Chapter 126: Filming Completed, Looking for a New Director!

Night, "Your Name" crew dormitory building.

Wu Yuan's coordinating deputy director rented a three-story building in the town as a dormitory for the crew actors.

The environment is indeed a bit difficult, not comparable to hotels, but it also has advantages.

Most hotels these days don't have family suites, that is, suites with kitchens where you can cook your own food.

So you can't think of cooking your own food when you stay in a hotel these days. If you want to cook your own food, you can only use the hotel's back kitchen.

But it's different in this kind of rural residence. They all have their own kitchens and you can cook your own food.

Liu Xiaoli went to the morning market in the town during the day and bought a lot of fresh vegetables and meat produced by farmers. After work, she quickly prepared a table of dishes.

Braised carp, braised tofu with meat, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, stir-fried bacon with garlic sprouts, and a pot of lotus root stew.

Although there is no such thing as a 16-year-old girl dieting to maintain a good figure, this age is when she needs nutrition.

But for the two of them, this table of food is definitely not enough for them to finish in one meal.

"Xixi, go call Yawen and Yangyang down to eat." Liu Xiaoli urged with a rice bowl.

Liu Yifei, who had long been salivating over the table of delicious food, hurriedly trotted upstairs.

"Tap tap tap"

"Yawen, Yangyang, it's time to eat!"

After a burst of footsteps upstairs, Zhu Yawen and Zhou Yang came downstairs one after another.

"Thank you for your hard work, Auntie."

"It's really too embarrassing to trouble Auntie to cook for us every day."

Both of them were a little embarrassed, but their eyes couldn't stop looking at the food on the table.

The dishes cooked by Liu Xiaoli are really delicious. Since they came to Yunnan Province to film, they often eat the food cooked by Liu Xiaoli.

"Hey, you are all classmates, and you are filming a movie together, what's there to be embarrassed about."

Liu Xiaoli set up bowls and chopsticks for them and asked everyone to sit down.

"Come on, come on, sit down and eat while it's hot."

However, when they sat down, Liu Xiaoli deliberately sat between Liu Yifei and Zhu Yawen, separating them.

Zhou Yang sat on the right side of Liu Yifei, covering her mouth and laughing.

With Aunt Liu as the "flower protector", Zhu Yawen had no chance to get close to Liu Yifei.

"Eat, eat."

Everyone picked up their chopsticks and rushed to eat.

They were all young people, with a better appetite than the other. A table of dishes was eaten up in a short time. No matter Zhu Yawen or Zhou Yang, they had no intention of controlling their food intake and ate until they were full.

It can only be said that they are still far from being a real "star".

"Burp~" After a burp, Zhu Yawen complimented, "Auntie, this meal is so delicious. I won't get tired of it even if I eat it every day."

"Yeah." Liu Xiaoli glanced at him and showed an intriguing smile: "Xiao Zhu, you have a nice idea."

"Except for Xixi, even my future son-in-law can't eat the food I cook every day."

Zhu Yawen smiled awkwardly and wanted to change the subject. Unexpectedly, Liu Xiaoli said, "Hey, Xiao Zhu."

"You are acting in Director Wu's After the movie, no agency wants to sign you? "

"Yangyang has an agency looking for her, and they are talking now."

Zhu Yawen was stunned, not knowing why Aunt Liu was concerned about this, but he took the initiative to explain: "Yes."

"An agent from Huayi contacted me and wanted to sign me to Huayi."

"Li Xiaowan from Rong Xinda and Chang Jihong from Beijing have also contacted me, but I haven't decided who to sign yet."

In 2003, the mainland artist agency was not very mature.

At the beginning of the millennium, the agency was very small, and many of them were just bosses with two or three employees working in a narrow office of more than ten square meters.

In the eyes of the crew, the agent was just "a money-grubber" and was extremely unpopular.

At that time, the mainland agency environment was still dominated by the four major agents in Beijing.

Compared with the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles, the mainland actor agency started late, but it coincided with the great development of the mainland film and television industry, and several agency predecessors also had good strength and background.

The four major agents, led by Wang Jinhua, Li Xiaowan, Chang Jihong and Hao Wei, hold half of the agency contracts for mainland actors. ̢̜̳̱͈̹͓͛͜ḩ̷̻̩͍̱̗͔̺̏̓͊̀͂̀ͅṵ̵̙̻͉̦͙̗̥̉̓̓͊̑̂̑x̸͍̘̳͂͊̂̊̀͊̕͘.̷̹̦̆̆c̶͙͈͚̽̄̈̎̒͜ó̶̧̧̝̳̠͇͕̺̲̹̔̈́̃͝͝m̷̗͓̽̂̌̋̃̌

However, this model of agents taking artists to run a single business is about to be replaced by emerging formal agencies.

Wang Jinhua took her artists to cooperate with Huayi Flow, supporting Huayi's agency department.

Li Xiaowan cooperated with the famous film director Li Shaohong to establish Rong Xinda.

In the next few years, Hairun, Xingmei, Xitian, Junwei, Chengtian and other artist agencies were established one after another.

Zhu Yawen, a young man who was still in college, just entered the acting industry when he happened to encounter a period of great changes in the mainland agent industry. He was indeed a little confused and didn't know how to sign an agent.

"It would be great if Director Wu's company signed actors." Zhu Yawen said with some regret.

Liu Xiaoli glared at Zhu Yawen with a bit of amusement. This guy really has a good idea. It is already a very lucky thing to be able to act in Wu Yuan's movie. He also wants to cling to Wu Yuan's thigh. That's really a fantasy.

"Xiao Zhu, you still have to decide about the agency as soon as possible." Liu Xiaoli shook her head and said earnestly: "For actors, it is very important to have an agent to guide you."

"The agent can help you contact for acting appointments, help you get acting, take commercial performances, and appear on TV shows. It can be said that whether an actor develops well depends half on his own efforts and half on the ability of the agent."

"You have taken a very good first step now. You have acted in Director Wu's movie when you debuted. If you have a good agent to help you, I believe you will not lack acting in the future."

"Maybe in three to five years, you will become a big star and actor like Chen Kun."

"Yes, yes." Zhu Yawen nodded timidly, but from his expression, it can be seen that he didn't listen to Liu Xiaoli's words very much.

Seeing this, Liu Xiaoli had to emphasize her tone and said, "Xiao Zhu, don't blame Auntie for being talkative."

"Men should still focus on their careers."

"You are so young, you should work harder in your career now and make yourself better."

"Look at Director Wu, he is only two years older than you, right?"

"He made his first movie in 2000, and it has only been three years, and he has become an international director."

"I read the news, his Hollywood movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" has grossed more than 400 million US dollars worldwide, breaking his own box office record."

"Look at him, his achievements are so great, and I have never seen any scandals about him. He is still very serious about filming in the crew, and all his thoughts are on work every day."

"You should learn more from Director Wu and don't put your mind on meaningless things."

Listening to Liu Xiaoli's words, and watching Liu Yifei's eyes shining and her smile on her face when she heard her mother praise Wu Yuan, Zhu Yawen nodded silently.

Career is hard work.

If only he could be as successful as Director Wu.

So, in the following days of filming, Wu Yuan was pleasantly surprised to find that Zhu Yawen's performance was so good!

Not only did the number of NGs decrease significantly, but he also got into the state very quickly. Every time Wu Yuan said what emotion he wanted, Zhu Yawen could act it out within a few seconds.

This surprised Wu Yuan to the point of doubting that this guy was also reborn?

Twenty years later, Zhu Yawen, who played in "The Glory of the Ming Dynasty", woke up and found himself back to his youthful years of 19 years old, and started his own journey to become an actor in a parallel world?

Fortunately, this was just Wu Yuan's divergent thinking.

After observing for a few days, Wu Yuan could be sure that this guy should have been stimulated by something and suddenly began to work hard.

He actually practiced the scenes to be filmed the next day every night, and practiced until two or three in the morning every time, and then got up at six or seven in the morning the next day to continue practicing.

With this professionalism of rehearsing the scenes more than ten times before each filming, how could he not act well after the filming started?

Although I don’t know what stimulated him, Wu Yuan was still happy to see this and praised him many times without hesitation.

Zhu Yawen’s diligence seemed to have also driven the efficiency of other actors in the crew to get into the role. The scenes of "Your Name" in Yunnan Province were filmed very smoothly and quickly.

Three days earlier than the original plan, on September 28, the crew of "Your Name" successfully finished filming in Yunnan Province.

"Come on, everyone stand up!"

"The middle of the first row squat down!"

"The banner is crooked, Xiao Li raise your hands!"

"Three, two, one!"

"Cheese!"

More than 60 crew members surrounded Wu Yuan, Liu Yifei, Zhu Yawen, Zhou Yang in the middle, and Hu Ge who came specially to shoot the ending scenes, and left a photo of the completion together.

In the photo, Liu Yifei, holding flowers, tilted her head and raised her scissors hand, smiling very brightly.

Standing beside her head was Wu Yuan, who was also looking at the camera with a smile on his face.

"Happy wrap-up!"

At this point, the filming of "Your Name" was completely wrapped up and entered the long post-production phase.

On the night of wrap-up, all members of the crew took a bus to Dali Airport and flew back to Beijing.

Most of the staff and all the actors dispersed on the spot after returning to Beijing, and went back to their homes and mothers.

But Wu Yuan's busy work was not over.

The post-production of "Your Name" this time was more complicated than any other movie he had ever made.

Not only did he have to edit the film, but after the film was edited, he also had to work with the Industrial Light and Magic team to do post-production special effects.

Wu Yuan spent a month editing the film, and then flew to the United States with the film himself.

Unlike the hands-off boss in "Pirates of the Caribbean", this time he had to personally watch the post-production special effects synthesis of this film.

After staying in the United States for another month, inspecting the finished special effects shots rendered in advance by Industrial Light & Magic, and communicating with them about the specific special effects synthesis details, Wu Yuan was relieved to hand over the remaining special effects post-production work to Industrial Light & Magic, and hurriedly flew back to China.

He had to come back!

He still had a bunch of things waiting to be dealt with in China.

Lying in the first-class cabin of the transoceanic flight, Wu Yuan gritted his teeth and swore in his heart.

"I must not be so busy next year!"

If he wants to be less busy, first of all, Wu Yuan needs to find a professional manager who is responsible for the daily work of Light and Shadow Times.

Then, he also needs to find a director who can take over the filming of "The Butterfly Effect"!

Wu Yuan already has an idea of ​​this person in mind!

After sleeping on the plane and landing at Beijing International Airport after flying for more than ten hours, Wu Yuan did not go home. He took a taxi and went straight to a film and television studio called [523studio] in Beijing!

The director he is looking for is here!

I am not feeling well today. I have been dizzy and want to vomit. I really can't write anymore. I only wrote 7,000 words. I will continue to write 10,000 words tomorrow.