The Eye of the Storm

The re-shooting of "The Darkest Choice" went even more smoothly than expected. When Liang Sizhe came, many things that were difficult to deal with before were easily solved.Even Pang Ying, the most difficult actress before, heard that Liang Sizhe would participate in the reshoots, and the original one-day schedule was immediately relaxed to three days.

The WeChat group of the production team of the project has been silent for several months, but because of this re-shooting, it has become active again. The producer Xu Anqiao will send photos of the re-shooting scene every day, including Zeng Ran, the crew on the set, and the crew’s meals. But Liang Sizhe took the most photos.

Cao Ye would occasionally click on one or two photos to take a look, but most of the time he just glanced over them. Old news was swept away by new news, and those photos that he didn’t click on were like sand and gravel washed to the shore by the tide, and were quickly discarded. forgotten.

One afternoon, Cao Yuning came to Cao Ye's office. Cao Ye was feeling sleepy after lunch. Several photos came from the shooting group, and his phone buzzed on the table.Cao Ye took the phone and clicked on a photo. The photo showed Zeng Ran and Liang Sizhe standing together and giving a talk. Liang Sizhe looked down at the script in his hand and turned sideways to the camera.

He only glanced at it, and Cao Yuning came over and snatched his mobile phone: "So handsome!" As he spoke, he swiped his finger on the screen and flipped through the photos.

Cao Ye didn't care. He lay his upper body on the table, resting his head on his arms, squinted at him, and asked lazily, "How are you doing?"

"It's okay! It's a bit boring to read the script every day." Cao Yuning said without raising his head. After flipping through the photos posted in today's group, he started to flip forward again, and shouted dissatisfiedly, "Brother, why don't you click on it?" These photos are all expired!"

"I'm free." Cao Ye buried his head in his arms, not bothering to talk to him.

"You don't even click on Liang Sizhe's photos, that's how you treat my idol!" Cao Yuning accused him loudly.

Cao Ye lowered his head and let out a sneer, his voice sounded muffled: "He's not my idol."

"It's all overdue..." Cao Yuning muttered angrily again while turning the page forward.

Cao Ye lazily propped up his upper body from the table, propped his chin with one hand and dismissed him: "Cheng Duan is doing publicity, he should save these photos, you can go to him to see."

"Didn't you say you would take me to the crew to watch Liang Sizhe?" Cao Yuning put the phone back on the table and looked at Cao Ye. "It's been a few days and nothing happened."

Cao Yuning was quite noisy, Cao Ye couldn't take a good rest, so he opened a single player game and played absent-mindedly while chatting with him: "I said I would take you with me when I went to the set, but I don't need to go to the set these days. "

"When will you be able to go to the set?!"

"I don't really need to go there for reshoots. I'm in charge of the investment, and I spend a lot of time in the early stage." Cao Ye explained while playing the game. I couldn't help but smiled, "Why don't you go there by yourself, and I'll let Xu Anqiao pick you up."

"No," Cao Yuning said dissatisfiedly, "Xu Anqiao took me there, Liang Sizhe would not be interested in getting to know me."

Cao Ye dampened his excitement: "I'll take you there, and Liang Sizhe may not be interested in getting to know you."

Cao Yuning said eloquently: "You are the president of Luo Meng and the lead caster of "The Darkest Choice". If you introduce your cousin to him, he will give you face no matter what."

Cao Ye glanced at him, smiled and said, "You really think highly of me, thank you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the mobile phone on the table vibrated. Cao Ye took the mobile phone to read the news, and Cao Yuning came over to read it with him.The message was from Xu Anqiao: "Mr. Cao, the crew discussed this morning. The reshoot of the drag racing scene where Scar was chased by the police will be better, but there may be some difficulties in funding. Director Zeng would like to chat with you. Let's talk, when do you have time?"

Before Cao Ye had time to reply, Cao Yuning snatched the phone from him and stared at the message: "Is it about investment? I understand right? You can go to the film crew, right?"

It is indeed related to the additional investment, but such a small matter does not need to go to the film crew at all... Cao Ye wanted to say this, but seeing Cao Yuning's expectant expression, he suddenly couldn't bear to dampen his enthusiasm, so he smiled and said :"right."

"Then I'll help you get back to him. Go there this afternoon?"

"You can do whatever you want." Cao Ye turned his attention back to the computer game.

"Then it's this afternoon." After replying to the message, Cao Yuning put the phone back on the table, slumped down on the sofa and lay down, "We'll go when I wake up, brother."

Cao Ye took a look at his phone, and Cao Yuning replied, "I'll go to the set to talk to him in the afternoon." The reply was quite official.

In the afternoon, after Cao Ye finished his work, he drove Cao Yuning to the set at the urging of Cao Yuning.

The crew was located in an urban village on the outskirts of Beijing, which was located in a remote place. It took two hours to drive to the destination.

Cao Yuning fell asleep and woke up in the back row, and kept asking if he had arrived. Cao Ye's answers ranged from "It's early" to "There is still a while" to "Soon" to "It's here".Cao Yuning lay on the car window and looked curiously at this dilapidated urban village. This place was very new to him. Cao Ye parked the car in front of the crew, and when he pushed the door to get out of the car, he looked up at the gray and low walls around him. And the cobweb-like wires and lines, I feel that this place is really creepier than Yinsi. He even remembers the method of climbing the wall back then, but the corner of the low building in front of him has no exposed drainage pipes, so it should not be easy to climb up. .

The shooting progress in the afternoon has reached the second half, and Liang Sizhe and Wu Baiyi are performing a confrontation scene.Wu Baiyi crouched in the corner of the wall, trembling uncontrollably, with a broken expression, Liang Sizhe looked at him with his head down, slowly kneading the back of his neck with one hand, as if treating a disobedient domestic animal, Obviously the movements were ordinary and the voice was lowered, but it was full of slow torture.

Cao Ye remembered this scene. He had seen Huang Qianshi's version. Huang Qianshi acted in a completely different way from Liang Sizhe in that scene. He pinched Wu Baiyi's neck and slammed Wu Baiyi's head hard against the wall. until he was knocked unconscious.

The main line of this movie is a ridiculous kidnapping case of a wealthy family. It was adapted based on a real event in Hong Kong in the last century. The reason for the kidnapping case was to fight for family property. The fake kidnapping, using media pressure to coerce Qin Zhongxian, the father of the Qin family, to exchange a huge amount of property for his son's life.But unexpectedly, in the process, Dao Scar tore up the paper agreement, made a fake show and really kidnapped Qin Nanming, and used it as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Qin Zhongxian several times...

The scene in front of me is the scene where Qin Nanming, played by Wu Baiyi, tried to escape from Scar's control, but was caught by Scar and his accomplices on the way.

Liang Sizhe's hand pinching the back of Wu Baiyi's neck slowly changed its angle, pinched his throat, and then tightened his fingers suddenly. Wu Baiyi was tortured to the point of mental breakdown, and when his life was threatened suddenly, tears and snot poured out all at once. , his throat was strangled, and he could only make a meaningless "uh, uh" sound. The sound sounded frightening and helpless, and it sounded very distressing in the closed shooting location.

"CUT!" Zeng Ran shouted from behind the monitor, and the crew, which had been quiet just now, gradually became commotion after a few seconds.

Cao Yuning, who was standing next to Cao Ye, was dumbfounded just now, and now he was relieved, before he recovered, he murmured and sighed: "Oh my god..." He stepped forward a few steps, I want to see Liang Sizhe clearly.

Xu Anqiao saw Cao Ye approaching sharply, and hurried over to greet him: "I was watching their filming just now, and I didn't notice that Mr. Cao came over."

"It's okay," Cao Ye smiled, "I watched it for a while, and it's not the same as the previous version. The script has been changed?"

"No, the screenwriter didn't talk to the crew this time. They basically filmed according to the previous script," Xu Anqiao explained, "but Xiao Wu gave half a month's schedule and stayed on the crew every day. Director Zeng said that the two of them The play does not have to follow the previous one, so that Sizhe can play according to his own ideas."

Cao Ye nodded: "Very good."

"Yeah, needless to say about Sizhe's acting skills, the main thing is that Wu Baiyi played against him, which was much better than Huang Qianshi. You saw it in the previous version, Xiao Wu was hit on the wall with his head pressed, There is not much room for development, but just now the scene has obvious layering, and the tension between the two is relatively strong."

Saying that, Zeng Ran also put down his work, got up from behind the monitor, and walked towards Cao Ye.The two reached out and shook hands. Cao Ye looked at him and said with a smile, "Director Zeng seems to be in a good mood." Cao Ye still remembered how he looked shy in the conference room half a month ago, as if the sky had fallen It seems that there is a light in the eyes at this moment, and the whole person looks radiant.

Xu Anqiao jokingly said: "Director Xiao Zeng and Sizhe are currently in a passionate relationship, and they are in a very good mood."

Cao Ye could hear the joke in Xu Anqiao's words, but he still raised his eyebrows: "Huh?"

Zeng Ran has always been taciturn, but this time he took up the conversation rarely, and smiled restrainedly: "Producer Xu always makes this joke, but it's true to say that, Sizhe can always give me what I want the most. that feeling."

Xu Anqiao was more than one round older than him, an old fritter from the crew, pointing at him and smiling now: "You're actually blushing, I said Director Xiao Zeng, you don't really fall in love with Liang Sizhe, do you?"

Zeng Ran could hardly resist Xu Anqiao's ridicule, and tried his best to bring the topic back on track, using his good film language: "The comparison between Si Zhe and others is like the difference between film and digital CMOS imaging. You know that digital shooting is infinite. I can be picky, but the delicacy and texture of film cannot be replaced by digital anyway... Si Zhe is just like film, the things he performs have a grainy delicacy."

Xu Anqiao patted his shoulder and smiled: "Director Xiao Zeng, do you want to be so serious..."

"A grainy and delicate..." Cao Ye repeated his last sentence, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked, and he smiled playfully.

Xu Anqiao laughed exaggeratedly, once annoyed at "playing the piano to the cow", she raised her eyes to Cao Ye, hoping that he would give her some acknowledgment.Even though he was about the same age as Cao Ye, Cao Ye was almost someone who discovered him. They talked about movies seriously a few times, and Zeng Ran always felt that Cao Ye knew about movies.But looking up now, Cao Ye is also smiling. Although it is not as straightforward as Xu Anqiao's smile, his smile seems to have something indescribable.

"What are you laughing at, Boss Cao?" Zeng Ran was a little confused.

Cao Ye was about to speak, when he raised his eyes, he saw Liang Sizhe walking over at some point, standing obliquely behind Zeng Ran with his pockets in his pocket and listening to their speech with his head slightly lowered. "No," he shook his head with a smile, and continued to tell Zeng Ran, "Your analogy just made me have a strange association."

Zeng Ran asked: "What association?"

"You still don't want to know," Cao Ye stopped laughing, "The comparison between film and digital is very vivid... By the way, isn't it about making additional investment for reshoots? How do you plan to reshoot?"

"Call Sizhe to come and talk about it together." Zeng Ran said, and turned to look for Liang Sizhe, "I just asked someone to call him."

The direction he was looking at was exactly the opposite of Liang Sizhe's position. Liang Sizhe raised his hand and pressed his shoulder: "I'm coming."

Just now, I kept teasing Zeng Ran, but no one noticed that Liang Sizhe came over. Xu Anqiao looked back at him in surprise: "Hey? When did you come here?"

"It's full of graininess and delicateness, this section." Liang Sizhe said.

Cao Ye gave another low laugh.

This time even Xu Anqiao was a little curious: "What did Mr. Cao think of?"

"It's not important," Cao Ye looked at Liang Sizhe with a smile, and changed the subject, "Director Zeng said that he is in love with you, didn't you hear that?"

"That's no wonder Director Zeng praised me so much just now," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was joking, so this sentence not only humbled himself, but also resolved Zeng Ran's embarrassment.

Xu Anqiao went to the project team to ask for the plan for this reshoot. Zeng Ran made 3D modeling on the computer in advance, saying that he had some new ideas for this reshoot, which might be different from the previous version. He also left the filming set and went to the break room to get his computer.

For a moment, only Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe were left standing face to face.

It would be silly to just stand there without talking, so Cao Ye lit a cigarette and looked more comfortable with the cigarette in his hand, he took a deep breath and asked as he exhaled the smoke, "So you and Cao Xiuyuan were also in love before? "

Liang Sizhe looked at him for a few seconds, didn't speak at first, and then said after a while: "Cao Ye, don't say that you don't understand what the passionate love Zeng Ran said means." After a pause, he said, "I dare say that if you If the actors and directors have not touched this passionate love, then their cooperation is very likely to fail, and the final film is very likely to be inferior."

His eyes were open, and his tone of voice was also very calm. Cao Ye suddenly felt that he was looking for trouble, nodded and looked in another direction, and smiled: "Don't be serious..."

A few years ago, under the fanfare of the media, many people were speculating whether there was something tricky about the relationship between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan. They didn't believe it. Cao Xiuyuan's attitude towards all newcomers was to throw it away. Only Liang Sizhe, he It was used time and time again to praise him as the youngest actor in the Chinese film industry. This was not enough, and a few years later he was personally promoted to the position of Cannes actor.

Cao Ye never doubted whether the relationship between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan was innocent, he knew that Liang Sizhe was not that kind of person.So even he himself was a little confused as to why he brought up the topic of Cao Xiuyuan just now.

"So what did you think of just now?" Liang Sizhe looked at him and changed the subject, "A grainy and delicate."

"Guess." Cao Ye turned his head to look at him and smiled, intending to imitate his tone.

"It can't be said publicly?" Liang Sizhe actually guessed.

"I still want to remind..."

"Just wanted to confirm the answer."

"Then tell me?" Cao Ye didn't believe he could guess it at all.

Liang Sizhe lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, put his hands in his pockets, leaned his upper body towards him, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "Did you think of a condom with bumps?"

Cao Ye was stunned for a moment, couldn't help laughing, glanced at him and said, "Hey, you're the film king, it's best not to say something so surprising..."

Liang Sizhe straightened up and asked him in an ordinary tone: "Why, is there a rule that movie stars are not allowed to use condoms?"

Cao Ye was amused by him: "How did you come up with such a ridiculous association?"

"Say it first, don't you?"

Cao Ye still couldn't stop laughing: "Okay, yes."

"I guessed it." Liang Sizhe looked at him and smiled, "I don't have any serious associations from your expression."

Cao Ye thought this situation was really funny. Liang Sizhe, a film star who was sought after by the whole crew, actually stood in the corner with him and talked about pornographic jokes. What's more, the association was really ridiculous, even he himself didn't know how to do it. Such an incongruous idea would suddenly come up, but Liang Sizhe guessed it right...

He laughed for a long time and didn't stop until Cao Yuning walked up to him and called out "Brother", Cao Ye realized that he had been so busy chatting with Liang Sizhe just now that he had completely forgotten about Cao Yuning , I don't know when he came here, did he hear the conversation between them...

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Cao Yuning had just chatted with Wu Baiyi not far away for a while, and during the chat, he turned his head to look at Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe from time to time, hoping that his brother would find out with his conscience, take the initiative to call himself over, and introduce him to Liang Sizhe one time.But after waiting for a long time, Cao Ye continued to chat with Liang Sizhe, as if he had completely forgotten that he was not here alone...

Seeing him keep turning his head to look over, Wu Boyi sensed his thoughts and suggested, "Let's go and have a look?"

"Okay," Cao Yuning was eager for him to say this, and when he walked over, he quietly asked Wu Baiyi, "How is Liang Sizhe?"

"It's pretty good." Wu Baiyi said honestly, "It's not airy, it feels different from what I heard before."

"Really," Cao Yuning slowed down and lowered his voice, "So is he double?"

Wu Boyi glanced at him: "How would I know..."

"Did he show you..." Cao Yuning continued to guide.

"No." Wu Baiyi categorically denied, and then looked at him strangely, "Why are you asking about this?"

Cao Yuning leaned over and whispered something in his ear, Wu Baiyi looked at him with wide eyes: "..."

Cao Yuning looked at him: "Do you think there is hope?"

"I think you are dreaming." Wu Baiyi looked at him speechlessly.

Seeing them approaching, Cao Ye looked at Cao Yuning and Wu Baiyi in surprise: "Do you know each other?"

"Well, we stayed in a middle school," Wu Baiyi greeted Cao Ye, and then asked with a smile, "Why do you have time to come here today?"

"Come to supervise the work," Cao Ye joked, and then asked, "How do you feel about the reshoots?"

"I feel that the acting is more solid than the last time." Wu Baiyi was young and mature, and he didn't forget to mention Liang Sizhe next to him, "I learned a lot from Brother Sizhe."

Cao Ye nodded. Judging from the performance in the clip just now, Wu Boyi did perform better than the previous version.A good actor can drive the opponent's play, and this has been fulfilled in Liang Sizhe.

When it was decided to shoot this script, the producer was extremely troubled by the issue of casting.First of all, the role of Qin Nanming is not easy to determine. It is really difficult to choose an actor who is around 20 years old and has excellent acting skills.In the end, after several rounds of finalizing, they decided on Wu Baiyi, a young student from the Mainland, to play the role.

Wu Bai unexpectedly fits the shape, and his acting skills are acceptable, but he seems a bit young and thin as the leading role, so the casting of the other end of the balance—the kidnapper Scar is particularly important. The acting skills are brought together, and secondly, there must be a good audience popularity to make up for Wu Baiyi's youthfulness and weakness.They quickly confirmed Huang Qianshi, last year's Best Actor winner at the Academy Award - from then on, Huang Qianshi is not only suitable for the role of a kidnapper, but also the news that he won the Best Actor is still hot, which will bring a considerable amount to the film's box office. help.

But now it seems that Liang Sizhe is more suitable than Huang Qianshi. Cao Ye thought of the public opinion report that Cheng Duan showed him a while ago. Netizens said that the film studio was "a blessing in disguise" this time. I have to admit that this statement seems to be correct. ...

Cao Yuning felt a little anxious when he saw that the topic was not on his head, so he called "Brother" again.

Only now did Cao Ye remember the main reason for his trip, "Oh, this is my cousin, Cao Yuning," he put his arm around Cao Yuning's shoulders, and introduced him to Liang Sizhe, "Your movie fan, today is a Follow me to see you." Looking at Liang Sizhe again, the joking expression just now disappeared without a trace, and the usual sense of distance was restored.

"Your uncle's son?" Liang Sizhe asked, stretching out his hand to Cao Yuning, his attitude didn't look warm.

Cao Yuning was very excited, and quickly reached out to hold it, and called sweetly: "Brother Sizhe."

Cao Ye answered Liang Sizhe's question from the side: "Yes."

"Your dad looks a lot like your uncle, but you two don't look alike."

"We are several years apart." Cao Yuning said before Cao Ye.

"When he was your age, he was not like you." Liang Sizhe looked at him and said.

"Hmm... my brother looks like my mother, and I look more like my father." Cao Yuning said quickly, and it was obvious that he really wanted to chat with Liang Sizhe.

But Liang Sizhe smiled and didn't say anything else. He raised his eyes and looked in the direction where Zeng Ran left, as if he had exhausted his patience waiting.

"What were you laughing at?" Cao Yuning turned around and asked Cao Ye.He saw that the two of them were chatting and laughing just now, as if they knew each other very well, but as soon as he came over, both of them stopped smiling.Realizing that she seemed unpopular, Cao Yuning looked unhappy.

Cao Ye felt a little embarrassed. Could it be that he wanted to tell Cao Yuning that he was just talking to Liang Sizhe about the bumpy condom?

Liang Sizhe's eyes fell back on his face again, this time it was him smiling playfully.

"I'm talking about the difference between digital and film," Cao Ye said sternly, "You know that many directors prefer the texture of film because film has a grainy texture..."

Liang Sizhe suddenly looked at him and laughed out loud, shaking his head lightly while laughing and said, "Cao Ye, you are so cute."

Cao Yuning didn't know what Liang Sizhe was laughing at, and he didn't know why Cao Ye was so cute, and what was the difference between digital and film. Isn't this topic very boring?Is it worth it that they just laughed like that?