Chapter 0298 - Do You Really Want to Do This?
Originally, the media spread the gossip news that Xu Hengzhou snatched love from Wang Leehom and took away Liu Yiqian, which was a little ridiculous, but because it was curious enough, it was talked about by many people.
And the movie "Love Notice" originally invited Liu Yiqian to play the heroine, and this news was originally told by Wang Leehom himself to the reporter during the interview.
At that time, Wang Leehom was still very emotional, thinking that Liu Yiqian was too in love, and he was afraid that she would be deceived, so he gave up the opportunity to play the heroine and partner with Xu Hengzhou to play a supporting actress in a couple.
In short, there has been a relationship between these three people for a long time.
At this moment, I bumped into it again.
Recently, these two films of the same type are being filmed, and they will be compared by the media, not to mention that Wang Leehom explicitly and secretly mentioned the crew of "33 Days of Broken Love" several times during the interview.
It also provides the media with a lot of material that can be written into the news.
They have been chasing Wang Leehom for the past few days, eager to pry more things out of each other's mouths.
After asking Wang Leehom here, he turned around and went to Xu Hengzhou and Liu Yiqian to ask them what they thought of what Wang Leehom said?
Xu Hengzhou and Liu Yiqian have no idea!
At least they have no idea about their attitude towards this matter, because all their energy is put into the script overhaul of "33 Days of Broken Love".
Liu Yiqian is in a contradiction, on the one hand, she thinks that the ideas Xu Hengzhou said are very good, but on the other hand, she feels that the change of "33 Days of Broken Love" has become very different from the original script she is familiar with, which makes her really at a loss.
Xu Hengzhou is even more difficult to adapt to than Liu Yiqian.
He didn't expect that his casual nonsense was actually taken seriously by Teng Huatao, and he was really seriously changing the script, and every time a small plot was changed, it would be placed in the group for everyone to discuss.
Xu Hengzhou looked at the plot changed by director Teng Huatao, and had a headache, this plot is really changing more and more, although it is quite feeling!
Teng Huatao completely absorbed what he proposed, compatible with soul exchange, time and space interlacing, mutual redemption and other factors, but it was a little more exaggerated than what he said, but it was also better integrated.
The first is soul swapping.
In Teng Huatao's redesigned plot, the point of soul swap occurred when the male and female protagonists were young.
Of course, it's not the soul swap of the teens, but the male and female protagonists in their 20s returned to their respective childhoods, and found that they couldn't deal well with the predicament of their teenage years when they grew up, and at this time, the two mature souls were swapped.
At this time, the heroine had just fallen out of love, and it was the first day that the heroine had fallen out of love.
So the part of the plot that redeems each other also takes place during this period.
And when the redemption is almost complete, it begins to talk about the intersection of time and space.
Or that before the heroine fell out of love, time and space had already converged, and after the heroine fell out of love, it didn't end until the 33rd day of the lovelorn time and space meeting.
So although the male and female protagonists work in the same space, they are actually not characters on the same timeline.
The male protagonist is aware of this.
But the heroine doesn't know!
And then because the heroine fell out of love, a series of soul exchange events occurred, and the male protagonist noticed that the female protagonist was willing to let the female protagonist live in his own house when the female protagonist was on the street.
It was at this time that the female protagonist slowly discovered a trace of clues from this house, knowing the relationship between the male protagonist and the little boy whose soul was exchanged, and also spying on a clue about the intersection of timeline and space......
After Teng Huatao made all the changes to the plot and shared it, Xu Hengzhou sincerely felt Teng Huatao's power after reading it.
Because after he added so many elements, the main line has not changed, and the later plots can be used, and he has completely broken it back.
The whole framework and the theme to be expressed are still very "33 Days of Broken Love"!
And the so-called soul exchange, as well as the interlacing of time and space, do not dominate at all, but serve this theme.
Although the plot and structure are biased a lot, the focus on "broken love" is not biased.
The soul swap and time and space staggered that the heroine experienced only made the heroine more aware of the meaning of falling out of love, and how to treat her life after falling out of love.
When Xu Hengzhou saw this, he finally felt comfortable, and finally figured out what the point he had been worried about was.
Although the original version of "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" said that a lot of effort was put into light comedy, the reason why it was able to resonate with the public was the word broken love.
One of the most impressive plots in the whole movie is that the heroine Huang Xiaoxian is so proud to say goodbye to her cheating ex-boyfriend, but watching her ex-boyfriend take a taxi and leave, at that moment she feels that she is really going to lose him, and decides to leave her self-esteem to recover him.
Huang Xiaoxian, who was so proud, watched her ex-boyfriend's departure suddenly collapse, she thought that no matter whether her ex-boyfriend cheated or not, how scummy her ex-boyfriend was, and how much she hated it, but as long as she relented, as long as she chose to forgive, this man would come back.
But at this moment, she realized that this relationship was really going to leave her.
This scene really depicts the psychology of thousands of lovelorn men and women when they say goodbye to their exes delicately enough.
It also made a good foreshadowing for the various things encountered by the follow-up heroine after falling out of love, all kinds of perceptions, and then re-energizing.
Although Teng Huatao has changed the overall framework of the entire script, this scene has not changed, and even about the element of broken love, he has also added more details to highlight the plot through the two points of soul exchange and time and space intersection.
After Xu Hengzhou read the new script once, he couldn't help but go back and read it a second time.
After reading it, I looked up and just met Liu Yiqian tacitly.
"What do you think?"
Liu Yiqian's eyes lit up: "I think it's very good!" ”
It's not just good, it's better than she imagined.
If you talk about the original script, she just thinks it is very good and delicate, and the performance should be able to move many people, and it is a very sincere story.
Then this script adds more attractive elements to the sincere story, making the whole story more colorful, and these more colors are properly matched, which in turn renders the core of the whole story.
Liu Yiqian can feel that the temperament of the whole script has not changed, which makes her feel very reassured, so she suddenly has a sense of identity with the new things added to the script.
After director Teng Huatao spent three or four days to change the script, he found the main creative staff of the crew to hold a script seminar together, tossed for a week, and finally sorted out the new script completely.
Although such a toss, everything that had been planned before had to be changed a lot, but director Teng Huatao felt heartfelt satisfaction.
Because he can clearly feel that the decision he made is going in a good direction, this freshly baked script is also a good book, as long as their crew shoots this movie well, then this movie will definitely be loved by the public no matter what.
Teng Huatao inexplicably has this kind of confidence.
So when the script workshop was over for several days and the script was completely finalized, he couldn't wait to put the crew together again.
Start work, start work!
Then, this start has problems again!
Because the new version of "33 Days of Broken Love" has a plot of soul swap in the early stage, which is about the hero and heroine returning to their respective childhoods, and then exchanging souls, which means that this scene needs to be played by young actors.
And he has to be a little actor with very superb acting skills.
After all, it's really difficult for a child to perform the feeling of an adult.
But this is not the most difficult, the most difficult thing is that it also involves the soul swap of a hero and heroine.
In the plot and character setting, the male protagonist was originally meant to be slightly more feminine, while the female protagonist was a big grinning type.
In other words, the young actors who played the male and female protagonists when they were young kept performing, and they looked like adults, and they also needed to grasp the transition between femininity and big grin......
Teng Huatao: I made a mistake.
He really didn't expect to get stuck here.
Xu Hengzhou instantly realized why "Your Name" was such a good idea, and instead of being used to act in a live-action movie, it was placed in an anime movie.
This kind of plot requires too much acting skills from actors!
He felt that it was difficult for him, let alone for a small actor?
Xu Hengzhou felt the pressure, and suddenly he was glad that he was just an actor, not a director, but after thinking about it, this movie was invested by himself, and now it is stuck here, and the money spent is his own money!
He figured it out, and after thinking it through, he actively searched for those very talented actors who would be praised for their acting skills in the future, and who were not too old at 10 years.
Then find someone to invite you to an audition.
This tossed for several days, during which they had to shoot the scenes of the male and female protagonists after they became adults.
As a result, a week, two weeks, and three weeks have passed, and 1/3 of the scenes where the male and female protagonists meet in time and space have been filmed, and the scenes of soul exchange have not yet been settled.
No way, it's still the same old problem.
Little actors are so hard to find!
At first, they were looking for actors between the ages of 8 and 12, then they started looking for actors between the ages of 8 and 13, and now they have relaxed to actors between the ages of 8 and 15.
As a result, no one can interpret this feeling.
Teng Huatao was a little anxious, so anxious that a light flashed in his mind suddenly.
In an instant, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, he found Xu Hengzhou: "It's better like this, let's not look for a little actor, and directly let you and Liu Yiqian play the soul swap part." ”
Xu Hengzhou frowned when he heard Director Teng Huatao say this: "If it is the soul exchange in adulthood, it will conflict with this point where we reset the intersection of time and space." ”
"No, not adulthood."
"What do you mean?"
Director Teng Huatao stared intently at Xu Hengzhou's silhouette and looked at it carefully before explaining: "Anyway, our search for young actors has been relaxed to 15 years old, so it is better to directly let you and Liu Yiqian paint special effects makeup, and then reduce the body shape and directly play the male and female protagonists in their youth." ”
"What?"
Xu Hengzhou was shocked.
Instantly, I thought of a certain girl sect leader.
was a little resistant: "I can't do it, how can I, a person in my 20s, play a 15-year-old?" The audience won't believe it either! ”
Director Teng Huatao was only tentatively saying this idea, but after saying it, he felt that this idea was really feasible:
"Paint special effects makeup, hire the best makeup artist, I think there is no problem with the face, you and Liu Yiqian are in their early 20s, and they are very tender. The main thing is the problem of physical shape, this may be hard for the two of you, let's go to the best nutritionist, without affecting your health, and lose another 20 pounds. If the body is thin, it looks small. ”
Xu Hengzhou felt the seriousness in Director Teng Huatao's words, but he was still a little incredulous, and confirmed it again:
"Do you really want to do that?"
Director Teng Huatao nodded without hesitation:
"Yes!"
"......" Xu Hengzhou: "Let's not talk about whether you can really act like a teenager?" Let's just say lose 20 pounds, are you serious? ”
In order to be better photogenic, he is only 130 pounds now.
A tall man of more than 1.8 meters.
Fortunately, some muscles don't look like a bamboo pole.
has sacrificed a lot for the profession of actor.
As a result, you have to lose another 20 pounds?
Xu Hengzhou secretly scolded in his heart, this capitalist really doesn't treat actors as people!
But when I think about it, this capitalist is himself, enslaving himself and exploiting himself, and he hasn't reasoned yet, so angry!
Liu Yiqian was also called by director Teng Huatao, but she arrived later than Xu Hengzhou, and after hearing the idea that the director said, she didn't have much resistance.
She's now 105 pounds.
It actually looks very thin and picky on a daily basis.
But after being on the camera, she always picks some angles, especially when she feels a little baby fat.
She has always wanted to be thin, but sometimes the role is not needed, and she can't be ruthless to herself.
Exercising is more about getting in shape than about losing weight.
Occasionally eat vegetable leaves, also because of the needs of the role.
Or maybe one day I want to go to the red carpet or shoot magazines, and I am afraid that I can't wear the customized clothes, so I temporarily hug the Buddha's feet.
But in short, if it's for work, I'm still willing to lose weight seriously.
And she hasn't lost 85 pounds.
But as far as she knows, many actresses are of this weight, and they are very fairy in skirts, and they look very tall.
So Liu Yiqian quickly nodded at Director Teng Huatao, saying that she had no problem and could accept this challenge.
Xu Hengzhou hesitated for a while, but finally nodded: "Let's try it first." ”