they had to tie up a lot of paper flowers.

In contrast, indoor scenes are very easy to master.

Xu Fei has been in the group for nearly a month, and he has witnessed classic scenes such as Daiyu entering the mansion to meet Jia's mother, and Yuanchun's provincial relative returning home, which paid off his longing for this drama.

Then, it was Teacher Xu's turn to go into battle.

It was still a cold March night, a pot of water was boiling on the stove, and the lightbulb was flickering overhead because of the wind blowing in from outside.

Xu Fei was wrapped in a big padded jacket, with his feet stretched out to the stove to warm up, holding a thick script in his hand.

In his previous life, he was very familiar with the entertainment industry, he was no stranger to the operation of the crew, and he was also very good at acting genres, but he really had never filmed.

Since he hadn't tried it before, he had to keep a low profile and study with an open mind. He had read the script countless times, and it was full of dense annotations.

The scene to be filmed is about the Jia's mansion being raided and a group of people being imprisoned in the prison temple. Jia Yun took Ni Er's lead and came in to visit the prison pretending to be a jailer—the exterior of the Prison Temple was filmed on Mount Tai, and the cell was in the studio.

Among them, there are many places that he feels awkward, such as this paragraph:

Jia Yun, dressed as a jailer, knelt down in front of Baoyu, sobbing: Uncle!

Baoyu hugged Jia Yun: how did you come here?

Jia Yun hurriedly stood up, wiped her eyes, and pulled Baoyu to the table full of wine and vegetables: Uncle, please sit down!

Baoyu looked at Jia Yun in bewilderment, and sat down slowly.

Jia Yun picked up her glass and forced a smile: Uncle, when I was at home, I often wanted to honor my uncle, but I never had a chance. Today...

As he spoke, he choked up again.

Do you want to screw it up? These two people are completely different from each other, and the language logic is not next to each other at all! So he wrote a long paragraph next to it, preparing to communicate with the director.

Another example is this sentence:

Jia Yun: Uncle, don't worry! Although I haven't read any books, I still know the story of Shen Baoxu crying for Qin Ting.

Shen Baoxu cried for Qin Ting, but Xu Fei didn't understand, so he went to look it up and found out that it was an allusion from Chunqiu Zuozhuan.

Shen Baoxu was a doctor of the state of Chu. In the fifteenth year of King Zhao of Chu, Wu Zixu assisted Wu in conquering the state of Chu. Shen Baoxu went to Qin State to ask for help, Qin Aigong was not sure whether to send troops or not, so Shen Baoxu cried for Qin Ting for seven days, and finally rescued King Zhao and returned to Chu.

It can be said that Xu Fei studied the script thoroughly, but the more thorough he was, the more problems there would be. He is the thinking and aesthetics of thirty years later. Looking at the logic of film and television characters in this era, he always feels a bit stupid.

well!

He read and read, picked up the pen and added another sentence, couldn't help but shook his head, and pressed the tape recorder beside him casually.

That's right, who is Boss Xu? A rich dog with hundreds of thousands of dollars in his pocket, he bought the tape recorder as soon as he said it! And I bought it not for listening to music, but for filming.

First read the lines by yourself, record them with a camera, and then replay them to hear what's wrong. Repeatedly, it will naturally improve.

I still learned this trick from Qin Hailu, well, this kid is only seven years old now...

Speaking of actors of later generations, they are generally divided into three types:

The first type is rationality over sensibility, represented by Qin Hailu, Lao Duan and Feng Yuanzheng.

The second type is sensibility over rationality, represented by Qing Ge, Zhou Gongzi, and Sun Honglei before participating in Extreme Challenge.

The third type is a few blind actors, represented by Yang Shoutian, Yang Tianbao, Baihua Layman, and Dian Eel.

The so-called rational actors are all purely technical, they do a lot of desk work, and they can understand the script to the fullest. It takes four months to film a film, and three months to prepare for it.

When I get to the scene, I can see which scene it is, and I can act it when I come up, and it is steady and ruthless.

He has a strong control over the characters and is good at designing. This design is not derogatory, but a performance skill.

For example, in White Deer Plain, Qin Hailu also served as the performance director. Li Qin made a gesture of biting her fingers. Qin Hailu asked her to bite one by one. In the end, he said that when you bite your little finger, the arc and posture are the most beautiful.

This is a design.

Although Xu Fei is very handsome, but he doesn't have the spirituality of Liang Ziqing, and he can't perform on the spot, so he has to do desk work.

Googling!

Googling!

The water has been boiling for a long time, and it keeps calling.

He picked up the kettle, poured it into an enamel jar, hugged it into his arms again, and used it as a hot water bottle, and walked out the door with the script in his hand.

When I got to the next door, I knocked lightly on the door.

Who is it?

As soon as the door opened, Ouyang's fat face was revealed, with a surprised expression, Mr. Xu, what's the matter?

We'll be filming the two of us in two days, I want to ask the director for advice again.

Oh, then wait a minute!

Ouyang himself has a baby face, small canine teeth, and is cute. Now that he hangs around with girls all day long, he looks even softer. He went back and put on some clothes, and ran to Wang Fulin's room together.

Seeing the two of them together, Wang Fulin knew it was for a play.

Director Wang, didn't I bother you?

No, I haven't rested yet. You guys will be filming the day after tomorrow. How are you preparing?

I got it right a few times, don't you please go over it?

Oh, let's play a part first.

Xu Fei then pointed to the script, and Ouyang nodded, as he had done it once before.

The two opened up a little distance, Xu Fei turned his back first, then took out an enamel jar from his arms, pretended it was food, and slowly put it on the table.

Ouyang was full of doubts and asked, Are you...

He turned around and called out, Uncle Bao!

Who... are you? Ouyang became more and more surprised.

Uncle Bao, it's me!

Yun'er?

uncle!

When Xu Fei said he would kneel, he lowered his body with a plop, his voice choked with sobs.

You, how did you come here?

Ouyang quickly helped him up.

Xu Fei stood up and pulled the other party to the table: Uncle, please sit down!

The two sat down.

Xu Fei said again: When I was at home, I often wanted to honor my uncle, but I never had the chance. Today...

He stopped suddenly, and the two looked at each other speechlessly.

Wang Fulin watched from the side, adjusted his glasses in doubt, The acting is pretty good, is there anything you don't understand?

...

Of course Ouyang didn't, he just looked at someone.

Someone turned his head, Director, don't you find it awkward?

After Jia Yun returned the veil with Xiaohong, he didn't appear again. The book didn't introduce what he did afterwards, and it wasn't written in the script. After such a long time, Jia Yun appeared out of nowhere and pretended to be The jailer came to visit the prison. I think this process needs to be explained to the audience.

And you see, Baoyu clearly asked, 'Why are you here? '

Jia Yun didn't answer, but let him sit down, and then said, When I was at home before, etc., obviously the answer was not what the question was asked, and it didn't make sense logically.

If someone asks, at least I have to answer, what am I doing now? When I heard that Jia's mansion was copied, I went to see you through my connections. That's reasonable.

...

Ouyang was stunned when he heard what he said, and he was still a little scared, like Daiyu, Baochai, and Xiangyun are all honest children, they can act as the director tells them to do, and no one disagrees at all.

Wang Fulin was also startled, and then he remembered that this kid helped complete the Tanchun line!

And the words sounded reasonable, he was an open-minded person, so he asked: Is there anything else?

Also here, Baoyu recalled that Jia Yun gave him white begonias and read Daiyu's poems. You can see Jia Yun's reaction, 'It seems to be infected, and tears are shining in her eyes.'

Jia Yun is affectionate and righteous, but it doesn't mean that he is affectionate and righteous to everyone. He is the fifth householder of Jia's family and lives in poverty. He knows the gang of Jia family all too well, so how can he have any feelings for him?

And this poem, he may have never seen Lin Daiyu before, and he himself said that he didn't read much, but after listening to Daiyu's poem, he would burst into tears... This is a bit too convincing.

The whole scene in the Prison Temple deliberately creates a sad atmosphere, but it doesn't fit the character setting. Baoyu can be sad, why should Jia Yun be sad, shed tears at every turn?

There are only three places where he should be sad, one talking about Baoyu's current situation, one talking about his mother's death, and one talking about Xiaohong's situation.

I think this is the right way, this is the world's situation is transparent, grievances and grievances are clear.