Super star

On the day Ding Xi joined the group, the domestic media was in an uproar and reported the news one after another. Ding Xi had been keeping a low profile when he took over the drama, and almost no one knew about it. In this regard, apart from the few trolls on the Internet forums, they are not very effective in publicity. In terms of relationship and familiarity with the media, they are not as good as Ding Yichi and Feng Li.

Being able to cooperate with a big Hollywood director like Osmond James and act as a starring role is almost the first time in China. It is not that there are no actors who have done well in Hollywood in previous years, but none of the three or four actors The exceptions are all action stars, and the scenes they shoot are also very narrow. They have never had a place in this kind of blockbuster with the main theme of Western science fiction.

So, the next day's headlines were about the news about this movie, many media began to take stock of Ding Xi's filming since he was seven years old.

After the first movie, the seemingly low-key acting path was actually "high-end foreign style and high-end".

"I don't know whether Ding Tianwang is helping him choose films or Feng Li, the famous director, is behind each of Ding Xi's films. If you look carefully, you can find that Ding Xi has been filming for nearly ten years, but he has not had a single failed film. For an actor, it's nothing to be able to make a few successful movies. The difficulty is that almost every movie he takes on can be successful. Ding Xi seems to be a born lucky one. He has nothing to do with "bad movies". "

Whether it is newspapers or TV, they are happy to broadcast such news. As for Xu Ming, the director of Luchuan Industrial, which was published a while ago, including six or seven backbones, there are also big news that some company staff members died suddenly within two months. The social version seems to be too far away from this song and dance, yesterday you had an affair with him, today I acted in a new movie and you released a new album.

It seems that there are two worlds at all.

The bright and flashy entertainment circle can't be connected with those gloomy and serious social events at all.

Ding Xi is currently in Universal Studios Hollywood, and some of the first scenes of "Blue Star Man" will be filmed here.

"This is my special effects make-up this time?" Ding Xi looked at the several special effects make-up artists around him, looking at the various tools and equipment they brought over that were completely different from ordinary make-up artists.

After so many years of acting, this is the first time for him to experience really complicated special effects makeup. In previous movies, he has also painted scar makeup or injured makeup, and even gave him special ears in "North and North" so that It shows his identity as a "water unicorn", but it can't be regarded as too complicated special effects makeup.

"Yes." A female special effects makeup artist said with a smile. She has long hair dyed flame red, but at the moment it is all coiled on the top of her head and fixed with clips. She looks very friendly with a smile on her face. "Tracey Ding, I'm your fan!"

"Oh, thank you." Ding Xi also laughed.

Another chubby man next to him was already a bit older, with a short beard, but he smiled very kindly, "Thank you for saving so many people, there was a girl on the plane who happened to be me My friend's niece, thank you so much!"

Ding Xi could only say, "This is what I should do."

The special effects makeup artists around him made a plaster cast of his face before getting busy.

This time, he played M as an alien, and all they had to do was special effects makeup for his alien image.

M has two images in the movie, one is a completely alien shape, and the other is the shape that his planet simulates for M by the "blue star people" they call in order to let him go to the earth to investigate secretly.

The science and technology of Aisla, where M is located, is quite advanced, and it is not too difficult to change the appearance.

The whole movie is full of standard Hollywood-style sci-fi colors, and it is also very impactful on the imagination of aliens.

"The director said that his face should not change in any way. At first glance, he is still Tracy Ding, so he can only work hard in other aspects," said the female special effects makeup artist. "According to his face shape, the previously drawn I'm afraid the drawings still need to be revised."

Among the several makeup artists, the older middle-aged man was obviously the dominant one, "Ellie, show me the previous drawings..."

While they were discussing, the other two makeup artists were already busy. In addition to makeup, they also needed props. Most of the props were prepared in the same way. At the moment, the one who is sitting here with Ding Xi waiting for special effects makeup There are several other "aliens", which is not a small workload.

The Esla aliens are not scary aliens. In fact, judging from their drawings, they should be a very beautiful alien.

The whole design has a very transparent feeling, and the color is basically a clear ice blue. To make people's face look like this, I am afraid that it needs quite ingenious makeup skills.

"Come on, put on this contact lens first." Soon the assistant came over to put on Ding Xi's makeup first.

The contact lenses that Ding Xi wears are a very light sea blue color. The color of the pupils is slightly darker, and the color that spreads out becomes lighter and lighter, and his skin also needs to turn into a... non-human color. Fortunately, the color is not different. Not too deep, but not long after, the appearance surprised even Ding Xi himself.

He never imagined that human skin can be transformed into this kind of appearance through makeup, transparent to almost transparent, his facial features suddenly faded, his face became very thin, and the ears on both sides became translucent through prosthesis and shaping. He said that it looked like an unfolded white delicate feather fan, but it was very small and not so soft, showing a light and elegant texture. His forehead was also covered with a latex prosthesis, which was as indistinguishable as his face. The real and fake skin is dotted with little blue diamond decorations, plus an amazing "hairstyle", all made of light blue translucent plants——

Not to mention the whole body makeup, it took nearly eight hours just to put makeup on his neck and hands!

...too tossing... =_=

However, generally speaking, this is really a very beautiful alien group, any one is very beautiful, Ding Xi glanced at those "similar" of his, most of them are group performers, only one actor is still the main supporting role , but all the cast members are really handsome and beautiful. After all, their faces are still their own. After putting on such makeup, even without special effects in the later stage, there is a very pleasing feeling.

Ding Xi remembered the first scene in "Alien" in the script, the lines were quite brutal.

Planet Esla is a highly civilized planet, and they also have serious resource problems, especially their home planet is not big enough. This is a planet quite similar to the earth, with oceans, land, animals and plants. So evolution is very similar to humans.

The first scene of the aliens was discussing whether to carry out genocide against one of their colonized planets. Of course there are other aliens on that planet. Ding Xi has already seen those extraterrestrials. Compared with them Esla is elegant and beautiful, and those aliens look quite "alien"... Anyway, they don't look like human beings, because although they belong to a group that is ignorant, timid and easy to control, Esla has already There is an immigration plan, and they don't want those ignorant ethnic groups to hinder their development, let alone occupy certain resources.

At the beginning of the movie, the highly "democratic" Aisla people are conducting such a vote. Because of the advanced technology, all people can vote for or against while sitting at home, and finally the government will make decisions based on the voting results.

As a result... 58% agreed to implement the genocide plan, and the proposal was passed.

At this time, M, one of the "civil servants", was called to the leader's office. On the large sea-blue virtual screen, there was a very familiar blue planet—the earth.

This scene is what I'm going to shoot today.

"This make-up is so troublesome, I need to shoot more today." Ding Xi said with a smile.

The other actors nodded and said with emotion, "It took so long to make up, it would be a pity if we only filmed for a while."

No matter how anxious you are, it's impossible to finish filming these scenes all at once. Ding Xi probably will have to struggle for a few more days.

Director Osmond James has been well-known in the circle for a long time. He is now an old man who is nearly 70 years old. He has white hair and beard, and is slightly blessed. He looks very kind, but anyone who is familiar with him knows that this director is also Pay attention to details.

When Ding Xi came out with a full set of makeup, he glanced up and down carefully before nodding in satisfaction, clapping his hands and saying, "Come on, we're getting ready!"

As expected of a movie made by Osmond, this alien scene alone was shot with multiple cameras.

Because all backgrounds have to be post-processed by computer, all of Ding Xi's scenes with "alien makeup" were shot in front of a green screen.

"Sir, the position of this planet is not advantageous."

"Yes, but its environment and resources are very advantageous," said Ding Xi, who played against an old-fashioned movie star. Even though he was getting older, he wore such makeup without any sense of disobedience. He still had a three-dimensional and handsome face. "So, we decided to send you to do preliminary investigation work and submit a report after completion."

"Yes!" Ding Xi replied seriously.

Osmond looked at the scene in the camera, "Crack!" He said with a smile, "Okay, this scene is over, the same scene, ready for the next scene!"

Ding Xi came down and the makeup artist touched up his makeup - the so-called next paragraph, for the movie, the span is quite large.

Also in the "officer's" office, in front of the colorful translucent curved desk, Ding Xi was about to submit his report, and then read the report, and the whole people voted on whether to colonize the Blue Star.

This is the plot at the end of the movie, just after the beginning and the end...

Ding Xi's headache was the scene of reading the report. The report was very long. He said he was reading, but he didn't know the words on the crystal-clear shell-like "technical product" in front of him. It doesn't matter, but the problem is that the director asked him to "read it with emotion", and it can't be turned into a speech. After all, this is a report, and it takes two to three minutes to read it all. If it is really mediocre, the audience will not be interested. If it becomes a speech, then the whole tone will change to be funny, okay?

Emotional investment here is still very difficult.

"Get ready!" Director Osmond raised his hand.

Start shooting.

Ding Xi picked up the props, the thing in his hand at the moment is a green alternative props, which will be made into a very special alien technological product for him in the later stage.

"About Blue Star's colonization expedition report, time..." He began to "read" his report.

Director Osmond touched his chin and looked at the picture in the camera, and was surprised to find that this oriental boy was much better than he had imagined!

"He...is not yet 17 years old?"

"Yes, you won't be 17 years old until the Chinese New Year is over," an assistant next to him replied with a smile. "He's a super boy in many people's minds right now."

Director Osmond smiled.

In just one sentence, he stared at the camera again.

"Crack!" He raised his hand, "Tracey, you've done a good job here, but you still need to show your emotions a little bit more, just a little bit, your eyes are already in place, you just need to improve your tone One point is enough!" Director Osmond said kindly.

Ding Xi already knew that he is a director who strives for perfection, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's do it again."

Let it go a little longer, and he knows.

This is a report that he needs to be full of disgust when he reads it. In the report, he tells about the intolerable flaws of the blue star people that he hates. "Aliens" who are not "truthful, good and beautiful" are really a nightmare.

"Blue Star" itself is still very comedic. The biggest difference between it and other alien movies is that its big scenes are not used to show aliens invading the earth, nor are they used to show the heroes of the earth fighting aliens. Instead, it purely depicts the magnificence of such a star Esla, and then it is the tense and funny scenes that happened when various people chased and intercepted M on the earth.

There is no tearful help to aliens here, and there is no emotional drama with strong human touch, only the indifferent eyes of passers-by when the chased M pretends to ask for help, and the greedy eyes of middle-aged women trying to get more from him.

It is actually not difficult to substitute this role. Even if they are not aliens, many people feel disgusted, indignant, and disappointed with the current social phenomenon.

"Crack!" Director Osmond yelled, then nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, this part is over."

After the show, Ding Xi looked at the time. It was almost one o'clock in the morning. Almost half of the day was spent on makeup, and the remaining half was filming, because there were a lot of group performances, and it was NG a few times before. Today It can only call it a day.

...Ding Xi felt tired at the thought of spending seven hours on makeup tomorrow...

Fortunately, it lasted for a while, and it will be fine when the alien scene is finished.

Just after the show, Wang Ke handed over his mobile phone, "Xiao Heyou called to ask if you were in the show."

Ding Xi nodded, "Understood."

In fact, they don't need a phone to communicate with each other, but He Wanglan obviously didn't want to disturb his filming status, so he chose to call.

"Don't call Xiao He back?" Wang Ke teased, she always felt that the relationship between the two boys was too good.

In front of Wang Ke, Ding Xi could only say, "Come back later."

It was already very late, counting the time difference, it was one o'clock in the morning here, and it was daytime in China. It was not until Wang Ke drove the two of them to a nearby residence that Ding Xi made the call.

"It's time to play?"

"Ah."

There seemed to be some noisy voices on He Wanglan's side. Ding Xi's ears were very sharp, and he heard him say to the person next to him, "I'll go out and answer the phone first."

Then after a while, I heard silence on the other side.

"What's going on with you?"

"Guan Jin has come to Beijing. He called some friends and invited me to have dinner with him." He Wanglan said flatly, "It's nothing interesting. If I had known, I wouldn't have come."

Ding Xi smiled and said, "It's not bad to have a gathering with friends. You can also enjoy your college time at school. I want to enjoy it yet."

"If you know there are still such a mess of people, then you won't come." He Wanglan sighed.

In his previous life, he could properly "handle" these entertainments for his career, but in this life, he was really tired of such occasions.

"What is it that you want to call me?"

He Wanglan paused for a moment before saying, "Guoan has already found out the relationship between Ding Yiming and that Thai cult... Do you really want to tell Uncle Ding about this?"

"Well, but let me tell you when I come back." Ding Xi said affirmatively, "They know that we have a relationship with Guoan, and it's not surprising to find out based on this relationship. I always think it's good for him. "Tell him" is pure nonsense, if I were a father, I would also want to know the truth." He already knew about this from the beginning, and if he told him about the people behind it, it would also reassure him , although it is said that this person's identity is a kind of injury to him.

"Alright, so that Uncle Ding still treats Ding Yimin as a family member. Even if he is dealt with, he will still have to take care of his wife and daughter later. If the two of you say that your cousin doesn't know, I don't believe it. You That aunt must know about this.” He Wanglan said with certainty, “I heard from Guoan’s Xiao Liu that Ding Yimin’s family has a statue of that Thai cult god, but it’s not too small. Your family’s name is written in blood. There are still a few broken hairs that are pressed there."

"She knows," Ding Xi said lightly, "Maybe others will forget it, but I remember it very clearly. The first time I went to my grandfather's house, it was my eldest aunt who combed my hair gently."

His uncle didn't touch him.

It would be a joke to say that his eldest aunt didn't know. As for whether his cousin knew, Ding Xi couldn't be sure.

"Don't worry, I'll watch over here and wait for you to come back."

Ding Xi smiled, "Okay, wait for me to come back."

He just wanted to see what Xu Ming and his group would do after Ding Yimin's debts were written off, so he was willing to give him a few more months to see if there was anything left of this person. Conscience, or a monster that has completely turned into a beast with a human face——

Ding Yichi...but his own brother!