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Investigation on the life of Beijing mass actors: going out to work when there is no drama to shoot.

65438+1October 1 1, Tengfei Studios, where hundreds of extras played refugees fleeing from the desert, some old people were scolded by the leaders of the youth league for running slowly.

In the reception room of an extra actor in a village near Tengfei Film and Television City, the "Deputy Director" told the extra actor who had just reported for duty that as long as he was willing to endure hardships, he would be successful in his career.

Most of the extras live in the farmhouse near the film and television city. There is only a narrow aisle in the house except the bed.

On days when there is no performance, extras usually hang around their residence. People who spend all their money will go to the labor market to do odd jobs for some money, and what's more, they will sell their blood for living expenses.

Delivery to 300 yuan, without any receipt, only got an actor card-that is, a pay settlement card. This film and television culture communication company named "Hao Wei Sheng Da" is not registered in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.

focus of concern

Beijing is north, take 10 1 national road to Huairou overpass. When you see the sign of Song Yang Town, turn right, get off the bridge and walk east for two kilometers, and you will see Tengfei Film and Television City.

In the village around the studio, there are some large or small courtyards scattered, where men and women from all over the country live. However, compared with the well-dressed characters in the film and television scenes, the 24 extras in reality live in a room of about 20 square meters.

Bungalows, indoor flies flying around. According to the actors, in the days when there is no drama, people in the actor's compound are temporarily invited to play another role-working to collect debts. If you are a little disobedient, you will be scolded by the group leader (the leader of the extras).

Finally, the wages that extras are waiting for will be deducted or defaulted for various reasons.

"After graduating from college, I came to Beijing from Heilongjiang to find a job, but I was tricked into being an extra actor in Huairou Film and Television City, filming, laying cables at work, helping the group leaders fight, doing everything, and finally getting nothing." On October 8th, 65438/KLOC-0, Wang Long (a pseudonym), a college graduate from a university in Heilongjiang, complained to this newspaper.

In the letter on page 16, Wang Long told the story that he was cheated. "The crew is in a hurry, and the special actors are 300-2000 yuan/set. Conditions are not limited, accommodation is arranged, and all expenses are free ... "This recruitment information published in the newspaper caught the attention of Wang Long who came to Beijing to apply for a job.

/kloc-in September, 2004, Wang Long came to Room C 103 of Hua Ting Apartment in Xiaoxitian. After the interview and paying 250 yuan's fee, Wang Long was hired by "Beijing Haowei Shengda Film and Television Company" to take charge of the interview. A man named Director Yang told him that filming was highly paid, and the crew provided accommodation, and then he got an actor's license. It is said that on the same day, he followed the road map given by Yang to a yard in Gaolianghe Village near Huairou Film and Television City. After receiving the deposit of 600 yuan props, he began to receive pre-job training. However, Wang lung later discovered that this courtyard was not a crew at all, but a compound of extras controlled by some group leaders. There are very few extras here, and they are also dragged to work as coolies and help people fight. Actors should obey the management of the hospital. If they don't obey the management, they will be reprimanded and beaten by the league leaders and the hospital.

After staying in the compound for a month, Wang Long chose to leave. "When I checked out, I didn't get my salary, and even the props deposit was deducted."

The living conditions are 20 square meters, and there are 24 bunks in the room.

10 10 in the morning, according to the recruitment information of "Beijing Haowei Shengda Film and Television Company", the reporter came to Block C of Hua Ting Apartment in May as an applicant.

After paying 250 yuan's fee, the reporter was told that the interview passed, and then asked himself to find the crew.

In the afternoon, the reporter took a bus for more than 4 hours to Gaolianghe Village, Huairou Miao Town. A female staff member in the crew office, a curtain room on the roadside in the village, first put away the reporter's actor's ID card and route map, and then asked the reporter to pay 600 yuan's costume props deposit.

After several discussions, the crew finally agreed to accept 260 yuan first, and let the reporter slowly return the remaining 360 yuan money.

Afterwards, the reporter was taken to a small courtyard consisting of four bungalows. The sewage in the yard is cross-flowing. The house where the reporter lives is about 20 square meters with 24 bunks. The room is full of sweat and flying flies. According to the actors who came early, there are about 60 extras living in the courtyard, of which 5 actresses live in a single room.

After the reporter sat down, a bald man leaned out of the upper bunk and asked in a low voice, "How much did you pay? Did you write an iou? " "More than 500 * * *, which is like a cast. Didn't the advertisement say that the salary was more than 3 thousand a month? Why are the conditions here so bad? " The reporter asked.

"What? I have been here for 4 months and have never seen my salary. I am all a liar. " "Yes, while we are still here, let's go. We don't have enough to eat here, and we are forced to work, not paying wages, and hitting people. " At that time, the actors in the room complained.

"Everyone is asleep, so let's go to the French." After a man shouted outside the door, the room was quiet. According to other actors, this man is a group leader and a hospital administrator.

The filming experience was scolded by the team leader for running slowly.

"get up, damn it ... there's a play, and there's no sweeping!" At 4: 30 the next morning, with a man yelling and kicking, everyone in the room got up and gathered in the nearby Tengfei Film and Television City. The rest of the actors and reporters were arranged to tidy up first and wait for the notice of the play.

"Come out! Go and play! " At about 10 in the morning, four hospital administrators informed the remaining extras in the hospital to gather and run to Tengfei Film and Television City, which is about 2 kilometers away, to play the refugees in the TV series "Mill Woman".

On the way, an extra surnamed Xu grabbed his stomach and asked him if he could run instead of walk because he didn't have enough food for two days. He was scolded and pushed by hospital administrators in Northeast China, Dapeng and Ge Xuan.

After arriving at the main entrance of Tengfei Studios, "Northeast" and others asked everyone to stand at attention and count off, and then walked to a flat-headed man sitting in the shade.

Several extras whispered to reporters that the man with a flat head was Li Ge, a native of Henan, the leader of the extras. He was also an extra at first, and later became a leader in Song Yang Village. He moved to Gaolianghe area two years ago and gradually became the largest group leader nearby, in charge of the courtyard of four extras.

Soon, the extras at the gate were told to enter the shooting scene. After changing into costumes, the extras in the venue dressed as refugees fleeing from the desert, shouting "Hungry", waving various props, and kept running around.

"Run, run, run, really run." An old man with a wrinkled face and only one tooth in his mouth kept complaining to his companions around him "Brother, stick to it. Come and give you a hand, or the leader will curse again. " Two old people are jogging at the end of the "escape" crowd.

"Hurry up, don't even want to go home for dinner ..." Li Ge, standing on the sidelines, was slow to respond to the extras, and his performance was poor, and he kept shouting and cursing. At 8 o'clock in the evening, the shooting work is over. At this time, the shooting time of extras in the base is the longest 15 hour, and the shortest is 8 hours.

There's nothing to shoot. Extras were asked to go out to work.

In addition to filming, people in the actor's compound will also be temporarily invited to work.

An extra actor from Henan recalled that in June this year, when he first came to the actor's compound, he was taken to a nearby river to spread impermeable plastic film. The redundant actors in the compound are divided into two groups: day and night, and they are constantly running for the progress of the project 24 hours a day.

10 10 On October 20th, several extras told us that when there was no play, they were often taken as cheap labor. When laying cables along the railway in nearby Beifang Town and Changping District, many of their extras were invited by Li Ge and others to work, and they all ate and lived on the construction site, working 10 hours a day. First, dig a trench more than 1 meter deep, and then carry a cable weighing a meter and dozens of kilograms.

"Doing the same job and at the same time, our salary is nearly half that of migrant workers." Xiao Chen, an extra actor, and others said that the wages paid by the league leaders to migrant workers were 50 yuan every day, and 30 yuan was given to them. "Work is nothing. Li Ge often picks people out to fight." A young actor in Northeast China told us that in August this year, the hospital asked people to make trouble at a construction site in Miyun. Li Ge asked everyone to help him settle it, and then took out forty or fifty pickaxes from the house and gave them to everyone one by one. "I was a little scared at the time, so I said I couldn't go and was kicked by the hospital." The little actor said that at that time, he always went to more than 50 people and took a van. When he arrived at the location, he surrounded the other eight or nine people for a while.

Several extras said they would go out to play a game every four or five days.

There are two reasons. One is to take it out on the leader directly and suppress the leader's enemies or competitors. In addition, many friends, such as "Li Ge", violated social regulations and beat their legs with pickaxes in public.

In order to ensure that extras can be provided to the film crew of Tengfei Film and Television City at any time, the actors' compound has formulated a strict entry and exit system and a fine system, and the actors must obtain the consent of the School of Management when they go out.

According to several actors, "Li Ge" and others have formulated a "family law", and those who violate it will be beaten with a pickaxe at least three times in public at any time, which they call "three handles of pickaxe". "Punching, kicking and slapping are also common punishment methods." Several actors said that all the actors who stayed in the compound were beaten or scolded by the league leaders.

Once an actor lost something in the yard, and the police came to investigate after calling the police. Afterwards, the team leader thought that the alarm had brought trouble to the compound, so he asked the hospital to gather all the people in the boys' dormitory in the yard and ask who stole something while fighting.

Another "family law" in the compound is fines. Among more than 20 fines, people who speak loudly will also be fined, ranging from 100 to thousands. Actors in the hospital told us that once an extra actor in Hebei was fined 1 1 month's salary and deposit. In the end, he had to eat by selling the waste of mineral water bottles and save money to go home.

65438124 October, in a telephone interview with reporters, "Li Ge" said that in order to manage the yard well, "family law" does exist, but he thought it should be mutual. An actor is beaten for doing something wrong, and conversely, an actor can beat him for doing something wrong.

Li first denied that the actors might be asked to go out for a group fight, and then changed his mind, saying that he found that the actors in the compound had the behavior of going out for a group fight under the leadership of the administrator, probably because of personal grievances, but he advised the administrator not to fight in groups on his site several times.

According to Li, when performing, extras are sometimes abused and beaten by prisoners because of the low quality of both sides. He repeatedly advised prisoners not to hit people or swear.

Actors whose wages are in arrears rely on rock candy to satisfy their hunger.

His face was dusty, his cheekbones were prominent, and his ribs were clearly visible through his loose yellow-and-white vest. On the morning of June 65438+1October 65438+June 65438+1October, ODA from Shanxi counted five crystal sugar from the plastic bag under the mattress and put it in her mouth. Oda said that he had been an extra actor in this actor's compound for more than four months. Now, the compound not only deducted the deposit of his props in 800 yuan, but also owed him nearly 1 000 yuan in salary. He has spent all the money he brought from home recently, and now there is only 5.30 yuan left.

Eating depends entirely on the box lunch provided by the crew during the performance. If you don't have a chance, eat rock candy at home, five tablets at a time, absolutely not exceeding the standard.

Oda said that he continued to stay here because he wanted to get back his hard-earned money, which was almost the income of his parents in Shanxi for half a year. "If I want my money back, I will buy a schoolbag for my sister and a roast duck for my father in the city." Oda looked forward to the scene of getting her salary back, and a silk smile appeared on her face.

"Every time I go to ask for a salary, Li Ge, the team leader, says to wait, and I just drag it." The extras interviewed said that after the candidates were sent to the actor's compound, the group leader first collected the deposit of management props around 600 yuan, and then obtained benefits from the extras by default and deduction of wages.

"The remuneration of extras in 20 yuan every day is the uniform price for many years." A director told reporters that the remuneration paid by the crew to extras is generally 30 yuan every day, and the difference 10 yuan is earned by the team leader or the actor agency.

65438124, "Li Ge" said in a telephone interview that the Actors' Guild of Tengfei Studios gave 22 yuan to every extras, and he gave them 20 yuan, only accepting the expenses of 2 yuan exchange and other activities.

On the same day, the staff of the actor's office of Tengfei Film Studio said in a telephone interview that in principle, the extras requisitioned by the crew filmed in Tengfei Film Studio should be managed by the studio. However, they will not contact the extras directly, but will only find extras for the crew through the team leader. They don't care and don't know how the league leaders run the actors' compound and how to pay the extras.

The studio will deduct a certain management fee to find extras for the crew, but he did not disclose the specific amount.

Several actors said that some actors who were about to leave asked the tour leader to settle the deposit and remuneration, and the tour leader would list the names such as accommodation and fines, making it difficult for the extras to take the money away. An actress who is now working as a waiter in Xiaoxitian left the actor's compound after selling blood in Shunyi and getting 300 yuan.

10 10/2, as soon as the reporter entered the compound, he was told by the people in the same hospital, "Oda was beaten for asking for money! Now the police are here and are handling it in the office. " When the reporter went to the office, a police car was parked at the door, and several hospitals were squatting at the door, and actors were not allowed to enter. Through the glass window, you can see Odd crying to the police. As of press time, the reporter was informed that Oda had left the actor's compound.

In this case, "Li Ge" thought that the manager of the compound only pushed and shoved the actors who asked for wages, and did not start to fight. The settlement of wages may be delayed for a period of time because of the procedure of checking working hours between the compound and the actors, but it does not mean that wages will not be paid.

After investigating the courtyards of extras in Gaolianghe, Song Yang and other places, the reporter found that these extras usually only eat two meals a day, and some can only eat a full meal in two days. Therefore, whenever the Tengfei Film and Television Base is short of drama, groups of extras are looking for laborers around the village to make a living, which has become a major feature of the villages around Tengfei Film and Television City.

There are nearly a thousand people with high mobility.

10 10/2 1 day, the reporter visited the village by village with Tengfei Film and Television City as the center. Song Yang, Gaolianghe, Wanghua, Zhangzikou and Sendai all have one or more actors' courtyards, especially Song Yang and Gaolianghe. According to the extra actor Lao Wang, there are dozens of actors in each actor's compound. Although there is a lot of mobility, there are nearly a thousand people at present. A few years ago, when costume dramas were popular, thousands of people would come to the peak of film and television drama shooting.

A hairdresser's elder sister in Zhangzikou Village said that since the establishment of 1996 Tengfei Film and Television City, extras have been born. At first, only the surrounding villagers made guest appearances in their spare time, and gradually evolved into people from other places who came to Beijing to become the main force of extras. According to her observation, extras can be roughly divided into three types, one is college students who are working or about to graduate for job hunting, the other is film and television lovers who dream of becoming famous but basically have no acting skills, and the other is unemployed people who make a living as extras.

The staff of Miaocheng Police Station, which is in charge of public security in Gaolianghe area, said that the workload of the police station has greatly increased due to more extras from outside the temple, and some deceived extras complained to the police station. In addition, fights and thefts often occur in the actor's compound, and the police are deeply distressed. There are many police stations in Song Yang Town in the actor compound of the industry, and they are unwilling to take a stand on the issue of extras.

interview

Most of the interviewers passed.

The intermediary company acts as an agent for the recruitment of film and television companies, and the candidates will pay various fees after the "interview" is passed.

In an interview with reporters, the extras said that they believed that the job advertisements of various film and television actors in street newspapers were the first step for them to step into the scam. The words "free of all expenses, direct recruitment by film and television companies or crews" in the advertisement. , is a lie.

According to the introduction of extras, most of the recruits in the name of film and television companies or crews are intermediary companies. After the "interview" is passed, candidates will be told that they need to pay the "actor registration fee", ranging from 200 yuan to 300 yuan. If candidates are required to sign contracts with special actors or role actors, they will be defrauded of a "signing fee" of more than 3,000 yuan at most.

interview

The reporter was asked to go through the interview in several steps.

10 10 in the morning, according to the recruitment information of "Beijing Haowei Shengda Film and Television Company", the reporter came to Block C of Xiaoxitian May Hua Ting Apartment as a candidate. The door of a 20-square-meter house reads "Recruitment Department". There is a TV, two tables, three men call each other directors, and some TV posters are posted on the wall.

A young "director" with blond hair and blue eyes, after registering as a reporter, went back to "Yang Dao" for an interview. A girl is reciting ancient poems in an interview, and the other three boys are sitting on the sofa waiting for the interview. The reporter ranked fifth.

After about 20 minutes, all the top four successfully passed the interview.

Director Yang asked the reporter, "Can you sing?" Reporter: "No. I sang out of tune. " Yang Dao: "Then recite ancient poems." Reporter: "No, I didn't like endorsement since I was a child." Yang Dao: "OK, then take a few steps and let me have a look. I "

Look at your model. ""1,2,1,1,2,1... "In Yang's password, the reporter deliberately made a" straight turn ",and everyone present burst into laughter.

"It doesn't matter, your platform is good, may be a little nervous, it is good to exercise. Congratulations on passing the interview! You go to Director Zhou to register, and he is responsible for handling the entry procedures for you. " Yang Dao is all smiles.

Director Yang then told reporters: "Don't worry, as long as you work hard, you will be famous. Our company has trained many actors. We produced the King XX of world without thieves. Please register with Director Zhou. "

Pay 200 yuan registration fee after the interview.

Behind the screen in the room, the person who claimed to be "Director Zhou" patted the reporter on the shoulder. "You have great potential. In this way, you pay 200 yuan's filing fee, and then we communicate with the crew and wait for the notice at 3 pm. " Afterwards, the extras in the actor's theater told reporters that they would accept anyone who signed up for the interview.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the reporter came to the film and television company again. Director Zhou, who was squatting in the chair, congratulated the reporter: "You passed the selection. Now pay the deposit of 50 yuan, and you can report to the shooting scene of the crew. Don't worry about life, everything is convenient. As long as you are filming, you can get 20 yuan a day, and your salary will be settled every half month. Remember, since you are an actor, you should be mentally prepared. The opportunity and the future belong to you ... "After the reporter paid the 250 yuan fee," Zhou Dao "didn't open any bills. Finally, "Director Zhou" sent an actor card and a road map to the reporter, saying that the crew's car was broken and asked the reporter to go to the crew by car to find the director of the shooting scene.

, will also help friends settle some things.