Chapter 52: An Honest Man
The heroine has been decided, and now the male protagonist and a few supporting roles are missing.
The actor was called Morning Glory in the original movie, but now that he has changed the background of Huaguo, he naturally can't call this strange name, so Gu Zhi changed it to Liu Lian, which is the same as a magician.
The focus of "My Sassy Girlfriend" is on Song Mingxi, so the heroine must be very good-looking, and the male protagonist's appearance must not be too outstanding, otherwise it will steal the limelight from the heroine.
In the movie, the actor has twenty or thirty points in every exam, his IQ is basically negative, his athletic talent is close to zero, he is timid and spineless, he looks slightly fat, and he is harmless to humans and animals.
is always a silly and simple appearance, in a bad word, the so-called "honest person".
There are two kinds of honest people in this society, and they have always been stigmatized as "honest people", especially in China, where honesty is almost a word with a negative connotation.
There will always be people who say, "If you are so honest, you will definitely suffer in society when the time comes." In this sentence, this person may be a parent, a relative, a teacher or a classmate.
At this time, the "honesty" in their mouths is actually equated with inferiority, incompetence, cowardice, withdrawal, and inability to watch people put food on the plate.
This kind of honesty is the stigmatized "honesty", and everyone has their own judgment on how this "honesty".
The other kind of honesty is simple quality, and the core is to follow the rules.
This kind of honesty means being loyal and principled, respecting the rules, and respecting others. For example, do not run red lights, do not litter, do not cut in line, be loyal and honest to your peers, and follow the rules to your superiors without losing your principles.
This kind of honesty is true honesty, it is a kind of persistence and virtue. However, in recent years, it has also encountered stigmatization, and honestly has been characterized as a "fool" by many people in society.
A person who abides by the rules and does not intervene is stupid; If you don't cheat on exams and insist on completing them independently, you are stupid.
There are countless such examples, and I don't know when it started, and it is something that can be shown off without principles and bottom lines.
And honesty, it has become a curse.
Speaking of the male protagonist, he is very honest, and his concern for Song Mingxi is incomparable. Without his constant companionship and care, Song Mingxi would not have fallen in love with him, and then slowly came out of the grief of her boyfriend's death.
This type of role is very classic and old-fashioned, and there are many suitable actors, but any actor with a little acting skills can easily interpret this role.
Gu Zhi searched a little in his heart, and found two relatively suitable candidates.
One is Deng Chao, and the other is Tong Dawei.
Deng Chao is 21 years old this year, he was admitted to the Chinese Opera Performance Department in 98, and now he is a junior.
Before he was admitted to Chinese opera, he received three years of drama training at Jiangxi Vocational College of Arts, laying a solid foundation for his acting skills.
After being admitted to the Chinese opera, he insisted on running and practicing his lines on campus every morning, training standard line pronunciation. and began to appear in dramas frequently, not only training and performing a large number of roles in the performance of Chinese opera, but also playing traditional dramas and innovative comedies.
The performance training of Chinese opera laid down his profound acting skills for Deng Chao, and later whether it was "Huaguo Partner" or "Scorching Sun", Deng Chao dedicated first-class acting skills.
It's just that since he participated in the run, his manhood has increased greatly, and he has slowly developed in the direction of variety shows and comedy, and even the movies he led have become this genre.
The two works directed and acted in, "The Breakup Master" and "Villain Angel" are both bad films to a certain extent, and the starring "Mermaid" is not much better.
It's hard to imagine that an actor who can dedicate himself to the performance level of "Scorching Sun" would actually make these big bad movies.
is clearly not suitable for comedy characters, and he has to make himself forcibly funny, Deng Chao is really quite contradictory.
Of course, the current Deng Dynasty still relies on acting skills to eat. In the first half of this year, when he was still a sophomore, he filmed the TV series "Fertile Soil Under the Yellow Sand" and played a villain.
This is the first TV series he has participated in, and the ratings are really not good, but he is a serious actor.
Being able to be a leading actor when he was a student is enough to prove Deng Chao's acting skills, and students with this experience will basically be popular in the future, and he is no exception.
Gu Zhi fell in love with Deng Chao, firstly, he valued his acting skills, and secondly, he was above average in appearance, which was just right with the goddess Song Mingxi.
The downside is that he is not fat enough and not naïve enough.
Gu Zhi got the stills of Deng Dynasty this year from Liu Qi, and he was estimated to be 120 pounds at most, and he still had some muscles on his body, which was too far from the realm of being slightly fat.
He turned to another candidate, David Tong.
David Tong is now a senior in the theater, and he just participated in a youth idol drama "It's All Angels" this year.
This TV series starred Li Xiaolu, Ren Yang, and Guo Tao, and David Tong played a small supporting role in it, and there were not many opportunities to show his face.
He has always been very low-key in the film and television industry, and the real opportunity for the fire is still the TV series "Struggle".
This is a TV series with a very inspirational name but a very realistic content, which not only made David Tong popular, but also a large number of young actors such as Ma Yili, Emblem, Li Xiaolu, Wang Luoji, etc.
The actor is a standard second-generation official and a rich second-generation, the luxurious life in the TV series, and the consumption method of the protagonists spending a lot of money, is a history of young people's enjoyment.
Rather than saying that this is a TV series that reflects the history of the struggle of the post-80s, it is better to put aside its disguise, in fact, this is a pseudo-real-life drama of post-80s college graduates, eating, drinking, having fun, enjoying life, and doing idle work every day.
However, Gu Zhi has to admit that this TV series is really good-looking, and in his previous life, he also chased it episode by episode in front of the TV.
Maybe watching other people's lives of drunken money every day is also a different kind of enjoyment for the audience.
David Tong in 2000 was still unknown, and he only participated in three TV series in total, and they were all small supporting roles for leftovers. If Gu Zhi hadn't specifically asked Liu Qi to take a list of young actors who have participated in TV series in recent years, he really wouldn't have remembered this person.
David Tong is also from a professional class, at least there is no problem in terms of acting skills, he is handsome in terms of image, but he is not the kind of handsome who can leave a deep impression.
Although he is not fat, when Gu Zhi thinks of him, the adjective "fat" still subconsciously pops up in his mind, and David Tong always gives him a feeling of "this person is a good person".
His image and temperament can be said to be very consistent with the actor Liu Lian, as long as he is a little ugly in makeup, the image of a stupid college student immediately jumps on the paper.
The actor of the original movie was played by Che Qixian, who played a stunned young man very well.
Compared with Che Tire Xianyi, David Tong has less meat on his face than him, and he is similar in other aspects.
Compared with Deng Chao and Tong David, the acting skills are better than half of them, and the gap in image is not sporadic and half-pointed.
In addition, there is another place that makes Gu Zhi feel embarrassed, that is, David Tong is still far away in the magic capital, and it is not certain whether he is willing to come to the capital or not.
After some thought and discussion with Lu Chuan, they finally decided to invite David Tong to play Liu Lian.
So Gu Zhi immediately asked Liu Qi to use resources to contact David Tong and make sure to take him down. He himself, together with Lu Chuan, began to think about several candidates for supporting roles.
There are two characters in the supporting roles who are more outstanding, one is the quintuplets in the black-and-white photo at the door of the hotel, and the five are played by one person, namely the hotel owner, the practitioner, the hooligan, the guard of the detention center, and the subway manager, which is a small easter egg in the movie.
For this role, they invited the old drama bone Ni Dahong to play the role.
The other is a deserter, with relatively many scenes, with laughter and tears.
Because it was filmed in the mainland, it was naturally impossible for a deserter to insult the image of our army, so Gu Zhi changed the identity of the character to a fugitive, and he asked Ning Hao to find Huang Haibo, who is a senior in Beiying, to play.
At this point, the actors are just one David Tong who has not yet returned to his position.