"Yan He, are you okay?"
When Lily Williams suddenly asked him in a low voice on the set, Lu Yanhe suddenly came back to his senses.
"Huh? Me? I'm fine, what's wrong?"
"I see you sitting alone in a daze." Lily Williams said, "In the past two days, There are always people squatting at our door. I heard that you were blocked when you came in this morning."
"That's nothing." Lu Yanhe smiled, "I was just thinking. How to perform the final scene?"
"The last scene?"
"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "Didn't I finally let you go in the last scene, because you were the only one who didn't really want to burn us to death? You always thought you were just trying to scare us, but you won’t know what kind of devils your two friends are until something happens.”
This is also a change in the later stages of the movie.
The three revenge targets, Arne and Simon, were all killed, but only Lily was spared in the end.
Lily's character also belongs to the same genre - after all, it is released in European and American countries where there are many white people. It cannot be that all three white people are evil devils.
Therefore, in Lily's role, her evil deeds back then became an ignorant evil that was kept in the dark.
Lily Williams said: "It is written in the script that you just let me go and leave."
"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "But how to leave, how to leave Ending my last scene in the movie, I haven't thought about it clearly yet."
Lily Williams breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.
"So you are thinking about this. I thought you were in a bad mood because of what happened recently."
Lu Yanhe: "I wasn't scolded, why am I in a bad mood."
There was a smile on his lips, as if everything was really fine.
Lily Williams said, "I feel like you don't want to deceive others."
"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised. He didn't expect Lily Williams to be so sharp. Capturing his true emotions.
I can only say that actors are still actors, and sometimes they are really sharp.
Lily Williams: "Arne told me that you definitely don't like the current marketing method of the crew."
"Arne?" Lu Yanhe was even more surprised.
"Is he right?" Lily said, "Actually, he and I also looked for your movies to watch. Your "Late Spring" and "Path of Glory" were really good. , no wonder you are so popular in Asia."
Lu Yanhe: "You suddenly praised me, and I didn't know what to say."
Lily laughed happily.
"It's a pity that our movie was finished so quickly, and we haven't become familiar with it yet."
The shooting time of "The Mist" was indeed not long. For a movie, it took more than thirty days. The shooting time is relatively large.
However, for a horror film, this shooting time is not very long.
Lu Yanhe said with a smile: "It's good that we have met. There will be many opportunities to meet in the future."
Lily asked curiously: "Will you mainly focus on making Hollywood movies in the future? ?”
"No." Lu Yanhe did not hesitate to answer this question, "I have many projects in China, and I can't shift my focus to Hollywood."
Lily was a little frustrated and said, "Then what did you just say? You just lied to me, how come there are so many opportunities to meet?”
Lu Yanhe said with a smile: "That doesn't mean I won't go there in the future. What's more, you can also come to China in the future. You are welcome to make movies in China."
Lily's understanding of Chinese movies , basically belongs to the stage of “basically no understanding”.
Many American filmmakers are actually like this. They don’t pay much attention to foreign language films. At most, they only know about some award-winning films in film festivals.
Even in terms of art films, American films are recognized as inferior to those in Europe, but they never think that they are really inferior.
In such a large environment, young actors like Lily's understanding of movies basically stays at the aesthetics shaped by American movies.
So, if they occasionally watch a film of "Late Spring", they will find it very fresh.
When making this movie, Lu Yanhe actually had a good time working with Arne and Lily.
Working with the two of them gave Lu Yanhe a very different feeling - he found that everyone's performance system was still different. Both Arne and Lily's performances are explosive. This kind of explosive power is not about hysterically roaring at you, but a kind of fullness of emotion.
In fact, it's not just the two of them, but Simon as well.
Lu Yanhe studied it carefully later and felt that they all have such a unified explosive power, which may be related to the fact that the three of them have been performing on the stage since childhood. Their stage performance experience shaped their emotional integrity and fullness. Many young actors in China are actually actors trained by the camera. They rarely perform a scene from beginning to end without losing their emotions.
Each has its own advantages.
But overall, Lu Yanhe has to say that based on the movie "The Mist" alone, the young actors in the United States have much stronger overall capabilities than their Chinese counterparts.
Of course, it was only the first time for Lu Yanhe to work with a foreign crew, and his feelings were not representative.
Moreover, if we really talk about the abilities of top actors, they are no less impressive.
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Actually, Lu Yanhe was quite moved.
Although many people on the Internet are questioning why he wants to act in a horror film overseas, basically no one who really knows Lu Yanhe comes to ask him this question.
Even Chen Lingling, as a director who has collaborated with Lu Yanhe twice and will also cooperate with the sequel of "Silent River", when asked this question by reporters, Chen Lingling only said one sentence.
"For an actor like Lu Yanhe, no matter what role he takes, he must have his reasons. Before the movie is officially released, I will not ask him why he acted. After the movie is available, I will go directly to watch it. Go watch it in the movie, he acted in this movie What is the reason?"
Liu Bige also responded to a comment in his social media comment area: "Go and persuade Yan He to stop acting": Yan He was filming it in the first place. During "Late Spring", how many people were trying to persuade him not to act in it?
Lu Yanhe really had a lot of choices, none of which were understood at first.
For example, when he took on the role of "Late Spring", a low-cost literary film directed by a newcomer, at that time, many people said that he was crazy for wanting to win an award, and he dared to act in a three-no film.
For example, when he was a screenwriter and wrote "People on the Road" and "Rouge Button", many people also laughed at him because he thought he was a great writer after studying literature for a few years.
For example, he left the "Party of Six" series without mercy and drew a clear line. At that time, many people scolded him for being out of his mind and stupid for giving up such a popular series for the sake of one breath.
It has been a long circle, and now looking back, Lu Yanhe has not taken a step in vain, and not a single choice has been made wrong.
Lin Yu said in her show: "If an actor often makes the audience doubt and question, and when we can't help but beat our hearts and worry about him, please don't forget that it's because he doesn't have Staying in the comfort zone and playing safe, he still chooses to take risks and challenge himself.”
Lin Desheng of Northern Lights Video personally asked him: Do you think the horror movie you are making is worth buying? Come back? Can I go domestically?
Lu Yanhe told the truth: Don’t buy it. Basically, it can’t be released, and it can’t be uploaded to video platforms. It’s the kind with real ghosts. I play a ghost. If you want to delete it, you have to delete all my scenes. Deleted.
Lam Desheng: ...Why do you want to act in this film well?
This is the first person around Lu Yanhe to question his performance in "The Mist".
Lu Yanhe smiled.
On the contrary, this time, Maxine’s Zhong Benzhuo and HP’s Tom White also started a new round of competition.
Not only them, but also with Director Muken’s reputation in horror films, all well-known streaming media platforms are competing for the exclusive streaming rights of this film.
The same goes for TV stations.
Obviously the movie has not yet been released in schools, but these copyrights are being competed for first.
During this process, D19 Production Company was somewhat surprised to find that Lu Yanhe turned out to be a very important weight in the negotiations between the film and the film producers.
Because during the negotiation, everyone mentioned that they hoped that Lu Yanhe would participate in promotional activities in a certain market and cooperate with at least XX promotions.
These contents are similar, but put together they only mean one thing. In the eyes of film producers, Lu Yanhe is the selling point of this movie for some markets.
D19 is not a big company.
It made its fortune by making independent films.
It also does not have a particularly strong and complete global distribution channel. Especially in Asia, D19’s network is not well established there.
So, for a long time, their impression of Lu Yanhe was that he was a very famous and popular actor in China. Mu Ken insisted on using him and admired him very much. That's all.
After all, this movie will not be released in mainland China. No matter how popular Lu Yanhe is, he will have to discount it by more than half.
Who knows, not only other Asian countries and regions, but also film producers in Europe and the United States are also concerned about Lu Yanhe.
What D19 Company did not expect the most was that several international film festivals took the initiative to ask if they were willing to have the film have its world premiere at their festival.
After chatting, it turned out that they were attracted by the topicality of this movie and that Lu Yanhe has been a frequent visitor to film festivals in recent years. He wanted to invite Lu Yanhe to attend almost every film festival. After all, Lu Yanhe carries huge media attention and popularity.
D19, an American company, heard about Lu Yanhe’s brilliant achievements from different sources, which made them realize that they seemed to have completely underestimated this actor from the Eastern country.
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"The movie is about to be filmed, and it won't be so easy to sit down and eat together in the future." Hua Ruzhen came out of the kitchen with a pot of braised chicken, "This is a new dish I tried. I don't know how. So, give it a try, the other dishes are all my specialties, feel free to eat them."
Lu Yanhe nodded with a smile and said yes.
When Director Mu Ken was filming here, Hua Ruzhen stayed with him and often asked Lu Yanhe to come over for dinner.
One thing to say, Hua Ruzhen’s craftsmanship is indeed very good.
So, Lu Yanhe was able to have a bite of authentic Chinese food from time to time in Canada, instead of having to eat Western food every day.
"Sister, after the movie is finished, will you go back to the United States or Germany?"
Muken is actually a German. When he is not making movies, he usually settles in Germany.
Hua Ruzhen said: "After the filming is completed, he will go back to rest for two weeks, and then he will have to go to the United States to focus on post-production matters."
Lu Yanhe nodded. Hua Ruzhen: "D19 wants to release this movie in January."
"January?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, because even though he didn't know much about the American film market, he still knew when the peak and low seasons were, and January was the well-known off-season.
The best time for horror movies is actually Halloween.
Hua Ruzhen nodded and said, "I can't make it to the Halloween schedule, and there will be too much pressure in the later stages."
Lu Yanhe suddenly understood.
Hua Ruzhen said: "What are you going to film in your next movie?"
"Go back and record a program first, "Young Days". Sister, have you watched it?"
"It seems to have some impression."
"It's a program I have been recording ." Lu Yanhe said, "Then we will film the second season of "Seventeen Floors".
Hua Ruzhen was a little surprised and asked, "I thought you wouldn't cooperate with Jingtai?" Will cooperate with Jingtai again. ”
"I do think so, but I have to wait until the "Seventeenth Floor" series ends. It is a trilogy." Lu Yanhe said, "Director Jiang Lan, who is in charge of this project, has always been very good to me. Yes, I am very familiar with the entire crew and get along very well. I still want to have a beginning and an end, and I don’t want the drama to be affected by my bad relationship with other people in Beijing and Taiwan.”
Hua Ruzhen nodded, "It's good to be responsible."
Lu Yanhe smiled.
Hua Ruzhen said: "The movie "The Fog" is quite popular now, but are you a little unhappy with the current marketing method of the crew?"
Lu Yanhe was surprised. Looking at Hua Ruzhen: "Sister, have you seen it all?"
Lu Yan He felt that it was okay if he was noticed by Lily. After all, when he was on the set, he did not deliberately put away his emotions like he did in front of Hua Ruzhen. However, despite this, Hua Ruzhen still saw it and let him He couldn't help being shocked and stunned, but also felt that his acting skills were in jeopardy.
how so?
Is he so incapable of pretending?
Hua Ruzhen said: "Mu Ken told me that he guessed that you don't like this marketing method, and you don't want to win everyone's support and sympathy by relying on the fact that the crew was racially discriminated against."
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Actually, yes. "
Hua Ruzhen: "I really want to comfort you, but I have to say that in movie marketing, many situations like this do happen. As for an actor or even a director, The idea is not important.”
"Sister, I don't know what to say. I also hope that the movie will do well at the box office, but I always feel that adding a big label of Asian ghosts killing white villains to this movie will really benefit the movie. Is the movie liked by the audience? "
"No one can say for sure. If I, a layman, can give you an accurate answer, what about those who are professional in making movies? The marketing people can just pack up and leave." Hua Ruzhen smiled after saying, "But it doesn't matter, Yan He, you may not be able to influence them how they want to market, but you can totally follow your own ideas. Go deal with people. If you don’t like it and don’t cooperate, then tell them clearly and let them stop using you as marketing material.”
"I have indeed thought so."
"Actually, you have not made up your mind and firmly believe that this kind of marketing method is wrong?"
"Because... ...This matter will indeed help the popularity of the movie and the future box office. This is visible to the naked eye. I can’t stop the movie just because I don’t like it. To get more box office. To put it bluntly, it’s because I am an actor in this movie. I always think that I have the responsibility and obligation to make the movie achieve better results. I can’t be this obstacle.” Lu Yanhe sighed, “Even if I am. You know, my inaction is actually a kind of tacit connivance. This is where I am conflicted and entangled now.”
"Because you want to be an honest person, but you can't be honest without scruples, so you can only remain silent in a self-contradictory way." Hua Ruzhen looked at Lu Yanhe thoughtfully and asked, "right? ”
Lu Yanhe nodded.
Hua Ruzhen smiled and said, "You are so young."
Her smile also contained the doting of the elders towards the younger ones.
Lu Yanhe was at a loss and didn't know why Hua Ruzhen had such an attitude.
Hua Ruzhen said: "Actually, Muken often encounters situations like this. He is actually a very strict and serious German by nature, but there are many things that conflict with his nature in the film industry. Not every time he He can get around it, but he doesn’t want to blend in, what should he do?”
Lu Yanhe listened.
"In fact, there is no other way. Mu Ken can only stay silent. I believe that if you were in a crew with more say, you would have directly intervened to stop it, and you also have the ability to stop it. But in "The Mist" In this crew, you actually don’t have such ability, and you know subconsciously that your attitude is not important, and no one will pay for it,” Hua Ruzhen said, “So, silence is the only thing you can do. When you don't have enough strength to go Before changing all this, you can only do what you can do well in silence. Once you have your status and voice in the Chinese film industry in the European and American film circles, believe me, you can do things like this directly. Call it quits. So instead of contradicting yourself. It’s better to stay out of the situation and put it aside. Just like in the first film, you had to listen to the company for everything. Now, Mu Ken said that a Chinese actor should be used, and he insisted, and D19 agreed.”
Lu Yanhe suddenly woke up.
If Hua Ruzhen had not said it, Lu Yanhe would not have realized that behind this incident, in the final analysis, it was the contradiction between his desire to change everything and his inability to change everything.
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“If I told Yan He, he would definitely be entangled and in pain.”
When asked about such a marketing plan, why didn’t Chen Siqi take the initiative to tell Lu Yanhe? Chen Siqi had nothing to hide. mean.
“Aren’t you worried that one day Yan He will find out that the reason why Simon came up with this plan was actually because you found someone to blow it into the ears of his agent?” Linyu asked .
She was surprised that Chen Siqi didn't tell Lu Yanhe that Lin Yu had come up with this plan, and it was Chen Siqi who managed to get it to the ears of Simon's agent.
"He will be worried, but it doesn't matter." Chen Siqi said, "He knows that I have never been a kind and perfect good person. I don't care if Simon has done a lot of harm to himself by doing this. I only care that this is Yan He's first An English film, I hope I hope this movie will do well. Yan He might be sulking with me for not telling him in advance."
"Are you afraid that he would refuse?"
"If he could refuse directly. That's fine. The problem is that we Everyone can see how beneficial this plan is to "Mist", not to mention himself. When the time comes, he himself will be in a dilemma between morality and interests. "Chen Siqi said, "It is better to keep him in the dark. , if he wants to blame me, blame me, But I know he won't."
"Don't you two always have secrets and talk about everything?"
"A little secret is not a bad thing." Chen Siqi Weiwei. Smiled and winked.
Linyu actually knew what Chen Siqi was thinking.
To put it bluntly, Chen Siqi has a very simple thought: I will be the villain.
Rather than saying that she was worried about Lu Yanhe being entangled, it was better to say that she did not want Lu Yanhe to fall into possible entanglement and hardship.
Linyu knew that this was Chen Siqi's way of loving Lu Yanhe.
Definitely not right, but that's the way she is.
Linyu couldn't say anything.
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“Look, as soon as this incident came out, several Hollywood film companies sent scripts, asking Yan He to play a character who was discriminated against, bullied, and bullied. Role." Chen Ziyan put the English scripts in front of Lu Qingzhen speechlessly, "Whatever is popular will come."
Lu Qingzhen laughed.
“How great, this shows that Yan He is indeed being noticed by Hollywood.”
"What kind of attention is there? They are all small third-tier companies." Chen Ziyan said, "No, we still need to find a reliable overseas agency for Yan He. The current contact is scattered, firstly, it is not efficient, and secondly, it is not focused."
Lu Qingzhen: "Before you Didn't they find it because the conditions were not suitable and they couldn't reach an agreement? They said they would wait until "The Mist" was released and Yan He had more capital to talk to them again. "
"But now Yan He's? The situation has changed, but——" Chen Ziyan was a little discouraged again, "I guess they It will still not change the previous conditions, no, we still have to achieve results. It would be great if Yan He could win the best actor at a top international film festival right now. The big agencies still look at this."
Lu Qingzhen: “Don’t talk about this yet , although you don’t like these scripts, I would like to recommend these Asian characters to some people.”
“Huh?” Chen Ziyan said, “I don’t have this script yet. I’ve seen it, maybe it’s bad.”
"If it sucks, it sucks. Many actors have no more movies to film. Who can care whether this movie is bad or not?" Lu Qingzhen smiled, "First support yourself."
Chen Ziyan: "Then take it, I think. Try to tell me and I’ll get in touch.”
“Yes,” Lu Qingzhen asked. By the way, when will Yan He come back?"
Chen Ziyan said: "He will finish filming in three days."
"It's so fast, it will be completed in more than a month." , "The management of this crew is really bad. We should learn from it."
"That is the experience accumulated over hundreds of years, and we have to learn from it." Chen Ziyan said, "You and Yan He have exactly the same sentiments."
"I think that every project we have now The cost is getting higher and higher. If we can effectively reduce the shooting time and improve efficiency, our costs can actually be reduced." Lu Qingzhen. Said, "I have seen a report before, saying that the same difficult scene costs one million US dollars to shoot in Hollywood, but it costs at least 3 million US dollars to shoot with a Chinese crew. It's nothing else but wear and tear. Our domestic crews can't shoot it." The loss is too great.”
“This is a matter of industry and industry. If you shoot more, it will naturally improve.” Chen Zi Yan said, "Even if you arrange for some people to study, they will not give you key things."
"That's right." Lu Qingzhen thought for a while and said, "But I found that Yan He Most of the filming period is not long, and it is quite impressive. The key is that the quality of the film is very high."
Chen Ziyan said: "The proportion of invalid shots in Yan He's crew is very small. You can tell by looking at the early preparations for each of his plays. Basically, the actors read the scripts, and the technical departments also have to hold repeated meetings to ensure that the crew is up and down. Everyone knows what the film is going to be like, and they know how hard they have to work. Some crew members always act on the spot.”
Lu Qingzhen: "Maybe Yan He's filming of "The Fog" this time can bring something new to our domestic crew."
When Lu Qingzhen said this, she did not expect that she really said Right.
Lu Yanhe did not move things to the set immediately, but as soon as he came back, he told Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen that he wanted to do something.
Ask what happened.
He said that he wanted to do a variety show.
Ask what program.
He said that a program that allows actors to compete on stage allows film and television actors to perform like drama actors and stage actors without being able to perform on the same stage.
Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen said, does anyone watch such a program?
Lu Yanhe said, there must be one, and the name is "The Birth of an Actor".
Chen Ziyan asked, why did you suddenly think of doing this show?
Lu Yanhe said, because the overall performance level of the actors coming out of the stage is really much higher.
Let the actors do dramas and stage plays, but they don’t have the schedule and time.
But this kind of ten or twenty-minute performance clips can also play the same role.
Lu Yanhe said: "Aren't you always doing things to make outdated artists famous? Those actors with acting skills can also be invited to this show."
Chen Ziyan: " I thought the first thing you did when you came back was to participate in a variety show, but I didn’t expect that the first thing you did when you came back was to do another variety show.”
Lu Yanhe said: "Well, I think it's time." (End of Chapter)