Chapter 786 - 776: You Threaten Your Mom Now?

Chapter 786: Chapter 776: You Threaten Your Mom Now?

After a lot of effort, a few female classmates playing villagers finally stopped, and even shouting ’cut’ didn’t work. In the end, it was a staff member who pulled them apart.

The female classmates who finished the fight inexplicably started crying, while the college student who was hit looked dumbfounded, with clear slap marks on his face.

Director Yang rushed out, having to comfort both the crying girls and the college student playing the enemy, feeling utterly exhausted and drained.

Eventually, after inquiries, it was discovered that this wasn’t the first time for their crew. Anyway, whenever there was a scene about killing enemies, the extras often couldn’t control themselves from hitting for real.

The advantage of this is that the shots look quite real. After all, they’re just extras, and usually action scenes are half-hearted, not real. Especially with slaps, most are faked with little effort since there aren’t many takes. But these slaps sound loud and clear, incredibly authentic. Even the director couldn’t bear to shout ’cut’, they had to keep it, absolutely, even give it a close-up.

The downside, of course, is that it’s quite exhausting for the ’enemy’ extras. They’re really getting hit. Especially the college student from earlier, with a constipated look on his face, clearly got beaten up, yet still having to comfort the female classmates.

While filming, he couldn’t bring himself to hit a woman, and after being hit, still had to comfort them.

Luckily, Director Yang is experienced, not criticizing anyone, just encouraging both sides a bit, giving the hit ’enemy’ a chicken leg, increased pay, and promised a few more takes.

College students are easy to mollify, and soon everyone was full of energy again, leaving Su Qing and Wang Fan stunned.

"Bro, do actors in your crew also have such incidents?" Su Qing turned his head to ask.

Hearing this, Wang Fan shook his head: "No, no, I’ve never directed a war-themed show. I’ve seen people break down and cry after getting into character, unable to shake it off, and also accidents during filming, but getting into fights, hitting until their eyes turn red... that’s rare.

But that scene just now was brilliant, the female comrades’ faces ferocious, ahem, rising up to resist, actors bursting with emotions, very realistic. Not bad, she’s a promising talent, might even make it into the entertainment industry in the future!"

Su Qing: ...

The two chatted away by the machine, occasionally watching Director Yang bustling around the set, feeling a bit sorry for him.

In comparison, Wang Fan felt that his past hardships were nothing, of course, except for the lack of money.

The two had a meal with Director Yang’s crew in the afternoon before saying their goodbyes, agreeing to keep in touch. Everyone’s pretty clear without needing to spell things out.

In case they found better opportunities later or Su Qing wasn’t interested in the other’s script, it’d be awkward, so it’s just about getting familiar faces for potential collaboration.

In the afternoon, the two visited several other crews, mostly for costume dramas, but Su Qing knew from the narration that few of these crews’ works would get popular, most being mediocre and relying on the lead’s fame to draw in viewers.

There were only one or two with good responses, somewhat regrettable, but also evident that some larger productions, regardless of their scripts, were commercially more solid than those scripts in his office.

Understandably, productions submitted to his office were either bottom-drawer, with no investment, or small productions unable to attract investment due to lack of fame.

In such a situation, producing a good work naturally had a much higher level of difficulty than for large crews.

The first time he managed to find three projects was thanks to Wang Fan bridging connections, this time’s effect should be good too with Wang Fan tagging along, he was already slightly looking forward.

At five in the afternoon, they returned to the ’No Eyes’ crew without disturbing anyone, just finding a corner to quietly watch the shooting.

The filming progressed quickly, some of the literary scenes were easily shot through, only the fight scenes required multiple takes, striving for perfection in action.

Especially martial arts extras working with the blind protagonist, even though it’s fake fighting, falling to the ground was still real, sometimes they couldn’t control their strength causing actual pain, and occasionally injuries.

Of course, these people’s pay was significantly higher than the average extras.

For this small crew, Su Qing quite liked it, with shooting progressing quickly and efficiently, it should wrap up by the end of the month.

Post-production follows, then promotion, release, and just waiting to split profits, though the movie’s return rate is high, the budget is small, mostly heading for online release, so the box office share could only reach tens of millions at best.

The amount he’d get would be even less, as he’d have to deduct the investment capital from it.

Compared to other crews, Yang Jia’s crew was quite dedicated, working up until 8 PM, genuinely racing against time.

He had dinner with Director Yang in the evening, then headed back to the hotel early with Old Wang, not lingering on site.

"Mom, it’s the suitcase on the left, yes, the suitcase! Please help me find a small pig plush toy, someone’s coming to get it tomorrow!"

In the hotel, Su Qing was on a video call with his mom, Zhou Hui.

Yesterday he learned through narration that an old classmate once gave him a gift, and suddenly became interested in it.

He had an impression of that plush toy but didn’t know where it had gone. Fortunately, his mom often helped him and his sister organize their things and classify them.

Both he and Su He had a box, containing things not often used but held sentimental value, like graduation photos, primary school diaries, and such.

She even kept the little note he wrote to his desk mate back in kindergarten, often teasing him about it.

"When did you ever have a plush toy?" His mom Zhou Hui’s voice sounded somewhat incredulous.

"Uh... I remember a classmate gave it to me before. It just popped into my head!" Su Qing replied helplessly.

"You’ve got so many things."

Although his mom voiced her reluctance, she still dug around, rummaging through his box for quite a while until she finally huffed angrily: "Where is it exactly, did you lose it yourself? It’s not here!"

"Not here? That’s impossible, I’ve hardly ever lost anything from there!"

"Well, I don’t know, anyway, it’s not here, alright, stop bothering your mom, I’m off to watch my show!"

As soon as she finished speaking, narration prompted in Su Qing’s mind.

[Eight years ago, your sister Su He took that toy to her room, putting it among her collection]

Su Qing: ...

Alright then, so that’s the reason.

"Mom, mom, maybe go check Su He’s room, it might be there!"

"No way, I’m exhausted!"

"Don’t say that, Mom. You wouldn’t want to see your future daughter-in-law just slip away, right?"

Zhou Hui: (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

"You cheeky boy, are you threatening your mom now!"

Su Qing: ...

"Ahem, Mom, let’s keep it civil, no name-calling!"

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