After returning to the capital from Qingdao, Xu Hengzhou began to prepare his first film as a director.

Based on his deepest impression of this movie, he renamed the movie "You, Me and Him".

And took the time to re-polish the script according to the domestic environment and the problems existing in the original play.

After Xu Hengzhou read the polished script, he was finally a little satisfied, and then showed the script to Liu Yiqian.

Liu Yiqian first heard Xu Hengzhou say that he wanted to shoot his own movie, and she agreed very much.

In her eyes, Xu Hengzhou is a very talented person.

For each of the films he has invested in before, he has been able to offer some unique and helpful insights to the crew.

And his role as an assistant director in many crews is not playing with tickets, but really doing practical things in the crew and sharing the pressure of the director's work.

Therefore, in Liu Yiqian's view, Xu Hengzhou already has the ability to be a director.

And Xu Hengzhou himself has a plan, he wants to be a director, but now he is just planning in advance.

Liu Yiqian is naturally very much in favor.

And after reading the script written by Xu Hengzhou for the movie he wanted to shoot, Liu Yiqian agreed with Xu Hengzhou's idea of being a director and filming.

Because after she watched the story of this movie, she liked the story and was shocked by it.

Even because of this script, Liu Yiqian's impression of Xu Hengzhou has changed slightly, she originally just thought that Xu Hengzhou was very talented in acting.

But now I feel that Xu Hengzhou is also very talented in literature.

He was able to write such a great story!

With such a good script, this film will definitely be a success.

Liu Yiqian said that she also wanted to participate in the creation of Xu Hengzhou's film.

In addition to taking the initiative to ask Ying to play the protagonist of this movie, he also said that he could participate in the operation of the entire crew and be a producer.

Xu Hengzhou naturally has no reason to refuse.

So the two of them worked together.

The point is that with the joint efforts of the staff under Xu Hengzhou and Liu Yiqian, the preparatory activities for this film have been carried out quickly.

So everyone in the industry knows that there is a movie called "You, Me and Him" that has begun to establish a project.

And this movie is also a movie invested by Xu Hengzhou, self-directed, written and acted.

The existence of this movie instantly touched the hearts of many people.

The name Xu Hengzhou is already a very important signboard in the industry.

The movies he participated in, and the companies in the circle wanted to get a piece of the pie.

Even if Xu Hengzhou is a sole proprietorship to make movies, it is impossible for actors not to find other companies to cooperate.

There are more opportunities for follow-up promotion, cinema and movie advertising, platform broadcasting, and so on.

There is only one point that keeps the companies in the circle in a wait-and-see state.

The name of this movie looks a bit of a literary film, at most it has the taste of a suspense film, which is quite in line with Xu Hengzhou's temperament.

But the news revealed by the project team of this movie is that this is a science fiction film!

Sci-fi?

Will anyone watch this thing when it is released in domestic cinemas?

There is deep skepticism.

You must know that going backwards from this year, there are zero sci-fi films that can be counted in China.

When I went to the street to visit, there were many passers-by who had watched science fiction films, but all of them were foreign science fiction blockbusters.

This "big" word can well explain the biggest reason why there are no science fiction films in China.

There are too many big scenes in science fiction films, and the investment is often billions.

With this money, it's enough to make several commercial films that can make money!

And there are a lot of sci-fi movies that hit the streets abroad, and this thing doesn't mean that you will definitely be able to make money if you shoot it.

In particular, domestic audiences have been whetted by foreign sci-fi blockbusters.

Under the premise that there is no experience in shooting science fiction films in China, it is difficult to compare the quality of foreign science fiction films.

If this quality is not good, how can you expect the box office?

Because of this concern, everyone plans to wait for the casting of Xu Hengzhou's movie to end, start filming, and even the finished film come out, and then talk about cooperation.

Compared with these large companies, the actors' ideas are relatively simple, they can't wait and see, they can only make decisions on the spot.

Should you accept an offer from among the students to star in his first film as a novice director?

Most of the actors finally chose to accept Xu Hengzhou's invitation.

First of all, this is a movie, the domestic movie plate is so big, and there are only so many movies that can be shot every year, and the roles are completely insufficient, so if they have the opportunity to act in a movie, of course they will not miss this opportunity.

The main reason is that Xu Hengzhou didn't look for any particularly big-name stars to star in this movie, so there is no problem that the other party's schedule cannot be arranged.

In addition, this movie was invested by Xu Hengzhou, and according to past practice, the movies invested by Xu Hengzhou are relatively secure.

And Xu Hengzhou will also star in this movie, so the traffic of this movie will be guaranteed.

After having heat, no matter whether the movie is popular or hit the street in the end, Xu Hengzhou will stand on it anyway.

And as long as they make this movie, they will inevitably be able to eat a wave of traffic, so that more audiences will recognize them, thus paving the way for the future acting road.

Oh, the invitation sent to them by this crew is just an audition invitation, and they can't successfully audition for the role, maybe they can't say it!

Therefore, on the day when the audition event for the movie "You, Me and Him" was held, Xu Hengzhou entered the scene at that time, looked at the list of actors who would enter in his hand, and was directly shocked by this number.

He only found out what was going on after talking to the staff.

He told the staff who sent the invitation before that he didn't have a target actor in mind, so he wanted to watch as many actors as possible.

Look at their actual situation to be able to finalize the actors.

You only roughly described to the staff the type of actor you wanted, as well as some of the actors' acting skills, temperament and age requirements.

But in his imagination, not every actor will accept this invitation, so even if he casts a wide net, in the end, I am afraid that it will only be three or two kittens, and there will not be too many people for him to audition.

The results are now ......

Xu Hengzhou exhaled lightly and started work!

The movie "You, Me and Him" has a total of eight protagonists, and the opening chapter is that these eight protagonists attend a party together.

Two of the protagonists are played by Xu Hengzhou and Liu Yiqian, so six actors need to be selected to play the remaining roles.

Because when Xu Hengzhou wrote the script, he actually only borrowed the core plot and concept of the original movie, but every character line was greatly changed.

even set up the relationship between these characters to be extremely complicated, such as the second female who coexists with her best friend and the junior.

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Another example is the boss and female staff in a forced unspoken rule incident who appeared at the same time at this party.

And so on and so forth.

The main reason is that Xu Hengzhou feels that the connection between the eight protagonists in the original book is actually too loose, making it difficult to remember the relationship between them, and it is difficult to immediately identify the similarities and differences of each character.

So in the choice of actors, he did not completely benchmark the original work.

Now the first actor to be interviewed is the boss who plays the unspoken female staff.

The boss was bringing his wife with him to the party.

And at the beginning of this party, it was originally just two young people who were in love with each other and wanted to introduce each other to their relatives and friends, so they formed a bureau.

As a result, the boss met a female employee who was unspoken by his own rules on the Relatives and Friends Bureau.

And this female employee is also the ex-girlfriend of her wife's cousin's boyfriend......

Because of the setting of the plot of this movie, this boss will eventually be solved by this ex-girlfriend.

Xu Hengzhou feels that the most difficult thing to play in this role, in fact, like other roles, lies in the setting of the movie itself.

This movie is about parallel universes.

Parallel universes mean that there may be more than one universe, perhaps an infinite number of them.

Normally, these universes are parallel and theoretically never intersect.

But in the movie "The Night the Comet Commet" came, the comet approached Earth, causing the multiverses to intersect.

Eight people were gathering in the house, and when the power suddenly went out, the whole world went completely dark.

Not far from two blocks, however, there was only one house with lights on.

Two men in the group were going to go out by asking the family for help.

Then all sorts of confusing, confusing, and unbelievable things happened......

Eventually, they discovered that the house outside was lit up, and there were also eight people who looked exactly like them.

And found that because of an accident, he was directly pulled in by the people in that room and treated him as a person in this room.

And although these people look exactly like them, their life trajectories are completely different from those of the people who first met together.

This means that you meet yourself, but others don't know that you are no longer the same you......

When you find that you have a happier life because of your different life trajectories, you are about to return to your original house......

Will you choose to run away in a hurry so as not to be recognized by the people in this house, or will you choose to kill the killer and kill your original self in this house?

This kind of philosophical stuff means that the actor needs to perform this kind of struggle and torture of human nature in a short change of eyes.

And when this character makes a choice, he can also express his firmness after making a decision through his eyes.

In short, the emotional changes are particularly complicated, and the acting skills are not enough, so I can't act at all.

And this parallel time and space theory also means that all the actors in this movie need to play the feeling of different personalities and temperaments because of different life trajectories.

This means that one person may have to play two roles.

And the bigger test for actors is that they have to play more than just two different personalities and temperaments, but it is likely to be much greater than two.

Parallel space-time is not just the intersection of two planes, and every time the lights go out and turn on again, if you make sure that the box in the Hungry Cat experiment is closed and opened, the results inside are completely different from the last time.

The two planes of this space-time intersection and the two planes of the second space-time intersection are completely different!

And every time and space meet, I am afraid that there are not only two time and space intersecting, but there may be countless time and space intersecting at the same time.

Of course, in terms of expression at the time of filming, it is completely impossible to perform so many scenes where time and space meet.

At most, the actor only needs to perform three or four different character attributes in different time and space.

In short, this is a great challenge to the actors' acting skills.

Xu Hengzhou has a headache anyway, how will he play this role when the time comes.

But it's all a software problem, and for him, the hardware problem is easy to solve.

For example, due to financial reasons in the original work, 95% of the scenes in the entire movie did not have two identical people in the same scene.

The same two people face each other, and now the scene only appears in the end of the film.

And Xu Hengzhou intends to use this scene many times in key positions.

It's nothing more than spending more money on special effects, and he's not bad for this money!

Xu Hengzhou flipped through the actors' resumes, the image of this audition is secondary, and their scripts can be modified according to the image of the actors.

The most important thing is the acting skills of the actors.

And this acting is still biased, he doesn't need to perform a touching or hysterical scene.

You don't need to play a specific character with a character arc.

The actor wants to be chosen for the lead role, and more importantly, he has to show his subtle control over his acting skills.

So Xu Hengzhou quickly figured out what kind of scene he would set up for these actors in the future.

When the first actor came in, after Xu Hengzhou listened to the other party's self-introduction, he broke out his own test questions-

You're a wealthy second generation from a Youwo family, and you learn about your girlfriend's cheating, and you show up at the same party with your girlfriend to show what you're going to be like next.

This test question is very conventional, and the actors who came in to audition acted without hesitation, how to say it, the acting was very regular, there was no aura, and there was no personal characteristics.

To be honest, this kind of test question can't perform anything distinctive for a while.

Xu Hengzhou looked at himself after the other party's performance, and immediately asked the next question:

"It's still this basic setting, but you have changed from a rich second generation to an ordinary worker."

The actor didn't think much about it and continued to act.

It wasn't until Xu Hengzhou said the third question that he realized that it was probably a series of test questions.

Because the third question is to change the ordinary migrant workers to the second generation of the down-and-out original rich from the middle of the road.

In the third question, this actor can actually play this role.

But when it came to the fourth question, he felt a little struggling, and when it came to the fifth and sixth questions, he felt that he was a little weak.