The story setting of "Infernal Affairs", if the place of occurrence is placed in the Dragon Kingdom Continent, there may be some problems after passing the trial, but if it is placed in Xiangjiang, there will be no problems.

Feng Xiaojing is not very happy that although there are several female characters in "Infernal Affairs", the scenes are all insignificant, obviously they are all vases, but the setting of the characters is not quite consistent with her situation.

The two male protagonists of "Infernal Affairs" are both about thirty years old, and their girlfriends, or ambiguous objects, even if they can be younger than them, they can't be too young, at least twenty-seven or eighteen years old.

With Feng Xiaojing's current acting skills, it is still relatively difficult to cross the age limit and perfectly interpret a mature woman of twenty-seven or eighteen.

"Brother Hao, can you add one or two roles in this movie that are suitable for me and Binbin?" Feng Xiaojing asked.

Zhao Zhenghao said, "Let me tell you the truth, this movie, I not only want to ensure the box office results, but also want to make a breakthrough in artistry, to put it bluntly, in terms of awards, so we must strive to be perfect, and there can be no characters that have nothing to do with the plot." ”

Although Zhao Zhenghao did not directly refuse Feng Xiaojing's request, his words were already very clear.

Feng Xiaojing heard Zhao Zhenghao's hopes for this movie, and immediately put aside the disappointment that she couldn't participate, and said in surprise, "Brother Hao plans to compete for the best director with this movie?"

"It's not just the best director, it's the best actor, you can also fight for it!" Zhao Zhenghao said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Feng Xiaojing said excitedly, "Actor! Actor! In my opinion, Brother Hao's performance in "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West" is enough to compete for the actor crown, but those people have no eyes and don't see Brother Hao's efforts and acting skills!"

"In that case, then Brother Hao can only magnify his moves!"

A peerless male idol like Zhao Zhenghao has pros and cons when acting.

On the positive side, it can quickly gather huge popularity and attract a group of fan girls, and on the disadvantage, it will make people only see his face and ignore his acting skills.

Zhao Zhenghao's performance in "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West" is indeed good enough, his acting skills have reached a high level of 95 points, and he performs quite hard, and he did not relax his performance requirements because he directed it himself.

It's just that "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West" still have more commercial components, leaving too much room for Zhao Zhenghao's acting skills, although there are also some close-ups that capture the subtle expressions and changes in his eyes in his performance, but the proportion is too small for ordinary people to notice.

Of course, ordinary people don't notice it, and those industry insiders who are professional in film award judging won't notice it.

However, as mentioned above, those old-school filmmakers have colored glasses for Zhao Zhenghao, who was born as an idol, coupled with his cross-border behavior, which moved their cake, even if they saw Zhao Zhenghao's efforts and changes in acting skills, they turned a blind eye.

If you want to change their inherent prejudices, the only way for Zhao Zhenghao is to do what Feng Xiaojing said - magnify the move!

"Infernal Affairs" is a big move.

But only "Infernal Affairs" is not necessarily enough.

Zhao Zhenghao has not had much contact with the old-fashioned people in the film industry in this world, and due to his busy personal affairs, he subconsciously did not attach so much importance to the film award ceremonies within the Dragon Kingdom, so he refused many invitations to film awards ceremonies according to his usual behavior.

The reason why "A Chinese Ghost Story" was nominated for "Best New Director" was not awarded to Zhao Zhenghao in the end is directly related to his refusal to attend the film awards ceremony.

The film awards ceremonies within the Dragon Country, although they have a history of decades, with the prosperity of the Dragon Country film market, their status in the world film circle has also increased year by year, but compared with the three major European film festivals and the top international film awards ceremonies such as the Oscars in the United States, it still seems a bit petty.

In addition, Zhao Zhenghao's status in the music industry is unmatched, but in the film industry, he is still a small character.

He doesn't give face to those movie award ceremonies, and those movie awards ceremonies naturally don't stick his cold ass with a hot face!

In the final analysis, the failure of "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West" in the award competition also has a certain relationship with Zhao Zhenghao himself.

However, Zhao Zhenghao is really impatient to waste his precious time on pulling relationships.

In this way, the only way for "Infernal Affairs" to make a breakthrough in awards is to bring in a few big production companies with deep connections in the Dragon Kingdom film industry.

Another advantage of working with those big studios is that you can rely on their appeal to remove some obstacles for the casting of "Infernal Affairs".

After all, the situation in the film industry and the music industry is different, and if Zhao Zhenghao wants to get the result he wants, he can no longer play stand-alone as before!

It is necessary to take the initiative to show a posture of integrating into the entire mainstream film industry.

Fortunately, with the success of "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West" ahead, as long as Zhao Zhenghao shows a little attitude of cooperation, the giants in the industry who are in charge of the discourse in the Dragon Kingdom film industry will open their arms to cooperation.

The current situation is different from that after the release of "A Chinese Ghost Story", at that time, although Zhao Zhenghao proved his crossover with a directorial debut with a box office of more than 5 billion, it was definitely not a joke.

However, the success of a movie does not allow those giants in the industry to determine his strength.

Like him, his directorial debut was an instant hit, but he failed in the follow-up directorial works, and the directors who made investors lose their bottoms were not one or two.

Therefore, when "Journey to the West" developed investment permissions, those real industry giants did not behave very actively.

After "Journey to the West" also achieved box office success, no one can question Zhao Zhenghao's directing ability, and the attitude of those industry giants towards him is naturally different.

Moreover, compared with "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Journey to the West", "Infernal Affairs" has another attraction for investors, which is his cast.

The three main characters of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Zhao Zhenghao was just a god of song at the time, and he was lackluster in acting; An Shuyi was only a queen of songs, and the box office of several movies he participated in was not ideal, although he did not have the notoriety of box office poison, but he also had no box office appeal; Li Huize was even more outdated for more than ten years, and young audiences didn't know who he was!

The cast of "Journey to the West" is similar to "A Chinese Ghost Story", Zhao Zhenghao finally has the masterpiece "A Chinese Ghost Story", which has washed away some of the notoriety of facial paralysis acting skills, Peng Jieshan, Feng Xiaojing, and Yu Yabin's influence is only limited to the music world, and in the film industry, there is no appeal.

In "Infernal Affairs", the other three of the four main characters, Zhao Zhenghao plans to use the actor-level powerhouse, so that the cast of this film is much more luxurious than his first two directorial works, and the box office appeal will also be increased by several grades.

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Zhao Zhenghao is not worried about the investment in "Infernal Affairs", if those industry giants are still not interested, it is a big deal that he will play single-player again.

He was a little worried about the recruitment of actors, but it was too early to think about it, and the first thing he had to do now was to write the script.

In the next period of time, Zhao Zhenghao spent all his spare time on the creation of the script of "Infernal Affairs".

Since all this was done under the camera, in order not to be too shocking, he deliberately limited his creative speed, and it took half a month to complete the creation of the entire script.

Although during this period, he also had to take care of the filming of "Love Diary", and the time spent on script creation every day was not very long, only five or six hours a day, but in the case of mature original works for reference, such time was still quite generous for him.

Idle and bored, after telling the story of the first part of "Infernal Affairs" in the way of script writing, he also used language to tell the whole story.

In the first part of "Infernal Affairs", there are many portrayals of the inner emotions of the characters, which are not easy to express only through the way of script writing, and can be described in words to help understand.

However, after reading the final draft of the script, Yu Yabin still couldn't understand it, especially the emotional line inside, because she didn't write much in the script, which made her have a lot of puzzlement.

Discussing the storyline together is one of the daily interactions between Zhao Zhenghao and Yu Yabin, who resumed their world after Feng Xiaojing left, although the content of this part, out of the principle of confidentiality, will not appear in the feature film of "Love Diary".

In order to help Yu Yabin understand the whole story of "Infernal Affairs", Zhao Zhenghao also told her the content of the second part.

The second part of "Infernal Affairs", although it is a sequel to the project after the first fire, but in terms of the overall quality of the film, it is one of the few sequels that does not fall into the name of the previous work.

Zhao Zhenghao's initial plan was to put the first and second parts of "Infernal Affairs" together like the production of "Journey to the West", but later thought about it, the relationship between the first and second parts of "Infernal Affairs" is not the same as the upper and lower parts of "Journey to the West", the time span is relatively long, and the difficulty of making them together is much higher than that of "Journey to the West".

Moreover, even if he can successfully find a few powerful actors to join "Infernal Affairs", it will be difficult to sign a four-month schedule with them at once.

The filming time of the first and second parts of "Journey to the West" is a total of four months, and the first and second parts of "Infernal Affairs" also take at least this long time.

The Dragon Kingdom film industry is different from the European and American film circles, one thing is that those actors with box office appeal have a much tighter schedule, and it is rare for an actor to appear in one movie a year in the European and American film circles.

In the Dragon Kingdom film and television industry, an actor has two works a year, which is considered a few, and some popular actors can shoot four or five movies a year, plus one or two TV series, and I don't know how they squeeze the time.

Although this situation is better for real powerful actors, the phenomenon of signing a movie for four months is also very rare.

Not to mention, when Zhao Zhenghao filmed "The Grandmaster" in Liang Chaowei's previous life, it was several years since the schedule was signed - such a situation has never appeared in this world.

Moreover, there is another situation that has to be considered, even if Zhao Zhenghao is willing to play from his early twenties in the second part of "Infernal Affairs" to his thirties in the first part, the actors who play opposite him may not necessarily play roles with such a large age span.

In particular, in the first part of "Infernal Affairs", the two male protagonists in their thirties did not play very heavy roles in their early twenties in the second part.

The second part of "Infernal Affairs" is even more brilliant, in fact, Huang Zhicheng, and the black boss Ni Yongxiao, who did not appear in the first part.

However, anyway, there is nothing else to do at hand for the time being, Zhao Zhenghao easily wrote the script of the second part of "Infernal Affairs", which is really not good, and he also changed the actors like the original version, so he simply changed the director, and he only appeared as a cameo.

He still owes Wang Yulan the promise of a theatrical movie, so it is better to let her direct the second part of "Infernal Affairs".

Of course, this builds on the success of the first installment of Infernal Affairs!

If the first part of "Infernal Affairs" hits the streets, then the second part is impossible to talk about.

Zhao Zhenghao didn't believe that "Infernal Affairs" would hit the streets.

Even if the powerful actors he likes are unwilling to act, he can only choose other actors in the second place, and with the quality of "Infernal Affairs", it is impossible to fall into the situation of hitting the street.

Zhao Zhenghao has great hopes for "Infernal Affairs", if there is really a situation where his favorite actors are unwilling to act, he would rather suspend the project than let this one of his favorite movies in his previous life be presented flawed in this world.

The filming of the first season of "Love Diary", according to the original plan, was only one month.

In fact, later, Zhao Zhenghao and Yu Yabin both liked the leisurely life of Sifangtai and didn't want to end it so soon.

Zhao Zhenghao's next, until late December, during the Christmas period, the second phase of the "legendary" world tour, before the concert in various European countries kicked off, there was no work schedule.

Yu Yabin was only arranged by Wang Yulan to perform a few commercial performances around New Year's Day, and the rest of the time, she was preparing for her first solo album.

So, at their initiative, the filming period of the first season of "Love Diary" was repeatedly extended until late November, and it lasted for nearly two months.

During this period, Zhao Zhenghao perfected the script of the first and second parts of "Infernal Affairs", and also tried to adapt the script, in order to ensure the quality of creation, he also consumed some idol values, and increased the attribute value of "writing" from the original 65 points to 80 points.