In the group performance, it is indeed "hidden dragon and Crouching Tiger". A tattooed "social person" with a history of drug abuse, driving a Mercedes to accompany his wife to Hengdian, the wife has depression, he just wants to satisfy her addiction. A Shanxi young man who does not smoke himself, but carries a good cigarette and delivers it to everyone, lives in a high-end hotel every day, and his family is a coal mine. A Hong Kong man with a strange accent. A professional basketball player who is two meters tall. A business card printed "Zhang Yimou's brother-in-law", a guy who took a director's chair to sit on the set. The above are all people that Hui Xiangyi has encountered. An assistant director told "People" that once when he interviewed a character, he added the other party's WeChat, and found that "not only know, I have consumed", and the friend's note shows that it is a sitting lady in a Hangzhou nightclub.
But in general, more group performances are ordinary migrant workers like Qi Chuanyong and Lei Shengcai. Qi Chuanyong is a native of Anhui, who has done car decoration and worked in the Wuhu factory, "one stop on the assembly line is 18 hours", thinking of coming to Hengdian to relax. Lei Shengcai is an electronics factory worker from Guangdong, who also worked as a waiter in a restaurant, and after watching the movie "I Am a Passerby", he had the idea of trying it himself. The story of the cross-drift almost always begins like this, driven by curiosity and impulsiveness, rather than intention and careful planning, and then they enter the place unimpeded.
Wen | Xie Mengyao
Photography | Yan Xinfeng
Regarding the Hengdian group performance industry, some things are recorded in the documents of the Actors Guild, which are well documented: group performances are 80 yuan per worker; more than 8 hours, plus 10 yuan per hour; dismissal without costumes is counted as half work, once put on the costume, even if it is a full worker; shaving the head of the Qing Palace drama, plus 40 yuan; shaving sideburns (often to push the hair on both sides), plus 10 yuan; lying corpse fee 10 yuan; lifting the car fee 10 yuan; rain 10 yuan; face plastering blood from 10 yuan; more than 12 o'clock at midnight, 10 yuan; turning the crew, 30 yuan Phi Ma Dai Xiao, 10 yuan; the director temporarily adds drama or changes people, and wants to speak in groups, 30 yuan, but the water word "rush, kill" does not count. All fees are 10% of the guild's commission.
There are things that are not on the surface, and you need to be in them to know. 10 yuan is just the beginning, light rain, heavy rain, summer rain, winter rain, the face is painted with a little ash, or the viscous blood-colored syrup smeared everywhere, the price is definitely not the same, see how the group talked to the crew. On the third night of the New Year's Day this year, Hengdian dropped to minus a few degrees, the crew wanted to shoot the rain scene, more than 40 group performances collectively opposed, and finally only by wetting the ground and sprinkling water with a watering can in front of the camera to achieve the effect. At the New Year, there are few people, the price of everything rises, and no one wants to shave their heads for 40 yuan. 80, 100, the price increase to 150 yuan, "Ruyi Chuan" crew finally made up enough heads, and those who shaved their heads before can also take 150 yuan.
The price of girls shaving their heads is different, playing a nun, a head is worth 6,000 or 10,000 yuan, but this situation definitely has a close-up, to pick people, tall, and good looks. Girls who plan to save a sum of money and go home will sign up, because it is difficult to take on plays with short hair, but all court plays must be cross-headed. The guild is a one-size-fits-all registration for women, and must have long hair over the shoulders. Not long enough, go for the haircut.
And some things need to be experienced for a long time to be understood. Not everyone can reach this feeling.
<h1>Fresh, enjoyable</h1>
Qi Chuanyong lowered his head and sat lazily on a stone, with a large knife on the side. The hilt of the knife is made of wood, and the body of the knife is made of plastic painted with silver paint, which is quite realistic. It was drizzling all day, the ground was wet, the body was sticky, all sweaty. He was very sleepy, it was really a long day, and dozens of people gathered before dawn to set off to take pictures of the mountain. It was 4 p.m., and it looked far from over. Like him, the men wrapped in turbans and dressed in the costumes of the townspeople fell to the ground or sat or lay down, and their weapons were scattered on the ground, as if they had experienced a defeat. At the end of the day, they have walked back and forth on the mountain road many times, filming the scene of the mountain expedition. Liu Peiqi and Cao Yunjin, who starred in this scene, came to the scene from the hotel in the afternoon, filmed a few shots, and went to the shed to drink tea.
This is August 2016, qi Chuanyong came to Hengdian for two months. He was just 30 years old, but he looked to be over forty years old, and he was severely depressed. This is good, when reporting the bald play, there is no concern at all.
Lei Shengcai also reported this costume film called "Dragon War", he refused to shave his head, only willing to shave off his sideburns to play the kind of Qing soldier wearing a bucket hat. His role is mainly in a temple, the smoke cake is lit, and the environment immediately has a sense of the vicissitudes of the times. Everyone pretended to be busy, there were horses to feed, there were weapons to wipe, Lei Sheng was the most miserable, responsible for carrying sacks. The same sack is doing a two-point and one-line turning back movement, going up, down, going up, down. There is no need to pick the type of work, and the director lets you do whatever you want.
To become a group performer, there is almost no threshold. Handle local bank cards and telephone cards, get a temporary residence permit, and register with the Actors Guild to register for the play. Adapted to the mobility of this industry, local rental housing is also renewed in January. A few days ago, Hui Xiangyi, the owner of the town's youth inn, recalled to "People" that he came to Hengdian in 2002 as a group performer, only 12 yuan a day, and he could not eat enough. That year was four years before the completion of the "Forbidden City" (that is, the Ming and Qing Palace Garden of the film and television base), and 11 years before Er Dongsheng started filming "I Am a Passerby" with Hengdian as the material. This gave him a certain sense of superiority, thinking that the people who had passed through that era were dedicated to art, and now "social idlers and so on are coming, and you don't know which shampoo room and red light district she worked in."
When you first arrive, everything is so fresh. On the first day of acting, Qi Chuanyong's character was a Japanese ghost. He had to wear his own clothes, and he couldn't even beat the leggings. Several times, he laughed unconsciously while filming. "Don't laugh!" Don't laugh!" The director scolded angrily. Shoot it one more time or two more times, and it will be over.
Stars who can only appear on the screen can be seen in reality, although they can only be seen from a distance. "The article should not exceed 1 meter 7." Qi Chuanyong said. Like him, the group actors are generally committed to the height of the stars to fight fakes. "Like that Zhang Rui, the specific height is not known." But that day we went, so high the heightened pad." Qi Chuanyong extended his index finger and thumb as far as he could, and in order to make up for the shortage of knowledge points for the reporters of "People", he kindly reminded: "Zhang Rui is the fifth brother in the new version of "Huan Zhu Gege.""
In just a few months, Lei Shengcai had already met Wu Xiubo, Liu Tao, and Ke Zhendong, "I have also seen Lu Han, it is enough fire, the fire is so hot that it will explode." I don't think he looks very good either." Cao Yunjin, who was filmed in this scene, is not a star at all in his eyes. For now, Zhao Liying is his goddess. He made up his mind that the announcement of the presence of the goddess must be reported. Newspaper drama is like buying lottery tickets, until the moment of the scene, the group will not tell you what the play is. But he touched the doorway. Through the public group news, he can know which hotel the goddess's crew is in, as long as the meeting place is there, although it is good to sign up.
A fat man named Zhang Chaochao said that one of his most enjoyable scenes was to follow a group of people around Feng Yuanzheng and scold. "Who can scold a star?" His heart blossomed, but he also pretended to be angry. He squeezed to the front and got the front shot of the shot.
Compared with the past, now is the best era for Hengdian group performances. A few years ago, it was also popular to "play white stripes", holding a note signed by the head of the group and waiting for the settlement day to receive money. Now the salary is paid to the personal account, half a month, never in arrears. Filming more than 7 o'clock in the evening, if there is no car transfer, you have to send a car to make up 5 yuan. Although the money is small, a few people use Didi Express to share a single, which is enough. What's more, this year there have also been shared bicycles - a green local version that is different from the mainstream colors in big cities, and one dollar is enough. In the past, Heimo was the mainstream, and Yang Lin, a reporter who came to Hengdian in 2013 to interview, remembered that the body was full of abortion and plastic surgery advertisements.
Group performance Lei Shengcai
<h1>Reach, wait</h1>
Sedan, reached. Jailer, reach. Death row prisoners, achieved. Warrior monk, achieved. Students who entered Beijing to take the exam, Japanese officers in leather boots, and handmaidens with machetes in their hands, achieved, achieved, achieved.
As time progressed, Qi Chuanyong's list of characters continued to grow. He had only planned to come to Hengdian for a walk, but he was now staying here. Among the many roles, he likes to play a prostitute the most, "How comfortable it is for two girls to hug each other like this." Someone would take the opportunity to pick up the oil, and he had never done that before. He was an honest man, his hand gently holding the girl.
He remembers it clearly, and so far he has acted as a prostitute a total of 3 times, a period play once, and a costume play twice. Who doesn't want to play a prostitute, but not want to act can act, Lei Shengcai is black and thin, does not look like a rich man, he has not acted once.
Assign roles their own routines. People who are too short don't want to play ministers. Eunuchs want to have smooth and fair skin — Wu Yubo, a Hainanese man with a potholed face, said he had never played a eunuch. But he had played a nun, and that day he had originally played a monk, but there were not enough girls, and he was small, so he let him stand in the back row. There was an anti-Japanese drama, the director let the group perform two piles, 1 meter 7 to stage the puppet army and the eighth road, 1 meter 7 below the Japanese devil.
On the first day of coming here, Qi Chuanyong didn't know anyone. Now, he has more than a dozen friends. It is not difficult to get three or four people to play cards at night. But he is willing to lend 200 yuan to no more than 5 people, and if the amount mentions 2,000 yuan, there is not one. This is an extremely liquid industry, and people may wipe their mouths off this flowing water in the blink of an eye. He suffered a loss, someone said that he borrowed 50 yuan, has not repaid, and later wanted to borrow more, he simply did not want money, blocked him.
Lei Shengcai lived in a near-slum room, with no air conditioning and hot water, and the net was also stolen by the neighbors. The bathroom was communal and disgustingly dirty. The door locks and windows were broken, but he didn't care, there were only a few torn clothes left in the house except for a dirty mattress, and he took his wallet with him. Qi Chuanyong's rooms are hardcover, with air conditioning and hot water network all available. The monthly rent difference between the two rooms is nearly 3 times, but it is actually very close, 220 yuan and 600 yuan.
The age of text messaging and QQ dramas has been as far as a century. Now, the drama is carried out through the WeChat group. Most of the WeChat names of the group performers are real names. Slightly weird, their names were followed by a long list of numbers. Lei Shengcai is 9001180698024; Qi Chuanyong is 8601178549884. It seems irregular.
In a sense, this set of numbers is all the group leaders need to know when picking people. The first four numbers are the date of birth, the next three represent height, and finally the actor number. The group hair announcement is only a few words, the number of people needed, the time and place of the meeting. Special requests include shaved head or sideburns, as well as height. The same group head, will establish several groups, the group name is extremely simple and rude, as the name suggests, "bald head group" is to shoot Qing Dynasty dramas, "handsome and beautiful women group" has a higher demand for appearance. If you want to sign up, talk, if you are picked, the group leader will @ you say, come on. It's that simple, no nonsense. Don't chat casually in the group, people who talk a lot will be kicked out.
Qi Chuanyong was a loyal member of the "Skinhead Group" from beginning to end. Although it was obviously not standard, he still mixed into the "handsome and beautiful women's group". He tried to add as many groups as he could, so that the opportunity to pick the announcement could be in his own hands. In the WeChat name, his height is displayed as 1 meter 78, but in fact, like the star, there is moisture in it. The difference is that just a few centimeters is exactly the distance he needs to win a job offer.
Falsely reporting height is actually very common. Girls 165 and boys 180 are the ideal heights for Hengdian Newspaper, but the people who report conforming are far greater than the people who really meet. "A lot of girls who are 1 meter 55 really dare to write 1 meter 65 on the material." Director Li Haiying said. The risk of false reporting is that when you arrive at the scene, you may be returned, and you will not have a penny for a trip.
There are many tourists in Hengdian. But for people who have been performing in groups for a while, it is not difficult to distinguish whether the people coming across the street are their own people, it is not difficult at all, it is not just a kind of intuition. If the girl has long black hair (group performances can't dye their hair), the boy is tanned, then most of it is, if you still carry a folding chair, it must be.
On set, waiting is the norm. The actors still have a rough expectation of when they will play and how long they will play, and the group performances are on standby. And as "moving props", they are often used to the end. At most once, Qi Chuanyong changed into four costumes a day and played four different passers-by. He had also bought a folding chair, and he no longer had to sit silly on the stone like he had in the summer when he first arrived.
He also summed up some laws, "More people use more, and fewer people use less." Specifically, a bunch of group costumes, some play soldiers, some play guards, some play eunuchs. If there are many people playing soldiers, the usage rate will be high, and if you want to be relaxed, don't wear soldier uniforms. This may just be his superstition, but the other thing is certain, the queue to get clothes and stand back, are all old fritters, because the clothing is sometimes uneven, the last person in line can not use it, sit for a day and still take the money. Lei Shengcai admitted that he often did this, but Qi Chuan would never.
Don't be lazy, he told himself. "Here it comes, it's going to be filmed."
Half a year after coming to Hengdian, the first film he participated in, "Mule and Gold", was released. He rushed to find himself, and according to the plot introduction, estimated the number of episodes he was in. In this play, he played the Kuomintang, the Red Army, the common people, bandits, thieves and traders, most of which could not be seen off camera or in the distance. So, when he finally found himself, he was very excited and sent screenshots to friends. In fact, the camera is just swept away. "The vague one, only you know, others don't know."
Group performances Qi Chuanyong
<h1>Coarse, torturous</h1>
It's not all good. As the freshness faded, more coarse, torturous experiences emerged.
Wearing armor in the summer is a nightmare for everyone. The summer span of Hengdian is long, with a maximum of more than 40 degrees. Although the armor was plastic, it also weighed dozens of pounds - it was difficult to lift with one hand, tightly wrapped up people, and sweat was really difficult. At least two of the armor scenes lei shengcai has participated in fainted, "like being shot." The water is enough, and some crews also provide mung bean soup. When serving soup, people are like flies in three layers of outer three layers, and sweat drips straight into the pot.
The explosion scene is equally terrifying. Anyone who experiences it for the first time will be scared to death. In order to create a realistic effect, some of the explosion points will not tell the location. The earth bomb is fine, the grass and mud are broken, the fire bomb is more dangerous, the fire can jump several meters high, and the surrounding air will become extremely hot. There was an explosion scene, I don't know which link went wrong, after all the explosions, after ten minutes, another pit exploded again.
The worst thing is that you can't avoid these scenes, there is no trace in the announcement, and you can basically rely on luck.
"Teacher" is a high-frequency word in Hengdian. Everyone can call each other teachers, costume teachers, makeup teachers, field teachers, and mass teachers. The crowd and the teacher are connected together, and a group performer himself finds it funny. This is just a superficial courtesy, as a group performance, it is often a matter of being yelled at and urged. Qi Chuanyong had been scolded a dozen times, perhaps dozens of times. Sometimes it's true that he's doing it wrong, and sometimes he's scolded for doing it right. There is a scene where he kneels on one knee and he is in the exact opposite position to the other person. The director scolded him for being stupid, but he did what the etiquette teacher had taught him earlier. In the end, it was clear that the director did scold the wrong person, and he apologized to Qi Chuanyong.
But more often, scolding you doesn't need a reason, it just stems from command chaos. "There are a lot of on-site management, this person tells you to do it, that person tells you to do it, who you listen to, who is wrong to do it." 」 Qi Chuanyong was good-looking and very obedient, but there had never been a sign of someone pointing at his nose.
Compared to other work environments, the crew seemed to have a particular penchant for swearing. Swear words are a kind of magic that brings fear and surrender, and makes the swearr rise from among the multitudes. Without the blessing of profanity, that sense of authority disappeared, and he became an ordinary person like the group performance.
When a play first started filming, the clothes and shoes were all new, but they quickly became dirty and smelly, and for cost reasons, the crew rarely changed them. Sometimes, clothes and shoes come down, and the inside is still wet. Several fights, all of which began with the group performance to change clothes, the person in charge of the costume did not let it, and the quarrel arose.
Once, Lei Shengcai felt that he was about to suffocate in the skin of a skunk. The dress emitted a huge fox odor. "I can't stand it. I can't stand it anymore." He shouted. At his insistence, the other party gave him a replacement. Another time, his clothes were all wet, and in the winter, he turned around and left, and he didn't want the money. "Whoever is bad to you, be good to yourself." He said. Sixty or seventy group performances, like him only walked away six or seven, the others chose to endure.
"See all kinds of unfairness or something, you can't think about it." Qi Chuanyong said he never left because of clothing problems. There is really no way to wear clothes, at least shoes can be brought by yourself. Through Taobao, he bought a pair of boots and a pair of cloth shoes, which can basically solve most of the needs. Boots were used for Filming Qing Dynasty dramas, and cloth shoes were used for filming period dramas. Only the Han Dynasty drama is an exception, that kind of cloth shoe style, there is no internet at all, he only has to endure the risk of athlete's foot, to wear those smelly shoes.
Patience and swallowing can find various reasons, Qi Chuanyong has a good temper, can bear hardships, and has strong endurance, but there is only one real reason, the disparity in power. The set is a hierarchical society, and the differences are very obvious. According to director Li Haiying, in the past, group actors could only sit on the ground, and special actors could only sit in chairs. "The crowd sat down in a chair, and the leaders of the crowd cursed you. It was a very disciplined time, not like it is now."
Stars are people at the top of the chain of power, and it's hard to take a group photo. Generally speaking, only on the day of the killing can you justifiably take a group photo. But one of Lei Shengcai's friends was frustrated, and when he wanted to go forward and take a picture with Liu Shishi, he was stopped by his assistant, citing not limited time. "You look so ugly, don't be a fit." This incident became the laughing stock of Lei Shengcai's friend for a long time.
It is easy for the outside world to confuse martial arts with group performances. But in Hengdian, the former is privately contracted and is not under the jurisdiction of the Actors Guild. Wu Xing was extremely disgusted by being mistaken for a group performance. "Does he dare to fall in a group performance?" Because he has no foundation in martial arts." The words of Zhongpeng in the history of martial arts are typical, not to mention, "(The crew) can't lose his temper with us, we have a great temper when practicing martial arts."
The question of who is the lowest in terms of field work and group performances is a topic that can be debated forever. "The crew is the lowest level in the crew, because anyone can use him, so he is the most tired." Qi Chuanyong said. However, the daily salary of the field is generally 200 yuan, which is still higher than the group performance.
Wuxing Shi Zhongpeng
<h1>The path to advancement</h1>
For group actors, special actors (special actors) are the higher class they strive to enter. Special from 150 yuan per day, according to the price, it is divided into small special, medium special and large special.
Qi Chuanyong already knew about the existence of the special contract, but rarely watched the group head send a special notice in WeChat. It wasn't until he stayed in Hengdian for more than 3 months that he figured out that this was an opportunity that could only be obtained by sending materials to the assistant director of the crew.
The so-called information is an A4 piece of paper with personal information and stills printed on it. Hengdian has a large number of photo studios to provide this service, one piece for one dollar, and can also provide stills for modeling shooting. It is not difficult to take a good photo, but it is necessary to do psychological construction again when you send it out. Lei Shengcai also made a data once, he regretted it after doing it, and felt that it was better to buy a few bottles of drinks. "You said you graduated from North Film, a little bit of acting, come and try it, maybe the director can give you a small role of one or two episodes." 」
In the end, he didn't throw a share, and he decided to "settle for the status quo" and not put pressure on himself. "Do you have to realize something that is obviously unattainable?" Do you have to carry something that you can't afford to carry? Isn't it very depressing to live like this?"
One day at the end of September 2016, Qi Chuanyong pulled up a friend and started to act. The crew all stayed in the hotel, the assistant director's room was posted with notices, and the time to receive information was generally between 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.
"You can shave your head." Okay." Someone marked the data.
Someone looked at him and his friend. "You're 1m 78, he's 1m 75." How are you shorter than him?"
"Let's put it here first, there is a suitable contact for you." Someone didn't even let him try the lines, so they told him. Later he knew, this sentence is equivalent to rejection.
After waiting for two weeks, the first opportunity came, asking him to play a monk for 500 yuan and speaking hundreds of words. The night before, he got a line with no background explanation. He carried it all night, thinking he remembered it very well. But when the shooting started the next day, I still stumbled. He was uncontrollably nervous, and his eyes fluttered violently. Shouted twice, recorded for an hour and a half and finally finished recording. Fortunately, it is not a simultaneous sound, the director's requirements are not strict, and the expressions and actions are in place. The character's request also saved him, and he played a monk with flickering words and timidity.
Most people send information that sinks into the sea, but Qi Chuanyong won two of the 10 copies he first sent. This is thanks to the fact that he can play middle-aged people – a much less competitive age group, thanks to his "height of 1 meter 78", but more of a stroke of luck, which he never had again.
In 2016, he was given more than a dozen special opportunities, and in the first four months of this year, he played dozens of times, mostly as a minister. He gradually developed a nickname, "Chen Peisi". His facial features are indeed somewhat similar, and his shaved head is even more similar. He thinks it's good and easier to remember. After becoming a special offer, he enjoyed the sweetness, the leggings did not need to be beaten by himself, and the person in charge of the costume would help him.
One embarrassment is that even when he was on special assignment, the password that moved him in front of the camera was still, "People go", not "start". These two words occur one after another, when the executive director shouts "people go", the other people in the scene will act, shouting "start", before the turn of the main characters, the play can really begin. His highest income, staying in the first income, was $500. Moreover, these later special offers are almost all "dumb" without lines.
Qi Chuanyong carefully runs his WeChat circle of friends, often updating stills and videos of filming. He explained that the purpose was simply to let the people in the circle see that there were suitable plays for him in the future. In fact, this WeChat is registered separately, which is a closed loop limited to Hengdian. His life here is known only to a few of his family members, and his former friends do not know. "How to say about filming, I feel that in the eyes of others, I may not be doing my job." He then added, "It's neither honorable nor shameful."
In a certain sense, the watershed between special appointments and group performances is decided the moment you step into Hengdian. In recent years, more and more acting students have come to be a drifter - many of them graduates of prestigious schools, these beautiful boys and girls, almost without group acting experience, soon become special contractors, and then role actors. Qi Chuanyong is already a breakthrough in the group performance.
And turning the perspective, from the perspective of director Li Haiying, from the group performance to the special advancement, is just the self-realization within the small circle, "300 to 500, as soon as we hear the people at this price point, we know that this is the person who says one or two lines." Basically we put it in the category that doesn't act."
"He is a mass with an image, but he is still acting in a mass play." He said, "In the eyes of the crew, the masses and special appointments are all unified shouting at the masses."
<h1>Only the masses, no actors</h1>
Time and time again, people mention "I Am Passerby A", a film that uses group acting as the protagonist to complete. Many group speeches said that the film was the reason why they appeared in Hengdian. In 2016, the number of Hengdian group performances reached 570,000 times, and the number of daily scheduling people remained above 2,500.
There has never been a real star in the Hengdian group performance, and Shen Kai, as the male number two of the film, is now the star of Hengdian. When he had a late-night snack with the "People" reporter, he sat on his back in the corner of the hotel, and several waves of people recognized him and called him "Kaigo". He is the business card of Hengdian. The Actors Guild frequently invited him to talk and twice awarded him the Special Actor of the Year Award. Lei Shengcai paid great attention to his news, knowing that he had starred in "The Sword of the Third Young Master" for a few seconds.
Shen Kai has been the protagonist of a web drama, but more of a special agent. In the interview, "This circle is very realistic", is the sentence he repeats the most. "They think this place can have a good relationship, and this place will meet a lot of enthusiastic people like me [in the movie]." There are so many enthusiastic people." He laughed.
"I am a passerby A" male number two Shen Kai
It's easy to overlook the whole story. Probably out of a sense of crisis, Shen Kai still lives in a house rented for 300 yuan a month, and like Lei Shengcai, there is no air conditioning and no hot water. His salary exceeds the average special offer, but he is not able to play every day. He plays one-on-one with big stars, but he is also completely ignored by the other party after the camera is removed. He also fantasized about becoming the protagonist of the theater blockbuster, but those illusory bubbles have been broken. Sincere belief in one thing does not mean that it is true. Shen Kai is very hardworking, and the cruel truth of show business has always been that hard work does not necessarily lead to success.
"After all, when I came to Hengdian to shoot a movie, the main characters were all set in Beijing, and it was all small to run to this side." He said, "Actually, there are still quite a few people in Hengdian who can act, but in the eyes of all the people outside, Hengdian only has the masses, no actors, and this is the reality." Director Li Haiying estimated that not counting the parachutes, the actors who started in Hengdian can be paid more than 50 yuan in a single day.
But leaving Hengdian is not so easy. Xu Xiaoqin is also one of the main actors of "I Am a Passerby". After the film was released, she wanted to go to Beijing, but now she is still shooting web dramas here. She said to herself that if the future left, she would never come back.
Xu Xiaoqin, one of the main actors of "I Am a Passerby"
Shen Kai and Xu Xiaoqin are still some way from Beijing. The distance between Qi Chuanyong and them is the distance between "people walking" and "starting", the distance between showing a face and living a few episodes in the TV series. This distance is farther than Hengdian to Beijing.
Ask the group performers, the most impressive scene they have filmed, the answer they give you, generally will not be the scene he is most satisfied with, but the most difficult scene, or the scene that earns the most. The two are mostly the same thing, and the length of time is proportional to the remuneration.
At the end of the year, Qi Chuanyong saved seven or eight thousand yuan. He sent 5,000 yuan back to his hometown. He didn't go home during the Spring Festival and filmed here. After participating in the TV series, he no longer finds himself in it. When he saw the stars, he felt at peace, "Just like us, the people who shoot the scenes are just a little more money than us, just a little more comfortable than us." 」 He didn't want to be them. His next goal is to play the emperor, which is not an unattainable dream, if it is just a dimwitted king with few shots, the special contract can be played, and the remuneration is basically equal to a shop boy with more lines. He was once very close to this opportunity, but gave up because he was not white and fat enough.
Lei Shengcai was extremely frugal, but he did not save much money during his days in Hengdian. He also felt that he was getting lazier. Get up in the morning, finish work in the afternoon, and don't take the night play. No responsibility for the role, no mental stress. So far he has not been given the opportunity to speak his lines. But at least, the goddess Zhao Liying, whom he had wanted to see so much, had already seen, and it was several times. He made plans to leave here before the end of this year and return to the factory to work.
Like a stubble of grass, the old one goes and the new grows again. On the evening of the end of April, more than 30 young people filled the class at a group performance training class called "XiaoMa Yun Performing Arts Studio". These studios make a profit by providing film and television peripheral services, and free courses help them expand their influence. The door is open and anyone can sit in. For the future, everyone seems excited and looking forward to it. Ma Yun's head is printed on the poster on the wall, as if the huge rich man has also risen from the group performance.
When the teacher asked everyone aloud what the goal of coming to Hengdian was, someone first said, "Play tomorrow's play well." On the occasion of the occasion, the answer had the illusion that the answer was not what was asked. The awkward atmosphere lasted for a few seconds, and then other voices appeared.
"Enter the entertainment industry!" "Famous!" ......
On the poster in front of them, there were a few big red words, "I'm the one who starred."
(Blog World reporter Qiu Xueqiong and intern Li Shiyun also contributed to this article)