After making a decision on the spot, Wu Tian asked the fat man to come in again, and his sister also followed in, and shouted at Wu Tian more excitedly than her brother as soon as she entered the door: "Thank you, Director Wu, thank you, I knew you would choose my brother, hehe......"

"Hehe, why did you know I was going to pick your brother?" Wu Tian asked with a smile.

"Because my brother's acting skills are the best, I promise you won't be disappointed." The girl smiled mischievously.

"You taught him all the performance he did just now?" Wu Tian said with a smile.

"No, no, what did he just perform?" The girl hurriedly denied it.

"Hehe, Lao Li, turn the monitoring of the corridor over, and I'll see if she has been in contact with those auditioners." Wu Tian turned his head and said to Manager Li.

The girl panicked and hurriedly said, "Don't, don't, I asked them a few questions, and you didn't say that you want to keep the audition content secret......

Everyone laughed, and only the two brothers and sisters were left with apprehension on their faces.

"Tianshao, this is a good seedling, at least clever enough." Director Zhang said with a smile.

"Is that really good when you say that?" Wu Tian smiled, "What's your name?" Do you want to film? Wu Tian asked with a smile.

"I think, I dream of it, my name is Ximeng, Zhang Ximeng." The girl hurriedly said.

"Okay, you two go back and get ready, and you'll come with us in the afternoon." Wu Tian said with a smile.

"Huh?" The girl hesitated again, her big eyes rolling. However, her brother Zhang Xiwu looked happy and nodded again and again.

"Do you have anything to say again?" Wu Tian said to the girl with a smile.

"Well, do we need to sign a contract? I don't know much either, Director Wu, you definitely won't pit me, hehe......" Zhang Ximeng said with a smile.

"The contract has to be signed, but not today." Wu Tian said with a smile, "After you arrive in the capital, you will have to receive acting training for a week, and if you are qualified and can perform the role, you will sign a contract with you." Of course, even if you can't play the role in the end, you won't be allowed to run in vain, well, 10,000 yuan for lost work per person, is enough, right? ”

10,000 yuan a week, for their lowest-level group performers, it is definitely not a loss, the two immediately nodded again and again, where can they take care of the contract or not.

Wu Tian smiled, and told them to come here at three o'clock in the afternoon and set off for the capital together. After sending the brothers and sisters away, Wu Tian turned his head and said to Lao Zhang with a smile: "If you really want to use the two of them, except for the protagonist of our film who is a half-popular TV star, there is not even a star who can be called, Lao Zhang, do you feel a lot of pressure?" ”

Lao Zhang smiled unchanged and said: "Actually, you have two less stars, one is Mr. Zhang, a popular god in the novel industry, this signboard is not ordinarily loud, and the other is Tianshao yourself, and it is an international brand, why worry that this film has no star effect?" ”

"Hahahaha, I didn't see it, Lao Zhang is getting old and getting humorous......" Wu Tian pointed at Director Zhang with a smile, and he was obviously in a good mood......

At the Beijing Airport, Zhang Ximeng jumped off Wu Tian's private jet, excited and didn't stop all the way, it was really youthful and energetic.

As he grew older, Wu Tian's faces became calm and virtuous, Wu Tian had not felt this kind of youthful vitality for a long time, and it was inevitable that the whole person's mood was aroused, and there was a lot of laughter along the way.

There was a pick-up vehicle sent by Han Zhong at the airport, Zhang Ximeng unceremoniously pulled his brother to follow Wu Tian into a car, but fortunately, the two old Zhang didn't mind, took another car and set off, and went straight to Tianrenju.

The preliminary preparations of the crew are all carried out in Tianrenju, including the script adaptation in the early stage, as well as several actors who have been determined, are also arranged here for preparation and training before the start-up.

Wu Tian has never been very satisfied with the level of domestic actors, at least most of the actors' acting skills are not up to standard, so Wu Tian has always been very cautious about using mainland actors.

There are two main aspects of the training, the first is to remove the original performance characteristics of the actors, erase their original habits and personalities, so that they can completely return to purity in performance and be able to devote themselves to the role in a new way.

On the other hand, it is to help them find and integrate into the role, for example, during the training, Wu Tian asked everyone to cut off contact with the outside world, on the one hand, for the first service, and on the other hand, to let them integrate into the era and feeling in which the story of the Tao takes place.

Although Ba Sing did not determine the time when the story took place, it was estimated that it should be in the 80s, and there were many scenery and people in that special era that were completely different from modern times. For this reason, Wu Tian specially requested that during this period, all the Heavenly Habitat "crossed", including the interior decoration, the clothing of the personnel, and even the vehicles used, all of which were closer to that era.

It itself tends to be a classical and elegant heavenly habitat, the decoration is not a big problem, nothing more than to remove the LCD TV on the wall and the elegant crystal lighting, replace it with ordinary incandescent lamps or something, the personnel clothing is better to do, after all, there are not many service personnel in the heavenly habitat now, and another is the vehicle, anyway, it is not open to the public now, the vehicles used by their own people are all parked in front of the front yard museum, and two jeep 212 are found as a means of transportation in the park.

Therefore, when Zhang Ximeng's brother and sister got off the bus at the museum and transferred to 212, they were still confused, and after entering the Heavenly Habitat, they were even more stunned......

"In the next week, the two of you will receive training here, and the specific training will be conducted with me, Director Zhang, and Teacher Zhang, including the understanding of the characters, the familiarity with the story environment, and the re-training of acting skills." Wu Tian smiled and said to the two, "In addition, there are two people who participated in the training with you, the male and female No. 1 ...... of this film."

While talking, the two protagonists also greeted them, and greeted Wu Tian and the three of them very casually as soon as they met.

Hai Bo and Ziwen have been training here for several days, and they are familiar with everyone, so naturally they don't need so many politeness. Wu Tian helped the two sisters and brothers introduce them to them, but only said that Zhang Xiwu played Wang Fatzi, but as for Zhang Ximeng's role, it was not decided.

Originally, there were not many roles in "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and those who could be called famous, it is estimated that two slaps would be counted, and as for the female match, it was quite limited, but for a while, Ziwen was full of worries, for fear that this little beauty was found by Wu Tian to take over the role of Shirley Yang.

Wu Tian could naturally see her worries, but she didn't explain it, so it would be better to let her have a little more pressure, so as not to rely on her relationship with Gao Yang in the next shooting.

"Have you gained anything in the past few days?"

Everyone sat down in a tea pavilion, and Wu Tian asked the three of them with a smile.

"I can't say that I have gained anything, how do I feel that after the past few days of training, I am less and less able to act?" Haibo said with a wry smile.

"Hehe, that's right." Wu Tian smiled, "My purpose is to make you forget how to act!" Although all of you are newcomers, they have played a lot of roles more or less, and it is inevitable that they will leave some imprints of their previous roles. What I want is for you to remove all the stigma of the past, and even forget the acting skills you have learned, and then devote yourself to the role, so that you can become the role you want to play, and then you are not performing in front of the camera, but you are doing yourself, doing what the role should do, and performing naturally is the highest level of performance. ”

"Director Wu," Zhang Ximeng raised his hand and said, "I heard our teacher say that the highest level of performance should be to never integrate yourself with the role, otherwise it will be difficult to come out of the role again, only by keeping yourself at all times, can you change the role at any time, and play what is like what ......"

"Hehe, what your teacher said was a genius, are you a genius?" Wu Tian said with a smile.

Zhang Ximeng pouted, she is not a genius, otherwise she would not have wanted to be admitted to Beiying back then, it is best to go to the brother who also graduated from a second-tier art school, and wait for opportunities to be a group performance in Huacheng.

"It is undeniable that there are some actors whose acting skills have reached an extraordinary level, and they can switch roles with different personalities and backgrounds at any time, but how many actors are there? Rare water chestnut! Therefore, I suggest that you first learn to play only one role and turn yourself into a character, so that you can give full play to your acting skills. Wu Tian said, "Of course, if you can persist in such efforts, maybe in the future you can also change roles at will, and achieve a very high level ......of playing whatever role you play."

Wu Tian said, but did not explain another issue, that is, about the split and integration of personality. This kind of substitutional performance method is easy to make it difficult for actors to jump out after integrating into the role, and it will even lead to the loss of their own personality, or simply produce a new personality, this extreme situation is not uncommon, and often happens to those actors with extremely amazing acting skills......

Wu Tian's training is not a boring thing, but very relaxed, said to be training, in fact, it is similar to a vacation, every day is just casual chatting, or casually do some leisure activities - of course, these leisure activities do not include golf, tennis, etc., Dingtian is the popular badminton, basketball and the like in that era.

However, after a week has passed, several of the main actors have changed significantly, as if they have undergone a soul cleansing, and the whole person has become very pure.

The oily philistine in Haibo's eyes has a little more tenacity and courage. The shrewdness and calculation of the little woman in Ziwen's eyes were also replaced by generosity and heartiness, Zhang Xiwu's changes were more in body shape, he gained ten pounds in a week, and there was room to continue to gain weight in the future.

And the only thing that hasn't changed much is probably Zhang Ximeng, the little girl's eyes are still so bright, and she still has such a big posture when she speaks, and she is even familiar with Wu Tian, and she dares to take the initiative to make a few jokes about Wu Tian.

Such a girl who looks cute, but has no heart and lungs, and is full of youthful vitality, is very popular with everyone, and even Ziwen has let go of the little hostility at the beginning, after all, this girl will never be able to play Shirley Yang.

"Everyone, pay attention, the preliminary preparations for the crew have been completed, and the start time is scheduled for next Friday." Wu Tian announced, "So, let's finalize the role today." However, I don't think it's a big problem. ”

Everyone smiled, the contact during this period of time, the relationship is very familiar, and they are already very familiar with the role to be played, and they are very sure, so naturally they don't have to worry about Wu Tian's so-called assessment.

"Okay, let's start with Haibo." Wu Tian smiled and said, "Well, that's it, Hai Bo doesn't have to perform, just test your voice." You read the opening paragraph and use it as a good background. ”

"Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is a rare first-person novel, and when Wu Tian adapted the script, he retained this way of interpretation, so there will be a lot of background sounds of the protagonists in the film. Don't underestimate this background narration, if the narration is good, this voiceover can guide the reader to substitute into the film, but if the interpretation is not good, it will effortlessly destroy the audience's sense of substitution!

Film and television works without a sense of substitution, no matter how good you are, no matter how gorgeous the shots, it can only be a bad movie! On the contrary, even if you are just a small-budget film, you can still win the praise and love of the audience - for example, Wu Tian's "Ghost Shadow" shot for 10,000 US dollars, there are no gorgeous shots, no terrifying special effects, no complex and ingenious plots, and some just have a strong sense of substitution...... (To be continued.) )