Chapter 329: Casting
In addition to the "Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", in the summer of 2018, the most interesting thing in the Dragon Country music circle is Zhao Zhenghao's "legendary" world tour, which has lasted for more than two years.
The "Legendary" World Tour is currently the longest-lasting, most held, most audience-attracting and highest-grossing world tour in Dragon Kingdom!
Zhao Zhenghao has created a series of records through the "legendary" World Tour, and at present, only he can break it!
Because, before the "legendary" world tour, the world tour that dominated this series of records was also from Zhao Zhenghao, and it was his "Dangerous Journey" world tour.
Being in the same era as Zhao Zhenghao is the biggest sorrow of other singers!
Even kings and queens like An Shuyi and Liu Runze can only watch Zhao Zhenghao come from behind and ride the dust, not to mention other singers.
Even in the international music scene, at present, there are only singers who can be compared with Zhao Zhenghao!
Those emperors and superstars in the European and American music circles, in their own base camps, can still compete with Zhao Zhenghao in popularity and influence, but out of Europe and the United States, to third world countries, their popularity and influence are dwarfed by Zhao Zhenghao.
Not to mention in Zhao Zhenghao's home base of Dragon Country!
Here, Zhao Zhenghao has no opponents!
Zhao Zhenghao had a good time this summer, although he had to go to a city every week and hold three concerts there in a row, but the actual itinerary was not as busy as he imagined.
The process of the concert has been carried out hundreds of times in the past two years, although there will be some changes in the performance repertoire of some of them, but the changed repertoire has been rehearsed many times a long time ago, and it is not difficult for Zhao Zhenghao to perform.
Now, before each concert, Zhao Zhenghao no longer needs to spend too much time on rehearsals, and only needs to simply step on the field before the opening, which is enough to ensure the smooth progress of the entire concert process.
In this way, even on the day of the concert, Zhao Zhenghao only spent five or six hours on the concert.
Other times, Zhao Zhenghao was not idle.
The busiest thing is the pre-training of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and now at least two hours a day, I will practice martial arts routines with the help of professional martial arts instructors.
The preliminary preparations for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" have also begun.
Naturally, there is no need to worry about investment, the news that Zhao Zhenghao is going to make a new movie came out first-class, and the film production companies and investors who are not counted in the number of films in Long Guo rushed to wave the checkbook and flocked to block the door of "Zhenghao Studio".
Zhao Zhenghao is no longer the stunned young man who was a fledgling and rashly crossed over to the film industry to make money by relying on his identity as a god of songs.
"A Chinese Ghost Story", "Journey to the West", "Infernal Affairs", although Zhao Zhenghao's film works are not many, but one is more exciting than the other, one is more classic than the other, and one is higher than the box office!
Especially "Infernal Affairs", in the past few months, swept the "Best Film" of the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom, in addition, Zhao Zhenghao also won the Golden Goat Award and the Golden Goblet Award for double Best Actor, as well as the Golden Goat Award and the Golden Dragon Award for Best Director!
It can be said that in the past few months, the strongest momentum in the Dragon Kingdom film circle is Zhao Zhenghao!
The only thing that can compete with him is Yi Ping, who won the "Best Actress" at the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom with one role and achieved the full slam of actresses.
However, Yi Ping is just a simple actor, but Zhao Zhenghao wears many hats, director, screenwriter, actor, plus producer, and his role in a movie is much more important than Yi Ping!
Zhao Zhenghao is now truly among the small group of talkers standing at the top of the pyramid in the Dragon Kingdom film circle.
Now, no one dares to look at Zhao Zhenghao as a cross-border identity.
Zhao Zhenghao has relied on his own strength to erect a mountain in the Dragon Kingdom film circle, and no one dares to be contemptuous anymore.
Therefore, although "Zhenghao Studio" revealed that the theme of Zhao Zhenghao's fourth directorial work is a martial arts film that has now declined, and the adapted story is not the new-school martial arts masterpieces that everyone is familiar with, but a little-known old-school martial arts.
However, this has not affected the importance of investors in the slightest, and fans are full of expectations for this film that currently has only one name.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a martial arts film, in order to present the best picture texture, although in some shots, some special effects will be used, and there are some special effects shots, but the special effects account for a small proportion.
In the original version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", because the shooting time was relatively early, at the beginning of the 21st century, the original special effects production level was not too high, and the original director did not use any special effects shots in order to shoot the most original story.
Zhao Zhenghao is not the kind of person who sticks to stereotypes and pedantic thoughts, he relies on the memories of his previous life and draws on the imported films, the content is not 100% copied, but uses existing technology to delete some of the shots, so that the overall effect of the film is even more one level on the basis of the original.
Because "A Chinese Ghost Story" is his first directorial work, he has the highest loyalty to the original version, and the least effort in deletion and modification.
In "Journey to the West", there was no action on the storyline, but in terms of special effects, drastic changes were made.
The original version of "Journey to the West" was filmed in the early nineties of the twentieth century, and due to the limitations of shooting technology, the production of special effects shots can only be described by the words "shoddy".
When Zhao Zhenghao copied this classic film, he made reasonable use of the film technology that had advanced by leaps and bounds, and the production cost of special effects shots accounted for nearly half of the investment in the whole movie, making the effect of the finished film several grades higher than the original version.
This is also the basic reason why Zhao Zhenghao's version of "Journey to the West" can be accepted by the market and loved and sought after by fans.
If Zhao Zhenghao really shoots a movie with a texture more than 20 years ago at this time, no matter how exciting the story is, there will only be one result!
The same is true for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Although the original version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", due to the original director's exquisite directing skills, the texture of the film is not outdated even if it is placed more than ten years later.
However, some of these lenses would have been even better if they had been used with the most advanced shooting techniques available today!
Zhao Zhenghao's purpose has always been to keep improving!
If conditions permit, it is natural to let the movie you make present the most perfect effect!
For this reason, he not only demanded himself, but also accepted professional martial arts instruction early, and also made the same request for An Shuyi, who had been confirmed to play Yu Xiulian.
In addition, the other two main characters of the film, Luo Xiaohu and Yu Jiaolong, and Zhao Zhenghao also cast a wide net and cast widely.
Feng Xiaojing was originally very interested in the role of Yu Jiaolong, and she was also the best candidate to play this role in Zhao Zhenghao's heart.
This "best" is naturally calculated from the relationship between her and Zhao Zhenghao, and in terms of actual situation, among the actresses who signed up for the audition for Yu Jiaolong, there are several conditions that are not inferior to her.
However, Feng Xiaojing did not take the role of Yu Jiaolong as the outside world said.
The fault is in Feng Xiaojing's own body.
In the film, Yu Jiaolong has a large-scale, all-@naked @ love scene, which plays an important role in shaping the character and image of Yu Jiaolong, and cannot be deleted.
Even if in order to be successfully released in the Dragon Kingdom, this scene will be used in the finished film, and the Spring and Autumn brushwork will be used to pass by, but in overseas countries where the scale is relatively relaxed, this scene will be retained as much as possible.
In order to make the whole "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" shoot the most perfect effect, Zhao Zhenghao and An Shuyi will personally go into battle during the fight, and they will not use stand-ins in some difficult action scenes as before.
In view of the principle of protecting actresses, when shooting panoramic full @ nude shots, Zhao Zhenghao can allow the use of stand-ins, but when shooting close-ups, the actors are still required to go into battle in person.
This passionate @ love scene is completely different from the so-called passionate @ love scenes of those roles that Feng Xiaojing took over before.
Before, in the youth idol dramas that Feng Xiaojing filmed, due to the requirements of the plot, there would also be some scenes and scenes such as kissing, but when filming, some special shooting techniques were used to pass by.
Feng Xiaojing has not given her first kiss on the screen in the real sense until now!
This makes Feng Xiaojing bound to have some obstacles when taking on such a large-scale emotional scene.
Zhao Zhenghao had full expectations for this situation, and before the audition, he formally consulted Feng Xiaojing's opinion, Feng Xiaojing was full of confidence in herself, and even said that it was no problem, but when it was really time to audition, Feng Xiaojing was depressed, and she couldn't step over the hurdle in her heart.
Although, if Zhao Zhenghao gives her enough time and opportunities, she will slowly overcome her psychological concerns, embody the level of a real actor, and bravely dedicate herself to art.
However, first, Zhao Zhenghao has high expectations for this "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and has very strict requirements, to do everything possible to shoot the most perfect effect, and there is not so much time to wait for Feng Xiaojing to slowly solve his psychological problems.
Second, Zhao Zhenghao now really regards Feng Xiaojing as his sister, in his heart, the positions of Feng Xiaojing and Zhao Zhihui are side by side, and Zhao Zhenghao wants to sit behind the monitor and watch Feng Xiaojing and other men fall in love, although he knows that it is fake and is filming, Zhao Zhenghao will also have some mustard in his heart.
Although Feng Xiaojing, who is sure to take the road of being an actor, will buy this hurdle sooner or later, but in Zhao Zhenghao's mind, the later that day comes, the better, and it is best never to have it.
Even if he had to come, Zhao Zhenghao hoped that everything would not happen in front of his eyes.
Zhao Zhenghao is not a pure sister control, but the psychology of some uncles still really exists, and Zhao Zhenghao never shy away from this.
Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Zhao Zhenghao finally did not choose Feng Xiaojing to play Yu Jiaolong, but handed over this role to another actor, the actor with the best acting skills among actresses under the age of 30 in the Dragon Kingdom film and television circle.
The actor's name is Xiang Yazhen, twenty-eight years old this year, born in a professional class, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, her appearance is not beautiful, but she has a heroic spirit and superb acting skills.
At the beginning of her debut, Xiang Yazhen chose her own path, she didn't want to be a star, but wanted to be a real actor, and the target was Yi Ping.
With such a goal, after Xiang Yazhen's debut, she plunged into the quagmire of literary films, and the roles she took over were all roles with great depth and high acting requirements.
The "queen of literary films" of the Dragon Kingdom is naturally Yi Ping.
According to Xiang Yazhen's original intention, she was originally reluctant to take over Zhao Zhenghao's movie.
Zhao Zhenghao's directorial works, after several masterpieces in a row, have established their own brand, with the double guarantee of word-of-mouth and box office.
However, in the eyes of the public, his directing style is still commercial, although the previous three works, while taking into account business, more or less, all reflect some ideology, beyond the general sense of commercial popcorn movies.
In particular, "Infernal Affairs" is recognized as the best film in the history of Dragon Kingdom cinema that takes into account both commerciality and artistry.
Xiang Yazhen, who has already gotten into the horns of the bull, plans to go all the way to the dark in art films, and the small goal she has set for herself is to complete the grand slam of the three major film awards ceremonies of the Dragon Kingdom with a movie, like Yi Ping.
Fortunately, though, she has a sober-headed agent.
Her agent's name is Wei Li, and she is currently the most successful agent in the Dragon Kingdom film and television industry in terms of actresses.
The reason why I say this is because there is another artist under her who is named Yi Ping!
The main reason why Xiang Yazhen chose to join Wei Li's command was because she brought Yi Ping up and pushed Yi Ping to the position of the first actress in the Dragon Kingdom today.
What Wei Li is most proud of about today's achievements is her vision for choosing scripts.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which is still in preparation, is naturally highly confidential about the script, but it is difficult for Wei Li to get the script through her own channels without much effort.
After reading through the script, Wei Li was keenly aware that Zhao Zhenghao's purpose behind this movie was hidden quite deeply, which made Wei Li's attention to this movie go up several notches.
If it weren't for the role of Yu Xiulian in the film, which was given to An Shuyi early, Wei Li would have the heart to fight for this role for Yi Ping.