On a map of China, Hengdian is just a small town, so small that it doesn't even count as a prefecture-level city. However, because it has the world's largest film and television shooting base - Hengdian Film and Television City, hundreds of plays are filmed here every year, which is called "China's Hollywood" by the American "Hollywood" magazine. According to statistics, the number of group performers registered in Hengdian totaled 300,000.
Recently, a film review by Liang Chaowei, "Hearing the Sound of Shooting Stars", made Er Dongsheng's "I Am a Passerby" go unaired. The film uses extras to interpret the dream-chasing story of the "drifting" group. The entire cast comes from the real "drift".
But what is "horizontal drifting"?
Many well-known actors who have been rooted in Hengdian filming for many years will also jokingly call themselves "horizontal drift". For example, Zheng Shuang's sister invested in a fried chicken shop in Hengdian and pulled her parents to do business together.
In addition to opening a shop, Shuang Meizi also pulled her father to do group performances.
But what is the real "drift"? Xiao Qi went to ask Du Niang, and the answer was this...
Du Niang is really fierce enough, and it is a miracle that the group performance named Dong Jie can persist for ten years, and even let everyone take it as a warning.
"Horizontal drifting" is the person who is floating in Hengdian Film and Television City, in fact, the real "horizontal drifting" mainly refers to those who are "extras" in Hengdian, most of them are not graduates of science classes, but with a love for film and television performances, and crashed into the young people of Hengdian.
Before they came, their identities were even more varied, including graduates of film and television training schools, hotel management, migrant girls, coal workers, retired uncles and aunts, demobilized soldiers, and even flight attendants who also ran to this hot land of Hengdian.
Of course, there are many reasons that prompted them to come, but in the hearts of the Horizontal Drifters, they basically have star dreams, and many people's idols are actually Wang Baoqiang.
The reason is very simple, Wang Baoqiang, like these extras, has been mixed in various crews, and it is with this successful example that these extras have taken root in the film and television base without hesitation. Wang Baoqiang is a role model for some extras who want to be famous. After "Silly Roots" and "Xu Sanduo", Wang Baoqiang's fame experience has made many people who yearn for the show business envious.
But the difference is that Wang Baoqiang knows kung fu, and when he first started doing martial arts, although it was hard, his salary was not low. There are also rumors that so many group performances are strongly harmed by Wang Bao. But everyone understands that opportunities do not come every day, and that those who can become famous in one stop are like winning the lottery.
Many people think that the extras are the villagers who communicate somewhat in the play, as well as the soldiers who ask for help. In fact, many of those who speak are special appointments. The characters in the script are technical, either with action requirements or line requirements.
And the extras, basically an ordinary healthy person, can get an actor's card, because they are nameless passers-by, and even most of the time they only leave the back of the soul, or the side of the camera...
The extras, many times, are soldiers standing guard with weapons, are onlookers, are casually said to be right villagers...
Or, like a myna, a nameless passerby who learns to talk with the actor, an unknown soldier, a nameless mountain thief, an unknown bandit...
Charge in thick armor in summer and walk in thin clothes in winter. When I was lucky, I was picked to be a clever little two, a treasurer who settled accounts, a soldier who reported money, and even a soldier who was luckier, and there were one or two lines temporarily.
Compared with the group performance of north drift, horizontal drift has a stronger advantage, and the amount of group performances that the Hengdian crew needs is very large. And in the town of Hengdian, your own rent is about five or six hundred yuan a month, and the price of a meal is slightly cheaper, and the cost of living is not too high (but according to the experience of Small Cut, the price of Hengdian is also soaring).
Moreover, Hengdian has an actors' union that specializes in managing extras, which can be registered directly, and many group performance messages will also send SMS contacts.
This is the legendary Actors Guild, and the first step in "Horizontal Drift" begins here.
Of course, there may not be a drama to go, if you want to shoot, you have to find a group leader, those who need to interview fees are scam groups can not believe.
You think that when the group actor has acting skills, it is not. In fact, being a mass actor requires your interpersonal communication skills, pulling relationships with the group, and selling yourself with information, so that you can have a drama, otherwise you will not be able to eat a mouthful of food.
What kind of existence is the group head?
This is how Du Niang explained.
Of course, many group leaders are not obliged to help the group perform, but to extract a certain remuneration from the labor fee.
The salary of the group performance is also graded, and the lowest group performance will get a note with the name written on it, and you can receive money with the ticket at the end of each day.
The special contract and so on use the CCB to hit the card, and many times they will deduct a part.
The scenes filmed in the Hengdian Film and Television Base are basically period dramas, and the group performances must also do ancient costumes, and the makeup of the mass actors is solved by the roadside, where to shoot. And the makeup artist is also a streamlined worker, shouting "next" after getting one. In particular, the hood cannot be removed for several days, and if the shape is damaged, it will be scolded, and the opportunity to perform will be reduced.
The imbalance in the ratio of men to women in Hengdian is also a more practical problem. Girls run extras, most of them are ordinary people walking around the street, conscientious palace women, dressed and pasted to pour tea and water, and so on.
As for the tall and well-groomed welcome ladies, the charming Wan Chun Lou girls, the graceful dancers dancing in the bar, and so on, most of these are special appointments. Ordinary women are worried, because they earn less money, and people run beautifully to top you a few people. Pretty girls frown deep lock, because of the harassment, the same effort is finally attributed to the face, although the role of the face is indeed great.
The male group played more roles such as soldiers. Some even play soldiers and bandits in a play.
Most of these characters will have martial arts scenes or explosion scenes, and they sometimes risk injury.
Despite this, they must also learn to entertain themselves while waiting for the play. Listening to songs and taking pictures is also a common thing, and if you can take photos with celebrities, you are lucky.
Xiao Key, as a fan of the film, went to Hengdian for two days, and because the crew that started the New Year's Day did not meet too many stars, but chatted with the group actor. In the downstairs of a drama group filming the Republic of China, I met a group performance, which should be regarded as a relatively high-level, and I still had a chair with me, and I could sit down and drink a glass of water when I rested.
And they are all very good at talking, talking about which big stars have acted with before, he is a special actor, and he has lines, and the salary is much higher than the average person. If it is really communication, there can be a good job.
And more of the group performances next to it directly slept on the ground, although the temperature in the southern winter is so low, I think it is quite hard.
Compared with the competitive pressure of adult groups, the number of children is more scarce and the price is higher. Therefore, there have also been a number of group performances with dragging their families and mouths.
The hard work of filming must be known to many people, stars sometimes shoot night scenes such as hanging Weia, and group performances are no exception.
In 2013, the popular "horizontal drift" after the 90s Shi Zhongpeng, that is, because he played a Japanese soldier, he actually "died" 8 times a day in different crews, which was widely reported by the media.
After becoming famous, he also appeared on the stage of the China Dream Show.
Of course, such an opportunity is not available to anyone.
Drifters, sometimes in order to survive, in order to save money and share a room with people, find roommates in Tieba inside.
But sometimes there are not a few cases in which people know their faces and do not know their hearts, and they are swept away by people.
Every year in March and April, a large number of young people will go to Hengdian in groups to look for opportunities, but after a while, many people will return home, after all, thousands of people are looking for opportunities.
Director Er Dongsheng used this theme for the first time this time, and some group actors said to him, "Come to Hengdian, I may regret it for a few years; if I don't come, I may regret it for a lifetime." "These people remind me of the excitement I felt when I first entered the film industry, the feeling of dreaming every day." It was their youthful vigor that attracted me. Some people's eyes and looks are beyond the reach of any big-name actor now. This is the state that comes from life. ”
So he also plucked up the courage to invest in it himself without investors being optimistic.
The movie "I am a passerby" appears in our field of vision, through the film you will see the most real actors, and it is possible that you will also see the hardships and bumps on the road to chasing dreams. No one can easily say that other people's dreams are unrealistic, and most importantly, they will not regret the time they have worked hard, regardless of success or failure.
Again, the old saying goes, dreams are meant to be had, in case they come true! Whether it is a star dream or an actor's dream, if you want to, try it. I did it to know whether I was suitable or not.
Source: Network
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