Chapter 129: Difficult First, Easy Later and Easy First, Difficult Later
After the meeting, Xu Kun called Jia Yueting.
Based on the interviews he saw in the news and the descriptions of his cellmates, Xu Kun hoped that Jia Yueting could arrange for people to apply for registration of a batch of accounts in relevant bulletin boards, forums, and various portal websites in advance.
It would be best to prepare a few hot posts in advance to create the illusion that all of them are active forum users.
If unfavorable public opinion against Tianjian does appear in the future, these accounts can be used to reverse the direction of the public opinion; if Liu Haibo and he are just worrying too much, these accounts can also play a role in promoting Tianjian.
This routine has become commonplace in later generations, but it was still a new thing in early 2004.
After hearing this, Jia Yueting felt like he had found a treasure. As he was an expert in fabricating public opinion topics, he naturally understood the benefits of having a group of online water armies.
They immediately decided to transfer a group of technicians and clerks from the communications company to form the first large-scale online army in the country. The Tianjian crew treated this as a training exercise.
After handing the matter over to Jia Yueting, Xu Kun devoted all his attention to the filming.
In order to get a good start on the first day, we mainly shot some simple literary scenes, and from the second day we started to increase the amount of action scenes.
As a result, the gap between those with a martial arts foundation and wirework experience and those with no foundation and no experience is quite obvious.
For example, Gu Hanyang, played by Zhu Yawen, joined in the matchmaking event when he first appeared. The specific content was to find out the operating order of the mechanism in the formation composed of wooden stakes in the water.
If you step on them in the wrong order, the stake will sink to the bottom.
As a result, it took us a whole morning to shoot this scene, but we still couldn't finish it. The main reason was that after Zhu Yawen was hung on the wire, he either couldn't find the right landing point or he had to prepare the movements in advance, which led to serious blemishes in the shot.
This is also the most common mistake made by novices in wire suspension, mainly due to lack of familiarity and panic - it would be fine if it was on flat ground, but this scene happened to be on plum blossom piles in the water.
Wang Peng once suggested using a body double, but Liu Haibo insisted on disagreeing. He believed that using a body double had too many limitations and this scene was the highlight of Gu Hanyang's appearance.
If you can't capture it as completely as possible, it won't have the appeal of being the first to appear.
Finally, Xu Kun decided to postpone this scene temporarily until Zhu Yawen got used to the wire suspension.
In fact, Liu Haibo has already filmed three martial arts dramas, so how could he not know the principle of starting with the easy and then moving on to the difficult? The reason why he didn't do this at the beginning was that he wanted to give Zhu Yawen a warning.
In order to save time and not waste attention, the "Tianjian Crew" was formed somewhat hastily, but the overall atmosphere of the crew was quite good.
Among the actresses, Zeng Lai and Jiang Yiyan need no introduction. Even Tang Wei was eager to prove herself - Xu Kun didn't fancy her at all at the beginning, he just used her as a substitute because he couldn't find a suitable one. No one knew who told her about this.
As for the male actors, Xu Kun wanted to use all his skills, and the third male actor Wen Zhang was also down-to-earth - he didn't have the capital to act like a big shot in the crew now.
The only exception was Zhu Yawen, who was fine when he arrived, but when he arrived at Hengdian Film and Television City and heard that the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" crew was next door, he started to slack off from time to time.
Even when he was slacking off, his acting skills were good enough, but this attitude made Liu Haibo very dissatisfied, so he gave the boy a warning by walking on the plum blossom piles in the water.
As expected, Zhu Yawen suffered a setback in public, and he began to learn from his mistakes and became more courageous. He temporarily restrained his wild thoughts and started to focus on martial arts routines and wire hanging.
And when Zhu Yawen gradually caught up, Gan Wei became the weak link again.
But Liu Haibo dared to use Zhu Yawen as an example to warn others, but he didn't dare to do it to Gan Wei easily, so he could only let Zeng Lai take the lead in training - Yu Feihong and Teacher Pan Hong had not joined the group yet.
As the actress with the most scenes, Zeng Lai actually couldn't spare much time to train Gan Wei. Fortunately, Li Yixiang was by her side.
Li Yixiang plays the guest role of Hei Qiling, one of the four guardians of the Blood Moon Cult in the drama. He also serves as a camera assistant, makeup assistant and stage manager. He can be said to be a jack of all trades in the crew.
To be honest, Li Yixiang actually did a pretty good job. But his presence also made things a little awkward between Xu Kun and Zeng Lai, especially in the early days when there weren't many intimate scenes. When they filmed the bed scenes and bathing scenes later...
In this regard, Liu Haibo's suggestion is that it is better to suffer a short pain than a long one, so we might as well shoot the bathing and bed scenes first. Once these two most difficult and troublesome parts are done, any lovey-dovey scenes later will not be a problem.
Chen Xuebin expressed his support, Zeng Lai did not object, so Xu Kun naturally had no choice but to go ahead with it.
In order to avoid any embarrassing situations, he took Jiang Yiyan out to spend the night the night before.
In fact, according to Jiang Yiyan, there is no need to hide the ambiguous relationship between the two parties - Zhang Yu had already said that it is normal for couples to be in the crew, and everyone is used to it.
But Xu Kun was not so shameless and insisted on sneaking around to avoid being seen. Although the two of them did not return home all night, others would probably guess something, but there is always a difference between guessing and catching them.
Starting from three o'clock in the morning, the two of them tossed around fiercely for a long time. Jiang Yiyan not only used all her skills, but also used some equipment to add to the fun. Finally, she managed to deal with Xu Kun.
But man proposes, God disposes. They had originally planned to shoot the bed scene in the morning, but Pu Cunxi came to the crew three days earlier because of a change in his schedule.
Pu Cunxi was invited to guest star in the role of Qin Shi Huang, and had to return to the capital as soon as the filming was finished. It was natural that he had to focus on filming his scenes first, but this delay...
Hey~
All I can say is that men reloading too quickly is sometimes not a good thing.
It's not that there are no tools that can avoid the embarrassment, but those things are too compact, and for a big and strong guy like Xu Kun, it is nothing short of a torture.
If the bullet is loaded, there is even a risk of the gun being 'damaged'.
But now that the time has come, we can only make do with it.
He had lunch with Pu Cunxi at noon and personally sent him to the airport. When Xu Kun returned to the Hengdian crew, Liu Haibo had already prepared the venue.
"Kun'er."
Liu Haibo deliberately gave him a difficult question: "When we clear the scene later, should Brother Li, the camera assistant, be cleared out or stay?"
"Let Brother Li decide for himself."
Xu Kun would never fall into this trap. If he let Li Yixiang go out, he would seem guilty. If he didn't let Li Yixiang go out, he would feel like he was doing something before his husband's death.
Li Yixiang himself was actually a little undecided.
He thought he was mentally prepared, but after seeing the big bed at the shooting site, he felt uncomfortable all over, and his face turned pale and black.
He even began to regret recommending Zeng Lai to be the female lead in this play.
But there is no regret medicine now.
In the end, Li Yixiang chose to withdraw because he found that he could not face the scene of Zeng Lai being pinned down by someone, especially when that person was his younger brother.
"嘁~"
Watching Li Yixiang leave in despair, Chen Xuebin curled his lips in disdain and said, "I advised him not to do this at the beginning, but he refused to listen and acted like a love saint. Look, look, he really regrets it now, right?"
After seeing this scene, Xu Kun also made up his mind to find a wife outside the entertainment circle in the future - if he were in their shoes, he probably wouldn't be able to accept his wife having sex scenes with someone else.
It doesn't matter to 'good friends', after all, both parties are just exchanging interests or taking what they need, there is no question of who belongs to whom.
(End of this chapter)
