Chapter 372: Casting
Wu Cheng tilted his head towards the room, "You knocked on the door three times before you remembered to say the code, and your brain is slow enough, come in, everyone is waiting for you in the house!" ”
Leading Yu Xiaobo into the house, Wu Cheng first pointed to Chen Feng who was sitting on the side of the sand, "He doesn't need me to introduce him more, right?" ”
Yu Xiaobo nodded, he wanted to go up and shake hands with Chen Feng at this time, but was stopped by Wu Cheng, he pointed to Chen Feng's hand to the right, "Don't worry, there is another one over there, his special adviser to the crew of "Three Fools", and he is also one of the judges. ”
Zhao Tianfeng nodded at him mechanically, his expression was empty, and to be honest, Yu Xiaobo was not his favorite type. As an interviewer, Yu Xiaobo would have been devastated if he had known that the judges' first impression of him was so bad. But if he knew Zhao Tianfeng's "comrade plot", it is estimated that he would rejoice about it.
Wu Cheng invited Xiaobo to sit on the other end of the sofa, and he himself sat on Chen Feng's left hand side.
Flipping through the roster, Wu Cheng asked with a matter-of-fact question: "The No. 26 auditionee, Yu Xiaobo?" ”
Hearing that he had already had 25 auditioners before, Yu Xiaobo was nervous, he straightened his waist, and his expression was no longer as casual as just now. In fact, apart from him, there is no interviewer at all, this is a trick that Wu Cheng came up with, and even the numbers are made up by him.
Seeing that the trick he came up with was effective, Wu Cheng secretly rejoiced in his heart, and then he went on to ask a few questions such as "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Do you have a history of drug abuse? This kind of lack of nutrition made Yu Xiaobo confused.
Zhao Tianfeng's question was very direct. Asked Yu Xiaobo if he had read the novel "Five People", Yu Xiaobo shook his head honestly, and Zhao Tianfeng did not continue to ask.
As soon as Chen Feng came up, he asked Yu Xiaobo if he would be nervous in front of the camera, and Yu Xiaobo told him that he and a few friends often made some interesting short films, which was not a real acting experience to be precise, but Chen Feng still nodded. Magically carried a camera from behind the sand and placed it on his shoulder.
"Then you have an impromptu performance, you're a freshman now. Assigned to our dorm, how do you say hello to us after knocking on the door and coming in. I was in charge of the shooting, and then Wu Cheng and Zhao Tianfeng cooperated with your performance. ”
Yu Xiaobo thought about it for a few minutes. Then he nodded, stood at the door of the living room, and signaled that he was ready. Chen Feng set up the camera and made an OK gesture towards Yu Xiaobo.
As soon as he entered the shooting state, Yu Xiaobo's face immediately changed to a curious look, and after he walked into the living room, he did not rush to greet the others, but looked up and down, left and right, and then muttered: "This house is really broken!" ”
"If you don't like it, you can go out and stay in a hotel!" Zhao Tianfeng snorted coldly, although it was just an audition performance. But he's also dedicated.
"But I don't have that much money!" Yu Xiaobo spread his hands very scoundrelly, "At least not yet, hello, my name is Yu Xiaobo!" ”
"If I were you, I would never shake that guy's hand!" Wu Cheng put down the magazine in his hand. Said with a wicked grin.
"You're Wu Cheng?" Yu Xiaobo blinked, pretending to be surprised and looked at him, "I've heard a lot about you, and your homepage has the highest number of hits on the Hangzhou-Hong Kong Art School online community." I didn't expect that we were in the same dormitory, and I left you a message. Have you forgotten? ”
"I usually only reply to messages from beautiful women!" Wu Cheng put up a pose that he thought was cool, "If you don't have a girlfriend yet, I can introduce you to one!" ”
"Stop!" Chen Feng put down the camera, he felt that he could shoot here.
"How's my performance?" The first person to ask was Wu Cheng. …,
"General!" Chen Feng's cold answer seriously hit his self-confidence, and then Wu Cheng pointed at Yu Xiaobo, "What about him?" ”
"Not bad!" Chen Feng nodded, and he extended his right hand to Yu Xiaobo in a friendly manner: "Welcome to join us!" ”
Yu Xiaobo felt like he was in a dream, he didn't have any nervousness in front of the camera, and his fingers actually trembled because of excitement. "So I passed?"
Chen Feng smiled and nodded: "As you wish!" ”
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After it was determined that Xiao Bo would play the protagonist Lancher, among the three fools, only Lazu, who came from a poor family, was left, and the role candidate had not yet been decided. In the novel "Five People", Razu is a young man who dreams of becoming an engineer, but has no self-confidence and is superstitious about gods and Buddhas. His family is very poor, his father was a postmaster who is now paralyzed at home, his mother is an extremely nagging Obasan, and his sister has become a leftover daughter because she has no dowry. Later, he experienced a suicide awakening life, and finally succeeded in the interview before graduation.
This role, Lin Mingyang originally planned to find a black man to play the role, but then he suddenly changed his mind. In the novel "Five People", I want to use the role of Lazu to reflect the reality of the serious gap between the rich and the poor in the three countries. In order to make the adapted script closer to the reality of Chinese society, Chen Feng positioned the role of Lazu as the descendants of smuggled immigrants in Southeast Asia.
Smuggling immigrants from Southeast Asia has always been a major problem plaguing Chinese society, and although the Chinese government has set up various checkpoints along the border and used unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to patrol back and forth along the long border, it still cannot stop the steady flow of smuggling tourists to China. Every year, hundreds of people sneak in through various means.
In China, even though they live at the bottom and do the hardest and most tiring work, they can get more paid than they do in Southeast Asia, and then they save money and remit the money back to Southeast Asia to support their relatives.
In Chen Feng's script setting, Lazu's parents are Southeast Asian, and they successfully infiltrated China before Lazu was born, met and gave birth to Lazu. According to the laws of China at that time, you could acquire the nationality of China if you were born on the territory of China. Razu was born Chinese, but his parents were still Southeast Asian, and because they did not have a hukou, they were eventually found by the immigration bureau, and both were deported to China.
With the support of a local charity, Razu was successfully admitted to the North Harmon Institute of Technology. His greatest wish is to win social status through his own efforts and bring his parents to live together in China.
It is also the same role to reflect the social reality, because of the difference in the overall standard of living, the gap between the rich and the poor in China is not as serious as that in the three countries. At first, Chen Feng was limited to the idea of the novel, so he considered positioning Lazu as a Southeast Asian living at the bottom of the Chinese country. However, considering that there are many films that focus on the living conditions of low-level Southeast Asians, in addition to the gap between the rich and the poor, there are other problems in Chinese society, and the living conditions of marginalized people are more worthy of attention. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )