From collapsed house idol to entertainment superstar

It was early January, and Ding Zhi and his team had been filming in Thailand for more than a month.

Most of the scenes in "The Tuner" were filmed in Thailand because it was more convenient in terms of subject matter and character creation.

After all, how could a domestic police chief do such an illegal thing?

And when it comes to a murder case, what can't be solved by calling the police?

It would be more logical to place the story in places like Thailand or India.

Just like in reality, if Kimchi Country's "Squid Game" were released in our country, the local police station might have destroyed it as a gang of black forces in society before it even started to work - first of all, those cubes

The man in the triangular mask wants a gun here?

Thinking too much.

If a group of people dares to gather with a knife, they will have to kill you first.

But in Kimchi Country, a place that is expected to become the first cyberpunk country in the real world, "Squid Game" is considered a realism theme, which is very logical.

After all, let’s take a look. What is the most important temperament of cyberpunk? Isn’t it “high technology, low life”? There is also the kind of plutocrats who dominate the sky, the general public consumes excessively, and the gap between the rich and the poor is as unbridgeable as the natural chasm.

If you look at these characteristics one by one, wouldn’t this be the kimchi country today?

Excluding those more sensitive things, "The Tuner" is a classic low-budget suspense film in terms of its overall structure.

The highlight is the intersection and reversal of the relationships between the characters.

For example, the 13-minute short film that was adapted was able to make it out of the entertainment industry because of its ingenious design and the terrifying sense of immersion in the end.

Of course, the starring role of Ding Zhi did speed up the fermentation time needed for this short film to become popular, but if it were someone else who was not well-known but had good acting skills to shoot this short film, the final effect might not be that bad.

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The same is true for the current big movies of "The Tuner". They all originated from Ding Zhi and naturally follow the same vein. There are no big scenes in the whole movie, so the shooting costs are actually pushed to the extreme.

For example, Ding Zhi's current salary is rumored to be 60-80 million, and the actual minimum salary is around 50 million.

This is the result of the fact that actors' salaries have been lowered by the higher authorities in the past two years. Otherwise, the salaries of leading actors were generally inflated in the past few years, but now Ding Zhishao's salary can be said to be in the hundreds of millions.

But when he starred in "The Tuner", his salary as an actor was only 8 million.

Of course, as one of the main producers, his company Jiuyao has invested in the film itself, not to mention his status as a producer.

But as the person with the highest status in the entire crew, Ding Zhi only has 8 million, and of course the other actors cannot be higher than this "upper limit". This is also an unspoken rule.

Of course, apart from him, people like Zou Yutong could only perform well in one movie, "The Eraser in My Brain," and could barely be considered a second-tier actor. In fact, everyone still defaulted to the high box office of that movie.

Ding Zhi carried it.

As for Zhu Zhu, in fact, in the past few years, she has mostly played supporting roles in some domestic dramas.

For example, there are actually not many opportunities to play leading roles in some mainstream movies.

After all, background is not everything.

As for the other supporting characters, they include Fei Xue, Lu Huiguang, Long Po, Shi Yanneng and so on.

The reason why Ding Zhi found them was, on the one hand, because they were all acquaintances, and on the other hand, it was also from the perspective of affordability. After all, in Hong Kong movies where bad movies are rampant, they can endure for a long time and always have the "gold medal green leaves"

The label proves that they are unique, that is, they are cheap, easy to use and not sticky.

So overall, this film can be regarded as the film with the smallest production cost and investment since Ding Zhi started acting.

After all, even though "The Hidden Corner" is so poor and the episodes are so short, because it is well-produced, the production cost per episode exceeds 5 million on average.

In this regard, we can actually see the cleverness of Chen Ke from Taobao Pictures. Ding Zhi was involved in this drama. In fact, from the comparison of risk and return rate, it is basically a sure profit.

After all, he is a screenwriter, star, and producer, plus he has the strongest weapon of publicity - there are already rumors in the industry that no matter how bad a movie starring Ding Zhi is, it will have a guaranteed box office of 100 million.

But in fact, what Chen Ke doesn't know is that Ding Zhi is not only the above-mentioned identity, but he also has more "uses" besides using the director's position as an empty role.

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Zou Yutong was confused at this moment.

Maybe in other words, she would be a little angry.

"Hey! Xiaozhi, is it okay to call you Xiaozhi?"

"Okay, Sister Zhu, what you just said is that we want to add a sex scene here?"

"It can also be understood this way, it is to let..."

She looked at Zhu Zhu, who was not far away, seemingly discussing a problem with Ding Zhi, almost touching each other.

Miss Zou kept telling herself in her heart that this was just a discussion about filming, and forced herself not to look away.

But every few seconds, he would always glance over.

Then there will always be an inexplicable uneasiness in my heart.

In fact, it's not like she can't accept other girls filming intimate scenes with her boyfriend. As an actor, especially an actor of Ding Zhi's level, it wouldn't sound like a big deal to say that she is dedicated to art.

But if this scene really happened in front of her, she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

After all, before this, Ding Zhi, perhaps by chance, or perhaps more or less deliberately, basically all the emotional or intimate scenes since his career were taken care of by Ms. Zou.

This is actually a phenomenon that makes many netizens who admire their real-life CP the most excited.

In fact, the two CP fans were a relatively unpopular couple at the beginning. Even in "Peeping", the most popular partner of Lalang Peili and Ding Zhi was actually Zhu Yilong (dog head).

After "The Eraser in My Brain", the two of them gained a lot of CP fans overnight.

It's also because the plot is too tragic, and the acting skills of the two (Miss Zou: It's not acting!) are too superb.

In particular, the affection between each other's eyes seems to be almost sticky enough to draw strings. In addition, the two of them have also been rumored to have scandals. In fact, there are actually quite a few real fans of the two of them now.

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When Zou Yutong heard the vague word "sex scene", he finally couldn't help it anymore. He took a deep breath and pursed his lips in grievance.

To be honest, she didn't take it seriously at first, but sometimes women can have an inexplicable feeling.

She could feel that during this period of time, Zhu Zhu showed a more seductive attitude than before.

Or else, only women understand women.

Miss Zou is all too familiar with that way of deliberately exuding charm in front of men.

I think back then, she also "pretended" in front of Ding Zhi like that.

But compared to Zhu Zhu's current, charming figure and temperament, I didn't want to be too green back then.

Zou Yutong really couldn't figure out why Sister Zhu Zhu, who had a good relationship with her before, suddenly became a "vixen" in her eyes?

After I couldn't stand it any longer, I took my phone and quietly slipped out.

Just then Xiaopang came over with a water glass, "Hey! Sister Tong, where are you going?"

"Relax!"

After throwing these words away somewhat angrily, Zou Yutong walked out quickly.

"Hey, what are you angry about?"

Some inexplicable fat man walked up to Ding Zhi with a water glass. At this time, Zhu Zhu and Ding Zhi looked at each other.

"Does this really work?"

"Don't worry, I'll explain it clearly after the filming. After all, it's hard to capture her feelings of resentment in the film."

It turns out that this is a "game" between Zhu Zhu and Ding Zhi.

There is a scene in the script, which is a confrontation between Wu Xiaozu and Mrs. Chen. In the end, Wu Xiaozu accidentally fell into a trap, and Mrs. Chen drugged him to make him fall asleep, just when she was about to harm him.

Just at this time, Wu Xiaozu's girlfriend Tang Ni learned from elsewhere that Wu Xiaozu was pretending to be blind but was actually hearing and seeing, so she was about to confront him.

Mrs. Chen, a femme fatale, was so anxious that she took off the clothes of the sleeping Wu Xiaozu, and then put on a bathrobe herself. The whole situation was as if the two of them could not finish describing it, so I will omit 10,000 words below.

At this time, Tang Ni was naturally furious. When her real girlfriend and her "mistress" confronted each other, she suddenly discovered that Wu Xiaozu was a playboy who talked about people and ghosts.

After Tang Ni staged a heartbreaking breakup scene, she missed the last chance to save her boyfriend, and Wu Xiaozu was also blinded by Mrs. Chen in his sleep.

The plot is actually not complicated.

Who knows that when we were actually filming some time ago, for some reason, the breakup scene was never filmed. The reason is that the real girlfriend, who should be more powerful than Zhu Zhu, the "mistress", during the confrontation, actually

I feel a little bit suppressed by Zhu Zhu.

After taking several photos, I reluctantly picked one that stood out and passed it for the time being.

In fact, this is also a vague shortcoming of Ms. Zou. If she encounters scenes that are very life-oriented and she has no life experience, she will actually appear to be relatively average sometimes.

When she was acting with her partner Ding Zhi, this problem could often be covered up because Ding Zhi could always give her guidance, but the problem was indeed real.

But she also has an advantage, that is, her ability to empathize and convey emotions is particularly strong. This is also the reason why she was out of the circle during the crying scene in "The Eraser in My Brain".

But her acting career cannot always depend on starring with Ding Zhi, so it is still a problem that needs to be solved.

Generally speaking, Zou Yutong is a talented actor with very good emotional empathy, but he still cannot reach the level of a monster like Ding Zhi.

Generally speaking, this scene has passed as it has passed. After all, it is mainly a place to pass the plot. In fact, the main actors who tell the story are still Wu Xiaozu played by Ding Zhi and Mrs. Chen played by Zhu Zhu.

But Ding Zhi was a little dissatisfied.

In fact, there is also a selfish motive on his part, because if it is simply passed over like this, Zou Yutong's presence in this film will actually become a little weaker.

In other words, Miss Zou is said to be the second female lead in this drama, but she actually doesn’t play a big role in advancing the plot.

In fact, there are not many highlight moments, one of which is the scene where Wu Xiaozu and Tang Ni achieve good things when their love becomes more intense on that rainy night.

The second one is probably here.

In fact, in private, after adjusting the script, Zou Yutong changed from the absolute protagonist in the short film, and even the core position that could compete with Ding Zhi, to the somewhat useless role of "girlfriend". Ding Zhi always felt that he was not interested in his girlfriend.

It's somewhat unfair.

But at this time, Zhu Zhu stood up and directly pointed out his relationship with Miss Zou in private.

After some analysis, it was discovered that the true love relationship between the two was one of the reasons and obstacles for Zou Yutong's poor performance in this scene.

For example, when playing lovers with Ding Zhi, Zou Yutong can usually give excellent performances.

For example, when we were filming the lingering scene on a rainy night a while ago, there was obviously no nudity, but Zou Yutong's slight bite of his red lips brought the erotic tension to the extreme. It can be said to be a stroke of genius.

But scenes like this "caught in bed" are often NG.

"Actually, you are a little too protective of Xiaotong."

"..."

In fact, according to Ding Zhi's previous training of Zhu Yilong or Jiang Luxia, it was a piece of cake.

In fact, he also knew how to solve Zou Yutong's problem.

To put it bluntly, I doted on Miss Zou a little too much. Even if I was acting, I didn't really want to make her feel that kind of hurt.

"Since you two call me Sister Zhu, then leave it to me!"

But don’t look at Zhu Zhu, who is always very charming when acting, but in fact, in private, she has a charming and soft temper. I don’t know if she has studied abroad, and her thinking is a bit Western-style, more or less.

Cheerful and energetic.

Maybe he liked the young couple, or he simply admired Ding Zhi, but he took them all over.

Hence the scene that Zou Yutong saw in these days.

"Hey, Sister Zhu, do you think it can be done?"

Perhaps caring leads to confusion, but Ding Zhi, who is obviously very good at "training skills", now has some doubts.

"Hey! Fatty, you said you just saw Xiaotong walking out angrily?"

Zhu Zhumei turned her eyes and looked at Xiaopang.

"It seemed like he was a little angry, but he didn't seem to be angry at all."

"That's ok!"

Zhu Zhu showed a smile, and the shallow pear dimples bloomed on her little face.

"Your sister, I guarantee that this drama will be successful!"

She glanced at Ding Zhina again, who seemed to be frowning.

"Why? Are you still thinking about how to explain it later?"

This is also a problem.

In fact, he wasn't worried that Zou Yutong would be really angry, after all, he and Zhu Zhu didn't really have anything to do with each other.

He was a little worried that Zou Yutong's self-esteem would be frustrated when he knew the whole story.

Tsk tsk tsk, look at the different treatment.

When he was training other actors, he never considered this issue. The level of ferocity was obvious just by looking at how much older Zhu Yilong was than him. When he met him, he lowered his head and called him brother.

When facing Zou Yutong, he would always consider it a little more. No wonder Zhu Zhu said that he was too fond of Miss Zou.

But now that we have reached this level, we can only go with the flow.