Sun Honglei stood in the corridor of the hospital, leaning against the wall, with his head lowered. His eyes fell on the one-page script he just got today for actual filming. His left hand was like a hamster stealing rice, slowly removing it from his pocket.

He took out a cigarette from his pocket and didn't light it immediately. He just put it in his mouth and held it in his mouth. After a while, he took out the cigarette with his index and middle fingers and scratched his forehead twice.

The outline of the script of "Drug War" has basically not changed much, but the details have been filled in and revised. According to the previous script, there was supposed to be a confrontation between him and Xu Rong today, and Xu Rong jumped off the building in desperation, but from now on

Judging from the script I received, that plot has been shelved for the time being.

While Sun Honglei was carefully thinking about how to act in his role to make it more realistic, he slowly put the cigarette back into his mouth, followed the midline of his pants, and explored his fingers down a few times. However, today's clothes were not what he usually wears.

After trying several times on my sportswear, I still couldn't get out the lighter as expected.

He took his eyes away from the script, tilted his head, and glanced at the pocket of his pants.

Just as he was about to take out a lighter and turn around to go up the stairs to smoke one, he caught a glimpse of the monitor from the corner of his eye. Du Qifeng and the director of photography Zheng Zhaoqiang looked at each other with strange expressions.

"What's going on?"

Sun Honglei felt a sense of curiosity in his heart, because the scene being filmed at this time was Xu Rong's scene.

His first impression of this young man who was more than ten years younger than him was similar to the outside world, crazy.

At least ask yourself, he can't do something as crazy as Xu Rong, nor can he create conditions like him, because he can't get in at all, and even if he gets in, he doesn't know how to make friends with those people, but Xu Rong

Not only did he do it, but judging from his state at the time of the visit, he actually did it.

The second thing that impressed me about Xu Rong was that this guy was very understanding of people and the world. Although Gao Yunxiang said something provocative in the morning, although he didn't say anything, he was a little unkind to him, but Xu Rong said that he wanted to buy him a drink.

The most direct effect of that sentence was that Gao Yunxiang had unknowingly changed his name for Xu Rong.

He felt that he couldn't compare with this, because if it were him, the most likely thing he would do is pretend not to hear anything.

The third impression of Xu Rong was his professional ability. In the past, this was always just a rumor. It wasn’t until he went to see his performance that Sun Honglei realized that it was wrong to simply make assumptions about a person based on his age, even if he tried his best.

Overestimation. When Xu Rong finished the performance of "Home" in three steps, he realized that he still underestimated him.

After a while, he saw Xu Rong walking out of the ward and walking in the direction of the monitor. He put the cigarette and lighter into his pocket and put them behind him calmly.

Standing behind Du Qifeng and Zheng Zhaoqiang, Sun Honglei and Xu Rong were quietly watching the replay. The moment Xu Rong's eyelids fluttered, a big question mark suddenly appeared in his mind.

Can you still act like this?

At this time, Du Qifeng turned around and said to Xu Rong: "How did you come up with such a design?"

"This is the state just before a person wakes up from external interference."

Sun Honglei listened carefully to Xu Rong's words at first. He glanced out of the corner of his eye and noticed the subtle changes in Xu Rong's eyes on the monitor. He immediately turned his attention away from the conversation between the two.

In the picture, Xu Rong's eyes slowly opened a crack.

The gap was not big, and the moment he opened it, his eyes were dull and confused, but then, the light in the gap became brighter and brighter.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

In three seconds, the gap only grew slightly larger, but the sleepiness in it was gradually replaced by the breathtaking divine light.

Sun Honglei was completely stunned.

How did Xu Rong do it?

Why can so many emotional changes gradually appear in a gap?

Du Qifeng was chatting with Xu Rong, and when he suggested learning Cantonese, he found Sun Honglei staring at him strangely for a moment, and couldn't help but ask: "Honglei, is there something wrong with what I said?"

"Hong Lei?"

Du Qifeng shouted a second time, and Sun Honglei suddenly came back to his senses.

He looked at Du Qifeng doubtfully: "Ah, director, what did you say?"

Sun Honglei saw Du Qifeng's expression was strange, he pointed at the monitor and defended: "I'm sorry, Director Du, I didn't pay attention to what you were saying just now, I was watching the replay."

Du Qifeng looked at him hesitantly, because Sun Honglei's strange expression just now made him a little uncomfortable.

Hong Kong films have been criticized more than once in recent years. In the final analysis, the market in Hong Kong is too small.

At least compared to the mainland, it is too small.

In the Mainland, it has a box office of over 100 million and cannot even make it into the top ten, but in Hong Kong, it is a definite box office champion.

Going north was an option to make money, but in his opinion, it had actually deteriorated.

Because of the differences in the review mechanisms, cultural backgrounds, and customs between the Mainland and Hong Kong, although the people are still the same, the things produced have nothing to do with Hong Kong films.

It seems that the decline and demise of Hong Kong movies is a foregone conclusion.

However, this reality is something he is unwilling to accept and admit. In his philosophy, the success and uniqueness of Hong Kong films have been tested. In view of the mainland's censorship, the vast majority of films have not been edited out.

, although it cannot be released in the mainland, there is such a big market in other countries besides the mainland.

Hong Kong films have a bright and promising future, and as long as most Hong Kong film and television people work together, Hong Kong will surely become the Hollywood of the East.

He smiled, squinting meaningfully at Sun Honglei from the corner of his eye, laughed "haha" twice, and said: "Oh, according to you, did I miss some exciting content?"

Respect is mutual. If Sun Honglei doesn't respect the land where he grew up, his ideals and hopes, he will no longer feel the need to respect the other party.

Sun Hong looked at Du Qifeng's expression, and her heart skipped a beat. Although she didn't know what was going on, she knew that Director Du had a grudge against her, and hurriedly defended: "Director, Xu Rong's last three seconds were the most important.

It’s wonderful, if you don’t believe it, take a look.”

Du Qifeng studied his expression, and finally, his eyes fell on Xu Rong's face, which was still smiling, and he doubtfully opened the playback again.

Waiting for the last three seconds that Sun Honglei said, the headphones in his hand fell to the ground with a "clack" and he stared blankly at the frozen scene.

Regarding the role of Cai Tianming, Du Qifeng had many candidates in his mind, such as Nicholas Tse recommended by Fok Wenxi and Gu Zai who he had worked with many times. However, looking at the change of light in the gap, at this moment, a strange thought came to his mind.

, perhaps from a perceptual point of view, Xu Rong is ranked outside the top ten candidates for the role of Cai Tianming, but if we think and judge rationally, Xu Rong may be the most suitable actor.

No, maybe within a certain age range, if no one can play the role as he is, Seo Rong would be the first choice.

At this thought, Du Qifeng suddenly felt a little sentimental. The talents in the mainland, just like the economy and national strength in the mainland, have taken off rapidly. However, in comparison, the so-called leaders of the younger generation launched in Hong Kong have no sophistication or business capabilities. , in front of Xu Rong, he was like a half-grown child.

"Let's have another one, more material."

"OK."

After Xu Rong finished taking the picture, Sun Honglei immediately came to him and handed Xu Rong a cigarette. When he didn't take it, he stopped trying because he had heard someone say that Xu Rong didn't smoke.

"Xu Rong, let me ask you something. How did you achieve that change in your eyes?"

Xu Rong looked at Sun Honglei's curious eyes, smiled and pointed at Gao Yunxiang, who was preparing to take the next shot, and said: "Actually, it's nothing. At that time, Gao Yunxiang was sitting in front of me, and a bold idea suddenly popped up in my mind. It's me. How to kill him in the shortest possible time without alerting other people outside the ward."

Sun Honglei looked at the suddenly twitching muscles on Xu Rong's face, and the smile on his face couldn't help but freeze for a moment, and said: "But, isn't the script written about your escape?"

Xu Rong shrugged his shoulders and said: "What do you think is the first reaction of a person who is facing the death penalty when he is being watched? Of course it is not to slip away from under his nose, because that leaves him too much time to escape. It’s too short.”

Xu Rong shook his head, and then said with great certainty: "So my instinctive reaction is to kill him. Only killing him is the best choice. It just happened that he got up and walked to the door at that time, otherwise I think I would definitely create an opportunity." , for example, by making some faint noise, luring him to the bedside, and then quickly killing him."

Sun Honglei and Xu Rong looked at each other, and he had the illusion that Xu Rong was not discussing how to act with him, but how he should escape in the face of this situation.

And he noticed a small detail: Xu Rong never mentioned Cai Tianming's name, but always replaced it with "I".

Xu Rong saw Sun Honglei looking at him strangely and said: "These are all internal skills, but externally, what you see is actually an illusion."

Sun Honglei couldn't help being stunned when he heard this: "Illusion?"

"Yes, it's an illusion. It's true that the degree of opening of my eyes doesn't change much, but the shape of the gap formed by the upper and lower eyelids has a tail-up process due to the pulling of facial muscles. It's just that this process is very subtle, and on my face I'm also wearing an oxygen mask, so if you don't observe carefully, you will think that my eyes are just slightly opened, and then inexplicably give you a completely different feeling, but this is not actually the case."

He came up with this little trick during rehearsals in the courtyard, because he needed to put on his own makeup and sit in front of the mirror. Any idea he had, whether reasonable or unreasonable, could be tested. Most of the ideas were in After the experiment, it will be found that the eggs are useless, and a small part will enter his "arsenal", enriching his presentation methods.

The reason why this method is used is also inspired by Gepai. Feng Yuanzheng believes that actors should use props as little or as little as possible, because the props themselves will distract the audience's attention.

Thanks to Gepai's view that "props will distract the audience's attention", he did the opposite and tried his best to maximize the effect of any props that appeared.

But there is no need to explain these in detail to Sun Honglei, who has a musical background.

Xu Rong glanced at the time, it was almost twelve o'clock, and said: "I don't need to play for the time being. I'm going to the car to recharge my batteries. Aren't you going?"

"No, it's the first day. I'm not sleepy yet." Sun Honglei shook his head, watching Xu Rong's back disappear at the end of the corridor, the smile on his face gradually faded.

In recent years, he felt that his business abilities had gradually matured, and at least he had formed his own set of performance methods. But today, he suddenly discovered that in comparison, Xu Rong was both theoretically and expressively.

Far beyond myself.

And the most commendable thing is that Xu Rong doesn't hide it at all. It seems that he doesn't mind sharing these skills that he has never heard of with others, and it seems that these little skills are nothing to him.

Which one it was, he didn't know, but instinctively, he always felt that the latter was more likely.

After shooting a scene, Xu Rong has almost figured out Du Qifeng's directing style. He will put forward corresponding requirements for each scene. As long as his requirements are fulfilled, he can do whatever he wants with the rest.

As for what will happen if he fails to fulfill the requirements, he still doesn't know yet.

The time to finish work was about the same as Xu Rong expected, six o'clock.

The reason why we called it a day was not that one page of the script was finished, but that it was already dawn and we couldn't shoot any more.

At this time, the chubby life producer Wang Hui came to Du Qifeng and asked: "Director Du, you have to make a decision about something. When the actors we invite come, should they stay in a suite or a standard room?"

Du Qifeng didn't understand what Wang Hui meant. It was just a place to sleep. Why should he ask himself?

Wang Hui smiled bitterly and explained: "Director Du, if mainland actors participated in our filming, they would stay in ordinary rooms. Didn't you say yesterday that we should treat Xu Rong the same way we treat you? But he didn't even live in a suite.
To be continued...