Millennium director

"Move gently, okay!"

"Click! Perfect!"

"Guarantee one more!"

In the studio belonging to "Gravity" at the Huairou Film and Television Base, Gong Li was hanging a wire and skillfully shuttled through the "space station".

Wu Yuan, who was sitting behind the monitor, calmly directed the shooting at each fixed camera position, and accurately captured Gong Li's "space station weightless walking" from multiple angles.

This kind of situation where one actor supports a large number of one-man shows and plays a leading role in the movie is difficult to shoot, and it is easy to say.

It depends on the actor's performance level.

If the performance level is average and you have to perform a lot of one-man shows and inner dramas, it will definitely be a difficult task for the director, and you may only be able to make a little progress in a day.

But if the actor has good acting skills and a thorough understanding of the script, filming will be very easy. Wu Yuan does not need to focus too much on how to guide Gong Li to act well, he only needs to sit behind the monitor and watch her act. If it works, just keep it. If it doesn’t, give me a few pointers and start over.

Under normal circumstances, Gong Li can only NG the same scene twice at most, and the filming can be completed smoothly.

Looking at Gong Li's perfect face on the monitor, Wu Yuan smiled with satisfaction.

The so-called "perfect" does not mean that she is really beautiful and perfect, but that her face is really suitable for the big screen.

In the entertainment industry, there are many types of faces of female stars.

Some people have high-end catfish faces, which are suitable for modeling.

Some people have younger and sweeter faces and are suitable for playing heroines in various idol dramas.

There are also people who are the first love faces of the public. Wu Yuan’s girlfriend is this type and can be the eternal white moonlight in the hearts of countless people.

Gong Li's face, if seen in real life, is a bit too sharp, but in the movie, her face is the most photogenic, a movie face with good bones.

Similar to her, there is International Chapter, who may be too sharp in reality and can find many shortcomings, but on the screen, it is just right and can withstand the close-up after stretching and widening.

How else could they have become Zhang Yimou's mistresses when they were still students?

It is worth mentioning that for the filming of "Gravity" this time, Wu Yuan used a digital camera, which was specially rented from Hollywood.

Six of the most advanced digital cameras at the moment cost US$10,000 a day to rent, six units cost US$60,000, or US$1.8 million a month.

This is still a cheap price. These six machines are all from Fox. Wu Yuan shamelessly got a 50% discount due to his connections. Otherwise, the normal market price is 20,000 US dollars a day for one machine.

For this thing, Fox spent several million dollars to buy it back. It only needs to be rented out for a year or two to repay the money, and the remaining money is pure profit.

If it weren't for the fact that digital cameras have been updated most frequently in the past three to five years, and that technology has grown the fastest, Wu Yuan would have spent the money to buy a few of them if he didn't want to be out of date just a year or two after buying them.

The Light and Shadow Era is not a big company like 20th Century Fox, which can replace a batch of shooting equipment every year or two. He wants to buy the equipment but does not have time to rent it out. He has to use it himself. It is too expensive to replace a batch every two to three years. .

In the short term, Wu Yuan only plans to rent them first. When the level of digital cameras has reached a peak in a few years, he will directly buy a batch for long-term use.

In the evening, the crew called it a day.

After switching to a digital camera, it was indeed a lot more convenient. At least Wu Yuan could check the material directly without having to wait for the film to be developed before he could see the finished film.

Wu Yuan also checked the materials taken today and prepared to go back to the hotel to rest.

Although the crew was filming in Beijing, for the convenience of commuting, all members of the crew still lived in a hotel in Huairou that provided accommodation services for major crews.

However, when he was about to return to the hotel, a young man who had been waiting outside the studio immediately stopped him.

"Director Li Yang?"

"How did you come?"

Wu Yuan was a little surprised when he looked at Li Yang, who was wearing glasses and looking like a scholar. Shouldn't he be busy with the casting preparations for "Those Years" right now?

"Director Wu, do you have time?" Li Yang asked awkwardly.

Ten minutes later, the two of them sat down in a private room of a coffee shop in Huairou.

After Wu Yuan simply ordered a cup of coffee, he waited quietly for Li Yang to speak, wondering what was wrong with him.

"Director Wu, it's like this." Li Yang thought about it for a moment and then said slowly: "The casting for "Those Years" has almost been completed."

"The male classmates who are best friends in the protagonist's class are played by Shi Xiaolong, Hao Shaowen, Xie Miao and two professional supporting actors from Hong Kong."

"This is the male protagonist."

He was hesitant and couldn't tell who he chose as the leading actor. This made Wu Yuan frown. He had never noticed that Li Yang was such a mother-in-law before?

Under the pressure of Wu Yuan's dissatisfied eyes, Li Yang said hesitantly: "Well, I want to use Zhu Yawen as the male lead. Zhu Yawen's role is very good, and his image is very suitable for Ke Jingteng. He has that A naughty and mischievous spirit."

Wu Yuan's brows were still furrowed, Zhu Yawen.

This is really a familiar name.

Wu Yuan was very impressed by him when he was filming "Your Name".

It's not that his acting is so good that Wu Yuando is amazed, but when he is on the set, as long as there is a scene involving Liu Yifei, Zhu Yawen will definitely be seen.

Anyone who is not a fool can tell on the set of "Your Name" that Zhu Yawen has a crush on Liu Yifei.

To be precise, it's not a secret love but an explicit love. Maybe he is the only one who feels that his secret love is well hidden.

In the past, Wu Yuan didn't care. After all, in his eyes, this was just the beginning of love among young people.

But now Liu Yifei is Wu Yuan's girlfriend. If Zhu Yawen and Liu Yifei play the male and female protagonists together, wouldn't this be disrespectful to him?

However, he should be the only one who knows this matter. Why does Li Yang still look like he is afraid of offending himself?

Could it be that Li Yang already knew about his relationship with Liu Yifei?

Before Wu Yuan's expression changed drastically, Li Yang said first: "Um, Director Wu, I know that there is a big gap between Zhu Yawen's position and Liu Yifei's."

"Zhu Yawen is indeed not worthy of Liu Yifei. He feels a little wronged by Liu Yifei for him to play the male lead."

Wu Yuan suddenly realized that this was what he meant!

After Liu Yifei starred in "Your Name", she was indeed burdened with achievements that were beyond her age, so much so that she couldn't even get a suitable script and crossed over to sing.

After all, you can't find an actor in domestic entertainment who can play with her, a heroine with a box office of nearly 2 billion.

At 19 years old, her acting career is not as broad as Gong Li's. She can play opposite high-ranking male actors such as Zhao Ge and Hua Zai (the main reason is that she is too young, so she can play the daughter of both of them).

This makes Liu Yifei now famous in terms of fame, but her position in the industry is very awkward. She can't get up and down. Li Yang is also struggling with how to arrange the actors to play opposite her.

He said melancholy: "But I auditioned many actors in the past two days. At least among mainland actors, he is the most suitable."

"If the scope is expanded to cross-strait and three places, Hong Kong Island's Nicholas Tse and Chen Guanxi are also quite suitable."

"But even between the two of them, there is actually some gap between their status and Liu Yifei's."

"I feel that since no matter who I choose, no one is worthy of Liu Yifei's current status, it would be better to use Zhu Yawen. At least he is the most suitable in terms of image."

"And his Mandarin has no accent. Our movie is a mainland campus drama. We need a Hong Kong actor to play the role. We also need to do dubbing in the post-production process. The lip syncs will not be matched."

Whether it is Nicholas Tse or Chen Guanxi, their current Mandarin is very bad, and they are about the same level as Zha Zhahui.

Even if dubbing can be done later, the mouth shape may not be completely correct by then.

For a movie, this is a huge flaw, and any director striving for perfection would be dissatisfied.

In his heart, Li Yang still prefers to use Zhu Yawen, but Zhu Yawen is the least popular among the three.

Let’s not mention the idea that Hong Kong and Taiwan stars are automatically superior to mainland stars.

In addition to the second male lead in "Your Name" who had very few roles, Zhu Yawen has only acted in one movie that cost 20 million and failed at the box office, as well as one TV series. Recently, he has starred in "Enter Guandong" , there are no other works besides this.

Nicholas Tse and Edison Chen both walk on two legs, and the music and film industries have developed together. They have both starred in several movies that were popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Their development prospects are better and their popularity is higher.

Li Yang felt that if he were from the perspective of Wu Yuan as an investor, he would definitely choose Nicholas Tse and Chen Guanxi instead of Zhu Yawen.

But he was wrong again.

Fortunately for Nicholas Tse, although he was in a relationship with a diva who was much older than him, he had nothing wrong with his art and morals. The biggest problem was that he later became obsessed with cooking and had no intention of developing an acting career.

But Teacher Chen was different. In two years, a XX sect exploded the entertainment circles on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, and his own stardom was completely destroyed.

This impact is comparable to the terrible things Ke Zhen'e, Ke Jingteng's original protagonist, did. How could Wu Yuan find him to play "Those Years".

As for choosing one of Zhu Yawen and Nicholas Tse to play "Those Years", personal feelings aside, but in terms of actor image, there is no doubt that Zhu Yawen is more suitable.

His face has a ruffian look to it, and he is still considered a sunny man. Although he is not a handsome guy at first sight, he becomes more and more attractive the more he looks at him.

It can be said that he is very similar to the original protagonist in every aspect, and choosing him is the most likely to make "Those Years" a success again.

Wu Yuan also became confused.

He hesitated for a moment, but still did not reply to Li Yang on the spot, "I will go back and think about it. You should prepare other things for the crew first, select the filming location as soon as possible, and put up the frame."

Out of respect for his girlfriend's thoughts, Wu Yuan felt that he should go back and chat with Liu Yifei to see what she thought.

In fact, it would be okay to let Zhu Yawen and Liu Yifei play together. Wu Yuan's version of "Those Years" followed a pure love route. Not to mention kissing scenes, there were only one or two hugging scenes between the two.

The whole movie follows the path of a pure campus youth story. It does not show any blood or rely on passionate drama to attract attention, and Zhu Yawen cannot take advantage of it.

Moreover, Wu Yuan will also go to the crew for a period of time as a producer. When Zhu Yawen sees the intimate behavior between him and Liu Yifei, I am afraid that he himself will have to be heartbroken first, right?

Stroking his chin, Wu Yuan began to recall.

By the way, when did Zhu Yawen get along with his future wife?

Ah, why can’t I remember such a crucial thing?

It's all Zhu Yawen's fault. He has been in the industry for more than ten years and has yet to become popular. Marketing accounts don't even bother to pay attention to his private life!

From the 1st to the 7th, there will be 3 chapters updated every day, of which 3 days are the normal three chapters per day, 3 days are for participating in the event with 1500 monthly tickets to add three chapters (one chapter added every day), and one more chapter on the last day The chapter is to make up for the missed update today (because it’s past 12 o’clock)

In short, I will try my best to update it, and I won’t play it during the holidays.