Strange Life of a Cat - Chapter 317

[Chapter 306]

On Zheng Tan’s side, Jiao’s dad told him before he came here that he should act stupid if necessary.

What is “when necessary”?

For example, if you don’t want to shoot a scene, don’t want to work with people, don’t fit in a place, feel uncomfortable or have a urgency to urinate, etc., you can pretend to be stupid, pretend that you don’t know how to act, or just roll on the spot, who will let him be a As for the cat, how much can the film crew ask for a cat?

The headache was left to the team members to deal with. Xiao Guo sent so many people over here not for soy sauce. It is said that Xiao Guo and Jiao Dad did not have a private agreement to negotiate, and Zheng Tan didn’t believe it if he was beaten to death.

However, this is good for him. Zheng Tan understands that being smart is fine, but being too smart will be suspicious. For some unnecessary trouble, sometimes it is safer to be stupid.

Zheng Tan had never been able to shoot many scenes before, but this time he was very patient. After all, this kind of documentary is different from an advertisement, and it took a lot of manpower and material resources. Since Zheng Tan has taken over this job, he will be responsible, and , these shots are very common to the average cat, and the strike is really unreasonable.

Zheng Tan was uncomfortable wearing “makeup”, and he had to touch up his makeup every now and then, especially if the eyebrows and beards were inadvertently rubbed off, they had to be repainted. After all, Zheng Tan’s beard was black, and the one in the photo That cat mustache is white.

Fortunately, Zheng Tan’s efficiency is relatively high, and the whole filming is much less than what Yang Yi planned.

The people on the filming team thought it would take a long time to shoot this, but they didn’t expect the cat to cooperate so well. In their opinion, the cat’s intelligence is naturally one of them, and more of them were heard by the few who came over to take care of it. Team of cats.

In their spare time, the film crew also took the team members sent by Xiao Guo to share their experiences. Little did they know that several members of the team were laughing so hard that they didn’t dare to talk nonsense about some facts. They had signed several contracts. , Xiao Guo explained how they would respond.

Now Zheng Tan doesn’t know how well he is acting. He can only see from Yang Yi’s expression that he is not up to the standard. The specific effect can only be completed after the final production.

The old man who played with Zheng Tan looked more like Grandpa Yang Yi from the side. Of course, he also wore makeup and tried to look more like him.

Plus some shooting techniques.

Zheng Tan believes that when it is actually produced, it should be able to satisfy Yang Yi.

Among them, Zheng Tan also came into contact with some commonly used things in that era, such as furnace ash and cat litter.

At that time, almost every household burned coal.

Easy to pack up.

There are also handmade catwalks.

The people in the courtyard house made it themselves for the little bastards who came in and out all day long, opening a half-foot square hole and hanging a curtain.

Fat and larger cats will also drive larger.

No high-tech existed, but it worked well back then.

In addition to Zheng Tan, Dami Xiaomi also made a cameo appearance, and Yang Yi wanted to shoot some scenes where the cats are usually active and playful.

Among them, Xiaomi did so much that Yang Yi was delighted.

Even if he was alone, the guy could get up immediately, kicking himself and biting the soles of his feet like a schizophrenic, running around quickly on the narrow wall, and having fun. After that, the tail that was hooked into an S shape was raised, and the chrysanthemum was facing the setting sun.

Everyone was having fun while filming.

Zhao Le’s mother also came to the scene in person, and didn’t care about the humiliating appearance of her cat, instead she thought that cats should be like this.

Zheng Tan could see that Zhao Le’s mother took Xiaomi very seriously, and it seemed that Xiaomi was very interested in this man.

On the rice side, although there is no stage fright, it is too calm and quiet in comparison. Standing on the high fence, Yang Yi doesn’t know what to do. After all, this cat is Fang Shaokang’s initiative. Yeah, gotta shoot something, right?

“Are these two brothers?” a member of the filming crew asked.

He was referring to millet and rice.

“Rice is a girl!” Fang Mengmeng had pointed ears and corrected after hearing it.

“Oh, girl, she’s very quiet.” The film crew laughed. He didn’t know much about cats, and he didn’t know how to determine the gender of some special cases based on the patterns. After smiling, he looked at Fang Meng. Meng said, “Then can you make your rice smile?”

Smile?

Can cats smile?

Fang Mengmeng teased for a long time under the fence, the rice crouching on the fence finally moved, her front paws stepped on the spot twice, she straightened her back, looked down, and finally pulled out a terrifying “smile”.

All the crew members who were watching: “…”

Nima, so scary!

A few people scratched their arms unconsciously, feeling goosebumps.

Fang Mengmeng didn’t feel anything, because usually rice is more natural only when it is faced with familiar people. Deep experience.

Right now, Dami probably feels that there are too many unknown people under the wall, and the atmosphere is a bit dull. It is not as active as Xiaomi, and usually does not actively stretch its claws outside. Fang Mengmeng was teasing for a long time and did not see it stretch its claws. , can only judge its emotional changes by facial expressions.

Of course, it wasn’t necessarily the smile of rice just now, it was just a change in the face and mouth, it looked like a smile.

However, it can only go on like this.

“Okay, that shot just now is fine. Every cat is different. If we want to shoot the quality, we also need to shoot the characteristics.” Yang Yi was quite satisfied, at least he shot some new things, and at the same time he was able to explain to Fang Shaokang.

At the end of this period, Xiaomi was taken away by Zhao Le’s mother. Before leaving, Zheng Tan heard Zhao Le’s mother talking about rice when she was chatting with the people next to her, and said in a happy tone that it was fortunately that it was Xiaomi who was brought back. It would be frustrating if you serve rice.

On the rice side, Fang Mengmeng was even more fortunate that she chose rice at the beginning. Xiaomi was too tossed, and her own rice was obedient.

Maybe for some people, other people’s cats are always good, but even if you praise other people’s cats, in the hearts of cat owners, their own cats are the first, regardless of whether they are naughty or boring, their own cats are their own. Love.

This documentary is not only about the events of Grandpa Yang Yi, but the film crew also interviewed some other people, although the latter interviews did not involve Zheng Tan.

But Zheng Tan couldn’t leave, and some scenes might have to be re-shot. Zheng Tan stayed for a while, just in case, so Zheng Tan followed them to see those who were interviewed.

The first one went to the house of a writer, an old gentleman. The old men and the old ladies were there.

The interview was more lifelike, and the filming location was at the two elderly people’s homes.

The children are often not around, so the two old people raised cats, and now they are raising a white pastoral cat.

The cat was curious and wary when he saw Zheng Tan.

He has been hiding around the old man and the old lady and staring at Zheng Tan.

Zheng Tan wandered around the house, but the cat didn’t respond, just stretched its neck and stared at Zheng Tan until Zheng Tan came to its cathouse.

When approaching its cat’s rice bowl.

This cat is fried.

He rushed over, bowed his back, waved his paws at Zheng Tan, and roared.

“Hey, don’t worry, that black cat won’t fight.” Yang Yi comforted the worried old lady.

Then ask the two old men when they can start.

After Zheng Tan left his job and the cat’s nest, the cat ran back to the old man and the old lady immediately.

Neither of the two old people have received many interviews, so they can deal with it calmly.

The director will not deliberately tell them what to do. When the

old lady is reading and cooking, the old man is writing, listening to the radio, and the cat’s reaction.

When the old man was writing, the cat would jump on the desk to make trouble, stepping on the old man’s manuscript paper, and couldn’t push it away.

The old man was not annoyed either, he scratched the chin of the cat lying on the manuscript paper with the end of the pen with a smile, “This guy is very arrogant, as soon as I sit here, he runs over to bully me… My wife? My wife doesn’t say anything about him, Instead, he asked me to write some manuscripts to praise…”

Looking at the old man’s appearance, there was no grievance and annoyance at all from being bullied, but he was very happy.

The old man said that literati in Beijing liked to keep cats, and he also cited several examples of writers of the same generation.

In the literati’s writings, the cats in the capital are a bit like young masters who are spoiled in every way. Although most of them have now gone from long-term workers who catch mice and manage food and shelter to pets that eat, drink, and play in high-rise apartments, they still have a lot of grandfather flavor in their bones.

They don’t care whether the person they face is a literary master or a small town citizen.

What is the virtue of Chu Hua’s cat?

Zheng Tan thought about the cats he knew, and when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that some of the cats he knew were a little bit special, maybe they were representative of Chuhua cats.

In addition to the current cat, the old man also recalled the cats he had raised in the past, and the old lady also took out the photo album and sent it to everyone to see.

During the interview, the two old people were often immersed in their memories, and sometimes they would think quietly, as if they forgot that there were still people shooting interviews around, and there were several quiet scenes.

However, neither Yang Yi nor the rest of the filming team turned off or interrupted, and there was no impatient look on their faces.

Before he came, Zheng Tan had been informed of this situation by Charlie, and it was Yang Yi who had told him to come.

After each quiet session, the old man’s words are more vivid, very real, and very life-like.

When talking about the last cat, the old lady’s eyes were red several times. The cat had been with the two old people for more than ten years, and it was considered dead.

Next, the shooting team went to interview a master of Chinese painting, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com The old man took out a painting full of cat footprints during the interview. At that time, the old man was painting fish, but his cat jumped on the table. It was messed up, and there were ink marks everywhere. The old man repaired the painting, then mounted it and collected it. When guests came to talk about related topics, the old man took out the painting and showed it, saying that his cat is quite Have artistic talent.

Zheng Tan and the past also watched that painting, not to mention, it looked very artistic, and he was indeed a master of Chinese painting. Just like the movie about Tang Bohu, it can always turn corruption into magic.

The photographer is very good at capturing some details, these details will make the whole film more vivid and full of soul.

During the whole filming, the interviewed cat breeders included artists and educators, who have been to several famous schools and libraries in the capital, as well as some ordinary people’s homes.

Zheng Tan followed the streets and alleys, different venue backgrounds, all kinds of cat keepers, cats with different temperaments, united together, plus those professional production and polishing, Zheng Tan believes that this will be a good film, No matter what other people think, Zheng Tan thinks he is good.

According to the people in the shooting team, the film is likely to be sent to the competition after it is produced.

(To be continued..)

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