Chapter 389 Secret
On the day Xu Rong was hospitalized, "The War of Resentment and Revenge" directed by Jin Fangfang officially kicked off.
"Xu Rong was seriously injured in her life in a critical condition!"
"According to people familiar with the matter, Xu Rong has issued a critical illness notice due to accidental injuries and head during filming!"
At 11:20 noon the day before Christmas in 2011, Sina, who had a festival with Xu Rong, released a news that Xu Rong was injured. After only seven minutes, it swept across the Internet with the reprints of major media.
Sina News' reports are slightly different from the rumors spread by regular third-rate tabloids. In addition to the bloody photos of Xu Rong, it also shows his fiancée Zhang Xiaofei's back silently crying outside the hospital.
The collective silence of Xu Rong Studio, Xu Rong's girlfriend and the People's Art Theater has also been regarded by the majority of media and netizens as the default for rumors.
As the news of Xu Rong's "injury" was gradually "confirmed", the Internet and the media were in an uproar. In the surprise, doubts and incredible, many media and fans on the Internet spontaneously took stock of Xu Rong's short but extraordinary 24 years, and looked back on his life of ups and downs and prosperity.
A report from the Beijing News, which has always been criticized by the audience and is shameless, has rarely been recognized by the general public and netizens: You can like him or hate him, but you cannot deny that he is the most influential actor in the mainland today, no doubt.
The most outrageous thing is that although the People's Art Theater has not issued an obituary yet, at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, there was a bouquet of flowers in front of the gate of the Capital Theater for some reason.
In the hospital, Xu Rong, who was lying on the bed, hung up another call to ask about the situation. He looked at Wang Yaqin, who was sitting on the side with a maid and was reading the news while peeling an apple, and said, "Yaqin, just say it to Fangfang, it's almost done. I just listened to their words. If I just came, I wouldn't be able to see me for the last time."
Wang Yaqin smiled with her lips pursed and said, "Sister Fangfang said that, it will be clarified by the evening."
Xu Rong looked at the white ceiling and had to smile bitterly. At first, his original intention of engaging in this business was quite clear and he made money.
But one day later, he suddenly realized that money was not as difficult as he thought. Even if he stopped losing money immediately, the wealth he accumulated over the past five years was enough for him to live his life without worries. After the wealth accumulated to 100 million units, his simple and pure pursuit of money almost faded.
Today, he is still moving forward as usual, and he wants to do something through wealth that has no clear concept. Of course, this also has the purpose of maintaining influence.
Secondly, there are so many teachers and seniors who he admires. He has not cooperated with "seriously", such as the leader, Chen Baoguo, Li Xuejian, Wang Xueqi and some other members of Chen Daoming's "squad" who have made contributions to performance theory and practice, but they are just a handy one. It is naturally a joy to be successful. If he fails, it will not affect his happiness.
At night, when people across the country looked at attention, Xu Rong Studio, Hairun Film and the crew of "Drug War" issued statements one after another: Xu Rong is out of danger, thank you for your concern and attention.
With the explanation in the crew's statement, the reason for Xu Rong's injury was also known to the outside world, in order to protect an eight-year-old girl.
The next day, Xu Rongren was still lying in the special ward. The list of winners of the "2011 Beijing Model" hosted by Beijing Radio and Television Station was officially announced. It was not until this time that audiences across the country were surprised to find that Xu Rong was silently shortlisted!
At this point, after a big mistake in "dead" yesterday, another unknown past in Xu Rong was quickly circulated.
In mid-2011, Xu Rong and his girlfriend went out for dinner after get off work at noon and met two gangsters robbing other people's property. As a party member, Xu Rong immediately stepped forward and fought desperately with two gangsters holding sharp weapons in the narrow alley. Without any weapons, they fought against two, wearing several tricks, and finally successfully arrested the two gangsters.
Although the reason for being selected is short, Xu Rong's terrible combat effectiveness and dedication to sacrifice everything for the Party and the people at any time completely subvert the audience's perception of the profession of "actor".
On the third day, Renji published an editorial on Xu Rong's incident of bravery:
A party member is a banner, and a party member is a mirror!
He highly praised Xu Rong's spirit of advancing when facing criminals holding sharp weapons, moving forward, not showing off his own strength, not hyping up his fame and fortune, and selfless dedication.
The reprints of editorials by major mainstream media and non-mainstream media quickly reached the peak of his debut.
Since he made his debut as the role of Monk Wei in "Bright Sword" in 2006, although Xu Rong has been on the rise, he has never lacked controversy. A few years ago, the media has repeatedly rumored that he cheated on Yang Mi. Netizens with great power carefully analyzed the photos of the two when they were in the same frame, especially Yang Mi's misty eyes when she accidentally looked at him, and she believed in this baseless rumor.
After he became famous, there was a rumor that he and his agent Chang Jihong had a rift over the distribution of interests. Although the parties involved have always denied this rumor, the separation between the two is obvious to all.
Later, there were war of words with Zhang Jizhong and endorsement incidents one after another. Although Xu Rong survived every time, and with the controversy, his popularity became higher and higher and his commercial value continued to rise, just like Jin Fangfang originally designed, he never lacked controversy.
On the contrary, another group of people in the industry have a surprisingly high evaluation of him, such as Li Xuejian, Li Youbin and others. Every time he mentions him, he is "very simple" and has a strong business ability, but for the vast majority of viewers with a little judgment, they have always maintained a cautious attitude towards this.
Xu Rong may have strong business capabilities, but someone who can gain a foothold in such a big dyeing vat in the entertainment industry has nothing to do with the word "simplicity", let alone Xu Rong, who has been standing on the top of the industry pyramid after many twists and turns.
In the ward, Xu Rong picked up the remote control and turned off the news. He actually didn't like this reputation. It was a good thing for a star and an artist, but he was just an actor and an ordinary person, and he couldn't do anything wrong for the rest of his life.
More often than not, he actually hopes that the audience will only pay attention to his works, not his private life, moral qualities, etc., other things that have nothing to do with his work. However, under the background of commercialization, professional characteristics and traditional cultural background with morality higher than law doomed his hopes to be impossible to achieve.
As the discussion about him gradually subsided, Xu Rong, who had been resting for six days, also returned to the crew.
"Teacher Xu is here, has his injury healed?"
"Okay."
"Mr. Xu, morning."
"morning."
Xu Rong got out of the car, smiled and greeted the staff who were rushing on the set, tightened his down jacket, and walked habitually towards the director's supervisor.
After taking a few steps, his brows slowly frowned, and the set seemed to become a little strange.
Almost everyone had an extra thermos, especially when he saw the things soaked in a few transparent glasses, his expression became more and more serious.
Two red dates, two longans, a chrysanthemum and seven chubby wolfberry.
This is the best formula he adjusted based on his physical condition. Of course, he will occasionally fine-tune according to changes in his physical condition, but judging from his current state, the secret recipe seems to have been leaked?
The reason why he had this doubt was that under normal circumstances, the crew members generally try to avoid drinking water.
During the filming period, except for short free time such as lighting, changing scenes or changing actors, extras and even ordinary staff members have no freedom to go to the toilet.
Xu Rong suppressed the curiosity in his heart, came to Du Qifeng, and asked, "Director Du, how are you doing? Have you been going well these days?"
Du Qifeng was writing and drawing on the script, as if thinking about something. When he saw him coming, he said, "You are really here? I told you yesterday that you would take a few more days of rest. Concussion is not a trivial matter. You should take a few more days."
"I fell down and I can really rest for half a month? Besides, the doctor said that I have recovered almost the same." Xu Rong said, raising his chin at the thermos in Du Qifeng's hand, "What's wrong with you? Why are you drinking wolfberry?"
"You can drink even at such a young age, why can't we drink?"
Du Qifeng laughed but didn't explain. Instead, he pointed to the monitor and said, "I took a lot of materials and went back tonight to let you see the results."
Because of Xu Rong's injury, he had long been accustomed to getting up in the middle of the night to change the plan and quickly adjusted the shooting plan. In the past few days, he had been filming the gun battle scenes of the People's Guards arresting Cai Tianming's apprentice, the big deaf and the little deaf.
Xu Rong had heard Du Qifeng's idea of this scene before, which was another magnificent gun battle scene in the play besides the decisive battle.
He was actually quite curious about how to make a "magnificent" method. Because unlike the decisive battle, the role positioning and image of Guo Tao and Li Qing are really difficult to have a legitimate relationship with "magnificent".
"What are you doing?"
Seeing that Xu Rong was about to leave, Du Qifeng seemed to remember something, raised his head and called him, and asked, "Xu Rong, what's next?"
"What is?" Xu Rong turned his head, "I'll get a small sun. This shed is not as good as not. You can see some suns outside. This is a good thing. Not only is it airtight, but it also covers the sun."
Du Qifeng saw Li Geng who had been following Xu Rong without saying a word, and turned around and ran towards Wang Hui with his bag on his back, and smiled and said, "You assistant, have you grown a lot?!"
Xu Rong sat back with a smile, and said in the direction of Li Geng: "Director Du thinks he is the director's material?"
"No one can tell what this is."
Du Qifeng also smiled and said, "Didn't Ms. Jin say that she would reveal a small news every half month? What is the next one?"
"Oh, Du Qifeng accused mainland actors of being unprofessional."
Du Qifeng was stunned when he heard this and asked inconsistency: "What kind of news is the topic that is common?"
"It's a common topic, and few people will really care about it, but it's still an old routine. This is just an opening." Xu Rong smiled and glanced at Du Qifeng, "Aren't you curious about who this unemployed person is?"
Du Qifeng guessed something from his meaningful smile, and couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning and asked quickly: "How to end in the end?"
Xu Rong opened his mouth, but couldn't spit out a word. Jin Fangfang probably told him on the phone, but at this time he had no impression at all. After thinking for a while, he frowned and said, "I can't remember it either."
He suddenly remembered a joke that Xiao Zhang made when he called last night, saying that concussions would cause retrograde forgetting.
"Director, ready."
Du Qifeng put on his headphones and signaled to prepare for the shooting. Xu Rong temporarily threw away his distracting thoughts and focused his attention on the monitor to see what Du Qifeng called the "magnificent" gun battle.
"preparation."
“action.”
In the picture, Guo Tao and Li Qing looked cold. Facing dozens of fully armed people's guards, they used the narrow and favorable terrain to each hold a submachine gun. They were similar to the two "dadada" fire snakes, who were completely suppressed by the people's guards, were not allowed to survive. They were almost contemporary Lu Bu, and they were quite imposing that they could not open their aura.
Xu Rong was shocked when he looked at Guo Tao and Li Qing who were almost expressionless in the monitor screen.
If this is a classic Hong Kong film gunfight template with a church, a white dove and a cigar.
However, these two images that are obviously more funny are just as good as the church and the white dove?!
"stop."
Du Qifeng watched the replay, picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "The eyes are a little more ruthless. If there is ruthlessness, justice is coming to punish you. Now you are snatching your life and show your determination to take the whole life."
“Start again.”
Xu Rong listened to Du Qifeng's evaluation of the two, he always felt that Du Qifeng seemed to be too fond of the two characters, Big Deaf and Little Deaf. In terms of intensity, this battle in the factory far exceeded the confrontation between the Gang of Seven and the People's Guards led by Zhang Lei.
The most important thing is that the two characters Da Deaf and Xiao Deaf were previously performing typical minions. They suddenly became angry and instantly turned into big villains, which was completely contrary to the usual logic of film and television works.
"Do you know why this scene was designed like this?"
Xu Rong smiled and said, "Huang Yaoshi and Qiu Chuji?"
Du Qifeng laughed and said, "That's right, that's what it means."
To this day, Du Qifeng is no longer disgusted with working with Xu Rong. Among the many actors he has worked with, Xu Rong is one of the few mainland actors with extremely high cultural and professional skills. The role these two strengths can play in the filming process is also very obvious. As long as he wants, as long as he starts a little, even if the expression is not clear, Xu Rong can still understand and present it. This is the most valuable point in the case of language communication obstacles.
"preparation."
“action.”
"Da da da da da."
"stop."
Du Qifeng picked up the walkie-talkie, hesitated for a while, but did not put it to his mouth, instead frowned and muttered in a low voice: "No, no."
Xu Rong leaned in the chair, looked at the monitor screen, and muttered in a low voice: "Stand sideways."
When Du Qifeng heard this, he said skeptically: "You two stand sideways facing the camera."
As Guo Tao and Li Qing turned sideways, Du Qifeng glanced back at Xu Rong. Not to mention, after the adjustment, the momentum of the two suddenly increased a lot.
Du Qifeng turned around and stared at the monitor again, thinking silently.
"The eyes are focused, and the sight is drooping 13 degrees."
"The eyes are focused, and the gaze is drooping 13 degrees." Du Qifeng repeated subconsciously, looking at the puzzled gaze slowly coming from a distance. After a moment of pause, he realized what he said, slowly turned his head and looked at Xu Rong with a strange expression.
The vision is 13 degrees down. What is it?
Chapter completed!