Lu Xiao went back to 1998 and started as a student in the directing department. A story of going with the flow...
The steel bed creaked and rose, and the half-rusted spring under the bed loosened and tightened, as if it could no longer bear the weight.
The camera slowly moved up. A strong young man was naked on the upper body. His muscles were well-defined, and his bronze-colored skin was covered in sweat.
From time to time, they would gasp for breath.
The radio beside the bed was playing Cui Jian's hoarse voice.
Before the young man finished his morning exercise, a middle-aged lady's voice came from outside the door. We're going to be late for class again!"
The young man's name was Ah Bin, and his results were not ideal…
"Ka! This scene is over!"
Director Jin Chen was the one who shouted," Stop!" He poked his head out from behind the camera and shouted," Take a break!" Rest for 20 minutes!"
It was a crew in a tube-shaped apartment. It was not large, but the movie it was shooting was very fashionable. It was called " Love in the Internet Age."
The corridor was dark and cramped, and the narrow windows were high up on the roof. The morning sun shone in from outside, giving off an atmosphere of looking up at freedom in prison.
At the end of the corridor, three figures of similar height were leaning against the front door. Two older youths and a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old were sucking on the front door.
The cigarette was given by the director, Jin Chen, and the lighter was provided by the main actor, Chen Jianbing.
As for the young man? He was in charge of lighting the cigarette.
Lu Xiao took a deep breath from the cigarette butt. The white smoke went down his throat and into his lungs before he exhaled. He could only feel a little bit of reality as he breathed in and out.
It was summer in 1998.
Fate played a strange joke. He returned from 2021 to 1998 and was reborn as a student of the Central Drama Academy.
At this moment, he was working as the director's assistant in the production team of " Love in the Internet Age." The production team was small and poor. The director, Jin Chen, was a newcomer, and almost all the actors were newcomers.
To be honest, if he had not been reborn, Lu Xiao would not have known that such a movie existed.
The male lead in the production team was ugly and cute. His name was Sun Xun. In the future, he would star in military-themed television dramas for a long time. The most famous one would probably be " My Brother is called Shunliu."
The supporting actor was Teacher Chen Jianbing, and everyone was very familiar with him. He had played the role of Cao, the wife of another man, and also the green Yongzheng in the Legend of Zhen Huan. This might be God's will.
Director Jin Chen might not be familiar to everyone, but he had also made a movie that would leave a mark in the history of Chinese film.
Warring States, the one that was too brutal.
He had also remade Han Han's first work, Triple Door, into a TV series, but it was banned by the SARFT. This was in line with Han Han's style.
Speaking of the movie that was being filmed, the main character was really called Ah Bin. The author did not deliberately fake it.
The story roughly described how the young Ah Bin accidentally picked up an old film. After using his skillful magnifying skills to restore the film, he found that it was a beautiful girl. Later, he met this girl, Mao Mao, in his life, and his young and ignorant love sprouted.
This girl and the boyfriend played by Chen Jianbing were both graduates of the drama school. The girl acted and the boyfriend directed. Her boyfriend met a rich middle-aged woman who had lost her husband during the construction of the play, so he dialed the phone number of the telephone pole that offered a lot of money for a child.
The girl went abroad in anger.
After that, Ah Bin and the girl first reunited online and chatted passionately with each other. After the girl returned to China, she met the netizens. Ah Bin found that the netizen he had chatted with for a long time was actually the goddess from many years ago. He felt that there was nothing more beautiful than this in the world.
They were in love.
But the main point was that the girl was pregnant!
Ah Bin expressed that he hadn't done it yet!
That would be ridiculous.
Lu Xiao's directing major didn't have any particularly outstanding seniors. It was often said that actors came from Chinese dramas and stars came from Northern Film Academy. However, Northern Film Academy also produced great directors. Both Mouzi and Kaizi came from Northern Film Academy.
In this era, film and television resources were relatively scarce, and Lu Xiao usually had nothing to do.
This time, he met Jin Chen, who was filming his first movie. Jin Chen was close to Chen Jianbing, and Lu Xiao was also close to Chen Jianbing. Perhaps it was because Lu Xiao was from the mountain city, and Chen Jianbing seemed to have a natural good impression of people from the mountain city.
With their relationship in place, Lu Xiao volunteered himself and brought his own rations to join the crew.
Although he was the director's assistant, he did all the chores such as carrying boxes and tools, handing water and wiping sweat.
Jin Chen was also very happy. The free labor was too delicious.
The production team was not rich to begin with, so they should save as much as they could.
The three of them chatted as they puffed out smoke.
" Xiaozi, you're in your third year this year, right? What are your plans for the future?" Jin Chen didn't have any other meaning, he was just looking for something to say.
" I'll give it a try. I'll enter a public institution, stay in school, or work in a state-owned enterprise. I'll go wherever you want. I'm not picky."
Lu Xiao exhaled a mouthful of smoke and said casually. However, she couldn't help but think of Department Director Tang's heroic bearing when he held the bowl.
"It's good to stay in school. It's good to be a teacher." This was what Chen Jianbing said.
He had graduated as a graduate student this year and was already scheduled to stay in the university to teach.
"I haven't congratulated Brother Bin yet. I'll have to call him teacher in the future." Lu Xiao teased.
"It's okay. It's the same. Teacher doesn't hold grudges." Chen Jianbing waved his hand in a domineering manner.
The filming started again very quickly. The crew was still getting used to it, so the morning scenes were arranged to be relatively simple. The filming progress was not big, and some corner shots were taken as a warm-up.
At noon, a few people gathered around a table and made lunch boxes.
According to the category, it was one meat dish and one vegetarian dish. According to the ratio, it was 0.4 meat dishes and 1.6 vegetarian dishes.
" Xiaozi, our female lead will be joining the crew in the afternoon. We'll definitely have to work hard. The task is heavy, so you have to be quick." Jin Chen instructed as he ate.
Lu Xiao nodded. He thought of the female lead who was about to enter the cast. She was also in her third year of university. He only had a vague impression of her on television in his previous life and had not interacted with her since his rebirth.
Jin Chen ate a few more mouthfuls of rice and continued to talk." Our female lead this time is really beautiful. Xiaozi, she's in the same batch as you. Do you know her?"
"I'm still waiting for you to introduce me, Director." Lu Xiao shrugged.
" That won't do. If you don't even take the initiative when it comes to pretty girls, are you going to be shy?"
"Hey, I'm doing it myself. Look at my forearm, isn't it thick?"
After Lu Xiao finished speaking, he raised his right hand. It was indeed muscular and powerful.
At the beginning of his rebirth, Lu Xiao had also thought of using his gun to attack the entertainment industry, pointing his gun at Japan and Korea, and sweeping Europe and America with his rod.
Then, he realized that he did not have a cheat.
As the saying went, a cheat was the number one competitive advantage. Reincarnators without a cheat were all scum. It was best to be honest.
Lu Xiao was even more miserable. The other peers who were reborn were either extremely handsome or had a family with a mine. In this life, his appearance was average, his family background was average, and he was reborn at a slightly old age. He could not create the image of a child prodigy.
Only an ordinary one stood out.
There was no other way. He had to endure it slowly. In a few years, he would have a chance to make a name for himself.