24 Lies

Two days later, Li Zhiyuan brought the crew to Wanding.

After meeting Zheng Guanyu in that rented room, Li Zhiyuan was very satisfied and emotional.

He already has eight images of Gao Xiaoyu.

Seeing that Zheng Guanyu has lost so much weight, Ah Mai was so distressed that tears almost fell down.In the past, he was always injured when filming, and Zheng Guanyu had a lot of old injuries. They have always paid attention to Zheng Guanyu's body, but looking at it now, this movie may be more dangerous than an action movie.

It's useless to just look at Zheng Guanyu's state alone. Li Zhiyuan called Ming Zheng over to see how they look when they are together.

Zheng Guanyu thought about it, and went to the kitchen to cook a meal as usual. When Ming Zheng came, they entertained Li Zhiyuan for a meal together.

During the dinner, the two of them didn't say a few words, they got along as usual, only the voice of Shan Tianfang talking in the room.

The entire room was full of crew members, the director was sitting on the side, and the whole room watched them eat quietly.

After eating, Li Zhiyuan commented when he saw Mingzheng silently packing up the dishes and washing: "It's not easy to be able to sit at the same table and eat for a month. It seems that We came at the right time, if we come later, you two will probably become old couples."

Both of them were stunned by these words, Mingzheng and Zheng Guanyu looked at each other in a daze.

Seeing their eyes, Li Zhiyuan clapped his hands suddenly: "Yes——I want you to be in the state when you saw each other just now, be subtle, don't be an old couple, you need to be a little hazy when filming the previous scene, understand? Hazy, repressed."

Zheng Guanyu and Mingzheng looked at each other, and nodded with a vague understanding.

It was the day when the crew arrived, and the bunch of ginger flowers on the cabinet withered, Zheng Guanyu had to remind himself that the summer that belonged to him and Mingzheng was over.

Li Zhiyuan felt that the two of them are in good condition now, and decided to start filming immediately.

The relationship between the characters in the movie is an old-fashioned configuration of a policeman and the son of a drug lord. Chen Zhou, an anti-drug policeman played by Mingzheng, moved downstairs to Gao Xiaoyu's house in order to investigate the case. The two fell in love very much.

But what is special is that Gao Xiaoyu in the play knows from beginning to end the purpose of Chen Zhou approaching him, he is sober and sinking.

The theme of this film is the edge, the loss of control, Gao Xiaoyu's flying moths into the flames, and Chen Zhou's insincere feelings.

In the first scene, Li Zhiyuan arranged it very strangely, it came in order, and asked them to shoot the first meeting.Zheng Guanyu thought that Li Zhiyuan would let them do sex scenes as soon as they came up, but unexpectedly it was quite gradual.

On the side of the set, Zheng Guanyu was waiting with an old-fashioned satchel on his back, and the makeup artist was adjusting his makeup—Li Zhiyuan felt that the two of them were still a bit too delicate without makeup, too delicate to be real, and needed to add some flaws.

Zheng Guanyu was putting on makeup while listening to Li Zhiyuan's lecture to Ming Zheng.

"When you see Gao Xiaoyu, the state you need is 'hidden'." Li Zhiyuan said, "I want you to act out that sense of distance, ambiguity and temptation. But you have to remember that you approached him with a purpose, Gao Xiaoyu can't see through you, and the audience can't see through you, so you have to have a sense of mystery."

Li Zhiyuan usually only talks about feelings when he talks about plays.

After telling Ming Zheng about the play, Zheng Guanyu is next.But Li Zhiyuan didn't tell him the play, but adjusted a comfortable posture on the chair, and said: "I won't tell you how to act, you should know it well."

This means that he is allowed to play freely.

Zheng Guanyu smiled: "You should tell me something to make me feel at ease."

"So I'm still here." Li Zhiyuan sighed, "Guanyu, thank you for your willingness to make this movie."

Zheng Guanyu poked around on the ground with a small wooden stick that he picked up anywhere, looking a little absent-minded.

Hearing this, he thought for a while and said after a long time: "I want to thank you. In the 14 years since you sent me to debut with "Morning and Evening", I have acted in many plays, but I have never met a character I particularly like. You This film gives me a strange feeling, I always feel as if I have been waiting to play this Gao Xiaoyu all my life..."

Li Zhiyuan looked at him: "You..." He paused, "You know how to act, so take care of yourself."

The crew has been preparing since noon, and Li Zhiyuan has been holding hands with the cameraman to ponder the problem of light and angle.

When the sun that is most suitable for the mirror falls, Li Zhiyuan shouted that sentence——

"Action."

The staff all fell silent, staring at the man in white slowly entering the camera.

Gao Xiaoyu walked slowly on the way home.

He came back from school early today because the math teacher asked him to leave the music class in the afternoon.

Life today is no different than it was yesterday.Go home alone, cook and eat alone, watch TV alone...

When he was still a little away from the corridor, he saw two figures smoking at the entrance of the corridor.One of them was wearing the workshop overalls of a nearby tea factory. He was a face Gao Xiaoyu knew and lived nearby.The other was wearing a black shirt, never seen.

They exchanged a few words, and the man in the overalls turned away.

Gao Xiaoyu slowed down curiously.There are very few new faces in this place, especially this young man who looks handsome even from the back.

In the next second, Chen Zhou, who was wearing a black shirt, turned around, smoking a cigarette, and looked at Gao Xiaoyu from afar.

Zheng Guanyu could feel that he was sweating when Ming Zheng saw it.

Not because of the sunshine and temperature, but because of that look.It was Chen Zhou who was looking at him, and the gaze that was looking over also belonged to Chen Zhou, but Zheng Guanyu's heartbeat unavoidably accelerated, and something was wrong all over his body.

His reaction was real, because Ming Zheng had never seen him that way.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, he lowered his head.

Gao Xiaoyu quickened her pace.He walked to the stairs and passed Chen Zhou.

Just two steps away, a voice behind me shouted, "Hello——"

Gao Xiaoyu heard it, but he didn't move, he still hurried upstairs.

Chen Zhou said to his back: "You dropped something."

Only then did Gao Xiaoyu pause in her footsteps.He turned around, pushed his glasses, and asked, "Are you calling me?"

Chen Zhou nodded, and pointed to the wallet at his feet—it was the wallet that Gao Xiaoyu deliberately turned over when he was passing by looking for keys.

Chen Zhou repeated: "You dropped something."

Gao Xiaoyu looked at him, pushed his glasses again, and walked over slowly.He was about to squat down to pick it up, but Chen Zhou bent down one step ahead of him.

Gao Xiaoyu's eyes stopped on Chen Zhou's waist for one second, two seconds.

Chen Zhou handed him the wallet, then smiled and said, "Which floor do you live on? I just moved to the first floor."

It seems that the first floor has been rented out. It used to be an old lady who lived alone and passed away some time ago.

Gao Xiaoyu's tone this time was relaxed: "I live upstairs from you."

Chen Zhou nodded, handed over a bottle of water in his hand and said, "Please drink water."

Gao Xiaoyu glanced at the bottle of water, finally took it, and whispered, "Thank you."

"—cut."

Li Zhiyuan came over with the script and said to Zheng Guanyu, "Let's shoot it with a different feeling? It's too full."

"Where is it full?"

"Too much." Li Zhiyuan knew he could understand, "Don't be so heavy."

Zheng Guanyu frowned, and began to argue with Li Zhiyuan: "I think Gao Xiaoyu's eyes should be a little darker before lowering his head. Is that a kind of... a feeling of confirmation? His eyes only become timid when he walks up to Chen Zhou to speak. , but it was faked."

Li Zhiyuan thought for a while, frowned and asked, "Why do you think so?"

"Because I think Gao Xiaoyu fell in love at first sight."

"Love at first sight?" Li Zhiyuan was a little surprised.

"Anyway, what I imagined in my mind... When Chen Zhou appeared, Gao Xiaoyu's world was turned upside down so exaggeratedly. Combined with his behavioral logic of trying to get close to Chen Zhou afterwards, I think it is very reasonable to fall in love at first sight."

This is a matter of understanding by different people.The script actually says "Gao Xiaoyu and Chen Zhou met downstairs for the first time, they looked at each other thoughtfully, passed each other, and talked..." I can't tell, it all depends on the imagination of the director and actors.

Li Zhiyuan's point of view is different from his. He frowned and said, "I don't think it's love at first sight. He should be a little defensive and curious? You just pretended a little too much. When I watched you act, I felt that there was something in your eyes. There is love and there is pain.”

Zheng Guanyu nodded: "Gao Xiaoyu's liking is painful. The moment it happened, he was very scared."

Li Zhiyuan digested Zheng Guanyu's meaning for a while before saying: "Try again. I will think again."

Zheng Guanyu nodded: "Okay."

Mingzheng listened to their argument all the way, with no expression on his face, and replayed the scene with Zheng Guanyu in silence, reshooting.

Li Zhiyuan often changes plays temporarily, and Ming Zheng has heard of it, which is not unusual.

But just stuck on this look, they tossed all afternoon.

They shot this shot more than ten times.Walking back and forth over and over again under the high temperature of more than 30 degrees Celsius, repeating, repeating, and constantly retaking Gao Xiaoyu's eyes when he first met Chen Zhou.

Just for one look.

Li Zhiyuan never said no, he just asked them to shoot repeatedly.

In order to keep improving and ensure the quality of the film, it is normal to reshoot.It would be okay if it was shot digitally, but most of this film will be shot on film, and only a small part of the shots will be re-shot with digital.

In this era of film decline, it is so rare to be able to participate in a film shoot. This is the most important reason why Mingzheng wants to make this film. He has a sense of awe for film films.After so many reshoots, Mingzheng felt a little bit sorry for the film, which was too expensive.

They reshot so many times for a look... anyway, Mingzheng was very tired from being tortured by Zheng Guanyu and the director.

Ming Zheng couldn't understand Zheng Guanyu's persistence.

The two of them stood under the shade of the tree for a while, Mingzheng persuaded him hesitantly: "How many shots shall we take according to the director's instructions? Don't feel like falling in love at first sight, maybe your understanding is wrong?"

Zheng Guanyu looked up at him: "You want to teach me acting?"

... At this time, they will use their identity to suppress others.

"What I mean is, we can shoot as many as the director wants to satisfy him..." Ming Zheng said helplessly, "Don't be too serious."

Zheng Guanyu stubbornly refused: "Let Director Li think about it, it would be better to change this scene to make it more tense."

Ming Zheng sighed again.

In this crew, Zheng Guanyu is the most popular, and the director has to give him a three-pointer. If he screwed up, the scene will only be stuck forever.

Ming Zheng suddenly disliked Zheng Guanyu who was so twisted.

"You have to believe my feelings." Zheng Guanyu said, "I dare say that no one who writes about Gao Xiaoyu now understands Gao Xiaoyu like I do. He has been living in a very depressive environment, restrained and cautious in his life, so he has something in his heart. There are many unimaginable energies, and feelings are one of them. When he saw Chen Zhou, he actually had a premonition. He was a policeman, an opposite that attracted him very much. He should not be close to him, but love is something that cannot be explained clearly. , I'm sure it was love at first sight the second we met..."

Ming Zheng listened absent-mindedly. He sighed, handed the water in his hand to Zheng Guanyu, and interrupted: "You drink first."

Just now Ah Mai came over to hand over the water, Zheng Guanyu didn't want to drink it, and felt a little anxious after being interrupted by Ming Zheng, he didn't take the bottle of water, and refused: "I'm not thirsty."

"Zheng Guanyu." Ming Zheng said impatiently, "Drink some water first."

...what does he call himself?

Zheng Guanyu's eyes widened in surprise, and he looked back at Mingzheng in surprise: "What did you call me?"

At that moment, he suddenly remembered that this person hadn't called him Mr. Zheng for a long time.

Mingzheng said expressionlessly, "Your name is not Zheng Guanyu? Do you want me to call you Gao Xiaoyu?"

After he finished speaking, he paused: "It's the third time, you should drink your saliva first."

After looking at each other for two seconds, Zheng Guanyu first avoided Ming Zheng's gaze.He took a deep breath, took the bottle of water, unscrewed it and took a sip.

Mingzheng saw that he was obedient before continuing: "Maybe you are the only one in the whole crew who thinks that Gao Xiaoyu fell in love at first sight. Don't be stubborn, let's shoot once as the director said."

The words clearly meant to discuss, but there was no tone of discussion.

Zheng Guanyu stared at him: "Are you asking me?"

"Of course not." Ming Zheng frowned, "I just think it's not good for you to do this."

Zheng Guanyu said impatiently, "Why? What's wrong?"

No answer was heard.Because in the next second Mingzheng came over and gently took off Zheng Guanyu's pair of black-rimmed glasses that belonged to Gao Xiaoyu on the bridge of his nose.

That was an outrageous move.Zheng Guanyu held his breath, and for a moment, he pretended to be affectionate and thought that Mingzheng wanted to kiss him.

"You think too much about Gao Xiaoyu, I don't think so." Ming Zheng said seriously, "The filming has just started, so let's take our time, okay?"