Chapter 42: Cast Recruitment
Meng Wenzai has been staying at the Beijing Film Academy all day, and except for finding a "Zhang Xiaojiao", he has found nothing. During the period, I fell in love with a student, and it was quite suitable for playing "Xu Yi", but unfortunately when people heard that it was an online drama or a college student as a director, they refused on the spot.
The next day, Meng Wen did not go to the Beijing Film Academy again. Wang Qiang told Meng Wen that Jingying students are generally proud, but they do have capital. is not famous and is still a small online drama like Meng Wen, and slightly better students disdain to appear in it. Except, of course, for pseudo-Jingying students like Wang Qiang......
So the next day, Meng Wen went directly to the Central Academy of Drama, the second largest film and television school in the country, with Ouyang Die and Wang Qiang. After Meng Wen knew that Wang Qiang had graduated, he asked Wang Qiang to come over to help temporarily with a reward of one hundred days. After all, Wang Qiang has been wandering in Beijing for so many years, and he is familiar with Beijing Film and Television School.
Before going to the Central Academy of Drama, Meng Wen obeyed Wang Qiang's construction and remade the billboard. not only wrote the requirements for recruiting actors, but also deliberately added Meng Wen's profile to increase popularity.
Originally, Wang Qiang's original intention was to add photos of three beautiful women starring to the billboard to attract popularity. I didn't know that Meng Wen misunderstood, and he wanted to add himself. Wang Qiang saw Meng Wen's expression of "I don't go to hell, who will go to hell", and he couldn't say anything, after all, Meng Wen was his boss.
However, when Meng Wen gave a brief introduction to himself, he still greatly shocked Wang Qiang.
Novelist, published the best-selling martial arts novel "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", which sold 1 million copies in half a month.
Songwriter, created "Dusk", "Notepad", and "Sailor", occupying the top three on the list of crooked dog's new songs.
singer, singing "Sailor", so that the spirit of "sailor" swept the country.
He is a poet who has created excellent works such as "That Day", "I Need You, I Only Need You", and "To the Oak Tree".
Wang Qiang looked at the profile and then looked at Meng Wen himself, and felt that it was so unreal. Meng Wen gave Wang Qiang the impression that he was just a rich second generation with some ideals. Looking at Meng Wen now, I only feel that Meng Wen's image is getting taller and taller in my mind......
Speaking of which, Wang Qiang can also be regarded as Meng Wen's pseudo-book fan, the reason why he is a pseudo-book fan. is because Wang Qiang never spends money on genuine books. If there is piracy, buy pirated copies, and if there are no pirated copies, go to libraries and bookstores to read books. Although Wang Qiang didn't spend money on reading, he still admired Yonglong in his heart, but Wang Qiang never thought that the person who could write such a tortuous and sharp storyline would stand in front of him so vividly.
This is nothing? his favorite "sailor" turned out to be created by him, and "that day" he once used this poem and love song to deceive the elementary school girl.
After adding Meng Wen's profile, the effect is indeed different. Not long after the billboard was erected, a large number of students were around, including many girls, purely to see what the "love saint" in their minds looked like.
Of course, there are also many male students who have signed up. In the morning, Meng Wen selected "Feng Xiaobai" among the many interview students. This student's name is Hong Weide, he just became a freshman this year, and he was just here to join in the fun, but he didn't expect to be selected.
It's a pity that "Xu Yi" has not appeared for a long time. There are many people who sign up, but they don't conform to the image of "Xu Yi" in Meng Wen's mind.
In the afternoon, fewer people came to sign up. But it's a little different from the morning. First, there are obviously a lot more girls than in the morning, although Meng Wen did not specify that she was looking for girls, there are still many girls who have left resumes. There were even a few girls who took photos with Meng Wen. The second is that there are many vocal music students, all of whom come from Meng Wen's reputation for lyrics and compositions, and they also leave their resumes, looking forward to Meng Wen being able to cooperate when writing new songs in the future.
It seems that being famous is different......
"Hello, may I ask you to be an extra, I am very professional. It's okay to pretend to be dead and stand up, and you can be beaten as a stand-in," he said, and took out a business card from the obviously worn-out bag he was carrying. The so-called business card is just a piece of A4 paper cut to the size of a business card, and then write your name, phone number and some abilities by yourself.
Meng Wen took the business card and glanced at it, name: Li Longteng, occupation: extra, specialty: pretending to be dead and standing still. "I'm sorry, we only need the male lead now. And we are mainly filming in Jinshi, and we don't need extras in Beijing. ”
"Oh, then you can give me back your business cards, that's all I have."
Looking at the somewhat dumbfounded face in front of him, Meng Wen couldn't help but be touched in his heart for some reason. But I still gave him the business card back, and I didn't say anything.
Li Longteng took the business card, bowed to Meng Wen, and turned to leave.
"This person is quite interesting," Meng Wen said to Ouyang Die, "He looks okay, but he is a little stupid." ”
"What's he like?" Meng Wen suddenly realized that his mind was blank for the person just now, but he remembered that Li Longteng was a little stunned, but he didn't have any impression of what he looked like.
"Quick, Wang Qiang, call the person back just now," Meng Wen suddenly said anxiously.
"Ah, what's wrong?"
"You call him back first, it's just not a long way to go......," Meng Wen said.
After Wang Qiang found Li Longteng, Meng Wen looked at Li Longteng and suddenly realized that this person looked like this. It's so featureless, no wonder I can't remember what it looks like. But it's quite appropriate to play "Xu Yi", but I don't know how the acting skills are.
"Hello, director, do you have anything to do with me" Li Longteng said respectfully, a little strange in his heart, "Since you don't need extras, why did you call yourself back." Is it for me to be the protagonist?"
Regarding the idea of being the protagonist, Li Longteng just flashed in his mind and denied it. Li Longteng understands in his heart that if he has no looks, if he has eloquence or no eloquence, how can the director look at himself.
"What roles have you played before, I'm talking about the kind with lines," Meng Wen asked Li Longteng.
"I acted in one film, and I was shot and killed, and I said 'ah'. Li Longteng said in a low voice.
"Then which school did you graduate from," Meng Wen was half chilled when he heard this, and then asked.
"My family is poor, I didn't go to college, and I started working as an extras after graduating from high school, but I have listened to many courses in this school. I usually go to the auditorium whenever I have nothing to do," Li explained.
Meng Wen was a little disappointed when he heard Li Longteng's words, but he still decided to give him a chance. Meng Wen took out the scene of the previous interview with "Feng Xiaobai", that is, the line of the dialogue between "Feng Xiaobai" and "Xu Yi" at the beginning of the third episode. Let Hong Weide play against Li Longteng to see how Li Longteng is doing, and whether he is suitable to play "Xu Yi"
Li Longteng took the lines and couldn't help but get excited, at this time, even a fool knew that Meng Wen planned to let him play one of the protagonists. Li Longteng hurriedly picked up the lines and looked at them, forcing himself to calm down, success or failure was done again, Li Longteng quickly browsed it and understood the general meaning and artistic conception.
Then he carefully read it silently from beginning to end, and closed the lines. Li Longteng thought about it with his eyes closed, imagining how to express it based on the knowledge he had learned in the previous class.
In fact, in addition to pretending to be dead before, Li Longteng also has a specialty, that is, he has a super good memory, and he can basically remember everything once, but unfortunately he has never had the opportunity to play, and even Li Longteng himself subconsciously forgot about his advantages. Because pretending to be dead and standing up corpse, he can at least earn something to eat, but his memory is good, and nothing brings him ......
Li Longteng thought for ten minutes, opened his eyes and said to Meng Wen: "Director, I'm ready"
"That's good, the lines are all understood, okay, you take the lines and play with Hong Weide first" Meng Wen watched Li Longteng's lines for a while when he saw Li Longteng before, and the rest kept his eyes closed, which was a little strange. But I didn't ask much.
"You don't have to take the lines, I've written them down"
"Have you written it down this time?" Meng Wen asked with some surprise.
Li Longteng said "um".
"Okay, then you can start," Meng Wen said, thinking to himself, he finally found an advantage in you.
Li Longteng and Hong Weide began to play against each other, and Li Longteng's performance was a little rusty at first, and he couldn't let go, which made people obviously feel worse than Hong Weide. But as he spoke, Li Longteng slowly let go, especially in the last part where "Xu Yi" criticized "Feng Xiaobai", and began to find a little "Xu Yi" feeling.
Although Li Longteng's performance was still close to his expectations, after all, he was performing for the first time, and it was understandable.
He was condemned......