Chapter 84

"Cut!"

"Rest for ten minutes."

Cao Yang waved his hand to let Gao Yuanyuan come over, and he asked Gao Yuanyuan again: "Do you still remember what I told you about how the female lead should behave at this moment?"

"I'm sorry Cao Dao, my fault."

Gao Yuanyuan bowed her head to apologize, not only to Cao Yang but also to the entire crew.

This was her fourth NG in this shot.

"She is in pain inside, but unwilling to face reality, and because the place she is going is a slum in her eyes, she needs to appear a bit arrogant on the surface to cover up her lack of confidence." Gao Yuanyuan whispered.

"Do you have even a little bit of arrogance in your performance? Even if she is in pain and numbing herself inside, she has arrogance on the surface; you can't speak with a sad tone." Cao Yang said.

"I'm sorry..."

Cao Yang didn't get angry and guided from another angle: "Just pretend the other person is unreasonable, you are arguing with her, be a bit more aggressive, can you do that?"

"Hmm, hmm."

Gao Yuanyuan nodded hurriedly, and on the way back, she thought about how aggressive "a bit more aggressive" was? Like street fighting?

"All units pay attention, one more time."

The clapperboard was hit, and Gao Yuanyuan held her phone and said angrily: "Where? Where is this, how would I know? There's a road sign here, it says it's still four kilometers to Kwun Tong..."

Cao Yang touched his chin and sighed; she really had momentum, milky and fierce.

But big sister, I just asked you to be a bit more aggressive, not to argue and street fight with people.

With this attitude of yours, if it were in Hong Kong before '97, you would be... by someone in minutes.

Quickly shaking off the messy thoughts in his head, Cao Yang shouted "Cut" listlessly and said: "Rest for ten minutes, touch up her makeup, and shoot another take later."

After saying that, he half-lay on the director's chair.

Gao Yuanyuan walked over consciously with her head down, "I'm sorry Cao Dao, I..."

To be honest, although Gao Yuanyuan hadn't performed the effect Cao Yang wanted, her attitude was indeed impeccable, much better than Yu Feihong's back then.

"You should hold back a bit later, don't be too fierce, restrain yourself a little." Cao Yang said.

"Okay."

Gao Yuanyuan nodded hurriedly, and while walking back, she kept bowing and nodding to apologize to the crew members.

Cao Yang shook his head slightly; this temper really looked soft and easy to bully.

Zhou Yiwei, Dong Xuan, and Wang Luodan, who looked like a tomboy, consciously watched from the outside... no, they were learning.

Zhou Yiwei whispered to Dong Xuan: "How long do you think it will take for Gao Yuanyuan to show her acting skills?"

Dong Xuan thought for a while, "Three days?"

Zhou Yiwei shook his head, "I think she might have an acting explosion tomorrow."

"What acting explosion? What acting skills?"

Wang Luodan didn't quite understand and asked curiously; acting is acting, can it be shown or not?

"Gao Yuanyuan."

Dong Xuan said as a matter of course.

"Her acting... can it explode?" Wang Luodan didn't understand and felt it was a bit inexplicable.

It wasn't that she looked down on Gao Yuanyuan's acting, she just felt that Gao Yuanyuan's mediocre acting, even if it exploded, where could it explode to? Could it be like Li Xiaoran and Yu Feihong?

Thinking of these two people, Wang Luodan wasn't so confident anymore; the acting of these two people seemed to be mediocre before, with no highlights, but in those two films, they performed as if they were different people.

This was really hard to explain; is Cao Dao's ability to train actors really as magical as the legends say?

When they were whispering, they saw Cao Yang call Gao Yuanyuan over again, explaining the scene to her again; it was still this same shot, and they didn't know how long it would take to grind. Everyone could see now that Cao Yang was just grinding, just giving Gao Yuanyuan special training, constantly letting her interpret this segment in various ways.

But so far, there hadn't been a satisfactory result.

Gu Changwei was a bit bored and wanted to yawn; only he and assistant Ning Hao knew that the camera wasn't even on, and every time it was just like a real thing, but in fact, nothing could be shot.

This was what Cao Yang had instructed him early this morning, telling him that this film was aimed at Cannes, so the actors' performance was very important, and today's task was to constantly accompany Gao Yuanyuan to find the feeling.

This rhetoric was really a bit... novel.

Gu Changwei admitted that if the director of this film wasn't Cao Yang, he would dare to spray directly: Are you playing? The film has already started shooting and you want to help her find the feeling, what were you doing before shooting? And finding the feeling, if you really want to find the feeling, can't you find someone with good acting skills?

Gong Li, Li Xiaoran, Yu Feihong, International Zhang... even the few Huadan who were slightly worse, which one's acting skills didn't beat Gao Yuanyuan.

Of course, that was just thinking in his heart; the person had produced two international film queens in one year and won the Golden Lion, a big director with a count in the country, saying he was helping the actor find the feeling...

That was finding the feeling, maybe Gao Yuanyuan's acting could explode?

If it weren't for seeing that Gao Yuanyuan's progress was always not big, Gu Changwei himself would have almost believed this nonsense.

He had always firmly believed that some people's acting skills really couldn't be ground out, and this thing was also very particular about talent.

Cao Yang gave Gao Yuanyuan different suggestions in various ways, just to shoot this shot.

!

Gao Yuanyuan kept NG-ing, kept apologizing, then kept NG-ing, kept apologizing...

"Cut! Rest for ten minutes again."

Gao Yuanyuan sat on the ground without image, staring blankly ahead, the joy of playing the female lead long gone, the long-suppressed grievances and sadness surged out, and she doubted everything about herself.

Cao Yang's female lead wasn't so easy to play...

With my acting skills, besides making a fool of myself, what else...

I deserve to be... by others.

I am really too failed...

Everyone must be laughing at me...

Cao Dao might already have the idea of changing the female lead...

I really want to cry...

Unconsciously, Gao Yuanyuan was already in tears, and then she realized it, hurriedly stood up, wiped her tears with both hands, smiled stiffly, and bowed to apologize to the surroundings.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, uh... really... really sorry, I... I remembered... remembered the female lead's encounter..."

She sobbed, trying hard not to sob, but couldn't suppress it, and finally covered her face with her hands, and the sound of wailing came, along with intermittent words.

"I'm sorry... the female lead... the female lead is too miserable... I really can't... can't help it... I'm sorry... it's all my fault..."

"Alright, stop watching, she's just a bit too into the character."

Cao Yang stood up, waved his hand to disperse the nearby staff, and then pointed to a few girls from Beijing Film Academy, "You guys take care of her, send her back to the hotel, and watch her so she doesn't have an accident."

Afterward, he instructed assistant director Li Mingyi: "That's it for today, finish work early, you arrange the follow-up."

"Okay, Cao Dao."

Cao Yang exhaled, Gao Yuanyuan's emotions finally collapsed, and now was the best state to add the immersion experience.

When Gao Yuanyuan's acting suddenly became better, everyone would think that it was the acting ground out by Cao Dao's constant explanation and time.

(End of chapter)