The film emperor ruled all kinds of dissatisfaction

Chapter 90

When Sun Chong called for the first time, Wang Chen did not receive it.

At that time, it was already the fourth day when the production crew officially started, and Wang Chen didn't know about the gossip fermented on Weibo.He didn't have the habit of checking Weibo in the first place. His assistant Xiaodong mainly took care of his account, and he just posted some photos of the crew's work from time to time.Now that Wang Chen doesn't have a show during the promotional period, and he's filming abroad, he doesn't even have the time to waste on such things.

In the afternoon in China, Venice just revealed the early morning sunlight.

In order to shoot a sunrise scene on a sunny day, the entire crew came out at four o'clock in the morning to set up camera positions and consider framing. The lighting engineer was also constantly thinking about how to match the natural light of the sun and create a soft-focus light feeling on the characters' faces.

Wang Chen got up at 05:30 to make up and change clothes, and at 06:30, he was already waiting for the show.

Director Gao Siyuan was busy looking at the screen with the director of photography, and couldn't care about Wang Chen at all, so he called Luo Shaoxin to talk to Wang Chen about the scene.

Wrapped in an army green coat, Wang Chen was so sleepy that he sat on the steps beside the water, yawning one after another. The winter in Venice was cold and wet. When Luo Shaoxin walked over, he specially made a cup of hot coffee and handed it to Wang Chen. Chen, "Come, have a sip of coffee and refresh yourself."

"Thank you, Director Luo." Wang Chen took it, blew on it, took a sip, and frowned suddenly, "Is there any sugar, Director Luo... what kind of coffee is this? It's so bitter to me."

Luo Shaoxin smiled in a low voice, stretched out his hand to press Wang Chen's frowned brows, and rubbed it gently twice, "Black coffee, no sugar or milk, is the most suitable for you. It drains swelling well and doesn't grow too long." Fat, the actresses I worked with in the past have to drink a cup of this every morning, I just found out that it was specially prepared for you."

Hearing that it can drain swelling, Wang Chen pinched his nose and drank the Chinese medicine.

Seeing his frowning look, Luo Shaoxin couldn't help laughing beside him, stretched out his hand, and wanted to touch Wang Chen again.

At this time, Wang Chen instinctively turned his head to avoid it. Director Luo's hand didn't land in mid-air, and he was stunned for a while.But Wang Chen didn't feel embarrassed at all. He grabbed Director Luo's hand and stood up with his strength, and then said, "Director Luo, don't touch me. There is a man in my family. If he finds out, he will be angry."

Wang Chen's words were purely joking, but Luo Shaoxin was not sure if he had read the rumors on Weibo, so he came to beat him specially. He kept silent for a while, and Wang Chen didn't say anything, Shouting to his assistant: "Xiaodong, bring me the script, Director Luo is going to talk about the play."

Luo Shaoxin went down the donkey and had to sit down again next to Wang Chen. The two sat down on some narrow steps and began to discuss the scenes to be filmed later.

Throughout the movie, there are three story lines about the hero Qiao Li.

The most core one is the "hometown line" that director Gao Siyuan has always used as the content of actor assessment, which is the purpose of prompting Qiao Li to leave his hometown and come to the water city of Venice. He heard that he can make more money here. To earn more money to treat his mother's serious illness, he chose to stay here for his mother's sake.

The other two are the story line of Qiao Li's career development in Venice and the emotional line between Qiao Li and an Italian girl.

Qiao Li is a wall builder. His work is very simple, that is, to spread cement layer by layer on the brick wall, and then build it up.His job is simple and boring, like the most primitive factory worker, doing repetitive work on the assembly line every day.However, this kind of work, local workers in Italy are lazy and slow. It often takes a whole month to build a wall, but it is handed over to Qiao Li and another partner of his team, Lao Zhao. Individuals can complete it in three days, but the price is only half of that of Italian workers.Such high efficiency made their "Chinese construction team" famous in Venice. The foreman received more work. Within a month, Qiao Li received the same money as a local worker in Italy.

Qiao Li was ecstatic with the amount of money coming and how quickly it came.On this early morning, with the sunrise, he left the work team for the first time and walked in the small town of Venice by himself.

He was by the water and wanted to take a boat and go to the post office two blocks away to wire money home.When he arrived here, there was no boat yet, the sun had just jumped up a little, and there was a faint light rising on the horizon.Qiao Li squatted here and called home. Her brother-in-law answered impatiently and didn't tell Qiao Li too much about her mother's recent situation.Qiao Li hung up the phone angrily, but at this moment, a boatman slowly approached with a boat.Qiao Li rekindled a little excitement, pulled the boatman, and wanted to say that he was going to the post office, but Qiao Li could neither speak English nor Italian, even gesticulating and yelling failed to make the boatman understand what he meant —Or, the boatman just deliberately didn't understand what he meant.This was the first time Qiao Li took the initiative to deal with people from the New World, but it ended in failure.

The boatman laughed loudly at his clumsiness and poverty in Italian. Qiao Li couldn't understand the language, but from the other's expression, he realized that he was out of place and humble in a foreign country—even though he made a lot of money, even if the foreman and He said that many Italian families rushed to ask him to help with the decoration, even if he had a thick wad of euros in his pocket at this moment, which was enough to send the boatman away, but in the end, Qiao Li just stood silently by the water sat down.

Didn't go anywhere, can't go anywhere.

"The moment of sunrise is too difficult to capture. Director Gao means that today we will shoot the first half of this scene, and the second half will have Italians. We can also shoot when the sun rises...so after a while, you see Is camera A already? Follow camera A along the water’s edge and stop at the Mark in front of camera B. Let’s take pictures of the part with the sun in the distant view first, and then close-up shots. For close-ups, you can wait for the sun to rise completely Continue to shoot. But the scene where COSCO takes the sun, it’s best to pass this morning, understand?”

Wang Chen nodded.

He specially borrowed the storyboard from Gao Dao before, and he also understood the artistic conception Gao Dao wanted here.

In Gao Siyuan's conceived picture, he wanted to use water light and sunlight to project a complex light and shadow on the characters. Qiao Li's upper body was shrouded in sunlight, as if he saw hope, while his lower body was still reflected by the gloomy river water. It was the darkness that he could not struggle with in his destiny.His meek and honest character predestined him to be trapped in the vortex of misery and deceit, unable to escape.

"Sun Sun!" I don't know who was the first to discover the traces of the sunrise and yelled at the scene, and all the departments immediately rushed to their positions.

Wang Chen threw away the big warm coat on his body, only wearing a single shirt that was deliberately dirty, and ran to take his seat in front of the camera.

Director Gao stood behind the monitor and asked loudly: "Wan Chen, did Xiao Luo explain it to you? First shoot the distant view, the distant view! Pay attention to the movement and camera position!"

"Understood, Director Gao!" Wang Chen roared back, and began to brew emotions.

Only then did Gao Siyuan sit firmly behind the monitor, observing the magnitude of the sun's rise.

The director of photography was sitting next to him, smoking a cigarette, and said in a low voice: "This scene is too difficult to capture, and the chances of getting it right in one shot are unlikely. If it's sunny tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we all have to come out to catch the sun."

Director Gao smiled, and shook his head confidently: "If you say that close-up close-ups can't be done in one shot, then I agree, but Wanchen has always had no problem with the mid-range and long-range shots of the camera position. He has a good grasp of the camera position. It’s very accurate, and there are very few mistakes in positioning, so don’t worry.”

The director of photography was doubtful, but Director Gao sharply saw a section of sunlight rising completely on the horizon.

He immediately picked up the loudspeaker and said, "Every department is in place, and the executive director is in place."

Luo Shaoxin replied behind the A camera: "It's in place, the camera is in place, and the actors are in place."

Wang Chen has completely entered the mood. He pressed a stack of newly issued wages in his trousers with one hand, and turned his face to the sun with a smile on his face. The focus of machine B immediately aimed at Wang Chen's eyes, deliberately The face that had lost weight and was thinned, but because of the shroud of the rising sun at this moment, it looked radiant, and the eyes were even more radiant.

"Start it up," said the director.

The recorder immediately raised the board to report, and Luo Shaoxin shouted at the scene: "Start!"

Wang Chen took a step, and machine A followed his movement and moved forward on the track.

With a happy mood, he slowly walked to the marked position, with longing for home in his eyes.In the video of the monitor, he quickly stopped at the marked position, looked around, saw that there was no boat, and then squatted down.

Wang Chen's set of movements is very simple, purely walking, purely stopping, purely searching, and then purely squatting down.Even the swing of the arms is controlled very naturally, without the redundant and exaggerated movements that many TV drama actors are used to when they transfer to the big screen.What's even more rare is that every stop point of Wang Chen is exactly at the position where the camera stops. He always keeps himself appearing on the left side of the golden section line of the screen, and the slowly rising sun is on the right side of the screen. With golden light.

The shot didn't end there.

Wang Chen squatted down, took out his mobile phone, and prepared to call home.

The camera position of camera A slowly moved down, just keeping the same line as the newborn Sunshine.In the picture, Wang Chen's upper body is extraordinarily bright, while the water surface that has not yet been touched by sunlight reflects on Wang Chen's squatting legs with dark waves.

The whole character is automatically divided into two halves by light and shadow in the picture, and the angle is exactly the same.

Wang Chen broadcast the phone and began to read his lines.

At this moment, the hero is homesick. He not only misses his bedridden mother, but also wants to share the joy of his career.

——He has done very well abroad, and foreigners are not as good as him.He is quite famous here, and some people asked him to build walls by name. He couldn't wait to share these things with his relatives right away, let his mother and sister know that the youngest son in the family is indomitable.

But the person who got through the phone was the brother-in-law with a cold tone.

The brother-in-law said, "Isn't international long-distance calls expensive?", which blocked all Qiao Li wanted to say.He exchanged a few pleasantries and hung up the phone.

Wang Chen spoke his lines, but Qin Yue was thinking in his heart.

Because of the time difference, every time I return to the hotel after work at night, it is already early morning in China.He had a phone call but couldn't make it out, and even if he did, it was a long busy tone with no response.

The two can only greet each other quickly during the lunch break, and occasionally video.

I don’t know why, Qin Yue always refuses to make video calls with him recently, evading and saying that it is inconvenient to be outside; Wang Chen can’t figure it out, since the two of them have already talked about each other’s love, so why would it be inconvenient to turn on the camera?

But he can't question it.

Wang Chen knows very well that the time when he is far away is the most uncomfortable time to quarrel.The relationship between the two will quickly fade away in suspicion. Others in Venice are not as good as before, but in any city in China, whether it is Qin Yue or himself, if there is any conflict, they can immediately fly to each other's side to have a clear chat.

So they can only endure.

In the picture, "Qiao Li" who hung up the phone looked disappointed.

The figure of a person looks even more lonely under the diffuse sunlight.

"Card! Very good, pass!"

Director Gao Siyuan stood up in satisfaction, the sun had fully risen, and for this scene, the next step was to rely on lighting to shoot close-ups.

But it is not easy to pass the long-range shot in one go, even the director of photography applauded, "I really underestimated Wan Chen, the positioning is very good."

Wang Chen stood up with a smile, Gao Dao said: "Xiaochen, go and take a rest, the seat here needs to be adjusted, you can take this opportunity to sleep back, and I will send someone to call you later."

The adjustment of lighting and camera takes a lot of time, and Wang Chen also knows it, so he didn't insist on it on purpose, and went to Xiaodong to go back to the rest room to squint for a while.

As soon as he saw Xiaodong and put on his coat, Xiaodong said, "Brother Chen, you didn't answer the two calls just now."

"who?"

"It's called Sun Chong."

Wang Chen felt a little strange, "Why does Sun Chong want me?"

But he still took his mobile phone and called the other party back.

"Hello? Brother Chong? It's me...Wang...Wanchen, I was filming just now and didn't receive your call."

Wang Chen spoke very politely, but the other party was not kind, "Are you filming or messing with that director Luo? Qin Yue is about to have surgery, do you know?"