Chapter 304 of the main text Aviator

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Zhang Ran had a headache when many people jumped out, but when these people came out, he was completely relieved, and professional problems still had to be solved by professionals. Although "Heartbreaker" received a lot of scolding for this, it is good that this matter can be solved, and Zhang Ran is relieved and boldly started the casting work of "The Aviator".

"The Aviator" is based on Zhang Xiaoyu's short comic "Fly", the comic is only a few dozen pages, and the story is very simple. Qiao Zhengfei is a very smart boy, dressed up beautifully and cleanly, and knows many things that are not in textbooks. His father was an engineer at an aircraft factory, and he committed suicide because he couldn't bear the criticism. Therefore, Qiao Zhengfei is always silent and lonely, expressionless, like a wooden man. Only one classmate has seen his smiling face, a little bald head who admires Qiao Zhengfei, nicknamed 100 watts.

Soon came the reform and opening up, and many people were rehabilitated, but Qiao Zhengfei's father did not. Qiao Zhengfei's mother set fire to her home in a fit of rage, and after setting the fire, her mother kicked him out of the house, but locked herself in her room. Soon after, Qiao Zhengfei and his only friend, 100 watts, broke up because of his father's problems.

Two years later, Qiao Zhengfei found 100 watts and asked him to watch his test flight. On that day, Qiao Zhengfei flew away in a homemade plane, and no one ever met him again.

In the comics, when Qiao Zhengfei flew away, he was only fourteen years old, and it was okay to draw the comics like this, and the stories of teenagers saving the world abound in the comics, and there would be no problem in building airplanes. But the movie must not be filmed like this, everyone will feel fake. Therefore, Zhang Ran must make a major transformation of the story to make the whole story more realistic, and at the same time make this very simple story richer.

Zhang Ran's "The Aviator" is still a three-act structure, and the first part of the film is the content of the comics, from the beginning until Qiao Zhengfei's mother set fire to their house. However, in Zhang Ran's story, the character of 100 watts disappeared, and was replaced by a girl named Liu Jiao, who was a childhood sweetheart with Qiao Zhengfei.

The second part of the movie. It happened twelve years later, in 1990, when Qiao Zhengfei and both grew up. They all became factory workers. The two were secretly in love, but Liu Jiao's mother did not agree with the relationship between the two, thinking that Qiao Zhengfei's family was poor, so she arranged a blind date for her children.

Liu Jiao was very anxious, so she asked Qiao Zhengfei to prepare the bride price money, and then came to the door to propose, as long as her mother saw that Qiao Zhengfei could make money. Coupled with your own persistence, this can be done.

Half a year later, Qiao Zhengfei prepared the money and went to the door to propose. Halfway through, he saw a newspaper news that Cao Zhengshu, a farmer in Mianyang'an County, Sichuan, had made a test flight. Beginning in 1984, Cao Zhengshu built airplanes in his humble shed, which was his fourth test flight and his fourth failure.

Twelve years. The flying dream, which had been buried in his heart, was fermenting and expanding, crashing into Qiao Zhengfei's chest. Qiao Zhengfei couldn't help himself anymore, he didn't want his dream to creep on the ground. So he decided that this time he wanted to let his dreams fly. In order to build airplanes. He used the bride price money to buy a motorcycle for experimentation and began to prepare for the construction of an airplane.

Liu Jiao was very angry, whether it was me or the plane that was important, and the two began a cold war. In the process of the Cold War, Liu Jiao started a blind date at the request of her mother, but Qiao Zhengfei completely ignored it, and Liu Jiao decided to marry in a fit of anger.

The day Liu Jiao got married, it was also the day when Qiao Zhengfei flew a test flight. Qiao Zhengfei came to Liu Jiao's house. Let Liu Jiao go to see her test flight. Liu Jiao ignored the opposition of her family and followed Qiao Zhengfei to the test flight site.

It's a pity. The test flight failed, Qiao Zhengfei decided to go to the south, he asked Liu Jiao to go with him, but Liu Jiao refused, she wanted a stable life.

In the third part of the film, six years later, Joe Zhengfei returns from the South, and this time he has enough money and technology that he starts building airplanes again.

One day, Qiao Zhengfei met Liu Jiao on the street, with her son by her side. Liu Jiao persuaded him to stop being obsessed and live a down-to-earth life.

On the day of the test flight, Qiao Zhengfei invited Liu Jiao to watch him test flight again, which was their agreement when they were teenagers. At the test flight site, Liu Jiao once again dissuaded Qiao Zhengfei and asked Qiao Zhengfei not to fly anymore, but Qiao Zhengfei still got on the plane without hesitation.

Joe was flying with his engine and the plane flew into the sky. After that, no one saw Qiao Zhengfei again.

Zhang Ran accidentally saw this cartoon when he was in college, and he was deeply shocked when Qiao Zheng flew into the sky and flew towards the sun. At that time, he decided that he must make this story into a movie in the future. Since then, he has been collecting materials and starting to rewrite the script, which has been more than ten years now. This story has become an obsession in Zhang Ran's life, and he has become one with the character of Qiao Zhengfei.

The story of "The Aviator" is somewhat similar to "The Heartbreaker", both about dreams. However, Qiao Zhengfei was more sober than He Xi, he knew that he had to make money to realize his dream, and when he failed in his first test flight, he chose to go south. It took him six years to make enough money and take to the skies.

Zhang Ran also knows that it takes a lot of money to realize his dream of movies, and he also plans to make money desperately. But now that Zhang Ran is filming "The Aviator", he has no financial concerns at all, he can

The preliminary preparations for the film have been done, and the most important thing now is the issue of casting.

Zhang Ran plans to come to the role of Qiao Zhengfei by himself, and the role of Liu Jiao is Zhang Jingchu, and the other roles are not difficult to find. What is really difficult is the choice of young Qiao Zhengfei and Liu Jiao's actors, Xiao Liu Jiao is relatively easy to find, looks beautiful, smart and clever, and is a little similar to Zhang Jingchu's face.

The most difficult thing is Xiao Qiao Zhengfei's actor, Qiao Zhengfei is not like Ma Xiaojun in "Sunny Days", naughty and mischievous, heartless. If this is the case, you can just find Zhang Yishan. Qiao Zhengfei's whole person seemed relatively silent, expressionless, and looked a little cold, in Zhang Ran's heart, Xiao Qiao Zhengfei should have the coldness of the young Qin Shihuang in the TV series "Qin Shi Huang".

Zhang Jingchu played soy sauce in "Qin Shi Huang", Zhang Ran specifically asked her about the child who played the young Qin Shi Huang, and learned that the child was almost sixteen years old and had to give up.

In order to find suitable actors, the casting work began in early October, and Zhang Ran sent four groups of people to cast nets and fish in Beiping first, and then squatted in places such as youth palaces and art schools where children with artistic talents haunted.

Zhang Ran has two requirements for Qiao Zhengfei, his temperament is cold and his eyes are firm, these two points are particularly important. As long as there are these two points, this character can stand. But it is really too difficult to find a child who meets Zhang Ran's requirements. Until November, no suitable candidate could be found.

Zhang Ran could only send more teams and let them get the cameras to find people in art palaces and art schools across the country. When you see a suitable one, you go over and ask, "Kid, can I take a picture of you?" and ask the child to introduce himself to the camera.

Cities such as Modu, Jinling, and Rongcheng are the targets of the working group. In art palaces and art schools in major cities, several assistant directors have shot thousands of videos of girls alone, and tens of thousands of boys have passed by.

Ultimately. Zhang Ran selected five men and five women as seeded players from tens of thousands of videos, intending to investigate them and then select the final candidate. Among these ten children, Zhang Ran knew that he would embark on the road of acting in the future, and there were also new new humans that Zhang Ran had never heard of at all.

Now that the school has been on holiday, Zhang Ran is not afraid of delaying the children's studies, so he invited parents to take their children to Peking to audition, and all the expenses were covered by the crew.

One after another, the newcomers who received interview invitations entered Beijing. The children and their parents were placed in different hotels, and neither of them knew they had competitors. Auditions are also conducted separately to reduce their stress and prevent them from being able to perform their own characteristics due to nervousness.

The audition took place in the conference room. The room was emptied of things, and there were three tables in the center. Sitting were Zhang Ran, Zhao Fei and Ning Hao.

At nine o'clock, the first child to audition enters the room, and the audition officially begins.

Zhang Ran smiled and nodded at the little boy in front of him, and said in a very gentle tone: "Hello, thank you very much for coming to the audition, please introduce yourself!"

The boy looked very calm and introduced himself: "Hello uncle, my name is Qin Junjie, and I am twelve years old this year. From Xiamen City, Fujian Province!"

Zhang Ran nodded, this kid is good. And he said, "Can you sing? If you can, sing us a song!"

Qin Junjie sang: "Let's swing the oars, the boat pushes away the waves, the sea reflects the beautiful white tower, surrounded by green trees and red walls......"

In the process of Qin Junjie's singing, Zhang Ran always paid attention to his expression and breath, Qin Junjie's expression was very calm, and his breath was very stable. Zhang Ran is very satisfied, this kid has a cold and calm temperament, which is very close to the little Qiao Zhengfei in Zhang Ran's heart.

After Qin Junjie finished singing, Zhang Ran picked up a page of the script, handed it to Qin Junjie, and said: "Read it according to this line, you have to bring feelings, you don't care about anything else, read it as you think!"

This process of reading a script is called cold reading in Hollywood, but for amateur actors and newcomers, cold reading is absolutely not to use the clips to be filmed in the movie. Because these actors have less experience, they will make up their brains according to the script fragments you provide, and they will think wildly in their minds, and the image they conceive is often very different from the script, and it will be difficult for them to change it when they get the complete script.

Qin Junjie was very serious, took the script, and read it aloud with a vivid voice.

Zhang Ran and Ning Hao glanced at each other, their faces were full of smiles, this kid is really good!

At ten o'clock, the second parent took the child to Tiangong Chongcai, a little girl, who was quickly taken to the audition room by the staff.

The little girl looked at Zhang Ran, then at Zhao Fei and Ning Hao, and said timidly: "Hello uncle!"

Zhang Ran felt that the little girl was very nervous, so she chatted with him for a few words, asked her hobbies, what TV series she liked to watch, and then said softly: "Now introduce yourself, tell me, what is your name, how old are you, and where are you from!"

The little girl let out an "oh" and said timidly: "My name is Zheng Xiaoshuang, I am twelve years old this year, and I am from Shenyang, Liaoning. ”

Zhang Ran frowned slightly, the cool girl looks quite cute, and she will develop well in the future, why is she timid now, this state is too far from Liu Jiao, but he still said: "Xiao Shuang, can you dance?

Zheng Xiaoshuang said "um" and began to jump. She danced the Indian dance, which was very energetic and full of enthusiasm.

Zhang Ran's eyes lit up, if she can be in such a state of vitality when acting, then she is a very suitable candidate.

In two days, "The Aviator" completed the first round of auditions, and the boys and girls were each eliminated by three people, the boys Yang Yang and Qin Junjie, and the girls Zheng Xiaoshuang and Guo Xiaoting entered the second round. (To be continued.) )

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