英媒：在中国当群众演员 生活苦不堪言

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BBC Chinese, May 31, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _china_extras.shtml

, which is based on

Tania Branigan, China's Extras Line up to Chase Hollywood Dream; Scores of hopefuls descend on Beijing studio each day hoping to play their part in the country's burgeoning film industry. Guardian, May 31, 2013.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ ... ras-hollywood-dream
(Of the contemporary Chinese films and stacked against his personal experience, a Beijing extra named Zhao Benyi observes: "The Japanese troops are uglier than those he remembers of old. The Chinese are better fed, their weapons more impressive")

Note: "Zhao said the story of WANG Baoqiang, who became a star after a director chose him for the bleak but gripping drama Blind Shaft, inspired many more to gather at the gates."

王宝强/ 盲井 (a 2003 film directed by LI Yang 李杨)