"When I make movies, I never pursue the use of big-name stars, although big-name stars are relatively mature in acting, but it is precisely because of their mature acting skills that when portraying characters, they will inevitably substitute some of their own habits." Wu Tian said, "Therefore, I prefer those actors who are not too famous, they already have a foundation in acting, and their specific personal style has not yet been formed, and the most important thing is that the audience has not formed a stereotype of them, which is convenient for them to create the most suitable role for the prototype......"

The car was driving on the way to Huacheng, accompanied by Wu Tian and his bodyguard Ma Yuan, as well as Ba Sing and director Lao Zhang, the purpose of this time was to find "Wang Kaixuan".

In the end, the crew has finalized the start time, but they still haven't found Wang Fatzi's actor candidates, all the well-known domestic fat stars have been vetoed by Wu Tian, and let Tianlong Film and Television Base recommend a few fat actors they have cultivated over the years, professional supporting roles, but unfortunately none of them satisfied Wu Tian.

Therefore, there is this trip to the flower city.

After all, today's Flower City has developed into China's Hollywood, and the national film and television crews are gathering to drill here, to the ancient landscape, to the Tianlong Film and Television Base, to the modern urban landscape, then go to the center of the flower city, although the urban area here can not be compared with those first-tier cities, but in the limited city center, there are high-rise buildings and streets that do not belong to the most prosperous areas of the first-tier cities, although there are only two streets, but it is enough for the crew to take different angles and shoot different urban styles.

Of course, the most important reason why the crew gave up the reality of the first- and second-tier cities and came here to shoot is because of the environment.

This means that the crew can save a lot of energy, neither need to close the road, nor do they have to explain to the extras, and they have to pay salaries!

With such a conditional environment, how can it not attract many film and television crews?

For example, after entering the city, Wu Tian and his entourage met four or five crew members who were starting up one after another, and the Land Rover they drove had to act as a background several times.

Rushed to the Changtian Hotel, Hou Dawei, who had been waiting here, ran up and drove - don't look at his name Dawei, but he is called Hou Xiaoyong's brother Hou.

Now Brother Hou is still not dead and alive in the Shangcheng City Bureau, after all, his ability to be the director of the city bureau has reached the sky, if it weren't for the fact that Shannan is still in charge of the Wu family, I am afraid that he would have been mentioned to the provincial department as a deputy director and idle.

Although Brother Hou is a big official, he is extremely strict with his son, according to his words, he is enough to drag everyone back, and he must not let his son give Tianshao and cause trouble to the leaders.

Therefore, Wu Tian arranged Hou Dawei to the Changtian Hotel, and this kid did not disappoint, at least the position of general manager of one store was still decent.

"It's a few days, the private room on the top floor has been prepared for you, do you want to go up to rest first, or go to the restaurant to eat first?" Hou Dawei asked for instructions.

"Let's go to the restaurant first." Wu Tian said, "Let the kitchen make something simple, hurry up, and we'll go to the film and television city after eating." ”

"Hey, don't worry, I promise to send it over as soon as possible......" Hou Dawei signaled his follower to hurry up and get it, and he led everyone to the private room of the restaurant on the second floor, and said in his mouth, "Tianshao, Liu always has to come to greet you, but there was something wrong with the desert base in the northwest last night, and he flew over early in the morning to deal with it, and called me before leaving, let me apologize to you on his behalf, please forgive me......"

"Hehe, Brother Liu is too worried." Wu Tian smiled and shook his head.

The Tianlong base has always been handed over to Liu Xinyu's cousin, but over the years, the relationship between Wu Tian and Liu Xinyu has become more and more estranged, and they may not meet twice a year. Even among some people close to him, there are inevitably some rumors circulating in private, as Liu Xinyu's strap, that one naturally avoids Wu Tian, for fear of embarrassment in the face, this situation has been going on for several years, Wu Tian naturally understood what was going on.

However, Wu Tian didn't mind, after all, it was not too embarrassing to put this kind of thing on anyone's head.

Hou Dawei was quite neat, at least he didn't go against Wu Tian's intentions, a few simple and authentic Shannan dishes were quickly put on the table, and a few people ate in a hurry, and then left the hotel and went straight to the studio.

But fortunately, Mr. Liu ran away, but he specially arranged for the person in charge of the film and television city to follow him as a guide, and went straight to the studio without hindrance, got on a commuter car and began to sightsee.

This mission can actually be said to be an aimless luck, the goal is to see if there are any fat people who are filming in the film and television city, or the "drifting" people waiting for filming, first pick some candidates with suitable appearance conditions, and then audition.

The film and television city has been expanded again and again, and it has already been several times larger than the original scale, and there are countless large and small crews in China.

Along the way, a few people in the group found a few fat people, but they were all vetoed by Wu Tian, but the reason was very simple - these people lack a little bit of characteristics that make people look at it and shine in their eyes!

Actors, in fact, it doesn't matter if they are handsome or not, ugly stars are easier to become famous, but whether they are handsome or ugly, their appearance must have certain characteristics, and they are attracted at a glance and are difficult to forget. Of course, this feature must not be a scar, deformity or anything, but a feature formed by the combination of its appearance and temperament.

What Wu Tian wants to find is the kind of bravery, uprightness, righteousness that Wang Fatzi should have, as well as the unwillingness and unyielding after being trampled in society, it is difficult for someone to fully possess such a complex temperament, Wu Tian hopes to find a candidate with several of them, and then make up for it through acting skills, even if he is qualified......

After wandering around all afternoon, there is really no one who can make Wu Tian nod, Lao Zhang reluctantly wrote down two names, he himself thinks that he is not necessarily qualified, so he has to say: "Tianshao, it may be that when we look at it, we are all wearing makeup, and some of our bodies are substituted into the role, and it is ......normal to look at it carefully."

"Well, according to what you say, coming back tomorrow is also to see their image with makeup." Wu Tian said.

"Director Wu, otherwise, I'll go back and make an announcement, let all the fat people who weigh more than one hundred and sixteen come over to audition, you just have to sit in the conference room and wait for them to come to the door." Vice President Li of the Film and Television City said.

"That's not good, when it comes to auditions, some people will be nervous, behave unnaturally, and can't see the door." Wu Tian said, "By the way, Lao Li, where do these actors live at night?" ”

"Well, almost all of the nearby villages have been built into family hotels, and most of them live over there." Vice President Li said.

"Let's go over and have a look!" Wu Tian said.

"Director Wu, this big night's ...... The conditions in that place are not very good, you see......" Vice President Li said.

"Let's go, no matter how bad the conditions are, it's still much better than when the film and television city was not built!" Wu Tian said.

Vice President Li has nothing to say, he has also learned a little about the film and television city project, which is the father of Director Wu, who was in charge of Huacheng when he was in charge of the city, and built it single-handedly.

So, a group of people took a commuter car, first out of the gate of the film and television city, and then transferred to Wu Tian's Land Rover in the parking lot outside, and went straight to a nearby village under the guidance of Vice President Li.

Although there are several large hotels on the periphery of the film and television city, those places are settled by rich crews, as for the grassroots class who are "drifting" here to pursue the dream of actors, how can they afford it?

It is impossible to say that some cheap family hotels were born, many of the surrounding villages have built two-story and three-story small buildings, a bed in a small room, on the monthly rental, and even a few beds in a room, on the bunk rental, the price is low, and a simple breakfast is provided, for those extras who squat at the gate of the cinema every day and wait for work, they can only bear this grade.

Wu Tian had heard of the hard work of extras in his previous life, and there were even shady scenes inside, but it wasn't until he walked into such a compound that Wu Tian knew that the conditions here were really beyond his imagination......

In the courtyard that is not very large, at least more than twenty people are crowded, all men, all kinds of men, and there is hardly any duplicate that can be seen, including appearance, including clothing.

Some of these people are old and young, tall and short, fat and thin, wearing long shirts and trousers, big pants and bare backs, and some are simply dressed in ancient costumes.

However, the expressions of these people are almost the same, a little dumbfounded, a little hopeful, as if there is no despair after countless disappointments, and there is still a little hope that has not been completely extinguished......

"We are from the crew, let's pick the actors, the second male!" Vice President Li was familiar with the situation, stepped forward and shouted loudly.

After a sentence, I thought that everyone would eagerly rush up, but in fact, as if the suspension was lifted, everyone turned their heads one after another, busy with their own business, some continued to chat with their companions, some were busy washing the dishes and chopsticks, and some carried beer and peanuts in the yard and three or five people gathered together to drink.

No way, although it is already early autumn, but the weather is still unbearably hot, there is no air conditioning in the room here, only enjoy the natural wind.

"Oh, Mr. Li, tsk, I thought it was the crew from other places who didn't know the rules, it turned out that Mr. Li was here, I said earlier, I took someone over directly, do you still need to come here in person?"

As he spoke, he saw a man in his thirties and forties, grinning with a mouth full of cigarettes, and said to Mr. Li with a loud voice.

There are rules for each trade, for example, these extras, if they want to find a way to survive in this place, they will inevitably be exploited by some locals. But seriously, this can't be called exploitation, after all, like this one, the formal identity should be called an agent - a special extras agent. Any extras who want to find a job here must find such an agent, usually the landlord of their rented house. As a local, relying on being familiar with the environment and rules, I can directly contact the crew, and how many group performances people want, I will directly hand them a phone call to raise the number of people and lead the team to the scene. After the performance, the agent naturally wants to take a cut, and it is not necessarily clear how many group performers are drawn, anyway, the money that the group performers can earn every month is basically enough for basic expenses, and it is basically impossible to get an extra point......

What did you say? Don't want to be exploited by them? Want to find your own job? First, it can only be said that you are very courageous, and you are not afraid of walking at night in this unfamiliar place and falling on your heels, second, it is basically useless for you to find a job by yourself, and the crew here will not necessarily go to the gate to find those squatting guys, but directly contact those agents, and ask people to send people immediately, why bother to pick people yourself? If you don't rely on the previous agent, the only possibility is that you may not be able to get a group role when you run out of money.

Wu Tianshang has a vague impression of these situations, it seems that a reporter has exposed them, but the problem is that even if you expose it again, it is useless, this is purely a willingness to fight and a willingness to suffer, and the actors are still counting on being taken by the big director one day, and they will be out of this predicament if they are directly the protagonist......

Wu Tian actually doesn't have too much disgust for this situation, on the one hand, he is pursuing his dreams, and on the other hand, he is providing services to make money, everything is reasonable, and the only flaw is that it is not standardized enough.

In fact, there is such a situation in Hollywood, but people's agents are licensed, and there are contracts with actors, and the agents not only have to introduce roles to actors, strive for audition opportunities, but also provide protection and legal assistance for actors, etc., that model is very standardized.

But you really want to apply that model to China, but it is not realistic, not to mention anything else, just a few villages in the vicinity, and there are tens of thousands of similar group performances, and this alone is enough to make the "norms" stop...... (To be continued.) )