According to the shooting plan, Xia Fan¡¯s time in the United States was only one week, which was far less than the nearly 50 days he spent in Bangkok, Thailand.
However, the scenes in "Detective Chinatown" are only the protagonist's half-month experience in Bangkok, while his scenes in "China Partners" will span 20 years!
In terms of performance difficulty, it has improved more than a little.
In the scene just now, Xia Fan was still excited about arriving in the United States for the first time; in the next scene, Xia Fan will show a completely different mental state.
The background of this scene is that Meng Xiaojun worked as an assistant in a laboratory and worked hard without complaint, but he was fired without hesitation.
And the person who replaced him was also Chinese and an alumnus of Yenching University.
"When a fellow countryman meets a fellow countryman, he stabs him in the back."
This guy was good at quality and cheaper, so he quickly replaced Meng Xiaojun.
"Capitalists are so damn realistic! They even have to save a few cents!"
After Xia Fan resigned, he walked out of the laboratory door holding the box in both hands, turned around slowly, and stared at the place where he once worked in a daze for a long time.
He once thought this would be the beginning of the "American Dream."
"Xiaoxia, pay attention to the expression of your eyes"
Wang Xiaoming, not far away, reminded.
Let¡¯s do this scene again!
Phew~
Xia Fan took a deep breath and walked this section of the road again.
He was holding a box, which seemed very light, but seemed extremely heavy in Xia Fan's hands.
After walking out of the door, he looked back at the laboratory with meaningful eyes.
There is reluctance, disappointment, and confusion.
At this moment, Xia Fan recalled all the boasts that the United States had boasted about before, and everything seemed like yesterday!
"Why? Why am I the one who left?"
"Here, I am clearly no worse than anyone else! Just because I am Chinese, and the person who replaces me is also a Chinese!"
He smiled helplessly, his sadness and disappointment evident.
"The American dream where everyone is equal and you can succeed as long as you work hard? Go to tmd!"
For the first time, Xia Fan was shaken by this idea!
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"Not bad! Good luck!"
The director snapped his fingers, and Wang Xiaoming, one of the producers, also clapped his hands vigorously.
According to the plot, only Meng Xiaojun among the three leading actors has obtained a visa to study in the United States, so it stands to reason that Xia Fan has the most scenes in the United States.
The scene just now was only the second time, and Xia Fan performed the emotions very well.
Like a man who has been abandoned by his beloved goddess, he is heartbroken and on the verge of tears!
The next scene showed Xia Fan wearing very shabby work clothes and running in and out of a restaurant carrying a basin.
At this moment, his whole person looked decadent and bleak.
This image is in sharp contrast to the youthful look on my face when I first came to the United States.
It fits the rumor on the Internet: Capitalism turns people into ghosts, socialism turns ghosts into people
There was a customer who was dining. Seeing that Xia Fan was working very hard, he generously gave him a tip of US$2, but it was confiscated by the store manager in the blink of an eye.
"Remember, you are just a dishwasher, you have no consumption!"
Xia Fan did not resist the earthquake and watched numbly as the store manager took the tip from his hand.
"I came to the United States through the TOEFL test at Yenching University. How did it become like this!"
During the period of despair, Xia Fan received a call from China.
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The next scene will be 20 years later.
When Wang Xiaoming and Lu Dawei came to the United States, they went straight to New York as successful people.
They are here to obtain legal authorization for English exam teaching materials and prepare for the listing of the new dream school.
However, because of the scene in which Meng Xiaojun was surrounded by demonstrators after the Yugoslav Embassy was bombed, the listing location was changed from NASDAQ in the United States to Hong Kong.
In this scene, Wang Xiaoming is the protagonist.
The once poor country boy is now wearing a smart suit, high-spirited, and can talk to those Americans in fluent English.
Xia Fan on the side just interjected a few words from time to time.
In talksAfter the incident, Xia Fan took the other leading actors to the laboratory where he once worked.
Now, things have changed over there, and the professor who expelled him has long disappeared!
He put his hands in his pockets, took a deep breath, then held a cigar between his hands and said with an air of dignity: "From now on, this laboratory will be called "xiaojun" laboratory."
Now, Meng Xiaojun is already a billionaire, and he has won back the dignity he once lost in his own way.
The last scene of the play,
The three of them were sitting in a black Mercedes-Benz, driving on the Brooklyn Bridge, the longest and most famous bridge in New York, laughing.
"Thank you for your hard work, this drama is officially finished today!"
Wang Xiaoming shouted with a small speaker and handed out red envelopes to the staff.
In the red envelope is a thick stack of Chinese coins, about 5,000 yuan. The exchange rate in this era is close to 1,000 US dollars.
Not only the staff, but also the extras recruited locally received red envelopes.
This handiwork was enough to make the local Americans exclaim "God". The price of about 1,000 US dollars is indeed a considerable fortune, which is higher than the salary of most extra actors.
"The boss from China is so kind!"
Looking at those excited Americans, Xia Fan had a trance-like feeling of time and space intersecting.
In the film, as a poor Chinese student studying abroad, I was once in such a miserable state, but outside of the film, China¡¯s strong economic status now makes these American extras excited with just a small red envelope.
The contrast between the inside and outside of the play is really too strong.
"Brother Xiaoming, are you going back to China today?"
Xia Fan turned around and asked.
"Go back to China! Leave at night! Everything is basically fine here, other production can be completed through the computer!"
After Wang Xiaoming lit a cigarette, he replied somewhat eagerly.
The security situation here seems to be worse than before.
The filming lasted only a week, and there were police cars blaring nearby, and sometimes gunshots could be heard in the distance.
What makes him even more crazy is that the proportion of drug addicts in the United States is too high!
A few extras who were randomly recruited actually smoked marijuana openly on the set, and even asked the Chinese people in the crew if they wanted to smoke a few puffs together.
At that moment, Wang Xiaoming had a dark face and had the urge to kick the American guy in the face.
Fortunately, he endured it!
¡°Didn¡¯t you know that there is an anti-narcotics police officer with me on the set?
This American actually did this in front of others?
But when Xia Fan looked at Officer Zhang, he was helpless. Marijuana is legal here in New York, but if those Yankees want to smoke it, he can't control it.