Chapter 121: "Back to the Future" Candidate Plan [Three Changes]
Probably hit by this incident, Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie did not oppose it violently when they asked Lin Xi to directly fund the filming of the film and share it according to the proportion of investment.
"Okay, since we have decided to cooperate with Lin Xi, let's talk about the selection of this movie." Xu Guanwen glanced at Xu Guanjie, who was a little listless, "Fourth, you are the one to take the lead in this drama!" β
"Me?" Xu Guanjie was very surprised by Xu Guanwen's arrangement, "Then big brother, you ......"
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xu Guanwen raising his hand.
"Originally, Lin Xi's advice was that I would play the doctor and let you play the father of a high school student in middle age, but this role only has a few scenes at the beginning and end, and it would be too wasteful to ask you to play it, so I wanted you to play the doctor when I was young, and I played the doctor when I was middle-aged, so the age is more consistent."
"But in this way, isn't your role too small, big brother?"
Xu Guanjie disagreed.
"You forgot that there was a suspense left at the end of the script? Lin Xi obviously wants to make this movie into a series, and in the next one, the middle-aged doctor will be the real protagonist, are you still worried that I will not act at that time? β
Xu Guanwen's explanation dispelled Xu Guanjie's concerns.
Xu Guanwu suddenly said at this time: "The role of the father of a high school student in middle age. Why don't you let me play it? β
"Second brother, how optimistic are you about this script? actually moved to play a role, haven't you always wanted to be behind the scenes? The third Xu Guanying couldn't help but shout.
Xu Guanwu joked: "What, worried that I will steal a job with you?" β
Xu Guanying laughed when she heard this, waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "Second brother, even if you let the horse come, I'm not afraid of you!" β
Wait until the two of them have made a joke. Xu Guanwen said at this time: "Third child, you play the boss who often oppresses the father of high school students." β
Xu Guanying was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked: "Twenty years ago and now, I played it?" β
"What, not sure?" Xu Guanwen asked deliberately.
Xu Guanying immediately shook her head and said that there was no problem, it was nothing more than to put on more makeup when acting. What he really cares about is who will play the father of a high school student twenty years ago.
"This role was asked by Lin Xi to play, saying that he wanted to let an actor named Liang Chaowei in their company play it."
As soon as Xu Guanwen finished explaining, someone among the three younger brothers shouted.
"Liang Chaowei?" It was Xu Guanjie who spoke, he looked at Xu Guanwen with wide eyes and asked, "Is that the actor who played HuΔ Wufeng in "The Peerless Double Pride"?" β
Xu Guanwen nodded.
At this time, Xu Guanying couldn't help it, and complained: "This kid is too greedy, right?" The high school student has already given up the Zhou Xingchi of his company to act. Then the role of the high school student dad when he was young was also played by someone from his company, and he accounted for two of the roles that appeared a little more in this play, that is, everyone cooperated, and his appetite was a little too big, right? β
Xu Guanwen could only shrug helplessly.
"The main thing is that we don't have any suitable candidates on our hands, let alone the role you just mentioned, including the girlfriend of the high school student, and the role of the high school student's mother when she was young. After that, it had to be decided by Lin Xi. β
What Xu Guanwen said was the truth, and Xu Guanying couldn't refute it even if he didn't agree.
In the past, the movies that their brothers co-produced were all tailor-made scripts. So the three brothers divided the roles and found some friends in the circle to make cameos, and the lineup of a movie was complete, but this time "Back to the Future" is different, although there are not many characters in it, but because it involves the present and the past. There is a time span of 20 years, except for the villain played by Xu Guanying, who was completed by him alone. All other roles can be completed by two people, and the number of actors needed has doubled.
Xu Guanwen's film company was established by the four brothers. In the previous movie, the four brothers could do everything in front of and behind the scenes, so they didn't sign any actors, and when they wanted to make a movie like "Back to the Future", the disadvantages were revealed.
The matter was originally ready to be decided like this, Xu Guanjie suddenly said: "No, you can't just cheapen that kid, just let the high school student's girlfriend give it to him, anyway, that role doesn't appear much, but the role of the high school student's mother when she was young, we must win it." β
"If you have to fight, I think that instead of fighting for the role of a high school student's mother when she was young, it is better to compete for the role of a high school student's girlfriend, don't forget what the eldest brother just said, this role is the same as the doctor played by the eldest brother, there are not many scenes in the first part, but the second part is definitely a very heavy role, you think, the first part was successfully filmed, and the role in the second part will definitely be in demand, and then it will not be us to find someone to play, but others begging us to play." Xu Guanwu chose to support Xu Guanjie this time, but there was a little disagreement on the specific role candidates.
"What the second brother said is right, but you also have to take into account Lin Xi's attitude, I think giving up the role of the high school student's mother when he was young is already the limit of what he can accept, and I listened to him before, the role of the high school student's girlfriend, he seems to have a favorite candidate, we have to fight with him, it is estimated that he will not give in."
As soon as Xu Guanwen said this, although Xu Guanwu felt a little regretful in his heart, he didn't say anything more.
Xu Guanying listened for a while, and finally couldn't help asking: "You guys are discussing here for a long time, but the role has been taken down, who should we find to play it?" β
This question was to the point, and Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanwu both turned their eyes to Xu Guanjie, who had just proposed to build a yì.
"There is a suitable candidate, and this person's fame experience is a bit similar to that of your eldest brother."
Xu Guanjie deliberately sold a pass, which made Xu Guanwen a little confused.
Xu Guanjie didn't say who he wanted to recommend this person, but he first mentioned an old matter.
"When you finished filming "The Great Warlord" directed by Li Hanshen, I heard that Director Zhang Che also intended to ask you to make a film, but it didn't work out later, Zhang Che regretted it for a long time because of this incident?"
Xu Guanwen's eyes showed a look of memory, nodded and said: "There is indeed such a thing, and I was so embarrassed at the time, I heard that Zhang Che was going to film with me, so excited that I put down the phone and tied my arms all night, thinking that Zhang Che would let me act." One-armed knife' and other roles, and then after dawn, Zhang Che's assistant called me again and said that it was not a martial arts film, I was thinking that it was okay to make a literary film, so I quickly found someone to draw me double eyelids, and dressed up a little better to play a handsome guy, who wanted to dress up in style When I went to see Zhang Che, he was dumbfounded and I was dumbfounded, it turned out that he wanted me to play a lame master, but I didn't expect to see a copy of Xie Xian, and in the end, I didn't even play the master. β
Speaking of this past, Xu Guanwen couldn't help laughing.
"Although it didn't work, Zhang Che is optimistic that the big brother will always have to run." Xu Guanjie's words were not entirely compliments, Xu Guanwen was so popular at that time.
You must know that in that era, the names of Li Hanshen and Zhang Che were box office guarantees, these two directors have very different styles, Li Hanshen is known for making Fengyue films, and loves to let actresses show their bodies to show sexiness, while Zhang Che is famous for martial arts films, and loves to let male stars show their bodies to show their majesty, and the two are the two ace directors of Shaw Brothers, so some media ridiculed at that time: "The two directors of Shaw Brothers are good at stripping people's clothes." β
These two directors have their own abilities, but they don't like each other, and it is even more rare that Xu Guanwen can be valued by both of them.
Of course, having said that, although Li Hanshen and Zhang Che are not right, they have the same vision of looking at people, and the person Xu Guanjie wants to recommend this time is the same as Xu Guanwen, who has been promoted by both of them.
This person is Hui Yinghong, who is known as "Little Red Sister" in the circle.
Hui Yinghong is also considered unlucky, if she was born a hundred years early, with her identity as a Manchu in the Yellow Banner, how can she be a good life, but unfortunately in her generation, the Qing Dynasty has been finished for many years, in order to make a living, she began to sell chewing gum at the age of four, began dancing in the dance hall at the age of twelve, and entered the Shaw Brothers as an actor before she became an adult.
Zhang Che asked her to play Mu Nianci in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and then Li Hanshen asked her to play Baoyu's maid in "Dream of Red Mansions", so later Hui Yinghong herself said that it was Zhang Che who taught her to act in martial arts, and Li Hanshen taught her to act in literary drama.
Xu Guanwen himself is a Shaw Brothers actor, and he is naturally no stranger to Hui Yinghong, when he heard the old-fashioned Xu Guanjie's Jianyì, he also felt that Hui Yinghong was a good candidate, but the problem is that she is now an actor of Shaw Brothers, and Xu Guanwen is now a person from Jiahe's side, so things are a bit difficult to handle.
"It used to be a little troublesome, but now the situation is different, I heard that recently Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers have begun to prepare to join forces to suppress the newly established New Art City, and they will screen their respective flagship movies in theaters on both sides, since both sides can make peace temporarily, it shouldn't be a problem to lend someone to make a movie for us, right?"
Xu Guanjie had already considered this problem, and the solution he proposed was also feasible, but Xu Guanwen still frowned and didn't speak after listening to it.
"Big brother, what the fourth brother said is right, although Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are old rivals, but when we filmed "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" before, we didn't still find Zhao Yazhi to play, she was also an actor of Shaw Brothers at that time, and she was also born in a beauty pageant of Sister Hong Kong, at that time, Shaw Brothers could lend us people, let alone now?" Xu Guanwu asked puzzled.
Facing the puzzled eyes of the three younger brothers, Xu Guanwen sighed softly.
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