Chapter 453 Dwelling in a Dwelling
With a sigh, Xu Kun went straight down to the second floor. Director Feng Xiaoning had indeed arrived and was sitting in the lounge outside drinking tea.
The main reason why he chose director Feng Xiaoning was that he participated in the entire script creation process and knew the entire story line very well. Moreover, Xu Kun was afraid that he would not be able to grasp some of the delicate emotions and needed the help of this veteran.
As a result, when the editing started, Xu Kun discovered that the editing speed of two people may not be faster than that of one person, but may actually slow down the speed.
However, correspondingly, many things that might have been ignored by him were discovered and pointed out by Feng Xiaoning, which ultimately reduced many minor flaws and improved the smoothness of the film.
So for more than a month after that, Xu Kun basically lived and ate in Huayi's editing room. Anyway, all kinds of facilities are available here, and Huang Bin and two assistants are waiting around the clock. If you need anything, Just open your mouth and someone will do it. It's more comfortable than living at home.
During this period, people came to express their condolences one after another.
The most common ones in the early stage are naturally Huo Siyan, Qin Lan, and Fan Bingbing who signed with Huayi.
In mid-June, the Tianshang Jixi group also moved from South Korea to China to warm up SM's family concert in advance. By the way, they assisted SM company people in inspecting the young trainees who were about to study in South Korea.
After they returned to the Huayi practice room, they sang and sang every night in the editing room.
It was also from their mouths that Xu Kun heard the news about Girls' Generation's encounter with the Black Sea Incident. At first, he heard that he was punished for being offensive to his seniors with his words. Xu Kun couldn't help but complain about the senior system in the Korean entertainment industry.
Later I heard that one of the reasons why they were attacked was because there was a member of the group named Tiffany. When she heard the word "Sichuan" last month, she found that the pronunciation was similar to that of a senior member of a certain boy group, so she cleverly said "Sichuan" , Chansung', and then covered his mouth and laughed.
Xu Kun's face fell at that moment, and then he pinched Li Zhiyan's heart and asked: "Didn't you still want to support the younger generations before? Why did you suddenly give them eye drops?"
"Oh, no, it's not us giving them eye drops, it's them clearly trying to give us eye drops."
After two years, Li Zhiyan's Chinese level has become quite good. Except for a little accent, daily communication is no problem at all.
She wrapped her long legs around Xu Kun's waist and complained a lot with dissatisfaction. Hong Chengmei, who was taking a break next to her, also added a few words from time to time.
To put it simply, it is still a battle of interests.
Originally, after Tianshang Zhixi became popular, he received a request from the company to take care of his juniors, thinking that he could show off in front of the junior sisters. He worked very hard at first, so he gave Xu Kun a 'gift'.
But no one expected that Girls’ Generation would gain such momentum after their debut and that they would catch up from behind. What Tianshang Jixi couldn’t accept was that the Korean media defined Girls’ Generation as the beginning of the second-generation girl group.
This makes Tianshang Zhixi's position very awkward.
There has been a long gap between them and the first generation of Korean girl groups, and compared with their once popular predecessors, their qualifications and achievements are still far behind.
If you are classified in the first generation group, you will definitely suffer a big loss.
Originally they thought they would be the founders of the second generation group, but who knew that this title would be taken away by Girls' Generation.
This caused a rift between the two parties. Although they did not participate in the Black Sea incident openly, they secretly contributed to it.
Xu Kun was noncommittal about this.
If it weren't for that inappropriate homophone, he might still miss some incense love, but now... he can't even remember the names of the two Korean girls clearly, so how can he care about these messy things?
Until the end of June.
Xu Kuncai finally came out of the editing room and handed the cut film to the special effects team.
Although he had to communicate in real time with the special effects team every day, he was finally able to spare some time to study the script of "The Wind".
At this moment, Teng Huatao suddenly came to the door and carefully asked Xu Kun what he thought of Wen Zhang.
"Wen Zhang?"
Xu Kun wondered: "Why did you mention him suddenly?" "That's right."
Teng Huatao explained: "The last time I filmed "Double-sided Tape" with Liu Haibo, the response was pretty good. This time I got another script from the author. I originally wanted Wen Zhang to play the second male lead, but Hao Lei said... ”
Teng Huatao stopped mid-sentence, but Xu Kun roughly understood what was going on.
He hesitated for a moment and then said: "Logically speaking, I shouldn't interfere with your creative freedom, Director Teng..."
"I understand, I understand!"
Teng Huatao didn't wait for him to figure it out, he already understood it. Although he was a little regretful, he had no choice but to give up on Wen Zhang.
After all, Xu Kun's influence is here. He is a ruthless figure who destroyed a generation in Hong Kong's entertainment industry. What kind of brainless person would do it to offend him for the sake of Wen Zhang?
Not to mention that this drama also has Huayi’s investment, and the heroine is from the Teddy Sisters.
Seeing that Teng Huatao was so righteous, Xu Kun naturally wanted to reciprocate the favor and asked if there were any difficulties with this film.
"Don't tell me, there is something that may trouble you. That's right, the subject matter of this film is a bit sensitive..."
After listening to Teng Huatao briefly describe the plot, it was basically about the various things a pair of sisters encountered and happened around the house.
Xu Kun always felt a little familiar, so he asked the name, and then he suddenly realized that it was the famous "Snail House".
Of course he had never seen the film, but he had heard of the show and knew that it was banned not long after it was released.
Not to mention that Teng Huatao had just sold him a favor and was targeting Hao Lei for the role of Haiping and Jiang Xin for the role of Haizao. Xu Kun was also ready to help.
But how to help?
After thinking for a while, Xu Kun asked: "Where are you going to shoot this TV series?"
Teng Huatao replied: "Of course it is the Magic City. The novel is written with the Magic City as the background."
"That's it!"
Xu Kun slapped his thigh and said: "After the filming of this drama is completed, you will broadcast it on Beijing TV. I promise that you will not encounter too much trouble."
"Uh~"
It's not that Teng Huatao can't understand the secret rivalry between the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital, but the problem is that what he's really worried about is that the show won't be approved for broadcast.
Hearing that he was worried about this, Xu Kun immediately confirmed: "Don't worry, as long as you don't deliberately touch the red line, this TV series will definitely be broadcast smoothly!"
He made the judgment based on the memory of later generations, but after hearing this, Teng Huatao seemed to have taken a reassurance, and immediately bowed and said: "Then I would like to thank Director Xu!"
"What does this have to do with me."
Xu Kun shook his head: "Your script is not a big problem in the first place, but if it causes public opinion after it is broadcast..."
"This...I understand, don't worry, I will definitely try to premiere this film in Beijing and Taiwan!"
Teng Huatao didn't know if he had misunderstood something, so he gritted his teeth and said this, and left soon after.
After Xu Kun sent Teng Huatao away, he thought about it and realized that he probably really thought that his "hands and eyes could reach the sky" and "his mouth held the Constitution of Heaven".
There is nothing that can be done about it. With the prophecy of the CD crisis and the pornographic scandal, except for a few acquaintances, who would believe that he actually has no background at all?
This kind of thing happened so often that Xu Kun didn't bother to explain it, and he couldn't explain it clearly anyway.
(End of chapter)