rewrite life

After a long period of preparatory work, the "Wonderful Journey" crew finally completed all the preparatory work. On the first Saturday in July, the official shooting began in a low-key manner.

The first scene of the film tells the story of one of the leading actors, the Chinese boy Tang, who faints during his birthday celebration at his home.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the crew has arrived, and all the lighting and photography have been prepared. Yun Xiaoting, who plays Tang's father, Lu Hengzhi, who plays Tang's brother, and all the extras who play relatives and friends are piled up in the rented villa. Successfully completed the first shooting and the last shooting - the scene where Tang Shi passed away peacefully after returning home after two and a half months of journey.

Then he hurried to the hospital and shot the scene where Tang woke up in the hospital, learned that he was terminally ill and decided to give up treatment, and started the journey.

Even though he has filming experience before, Tang Shi is still a little unaccustomed to this kind of working method of jumping and filming according to the needs of setting up the scene.

Fortunately, these two scenes were relatively simple, and Tang Shi successfully completed them.

Because it was a cameo role, and he still had a lot of work to do, Yun Xiaoting rushed to the airport immediately after the cameo role of Tang Shi's father, preparing to fly back to China.His part in "The Man of the Black Mountain" has already wrapped.And Yun Xiaoting's successful participation in "Black Man" this time has also added a lot to his acting qualifications. It is conceivable that after returning to China this time, Yun Xiaoting's domestic and international influence , it will definitely go to the next level.

But these are things for later, let's not mention them for now.

It only said that Tang Shi finished filming all the previous scenes, and brought the crew to the most important location of the film - a remote and quiet town in California with beautiful scenery.Here, Tang, who is terminally ill, will meet another male protagonist, the young traveler Jason.They met at a stranger's wedding.The handsome groom and the beautiful bride met in college. After seven years of long-distance love, they finally decided to get married with a son.They decided to hold their wedding in the small town church and receive blessings from their families, relatives and friends.

And Tang and Jason, who were traveling alone, also took the opportunity to take advantage of the water and participate in the wedding.As a guest, drink, sing, dance, and celebrate with all the people.Like all young people who are full of fantasies about love, they send the most sincere blessings to the couple.Wish them grow old together and be happy forever.

The actor who plays the groom is Tang Shi's natal idol Lucas. He has just completed all the filming of "Black Man 3" and is about to send it to the company for post-production.Lucas, who was free, fulfilled his promise and came to play the role of the groom with the crew.And the actress who played the bride was unknown to everyone, and she was a newcomer recruited from the Actors Union of Bad Funwood.Although the acting skills are still a bit young and exaggerated, but considering that this role only needs to be played by an actress who is beautiful and has a sweet and happy smile, it doesn't matter about acting skills, so everyone's requirements are not so strict.

It's just that they didn't expect the crew's requirements to be as loose as possible, and the actress who played the bride didn't really take them seriously.It's been almost an hour since the start of work, and the actress hasn't arrived on the set yet, which makes Tang Shi and others who have been waiting for a long time angry-you must know that after work starts on this day, all labor costs will be increased. It's not a small sum.What's more, Lucas is not an idler who can spare time at any time, so it doesn't make sense to wait for such a newcomer who doesn't abide by the time agreement.

When Tang Shi thought of this, he secretly complained.He felt that as a rookie, his performance at the beginning was unreliable enough, but he didn't expect anyone to go too far—at least when he was a rookie, he never had a record of being late.

On the other side, Lu Hengzhi's phone calls were one after another, almost exploding, and he couldn't get through to the actress.Seeing this, Evan also walked over and took out his mobile phone to contact the Screen Actors Union. In the end, he learned from the Screen Actors Union that after the actress who played the bride signed the movie contract of "Amazing Journey", she was The next day, I went to audition for another film in Huaquwu, and I successfully interviewed for the role of the third female lead who played a lot of roles.The actress immediately signed a contract with another crew, and directly released the pigeons of "Amazing Journey".

"Do you have any professional ethics? Do you understand, even if you really don't want to act, can you let us know in advance that we are all here now, what kind of quality!" Hearing the reply from the staff of the actors' union, Tang Yi exploded at that time.

Reaching out to grab the phone in Evan's hand, Tang Shi scolded: "The Stars and Stripes has always been a country that values ​​the spirit of the contract. Therefore, when we first signed the contract, we upheld the principle of mutual trust and never questioned you. The work ethic of the actors. But I didn't expect this to happen in Bad Fun. I think it's all your job blunders."

"...Since you know that the actress has signed another film contract, why didn't you take measures? Or you can tell us in advance! How can you be so foolish..."

There were bursts of apologies and explanations on the phone, Tang Shi was too lazy to listen anymore.He put the phone back into Evan's hand, turned around and took out his own phone, and began to look for the list of actresses who performed well during the interview but were not admitted due to various reasons.They called one by one, but the result was that the other party either received the script, or had another job, or went to another city and couldn't come back today.

Angry Tang Shi finally almost dropped the phone.Seeing this, Lucas on the other side silently took the phone from the assistant, found a number, and called.After a brief exchange or two, Lucas put down the phone.Walking over to Tang Shi and others who were downcast, he smiled and said, "Hey, boys, what's the matter, it's not a big deal, cheer up."

Tang Shi looked at Lucas with guilt, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry...the actress who plays the bride can't come, you may have to come today for nothing—"

"Oh, I just called Catherine and she said she was free today and would be happy to help us. It's just that she needs two hours to get here. If you don't blame me for making it up, I think I His bride has been found."

As soon as Lucas finished speaking, Tang Shi jumped up excitedly, and asked Lucas with sparkling eyes: "Which Catherine, is that the Catherine Andrew who played the heroine Helen in "The Black Man"?" ?”

Lukas nodded with a smile, and smiled at Tang Shi and the others: "If I remember correctly, I only know this lady Catherine—"

"It's great!" Tang Shi waved his fist excitedly, and said happily, "This is a blessing in disguise!"

"What?" Lucas couldn't understand Tang Shi's last sentence in Chinese, so he asked unconsciously.

Tang Shi smiled and explained to Lucas what it means to be lucky, and then dragged Evan and said, "In this case, we can shoot other scenes first. After Catherine comes over, we can shoot the wedding part."

Evan naturally has no opinion.So the crew filmed a few more scenes where the leading actors Tang and Jason met and talked, drank and ate.Catherine drove over.

With Catherine, a glamorous actress who can be called a "bad fun Hollywood stunner", joins in, Evan only feels that the scenes of shooting the wedding become sparkling.And there is nothing difficult about this scene, it just needs Lucas, who plays the groom, and Catherine, who plays the bride, to show their love as much as possible in front of people.For the two who played the roles of three "Black Man" and have already been rated as "the most eye-catching on-screen couple" by the media, this scene is simply familiar and easy to handle.

So this scene was successfully filmed.Lucas drives away with Catherine.The next thing everyone wants to shoot is the plot of Tang and Jason traveling together, and finally arrive at the most important scene of the film - the small town hotel.

In this scene, the film's most important supporting role, Al Robert, and her wife, Jennifer Holt, are also about to appear.

The two old drama stars who have been popular in the whole bad fun and even the whole world will play a pair of elderly couples who support each other and have lived through most of their lives in the play.Among them, Al plays the role of old Tom, the hotel owner. Tom was a wandering singer when he was young. He met his wife Jenny on a trip and fell in love.Finally gave up the wandering life, married his wife Jenny, and opened the hotel after marriage.

But Tom didn't know that his wife Jenny actually suffered from familial Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as Alzheimer's disease.Not long after the marriage, Jenny gradually began to show signs of forgetfulness.In the end, not only did he become demented, he was even incapable of walking, and could only sit in a wheelchair.But even so, Jenny would not forget to take a walk in the wheat field outside the town after waking up every day—because that was the place where Jenny and Tom first met.

In order to wake up his wife's memory, Old Tom would push his wife to the wheat field every day and tell her the story of the two of them over and over again.And he is willing to stay in this closed and remote town with his demented old wife, watching their love until they grow old.

Don and Jason came to the town one evening, and finally had to stay overnight in a hotel because of a heavy rain that delayed the trip.And they also inadvertently learned the love story between old Tom and Jenny.

At that time, Tang Buwu, who had already known that he would die soon, sighed enviously: "The most beautiful relationship in this world may not be how intense and intense it is when you fall in love. The most difficult thing in love is often after the passion fades, facing the Facing all kinds of hardships in life, but still not changing the original intention, hand in hand with the warmth of growing old."

And that night, because the chef of the hotel asked for leave to attend a friend's wedding, dinner could not be served in the hotel.Tang found the few remaining cucumbers and a piece of pork in the kitchen, and volunteered to cook for Jason.

In the movie of his previous life, Evan asked Chinese youths to make delicious kimbap in the kitchen with rice, cucumbers, carrots and other ingredients, and this detail was unbearable for all Chinese people, including Tang Shi.So when Tang Shi played this scene in this life, he decided to make dumplings for Jason.

He washed all the vegetables and meat, then chopped them into stuffing, found a bag of flour from the cupboard, added water and kneaded the dough, and finally kneaded the unrelated meat, vegetables and white flour together like a magic trick , forming the dumplings that are most familiar to Chinese people and also represent the national characteristics of Huaguo.

While cooking in the kitchen, Tang explained to Jason, who stood by with his arms folded: "...in our country, eating dumplings is the best way to reflect family reunion. You see, taking these unrelated cucumbers , pork mixed with various condiments, and finally wrapped in dough. It’s like two people who didn’t know each other before, because of love, they came together and formed a family. Then, as time passed, this love finally became It became a family relationship. Just like dumplings made of different ingredients, they are inseparable in the end and become a whole."

"...In our country, every New Year's Eve dinner, everyone must eat dumplings. Jason, if you come to a Huaguo family and members of this family are willing to invite you to eat dumplings, then on behalf of them I already consider you family."

Tang Shi, who whispered this sentence, under the dim light, his eyebrows and eyes became more delicate and his temperament was soft.There seemed to be an indescribable charm emanating from him, so captivating that people couldn't bear to look away and just stare at him blankly.The white and slender fingertips flexibly spread the round dough on the hands, wrap the fillings, and then pinch out round and cute dumplings.The gentle curvature of the lips, the sparkling light in the eyes, the countless amorous feelings quietly revealed from the corners of the eyes and brows when looking sideways at people...

It was like a fluffy cat's paw gently scratching the tip of the heart.Itchy, lingering.Leon White, who was standing aside to play Jason, suddenly felt dry mouthed. He rubbed his shoulders in embarrassment, his face flushed.

Not only Lyon, but even the director Evan, who was in charge of filming, and the cameramen on several camera positions all felt flushed in the same way.

Before that, when they communicated with Tang Shi, they couldn't understand what Tang Shi said, the feeling of "reserved, elegant, restrained, and warm" that belonged to Hua Guo's bones, but looking at the people who are now concentrating on making dumplings Tang Shi, the tall and burly foreigners seemed to have vaguely understood what Tang Shi wanted to express.

Tang Shi didn't understand the feelings of the crowd. He finished wrapping the dumplings and placed them neatly. He glanced at the boiling water beside him, feeling a little uncertain.Unconsciously, he turned his head and asked, "Do you want to order dumplings now?"

A word called back the people who fell into silence.Evan yelled "click" in embarrassment, got up and walked over, patted Tang Shi on the shoulder and said, "Your performance was very good just now."

Tang Shi smiled slightly, and said to Evan and all the members of the crew: "Everyone has worked hard. I will treat you to dumplings later."

As soon as this remark came out, all the actors and staff in the crew shouted excitedly.Immediately after, under Evan's order, the cooked dumplings were lighted up and a close-up shot was taken.The next shot shows Tang and Jason sitting on the wooden corridor outside the hotel, watching the starry sky while eating dumplings.

And Jason even half-confessed to Tang and said, "Tang, I would like to eat dumplings with you every New Year's Eve dinner."

The handsome man, the beautiful scenery, the delicious food, and the atmosphere are enough, and the smooth completion of this scene is a matter of course.And this day's filming work can be regarded as coming to an end.Then it was time for the crew to have dinner.

Although it is required in the script, Tang only needs to include a few meanings when showing off his cooking skills.However, considering that the crew is already very hard when filming outside.What's more, it's located in a remote place, and everyone doesn't have anything good to eat.It was a rare opportunity to show off his culinary skills, so Tang Shi simply distributed most of the bag of noodles and prepared dumplings for the group of foreigners to taste, and let them experience the profoundness of Huaguo cuisine.

While cooking dumplings, Al, who had no scenes to film, took his wife Jennifer out for a stroll.Because Tang Shi was committed to finding the most beautiful scenery and the most suitable location for shooting, everyone finally chose this small town as the shooting location after searching the entire Stars and Stripes.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the scenery of this small town is beautiful.And because of the sparse population, the scenery here has a sense of rural comfort.Whether it is the bright autumn wind blowing through the wheat fields during the day, or the starry sky at night, the starry sky is full of stars, and the tranquility is within reach. People who are used to the hustle and bustle of big cities and high-rise buildings feel amazing.

Therefore, Al and Jennifer praised Tang Shi's unique vision immediately after they arrived in the town.

"Just because of the scenery here, we didn't come in vain."

So the Al couple, who always like to show their affection, always go out to hang out when they have no part in the show.When he came back, Tang Shi had already cooked the dumplings in a pot.He was still making the rest, not only him, but also another classmate, Lu Hengzhi, who was escorted by Tang Shi to sit down and make dumplings.

And a few staff members who were unwilling to eat ready-made dumplings, or who were more curious and eager to learn also gathered aside to learn how to make dumplings.However, his movements were too clumsy, and basically the dumplings he made were scrapped.In the end, I had to put down the ingredients and raise my hands in surrender—admitting that the cuisine of Huaguo is just like their writing, which looks beautiful but is extremely troublesome to cook (learn).

So when the Al couple came back from their walk, they saw a group of foreigners devouring dumplings, while poor Tang Shi and Lu Hengzhi were sitting in the kitchen, chatting while making dumplings.

The atmosphere between the two was unusually tacit and familiar. Under the dim light, there was an illusion of peace and gentleness.Al and Jennifer stood aside and watched for a long time, looked at each other, and smiled tacitly.Then squeezed into the middle of the staff and started eating dumplings.

When a dumpling entered her mouth, Jennifer's eyes widened in disbelief. Jennifer, who was firmly captured by the rich fillings and tough dough in her mouth, praised Tang Shi to the sky without hesitation There is nothing on the ground, it is as if the God of Cookery is alive.

Tang Shi, who has always been proud of his cooking skills, listened more and more enthusiastically, and even made a great wish to make dumplings with all the white flour in the kitchen, but because of the limited fillings, he had to stop halfway.Even so, Tang Shi, who hadn't done physical work for a long time, was still very tired.

Rubbing his sore and swollen arms that could hardly be lifted, Tang Shi leaned against Lu Hengzhi.Lu Hengzhi, on the other hand, besides making dumplings, had to rub Tang Shi's shoulders and massage hard, lest the little devil roll around and play tricks the next day, lying on the bed and not getting up...