To put it in an arrogant way, when Lu Yanhe took on the movie "Burning Fire", he really didn't think about what difficulties he would encounter in acting in this he got the script, he actually didn't think it was difficult for him to play the role - that's what he thought purely based on the difficulty of performing the character.
Although he was always very modest, he knew that he had to admit one thing. After acting in so many dramas, he had gained a certain degree of confidence in his acting skills. For a drama like "Burning Fire" that did not focus on exploring the inner world of the characters, Lu Yanhe felt that he could easily handle it.
Then, he was slapped in the face during such an action training.
What does it mean that learning never ends?
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The day before the filming of "Burning Fire" started, all the main creators in the group were called together to have a meal together. Of course, the producer, director and male lead also came on stage to speak.
They also invited Lu Yanhe to go on stage and say a few words. After Lu Yanhe knew that Shang Yongzhou would go on stage, he declined. There was no need for both of them to go on stage.
This kind of speech can actually be understood as a mobilization meeting before the start of filming.
Everyone made speeches, made promises, and encouraged the crew members, so that everyone could have higher expectations and be in a better state to shoot the film.
There were red wine, white wine and juice on the table, and Lu Yanhe chose juice.
Lan Mingting saw him drinking juice and looked at him in surprise.
Because he knew that Lu Yanhe could drink.
Lu Yanhe said, "I have to prepare for the scene that will start shooting tomorrow when I get home tonight, so I won't drink."
No one can persuade Lu Yanhe to drink again under the pretext of acting.
Speaking of which, this is also an era that protects actors very much.
Especially a talented actor with a good reputation like Lu Yanhe.
Everyone accepts that geniuses are mostly different from ordinary people, so some of Lu Yanhe's less "social" behaviors will also be understood as "common problems of geniuses."
Of course, Lu Yanhe's refusal to drink cannot really be classified as "unsociable". At most, it can be said that he is very dedicated and serious about acting, so he lacks a little in terms of social skills.
Lu Yanhe could guess what others were thinking.
But he didn't care.
To Lu Yanhe's surprise, Shang Yongzhou actually drank a little.
Shang Yongzhou said: "We will start filming tomorrow. Drink some wine and go back to sleep later. Otherwise, you may suffer from insomnia."
Lu Yanhe was surprised.
"Insomnia?"
"Well, I basically suffer from insomnia every time I start filming," Shang Yongzhou said. "As soon as I close my eyes, all I think about is acting."
For many actors - especially those who truly pursue and respect acting, when it comes to a play or a performance, it is actually not as "easy" as their status and fame appear to the outside world.
Lu Yanhe felt ashamed every time he thought about his initial attitude towards the movie "Burning Fire".
There is really a gap.
Shang Yongzhou would suffer from insomnia before filming began, and he thought the play would be easy to act in.
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However, coordinator Li Quanling is obviously a very experienced person. In the first few days after the start of filming, he did not assign them any scenes that were too difficult. They were basically all literary scenes, and the scenes mainly focused on Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou.
Moreover, we basically only shoot one or two scenes a day.
Even for literary dramas, Wanrenhai strives for perfection.
After arriving at the scene, everyone will definitely go through the rehearsal first, then listen to the opinions of the crowd, and then chat about it together.
For this play, they conducted a script reading with incomplete crew, but there was no reading with everyone present and sitting together because it was too difficult to arrange the schedules.
The actors brought together in this film can be divided into seven or eight film crews on the spot for shooting.
It is also rare that Lu Yanhe was very calm at the scene.
Because generally, from the time he arrives at the scene to the start of filming, he has at least two hours to prepare for the next scene.
The first scene between Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou was a tit-for-tat confrontation in the classroom.
Li Wushang, the sorcerer apprentice played by Lu Yanhe, argued over a sorcery question in the classroom taught by his mentor Wei Yang played by Shang Yongzhou.
This scene is the first head-on conflict between the two of them in the movie.
Li Wushang deliberately provoked Wei Yang in class because he found out that the new instructor was secretly investigating his father, the dean of the warlock academy.
A play involving the classroom means that a lot of actors are involved.
Including Xiao Yun, who co-starred in this movie, she played a student from the same college.
A movie is usually only two to two and a half hours long.
Apart from the main character, other actors may only have a few lines.
As a member of the main group, Xiao Yun has relatively more lines, but in this scene, he doesn't have a single line.
Wanrenhai gathered all the actors and gave them instructions: "Although this scene is a scene between Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou, and there are no lines for other people, you must remember that everyone in a scene is alive, not just alive when they are speaking lines. So, each of you will definitely react when you hear others speak or see others do things. In this scene, your basic reaction is surprise. But why are you surprised? You must understand the emotional motivations of the characters here, instead of simply having an emotional reaction."
Wanrenhai said these words to other actors, not to Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou, so he was talking about very basic things, breaking them down and talking about them in detail. However, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou also listened carefully.
The actors who are chosen to act in this movie, even if they don't have a single line, are generally from serious professional schools and have gone through several auditions.
For a top-notch production like this, even the smallest role will be cast with great care.
Therefore, there was no misunderstanding among people about Wanrenhai's words.
During the rehearsal, Lu Yanhe and Shang Yongzhou both held the script, but neither of them looked at it. They just recited their lines with a little emotion.
At this time, Lu Yanhe actually had no time to care about other people's performances. Although he was not fully committed to this rehearsal, his concentration was there and he could not be distracted to look at others. At most, he was looking at Shang Yongzhou.
After the play was over, Wanrenhai pointed out a few people, saying that their reactions just now were too exaggerated. Then he walked up to Lu Yanhe and said, "Yanhe, the energy you gave me just now was a bit too righteous. This was a deliberate provocation. I wanted to have a little more of a frivolous feeling, rather than a serious attitude to explore academic issues with him."
Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Director, I was just about to tell you that when I was rehearsing this scene, a question suddenly crossed my mind. My initial reaction was deliberately provocative and not serious. But when Wei Yang actually answered my question that was deliberately trying to embarrass him, I was not convinced at this time, and I was a little shocked by him in my heart - after all, when I asked that question, I was sure that he couldn't answer it."
Wanrenhai frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.
"According to my character's personality, I think he should be more subconsciously dissatisfied at this moment, because he answered and was shocked by his profound knowledge. I should leave it for later reaction." Lu Yanhe said, "But, according to the script, Li Wushang actually became more and more respectful of Wei Yang. I want to bring out this process bit by bit in the scenes with him. I'm not sure whether I should bring it out in this scene."
Lu Yanhe thought about it very carefully.
Wanrenhai said directly: "Yanhe, I haven't really thought about what you asked me, and I haven't thought about it in such detail. I have to think about it, and you should think about it too. We will test shoot it later, and we will see which reaction is better based on the test shooting. We will also ask Shang Yongzhou for his opinion."
"Okay." Lu Yanhe nodded.
Wanrenhai wiped his forehead, sighed, and said to the actors beside him: "Look, the best actor is the best actor. He stumped me with just one question. If you can think about your roles and your plays as carefully as he does, you can also win the best actor award."
Lu Yanhe quickly waved his hands and smiled as he declined the compliments from everyone.
Xiao Yun looked at Lu Yanhe with admiration and said, "You are acting now... It's like you are a completely different person from when you were acting in Phoenix Terrace. You are so strong, Yanhe."
Xiao Yun had worked with Lu Yanhe before in "Phoenix Terrace", and they had many scenes together, so he was very clear about Lu Yanhe's acting skills at that time. At that time, Lu Yanhe was praised many times by director Chen Lingling, but it can be clearly seen that Lu Yanhe is much better now than he was then.
Lu Yanhe smiled helplessly at Xiao Yun.
"We are old friends, so please stop humiliating me."
Xiao Yun sighed, "I'm just jealous of you. Why are you so much better at acting than me? I'm not an idle actor either. I'm also a graduate of a serious professional school."
Wanrenhai started laughing and said to Xiao Yun with great joy, "You acted quite well, why are you being so self-deprecating?"
"It's fine that I don't have particularly good acting skills, but if I don't have self-awareness, I've lived all these years in vain." Xiao Yun pursed his lips in melancholy.
Lu Yanhe was at a loss whether to laugh or cry at Xiao Yun's dramatic performance.
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At noon, Lu Yanhe went to the cafeteria to eat lunch. He checked his mobile phone and found that Li Zhibai had posted a photo of himself eating takeout at home thirty minutes ago, saying: Since both of you are not here, I can only eat takeout by myself.
Lu Yanhe was filming, while Yan Liang was promoting "The Gold Rush".
This drama is currently on the air, with great success, high ratings, and good online data. It is the most popular drama in recent times.
Its ratings on Jinkou TV have now exceeded .
Lu Yanhe can see his hot searches on the Internet almost every day.
Yan Liang said that at least half of them were operated by Zhou Ping'an.
When Zhou Ping'an only had Yan Liang as a popular artist, he finally began to take Yan Liang seriously.
Yan Liang officially announced two brand business collaborations this week, which also attracted considerable attention in the industry.
This frequency is too fast, even with the hit TV series "The Gold Rush".
Only Yan Liang himself knew that he was eating the leftovers that fell from Ma Zhiyuan's bowl.
"..." But Yan Liang did not refuse. No matter what, no matter where it came from, it was now in his bowl, and this was the most important thing.
"The Gold Rush" is still on the air, and many people on the Internet have been calling for a second season.
They haven't even seen the end yet.
However, if you want to shoot this kind of treasure hunting adventure theme, you can certainly continue to shoot it season after season.
A natural subject for a TV series.
And after "The Gold Rush" achieved such good results, the production company of "Ruyi Pictures" did consider launching the second season.
Ruyi Pictures then contacted several key creative personnel to inquire about their intentions.
In fact, for a show like "The Gold Rush" that has great reputation and success, under normal circumstances, no creator would be unwilling to make a second season.
Especially in this fast-food era——
If a drama can retain an impression in the minds of the audience for a longer time, it is actually a rare treasure for the actors who starred in the drama.
The situation of watching movies and TV series now is completely different from that of twenty or thirty years ago.
At that time, there was no Internet, and there were not so many works. A big hit would become a hot topic for a long time, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. But in this era, after the Internet eliminates all physical distance, a hot topic may explode quickly and loudly, sweeping the entire Internet in an instant. However, too much information and overload also make people more likely to forget some things.
The same is true for movies and TV series.
A work that was broadcast two months ago may feel like it has been broadcast for almost a year two months later.
So, this is the biggest benefit of making a series for actors.
I remind you once every year that if you like this drama, you can continue watching it.
Then, time will exert its power on people.
If you use a keychain for a year, you will develop some feelings for it, not to mention a drama you have been following for several years.
This kind of meaning is absolutely different from the meaning of finishing a TV series in one night.
Even if you can finish a drama in one night, it means you think it is good.
However, we all have to admit that times have changed.
In this case, the accumulation of time is given a more instinctive meaning.
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"I'm too tired. I don't want to shoot the second season." Yan Liang said to Lu Yanhe and Li Zhibai in a video call. "Ah, am I too arrogant? In the past, I didn't want to miss any good opportunity. But now that "Gold Rush" is doing so well, I feel tired and don't want to participate in the second season."
"That only shows that The Gold Rush was really exhausting." Li Zhibai said, "What bad habits did you learn from Old Lu? Why do you like to find faults in yourself so much?"
Li Zhibai's disdain was evident in his words.
Yan Liang looked at Li Zhibai with pity through the video: "I really envy you."
Lu Yanhe: "Does Zhou Pingan also agree that you don't want to shoot?"
"Of course he disagrees." Yan Liang said, "Not only has he been trying to get me to agree, he also wants to squeeze Fuli into the second season, and the script for the second season hasn't been written yet."
Lu Yanhe: "She asked you to help her bring in new people?"
"Ah."
"Let him get out of the way." Li Zhibai said immediately.
Lu Yanhe smiled.
Yan Liang: "Although I am not as afraid of him as before, I have not evolved to the point where I can tell him to get lost like you did."
Li Zhibai: "If you can't say it, I'll help you call and scold him right now."
"If you want to scold him, don't do it under the pretext of helping me." Yan Liang squinted his eyes, "I don't want to clean up your mess, and then Zhou Ping'an will come to me angrily again."
Li Zhibai: “…Tsk.”
He said, "You seem to have become a little wiser."
"Get lost!" Yan Liang said rudely.
Lu Yanhe: "But I think what Li Zhibai said is right. Why should he ask you to help him train new people? He has never let anyone train you before. You don't owe him anything."
"That's what I said." Yan Liang nodded. "I'll go tell Zhou Pingan later that I don't agree. If he wants to use my name to force Fuli in, then I'll be owing him a favor."
Lu Yanhe: "Yes, that's right. How could it be like this?"
Li Zhibai: "Zhou Ping'an doesn't do anything human."
"Wait, let me make it clear first, are you going to shoot the second season?" Li Zhibai suddenly reacted and asked.
Yan Liang: "Of course I filmed it. I just complained a few words. If I were crazy, I really wouldn't film it. This is a drama that can obviously be made into a series. After the first season became popular, would I give up the second season to others?"
"So you have two TV series coming up?" Li Zhibai asked, "Yan He's Friends is also going to be rebooted."
Lu Yanhe: "It's OK for me. I can finish the filming in a month. It's very fast. I may even finish it in less than a month."
Yan Liang nodded. "The filming of Friends is really very simple and hassle-free. It doesn't take up too much of my time. However, Friends was able to be restarted and all my work gave way to it. I didn't expect that we would be able to reunite."
Lu Yanhe smiled.
"The timing, the location and the people are right. If Jingtai hadn't committed suicide, I wouldn't have gotten this opportunity."
Li Zhibai muttered: "So why didn't you write a regular role for me in Friends?"
"Brother, in the first season we are a low-budget drama. We wrote a regular role for you. Do you think we can afford your salary? Even if you are willing, will Zhou Ping'an agree? At that time, Zhou Ping'an was still your agent."
Li Zhibai let out a sigh, and said angrily, "Zhou Ping'an is not doing anything related to human affairs."
Yan Liang asked: "Then - can you write a role for Li Zhibai in the reboot version?"
"Friends of Six becomes Friends of Seven?" Lu Yanhe thought about it and shook his head. "That's a change. If a new permanent character is added, the group of six will become a group of seven, and many relationships between the characters will change accordingly, unless the seventh person does not interfere with the relationship between the six. But if he does not interfere, what's the point of his appearance?" Li Zhibai: "You just don't want me to play Friends of Six."
"I'll write a guest role for you? I'll let you guest-star in one episode every season, and that episode will be about you as the protagonist?" Lu Yanhe asked, "For example, I'll let you play a classmate of mine or Yan Liang, come to us, and then for various reasons cause some impact on our group of six, which will create some jokes and allow us to examine the relationship between our group of six."
"That's fine." Li Zhibai nodded immediately. "You'd better write me a character who was a big boss in your school days, the kind who usually protected you. Well, he should be a little bit awesome and arrogant."
"Why not just write a character with some mental problems? It will be funnier this way." Lu Yanhe said seriously.
Yan Liang nodded without hesitation, "I second the motion!"
Li Zhibai's face was grim: "No!"
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Lu Yanhe happily ended the video call with them, but he saw that in the "Burning Fire" group, for some reason, 99+ unread messages suddenly appeared.
This is not the large group of "Burning Fire", but the main creative group of "Burning Fire", which only has more than 20 people.
Lu Yanhe is not the kind of person who only checks his phone once or twice a day.
Normally, this group would not accumulate so many unread messages.
When Lu Yanhe clicked on it, he realized that a photographer had sneaked into the studio and tried to install a hidden camera in the dressing room, but was caught.
Upon taking another look, Lu Yanhe was shocked. The person who caught the photographer was actually Wang Biao!
ha? !
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Since the filming of "Burning Fire" started, the filming of this movie has always attracted much attention.
After a few days of filming, the location of the studio was exposed, and paparazzi began to station themselves at the entrance of the studio. Of course, there were more paparazzi than paparazzi, and there were also proxy photographers.
The crowds of photographers blocked the entrance to the studio, but they could hardly take any photos because the crew vehicles would not stop at the entrance to the studio to pick up or drop off passengers when they came in or out.
So, after finding out that they couldn’t take any photos, the photographers and paparazzi who had gathered left one after another. Some photographers who felt that their efforts were wasted angrily criticized “Burning” online, saying that the movie was a flop, that it was kept secret and that it must be a terrible movie.
These noises will not affect the filming of the crew, nor will they cause any trouble to the actors.
Until suddenly a photographer sneaked in.
When Lu Yanhe arrived, Wang Biao was explaining the situation to someone, "I came here to get the kettle. Brother Lu left his kettle here, so I came back to get it. I happened to run into this guy who was acting sneaky and didn't have a work badge. I asked him who he was, but he wouldn't tell me."
There was a cut on Wang Biao's forehead and bruises on his face.
He even got into a physical fight with someone.
Seeing that the photographer also had bloodshot mouth and swollen eyes, Lu Yanhe felt relieved.
It’s okay to get hurt, but you can’t get hurt while your opponent is still clean.
The crew does have various medicines for treating injuries.
Lu Yanhe first asked Wang Biao to apply medicine to him quickly.
Wang Biao said, "Wait, let's take some photos first and keep the evidence. This guy just said he was going to call the police! Let's call the police too! We are afraid of him. He started it first and still dared to yell at me!"
Wang Biao was still in an excited state.
Lu Yanhe looked at him helplessly and said, "Go and apply the medicine quickly!"
Lan Mingting, Li Quanling and others are here.
The person in charge of security also had a gloomy face, looking embarrassed and depressed.
A photographer was able to sneak in to the studio. If Wang Biao hadn't caught him today and he had secretly installed a hidden camera, there would be big trouble.
Ten thousand people hurriedly arrived at this time.
His face was filled with anger, and as soon as he arrived he loudly questioned the man in charge of security and logistics: "How did you do this?!"
The production process of any large-scale production, especially one like "Burning" that involves the creation of a new world view, is generally kept very confidential.
Because the appearance of each character and each real-life scene, if accidentally leaked, may affect the audience's viewing experience when the movie is finally released.
Why do the crews dislike proxy photographers so much?
Exposing the look is one thing.
On the other hand, because the equipment and technology of proxy photographers are generally difficult to ensure that the pictures taken are good-looking, this will create an impression that your crew is so lame and the styling is so rubbish.
Many times, it’s not a problem with the styling, but a problem with the photographer.
But there's no way to explain this. Everyone has seen it and has a preconceived notion that it's ugly, so there's no point in saying anything else.
Lu Yanhe thought it was understandable that Wanrenhai was so angry.
He was just a little shocked, because Lu Yanhe had never seen Wanrenhai get angry before.
But getting angry is a common problem among directors, regardless of gender. Lu Yanhe has worked in so many crews, and he has never lost his temper. The only two who have lost their temper are Fu Kai, the director of Road to Glory, and Bai Jingnian, the director of Friends. Others have lost their temper several times.
When Lu Yanhe was filming Love Letter, he was often very anxious. Of course, he never lost his temper on the set.
Being a director is too stressful.
If the positions in a film crew can be roughly divided into creative positions and administrative positions, the position of director is a combination of the two positions. It requires managing both big and small things, managing both fighting on the front line and escorting logistical supplies.
He listened silently to Wanrenhai getting angry without saying anything.
As a result, when Wanrenhai was halfway through his anger, he suddenly noticed that Lu Yanhe was also here, and the anger on his face suddenly stopped like a brake.
Lu Yanhe called out "Director".
Wanrenhai looked at Lu Yanhe, coughed awkwardly, tried to smile, but failed, "Yanhe, why are you here?"
Lu Yanhe said awkwardly: "My assistant just happened to run into this proxy photographer, and I heard that they had a fight, so I came to take a look."
Wanrenhai: "Wang Biao? Is he okay?"
"It's okay, just a minor injury. I've already applied some medicine." Lu Yanhe said with a smile.
Wanrenhai nodded.
"Then I'll leave first." Lu Yanhe thought that since he was here, Wanrenhai would be too embarrassed to say anything, so he decided to slip away.
Wanrenhai nodded.
Lu Yanhe went to find Wang Biao.
Wang Biao had already been given some medicine, and he was still angrily telling others about how he bravely fought against the paparazzi.
Lu Yanhe listened to Wang Biao chattering for a long time and almost laughed out loud.
Unlike the action scenes in movies that one might imagine, the fight between Wang Biao and the photographer was basically a fight of you punch me, I kick you, one wanted to run, the other held him back.
However, there were quite a lot of people who listened to Wang Biao's stories, and many of them listened with great interest.
Wang Biao was usually lively and cheerful, and he was a good talker. He was very popular in the crew and could chat with anyone. Now that this incident had happened, he talked even more excitedly, with a beaming smile on his face.
Seeing this, Lu Yanhe did not go in to disturb them.
As long as Wang Biao is fine, it's fine.
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The crew called the police directly.
Of course, if you choose to call the police for this kind of thing, it means that it will definitely be known to the public.
However, what the "Burning Fire" crew did not expect was that there was a group of people on the Internet who started the trend, saying that the photographer was beaten to a bloody pulp by the "Burning Fire" crew.
"Fenhuo" could only quickly issue a statement to explain what happened and clarify the situation of the proxy photographer.
However, the statement did not mention that the person who stopped the paparazzi from taking the photos was Lu Yanhe's assistant - after all, as long as Lu Yanhe's name was mentioned, the impact of the incident would be infinitely expanded.
There will be more people setting the pace.
No one expected that two days after the incident, the photographer actually spoke out online, saying that he was beaten by Lu Yanhe's assistant.
The photographer pretended to be pitiful, showing his wounds that had not yet healed. He first said that he was a photographer to support his family and make a living. It was indeed wrong for him to sneak into the studio, but after he was discovered, he apologized and stopped, but was still beaten by Lu Yanhe's assistant. Because the other party was Lu Yanhe's assistant, he was punished for sneaking into the studio, but the other party beat him up, but he was not punished at all. He felt very angry, very depressed, and very unfair.
After he released this video, it cannot be said that it attracted a lot of sympathy and made everyone start to attack Lu Yanhe's assistant.
But there are indeed some people who have begun to transform themselves into (self-proclaimed) messengers of justice and guardians of morality, standing up and saying that Lu Yanhe's assistant should not beat someone up just because he made the mistake first, saying that this is bullying.
When Wang Biao heard such a sound, he instantly got angry and cursed "Bah!"
Lu Yanhe couldn't laugh or cry.
"Calm down. Don't go online and argue with people. It's meaningless." Lu Yanhe said, "But we still need to clarify. I'll go talk to the crew and tell them what happened that night in more detail. In particular, you need to highlight that he wanted to run and you didn't let him. He attacked you first and you fought back. Attach a photo of the two of you. It's obvious that your injuries are more serious than his."
Wang Biao hummed angrily.
Of course, the crew would be happy to help Lu Yanhe issue such a clarification statement.
Lu Yanhe immediately forwarded it: "The first person to take action is the fastest. We haven't said anything yet, but he's already turned the tables. If his appearance is called a bloody head, then what do you call Wang Biao? Paralyzed? He just opened his mouth and sent you a lawyer's letter. The number of people who watched your video has exceeded one million, which constitutes a rumor. See you in court!"
Lu Yanhe was not polite at all.
As a result, some people were sarcastic in his comment section:
——Celebrities are celebrities. They can send lawyers’ letters and sue people in court at will. They are really rich.
Lu Yanhe was so angry that his face turned green.
What a stupid thing! -
"Someone is deliberately trying to discredit us." Lan Mingting found Lu Yanhe and said directly, "They are not targeting you, but our movie "Burning Fire."
Lu Yanhe asked in confusion: "Who is trying to smear us at this time? We haven't finished filming or released the film yet, and we are not in competition with others."
Lan Mingting said: "Although we are still filming, other film companies are not happy with us. We have confirmed that those marketing accounts that are stirring up trouble are doing it for money."
"Those people may not necessarily come for "Burning Fire". They may come for me. I have a group of black fans all year round. They have no other desire but to see me unhappy." Lu Yanhe said helplessly.
Lan Mingting smiled in surprise.
"Is that so? But it is true. Big stars like you usually have haters. It's not surprising. Nowadays, if no one hates you, it means you are not popular anymore."
On Lu Yanhe's side, Chen Ziyan was actually also helping to investigate who was pulling the strings here.
As a result, many people were eliminated.
"Like I said at the beginning, you are now competing with others for the cake. Some people don't cooperate with you and don't like you, so they start to make trouble for you." Chen Ziyan said, "After all, you are just one person. It is impossible for you to cooperate with everyone. Others are unhappy because they can't cooperate with you."
Lu Yanhe sighed.
"Don't think about it, it's normal. As long as you are above others, there will be people who want to pull you down." Chen Ziyan said, "In this case, the public has sharp eyes and will not be deceived as to what really happened."
"It's just - I don't know how to put it. Some people say things that you can't tell a normal person would say. But even if you think so, you will still be irritated and want to ask, who has such an abnormal brain? You can't suppress the anger in your heart."
"Cultivate your character, young man." Chen Ziyan said in a cheerful tone.
Lu Yanhe: "The road is long and arduous, and the further we go, the farther we will get."
"Hahahaha." Chen Ziyan laughed, "By the way, I have good news for you."
"Hmm?" Lu Yanhe asked, "What good news?"
Chen Ziyan: "Didn't I tell you before that Director Gong Jiang has a new movie? I'm trying to get it for you. Director Gong has replied and said he wants to find time to meet with you."
"Oh? When?" Lu Yanhe asked, "I'm currently filming 'Burning Fire' and it won't be finished until June."
Chen Ziyan: "We haven't decided when to meet yet. Don't worry about the time. I will coordinate it. Director Gong doesn't have time right now either. He is currently serving as the chairman of the main competition unit at the Busan Film Festival."
"Oh fine."
Chen Ziyan: "You know what? The other day I met a leader from the State Administration of Film. He asked me with a smile why I didn't take on more art films. He said if I acted in more films, more Chinese films would become famous internationally."
“The leader is exaggerating.”
"Leaders are very concerned about cultural influence. As one of the most influential cultural products in the world, movies are highly expected by many people." Chen Ziyan said, "But it's strange that there is not a single Chinese-language film shortlisted for this year's West Tuol Film Festival. Looking at the trend over the past two years, I thought Chinese-language films would frequently appear at international film festivals again, but I didn't expect it to be interrupted again. I don't know what will happen to the Jose-La Isla Film Festival in May."
Lu Yanhe asked, "What about Liu Bige's new play? Can't it participate in the Jose-La-Cebu International Film Festival?"
Liu Bige's film "Even Faking Death" is a romantic comedy, which is more market-oriented. The other three top international film festivals are not very interested in this type of market-oriented film. If you want to register for a film festival, you can only go to the Jose-La Film Festival.
Chen Ziyan: "I don't know. I haven't talked to Liu Bige. Have you talked to him about this?"
"No." Lu Yanhe said, "Recently I've been talking to him about the script for his spy film."
"Oh, yes, you and him are going to work together on another movie." Chen Ziyan said, "That's great, but this spy movie shouldn't be an art film, right?"
"He wanted to make a serious film. I don't know if it's an art film, but it's definitely not a thrilling spy film." Lu Yanhe said, "When I read the script, I felt that the whole feeling was quite gloomy."
"Ah? From what you said, it sounds like this story is not something the audience would like."
"That's not necessarily true. Wasn't Late Spring the same? The overall atmosphere was also quite gloomy, but the box office was very high in the end." Lu Yanhe said, "His personal style is very obvious. No matter what subject he shoots, his personal style is always at the forefront."
"He is indeed a very distinctive director." Chen Ziyan said, "It's great that you met a young director like Liu Bige, which is of great significance to your acting career. Many big-name actors were actually discovered by big-name directors. When you first started acting in movies, you supported the debut of a young director and made a very good movie. Of course, this certainly cannot be said to be that you discovered director Liu Bige, but for you, this fully demonstrates your vision. In this circle, the later you get, the more your artistic level is valued. This really cannot be achieved through marketing and publicity. You have to rely on the industry to recognize you."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
He understood what Chen Ziyan meant.
The height of art is something so ethereal, yet it really exists.
In an industry, who is the recognized master, who has the highest level, and who has the best aesthetics cannot be determined by comparing the number of awards you win, one or two. It is measured by people's hearts. When you appear in other people's mouths, they will admire you, respect you, or despise you.
Lu Yanhe said: "I will strive to become an artist with both virtue and talent in the future."
"Don't ever say that kind of thing again. How old are you? You're already an accomplished artist with both moral integrity and artistic talent. Don't even mention it until you're seventy years old." Chen Ziyan scolded with a smile.
Lu Yanhe: “…Tsk.”
Chen Ziyan: "I won't talk to you anymore. Just focus on filming. I'll come to see you next week."
"Okay." Lu Yanhe hung up the phone.
Suddenly, someone ran over in a hurry.
Lu Yanhe turned around and saw that many people's faces were filled with shock, surprise and disbelief.
He was stunned and asked, "What's wrong?"
The person next to him said, "It seems that Li Yuefeng's car had an accident. His car hit a proxy photographer in front."
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