Superstar Couple

Chapter 89: Zhang Le’s Criteria for Casting Casts

Zhou Dashen's movie has a strong personal touch. No matter how talented a director is, cooperating with him will be covered up. Just like "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance", when it comes to this movie, who would think of Li Lichi who is both a screenwriter and a director?

Zhou Dashen's role in this movie cannot be ignored. What about Li Lichi?

Of course, Zhang Le chose this movie mainly because there are too many highlights in the movie, whether it is dialogue, fighting, etc. The film subverts the extraordinary imagination of the theme of ancient costumes, and various postmodern techniques emerge in the film, including performance art paintings, modern percussion music performances, fashion model gait, poison introduction full of advertising vocabulary, and "unrecognizable feet" and the like. Funny and creative.

This is a style completely opposite to "Crazy Stone" with a funny plot.

"Director Zhang, did you invite Feng Lei to play the leading role in this movie because of Mr. Feng's relationship, or because he is your close friend?" a reporter asked.

"I chose him as the male lead mainly because our company's contracted artiste fits Tang Bohu's image. Of course, the premise of his fit is that he has to lose weight. Now, you have seen the fat man in "Crazy Stone", and now there are already people Call him a male god. The weight loss is very successful, who should I choose instead of him?" Zhang Le smiled and said.

"Director Zhang means that your priority in choosing actors is the contracted actors of your own company, rather than starting from the movie itself?" A reporter seemed to have caught a loophole in Zhang Le's words, so he asked.

"Didn't you already say, priority! Do you understand the meaning of priority? Under the same conditions, what's wrong with giving priority to your own people? Does the film studio make wedding dresses for other film companies every time it makes a film?" Zhang Le smiled and said, "If there is no suitable one, we will naturally invite actors from other companies. Isn't Chen Xiao just like that?"

"Chen Xiao has worked with Director Zhang before. After Director Zhang gives priority to the actors of his own company, is it the actors who have worked with him after that?"

"The actors who have worked together are familiar with each other. When the familiar actors cooperate, there is one less process of getting familiar with each other, which can improve the efficiency of shooting. What's more, when talking about who is suitable, the first thing in anyone's mind is to think that they are familiar with each other. people." Zhang Le said with a smile.

"Miss Yang Xiner, the real meaning of working with Director Zhang this time is that he scolded you on the set, will you be sad?" A reporter shifted his target to Yang Xiner.

"Of course I'm sad. Being scolded by the director proves that you didn't perform well!" Yang Xiner said with a smile.

The reporter was obviously dissatisfied with Yang Xiner's answer of changing the concept secretly, aimed at Zhang Le, and asked, "Director Zhang, are you willing to scold Miss Yang Xiner?"

"Do you mean in life, or during filming?" Zhang Le glanced at Yang Xiner and asked with a smile.

"What about life? What about filming?" the reporter asked.

"Naturally, I can't bear to scold in life." Zhang Le smiled and said, "As for the filming time, I won't know until that time! Last time I filmed "Crazy Stone", I didn't have a chance to know."

nonsense! Those memories are also clear, Zhang Lehe is seldom in front of media reporters, but he is also very experienced in answering questions, he is simply an old fritter in the entertainment circle.

"Mr. Feng Lei, is it your first time to play the leading role in a movie, do you feel the pressure?"

A reporter targeted Feng Lei. It is difficult to get the answer I want from Yang Xiner and Zhang Le. There was nothing explosive about that sophisticated and official answer.

"Although it is the first time for me to play the leading role, I have grown up in the crew since I was a child. I don't know how many roles I have played so far. I still have confidence in my acting skills. Besides, I believe that hard work will pay off. I You can see how much effort I put in for this movie, just look at my current figure." Feng Lei said with a smile.

Feng Lei worked really hard for this movie, and losing weight is just a clear result after hard work. There is still a lot of effort, and the results need to be tested during shooting.

Feng Lei is not Zhou Dashen. At the beginning, even the nonsense and postmodernism in Zhang Le's mouth were just a vague concept.

Zhang Le has been wondering whether this movie would turn a classic into a bad movie if it was shot in other ways. The script of this movie is undoubtedly excellent, but without Zhou Dashen's unique style, Zhang Le himself feels a kind of castration.

With this kind of shortcoming, the classics will inevitably turn into bad movies.

Zhang Le naturally didn't allow himself to turn the classics of his previous life into bad movies. In a world without Zhou Dashen, nonsense and postmodernism have not yet matured, so the difficulty of shooting this movie can be imagined.

Zhou Dashen's interpretation of countless classics is also the accumulation of bit by bit. When filming "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance", his style has matured. Zhang Le wanted Feng Lei to do it with one touch, but it was obviously impossible.

Plagiarize, imitate, learn from, and then incorporate your own things to form your own style?

Zhang Le thought a lot, but many things can only be decided by the effect when it comes to shooting.

Fortunately, there is no Great Master Zhou in this world, nor his classic films, not even similar ones. Even if the imitation is specious, no one will know.

In the previous life, no matter how much I imitated, I was still picking up people's teeth. Nowadays, imitation is no longer similar, but it is also my own style.

The shooting of the film was not very smooth, and the effect Zhang Le wanted was never achieved. Sometimes a scene was reshot countless times. Only then did Zhang Le understand how long it would be to create a Zhou Dashen in this world.

However, there is also a happy side. In the original version of the previous life, when Gong Li acted in this movie, she acted a little awkwardly. This is not to say that her acting skills are not good, but that she came from an academy. .

And Yang Xiner naturally didn't think that Zhang Le would punish her in the movie. She is not from an academic background, and she can act freely. Of course, there is a limit to letting go. If it is like pomegranate, the whole play may become a farce.

No matter what, Yang Xiner's performance exceeded Zhang Le's expectations.

Feng Lei was tormented by Zhang Le until he had a nervous breakdown. However, with the shooting of the film, I gradually grasped the feeling. The number of retakes is slowly decreasing.

"I've watched "Crazy Stone" many times. The style of your movie is too different from it. Are you afraid that you will change too much at once and the fans won't be able to accept it?" Tang Xiao looked at Zhang Le and asked.

"As long as the movie is good, fans won't care if your style is the same as before." Zhang Le smiled and said, "I don't want your style to be stereotyped."

"Accepting, there should be a process. You are a bit risky like this. If your style is not accepted by movie fans, it will have a big impact on you." Tang Xiao said.

"If you want to try, don't be afraid of failure." Zhang Le shook his head and said with a smile, "There is a scene tomorrow, and there is a shortage of actors. You can make a cameo."

"Me?" Tang Xiao was a little surprised.

"Don't look at me, I'm also a cameo." Zhang Le smiled and said.

"That scene?" Tang Xiao followed the crew. As Zhang Le's assistant, he naturally studied the script.

"The Four Great Talents travel. I will play Wen Zhengming, you will play Xu Zhenqing, and our three brothers will play three of the Four Great Talents." Zhang Le smiled and said.