Winner in life

Director Zheng of the new drama "Military Soul" asked him to exercise and build muscles. "Quick! Shoot!" tells the story of a youthful love story of a university basketball club. He plays the second male lead, the president of the basketball club, who has good basketball skills, so he also needs a certain physique and figure.

While he was busy, the promotional activities of "Deep Mansion Courtyard" had not been launched. The producer simply said in the work group that "Deep Mansion Courtyard" was originally going to be sold to Chenghai Satellite TV, but something went wrong, so the promotion was postponed.

So Ruihe concentrated on preparing for the new drama.

On April 6, Ruihe joined the crew of "Quick! Shoot!". It was impossible to be meticulous in a drama with a shooting cycle of 50 days. Idol dramas with such themes do not require good acting skills. As long as the joy, anger, sorrow and happiness can be performed naturally and beautifully, it is almost enough.

So such scripts are actually not suitable for frequent acceptance.

Soon, "Quick! Shoot!" 》After finishing the filming, Ruihe took a half-month break to adjust and study the script of "Military Soul", and then started a new filming.

In "Military Soul", he played a character called Jin An, who was afraid of death and cowardly and could not endure hardships in the early stage. In the gunfire, in the sacrifice of his companions, in the blood, tears and sweat, he gradually transformed and finally became a qualified soldier, and finally died in a resistance battle. Ruihe liked this role very much and spent a lot of effort to study his mental journey, hoping to play a real recruit.

When the filming was in mid-June, a news suddenly broke out on the Internet, saying that the Beijing police received a report and arrested five drug-related offenders in a certain community. They were Wu, Jiang, Jiang, Gao and Zeng, and 18.21 grams of drugs were seized on the spot. It is reported that Jiang and Zeng are both actors.

Suddenly, the Internet was shaken, and the entertainment industry was shaken.

Who are Jiang and Zeng?

Netizens began to screen the ages of the illegal gambling offenders according to the police news. Many artists with the same surname quickly released clarifying Weibo. The entertainment industry was in a state of panic, and people who inquired about it came one after another, ushering in a considerable shock.

Ruihe had just forwarded the Weibo about "zero tolerance for drug abuse" released by the Communist Youth League official Weibo, and then he received a call from the crew.

"What? The whole crew stopped filming?" Ruihe was surprised and asked the reason.

The person who came to inform Ruihe was the deputy director of the crew. The deputy director was very serious: "The reason cannot be told for the time being. Please wait patiently. Don't ask or spread rumors." Ruihe's heart was hanging.

The deputy director hung up the phone quickly, obviously very busy.

For some reason, Ruihe immediately connected the crew's suspension of filming with the drug-related incident that had just broken out. He immediately opened his mobile phone to search, and Baidu Encyclopedia clearly wrote: Jiang Kang, formerly known as Jiang Weilong.

The leading actor of "Military Soul" is Jiang Kang, who is also 27 years old.

"This is too coincidental." Ruihe was so shocked by his own guess that his hands were shaking.

Drug abuse!

If it was really Jiang Kang, the crew would have to stop filming. And it would lead to more serious consequences. The lead actor is the soul of the whole show. If the lead actor is involved in this, the crew would be ruined.

Ruihe took a deep breath and recalled Jiang Kang's usual appearance. Cheerful and smiling, tall and strong, he was just like a young boy with a bright future. He could not be associated with that kind of thing.

Opening the work group, the group was also in an uproar. Everyone was asking for news. Some people, like Ruihe, asked if Jiang Kang had a problem.

The director said, "Don't ask!"

After that, the work group was completely quiet, but under the quiet appearance, there was an undercurrent of anxiety. The actors contacted each other privately, and the second male lead Du Fei also came to ask Ruihe, and Ruihe could only say that he knew nothing.

At noon, Jiang Kang's name and Zeng Tao's name were exposed. Zeng Tao was an artist in the same company as Jiang Kang, and the two could be called brothers. The agency they belonged to had not spoken out, allowing the remarks in the evening to ferment even more. In the evening, the TV broadcast this news. Although the people were mosaiced, it was confirmed that they were Jiang Kang and Zeng Tao.

Immediately, the agency of the two spoke out and issued a statement saying that they were very sorry and very sad, and expressed their attitude and willingness to cooperate with the police in their work if they needed assistance. At the same time, it was stated that in the future, in terms of artist management, the company will strengthen the control and regulation of the company's artists' ideology and morality and behavior, and sincerely accept the supervision of the general public.

As soon as the statement was issued, other artists in the company immediately forwarded it.

The dust settled, and Director Zheng spoke again in the group: "Everyone should take a break recently, and the start date will be told to everyone."

Will we continue to shoot or not? How to shoot? We should come up with a charter. The investors were very dissatisfied, and Director Zheng really didn't have time to explain everyone's problems one by one. After saying this, he disappeared again, leaving the restless work group noisy until late at night.

That night, Ruihe also suffered from insomnia.

The next afternoon, the assistant director called him and asked him to come to the crew. After Ruihe arrived, he found that the producer, screenwriter and others were all there, looking like a three-court trial. Director Zheng's eyes were bloodshot, with heavy dark circles under them, and his breath smelled like cigarettes when he spoke.

"Come on, sit down." Director Zheng looked at his watch: "Where's Du Fei?"

The assistant said hurriedly: "I've notified him, he must be on the way."

Director Zheng looked at Ruihe and said, "Let's talk first. Xiaowu, you know what happened yesterday. Jiang Kang's scenes must not be used. I asked you to come here today just to talk to you about changing the script."

Director Zheng meant that Jiang Kang had an accident. In order to completely erase his imprint in "Military Soul", not only all his scenes had to be cut, but also the role he played had to be cut out, so the script had to be overhauled.

Ruihe's heart beat a little faster.

Sure enough, Director Zheng said that it would take too long to revise the script from scratch now, and the scenes shot before except for Jiang Kang might also be scrapped, which would be a huge loss. So the director, screenwriter and investors held a meeting and decided that on the basis of removing Jiang Kang's role, the roles of the second, third and fourth male characters would be moved forward.

In simple terms, it was to pick another male character other than the original male lead to be the protagonist.

"It's already been decided. You will be changed from male No. 3 to male No. 2, and the male No. 2 played by Fei will be male No. 1. You two have many scenes together, and your characters are relatively complete. Screenwriter Chen said that it has been changed. I called you here today to discuss with you. We can discuss the pay." Different positions and different roles have different pay.

Ruihe understood and nodded immediately: "I will obey the arrangement of the crew. As for the pay, you can give it according to your estimate. As long as it is a good work, the pay doesn't matter."

Director Zheng smiled sincerely. No matter whether Congwu's words were polite or sincere, it was to give him face and the crew face. Now the crew is in a precarious situation because of Jiang Kang's matter. Congwu did not raise the price, so the crew can save a lot of worries.

He smiled and said: "Don't worry, since I called you here, I will naturally not treat you unfairly."

The two sides continued to chat in a good atmosphere, and screenwriter Chen told Ruihe the story of Xin Gai again.

In the original story, Jiang Kang played a very young, appointed head of a certain corps. He was born in a military family. When he first joined the corps, his subordinates were not convinced by him, and he was also a little arrogant. In order to convince his soldiers, he launched a series of campaign activities and personally commanded, never hiding behind others. After several small battles, the corps repelled the enemy and hid in Xinnan Town again.

National justice, fearlessness, wisdom and courage and other excellent qualities are concentrated on him, but he is also a growing character, allowing the audience to watch him become a better person all the way.

Such settings are not uncommon in film and television works, or it can be said to be very common, but this represents a value, a correct mainstream concept, so it is never outdated.

In the words of screenwriter Chen, after this character disappears, a new head will be re-incorporated, and this head will be a middle-aged soldier, who will be a life mentor as soon as he appears, and he will no longer be overly focused on. As for the character setting of the original young head, it will be distributed to the second and third males, especially the second male.

The second male lead was originally set to be a gangster who joined the army to make a living. Such a character also has a strong plasticity space. The original growth plot of the first male lead will be mostly infused into the second male lead.

"Your character setting remains roughly the same, only some new plots are added..."

Ruihe nodded while listening, and suddenly there was a knock on the door. Du Fei and his agent finally came.

Forty minutes later than the time the director agreed.

Du Fei's agent apologized as soon as he entered the door: "There was a traffic jam on the road, sorry, sorry."

After saying hello and sitting down, the assistant director told the story again. Before he finished speaking, he saw the embarrassment on the agent's face and asked: "What do you think? Things are urgent now. If there is anything you are not satisfied with, we can discuss it."

Director Zheng leaned back in his chair with his arms folded and said nothing.

The agent smiled and said, "I'm really sorry. We had already accepted a new play before Du Fei, and we just waited for the filming to be completed before joining the crew. If you just said that Du Fei's role was transferred to the male lead, wouldn't the shooting time be exceeded?" He hurriedly expressed his gratitude, "I also know that the crew is doing this to value Du Fei, but there is really no way, and the contract has been signed there."

The assistant director looked at Director Zheng Xian, and Director Zheng said, "Forget it, Du Fei's role will still be the male second, and let Cong Wu Shang be the male first."

Rui He sat aside and became the male first out of thin air.

The next day, Rui He received another version of the script. After reading it, he felt that the changes were too exaggerated. Not only was the original male first setting given to him, but some of the plots of the male second Du Fei were also attached to him. He called the screenwriter and the screenwriter said, "Didn't Mr. Du's agent say yesterday that we would finish the filming on the original date? But we had to reshoot Jiang Kang's scenes, which would take time, so Director Zheng asked me to change it this way."

"Okay, I understand. Thank you, Brother Chen."

"It's okay. Just memorize it and act well."

"Thank you, Brother Chen. You can take a rest then."

After hanging up the phone, Ruihe read the script again and thought that Director Zheng might be angry with Du Fei. Otherwise, the essence and highlights of Du Fei's role were deleted. Du Fei's role was originally a gangster. If he wanted to become a qualified soldier in the end, there must be many plots to support him and make the character flesh and blood. But most of those plots were piled on "Jin An". The growth of Xiao Xia played by Du Fei became weak, as if he suddenly awakened and had an epiphany, and there were fewer brilliant changes. In the script, the original Nan No. 4, now the male No. 3, has a richer personality and plot. If you really count, Du Fei seems to be the male No. 3.

But this is none of his business. To be realistic, such a script is most beneficial to him.

He must quickly understand the role and memorize the lines.

This will be his first TV series as the leading actor, and there must be no mistakes.

Soon, the crew of "Military Soul" started filming again in a low-key manner. All the information about Jiang Kang on the official Weibo account was deleted, and no one in the crew mentioned this name, as if this person had nothing to do with the drama.