Chapter 44: Tang Shan's Big Brother Kills Qing
Although Wang Wei had passed the trial shoot that day, he did not relax and instead worked even harder. Whenever he had time, Wang Wei would run to ask some experienced masters in the crew.
Just finished filming the 30th scene. The drama director Li Bin came running over, "Director, I found a big house in a nearby villa and the house has been rented."
In just over a dozen days, Wang Wei told the crew with his actions that he was very professional. In fact, it's the same in any industry, as long as you're professional enough, others will admire you.
Wang Wei nodded after listening to Li Bin's words and said to the crew: "Everyone take a break, we're going to see what Thailand's rich people are like."
Everyone saw Wang Wei joking and chimed in: "If the director is envious, he can directly find a rich girl in Thailand to marry into a wealthy family." "I heard that the families here are very rich and powerful," Han Xingjie laughed while playing the role of a villain.
In response to everyone's teasing, Wang Wei just smiled and then picked up the bottle to take a sip of water.
After a short rest, everyone packed up and headed to the manor that Li Bin had just contacted.
"Ah, I didn't expect such a broken town would have such a good house." Tian Ke Xiu exclaimed as soon as he entered the villa.
"This is Thailand's national condition, the divide is too severe, the rich are too rich, and the poor are too poor." Wang Wei said as he looked at this very luxurious villa.
Han Yingjie on the other side also expressed his agreement, saying: "What Ah Wei said is not wrong. Here, it's usually some local families that hold the most power. And most of the wealth is also monopolized by these families."
Just as a few people were talking, a middle-aged man who looked like a butler came over and said to Wang Wei and the others: "This house can only be borrowed for two days, I hope you can complete the shooting as soon as possible." After finishing speaking, he turned around and left.
"After the butler left, Li Bin explained: 'The owner of this villa heard that we were going to make a movie and very generously lent us the villa, but only for two days.'"
Wang Wei nodded and shouted to the crew: "Everyone hurry up and get ready, we only have two days."
After a while, the prop master came over and told Wang Wei that the props were ready.
"Attention all units, scene sixty-seven, Xu Jian rushes to the villa to find the boss's portrait, is everyone ready? Aike Shi——"
Xu Jian brought a Chinese worker into the villa, where they were led to meet the boss, played by Han Xingjie.
"Boss, the factory director said Ah You and A Jian have come to see you." Xu Jian asked.
"Yeah, I told them I wanted to reuse them, gave them a bonus and they went back." The boss said nonchalantly.
"But they didn't come home yesterday," said Xu Jian. "I know, I've already reported it to the police." The boss still spoke indifferently.
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"Don't meddle in other people's business, just follow me and work hard, I'll make you rich." The boss said to Xu Jian with his face close.
Just as they were acting up to this point, Wang Wei shouted: "CUT"
Then walked up to Han Xuejie and said: "Brother Jie, your eyes should be opened a bit wider just now, and the expression should be more withered."
Wang Wei made a gesture and then said to Tian Jun, "Don't bother with anything else, just follow me and do your job well, I'll make sure you live a good life."
Yi Yi watched Wang Wei's performance and smiled: "Ah Wei, your performance just now was too **."
Tian Jun also expressed his agreement, saying: "Director, watching your performance just now, I even wanted to beat you up."
Han Yingjie had a thoughtful expression on his face, pondering Wang Wei's performance just now.
"Alright, everyone in position, let's go through it again. All departments pay attention, scene sixty-seven, Xu Jian rushes to the villa to pick someone up, everyone get ready, Aiqi..."
"Boss, the factory director said Ah You and A Jian have come to see you." Xu Jian asked.
"Yeah, I told them I wanted to reuse them, gave them a bonus and they went back." The boss said nonchalantly.
"But they didn't come home yesterday," said Xu Jian. "I know, I've already reported it to the police." The boss still spoke indifferently.
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"Don't meddle in other people's business, just follow me and work hard, I'll make sure you get rich." The boss said with a sinister smile on his face as he leaned in close to Xu Jian.
“CUT”
"Perfect, just past..."
The next game. It's also the ending part of the movie "Aces Go Places".
In the original play, the fight scene of Tangshan Big Brother was composed of many small clips. Wang Wei inserted a long shot in the fight scene and added a clip of Zheng Chaoan fighting with the boss. This made it more objective, but it also raised the requirements for the two actors' movements and performances. As a result, this scene took two days to shoot and was repeated over 30 times before meeting Wang Wei's expectations.
There is another fight scene afterwards, which was shot quite arduously. It's the part where Zheng Chaoan discovers his workmate's corpse and battles with the boss's son and a group of thugs.
This scene was shot for five whole days before it was finally finished.
Originally in the original timeline, Da Ge Tangshan only took a month to finish filming, but now Wang Wei has prolonged it by half a month. However, the effect of the film is much better than the original one.
However, in pursuit of the effect, the original budget was exceeded by a lot, forcing Wong Wai to run back to Hong Kong halfway and borrow some money from Tang Lai-yung.
"Attention all units, attention all units, scene 401, Zheng Chao'an's ice painting. Everyone get ready, Aiqi..."
Zheng Chao'an took the ice block from his coworker and placed it on the track, giving it a strong push. As a result, the ice block suddenly crashed through the barrier, fell to the ground and shattered, and at the same time, the poisonous substance inside the ice block also fell out.
Then the foreman came over and gave Bruce Lee a punch. In the original play, Bruce Lee just shook his head slightly, but Wang Wei wanted to make the scene more realistic, so he had Bruce Lee apply blood in advance, so after being hit, Bruce Lee's mouth corner oozed out fresh blood. Meanwhile, Xu Jian led the workers over and said to the foreman: "He didn't do it well, you just say so, why did you hit him?"
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"CUT. It's over." With this scene finished, all of Tangshan Brother's scenes were completed. Wang Wei took a sip of water and loudly declared to everyone: "I declare, Tangshan Brother is wrapped up!" "Long live the director!" "Great, I've got bugs crawling on me now."
"I've been missing Hong Kong's wonton noodles for a long time too."
When Wang Wei announced that the filming of "Tangshan Big Brother" had wrapped up, the crew members were overjoyed and ran around jumping, some male colleagues even took off their clothes and waved them around, it can be seen how much they have been tortured for a month and a half.
Wang Wei lowered his head to pack up his things, while Li Xiaolong, dressed in a costume, ran to Wang Wei's side and said: "Awei, tonight Zhou Dage is hosting a celebratory banquet for the crew, are you going?"
"Whether or not to participate, it's been over a month since we've seen meat. Not eating the big boss's treat would be too embarrassing." Wang Wei said with an exaggerated expression after glancing at Li Xiaolong.
Bruce Lee said with a smile: "That's great, I'm ready, let's have a good drink together!" After finishing speaking, he turned around and left.
For half a month, Wang Wei and Bruce Lee lived together, getting up early to run before others woke up, then practicing martial arts. During the crew's rest time, the two discussed filming techniques. So for this month, the two were inseparable. If their orientations weren't correct, they would have been mistaken for being gay. That's why Bruce Lee came over to ask Wang Wei.
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