The red cloth was covered over the camera, covered with the same sense of ceremony as a bride’s red head in the old days.
It is said that this is a rule passed down from the old Hong Kong film era, because the camera would sometimes have problems scratching the negative, resulting in the film being completely unusable, so every time the film started, there would be a ceremony of uncovering the head for good luck.
Although it is now the digital age and the problem of scratching the negative does not exist, this tradition is still preserved.
In the words of Hong Dabao, “What if the photographic element of the digital camera goes wrong? Same thing!”
Next to him, Tao Hong said to Song Zhu’er, “Tie Zhu this master is so good to him? Coming specially to host the opening ceremony for Tie Zhu? This row ……”
Zhao Liya ate her chilli fries, “Hong Dabao is so fat it’s time to walk around, and he doesn’t have much drama to shoot, it’s good to exercise.”
Tao Hong subconsciously pinched her waist, distancing herself from Song Zhu’er, whose waist was as thin as a cowpea, and quietly skimmed her mouth.
Song Zhu’er took Tao Hong’s arm: “Tie Zhu is too young, and stupid and doesn’t know anything, for him to be able to walk to today, it all relies on Auntie Han Hong, Uncle Xu, and Grandmaster Uncle, these seniors to bring up and keep an eye on him, otherwise he would have long been bullied to death.”
Tao Hong smiled with satisfaction, “Hey! Isn’t that what the film circle is all about? Anyone who is a newcomer comes over, and when they see a nice young man, they can’t help but give him a hand.”
Zhao Liya: “Auntie Tao Hong, want some chilli fries?”
Tao Hong shook her head with a dry smile.
Song Zhu’er: “Sister, I brought you a set of masks, the endorsement business sent, I came to give you a dressing at night, they this is an icy …… effect and I don’t know how it is, but it’s quite comfortable to dress.”
Tao Hong: “Good ah, I haven’t dressed ice mask it.”
Zhao Liya: “I’m not the same, my skin is naturally good, never dress mask. My mother also does not dress, my mother is older than you, but the skin is much better than you.”
Tao Hong: “……”
Zhao Liya also asked next to Deer Ha Ni: “Fat Deer brother, do you apply masks?”
Deer Hani: “I have bad skin, so I dress.”
Zhao Liya said, “Or long crow’s feet, so, dressing mask does not work right?”
Deer Ha Ni: “……”
Why is this dead girl so annoying? It’s still Zhuo’er who’s cute.
Zhao Liya has always been annoying, it’s well recognised in the circle, hardly a few artists she’s worked with like her.
But Song Zhu’er once upon a time was also known in the circle as a person who hates dogs, but after following Li Tiezhu, she suddenly became well-behaved and cute, especially in front of the elders, it was called a delightful.
Perhaps this is the so-called sense of crisis!
The uncovering was done by Li Tiezhu, Xu Shanqiang and Hong Dabao together.
After unveiling the red cloth everyone applauded, and then began to set off firecrackers, crackling with a flurry of activity.
And the photographer Sun Hip-Hip ran away holding the camera like a baby, handing it over to the people under his hand for good keeping.
“Rangers? Not bad! I thought that your low-budget filming, with your stingy character, would use a lower grade of camera.”
Hong Dabao made fun of Li Tiezhu.
Li Tiezhu helped Hong Dabao to one side of the long established temporary stage, the ceremony was held in a five-star hotel, after the opening ceremony, there is a simple media interview.
Li Tiezhu said, “Uncle Xu and I don’t have any film pay, and the other actors are all cheap, so half of this 30 million investment has been spent on equipment and post.”
Not long after the stage sat a row of bigwigs and Li Tiezhu, Hong Dabao was in the middle, on the left was Xu Shanqiang and Tao Hong, on the right was Li Tiezhu and Deer Hani.
The one million film pay was the lowest ever for Deer Ha Ni, but he still came despite the anger of his agency.
He knew to himself that it would be a blur if he didn’t put his foot down.
There are not many media invited today, all of them are more friendly with Li Tiezhu, such as Penguin News, Donghai TV, Mango Channel, etc., and the ones that have been blacklisted naturally won’t be put in.
The reporters started to ask questions in a set way with a glance from you and a word from me.
Backstage, Zhao Liya fed Song Zhu’er a chilli stick and cocked her head, “I feel like no one likes me except Tie Zhu, and I don’t know why.”
Song Zhu’er held a spicy bar in her mouth and smiled teasingly, “What makes you think Tie Zhu likes you?”
“Isn’t it?”
“Hehehehe …… he doesn’t necessarily like you, but sister I really like you.”
“You, you’re not right!”
Zhao Liya is afraid, the rabbit smash is not afraid of the sky and the earth, it is afraid of Erha suddenly flashing to open big.
Soon, the conference was finished, according to international practice the crew invited media friends to rub a meal, there are not many people, and the film’s cast and crew members are also very refined, a total of forty or fifty people, a few tables were filled.
After the meal, Song Zhu’er and Tao Hong send off the media friends, by the way, give a small red envelope, said it is to please a colour, in fact, we all know.
On the other hand, Li Tiezhu and others have already started shooting the first scene, borrowing a hotel room to shoot the appearance shot of Xu Shanqiang as Li Success.
The original script was two dolls on the table, and Li Success’s nickname was derived from that animation, called Grey Wolf. However, there was no that animation in this time and space, so Li Tiezhu took out this detail, and, he didn’t feel that the grey wolf had much meaning.
In addition to this point, Li Tiezhu also changed many details, for example, Li Shengcheng’s hand is not holding a knife and fork but chopsticks, and what he eats is not roast duck but beef meatballs.
After the opening two upward panning shots explaining the relationship between the characters, the camera gives a close-up of Li Chenggong’s plate, and he is clamping the beef meatballs in the plate, and he fails to clamp them up even after several times.
Then Li Success, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, puts down his chopsticks, looks at the three employees across the table and begins to speak:
“Knowing you all makes me believe that everything is an arrangement of fate, as if there is a force in the underworld that pulls us together, so …… what kind of sins did I create in my last life!”
The three employees silently lowered their heads.
These three are all crew members guesting, in order to save money, two of them are the theatre workers, and the long haired greasy man is Sun Hip Hip Hip.
Li Success: “The national sticker market is so hot, you guys actually came up with such sales performance to show me, and such ‘exquisite’ sticker design, there’s this ……”
Snap!
Li Success slapped a sticker on the table, it was Yao Riyue’s Tiger Smile.
The employees’ heads went even lower.
Li Success: “There’s this one ……”
Snap!
Zhou Erkang’s nostrils stormed.
Li Success takes a deep breath, “There’s this one ……”
Li Tiezhu’s intelligent eyes.
The heads of the employees were about to be buried in the bowl.
Li Success said angrily, “Which unlucky kid would collect this kind of stickers? Can you summon Au Bump Man by collecting all twelve star emoticons? Will the summoned Au Bump Man still have these emoticons? I have a PhD in chemistry to make snacks, is it easy for me? Stickers are for pleasing your friends, not for intimidating them! Last month, my wife called me and said that my daughter saw the stickers when she opened the snacks and cried on the spot!”
Li Success finished, and then lowered his head to clip the pills, and still couldn’t clip them up, “Xiao Zhou ……”
The first employee raised his head and laughed awkwardly.
Li Success: “Your IQ is really refreshing.”
Xiao Zhou lowers his head again.
Li Success: “Xiao Wang is still improving, last year you were brain-dead, this year you’ve evolved to mentally retarded.”
Li Success jumped out of his plate with the pills, he calmly grabbed the pills into his plate with his hand and continued to clip the pills, “And about you, Xiao Sun. I’ve always felt that there are two kinds of people in the world that are the most attractive, one is the kind that is exceptionally good looking, and the other is you.”
Sun Hip pulled the braid at the back of his head to the front with a greasy, flirty grin.
Li Success: “You make me realise that long hair and short knowledge is indeed a truth.”
Sun Hip-Hip lowered his head and reached out to pull the wig cover off, revealing a large, slightly bald head.
Li Success: “You don’t have to come to work after the Spring Festival.”
“Boss, this is my resignation letter.”
“This is the best decision you’ve made this year.”
Sun Hip walked two steps, came back and grabbed the wig cover, and went out the door.
Li Shengcheng grinds his teeth, lowers his head and continues to clip the pills, still can’t clip them out, “Who the hell ordered the pills? I curse him to be as bald as these balls!”
Xiao Zhou: “Boss, you ordered.”
Li Chenggong finally picked up the meatballs and was ready to eat them, when he heard this, he was so angry that he put the meatballs down again.
“Cut! This section is over.”
Li Tiezhu happily called a halt.
In fact this section of the scene was filmed for two hours, because Xu Shanqiang always laughed, and those stickers and naked beef meatballs always somehow poked his funny bone.
“Tie Zhu, what are you doing with a beef ball? Who are you hinting at? I remember the initial script wrote about eating roast duck, and it’s not like I’ve been pinching it over and over again! I even cursed myself at the end… Just ask, who doesn’t know that I’ve been bald for a long time?”
After Xu Shanqiang finished filming, he went to question Li Tiezhu.
Everyone else was stifling their laughter.
Li Tiezhu said, “Originally, I was going to get a marinated egg, but it doesn’t go well with a high-class hotel.”
“Pfft ……”
The surrounding people finally couldn’t hold back their laughter, counting Tao Hong laughing the most happily, halogen eggs can be okay?
Xu Shanqian a little annoyed, but after seeing the woman who laughed the most wildly, and did not dare to be angry, can only be indignant to pick his wig set down, picking halfway to say: “Not right ah! That Sun Hip Hip’s wig set, also f*cking implying me?”
Li Tiezhu: “Yeah.”
The surrounding people laughed louder.
Li Tiezhu said, “Originally, I wanted to have a whole emoticon sticker of you, the one that says, ‘It’s a real head turner’, the one that looks like a puffer fish.”
Xu Shan argued, “What are you blindly changing? I think the original script is fine!”
Tao Hong stifled a laugh and said, “That’s different, I think the laughs are even better after the change, especially the halibut, hahaha ……”
Xu Shanqian said in exasperation, “It’s beef balls! Not halogen eggs!”
Tao Hong: “A good halogen egg, hahaha ……”
Xu Shanqian wasn’t really angry, but that kind of agitation and upset after being flirted with, that’s all. Therefore, when he was filming, he did not question anything, and he only took the piss after acting, and he did not expect to be pissed off even more.
Li Tiezhu said, “All departments transfer, go to the dairy farm!”
Today was the first day of the start of the filming, and there were not many shooting tasks scheduled, just the appearance scenes of Li Success and Niu Geng.
Of course, Niu Geng’s scenes were magically altered.
The script of “Lost in Transit”, after Star Chow’s guidance, and after Li Tiezhu and Sun Heehee’s re-creation, the main story line remained the same, but the details of the changes were not small.