Chapter 651: You as a Teenager

After lunch the next day, Gu and Wei finished the recording and left from the [Mushroom House].

"Zifeng, are you filming recently?"

As he was walking out of the town in the show crew's car, Gu Wei turned around and asked.

"No, in March I joined the team to shoot a movie, "Hello, Zhihua" starring Teacher Zhou Xun and Teacher Qin Hao.

After finishing the role, I went back to school.

I came to record this show because the TV series I filmed with Peng Peng is about to be released."

"How old are you Zifeng?"

Liu Yifei, who was sitting next to her, asked curiously.

"17 years old."

"Oh my god, you're only 17!"

Liu Yifei knew that Zhang Zifeng was relatively young, but she was still surprised to hear her age.

"Isn't that why you're still in middle school?"

Zhang Zifeng nodded slightly and replied with a smile, "There is still one month left for summer vacation, and I will be a sophomore in high school in the second half of the year."

"Zifeng, like you, started filming at a very young age. Even though she is not yet an adult, she has been acting longer than me!" Gu Wei added.

"real?

The first drama you debuted was probably "Xiu Chun Knife" with me. I remember it was in 2012.

Zifeng is only 11 years old in 12 years!"

Liu Yifei was a little surprised.

"You said it too late.

Zifeng's first movie was probably "Tangshan Earthquake" directed by Feng Xiaogang. How old were you when you filmed that movie? "

"That movie was filmed in 2009, when I was 8 years old."

“In other words, it’s been 9 years since I debuted. It’s really early to become famous.

Which school are you going to go to for the college entrance examination in the future, Beijing Film Academy or China Theater Academy? "

With Zhang Zifeng's reputation and acting skills, it is certain that she will enter the three major film and television schools in the future. There is a high probability that she will not choose to go to the drama school. It is said to be one of the top three in the country, but it is actually a little worse than Beijing Film and Television Film and Television.

It is said that Chinese opera produces actors and Beijing Film Academy produces stars. This is indeed true. In terms of acting professionalism, Chinese opera is more strict than Beijing Film Academy. Many big names in acting are from Chinese opera.

But in terms of overall strength, Beijing Film Academy is the number one film and television school in China. Not only has the acting department produced many stars, but the directing department has also produced many well-known directors.

"I want to go to Beijing Film Academy!"

Zhang Zifeng answered without hesitation. It seemed that she had already thought about this question.

"Haha, it's pretty good. With your current acting skills, it doesn't really make much difference whether you go to Beijing Film Academy or China Theater Academy.

You and I, Sister Fei, both graduated from Beijing Film Academy, and we will be alumni when you pass the exam."

The three of them chatted in the car and finally separated at the airport.

"I'm leaving, Zifeng. See you next time."

"Brother Wei, when will I have the opportunity to work with you again?" Zhang Zifeng had been holding back in front of the camera while recording "Longing for Life". Now that they are about to be separated, she finally expressed her inner thoughts.

"You are so young, there will be many filming opportunities in the future. Maybe we can cooperate when there is a suitable opportunity. Don't worry, go back and study hard." Gu Wei smiled and rubbed Zhang Zifeng's head.

She and Zhao Jinmai, the little girl Gu Wei who worked with them, regarded them as younger sisters.

"Then don't forget me when you have the right opportunity."

"Don't worry, our Zi Feng is so good at acting, we will definitely not forget you!"

After speaking, Gu Wei looked at Liu Yifei again.

"Sissi, see you in a few days!"

As the release date of the movie approaches, various press conferences and road shows require the two of them to promote together, so there will be no shortage of opportunities to meet during this period.

"Are you really not calling me sister now?" Ever since the filming of "Cohabitation in Time and Space", Gu Wei has always called Liu Yifei "Qianxi", even if they had just recorded "Longing for Life", it turned out that he They all call her "Sister Yifei" very politely.

Gu Wei touched his nose.

"We have such a good relationship, so don't worry about these details."

Zhang Zifeng and Liu Yifei were both going back to the capital, while Gu Wei flew to the mountain city.

[Young You] has been turned on, and we are waiting for the male protagonist Gu Wei to join the cast.

The mountain city is built on the mountain and lives by the water. The so-called 8D Magic Landscape City is naturally three-dimensional, very suitable for composition and very beautiful. Many photographers have taken good photos here, and the shots in many movies look like it. Very beautiful.

From "Crazy Stone" to "Hot Pot Hero" and "Passing Through Your World", mountain cities are the cities preferred by film directors.

Zeng Guoxiang undoubtedly also took a fancy to this place.

There are many large overpasses, high-rise buildings, and small alleys in the mountain city, which is like a maze.

Putting the characters here gives you a feeling of being unable to escape from this place, which is very helpful for the movie to present the inescapable melancholy of adolescence. It is the most suitable shooting location for "Young You".

When Gu Wei arrived, the crew was holding a meeting, and several other main creators had already arrived in advance. They basically joined the set a few days or even more than a week in advance to adapt to the environment.

"Director Zeng, I'm sorry, I have a lot of trivial matters and I'm a little late."

"The crew has just started filming, and Mr. Gu arrived at the right time." After Gu Wei entered, Zeng Guoxiang stood up from his seat and shook hands with him, with a smile on his face.

Tsang Kwok-cheung is currently one of the most promising directors of the new generation in Hong Kong. He has a strong background and is capable. His last film "July and Ansheng" was well received, and he won two Golden Horse Award winners. He is currently in the limelight.

However, none of the works he directed before were too blockbuster. Even "July and Ansheng" only had a box office of 160 million. Of course, this result is quite good for a feature film, but considering the current scale of the mainland film market Look, this box office is far from a big hit.

He is not a director who is good at making commercial films, but this time he is able to work with Gu Wei, who is known as the box office king in the circle, and he is extremely confident in "Better Days".

When the project of this film was launched, the producers were [Good Baby Production Company] and [Paipai Culture Media], which he and producer Xu Yuezhen controlled.

In order to attract Gu Wei to join the game, the two major producers and other co-producers together gave 40% of the investment share to [Wei Ming Tianxia]. In this way, [Wei Ming Tianxia], which joined later, became the largest investor in "Better Days".

Gu Wei, the leading actor, also became one of the people with the most say in the movie, and he was also named as the producer and supervisor.

Of course, this is not to make wedding clothes for Gu Wei. In fact, the combined investment share of [Good Baby Production Company] and [Paipai Culture Media] is still the largest, and the control of the filming is still in the hands of him and producer Xu Yuezhen.

Paying such a high price to attract Gu Wei to join the team is mainly to make the cake bigger.

No matter how much a film practitioner loves art, the ultimate goal of making a film is to make money. In the current domestic film industry, movies starring Gu Wei basically mean big box office sales.

Over the years, as Gu Wei's movies have sold out one after another, many people in the industry have analyzed the reasons why he has such a high box office appeal.

First of all, Gu Wei is the only top-tier star in the domestic entertainment industry. His fan base is very large, which is unmatched by other stars. As a traffic star standing at the top position, no matter what kind of movie he shoots, fan behavior will bring a wave of stable box office sales.

This situation will also happen to other traffic stars, but their fan base and appeal are far less than Gu Wei.

Secondly, every movie has sold well in recent years, and almost no bad movies have been made, which has allowed Gu Wei himself to accumulate a good reputation. Among the largest number of passers-by, his appeal is very strong. As long as a new movie is released, everyone will think about going to see it.

Finally, his popularity has always been very high. Every time a new movie is released, there is no lack of publicity. And because of the successive successes, the theaters also believe in him very much, so the movies he starred in are almost never worried about scheduling.

Only with positive superposition in many aspects can Gu Wei continue to be successful.

As long as he does not commit suicide and does not continue to star in bad movies to ruin his reputation, his title of box office king will continue.

Therefore, even if it costs a huge price, whether it is the producer Xu Yuezhen or Zeng Guoxiang himself, as well as other producers, they are very welcome to Gu Wei's joining.

They look forward to Gu Wei's magical role again, so that the drama "Better Days" can also have a high box office.

Originally, when "Better Days" was established, the planned investment was 50 million, which was a low-cost movie.

This is actually normal, after all, it is a literary drama, just like Zeng Guoxiang's previous movie "July and Ansheng", the total investment was only 30 million, and the final box office was 160 million. The producer's income was about 60 million, with a profit of 30 million.

In terms of subject matter, this "Better Days" is actually not much different from "Soulmate". Before filming, everyone thought that the final box office performance of the movie would most likely exceed "Soulmate", but it would only be around 200-300 million.

Now that Gu Wei has joined, because of his salary and the producer's increase in the cost of post-promotion, the budget of "Better Days" has soared to 120 million yuan, and the cost has more than doubled.

However, the various investors are not worried at all. On the contrary, they are very much looking forward to the performance of this movie after its release.

Even director Zeng Guoxiang is more confident. The "Left Ear" that Gu Wei filmed with Ma Sichun a few years ago earned 800 million at the box office. Now, although the subject matter of this "Better Days" is different, they are both youth films. He thinks there is a great hope of breaking 800 million or even 1 billion.

Just like the romantic film "Ex-Files 3" at the beginning of the year, the box office sold 2.3 billion.

You should know that the box office of the first two films in this series was only 120 million and 250 million. Zeng Guoxiang has seen all three films. To be honest, he didn't see how good the third one was in terms of quality. He felt that the content and expression were not much different from the first two. The same director, the same production team, and even the actors did not change much. The only difference was the addition of Gu Wei and Ni Ni.

Everyone knows how much box office appeal Ni Ni has, so from this movie, people in the industry once again saw Gu Wei's exaggerated box office appeal.

"Director Zeng, I have a movie coming out recently, and I may have to take leave from time to time." After a few pleasantries with Director Zeng, Gu Wei first said the ugly words.

"I understand, I understand. As for Director Xu Zheng's love movie, I know that it has been very popular recently.

Congratulations in advance to Mr. Gu on the big sales of his movie." Zeng Guoxiang also knew that with Gu Wei's status, he must have a lot of things to do, and he was ready to arrange the shooting plan according to his schedule.

This world is always unfair, but also relatively fair.

The requirements between people always match their status. Big directors are strict and will also look at who the other person is. For example, with Gu Wei's current status, even Zhang Yimou and Chen Kai would not ask him to concentrate on filming and not do anything else.

After the greetings, Director Zeng pulled Gu Wei to talk about the movie. Although he was the last to join the crew, Zeng Guoxiang found that he was not unprepared for the filming. After listening to Gu Wei's thoughts on the story and character setting, he nodded secretly in his heart. Sure enough, such a big reputation is not for nothing, and he is really good at it.

"Gu Wei, I didn't expect that we would finally be able to work together after graduation."

After entering the door, Gu Wei said hello to everyone and kept chatting with Director Zeng. This gave Zhou Dongyu, who wanted to have a close relationship with him, no chance to interrupt. Finally, the producer Xu Yuezhen brought up a topic to divert the director's attention. , she had a chance to speak.

"Dongyu, you are the Golden Horse Best Actress. Please take care of me in future filming." Gu Wei said politely. Although he had a general impression of Zhou Dongyu, he would not hit the smiling person. After all, they were classmates before. In the next two months, We also need to work together.

"My requirements are very strict, you must work hard!"

Zhou Dongyu climbed straight up the pole after hearing Gu Wei's words. He didn't know why he thought of replying like this.

Gu Wei couldn't hold himself together for a moment. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly and he couldn't even keep a smile.

He didn't know if this person really thought that way or if he simply had low emotional intelligence and couldn't speak. Although Gu Wei had never won the Best Actor Award at the International A-Class Film Festival, he was still the Magnolia Film Festival winner and his acting skills had never been doubted. .

"Haha. Let's work hard together." Gu Wei said perfunctorily, no longer interested in chatting with Zhou Dongyu, and then looked at Zhou Xi who was sitting on the other side of him.

"Xiao Ming, when did you join the team?"

Zhou Ming wore a sky blue dress today, with long black hair cascading down her shoulders, and delicate features on her palm-sized face. From the appearance point of view, she surpassed Zhou Dongyu by more than one level.

She had been staring at Gu Wei since he entered the room, as if she wanted to say hello but didn't dare.

Now that Gu Wei took the initiative to talk to her, a sweet smile immediately appeared on Zhou Ming's face.

"I arrived a week ago. In the past few days, I have been familiar with the venue, memorizing lines, and adjusting my condition."

"It's so early, aren't there any classes at school?"

"I had already taken leave, and the teacher knew that I was going to act in this play and guided me for a while.

I am now very confident in playing the role of "Wei Lai"! "It seems that he is really well prepared, otherwise Zhou Ming would not be so confident.

"So I have to test you. How do you understand the character "Wei Lai"?"

Zhou Ming thought for a while and organized his words.

"Wei Lai is undoubtedly the villain in the movie. She appears to be a beautiful and well-behaved rich girl, but in fact she is very dark inside. Taking advantage of her strong family background, she bullies the weak in school and takes pleasure in doing so.

I think she should have two faces, one is the good girl from a rich family that others see, and the other is the real face of the abuser.

Although the family she grew up in was affluent, it was repressive and cold, which caused her to have no basic respect for human life. Under her angelic face, there was a bottomless darkness.

Wei Lai's homophone is the future, but she has no future after all."

"Yes, I understand it well. It just depends on your performance during filming."

Gu Wei complimented, which made Zhou Ming's smile brighter.