Chapter 891: Cutting the Gordian knot (asking for monthly ticket)
It is common for celebrities to live apart, and this is the main reason why their relationships often break down.

This time, Hao Yun and An Xiaoxi were separated again.

Moreover, An Xiaoxi was in Tangshan, while Hao Yun went to Hong Kong to shoot.

For now, the two can only chat on the phone.

Hao Yun could not interfere with An Xiaoxi’s progress, and Ma Dagang was still very good at filming.

This time, “Aftershock” is also a big production.

It cost a lot of money just to build the scenery.

The Tangshan Earthquake Film and Television Base, which covers an area of ​​1 kilometer, took three and a half months to build. Many daily props from the 70s were searched for, and the total cost was close to 1000 million yuan.

Then, these things will be destroyed through “earthquake”.

The total investment of Hao Yun’s “A Simple Life” was only 10 million. In fact, it couldn’t even afford Hao Yun’s salary.

Therefore, Hao Yun starred in this movie for free.

In terms of investment, Anhao Film and Television and Heidou Media each accounted for 20%, and the remaining six million was all taken up by Yinghuang.

The movie king not only invested 60% of the funds, but also sponsored luxury houses and cars for the movie. Boss Yang even personally came forward and invited many big names in the Hong Kong circle to make cameo appearances in the movie.

In fact, the movie king originally wanted Yip Tak-Hsun to play the role of Tao Jie.

In “Fight Back to School 2”, her rivalry with Stephen Chow and Ng Man-tat was very exciting and created many famous memes.

In “New Shaolin Five Ancestors”, she plays the role of Zhu Xiaoqian, a master of hidden weapons, known as “Thousand-Handed Guanyin”. She is also a humorous, witty, clever and cunning mother who loves her daughter very much.

I have to say that the older Deanie Yip gets, the better her acting skills become. When she was middle-aged, she was particularly good at playing those street women and stingy aunties.

If she were given the role of “Tao Jie”, she might actually perform better than Cheng Pei-pei.

However, Hao Yun felt that she was “unworthy” and refused to be her partner.

Yes, the real No. 1 in “A Simple Life” is “A Simple Life”, and Hao Yundu can be said to be a supporting role for “A Simple Life”.

It’s just that Hao Yun has been in the Hong Kong entertainment industry for many years and knows a lot about Ye Dexian. She has also met her in some public occasions, especially in the two years before Hao Yun became famous. She could clearly feel the old woman’s disdain for mainlanders.

Hao Yun is not a stingy person.

Well, he was indeed a bit stingy, and he remembered the initial coldness. Even if this person was very suitable for the role, he would never compromise.

What’s more, this kind of indifference is condescending to mainlanders.

There is nothing that Shadow Emperor can do.

They simply had no capital to control Hao Yun, so if Hao Yun said no, then it was no.

As for Cheng Pei-pei, who immigrated with her husband and became an American citizen.

When he was interviewed by Feichangdao, he talked about his “anti-democracy” background and said, “I am more of a worker, peasant and soldier than the children of workers, peasants and soldiers, and I have been proud to be a Chinese all my life.”

Such a clear statement is more acceptable.

Moreover, Hao Yun had met this person several times and they got along quite well.

Hao Yun’s rejection of Yinghuang was not just a rejection of Ye Dexian.

He also rejected Huang Qiusheng.

He has indeed worked with Huang Qiu Sheng, and more than once, but some people just don’t like him.

There was no other way before, if you wanted to make a living, you had to have the right attitude to make a living.

Now that he has become powerful, and has returned as a king in Hong Kong, he can do many things as he pleases.

The Emperor of Shadows not only had no objection, but he thought it was natural.

As expected of an international director, he does have his own personality.

This movie was relatively simple to shoot.

Hong Kong’s tradition of domestic servants has gradually disappeared with the arrival of an aging population.

Nursing homes all over the country are home to the pioneering generation who have either been abandoned or forgotten.

As the earliest batch of builders, they created this Hong Kong where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, but it can only be forgotten and gradually decayed and disappeared. Tao Jie is both lucky and unfortunate to be one of them.

She had no children and had been in the Liang family for decades. As she got older, she continued to work diligently even though she was somewhat unable to do so.

Young Master Roger is busy with work and is still single in his thirties and forties. He has long been accustomed to Tao Jie’s care.

If it weren’t for that afternoon when she had the stroke, he might not have realized that Tao Jie would also age. She used to be a good cook, but now she can’t even lift a pot or a spoon.

The story abandons the means of sensationalism and presents this journey with an extremely calm attitude, a determination not to take one more step forward.

Calmness and restraint are things that Hao Yun discussed many times with actors and assistant directors.

In order to play the role of “Tao Jie” well, Cheng Peipei did a lot of preparation.

Her acting skills are actually not bad. She was a vase when she was young, but with the passage of time, she is now a real acting talent.

Although it is not possible to get most of the shots right in one go, at least three or five takes will definitely satisfy Hao Yun.

Moreover, she has experienced the glorious era of Hong Kong films and has a very strong ability to withstand pressure.

Even at his age, he can shoot for sixteen hours a day without any complaints.

In the process of studying the script, Hao Yun gained an extremely deep understanding of the script and the characters.

She acted better than Cheng Pei-pei.

Therefore, the performance of the two can be said to be as smooth as “cutting the Gordian knot”.

The original schedule was 50 days, but I feel like it can be completed in 40 to 45 days.

Hao Yun is in his twenties, and it is actually quite challenging for him to play a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties (Hao Yun is set to be 36 years old).

He slightly changed his skin color, grew a little beard, and had his hair highlighted, making it look a little gray, which made him look more mature.

Of course, appearance is only auxiliary, and ultimately it all depends on the performance.

Influenced by Wang Shunyu and “Hello! Mr. Tree”, Hao Yun changed his performance style this time.

The highest level of performance that a professional actor pursues is to make the audience unaware that he is acting and to completely transform himself into the character himself, which is the legendary documentary-style performance.

Hao Yun lives and eats at Roger’s house. He walks, eats, and even breathes in the same way as Roger, a middle-aged man.

It’s as if Wang Shunliu is possessed.

Often after the show, Hao Yun feels like he is Roger.

He and Cheng Pei-pei were sitting in the living room sorting things out and accidentally saw some old items that Tao Jie had kept. Many of them were related to Roger. Tao Jie was reluctant to throw them away and kept them as souvenirs.

When a silk scarf was taken out, Hao Yun could no longer laugh.

He was silent and folded the scarf carefully.

Assistant director Han Yan watched this scene with bated breath. At this time, Hao Yun had no lines and had a blank expression on his face.

The state presented by Hao Yun at this moment was actually the most accurate performance. The atmosphere was wrong as soon as he spoke, and even one more expression would be redundant.

After Han Yan shouted OK, Hao Yun still sat there motionless.

No one else dared to disturb him.

After a long while, Hao Yun walked behind the monitor to see the effect.

The effect is naturally extraordinarily good.

This movie is bound to win awards, but I don’t know who will win more between him and Cheng Pei-pei.

Then, Hao Yun felt that “A Simple Life” could be performed in this way.

But “Manchester by the Sea” must not be performed like this, because it is really possible to go astray.

The “healing” effects of the two scripts are completely on different levels.

By the end of March, A Simple Life had been completed smoothly, and Hao Yun also finished editing Hello! Mr. Tree during the break in filming.

At this time, An Xiaoxi’s “Aftershock” had not yet been completed.

(End of this chapter)