Chapter 222 Zhu Yawen's Resurrection

"Move gently, okay!"

"Click! Perfect!"

"Guarantee one more!"

In the studio belonging to "Gravity" in the Huairou Film and Television Base, Gong Li was hanging a wire and skillfully shuttled through the "space station".

Wu Yuan, who was sitting behind the monitor, calmly directed the shooting at each fixed camera position, and accurately captured Gong Li's "space station weightless walking" from multiple angles.

This kind of situation where one actor supports a large number of one-man shows and plays a leading role in the movie is difficult to shoot, and it is easy to say.

It depends on the actor's performance level.

If the performance level is average and you have to perform a lot of one-man shows and inner dramas, it will definitely be a difficult task for the director, and you may only be able to make a little progress in a day.

But if the actor has good acting skills and a thorough understanding of the script, filming will be very easy. Wu Yuan does not need to focus too much on how to guide Gong Li to act well, he only needs to sit behind the monitor and watch her act. If it works, just keep it. If it doesn’t, give me a few pointers and start over.

Under normal circumstances, Gong Li can only NG the same scene twice at most, and the filming can be completed smoothly.

Looking at Gong Li's perfect face on the monitor, Wu Yuan smiled with satisfaction.

The so-called "perfect" does not mean that she is really beautiful and perfect, but that her face is really suitable for the big screen.

In the entertainment industry, there are many types of faces of female stars.

Some people have high-end catfish faces, which are suitable for modeling.

Some people have younger and sweeter faces and are suitable for playing heroines in various idol dramas.

There are also people who are the first love faces of the public. Wu Yuan’s girlfriend is this type and can be the eternal white moonlight in the hearts of countless people.

Gong Li's face, if seen in real life, is a bit too sharp, but in the movie, her face is the most photogenic, a movie face with good bones.

Similar to her, there is International Chapter, who may be too sharp in reality and can find many shortcomings, but on the screen, it is just right and can withstand the close-up after stretching and widening.

How else could they have become Zhang Yimou's mistresses when they were still students?

It is worth mentioning that for the filming of "Gravity" this time, Wu Yuan used a digital camera, which was specially rented from Hollywood.

Six of the most advanced digital cameras at the moment cost US$10,000 a day to rent, six units cost US$60,000, or US$1.8 million a month.

This is still a cheap price. These six machines are all from Fox. Wu Yuan shamelessly got a 50% discount due to his connections. Otherwise, the normal market price is 20,000 US dollars a day for one machine.

For this thing, Fox spent several million dollars to buy it back. It only needs to be rented out for a year or two to repay the money, and the remaining money is pure profit.

If it weren't for the fact that digital cameras have been updated most frequently in the past three to five years, and that technology has grown the fastest, Wu Yuan would have spent the money to buy a few of them if he didn't want to be out of date just a year or two after buying them.

The Light and Shadow Era is not a big company like 20th Century Fox, which can replace a batch of shooting equipment every year or two. He wants to buy the equipment but does not have time to rent it out. He has to use it himself. Replacing a batch every two to three years is too expensive. .

In the short term, Wu Yuan only plans to rent them first. When the level of digital cameras has reached a peak in a few years, he will directly buy a batch for long-term use.

In the evening, the crew called it a day.

After switching to a digital camera, it was indeed a lot more convenient. At least Wu Yuan could check the material directly without having to wait for the film to be developed to see the finished film.

Wu Yuan also checked the materials taken today and prepared to go back to the hotel to rest.

Although the crew was filming in Beijing, for the convenience of commuting, all members of the crew still lived in a hotel in Huairou that provided accommodation services for major crews.

However, when he was about to return to the hotel, a young man who had been waiting outside the studio immediately stopped him.

"Director Li Yang?"

"How did you come?"

Wu Yuan was a little surprised when he looked at Li Yang, who was wearing glasses and looking like a scholar. Shouldn't he be busy with the casting preparations for "Those Years" right now?

"Director Wu, do you have time?" Li Yang asked awkwardly.

Ten minutes later, the two of them sat down in a private room of a coffee shop in Huairou.

After Wu Yuan simply ordered a cup of coffee, he waited quietly for Li Yang to speak, wondering what was wrong with him.

"Director Wu, it's like this." Li Yang thought about it for a moment and then said slowly: "The casting for "Those Years" has almost been completed."

"The male classmates who are best friends in the protagonist's class are played by Shi Xiaolong, Hao Shaowen, Xie Miao and two professional supporting actors from Hong Kong."

"This is the male protagonist."

He was hesitant and couldn't tell who he chose as the leading actor. This made Wu Yuan frown. He had never noticed that Li Yang was such a mother-in-law before?

Under the pressure of Wu Yuan's dissatisfied eyes, Li Yang said hesitantly: "Well, I want to use Zhu Yawen as the male lead. Zhu Yawen's role is very good, and his image is very suitable for Ke Jingteng. He has that A naughty and mischievous spirit."

Wu Yuan's brows were still furrowed, Zhu Yawen.

This is really a familiar name.

Wu Yuan was very impressed by him when he was filming "Your Name".

It's not that his acting is so good that Wu Yuando is amazed, but when he is on the set, as long as there is a scene involving Liu Yifei, Zhu Yawen will definitely be seen.

Anyone who is not a fool can see on the set of "Your Name" that Zhu Yawen has a crush on Liu Yifei.

To be precise, it is not a crush but an open crush. Perhaps only he, the person involved, feels that he has hidden his crush well.

Wu Yuan didn't care before. After all, in his eyes, it was just the spring love between young people.

But now Liu Yifei is Wu Yuan's girlfriend. If Zhu Yawen and Liu Yifei play the male and female protagonists together, wouldn't it disgust him?

However, this matter should only be known by him. Why does Li Yang still look like he is afraid of angering him?

Did Li Yang already know about his relationship with Liu Yifei?

Before Wu Yuan's face changed drastically, Li Yang said, "That. Director Wu, I know that Zhu Yawen's status is a bit different from Liu Yifei."

"Zhu Yawen is indeed not worthy of Liu Yifei. It is a bit unfair for Liu Yifei for him to play the male lead."

Wu Yuan suddenly realized that this was what he meant!

After Liu Yifei starred in "Your Name", she was indeed burdened with achievements that were not suitable for her age, so she could not get a suitable script and crossed over to singing.

After all, you can't find a male actor in the domestic entertainment industry who can play with her, a heroine with a box office of nearly 2 billion.

At the age of 19, she is not as wide-ranging as Gong Li, who can play opposite actors with high status such as Brother Fa and Hua Zai (mainly because she is too young, and it is more than enough for them to play their daughter).

This makes Liu Yifei's current fame very high, but her position in the circle is very awkward, and she can't go up or down, and Li Yang is also struggling with how to arrange her opposite actors.

He said sadly: "But I auditioned a lot of actors the other day, at least among the mainland actors, he is the most suitable."

"If the scope is expanded to the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, Hong Kong's Nicholas Tse and Guanxi Chen are also quite suitable."

"But even if they are both, there is actually a gap between their status and Liu Yifei."

"I think since no matter who is chosen, they are not worthy of Liu Yifei's current status, it is better to use Zhu Yawen, at least he is the most suitable in terms of image."

"And his Mandarin has no accent. Our movie is a mainland campus drama. If we find a Hong Kong actor to play it, we need to do dubbing in the later stage, and the lip movements will not match."

Whether it is Nicholas Tse or Guanxi Chen, their Mandarin is very bad now, and they are at the same level as Zha Zha Hui.

Even if they can do dubbing in the later stage, it is estimated that the lip movements will not be completely matched by then.

For a movie, this is a big flaw, and any director who strives for perfection will be dissatisfied.

In his heart, Li Yang still prefers Zhu Yawen, but Zhu Yawen is the least popular among the three.

Let's not talk about the saying that Hong Kong and Taiwan stars are automatically superior to mainland stars.

In addition to the male second role in "Your Name" with few scenes, Zhu Yawen has only played a movie with a cost of 20 million and a box office failure, and a TV series. Recently, he finished filming "Crossing Guandong". Apart from this, there are no other works.

Nicholas Tse and Guanxi Chen are both walking on two legs, developing in the music and film industry together, and both starred in several popular movies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Their development prospects are better and their popularity is higher.

Li Yang felt that if he stood in the perspective of Wu Yuan, the investor, he would definitely choose Nicholas Tse and Guanxi Chen instead of Zhu Yawen.

But he was wrong again.

Nicholas Tse was okay. Although he was in love with a queen who was much older than him, there was nothing wrong with his artistic ethics. The biggest problem was that he was obsessed with cooking later and had no intention of developing his acting career.

But Mr. Chen is different. Two years later, an XX scandal exploded the entertainment circles in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, and his career was completely destroyed.

This impact is comparable to the bad things that Ke Zhenwu, the original protagonist of Ke Jingteng, did. How could Wu Yuan ask him to play "Those Years".

If you choose between Zhu Yawen and Xie Nicholas Tse to play "Those Years", putting aside personal feelings, but in terms of actor image, there is no doubt that Zhu Yawen is more suitable.

His face has a ruffian look, and now he is still a sunny man. Although he is not a handsome guy at first sight, the more you look at him, the more you like him.

It can be said that he is very similar to the image of the original protagonist in all aspects. Choosing him is the most likely to make "Those Years" successful again.

Wu Yuan also became entangled.

He hesitated for a while, but still did not reply to Li Yang on the spot, "I will go back and think about it. You should prepare other things for the crew first, select the location as soon as possible, and set up the frame."

Out of respect for his girlfriend's ideas, Wu Yuan felt that he should go back and talk to Liu Yifei to see what she thought.

Actually, it's nothing to let Zhu Yawen and Liu Yifei play together. Wu Yuan's version of "Those Years" is a pure love story. Let alone kissing scenes, there are only one or two hugging scenes.

The whole movie is a pure campus youth story. It doesn't spread melodrama or rely on passionate scenes to attract attention. Zhu Yawen can't take advantage.

Moreover, Wu Yuan will go to the crew as a producer for a while. When Zhu Yawen sees his intimate behavior with Liu Yifei, I'm afraid he will be heartbroken first?

Stroking his chin, Wu Yuan began to recall.

By the way, when did Zhu Yawen get together with his future wife?

Ah, such a crucial thing, why can't I remember it!

It's all Zhu Yawen's fault. He has been up and down in the circle for more than ten years but has not become popular. Marketing accounts don't care about his private life!

From the 1st to the 7th, there will be 3 chapters updated every day. 3 days will be normal 3 chapters per day, 3 days will be 3 chapters added for participating in the event with 1500 monthly tickets (one chapter added every day), and the extra chapter on the last day will make up for the missing chapter today (because it is past 12 o'clock)

In short, I will try my best to update, and I will not take a holiday to play