Chapter 16 A man relies on his clothes and a horse relies on his saddle
After seeing the attitude of the Liu family's mother and son towards Zhang Yuan, the arrogant Liu Xiaoli became soft-spoken and became much closer to Zhang Yuan.
More than an hour later, the starring team of the crew expired, and everyone moved together to the opening ceremony.
Zhang Yuan went to the "Conquest" crew halfway and missed the opening ceremony. This was the first time he participated in such an event.
Red carpet, red tablecloth, red ribbon, even the camera was covered with red cloth.
This is a custom passed down from Hong Kong Island. It is said that covering the camera with a red cloth can ward off evil spirits.
In the past few decades, camera technology was underdeveloped, and films were often scratched and scrapped by machine parts. Hong Kong Island is already superstitious, so they came up with this ritual.
However, since "The Mansion Gate" became the first TV series to use high-definition digital cameras, the mainland film and television industry has gradually abandoned the old film cameras.
The crew of "The Golden Family" is rich and naturally uses digital machines. There is no such thing as scratching the film. This ceremony is more for preliminary publicity.
After the photographers arranged in advance took some photos, the ceremony ended with the ribbon cutting.
"Next, all the leading actors will put on makeup, try on costumes, and then have a script reading meeting together." Li Dawei arranged immediately after the ceremony.
The process and arrangements of the large crew were obviously much more compact and reasonable, which was an eye-opener for Zhang Yuan.
The first person to finish changing costumes was the male protagonist Chen Kun. As soon as he appeared on the stage, many female staff members exclaimed on the spot.
“So handsome!”
Isn’t that right? He has sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and clear forehead. He is masculine but also has a hint of femininity.
Chen Kun raised his eyebrows slightly, and the image of a frivolous playboy immediately appeared, making half of the women present have stars in their eyes.
After a while, the heroine Dong Jie also finished putting on makeup and came to the crew and bowed.
In the play, she plays a female student. Her current look really highlights her pure and pleasant temperament, and she looks quiet and elegant.
Dong Jie is only twenty years old this year, so she is just right for this kind of role, but despite her young age, she debuted early.
In 1996, she appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage as a palace maid in Zhao Lirong's "Working Adventures", and then filmed the movie "Happy Time" with Lao Mouzi.
In addition to her, the starring actors in that movie also include Zhao Benshan, Fu Biao, and Li Xuejian, all of whom are acting masters.
But what really made her famous across the country was the movie "A Family of Gold Fans".
This time it was the turn of the male staff to be starry-eyed. The women who had just coveted Chen Kun's beauty immediately cast their eyes with contempt.
【Double Standard】
To say that Dong Jie debuted very early, Liu Qianqian, who also filmed this film, was only 14 at this time.
But if you really want to talk about someone who became an experienced actor at a young age, I have to talk about the following person.
Shu Chang, who plays the eighth sister of the Jin family, wears two pigtails and smiles shyly at everyone, looking very well-behaved.
Started in a movie at the age of five, hosted "Windmill" at the age of ten, and last year participated in "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang" as Concubine Dong E, sharing the stage with veteran actors such as Ning Jing, Siqin Gaowa and He Saifei.
And she is the same age as Liu Qianqian, and even in terms of months, Shu Chang is younger.
This is Liu Qianqian’s first time acting, but Shu Chang makes people feel like she has been working for half her life.
Next, the protagonists appeared one by one. The director nodded from time to time and was very satisfied with the costumes and characters.
Finally it is Zhang Yuan’s turn to appear. The Liu Chunjiang he plays is also a young master like Chen Kun’s Jin Yanxi.
But Jin Yanxi was a romantic, uneducated and incompetent, while Liu Chunjiang was academically accomplished, a very capable doctor, and very devoted to feelings.
The two have the same person but different fates, and their personalities complement each other, just like the characters looking in the mirror.
Zhang Yuan came to the crowd with confident steps. Similar to when Chen Kun came on stage, many female staff members also exclaimed.
“This one is quite handsome too.”
“I didn’t expect Chen Kun to have a rival!”
“I still like Chen Kun better, more chic.”
“ I'm different, I like this one, looking at the sun."
At this time, Zhang Yuan was wearing a linen suit of the Republic of China, with a silk handkerchief in his chest pocket, a straight tie, and a pair of glasses. The black leather shoes are so bright that they can show off the bottom of a girl's skirt.
As the saying goes, a man relies on his clothes and a horse relies on his saddle. Now that he put on makeup and decent clothes, Zhang Yuan himself was shocked when he looked in the mirror. Liu Xiaoli in the crowd was also stunned.
The reason why she regarded Zhang Yuan as a laborer before was because he was dressed shabbily.
But now that he has changed his outfit, even someone like her, who has seen him before, suddenly feels that Zhang Yuan looks like a young master from a wealthy family.
Not only the women, but the male staff also whispered to each other and praised her from time to time.
There is something a bit demonic about Chen Kun's handsomeness, a type that men are indifferent to or even disgusted by, but women particularly like.
Zhang Yuan belongs to the sunny and cheerful type, the type that men want to be like and women want to be close to.
Director Li Dawei gave Zhang Yuan a thumbs up, smiled and praised silently.
"Okay, now let's read the script around. Everyone can express their opinions and put forward any ideas they have." After showing the costumes, it's time to study the script. Let's have everyone together to quickly familiarize the actors in the same crew. Get online.
"Director Li, after reading the script, I feel that the character of Jin Yanxi is too bad. He is so ruthless to his wife. He is simply not a human being. Can he be better?" Chen Kun was the first to speak.
The character image may affect the commercial value of the actor, and it is normal for Chen Kun to be worried about this.
Kunkun, it’s wrong, Brother Ji, it’s wrong, the factory owner, it seems even more wrong... Zhang Yuan thought for a long time before speaking.
“Brother Kun, in fact, Jin Yanxi in the original work is several times worse than the one in the script. This has already been written.”
“Zhang Yuan is right. " Director Li agreed, and Chen Kun stopped talking when he saw the director saying this.
“Director Li, our character Sissy’s makeup is a bit too mature. I think it would look better if she wore something purer.”
Liu Xiaoli is almost always by her daughter's side. The film and television industry is very chaotic, so we can't say there is anything wrong with her doing this. After all, the girl is still young, and she will be a piece of meat if she falls into a pack of wolves.
“Actually, I think Qianqian’s makeup is a bit too thick.” Zhang Yuan objected.
When Liu Xiaoli saw this, she thought to herself: Could it be that this guy is deliberately going against me in order to get revenge for treating him as a minor worker before?
But before she could refute, Director Li spoke up: "Zhang Yuan, please explain your reasons carefully."
"It is written in Zhang Ailing's "Red Roses and White Roses" Pass." Zhang Yuan looked at Liu Xiaoli and Liu Qianqian, mother and daughter, and said to herself that Auntie was right. At Qianqian's age, she wears a floral skirt, a thick ponytail, a light application of makeup, and a light sweep of her forehead. , when the sun shines, some fine fluff is reflected on the face. This is the most beautiful look.
But the character is not me!
“Perhaps every man has had two women like this, at least two.”
“Marry a red rose, and over time, the red becomes a smear of mosquito blood on the wall. The white one is still "the bright moonlight in front of the bed"; when you marry a white rose, the white one is like a grain of rice sticky on your clothes, but the red one is a cinnabar mole on your heart."
"Here. Bai Yueguang, cinnabar mole, rice sticks and mosquito blood are just enough to bring about the character changes of the two heroines Leng Qingqiu and Bai Xiuzhu. "
"In the early stage, Leng Qingqiu was Bai Yueguang and Bai Xiuzhu was mosquito blood. .”
"And in the later stage, Jin Yanxi married Leng Qingqiu, and she became a rice stickie, while the beauty Bai Xiuzhu became a cinnabar mole!"
"Makeup is to serve the characters, so in the early stage Bai Xiuzhu's makeup should not only be thick, but also her lip color and eye shadow should be dark red to highlight her mosquito-blooded character."
After Zhang Yuan finished speaking, all the actors present looked at her in shock. he.
No matter what the background of this young man is, he can speak eloquently about a little makeup. He also quotes classics and combines the script and characters to make people unable to refute the slightest desire.
Including Chen Kun, Dong Jie, Xu Lu and others were all interested in Zhang Yuan, an actor they had never met before. Even Liu Qianqian raised her head to look at him.
Zhang Yuan liked classmate Qianqian’s words very much.
“Huh?”
The little girl didn’t understand at all.
“What Zhang Yuan said makes sense!” Director Li immediately called the makeup artist to implement the matter.
The following reading session almost became Zhang Yuan’s home field.
Director Li seemed to be possessed by Zhang Fei and Li Kui, and he only said two sentences in total.
"Me too."
"Brother is right."
After the first day of the crew's life, all the leading actors returned to the room and were thinking about one thing. question.
“Who is this Zhang Yuan?”
(End of this chapter)