Chapter 34 Back to School
The two came to Jia Zhangke's room, and Yu Liwei told him about the conversation just now.

Jia Zhangke calmed down a little now, smoking a cigarette and sneering:

"I knew it, my bastard boyfriend cheated on me, it's all about money!"

"Lao Jia, why don't we give it to her first? Otherwise, it's not a solution for the crew to drag it out like this."

"No, the rules cannot be broken! Others haven't received their money yet, why should she get it? This is unfair to others!"

"What should we do? Should we go find another heroine now? Is it really like you said, to find a lady to play herself? Not to mention whether we can find one, even if we do, it will take a long time to train her to move. We can't wait!"

Hearing this, Jia Zhangke fell silent, sighed and said:

"I'm mainly worried about whether the money we have will last until the end of filming."

Hearing this, Yu Liwei fell silent.

At this time Liu Zhou said:

"Brother, give her the money first. The most important thing now is to finish the film. If the funds are not enough in the end, I can still invest tens of thousands of dollars more."

"Junior brother, we are not playing a double act in front of you. The rules cannot be broken."

"I know, but they are making this request at this time, which obviously means they are sure of us. There is no need to fight with them. Making the movie is everyone's greatest hope."

Jia Zhangke took a long puff of his cigarette and said:
"Old Yu, give it to her. I hope she finishes filming the movie seriously."

"Then I'll go talk to her." After saying that, Yu Liwei walked out of the room.

“Making a movie is such a dreadful process!”

Liu Zhou smiled and said:

"After all, this is our first time making a feature film. With more experience, we won't be so flustered in the future."

Liu Zhou actually knows that experience is one thing, but the most important thing is money.

This crew is really too simple and everything seems a bit informal.

There are not many shots in "Xiao Wu", which is filled with long stretches of empty shots and long shots. Jia Zhangke divided the shots into twelve groups in total because of limited funds and tight time.

If you are not an industry insider, it is hard to tell that this is a movie.

Zuo Wenlu is an amateur. She is a top student at Beijing Normal University. She came here to make a movie and wanted to earn some money during the summer vacation.

Ten thousand dollars is a lot!

In his heart, Liu Zhou actually understood Zuo Wenlu's approach. Her purpose was to make money, otherwise who would come to this remote little county town.

Speaking of which, Zuo Wenlu is quite bold. A girl dares to come here alone to film.

Liu Zhou thought that Jia Zhangke and the others must have proved their identities to her, but despite this, she still admired her courage.

Liu Zhou even felt that the reason why Jia Zhangke offered the female lead such a huge salary was that he must have been rejected many times and no one was willing to come, so he had to do so.

After a while, Yu Liwei came over and told us that we could set off for the shoot.

Despite the previous unpleasantness, Jia Zhangke didn't say much during filming.

At this moment, he had nothing else in mind but to finish the filming as planned. He just prayed that nothing else would happen later.

Now that the money was in place, Zuo Wenlu stopped causing any trouble and continued to film seriously according to the director's requirements, but she spoke much less.

God seemed to have heard Jia Zhangke's prayers, and the subsequent filming went very smoothly.

On the 21st day of filming, as the last shot was finished, Jia Zhangke took a deep breath and said loudly:

"Finish!"

When everyone heard Jia Zhangke say these two words, they all smiled.

Finally finished filming!

At this time, some other actors had finished filming and left, and the remaining people were our own people who came from Beijing.

Liu Zhou also smiled happily, finally he didn't have to suffer here anymore.

Liu Zhou had never been so miserable in his previous life or in the past year of his rebirth. But for the sake of his dream of becoming a director, Liu Zhou persisted.

In the evening, everyone got drunk happily.

The next day, everyone took a bus to Taiyuan and then returned to the capital.

However, Liu Zhou separated from them in Taiyuan. Liu Zhou wanted to go home and stay for a few days while there was still some time in the summer vacation.

During this filming trip, Liu Zhou also hopes to take some time to calm down.

Before parting, Jia Zhangke specifically found him and told Liu Zhou that after paying for last night's meal, the 200,000 yuan was just spent.

I want Liu Zhou to invest another 20,000 yuan to do the post-production of the film.

Liu Zhou agreed to this and followed the crew throughout the whole process. Liu Zhou also developed feelings for the film. He didn't want the film to have some setbacks in post-production after it had already been filmed.

Besides, 20,000 yuan is not a lot of money, so Liu Zhou has no pressure to take it out.

Seeing Liu Zhou agreed so readily, Jia Zhangke said nothing, but gave him a big hug.

After returning to Guangzhou, when Liu Zhou opened the door and came home, his mother was so surprised to see Liu Zhou with a short haircut and darker face that she was speechless.

"Are you going to labor camp?"

"Mom, what are you talking about? How can you say that about your own son?" Liu Zhou said with a bit of a smile.

"Then why did you suddenly become like this?"

Liu Zhou also understood his mother's feelings. When she left, she was white Gu, but within a month, she turned black Gu when she came back. It was normal that she found it hard to accept for a while.

"I went to film a movie and stayed in the sun for more than 20 days. The conditions there were not very good, so for convenience, I cut my hair."

"Then you should stay at home and take good care of yourself. I'm really not used to seeing you like this."

"Mom, no matter what I have become, I am still your son!"

"You look tired, go wash up and I'll make you some food."

After staying at home for more than half a month, Liu Zhou's skin finally became whiter and his hair became longer.

At the end of August, Liu Zhou also returned to school.

As soon as he arrived at the school, Liu Zhou was arranged by Lao Huang to participate in the freshman orientation.

To be honest, Liu Zhou is not as enthusiastic about welcoming new students as Liu Ye.

But after all, this was something arranged for him by Lao Huang, so Liu Zhou still had to give him face.

So on the first day back at school, Liu Zhou and Liu Ye welcomed their younger classmates.

But there are too few freshmen in the Department of Drama, and not even one comes in half a day.

Helplessly, Liu Zhou had to be dragged by Liu Ye to meet the junior schoolmate from the Performance Department. As for the junior schoolmates, Liu Ye had no junior schoolmates in his eyes.

Compared with the star-studded Class of 96 at the Central Academy of Drama, the Class of 97 seems a little dim.

Except Chen Hao, everyone famous.

In later generations, Liu Zhou only heard of the names of Wen Zhengrong and Li Jie, but neither of them made much splash.

I'm not sure what roles Wen Zhengrong Liu Zhou has played, but I've heard of the name and I think she was popular for a while.

As for Li Jie, Liu Zhou's impression of him was due to a certain audio video.

He once played Lin Pingzhi in Zhang Da Huzi's version of "Swordsman", and his performance was very convincing.

He later played Xuanyuan Jingcheng in "Snow", and his line "Please ascend to heaven, ancestor!" brought him attention again.

Then some resourceful netizens found out that he had also played Lin Pingzhi, which surprised them for a moment.

Liu Zhou was also one of those who were quite surprised by this, so he had a certain impression of him.

(End of this chapter)