Chapter 8 Action Not long after, Baoqiang and three extras came over, and then a stage manager brought over a dozen pieces of coarse cloth clothes and told everyone to change into them quickly. Those coarse cloth clothes obviously hadn't been washed or dried in a long time, and when they were shaken off, they were full of mold and sweat odor. Xu Kun had never worn such dirty clothes in prison, but seeing that everyone else was used to it, he didn't want to be picky. He randomly picked the largest size, then pulled Baoqiang, who was also choosing clothes, and asked, "Aren't you the stunt double for the second female lead? Why are you wearing this?" "Just to make up the numbers for the crew." Before Baoqiang could reply, the extras who had joined hands with Wang Peng earlier rushed to explain: "It's not enough for us to be the lackeys. Those who are not busy in the crew will have to follow behind to fill the scene, but we will be the ones who will actually rush forward and get beaten." Sure enough, not long after, the stage manager brought another pile of clothes for other people in the crew to choose from. These clothes are obviously much cleaner, which also shows the status and treatment of extras in the crew. The crowd didn't care about anything and went around to the back of the minibus, took off their clothes, put on their costumes, and picked up their prop weapons. A group of Republic of China bandits emerged. At this time, Wang Peng had also changed into his costume. The fabric of the clothes was almost the same, but his chest was half open, revealing a palm-wide pubic hair, his hair was disheveled and stubbled, and he was holding a thick-backed ghost-head knife in his hand. He looked like a big brother in the underworld. It turns out that his stubble was not because he was too lazy to trim it, but because he wanted to be closer to the character in the play.
Another assistant director of the crew had a brief discussion with Wang Peng, and then led Xu Kun, Bao Qiang and others to go through the scene twice. The general plot is that Wang Peng and his brothers ambushed on both sides of the official road. When they saw a carriage coming, they pulled up the tripwire to block the way, and then rushed out to rob. The female bodyguard's lover had died, and she was filled with grief but had no place to vent her emotions, so she took it out on the robbers. However, due to her carelessness, she was ambushed and had to protect the young master while fighting and retreating, and hid in the nearby woods. Later, the female bodyguard was kicked off the slope by the bandit leader. When her life was in danger, the ten-year-old boy took out his gun and shot randomly, scaring the bandits away. The assistant director and Wang Peng split the road-blocking scene into four shots. The first shot was Wang Peng ordering the rope to be pulled; the second shot was the carriage being stopped by the tripwire; the third shot was the bandits rushing towards the carriage; and the fourth shot was the carriage being stopped and the two sides confronting each other. The purpose of the existence of the few extras was to rush forward and be beaten repeatedly by the second female lead after their appearance, creating the illusion of being besieged by dozens of people. Xu Kun didn't understand the professional terms, he just remembered his position firmly. No matter whether he was lying down or rushing out, he had to stay on Wang Peng's right side. In fact, the character of Xu Kun can barely be considered the second in command among the bandits, but unfortunately all the roles of the bandits are played by Wang Peng, and only Wang Peng has any subsequent plot. After rehearsing several times, the young master and the female bodyguard, who were personally instructed by Director Sun, had already taken their carriages to their positions two or three hundred meters away. So everyone returned to the ambush point. Wang Peng lay on the grass with his head held high, biting a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth, posing as a deputy building a shed and looking out. Xu Kun and three other extras lay diagonally behind him. Further away were the crew members of all shapes and sizes. During the rehearsal just now, he was busy memorizing his positions and didn't have time to think much. Now, when he saw the camera standing not far in front of him, Xu Kun inexplicably felt a little nervous, as if countless ants were crawling on his body. But he didn't dare to move at all, so he had to open his eyes to the point where the whites of his eyes were visible, stuck out his tongue and licked his lips vigorously, using his natural fierce look and small movements to hide the nervousness and uneasiness in his heart. At this time, the cameraman seemed to have discovered something and the camera slightly tilted towards Xu Kun, so that another extra was out of the shooting range. "Okay, now we're officially going to start filming, everyone get ready!" The assistant director shouted twice with a tin horn, then stepped aside and gave the C position to Director Sun. The old man first measured the viewfinder with his two hands, then took the tin horn and shouted: "Action!" Wang Peng paused for two seconds, then suddenly shrank his neck and lay back on the ground. He spat out the dogtail grass in his mouth with a "Puh" sound, and said viciously in a low voice: "Here it comes, here it comes! When I count to three, you pull up the trip rope!" As he spoke, he showed three fingers with his hands behind his back: "One, two... oops!" The setting here is that when he shouted "two", the minions got nervous and pulled up the tripwire, causing the driver to brake early and miss the trap - the reason for this setting is mainly to prevent horses and people from getting hurt, and to waste the crew's limited funds. Wang Peng punched the grass hard, picked up the ghost-head knife beside him and jumped up, shouting, "Brothers, charge! There will be a huge reward for capturing the second young master of the Li family!"
The others also got up shouting and ran after Wang Peng with weapons in hand, rushing towards the imaginary carriage - in reality, the carriage was still parked two hundred meters away. "CUT!" Xu Kun had just run about ten steps away when he heard the assistant director call out "Cut". He slowly stopped and it took him several seconds to get rid of the excitement of wanting to chop someone. It seems that putting yourself into the role has both advantages and disadvantages. For example, it is easy to get carried away and forget that you are acting. Fortunately it wasn't shot in one take. At this time, the cameraman suddenly said to Xu Kun: "You should have licked your lips again when you started filming just now." Xu Kun was stunned, and then tentatively asked: "Then can I do it again?" The cameraman shook his head and walked away. Because this scene involved extras that he had recruited, Chen Xuebin was also watching nearby at the time. When he heard the conversation between the two, he came up curiously to ask what was going on. Xu Kun scratched his head uncertainly and said, "He probably thought that I had a very tight posture before the shooting..." "Very photogenic?" "Yes, it's quite photogenic, so it was a bit of a shame when I didn't do it during the photo shoot." "Oh~" Chen Xuebin nodded in understanding and couldn't help but think highly of Xu Kun. This kid was able to get lines for his first time as an extra and even made the cameraman look at him differently. He must have something that others don't have. Not to mention that Xu Kun has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. If things go well, he might have a better future than Bao Qiang - Bao Qiang's appearance is there, and in Chen Xuebin's opinion, his upper limit is at most someone like Wang Peng. "Okay, this one's passed!" Director Sun's half-familiar Cantonese voice was heard not far away, and Xu Kun couldn't help but feel secretly regretful. He had originally thought that if the director was not satisfied, he could add the lip licking action. Chen Xuebin saw what he was thinking and shook his head, saying, "Except for the literary scenes in the car earlier, or when something went wrong, our crew basically only does it in one take, and rarely needs to reshoot." It turns out that the man surnamed Sun is abusing his power for personal gain! Xu Kun was filled with righteous indignation, and even thought seriously about whether he should hit Director Sun with a club - it was not entirely out of justice or sympathy, but mainly because every time he heard Director Sun swearing in Hong Kong Cantonese, he couldn't help but want to kill him. At this time, the crew was already filming the scene where the carriage was stopped by a tripwire. Wang Peng led everyone back to the ambush point, and just waited for the carriage scene to be completed before leading the team to charge again. Sure enough, the scene where the carriage was stopped was also shot in one take. Soon the cameras and lights turned to the vicinity of the ambush point. With the old man's shout of "action", the "bandits" immediately broke out into a run. This time Xu Kun was not caught off guard, but as he ran he realized something was wrong around him. The extras who had worked with Wang Peng before came right up to him and kept pushing him to the side. After a moment's thought, Xu Kun understood the boy's intention. He probably heard what Chen Xuebin said, so he wanted to use some trickery to snatch his C position and lines - anyway, the crew only wanted to do it in one take, and as long as there were no major mistakes, they would definitely not reshoot because of the infighting among the extras. But this guy obviously made a wrong calculation. Xu Kun sneered secretly, and when the man was about to squeeze in again, he deliberately showed weakness and slowed down, giving up his position. Just when the man thought he had timed himself, Xu Kun came up from the side and rear and bumped into him in the same way. The group of actors was unexpectedly pushed behind Wang Peng. By the time he reacted and wanted to adjust, Wang Peng had already led his team to stop in front of the carriage, and Wang Baoqiang, at Xu Kun's signal, quietly took his original position. "CUT!"
After the director called out "Cut", the assistant director and Chen Xuebin came over and shouted at the extras who were squeezed behind Wang Peng: "what happened?" "Why are you running around?" The extras knew they were in the wrong and did not dare to argue. They could only keep apologizing. The assistant director and Chen Xuebin cursed for a few words, but in the end the matter was left unresolved and the extras were asked to give up their original positions and follow Wang Peng. This guy lost more than he gained, and was unable to express his bitterness. When the confrontation between the two sides was filmed, he could only tiptoe as much as possible, trying to show his whole face over Wang Peng's shoulder. Although Wang Peng was running in front, he knew exactly what was happening behind him. So after the shooting started, he immediately raised his knife and shouted, "Everyone in the car, get out!" This time, not only was half of his face gone, not even his whole face was revealed. After the second female lead made her debut, Xu Kun finally got his wish and spoke the first line of his acting career: "Brother, this woman is really attractive!" (End of this chapter)