The film shooting plan was quickly finalized, but the script was never settled.

Director Liu and his friend Wang Zhiqing, a commercial film director who has not won international awards but is also well-known in China, have studied for a long time and worked out several scripts. But these scripts were pushed before they were sent to the agent, and they were sued for no reason!

According to the opinions of the two directors and several professional editors, it is best for a layman like Shao Daochang, who has no acting skills at all, to play a role close to his true colors. But he clearly has a look of "from head to foot, running down; From the feet to the head, the amorous flow upwards", but the personality does not match the face at all, it is the kind of most unpopular with girls, and it will only be old-fashioned to fight and cook with his head bored.

Not to mention that he showed his deep affection for the heroine, just told him that the object of rescue in the movie was a woman, and he had to say seriously: "I am a labor dispatch to help the game rescue male players, and women are generally not in the scope of my rescue." ”

His agent was even more hateful when he read the book, and as soon as the typed script was put there, he just picked it up and glanced at the cover and said no! If you ask him why he doesn't watch it, he can say the content of the script as if he had read the outline of the script from the beginning: "It's too commercial, it's too kitsch, this film is not only for the audience, but also for the leaders of the game, the rescuers are in love with the rescued, where is the official image of the game, and what trust do players have in the game?" ”

Can he really have clairvoyance? Or did the staff leak the outline to him in advance?

Both of these are so unscientific! Only Director Liu thought that he had special functions, and he was also a descendant of the Heavenly Master who came out of the palace of the previous dynasty, but Director Wang and the screenwriters didn't think so, and felt that it must be a little routine in the content of this version of the outline, so he guessed, so he held a meeting to brainstorm, worked overtime, and vowed to write a good story that would not let this kind of layman scorn and point out.

Beginning? How suspenseful how to come! Affection? How to get dog blood! Plot? How twists and turns, how to make up! End? Hehe, isn't it not kitsch? Then write in the abuse! abused the protagonist and the audience to die and live, and the thoughts were sublimated!

After the second draft was sent, the agent still only glanced at the cover and couldn't understand: "Our Master Shao and the rescued people fell in love with the same woman, and they dragged them back countless times, and sacrificed their lives to match them, and died silently at the hands of the enemy?" According to your shot, can we still recruit employees to do customer service in our game? With such a weak customer service, can customers still have confidence in the game? ”

Although he is only a customer service family, he is also responsible for the image of the game and the image of the employees of Wanxian League! Agent Yan pushed his glasses, threw the stack of essays back on the table, and glanced at Director Liu coldly: "I hope this film can respect the facts and shoot Master Shao's true style!" ”

What does this layman know! Without the perfect love affair of life and death, can the characters still be three-dimensional? Can it still be plump? Can the audience still be brought back to life?

The gold medal screenwriter in the team really wants to drop the keyboard and quit! But for the progress of the film industry, in order to get the kind of advanced technology that crosses the era, they fought hard!

The script was changed again and again, grinding more than a dozen times, exhausting their brain cells, and finally changed from a love story of Qing Gao literature and art to a documentary-like crisis rescue. But they cleverly set the background of the story in the troubled times when the land of Zhongxia was full of warlords and wolf smoke after the collapse of the previous dynasty, Shao Zongyan's identity was not arranged as a netizen tourist, but the inheritor of the hidden sect "Yuan Yang Canghua", but his name still used his own name.

And the client he rescued is set as a young soldier who is bent on ending the troubled times and is full of enthusiasm for serving the country, with a surname of Han and a vague name, and is called "Akan" or "customer" throughout the play. His ancestors were eunuchs and nobles who had dealt with "Yuan Yang Canghua" and bought an antique from his sect. Later, in a battle against foreign invaders, the government at that time actually privately negotiated peace with the enemy during the bloody battle of the soldiers at the front, and ceded land and paid compensation. Tens of thousands of soldiers who were still fighting on the front line were abandoned from above, without reinforcements, without food and weapons, until they ran out of ammunition and food, and the soldiers were killed and wounded, but in the most desperate moments, they were hurriedly ordered to lay down their arms and surrender from their superiors.

The client was one of the officers in this battle, and almost all of his soldiers died in battle, but he was transferred back to the summer capital by a paper order to become the captain of the operations of the intelligence department, and he did not even have a chance to fight again to avenge his subordinates.

With depression and hatred, he threw himself into the work of capturing the agents of the Zhongxia Army, who were still very weak at the time, but after several contacts, he found that the Zhongxia Army was the real rescue*, not as weak as the government he served, and only foreign forces obeyed.

In the back and forth of contact, he took the initiative to protect many officers of the Zhongxia Army, and was also developed into a secret agent of the Zhongxia Army, passing on a lot of information for the Zhongxia Army. Later, while accompanying his boss to a meeting, he overheard that a neighboring country was going to deliver a batch of newly made weapons to the president, so that he could wipe out the base camp of the Zhongxia army in the northwest. This batch of weapons is still in transit, and if the news can be conveyed to the Zhongxia army in advance and asked them to intercept the weapons, they can not only avoid damage, but also use this weapon to counterattack the authorities.

He carefully found out the information, and immediately contacted the upline, asking him to pass the information back to the Zhongxia army. But when they delivered the information, they were discovered by the authorities, not only were all the spies who stayed in Xia Jing to assist him killed or arrested, but even he himself was listed as a target of suspicion and placed under house arrest in his own mansion, with almost no chance to pass on information.

At the moment of near despair, he suddenly remembered that his ancestors had purchased an item from "Yuan Yang Canghua", and got a promise from the person in charge of them at the time: "No matter when, as long as someone from the Han family picks up this thing and asks us for help, Yuan Yang Canghua will definitely have a customer service to solve the problem." ”

He rummaged around the mansion for a long time, and finally turned out a brocade box marked with a large gilded "Yuan Yang Canghua" mark in a shelf in the basement, and the box was opened, revealing a round client that was just produced.

After he held the client for help, the aura on it disappeared and turned into an ordinary crystal ball, but other than that, nothing else changed, and the customer service he asked for help did not come.

With disappointment and hope, he sat in the living room of the mansion with a crystal ball until midnight, until he was about to fall asleep, and a sound of footsteps suddenly echoed in the air, waking him up from his light sleep. The moonlight outside the window shone at his feet, and the light happened to hit the face of the person who suddenly appeared in the room, and when he woke up, he just saw a bright face under the moonlight appear in front of him, bent down, and stretched out a hand to him: "I am Shao Zongyan, the customer service of Yuanyang Canghua, distinguished customer, I am here for you." ”

This sentence is extremely shameful, and the screenwriter wanted to delete it several times, but the agent who was supported by the big black technology financier behind him didn't do it, so he had to keep this sentence, they couldn't fight, so they could only stay aggrieved. But then the agent wanted to use a big copper furnace to demolish the house, fly over the ground in the war and escape from the siege and other unscientific requests, they all tried to refuse, and the customer service's martial arts control zhì was wonderful and beautiful in the fight, and it was not too crushing, so that the movie could not be filmed.

In one of the scenes where he was besieged by the authorities' secret services, they also arranged for the customer service to be shot, and the rescued customer Akan dug up the bullet for him and took care of it. The two relied on each other under the pursuit of the authorities, Shao Zongyan, who only regarded the delivery of intelligence as an ordinary job at the beginning, was gradually drawn into the whirlpool of the righteousness of the family and the country, and no longer had the indifference of not asking about the world, regardless of the life and death of the world, but was moved by Akan's concern, and sincerely helped him complete this mission, and accompanied him into the Zhongxia Army, assisted him to return to the battlefield, defeated the invading enemy army, and avenged the soldiers who were killed by the invading army of the neighboring country and the authorities of his own country.

At the end, Shao Zongyan wanted to return to his sect and prepare to rescue the others, while Akan stayed behind to continue to fight for Zhongxia, and did not forget the customer service for the rest of his life.

There are forced advertisements everywhere in this movie, if the company "Yuan Yang Canghua" really exists, instead of a name that is still ethereal, this film can't even be reviewed by the film department. But Yan Hanjiang was very satisfied with this book, and after reading it a few times, he mentioned yì: "It seems that the movie is basically a pattern of two male protagonists, although our Master Shao is more brilliant in it, but the other male protagonist can't choose people at will, I think it's best to find an actor who is young and calm, cold on the outside and passionate on the inside, and can grasp the patriotic enthusiasm and calm style." ”

Director Liu has already sorted out the information of the domestic male stars they are more optimistic about, and also attached a few copies of the information of the Ming movie stars of neighboring countries with a strip of water, asked the helper to hand it to him, and said with his chin propped up: "I have asked someone to prepare the previous films of the people who can shoot this play, Master Shao, you can take a look at their acting skills and image, after all, there are a lot of scenes between the two male protagonists in this play, and you have no acting experience, so it is better to pick one that feels better, and it is easier to be brought into the play by him." ”

Master Shao picked up the information and looked through it slowly, but the agents around him didn't look at it and had to give opinions.

As soon as he opened his mouth, the whole conference room froze, and they couldn't wait to drag him out and gag him in the small dark room. It's just that Master Shao is so good, he doesn't have any temper, he just doesn't care about his boyfriend, he makes him the master of big and small things, and makes a good movie into a commercial film, and their group of directors and screenwriters don't have the face to put their names on it! Now that the script is as he wants, does he still want to meddle with the actors? Could it be that he leaked the news privately and found someone to buy the role?

No matter how much they tried to plug Yan Hanjiang's mouth, it was useless, he still stood up and asked very calmly: "Although this drama is a two-male lead play, the real protagonist Shao Zongyan is a newcomer with no shooting experience, no background, and even no identity, if the other male protagonist chooses these well-known actors, are they willing to shoot?" Are you willing to serve as the second male and set off a newcomer in the film industry with a blank slate? ”

Everyone was silent, and Yan Hanjiang commented sharply: "These actors have enough experience, but the age is not appropriate." If someone who is a little older calls us Master Shao, who is already young and looks tender, the old face will not be able to look at it, and it will be very contrary to pretending to be tender. And the young ones are too tender in temperament, not like a calm and iron-blooded soldier, and they may not be willing to be green leaves. So I mentioned yì, just hold an open audition, select newcomers, and also make a warm-up promotion for the movie. ”

Open auditions? Enable a new person?

This method of selecting actors has no precedent in this small world, everyone was slightly surprised, and immediately understood the benefits of this approach - they don't want to make a literary film that will go down in history, nor do they want to make much money with it, as long as the scene is laid out big enough, and the name "Yuan Yang Canghua" spreads widely enough, so that the official of this game is willing to sell the black technology of 5D somatosensory movies, isn't it enough?

Using the method of audition, emphasizing that everyone can be a star, this can better attract the attention of the national audience and cause more people to participate in interaction, which is much better than tying up a star for publicity!

After a few more meetings and contacting more investors and industry insiders, this large-scale national audition project to advertise for Yuan Yang Canghua and select young newcomers by the way was finally launched, and more than 10,000 people signed up on the day of the official start. All applicants will first introduce themselves, show their faces and bodies in front of a national audience, and then go through a talent show and performance, and finally the directors Liu Guanghui and Wang Zhiqing will audition together to select the second male lead of the film.

Reporters and photographers from the organizers have been arranged in advance at the registration points to take pictures of the hot pictures and those young people with characteristics and potential at the registration site, and among the pictures from many local venues in the first registration meeting, the most outstanding and amazing is a young man who appeared at the Xia Jing audition venue.

He was only wearing an ordinary white shirt and black suit, and he didn't see how burly he was, but when he walked to the stage to show himself, he gave people a kind of calm and perseverance like a mountain, and his cold and handsome face washed the impetuous hearts of the judges and the audience like a cold spring, and said indifferently to the camera: "Hello judges, I am Yan Hanjiang, the No. 17 contestant." ”