Chapter Ninety-Four: Cooperation
During the filming of the movie "Lavender", there was a part of the schedule that coincided with the TV series "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind". According to Gu Qiaoqiao's original idea, it is impossible to take on the TV series "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind", but there is Zhou Xun in this play. Gu Qiaoqiao had competed with her three times, but in the end, all the roles fell to Zhou Xun.
Therefore, Gu Qiaoqiao has an obsession and wants to compete with her again, but she has never encountered any opportunities, and she knows that as Zhou Xun's fame grows, her acting career on her side is gradually going up, and Sister Kuan's positioning of her, although the two of them still have the opportunity to compete, but at that time, most of them fought for the wrist of the agent behind them.
So to have such an opportunity to appear in the same drama with Zhou Xun is not easy for Gu Qiaoqiao. Therefore, after she learned about the film and television project of the TV series "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind", she strongly asked Sister Kuan to help her fight for the role in it, even if it was a supporting role.
At this time, although Zhou Xun is famous, she has not yet become popular, and in Hong Kong City, her popularity is not even as good as Li Xiaolu, who won the Golden Horse Award in 98, so Sister Kuan doesn't understand why Gu Qiaoqiao has to cooperate with Zhou Xun.
However, as an excellent agent, after inspecting the project of the TV series "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind", she felt that it was still very good, so she went all out. With her energy, coupled with Gu Qiaoqiao's own acting skills of not dragging back, it is not difficult to help her win the heroine in the play.
The TV series "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" was launched, except for the popular fried chicken like Lu Yi, who became popular not long ago with the TV series "Never Look Away", the rest of the fame is not big, but they have been rolling in the circle for many years, so everyone gets along very harmoniously.
Strictly speaking, "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" should be regarded as an idol drama, but it is not the kind of superficial and contrived idol drama.
As we all know, idol dramas must be based on love, however, most idol dramas are too superficial and express love too simply: handsome men and beautiful women, love is blocked, and finally a lover eventually becomes a family, which has almost become the standard configuration of all idol dramas, or a little more sad, that is, let the heroine or male protagonist run away or die.
Watching this kind of idol drama, the audience is often immersed in the romantic feeling of love created by the idol drama, attracted by the appearance of the hero and heroine, the overly simple life plot, and the witty and relaxed atmosphere specially created, so that the audience's minds do not need to think, in the process of watching, everyone is relaxed and happy, and after watching it, the audience's hearts are not shocked, the plot is irrelevant, and the ending is not unexpected, so it was quickly forgotten.
Gu Qiaoqiao feels that any drama that can't arouse inner emotions can't be called a classic, only those dramas that make people immerse themselves for a long time after watching it, or are moved by the characters, or trigger thinking, or have a long memory of the plot and scenes in the play, can be called classics.
As long as this standard is reached, then it doesn't matter if it's an idol drama, a drama, or a short mother-in-law drama...... It's all classics.
Gu Qiaoqiao doesn't know if the TV series "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" is a classic, but she feels that with the strength of these actors in the play, even if it can't reach the classics, it is still a good drama.
Just like the title of the play, the love expressed in the play is also "like fog, rain and wind", if love is simple and clear, it will not become the eternal object of expression in film and television works, it is as hazy as fog, lingering as rain, and as elusive as the wind, so that there is an endless story.
The filming speed of "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" is so fast that it is staggering, due to the high rental fees of the main filming locations of this film, the crew of "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" used all the time to steal the scene.
It is the norm to shoot for more than ten hours a day, everyone is so tired that they can fall asleep in any position while sitting or standing, and when the director and actors are talking, the crew often lies down for a large part, but as long as the director gives an order, the whole crew must be in place.
In general, aside from the word "tired", the whole process is still quite fresh and interesting, there are a lot of lights in the play, according to Gu Qiaoqiao's visual observation, he only filmed for a few days in the crew, and there are hundreds of large and small lights in the film.
She also gradually discovered that even during the day, the lights in the room would be on, which may be the influence of art design on Western film works, but it is undeniable that the effect is really good, and the final shot presents a picture like an oil painting.
For Gu Qiaoqiao, the biggest gain in this crew is to correct his attitude towards acting again, and when he is waiting for the scene on the set, his favorite thing is to watch Zhou Xun act.
Don't look at Gu Qiaoqiao has filmed a lot of scenes, but the actors she cooperates with are newcomers in addition to being old actors, and her level is not high at that time, so I always feel that the actors in each crew have similar acting skills, and I really don't see much difference in acting skills between them.
But at this time, she watched Zhou Xun's performance in front of the camera again, and compared the performances of other people in the play, Gu Qiaoqiao found that it is no wonder that so many actors and directors in later generations praised Zhou Xun, and they are indeed very good.
Compared with Zhou Xun, Lu Yi is really just a tall and handsome idol star, and Zhou Xun can be an idol star at the same time, he can also be a real actor.
Although she was able to play on the same stage with Zhou Xun, Gu Qiaoqiao was still very happy when she first joined the group, but as the filming progress lengthened, she couldn't be happy.
When she didn't join the group, even if Gu Qiaoqiao was the heroine, she didn't get the complete script, but this is normal, because sometimes, the crew is afraid of leaks, even if it is the protagonist, when she doesn't enter the group, she won't give the complete script, and some crews even only provide a story outline when the actors don't join the group.
At that time, Gu Qiaoqiao didn't care, but when she joined the crew, she still didn't get the complete script, and after asking, she learned that the script had not been written.
She still didn't care, you know, although she quit the second crew of Huanzhu II halfway through, but when she joined the group to shoot Huanzhu Er, the script was not completed yet, and only half of it was written, but Qiong Yao did not delay the filming progress of the crew, and worked overtime to write it.
Originally, she thought that "Like Fog, Like Fog, Like Rain, and Like Wind" was also such an operation, but unfortunately, it was not, but it was written while shooting, and there was no complete dramatic structure in the play, nor did it have a complete character fate line, it was a rolling progressive scatter.
After the TV series was broadcast, the director said in an interview that there was no major event for the eight protagonists to support a 30-episode TV series, and it was not easy to write about it. This is also the innovation, in fact, as a director at that time, there were also concerns about doing this, so he adopted a full insurance system, that is, music, photography, art and other aspects to do the best, in case this innovation failed, it would not be wiped out. Judging from the final results, on the whole, it is still a first-class film that does not lose its standard.
The director admitted that the story was not written well, so he put a lot of effort into the post-production, but Gu Qiaoqiao, as an actor, didn't know this. In addition, in her previous life, when this TV series was broadcast, because she was attracted by the TV series "Deep Love and Rain", "Kangxi Dynasty" and "Mansion Gate" in the same period, she just glanced at it once or twice when she was transferred to the station, and she never watched this drama at all.
When she took over the play, she came to Zhou Xun, and thought that director Zhao Baogang had a popular masterpiece like "Never Look Away" the year before last, and twenty years later, she was also one of the best well-known directors in the circle, so she didn't inquire and ask too much, so when she was filming, she muttered in her heart that she was pitting herself.