Concage

Mandy

The pattern of Hollywood is different from other places: there are many small companies on the street, and the script is prepared in the company and can be turned on at any time. Actors who are filming come to audition in the afternoon and evening. They can join the group every time they scream a few times. This happened more than 20 years ago. Now, in addition to screaming, they have to learn how to walk as a zombie. These are all B If you have acting skills, you can act as the protagonist of a B-grade film. If your acting skills explode, you can go to the blockbuster movie. But these actors, most of whom are pretentious, probably do not have such opportunities. Only Oscar-level actors can walk into the eight major film companies next door, and shoot slowly.

I have been working as a buddy in Hollywood since the early 2000s. The producer said that I was too stupid to be able to serve Oscar-level actors, so I would just do something outside. Although the outside actors are easy to talk, there are also many who are confused. They often have to read the director's script with their own eyes to see when their character will die, and how many lines there are in total, and then rest assured: under this serious supervision, the director is also in a dilemma. So after a few days, the producer said again that I couldn't do it. Fortunately, the recommendation head has a lot of affection and can't be dismissed, so he changed it to a boring job specializing in field affairs coordinator.

From then on, I stayed on the set all day, taking care of my duties. Although there is no dereliction of duty, I always feel a little monotonous and a little boring. The producer has a fierce face, and the director doesn't have a good voice, so he can't teach people to be lively; only when Kong Kaiqi joined the group can he laugh a few times, so I still remember it to this day.

Kong Cage is the only person who has made a B-movie and is an Oscar-level actor. He was tall and tall; his face was pale, with scars from time to time between his wrinkles; a unkempt gray beard. Although it is Oscar-level, it has long been out of breath. It seems that he has not won an award or been nominated for more than ten years. When he talks to people, he is always full of character analysis, which makes people half-understood. Because his surname was Kong, others took a nickname for him from the half-understood words "Nicolas-Skechi" on the red paper, called Kong Kaiqi.

As soon as Kong Kaiqi arrived at the store, all the filmmakers looked at him and laughed, some shouted, "Kong Kaiqi, your movie is only 5% on Rotten Tomatoes again"

He didn't answer and said to the company, "Two plasma films and one road film."

They shouted deliberately again, "You must have bankrupted another company!"

Kong Kaiqi opened his eyes wide and said, "How can you be so innocent..."

"What innocence? I saw you bankrupt MGM that year."

Kong Kaiqi blushed, and the blue veins on his forehead burst out, arguing, "Losing money does not mean that the film is bad... Losing money!... Can a performance artist be considered bad?" , what "deconstructionism", what "magic reality" and the like, caused everyone to laugh: the inside and outside of the store was full of happy air.

Hearing people talk behind their backs, Kong Kaiqi had also sold at the box office, but he finally had no luck, and he couldn't choose films; so the filming got worse and worse, so that no one was looking for it. Fortunately, I read the lines well, so I dubbed the cartoon and ate it for a bowl of rice. It's a pity that he has the same bad temper, that is, he likes to spend money indiscriminately, and the salary is squandered within a few days. If it happened several times, there would be no one who called him to dub. Kong Kaiqi has no way, so he will inevitably accept some junk movies. But in our company, his character is better than others, that is, he never cares about the script; although some scripts can not be filmed at the moment, they are temporarily recorded in the plan, but within a month, the filming will definitely be finished, and the plan will be wiped. Went to the name of Kong Cage.

After Kong Kaiqi finished filming his opponent's scene, his blushing face gradually recovered, and others asked again, "Kong Kaiqi, have you really won the Oscar for Best Actor?" Kong Kaiqi looked at the person who asked him, showing An air of disdain. They went on to say, "Why can't you even get half of the nomination now?" Kong Kaiqi immediately showed a look of depression and anxiety, his face was covered with gray, and he said something; It's the actor's conduct and so on, some don't understand. At this time, everyone also burst into laughter: there was a happy air inside and outside the store.

At these times, I can go along and laugh, the director is never to blame. Moreover, when the director met Kong Kaiqi, he often asked him this, which made people laugh. Kong Kaiqi knew that he couldn't talk to them, so he had to talk to the dragon.

He said to me once, "Have you ever acted in a movie?"

I nodded slightly.

He said, "I've acted in a movie, ... I'll give you a test. How should an explosion scene be played?"

I think, people like begging, are they worthy of testing me? He turned his face away and ignored it.

Kong Kaiqi waited for a long time and said earnestly, "You can't act, right? ... I'll teach you, remember! These skills should be remembered. You should use them when you are a leading actor in the future."

I thought to myself that the level of the male protagonist is still far away, and our company's movies never fail to shoot explosive scenes; it's funny, but impatient, and he replied lazily, "Who wants you to teach, or you can't. Looking back at the explosion scene?"

Kong Kaiqi looked extremely happy, tapped the long nails of his two fingers on the counter, nodded and said, "Yes, yes! ... There are four forms of expression without turning back, do you know?

"I became more impatient, pouted and walked away. Seeing that I was not enthusiastic, Kong Kaiqi sighed again, showing great regret.

Kong Kaiqi is so happy, but without him, others would make movies like this.

One day, about two or three days before Thanksgiving, the producer was slowly arranging the filming plan when he suddenly said, "Kong Kaiqi hasn't come for a long time. I still owe nineteen films to shoot!" I think he really hasn't come for a long time.

A person who was running around the wheel said, "How could he come?...His new film was rejected by the theater."

The shopkeeper said , "Oh!"

"He's still picking up bad movies. This time, he was dazed and went to China. Did you pick up a Chinese blockbuster?"

"What happened afterward?"

"How about it? Selling feelings first, and then special effects for fifty cents. The ratings are extremely low."

"And then?" "Then it was released."

"How about the show?"

"How? ... Who knows? Maybe it's time to stop filming." The producer didn't ask any more, and was still slowly excluding the filming plan.

After Thanksgiving, the wind is getting colder every day, and it is almost early winter; I have to wear a down jacket all day by relying on the fire. For the second half of the day, no actor came to audition, and I sat with my eyes closed.

"Take a B-movie."

Although the voice was extremely low, it was very familiar. There was no one at all when I saw it. Standing up and looking out, Kong Kaiqi sat next to the threshold of the company. His face was black and thin, and he was out of shape; he was wearing a ragged suit, his legs were crossed, a bag was placed under it, and a tie was used to hang it over his shoulders; when he saw me, he said, "Get a B-movie. "

The producer also stretched out his head and said, "Kong Kaiqi? You still have nineteen films to go!"

Kong Kaiqi replied with a sullen face, "This... let's make more shots next time. This time it's a ready-made crew and remuneration."

The producer was still the same as usual, and said to him with a smile, "Kong Kaiqi, your new film is bad again!"

But this time, he was not very distinguishable, and simply said, "Don't make fun of it!

"Trick? If it's not bad, how can it be released?"

Kong Kaiqi said in a low voice, "Adjust the times, adjust, adjust..."

His wink was like begging the producer not to mention it again. A few people had gathered by this time, and they laughed with the producer. After a while, he took the script, and then walked slowly to the set amid the chatter and laughter of others.

Since then, Kong Kaiqi has not been seen for a long time. At the end of the year, the producer took down the plan and said, "Kong Kaiqi still owes nineteen films and hasn't come to shoot!" By Easter the following year, he said, "Kong Kaiqi still owes nineteen films and hasn't come to shoot. What!" He didn't say anything until Christmas, and he didn't see him until New Year's Eve.

I haven't seen it until now - it seems that Kong Kaiqi is indeed dead.

Late summer 2018 writing at home

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