The movie had been shot for about five or six days before Lu Yanhe truly realized what Liu Bige wanted.
Liu Bige has a pair of evil eyes. As long as you don't completely enter the character's state and have a little bit of acting, he can tell.
He won’t tell you that your acting is not good or wrong. He knows that it is not a matter of you not being serious or working hard. He is using a refined method to polish off all your designs and considerations to capture the last moment of returning to nature.
“Looking at how young he is, I didn’t expect him to be quite capable of torturing people.” Chen Ziyan joked after hearing what Lu Yanhe said.
"Yes." Lu Yanhe said on the phone, "When I talked about this movie with him before, I thought he was a confident person who knew exactly what he wanted to shoot. Now on the set, he is We actors must give him the feeling he wants.”
"It's good. I was worried that he would not be good at being a director because he has no experience."
"He has a lot of experience. He has participated in the production of many movies in France before, especially this kind of small-budget one. Movie." Lu Yanhe chuckled, "If this is a big movie. He may really have no relevant experience in production. I feel that he is very familiar with a film like "Late Spring". He is very clear about every department and no one can fool him."
On the set, Liu. Bigo also loses his temper with the staff.
Especially the art area.
He always thinks there is something wrong with the setting. To be precise, he feels that everyone is just doing their job without paying attention.
"When you were studying, were there only books on the desk?" Liu Bige pointed at the classroom layout and said many times, "This blackboard is so clean that it looks like it has been used for many years. It is a blackboard that has been used for many years." , even if you wipe it clean with a blackboard brush, there will still be a layer of chalk dust left! Look, is there any dust that can’t be swept away or wiped off in the corners next to the podium? It’s as clean as if you had undergone laser surgery.”
Lu Yanhe didn’t know when he was there. I don’t know how many times Liu Bige was picky when he was not present.
Privately, Lu Yanhe also heard the staff say that Liu Bige was the most arrogant and trouble-making person they had ever encountered.
These complaints were endless, and Lu Yanhe couldn't help but want to laugh at Liu Bige. However, facts have also proved that it takes a stupid person like Liu Bige to make a good movie.
The importance of a behind-the-scenes team to a movie is often overlooked.
There is a conscientious way of doing it, and there is a perfunctory way of doing it.
The director is to enable each department to exert its best strength and produce the best effect.
Unlike Luo Yuzhong or Chen Lingling, Liu Bige has a high status in the industry, has his own fixed team, and knows the director's high requirements. They don't need to emphasize many basic things one by one.
He is a new director, and others will inevitably look down upon him. Especially the people who do odd jobs on set. They are dedicated or not. Whether the film is good or bad has no direct and intuitive benefit to them. Therefore, most of the time, they just try to fool them. Just go over there.
Liu Bige gets angry so frequently because of this reason.
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Comparatively speaking, none of the actors in "Late Spring" made any mistakes.
There was no such thing as being a big name or having poor business capabilities.
This is also because the cost of a movie like "Late Spring" is too small and the prospects are too uncertain, so no one else intervened in the cast, and no actors were added who had to accept it.
Liu Bige has the final say in almost all the casting of "Late Spring".
"It's also because you are here that you are so cooperative with Liu Bige. The other people are all newcomers, how dare they not cooperate." Chen Ziyan pointed out the key issue sharply, "Don't think that as long as you are a newcomer or a young person, you will not cooperate." Very good, this is good In the industry, there are many young people who are conceited and ignorant of the world. It is not uncommon for people to be self-righteous and insist on their own way in front of big directors. You are lucky. "
In this crew, Lu Yanhe is very comfortable. . This is also the first time Lu Yanhe has served as a "key figure" in the crew except for his guest appearance in "Three Mountains".
Any drama has a "key character". This is an unspoken rule that has been established in the development of the film industry to this day.
Most of the time, if the director of the movie is a famous director, then the key person is the director. Even if his movie is starred by the most amazing actor and is promoted mainly by this big-name actor, it will not affect the director's status as a "key figure".
However, many times the director of a film is not considered a director in the industry who can carry the film. He has not entered the status of "film history". Whether in the eyes of the industry or ordinary audiences, he is the key figure of the film. He became the biggest actor.
In the film "Late Spring", this key figure is undoubtedly Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe's attitude will affect everyone's attitude invisibly.
On the crew, the meaning released by his every move is more influential than that of Liu Bige, who is the first director.
This is what Chen Ziyan said.
Lu Yanhe held Liu Bige high in the position of director. He completely trusted Liu Bige's decisions and carried them out without reservation. When he does this, it affects the rest of the crew.
After Lu Yanhe acted with several other actors for a week, he gradually became familiar with them.
At this time, they dared to show some real emotions to Lu Yanhe as friends.
"Yan He, can I ask you why you are willing to star in this movie?" Kong Fan asked, "After all, you are so popular now, and he has never directed such a low-cost literary film. "I have been a director."
Lu Yanhe smiled and asked: "Why did you do that?" Will you come to act in this movie?"
"Come if you have a role to play," Kong Fan said, "Originally, we were only in the freshman year and were not allowed to come out to take roles, but Director Liu went to our class teacher. I have said it several times, but I don’t know how I managed to convince our head teacher.”
Kong Fan and Yan Lingyu were classmates in the same class.
Yan Lingyu also nodded.
"You are all students of Beijing Arts University. You shouldn't have to worry about acting after graduation, right?" Lu Yanhe said, "How can you just accept an acting role if it comes up? Didn't you read the script?"
Kong Fan said: "Before I took on this drama, I had no idea I read a complete script, but after hearing that you were starring in it, I immediately felt that I had to take it. Even my class teacher said that from your point of view, this film is worth taking."
Lu Yanhe didn’t expect that there would be another one like this.
"I did because the script was good. Another thing is, I have known the director for a long time. Miao Yue, the original novel and screenwriter of this film, was my classmate. At that time, the director wanted to buy the rights to adapt the film. Miao Yue asked me to accompany her to meet the director. , and then they became friends," Lu Yanhe said, "Both of them are very talented people, so why did I come?"
"Many people in our school were surprised. I'm surprised, why you want to act in such a film, I can't understand your decision."
"Do you know your senior Yan Liang?"
"Yes, he was your former student. A teammate of Zhi Group, right?”
“Yes.” Lu Yanhe nodded, “He told me that students in the Beijing Performing Arts Department also have to take literature classes.”
"Yes."
"Have you ever thought about why the school arranges literature classes for students in the acting department?"
Kong Fan said: "This is because we need to understand the characters as well. When doing literary appreciation of scripts and characters, you must have good "Aesthetics."
"Well, actors must have their own aesthetics, and they must know what is a good script and what is a good role when it comes to scripts," Lu Yanhe said. When I was choosing the script, my own As a standard, the production team is of course also very important. With big directors, big companies, and big productions, everyone will tend to choose this kind of drama because this kind of configuration tends to be more attentive and seems to be better at producing good works, but this In fact, they are all the second best. Actors who don't choose a play based on its content or the talents of their collaborators can only weigh the pros and cons of a play based on these external things."
Kong Fan and the others listened silently. Lu Yanhe didn't know what to say for a moment.
Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "Actually, I am not qualified to say this. Before "Late Spring", the movies I filmed were either directed by big directors or produced by big productions."
Yan Lingyu was at this time. He shook his head and said, "I understand You’ve got nothing to say.”
“It doesn’t mean that a big production is necessarily a good project, and it doesn’t mean that a small production is necessarily not a good project. This is not a standard for accepting roles,” Yan Lingyu said. At that time, I also looked at Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe smiled and nodded, "That's what I mean, but this is just my own opinion."
Kong Fan: "But for us, it doesn't actually feel like it. The right to choose and make choices, I see Many seniors who graduated from us are faced with the problem of being unemployed as soon as they graduate. There is no acting at all, and it is not a question of what kind of acting to choose. That’s why I say that if there is an acting opportunity, seize the opportunity to act, especially if you are still There is a play for you.”
In this era, there are more and more film and television projects, but the pool of actors is also getting bigger and bigger. In the past, it was mainly students who graduated from professional colleges, but now the situation is different. Compared with students who have just graduated and are not well-known, those idols who have become famous at a young age, talk show actors or cross-border personalities such as cross-talk actors who have become famous in other fields, Internet celebrities who have become popular through self-media or live broadcast platforms... Too many people come to compete for jobs with actors who graduated from professional schools.
Lu Yanhe is one of them.
This indeed leaves many students in professional colleges with nothing to do.
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "When you have no choice, seize the opportunity first, but when you have a choice, you can think more about it."
He Qingqing looked at Lu Yanhe , this girl who is only eighteen years old looks like She is not as iconic as Yan Lingyu and Wang Jing, but she has a lovely round face, very cute, and her facial features are also very vivid. She said: "Brother Lu, you have never learned acting, but your acting skills can be praised so much by everyone." Praise, it’s amazing.”
Lu Yanhe quickly waved his hand, "I just haven't studied acting in a professional acting school, but I have been learning acting. I hired teachers myself and also learned on the set. You haven't seen my first filming, "Golden" with director Luo Yuzhong. "Era", when I was on the set, I actually didn't understand anything. Director Luo taught me a lot step by step and led me into the door of being an actor. "
He Qingqing was a little worried, holding her chin with her hands, "I also want to ask you if there is any way for me, a person who has never studied acting, to refer to it. Alas, always. NG, I don’t even know how to act. I don’t know how to act in the first place.”
Among the five actors, He Qingqing has been NG the most.
Basically, as long as there is a scene with her, that scene will be shot more than ten times.
"Practice more, Liu Bige must have chosen you because you are the most suitable candidate for the role of Jiang Mo. You are more NG just because you have never filmed a movie and can't act. I haven’t learned it before, so I can’t adapt to the camera or control my facial features and expressions.” Lu Yanhe. Said, "The reason why I often failed when I was filming "The Golden Age" was because I was not used to performing in front of the camera. I had a sense of shame, and it was easy to think about things. Instead, I had too many distracting thoughts. But the more I acted, the better I could control it. This situation will be much better after I control my facial expressions and emotions.”
They were filming on the set of "Late Spring" and got along day and night, and would have conversations like this from time to time.
As Lu Yanhe became an “old-timer”, it was inevitable that he would introduce his “experience” to them.
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The movie "Late Spring" is planned to be filmed until the end of April. Lu Yanhe signed a contract with the crew for fifty days of filming. However, if Liu Bige really needs more filming time, Lu Yanhe will also cooperate. He is in Yuming anyway, and he can go there at any time if he is needed. Therefore, the filming time for "Late Spring" was relatively ample and the project was not in such a rush.
"Three Mountains" was about to premiere. Wang Zhong contacted Lu Yanhe several times and asked him to participate in more promotional activities for "Three Mountains".
Originally, Lu Yanhe had only agreed to attend the premiere in Yuming, but because the filming schedule of "Late Spring" was not that tight, Lu Yanhe later cooperated as much as possible.
In this movie, he only made a guest appearance for one night. No matter how good his reputation in the movie is, he is not the starring role. To a certain extent, he actually shouldn't participate in so much publicity. On the one hand, these contents were not included in the previous agreement, and on the other hand, it also involves a publicity effect.
Neither Lu Yanhe nor Chen Ziyan want the audience to have the illusion that he is the protagonist of this movie. But now "Three Mountains" has this kind of publicity trend. It is not that Lu Yanhe is directly and openly stated as the starring role, but the fact that Lu Yanhe is only a cameo is deliberately avoided, and only the emphasis is placed on promoting Lu Yanhe's performance in the film, which was highly praised at the West Tour Film Festival.
In addition to this, there is one more thing. For the rest of the publicity schedule, Wang Zhong just asked Lu Yanhe to cooperate with the publicity, but did not mention any other remuneration. When Lu Yanhe couldn't go, Wang Zhong's attitude was a little dissatisfied, as if Lu Yanhe was deliberately uncooperative.
Lu Yanhe was a little concerned, just because the movie "Three Mountains" gave Lu Yanhe good reviews, and the other party was Wang Zhong, so Lu Yanhe kept silent and did not say anything.
Chen Ziyan was a little annoyed.
“Even if Wang Zhong won the Best Director at the West Tur Film Festival, and the film has a good reputation, you are not a free labor force, and you are always asked to work for nothing. How can there be such a thing? ? !"
Lu Yanhe had to persuade Chen Ziyan, "It's normal for him to want to cooperate with the crew to promote the movie."
"That's right. I made a guest appearance with you for one night. If they now act like you are the lead actor in this movie, and let you run a promotional tour for them for free, and put you on such a high pedestal, when the movie comes out, people who thought you were the lead actor will find out that you have only been on the scene for less than ten minutes, and they will scold you. "You made false propaganda, who do you think will take the blame?" Chen Ziyan said, "This matter must be handled properly. We cannot let them focus on your actor card now. They will take advantage of it and you will take the blame." ”
No matter how good the results of "Three Mountains" were, it would not be as good as Lu Yanhe's.
Otherwise, if Lu Yanhe was a serious star in "Three Mountains", Chen Ziyan would have cooperated.
Chen Ziyan said: "If "Three Mountains" hadn't really helped your career to a new level before, I wouldn't have cooperated with them."
So, Chen Ziyan and Lu Yanhe started working on "Three Mountains" It was a little cold over there.
Even director Wang Zhong is the same.
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These days, Wang Zhong is received solemnly almost everywhere he goes. This is the honor brought to him by winning the Best Director title at the West Tur Film Festival.
The schedule for promoting "Three Mountains" is very busy.
Xuanfa Company hurriedly scheduled the film to be released in March, hoping to ride on the popularity of the West Tur Film Festival.
Wang Zhong appeared on a talk show.
On the show, the host asked: "Director Wang, do you have any expectations about the box office of "Three Mountains"?"
Of course Wang Zhong hopes that the box office of "Three Mountains" will be as high as possible. However, everyone also knows that the box office of such a movie cannot be very high. When it did not win awards before, it was considered a miracle that it could get tens of millions at the box office. Now that I have won the prize, it will be over 100 million at most, which is considered a big hit.
In today's movie market, such box office figures are undoubtedly not enough.
Wang Zhong could only evade the important point and said: "I hope it will be liked by more audiences. In fact, we all know that it is not a movie that can get high box office. From the beginning of filming, we have no intention of Such a purpose."
The host just added: "Lu Yanhe is currently popular. Doesn't having him star in this movie make you more confident about the box office of the movie?"
Wang Zhong felt a little uncomfortable hearing these words. This is his movie, not Lu Yanhe's. What's more, Lu Yanhe only made a cameo appearance for ten minutes.
The publicity team has been asking him to find Lu Yanhe to participate in more publicity activities during this period. The host still asked questions like this in the last show, which made Wang Zhong feel angry.
“This has nothing to do with who stars in it. Xiao Lu is very good and very popular, but the power of any one person is limited. How much box office can a movie sell? The right time, place and people are all very important. Importantly, "Three Mountains" is not a simple movie that everyone can tell what it is about at a glance. To put it simply, it is not very friendly to the audience. "Wang Zhong said this directly with anger. If your scalp is numb and you are at a loss.
"Director Wang is driving the audience directly outside." Chen Ziyan was speechless and said to Lu Yanhe, "I thought at first that Director Wang frequently asked you to participate in promotional activities to increase your popularity and increase the box office. Even better, judging from his attitude on the show, it doesn't seem like he has this intention."
Lu Yanhe was also confused, "I don't know what the director is doing."
It's impossible to say that the director doesn't want the box office.
However, Wang Zhong’s words aroused the attention of many people.
In particular, many netizens have made various interpretations of these remarks.
Chen Miao, a well-known entertainment critic and the contracted writer of "Menghui", commented poignantly: "Director Wang Zhong became an immortal after winning the award at the Xituer Film Festival. He doesn't care about us in this world. Do all living beings like this movie? The movie is so incomprehensible that it’s not surprising that us mortals can’t understand it. It’s not that the movie is poorly shot anyway.”
Chen Miao won with such sarcasm. Likes from many people.
Wang Zhong has never been a director popular with the public, and his style is destined to be a minority.
He is a rather aloof person, as can be seen from his speech on the show. After seeing what Chen Miao said online, Wang Zhong was so angry that he directly said in the comment area: "I I never said I didn’t care about the audience!”
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“Director Wang’s mentality is a bit broken.” Anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that Wang Zhong was stimulated.
Originally, Chen Ziyan was a little unhappy with Wang Zhong because she hired Lu Yanhe to work as a free labor force before "Three Mountains", so she didn't like him very much. When she saw director Wang Zhong angrily spoke to more than a dozen netizens in one night, After the words "Wang Zhong angrily attacked netizens" became a hot search topic, Chen Ziyan realized that something must have happened to Wang Zhong.
She contacted Chen Ling, the producer of "Three Mountains".
Chen Ling didn’t hide anything and said directly: “The idea of the publicity company we cooperated with ran counter to the director’s idea, and the two sides were never able to get together, which ultimately led to the current situation.”
“What is the specific situation?”< br>
“The promotion company we are cooperating with this time is Sanhe. After they saw that "Three Mountains" won the award, they wanted to have the film released as soon as possible by taking advantage of the popularity of the Situl Film Festival, and... they also contacted Wang The director has said many times that he hopes he will come forward to ask Lu Yanhe to help. Participate in publicity." Chen Ling said, "According to the contract we signed, Yan He is not obligated to cooperate with so many publicity trips."
Chen Ziyan: "I said, I am still wondering why the director kept doing it. I came to Yan He for voluntary help. In fact, you also know , it’s not that we don’t want to help, it’s that we were filming “Late Spring” and also had school, so we couldn’t spare the time. In addition, our Yan He is not the leading actor, but now we deliberately don’t mention that Yan He is just a guest star. This is just for publicity. The battle made him look like a protagonist."
"Don't talk about it. The director and I have negotiated with them several times on this matter, but because they are one of the investors of the film and are also responsible for its promotion, they don't take anything we say seriously. "Go on." Chen Ling said, "That's why the director felt so good. Mian Cai was holding back his anger and said something like that on the show. You didn’t know that Mikawa’s boss also said something behind his back, and it reached the director’s ears. I felt that it was passed on deliberately.”
"What did you say?" Chen Ziyan asked, frowning.
“Even if the director wins the Best Director award at the West Tur Film Festival, that is still a matter for their film industry. To sell the box office, they have to rely on big stars like Lu Yanhe.” Chen Ling sighed as he spoke. He sighed, "The director has always been an arrogant person. Even if this is indeed the case, he will definitely feel uncomfortable after hearing this."
Chen Ziyan didn't know what to say for a moment, and even wanted to scold him in front of the boss in Sanhe, "You're out of your mind. What a disease!"
Chen Ling said: "Now that "Three Mountains" will be released soon, I don't want to create any complications, so I advise the director to calm down the matter first and stop being sulky. He is in a bad mood and has been in a bad state these past two days. Propaganda can’t run away.”
"This Sanhe you are cooperating with is really mentally ill! Why are you cooperating with such a company?"
"There is nothing we can do about it. They were the only ones willing to invest in and promote Director Wang's film." Chen Ling Said, "You also know that the director's films never sell well at the box office, and it is harder to find investment than ordinary films."
"Don't cooperate with them next time." Chen Ziyan said.
Chen Ling smiled bitterly and said nothing.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Ziyan went to the crew of "Late Spring" to meet Lu Yanhe.
Today's scene of "Late Spring" was not filmed in a cram school, but in an old house.
Liu Bige wants to film a scene where Lu Yanhe eats with his parents.
Meng Bai caught his father having an affair. At noon that day, a family of three sat together for lunch.
My mother didn’t know why, but she was preparing lunch as usual.
Meng Bai was suffocating in his heart, and when his father said a few words, "Don't delay your studies by falling in love early," he replied angrily, and the two of them started to fight, with his mother in the middle trying to stop the fight. , Meng Bai felt angry in his heart, but he didn't want his mother to be caught in the middle, so he put on a cold face, put on his schoolbag and left home.
When Chen Ziyan arrived at the scene, Lu Yanhe was acting with the actors who played his parents in the movie.
The two actors are both old actors, not famous, but their acting is very good.
The actor who plays the father is called Chen Yinghui, and the actor who plays the mother is called Jiang Biyu.
Chen Ziyan waited until they finished the play before calling Lu Yanhe aside and told him about Wang Zhong, Chen Ling and Sanhe Company.
"I thought I would take you to meet Director Wang after you finished the show today." Chen Ziyan said, "There was a misunderstanding before, and you and I were also cold-blooded towards Director Wang. Now we know The situation cannot allow the misunderstanding to continue like this. Another thing is that Director Wang is in a bad mood now. Let's go have a meal with him and have a chat. Maybe it can make him feel better."
When Lu Yanhe heard this, he nodded without saying anything.
After Chen Ziyan said this, she turned to look in the direction of Chen Yinghui and Jiang Biyu.
"Cooperate with these two and learn from them. These two are very good at acting." Chen Ziyan seemed to be familiar with them. "Liu Bige is also quite capable. Invite them here I’ll give you a role.”
Lu Yanhe said with a smile. : "Liu Bige also said that he invited these two people after visiting the thatched cottage three times."
In the movie, these two people don't have many roles, only three or four scenes. Chen Ziyan's words are correct, He was really just here to play for Lu Yanhe, and he didn't have much room for himself. If you are still willing to come like this, it is usually because of favors. (End of chapter)