Chapter 278: Ninth of the Month! The ninth of the month!

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The hotel is a very common place for Japanese media people to talk about work, and from this point of view, there is no difference between Chinese and Japanese cultures, and everyone likes to talk about things at the dinner table.

At a table in this hotel in Tokyo today, a young man was already seated.

Hiroshi Tamaki, who was born in 8o, has just passed his 23rd birthday, although it is a very good age, but for him, who has never been an idol, the road to being an actor has just begun, and there is still a long, long way to go.

Tamaki Hiroshi, who came to the agreed place first, was very nervous and cramped, the person who asked him was actually younger than him, but this person's reputation is too strong, especially recently, if before, his aura was just an ordinary artist, after he was nominated for the Oscar, Japanese artists and people in the entertainment industry worshiped him, almost treating him as the hope of the Japanese entertainment industry and the film industry.

Yes, that's right, the person who came out of Yumu Hong is Zhou Xiao.

Yumu Hong's agent was sitting at another small table, when Zhou Xiao's invitation contacted him, this Yumu Hong's agent was so excited that he almost fainted, Zhou Xiao's name is too brilliant now, to be able to cooperate with him, it is undesirable for this artist who is still only a newcomer under his hands.

After waiting for half an hour, another person came to his desk with his agent, but this person was not Zhou Xiao.

Shuri Ueno, who was born in '86, is still a few months away from seventeen years old, and she's in high school, and she looks very cute.

Shuri Ueno's company is an agency specializing in female models, and her debut was because she took over the washing advertisement of Procter & Gamble in O1, so she had a two-step small cameo job in a TV series at the beginning of O2 and O3, and in addition to these, she also received a job in NHK morning dramas. In this morning drama, she will play a small supporting role.

The actor's Lu Duo started with such a small supporting role, that is, a seventeen-year-old girl is just the right age, and it is the time to slowly save zài in the TV series without affecting her studies.

Although they received the supporting role of the morning drama, Ueno Shuri and the agent still did not hesitate to come to the appointment, they didn't know what job offer Zhou Xiao invited them, but there is no doubt that Zhou Xiao's invitation was a very, very good opportunity, if Zhou Xiao's invitation was the protagonist or even just a more important supporting role, they would not hesitate to turn down NHK's morning drama supporting role. In the eyes of almost all Japanese media people, within a year, I am afraid that no one will refuse all of Zhou Xiao's invitations, because Zhou Xiao's invitation represents attention, represents a masterpiece, and is more likely to represent the possibility of becoming an internationally famous actor.

"Hello, I'm Ueno Shuri from i11net." When the girl came to the table that Zhou Xiao had informed, there was already a very handsome boy sitting there, and she saluted and greeted.

"Hello. I'm Hiroshi Tamaki from AOINET. The boy also stood up to say hello.

Among the two people's offices, the office of Shuri Ueno is just a small office, and it will soon be merged by the famous AMU color in O4, and Hiroshi Tamaki's AOI is not large. is a local office located in Nagoya City.

And this is the first meeting between the two people.

After more than twenty minutes, five minutes before the agreed time, Zhou Xiao finally came.

As soon as you enter the door. Zhou Xiao saw two men and women sitting there stiffly from a distance, and he laughed in his heart, these two people should have been here for a long time. They are completely strangers and neither of them is the kind of person who can talk very well, so they must be very embarrassed by each other before.

"You've been here early enough, haven't you been waiting for a long time?" Zhou Xiao went over and said to Yumu Hiroshi in the wild tree.

"No, no, we just came." The two quickly stood up and said. Although the two of them are also artists, and Yumu Hong even starred in movies, Zhou Xiao is still a big star and director in his eyes.

As for Ueno Shuri? The little girl who was more than sixteen years old looked at Zhou Xiao, who was almost the same age in front of her, but had the ability of a human genius, and her eyes were swollen and her admiration was about to flow out.

"Sit down, sit down, order something to eat first, I'm having a treat today, you can call at will, by the way, your agent is also here, right? Let's call together, today's events don't matter, let's just sit down and talk together. Because it was Zhou Xiao's invitation, and because his current status was too high, he didn't show too much caution, but said very casually, like a host or a host.

After calling the two of their agents over, the five of them began to eat, and while eating Zhou Xiao, they said, "I invited you to come this time, because I have an invitation to you from a TV series." ”

"Mr. Zhou's appearance in a TV series is definitely the dream of all Japanese actors, and you say that there is no problem with both the leading role and the supporting role." Tamaki Hiroshi's agent said, and beside him, the other three people who didn't speak also nodded their heads one after another.

"Don't be in a hurry to agree, listen to me in detail." Zhou Xiaodao.

"In this Japanese drama, I hope you can play the male and female protagonists respectively," Zhou Xiao said, although his words caused a burst of excitement between Shuri Ueno and Tamaki Hong, but the two agents showed an unexpected look, Zhou Xiao asked the two to play the leading role is actually very normal, very simple, if it is not the protagonist, he does not need to come out and invite the two in person, but now it seems that to play the leading role, Zhou Xiao has some other questions or requirements.

"What about this TV series...... Have you seen Megumi Noda, which I co-starred with? Zhou Xiao asked.

"Ahh I've seen that, and it's beautiful! Ueno Shuri raised his hand and said, she was the only girl among the five people present, and this work is a thorough girl's manga, plus the creator is a person in the entertainment industry, so of course Ueno Shuri has seen it.

Although she is the only one who has seen it, the other three obviously know about this work.

"Is it the live-action version of "Megumi Noda in a Song"?" Tamaki Hiroshi couldn't help but ask.

"That's right, that's it, in fact, when I was working on this comic, I had a live-action version of the shadow in my heart, and it was with this shadow that I created this comic with others." Zhou Xiao nodded and said.

"Great! Mr. Zhou Xiao, I haven't seen this work yet. I promise I'll see it when I get back! Yumu Hong didn't seem to be very good at speaking, and said to Zhou Xiao directly.

Zhou Xiao didn't care about the other party's directness but said: "This work is a girl's comic, so it's normal that you haven't read it before, I understand." ”

"Mr. Zhou, what are your requirements?" Tamaki Hiroshi's agent said at this time.

"That's right, although this work has now ended its serialization, and I also want you two to play the male and female protagonists in my heart, but the schedule, TV station cooperation, investment, or anything else have not started to prepare. Because of the filming time of this TV series, I think it would be better to put it after O4 years. Zhou Xiao said.

"O4 year!?" All four were surprised.

"That's right, in general TV dramas, from determining the schedule and actors to starting filming, it usually takes a quarter to half a year, and it is rare to tell the actors more than a year in advance, but this drama, frankly speaking, I think it's a little early to find you to star. Tamaki Hiroshi's age is enough, but the age of the heroine Megumi Noda in the play is a little different from that of Ueno, so I think it is a more appropriate time to wait for more than a year. ”

"I see. So more than a year is also the time for us to familiarize ourselves with the script and prepare the characters, right? Tamaki said.

"That's right, and in the past year or so, you have another big thing to prepare." Zhou Xiaodao.

"What?"

"This film is a symphony with a background music. And Megumi Noda and Chiaki Shinichi in the film are both multi-instrumental, so for more than a year, I hope you can get in touch with some musical training, and Ueno Shuri is a piano. Hiroshi Tamaki, on the other hand, is the piano, the violin and the conductor, of course, among the three, you only need to try the violin, the key is the piano and the classical orchestra conductor, I hope you can prepare seriously. ”

"Yes, I see! Mr. Zhou Xiao, you must complete your request! Tamaki Hiroshi said very excitedly.

"Okay, I'm looking forward to your performance, I'll leave later." Zhou Xiao stood up and said.

"Mr. Zhou, don't you want to eat some?" Shuri Ueno's agent asked.

"You guys eat, I'm already full," Zhou Xiao said and began to leave, just two steps, he turned back to the four people and said, "Prepare well, this drama, maybe it will be the ninth of the month." ”

The ninth of the month!

Zhou Xiao has made a lot of TV dramas and movies since his debut, but if you really calculate carefully, the Japanese drama version of "One Liter of Tears" is being prepared, and it is not clear when it will be broadcast, and the three scripts that Zhou Xiao took to Jennis, "Meteor Trip" should be the last to start filming, as for the current year of O3, there is news that "Wild Boar Makeover" will be broadcast in July, and Fraud Hunter is tentatively scheduled for April O4.

In fact, although "Wild Boar Makeover" is scheduled to star in Kazuya Kazuya and Yamashita Tomohisa's Genesys lineup, the TV station for this drama is Nippon TV instead of Fuji TV, as for the reason and Zhou Xiao also has something to do with it, Japanese TV has been very helpful to Zhou Xiao since his debut, and it is not an exaggeration to say that some kind of Cheng dù is Zhou Xiao's own TV station, but since "Fourteen-year-old Mother", Zhou Xiao's two consecutive TV series have not been broadcast on Japanese TV, which makes the TV station very unhappy, We have always been the most supportive of you, but what is the matter with you not putting the resources in your hands on our desk?

In response to the other party's questioning, although "The Man Who Can't Get Married" has been set and can't be placed on Japanese TV, but other undecided TV series can, so he specifically contacted Jennis, asking the other party to put "Wild Boar Makeover" on Japanese TV, in fact, although the three scripts were handed over to Jennis, but under Zhou Xiao's strong insistence, the investment in these three dramas is also AZX, AZX's current financial resources are not comparable to before, and it is very simple to invest in one or two dramas at the same time.

In addition to the three TV series for Jennis, the TV series related to Zhou Xiao also include "Fourteen-Year-Old Mother", "The Queen's Classroom" and other dramas, but among these dramas, in essence, the only Japanese drama that Zhou Xiao really served as the director was "The Queen's Classroom", but now, he actually said that the next Japanese drama may be Yuejiu, which means that after "The Queen's Classroom" and "The Man Who Can't Get Married" that will be broadcast in April, even the schedule of the Yuejiu drama has been booked!

Directors all over Japan may be angry when they hear this, because other TV drama directors work for TV stations, and a drama has to be filmed in cooperation with others, and its fame and influence are not as good as that of screenwriters. When he can only make a little hard-earned money, Zhou Xiao can choose to shoot TV stations and time slots and even scripts at will, and even if he wants to shoot Yuejiu, he has already decided to shoot Yuejiu, and he is also a director, why is the gap so big?

Finding Shuri Ueno and Hiroshi Tamaki to start training classical music is just a small episode, and Zhou Xiao's real focus is, of course, on the filming of the TV series.

In mid-February, the whole episode of "The Man Who Can't Get Married" has been filmed, and after the filming of this first episode, the crew temporarily disbanded and rested for a while, leaving this time for AZX and Fuji TV. Do the preliminary preparation and the preview of the first episode.

Although the show has been basically finalized, the early test screening still has to be done, not only the ordinary audience was invited to the test screening, but also various media were invited to the scene, and Zhou Xiao also figured out this kind of test screening to contact the audience's opinions, after all, the appearance time of this drama was more than three years earlier than his original time, and more than three years is not a short time, especially after entering the 21st century, more than three years. The social atmosphere and the audience's ideas have changed a lot, and "The Man Who Can't Get Married" three years later can only be regarded as a good concept and perspective at best, but the current drama can be called an "ingenious" slogan no matter what.

The image of the main character in the TV series. At first, it was tall and sophisticated figures, such as Takuya Kimura, such as Masaharu Fukuyama, and then the Japanese quickly felt it. Although such a man is easy to like, it is too lacking in a sense of substitution, so some men who are not so handsome and beautiful become the leading actors. And the biggest representative of such a starring role should be Takeda Tetsuya in "The 1o1st Marriage Proposal", with a black and bitter face that looks like an orangutan, he is a thorough ugly man, even Zhao Benshan's shoehorn is a grade more handsome than him, but such an ugly man has a perfect personality and heart, and has won the love of the heroine with this.

This is one of the main reasons why Japanese dramas were liked and talked about back then, because they are real.

But even such a Japanese drama has some problems, the problem is that what you describe is an ugly man with a good personality, but what if you describe a man with a very bad personality, even if he is not ugly?

In fact, the vast majority of men described in the genius trend of the new century may be a man with a very bad personality in the previous stories, turtle hair, a lot of things, perfectionism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, all kinds of shortcomings that should not be in a good man, often appear in such a protagonist, and complete its sense of entertainment and funny, but make the hero's personality less perfect, such a perspective can not be regarded as new and new in the Japanese drama circle, but it is also a pretty good entry point.

The so-called one year more than others is a genius, and ten more years is a madman, Zhou Xiao is now equivalent to three more years, but three years is not a short time, he is also a little worried, worried that in the first episode, the strange character of the male protagonist played by Abe Kuan will blindly run the audience, which will make everyone change the channel and stop watching this TV series before they have time to get to know him urgently, in Zhou Xiao's opinion, this TV series can be said to be easy to go to two extremes, either causing topicality, bringing the audience to watch it, or a large number of bad reviews, The audience only watched a small part of the film and quickly rated the tone, and finally fell into a situation where the ratings were less than 1o%, and even the situation that they could only cut the drama.

Of course, Zhou Xiao has confidence in himself and this drama, but no matter how much confidence he has, it is impossible to turn it into a guarantee of 100% success, so his worries are not unreasonable.

The test screening was held in a theater in Tokyo, Zhou Xiao and the entire crew also went to the scene to watch, before the test screening began, Zhou Xiao first came on stage and said something, his words were actually clichés, nothing more than that everyone was welcome to watch my new drama, the first time I filmed such a type of Japanese drama, I was very nervous and so on, after he got off, the theater quickly darkened and began to show TV series.

Because it is the first episode, Zhou Xiao made a 57-minute extended version here, and because it is a test screening, there are actually a lot of shots that may be cut out in the future, so the duration of the entire preview screening is about an hour and twenty minutes.

After the TV show is over, most of the people in the scene will receive a survey before leaving, and these surveys will be filled out after the audience has gone home, and in fact, this pattern is also common in China a few years later.

As for the audience who came to see the test screening, will they not send back the questionnaire? If you don't send back the questionnaire, it's okay not to invite the other party next time there is a test screening.

Of course, sending back the questionnaire is not the only way to get audience evaluations, the evaluations of the audience and reporters on the spot, after AZX came out, a lot has been summarized, these things have been handed to Zhou Xiao's hands after being sorted out, and these evaluations are put together, basically converged into one sentence: "Novel perspective, the protagonist's handling is very cute, I look forward to future exhibitions!" ”

Seeing such an evaluation, everyone in the film crew breathed a sigh of relief, of course they didn't think that a mere test screening of an episode would make the audience cry out in surprise and worship, but now it's like this, so that everyone is motivated, and it's perfect to look forward to watching it. (To be continued......)