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Chapter 208 Actor's Self-cultivation (Life of 13.8k)(1/3)

ps: I fell asleep last night, and I rushed to pay off the debt all day today. What kind of mentality in the group exploded, what do you want to tj and leader are teasing you... I hope everyone is satisfied with the unprecedented big chapter.

Uh, by the way, I wish you all a happy Lantern Festival... It's the Lantern Festival, but I can't find a place to sell dumplings...

—I am the dividing line of sesame stuffing—

In late January 2012, when the Chinese New Year was over, Kim Jong-ming suddenly became bored.

Political activities have stagnated, and politicians also know that they cannot jump out of annoying at this time; business has calmed down because no matter how big a company is, it will have to have a holiday during the Chinese New Year; there is no particularly annoying thing in the entertainment industry. The mbc strike has begun, and Bai Xiang has not arrived yet. As for the TV station's year-end bounty, Zhong Ming has always been too lazy to go. In fact, he was also too lazy to go when he was not a big onion before; oh, even the fight in his sister's team

Even the movement was stagnant. Yoona and Yuri were said to be reading scripts at home every day. Kim Jong-ming really wanted to know if these two people could see any flowers. If he could really face "The Moon Embrace the Sun", he would definitely be willing to accept the loss. Even the family reunion that should have during the Chinese New Year became much more peaceful, rich and status. Except for the closest relatives and elders, the other people's attitudes became three points. After the sacrifice to the ancestor, no one cared about him.

So, Kim Jong-ming, who seemed panicked, began to torture others.

On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, he found Yin Zhiyuan, who was also bored. The two of them played games in Chu Ding's game room until late at night. It is said that Yin Zhiyuan's wife returned to her parents' home crying.

At noon on the second day of the Lunar New Year, he magically drove to Cheongwon County alone, had a meal at his father-in-law's house, and unexpectedly met Chu Long's uncle. Then in the evening, he actually appeared at Kang Ho-dong's house in the southernmost part of South Korea, and had another meal.

It’s not over yet. It’s early in the third day of the Lunar New Year. Seeing the sky was gloomy and the snowflakes were not blooming, Jin Zhongming suddenly called out by phone... He was going to film a movie today!

Well, there is no way, who said that this willful person is the boss? So, the crew of "Introduction to Architecture" that has actually been disbanded quickly gathered again. At noon, in front of the old house where the four main buildings used as the set, that is, the male and female protagonists used as the secret base, various equipment and personnel were completely in place.

By the way, the protagonist of this shot is Ji Yeon. The little dinosaur who finally took two days off was called by his agent and called out from the bed. Then he got into Kim Kwang-soo in a daze and came to pick up his car and set off. He didn't know what he was going to shoot before he arrived on the set.

In fact, except for Kim Jong-ming, everyone in the crew, including Lee Yong-joo, didn't know what to shoot this time. Even when the makeup artist put on Ji Yeon, they were made up according to Kim Jong-ming's temporary command.

Long black hair, yellow scarf, a white windbreaker, a black red plaid skirt that is less than the knee, a pair of black stockings, a pair of purple-black high-heeled leather boots, a pink bag, coupled with careful lipstick, very delicate foundation, deep traces of eye shadow, carefully trimmed eyebrows... This is a typical full makeup, and it took more than an hour... However, this is also very different from Ji Yeon's usual pure image in the movie.

Li Yongzhou originally wanted to persuade him, but he, who was used to being an assistant director, did not speak to save Jin Zhongming's face in front of so many people, but decided to wait until the end and talk during the editing.

"Can't the snow fall?" At around 3:00 in the afternoon, seeing that all departments were in place, Jin Zhongming frowned and looked at the gloomy sky above his head. It turned out that the snowflakes in anticipation had never arrived.

"It should be." The leader of the prop group immediately provided a professional alternative. "But our company has snow making machines and prop snow... It's very close and can be transported in half an hour."

"Then bring it here." Jin Zhongming gave the order without hesitation.

The atmosphere of the crew changed immediately. Although the filming had not started yet, they had already felt something from the artificial snow making and Kim Jong-ming's attitude, and everyone immediately became serious and nervous.

"Oppa...Director, what am I going to do?" At this time, Ji Yeon, who was wearing a short skirt and stockings, was trembling with coldness, couldn't help but run over.

"Jong Ming." Kim Kwang-soo, who was rarely with Ji Yeon, couldn't help but interrupt. "It's too cold outside. The snow machine will arrive in half an hour. Can you let Ji Yeon go back to the car and take off the warmth?"

"Is it cold?" Kim Jong-ming ignored Kim Kwang-soo and looked at Ji Yeon in this outfit with a frown.

He didn't say anything, because Jiyeon stopped and opened her mouth, her teeth trembled.

"Today will be very hard." Jin Zhongming frowned slightly. "In fact, although I know you are cold, I am not going to let you enter a house and a car to keep warm..."

Jiyeon was shaking, it was frozen, and Kim Kwang-soo, who followed Jiyeon, was shaking, but he was wearing heavy clothes on his body, obviously not because of the temperature.

"Let's do this, you have good physical fitness. If you are cold, just jog around the house." Kim Jong-ming's attitude was very tough in his words. "But in short, don't let me see you enter the house for warmth, otherwise I won't take pictures today... Do you understand?"

Ji Yeon nodded and immediately grabbed her bag and ran away in the cold weather in a short skirt and stockings... She was so cold!

The makeup artist looked at this scene with absurd look on his face, as if he was trying to say something, but looking at Kim Jong-ming who looked that way, she swallowed the words back. However, Li Yongzhou, who was writing the script, suddenly looked at Ji Yeon's back thoughtfully.

In this way, when the snow machine was pulled to the scene half an hour later, artificial snowflakes began to fall gently in the narrow old-fashioned yard. At this time, Ji Yeon, who had been running for half an hour and was still steaming on his forehead, was finally called in front of Kim Jong-ming... However, Ji Yeon's makeup looks a bit weird at this moment.

You know, although Ji Yeon herself is very careful, sweat and heat will undoubtedly have a huge destructive effect on the makeup she had put in a lot of effort to paint. Her previous flowing long hair, clean eyeshadow, neat eyebrows, and bright lipstick almost all disappeared. And this is not over. When Ji Yeon stopped, she blew in the cold wind in the low temperature, and the makeup in these places immediately became even more weird.

Among them, the lips on the edge of the lipstick began to turn purple, and the front of the eyebrows quickly showed a little strange blue color. What's even more terrifying is that the previous eyeshadow slightly bloomed down with sweat, and quickly frozen, causing her beautiful foundation to have a strange black ball under her eyes.

The makeup artist sighed. As a professional, she actually knew it would be like this, but Kim Jong-ming's face was so scary that she didn't dare to speak at all.

"How?" Jin Zhongming suddenly turned his head and asked Li Yongzhou.

"Very good!" Li Yongzhou, as the creator of the script, had already fully understood what Kim Jong-ming meant at this time, and knew that this was going to reshoot that scene, so he nodded very satisfiedly. "That's it! But we are not shooting ghost movies, just keep these characteristics, and the makeup should be as beautiful as possible... In fact, this scene should be a snow scene, so it should be shot like this... But Zhong Ming, how did you think of it?"

"That's what I thought of." Kim Jong-ming laughed dryly. "I'm bored when I woke up early in the morning. I came to the balcony and watched it snowing. Suddenly I felt... the separation between the heroine and the hero when they were young should be on a snowy day. The heroine dressed up carefully, put on a full set of makeup, and then ran to the door panting, even the makeup was exhausted. But because of fear, I stood there for a long time, and my makeup was frozen again, so I pushed open the door and walked in. Then, but I found nothing... Teacher Zhang, please put on Ji Yeon's makeup, and you must pay attention to keeping the characteristics of her sweating, the corners of her mouth, the condensed hair ends, the settled eyeshadow, and the knotted eyebrows. These four things must be slightly retained..."

The makeup artist suddenly realized that he was too low-end. This makeup was deliberately made to match the plot. It was ridiculous that he was actually worried about this before!

Seeing Jiyeon start to put on makeup again, Kim Kwang-soo next to him was relieved. Kim Jong-ming was not targeting him, but in a good mood, that would be better. He had other tasks today... At this point, he quietly retreated outside the set, then took out his cell phone and dialed a phone.

Then, after artificial snowflakes were slightly spread half a floor around the courtyard, the shooting began quickly.

At this time, Ji Yeon, who had put on makeup, finally realized that the male and female protagonists were replaying a scene. When they were young, they had a serious misunderstanding. However, on the day they agreed, she carefully dressed up and came to the old house shared by the two... and then she did not wait for the male protagonist to appear, but when they met again, it was ten years later.

This scene has been filmed once before, and it was in autumn. Obviously, director Kim Jong-ming now has a new idea. He is going to film a version of snowing in winter. He is worried about this and even comes to suffer from the low temperature on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

The shooting was very strange. Ji Yeon pushed open the door without saying a word, lifted the snowflakes on her hair, and then walked into the courtyard and the room and looked around carefully and nervously. After being fruitless, she had to sit on the corridor steps, from day to night, watching the narrow old-fashioned yard beneath the snowflakes falling...

That's right, the problem lies here!

When Ji Yeon held his bag and sat on the corridor steps, the entire crew fell into an extremely strange state... Three minutes, five minutes, and one quarter of an hour... Kim Jong-ming, who was sitting behind Ji Yeon in person, never called for a stop, and just sat down with the other party.

By the way, the snowflakes are fake, but the temperature and the outfit are real. It was okay at first, but slowly, Ji Yeon began to tremble, began to shivering without knowingly, started to stomp his feet gently, started to scrub his hands, and started to touch the CD and CDs next to him... But an hour later, Kim Jong-ming still didn't say a word, but stared at Ji Yeon's back in the camera expressionlessly.

The entire crew that was temporarily gathered was also so quiet that it was strange. Everyone was at a loss in their numbness. Only the staff responsible for starting the machine to sprinkle snowflakes numbly stuffed snowflakes... and stuffed them bit by bit, slowly as agreed.

"Director Li Yongzhou, what are you doing?" I don't know how long it took, outside the gate, someone could not help but ask.

"This is art!" Li Yongzhou, who had an inexplicable sense of a strange feeling in his heart, scolded softly without looking back. "Shut up if you don't understand!"

No one spoke anymore, only the little bit of artificial snowflakes were left to continue falling.

Finally, as the gloomy sky gradually became darker due to the sunset, artificial snowflakes had already covered the courtyard and roof, and even artificial snow had stopped because there was no inventory. But at this moment, Ji Yeon, who was almost frozen, suddenly heard a snap of his fingers coming from behind.

It turned out that the other party was not asleep, but was accompanying him to get frozen. The little dinosaur's first reaction was very strange.

However, after a little stunned for a while, she continued to react. This was the signal that Jin Zhongming had agreed with him at the beginning of the shooting two hours ago that he could get up and leave... Oh, before leaving, he had to touch the CD box next to him, and when he walked to the door, he had to hold the door and then look back at the CD box.

In this way, with the mechanical movements of the frozen little dinosaurs, the shooting finally ended. Then the little dinosaur...well, he had a cold without a doubt. It is said that after he went back, he held the quilt and didn't leave the nest for two days.

Of course, although Kim Jong-ming didn't know about this, he could guess it. He sat in the open air for an afternoon in such weather. If there were no symptoms, it would be strange. However, Kim Jong-ming didn't care. After all, as a Korean actor these days, he was froze to film... he really didn't have the right to complain! Otherwise? Who told you not to be a Chinese young man?

Actually, I would say more here. In fact, just Ji Yeon's thinking circuit, I might even be secretly grateful to Kim Jong-ming for freezing herself. Otherwise, why would I openly ask Kim Kwang-soo to take three days off to sleep in bed?

Moreover, one thing that made Kim Jong-ming not have time to pay attention to Ji Yeon's condition was that after the scene, he also received a slightly unexpected message:

"Who did you say is here?"

"President Lee Jae-hyun has just arrived." Li Yong-zhou replied a little awkwardly.

"However, what?" Jin Zhongming, who was also very cold, asked in confusion.

"Then I scolded me." Li Yongzhou became even more embarrassed. "I didn't see it was him... It is said that the scene came not long after it was filmed. He came with Director Li Jae-bin, and then waited for you there for a while, but you were not... Anyway, he couldn't help asking me, and I... cursed him without even turning my head, and then he heard that he left."

"Ah." Kim Jong-ming stared at the dilapidated wall next to him for a while, then he responded casually. "Let's go. If there is something really happening, I will definitely come back again. Director Li should not think too much... There is another thing, today, there is a good condition, and there is a scene I want to reshoot, let's change the place."

"Who should I call you?" Li Yongzhou was suddenly excited. There was no way. He was probably the one who invested the most in this movie, so for him, the more beautiful remakes, the better.

"My own solo play." Kim Jong-ming replied calmly. "That scene of hiding at the door and smoking to repair the door..."

Li Yongzhou stared at the other party with a strange expression, and finally nodded.

So, the wind was cold and the night was gloomy. Another place in the main sets in the movie, that is, the home of the hero in the movie, Li Yongzhou personally took the photo, and there was no shortage of lighting scenes. A scene that was to be remade for no reason was about to begin soon in the evening.

This scene is actually very simple, far from its pre-set plot.

In the pre- plot, the male protagonist, who is facing pressure to go abroad, comes back to visit his mother and receives full support from his mother even if she sells the shop. Then, a simple, shocking, warm and helpless scene was staged between the mother and her son. Among them, the copycat sweatshirt that her son threw away ten years ago, the refrigerator in the corner of the wall, and the familiar but dilapidated courtyard around. All the details are shocking, which makes the male protagonist, who is about to go abroad and is in a complicated mood, and can only escape from the house in a panic.

Next is the scene that Kim Jong-ming is going to remake this time:

The male protagonist finally escaped and just took a puff of cigarette. When he turned around, he actually saw a trace of rust on the corner of his iron door. It was undoubtedly the trace left by the goddess when he was young and energetic because he wore a copycat sweatshirt, and then he was full of grievance and frustration at his mother.

Thinking of his mother's tolerance and greatness just now, the male protagonist who had arrived at the door of his house really had no way to escape and could only shed tears without saying a word.

Since the scenes are really simple, and the house is actually in the same old community as the old house I took in the afternoon, and the shooting angle is single and there is no need for too many machines (actually only have two shoulder anti-camera), the crew members didn't even eat dinner and started working. After all, in their expectation, the arrangements started at 6:30 and the shooting started at 8:00. There is no reason not to end at 8:00, right?

However, later facts proved that this idea was too naive! Because today's Kim Jong-ming had a hint of abnormality from beginning to end.

The background board and lights were arranged, and the shooting began soon. An auxiliary photographer squatted in one side of the shadow, motionlessly responsible for the back of the character, while Li Yongzhou personally carried the camera and pulled the camera open the camera, preparing to take a close-up of the front expression.

There is no special boarding, the shooting begins directly.

In the camera, Kim Jong-ming, who had only slightly wrinkled at the corner of his eyes, turned over, held a cigarette in his mouth, and tried to press the open iron sheet back with his hands. However, with these actions, the iron door only made a futile creaking sound, but the broken corner of the door could not be repaired.

In the silent winter night, without any extra words, Kim Jong-ming suddenly started to shed tears, and tears couldn't stop surging out. At this moment, he completely brought into the protagonist's mood. Youth is such a broken iron gate. When you grow up, you can't repair it. Whether it's love, family affection, or even any past relationship, anyone who used to go with this iron gate, and once it breaks, you will never go back.

Everyone in the crew stood in front of the door, staring at Kim Jong-ming there without saying a word. And Li Yong-zhou, as the person carrying the camera, squatted directly opposite the door, and was closest to it. To be honest, staring at the person crying in the camera, the director's expression became a little dazed.

You know, crying is not the same thing.

Some actors crying is called well-trained. The long-term studio training and even classroom teaching can make a person cry as soon as they say they cry. This is already very good. However, it is called forced emotions and forced feelings. In "Actors' Self-cultivation", this type of thing is called "pretending"!

However, the actor's Bible also says that when an actor begins to be exactly the same, correct, logical, in sequence, humanized, and then adheres to this state of thinking, hope, pursuit, action... and ultimately makes the actor approach the role without limit and begins to feel the same as the role...that is called the real performing art.

Lee Yong-joo is not a very famous director, but he has been an associate director with Bong Joon-ho for more than ten years. Perhaps he does not have the ability to train an actor, but... he still has the judgment of art. So he knows very well that Kim Jong-ming is artistically appealing at this moment, because this crying brings into the character's feelings and comes from the heart. This crying scene that gushs out from tears will eventually bring the audience into the movie in the final release, allowing them to recall the touching details shown by the protagonist's mother "just ago", and then trigger the resonance of the tear glands.

Simple, but everything is indifferent.

Kim Jong-ming cried for three minutes and didn't stop, but no one around went there was any movement... Because everyone was at a loss and felt sad. What made such a strong man in such a society cry so carelessly? It must be some common things that everyone can perceive.

To be honest, as a screenwriter and the actual creator of the movie, Li Yongzhou's senses towards Kim Jong-ming were actually quite complicated during the filming of the movie.

First of all, from the director's perspective, he believes that Kim Jong-ming is qualified, and the casting is not forcibly messing with people. He respects his original work in the plot, and strives for exquisiteness as he does, including Ji Yeon's super long back shot that makes people speechless this afternoon... No matter how much of the final edit can be left, this attitude and level are indeed completely unshakable.

From the perspective of the producer, Li Yongzhou even thinks that Kim Jong-ming is outstanding. Not to mention anything else, what is the biggest feature of the movie "Introduction to Architecture"? Naturally, architecture is used to portray the relationship between time and characters.

For example, when he was young, the heroine mischievously stepped on the cement pool that her father had just applied. After decades, what is this? This is the imprint of the sincere feelings of father and daughter in time; for example, when he was in school, the height line that had once been gestured in the corner of the wall was still hidden behind the mottled vines. What is this? This is the feeling of why the heroine returned to Jeju Island; and the situation in front of her, the new door in the past was kicked apart. After ten years, the door was rusted and cannot be repaired. What is this? Of course, it is about the simple and real relationship between the male protagonist and the mother and son.

But these require not only money, but also a delicate attitude and whole-hearted energy. The air drying of cement pools and the rust treatment of the doors all require time and energy. It is likely that it will take a hard work for a week, but it will cost countless costs but can only take one shot.

From this perspective, producer Kim Jong-ming really did what Lee Yong-chung expected. He wanted an old house, so Kim Jong-ming bought two old houses, allowing Lee Yong-chung, who was born in architecture, to play whatever he wanted; he wanted to build a new villa by the beach, so Kim Jong-ming took down the villa on Jeju Island and even demolished it, designed, and rebuilt it... He even encountered a storm on the way to build the house and was willing to wait with him.
To be continued...
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