Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

Just inside the school, the crew set up a simple stage in the playground and pulled up banners. The difference is that this time all the main actors met the media reporters in the costumes from the movie.

Of course, I will be interviewed by reporters at the same time.

Yu Dongqing exempted herself, and asked Li Wan to appear in all receptions and interviews.

At ten o'clock, all the main creative staff of the crew, led by Yu Dongqing, burned incense one after another, and then Li Wan delivered a passionate speech on behalf of the entire crew. Finally, Yu Dongqing, Li Wan and several main actors unveiled the cover together. A piece of red cloth on the camera, the whole ceremony is over.

Then we officially entered the shooting stage.

It is now the beginning of autumn. The weather has been relatively hot at noon these days, but it is very cool in the morning and evening, so Yu Dongqing decided to seize the time in the morning and evening. When it was too hot at noon, he would rest in the temporarily converted dormitory of the school classroom.

Shoot bright scenes first.

It's troublesome to bring a baby to the set. According to Yu Dongqing's idea, she can finish filming her first, and then she can leave the set and return to Yanjing.

Unexpectedly, an accident occurred on the first day of filming.

Today's shot was simple.

The lonely smoke in the desert.

Meili disguised herself as a man, wearing a gray robe, and stood on a sandy slope with Shu Wenrong, the actor who played Ouyang Feng, holding a sword.

There was a blower hidden on the side of the sand slope, blowing up yellow sand all over the sky, and their long hair was flying in the wind.

As director Yu Dongqing shouted "CUT!" the two began to act opposite each other,

It's actually a long conversation.

Murong Yan: I want you to help me kill someone. His name is Huang Yaoshi.

Ouyang Feng: He is one of the best swordsmen today. I don’t think it’s easy to kill him.

Murong Yan: As long as I can kill him, I will do it at any cost. But I have a condition, he must die in my hands, and it will be the most painful way.

Ouyang Feng: Why do you hate him so much?

Murong Yan: He abandoned my sister because of a woman.

In just a few words, Yu Dongqing had to take this shot several times.

The changes in surrounding light and the actors' micro-expressions must be in place.

"No, do it again! Mei Li, turn your face slightly to this side, the light has moved!" Yu Dongqing shouted to his wife.

Bright nodded.

She wasn't impatient.

She had already been filming the previous movie "The Swordsman" and was used to Yu Dongqing's harsh filming style.

Compared to the last time we were filming, we had to soak in the water for more than half an hour on a cold day. What does this bit of wind and sand mean?

At worst, go back to the hotel and take a hot bath in the evening.

As everyone knows, danger is coming quietly.

I don’t know whether it was disturbed by the blower or the sound of filming, but a scorpion crawled out of the sandy bottom and crawled towards Mingliang’s feet.

Meili was wearing ancient cloth shoes. The weather was still relatively hot and she didn't wear thick coarse socks - she felt something rustling crawling along the instep of her feet.

I couldn't help but lower my head, and my face turned pale with fear.

"Ah!" He shrank his feet and couldn't help but scream.

The scorpion was actually just passing by, but when he heard Meimei's scream, he shrank back and was immediately frightened. He raised his big pliers and pinched her instep hard!

"Ah" Mei Liang screamed again.

"What's wrong?!"

Shu Wenrong, who was filming opposite her, first noticed something was wrong with Meili's feet and kicked the scorpion away. Yu Dongqing and others, including the doctors and nurses temporarily hired by the crew, also ran over.

"She was stung by a scorpion!"

"Which foot? Quick! Find a bandage and wrap it around the ankle first to prevent the blood from flowing up. I don't have any medicine to treat scorpion stings here. Send it to the school for simple treatment first, and then send it to the urban hospital." The doctor said.

The nurse had already wrapped Mingliang's ankle according to the doctor's request. The doctor said you should continue filming while we took the injured person to the hospital on a stretcher.

But how can Yu Dongqing feel relieved?

The filming was interrupted, and Yu Dongqing followed the medical staff, followed by the crew's service vehicle, and immediately sent them to the school in the village.

Wang Laifu heard that an actor was injured and ran over. When he saw Meimei taking off her shoes and socks, there was a black and blue patch on the white instep. He smiled and said:

"It's okay. It's common for us to be bitten by scorpions here. It's only a little bit of skin breakage and it's not serious. Wash the wound with clean water. I have herbs at home that are specially designed to treat scorpion stings. I'll apply it on you and you'll be fine."

After saying that, he hurriedly ran out of the school. Within a few minutes, he took a box of herbal medicine. The doctor had washed the instep of his foot. Wang Laifu carefully applied the herbal medicine. Mingmei suddenly felt that the burning pain on his instep disappeared a lot.

However, Yu Dongqing was still worried and asked the doctor to send Meimei back to the hotel in the city to rest and go to the hospital for a check-up.

Li Wan went to the city to do some errands and just rushed back to the village. He was surprised to hear what happened.

There will be various unexpected accidents when shooting on location, but I didn't expect that someone would be injured on the first day - it was a bad omen.

Of course this cannot be said out loud.

Mingliang was injured, so Yu Dongqing had no choice but to film other people's scenes and was busy until the evening before returning to the hotel with everyone.

Yu Dongqing hurried back to his room - he lived with Meimei, and saw Meimei holding her son and playing with the child. Her feet were wrapped in thick bandages, and the nanny Xia Xia was watching.

"Did the doctor say anything when you went to the hospital?" Yu Dongqing asked with concern.

"The doctor said it was fine, and prescribed some anti-inflammatory drugs for me. He said I would be fine after just two days of rest." Meiliang replied, and then asked, "How about filming later?"

"It's going well. Just take a good rest these days."

"It doesn't matter. I have a day off tomorrow and I'll start working the day after tomorrow."

Sure enough, only one day later, Meiliang appeared in the village and continued filming.

It was just an accident that Meimei was stung by a scorpion. The crew paid attention to this problem and checked the environment before filming. No such accident happened again.

Although Mingmei suffered a little pain, it also brought benefits - the director's wife was not afraid of hardships and continued to persevere even after the child was injured. What else can others say?

The exterior scenes of "The Poison of East and West" are very simple, with dilapidated thatched houses, white curtains, birdcages, and a nearby ancient castle.

The entire crew sometimes needs to shoot in this desolate scene at night during the day.

In the original time and space, the film "Ashes of Time" was shot intermittently for three years. In addition to the very high requirements on the actors' acting skills and lighting and filming, one of the main reasons was that Wong Kar-wai had no script at all.

Think of that and shoot that, if you don't have a good idea today, you just stop working, or what you shot yesterday is overturned today - in Wong Kar-wai's words, after a night of thinking, it is better to shoot this way.

Yu Dongqing has a script, so it won't take three years to film. Of course, it won't be fast. At least it won't be as fast as filming "The Swordsman."

In his words, we must strive for excellence.

It’s fast approaching late September and the weather is getting cooler.

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