A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 273 Qiao Yingzi's Graduation Banquet

Chen Jinnian's method of dealing with Wu Jing was very simple. If his acting was not good enough, then he would polish it over and over again, especially the opponent's weakest lines, and then he would squeeze it to death.

As a result, Wu Jing took the script every day and asked Wu Gang, an actor who came from a drama background, to teach him how to pronounce the words one by one.

Of course, Wu Jing is not someone who will suffer losses.

The crew soon staged a famous scene of two directors retaliating against each other. First, when Chen Jinnian was the director, he was crazy about Wu Jing's performance and wanted to shoot a close-up shot of Wu Jing twenty times.

When Wu Jing's injuries were almost healed, he immediately took over the director's position and started filming the martial arts scenes in the movie. Chen Jinnian was also not spared. All the explosion scenes, fighting scenes, and gun battles were included. He even filmed some scenes that were not originally in the script.

But Chen Jinnian was like a cockroach. No matter how he cleaned up the day before, he would still be full of energy when he went to work the next day.

Wu Jing was amazed and could only sigh that it was great to be young.

However, the two directors played tricks and almost tortured Wu Gang, who was acting with them, to pieces. His old arms and legs, who were in their fifties, could not withstand the torture. Later, he simply took painkillers to get through all the scenes.

Of course, there are some advantages to having two directors shoot the drama and martial arts scenes separately. That is, the shooting period is not as long as expected. By the end of July, Chen Jinnian and Wu Gang had finished filming their scenes.

The crew also took the opportunity to take two days off to rest and prepare for the next scenes.

Yes, even after nearly two months of filming, the crew still hadn't finished filming the scenes at the iron factory. Wu Jinghe had just arrived a few days ago as "Crossbones" Frank, and they still had to shoot the subsequent duel scenes and tank scenes.

In the morning, Chen Jinnian and Uncle Frank walked out of the hotel arm in arm, followed by a translator from the crew.

"Uncle, when you're done filming, come find me and I'll make good arrangements for you. We'll take you to the Forbidden City and eat Peking duck and the Great Wall, which are all favorites for you foreigners."

After listening to the translation, Frank nodded repeatedly and spoke a series of words at a rapid pace.

Chen Jinnian's foreign language proficiency was average to begin with, and test-taking English and actual English were two completely different things, so he naturally didn't understand what the other party meant. However, judging from the final "OK" and the other party's friendly smile, he was obviously very happy.

In fact, Frank is not particularly unfamiliar among the 80s generation in China. If he could shave off his beard, many people would definitely find him very familiar.

Back then, CCTV and provincial TV stations didn’t just broadcast mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas and anti-Japanese war dramas, they also broadcast American dramas, Korean dramas, Japanese dramas, British dramas... Even the most popular American dramas could be broadcast in the prime time at 8 pm.

In this kind of drama-watching atmosphere, along with the popularization of broadband Internet, a phenomenally popular American drama, "Prison Break", emerged among domestic college students.

Later, it became even more popular beyond the circle, expanding from the student group in school to the whole society.

It was also the first time for most people to know that TV dramas could be filmed in this way and be so thrilling. It was a true dimensionality reduction attack. Its popularity at the time was even more popular than "My Love from the Star", which was later dedicated to promoting the Korean state banquet (beer and fried chicken).

In the history of domestic and foreign dramas, it is second only to "The Chase".

Coincidentally, Frank happened to play a role in Prison Break.

Chen Jinnian and Frank, one speaking Chinese and the other English, chatted enthusiastically, which made the translator behind them become autistic for a while. In his more than ten years of work, this was the first time that he could not get a word in during the translation process.

The key point is that the two of them can actually chat with each other, which is really weird.

Wu Jing was standing outside wearing sunglasses. He had just seen Wu Gang off. When he turned around, he saw the two of them walking out talking and laughing, and he hurriedly shouted.

"Hey, this is the actor I hired. Don't pay attention to him."

He knew Chen Jinnian's shameless character too well, and was really afraid that he would snatch away the actors that the crew had already booked. He knew that the other party had a new drama waiting to be filmed, and had recently sent a film offer to Lu Jingshan.

After saying that, he pulled Chen Jinnian aside and stood in front of Frank.

"Just chatting."

Chen Jinnian spread his hands innocently. He really didn't have any intentions towards Frank. He just watched Captain America 2 two years ago and was curious about Marvel's filming process, so he asked this participant.

He threw the bag in his hand into the car arranged by the crew, waved his hand casually, got in the car and closed the door in one go.

Frank felt that Wu Jing's behavior was a little strange, so he turned around and asked the translator beside him, wanting to know what the two had just talked about.

The crew's translator did not speak immediately, but looked at Wu Jing for permission. After getting permission, he translated it to Frank.

"Why, he's just a very young actor."

"He is a director, and only then an actor." Wu Jing said directly in English. His spoken English was actually quite good. When he performed abroad with the martial arts team a few years ago, he received intensive training in the language.

"God, did I just go through an interview?" Frank was shocked and immediately said, "It's really hard to guess the age of you Asians. I thought he was young."

"He was very young to begin with, the same age as your eldest son."

"what?"

Xuanhua is only two hundred kilometers away from Beijing, so he can be sent home before noon.

However, Chen Jinnian neither went to Shuxiang Yayuan nor went home. Instead, he asked the crew's driver to take him to a hotel in Xicheng District. Today at noon was Qiao Yingzi's graduation banquet, and Qiao Weidong set up ten tables to celebrate for his daughter.

Not only Wang Yidi and other good classmates were there, but even Chen Jinnian's parents were there.

In the hotel lobby, Qiao Weidong was excitedly toasting at the table, while Qiao Yingzi followed behind him with a reluctant look on her face, holding a bottle of wine in her hand.

In fact, she didn't want to hold a graduation party at all. According to her and her mother's idea, they could just find a restaurant and invite good friends and classmates to celebrate.

But Qiao Weidong insisted on holding a grand ceremony, and most of the guests were Qiao Weidong's relatives and friends. Qiao Yingzi didn't know any of them, which made her feel extremely awkward.

"Yingzi, this is your Uncle Li, who works at the bank. You met him when you were a child. Hurry up and fill your uncle's glass."

Qiao Yingzi forced a smile and poured wine for this uncle, of whom she had no impression.

After Qiao Weidong finished greeting this person and toasted him, he continued to look for his next important business partner. Qiao Yingzi sighed and was about to follow him when someone pulled her arm back.

She turned her head away angrily, but when she saw him, she was suddenly surprised and smiled excitedly, "Jinnian, why are you here?"

"How can I not come to your graduation party?" Chen Jinnian said, then looked around, "But why don't I see anyone I know?"

"Oh, they are all in the private room. Wait a moment, I'll ask the waiter to take you there."

"Why do you need a waiter?" Chen Jinnian snatched the bottle from her hand and placed it on the seat next to her. "Come on, what are you doing here? Let your dad handle it alone. Let's have our own gathering."