Chapter 51 The ritual sense of worshiping gods in science fiction films

Just when the crew took out the incense used to worship gods and distributed it to the main creators, Guo Fan suddenly ran out from nowhere carrying a backpack.

"Teacher Gu, use this to burn incense and worship gods. It's very powerful!" Guo Fan said with excitement.

"What the hell is this?"

"Hey!" Guo Fan took out a bunch of props from his bag and placed them on the god's table.

They are mechanical wooden fish, electronic incense, LED candles, and Lego fruit offerings.

Guo Fan looked proud and said: "This is a domestic science fiction film, and it should have a sense of ritual. It would be boring to use ordinary incense candles!"

Zhang Miao: "Nonsense! Where are the children playing house? We are worshiping God very seriously. We want to bless the crew for smooth work."

"I think it works. Using these things is not only fresh, but also environmentally friendly!"

Chen Baoguo doesn't care about whether he worships gods or not. When he was young, he just made movies. Where did the worship ceremony come from? It was different from normal filming. These are all strange customs passed down from the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles.

In the past, when filming in the Hong Kong film industry, there were many sophisticated instruments in the filming crew, such as cameras, lighting units, cranes, etc., any small problem could cause the whole section to collapse, causing the entire crew to lose their jobs.

People are waiting.

The key is that many of the problems are very mysterious. No one can know why the machine has problems, so the larger crews will burn incense and pray before starting the machine to appease the machine spirit and pray for smooth filming.

Later, this habit was gradually brought to the mainland as people from the Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television circles moved north, and then the mainland crew also became popular to worship God before starting the filming.

"I think it works! As the saying goes, burn electronic cigarettes and worship cyber gods! It's quite suitable for a science fiction film."

Gu Zhongyu remembered that Guo Fan in his previous life also used electronic incense when filming The Wandering Earth. It was quite fun to do this.

As Gu Zhongyu, who has even experienced time travel and rebirth once, he would rather believe in the theory of ghosts and gods now.

"Would you like to sing another binary prayer to praise Om Messiah, the almighty God of all machines?" Gu Zhongyu suddenly thought.

"Teacher Gu, you actually play Warhammer too?" Guo Fan never expected that Gu Zhongyu was actually a Warhammer fan! After all, the Warhammer 40k series is an absolute niche culture in China.

"Okay, okay, just kidding, let's worship God with this electronic incense!"

From then on, when Zongheng Film and Television produced science fiction series, they switched to using electronic incense to worship gods when they started filming.

Every time when he offered incense, director Guo Fan would mutter strange mantras such as "Sing in unison to praise the God of All Machines" and "Start the engine, ignite the turbine, and inject life"!

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In the afternoon, in an old city of Yanjing, this was the first scene shot after "Ball Lightning" was started.

"Life, life is this thing..."

"Everything is unpredictable, everything is probability and chance, just like a small branch floating in a stream, tripped by a small stone, or trapped by a small whirlpool..."

"Actually, son, it is not difficult to live a wonderful life. Listen to your father teach you: You choose a recognized world problem, preferably a mathematical problem that only uses a piece of paper and a pencil...

"So, the key to a wonderful life is what you can be obsessed with. For example, your dad and I are obsessed with painting, even though I know I can't become Van Gogh!"

The protagonist's father, played by Wang Jinchun, took a sip from his wine glass and started a long sermon with the actor Wu Lei, who played the protagonist as a child...

Wang Jinchun, a veteran actor who graduated from Chinese Opera, is now an old man in Zongheng Film and Television. He made his debut in 1998 and has known Gu Zhongyu for a long time. He is also the absolute leading actor in the company.

This time, he plays the father of the male protagonist Chen Guang. He doesn’t even have a name, and the scene only lasts for less than a day. It is a free cameo. After filming the first appearance of ball lightning, he will be able to finish filming.

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Playing opposite him was Wu Lei, a famous child star who later became a popular niche actor in domestic entertainment.

Wu Lei, who is only 12 years old this year, still looks very young, and his immature appearance is not inconsistent with an eighty-nine-year-old child. The little man is sitting on a chair, looking at the birthday cake and Wang Jinchun in front of him, with a look on his face.

Listening carefully to his father's talk.

Wu Lei's role as a child also ends today. As the hero's parents both died, the next person to play Chen Guang is Gu Zhongyu.

What was filmed here is the prologue to the original novel, which tells the story of the male protagonist Chen Guang, who when he was a child and celebrated his birthday with his family, he accidentally encountered mysterious ball lightning on a stormy night.

Ball lightning passed through the house wall and turned Chen Guang's parents into two piles of ashes, turning the young protagonist into an orphan.

But this also made the male protagonist Chen Guang become obsessed with the weird physical phenomenon of ball lightning. He secretly vowed to spend his whole life pursuing it and analyzing it. From then on, he embarked on the path of becoming a scientist, which led to the following.

A series of stories.

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I have to complain about Da Liu. The novel "Ball Lightning" is written in the first person with the male protagonist Dr. Chen. However, from the beginning to the end, no one in the book mentioned the protagonist's name. It was always Xiao Chen, Chen

The doctor called this.

Liu Cixin herself didn’t know whether she was too lazy to make follow-up additions or simply forgot, so it’s been so long since she finished the novel that no one knows the full name of the male protagonist, Dr. Chen!

A novel may be written like this, but when it comes to making a movie, the protagonist still needs to have a name, so Gu Zhongyu named the hero Chen Guanglai.

"Haha! Teacher Gu, I found that you and Wu Lei look a bit alike!" Ni Hongjie, Gu Zhongyu and others stood behind the camera, looking at Wu Lei in the camera and laughing.

"That's right, if you don't find someone who looks similar, it won't be convincing!"

Ni Hongjie became famous for her starring role as Zhu Wushuang in the TV series "Wulin Gaiden", but she is not doing well now because of her lack of success, far behind Guo Dazui and Yan Ni in the same crew. So this time she was able to get the movie "Ball Lightning"

She was invited to play the role of the hero's childhood mother, and she was quite excited, even though the role was only for half a day.

"Okay, it's your turn to appear in the next scene, Teacher Ni." Director Guo Fan promptly reminded.

"Look!" Ni Hongjie carried the dishes, changed into home clothes, walked into the camera, and read her lines: "Yes, idealists and cynics both feel that the other party is very pitiful, but they

I’m actually very lucky…”

Next, ball lightning appeared and turned the protagonist's parents into fly ash. However, this thing was all special effects, so it had to be added later. The three people on the scene could only stare at the air in shock.

The performance of kid Wu Lei is really good. At such a young age, he has actually acted in dozens of dramas. With his full experience, he completed this non-physical performance without having to NG a few times.

The filming in Yanjing is basically this kind of indoor drama, focusing on the male protagonist Chen Guang from childhood to college. If everything goes well, it will be completed in less than a week. Next, the crew will move to Mount Tai.

Comrade Da Mi Mi will also meet them there.
Chapter completed!