Chapter 85: Child Laborer Little Zhang

"Little Zhang, come over and help set up the big cannon." A crew member with a full beard beckoned to Zhang Ruoyun.

"Eh! Coming, coming!"

Zhang Ruoyun smiled and was tireless, feeling that everything on the set was fresh and interesting, and he could see the strength of powerful actors like Feng Yuanzheng and the overall command of his idol Seeing Lu Kuan at close range.

The "big cannon" was setting up the lift, which must be operated by professional crew members. People without experience, even if they had some brute force, might not be able to do it well in an hour or two.

Before the domestic film industry was industrialized, many subdivided jobs stipulated in Hollywood crews did not have fixed personnel.

Just like the scene of the final stage performance today, which required laying tracks, it should have been completed by a professional track master, but currently, they could only ask experienced crew members to do it along the way.

"Hey! Little Zhang, your comprehension is really not low. You've only been doing this for a few days and you're already so proficient." Crew member Old Wang smiled and praised the high school student.

Zhang Ruoyun wiped his face full of dust, and with a random wipe of his hand, he looked even more disheveled.

Having mixed with the crew members for a few days, everyone didn't understand why such a young master had to come to the crew to suffer this hardship.

"Teacher Huang, you're here!" Zhang Ruoyun saw Huang Bo walking into the studio with the script and asked excitedly.

"Teacher Huang, let's start auditioning for the role today. I feel like I'm ready!"

Seeing Lu Kuan arranged for him to play a role in the front row of the audience in the final concert hall, naturally without dialogue.

But his facial expressions and eyes had to follow the plot, not just staring blankly until the camera moved away.

Huang Bo smiled noncommittally. In all fairness, he was very surprised that this young man could persist until now.

Every day, besides basic performance practice, there was a lot of trivial crew work, all of which were Seeing Lu Kuan's arrangements.

Seeing Lu Kuan and Ning Hao were planning the lighting for the final scene when he caught a glimpse of the female assistant Yang Siwei running over again. He said something to Ning Hao and walked to the side.

"Director Lu! Director Lu! I think I still need to tell you something."

Yang Siwei looked at Seeing Lu Kuan's unkind and impatient eyes and felt a bit timid, but for the task Wang Jinhua gave her, she still mustered up the courage to run to the crew for several days.

Seeing Lu Kuan didn't look back: "You come with me first, don't say anything else."

Zhang Ruoyun was still asking performance teacher Huang Bo about several performance questions, improvising from time to time to find the feeling in front of the camera.

Suddenly, his shoulder was patted from behind: "Little Zhang, how does it feel on the set?"

Zhang Ruoyun turned his head to see it was Seeing Lu Kuan, and stood at attention excitedly, his posture straight.

For the past week, he had been busy from 6 o'clock to the set until dark every day, witnessing with his own eyes how a movie was born in the hands of the creators.

He admired Seeing Lu Kuan's professional ability and spirit in coordinating the overall situation, directing lighting, photography, actors, etc., beyond measure.

"Hello, Director, I'm very good! Very fulfilling!" Little Zhang had an excited face that didn't cost money, and he should have forgotten his identity as a young master.

Yang Siwei looked at Zhang Ruoyun's still dirty cheeks and said dissatisfiedly: "Director Lu, we agreed at the beginning to let Ruoyun come to you to learn acting, but now..."

Seeing Lu Kuan put on a straight face, and both Zhang Ruoyun and Yang Siwei felt a chill in their hearts. They hadn't seen less of crew members who made mistakes being scolded by him in the past few days, and several girls in the makeup group were aggrieved to tears.

Although he was still a handsome young man with a calm and light appearance in daily life, and usually cared for and took care of crew employees, he was truly a person who turned his face and didn't recognize anyone at work.

Zhang Ruoyun stammered: "Sister Siwei, don't worry about it. I'm doing great here! Helping the crew with work is also learning acting."

Yang Siwei looked at him depressedly. The minister was about to fight to the death, why did the emperor surrender first?

Seeing Lu Kuan nodded with satisfaction. This child was naturally enthusiastic, and his character was okay. He took the initiative to help the crew members and never complained.

"Little Zhang, you said it very well. For example, if you help the photography lay tracks, you can know how the camera runs in actual shooting. If you really become an actor in the future, how can you not know how to find the camera?"

"Also, many foreign film festivals have awards for crew members and ordinary staff, called the Professional Spirit Award. A tea worker abroad won an award because of her dedication. Do you know that?"

Little Zhang straightened his back even more: "Yes! Director!"

This was naturally Seeing Lu Kuan's nonsense. He also learned from Zhuang Zhong in *Whiplash* and poured poisonous chicken soup for Zhang Ruoyun.

In the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards of later generations, the Professional Spirit Award was indeed awarded to a tea worker named Yang Ronglian who had worked in various crews for nearly 30 years.

She was very excited to accept the award from Fang Long and then asked the makeup artist to tidy up properly to prepare for the banquet. She waited from 4 o'clock after the award to 8 o'clock in the evening, only to be told by the staff that she was not qualified to sit at the table.

The entertainment circle is so realistic, where are there so many chicken soups to drink?

It's just that the surrounding crew members and crew staff were all watching, and the boss and director Seeing Lu Kuan only had to instill positive energy into everyone, and by the way, encourage the still immature Zhang Ruoyun.

Watching Seeing Lu Kuan, who had the ugly face of a capitalist, walk away, Yang Siwei secretly pulled Zhang Ruoyun to the side.

"Ruoyun, are you stupid? He let you do odd jobs for a week and didn't mention giving you a role. Why don't you resist?"

Zhang Ruoyun's answer was quite wise: "Do good deeds, don't ask about the future!"

"I... you..."

Yang Siwei looked at the high school student who had been brainwashed by Boss Lu and inexplicably felt that she was redundant on the set.

"Why haven't you left yet?"

Seeing Lu Kuan turned around and came back, looking suspiciously at Yang Siwei who was staying on the set and at a loss.

"I...!"

She cursed this sharp-tongued director over and over again in her heart, but the situation was stronger than people, so she had to pretend to be cowardly.

"Sister Hua told me to accompany Little Zhang, I dare not leave."

Seeing Lu Kuan smiled: "Accompanying the prince to study?"

"Freshman this year? Why did you think of doing this line?"

Yang Siwei adjusted her glasses: "The entertainment circle is interesting. The game I love to play most is *The Sims*. Being an agent is the same."

Boss Lu's mouth twitched. *The Sims*, which only came out in 2000, definitely didn't have mods at this time, otherwise he would have liked to recall the happiness of various sleeping arrangements...

Yang Siwei was still too young. Let her train for a few more years under Wang Jinhua. Seeing Lu Kuan suddenly thought of another well-known agent in the circle related to her, who had not yet developed.

Lu Yao.

He was a film reporter, later went to Poly Bona as a production manager, and after switching to brokerage business, he signed Fan Bingbing's studio. It was also during this period that he met Yang Siwei, Fan's agent at the time, and the two co-founded One Heart Entertainment.

In 2001, he should have just arrived at the Literature and Art Department of *Shenjiang Service Guide* as a film reporter. For Seeing Lu Kuan, who needed to gradually build a team for a cultural and entertainment company, he was a good candidate.

He took out his phone and continued to add a task to Sun Wenwen.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 86 =====