preface
"You don't have to go to college, wait until you graduate from high school at the age of 18, go directly to Hengdian as a group actor, and then become a movie actor"!
I don't know when the dream of children is no longer "I want to be a scientist", almost everyone has a "star dream".
Why is that?
A netizen gave the answer: "Speaking 12345 lines, with a daily salary of 2.08 million, who doesn't want such a life."
Indeed, nothing is faster than being a star to make money, glamorous, and surrounded by people in and out, it's simply not too cool.
In this way, countless people came to the largest "star-making factory" Hengdian Cinema with their "star dreams" and became an extra, looking forward to the "Maxima meets Bole" thing happening to them.
What did those who shouted, "If Wang Baoqiang can do it, then so can I"?
Why is Hengdian known today as a "gathering place for lazy people", and where should their future go?
An unattainable dream of stardom
With Wang Baoqiang's "grassroots counterattack", countless young people have a "dream of being an actor" in their hearts.
In their opinion, Wang Baoqiang, as a "mud leg", can become a first-line male star and successfully changed his destiny.
Then he can, we can too, this is the idea of countless low-level extras, which has derived a new name "horizontal drift".
According to incomplete statistics, there are about 200,000 people gathered in Hengdian, most of them chasing the "unattainable star dream".
Many people choose to come here before even graduating from junior high school, as the name goes: "Be famous early".
They originally thought that as long as they could endure hardships, they would naturally be appreciated, and they would have the opportunity to soar into the sky, and since then they have put on glamorous clothes and become "successful people" in the eyes of others.
However, these "horizontal drifts" still underestimate the reality, 200,000 people, it is difficult to produce another actor like Wang Baoqiang.
According to a senior Hengyu, these people do not have a "basic salary", and their daily income depends on luck.
They all say that "they get up at 3 or 4 a.m. every day and get home late at night, do you say they can't endure hardships?
Just like in the movie, as soon as a group head with a big speaker comes out, a large group of Wuyang Wuyang group actors will rush up and introduce themselves hoarsely.
In fact, people look at your appearance and strengths, and you may also be in a good mood today.
After all, even if you are picked, in the end it may only be a day of lying on the ground "dead body", as long as you don't snore, lying motionless can get income, isn't this money the same as picking it up for nothing?
Then you think wrong, it's okay when the weather is cool, if you encounter hot weather, in the encounter of a clip more than a dozen times can not get by the "star", then the "dead body" also has to peel off the skin.
And the income of Hengdian group performance is also a clear price, 8 hours a day, ranging from 100-150, such income is not as good as an ordinary factory, at least workers still have a minimum guarantee.
I saw a news in Hengdian before, "The salary of a group performance is 90 a day, and a donkey that comes out of the camera is 500 a day", which simply shattered our three views, people are not as good as livestock?
One wonders how they can support themselves with such an income?
In order to reduce their extra expenses, many of them will choose to go to places such as "bridge holes and park benches", make ends meet, and tomorrow they can go to work nearby, earn less than donkeys, and be busier than anyone.
So it's obviously already so difficult, why not give up?
It's easy to dream and hard to let go
Thousands of troops crowded the single-wood bridge, and in the end, they got far less hard work than they paid, and many people wondered what these people really wanted?
In fact, to sum up, there are no more than three kinds of people.
First, they really love acting and want to do related work, but as ordinary people, they have no connections and doorways, so they can only use stupid methods.
Because of their love and persistence, even if the income is very small, they will not give up and persist hard.
As the previously popular Zhang Songwen said: "All the high salaries in China are gathered at 0.5% of the people, and the remaining actors are unable to even meet the food and clothing."
This kind of person is not for fame and fortune, and it is this kind of person who pursues that he can contact the performance industry, and it is often the grassroots who turn over.
The second type of people, their family conditions are okay, even if they have no income every day, they can maintain food and clothing.
The purpose of their coming to do group performances is more direct, just to be able to experience the "big stars" up close in addition to filming.
In other words, they are a group of persistent groupies, luck bumps in, dead beggars pull people to take a picture, and bragging will have capital in the future.
Fanatical true love fans are the most terrible, they are not afraid of hardship, they only want to see their idols, and they can be regarded as having a little "communication" with stars.
These two types of people are still sober, and they know what they want.
The third type of people is the most terrible, they know that they can't do it, and they still die in confusion and don't leave, and they live day by day.
When such people first came to Hengdian, they also came with dreams, but they often came by joy and did not return.
When they see the cruelty of reality, they choose to paralyze themselves by deceiving themselves, just like buying a lottery ticket, they win the "what if".
In Hengdian, you can see all kinds of people who have been smoothed by reality, slumping in groups in the shade of trees, waiting for God to feed their food.
Hengdian was originally the starting point for chasing the dream of an actor, but they made it a gathering place for "lazy people", saying that they lie flat, and they are also trying to survive.
Some people will ask: "Since you have seen the cruelty of being an actor in Hengdian, why choose to be an ordinary person and find a job to work honestly"?
Some reporters have interviewed some "drifters" before, and what they said is sad and helpless.
The man was wearing the coat of the "puppet army" in the TV series and eating the crew's box lunch.
After the reporter asked why he didn't change careers, the man replied calmly:
"In the past three years in Hengdian, the society is basically out of touch, if you enter the factory, it will be more than 3,000 a month, too tired, here is free, relaxed, and in case one day is valued by nobles, maybe you can turn over."
It seems that this group actor is very dashing, but everyone still sees his helplessness, not because he doesn't want to go back, but because he can't go back.
No education, no technology, the peers in the family already have a car and a house, the family is happy, they go back is also a shame, it is better to stay here and continue to "put rotten", waiting for the opportunity to "turn over overnight" to fall on their heads.
Drinking poisonous chicken soup on the Internet every day to comfort himself with what "dreams still have to exist, what if they come true", "opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared".
On the other hand, the threshold for group performances is very low, and you don't need to have any skills or work experience, simply put, you can do it personally.
While numbing yourself and having unattainable dreams, this is the current situation of "horizontal drift", which is real and unbelievable.
And this is the status quo of most male group actors, and the situation of female group actors is even more "cruel"!
"Female group acting" driven crazy by reality
To say that men refuse to change careers because of reality is understandable, reality makes them fearful.
But the female group actor "Lai" in Hengdian is incomprehensible.
In this era where you can eat "by face", Hengdian is almost full of "school flower" level beauties, and they may also be looking forward to the day when they eat by their face.
But everything is precious if it is missing, and many beautiful women originally wanted to be down-to-earth and complete their goal step by step.
In Hengdian, the man wants to become the next Wang Baoqiang, and the woman wants to become the next Zhao Liying, and this "obsession" is like a light that makes this group of dreamers feel a little hope.
However, after coming to Hengdian, they realized how difficult this goal was.
Compared with male group performance, women actually have their own natural advantages.
Male group actors often do hard-working plays, while female group actors have special subsidies, as long as you are open-minded, you can earn more than others.
For example, in many intimate scenes, those star actors are not willing to go into battle in person, and the opportunity for these female group performances comes.
Hug plus 50 yuan, kiss add 100, clearly marked price, and sometimes there are some large-scale scenes, the remuneration can reach about 1000.
In order to make more money, many female extras choose to sacrifice their hue, sacrificing a little every month to earn more.
Of course, this is also conditional, not that you are a woman, and you can only appear in this kind of scene if you look passable.
If the appearance is not so high, and you want to earn more money, the sacrifice is even greater.
When many people have difficulty maintaining food and clothing, they will choose to be a "naked substitute", and maybe they can replicate a "one-off fame".
But there is no way, there are more monks and less porridge, you think you are beautiful, and someone can always be more beautiful than you.
Some female group performers who have not been able to get job opportunities for a long time will even take the initiative to "ask" for acting skills with people like "group heads", and in the end, they can only get an ordinary group performance opportunity.
In this case, there will sometimes be a situation of "white", and the initiative to give themselves is eventually ruthlessly "abandoned" and loses the job opportunity they deserve.
And they don't dare to make a big deal out of it, after all, people control their job opportunities, and over time, these women are often driven crazy by reality.
Sometimes you can even see young women picking up garbage for a living in Hengdian, which may be the painful lesson of women's failure to take shortcuts!
So where exactly is the future of these "drifts"?
The return of ideals to reality may be the ultimate way out
Can Zhao Liying and Wang Baoqiang succeed in one out of 10,000 people?
It is too absurd to argue this sentence with their own lives, if they have really seen the story of Wang Baoqiang and Zhao Liying, maybe they will not think that they can become them.
Many people only see their "one step to the sky", but they don't know that all this can not be done with hard work.
Take Wang Baoqiang, for example, he entered the Shaolin Temple since he was a child, and practiced martial arts hard in the cold and summer.
Wang Baoqiang, who has a real kung fu, has been "drifting" in Hengdian for so long, can ordinary people compare?
At the beginning, when Wang Baoqiang ran the trick, he also started from "Wu Ti", and others faked him to come to the truth, often at the end of the day, there was no piece of his body that was not swollen.
In this way, he threw himself out abruptly, and then he could talk about what was being hit by people.
On the other hand, Zhao Liying also struggled in Hengdian for nearly 8 years before she ushered in the opportunity to show her face on the screen.
During this period, even if it was a dragon set role, Zhao Liying never slacked off and worked hard to learn the acting experience of her predecessors.
In the end, he fought for a future for himself with his own strength.
And these "horizontal drifts" think of the brilliance after success, but they have known that "water drops and stones pierce" come from thousands of unremitting efforts.
There is no pie in the sky, and the hardest thing to want and get, is to do.
When ideals fail to reality, this group of "daydreamers" may take the initiative to put down their bodies, return to their real world, start again, and grasp life.
epilogue
People who have dreams are happy, but people who can't see reality clearly are pathetic.
Gamble with your own life, such people do not deserve sympathy, let alone pity, you say?
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