From collapsed house idol to entertainment superstar

In film and television dramas, what are realistic themes?

There are many kinds of opinions in it, and they can even range from the spirit of humanism to criticizing negative social phenomena.

The shooting techniques mostly use natural light, and the language of the shots is not fancy, just simple and realistic.

Of course, to put it most bluntly, this is how this thing is played out in the movie. In fact, it may just happen like this in reality.

This is the case with "The God of Medicine" that Ding Zhi is currently filming.

Adapted from the Lu Yong case, although the background and settings of the characters have been drastically changed to make the story more attractive and watchable, the core is still a story that ordinary people can touch at any time, as if they are around them.

The origin of this series of stories is that Lu Yiyi, who was stumped by the sky-high price of the treatment drug Gleevec for chronic myelogenous leukemia and could only seek a way out, found Lu Yong and asked him to help bring a batch of generic drugs back from India.

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However, although Cheng Yong is confused, he is not stupid.

When he heard this, he thought, isn't this just smuggling drugs?

If you are caught, you will have to step on a sewing machine and make charging cables!

He rejected him on the spot.

Who is Cheng Yong?

In fact, he is a middle-aged man in his thirties who runs a shabby Indian oil shop that is half dead. He has lived decadently for most of his life and has no ambition. When he reaches middle age, his wife divorces and the custody rights of his son are not preserved.

, it can be said that he has been very successful on the road of failure in life.

Until recently, because he had no stable income, his son's custody lawsuit went back and forth countless times, but still failed. As a result, his son was about to be taken abroad by his ex-wife, which also meant that he and his son might be separated forever.

It also happened that my old father, who was bedridden, had suddenly worsened recently and needed a lot of money for surgery.

Mid-life crisis, life crisis and so on are all coming suddenly, and to solve them all, money is needed.

At this time, Cheng Yong, who had spent most of his life, was in dire straits and urgently needed money.

So he dialed the phone number left by Lu Yiyi, and now the two finally hit it off with a simple purpose.

It's so simple that the two of them are using each other to make money, and the other to survive. It's all a relationship of interest, without any other impurities.

That’s right, from the beginning, Ding Zhi had no intention of setting a noble beginning for the tone of this film, including the so-called “medicine god” Cheng Yong, whose moral bottom line is even slightly lower than that of ordinary people.

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The purpose from the beginning was to make money.

But he is a real person, an ordinary person who was afraid of the sanctions of the iron fist at the beginning and did not dare to touch these gray areas. It was not until the pressure of life left him with no place to breathe that he thought of taking risks.

Lu Yiyi is even simpler, and Zhang Yi's performance is even more concise and powerful. There is no grievances to Cheng Yong, and no tearful moral kidnapping. There is only flattery and humility throughout the story, and the already thin body.

, with that nod and bow, it makes people feel even more sad.

And all this sadness was vividly reflected in his seemingly careless words when he bent over and handed over his business card.

"If you change your mind, just call me. As for me, I'm waiting for the medicine to save my life."

Yes, I want to wait for the medicine to save my life and want to live.

It's that simple.

To put it bluntly, it is a sense of immersion.

It has a sense of life and is grounded, it is not suspended in the sky.

The poor are not crying about poverty while renting a house worth six to seven thousand yuan a month, and going to high-end restaurants and high-end places with friends from time to time. The biggest trouble in life may be being deceived by a scumbag, or falling into a relationship with the male protagonist who seems to be the first.

If you explain clearly who will die on the spot, you will be unable to extricate yourself from this small misunderstanding.

It’s not like setting up an independent, grassroots character, and letting coincidence and luck lead the protagonist to be appreciated by the male boss step by step, and then unfold a sweet story of a domineering boss falling in love with me.

Being poor can really kill you.

It is this real quality that attracted Zhang Yi, Duan Long, Jin Shijie, and Sister Wen, who had previously refused to play the mother.

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"Is the place arranged?"

"Brother Zhi! It has been arranged a long time ago! I guarantee your satisfaction! Do you want to start the show tonight..."

A young man opposite who looked a little oily raised his eyes at Ding Zhi and motioned to some pretty girls in cool clothes beside him.

"Hey! Go, go, go!"

Ding Zhi said angrily.

"Yes! Brother Zhi is showing off! Just say what you want! Just give me a close-up when the time comes!"

The young man in front of him was someone Ding Zhi met when he was filming a movie before. He was obviously a bar owner, but he still liked to play the role of a movie star. He was keen on guest starring in some scenes to enjoy his acting experience.

For example, in some previous Hong Kong films such as "Love X Pu" 123, or "Love Very X", "Classmate X", "Private

They were all playing minor roles in nightclubs and clubs, so they were acting in their true colors.

I know that Ding Zhi is contacting a venue and needs a lively nightclub with some pretty girls to do some pole dancing.

This guy immediately approached Ding Zhi and made sure to show his promise. No money was required. He just wanted to appear in the scene, even if he had a supporting role for a few seconds, but there was one requirement, and that was to appear in the same frame as Ding Zhi.

Ding Zhi accepted the venue and group performances that came to his doorstep without thinking too much about it.

They all say that if you don’t become a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are.

Ding Zhi figured out that if a director should pay attention to the budget when making a movie, there is one way to make him absolutely control his own hands, and that is to let him manage his own money.

And when the money is still the director’s, let’s see what he dares to do!

After filming in Yangcheng for nearly a week, the early scenes between Ding Zhi and Zhang Yi about Cheng Yong and Lu Yiyi were very busy.

Needless to say, Zhang Yi's acting skills, ten years of military drama career and more than ten years of hard work in supporting roles have long ago polished his rough jade into a dazzling brilliance.

Ding Zhi's comparison cannot be measured by ordinary people's cognition. According to Zhang Yi, he has never seen someone like Ding Zhi who can continue to maintain his performance as if there is no bottleneck period for three or four years.

A freak of speed.

Therefore, this meeting can be regarded as a situation where they will meet good talents and meet their opponents.

Moreover, the two people's acting methods are often surprisingly similar. They are both very focused on details and good at acting with their eyes. They are both the type that can focus on emotional scenes and move freely.

The scenes between the two of them rarely have the so-called "acting explosion" moments, but they always make the staff on the scene very comfortable to watch. It really feels like Cheng Yong and Lu Yiyi are living in front of them.

However, this does not mean that the two are filming very quickly.

On the contrary, the two of them are like a pair of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. They are very harsh on every scene. Just like in Zhang Yi's first scene, he ate five times just for one meal, and it was all over his stomach.

They were all rounded.

There was also a dumpling-eating scene later on, and Zhang Yi also ate it three times, two dumplings at a time, which overwhelmed him again.

And now, I found this nightclub venue just to shoot a scene where Liu Sihui, played by Wen Yongshan, appears.

Cheng Yong couldn't afford it early, and in order to convince him that selling this generic drug was truly profitable, Lu Yiyi took the initiative to connect Cheng Yong with the group leader of a local patient group, who was Liu Sihui.

Liu Sihui is the only female member of the "Medicine God Team".

This character is different from everyone else in the "Medicine God Team". Apart from Cheng Yong, she is the only one who is in good health and does not suffer from chronic myelogenous leukemia.

The one who was sick was her daughter, who was only a few years old. Her husband ran away after learning about the child's illness, leaving only an orphan and a widowed mother struggling to support her.

For this reason, she did not hesitate to play the role of a pole dancer in a crowded place. Just because the money came in quickly and abundantly, she was able to let her children take exorbitantly expensive medicines.

When Wen Yongshi first got the script, although he liked it very much, he was also a little worried that he would not be able to perform well.

In fact, for Sister Wen, who started out as a young model and started from the same starting point as Big Baby, her development path has not been very smooth.

She looks very beautiful and her acting skills are passable, but they are not top-notch. Compared with Xia Yufang Hongxian Zhen Minxin who stunned a generation in the 90s, she is still a little behind.

What's more, in Hong Kong's film and television industry, the new generation of actresses don't actually have much of a future.

It all starts with the decline of Hong Kong films and the large-scale movement of Hong Kong capital northward. At that time, it indirectly contributed to a product of the era, the so-called co-production films.

At that time, there were many restrictions on imported films. In order to make it easier for them to be released in the mainland, and to enjoy relevant preferential policies and a higher box office share ratio, co-productions were a major choice for Hong Kong investors at that time.

One of the requirements is that a certain proportion of the main roles must be played by mainland actors.

However, Huang Zhixiong, the king of bad movies in Hong Kong, once said frankly in an interview that for the sake of the foreign market, it was impossible to take the risk of using an unknown mainland actor as the male lead in a co-production at that time. (Relatively speaking, at that time,

Mainland actors in foreign countries, such as Japan, South Korea, or Southeast Asian countries, are indeed not as familiar as Hong Kong actors.)

As a result, in order to meet the requirements for co-productions, the leading female role or even the supporting female role can only be selected from mainland actresses.

Therefore, after these ten years in Hong Kong, there are basically few actresses who can really break into the mainland.

Wen Yongshi's last best opportunity was probably Ding Zhi's "Peeping", which gave her her first taste of the sweetness of the mainland market.

So to a certain extent, Sister Wen and Ding Zhi can be regarded as "the husband is affectionate and the concubine is interested".

Ding Zhi valued the potential of this sister and wanted to draw her under his command, while Wen Yongqi also saw in Ding Zhi his hope of entering the mainland.

If "Peeping" was the first time, then this time "The God of Medicine" seemed to her to be the second time.

This is also the first time that Sister Wen has played the role of a mother, so it is a small hurdle in understanding the role.

In addition, there is another difficulty, that is, the character of Liu Sihui is a pole dancer, the kind who livens up the atmosphere in nightclubs, and is even a little sidelined.

For this reason, after receiving this role, Wen Yongqi began to practice dancing two months before filming started, practicing for at least one or two hours every day, and even hired a professional dance teacher.

For, this is the debut today.

After setting up the machine and radio equipment, everything is ready.

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The DJ music was deafening. Lu Yiyi walked in front wearing a mask with three layers inside and three outside. Following closely behind him was Cheng Yong, who was a little uncomfortable with the surrounding environment. He was holding a cigarette in his mouth and seemed to be looking around.

A group of people gathered around and shouted something wantonly. Even with such loud music, the roar of people could be faintly heard.

The camera swept over, and what came face to face was a girl wearing cool cloth, twisting seductively around a steel pipe.

Cheng Yong turned his head pretending to be serious, but after a while he turned his head and looked over, pretending to have seen too much.

However, the somewhat awkward posture when he squeezed into the crowd showed that he seemed a little uncomfortable, but also a little eager to try.

This is a long shot. Under the bright neon light ball, Cheng Yong and Lu Yiyi look out of place.

However, the two of them are not lost in this world. After all, they are here to find someone and have business.

The two of them walked towards the center of the nightclub, where there were the largest crowds and the loudest noise.

Lu Yiyi pointed to the figure swaying around the steel pipe in the center of the stage.

"That's her!"

Cheng Yong turned against the light and squinted his eyes before slowly adapting to the scene.

I saw a beautiful woman. Her appearance was as pure as that of a woman in her twenties, but she revealed an extreme sense of charm and maturity.

Apart from lace underwear, the upper body only wears thin silk, and the lower body is a pair of denim shorts that are as short as possible.

At this time, she was like a weak and boneless beautiful snake. At that time, she was wrapped around the steel pipe in a soft and graceful posture, dancing in a hot dance that stirred up the dopamine of all the men present.

There was a frantic shouting of "Take it off! Take it off! Take it off!" all around.

I saw this woman twisting her waist and hips, her hands gradually touching the waist of her trousers, and lightly clasping her thumbs.

"Take it off! Take it off! Take it off!"

Cheng Yong stared straight for a moment, and the shouts around him became even more fanatical.

However, this woman actually feinted a shot and touched her hands. Instead of complying with the wishes of the group of people in the audience, she curled her lips and laughed slightly wildly.

"She looks like this, how can she be a patient?"

Cheng Yong looked at Lu Yiyi with doubt on his face.

Amidst the music and noise, both of them had to open their throats to barely communicate.

"She's not! Her daughter is!"

The corners of Cheng Yong's mouth that were slightly raised at first subsided in an instant without realizing it.

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"Okay! Click!"

As assistant director Ali shouted, the background DJ shut down.

Ding Zhi, Zhang Yi and Wen Yongqi moved closer to the monitor and started watching.

In fact, this scene does not have high requirements for Ding Zhi and Zhang Yi. They are more of an "introducer" for the purpose of Liu Sihui's appearance.

The difficulty lies in the arrangement of the entire group performance and scene at the end of the shot, and the other is the dance solo of Wen Yingshi!

This one-shot scene was shot about four times inside and out, and all three times were due to group acting or scheduling problems during shooting.

As for Wen Yingshi, I filmed it four times, and not one of the films was NG or wasted because of her.

According to Ding Zhi's joking words, even if Wen Yongqi really becomes a pole dancer, it won't feel out of place.

You know, not everyone can learn a skill specifically for a supporting role, especially when this scene may only last less than a minute in the final film.

Ding Zhi and Zhang Yi have almost strict requirements on themselves during filming. In order to fit the role, they have to gain weight/lose weight very quickly in a very short period of time, and even wear swimsuits to suit the character's character.

I have been practicing dance for more than a month.

This is the atmosphere in "The God of Medicine". From Ding Zhi to every staff member, they will be unconsciously infected by this serious and responsible atmosphere.

All the staff present had a vague feeling that with actors like this, this drama would surely be a success!

Chapter 280: This drama will definitely work!