Chapter Eighty-Seven: Sisters
May 6, fine.
Suzhou Mansion, outside Wuzhong Film and Television City, Film and Television City Hotel, Conference Room 4.
At this time, the special meeting of the filming coordination meeting of the crew of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in Soochow is being held. There are nearly 20 people present, in addition to several high-level executives from the Cao Wei group and the Shu Han group, the senior executives of the entire crew, including several producers, chief directors, deputy chief directors, art directors, casting directors, executive directors of the Soochow group, and other related people, are all present.
The Soochow group has been filming since April, and it has been going on for more than 20 days now, and a lot of shots have been taken, and this is the second time that the Soochow special meeting of the shooting coordination meeting has begun.
The reason is that after watching the previous shots, including the chief director Feng Yumin, the senior management of the crew was very dissatisfied with the filming work of the Soochow group.
Of course, the main thing is dissatisfaction with the actors' performances.
Especially the little overlord of Jiangdong, Sun Ce.
The character of Sun Ce was quite important in the early stage of the Three Kingdoms, but in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", to be honest, even if the crew did not completely follow the original book to write the script, a lot of scenes were added to the Dongwu branch, striving to make the story of Xiaobawang sweeping Jiangdong more fleshful, but there are still not many shots. Sun Ce is just a slightly important supporting role in this play.
Originally, the crew chose an actor from the repertory troupe from the perspective of character interpretation, named Deng Yukun, although he is in his thirties this year, but looking at his tender face, playing Sun Ce when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, although it is a bit of a feeling of pretending to be tender, it is a little unsatisfactory. But not entirely unacceptable. The most critical thing is. Deng Yukun was born in acting in stage dramas, and he has a solid foundation, and the director team unanimously felt that he would definitely be able to win it steadily if he came to play Sun Ce.
In fact, after filming in the past 20 days, although only part of the two stories of the Great War Tai Shici and Yuxi borrowed soldiers were filmed, his drama was indeed very good. The line skills are extremely solid, which makes the executive director team of the Dongwu branch quite satisfied, but Feng Yumin came with the production team to take a look, but he immediately frowned.
Deng Yukun's literary drama and martial arts are no problem, but he was born in a small life, and he has been the number one student in the repertory troupe for ten years, coupled with the unique temperament of his whole person, which caused him to play Sun Ce, which is a little too elegant!
Feng Yumin is here. At a glance, he realized that something was wrong, so he quickly called Deng Yukun. The two talked about the play, Deng Yukun has acted in the drama for so many years, and he quickly understood the meaning of the director. It's useless to understand, some things, such as temperament, such as the rhythm of speech, tone, voice, etc., can only be fine-tuned, but there can be no earth-shaking changes at all. Therefore, elegance is elegance, he looks like that, even after making two adjustments to his makeup, he is still so elegant, and in him, he can't find the kind of heroic spirit that Feng Yumin wants!
Please, who is Sun Ce?
That's the little overlord of Jiangdong!
Although he lived to die at the age of twenty-six, his martial arts are counted in the entire Three Kingdoms!
He lost his father at the age of seventeen, as the eldest son, he had to pick up the burden of supporting and protecting the whole family at a young age, and then he first asked Yuan Shu to get back his father's old department, and followed him to conquer the north and the south to make war achievements, and then resolutely took out the emperor's jade seal that made his father Sun Jian obsessed, and exchanged some soldiers and horses for Yuan Shu, and began to sweep through several counties in Jiangdong with a devastating momentum, laying the foundation of the three divisions of the world in Eastern Wu in one fell swoop!
Such a person, although it is certainly impossible to be a person who advocates force and has a strong personality as described in the novel, only from the fact that he can make such a career can be known, although he may have some recklessness unique to young people in small things, his IQ is definitely not low, but even so, he should definitely not be an elegant person!
Young, heroic, brave, upright, but also wise...... This is the perfect Sun Ce in Feng Yumin's heart.
And Sun Ce, played by Deng Yukun, has wisdom, but almost all of the others are out of shape! Especially the scene where Yuan Shu cried at the family banquet that had already been filmed, in Feng Yumin's opinion, he actually performed a bit of a wretched feeling!
How can this work?
The so-called Dongwu branch, other people and other actors can make do, but Sun Ce in the early stage, Zhou Yu in the middle stage, Lu Xun in the later stage, plus Sun Quan, the lord of Dongwu, these four people can never make do.
Once these four people make do, the drama of Soochow will be wasted!
So, after Feng Yumin personally told Deng Yukun about the play, he tried to shoot a few more shots and adjusted his makeup a few times, and in the end, Feng Yumin had to call Deng Yukun over alone, and said frankly that you can't play this role.
With the signboard of Huaxia TV Station and Feng Yumin's status in the circle, he said that he couldn't act, and said that we had to change people, although Deng Yukun was unwilling, he didn't dare to say or do anything, so he could only take a little compensation and leave obediently.
In addition to Sun Ce played by Deng Yukun, Feng Yumin is also quite dissatisfied with the actor who plays Da Qiao, in his words, the role of Da Qiao is too quiet, as the daughter of Qiao's family, she grew up in troubled times, and she is the woman of Jiangdong's little overlord, Feng Yumin still hopes that this actor's performance is not too literary, it should be quiet and heroic. Only then will it be in line with the love between her and Sun Ce in the plot arrangement.
As a result, the second Soochow special meeting, which was expected to be held at least a few months after filming, was held in advance.
Moreover, almost all of the shots taken before were discarded, and everything had to be started from scratch.
At the beginning of the meeting, everyone took out the information of the actors who had participated in the audition for the role of Sun Ce, selected and commented one by one, and of course, they also began to recommend other actors. In short, everything revolves around the role of Sun Ce -- so-and-so, who was born in martial arts dramas, has a hard enough expression, and is also young and handsome, do you want to contact him and try it? I have an old friend who is a martial artist who sings Peking Opera, do you want him to recommend a few younger little martial arts students? So-and-so, he should have just graduated from Chinese opera the year before last, although he has not acted in any big dramas, but have you watched that TV series some time ago? A police and bandit drama. He plays a policeman. Although the role is not big. But I think he acted quite well, do you want to contact him too?
That's it, huhulala, the special meeting lasted for half an hour, and the producers and directors who can be regarded as the most outstanding in the entire domestic TV drama circle have already drawn dozens of candidates.
So, the audition for the role of Sun Ce was scheduled for three days later.
And then to discuss. It's Big Joe - this role is much simpler.
First, because there has never been a shortage of actresses of the Hua Dan faction in China, if they want to be young and beautiful, they are all a big handful, as long as they say that they are here to play Da Qiao, to be honest, they are not counted as those young actors who may not receive any formal roles at present, even if they are actresses who are initially mixed with a little fame, the crew can find one or twenty for choice between talking.
Second, although compared to the original book. When the crew was writing the script, they had already added a lot of scenes to the Soochow branch. But "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is still a men's drama after all, and Soochow is not the main branch, so even if the female characters are eternal beauties like Da Qiao, there are not many shots, and even compared with her sister Xiao Qiao, they are far behind.
Because of this, in the previous casting, when a certain producer secretly communicated, Feng Yumin didn't care too much, and gave him the role of the boat, until he saw the filmed part, he felt that the difference was too far, so he had to temporarily decide to change people.
So, as you can imagine, that is, one or twenty minutes of effort, there were twenty or thirty more actresses' names on the meeting minutes - the audition for the role of Da Qiao was scheduled for four days later.
Because so far, it is only a matter at the actor level, so this Soochow special meeting, even if it is basically over here, before the end of the meeting, Feng Yumin deliberately said a few words, I hope that after the meeting, you will not stick to the people mentioned at the meeting today, as long as you feel suitable in your heart, just call someone to participate in the audition, and then announce the end of the meeting.
After the meeting, everyone walked out laughing and laughing, although Feng Yumin was frowning just now, he still quickly showed a smile, and even specially praised the executive director of the Dongwu branch line, telling him not to worry, except for the actors, he was quite satisfied with the other work of the Dongwu group.
At this time, Jiang Jianming, the executive director of the group, was a little relieved, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Fortunately, it's just two actors, I'm really afraid that you will change the actors in our group, I just worked hard to adjust the same, I think I can start filming, alas......"
Feng Yumin laughed twice, and hurriedly praised and appeased.
But although Jiang Jianming is a group director, he is also a relatively well-known director in the circle of TV dramas, and he is not the kind of person who is willing to let the producer and chief director pinch and rub the circle with you.
Feng Yumin knew that the other party had grievances in his heart, so when he heard him complain a few words, that is, he smiled, and just said with a smile: "It's okay, it should be okay, in this way, let's gather a few main actors and have a small meeting." ”
So, after the end of the Soochow special meeting, it was followed by an actors' symposium.
At the meeting, Feng Yumin must have apologized first, after all, this is a problem in the casting stage, and it was actually delayed until after the start of filming, which must have affected the normal workflow and wasted the performances of many actors.
Next, when talking about the two roles of Sun Ce and Da Qiao, when Feng Yumin hoped that everyone would open up and recommend suitable actors, many actors recommended people they knew well. At this time, Jiang Jianming seemed to suddenly remember something, and couldn't help but look at the girl in the corner with a smile, and said to Feng Yumin with a smile: "This little king who plays Xiao Qiao, Wang Jinglu ......"
He stretched out his hand and pointed at Wang Jinglu, and when he saw her raise her head in amazement, he smiled and continued: "I just found out a few days ago that her sister is a singer, and she is also very famous, their combination is called Wuxing Wusu, I see, the two sisters look very similar, and I look at her sister's appearance, which is a bit in line with the temperament you said about Director Feng, beautiful, but there is some heroism in the beauty." In a word. When you look at it, it doesn't feel like it's that kind of soft temperament. Or. Let's let her try it too? Let's let the sisters play the sisters, this is also a good story, right?"
Feng Yumin was a little stunned at first, but then he reacted immediately, looked at Wang Jinglu sitting in the corner with a look of surprise, and asked, "Is your sister a singer?"
Wang Jinglu hurriedly stood up and nodded, "Yes, Director Feng." My sister's name is Wang Jingxue, and she is one of the five elements and the combination of Wusu, that is, is, is...... I don't know if she can act. ”
Feng Yumin asked directly: "Do you have any photos?"
Of course there is, so Wang Jinglu nodded, saying that there was a new album of their group in her room, and there was a photo of her on it, so Feng Yumin immediately said: "You go and get it, bring it to me to see!"
A few minutes later, Wang Jinglu came back with a box of CDs and pointed to Wang Jingxue on the cover. said, "This is my sister." ”
Feng Yumin looked down at the photo, and his eyes were already bright. Looking up at Wang Jinglu again, he immediately slapped his thigh, "Qi Hao!"
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Receiving Wang Jinglu's call, Wang Jingxue was a little stunned.
"What did you say, let me play Big Joe?"
At that time, Wuxing Wusu had just finished a commercial performance and was on the way to the airport, just by her words, Sun Ruoxuan, who was sitting in the same car, immediately lit up and couldn't help but turn her head to look at her.
On the phone, Wang Jinglu explained: "It's an audition, and it is said that many people participate together." But just now I saw what the chief director meant, probably very fond of you, and specially told me that I must call you. ”
Wang Jingxue continued to be stunned.
Film and television cameos, it's not that I haven't done it before. There's no way, the congenital conditions are good, the looks are good-looking, and the figure is so good, when it comes to the TV series and the movie, the five people are still quite qualified.
However, for them, it's just a cameo, and when it comes to serious acting, they have never acted. Moreover, it is still the same sentence, whether an actor runs to be a singer, or a singer runs to be an actor, it is not so easy. It is precisely because of this that Zhou Pingping received the invitation of the heroine of the movie, which will make everyone so greedy, and it will also make Zhou Pingping seem so confident when she negotiates a contract with Hua Record again.
Before this, Wang Jingxue never thought that she could act!
Others don't know, but she herself knows very well, her expression is stiff, she has always been a cold face, but she really has no talent for acting.
So at this time, although she heard that it was the crew of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" over there, and that she might play the role of Da Qiao, she couldn't help but be moved at the time, but after thinking about it, she still said: "Forget it, you know, I can't act, I can sing well and I'm already very content." Besides, we're so busy with commercial performances right now......"
Before she finished speaking, Sun Ruoxuan couldn't help but reach out and poke her, "Silly you, of course you want to go! That's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"! Go, of course you want to go! Such a good opportunity, why don't you go! If you don't believe it, report it to the company, and the company promises to agree immediately!"
Wang Jingxue was stunned for a moment, lowered her head for a moment, raised her head again, but still said into the phone: "You apologize to your director, just say that I really can't go, even if I go, I won't act, help me push it!"
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The phone hung up, Sun Ruoxuan looked at Wang Jingxue with a calm face, and couldn't help rolling her eyes.
But soon, she took out her mobile phone and called Sister Wu, the agent sitting in the car behind, straight to the point, and said: "Jing Xue just received an audition invitation from the crew of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and people wanted her to participate in Da Qiao's audition, but Jing Xue pushed it, you see ......"
Wang Jingxue on the other side of the phone turned her head to look at her in surprise, and Sister Wu on the other end of the phone was also stunned for a few seconds.
Then, Wang Jingxue frowned and said, "What are you doing!"
And Sister Wu on the other end of the phone suddenly said: "Is she crazy?
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After saying a few more words, Sun Ruoxuan hung up the phone, then looked at Wang Jingxue with a smile, patted her shoulder, and said: "What is the situation, you know better than anyone else, even if it is just to have more confidence when negotiating with the company, even if it is just for the sake of sisters, you must go for such a good opportunity!"
This time, Wang Jingxue hesitated for a moment and did not speak.
Moments later, her phone was ringing.
She flipped it out and looked, and sure enough, it was Sister Wu.
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Ahhhh
There are very few recommended tickets, there are woods? (to be continued......)