Chapter 122: Decide on the Angle, Scout the Location, and Start Filming!

Hu Ge gave Wu Yuan a big surprise.

His cross-dressing performance was really spot-on.

In Wu Yuan's version of "Your Name", the male protagonist has more cross-dressing plots than the female protagonist, which is actually the case in the original version.

Because the male protagonist has a line where the female protagonist helps the male protagonist to pursue the college student senior in the restaurant, so the male protagonist has a lot of cross-dressing plots.

On the female protagonist's side, the cross-dressing content is mostly fragmented, such as touching her own breasts, sitting in a wild posture, playing basketball with boys, etc.

There are not many coherent and story-telling cross-dressing plots.

The story line of the female protagonist is mainly her own story.

Although Wu Yuan made a big change to the temple line, he changed the so-called "Kami-Kami" and "Spirit-Inducing" and other things that are very Japanese in culture.

But the heroine's story line is still very rich, including her life in a small country town, her crush on her male classmate, her wavering mood between wanting to live in a big city and inheriting the family business, her emotional conflicts with her father, her feelings with her grandmother, etc.

It is precisely because of the focus on the heroine's life and the peaceful and serene town that the plot of the meteorite destroying the town later makes the audience feel distressed and unwilling to see it, thus making the plot of the hero crossing time and space to save the heroine and the town meaningful and valuable.

Only by letting the audience understand this paradise-like town, the heroine's life, her friends, relatives, and simple townspeople, and letting the audience fall in love with this paradise, can the audience's emotions be disappointed after it is revealed that all this has been destroyed.

Wu Yuan, who has been a director in his dreams for so many years and has watched so many classic movies, has a deep self-understanding of the script structure and knows how a movie can "up and down" to attract the audience's emotions.

Therefore, the heroine's storyline, like the original "Your Name", is mostly about her own life, not the hero's soul.

In comparison, nearly half of the hero's scenes are about cross-dressing, and he has to play some stories with the restaurant's female senior as the heroine.

Hu Ge's ability to perform cross-dressing well will naturally make Wu Yuan very satisfied with him.

After the two finished the audition, Wu Yuan immediately asked curiously: "Have you practiced cross-dressing?"

"It doesn't look like this is your first time playing a female role."

Hu Ge scratched his head and said honestly: "In school, teachers teach how to liberate nature, and one of the methods is to play more female roles."

"The teacher said that for a new actor, it is embarrassing and difficult to let go for a man to play a woman."

"If you can let go completely and act as a woman, then you have liberated your nature."

For actors, the so-called liberation of nature is to lose face.

Beijing Film Academy actors teach students to liberate their nature by asking them to play animals, such as imitating the "quack quack" of frogs and the movements of toads, and they have to do it in front of the whole class.

Is this behavior embarrassing?

It is definitely embarrassing, especially for female students.

But after embarrassing themselves, most of the students just gave up, and there was no pressure to play some clown roles anymore, and their nature was liberated.

The reason why teachers at Shanghai Theatre Academy asked students to play cross-dressing roles was the same.

For a grown man, pretending to be a woman in front of his classmates is very shameful and embarrassing. If you can do this and accept it calmly, then you have liberated your nature.

"I think it's interesting to play the role of a girl, so I have observed some female classmates in private and tried to imitate their expressions and movements."

Hu Ge smiled innocently: "I didn't expect it to be used now.

Hey, this kid is really lucky to run into it.

Wu Yuan laughed and shook his head: "The acting is good, and Yuan Hong is also a good partner."

"You two should go back to the reception room and wait for notification."

Cai Yinong, who knew the inside story, said to the two of them with great satisfaction: "Go. ”

Watching the two leave the audition room, it was Sun Li's solo show next.

Wu Yuan didn't have high expectations for her.

In fact, Sun Li's performance was just as he thought.

Her acting skills were really good, and she could show the expressions and states she should show.

But who can blame Sun Li for having a face like a little girl? She really doesn't have the charm of a "charming girl".

Some roles really need people with a specific image to play.

Cai Yinong also felt that Wu Yuan was not satisfied with Sun Li. After her performance, he waved and let her leave first.

"Director Wu, the actors have finished their auditions, so I will go back to the reception room first?"

As a smart person, Cai Yinong did not take the initiative to ask Wu Yuan whether he had decided on Hu Ge as the male lead, even though she heard Wu Yuan muttering "It's just the two of them."

"Well, by the way, help me call Liu Yifei and her classmates. "

"Okay. "

Cai Yinong pushed the door and left the audition room.

A few minutes later, Luo Jin, Zhu Yawen, Zhou Yang, Cao Zheng, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli walked into the audition room together.

Only Liu Yifei brought her family, mainly because she was under 18 years old, and she needed a guardian to sign the contract, and her mother was her agent.

The other students were not only over 18 years old, but also had no company and no agent to bring them, so they came to the audition with their legs drooping.

After his eyes stayed on Zhu Yawen's face for a while, Wu Yuan nodded to them.

"Come and get the audition scripts."

According to different roles, Wu Yuan distributed the scripts to the people.

Liu Yifei auditioned for the female lead, Zhu Yawen auditioned for the male lead, Luo Jin auditioned for the male lead's classmate Xiao Zhang, Cao Zheng auditioned for the male lead's other classmate Xiao Wei, and Zhou Yang auditioned for the female lead's classmate, childhood friend Xiao Wei.

They were all very familiar with each other, and after getting the scripts, they split into two sides and started to act.

The scripts that Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, and Cao Zheng got were the same plot as Hu Ge and the others before, and it was precisely because of the sameness that Wu Yuan could make a comparison.

Zhou Yang and Liu Yifei got a plot of two people talking on the way to school.

In addition, Liu Yifei also had to audition for a cross-dressing scene.

Although her role is not much, and it is quite fragmented, she still needs to be relaxed to perform well. Wu Yuan still needs to watch her try it out in person to feel assured.

Wu Yuan also gave both groups of actors fifteen minutes to prepare, and then started the audition.

The first group to go on stage was Zhu Yawen. He was very excited to get the male lead's script. He carefully studied it and wanted to win the role with the determination to win.

However, his performance disappointed Wu Yuan a little.

Zhu Yawen really let go, without any pretense, and tried his best to act as a woman.

But his performance was too heavy.

It gave people a feeling that this was a man playing a woman at first glance, instead of really thinking that he was a girl.

In fact, Wu Yuan had given him some advice.

When rehearsing the drama before, he talked with Zhu Yawen. In his new movie, the male lead and the female lead exchanged bodies, so he had to perform a scene where the body was a man but the soul was a woman.

If he wants to win this role, he has to learn how to play the role of a girl.

Zhu Yawen also followed Wu Yuan's request and observed and imitated the movements and expressions of some female classmates in school.

But perhaps because Hu Ge has been studying this aspect longer than Zhu Yawen, the Shanghai Theatre Academy arranged for male students to practice the liberation of their nature by playing the role of a girl, which was indeed a good thing.

This made Hu Ge's performance more and more faint because he practiced more, and his sense of substitution became better and better, which made him act better.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Xiao Zhu, it's not that I don't give you a chance." Wu Yuan sighed in his heart.

It seems that Zhu Yawen not only has a crush on Liu Yifei in life, but also continues to have a crush on her in the movie this time.

After Zhu Yawen's group audition, Wu Yuan was silent for a long time, and hesitantly took out another script from the drawer.

To be honest, Wu Yuan didn't want to give this role to Zhu Yawen.

After Wu Yuan found that Zhu Yawen looked at Liu Yifei with a strange look in her eyes during the last drama performance, he seriously recalled some details that he had not noticed during the previous rehearsal.

For example, Zhu Yawen's excessive enthusiasm and care for Liu Yifei, some subconscious protective actions, and careful behavior.

In the past, Wu Yuan just thought that this was normal help between classmates, but after discovering that Zhu Yawen was wrong, Wu Yuan understood that he had been trapped for a long time!

But Wu Yuan could also see that whether it was during the rehearsal of the drama or when they were together privately, Liu Yifei deliberately kept a distance from Zhu Yawen.

This was at most a one-sided love, and Liu Yifei's feelings for Zhu Yawen did not exceed the boundaries of classmate friendship.

It would be fine if he played the male lead. Most of the scenes of the male lead in "Your Name" had to be filmed in Beijing, while the scenes of the female lead had to be filmed in a small mountain town in the southwestern province of China.

The two only acted together in the last three or five scenes, and there were not many opportunities to be together.

In fact, he didn't have many opportunities to act with Liu Yifei, and they didn't spend much time together.

But the role of the female lead's classmate was different. Basically, the scenes he appeared in were with the female lead.

This character also has a crush on the female lead!

If Zhu Yawen were to play a role that has a crush on Liu Yifei again, Wu Yuan was afraid that he would really be unable to get out of the role and would get deeper and deeper into it.

Wu Yuan glanced at Liu Xiaoli, who was standing next to Liu Yifei and quietly watching her and Zhou Yang acting together, with a guilty conscience.

If Zhu Yawen got impulsive and did something out of line in the crew, he didn't know how it would end.

But seeing Zhu Yawen's hopeful eyes and thinking about how he had been working hard in the past few months to get the qualification to audition for Wu Yuan's new movie, Wu Yuan softened his heart and handed him the script.

"Try this role again."

Facts have proved that the directors of "Crossing Guandong" and "Red Sorghum" had good vision, and Wu Yuan's vision was also right.

Zhu Yawen played this kind of sunny dog.

That was so lifelike.

What is a true-to-life performance!

The heroine's classmate, a mysterious mechanical geek, has complicated feelings for his father who works in the local construction industry, and is very concerned about the heroine's affairs.

Except for the father part, the other descriptions are simply Zhu Yawen himself!

Zhu Yawen also likes machinery, or most men have a mechanical fetish.

That's it.

After watching Zhu Yawen try this role, Wu Yuan no longer hesitated and chose him!

In addition to him, Luo Jin, Cao Zheng, and Zhou Yang are also no problem and can be competent for their respective roles.

And the most important heroine Liu Yifei did not disappoint Wu Yuan's expectations. The 16-year-old Luo Sanye was fully capable of playing the role in her true colors.

She was also able to let go of the male protagonist Lin Wenjie. Although she looked a little funny sitting on the chair with her legs crossed, she did not act out of place.

Wu Yuan's half-year special training was still very effective.

"Director Wu, can I act well?" After the audition, Liu Yifei blinked her big eyes and asked nervously.

"Not bad." Wu Yuan nodded with a smile and looked around. Every actor was looking at him nervously.

"You all passed. Let's go to the next office to sign the contract later."

"Ahhhhhhh!" Liu Yifei jumped up and hugged Liu Xiaoli: "Mom! I'm going to play the heroine of Director Wu's movie!"

"Yeah, our Xixi is great!" Liu Xiaoli caressed the back of Liu Yifei's head lovingly and looked at Wu Yuan with gratitude.

She observed Wu Yuan for a long time today, and did not find anything special about Liu Yifei. He did not look at her frequently, nor did he treat her specially.

This made Liu Xiaoli feel relieved. It seemed that Wu Yuan did not have any thoughts about his daughter.

It was not Liu Xiaoli's fault for thinking too much. With the booming development of the mainland entertainment industry in the 1990s, there were many dirty things in this circle.

There were many directors and producers who liked to use unspoken rules.

Although Wu Yuan was very young, handsome, and successful, it did not mean that Liu Xiaoli was willing to let her daughter accept his unspoken rules for the heroine of his movie.

Fortunately, it now seems that she misunderstood.

Liu Xiaoli's love for her daughter finally let go.

"Okay, you go to the next door to sign the contract first. I have other actors to audition." Wu Yuan waved his hand and drove the group of young people out without any hesitation.

Next, he tried Chen Hao. The actress who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama was indeed amazing. She could play a popular person, and it was a piece of cake for her to play a big sister who could stun high school students.

What troubled Wu Yuan the most was the heroine's sister Siye.

The news that Wu Yuan needed a 10-year-old girl to star in his new movie was indeed spread throughout the Beijing circle.

Many young actors came to audition today, most of whom were children of employees of Beijing Film Studio or China Film, Youth Studio, and Beijing Dubbing Studio.

Ten-year-old girls are indeed very cute, but if you say they have good acting skills, that's nonsense.

Wu Yuan met more than a dozen in a row. Except for their different looks, their acting skills were almost the same, and there was no difference between high and low.

This made him choose one from them, and he had some difficulty in choosing.

It seemed that anyone could be chosen, but it also seemed that no one could be chosen.

Until a little girl named Yang Ni'ao appeared, he cured his choice difficulty.

Yang Ni'ao's mother is a voice actor. Through her friends, she learned that Wu Yuan was short of a young actor, so she brought her daughter to the audition.

Although her daughter is young and hasn't even turned 11 yet, she has already acted in "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang".

But this is not the point. The point is that Wu Yuan knows this little girl named Yang Ni'ao.

A year later, this little girl will play the role of Xiaoxue in "Home with Kids" and change her stage name.

Yes, her stage name is Yang Zi!

When Wu Yuan didn't know the other young actors who came to audition, he saw that Yang Ni'ao also came to audition, so Wu Yuan would definitely choose her.

Anyway, none of them have acting skills, so why not choose someone he knows.

In this way, after deciding that Yang Ni'ao would play Siye, all the roles in "Your Name" were decided.

When the actors were confirmed and the contracts were signed, Wu Yuan sent them all the scripts, and then set off again and left the capital.

Wu Yuan's assistant director had already taken his orders to scout locations in several southwestern provinces of China a month ago.

According to the script of "Your Name", the town where the heroine lives needs to be in a beautiful mountain basin, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and preferably with a large lake.

This will make it easier to handle the special effects of the meteorite falling in the later stage, and the town surrounded by mountains and water is indeed beautiful.

Fortunately, China is vast and rich in resources, and all kinds of scenery can be found.

Wu Yuan's assistant director quickly found a suitable location in Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, and Guizhou Province, and Wu Yuan had to make the decision himself.

Wu Yuan did go there in person, and after visiting three towns with different styles, he finally chose a town in Yunnan Province.

This town is right next to Erhai Lake and surrounded by Cangshan Mountain. Half of the town is at the foot of the mountain and half of the town is on the mountainside, which is very consistent with his memory of the heroine's town in "Your Name".

After deciding on this location, Wu Yuan applied for a filming permit from the General Administration and asked the assistant director to discuss filming matters with the local government.

For a big director like Wu Yuan, no matter where he wants to shoot, the local government will definitely give him the green light. All the procedures that seem very cumbersome to others were quickly and smoothly handled.

On August 10, Wu Yuan rushed back to Beijing.

All the preparations before the start of filming have been completed, and the crew of nearly 80 people has also been fully in place.

Taking advantage of the fact that the summer vacation has not yet ended, Wu Yuan directly booked a hotel in Beijing and summoned all the actors to join the group.

There were still no superstitious rituals such as beheading the chicken or lifting the red cloth. After Wu Yuan asked the coordinator to give everyone in the crew a red envelope of 50 yuan, "Your Name" officially started filming!

The first scene of the crew was arranged in a coffee shop in Dongcheng, Beijing.

This scene is the plot after the male protagonist Lin Wenjie and the female protagonist Luo Sanye exchanged bodies for the first time.

Sanye, who thought she was dreaming, came to the coffee shop she had always wanted to go but had never been to, and felt novel about everything here.

How to perform the contrast between the yearning of a country girl for the big city and the "high prices" after actually seeing the big city is a test for Hu Ge.

He sat at a table in the middle of the coffee shop with Yuan Hong and Luo Jin, waiting for the start order with some nervousness and expectation.

Behind the monitor in the corner of the coffee shop, Wu Yuan sat lazily in the director's chair, looking at Liu Yifei standing next to him with some doubts.

"Xixi, you don't have a scene today, why are you here?"

"Brother, didn't you tell me that when we are on the crew, we should follow the crew even when we don't have a scene, and actively observe and learn the shooting experience and skills of other actors."

Liu Yifei stared at Wu Yuan with her big eyes, her eyes were pure, as if saying "I'm a puppy if I lie to you."

Glancing at Liu Xiaoli who was standing with the stage managers not far away, Wu Yuan rubbed the root of his nose.

"Okay, I said it."

No longer entangled with this, Wu Yuan picked up the intercom and shouted: "All units get ready!"

"One scene, one shot, one time!"

"Action!"

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