How bitter are the lives of Chinese extras?

Film and television dramas are one or two billion yuan at every turn, and the main actors can get most of the funds, especially the small fresh meat actors, I heard that they can get about 80-90% of the whole drama, and it is said that individual small fresh meat can have hundreds of millions of income in a play. This has attracted ordinary people who have not gone through the academic class to also get a piece of the pie, and most of these people can of course only be group performers. Some have dreams, have studied or trained, because there is no opportunity to perform, they want to be a group performer, run tricks, hope that luck will come, have Bole appreciation, dream of Wang Baoqiang, was appreciated by "Bole" Li Yang and Feng Xiaogang, and has since embarked on the peak of life.

But the road of group performance is not so easy, let's take a look at the real situation of the extras in Hengdian Film and Television City.

The picture below shows some extras who play soldiers, they need to tear and kill in the heavy rain, it's okay in summer, but they still have to fight in the cold winter, when they are soaking wet, and they don't have a good body, and they probably can't hold on at all.

This is a scene of being burned by a fire, the extras hold on to the fire for a minute or two to extinguish, there are staff members holding sacks ready to put out the fire at any time, and there are puddles of water next to it, if it is difficult to extinguish, you have to jump into the puddles. Don't think that this is foolproof, in fact, accidents still happen, and group burns often happen.

Many people think that the group performance is very relaxed, according to what they think, it is to walk around in the play, but in fact, some group performances have high-intensity exercise, such as the soldiers in the play, constantly tearing and running, which makes the little brother so tired that he falls asleep immediately when he lies on the muddy floor.

This group actor jumped from the steps above to this stone slab, and then rolled into the water. If you follow the shooting method of the little fresh meat, first shoot this part of jumping, put a soft cushion underneath, jump on the mat, then remove the mat, and then shoot the shot of rolling into the water. But perhaps for the sake of effect, or to save time, the crew completed this series of actions in one go, and they couldn't put cushions underneath.

This kind of real shooting is also the biggest reason for injuries, like Jackie Chan, Jet Li and other kung fu stars, real shooting, rarely use stand-ins, so the body is scarred.

It's hard to be tapped again, it's not as easy as you think, even if you're sitting and standing, it's not as simple as it is on TV. It usually takes a long time.

The road is chosen by yourself, what is bitter or not! It's not necessary to complain about the path you choose!

With so much work, why do you need to do group performances? Not everyone can be as lucky as Wang Baoqiang.

No one was forcing them to do it with a gun. There are fewer people in this business, and the crew can't hire people, so the natural treatment will go up. market factors.

Now in the film and television industry, in addition to stars, there is also an identity, that is, group performances, the life of extras is really miserable compared to big stars, for example, in terms of on-site shooting, outstanding big stars have exclusive lounges and rest places, while extras only have one place and that place, and there may be 10 or 20 people waiting there to rest, waiting for the arrangement of the crew. If there is no role, you can only wait for a day and have no gain, many people come to be extras with their own star dreams, but in fact, extras are not so easy to be, it is very hard, in the summer they also wear big cotton jackets, acting passers-by, the outdoor temperature is very high, but they have no choice, only they are in that corner, wearing cotton jackets, waiting for the arrangement of the crew, can there be such a scene, or two scenes where the camera appears, Many people think that the life of extras is very good, but in fact, it is not, we can see from the tidbits that extras are all to meet their acting dreams to be extras, but their dreams are always not discovered, and the number of extras is particularly large, sometimes only one role to be used, many extras are squeezed minds, all want to play which role in the past, but the final result is not as people want, forced to live, but also forced to support their families, Many people quit the group performance, honestly returned to their jobs, and continued to live the same life.

The extras are paid very low, but they spend the longest time on the set, the camera will not be given too much, there is no day at all, and the staff meals they eat are not very good.

It's very hard, extras are not as lucky as big stars, and they can have good resources. Big stars can rest in tents, extras have to rest in the sun, and big stars and extras are treated completely differently.

I think extras will be very hard, after all, they are not like big stars, big stars can't bask in the sun, and there are assistants to serve them, and extras are temporary, so the treatment will be relatively poor, and many people start from group performances.

Extras are all the background boards, but they are also very important, and they have no status, so many staff members directly yell at them

Compared with big stars, extras are relatively hard, because stars can get a lot of remuneration after the performance, but extras only have a few hundred yuan, or even dozens of yuan of living expenses.

First, extras are poorly paid; second, there are very few roles of extras, they are all out of the show, the roles they play are also very miserable, and there are few frontal shots; Third, the extras all live a life of getting up early and being greedy for darkness.

Extras are not as lucky as big stars, they pay more than big stars, and the return is only a small one, their actor road is very long, they can only start from extras and develop step by step to big stars.

There are some extras who have the dream of stardom, but they can only start as extras, but they have to put in more effort than stars, and they may not be seen by others if they put in a lot of effort.

I think the biggest difference between celebrities and extras is that extras do much, much more than celebrities, and extras have to do a lot of dirty work.

There are several types of extras.

The one who squats at the door of the Beijing Film Studio is the kind of person who takes over the work by himself, and if he doesn't work, he has no money. Generally, at six or seven o'clock in the morning, there will be buses to pull people, pull people to Bayi Studio, Xingsheng Film and Television City, China Film and Television Pants Location Base, etc., and sometimes it will be farther away, such as Longyun Mountain in Daxing, where it is said that the TV series "Iron Pear Flower" was filmed. Of course, sometimes I will go out of the province and go to Zhuozhou Film and Television City or something, which is usually a costume drama.

If it's an anti-Japanese drama, you have to put some explosives on your body, or if you have lines, if you're lucky, you'll have about one or two hundred yuan. There are fifty or sixty ordinary ones, and there are seventy or eighty people. Sometimes if you die, or if you wear linen and filial piety, you will give a red envelope.

As for the rice, I usually eat a boxed lunch with the crew, which is a standard meal, not bad, with meat and vegetables.

There is also the kind of black head, which is to deceive people to raise them in small villages near the film and television base, which basically has no money. The money was all taken away by the black head.

There is also an extras who run with the crew, which is much better than ordinary group performances, and runs around with the crew. If you have money, you should also watch a play, there will be a contract, or someone will notify you.

I don't know what other forms of extras are.

Although the extras are very ordinary! But it's an essential character for a film! Extras can even be the finishing touch at times! So you can't just do it!