Chapter 575 Disagreement

After the director problem of "Nineteen Years" was resolved, Li Zhibai breathed a long sigh of relief.

He feels that during this period of time, he has really experienced the most turbulent period of time on the crew since he was an actor.

No matter what problems the crew had in the past, it actually had little to do with him.

He is just an actor. He has no ideas, responsibilities and obligations to participate in the situations that occur on the set.

This time was completely different, but it also brought him a completely different experience.

What Li Zhibai didn't expect was another thing.

In the case of Liu Manbo, Li Zhibai felt for the first time that even if he had to go through more troubles, take on more responsibilities, and put in more effort, it would still be worth it - to help Liu Manbo hold on to the position of director and let Liu Manbo retain his position as director. Lighthouse Video dropped the idea of ​​bringing Pathwave back to direct.

He also suddenly realized why Lu Yanhe was the producer of many projects while being a screenwriter, director and other various capacities at the same time, even though being an actor was already very good.

If directors and screenwriters control a project from the content point of view to ensure that the content does not deviate, then the producer ensures the creative environment of these creators from a more fundamental level so that they can work well. Creation puts the right people in the right positions.

It was this experience that gave Li Zhibai a very strong stimulus.

Even though he is already a popular actor, and even a producer with a very important voice in the drama "Nineteen Years", he is still alone when there are conflicts and disagreements with the platform. Bo, still not capable enough to defend what he wants to defend.

No wonder, many actors will later take the path of producers.

Because if they want to protect their project, they have to get more involved in the project.

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Malaysia.

Lu Yanhe and Director Huang Tianlin made an appointment to meet at an ecological park.

Although Lu Yanhe didn't know why he made an appointment to meet in such a place - indeed few people would ask him to meet in such a place, he still happily accepted the appointment.

This is the only director who has confirmed that he will be included in the film this year.

"Tropical Rain", in this movie, he plays the protagonist - the asshole brother of a twelve-year-old child.

This is a family story told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old child.

Lu Yanhe has never filmed this type of film.

Lu Yanhe checked out all the works directed by Huang Tianlin in the past.

Huang Tianlin gave him the impression that he was a very gentle and delicate director.

The family relationships in his shots are all based on love. No matter how big the storm is, they all end up in peaceful daily life.

This trait is actually very difficult to deal with and can easily turn into chicken soup.

Chicken soup is too cheesy and not artistic enough.

Huang Tianlin handled the situation very well.

Lu Yanhe feels that this is mainly because Huang Tianlin actually never wanted to make a heart-warming story from the beginning. He just looked at the world from such a perspective - the difference between deliberate and undeliberate.

Lu Yanhe and Huang Tianlin met at the entrance of the ecological park.

Lu Yanhe only took Zou Dong to follow him.

Huang Tianlin was the only one.

Zou Dong was almost two or three meters away from Lu Yanhe, leaving enough space for them to communicate privately.

Huang Tianlin and Lu Yanhe spoke Mandarin instead of Malaysian.

This surprised Lu Yanhe.

Huang Tianlin said that his grandfather is Chinese. He grew up with his grandfather when he was a child, so he can speak Mandarin. However, he hasn't spoken it for a long time, so he speaks a little slower.

Lu Yanhe suddenly understood and nodded.

"I didn't see this information in your interview." He asked, "Is this matter not disclosed to the media?"

Huang Tianlin smiled and waved his hand and said, "It's not public or private. I didn't intend to hide this matter, but I did not talk about it publicly, and no one will be curious about who my grandfather is."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"When they told me that you were willing to star in the movie "Tropical Rains", I was shocked." Huang Tianlin said, "Actually, before my producer told me, I didn't even know that he had contacted you. ”

Lu Yanhe: "My agent should have contacted him. She has been helping me find scripts. I acted in several commercial films some time ago, so I have been looking for less commercial films that suit me."

He also said what he had to say.

Huang Tianlin: "When "The Mist" was released, I also went to the cinema to watch this movie. It was only after I arrived at the cinema that I realized that there are many fans of yours in Malaysia, and many people went to watch this movie specifically for you. ”

"Really? I'm also very surprised." Lu Yanhe said, "Because I have never been to Malaysia before, and I have never shot a Malaysian movie. I didn't expect that so many people still know me and like me."

Huang Tianlin: "I really didn't expect that a movie star like you would star in the movie "Tropical Rainy Season" at first. I was shocked."

"I loved the script, it reminded me of my childhood."

Lu Yanhe walked under the shade of the trees, with dappled sunlight falling on them and the road in front of them.

There are actually not many people in the ecological park, just a few here and there.

He put his hands behind his back and said: "In the past few years, I have read a lot of scripts that talk about family ethics and family relationships. I don't know if it is because of this trend in the world of cinema or what, in stories about these themes , the family seems to have become a prison, a shadow that needs to be healed. Of course, I also know , indeed, for many people, family has indeed caused such harm, but when there are all scripts with such themes and stories, it makes me feel a little bit reluctant. The trend is that only by escaping from your original family can you build another life that truly belongs to you.”

Lu Yanhe spoke slowly about how the script "Tropical Rainy Season" made him feel.

"So, I was really surprised to suddenly see such a script that looks at family relationships from a young man's perspective." Lu Yanhe said, "Although the role of brother does not have many roles, every time he appears, he is wonderful. In this story, he is actually a destroyer and leaver, a restless factor. But even for such a character, behind the logic of his behavior, you can see that on the one hand, he is extremely eager to break out of the family cage. , on the other hand, I care about and cannot let go of the people in this family.”

Huang Tianlin glanced at Lu Yanhe in surprise and asked, "Do you have any brothers?"

Lu Yanhe shook his head.

Whether it was before or after time travel, he had no brothers.

Huang Tianlin hesitated for a moment and said, "Yan He, I heard that you grew up with your grandparents?"

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded.

Huang Tianlin mumbled a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but didn't.

Lu Yanhe reacted immediately when he saw him like this.

He smiled.

"Director, are you worried that I can't quite understand the family relationships in "Tropical Rainy Season"?"

Huang Tianlin said: "I'm not questioning your ability as an actor. I have watched every one of your plays, but you have acted in so many plays, and it is true that you rarely see parts about family and family ties. Including your screenwriter In those few dramas, the part about family and relatives is basically absent——"

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"If you say so, it's true." He also didn't realize that none of the works he participated in in the past focused on family and relatives.

Huang Tianlin looked at Lu Yanhe seriously.

"I don't know if your understanding of this script is consistent with my understanding of this script."

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"Director, in this scene in the elevator, can I change the way I smile at this little girl? I don't want my smile to be too scary. The murderer I play is not a psychopath. He just wants to bring all the harm to everyone." Kill all the people who crossed him. The little girl has nothing to do with him. Yes, he showed a scary smile at this time, which is indeed scary, but I think it is weird and does not fit the characteristics of his character. After all, there is nothing too neurotic about him before or after this scene. He is a vengeful murderer."

The scene Li Zhibai is talking about is the next scene to be filmed - the murderer he plays enters the same elevator as a little girl returning home from school.

He was going to kill someone, and the little girl lived in the building where the person he was going to kill lived.

The little girl saw the tip of the knife exposed from the sleeve of his raincoat, and her face turned pale with fear.

At this time, in the script, Li Zhibai showed a very scary smile to the little girl and told her not to be afraid.

Liu Manbo said: "The word "scary" written in the script does not mean that he wanted to scare the little girl intentionally. I think he was unintentional in being scary. Think about it, if your murder weapon has been hit by a little girl, In that case, you definitely want to try to comfort the little girl with a smile and tell her not to be afraid, but in that tense mental state, your smile will become distorted and become scary, which is actually the opposite. of."

Li Zhibai listened to Liu Manbo's interpretation, nodded thoughtfully, and said: "Then this is too difficult for me. I don't know how to show the scary smile you mentioned. I thought it was It’s kind of scary like a murderer – it’s a bit technically difficult.”

Liu Manbo: "Let's try it out first and see what effect the performance has."

After three auditions, neither Liu Manbo nor Li Zhibai thought it would work.

Li Zhibai knew what Liu Manbo wanted to feel, but he couldn't act it out.

The original intention was to comfort the little girl not to be afraid, but in fact the laughter had a more terrifying effect - it sounds like just one sentence, but to achieve it on a technical level, I'm afraid not many actors can do it. .

After the third performance, when the effect was still not good, Li Zhibai felt a little irritable.

It wasn't that he thought Liu Manbo was wrong, but that he couldn't act it out.

"Director, please change the acting method. This is really beyond my ability." Li Zhibai felt that the rest of the crew was a little restless after being NGed so many times.

But Liu Manbo said: "Zhi Bai, let's try again. I think you can perform. You are getting better and better."

At this moment, Li Zhibai really wanted to tell Liu Manbo, "No, I really can't perform it." But looking at Liu Manbo's insistent eyes, he sighed again and decided to give it another try.

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"What kind of brother do you want me to play?" Lu Yanhe asked Huang Tianlin.

Huang Tianlin said: "Just now I heard you talk about your understanding of the role of the elder brother, and I found that your idea is a little different from what I wrote when I wrote this script."

"What deviation?" Lu Yanhe knew that Huang Tianlin suddenly mentioned his family, and there must be a reason, but he didn't expect it was because of his interpretation of the script.

Huang Tianlin said: "The role of the elder brother, he has no nostalgia for this family, so you said that the underlying color of many of his behaviors is still because he can't leave this family, which is not the original intention of my script."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

He thought about it and asked: "Then what I read from the script, his reluctance to leave his family, is also a misunderstanding?"

"If you say that he has no emotional attachment to his family, it is definitely not right, but that is not enough to restrain him from wanting to leave this family." Huang Tianlin explained, "His mood of wanting to leave must be greater than everything, from quarreling with his parents, to fighting and going home, including the chat with his brother, they are actually talking about one thing, he doesn't want to be trapped."

"But no matter how much a person wants to leave, when he can really leave, his mood will change, right?" Lu Yanhe said.

Huang Tianlin: "What if I say that at least at the age of my brother, there is no such thing?"

"This is indeed a bit beyond my cognition." Lu Yanhe did not expect that he would have a disagreement with the director in his understanding of the script and the characters.

It would be a lie to say that there were no disagreements before. But those disagreements were more about differences in expression rather than differences in understanding the script itself.

Lu Yanhe was a little surprised.

Huang Tianlin said: "In "Tropical Rainy Season", the role of the elder brother represents a kind of rebellion and departure, which is a spiritual projection of the younger brother in his youth. In this story, he does not need such complexity and richness of the character."

Lu Yanhe was silent.

The two continued to walk forward for a while.

Lu Yanhe said: "Director, I may need to go back and sort out this script and my own ideas."

Huang Tianlin nodded.

When the two of them parted, Huang Tianlin said, "Yanhe, if you don't want to act in this movie, I understand you. In fact, it's really unfair for you, such a famous actor, to play such a small role."

"Director, I don't care about the size of the role." Lu Yanhe looked directly at Huang Tianlin and said, "I also want to ask you something."

Huang Tianlin looked at him in confusion.

Lu Yanhe said, "If our disagreement is really just a different understanding of the script and the characters, I will think about it seriously after I go back, but, director, I don't know if it's my illusion. I don't think you really want me to act in this movie. Can you tell me, is this feeling of mine an illusion?" (End of this chapter)