Mu Ling’s New Life 23
The director’s surname is Ji, and he is in his forties. Although he is in the entertainment industry, he is still a big director, but he doesn’t appear in front of the camera very much, and he doesn’t socialize with people very much, so, not many people in the entertainment industry know him. Of course, there are not many people who know him but there are still many who have seen his photos or videos, but the man in the suit and leather shoes in the photo and the one who appeared in front of Mu Ling now wore a set of ordinary sportswear with gray hair is completely different! It is said that a woman looks like a different person without or with makeup. In fact, many men can completely change their appearance after tidying themselves up, such as Ji Dao.
After Mu Ling finished filming “Princess Zhen”, she hasn’t taken any job for a long time, but her activities in the painting and calligraphy circles has never stopped. It’s not that she doesn’t want to take a job, it’s all because she hasn’t found a suitable a job – suitable for the role that can be played. If the director or the script is not good, even if you get paid for acting, it may not be of much benefit to yourself. Since she is not short of money, she naturally doesn’t have to tire herself too much. But now Director Ji’s script is really good, not to mention the script, she wants to act in this movie in the name of Director Ji. She lacks some important awards now – the heroine’s. After Mu Ling communicated with Director Ji, she knew why Director Ji chose her. This season director has been prepared the movie for a long time, but he has not found an actor he likes. In fact, he has read the information of Mu Ling before, but because he feels that Mu Ling is different from the mother he imagined, he puts it in on the sidelines until he accidentally saw Mu Ling playing around with her daughter.
Mu Ling had done a disguise, but Director Ji was a well-known director no matter what, his eyes were very powerful, so he recognized Mu Ling very quickly. Then, he found that Mu Ling’s patience and kindness towards her daughter and the deep love was exactly what he wanted.
At the beginning, he would talk to Mu Ling, then he also wanted to know Mu Ling after he recognized Mu Ling. Of course, he still hadn’t made up his mind at that time. It wasn’t until after watching Mu Ling’s two recent movies that he decided to ask Mu Ling to come to play. Mu Ling looked young no matter how she dressed, but the mother in the script was already in her thirties and look ordinary as she didn’t pay much attention to her appearance when she appeared on the stage. After passing Mu Ling, I somehow feel that Mu Ling is very suitable to play the movie as the ‘mother’: “I think you are older than you look.”
No wonder this director doesn’t socialize very much, he is really a person who can’t communicate and doesn’t know how to communicate… …Ordinary girls hear others commenting on themselves like this, even if they still have a smile on their faces, they will probably bury this director in private. Of course, Mu Ling didn’t care much about this, she thought that the director was pretty good – is she much older than she looks? Playing a mother who has sacrificed a lot for her son… Mu Ling nodded quickly.
It was around this time that Director Ji realized that he had said the wrong thing: “I’m not saying you’re old… I really think you should be able to act well. Don’t worry, the salary is not an issue. I will have a good discussion with investors.”
It seems quite rich and powerful, but you are a big director, the salary is not decided by you? Mu Ling felt that she needed to reposition the director. After Mu Ling talked with Director Ji, she signed an agreement with Director Ji. Of course, when she signed the agreement, she hadn’t forgotten one thing—discussed with Director Ji that Mu Qiu would also join the crew.
“It’s okay, I can see that she is a little abnormal, and she should really be accompanied by her mother.” Director Ji nodded seriously.
Director, even if you can see it, wouldn’t it be bad to say this in front of a mother? Mu Ling was speechless for a while again and Director Ji was a little annoyed when he realized that the words came out of his mouth. After he obviously found out his mistake, she found it even more funny. Director Ji’s personality is a bit introverted, completely different from Director Liu that Mu Ling had met before, and precisely because of this, he can always make movies with very delicate emotions. In the field of domestic literary and artistic movies, basically no one can compare him. It’s just that he observes others very carefully and can quickly understand other people’s emotions, but he is still prone to make mistakes when communicating with others…
Director Ji is going to make a movie again. Like when Liang Jingnan was about to shoot “Princess Zhen” in the movie, many investors immediately expressed their willingness to invest. It’s just that these investors are different from ordinary investors. These investors are basically various domestic film and television companies, not those big bosses who have plenty of money and want to make money.
Literary films do not make money. Those who invest in films for the purpose of making money will certainly not invest in them. Film and television companies are different. They all hope to win more awards. Director Ji didn’t pay much attention to these investors, and continued to cooperate with a company he had worked with many times before, and then the filming officially started. This movie uses the name of the original book, “Mother’s Love Like a Mountain“. This name does not belong to those names that can attract the audience to buy tickets, but Director Ji has never considered these things… he is so confident! When she joined the crew, Mu Ling thought that with Director Ji’s worth, the crew should be very well-off even if they weren’t as rich and powerful as Director Liu was when he filmed “Lore”, and there must be enough manpower, but she was wrong.
Compared with Liang Jingnan’s original crew, Director Ji’s crew has only one makeup artist… Fortunately, this makeup artist is a very powerful figure in the circle, and he even brought an assistant, which is enough.
“I don’t like too many people in the crew.” After contacting Mu Ling for a while, Director Ji became familiar with Mu Ling, and then he told the truth. ‘People, it’s annoying to him, he doesn’t like too many people in the crew now’.
Director Ji’s wife is completely different from Director Ji. At first glance, she is a cheerful and generous lady. It is said that she used to be an actress, but after marrying Director Ji, she has devoted herself to taking care of Director Ji and the crew of Director Ji. In other crews, the most powerful person is either the investor or the director. For this crew, the director’s wife has the most say. Director Ji’s wife is a very capable person, and she cooperates very well with Director Ji. She has already rented a site by the Yellow River to build related scenes. Going to the Yellow River is of course not because the protagonist in the movie lives there, it is purely to use the Yellow River to shoot the scene where the mother and son and other people struggle in the flood at the beginning of the film. According to Director Ji’s plan, the opening of the movie will be a flood scene, but it is not very easy to shoot this. His wife also searched for a long time before deciding to shoot in a certain section of the Yellow River. This section of the Yellow River has a lot of sediment, and the water flow seems to be relatively fast, but the place is very shallow. If it is handled properly, the flood scene can be completely reproduced. It is just shooting scenes in the flood, which not only has relatively high requirements for acting scenes, but also for the requirements for actors are actually very high.
If Mu Ling wanted to shoot the first part well, she had to soak in the water for a long time. At the same time, the young actors who acted with her also had to soak in the water for a long time, and then floated in the water. Mu Ling is fine, she has been several years since she was reborn, and she has already taken care of her body. Although the water is a little cold, it doesn’t matter for her to soak in the water, but that little actor is only seven years old years old… In this movie, a child actor who had shown his face in many TV shows came to act as the younger self. Director Ji had seen this child actor’s acting skills, but he forgot to consider the child actor’s performance. After he got into the water, he was very scared. Everyone didn’t know whether he was really scared or acting, so they started filming directly. After a few artificial waves hit him, he suddenly burst into tears. The crew had already used a machine to create heavy rain, and all clothes and other things that needed to float on the water were placed. Mu Ling and the extras were also soaked in the water, but the little actor had a problem.
In fact, the situation of the child star is also understandable. After all, he is only seven years old. Although he has learned to swim specially for acting, he was still be very scared when he really goes into the water. The crew let him be beaten by the waves in order to be realistic… This little child star just didn’t want to act anymore, and kept crying. His parents are both related to the entertainment industry, and it took him some effort to win the role of season director. I cherish it very much, and immediately blamed a few words as a result, it had the opposite effect, and the child refused to act even more, so the child’s mother could only coax him. Faced with such a crying child, Director Ji and the crew were almost at a loss. Finally, Director Ji’s wife came forward to solve the problem:
“Since the child is afraid, let’s not shoot the scene in the water first but shoot the scene on the shore after being rescued.”
Not to mention anything else, the frightened look of the child is very suitable for filming the scene where the mother and child are rescued, and the group performers who are soaked in the water can also climb up acting like being rescued by disaster relief soldiers. Of course, with such a toss now, losses are inevitable, but for filming, such things are really too normal. The mother protected her son after soaked in the water for a long time. They were separated from their father and other people in the village. When they were rescued, there was no one they knew around. The child cried loudly, and the mother also collapsed. She held her son’s hand and searched among the crowd, calling her husband’s name over and over again, but she couldn’t find her husband at all… In fact, she also knew that her husband protected them before. They have a hard time surviving after they accidentally hit a wall. In the end, it was the child’s crying that pulled her back:
“Mom, I’m hungry!”
The mother turned around and hugged the child and cried loudly. Finally, she cheered up. She went to ask for food and drink, and fell asleep with her son after entering the clean tent, and then managed to get back some daily necessities… It is said that a mother’s love is like water, but from this moment on, she has become a mountain that can shelter from wind and rain. The scenes where the victims on the shore were rescued were filmed one after another for a week, and then it was time to go into the water again. When filming the scenes on the shore, the little child actor still performed very well, but when it was time to go into the water, he was afraid again – after entering the water, even if there were protective things on his body to prevent him from sinking into the water, apart from crying he still screaming, there is no way to make a good film.
“Let the children take it easy, if it doesn’t work, we won’t shoot the scene of them floating in the water and being separated from their father, but only the scene of them being rescued.”
Director Ji’s wife said, Director Ji was obviously not happy, but his own wife said so, he could only keep silent. In the current situation, another child may perform worse than this child who has learned to swim… It is really difficult for a child to film this kind of scene.
“Why are you crying?”
Just as Director Ji and others were discussing, Mu Qiu, who had been watching from the side, suddenly said to the child.
“That’s none of your business!” The boy turned his head and ignored Mu Qiu. He didn’t want to do this either, but on the first day when a wave hit and water mixed with mud and sand entered his nose and mouth, he was really frightened. Yes, there was a feeling that he was going to be drowned, and he still felt uncomfortable for a long time after that, as long as he thinks about it these days, he feels that something is wrong with his mouth and nose.
“You are a villain.” Mu Qiu said suddenly.
“You are the villain!” The boy immediately exploded. There was a kid who was about their own age in the film crew. He wanted to make friends with Mu Qiu at first, but Mu Qiu didn’t pay attention to him at all, which made him very unhappy.
“You stole my mother, you are a villain.” Mu Qiu said very seriously: “You stole my mother, she protect you, but you still crying and afraid, you are shameless.”
A few years have passed, and Mu Qiu has grown into a beautiful little girl. Now that the boy is being teased by such a girl, he immediately becomes unhappy: “Who said I’m afraid? I’m not afraid at all!” He finally bit his teeth then go into the water. The reason why there were problems before was because everyone was unprepared and overestimated the child’s tolerance. Naturally, there will be no more problems now, and the waves that created are smaller, so that the scenes here are so fast that it’s over. The little boy who finished filming came up from the water, and was immediately carried away by his parents with towels. After a while, he changed into clean clothes and found Mu Qiu:
“Thank you for letting me finish filming the scene with the aggressive method.” The boy still had a problem with Mu Ling before, but now he said that probably because his parents explained it to him.
Mu Qiu really didn’t use any aggressive methods but she repeated: “You rob my mom from me!” She felt uncomfortable when she saw Mu Ling taking this little boy.
“That’s acting, it’s fake, and your mother is not my mother.” The little child star probably had seen too many scenes, and said a little maturely.
“My mother is mine alone.” Mu Qiu nodded immediately, the two of them came and forgot to talk finally became friends.
Mu Ling was very satisfied with this, and later when she was acting, she took the little actor with her more carefully. Children are actually easier to get into the show, the little actor’s condition is getting better and better, Mu Qiu couldn’t help being jealous a few times, and Mu Ling happily hugged her and coaxed her. The role of the young actor is not particularly large, and the camera mainly revolves around Mu Ling, and Mu Ling also encountered a little trouble at this time, that is, she had to look a little haggard in order to better perform the role she played. This is not enough to rely on makeup alone, she has to go all out and toss her body. She forced herself to stay up late for several nights and didn’t eat much. She really met the director’s requirements. Of course, because of her poor health, she was NGed more times. Later, she was a little afraid to hear Director Ji say “do it again”.
Of course, this is not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing is that after she finished her role with that young actor, she still has to play as an old lady. Director Ji’s makeup artist was very troublesome, it was impossible to make her look like a real old lady, so Mu Ling had to use acting skills to make up for it. Although she was honored as an old lady all her life, because people at that time got married early but she was actually not very old. Fortunately, she wanted to reduce her sense of existence, so she always tossed herself into an old look … The mother and son who escaped from the flood struggled to survive in a foreign land. The mother worked hard to raise her son, and then the son went to work in a distant city. The mother was considerate of her son, and never said what her life was like. She was used to enduring a little sickness. It was not until one day that she suddenly fainted that she realized that she had cancer.
What should I do if I have cancer? The mother thought that her son had just started working and was very financially stressed, and would need a lot of money to settle down in a big city, she finally burned the medical records and test papers silently, then called her son, saying that she missed her son, and asked her son to come back for her to take a look. The son was too busy with work, said that he would not be able to go back until the holidays. When he finally went back, his mother was already dying. The son wants to support but the mother can not wait. The son cried bitterly in front of the hospital bed, but it was impossible for his mother to wake up again. The filming is over, and all the people who participated in the filming are deeply touched at this time. Mu Ling still had the make-up of an old lady on his face, and when she thought of his parents in the previous life, her eyes suddenly became sour, and her face also showed a sad expression.
At this time, Mu Qiu suddenly whispered: “Grandma.”
