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Chapter 472

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Because Ye Dao's thinking time was too long, Jin Li walked over to look after resting for a while.

She found that Ye Dao was repeatedly watching the previously filmed plot, so she asked: "Director, is there anything wrong?"

Ye Weijie pondered for a while and shook his head slowly.

"From the performance point of view, whether it is you or the villagers, there is no problem with the acting, it's just that it didn't perform the feeling I wanted."

Jin Li was stunned for a moment and looked at the filmed segment again. She felt that the acting was quite good.

Even she, a celebrity who is not used to watching her own filmed pictures, couldn't pick out any thorns.

The villagers performed the sense of guilty conscience of being obviously very moved but forcibly opposing it for the sake of face very vividly.

If it wasn't the villagers' problem, then it was her problem.

But no matter how Jin Li looked at it, she felt that she acted very normally, saying different things in different scenes, and there was no problem with her tone and state.

Jin Li asked: "What kind of feeling do you want?"

Ye Weijie: "Quarrel, have a big quarrel, swords drawn and bows bent."

Jin Li frowned and deliberated: "From the lines, this atmosphere can be created.

But when it comes to actual performance, people are not machines that only recite lines, and the ideas expressed in their minds are also different."

"I think the villagers acted quite well in this scene. This sense of being strong on the outside but weak on the inside, clearly wanting it very much but having to refuse for the sake of face, is not something that other group performers can act out.

The villagers can have this kind of performance, it feels like a movie emperor possessed."

Ye Weijie seemed to be awakened, "You are right, perhaps we can change to another way of expression."

Jin Li shook her head: "This is the play you are filming. I am just putting forward my opinions. If you have other ideas, still execute them according to your ideas."

She thought about it and said: "How about this, let's film it again and see the effect you want."

The Yuan Xiaoxiao she played has a gentle personality, is kind to others, has a big picture, and is willing to take risks.

This is a very righteous character.

But in film and television dramas, characters who are too righteous will make people feel too perfect, that is, fake, which is not conducive to image shaping.

Otherwise, why do people say that bad people are more impressive than good people?

Therefore, in many criminal investigation films and anti-corruption films, playing bad people is more outstanding.

Hateful people must have pitiful places. Screenwriters generally design a background story for bad people that leads to their personality change.

But characters who are righteous from beginning to end suffer from being too consistent inside and out. The personality shaped by the plot is almost the same, and it is difficult to have a change.

Unless there is a reversal of turning good people into bad people and bad people into good people, otherwise characters who are righteous from beginning to end are generally not remembered as much as anti-characters.

Oh, by the way, letting righteous characters sell misery is also a point of memory——

You see that people are so kind, but their experiences are so miserable. It really corresponds to that sentence: good people don't live long, bad people live for a thousand years.

The truth is such a truth, but if it is written like this, it does not conform to the values of those scripts.

Many scripts want to express the point of view: good people have good rewards, and no matter how bad people escape, they will be brought to justice.

Letting bad people get everyone's sympathy and letting good people become more miserable, even if this kind of film is popular, it is actually a failure in values.

Therefore, wanting to design a righteous character to have a memory point is really a bit difficult.

Ye Weijie felt that this was also a way, so he let them film that scene again.

Villagers don't understand acting, everything depends on true feelings.

So Ye Weijie didn't tell the villagers any professional terms and said directly: "Can you quarrel with people?"

The villager said immediately: "Yes, I quarreled with someone a few days ago. The cow raised by others crushed my lotus root, and I was so angry that I quarreled with him!"

Ye Weijie: "You just bring in the angry emotions you had before and say the lines angrily. Let's film it again, okay?"

The villager said loudly: "That's definitely okay, such a simple thing!"

Filming again, the villagers didn't see Jin Li, and they were shouting loudly when they spoke, which had a tense atmosphere.

But as soon as Jin Li came out, she was responsible for reconciling the contradictions of the villagers and asked the villagers where they didn't understand.

"Let's talk about it properly. You tell me where you don't understand. I will help you solve whatever I can solve."

That villager originally wanted to shout a few words loudly, but as soon as he met Jin Li's line of sight, he stuttered.

He paused for several seconds and couldn't remember the lines for a while.

"Just, just, just that donation thing!"

After reciting this line stutteringly, the villager finally remembered his lines and said fiercely:

"What can a young person like you solve? Call your parents over, I'll ask them, that's about the same!"

Other villagers echoed: "Yes, we don't believe in your ability. Such a big thing as donation, who knows if you will roll up the money and run away after we donate it?"

Yuan Xiaoxiao, played by Jin Li, said helplessly: "My identity has been registered with the government. The government has the information of my ancestors for eighteen generations. Once I roll up the money and run away, the country will not let me go, and will not let my family go."

"Who, who knows if what you said is true or false?!"

The villager shouted: "Anyway, I don't support letting you host such a big donation project."

Yuan Xiaoxiao had a flash of inspiration and said: "You mean, you agree to donate, but you don't agree to let me collect the money, and you want to find someone with high prestige in the village to host it?"

The villager said angrily: "No, I didn't say I want to donate!"

"I can't explain it clearly with you, a girl. Go, you hurry up and leave!" The villager said while pushing Yuan Xiaoxiao out.

Ye Weijie shouted "cut" this time.

But after shouting, he fell into a state of a thinker again.

Chen Qin continued to step forward to wipe Jin Li's sweat and asked in a low voice: "Sister Jin Li, is this the effect the director wants?"

Jin Li pondered for a while and shook her head: "Hard to say."

When she was acting against the villagers, she could feel the villagers' absent-mindedness. This kind of filming with a bit of difficulty was still difficult for them.

The villagers were all performing in their true colors.

When they faced her, their confidence in speaking was insufficient. This was a person's first reaction. It is difficult for ordinary people without training to change their instinctive reactions.

Jin Li walked to Ye Weijie's side and watched together.

Ye Weijie asked back: "How do you think it was filmed this time?"

Jin Li answered truthfully: "Not very good, not as good as the last time."

Ye Weijie frowned, "Well, although the momentum was created, the villagers' reactions were too reluctant. It was obvious that they were pretending to be strong. They were still too guilty when facing you."

Ye Weijie didn't understand what was going on and could only attribute it to Jin Li's personal charm.

Just like some beauties, they are clearly not dressed exaggeratedly, but they can attract everyone's attention as soon as they appear, making everyone's eyes follow her involuntarily.

Jin Li suggested: "The difficulty of this scene is a bit high for the villagers. Why don't you find some professional extras to try it out."

The crew didn't plan to look for other extras at first, just wanted the villagers to play those insignificant roles.

But later Ye Weijie thought about it, some roles the villagers couldn't play, and the villagers were only natural when playing villagers.

And some of the villagers had to perform relatively difficult actions, maybe the villagers couldn't do it.

So after comprehensive consideration, a team of extras was invited, a dozen people, basically covering the role needs in the crew.

Ye Weijie wanted to see the contrast between professional and true-color performance, so he called a few professional extras to play villagers, still acting according to his ideas, creating a sense of swords drawn and bows bent.

Once the professional extras made a move, the feeling given was different from the villagers.

When they quarreled with Jin Li, they were not affected by Jin Li's temperament at all. They shouted when they should shout, and roared when they should roar, which could be said to present the scene Ye Weijie wanted.

But after filming, Ye Weijie compared it repeatedly and found that the first scene filmed at the beginning still had more feeling.

Although the villagers were a bit lacking in momentum when facing Jin Li and fell into Jin Li's set unconsciously, the emotions performed were slightly more complicated.

It was not like the second and third filming, but the emotions fell to the extreme and lacked a bit of roundness.

That is to say, the quarrel was too fake.

It's just a donation, if you don't trust it, you don't trust it, there's no need to roar.

And the plot is designed like this, in the final analysis, it is to mobilize the emotions of the viewers.

But if there is really an emotional stimulus, why use this method to show it?

Just need the villagers to wave their hands lightly: "I don't believe you, so I don't donate."

Then close the door and block Jin Li outside the door.

Not even giving room for dialogue, isn't this more frustrating?

Ye Weijie thought so, but was persuaded by Jin Li and the villagers' performance, believing that their performance in the first scene was more real and natural.

Ye Weijie specifically told Jin Li and the villagers: "After comparing, I found that the effect of the first filming is still good. You just film according to your own ideas."

When Jin Li finished filming, everyone else had already finished filming long ago.

The crew has not prepared night scenes yet. The temperature at night in the countryside in winter is very cold, and everyone is shrinking in the room early.

What they don't know is that this night, many villagers went out to visit neighbors and shared the filming content of the day from house to house.

Ye Weijie invited some local villagers to play villagers in the play in their true colors, and everyone in the village knew it.

But only the villagers who were invited to perform knew the filming content, and other villagers were unaware.

So they didn't know that this crew actually planned to repair the road for Chitang Village.

Don't say, some of the fundraising methods given in the script actually moved the villagers in reality.

"Repairing the road, can set up a merit monument! This is a thing that benefits future generations!"

"Oh my god, this crew is so good, actually repairing the road for us, and building a merit monument?" Some villagers exclaimed, feeling it was unlikely.

Other villagers broke the mystery: "What are you thinking? It's good enough to help us repair the road, and still want to build a merit monument? I asked the lead actor, that celebrity named Jin Li.

She said that repairing the road will help us repair it, but the merit monument will not be built. After all, we are not really donating money. The merit monument will be added in the later stage, and it does not exist in reality."

Other villagers were anxious when they heard it.

"That is a merit monument. Since the crew filmed it, why not build a real one? Chitang Village is not unable to donate money to repair the road?"

As soon as this word came out, others nodded.

"Yes, isn't it just donating money? We can also donate some money. Repairing the road is a thing that benefits future generations!"

"Thinking that my name can be set on the monument, I feel that it is glorious to the ancestors!"

"Why don't we talk to the village chief and let the village chief talk to the crew? This road doesn't need the crew to pay, our village pays for it?"

"Go, oh no, it's too late now, we will tell the village chief tomorrow!"

"Repairing the road? What are you talking about? You also want to repair the road? No, where did you hear that Chitang Village is going to repair the road? Why don't I know?"

The village chief was puzzled. He felt that he seemed to be out of tune with the ever-changing Chitang Village, and also out of tune with the old friends who had been here for a long time.

The villagers who participated in the performance said one word to another about the plot filmed by the script recently. They were moved by repairing the road after seeing the plot.

Cough cough, by the way, more moved to set up a monument!

Seeing the villagers so excited, the village chief said hesitantly: "If you want to donate money to repair the road, I can talk to Ye Dao, but you have to think clearly, repairing the road is not a small amount of money.

Don't forget, you still have to raise funds for the ice cream mold. Although you only need to pay a number for each household, not according to the number of people, that expenditure is not small."

Some villagers said: "But repairing the road is not paying according to each household, but paying according to the number of people. There is strength in numbers. Maybe everyone only needs to pay two or three hundred yuan?"

The village chief was also moved by the merit monument, so he went to the crew to ask for the villagers immediately.

At the same time, some changes have also taken place in the people from Chitang Village working outside.

Some people are on the verge of unemployment, seeing that the performance this month is not up to standard and will be eliminated, but suddenly a performance fell from the sky.

It was not that she went to market to pull customers herself, but the customer took the initiative to find her, asking if she had relevant channels and wanted to purchase a batch of machines.

This villager from Chitang Village couldn't help but sigh: "The time has come, my luck is really too good!"

In addition, the villagers who opened shops and did business outside have been losing money since last year, and business is even worse this year. They were preparing to close down and find a job to do.

Suddenly, the villagers ushered in a large order, and it actually exploded.

The wholesaler saw that they had imported so many goods and was surprised: "What are you doing? Why has business become so good?"

The villager shook his head and said: "I don't know, suddenly a lot of orders came."

What they didn't notice was that not only them, but the villagers of Chitang Village working outside had all ushered in a turnaround.

Those working have performance growth, and those opening shops have ushered in sales explosions.

They chatted in the family group, sharing their recent situation happily, and then heard the news of the crew going to the village to film from other villagers.

The villagers said one after another:

"This crew is very good, and even helped the village register a trademark. The crew didn't have to do this at all, it was purely the director's kindness."

"There are so many people outside the village recently. Some villagers went outside to set up stalls to do some small business and made money!"

"There are many young people returning to the village in advance, just wanting to chase stars, but instead opened a career. This crew is too powerful!"

People outside heard what the people living in the village said and felt one after another:

This crew is a lucky star!

If the crew has anything that needs their help, they will definitely help!

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