After ending the scene in Yindu, Li Qian returned to China with the crew.

I was not in a hurry to film, although there was only a time difference of more than two hours with Yindu, but I also took a day off and fell into jet lag, I took a plane all night, and if I arrived in the morning, it was not suitable to go directly to the set to start work.

came out of the airport, and went straight to Huairou, the crew settled down first, and Li Qian also took a look at the studio.

The studio was halfway completed, and it could keep up with the filming schedule, so I simply filmed the indoor scene first, and then went to Jinling for exterior scenes.

Immediately afterwards, as soon as he came out of Huairou, he was called back to the company by Guo Fan several consecutive phone calls.

"Boss. In the conference room, Guo Fan hurriedly greeted Li Qian.

Li Yang, the director of the original animation, and Zhao Xiaobei, one of the screenwriters, saw Li Qian coming, and hurriedly got up to say hello.

"Director Li. ”

"Hello Director Li. ”

"Sit down. ”

Li Qian, who was a little tired, lay down on the chair and sighed, "What's the matter, haven't you decided on a good actor yet?"

Guo Fan said with some distress, "I have looked for several rounds, but there is no actor who fully matches." ”

"The role of Li Xianji is completely created by Li Yang according to yourself, if you want to find an actor who is exactly like you, how can it be so easy, even if it is difficult to find two identical leaves. Li Qian shook his head.

Li Yang nodded and responded, "What Director Li said is that this role is completely set according to myself, I thought it would be easy to find a persistent and ruthless man in the capital, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult." ”

"Any kind of person can be described in words, and animated films can create characters of any image, but the reality is not so simple. ”

Li Qian said and asked them, "Are there any alternative actors?"

"We've been talking about it for a long time, but it's all almost the same. Guo Fan reported the names of several actors, "Wen Zhang, Fang Zuming, Zhang Mo, Yu Wenle, Xia Yu." ”

Li Qian was speechless, he really couldn't choose, first of all, Yu Wenle's accent can be passed, although the original Fang Zuming also grew up in Xiangjiang, but at least there is nothing wrong with Mandarin.

Once on Lu Yu's appointment program, Lu Yu praised Fang Zuming for speaking Mandarin well, and Cheng Long proudly said that this was the only thing he did right.

Although it is polite, at least Mandarin does not have such a pronounced accent.

However, although the original movie was played by Fang Zuming, there was no such ruthlessness and ruffianism at all, but it was a bit of a mother, the whole little child, the tone was flat and light, and the performance was not a bad time disorder, but more like not waking up.

Zhang Mo is a bit similar to Fang Zuming, although ruthlessness and ruffianism are no problem, but he is more like a villain.

The same riffraff, some people will not feel annoying at first, and some people are different.

Wen Zhang's role as a ruffian hero is okay, but he doesn't have that decadent temperament.

Decadent, persistent, persistent, ruthless, ruffian, tough guy...... Li Xianji has too many characteristics, and some of them will have conflicts in one person.

As for Xia Yu.

"Xia Yu seems to have a bit of Li Xianji's taste, I watched his "Waiting Alone" a few years ago, but he is definitely not a suitable candidate for the leading actor of a commercial blockbuster, literary films are okay, none of these people can support a commercial production. ”

Li Qian sighed and shook his head, "Even actors who can support a commercial production within the age of 30 are almost non-existent, and the young generation of domestic actors seems to be a bit disconnected." ”

Although in the past two years, due to various reasons, the Mesozoic generation of male and female actors have gradually gained a foothold on the big screen, and even have the trend of replacing the older generation of superstars, but the younger generation still has not kept up.

It is not surprising that the Mesozoic Era has been suppressed for nearly ten years, and it has just started, where is there a place for the new generation of actors.

Every year, in those movies, the Mesozoic actors are not enough, and the new generation can't get decent dramas if they want to take over.

"Xia Yu is also old. Guo Fan answered.

"Why don't you try Zhang Yishan?" Zhao Xiaobei, who had been silent, made a joke.

Li Qian smiled, Zhang Yishan has been ridiculed by netizens since "Family with Children", saying that he and Xia Yu are more like brothers than brothers, and more like father and son than biological father and son.

Shaking his head, Li Qian asked the two directors of them, "Lao Guo, Director Li, what kind of actor do you want to find?"

"A ruffian with a ruthless and decadent temperament. Li Yang was direct.

"Haven't you considered Liu Ye?" asked Li Qian.

"Liu Ye was okay for the first two years, but now it feels too hard. "Li Yang is a pity, if it was two or three years earlier, there would be no need to think about it at all, the masters of the capital, no one is more suitable than Liu Ye.

Indeed, the biggest change in Liu Ye in the past two years is the flesh on his face.

"I Am Legend" was originally a middle-aged tough guy, that's nothing, but "The Adventures of Li Xianji" is a character under the age of thirty.

But there is still a rescue, at least I don't remember the hairstyle that was combed to the side in a few plays, and the hairstyle with the flesh on the face was directly ruined.

"In this case, I'll give Liu Ye a call, you wait. ”

Li Qian dialed Liu Ye and was quickly connected.

Straight to the point, "Brother Ye, Lao Guo has a film here, are you free in the second half of the year?"

"But you need to lose weight within three months, the appearance, especially the face, back to the state of three years ago, you were a little greasy when you watched the news two days ago, and your married life is particularly moisturizing. ”

"That's okay, Lao Guo will contact you later. ”

Hanging up the phone, Li Qian said, "Let's see if he can lose the flesh on his face first, after all, he is just 33 years old, younger than Xia Yu." ”

"But Director Li, what if it still doesn't work?" Li Yang had some doubts, Liu Ye was already the most famous actor in the Mesozoic generation in China, and he had a certain status in the industry, in case people worked hard to lose weight for three months, and it still didn't work, then what should they do.

Actors, the coffee position is big, and it is also a problem.

"It's okay, it's okay, if it doesn't work, it's not okay, don't be embarrassed. Li Qian waved his hand.

Li Yang thought about it, too, there is Li Qian.

"Okay, let's talk about the actress, since the initial plan is to change Liu Ye, then you can't find a too young actress, what do you think?" asked Li Qian.

"The appearance should be delicate, clean, natural, and literary temperament, Guo Fan and I discussed Gui Lunmei and Xiao Jie before, it's almost the same, the movie version is not like the anime, and the later Wang Qian is the image of the royal sister, but if you partner with Liu Ye, you will have to be replaced. ”

"According to my script, it should be long hair, walking very slowly, like coffee, roadside food stalls, Haruki Murakami, wrapped in a quilt and sitting on the bed watching movies, writing some small articles on rainy days, not talking much, a little numb, slow but surprisingly speaking, often in a daze, fantasies, visiting the park.

Occasionally sit on the curb and smoke a cigarette, choking. Occasionally watch movies, I don't understand it very well. Occasionally, the mouth becomes dirty, which makes me want to laugh, but most of the time I am still gentle and elegant, knowledgeable, petty bourgeoisie and literary. Guo Fan thought for a while.

"I think Zhou Xun can. Zhao Xiaobei suggested that for people of his time, Zhou Xun was obviously more in line with his inner thoughts.

Zhou Xun?

Although she is three or four years older than Liu Ye, she can still play a young role on the big screen now.

Li Qian remembered that it was impossible to watch "The Legend of Ruyi", but it was a TV series, and it was estimated that it would be seven or eight years later.

And the difference between TV series and movies is too big, the shooting angle of the TV series, the big flat light, there is no technology at all.

Lighting and photographic orientation can infinitely reduce the shortcomings of the human face and magnify the advantages.

When the Golden Horse Awards happened last year, Zhang Rongrong, an actor who was also nominated for the actress, played the role of Yang Guifei in Li Qian's memory in "The Legend of the Demon Cat", and her appearance was also very good, but in another TV series where Li Qian only watched one episode, it was too far away.

"Since you don't have any opinions, then it's decided, but you can also go back and see if you want to change the script a little. Li Qian said.

originally planned to find two young actors, but in the end, I found two people in their thirties, and there was no way in the film and television industry.

"By the way, Li Xianji, who was in the twilight of his life, invited the old man You Benchang to make a cameo. ”

With a final reminder, Li Qian walked out of the conference room and returned to his office.

Du Yang followed in to report the situation of a company during this time, and it has only been a week, and nothing has happened.

simply went home, "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" has not started filming yet, Tong Liya is also at home, knowing that Li Qian is back today and has prepared lunch.

It's rare to have a leisurely lunch, if you go to bed in the afternoon, you can't sleep at night, and you are tired and don't want to go out, so I go to the sofa with Tong Liya to watch TV series and brush up on the news.

Tong Liya, who was watching last year's classic spy war drama "Before Dawn" with relish, turned her head to look at the entertainment news in Li Qian's notebook, and suddenly asked, "Have you watched the just-released "Warring States"?"

"I didn't see it, I didn't have the time to watch movies in Yindu, but it seems that the box office is not good, and it sold 50 million in the first week. Li Qian said.

In fact, Li Qian has it in his memory, so he has naturally seen it, but he would rather not have seen this kind of peerless bad movie.

"I went to watch it on the first day, don't you know, before the release, many film critics on the Internet touted this movie, saying that it made the scene of the war in their imagination of the Warring States, Sun Bin played by Sun Honglei has no myth about him, there is the profundity of a strategist, and the flesh and blood of small people, which is a huge progress in domestic films. Tong Liya kept complaining, "What else do you say about costume conspiracy blockbusters, including love triangles, undercover, infernal affairs, and even a variety of fashion elements such as a broken back." ”

It's rare to hear Tong Liya complain about a movie like this, it seems that she is really thundered.

Li Qian said with a smile, "All kinds of boasted movies before the release are basically propaganda, no matter how fanciful the film reviews are, they can't be believed, they are all blown for the sake of blowing." ”

Of course, there are exceptions, when the internal test screening or on-demand screening was first started, it was difficult to have a large number of touting in all directions in such a short time.

On the contrary, really good movies, such as "Tangshan Earthquake", after the screening, most of the film critics did not have a long speech, and they would not deduct the details, they were all just a few sentences to say how touching and so on.

Only bad movies will appear as soon as they are screened, and all kinds of film reviews touting the details of the movie will appear, which is obviously prepared in advance.

"I also watched it before it was released, so many people said it was good-looking, and the heroine was still a newcomer, so I wanted to go and see it. ”

Tong Liya said and complained about some bad plots in the movie, "Sun Honglei was so speechless when he committed suicide, he tied himself to a big tripod and drowned in the pool, but it turned out that there was no dead city, there was an earthquake."

There is also the enemy's army approaching, Sun Honglei led the troops to retreat, he needed to buy time for himself, and when he fled, he left a soldier who ate chicken legs bare-chested, and the enemy's army watched him eat chicken legs for several hours before he wanted to come out and send a few people to explore, and as a result, Sun Honglei's army ran away, and this empty city plan was more powerful than Zhuge Liang. ”

Saying that, Tong Liya couldn't hold back her laughter.

The corners of Li Qian's mouth twitched, this kind of fairy plot is really not something that ordinary people can film.

It's okay to say if it's a low-budget movie, but this kind of large-scale production with an investment of nearly 100 million yuan is top-notch in terms of director, cinematography, costumes, actors, etc., and there is really no way to explain this kind of mentally retarded plot.

"That's right, the funniest thing is still in the back, after the victory, Sun Honglei suddenly jumped off the cliff with disgust, at this time the heroine slapped the horse and arrived, he slowly fell in the air, the heroine watched him fall from a meter away, and the face of the heroine and the falling Sun Honglei were framed in the camera at the same time.

The shooting is of Sun Honglei hanging the tightrope and slowly lowering it, but the key is that the heroine next to her is still blinking at a normal speed, the snowflakes are also floating at a normal speed, and even the horse is moving at a normal speed. ”

Li Qian couldn't help but smile when he saw Tong Liya smiling so happily, "Actually, there is nothing wrong with the second plot you said, I didn't see the director's deep meaning." ”

"What's the meaning of this?" Tong Liya was noncommittal, when she watched movies and TV series in the past, she couldn't talk about Li Qian, but this time Li Qian hadn't seen the movie at all, and he could still say the flowers?

Li Qian smiled, "The soldier who eats chicken legs is Xiao Mao in "The Story of the Cooking Class", and he is a cook of the Air Force, so Pang Juan is afraid that Sun Bin will send the Air Force of Qi to ambush nearby, so he will be so cautious." ”

“？？？？？”

After a short period of stunnedness, Tong Liya leaned back with a smile, amused by this far-fetched explanation.

"I'm laughing to death, I don't think you should be a director, it's a pity not to write so well, maybe it's you in contemporary Lu Xun." ”

"But haven't you seen the movie, how do you know that person is Xiao Mao in "The Story of the Cooking Class", I have also watched this drama, but I didn't recognize it?" Tong Liya said strangely.

"Well, there's a video on the news, and it's instantly recognizable. ”

Li Qian pointed to the laptop screen, on the endless green prairie, there was a shirtless man eating chicken legs on a fire, and Wu Zhenyu looked at the front with a solemn face in the distance, although he only saw a soldier, but dozens of military chess games were lined up behind him and fluttered in the wind, and he was stunned to frighten Sun Bin who played Pang Juan.

In ancient times, Zhuge Liang planned to scare Sima Zhongda away, and now a director sent a small soldier to eat chicken legs in an empty city...

No, it's the empty grassland plan to humiliate the audience.

Director Baocai, the audience really picked up a ghost.

Although Li Qian's bull's head is not right and the horse's mouth is nonsense, Tong Liya still sounds quite funny, and she complained about the whole movie again.

It's quite fun to complain, and after I finished it, I watched a few big bad movies from last year, such as "Hee Travel", and I complained with a poisonous tongue while watching it, and I was very happy.