Chapter 98: Rise to Fame
Xu Kun went back to discuss with the county. Hearing that he was going to send love dishes to Jingtai, the county leaders couldn’t wait to raise their hands and feet in approval.
So after coordination, when Xu Kun escorted the car to Beijing for the second time, under the leadership of director Liu Heng, he sent several large carts of love vegetables to Beijing and Taiwan, and promised to deliver a batch every three days during the YQ period. Fresh vegetables come over.
This not only relieves the urgent needs of employees in Beijing and Taiwan, but also leaves enough room for Taiwan leaders to send favors.
The result is of course everyone is happy.
The county's "Love Vegetable Convoy" was named and praised by Beijing TV, and "The Young Emperor" was also bought by Beijing TV for the first-round broadcast rights. It will be released on Beijing Satellite TV in September at the latest.
Xu Kun seemed to have gained nothing, but he earned a lot of favors from the county leaders, director Liu Heng, and Beijing and Taiwan.
As the news spread in the entertainment industry, Xu Kun became the fire-fighting captain in the entertainment industry from the beginning of May to the end of June. He was passed on from person to person and from person to person. In the end, even Xu Kun himself didn’t know how much he had given. People in the circle provide food in the snow.
In addition to Jingtai, he also contracted the staff canteen of Renyi, and the specific contacts were Pu Cunxi and Song Xueyi.
And he finally met Mr. Lan Tianye. The old man was said to have an immortal spirit, and he didn't look like a mortal. It's no wonder that he would become the only person in the entire literary and art world to win the national medal of honor in the future.
When the lockdown was gradually lifted at the end of June, the news spread further. Xu Kun's name was almost well-known in the entire Beijing circle. Even if they had never heard of Xu Kun's name, they knew that there was such a young man in the circle who provided food in times of need. .
At the same time, "Conquest" was officially launched on Tianjin Satellite TV on May 10th. Once aired, it received rave reviews. In addition, in the midst of the epidemic, people in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei stayed at home. The ratings were said to be empty. It’s not an exaggeration.
Seeing such popularity, other satellite TV stations also competed for the second-round broadcast rights. From May to the end of September, Conquest almost dominated all the satellite TV stations and became the biggest dark horse in 2003.
Liu Huaqiang's purchase of watermelons has become an unforgettable memory for one generation or even several generations.
Xu Kun's Han Yueping also became popular. His scene of opening a beer in a fancy style in the play also became the object of imitation by countless men, so much so that the bottle opener became a decoration for a time.
The news of an accident due to the fancy beer drinking even appeared on CCTV news.
In the end, when Han Yueping was on trial, his helpless, self-deprecating laughter and the words "if it were changed to Chinese" also aroused a lot of attention and discussion.
Some entertainment newspapers even used this as evidence to conduct a serious analysis, whether it was Han Yueping who betrayed Liu Huaqiang, or Liu Huaqiang first felt sorry for Han Yueping, and then used this to lead to a discussion about whether Liu Huaqiang was a brotherly brother.
Naturally, my hometown was also affected to a certain extent, especially because many people knew that Xu Kun was performing in his true colors.
I don’t know who knows that he lives in Zhang Yong’s house. People come to him every day and want to hang out with him. There is even a big brother from Heng City who braved the epidemic to come to his door and asked how to get on TV and how to become popular.
But the most exciting one has to be Chen Xuebin. He calls all day long to urge Xu Kun to learn some talents, at least to sing Naying's "Conquest" smoothly.
When the epidemic passed at the end of June, Xu Kun immediately started acupuncture for the first time in his life under the arrangement of Chen Xuebin.
Xu Kun originally thought that acupuncture would be a performance for the people in a movie theater or some other stage.
This time I personally participated and found out that little stars mainly rely on congratulations to rich people on their birthdays or various weddings and funerals - ordinary people are very stingy even in cheering in the audience, let alone paying for tickets.
With the reputation of Hengzhou Han Yueping, Xu Kun would go on stage to sing "Conquer" wherever he went. Although this song actually had nothing to do with the TV series, his sponsors recognized it.
If an encore is needed, Xu Kun will sing "Song of a Hero" or "Serve the Country with Loyalty".
In addition to singing, fancy beer opening is also a must-do item.
Because many of the wealthy people who come to "Conquer" are not serious people, so almost every performance before and after, people from society will come to visit, and occasionally they will meet enemies to cause trouble.
An ordinary actor would definitely be trembling with fear, but Xu Kun blended in like a fish in water.
As the saying goes, he can learn martial arts in ten minutes on stage and off the stage. Whether it is a literal mingling or a physical mingling, he is not timid.
In this way, for three months, Xu Kun almost visited the four provinces of Shanhe and Shanhaiguan, and even went outside Shanhaiguan.
The harvest is naturally abundant.
When he left home, his total assets were less than 30,000 yuan - he had spent more than 10,000 yuan on a laptop and another 27,000 yuan on groceries out of his own pocket. Although the county and Zhang Yong said they would reimburse him, he did it just to earn fame. If you are rushing to do something, of course you have to keep public and private matters separate.
By the time he returned to the capital from Northeast China at the end of September, Xu Kun's total assets had soared to 210,000. After excluding all expenses and shares, he had earned 180,000 during this trip, which was almost catching up with the level of money earned by second-rate singers. This shows that " The popularity of "Conquest".
At this time, "Young Emperor" had already aired more than thirty episodes. Because it was first broadcast in Beijing and Taiwan, the popularity was much higher than the original historical line - of course, it was still much worse than "Conquest" and failed to reach the same level. The level of "The Emperor of Han". But the popularity Jidu brought to Xu Kun was no less than that of Han Yueping.
Among the young actors in the play, the most highly regarded is the queen played by Hao Lei, followed by Jidu played by Xu Kun.
Neither of them are positive characters in the play.
The queen's character was bitter, stubborn, and overbearing, and she even single-handedly caused Hua Shuangzi's miscarriage and the death of her fourth elder brother.
Jidu, on the other hand, slaughtered people like pigs and dogs, vividly showing the cold contempt of the Tatar high-ranking officials for the Han people.
Originally, according to Xu Kun's idea, the former could also win some sympathy from the audience through his delicate performance - Hao Lei did indeed perform a classic enough role, especially the half-crazy state in the last episode.
But Xu Kun himself has been trying his best to portray Jidu as a murderous and racist person, and has no intention of whitewashing Jidu.
As a result, after the first round of broadcasting was over, Xu Kun secretly conducted an investigation and found that most of the people who liked Han Yueping were young men, while those who liked Jidu were mostly women.
The sisters didn't see Jidu's coldness at all, they only saw Jidu's coolness.
I even think that Jidu's behavior of raising an army for the sake of his niece and preparing to punish the heartless and scumbag Shunzhi is simply too cool. In the end, the incident was revealed and he died without mercy, which is even more endearing.
"Before he died, Jidu was still thinking about his grandnephew. Not only was he not afraid at all, but there was even light in his eyes. I really want to have an uncle like this - and a boyfriend too!"
After hearing these comments, Xu Kun went back and was silent for a long time, and then called Dazui Elk.
I don't know whether it was unexpected or expected. "Thirteen Princesses", which he initially judged as being extremely weird and with a blind screenwriter, failed to continue the popularity of "Huan Zhu Princess", but it was released in the theaters at the end of May. After it was broadcast on the Magic City Entertainment Channel, the ratings actually ranked among the best.
It even appeared on Dragon TV this month.
This left Xu Kun completely speechless.
It turns out that the audience’s thoughts and tastes are completely different from what he thought!
Originally, he was thinking that once he became famous, he would choose scripts according to his own preferences, but now he felt unsure.
In early October, Gao Qunshu specially held a party. This time, it was not at Jiang Shan's house, and the number of people was much smaller than the previous two times. There were only a few actors with large roles, such as Jiang Shan, Liu Weiwei, Sun Honglei, Li Yixiang and others. .
This time Xu Kun did not shirk.
When he arrived at the banquet, he found that in addition to Jiang Shan and Li Yixiang, Sun Honglei, Shi Zhaoqi, Liu Weiwei, Chen Bing, Zhang Li and others were also like him, both thin and fat.
What is thin is the bones of the body, what is fat is the wallet.
After meeting, Sun Honglei put his arms around Xu Kun's shoulders, narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Okay Kun'er, it's not in vain to follow my brother. I watched "The Young Emperor", and his aura is quite similar to my brother's style."
Xu Kun smiled and did not refute. After all, he had indeed stolen from Sun Honglei.
"But that look in your eyes at the end..."
Sun Honglei's expression became more serious. As the saying goes, a layman can watch the excitement, and an expert can watch the door. When he was watching TV, he keenly discovered that Xu Kun seemed to have been trying to adjust his eyes.
Especially the scene where he goes to his death at the end, it looks like there is light in his eyes.
Xu Kun smiled and said, "I met two seniors on the set and taught them step by step."
"Then you are very lucky."
As Sun Honglei spoke, he patted Xu Kun on the shoulder again. Although he was smiling on the surface, he was secretly on guard.
Xu Kun's progress was a little faster than he expected. While constantly expanding his acting career, he also earned a lot of favors by delivering food when needed.
Don't wait until then...
But thinking about Liu Huaqiang's popularity, Sun Honglei quickly felt relieved. It was still too early for Xu Kun to surpass him.
(End of chapter)