Senior Superstar

Li Shixin had just finished playing cards and went downstairs when he heard the sound of brakes at the gate of the community.

Immediately, a large group of people with oily hair and dark bags under their eyes, who looked like little zombies in zombie movies, got out of the car. Guided by Li Xiaomeng, who was still trembling while wearing rabbit slippers, he entered the community.

Looking at this situation, Li Shixin stood at the door of the unit with his hands behind his back.

"Sister Xiaoying, they insist on coming. I can't even stop them." Seeing Zhang Ying at the door of the unit, Li Xiaomeng said aggrievedly.

"Hello, I'm Jiao Chendong, the director of the Chunxiao crew. Are you the person in charge of Zhang Ying's studio?"

Among the crowd, Jiao Chendong came out.

"Ah! Yes, I am Zhang Ying." Zhang Ying quickly caught the hand that was reaching out, and shook it lightly.

"The props yesterday were so beautifully made! I have been a director for nearly ten years, and I have handled three period dramas. I have never seen such props. Little girl, yesterday your studio was for We have learned a lesson!"

Jiao Chendong also had dark circles on his face, but he was in good spirits.

"Director Jiao, I don't have that deep knowledge." Zhang Ying smiled slightly, then turned to look at Li Shixin, "The props sent to the crew yesterday were actually processed by my godfather."

After finishing speaking, she let out Li Shixin who was behind her.

There was such a commotion in the neighborhood that the neighbors, especially those group performers who played mahjong with Zhang Shuo just now, all gathered together.

Pointing and talking to the crew members standing in the small square.

But Jiao Chendong didn't care. He looked at Li Shixin carefully, nodded deeply, "That makes sense! I don't think you, a little girl, would have such deep experience."

After speaking, he walked up to Li Shixin and held Li Shixin's hand.

"Old man, to tell you the truth. I have another period drama on hand to start filming soon. After seeing your craftsmanship yesterday, I was so excited that I didn't fall asleep all night. Today was abrupt, and I brought all the prop masters from the crew Excuse me, please tell us about the props of period dramas and the events of that era.”

Li Shixin chuckled.

Period drama...shooting will start soon...

Success!

He raised two white eyebrows, and waved his hands: "The director praised it absurdly. In terms of props, I'm actually just a half-baked guy who doesn't know how to get started. I just figured it out by myself."

As soon as Li Shixin finished speaking, a prop master was not happy: "Old man, what you said is really annoying! The objects you made out of fudges made the director scold us, saying that we won't leave because of business. heart."

"Yes, old man, after the director finished talking about us last night, I took a special look at your props. It's nothing to say, the work is beautiful. The old-fashioned and some lacquer treatments are amazing! If you say you are self-taught, hey I can’t even believe this.”

Li Shixin shook his head when he saw the look of "this old man is so unreal" on the faces of several prop masters.

After searching through the old man's memory, he said leisurely: "I'm not telling you guys, I really didn't learn prop making systematically. It's just that I worked in a repertory theater troupe when I was young. At that time, the conditions were difficult and the performance props We have to do it ourselves. If you really want to talk about the teacher... At that time, our repertory theater troupe was not far from the film studio. Labor."

"No! Wait... wait for the old man." Before Li Shixin finished speaking, a prop master in his thirties was taken aback suddenly, "Who did you just talk about?"

"Chen Deming?"

Li Shixin blinked, "That's right."

"I'm sorry to ask, is it the one from Bayi Factory?"

Li Shixin nodded.

"Hiss!" The prop master took a deep breath, and couldn't help but put away his loose standing posture. Under the doubtful eyes of the people around him, he bowed directly at ninety degrees: "Senior, I offended you just now."

He came so suddenly that everyone around was at a loss.

On the side, a younger prop master didn't know why, "Master, who is the old man talking about?"

"Chen Deming of the Bayi Factory! The former deputy factory director of the Bayi Factory who just passed away a few years ago! A national treasure in our prop circle! Can't remember? You don't take what my mother told you all the time. Ah! When filming "The Founding Ceremony", the director team repeatedly studied the video materials and found that a mural of "The Great Wall of Flesh and Flesh" had been destroyed at that time, but in the opening scene at that time, there must be this painting that matches the historical facts to highlight the era Background. At that time, Mr. Chen Deming did not say anything else, but relied on a small number of video materials, and spent two weeks restoring this huge four-meter oil painting! Later, after the filming was finished, this painting I was directly invited away by the superior unit. The "Great Wall of Flesh and Flesh" hanging in the cultural museum is not the original work at all, but a prop work created by our prop master!"

"hiss!"

After his reminder, everyone remembered.

Originally, everyone stayed up all night, feeling somewhat resentful in their hearts, but when they heard the old man in front of them, they all stood up straight.

However, Li Shixin waved his hand calmly, "It's impossible to talk about it. Chen Deming said at the time that the profession of prop masters does not rely on inheritance, and there is no saying that the predecessors are backward. The level of level depends on one's brains and odd jobs, and the other is on the heart." Skillful, one is eager to learn and willing to drill. If there is any more, it is hard work. Although costumes and props are all behind the scenes work, as long as you pay attention, you will find that the craftsmanship of props and costumes is no less than that of a good actor. acting."

When Li Shixin said this, a group of prop masters around him quite agreed.

The craft of props involves too complicated a knowledge system; simple crafts require an understanding of basic physics and chemistry, and for some artistic props, prop masters are required to have fine arts or even Chinese studies. And some ancient props even require you to link historical and archaeological data. Not to mention, for some sci-fi props, you need to have an extraordinary brain.

But correspondingly, the status of the props in the crew and the attention they received in the domestic film and television industry are not very high.

Li Shixin's words seemed to reach their hearts.

But Jiao Chendong on the side smacked his mouth.

The old man talked for a long time, and the truth is indeed profound, but you are talking about period dramas!

What he valued was not Li Shixin's prop skills, but his knowledge of the details of life in the 1970s!

"Old man, I think they understand all these theoretical things. Can you tell me something about the 1970s? It's like..." As he spoke, Jiao Chendong took out the thimble full of holes in his pocket , "This kind."

Li Shixin raised his eyebrows, "Oh, there are too many details about life like this. For example, the clothes people wore at that time. Nowadays, in film and television dramas, the protagonists in their teens and twenties often wear a general school coat. It was very energetic, but at that time, was that kind of clothes ordinary people could wear? Even some cadres were reluctant to wear it as a general school uniform! Also, some slogans from the 1970s that appeared in TV dramas were somewhat wrong. It’s outrageous! These seemingly inconspicuous details, you didn’t show them properly, and the audience couldn’t bring them into the special environment at that time... Another example”

Li Shixin was rambling on, Jiao Chendong's eyes became brighter the more he heard it.

Dry goods!

This is all dry goods!

If these things are put in the movie, what kind of picture should that be?

When Li Shixin said one thing, he wrote it down in his shorthand notebook. Until the collection is full of two pages, the interest is the highest, and I can already think of the elements of these eras participating in some plots.

On the other side, Li Shixin stopped abruptly.

A group of people were listening enthusiastically, and when he stopped, he felt as uncomfortable as a cat scratching his heart!

"Senior, keep talking! This is the key!"

Li Shixin ignored the urging, just chuckled.

"It can't be done. My memory is bad when I'm old. I remember some things one moment, but forget them the next moment."

"Tsk."

Jiao Chen looked east, and the old man in front of him squinted his eyes and kept smiling, as if he had forgotten something?

"Old man, why don't you rest for a while?"

"I can't remember even if I rest for a while."

Jiao Chen was in a hurry, "Then how can you remember?"

"Ahem." Li Shixin coughed lightly, "Director, actually...I'm not a prop master, I'm an actor."

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Shuo was taken aback for a moment, and then grinned happily.

Sure enough, when everyone in the yard didn't know what Li Shixin wanted to do, Li Shixin said quietly.

"If you can arrange a supporting role for me in the new play, I'm so happy, I can remember it. If you don't arrange it, that's fine. I may be dementia, and I can't remember anything. "

"..."

Jiao Chendong suddenly petrified.

My heart is itchy and I want to hit someone.

This old man, where did he learn the tricks!

Out of chapter dog it is!

In the yard, the group performers who had nothing to film in the hundred numbers clenched their fists.

Old man, this way of finding a play, six!

drop.

Li Shixin groaned softly in his mind.

Received a wave of applause with [five-body cast admiration], 14302!