In mid-January, 2004, Jinhua, Zhejiang, Hengdian Film and Television Base.
“Good luck!”
With thundering cheers, the crew of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" were surrounded by gongs and drums, firecrackers blasting, red flags waving, and a sea of people. Officially launched!
The two bosses of Sugar Man, Cai Yinong and Li Guoli, were all present.
Director Wu Jingyuan stood in the center of the crowd, and the other actors clapped away and lined up on the left and right.
Except for Zhang Yuan, Liu Qianqian, Liu Pinyan, and An Yixuan.
Although Sun Li, the current first sister of Sugar Man, will only make a guest appearance in a few episodes, she was also brought to the scene to take photos and promote it, which shows how much Boss Cai attaches importance to this drama.
As for male actors, the actor Wang Lujiang who played Liu Jinyuan was also present. Of course, among the roles played by this actor, the one who impressed everyone more was probably Zhu Erdan in the later "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" .
"Teacher Wang meets again."
After taking a photo together, Zhang Yuan walked up and greeted this person.
In the previous film "A Chinese Ghost Story", Wang Lujiang guest-starred as Wu Jing's brother Zhuge Wuwei.
But they didn’t play opposite each other, so they barely communicated with each other.
"Hello, hello."
This old man showed an extraordinary excitement.
Looking around, looking left and touching, it feels like you have never seen the world.
Despite his appearance, he is a famous host in Singapore and is extremely popular locally.
"How many costume films have you filmed before?" Brother Wang stepped forward and asked quietly.
"I have filmed..."
Zhang Yuan counted with his fingers, and then said: "I have filmed four films."
Oops!
Wang Lujiang smiled and sighed.
No wonder he can play the lead male role. He looks like he is only in his twenties, but he already has so much acting experience.
“The time I was filming “A Chinese Ghost Story”, I only filmed it for a few days.” Brother Wang said nervously and excitedly: “This is the first time for me to come back to a large-scale shooting base like Hengdian.”
Oh, that’s it.
No wonder you are so excited, it turns out this is your first time...
"I happen to have never been to Hengdian before. Let's go for a walk and get familiar with the set?" Zhang Yuan immediately extended the invitation.
“Okay.”
Actually, Zhang Yuan knew that Wang Lujiang was able to fulfill his wish of coming to Hengdian. The person he should be most grateful for was not the crew, but the theater.
Yes, you read that right, it’s a show.
Because Sugar Man’s original number one pick, Liu Jinyuan, was played by Yuan Hong, who starred in the TV series “Dandelion” with Hu Ge and Sun Li.
Both of them signed up for the Candy Show when they were in school, but professional performing arts schools like China Theater and Nortel have restrictions on students leaving school to work.
The condition for filming at that time was that only one of Hu Ge and Yuan Hong could obtain special approval and leave school to film.
Of course Boss Cai will choose his "little sweetheart".
Shanghai Theater actually thinks so too. After all, they stole Hu Ge from Central Theater Company. During the college entrance examination that year, Hu Ge was admitted to the Directing Department of China Theater Company with second place in his major.
And he finished second not because someone was better than him, but because the first player was directly walked.
Later, with the persuasion and generous conditions of the theater, Hu Ge's mother suffered from breast cancer and was hospitalized for a long time. He did not want to be too far away from home, so he resolutely chose to study in his hometown.
In this regard, he is very similar to Cheng.
Also, if you are kind to your parents and family, you should not be kinder to your friends. Only in this circle can you be like a fish in water.
So Hu Ge is regarded as a treasure by the school and the company, but Yuan Hong does not receive such treatment.
If he hadn't been on the show, Sugar Man would definitely have chosen his family member Yuan Hong instead of him.
"What are you talking about?" An Yixuan came to mainland China for the first time to film, and she was unfamiliar with the place.
Among the mainland actors, he is the only one who is relatively close to Zhang Yuan. After all, he has a relationship with Wu Dun.
"We plan to go shopping in Hengdian, will you come with us?" After Zhang Yuan finished speaking, he looked at several fellow villagers behind her.
In addition to An Yixuan, there are also the singer duo Liu Pinyan and Zeng Zhiqiao, as well as Peng Yuyan, who plays Tang Yu Xiaobao in the film.
“How about we all come together?”
"Okay, okay!" Liu Pinyan was as excited as Wang Lujiang before. It was the first time for Baodao and the four of them to shoot a costume drama, and everything on the set was extremely new to them.
Even the entire Hengdian Film and Television Base is like a large costume playground to them.
In fact, Tangren has made significant changes to the game script of "Sword of Immortal". The most obvious one is the setting of the supporting characters.
In the original work, Anu is also one of Li Xiaoyao's beauties, while Liu Jinyuan and Tang Yu, played by Wang Lujiang and Peng Yuyan, are small roles, but they are promoted to important supporting roles in the TV series.
After all, there are a lot of maze exploration, leveling up and monster-fighting processes in the game, and TV series cannot rely on such plots to last long, so they can only add supporting roles to enrich the story.
Even though An Yixuan was very famous in later generations, at this point in time, she only had "Betta" as her masterpiece, and her popularity in mainland China was average.
Miss An’s real rise to fame depends on this "Legend of Sword and Fairy".
Zhang Yuan turned his head again and looked at Liu Pinyan, who had chubby cheeks, was beaming when he spoke, and always looked cheerful, and thought to himself.
Ruan Jingtian, you shameless person...
Zhu Sanhao, this old scumbag is well-known in Treasure Island.
His love creed is that chasing women is for sleeping with them.
Every time before breaking up, I ask for a fight.
And this man, like Nie Yuan, has had many experiences of relying on women to gain power.
As for the time with Liu Pinyan, it was purely a standard script of deceiving an innocent little girl and throwing her away after sleeping with her.
Actually, it doesn’t matter. There are many people who do this. Besides, they have this capital regardless of their image or temperament.
But it's a bit demeaning if you show it around.
However, it was Ruan Jingtian’s company boss at the time who really broke the news. Because he wanted to change jobs to another company, he wanted to break the news if he couldn’t get it or destroy it, so he wanted the media to reveal the news. .
Who knows, the whistleblower is fine, Ruan Jingtian is fine, Liu Pinyan is cold...
It can only be said that the ideas on Baodao are still too old. If they were placed on the mainland in later generations, Liu Pinyan only needed to make a slight move on Xiaohongshu. With this punch, Ruan Jingtian's twenty-year-old skills would be completely wiped out. Not even the bones left after being punched by millions of fairies were left.
Looking at this sunny and cheerful girl, Zhang Yuan sighed and thought...
You can give me a hard time and call me names, and I will take the responsibility.
After walking around Hengdian for a few times with the leading actors, the distance between them quickly narrowed.
After lunch, in the afternoon, the crew made arrangements and was about to start shooting.
“Yinong, what are you looking at?” Li Guoli came to Boss Cai’s side.
"Director Li, look at the one who plays Tang Yu, he has a very good temperament and appearance." Aunt Cai is a very old-looking woman, and she loves the looks of both men and women.
That is, Peng Yuyan is the male protagonist image template that appears most frequently in male Internet articles. It is not a question of whether he is good or bad. He has always been used as an adjective.
Just like Liu Qianqian 20 years after her debut, some people still label themselves as "Little Liu Qianqian", and those are the ones who won the genetic lottery.
Whether he is really handsome or beautiful depends on the opinions of ordinary people. Why is no one calling him Xiao Kunkun?
"Well, he's very good." Director Li looked at it carefully: "We didn't think he was so handsome during the audition."
"Yes." That's what he said , Boss Cai also reacted: "I didn't think there was anything special at the time."
The two of them pondered for a while, and happened to see Zhang Yuan, who was walking with his hands behind his back, mumbling words, and reciting his lines.
"Oh..." Boss Cai smiled hoarsely.
"Director Li, during the audition, not only were the four Baodao people there, but also Zhang Yuan."
"If they stood together, it would look like Peng Yuyan was nothing. It's special."
"It seems..." Director Li nodded, thinking in his mind. Peng Yuyan has it, and Zhang Yuan has it too.
But what Zhang Yuan has, he may not.
"Director Li, if there is no Zhang Yuan and Hu Ge plays Li Xiaoyao, can he hold down Peng Yuyan?" Boss Cai suddenly asked.
Li Guoli lowered his head and thought for a while: "It should be possible, but it must be supported by the plot and the charm of the characters."
"It's not like Zhang Yuan, who can overpower him just by standing up."
"I think so." Boss Cai moved his chin and called Hu Ge, who played the supporting role of Jiang Ming, who had nothing to do because he didn't have many roles, to his side.
"Ge, don't just wander around when you have nothing to do." Boss Cai rolled his eyes at him: "From now on, if you don't have a role, come to the set every day."
"Ah, why?" Hu Gexin I wonder if I can go back to Magic City and eat two bowls of pork ribs and rice cakes during this time.
"Here, Zhang Yuan, who is reciting the lines, have you seen it?"
"Yes." Hu Ge glanced at it, and then the corners of his mouth drooped, feeling uncomfortable in his heart .
Mr. Cai said every day that he wanted to praise me. When signing the contract, he said that he would give me the opportunity to play the male lead in the future.
Ke Cai starred in "Dandelion", and when it came to "Legend of Sword and Fairy", it was obviously a company film, but I was only given a small supporting role.
As the saying goes, a girl who doesn’t want to be an oiran is not a good internet celebrity, and an actor who doesn’t want to be a starring role is not a good artist.
It is normal for Hu Ge to complain about the company.
Boss Cai saw his dissatisfaction and persuaded him: "You are still young, and there will be many opportunities in the future."
"The most important thing now is to study."
"In the next days, you will secretly follow Zhang Yuan and see how he does it."
"Understand him and you will Yes, I learned it all, do you understand?”
Hu Ge nodded in understanding.
Half an hour later, the crew officially started filming.
The first scene is Zhang Yuan.
Now, he has also begun to get used to the role of the protagonist. When he was a supporting role before, he spent more time waiting for scenes than acting, but now it is completely the opposite.
The content of this scene is the daily life of "little gangster" Li Xiaoyao at the beginning of the story.
Under the instruction of Li Guoli, the screenwriters designed the character of Li Xiaoyao to be more down-to-earth than in the game.
The reason for this is to replace the monster-killing upgrades in the game with character and emotional upgrades.
Li Xiaoyao will gradually transform from a little scumbag who flirts with cats and dogs into a generation of heroes who are dedicated to his love.
Therefore, in order to create contrast, it is necessary to strengthen the gangster temperament in the early stage.
In front of an antique shop, two young girls in light floral plain clothes squatted obediently behind several frames of vegetables.
These two are both Baodao actors, and one is Liu Pinyan’s partner Zeng Zhiqiao.
Although they are in the same group, because they are not as good-looking as Liu Pinyan, they can only play a small role with only a few scenes.
The entertainment industry is a place where looks are judged, and no one is exempt from vulgarity.
However, although this actor's acting career was not close, her relationship was much smoother than Liu Pinyan's. Many years later, she married Chen Yiru from Fahrenheit and lived a happy life.
Another newcomer is also a newcomer to Baodao, named Zhang Xinyu.
As soon as the camera opened, it was Zhang Yuan's turn to step forward after finishing his makeup.
According to the setting, Li Xiaoyao was a girl killer in his hometown town, the type who killed randomly in the flowers.
This scene is a scene where two girls are jealous, and Li Xiaoyao resolves it with a few words.
"Okay, okay." Zhang Yuan squatted down between the two of them, and said with a clever evil smile: "Don't be angry, both of you."
As he said that, he held up his hands Not idle either.
First he put his arm on the shoulders of the two girls.
My left hand gently hung on the girl’s face on the left.
The teenage girl's face is as soft as a peeled egg, and her fingers are full of elasticity.
And his right hand flicked slightly on the earlobe of the girl on the right.
"Hehehe..."
These two small actions made the two girls lower their heads involuntarily and chuckled softly.
"From now on, I will make you my concubine."
"I'll seal you as my humble maid."
Listen to this line...it's scumbag.
Director Wu Jingyuan watched from behind the monitor and thought to himself that this guy is really good at it.
Provocative but not obscene.
Although there was physical contact, his hands and feet were very honest, and he was much more disciplined than those greasy middle-aged actors who get fucked for free.
He was also worried that the two Baodao girls couldn't act, so they would "eat chestnuts" in the first scene and would need to keep reshooting.
“Ah, you don’t have a wife?”
“Well, I’ll find a wife first, and then I’ll come to you?”
“Why don’t you marry me!”
“The fortune teller said I have good luck as a husband!”
The two girls turned to look at him and then started arguing.
“Hey, dying after getting rich is the greatest happiness for a man.”
“I just don’t want you two to die.”
“Stuck !” Director Wu showed a satisfied smile: “Take a break and try again later.”
Zhang Yuan ran to the monitor to watch the replay.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Zhang Yuan, you are so good at acting like a shameless slut." Director Wu praised.
“You don’t have a life, do you?”
Hiss!
Zhang Yuan suddenly felt a chill running down his spine. He turned around and found Liu Qianqian looking at him with narrowed eyes.
“Director, you can’t talk nonsense!”
"Be careful, I will sue you for slander."
"He slandered me..."
Zhang Yuan kept waving his finger, pointing at Director Wu, while defending himself.
"I, I acted."
Anyixuan, Liu Pinyan, and the two girls just now shook their heads and said in unison.
"It's not like that."
Zhang Yuan:...
In the corner, Hu Ge followed the boss's instructions and hid in the distance with a small notebook.
Seeing this scene, he understood it and took note of it.
“If you want to play a scumbag, you must first become a scumbag.”
"Mr. Cai, I'm done learning!" (End of Chapter)