1982: Starting as a Production Assistant

Name: 1982: Starting as a Production Assistant
Author: Writer1kd0CP

1982：从剧组打杂开始

by Writer1kd0CP (作家1kd0CP)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 379k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Life
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Source: Qidian

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Chen Chuan spent thirty years at the bottom of the film industry. He wasn’t an actor, a director, or a screenwriter. He was the kind of person whose name you’d never see in the credits. He’d done odd jobs for the props department, hauled lights for the lighting crew, run errands for production, and worked every kind of job alongside every kind of person. At sixty-two, he closed his eyes in an old film studio in Guizhou. When he opened them again, it was July 1982, in Beijing. He was twenty-two, unemployed, with fifteen yuan in his pocket. He didn’t want to be a star or a great director. He just wanted a steady job, a wife, and a quiet little life. But the crew across the street was hiring. He knew that production. Two years from now, the show would become a nationwide sensation, drawing crowds away from the streets and still airing in reruns thirty years later. He knew the director, too. A few years from now, one of her productions would bring her so much abuse she’d lose heart and say, “I wouldn’t go with them even to heaven or hell.” Chen Chuan stood by the street and watched for a long time. Then he walked over. “Are you hiring laborers?”