Xu Shanqiang knows who that big man is, and every film has to write a character biography of more than 100,000 words, similar to a novel.
Although Li Tiezhu is not that ruthless, but his homework has been done meticulously enough, and, this is only what he wrote after reading the script, without communicating with the director’s team.
An actor who has made it this far can’t be said to be much to brag about, but at least it should be said to be very competent.
Perhaps at this point in time, Li Tiezhu still has a lot of shortcomings, a lot of innate and acquired defects, but if he maintains this piety and persistence, he can definitely succeed.
These years, the film circle is getting more and more fickle, not many young people really sink their teeth into acting, what’s even more rare is that Li Tiezhu is so smooth on the music road, but he is also willing to bend down and carefully cultivate his acting career, instead of relying on his own flow of hard lines to get to the top of the male lead.
As far as Xu Shanqiang knows, Xiao Zhen starred in the “Magic Road” to Li Tiezhu reserved a male three male role, Li Tiezhu directly refused, because he looked at the persona and felt that he could not act.
After that, the crew moved to another venue and continued filming, filming Cheng Yong and the pre-drama.
Li Tiezhu, on the other hand, went to let the make-up artist dye his hair and do his styling, dyed a killer yellow hair, and wore an urban and rural style outfit.
Then Li Tiezhu followed the entire crew, watching others shoot, while helping to carry equipment and tea, no frame, how to look like a temporary worker in the crew.
Here, he met Wang Chuanjun, who was also skin and bones.
After getting to know each other, the two chatted about the play, and Li Tiezhu came out for the first scene to play opposite him, so he needed to communicate with him in detail.
A contact down, the two people chat a lot, newcomer Li Tiezhu from the other side to learn a lot of things, especially the rhythm of the problem when acting, he analysed a lot with Li Tiezhu.
It can’t be helped, Li Tiezhu is just well liked, and there are people pointing out everywhere he goes.
On the second and third day, Li Tiezhu still had no drama.
But Li Tiezhu did not slow down at all, followed the crew throughout the whole process, observed others acting, and at the same time helped the crew to do some work, and even helped to distribute boxed lunches and pour rubbish.
Once, when Li Tiezhu was running errands to send drinks to everyone, director Makino said to Xu Shanqian:
“This guy will definitely be a hit in the future!”
Xu Shanqiang said: “He’s already a big star! Not to brag, his fame is much greater than that of a newcomer director like you, even Fang Bo and I were only bullied when we met him.”
Makino: “Who’s talking to you about this? I’m talking about the road of acting, he can succeed. Do you know how wonderful and detailed the short biography he wrote for Yellow Hair Peng Hao is? It’s almost enough for a Peng Hao personal film.”
Xu Shanqiang sipped his coffee, “What have they written? He can write things, that rabbit was written by him.”
Makino said, “He wrote that Peng Hao’s old man was a gambler when he was young, and then ran into debt and never came back, and he was brought up by his mother, and then because his mother remarried, he fell out with her and dropped out of school to fight and not do his job. Then later he found out that he had a disease, the kind that can not be cured, and find an opportunity to have a big fight with his mother, and then ran away from home, told his mother as not born this son. In fact, it was Peng Hao who didn’t want to involve his mother again, because if she knew about his illness, she was bound to find a way to save him, so that her newly-anchored home would be doomed to be unsettled.”
Xu Shanqian frowned, “Tsk …… This plot is not bad. But isn’t he still making his mother worry? Not good, right?”
Muo nodded, “I thought so at first, but then I saw that Li Tiezhu wrote that Peng Hao secretly went back and saw that his mother’s family was doing quite well, so he was relieved to leave forever. Although it would make his mother worry, but compared to letting her watch him die, he chose the former, because this latter way, more cruel. Here, he also recalled his mother scolding him as a child for being a drag, but when he was swept away by the water, his mother didn’t want to die to save him, and almost died, and when he was saved, his mother hugged him and bawled her eyes out, and after she finished crying, she backhanded him with a few slaps. Li Tiezhu wrote that Peng Hao was thinking about this story while sitting on the green train and leaving, laughing with the wind blowing.”
Xu Shanqian put down his coffee, “Is there more?”
Muo Ye thought for a moment, “Remember what we wrote in our script? You advised him to go home for a visit and he refused, but after his death he was still found to have bought a ticket home. The reason Li Tiezhu gave was that Peng Hao, who originally thought he had looked down on life and death, was still very much looking forward to dying in his mother’s arms when death was really near, so he bought this ticket. But did not make up his mind to go back by car, he hoped that his mother hated him but thought he was still alive, he was still hesitant. So the moment he took Cheng Yong’s place and drove out of the car, it was a relief for him to finally not have to make a choice.”
Xu Shanqian all reddened his eyes, biting his lower lip, the writing was quite good, very much in line with Huang Mao’s brash, submissive yet sincere character positioning, he said, “It’s quite good to cut from the mother’s point of view, only in this way, Huang Mao’s frankness and boldness is more pure, without distractions. In fact, I’ve always felt that Peng Hao is the most transcendent one within this drama, he’s not afraid of death, Li Tiezhu wrote that he’s afraid of his mother knowing that he’s dead, which is good.”
Makino picked up the milk tea and took a sip, saying, “But it’s quite a pity that all these plots and settings can’t be presented in the drama. However, now I have confidence in Li Tiezhu to play Yellow Hair well. This is a standard experience school for him! He’s been playing Peng Hao for a few months now, and to Li Tiezhu this is someone who actually exists. In short, he’s written Huang Mao’s candid life in a living, breathing way.”
Xu Shanqian nodded and suddenly tilted his head, “Last time at the Mushroom House, Li Tiezhu said he wanted to write a script and find me to work with him in the future. Now it seems like there’s really something to it! This guy is good at writing things.”
Li Tiezhu just happened to pass by drinking original flavoured milk tea and asked, “What’s good?”
Xu Shan argued, “It says your hair is good!”
Li Tiezhu: “Your wig is also good, how does it feel to have hair?”
Xu Shanqiang: “Roll!”
Li Tiezhu: “Director, your male number one is suppressing newcomers, deduct his money.”
Makino: “……”
On the fourth day, the director returned the notebook to Li Tiezhu, which circled a lot of places, but generally recognised Li Tiezhu’s thinking. And, the director also explained and explained to Li Tiezhu one by one, Li Tiezhu’s understanding is on the slow side, but the good thing is that the characters are not too complicated, and it is finally done.
Until the fifth day, Li Tiezhu lost another two pounds, the director began to shoot his first scene – robbing medicine.
Before the start of shooting, Muo Ye said to Ning Shi: “You have worked with Li Tiezhu, why don’t you go and tell him about the scene?”
Ning Shi’s head shook into a rattle drum: “No, no, no,…… or you go, you are the director.”
Surprisingly, there was a bit of fear.
Makino was curious and asked Xu Shanqiang, “What’s going on?”
Xu Shanqian laughed, “Mainly because there’s no interpreter, it’s inconvenient to communicate.”
Makino was even more curious, he himself went to Li Tiezhu hard to communicate, very smooth ah! What translation is needed? Li Tiezhu’s understanding of Peng Hao’s character was in some places even deeper than the director thought.
After Makino returned to the monitor, Ning Shi couldn’t help but ask, “Hey, hey, how was it? Can you communicate?”
Makino: “He understands quite well, quite communicative.”
Ning Shi blushed badly, so …… is it really my problem? I can’t speak theatre? No, it must be that Makino has not experienced it, wait for Li Tiezhu to perform, you will know.
Makino took the walkie-talkie: “Prepare! Eckheart!”
In the van, Lu Beneficial, played by Wang Chuanjun, snickers and lowers his head to count the money, Yellow Hair slowly walks over and pulls open the van door with a calm face, Lu Beneficial looks blankly at Yellow Hair, Yellow *** looks at the other person and pauses for about a second or so, Yellow Hair scans the medicine underneath, stares at Lu Beneficial again, and then starts to take the medicine.
Lu benefited from more confused, slow to react to grab yellow hair’s hand: “Hey this this …… what are you doing le?”
Yellow hair without saying anything forcibly grabbed the medicine, a force even people with the medicine Lu benefited from the car yanked out, and then turned to go, decisive to a match.
“Card!”
Makino shouted stop.
Li Tiezhu and Wang Chuanjun looked at the director at the same time, especially Li Tiezhu was apprehensive, not knowing if he had acted out of character, after all, he knew he wasn’t smart.
Makino clapped his hands twice: “Very good! Very good!”
Very good indeed, Ning Shi had no words to say, was this really Li Tiezhu acting? He showed the numbness and brutality of Peng Hao’s kind of social underclass to the fullest.
So …… is it really my problem?
Ning Shi s whole person is not good.
Mako turned his head and asked Ning Shi, “This shot is okay, right? I’m very satisfied.”
Producers are required to control the quality and be responsible for the funding, Ning Shi froze and nodded his head woodenly, “Ah …… quite good, quite good ……”
Muo Ye slapped a horse’s arse: “Or you will discover actors, he performed so well in Heart and Flower that I was worried that he was a harmonic star and couldn’t play this role.”
Ning Shi is even worse, it’s all …… all because of the translation ……
Li Tiezhu came over and said to Muye, “Is this over? Director, do you want another line? Just now I feel it’s not enough Geng, the expression is a bit too fierce?”
Makino thought about it, “Another line then.”
In the second strip, Li Tiezhu really performed a bit better, and Wang Chuanjun cooperated well, shooting a sense of black humour, and the two had a tense rivalry.
Ning Shi scratched his head with both hands, I really have a big problem?
Or is Li Tiezhu a blind cat bumping into a dead rat?
Next, it was a shot of Peng Hao walking back to pick up the medicine again, which was originally written in the script to give Lv Beneficial a provocative look after picking up the medicine.
Li Tiezhu gave a change, made a greeting expression, raised his chin, just from his behaviour and expression, it is really not like a greeting, or like a provocation. After all, he grabbed the medicine to help others.
This kind of contradiction dare, also quite interesting, directly so that the audience can see Peng Hao is a mute and uncommunicative but very kind person.
Then comes the next scene, the slaughterhouse scene.
Li Tiezhu wears the slaughtering clothes extraordinarily snappy, Xu Shanqian all laughed: “This skilfulness of yours, it’s like you’ve really worked in a slaughterhouse.”
While wearing gloves, Li Tiezhu said: “Dry ten days, Qin Tao old man open pig farm, help me introduce a slaughterhouse experience.”
Xu Shanqian did not laugh: “In order to shoot this scene? There is no pig-killing scene ah.”
Li Tiezhu: “I know, I’ll just experience it, in case which details are exposed how to do?”
Wang Chuanjun gave Li Tiezhu a thumbs up, he also paid greatly for this drama, and was even abused by his former fans, so he can especially understand Li Tiezhu’s persistence of this kind is not easy.