Chapter 282 Urgent Phone Call
As time entered 2008, the entertainment industry was still quite lively.

In addition to the two movies "Assembly" and "The Warlords" which set off a wave of movie-watching, Asia's pop star Jay Chou also released his eighth album "I'm Busy".

As the most popular Chinese singer nowadays, every time Jay Chou releases an album, it attracts huge attention.

All the songs in this album were composed by Jay Chou alone.

Except for one song "Busy Cowboy" which was written by Huang Junjie and another song written by Jay Chou himself, the rest were written by Fang Wenshan.

It is rumored that the album was named "I'm Busy" as Jay Chou's self-mockery and helplessness, complaining about his current work situation.

But in the past two years, Jay Chou has indeed been very busy.

First of all, last year he not only starred in Zhang Yimou's blockbuster "Curse of the Golden Flower" but also the terrible movie "Slam Dunk".

Then he directed "Secret", spending a lot of time on film and television.

At the same time, in his career, Jay Chou officially ended his contract with Alpha and started to pursue a solo career.

He also partnered with his mentor Yang Junrong and good brother Fang Wenshan to start a company. The new company was named after the three of them's English names, which later became the famous "JVR Music".

Apart from his career, Jay Chou's love life has been quite unsuccessful.

He broke up with Hou Peicen last year, and his emotional wounds have not yet healed. Then he had a fight with Cai Yilin's agent, which led to a fight between his ex-girlfriend and once again triggered the Double J War.

Finally, he has to prepare for a new album. All these things keep Jay Chou extremely busy.

However, although he is busy, his musical level is still guaranteed at this stage.

In particular, the song "Blue and White Porcelain" in the album once again caused a sensation in the entire Chinese music scene.

And after it was performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage shortly afterwards, it instantly spread across the country.

At the same time, the entertainment industry is also quite enthusiastic about the various reviews of last year.

In 2007, the most popular program was the first "Happy Boys" on Xiangnan TV. This talent show, which was a copy of "Super Girls", still had a huge viewership as always.

Chen Chusheng became extremely popular, but no one expected that the person who would achieve the highest success in the future would be Zhang Jie, who ranked fourth.

Several others had been silent for more than ten years, and finally became popular again thanks to variety shows.

It was also in this year that Chen Xiaoxu, the eternal Lin Daiyu, passed away, and the new version of "Dream of Red Mansions" also completed its grand casting.

However, the most popular TV series this year was the period drama "Golden Wedding" starring Zhang Guoli and Wen Li.

In the film industry, the most popular movie is "Lust, Caution".

This movie has become extremely popular because the boat scene has become a huge hit.

But the movie "Lust, Caution" is also forever associated with passionate scenes. Years later, when people think of this movie, most of them will not remember the plot, but will only care about whether the male and female protagonists had real sex.

However, apart from "Lust, Caution", there are still many hot spots in the film industry.

First of all, Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower" won the annual box office championship last year with a box office of over 300 million yuan.

Then Liu Zhou's "Room" won the Venice Golden Lion in 2007, which also brought glory to Chinese-language films. Of course, Zeng Li won the Venice Best Actress Award, which is also worth mentioning.

Coupled with "Crazy Racing" which grossed over 2 million yuan, and "The Blade of the Dragon II", "Assembly" and "The Warlords" which grossed over 2007 million yuan, the performance of Chinese-language films in was brilliant.

Finally, another major event is that the first science fiction blockbuster in China has been approved and started filming, which has become the most eagerly anticipated project for many science fiction fans and movie fans in China.

In order not to disappoint domestic science fiction and movie fans, Liu Zhou and Qin Hao have been eating sand in the northwest for more than a month.

After the two came back to attend the premiere of "Assembly", they waited for Qin Hao to go on the roadshow for a few more days, and then returned to Dunhuang on Christmas Day to continue filming the movie.

As for the series of sensations caused by the subsequent "Assembly" and "The Warlords", neither of them cared to pay attention to them.

After more than a month of filming, Qin Hao's scenes on Mars are already halfway done.

On this day, the scene of Qin Hao eating was being filmed.

There are certain requirements for space food. The earliest first-generation space food was something like paste, put in toothpaste, and you just squeezed it to eat it.

The second generation is food that can be swallowed in one bite, because space food cannot contain debris to prevent it from being inhaled into the lungs.

However, in 63, an American astronaut was muttering in space that it would be perfect if he had a beef sandwich.

As a result, the teammate next to him actually took out one, leaving the experts from the space agency on the ground confused and wondering how this guy managed to bring the sandwich up there.

Then the next generation of space food was dehydrated and compound food, and space kitchens also appeared in the 1980s.

Yang Liwei of Shenzhou V had Chinese food in space.

Of course, as a science fiction film, we will be able to build a base on Mars in the future, and the conditions inside the base will certainly be better than those of a spacecraft in space.

The base has a full range of staple foods, side dishes, ready-to-eat foods, drinks, condiments and various functional foods.

Qin Hao, who was stranded, suddenly moved out all the food after a few days of loneliness.

He wasn't counting or planning, he just wanted to have a good meal.

Qin Hao just sat at the table, with his head slightly lowered, eating his meal mouthful by mouthful with an expressionless face.

I keep eating even when I can’t eat anymore.

The protagonist's character is intelligent and strong, but even the strongest person has a soft side.

Being alone on Mars, eating alone, he will also feel lonely, helpless, and even desperate.

But he also knew that he couldn't panic. If he panicked, he would surely die on Mars.

Even if it was to save himself, he couldn't mess up, so he could only vent his negative emotions by eating, and he would keep eating even if he couldn't eat anymore. "Crack, it's over!"

Hearing Liu Zhou's shout, Qin Hao collapsed in his seat.

He was not too tired, but too full and had eaten too much.

It took seven or eight takes to shoot this scene because the facial expressions and emotions were not right, so Qin Hao just kept eating.

It is impossible to pretend to eat. Not to mention Liu Zhou, even Qin Hao himself would not allow it.

In the end, I don’t know if it was because Qin Hao felt a little disappointed in the face of all the food, but the emotion he showed unconsciously made Liu Zhou feel very good, so he shouted over.

Liu Zhou didn't want to make things difficult for Qin Hao. In fact, if he didn't pass this time, he would shoot this scene again tomorrow. After all, he couldn't let someone get hurt.

Liu Zhou came closer and said with a smile:

"Are you okay?"

"It's okay, I just feel too full and don't want to move."

"It's getting late now, so let's call it a day."

Liu Zhou arranged for the assistant director to tell the crew to finish work, and then sat next to Qin Hao, waiting for him to recover before returning to their residence together.

"Lao Liu, I still feel that the character's emotions are too flat, and his inner state is not expressed."

This was a private matter, so Qin Hao spoke more casually.

"Haozi, why are you still thinking about this when you are so exhausted that you can't even walk?"

"My body is temporarily unable to move, but my mind is still able to move. This will not affect my thinking."

"I think I should have added a bottle of wine to your menu. That way you wouldn't have those random thoughts."

"What do you mean by wild thoughts? I'm discussing with you the role of the male protagonist in the movie. Astronauts are also human beings, and human beings have emotions."

"Everyone poops. Do you want to film him going to the toilet as well?"

Qin Hao was speechless:

"You are a cultured person after all. Can you please speak more politely and with some sense?"

"We're filming a scene, not the time to reason. No need to discuss, just do as I say!"

Liu Zhou didn't want to bother with this guy anymore. During this period, whenever he had free time, he would talk to Liu Zhou, hoping that Liu Zhou would accept his way of doing things.

This made Liu Zhou extremely annoyed, so he has been avoiding him for the past two days.

Seeing that he had overeaten because of filming, Liu Zhouben wanted to show concern for him and wait for him to go back together.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I sat down, he came again.

The next day, continue shooting.

Although Qin Hao had a lot of thoughts in his mind, he still performed very meticulously according to Liu Zhou's requirements.

The plot atmosphere became much better afterwards, and the hero was actually very optimistic and cheerful most of the time.

The only heart-wrenching shot was the one shot yesterday. This was the last time the male protagonist showed loneliness and despair.

What followed was also the famous scene from "The Martian", where the male protagonist began to plant potatoes.

After a series of seemingly reasonable and plausible operations, Qin Hao successfully completed the potato planting in the greenhouse.

Then Qin Hao happily talked to himself in front of the camera:

"...One day, I will plant crops all over Mars. This planet will belong to us Chinese. When the American people come again, they will have to pay me!"

"Ka, Qin Hao, could you please hold back a little and stop smiling like an idiot?"

Liu Zhou saw Qin Hao looking over and continued:

"In addition to being optimistic, the male protagonist also has a strong side, and being strong is the most important thing."

The story of the entire movie "The Martian" can be simply put as the story of a man who spent hundreds of days on Mars with strength and optimism.

This science fiction film does not promote the mystery and unknown of the universe, does not emphasize the insignificance and powerlessness of human beings, and does not feature any horrific incidents of human exploration encountering disasters.

There are no aliens, no monsters, and basically no difficulties.

This is also why Qin Hao said that the characters are a bit flat, but the whole story is like this, so there is no need to dig deep into the characters' inner emotions for the sake of art.

"Ok, I understand. Let's do it again." Qin Hao nodded.

Qin Hao was quite reassuring, Liu Zhouyi said, and he also understood what he meant, and passed it in one go the second time.

The subsequent filming went smoothly as well. As time gradually approached the end of January, there was only one week left until the Spring Festival.

Originally, Liu Zhou had agreed with other crew members not to take a holiday during the Spring Festival and to hurry up and finish filming their scenes as soon as possible.

But then a phone call came in and Liu Zhou directly overturned what he had said before.

It was also announced that they would be on holiday from now on and would return to the crew on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, which means they would be on holiday for half a month.

Although this will increase expenses significantly, Liu Zhou can no longer care about it. Let the expenses increase as they please, since the budget is sufficient anyway.

(End of this chapter)