In summer, the full moon hangs in the sky and shines brightly, and when the moonlight falls like silver frost, the traffic in the dusk street lamps coincides with this moment of tranquility and abandons the noise.

In the villa, Shao Yingying sat on an empty dining table, with four side dishes on the table and a bottle of liquor next to him.

At this stage, the team of "The Legend of Wukong" has basically been formed, after Meng Jingshen officially signed the contract during the day today, Huang Bo, Zheng Kai, and Guo Jingfei are completely in place, Meng Jinggray's meaning is similar to what Ning Hao proposed, Zheng Kai plays Tang Seng, because among the actors, Zheng Kai's aura is the weakest, and the weaker his aura is, the more he can show that he can't suppress the three apprentices at the beginning of "The Legend of Wukong", so that the audience will enter the play in an instant.

It's just that the order of the plot is likely to be smoothed out, and it will not be written in a novel that resembles a montage, except for the normal performance of the opening scene, the order will not be changed at all next, and the three loves will also be interspersed in this order.

Meng Jinghui's words are equivalent to setting the tone of the story, and with the malleability of the story, basically every actor can prepare according to the script. However, Meng Jinghui gave Shao Yingying a problem, and he asked Shao Yingying to find a Zixia, Zixia in "The Legend of Wukong".

thought that after having Meng Jingshen, he didn't have to worry about the plot at all, as long as he got his acting skills, who would have thought that Meng Jinghui would suddenly throw out such a problem.

Zixia, the two words in "The Legend of Wukong" that have confused countless people are not what actress can replace today, at least in the eyes of those who have read the original work. Zixia is not Zhu Yin, nor is she any woman, these two words seem to only belong to the characters in the book. When you come out, you will be completely vulgar.

Isn't that a fuss?

came back to improve his acting skills and encountered such a problem, who can play Zixia and play with himself, and let the audience not be surprised at all, as if they have subconsciously thought about it, have seen it, and can follow the person into the plot?

After eating. Shao Yingying returned to the study alone, slowly, slowly looking for one character after another in the computer. He saw a lot of actresses who had just begun to become popular, these actresses were pure and beautiful, but at this time, Shao Yingying no longer thought they were beautiful, and began to understand that maturity is actually a kind of beauty in itself. Such as Jun Ji-hyun in "League of Thieves". I don't know how much more beautiful she is than in the era of "My Sassy Girlfriend"; Another example is Song Jia in "Gentlemen".

Even, with Shao Yingying's eyes, it seems that only after the age of 30 can women see beauty, because there is a story on their body.

Shao Yingying laughed self-deprecatingly, he didn't seem to be choosing actors, but like the beauties in the evaluation circle were beautiful, why did they become beautiful at this age.

In the end, Shao Yingying did not find any suitable candidates. It's not that he is too discerning, but Zixia in "The Legend of Wukong" is different from anyone.

Next. Meng Jingshen decided on the candidates for Ah Yue and Little White Dragon in "The Legend of Wukong", both of which are not very well-known drama actresses, but these two actors are on the verge of 30 years old, not to mention rich stage experience, from the point of view of appearance, they are not at all out of harmony with the characters in the novel.

"Boss Shao, the main actors are almost there, now it's time to send your Zixia, as long as Zixia is in place, we can start rehearsals." Meng Jingshen picked up the director's shelf, and the fake model was urged with a little joking.

Shao Yingying smiled bitterly: "Director Meng, why don't you come." To be honest, I have watched "The Legend of Wukong" too many times, and I can memorize the classic lines when I am asked to memorize them, but I really can't do it when it comes to choosing Zixia. I really thought about it last night, but no matter whose face I thought of, I would be instantly denied by me, I felt that the Zixia in my impression was like a 'Diao Chan, Li Shishi' who had only heard of me and had never seen me, and when I saw it, maybe my heart would be sad. ”

Meng Jingshen suddenly glanced at Shao Yingying, and he said without the slightest joke: "Boss Shao, I thought you were here to play tickets, and now the more you look at it, the more interesting it becomes." ”

"What do you mean?"

Meng Jinghui explained: "Boss Shao, I think this "Wukong Biography" is a bit of an ancient poem, you can't go deeper, the more you taste, the more meaningful, just like 'I Nong Ci', you Nong and I Nong, Bitter and affectionate, love in many places, hot as fire, put a piece of mud ......" He really memorized 'My Nong Ci': "How beautiful is the writing? The more you taste, the more beautiful it is, I can't wait to find a girl to experience the tenderness and sweetness, if you look down and smile in a little shy, hey, you will be willing to shoot the next day. ”

"What about the actual situation? The actual situation is that love has a shelf life, after love, it will always be firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, the two of them lie on a bed in addition to two pieces of soft meat and touch it is quite smooth, and the ending is always that even if they hug each other, there is no desire. ”

Shao Yingying didn't understand it for a long time, and asked with a frown: "Director Meng, what are you talking about this nonsense?" Why don't I hear you say anything to do with what I just said? ”

"It's connected, Boss Shao, this is definitely connected. "The Legend of Wukong" is such a work, if you fall into the work, this book will become a prisoner of your mind, so that you will always be moved by it, worried about it, do not see the last page and vow not to stop, see the last page and secretly sad. However, if you copy this book in the real world, you will find it awkward by yourself, and you will definitely not be able to read a word when you look back at the novel. ”

Meng Jinghui actually said that he was 'enlightened', and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Boss Shao, the key point of our drama is here, as long as we trap the audience in the plot, we can easily win, let the audience taste, let them feel that this drama has meaning, as long as you dig deeper, it will be a situation where you dig deeper and deeper!" ”

"Hey, I thought it was." Shao Yingying finished thinking about this sentence in his heart, and he didn't think that Meng Jinghui was too powerful, which Sun Honglei tasted when he analyzed the performance of the drama with him, it is natural for a professional director to be able to smack this taste, otherwise why would he ask you to be the director?

Then Meng Jingshen's execution ability surprised Shao Yingying, and he immediately contacted the stage designer and costume designer. The preoccupied ones turned around and left without even saying hello.

Shao Yingying now understands that Meng Jinghui is a master who does what he says, and he doesn't care whether his thoughts are correct or not. Let's talk about it first, anyway, it won't take much to design the first draft first.

A few days later, Shao Yingying received a call from Meng Jingshen, saying that Zixia's candidate had been decided, and Shao Yingying didn't ask deeply, he was more concerned about Meng Jinghui's stage layout and the first draft of the costumes, anyway, acting. As long as the person who plays Zixia doesn't let Shao Yingying play as soon as he sees it, it is not a big problem for him who plays it, but he can't find a particularly suitable person in his mind. At this time. Meng Jinghui's answer to Shao Yingying was that he had to wait for a few days, and the first draft had been overturned.

The stage set is a bit tricky, especially the drama set. The drama scene is not harmonious. It's good to say that this thing is easy to distract the audience.

A few days later, Meng Jinghui convened a meeting of the entire crew, and the meeting place was the conference room of Huayi headquarters. Some specialize in makeup, while others specialize in costume design. Anyway, these people have been messing around with Meng Jinghui for a long time, but few people would have thought that one day they would be able to follow Meng Jinghui to the headquarters of the hero Huayi.

Shao Yingying watched everyone enter the conference room, and then secretly asked Meng Jinghui: "Why do you get so many people?" Isn't it enough for the main creator to come? ”

Meng Jingshen shook his head and said: "That's definitely not good, dramas are different from movies, everyone has to participate in all the steps, otherwise something goes wrong and ruins a play, even if they don't talk at the meeting, they have to know what they are talking about during the meeting, we don't have the opportunity to NG." ”

"I'll go to the bathroom." Shao Yingying knew that every step in the drama was very important, so he simply let Meng Jinghui go, and when he walked out of the conference room and walked to the toilet, he saw a very familiar figure.

It was a woman, a little short, wearing a white dress, black sunglasses, a denim jacket, straddled a small gray bag, walking with her head held high, her long hair fluttering slightly as she walked.

Shao Yingying's eyes widened instantly, and he stood at the door of the conference room and said, "It's you!" ”

Weekly News!

Meng Jinghui actually used Zhou Xun to play Zixia, play Zixia!!

"You're surprised?" Zhou Xun took off his sunglasses and walked to Shao Yingying's side, still closing his mouth after speaking, looking at each other with his mouth slightly open.

Shao Yingying, who was scratching the back of his head, glanced at the conference room and said, "Can you not be surprised, this is a rehearsal drama, I haven't heard of you acting in a drama, and also, how did you and Meng Jinghui meet?" ”

"I acted in Director Meng's drama "Balcony" with Hu Jun in 93, and I happened to have time recently." Zhou Xun looked at Shao Yingying and said, "Don't say ......."

Shao Yingying covered his forehead and smiled bitterly, at that moment, these two people miraculously appeared face to face in the most familiar place for both parties, and they were both a little ......

"You...... Let's go in first, I still have to go to the toilet. ”

When he walked to the toilet, Shao Yingying recalled the work schedule of Zhou Xun, in 2010 Zhou Xun was really not busy, in 09 "Li Mi's Conjecture" won the award, in 10 years Zhou Xun should be busy with the filming of "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" and then completely in the rest stage, 2011 "The Great Magician", "Painted Skin 2", "Cloud Atlas", "Wind Listener" The four movies completely made her not half a cent idle throughout the year, I am afraid that the film appointments for these movies have arrived at this time, Zhou Xun wants to play tickets or help Meng Jingshen, It's only time now.

When Shao Yingying came out of the toilet and returned to the conference room, he happened to see Zhou Xun muttering to Meng Jingshen, and he heard half of the words: "How can Shao Yingying come to act in a drama?" ”

Meng Jinghui looked up and saw Shao Yingying entering the door without answering, it is estimated that these two had just finished greeting and entered the topic, and let themselves be interrupted before they could say a word.

"Let's start the meeting now." When Meng Jinghui finished saying this, Zhou Xun, Shao Yingying, Huang Bo, Guo Jingfei, Zheng Kai and other main actors were sitting in the conference room, and the others were sitting or standing against the wall, and the atmosphere of the meeting slowly made everyone start to be strict.

Meng Jingshen continued: "You have all read the script, right? For this drama, I have the same opinion as Boss Shao, Boss Shao, what Boss Shao means is that the actors' performances must be suppressed, don't give the audience the feeling of mountains and rivers, high and low, once the words and narration here float up in a high place, the audience will definitely look fake; What I mean is that we must catch the audience in the play, we are not afraid of the audience tasting the taste of this play, but we are afraid that the audience will set it in real life after the play, and it will be completely smashed if you think about it. ”

"Huang Bo, tell me your opinion."

Huang Bo closed his lips together before speaking, and said: "I think, if we want to keep the lines from floating, we just take out the usual set of jokes, I read the original book, and no one can look down on anyone with the four masters and apprentices at the beginning......"

When he spoke, Zhou Xun lowered his head, he was in the meeting, but he didn't know what he had become.

Next, Shao Yingying, Guo Jingfei, Zheng Kai and the two actresses all expressed their opinions, some were affirmed, some were overturned, and everyone wanted to turn this story into a scene that was not easy to be rejected and quietly pulled all the audience in.

"Weekly news?"

"Weekly News."

Zhou Xun heard the employer call himself, immediately raised his head and looked at the opposite side, then his eyes turned to the left and right, and when he realized that the source of the voice was beside him, he glanced back at Meng Jing and said, "Director Meng, you called me?" ”

Meng Jingshen didn't say too deeply in front of so many people: "Well, talk about your opinion." ”

"Oh, oh." Zhou Xun said: "I don't have any opinion, I execute." ”

The eyes of the room were all aimed at Zhou Xun, and she was a little weird.

"Uncomfortable?" Meng Jingshen asked.

Zhou Xun replied: "I went to the toilet, and my relatives came." ”

"Oh~" Meng Jinghui exclaimed meaningfully: "Okay, continue the meeting, Zheng Kai, what do you see?" Meeting. ”

Suddenly, Shao Yingying in the conference room felt a little embarrassed, if Zhou Xun didn't have that relative, the two of them used the posture when they first met, maybe Shao Yingying wouldn't think much about it, but this time it was different, when Shao Yingying heard the words 'relatives are coming', he could completely ignore Zhou Xun's feelings.

Fortunately, the meeting didn't last long, except for what I just said, Meng Jinghui just took out a few sets of stage props design plans and costume design plans for everyone's reference, and then announced the rehearsal time.

Until the meeting ended, Shao Yingying didn't see Zhou Xun's appearance, perhaps, tomorrow Meng Jinghui should worry about Zixia's candidate again, it is estimated that Zhou Xun is going to withdraw. (To be continued......)