Millennium director

A script seminar lasted from 1pm to 6pm.

And this is just the beginning.

Although the story of "Ready Player One" is simple, the stories behind each character are very complicated, and each character's mental journey is also very rich.

Just like Zhu Chuanwei, the founder of Oasis, was a smart boy since childhood, but he knew nothing about socializing and had difficulty talking to people around him.

Despite his high IQ, his academic performance was a mess because he focused on computers, comics, fantasy novels, movies and games, especially games.

In addition to the great game he created, his experience in real life was a mess. He was a typical otaku. He had a girl he liked but didn't dare to take a step to confess to her.

He never married in his life, and was lonely and accompanied by games.

And this "game" is the "Oasis" world he created.

But although this character is lonely and complicated, he also has a soft spot in his heart. Like many people, he once had a crush on a beautiful girl, but he never said this crush until his death, and even designed an Easter egg for her in the game.

This character alone has a very complex personality and mental journey. In order to play this role well, Chen Daoming has to study a lot.

It took him an hour to communicate with Wu Yuan, and he combined his own understanding to have a clear character survey of this character in his mind.

And the roles played by the other leading actors are not simple.

Although the male protagonist Shi Lin is only an 18-year-old boy, he is almost two different faces in real life and in the oasis world.

The reason for this is also closely related to his family growth.

Peng Yuchang, a newcomer, also doesn't know how to grasp the character of this male protagonist.

If these things were to be taught by Wu Yuan after the start of filming, and broken into pieces and fed into Peng Yuchang's mouth, so that he could understand while filming, the filming progress would be delayed.

So Wu Yuan must talk to Peng Yuchang about this character, how to play this character, and how this character's mental journey evolved into this before the start of filming.

This all depends on a series of script reading sessions, where each actor will bring out the parts he doesn't understand, or the differences, and discuss with everyone, and then find the correct way to play, exchange and learn from each other.

This is also the significance of script seminars, or reading sessions.

In the era when filming still required film, NG was not allowed in filming. Every NG would cost the crew a lot of film.

So before the actors officially performed, they had to understand the script thoroughly, and even after countless rehearsals, they would actually start filming.

It was also in this era that the crew would hold script seminars every day, just to make the actors have fewer NGs and understand more when filming.

In the era of digital movies, because filming no longer requires film, digital cameras have directly reduced the cost to a very low level. No matter how many NGs there are, it will only delay a little time, and will not cause much economic loss.

So the major crews will gradually stop holding script seminars, and the situation where it takes three to five years to polish a movie like before is gradually no longer seen.

Wu Yuan is not a conservative person. He now uses digital cameras to shoot movies. He is not like those real art directors who stubbornly believe that only movies shot on film are movies.

But at the same time, he still believes that script seminars are good things and cannot be swept into the garbage dump of the era just because the film era has come to an end.

Therefore, he actively held script seminars for "Ready Player One". From February to March, the main actors held seven or eight seminars together, and then they almost figured out the script. Each leading actor also had a very deep understanding of the role he was going to play.

Old actors such as Chen Daoming and Sun Honglei had no objection to this. Instead, they felt that shooting movies in this way was truly serious production.

But for actors like Zhu Yawen, Jinsha, and Yuan Hong, who can be said to be new-age actors, this is a relatively novel experience.

Overall, everyone is quite satisfied.

Wu Yuan, who has temporarily settled the arrangements for the actors, finally has some free time to care about the company's recent situation.

Since the release of "Dear" in October last year, Wu Yuan has been almost idle, and even didn't pay much attention to last year's award season.

However, his lack of attention does not mean that the company will not pay attention.

Last year, that is, the 2013 award season (October to December), Guangying Times can be said to have a great harvest.

Because last year Guangying Times released a lot of movies, both commercial and art films.

The most important ones are Wu Yuan's "Dear" and "Go Away! Tumor".

These two movies were shortlisted for the Golden Horse, Golden Rooster and Tokyo International Film Festivals during this year's award season.

And the final battle results were also very gratifying.

Although Wu Yuan was busy scouting locations in Shanghai and Fog City, negotiating with special effects companies, and holding video conferences with several special effects companies at home and abroad every day to discuss how to achieve the special effects of "Ready Player One", he was very busy.

But the leading actors of the two movies still attended these award ceremonies under the leadership of the producers.

Among them, "Dear" finally won the Best Film and Best Actor awards at this year's Golden Rooster Awards, and Huang Bo was successfully crowned the Best Actor of the Golden Rooster Awards.

The Golden Rooster Awards are ultimately more artistic. "Lost in Thailand" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" did not win any awards at the Golden Rooster Awards. The latter only won a consolation special effects award, and the former simply did not win any awards.

If Huang Bo wants to win the Best Actor award, he still has to rely on "Dear"!

At the Golden Horse Awards, "Go Away! Tumor" won a great success, also winning the Best Film and Best Actress awards at the Golden Horse Awards. Liu Yifei finally won the Best Actress of the three major domestic awards again after winning the Golden Rooster double yolk award.

Now she has become the Best Actress of the Golden Horse Awards and the Golden Rooster Awards. Only one Golden Statue is left to become the second Best Actress of the three major awards in history.

Unconsciously, this girl who had never won a heavyweight Best Actress trophy in her previous life has realized her dream of being a powerful actress in this life.

However, the Best Actress of the Golden Statue Awards is really out of reach for Liu Yifei.

Light and Shadow Times is not a Hong Kong film company, and it is unlikely to invest in a Hong Kong film whose director and crew are all from Hong Kong.

If Liu Yifei only relies on herself to take Hong Kong films and compete for the Academy Awards, to be honest, her hope is very slim, because the Hong Kong circle will not play with you.

Liu Yifei is very open-minded about this. When she has never won the Best Actress award, she just dreams of winning it. Once she has won it, she can immediately return to her normal state and no longer take it so seriously.

Perhaps she feels that she has proved herself, so she doesn't care much about the Best Actress award at the Academy Awards.

On the contrary, this year's Tokyo Film Festival gave her a big surprise.

"Go Away! Tumor King" was shortlisted for the Tokyo Film Festival and eventually won the Best Actress Award.

It seems that Japanese people like this kind of movie that makes heavy topics such as cancer and death light-hearted. Liu Yifei also unexpectedly won the first A-level film festival trophy in her life.

It can be said that she is the most satisfied and successful mainland actress in 2013! (End of this chapter)