More than a decade ago, I worked as a reporter in a tabloid, young, energetic, playful, and knew a lot of people. Officials, those who want food, those who peel onions, those who mash garlic, those who sell nylon socks, those who dig up carbon, we all know a few.
At that time, there was a capable guy named Dajin, who was very capable of doing literature in the early years, and the Provincial Writers Association also properly joined, and had a meal with Jia Pingwa, as evidenced by photos. After a few years of engaging in literature, the poorer and poorer it became, the thinner it became, and the bigger and the bigger the gold got hairy in his heart, so he didn't dare to do it and began to make money well. The business students are the degree of the wholesale and retail key middle school, and there is a side business, that is, filming, "werewolf tiger drama".
Friends in Xi'an all know that the werewolf tiger drama is a dialect drama program of Xi'an TV station more than ten years ago. At that time, the mobile phone was just a phone, there was no WeChat, there was no vibrato and kuaishou, and people were used to watching TV. Werewolf Tiger Drama in that year, the ratings were very high. The happy life of Xi'an people at that time was to drink Bingfeng, soak lamb, turn over the legs of the Chinese business newspaper, and watch the werewolf tiger drama lean on the sofa.
The title of the werewolf tiger drama is a lean old man who is yelling at the throat in the Accent xi'an dialect: the girl and the boy are grinning, and the werewolf tiger drama is grinning.
The provincial station took a look, got a head, followed the trend, and quickly got a "city break play" and a "hundred family broken play". This is even more hilarious. Suddenly, many local film and television companies in Xi'an rushed up to shoot dialect dramas, and filmed them to the provincial and municipal stations, and the competition was fierce, and they had to queue up.
Daikin actually doesn't even have a film and television company, but he knows a friend who has made money from filming tiger dramas, and his eyes are red, so Jinggouzi picks up the wolf and also wants to make two money by making a film. The principle of Daikin's doing things is to call it a date or not, and hit a few poles before saying.
One night, I was passing by Xiying Road and met Daikin sitting on the side of the road with three female dolls eating night markets, hanging stoves and grilling meat, and drinking Kim Hans. Daikin beckoned me to go for a drink. As soon as I left, he said that he had to go out for ten days and half a month, and he wanted to entrust me with filming and let me shoot a few films for him.
I asked why you were looking for me.
Daikin filled my cup and said, "Brother knows you're talented." I was about to look for you when I met you, indicating that there is a fate. Come and drink, you can't get out anyway.
Hi, I was writing a martial arts novel in addition to my normal work, using my spare time, heaven and earth, very lively, serialized in our newspaper, near the water tower.
At that time, I was still young, and I naively thought that I could make a fortune and marry my daughter-in-law by writing martial arts novels, but my heart was hot, and I was full of swords and lights, and I was not happy to take the job of Dajin.
I said, "Good old man, we haven't done anything about it."
Daikin: Haven't eaten pork, haven't seen a pig run?
Daikin started giving me lessons, saying it was actually quite easy to get. He inquired and understood, made a script, went to the wedding company to hire a cameraman, and then found two young men in the labor market who could work hard, a lamp, a long pole recorder, you can toss all over Xi'an City. Actors, easy to find, there are so many literary and artistic activists in the folk who squeeze their heads to come to perform. If you really can't do it, you can arrest people on the street. The werewolf tiger drama is so fierce and cold.
He was so distraught that I couldn't live or die. The big gold was the bow, very rough. I really couldn't get out, so I said that I wrote martial arts novels and didn't have time.
Dajin laughed: Good my brother, do you want to take Jin Yong's class? Jin Yong also worked as a journalist when he was young. You may not know that Jin Yong has also filmed a play, "Wang Tiger Robs Relatives". Brother, you see you, a newspaper reporter, also wrote martial arts, you are the same as Jin Yong, you don't want to work hard?
I was so fooled that I accepted it.
Daikinichi was happy and pointed to the three female dolls: Lack of actresses no? You pick and choose.
The three girls were also generous, put down the barbecue sticks, and smiled at me. This smile, every tooth is stained with spicy seeds and cumin residue. So I laughed too.
In this way, I made a werewolf tiger drama.
The first play, in Daikin's words, helped me get on the horse and gave me a ride. The script is ready for me, don't worry about me. Daikin also introduced me to a camera master with great experience in filming, called Hu Yan. Of course, a start-up fund was also given. If I remember correctly, it was three thousand dollars.
Before Daikin left, he repeatedly admonished: Don't dare to overspend, it is good to rely on these three thousand, you must work hard to save and make a revolution, the rest is your salary, if you want to earn more, you must be ruthless.
I muttered to myself: You estimate that you have found the wrong person, the loser is our nickname, and spending money is our strength.
I first found the cameraman Hu Yan in a dilapidated neighborhood in the light gate. It was a little fat man, two years younger than me, but he was very sophisticated, with a deep forehead tattoo, and could hold playing cards. Huyan was his last name, and I forgot what his name was.
Hu Yan asked me how much money I would give him.
I don't know how much money I should pay. I handed him the bottom and said I had a total of three thousand in my hand.
Hu Yan calculated the account and said, first give him the money for renting the machine and the money for post-production, this is the official price, one thousand. The remaining two thousand were finished filming, and the rest was equally divided with me, and he earned another hard money to carry the machine.
I thought it was very reasonable, so I agreed, and said to Hu Yan, I am a chick, I don't understand anything, this play depends on you more.
Hu Yan: Filming a piece of crumbling, looking for me is right. From now on, you will be the chairman, I will be the prime minister, and I will assist you well.
Huyan's residence is also a studio, full of instant noodle boxes and ham sausage pippi. On the first floor, I can't see the sun, so I don't have to pull the curtains. He turned on the computer and started playing discs for me. I thought it was a small Japanese movie, and it turned out to be a werewolf tiger drama. Hu Yan released several scenes that he participated in filming. Hu Yan said that he was familiar with the actors in it, and let me pick them at will. They are all good actors, they can act in anything, and the asking price is still low.
Sure enough, there was a bald old man inside who was very lax in singing" "His uncle and his second uncle are his uncles, and the high tables and low benches are all wood..."
I sincerely admire: this old man is really energetic, not bad, not bad. You can ask him to play a role.
Hu Yan had already read the script and said: The problem is, there is no old man in this play.
At that time, Korean dramas had just entered China, and the fire was not good. The script that Daikin left for me was a love drama called "The Lover Who Can't Catch It." It was written by a screenwriter god in the tiger drama industry, and it is said that it was made by borrowing the number of Korean dramas. It is the version of "Blue Life and Death Love" in Doumen Town, Chang'an County. There really is no bald old man inside, what is missing is a Korean Oba.
Hu Yan said that he knew a taxi driver, who was particularly handsome, just like Smytha in Korean dramas. This person's name is Zhou Daren, and he sounds like Zhou Daren.
I said let Lord Zhou come, and Hu Yan then randomly recommended a few other actors, and my heart was more or less bottomed.
By the end of the week, the boot was on and the staff was in place. In order to shoot the drama, the taxis are not open. To be fair, if you don't laugh or talk, Lord Zhou is indeed handsome, his hair is thick and black, and he has a big sideburn. Claiming to be of Xiongnu descent. But with one mouth, it won't work. The teeth are yellow and thin.
Yellow is yellow, thin is thin, does not affect the weekend we start.
Why start up on the weekend?
Because most of the people who shoot the film have their main business, they can only get out on the weekend. In order to save costs, a scene is basically filmed in two days. From morning shooting to night, the main actor only took two hundred yuan for two days. And just one meal at noon. Usually lamb steamed buns. Affordable, full of hunger. The price at that time was five pieces a bowl. On a hot day, the ice peak and mineral water are full of pipes, bottle after bottle, which is a big expense.
Of course, the actor is not a professional actor, Lord Zhou is driving a taxi, the female Number One is a clerk in a shopping mall, and the Female Number Two is a kindergarten teacher... But I'm not worried about them not acting well. Everyone loves to watch werewolf tiger dramas in fact, they like to watch that unprofessional feeling, and the roughness, embarrassment, and stiffness in the performance are sometimes also a bit of a point. Anyway, Shaanxi dialect sounds like a concubine.
Because there is only one camera, a scene should be shot from different angles to facilitate the needs of post-editing, so a scene must be filmed several times. The actor is hard, and the huyan huhu who carries the machine is even harder, the weather is hot, and the water of a ditch is a ridge.
I said it was the director, in fact, I didn't have to worry about it, Hu Yan's heart was fucked for me. Say the drama to the actors, Hu Yan said. Contact the venue, call the extension contact. What props need to be purchased, Hu Yan took it from his home, he didn't have it at home, he looked for someone to borrow it, it was really not possible, he only let me spend money to buy it. When I bought it, Huyan came out again to bargain. I had a pocket at the time, and the money for filming was put in my pocket. Later, the belt bag was tied to Huyan waist. I'm a happy handshaker, mixed in the crew, and when I catch it, I hide in the shade with a few actresses and laugh, so unhappy.
It's just that the male number one Zhou Adult is not careful. The first day, eating at noon, eating steamed buns, everyone eating well, he hummed and chirped that there was no cold dish, and he was suspicious of the city vegetarian on the cold dish, saying that he wanted to have a plate of red oil cold mixed pig ears to be enjoyable.
I don't know if Lord Zhou has the accent of any place around Xi'an, and his ears have a lot of evil sounds, which are very ugly. Toot has been saying that pigs are evil and pigs are evil, and he also said: People who go out should be kind to themselves. The crew doesn't pay for it, I pay for it myself, and I want to eat whatever I want.
Hu Yan gave me a look to make me ignore him, other people are not good to answer the call, Lord Zhou said to himself quite embarrassed, blushing, and then directly stood up and shouted: Boss, the last pig is evil.
Then the boss rushed out with a kitchen knife. Bubble bun halls are all halal restaurants.
At the moment of emergency, Huyan rushed up to block the boss with more than three hundred pounds of meat: Uncle, uncle, good uncle, let's not worry about Oh Goods, Oh Goods is a melon horse.
If it weren't for Hu Yan, Lord Zhou's evil would have been cut down.
In the afternoon, Zhou Daren, who did not eat a lot of pigs, acted half of the bad performance, made a fuss, sat on the road teeth and stretched out his legs to say that he had heat stroke. I said I was taking the herbs and was in the water, and he said he wouldn't drink it.
Filming on the street, there are always idle people watching. I heard passers-by making soy sauce stir up trouble: look, the actor picks the strings, and wants a salary increase.
I suppressed the anger and asked Lord Zhou what he really wanted to do, and he began to mutter, strongly demanding that the kissing scene be added, without the kind of borrowing, to express the true feelings.
I said, you and the female number one to communicate to go.
Lord Zhou really went. The result of the communication was that the female number one actually agreed, and she did not dislike the yellow and thin teeth of Lord Zhou.
Female Number One also has requirements: the kiss scene can only be filmed and played, not broadcast, afraid that her boyfriend will see the legs of the two of them.
Hey, I'm dizzy, this is a pair of living treasures with clear ideas!
Two days flew by. After the shooting, after doing the post-production, Hu Yan lay on the computer and stayed up all night, I stared at the side, and added several instant noodle boxes and ham sausage skins to the house. All the results end up on a single disc, and there are no big problems except that there are more typos in the subtitles.
I watched the film three or four times in a row and thought it was rotten and good-looking. Of course, there is also some nausea. You think, the script is originally very melon, speaking Shaanxi dialect in Korean drama meat and hemp, embarrassing people to death. Seriously, if I did meet that screenwriter in the future, I would have to poke him in person. I remembered the name of the screenwriter firmly, called Cao Fenyang.
The more I looked at my heart, the more bottomless I became, and I asked Hu Yan what was it like?
HuYan: Good mile, good mile, it's done!
It's done. Hu Yan began to settle accounts, saying that there were thousands of provinces, and in the end there were eight hundred left. Saying that he was equally divided, I saw that his merit was too great, and let him take an extra hundred, he was five hundred, and I was three hundred. Hu Yan said: Brother, the next play is still looking for me.
Next, it is time to deliver the disc to the TV station. At that time, Xi'an Tv Station was still in Nanshaomen.
After going there, I saw many people who delivered the film, and the look was like a thief entering the police station. The werewolf tiger drama has a steward named so-and-so, the cow is very much, blowing air conditioning in the office, let us send films one by one in the aisle outside slowly waiting, calling who can come in. It was my turn, and as soon as I entered, I saw so-and-so pulling a donkey face, and I was not looking at people, so that I could pay a certain number of invoices.
We don't understand the rules, ah, ask what invoice. So-and-so glared at me and scared me away, you see that I was out of breath.
After going back, I called Daikin to say about the invoice, and Daikin didn't understand it, so I wanted to find a way. I also put on the wrong tendon, remembering that there were meals in the drawer, and the invoices issued by the restaurant were about ten miles. Oh, haha, isn't that the invoice.
I quickly mobilized all my relatives and friends to ask them to contribute food and beverage invoices to me, and they were about to save up that amount. I suddenly realized that I had to ask Hu Yan about this. A question, sure enough, mistaken, people TV stations may want catering invoices, you see my insight at that time.
It's not that Daikin doesn't have a company, but later I borrowed invoices from a cultural company by finding a relationship. Then I went to see so-and-so's donkey face again.
To this day, when I mention this so-and-so of Xi'an TV station, I want to... In the end, the rule of law society saved him.
Non-stop, do the second play. I learned my lesson, this time simply shoot the old man drama, do not dare to use the young guy girl baby. This drama is a comedy, called "Daddy Has Become a Lottery Maniac", which follows the path of the Hong Kong movie "Five Lucky Stars", slang, market, noisy, exaggerated. Let these old men play strange, it must be hilarious.
I write the script, I can write martial arts novels, what is this, a piece of a thing. Cao Fenyang, go to yours.
Camera I naturally still look for Huyan.
The lead actor was set early on, that is, the first time to watch the film in Huyan, the bald old man who watched it, the old actor Lao Zhang of the werewolf tiger drama. It can be said that this play is tailor-made for Lao Zhang.
Lao Zhang is a Qin actor at the Xiqu Research Institute, who sang Dawusheng before retirement, and after retirement, he switched to the tiger opera stage. Old Zhang is old and strong, has good skills, and plays the role of martial arts fans in the play, which is the most suitable.
In the original design, he would pat his chest at every turn in the play, and say: "Hmm, I have kung fu, and the eighteen palms of the descending dragon are not practiced in vain." After saying this line, with a proud face, he put on a classic Stall hand gesture of Huang Feihong.
As a result, Lao Zhang took the initiative to ask for more drama, and after saying the lines, he could turn over with a harrier, which was not more interesting.
Comrades, Old Zhang was seventy years old. I didn't buy insurance for others, I didn't dare, the pelvis was broken, who counted this. But Lao Zhang insisted on turning it over, saying that he could stand up for life and death. Therefore, in this play, our old artist contributed a wonderful harrier turn over, which is touching.
I also remembered that the Shaanxi Peking Opera House next door to the Xiqu Research Institute had an old man Kang I knew, who was strange and strange, and also a concubine. I called out to Lao Kang to play, and as soon as I shouted, I came.
The actor is reliable, and there is a call to extend the pressure array, and I myself have a little experience in the last play, and I am still very confident about the play at hand.
In the play, Lao Zhang and Lao Kang are a pair of old friends. But no one expected ah, old Zhang Lao Kang these two people do not know why, is less than a pot of urine, you scare me, I bite you, extremely uncooperative. In the shooting, you also have to press the fire at both ends, at this time, I feel that it is better to shoot a love scene, kiss the mouth, more harmonious.
Two days of filming finally survived to the last play, this play is that Lao Kang played a tendon from the bank to withdraw his pension money, ready to buy all the lottery tickets. The martial arts fan played by Lao Zhang knows that he can't persuade his old friend, so he simply masks himself and disguises himself as a gangster to steal the money. Hilarious drama.
When filming, the two old men tore together, you hugged my thighs, I pulled your back placket, after a few strokes, wiped the gun and went off, and the two people faked a real fight. A pair of fierce old men, two bold men. Lao Kang's long nails have not practiced the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, and Lao Zhang's harrier can't turn over at this time, hehehehehehe, both of them make both the most popular Wang Eight Fists in the folk.
I was timid, afraid of something wrong, after all, they were two old people, who hurt us can't afford it, we have to shout stop. Hu Yan did not listen to the command, just did not stop, while grasping the close-up while shouting "good, continue."
When the battle was over, Lao Zhang's crotch was rotten, and he squatted down, sat down on the road teeth, and covered it.
Lao Kang's forehead was broken, his face was broken, and his dentures were also punched out. However, Lao Kang was not overwhelmed, his mouth was stammering, and he said the hard words that leaked out: Qin Cavity Wusheng, but so!
Lao Zhang asked Lao Kang to lose his pants. I quickly hit the round field, handed mineral water, and said that the pants crew lost.
Then shoot. Two hours later, the actor who played a son of a tendon fell while running, and his pants were torn. The young man quickly shouted at me: Director, director, do you see my pants reimbursed?
When I was counting the salaries, I made up two hundred for both actors with broken pants. This time it was overspended. I didn't earn a penny for this play. But overall, it was very satisfying. Hahaha, the girl boy is grinning, the werewolf tiger drama is grinning.
After filming, I was addicted, ambitious, and wanted to make a third film. After all, we also have experience, we also have new ideas, I think my third part will be better, maybe I will take Zhang Yimou's class in the future.
But the boss behind the scenes, Dajin, didn't let me shoot it, because the ratings of the first play were counted out, and the effect was not good, so the first play did not make any money. This made Daikin very dissatisfied.
I let Daikin wait to see the results of the second play, and I still have confidence in the second play. But Dajin didn't give me a chance, and said it very well: Brother, brother doesn't dare to delay you, what is the future of filming this rotten werewolf tiger drama? You write your martial arts well, there is a lot to be done.
Which pot does not open which pot. The president and editor-in-chief of our newspaper disagreed, and the editor-in-chief supported my serialization. The president said: Ball! What era is it, who still reads martial arts novels? The editor-in-chief's arm could not twist the president's thigh, and my serialization stopped. ball!
The novel stopped, the drama stopped, and I couldn't take Jin Yong's class, nor could I take Zhang Yimou's class. I could only start working well, carrying a bag, a camera, a notebook, a pen, a bottle of water, and running around the day.
After a year or two. Once, I went to the eastern suburbs to interview an old lady who made grain paintings. Grain painting is to take various grain particles to form a pattern and paste it on paper.
When I arrived at the old lady's house, I found that there were other people in the house besides the old lady. The old lady's old man and a middle-aged man with highly similar glasses sat in the living room and muttered something. The old lady introduced me to me that this was a crazy scene between the two werewolves and tigers.
After the old man retired, he had nothing to do, and he took the filming as a serious thing, and he was very careful. It is said that the TV station has also held an Oscar for the werewolf tiger drama, and the old man has also won an award for best supporting actor.
The old man called the glasses man the director, a director in one mouth, really affectionate. I can't help but think of the stormy years when I was filming werewolf tiger dramas, and there were also a few old men and a few young babies calling me a director.
This glasses man has thin lips and a thin face, his eyes are confused, his expression is restrained, and he has no natural freedom from literary and art workers, but some village village atmosphere. A talk, a male duck voice, Shaanpu. Out of courtesy, I asked him: Director's surname?
At that time, it was also popular to meet and hand over business cards, and the eye man was busy handing over business cards, and I took a look: Cao Fenyang.
Next to the name is a contact number and his artistic photo.
My mind suddenly popped up: Oh my God, Cao Fenyang, the first werewolf tiger drama I shot, "The Lover Who Can't Catch It", was written by him? It must be this one.
My heart clattered, and the bike fell off the chain. Where do life not meet? Xi'an is really too small. Of course, I can't poke people in person. Nor could I have revealed that I had also engaged in werewolf tiger dramas. I smiled at him with a ghostly smile.
Cao Fenyang, a man with glasses, also smiled at me: Reporter Yang, there is a chance for us to sit at another time.
I lowered my head and jerked my head. I turned the business card over and looked at it, and the back was densely packed, and the branch printed:
"Film and television all-rounder, able to write and direct and act, provide all kinds of high-quality scripts, take over werewolf tiger dramas and various advertising films."
Psychological counseling to resolve your emotional confusion.
Undertake wedding planning and perfectly interpret romance.
Professional ghostwriting of legal documents.
Part-time primary and secondary school courses and one-on-one tutoring of hard pen calligraphy..."
So listed a river beach. Is this going to be a poor crazy rhythm?
I thought to myself, obediently, it seems that the werewolf tiger drama can no longer feed these drama maniacs. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the werewolf tiger drama to come to an end. Speaking to these young people who watch vibrato and watch Kuaishou now, where do they know?
Some time ago, I passed by the Beijing Theater and went to look for Lao Kang, only to learn that Lao Kang had passed away. Sigh. I didn't dare to go to the Xiqu Research Institute next door to find Lao Zhang. However, recently my mind has always flashed back to the scenes of the filming in the past, and the sentence "The girl and the boy are grinning, the werewolf tiger drama is grinning."
It was a very hot summer.
Author | Uncle Peach | Arts and crafts artist