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[Celebrating More Than Years] is a male-oriented online novel about time travel published by writer Mao Ni in 2007.

This theme was not new at the time, and many people wrote it, but [Celebrating More Than Years] has its merits both in terms of story and setting.

First of all, in terms of setting, the protagonist is a modern young man named Fan Shen, who is a patient with myasthenia gravis. After his death, his soul traveled through time and was attached to a newborn baby. This baby is Fan Xian from the ancient Qing Kingdom.

However, the ancient times that the protagonist's soul traveled through are not strictly ancient times, but the era rebuilt after the destruction of nuclear war.

According to the setting of the novel, the nuclear war caused human civilization to encounter an unprecedented fault. The surviving humans at that time built a military museum (commonly known as a temple) underground in the Arctic, and after thousands of years or even longer, the ground developed into a mixed civilization system such as slave feudal city-states.

After that, no matter how it develops, it will be secretly stopped by the temple, because the temple believes that if humans develop to the high-tech era again, it is inevitable that a nuclear war will happen again to destroy humanity, so the development of humans on the ground stagnates at this period.

According to the routine of general novels, after the soul travels to ancient times, the protagonist naturally has to use his thinking and knowledge that are different from those of ancient people to gain benefits or even pretend to be awesome and reach the peak of life.

The author Mao Ni has a very big imagination. He arranged a mother who is also a traveler for the male protagonist-Ye Qingmei.

Ye Qingmei is a female doctor of engineering who traveled to a girl in the temple. Because she was tired of the boring life in the temple, she fled with a robot named Wuzhu, a heavy sniper and several martial arts secrets.

Relying on her own cognition that surpasses others, Ye Qingmei founded the Ye Family Chamber of Commerce and made it a rich existence that rivals a country. In the middle, she also met Emperor Qing, Fan Jian and Chen Pingping, who would shake the Qing Kingdom three times when they stomped their feet.

Fan Xian is the child of Ye Qingmei and Emperor Qing.

However, Emperor Qing is a scumbag, a pure political creature. For him, power is above everything. Ye Qingmei, who has modern ideas, threatens his rule, so he cooperates with the temple to plan Ye Qingmei's death.

Against this background, the hero's soul travels through Fan Xian, and at the same time inherits all the social relationships of his mother Ye Qingmei, who travels through time.

When the emperor's biological father Emperor Qing, the adoptive father Fan Jian, the Minister of Household Affairs, the godfather Chen Pingping, the president of the procuratorate, and a robot Uncle Wu Zhu.

Fan Xian was born with the strongest background in the world.

In fact, [Celebrating Yu Nian] can also be called [Fan Xian's "Near Missing Danger" Record of Fighting for Daddy].

No matter how big the danger is, with the connections left by his mother and his "dads", he can finally get out of danger.

".Fan Xian is not a native. He has a complete outlook on life and the world. Although he has a deep background, he was not clear at the beginning.

The first half of his life was arranged by others. He had no childhood, no youth, and he was always working hard to practice martial arts.

Even before he had mastered his martial arts, someone came to assassinate him, so he had a strong sense of crisis, and he had to continue to grow in order to cope with these crises and difficulties.

His adoptive father wanted him to manage the inner treasury, his godfather wanted him to manage the Inspection Institute, and his biological father wanted him to manage the court.

Fan Xian spent the first half of his life trying to grow up in order to get rid of these shackles. He wanted to live in his own way and live a life that truly belonged to him."

In the crew of [Celebrating Yu Nian] in Hengdian, the main creators were reading the script, and Gu Wei expressed his understanding of the character.

"What do you think is the most important point in playing the role of Fan Xian?" asked Chen Daoming, who was sitting opposite.

"Superiority and growth!" Gu Wei said without hesitation.

"Superiority?"

"Yes, no matter what, Fan Xian is a modern soul who traveled through ancient times. Even if he encountered various difficulties and setbacks, he still had a modern sense of superiority in his bones. This needs to be subtly expressed in his words and deeds."

Chen Daoming thought about it and nodded in agreement.

"Then how do you think the role of Emperor Qing should be played better?"

Gu Wei smiled bitterly: "Teacher Chen, you are a master in acting and a professional emperor. Emperor Qing is a piece of cake for you. It is easy to grasp the essence of the character."

"You are the producer and the leading actor of the TV series. I want to know what you think of this role?"

Gu Wei thought about it: "Emperor Qing is a more traditional feudal emperor. This person cannot be simply evaluated by good or bad.

From the fact that he was able to win Ye Qingmei's heart and then designed to kill her, it can be seen that Emperor Qing is a person who values ​​power above all else and is extremely selfish.

Everything he does is to consolidate his own power.

For him, whether it is his own son or Fan Xian, the illegitimate son, they are nothing more than pawns."

From the director's perspective, script reading is very important for filming.

It can help the main creators sort out the plot and understand the characters, and it can also let the director know whether the actor's understanding of the role is in line with his wishes.

And it is also a channel for everyone to get to know each other.

[Celebrating More Than Years] is a play by Gu Wei's own company, and he knows most of the main actors, such as Da Tiantian, Xin Zhilei who filmed [Life Events] together in the first half of the year, his own artist Xiaotian, and Huang Mengying who plays "Si Lili".

That's right, Huang Mengying was finally decided to play Si Lili.

This role is considered a relatively important female supporting role in the first part of [Celebrating More Than Years].

When casting, Gu Wei recommended several candidates, and finally director Sun Hao decided on Huang Mengying.

It’s not surprising, Huang Mengying is very beautiful, and there is no problem in her image or acting to play a courtesan.

She and Li Chun, who played Si Lili in the original version, should be regarded as actors of similar types.

They have played the same role before, the villain Su Jin in [Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms], but Huang Mengying played the drama version and Li Chun played the film version.

After the script reading meeting of the main creators, everyone stood up and left one after another.

“In fact, with your current fame and status, you can play fewer idol dramas and challenge more profound roles and scripts.”

Although Chen Daoming is working with Gu Wei for the first time, the two have known each other before.

He is actually very optimistic about Gu Wei. He is a unique young male actor born in the 1990s in the domestic entertainment industry and is definitely a young force in the entertainment industry.

“I know that there are actually very few idol dramas being filmed now. During this period, I have taken on some very interesting film and television dramas.” Gu Wei said and smiled.

"However, Mr. Chen, I am still young and I can't say when I will continue to shoot idol dramas.

I think that I should play different roles at different ages. I may say goodbye to this type of drama when I get older, so it doesn't matter if I play more now, after all, the audience likes to watch it."

"Haha, you are right. As long as the audience likes it, who cares what type it is.

But if you want to hone your acting skills, you still have to go in the direction of serious dramas."

After Gu Wei joined the crew, the main creators of [Celebrating Yu Nian] were basically all present.

Although the drama has not started filming yet, the attention it has received is unprecedentedly high, mainly because there are too many big-name stars in the main creators.

The male lead Gu Wei and the female lead Jing Tian are working together for the second time after [Si Teng].

Old actors Chen Daoming and Wu Gang, as well as the still charming Li Xiaoran, the young master of Deyun Club Guo Qilin and other stars, can be said to be a gathering of stars.

On August 23, the crew held a start-up ceremony in Hengdian.

After worshiping gods and burning incense, the media present came over to start interviewing.

Without a doubt, Gu Wei and Jing Tian are the focus of everyone's interviews.

"I like the original novel of "Joy of Life" very much. In fact, I bought the adaptation rights a few years ago, but I have never found the time to do this project.

Fan Xian is a very interesting character. I have played many costume dramas before, such as "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", "Do You Know?" and the currently popular "Eastern Palace", but Fan Xian is different from the male protagonists in these dramas. He is a time traveler, a modern person's soul travels to ancient times.

When I was a child, I watched "A Step into the Past" played by Louis Koo, and I liked Xiang Shaolong in it very much. Now filming "Joy of Life" can be regarded as fulfilling one of my childhood wishes."

"Why did you choose Jing Tian to play the heroine?" A reporter asked after Gu Wei finished speaking.

"I think Tiantian is suitable!

When I filmed [Si Teng] with her, although she played a queen-type role in it, her personal personality was not that type. I still understand her better after such a long time of contact.

When I started preparing for [Joy of Life], I thought of Tiantian for the role of "Lin Wan'er" at the first time. I feel that her personality is very similar to hers, and it will be easy to play."

After Gu Wei finished speaking, Jing Tian smiled and said, "I feel that Gu Wei may have been abused when filming [Si Teng], and this time he found a chance to make up for it.

After all, Lin Wan'er is weak."

After she finished speaking, everyone laughed.

There are many reporters here today. Although the main focus is on Gu Wei and Jing Tian, ​​others have been asked more or less, and even the less famous Xiao Tian was asked a question.

"It is well known that your father has acted in many bad movies. What is the reason for you not to continue to perform crosstalk and come out to film? We all know that you have not learned acting professionally and systematically."

It was the turn of the reporter from Shanghai Weekly. This reporter asked Guo Qilin a question that made him very embarrassed.

Guo Qilin had not actually performed any serious plays before "Joy of Life". He had been doing crosstalk in Deyun Club, or appearing in some comedy variety shows, such as "Happy Comedian" and "Comedy League".

The only two movies he had participated in were "Crosstalk Movie: I Want Happiness" and "19th Generation of Ancestors" directed by Guo Degang, which were pure bad movies.

Due to the relationship between his stepmother and younger brother, Guo Qilin felt that it was more and more difficult to take over after he grew up. Crosstalk might not be a long-term solution, so he wanted to develop in the film and television industry, but it was difficult to find the right opportunity.

He was a little surprised to receive the invitation from "Wei Ming Tianxia" this time, but he also cherished this opportunity very much.

"This." Guo Qilin hadn't thought about what to say yet, and Gu Wei interrupted him.

"Let me tell you.

Actually, I made the decision to choose Qilin.

I have a very good relationship with Brother Qian and we have always been in contact. He often mentioned Qilin, his apprentice, in front of me.

I have also seen Qilin's performances before.

I think his image, including the way he speaks and the feeling he gives people, is very suitable for the role of "Fan Sizhe", so I asked him to audition. Facts have proved that Qilin has a talent for acting.

I believe that his performance of "Fan Sizhe" will give everyone a surprise!"

Gu Wei's words were considered to be a relief for Guo Qilin. After he finished speaking, Guo Qilin looked at him with gratitude.

"My master told me before I came here that I would mainly learn from Brother Wei.

The crew is full of my predecessors and teachers. I will definitely ask for advice humbly and try not to hold everyone back."

Guo Qilin said very modestly. He has a very high emotional intelligence. His performance in dealing with people after joining the crew has indeed been recognized by many people.

"Since I chose you to play my brother, you must be the most suitable!" Gu Wei encouraged.

"I work hard on my acting skills, but the aspect that puts the most pressure on me is my appearance. It's not very credible to say that we are brothers."

"I was adopted~"

Guo Qilin glanced at Gu Wei and then at Tian Xiwei.

"In the play, Fan Xian is an adopted son, and Fan Ruoruo and I are biological siblings. However, judging from our looks, I am the adopted son. Brother Wei, you and Tian Xiwei are biological siblings."

After Guo Qilin finished speaking, everyone around him laughed.

Comedies always have a sense of humor in them. Guo Qilin has been exposed to humor since he was a child.

"Excuse me, Gu Wei, what do you think of the movie [Shanghai Fortress] that was released some time ago?"

The "Shanghai Fortress" bust has been a hot topic recently, and reporters also want to know what Gu Wei, the main creator of "The Wandering Earth", thinks about this matter.

“I can only say it’s a pity.

From my personal perspective and that of Chinese science fiction films, I very much hope that [Shanghai Fortress] will succeed.

The progress of Chinese science fiction movies cannot be driven by one excellent movie. Everyone always says that "The Wandering Earth" opens the door to Chinese science fiction movies, and it will ultimately open the door. How far it can go depends on one after another of the same excellence in the future. Only domestic science fiction movies will do.

As the saying goes, "One flower blooming alone is not spring, but a hundred flowers blooming together fills the garden."

Unfortunately, the filming of [Shanghai Fortress] was indeed disappointing.

I also went to the cinema to watch this movie, and it failed to meet expectations in terms of plot and special effects. There are so many negative reviews from public opinion because everyone's expectations were too high, resulting in a huge gap! "

Gu Wei's evaluation is relatively objective. Now that the movie has been released, he has no scruples and can say whatever he wants.

"Director Teng Huatao said that he chose the wrong Lu Han. Now many netizens believe that Lu Han should bear the main responsibility for the failure of [Shanghai Fortress]. Do you agree with this?"

After Gu Wei finished speaking, the reporter from Southern Metropolis Daily asked.

With his keen sense of news, he felt that Gu Wei's answer to this question was likely to be explosive.

"That's nonsense!" Gu Wei paused and said with a frown.

"I don't deny that Lu Han is responsible for the failure of [Shanghai Fortress]. After all, he is the leading actor. It is normal for his poor acting skills to cause the movie to be unsightly and to be scolded by netizens.

But to say that the failure of [Shanghai Fortress] was due to Lu Han's relationship, people who hold this view are either purely ignorant or have bad intentions.

In addition to being an actor, I am also a director, and I also work part-time as a producer and supervisor.

So I know very well that the completion of a movie is the result of the joint efforts of many parties, from screenwriters, directors, cameramen, actors to editors, dubbing and soundtrack, etc. All of them are indispensable.

The domestic film and television industry is a director-centered system. From preparation to final production, only the director has the final say in all aspects.

Including but not limited to, what kind of actors to choose in the early stage, what scenery to use, how to set up the script, how to act the actors, and what shots to choose for final editing. Without any surprises, these are all the director's final say.

Therefore, blaming the failure of a movie on the actors' poor performance is completely a way of passing the blame! "

Gu Wei was very detailed and polite, and everyone could understand what he meant.

After saying this, the reporters present started talking a lot.

Director Sun Hao saw that something was wrong, and when the reporter wanted to continue asking questions, he loudly reminded: "Dear reporter friends, this is the [Qing Yu Nian] interview, please don't ask any irrelevant topics."