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Hu Ge gave Wu Yuan a big surprise.

His counter-acting was really spot on.

In Wu Yuan's version of "Your Name", there are more male protagonists than female protagonists in this part of the plot. In fact, this is also the case in the original version.

Because there is a line on the male protagonist's side where the heroine helps the male protagonist chase the senior college student in the restaurant, so there are a lot of cross-cutting plots on the male protagonist's side.

As for the heroine, most of the negative content is fragmented plots, such as touching her breasts, sitting in wild postures, playing basketball with boys, etc.

There aren't many coherent, story-telling counter-plots.

The heroine's story line is mainly her own story.

Although Wu Yuan greatly changed the line of the temple, he also changed the so-called "knotting gods" and "guiding spirits" that are very Japanese-style.

But the heroine's story line is still very full, including her life in a rural town, her male classmate who has a crush on him, her mood swinging between wanting to live in a big city and inheriting the family business, and the emotional conflict with her father. , the relationship with grandma, etc...

It is precisely by focusing more on the heroine's life and the peaceful and peaceful town that the subsequent plot of the meteorite destroying the town makes the audience worried and reluctant to see it, and allows the hero to save the heroine and the town across time and space. The plot becomes meaningful and valuable.

Only by taking the audience to understand this paradise-like town, the life of the heroine, her friends, relatives, and simple townspeople, and making the audience fall in love with this paradise, can the audience later reveal that everything has been destroyed. There is a sense of emotional disparity.

Wu Yuan, who has been a director for so many years and has watched so many classic movies, has a deep self-understanding of script structure and knows how a movie can attract the audience's emotions through its "ups and downs".

Therefore, this line on the heroine's side, like the original version of "Your Name", is mostly the life she has experienced herself, not the hero who has changed her soul.

In comparison, nearly half of the male protagonist's scenes are in a reverse role, and he has to have some stories with the female seniors in the restaurant as the heroine.

Hu Ge can perform the reverse role very well, which will naturally make Wu Yuan very satisfied with him.

After the two of them finished their audition, Wu Yuan immediately asked curiously: "Have you ever practiced this cross-dressing?"

"I don't think this is your first time playing a female role."

Hu Ge scratched his head and said honestly: "In school, teachers teach how to liberate nature, and one of the methods is to cross-dress women more often."

"The teacher said that for a new actor to have a man play the role of a woman, it is something that a new actor cannot be ashamed of and cannot let go of."

"If you can completely let go and act as a woman, then you can liberate your nature."

For actors, the so-called liberation of nature, to put it bluntly, means losing face.

Nortel's actors teach students to liberate their nature by asking them to play animals, such as imitating a frog's "croak" and imitating a toad's lying movements, and they have to do it in front of the whole class.

Is this behavior shameful?

It must be embarrassing, especially for female classmates.

But after being embarrassed, most of the students have given up. If they play more clowns, they won't have any pressure, and their nature will be liberated.

This is also the reason why the teacher in the drama asked the students to play the role.

It is very shameful and shameless for a grown man to pretend to be a woman in front of his classmates. If he can do this and accept it calmly, he has completed the liberation of his nature.

"I think it's interesting to play girls, so I have observed some female classmates in private and tried to imitate their expressions and movements."

Hu Ge smiled naively: "I didn't expect this to be really useful.

Hey, this kid really got lucky.

Wu Yuan laughed and shook his head: "The acting is good, and Yuan Hong's acting is also good."

"You two should go back to the reception room and wait for the announcement."

Cai Yinong, who knew the inside story, was very satisfied and said to the two of them: "Go ahead."

After watching the two of them leave the audition room, Sun Li's one-man show came next.

Wu Yuan really didn't have much expectations for her.

In fact, Sun Li's performance was just as he thought.

The acting skills are really good, and the expression and state that should be given can be given.

But Sun Li just looks like Xiaojiabiyu. She really doesn't have that "heartthrob" style.

Some roles really require someone with a specific image to play them.

Cai Yinong also felt that Wu Yuan was not satisfied with Sun Li, so after she finished her performance, he waved her to leave first.

"Director Wu, the actors have finished auditioning, so I should go back to the reception room first?"

As a smart person, Cai Yinong did not take the initiative to ask Wu Yuan if he had decided on Hu Ge as the male lead, even though she heard Wu Yuan muttered to himself just now, "It's just the two of them."

"Well, by the way, help me call Liu Yifei and her classmates."

"OK."

Cai Yinong opened the door and left the audition room.

A few minutes later, Luo Jin, Zhu Yawen, Zhou Yang, Cao Zheng, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli walked into the audition room together.

Only Liu Yifei brought her family members, mainly because she was under 18 years old and her guardian needed to sign when signing the contract, and her mother was also her manager.

Not only were the other classmates over 18 years old, but they were not signed to a company or had an agent to guide them, so they came to the audition with their legs hanging down.

His eyes stayed on Zhu Yawen's face for a moment longer before Wu Yuan nodded at them.

"Come and get the audition script."

According to different roles, Wu Yuan distributed the scripts to several people.

Liu Yifei auditioned for the female lead, Zhu Yawen auditioned for the male lead, Luo Jin auditioned for the male lead's classmate Xiao Zhang, Cao Zheng auditioned for the male lead's other classmate Xiao Wei, and Zhou Yang auditioned for the female lead's classmate and childhood friend Xiao Wei.

They were all very familiar with each other. After getting the script, they split into two sides and started to play against each other.

The script that Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, and Cao Zheng received was the same plot as the previous one by Hu Ge, and it was precisely because of the same that Wu Yuan could make a comparison.

What Zhou Yang and Liu Yifei got was a plot of the two having a heart-to-heart talk on the way to school.

In addition, Liu Yifei will also try out a reverse role alone.

Although her role in the role does not have many roles, and they are all quite fragmented, she still needs to be open-minded to be able to perform well. Wu Yuan still had to watch her try it out in person before he could rest assured.

Wu Yuan also gave both groups of actors fifteen minutes of preparation time, and then they started auditioning.

The first team to appear was Zhu Yawen. He was very excited when he got the male lead script. He thought carefully about it and wanted to win this role with the determination to win.

However, his performance disappointed Wu Yuan.

Zhu Yawen really let go, without any restraint, and tried her best to perform as a woman.

But, the traces of his performance are too heavy.

It just gives people the impression that this is a man playing a woman at a glance, rather than really thinking that he is a girl.

In fact, Wu Yuan mentioned it to him.

When rehearsing the drama before, he had talked with Zhu Yawen. In his new movie, the male protagonist and the female protagonist have exchanged bodies, so they have to perform a drama where the body is a man and the soul is indeed a woman.

If he wants to win this role, he needs to learn how to play the role of a girl.

Zhu Yawen also followed Wu Yuan's request to observe and imitate the movements and expressions of some female classmates in school.

But maybe it’s because Hu Ge has been studying this aspect longer than Zhu Yawen, so he went on the show to arrange exercises for male students to cross-dress girls’ liberating nature, which is indeed a mistake.

This makes Hu Ge's performance less and less traced because he has practiced more, and his sense of immersion is getting better and better, making him appear to be a better actor.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Xiao Zhu, it's not that I won't give you a chance." Wu Yuan sighed in his heart.

It seems that Zhu Yawen not only has a crush on Liu Yifei in life, but will also continue to have a crush on her in the movie this time.

After Zhu Yawen's audition ended, Wu Yuan was silent for a long time and hesitantly took out another script from the drawer.

To be honest, Wu Yuan didn't want to give this role to Zhu Yawen.

Ever since the last drama performance, when Wu Yuan noticed something was wrong with the way Zhu Yawen looked at Liu Yifei, he carefully recalled some details he had not noticed during the previous rehearsals.

For example, Zhu Yawen's excessive enthusiasm and care for Liu Yifei, some subconscious protective actions, and careful behavior.

In the past, Wu Yuan only thought that this was normal help between classmates, but after discovering that something was wrong with Zhu Yawen, Wu Yuan understood that he had been trapped for a long time!

But Wu Yuan could also see that Liu Yifei deliberately kept a distance from Zhu Yawen, whether when rehearsing the play or when getting along in private.

At best, this is just unrequited love. Liu Yifei's love for Zhu Yawen does not exceed the boundaries of classmate friendship.

It would be better if he plays the male lead. Most of the male lead's scenes in "Your Name" have to be filmed in the capital, while the female lead's scenes have to be filmed in a small mountain town in the southwestern province of China.

The two only acted together in the last three or five scenes, so there were not many opportunities to stay together.

In fact, he didn't have many opportunities to play opposite Liu Yifei, and he didn't spend much time together.

But the role of the heroine classmate is different. Basically, the scenes she appears are with the heroine.

This character also has a crush on the heroine!

If Zhu Yawen was asked to play the role of Liu Yifei who has a crush on Liu Yifei, Wu Yuan was afraid that he would really be unable to get out of the drama and would be trapped deeper and deeper.

Wu Yuan glanced guiltily at Liu Xiaoli, who was standing next to Liu Yifei and quietly watching her play with Zhou Yang.

If Zhu Yawen was impulsive and did something outrageous on the set, he wouldn't know how it would end.

But seeing Zhu Yawen's hopeful eyes, and thinking of how hard he had been working in the past few months to get the qualification to audition for Wu Yuan's new movie, Wu Yuan still softened his heart and handed him the script.

"You should try this role again."

Facts have proved that the directors of "Crossing the Guandong" and "Red Sorghum" had the right vision, and so did Wu Yuan.

Zhu Yawen plays this kind of sunny dog ​​licking.

That's called a lifelike image.

What does it mean to act in your true colors!

The heroine's classmate, a mysterious mechanical geek, has complicated feelings about his father, who is engaged in the local construction industry, and is very concerned about the heroine's affairs.

Except for the father part, the other descriptions are simply Zhu Yawen himself!

Zhu Yawen also likes machinery, or most men have a mechanical obsession.

Come on.

After watching Zhu Yawen audition for this role, Wu Yuan no longer hesitated, it was just him!

In addition to him, Luo Jin, Cao Zheng, and Zhou Yang are all fine and can all perform their respective roles.

As for the most important heroine Liu Yifei, she also lived up to Wu Yuan's expectations. The 16-year-old Luo Sanye was fully capable of acting in her true colors.

Playing the opposite role of the male protagonist Lin Wenjie, she was also able to let go. The way she sat on the chair with her legs crossed was a little funny, but it was not dramatic.

Wu Yuan's special training for half a year was still very effective.

"Director Wu, can I act well?" After the audition, Liu Yifei blinked her big eyes and asked anxiously.

"Not bad." Wu Yuan nodded with a smile and looked around. Every actor was looking at him nervously.

"You've all passed. Go to the office next door to sign the contract later."

"Ahhhhh!" Liu Yifei suddenly jumped up and hugged Liu Xiaoli: "Mom! I want to play the heroine of Director Wu's movie!"

"Yeah, our Sissi is great!" Liu Xiaoli fondly stroked the back of Liu Yifei's head and looked at Wu Yuan with gratitude.

She observed Wu Yuan for a long time today and found nothing special about Wu Yuan towards Liu Yifei. He neither looked at her frequently nor treated her specially.

This reassured Liu Xiaoli a lot. It seemed that Wu Yuan didn't have any thoughts about his daughter.

Don't blame Liu Xiaoli for thinking wildly. As the mainland entertainment industry boomed in the 1990s, there have been many scandals in this industry.

There are endless directors and producers of all kinds who like unspoken rules.

Although Wu Yuan is young, handsome and has high achievements, this does not mean that Liu Xiaoli is willing to let her daughter accept his unspoken rules for the sake of being the heroine of one of his movies.

Fortunately, now it seems that she misunderstood.

Liu Xiaoli finally let go of her love for her daughter.

"Okay, you go next door to sign the contract first. I have other actors to audition." Wu Yuan waved his hand and drove out these escaping young people unceremoniously.

Next, he tried Chen Hao again. The actor with a background in Chinese opera is really nothing to say. He can play a heartthrob. Playing a big sister who can make high school students faint is a piece of cake.

What troubles Wu Yuan the most is the heroine's sister Siye.

The news that Wu Yuan needs a girl around 10 years old to star in his new movie has indeed spread throughout the Beijing circle.

Many young actors came to audition today. Most of them are children of employees of Beijing Film Studio or China Film, Youth Factory, and Beijing Translation Factory.

Ten-year-old girls are indeed cute, but if you want to say how talented they are in acting, that's nonsense.

Wu Yuan met more than a dozen of them in a row. Apart from their different looks, their acting skills were almost the same, and there was no distinction between them.

This asked him to choose one among them, and he also had some difficulty in choosing.

It seems that anyone can be chosen, and it seems that no one can be chosen.

It wasn't until a little girl named Yang Niao appeared that he was cured of his difficulty in choosing.

Yang Niao's mother is a voice actor. Through a friend's relationship, she found out that Wu Yuan was short of a young actor, so she brought her daughter to audition.

Although her daughter is young and has not even passed her 11th birthday yet, she has already acted in "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang".

But this is not the point. The point is that Wu Yuan knows this little girl named Yang Niao.

A year later, this little girl will play the role of Xiaoxue in "Family with Children" and will change her stage name.

Yes, her stage name is Yang Zi!

Wu Yuan didn't know the other young actors who came to audition, but when he saw Yang Niao also came to audition, Wu Yuan would definitely choose her.

Since I don’t have any acting skills anyway, I might as well choose someone I know.

In this way, after Yang Ni'ao was cast as Yotsuba, all the roles in "Your Name" were confirmed.

When the actors were all confirmed and the contracts were signed, Wu Yuan sent them all the scripts, and then set off again and left the capital.

Wu Yuan's assistant director, as early as a month ago, took his orders to visit several provinces in southwestern China.

According to the script of "Your Name", the heroine's small town needs to be in a beautiful mountain basin, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and preferably a large lake.

This makes it easier to handle the special effects of meteorites falling in the later stage, and the small town surrounded by mountains and rivers is indeed beautiful.

Fortunately, China is a vast land with abundant resources, and you can find all kinds of scenery.

Wu Yuan's assistant director quickly found a suitable location in Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, and Guizhou Province, and it was up to Wu Yuan to make the decision himself.

Wu Yuan did make a trip in person. After visiting three small towns with their own styles, he finally chose a small town in Yunnan Province.

This town is right next to Erhai Lake and surrounded by Cangshan Mountain. Half of the town is at the foot of the mountain and half of the town is on the mountainside. It fits the appearance of the heroine's town in "Your Name" in his memory.

After settling on this place, Wu Yuan applied for a filming permit with the General Administration and asked the assistant director to discuss filming matters with the local government.

For a great director like Wu Yuan, no matter where he wants to film, the local area will definitely give him the green light to support it. All processes that others may think are very cumbersome are handled quickly and smoothly.

On August 10th, Wu Yuan rushed back to the capital after a long journey.

All preparatory work before the start of filming has been completed, and the crew of nearly 80 people is already in place.

Taking advantage of the summer vacation before it was over, Wu Yuan directly booked a hotel in Beijing and called all the actors into the group.

There were still no superstitious rituals such as beheading a chicken or lifting a red cloth. After Wu Yuan asked the coordinator to give everyone in the crew a 50 yuan red envelope, "Your Name" officially started filming!

The first scene that the crew started filming was arranged in a coffee shop in Dongcheng, Beijing.

This scene is the plot after the actor Lin Wenjie and the heroine Luo Sanye swap bodies for the first time.

Sanye, who thought she was dreaming, came to a coffee shop that she had always wanted to visit but had never been to. Everything here felt novel.

How to show the contrast between a country girl's longing for a big city and the real "high prices" in a big city is a test for Hu Ge.

He, Yuan Hong and Luo Jin sat at a table in the center of the cafe, nervously and expectantly waiting for the order to start filming.

Behind the monitor in the corner of the coffee shop, Wu Yuan sat lazily on the director's chair and looked at Liu Yifei, who was standing next to him, with some confusion.

"Sissi, there's no show for you today, what are you doing here?"

"Brother, didn't you tell me that when you are on the set, you should also follow the set when there is no scene, and actively observe and learn the shooting experience and skills of other actors."

Liu Yifei stared at Wu Yuan with her big eyes, her eyes were so pure, as if she was saying, "I lied to you that you are a puppy."

Glancing at Liu Xiaoli who was standing with the drama staff not far away, Wu Yuan rubbed the root of his nose.

"Okay, that's what I said."

No longer worrying about this, Wu Yuan picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Every unit is ready!"

“One scene at a time!”

"Action!"

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