The Eye of the Storm

"You just want to be the one who took the camera to shoot you."

Liang Sizhe walked in front of the camera, Cao Ye's words rang in his mind.

After Cao Ye left, Liang Sizhe still couldn't hold back and called Zheng Yin. He wanted to get Cao Ye back and return this role to him.

After Zheng Yin heard the news, he put aside what he was doing and ran around looking for Cao Ye all day. He searched all over the homes of those "husbands and dogs" that Cao Ye often mentioned, but they couldn't find them.Cao Ye seemed to have disappeared from this world.

Liang Sizhe knew from then on that when Cao Ye wanted to hide, no one could find him even if they dug three feet into the ground.

Auditions went ahead as scheduled.The competition between two people turned into Liang Sizhe's one-man show.

Cao Xiuyuan walked into the studio, and Zheng Yin went over to whisper a few words to him, probably because Cao Ye hadn't come back yet, whether the audition should be postponed or something like that.

"The whole production team is waiting for him alone? It's ridiculous," Cao Xiuyuan glanced at Zheng Yin, and reprimanded everyone, "You're also ignorant when he messes around?"

Zheng Yin immediately fell silent, sighed, and followed Cao Xiuyuan to the front of the monitor.

Seeing that Cao Xiuyuan was angry, the studio, which was slightly noisy a few seconds ago, was suddenly silent, and even the humming of the machine was clearly audible.

Cao Xiuyuan sat behind the monitor, and threw a sentence at Liang Sizhe: "Play the part where Xiao Man follows Peng Yan." Then he said to Zheng Yin, "Give him a violin."

No script was handed in, no mention of where to start or end, no mention of how long the preparation time would be, just a violin in hand.Liang Sizhe took the violin, thanked Zheng Yin, and began to recall the content of the script.

The atmosphere was so dull that it was impossible to calm down and enter the mood.

It would be great if Cao Ye was here, the atmosphere would definitely become lively soon.Liang Sizhe couldn't help but have this thought.

On second thought, if Cao Ye was here, Cao Xiuyuan wouldn't be so shameless—he wanted them to compete for the role from the beginning, but now Cao Ye disappeared without saying a word, completely disrupting Cao Xiuyuan's plan .It's just... If it was me who left without saying goodbye, would Cao Xiuyuan still be so shameless?

"Are you ready?" Cao Xiuyuan urged.

Liang Sizhe came back to his senses.He didn't calm down to prepare at all, he just thought wildly, but Cao Xiuyuan had already urged him, so he could only bite the bullet.

Liang Sizhe's mind was in chaos when he took the violin and walked towards the camera. The conversation between Peng Yan and Xiaoman, the discussion between him and Cao Ye about this passage, and the situation where they were sitting on the rooftop during the discussion, there were many scenes. It flashed back so quickly in his mind that it was hard for him to calm down and think about how he should act this part.

Walking in front of the camera, the black lens was facing him, obviously he should be a little apprehensive, but all the boiling thoughts suddenly sank to the bottom strangely, and there was only one sentence left in his mind: "You just want to hold the camera to take pictures of you. That person is me."

At this moment, Liang Sizhe calmed down, and the content of the script unfolded before his eyes.

Xiaoman followed Peng Yan... Counting to the scene ahead, Xiaoman was carrying a violin that afternoon, and was beaten by a group of gangsters asking for money. Peng Yan happened to pass by, and helped him scold the gangsters... let's start from here.

Liang Sizhe hugged the violin, lay down sideways, curled up to protect the violin, then propped one hand on the ground, and stood up staggeringly.He grabbed the violin and ran a few quick steps, looked back at the gangsters, saw that they hadn't followed, slowed down, then stopped a few meters away from Peng Yan, and walked lightly behind her.

A little nervous, the fingers holding the violin moved unconsciously, and happened to pluck a string.

The sound of the strings rang, and the stalker Xiaoman didn't expect it. He was taken aback, stopped in embarrassment, and looked back at Peng Yan who was looking back at her.

"Thank you, thank you," Xiaoman opened his mouth, tightened his hand holding the violin neck, and stammered, "I mean, just now..."

"Where you hit the strings was planned in advance?" Cao Xiuyuan interrupted him.

"No," Liang Sizhe broke away from Xiaoman's state, "I bumped into it by accident."

"Then why don't you stop?"

"I think that when Xiaoman touched the strings, his reaction should be similar to mine at the beginning, and the performance continued without disturbing the overall plot."

Cao Xiuyuan stared at him for a few seconds, the expression on his face remained unchanged.

Liang Sizhe didn't know how he behaved just now, and suddenly remembered that Cao Xiuyuan stared at him with the same expression that morning in front of the breakfast stall of Lao Du Noodle Restaurant, saying that a person like him is either a genius or a fool when it comes to acting. talent.

When it really came to this moment, he didn't seem to care so much about the evaluation of genius and stupidity. He just hoped that his performance in the audition could live up to the opportunity Cao Ye gave up.If Cao Xiuyuan was not satisfied with him in the end and chose another actor instead, he would not know how to face Cao Ye afterwards.

After all, Cao Xiuyuan didn't comment on whether his acting was good or not. He just beckoned for the stylist Ah Chi and asked him to cut Liang Sizhe's hair on the spot.

Zheng Yin came over to discuss Liang Sizhe's hairstyle with the stylist: "Just follow the shape we decided before, with only one point. Brother Yuan thinks this kid's eyes are a little too beautiful, so I kept the front hair longer to cover it up a bit, but it's also Don't exaggerate, be natural..."

"Understood Brother Yin," the stylist replied, "It's the kind of time when your hair is about to be cut but not yet necessary."

"Oh yes," Zheng Yin said with a smile, "Your description is accurate."

While Zheng Yin was staring at the stylist cutting Liang Sizhe's hair, Cao Xiuyuan sat on a chair beside him and changed the script, occasionally telling Zheng Yin a word or two: "Remember to give Sizhe the new script."

"I know Brother Yuan."

"The violin is not old enough. If it is over, buy a new one."

"Okay, I'll talk to Brother Hui later."

"The light in Xiaoman's bedroom is still a bit white, it needs to be adjusted again."

"Row."

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For this hour of hair cutting, Cao Xiuyuan had to order more than a dozen things, and he said what he thought of, piecemeal, unorganized, and I don't know how Zheng Yin wrote it down.Liang Sizhe thought of what Cao Ye said to himself, "Uncle Yin is like Doraemon, but there is nothing my father can't do if he asks for it." After sitting for a while, Liang Sizhe understood this sentence. Personal experience.

After the hair was cut, Zheng Yin yelled "Brother Yuan", Cao Xiuyuan looked up, nodded and said "yes", and asked Liang Sizhe to stand up and walk in front of the camera, turning back and forth, left and right like he did at the audition.

Then Cao Xiuyuan got up from behind the monitor and looked at Liang Sizhe: "The machine will start up next Tuesday. In the next few days, you and Zheng Yin will go to familiarize yourself with the shooting location. Also, lose another ten catties."

Liang Sizhe replied "I know Mr. Cao", and Cao Xiuyuan turned and walked out of the studio.

As soon as he left, Zheng Yin started calling one by one, the lighting team, the props team, the art team, the setting team... all called over and over again, explaining the request that Cao Xiuyuan just made, and he explained it much more carefully than Cao Xiuyuan After a phone call, even Liang Sizhe had a general understanding of Cao Xiuyuan's instructions.

After he finished making the phone call, Ah Chi next to him admired: "Brother Yin, what kind of brains do you have, I counted, and you haven't forgotten a single thing that Director Cao just explained."

"Dare I forget?" Zheng Yin took out a cigarette, bit it in his mouth, lit it and said with a smile, "This is what I eat."

A few days later, the movie "Thirteen Days" was launched, and Liang Sizhe officially joined the group as the actor of Xiaoman.

The actors who acted with him are all seniors who have been famous for a long time. The actor of Aunt Fang Liu Yuan is highly respected and has won awards in many domestic film festivals. The actor of Peng Yan is Hu Yusi who is currently hot and sexy. Powerful actresses, even the butcher next door, who played the role of the owner of the butcher shop next door, is also a gold medal supporting actor who appears in various major directorial films.

The team is strong, only Liang Sizhe is a newcomer, almost the whole crew revolves around him during the filming, every senior who plays with him will give him some advice, Cao Xiuyuan even teaches him hand in hand, every shot has been polished dozens of times A common thing.

Just Xiaoman was doing his homework, and Aunt Fang asked him to add water. The scene of him getting up and walking to the door took less than ten seconds to shoot for two days.

Show Xiaoman's impatience, but not too impatient.After responding, you have to dawdle for a while before getting up, but you can't dawdle for too long.When I got up, I had to mutter a few words, but what I muttered was not written in the script, so I had to play it by myself.

The two weeks after joining the group were the most painful period for him, constantly being broken and reshaped, being denied and restarted over and over again.

Liang Sizhe thought again of the judgment Cao Xiuyuan told him about genius and idiot. He thought that he should be the idiot that Cao Xiuyuan said, otherwise how could he fail to meet his requirements after acting dozens of times?

Cao Xiuyuan was very patient, sitting behind the monitor, no matter how many times he yelled "cut", he would always look serious, he would not get impatient or angry, he would come up to lecture Liang Sizhe over and over again, and sometimes he would demonstrate it himself He sees.

The scene where Peng Yan taught Xiaoman to smoke was filmed until 03:30 in the morning, and the whole crew breathed a sigh of relief after work was over.

Liang Sizhe felt very sorry for the production crew. He has always disliked the temper of troublesome others, but because of his own reasons, hundreds of people in the production crew followed him to waste time. It's really useless. It took almost twenty times to shoot. Filmed from 03pm to 30:[-]am.

After work was over, Liang Sizhe didn't go back to the hotel with the crew's car. He was not in a good mood, so he strolled back by himself. After walking a few hundred meters, a car horn honked at him behind him.

As soon as he turned his head, Zheng Yin followed in his car, and pressed down the window: "Come up."

Liang Sizhe didn't want to get in the car at first, he just wanted to walk around by himself to be clean, but Zheng Yin insisted that he get in, so he had no choice but to open the car door and sit in.

"You can't hold on anymore?" Zheng Yin asked him while driving the car.

"No, I can persist." Liang Sizhe said.This opportunity was given to him by Cao Ye. How many people dream of such a cast and co-star, even if he smashed his teeth and swallowed blood foam, he had to persist in finishing the play, otherwise he would not be able to follow Cao Ye. Ye confessed.

"So you don't have confidence?"

Liang Sizhe was silent for a moment: "I remember you said that I might not be suitable to be an actor."

"Just listen to what I say," Zheng Yin laughed, "Since Director Cao nodded and let you join the group, you are a good candidate to be an actor. Besides, where are you now? Zhang Minghan was a five-year-old at the time. It took a whole week to shoot the second shot, but it still came out, and finally won the newcomer award, you only have two days of work on the shot that just joined the group, which is already pretty good.”

Liang Sizhe has been very depressed in filming these few days, his emotions are all stuffy in his stomach, and he is a little bit strong. He doesn't want Zheng Yin to mistakenly think that he can't hold on because of too many times. After thinking about it, he still can't hold back. Yin said his true thoughts: "It doesn't matter to me. I practiced the piano hundreds of times before, but I felt a little sorry for wasting the time of hundreds of people in the entire crew."

Unexpectedly, Zheng Yin laughed a few times when he heard the words: "You...what I think is really different, I thought you wouldn't care about other people's thoughts at all." After a pause, he said, "Don't think about the crew It's too superficial. They accompany you to grind the show not for your face, but for Director Cao's face. Director Cao asked them to grind dozens of times and hundreds of times, and they followed it willingly, because everyone knows that this is for Movies are not for a certain person, everyone believes in him, and you have to believe in him too."

Liang Sizhe let out a "hmm".

The production team is really a magical place. Back at the hotel that night, Liang Sizhe lay on the bed and thought, he didn't have a good impression of Zheng Yin before, but since he started filming, he saw Zheng Yin circling among the various groups and dealing with various emergencies, and suddenly felt that He is a very nice person, no wonder Cao Ye has been affectionately calling him "Uncle Yin".

The same goes for Cao Xiuyuan. After two weeks of contact, he can fully understand Cao Ye's adoring tone when he mentioned Cao Xiuyuan. Cao Xiuyuan does have the temperament that makes people willing to follow and be convinced.

If it was Cao Ye who joined the group at that time, maybe the relationship between him and Cao Xiuyuan would have eased a lot. Liang Sizhe stared at the ceiling in a daze. Cao Xiuyuan seemed to be more patient with actors than with his son.

After more than two months of breaking and reshaping, Liang Sizhe gradually entered the play and really became Xiaoman.

After entering the role of Xiaoman, the play began to go smoothly, and he was able to catch a line that was not in the script when the senior actor in the play temporarily added a line.

But his mood didn't get better, on the contrary, he became more and more depressed, and he could feel every bit of Xiaoman's depression.At the same time, there is also an obsession with Peng Yan. During filming intervals, he would stare at Hu Yusi in a daze. During that time, he couldn't tell whether he was Liang Sizhe or Xiao Man, and he couldn't tell whether he was infatuated with Hu Yusi or Peng Yan. .

Cao Xiuyuan said that this is the best state for a rookie actor. Not everyone can enter a role without reservation. In order to let Liang Sizhe enter the play more thoroughly, he requires all actors to follow the rules in the film as long as they enter the set. Characters to talk and get along with.

So apart from Hu Yusi, Liang Sizhe didn't have many friends in the crew. Everyone watched him fall into the role little by little, becoming Xiaoman, living a lonely and depressed life.Once Xiaoman's acting came alive, the show would be completed, and everyone in the crew knew it tacitly.

"Thirteen Days" was filmed for more than a year, and Cao Xiuyuan took the trouble to reshoot it over and over again. Every scene must meet his requirements before proceeding to the next filming.Most of the time, Liang Sizhe didn't know what he was acting or how he was doing. He just followed his feeling. If Cao Xiuyuan couldn't reach him, he would adjust himself until Cao Xiuyuan nodded.

As for Cao Ye, he seldom thinks of Cao Ye since he entered the drama.

Yin Si seems to have become quite distant, like a dream whose authenticity cannot be determined.That vivid young man is also far away from Xiaoman's life, Xiaoman is very lonely, only Peng Yan is the vivid color in his life, he can only keep peeping, peeping, peeping, his happiness comes from stealing hidden, unspeakable.

The climax of the film was filmed in June of the following year. Xiaoman wanted to discover Peng Yan's secret, and his fantasy was about to be shattered.

At the end of June, there was a sudden flu in Beijing. First, the lighting engineer sneezed non-stop, and then the flu spread rapidly throughout the production crew. The sneezes followed one after another, almost to the point of affecting the shooting.

Until the cameraman also unfortunately caught the flu and a sneeze interrupted the shooting progress, Cao Xiuyuan finally got angry again, threw the script and said that the whole team had a three-day holiday, and if anyone who sneezed again came back, he would leave immediately.

Three days later, the crew resumed work, and sure enough, no one sneezed anymore.

Two major scenes were arranged that day, the scene of Peng Yan being raped in the morning, and the scene of Xiaoman's murder in the afternoon.

The filming in the morning went smoothly. Hu Yusi and Jia Fan met Cao Xiuyuan's requirements after three filmings, so in the afternoon the whole team got into the mood to shoot Xiaoman's murder scene.

The filming location was in a dilapidated tube building. Liang Sizhe sat on a wooden stool prepared by the crew to read the script, preparing for the scene where Xiaoman went up the stairs for a while.

Just entering the state, the temporary assistant assigned to him by the crew came to call him, saying Si Zhe, you have a friend who is looking for you.

"Huh?" Liang Sizhe raised his head and asked, "Who is looking for me?" He immediately realized that the person looking for him should be Cao Ye.

The assistant didn't know Cao Ye, so he smiled and said, "A very pretty boy, he is your friend, Sizhe and your friends are also so good-looking."

Sure enough, except for Cao Ye, no one would come to the crew to look for him.

As soon as the script was closed, rolled up and held in his hand, Liang Sizhe got up and walked towards the place pointed by the assistant.On the way, I was still in a trance, and it didn’t feel real. After staying in the drama for a long time, life and drama often don’t distinguish between real and fake.

Running out of the alley, he saw Cao Ye standing not far away.The young man's shoulders were straight, as if he had grown a little taller, standing in the sun, shining like white jade, he was looking towards the Tongzilou with his chin raised slightly.

Suddenly Liang Sizhe came out of Xiaoman's state, the suppressed emotions that had been in his heart for nearly a year disappeared, and his mood brightened instantly.He didn't notice Hu Yusi passing by him, and he didn't notice until she greeted her. He hurriedly turned his head and responded, but he didn't stop, and walked towards Cao Ye at a faster pace.

He walked up to Cao Ye and looked at him. His half-covered hair couldn't hide the expression of both surprise and joy: "Why didn't you say in advance when you came?"

Cao Ye seemed to be in a daze at the air, Liang Sizhe walked over and he didn't notice it, Cao Ye came back to his senses after he made a sound, looked at him, and murmured in a daze, "You cut your hair."

"Well," Liang Sizhe smiled, raised his arm, and scratched with his fingers in his hair, "Is Xiaoman's shape okay?"

Xiaoman is a character, he is Liang Sizhe, this idea has not been so clear in the past year.

"It's pretty pretty." Cao Ye said.

"When did you return to China?" Liang Sizhe asked. He quickly noticed that something was wrong with Cao Ye's mood. He seemed a little depressed, and he seemed a little out of his mind. "What's wrong? What happened?"

Cao Ye stared at him without saying a word.Liang Sizhe saw the beads of sweat on his forehead and his slightly dry lips.

It was quite hot, and there was no wind at all. The sun was particularly strong today, making people's mouth dry. Liang Sizhe looked up at the sunny sky above his head, squinted his eyes, then reached out to hold Cao Ye's wrist, and pulled Cao Ye's wrist. He walked under the tree not far away: "Do you want to sunbathe? Go, go under the tree over there."

It was a normal movement a year ago, but Cao Ye broke free this time, and hid his arms back a bit.

"What's wrong?" Liang Sizhe turned to look at him.

"No." Cao Ye said, still not interested.