Chapter 365: Capture, Catch, and Squeeze
[I've been busy with a lot of things lately. Yesterday I cleaned the new house, and today I neutered my dog... Still, I'll update twice. ]
This evening.
As usual, Xu Kun wrapped himself up tightly, drove out and headed straight for a private restaurant on the North Third Ring Road.
The shooting date of "Apple" is set to start on May 5, which is less than ten days away. Except for Yuan Li, whose popularity has been declining recently, the other three leading actors are now popular first-line stars. It is no exaggeration to say that time is money.
So in order to shorten the shooting time as much as possible, Director Li Yu wanted everyone to have a small meeting in advance to talk about each other's views on the characters and the plot.
When Xu Kun rushed over, besides Director Li Yu, only Tong Dawei had arrived.
"Director Xu."
After seeing Xu Kun, Tong Dawei greeted him somewhat stiffly, and then said awkwardly: "Actually, Wen Zhang..."
"Don't mention him."
Xu Kun waved his hand to interrupt him and said sternly, "When I recommended Deng Chao, I didn't know that the director of the play had contacted you first, so I definitely didn't mean to target you - as for Wen Zhang, what happens to him in the future has nothing to do with me."
After saying that, he turned around and stretched out his hand to Director Li Yu, saying, "Sister Li, if anyone ever says that I am not from an academic background and that I am not worthy of being called a sixth-generation director, I will use you as a shield. Then we'll see what they have to say!"
Li Yu laughed out loud when she heard this. She was not a professional either. She had worked as a host for a few years before she quit her job and went into the film industry - well, not that kind of industry.
His first short film in 1996 won an award, and he has received many nominations abroad in recent years. Whether it is the subject matter, the focus group, or even many of the camera languages, they all belong to the style of the sixth generation directors.
Now Xu Kun said this, obviously praising her.
After sitting down, Li Yu couldn't wait to ask Xu Kun about his analysis of the characters.
Xu Kun was well prepared for this and directly handed a thirty-page character biography to Li Yu.
Li Yu roughly read through it and felt completely relieved. With "Zhu Yuanzhang" and "Blind Well" as her foundation, she had no doubts about Xu Kun's acting skills. She was just worried that Xu Kun was too busy and had no time to study the script seriously.
Seeing this, Tong Dawei, who was standing by, hurriedly took out his own biography and gave it to Li Yu for review.
Li Yu also roughly flipped through it, and then asked the two to exchange ideas to see if their ideas could collide, or if they could discover previously overlooked details from each other's biographies.
Although Tong Dawei cannot be considered the best among the new generation of male actors, he can definitely be described as "dedicated to his work". This biography of him is even thicker than the one written by Xu Kun.
Although the content is not refined enough and not as coherent and smooth as the technique Xu Kun learned from Li Yixiang, it can be seen that Tong Dawei has worked hard to understand the role.
By the way, the male protagonist was originally named An Kun, but Li Yu was afraid that Xu Kun would be taboo, so she changed it to An Xin.
Tong Dawei, on the other side, looked at the biography written by Xu Kun and sighed that it was true that a great reputation was truly a noble one. There was no need to say more about the rigor of this biography.
Xu Kun even specially designed a set of iconic moves based on the script.
The setting is that Lin Dong, the owner of a foot massage parlor, usually wears the gold chain inside his clothes. Only when he is emotionally excited or wants to overpower others, will he pull out the gold chain as thick as chopsticks from his neck.
This little action runs throughout.
In order to avoid trouble, he wanted to dismiss the foot-washing girl who was harassed and fought back angrily; when he was negotiating with the heroine Liu Pingguo and the hero An Xin, and was ready to use money to buy the baby in Liu Pingguo's belly; when he was confronting An Xin who was struggling internally, he made this move.
Moreover, Xu Kun also carefully marked the slight differences in several movements.
This action fully demonstrates that money is Lin Dong's confidence and reliance.
And when An Xin, played by Tong Dawei, came back to Lin Dong because of the paternity test results and returned the 100,000 yuan to redeem her child, Lin Dong broke the gold chain in excitement, which meant that his confidence and reliance were collapsing.
Tong Dawei praised this detailed design, and Li Yu also felt that it was in line with his expectations.
Moreover, she mentioned at the beginning of the script that when Lin Dong went to find the mistress, he was dissatisfied with the mistress's perfunctory attitude, so he put away his gold watch and gold chain and left on his own initiative.
There were no scenes involving these things in the future, but now Xu Kun has used them to make good use of them, which makes the story more complete. "How did you come up with this?"
Li Yu asked with interest.
"In fact, I got the inspiration from a friend by chance. Whenever he encountered something, he would subconsciously rub the gold chain around his neck. I thought this was quite representative, so I designed it into the character."
Xu Kun was talking when Yuan Li pushed the door open and walked in. She put her hands together and apologized, "I'm sorry, I ran into some trouble and came late."
After saying that, I realized that the most important heroine was not present.
She couldn't help but wonder, "Why hasn't Fan Bingbing come yet? Didn't she take the initiative to set up this game?"
Director Li Yu hesitated to speak, but Xu Kun took the initiative to take over and said, "She must have run into trouble. Hasn't she been competing with Zhao Wei recently? Zhao Wei just won an award yesterday, so I guess..."
"Oh~"
Yuan Li suddenly realized, sat down at the table, and asked directly: "Zhao Wei spent 50 to hire people to vote and buy the "Best Actress" award at the College Student Film Festival. Is it true or not? I heard that it was leaked by Fan Bingbing's agent."
"Of course the ticket purchase is true!"
Before he finished speaking, Fan Bingbing's voice came from outside the door. She pushed the door open with a cold face and said, "The film hasn't even been released yet, but Zhao Wei has won an award. Doesn't this prove that she bought the ticket?"
As he said that, he sat down next to Xu Kun, leaned against him and looked at what he had in his hand, and asked, "Brother Kun, what are you looking at?"
"Anxin's biography."
“I wrote it too!”
Upon hearing this, Fan Bingbing hurriedly took out a thicker biography from his bag and handed it to Xu Kun like a treasure: "Director Xu, please help me correct it."
Not to mention, seeing this biography really changed Xu Kun's opinion of her - regardless of her actual ability, her positive attitude is still worthy of recognition.
However, compared with Tong Dawei, her biography is more complicated and messy, and there are even many corrections, or even several ways of interpreting one plot.
This may seem like a serious attitude, but in fact it is a reflection of uncertainty and lack of confidence.
While Xu Kun was reading the biography, Yuan Li also revealed the reason for her lateness: "Someone on the blog spread rumors that when I was filming "Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan 2" that year, Deng Jie slapped me twice and scolded me for being a foxy woman again, and kicked me out of the crew, so I didn't film "Iron Teeth 3" later.
I was about to come here, but my agent asked me to post an article to clarify the matter, so I was late. ”
This matter has actually been spread all over the circle a long time ago, and it was considered a melon that had been eaten out of people's mouths. Unexpectedly, it was dug up again on the Internet now.
However, considering Yuan Li's situation in the past two years, Xu Kun has reason to suspect that this is actually her own hype, just like how Fan Bingbing has been targeting Zhao Wei recently.
If Fan Bingbing's actions against Zhao Wei were exposed once or twice, it could be said to be an accident. However, they have been exposed continuously in the past few months, and even many of his private remarks have been written in the newspapers word for word. It can only be said that it was deliberate.
As for the purpose...
Maybe she wanted to completely get rid of the image of the "little maid" back then.
In order to achieve this goal, there was even news circulating online that Fan Bingbing was much more domineering than Zhao Wei in the Return of the Condor Heroes crew, and even beat Zhao Wei, completely turning the tables.
This is too ridiculous!
Just as Xu Kun was thinking about random things, he suddenly felt a hand reaching into his trouser pocket.
At the same time, Fan Bingbing laughed and said, "I've seen a lot of rumors like this. People outside think our circle is so chaotic. The more outrageous it is, the more people believe it! In fact, they are all groundless and fabricated. Brother Kun, don't you think so?"
Xu Kun: “…”
He couldn't guarantee the rest, but he had personally experienced the words 'catch, catch, and pinch'.
(End of this chapter)
