Chapter 95: Shooting

In *Run Luo La Run*, there are several other youth roles like Cheung Ka-fai's car-stealing youth, such as the woman pushing the baby carriage, the man driving, the bank female clerk, the bank security guard, etc. These people all produced three different fates because of their meeting with Luo La on the road. However, the most important supporting role is naturally the father who is closest to Luo La.

At this moment, the scenes of Li Xiaoran and her father are being shot.

"Luo La, what are you doing here?" Li Chengru spread his hands and questioned.

"Then what are you doing here?" Li Xiaoran asked back, panting.

She just pushed open her father's office door and bumped into him having an affair with a female colleague.

Li Chengru's face was hard to hide his embarrassment. He walked back behind the office desk and sat down, supporting his face and saying: "Nothing!"

At this time, Li Xiaoran walked towards Li Chengru.

"Cut!"

After Wu Yuchen shouted, he walked to Li Xiaoran's side personally:

"Expression, expression, there must be an emotional transition here! You are angry when you just entered the door and knew your father was having an affair, but now you must suppress your anger in order to ask him for money. So in these few steps you walked over, you completed the expression transition from anger, suppression, and then to begging."

Li Xiaoran understood after listening, but it was not so simple when performing.

"Cut! Suppression? Jumped directly from anger to begging, too out of play!"

"Cut! Too stiff, redo!"

"Cut! Don't be too humble!"

"Cut! The sweat on your head is dry, go out and run another circle and come back!"

In fact, Wu Yuchen could find a makeup artist to put some water on her to make sweat, but since he let Li Xiaoran take the path of the experience school in this play, he naturally pursues reality if he can be real, increasing her sense of substitution.

Now most of the running scenes have been shot, and it is in the stage of a lot of literary scenes. Naturally, she must first grind her state into place. After finding the feeling, it will be smoother behind.

Just this walking process, it NG'd countless times back and forth. To keep sweating, Li Xiaoran didn't know if she went out to run twenty or thirty times.

This kind of simple literary performance requirement is stricter than the requirement for her expression when running. The whole crew accompanied her to grind this scene, making her psychological pressure bigger and bigger. In the middle, she once felt that she was acting worse and worse, and even her expression was numb. She didn't know what she was acting at all.

After not knowing how many times, she seemed to have finally found some feeling.

Sure enough, Wu Yuchen didn't shout cut this time:

"This time it's barely okay, keep one, redo!"

Li Xiaoran grabbed the feeling just now, and heard Wu Yuchen shout "Pass!" after three more takes.

Li Xiaoran finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, only feeling that this scene was more tiring than the running scenes she shot before.

This scene was shot for several hours, but Wu Yuchen just let the crew rest simply and then ordered to continue shooting. He also saw that Li Xiaoran had a feeling at this time, so he had to take advantage of this time to finish shooting this scene, which could also let Li Xiaoran enter the state further.

In the corridor, Li Chengru hugged Li Xiaoran and walked with big strides, his expression cold.

Li Xiaoran showed an uneasy expression in his arms: "Dad, will you help me?"

Li Chengru hugged her shoulder tightly and said coldly while walking:

"Of course, you go to the door now, and then you go home and lie on the bed.

Also tell your mom that I won't go home today, I won't go home tomorrow, and I will never go home again!

Because I am going to leave you, I am going to marry another woman, we will have children, and we will live a happy life!

You only come to me for money, very cool, right?

I've had enough of you, no need to listen to you nagging me all day!

I don't want to be a fool in other people's eyes anymore!"

This is a personal complaint and nagging of Li Chengru for more than a minute. The expression and lines are very good. He is worthy of being an old drama bone.

Li Xiaoran showed a sad expression at this time, which was also the only paragraph in the whole film showing her fragility.

At the door, Li Chengru cursed: "Really hope I didn't give birth to you, this lunatic!"

Li Xiaoran retorted aggrievedly: "Yes, you gave birth to a fool!"

Li Chengru suddenly broke out again, his voice raised: "No, you are not, what I said is a lunatic!"

Li Xiaoran was startled by his roar, and then just stared at Li Chengru blankly, showing an unbelievable look.

Li Chengru pushed Li Xiaoran out to the passage, then let out a breath, staring at Li Xiaoran and said:

"Now you finally know, the lunatic who gave birth to you might not even know you were born!"

Li Xiaoran collapsed and stayed on the spot instantly. She didn't expect that she was not her father's biological daughter!

Then, under Li Chengru's drink, she let the security guard take her out.

"Pass! Very good, let's think about it here today, everyone worked hard!"

Today, the first time Luo La met her father was finally finished, and most importantly, Li Xiaoran's state was getting better and better. The subsequent shooting should be smoother.

The next day, the shooting continued, but this time it was the process of Luo La finding her father for the second time. Due to the influence of the first time, Luo La already knew the relationship between herself and her father. She came with grievances and bumped into the scene of her father and lover talking face to face.

Li Chengru questioned: "What are you doing here?"

"I need your help."

Li Chengru said impatiently: "Do you know I am very busy now?"

"But I have no other way."

"Go away! Why do you have to come now? I have my own trouble, understand?"

Li Chengru was already a bit desperate at this time, because the daughter opened the door just now, letting colleagues discover his affair.

Luo La looked at the lover beside her father, but couldn't help crying aggrievedly: "Who is this bitch?"

"None of your business!" Li Chengru roared.

Then it was another conversation of Luo La asking her father for money.

Li Chengru took out his wallet and walked over:

"Okay, take the money and go quickly! How much do you want? Five hundred or one thousand?"

"No, I need a lot?"

"How much is a lot?"

"500,000."

In the original version, it was 100,000 marks. Wu Yuchen changed it to 500,000 Hong Kong dollars here.

After Li Xiaoran said 500,000, Li Chengru looked at his daughter in shock. His lover couldn't help but speak first:

"Do you have any shame? You didn't knock on the door and disturbed our work, and now you..."

"None of your business, I don't know you, this vixen!" Li Xiaoran scolded and interrupted her directly.

But this scolding of hers provoked Li Chengru's anger, and he slapped Li Xiaoran on the face.

Regarding the shaping of the father character, he never showed a smile to Luo La throughout the whole process, and there was never a gentle word in his speech, which shows his attitude towards Luo La on weekdays.

Combined with the fact that Luo La is not biological, the audience probably understands why Luo La is a love brain, because she grew up in an environment extremely lacking in love, so she is willing to do anything for her boyfriend who loves her.

Therefore, after being slapped, Li Xiaoran was instantly filled with anger, and then turned to the door to pull out the gun from the security guard's waist and made the move of hijacking her father to rob money.

This second time was shot for several days, because it added this scene of robbing the bank compared to the first time. And this scene also requires the police to cooperate, and Sil-Metropole also applied for a period of time before it was approved.

After the police came, they hurriedly finished shooting the bank robbery scene, and also shot the scene where Luo La was shot and killed by the police in the end of the first time.

In addition to applying for police cooperation, there is another difficulty, which is to shoot the scene of gambling in the casino. At first, those casinos didn't agree. After all, it was a small crew from the mainland, and there were no big stars like "Two Zhou, One Cheng" or the Four Heavenly Kings. Then why should they let you shoot?

Finally, Wu Yuchen contacted Ann Hui, whom he met at the film festival before.

And people know the general trend very well. In a few years, Macau will return. It is also good to sell a favor to Sil-Metropole, which represents the mainland state-owned enterprise. Therefore, a gambling hall was approved for Wu Yuchen to shoot for 6 hours.

"action!"

Fu Dalong dropped the phone, borrowed money in various ways but couldn't, walked out of the telephone booth, rubbed his head in frustration, and looked at the sky.

Just when he was desperate, a bicycle rode past his eyes. He glanced at something from the corner of his eye, immediately turned his head to look, and found that it was the beggar who took the money he lost, Ni Dahong.

Ni Dahong was riding the bicycle he bought from the car-stealing youth, strolling leisurely, but was startled by the sound behind him.

"Stop!" Fu Dalong shouted.

Ni Dahong saw it was Fu

The two of them chased and fled, and Fu Dalong blocked him on a deserted road. Ni Dahong held his hands up, not daring to move at all, because the other person was pointing a gun at him.

Both of them stopped to pant heavily, and then Fu Dalong pointed his gun at the bag of money in the bicycle basket: "This is my money!"

Ni Dahong nodded, then watched very unwillingly as Fu Dalong took the money away.

When Fu Dalong turned to leave, Ni Dahong shouted: "What do you want me to do?"

Fu Dalong looked back with a questioning expression, only to see Ni Dahong panting as he said: "Can you give me the gun?"

Fu Dalong looked at Ni Dahong, stunned for a few seconds, then kept backing away until he reached a corner, where he threw the gun down and ran off.

Ni Dahong walked over step by step to pick up the gun on the ground, then looked at the bank across the road, a trace of ruthlessness appearing on his face.

"Cut! Very good, Teacher Ni performed very well. Your scenes are all finished, hurry up and change out of these dirty clothes, go back and wash up!"

Wu Yuchen watched the playback just now and said with satisfaction. This segment he filmed was the influence caused by the third iteration of Luo La's butterfly effect.

"Director, as long as you are satisfied. If it's not good enough, I'll do another take."

Ni Dahong was indeed very professional; to play the beggar, he not only wore dirty clothes but also tore his clothes open to roll on the ground a few times, and even smeared his face with ash, which was why Wu Yuchen urged him to go wash up.

The final scene was completed inside an ambulance.

The previous two times Li Xiaoran ran, she only brushed past the ambulance, but this time she opened the door from the back and got straight in.

And the person lying inside the ambulance at this moment was the security guard from the bank entrance, who was seriously injured and pale.

And the reason he was lying here was because the beggar played by Ni Dahong, after the money was taken back by Fu Dalong, was unwilling to accept the loss of a windfall and took a gun to rob the bank!

The role of this security guard was also played by a familiar face, Law Kar-ying, the actor who played the Tang Monk in "A Chinese Odyssey." Law Kar-ying's salary wasn't actually very high; his main profession was singing Cantonese opera, and he only started working part-time as an actor in the 90s to make a living for his family.

The nurse kept pressing on Law Kar-ying's chest, and seeing Li Xiaoran come up, she immediately asked: "What are you coming up for?"

And the lying Law Kar-ying looked straight at Li Xiaoran, ignoring his serious injuries, and tremblingly raised his hand to reach out to her.

Li Xiaoran met his gaze, then knelt beside him, took his hand in both of hers, and said in a soft tone: "I will always stay with him."

In fact, it was already very obvious here that Luo La already knew this security guard was her biological father.

Every time they were at the bank earlier, the security guard would affectionately joke with Luo La, calling her little princess Luo La, dear Luo La, and when Luo La shouted for Dad, the security guard would appear; these all served as foreshadowing and hints.

The nurse had originally been trying hard to press on Law Kar-ying's chest, but seeing the pulse on the machine suddenly return to normal, she immediately showed a look of both surprise and joy, and then she looked at the hands of Li Xiaoran and Law Kar-ying clasped together, saying blankly: "He's saved."

Li Xiaoran curled her lips into a smile upon hearing this.

"Cut! Wrap!"

After watching this final take, Wu Yuchen felt there were no problems, so he shouted, and the crew members immediately burst into cheers.

And Li Xiaoran felt a sense of trance at this very moment; she had filmed for seven weeks, from the beginning when she still had to deliberately perform, to later on when she didn't know when it started, she already felt that she was Luo La herself. Now hearing Wu Yuchen shout the word "Wrap," she always had a sense of unreality.

Wu Yuchen first smiled at Law Kar-ying, who was lying on the ambulance, and said: "Teacher Law, the crew is having a wrap party tonight, I must ask you to come along!"

"Ho ah ho ah!" Law Kar-ying managed to reply in his Hong Kong-accented Mandarin.

Wu Yuchen saw Li Xiaoran, who was a bit dazed at this moment, walked over and hugged her, knowing that her current state was the aftereffect of method acting, a feeling of being unable to distinguish between the character and reality.

Wu Yuchen held her and said in her ear: "Sister Ranran, it's over, you performed very well!"

Li Xiaoran just nodded upon hearing Wu Yuchen's words, then hugged him tighter unconsciously.

Wu Yuchen stroked her red hair; the first thing he would do later was to take Li Xiaoran to dye this hair back. From now on, he would also try to mention Luo La as little as possible, and when he was by her side, he would deliberately emphasize Li Xiaoran's identity to bring her out of it.

I have a cold, I feel a bit muddled while writing.