Chapter 25 Loyalty
After listening to Xu Kun’s words, Li Yang couldn’t help but fell into deep thought.
In fact, the novel also describes the plot of Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming, who each took the money obtained from murder fraud and went home to celebrate the New Year like ordinary workers. Naturally, their wives and children also appeared.
But in order to make the whole script more compact, Li Yang deleted this part of the plot from the movie script, which made the two people's family only exist on the phone and chatting.
Song Jinming's son who did not appear still played an extremely important role in the play; but Tang Chaoyang's son became a dispensable symbol because of this change.
At that time, Li Yang just continued the settings in the book, so he didn't feel anything was wrong.
But now, following Xu Kun's thinking, I found that changing Tang Chaoyang to a bachelor will indeed make the two later turn against each other, which makes it more reasonable, and it will not affect the context of the entire story.
After going through the plot again according to this logic, Li Yang looked up at Xu Kun. The script could be changed, but could the young man in front of him really be able to hold up this role?
After hesitating for a moment, he tentatively said: "Xiao Xu, I heard that you are very good at playing the villain, and you are also nicknamed the killing machine, but I think your face is quite kind, isn't it?"
The show is here!
Xu Kun raised his eyebrows and sneered at the corner of his mouth: "You can take a look again."
The move with a sneer at the corner of his mouth is the latest result of his hard work over the past few months. The curvature and angle are just right, which can set off the ferocity of the four white eyes without appearing to be deliberately exaggerated.
This sudden face-to-face opening made Li Yang startled.
Xu Kun lowered the corners of his eyes again and returned to his harmless look. He chuckled and said, "Do you think my conditions are consistent with Tang Chaoyang's image of a smiling tiger?"
In the play, Song Jinming deliberately played a bad role in front of Yuan Fengming in order to scare Yuan Fengming away, while Tang Chaoyang always pretended to be a good person in front of Yuan Fengming, and only revealed his ruthless nature behind his back.
Xu Kun's two faces that can switch freely are indeed in line with Tang Chaoyang's image in the play.
The balance in Li Yang's mind has already tilted, and he carefully observed Xu Kun's face. Because the eye sockets are relatively deep, Xu Kun's facial features have a three-dimensional look, which is commonly known in the industry as a movie face.
The weight is heavier this time.
However, after learning about Xu Kun's specific situation, Li Yang once again had hesitation. Although Xu Kun's resume was more impressive than Bao Qiang's, he had only been in the industry for more than three months.
This is too short. If it had been two and a half years, he would have made the decision on the spot.
Bang~
At this time Baoqiang suddenly slapped his hand on the table and hissed: "If Brother Kun can't go, I won't act anymore!"
Just looking at his baby face that has become distorted and inhuman, you can tell how difficult it was for him to make this decision.
"What nonsense!"
Xu Kun hurriedly scolded: "You are sick, what does it have to do with you whether I act or not?!"
He was very aware of the price Baoqiang had to pay in order to realize his dream. He was huddled in the basement with seven people, eating steamed buns after a hungry meal, struggling on the construction site in the cold and summer, forcing himself to go. To please the crowd leaders, I broke my head several times while doing martial arts...
After suffering like this for two and a half years with ridicule and supercilious looks, Xu Kun finally saw the light of day. If he were to lose this opportunity to make a comeback because of himself, Xu Kun would feel that he would be shameless in the future.
But Baoqiang held his neck and said stubbornly: "Brother Kun, I have thought about it. If it weren't for you, I might have given up. Besides, you have helped me so much..."
"What are you talking about!"
Xu Kun grabbed Bao Qiang by the collar: "How can I die without this role?! You play your leading actor well, I can handle my own affairs!"
"But……"
"Two, two!"
Li Yang reacted at this time and hurriedly raised his arms to persuade: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, I didn't say you don't need Xiao Xu!"
Hearing this, Bao Qiang was overjoyed: "Really, director, you agreed to let Brother Kun play Tang Chaoyang?!"
Li Yang hesitated for a moment, then nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, Xiao Xu's script has been revised well, and the image is consistent with it. If nothing else, this role will be his."
As he said that, he became serious again: "But I have to say the ugly things first. You two will definitely go to the mine by then, and you may encounter some dangers. If you are worried about this..."
"Director, don't worry, as long as I can play the leading role, I'm not afraid of anything!"
Wang Baoqiang was the first to express his position by patting his chest. Xu Kun also smiled and said: "I am not looking for death, but I am not afraid of death either."
So these two roles were initially finalized.
However, Li Yang was still a little worried after all, and suggested that before going to Shanxi to film, the actor who plays Song Jinming, and the only one of the three protagonists who has a professional background, Li Yixiang, could help the two of them figure out their respective roles.
To put it bluntly, I just want Li Yixiang to lead them first.
In addition, Li Yang is also planning to modify some details in the play according to Xu Kun's ideas.
For example, because Tang Chaoyang was a few years older than Song Jinming and had more subjective initiative, Tang Chaoyang was the dominant one among the two.
Now that Tang Chaoyang has become a young man in his twenties, Song Jinming should be the leader of the gang.
This can also add another hidden line: relying on his youth and strength, Tang Chaoyang always challenged Song Jinming's dominant position intentionally or unintentionally. In order to maintain his dominant position, Song Jinming only had compassion for Yuan Fengming. You can bite the bullet and continue to advance the plan of killing people and defrauding insurance companies.
Needless to say, after adjusting along this line of thinking, the script seems to be more reasonable, but I don’t know if I can get the effect I want.
The meal lasted until half past ten.
They made an appointment to introduce Li Yixiang to the two of them the next day, so Li Yang took a taxi and left first.
Because this place was not far from the rental house, Xu Kun and Baoqiang chose to go back on their own as usual.
On the way, Xu Kun rubbed Bao Qiang's short, rough hair and scolded him for threatening Li Yang with quitting the show.
"Are you stupid? When you become famous for acting in movies, why don't you just give me a hand? If you threaten people with quitting the show, if Director Li doesn't do this, won't we be in vain?!"
Bao Qiang said with a naive smile: "I didn't think much about it at the time."
"You boy!"
Xu Kun rubbed it hard again, complaining on his lips, but feeling warm in his heart. Ever since his grandfather passed away when he was twelve years old, Brother Yong had given him the same feeling as a family member.
Now there is another Wang Baoqiang.
If he and Baoqiang were still somewhat utilitarian before, now they really hope that Baoqiang can embark on the road to realizing his dream as soon as possible.
"Right."
When he was approaching the rental house, Xu Kun suddenly thought of a question: "Why do you say 'I' in every sentence today?"
It's understandable that he spoke in a local accent when he was excited at first, but now that he's almost home, it's a bit strange that Bao Qiang still says "忺俺庺".
This kid was obviously still talking Mandarin two days ago.
"I don't want to enter the role in advance."
Baoqiang said with some pride: "When I heard at Beijing Film Studio that the director was looking for country people, I quietly changed my accent back."
"You boy!"
After getting along for a long time, Xu Kun had already seen that Bao Qiang was actually a smart person. This smartness was hidden under his naive appearance, and he seemed to be pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.
The two of them returned to the yard talking and laughing, and saw the young man next door drinking wine under the persimmon tree. The rental house with the door open was empty.
Sure enough, Boss Lin got it right.
Xu Kun took out a few bottles of beer from the house and sat down opposite him with Baoqiang. He didn't say a word and just drank with the civil engineer until he was drunk.
Carrying the civil engineering boy back into the house, Xu Kun used pillows and quilts to fix him in a side-lying position to prevent him from choking to death in the middle of the night.
Seeing that the civil engineering boy was still shouting "Swallow" in a daze, Xu Kun couldn't help but shake his head secretly. The character design he had remade for Tang Chaoyang actually contained part of his true thoughts.
It's not that he doesn't want to get married and have children, the main reason is that he wants to live happily for a few more years and at least wait until he is 35 before getting married and having children - there are so many beauties in the entertainment industry, he has to experience more while he is young, right?
(End of this chapter)