China Entertainment please answer! 1997

Chapter 57 Complicated Crew Relationships

In the early morning of October NO.11, Cao Qing and his group finally arrived in Zhuhai in the early hours of the morning after nearly a whole day's journey. After a night's rest, they finally recovered their strength.

Waking up from the warm bed, Cao Qing got up and asked Huang Bo and others to go downstairs to have dinner together. As a well-known four-star hotel in Zhuhai, the expensive room rate of Zhuhai Grand Hotel included breakfast in the morning fee.

Walking on the stairs, a large group of people gathered together, talking and laughing along the way.

Among the large crowd, at a turning of the stairs, seeing that there were not many people around, Cao Qing suddenly put his head next to Huang Bo's ear and whispered:

"Neck, after breakfast, they will go shopping, and you and I will go back to the hotel."

"We arrived in Zhuhai so late yesterday, and the crew's production team was in a hurry and couldn't prepare enough tickets for everyone. We had to take the ferry to Omen in the evening, and we had half a day's rest in between. use."

"Seeing that we will officially make a movie the day after tomorrow, you will play a lot of roles in the movie, and your accent is still a little serious when you read the lines. Today is a rare time, so we don't want to go shopping with them .”

"Their group of people are all from the top art schools in China, and they are much better than us in these line performances. They have time to go shopping, but we don't."

"Don't go out for a while, let's practice the pronunciation of lines together in the room for a few hours, how about going out for shopping in the afternoon?"

"Ok?"

Walking on the stairs, Huang Bo, who was thinking about what to eat for breakfast, couldn't help being a little stunned when he suddenly heard Cao Qing's words beside him.

Huang Bo blinked several times in a daze, forcing himself to divert his attention from his original thinking.

Turning his head slightly, Huang Bo looked at Cao Qing who was speaking in a low voice beside him, and nodded without any rejection.

"I know this. I have also communicated with Yijun, Brother Tao, and Teacher You Benchang these days. They told me that my language pronunciation is indeed not clear enough, and the tone is not natural enough. I am thinking about how to do it. Adjustment."

His tone was sincere and he did not avoid the question at all. Huang Bo's attitude in answering Cao Qing's words was quite correct.

Hearing Huang Bo's candid answer, Cao Qing couldn't help but smile, he patted Huang Bo's shoulder with a smile and said:
"It's okay, the spoken English of most people in the industry is not up to standard, including many actors who have been in the entertainment industry for several years."

"It's just that my requirements for you are too high. Compared with those mediocre ordinary actors in the entertainment industry, I know how outstanding your talent is. Sometimes I even think that you should be born to be an actor." Actor, you have been destined to eat this bowl of rice since you were born."

"It is precisely because of this that I hope you can pay special attention to the most basic line skills, because only in this way, only when you completely abandon those normal people's speech that is too fast, mixed with dialects, and swallowed words. , the volume is high and low, the mood is not full, and a series of other problems, you have the necessary conditions to become an excellent actor."

"Even, if you want to become a great actor in the future, go international, break into Hollywood, you are not only in the lines, but also in facial expressions, inner eye scenes, various detailed body language, and even emotional micro-expressions. In every aspect, you will continue to learn and improve, and finally form your own style."

The tone was a bit serious in the teasing, Cao Qing looked at Huang Bo and smiled slightly, and said calmly.

"Okay, boss, thank you so much for believing that I have such a powerful talent. I will work hard."

"I love acting very much, and I also love the feeling of enjoying the admiration of countless audiences on the stage, but even so, I am not sure that I will become an excellent actor in the future, let alone break into the world and go to the world. It’s Hollywood.”

"But no matter what, I will work hard. Thank you boss for your recognition. If it weren't for you, I think I would still be hanging out in the bars of Sanlitun in the capital and making a living by singing."

Sighing, although Huang Bo was a little nervous by Cao Qing's words, but more importantly, he still had a desire to fight.

"that is it."

"Come on, I am optimistic about you, Neck, I think you have the potential to be an excellent or even a great actor."

Cao Qing smiled and patted Huang Bo on the shoulder, encouraging him.

He accepted Cao Qing's encouragement with an excited face. Huang Bo only felt that the depression in his heart that was constantly suppressed by Guo Tao, Li Xiaoran and others because of his line skills was relieved at once.

With brisk footsteps, Huang Bo honestly followed Cao Qing and went downstairs slowly. When he arrived at the hotel restaurant downstairs, he tacitly did not talk about it with Cao Qing. He got into a mess with Guo Tao and other leading actors of the cast.

Sitting in a slightly quieter place downstairs in the restaurant, Cao Qing, as the director, had no intention of getting together as a director, compared to Huang Bo's acquaintance with the crowd.

Although the future development trajectory of the group of people not far away is not bad, and they can be regarded as his worthy friends in the entertainment industry, but as the highest commander of a crew of nearly a hundred people, Cao Qing and Huang Bo have different identities.

As an actor, Huang Bo can play and play with this group of people to his heart's content, and it will even help his development of personal connections in the entertainment industry, but this is not true for Cao Qing.

There is only one reason for this: Cao Qing is too young.

As a director who is only 21 years old, although he has already had a successful experience, this success is still not enough to completely convince the veterans who have been on the crew for many years.

Those old fritters who have been in the crew for many years, they often choose to obey on the surface, while making all kinds of small tricks and calculations behind the scenes.

During the days when the movie was being filmed, perhaps because the investment in this movie was larger, the staff recruited by the crew were far more low-end than the group of low-end recruits Cao Qing hired when filming the first movie "The Hangover". The level of the staff behind the scenes is much higher, so that the temper of this group of people has improved a lot while their level has improved.

Although they still have a lot of respect for Cao Qing on the surface, but in Cao Qing's various small corners that can't be noticed, some beautiful female extras are unspoken, promising to secretly add scenes to her when filming next; Or out of some exchange relationship, they secretly stuffed some small characters in Cao Qing's movie; or they quietly took kickbacks on various small things like ordering food and buying equipment.

These old fritters are making so many little moves secretly that they are really hard to guard against and hard to catch.

In this regard, no matter how strict Cao Qing's management is, how much anger he unleashes for this, at most it can only make the corruption and the exchange of interest chains in the crew a little bit better.

Unless he can be cruel enough to suspend the entire production crew for a period of time because of this small problem, and then risk the panic of the entire production crew by sending those crew members to prison one by one, and find another batch of jobs Otherwise, no matter how upset he is, he can only choose to turn a blind eye to such unspoken rules that are common in the entertainment industry.

That is to say, in such a situation, out of helplessness, Cao Qing could only send Huang Bo to infiltrate this group of people to establish a good relationship with them and act as an undercover agent. Any opportunity that feels easy to get along with and handle.

(End of this chapter)