Chapter 131: Child Star

The conversation inevitably involved Lin Zixuan's novels and films.

Miss Song Jiasan really read Lin Zixuan's works, and she also interpreted them from a woman's perspective.

If "Gone with the Wind" is about the strength of women in the new era, then "Border City" is about the flexibility of traditional women.

Scarlett's strength is exposed, and Cuicui's strength is hidden in the heart, which is the resilience of Chinese women.

The female figure expressed in "To the Oak Tree" is stronger and braver, which requires equality between men and women in the heart.

Perhaps because Lin Zixuan's novels always pay too much attention to women, the third lady admires it, and she hopes that Lin Zixuan can write the image of a new Chinese woman and show the beauty of independence and self-confidence.

Lin Zixuan felt that the third lady was too lively, and she had her own opinions on things, and she was biased towards Westerners' thinking.

"You don't need me to write, you can see the image of the new Chinese woman when you look in the mirror every day." Lin Zixuan complimented.

This made the third lady very useful, and it was even more pleasing to the eye to see Lin Zixuan.

In fact, Lin Zixuan did not deliberately promote feminism in writing these novels, but this does not prevent others from interpreting them, which is what makes literary works interesting.

Everyone can interpret the same novel differently.

As for writing the image of a new Chinese woman, Lin Zixuan really doesn't remember the novels in this regard, but he has read some of the female frequency novels that tell about Gong Dou, and this is not a new woman.

In terms of movies, Star Film Company is currently filming three films: "Havoc in Heaven", "Home Alone" and "Mom Loves Me Again".

The first two movies are not very in line with the taste of Miss Song Jiasan, she likes the kind of films with petty bourgeois feelings.

For example, "Shanghai Holiday", of course, most of the movies she watched were foreign movies.

As for "Mom Loves Me Again" is a bitter film, she just asked about the content and was not very interested.

Song Ziwen also exchanged views with him on Shanghai's financial industry, and he still has expectations for the stock market.

Lin Zixuan could only help this, he believed that the future uncle of the country would soon not have to think about these trivial matters, and there would be greater opportunities waiting for him.

All in all, it was a fairly enjoyable dinner.

On the way back, Lin Zixuan thought about whether the movie shot by the star film company was going to shoot a film that showed new female themes, whether there was a market for this kind of film, and so on.

The preparation of the movie "Home Alone" is going very well, and the protagonist has been chosen, which is Dan Erchun, the great-nephew of Dan Du Yu.

But Erchun was born in 1915 and just turned seven years old this year.

He performed for a few minutes in "Sea Oath", and his performance was quite brilliant, and his eyes were very spiritual, which left a deep impression on the audience.

I heard that Lin Zixuan was looking for a child to be the starring role, and Yin Mingzhu recommended Dan Erchun.

Lin Zixuan used to see the bear child in Dan Du Yu's company when he was filming "Shanghai Holiday", this child often makes trouble in the crew, but he is very clever.

After the filming of "Sea Oath" was completed, Du Yu was still thinking about the next movie.

The movie "Sea Oath" was not as successful as he expected, although it made money, it couldn't be compared with the popularity of "Shanghai Holiday", which made him quite disappointed.

plus the advent of sound movies, but Du Yu was a little hesitant.

He is a technical controller, he likes to pursue novel techniques and try new things in filming, but at the moment only star studios can shoot sound films, and this technology must be kept secret from the outside world.

The scale of the Shanghai Film and Theater Company was too small, and it was impossible for him to invest heavily in a sound movie machine.

He clearly feels that with the rise of large companies like Star Film Company, it is becoming more and more difficult for small film companies to survive, no wonder many insiders are now hating Star Film Company.

But Star Pictures is not going to go out of business, at least not for now.

If you want to survive, there are only two ways left, one is to spend a lot of money to improve your strength, and the other is to be merged by Star Film Company.

Just when he was thinking about the way out in the future, Lin Zixuan came over and invited Dan Erchun to star in a movie starring children, which is probably the first children's movie in China.

But Du Yu read the script, the story of a child and two stupid thieves.

It's a bit of the meaning of funny short films in the past, which is to keep creating jokes, but to extend the original 20-minute short film to 60 minutes, so that the audience can laugh more enjoyable.

This film is not difficult to make, but Erchun is lively and active, and he should be able to act well, so he agreed.

As for the salary, with Lin Zixuan's personality, he will not treat a child badly.

Lin Zixuan took the opportunity to invite Dan Du Yu to direct this movie, he had long wanted to pull Dan Du Yu to the star film company, but he lacked an opportunity.

But Du Yu was extremely curious about sound movies and wanted to see them, so he agreed.

Lin Zixuan symbolically interviewed Dan Erchun once, and found that this bear child was still as lively as ever, in order to rectify the child, he asked Dan Erchun to perform a crying scene.

I didn't expect this child to cry when he said he would, and he was not ambiguous at all.

It is said that this is a unique skill that Dan Erchun practiced in order to escape punishment after doing something wrong.

Lin Zixuan had to sigh that every bear child is an acting school.

He couldn't help but think of the tear-jerking blockbuster "Mom Loves Me Again", which also needed a little actor.

The song "Only Mom is Good in the World" has been widely praised by the society, and this nursery rhyme is widely circulated among children, even music classes in elementary schools will play this song, which can be described as a household name.

It's time to launch a movie that eulogizes mother's love, and it just happens to have a little actor like Dan Erchun.

If he can have wonderful performances in "Home Alone" and "Mom Loves Me Again", he will definitely become the most famous child star in China in this era.

It can not only make people laugh, but also make people cry, it's unreasonable if it's not popular!

However, there was a problem in the selection of actresses, Yin Mingzhu was very worried about whether she could play the role of a mother, after all, she was only 18 years old and did not know much about the great feelings of maternal love.

In order to shoot a movie, she herself is angry with her mother.

In "Mom Loves Me Again", the mother and child are the most crucial characters, and there is no room for error.

But in 1922, there were still relatively few actresses, especially women with delicate appearances, and no girl from a good family was willing to shoot movies and show people with color, Yin Mingzhu received Western education in Chinese and Western girls' schools, and was more open-minded.

In the future, when actressing becomes a profession, more women will join the film industry.

After some searching, Star Film Company found a woman named Peng Jianqing who was willing to star in the movie.

Although she is only 20 years old, she is married, and later divorced, and has rich emotional experience and is more embarrassed in life.

The first request she agreed to participate in the movie was to change her name, and she was unwilling to appear in the movie with her real name.