Chapter 426: On How to Write a Popular Character
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Mid-July.
Recently, Cao Fangfang has worked hard in many ways, the main screenwriter + starring + training of Mi Yanxi and Chen Jin + daily writing disputes with Tian Anbang's female apprentice with a strange name, and he has lost a lot of weight, after removing his makeup at the end of filming, his eye sockets are a little dark, and his cheeks are slightly sunken, but after the pretender was released, word-of-mouth and ratings data continued to ferment, and the sense of achievement offset the fatigue of the body, but the spirit became more and more excited.
It also has something to do with his bad habits.
Most artists with high work intensity have the habit of drinking coffee, caffeine can refresh the mind, he used to love to drink cola, but later realized that this thing is too high in sugar, too easy to gain weight, and when he is busy, he doesn't exercise so much to consume calories, so he changes to drinking coffee, drinking latte in a normal state, and drinking black coffee with higher purity in a fatigued state.
Sometimes I have a cigar in the house, and sometimes I have a spicy strip, which tastes weird and strong.
The current chief director of the crew, Lu Jingzhen is the opposite of him.
He finished taking a shower in Cao Fangfang's suite, and walked out with a little belly that was getting fuller and fuller, Cao Fangfang had just connected the computer to the TV monitor, planning to finish brushing the pretender in one go today, and turned his head to see Lu Jingzhen's belly sticking out of his pajamas, and sneered: "I think you're too easy to mix with the director? Are you a hair cake? Recently, the weather has been hot and humid, and you get fat like this when you steam?"
Lu touched his stomach in shock, and went to make flower tea with a smile: "You don't understand, I'm overworking and fat." ”
"Oh......" Cao Fang nodded considerately: "Then I'll change the director." ”
"Don't brother!" Lu was stunned and greasy trotted over, heavy and flexible, holding the teacup in one hand and hugging Cao Fang hard in the other: "You are my own brother! Come, kiss one, brother!"
Cao Fangfang stretched out his hand to cover his mouth in disgust: "Go ahead! Then don't complain all day long that this order doesn't make money, if you offer the same price as a famous director, how can I convince Yuanmen to use you? ”
At the beginning, Cao Yifang took over the role of Immortal Sin and packed the entire studio to stuff people, but the director is not an actor, so it is not so easy to stuff, so he can only let Lu Jingzhen sacrifice some short-term interests, basically half sold and half sent, Lu Jingzheng for this opportunity, claimed that he didn't want money to direct, but Cao Yifang still allocated a small part of his income to subsidize him.
"Let's pull the piece, I can have a day off tomorrow, and watch it all night tonight, and the two of us will make a plate together." ”
Cao Fang used the remote control to turn on the pretender.
"Don't, you're a god, I can't, I'm ...... I'll have to get back to work tomorrow. ”
Lu Jingzhen handed him a cup of flower tea: "Come, lavender flower tea, sleep peacefully, go to sleep when you are sleepy, I see that you have slept too little recently......"
Cao Fang refused: "I'm not sleepy." ”
Lu Jingzhen forced him to stuff it, "Not being sleepy is the problem!"
He babbled and said, Cao Fang had no choice but to turn up the volume and overpower Lu Jing's voice.
After the first episode quickly, Cao Fang was quite satisfied, but Lu Jingzhen thought that Qin Lei, the director, was too incompetent.
Cao Fangfang said: "TV series rarely show off skills, if the camera of this drama makes the audience have a morning sickness reaction...... I'll kill you. ”
Lu was stunned, and swore that he knew the proportions.
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Mingtai sheep fell into the mouth of the tiger and was kidnapped into the military academy.
Actors generally don't like to watch the TV series they film, it's too long, and they can't have a sense of immersion, and the more they watch it, the more they feel that there are many problems, and Cao Yifang is the same.
In this part of the plot, he paid special attention to Liu Meng's performance.
Cao Yifang is very good at playing the young master who is twenty years old, he is close in age, and it is not easy to act, after he is drugged, he roars fiercely: "What do you want to do? You are kidnapping!"
Liu Meng's eye sockets are deep, and his facial features already have their own yin owls, and with a faint glance, Cao Fang suddenly became arrogant.
The weak chicken is full of feelings.
Wang Tianfeng understated: "Choose for you, if you don't choose, then I'll help you choose, don't thank me." ”
Mingtai was just frightened back, and now he was angry again, and the young master's anger looked so immature and vulnerable in front of the old agent, and he was also angry with a book: "You are a bandit! You know who I am! My big brother and sister will not let you go! I didn't go to school, they will find out soon! They will look for me!"
Liu Meng's performance was amazing, he had no expression, tilted his head and looked at Cao Fang coldly, but it made people feel that his tight lips seemed to hold back a smile, and his voice was indifferent: "It's okay, someone from the school has already reported for you." ”
After several lip and tongue exchanges, Mingtai's little milk dog was crushed to death by Wang Tianfeng, the evil wolf, annoyed and angry, and waved his fists at him, Wang Tianfeng overwhelmed him neatly, and threatened with compassion: "You are so impulsive and will not live long." ”
Mingtai was still very tough at this time, and he couldn't beat him, but at least he could scold: "You are a madman and a psychopath! You must be an old bachelor! So your psychology has changed ......."
A hard punch.
Honestly.
Cao Fangfang's best micro-expression management, the muscles at the corners of his eyes were jumping, and even his fierce little eyes suddenly softened.
He said softly: "......"
Another punch.
Wang Tianfeng likes to get very close, forming a strong aggressiveness: "The last time." ”
"Huh?"
"Allow you to scold me one last time. ”
After a while, Mingtai timidly glared at him with the last trace of arrogance.
Wang Tianfeng looked at him for three seconds.
Punch out.
Mingtai fried hair: "I didn't scold you!"
"You cursed in your heart. ”
Cao Fang didn't open the barrage, but the barrage has gone crazy, there are too many rotten women in these years, and the rotten culture is prevalent, so the content with the most formations is......
[The domineering president is in love with me!!]
Mingtai was taken by Wang Tianfeng in this way, in fact, he himself had the heart to serve the country, and he pretended to resist, but it was just for the sake of conscience...... The eldest sister in the family is like a mother, and she sent him to Hong Kong to go to school with hard work, but he stepped on the pit of the military system, and he had to deceive the eldest sister in the future, which was the last thing he wanted to do, but with Wang Tianfeng as this villain, he felt compelled.
It's just self-deception.
Mingtai's character is a genius.
In the military academy, he rode the dust, leveled up quickly, whether it was fighting, firearms, or interrogation, almost all the agent courses were far ahead with the best grades.
There were female cadets in the military school, and he soon met one and had a relationship.
No, isn't it...... It is to generate a plot connection.
Mingtai went to take a bath one day and accidentally saw a woman's bare back......
In the play, Du Ruocheng is really naked, anyway, it's a back.
Under the weakness of his heart, his strength was cut, and he was beaten by the woman who was quite unreasonable when she took a bath.
Mingtai later learned that graduation requires the assignment of a partner, the so-called life and death partner.
A man and a woman, men and women match, work is not tiring...... It is also convenient to disguise your identity and carry out agent activities.
Originally, it was nothing, Yu Manli, a woman, was a bit like a three-no girl at first, relying on Du Ruoshen's appearance, but later she ......
Mingtai, a playboy, has the habit of being merciful everywhere, saying that it sounds good is called a warm man, and if it is ugly, it is central air conditioning.
Yu Manli, a girl who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, can't bear this at all.
A little bit of softening in getting along, every time Mingtai helped her, it made her frozen heart melt bit by bit, and finally turned into a tuft of cotton, usually with a poker face, with an expression of Ketian Kefu, but as long as she saw Mingtai in training, she instantly became a simple girl.
Prone to daze, eyes glowing.
Cao Yifang strengthened Yu Manli's contrasting setting when writing the script, which is ashamed, for the screenwriter, it is very difficult to create a truly full-bodied female character, but it is very easy to create a female character who pleases and pities the male audience.
Men are sometimes very superficial, too real female characters, most of them have their own ideas and pursuits, there will be friction in the process of dating, there will be quarrels, there are contradictions and concessions, there is love and career, it will be too clingy, and sometimes it will delay things.
But Yu Manli's background is more miserable due to her growth background, Cao Fangfang makes this character have an extreme contrast, Mingtai is the only little warm glimmer left in Yu Manli's life, and for people living in the dark, the light of fireflies is also the only hope.
Yu Manli actually has no self, she gave up the opportunity to escape, for fear that Mingtai would be punished, and even more afraid that after she left, she would never see him again.
Since then, in addition to daily training, Yu Manli has devoted herself to him.
Such a character is certainly not real, but it is too distressing.
He has a miserable background, he is pitiful, he will never retreat, and if necessary, he will sacrifice himself at any time...... This is the perfect girlfriend in a man's heart.
Of course, for the sake of commercial considerations, in order to better meet the psychological needs of male audiences, Yu Manli's life experience was simplified to being abandoned since childhood, and his adoptive father who took him in was robbed and killed by several bandits, and she has since become a black widow, under the pseudonym Jinse, to lure those bandits, break them respectively, and kill the whole family on the wedding night.
The most important part of the deletion is that Yu Manshan was not sold into the Qinglou and did not contract any flower willow disease.
Because Cao Fang knows very well that the male audience can't accept this kind of setting of suffering for the sake of suffering.
Without this thorn, Yu Manli will become more perfect.
From an artistic point of view, such a compromise is somewhat sad...... But from a business perspective, the benefits are huge.
Du Ruocheng and Cao Fangfang interpreted the most wonderful scene in the early stage, and the scene that made the audience worry the most, was that Mingtai was kicked out of the military academy by Wang Tianfeng, and the two of them said goodbye.
Mingtai didn't know that after he left, Yu Manli would be sentenced to death.