China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 181 Don't talk about relationships in the entertainment industry, it's all about interests

He Fang felt that the most difficult part of filming "Three Fighting Bones" was not filming, but acting.Especially Sun Wukong's performance, Deng Chao's performance is sometimes ineffective. Such a situation is not proficient enough, and the character has not been soaked into the soul. It takes time. After a long time, it will be like acting. So you have to NG several times.

Although He Fang knew the reason, the director would give it when he put pressure on it.

"Deng Chao, what's the matter with you? Why are you not working at all times? It must be that you haven't practiced enough. Don't think that you will be drifting away after winning the best actor. From now on, don't go back to your own appearance, always like this Wearing Sun Wukong's makeup. Eating like this, sleeping like this, except for bathing."

Deng Chao was directly stunned by He Fang's scolding, and he immediately put away his contempt, and nodded seriously.

"Okay, director, I will definitely do it."

Including Huang Xiaoming, the Tang Seng who plays the role sometimes drifts away, especially when he smiles, why does he always have a sense of evil that does not belong to Tang Seng?Another point is that Huang Xiaoming's Tang Seng is not weak enough, and he doesn't have the feeling of a weak scholar.

He Fang caught Huang Xiaoming and criticized him, but Huang Xiaoming didn't dare to talk back, so he asked with a smile:

"Director, how do I solve this problem?" Huang Xiaoming is very modest, he also wants to have good acting skills, who wouldn't?It is said that He Fang can train actors, so he has nothing to ask.

He Fang lit a cigarette and watched the performance on the monitor over and over again, "Smile without showing your teeth. If you must smile, smile with your eyes. Don't even twitch your apple muscles too much. Let's try it once."

Huang Xiaoming had no choice but to try again, and this time it worked really well.

"Also, don't react too much when you express fear and anxiety. When you encounter panic, you only use your pupils to express it. After that, you immediately act like chanting sutras to calm your fear and anxiety. Starting tonight, Go back and memorize the "Diamond Sutra", which can help you enter the role of Tang monk. If you can memorize a few more scriptures, the effect will be better. To play a monk, you have to really read the scriptures."

"Ah, okay, okay, director, blame me for not doing the preparations well." Huang Xiaoming nodded seriously.

He Fang nodded and said nothing.

"By the way, if you want to play a weak Tang Seng who is similar to a scholar, you'd better experience the feeling of floating under your feet, so that from now on, you don't eat, just drink water, eat some fruit, and then go to bed tomorrow morning." Run two laps before acting to see the effect. If you still can’t find the feeling tomorrow, don’t eat tomorrow, until you find the feeling.”

"Ah?" Huang Xiaoming was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, director."

The other actors immediately covered their mouths and laughed. He Fang glanced at them, and everyone was shocked.

"Don't take pleasure in other people's misfortunes. If anyone can't perform well, I will train you in corresponding ways."

Everyone shrunk their necks unconsciously, feeling the coolness behind them.

"Acting is not that easy. Do you think that a good performance is just a matter of writing a few analysis articles, watching a few similar performances, and then imitating it?"

"Just like you, Yan Ran, didn't you brag about being able to act in front of the reporters? If you can't act that kind of hatred for human beings, I will let the crew take turns scolding you every day until you collapse to the point of collapse. Endless hatred."

"You, Pan Zhilin, recite the "Great Compassion Mantra" more after you go back. Avalokitesvara needs to be merciful, not just sweetness."

"Oh, yes, director." Pan Zhilin stuck out her tongue and nodded in response.

After He Fang's whole process, all the actors' previous relaxed energy immediately disappeared, and they all tried to find ways to find their own status, for fear that the director would reprimand themselves

On the first day, He Fang gave each actor a play, and he reprimanded all the actors who were not good, and then arranged different tasks for each of them.

In the first three days, it was all about honing in on their acting skills and getting them into the state.In order to help them find a state, the means of constant NG will also be used.

Sometimes constant NG also has a certain effect, that is, it allows actors to integrate certain performances into muscle memory.

Why did He Fang have such strict requirements on the performance of the actors in this play?The reason is very simple, what kind of urban films, science fiction films, you act a little bit, ordinary audiences can't tell.

But the general audience you want to play in mythological dramas and magical dramas will not be right.For example, Monkey King, you acted too much like a human being, and the audience felt that this was not Monkey King.For example, Tang Seng, you look evil, charming and wise, and you run around like a thief, you are not Tang Seng.

After He Fang's first three days of running-in, the whole crew finally felt a little bit involved in "Journey to the West", otherwise the feeling at the beginning was just a grass-roots team singing the big drama "Journey to the West", and a discerning eye knew it was an opera , not really.

Of course, once these three days are over, the National Day is basically over, and the box office of the National Day movies will also come out.

《烈日灼心》国庆档七天分别拿下了3474万、3686万、3921万、4133万、4231万、4189万以及3865万，再加上9月29日及30日的票房，最后以3.06亿拿下国庆档的票房冠军。

And "Painted Wall" followed closely, winning the runner-up with 1.57 million. There is no way, the story of "Painted Wall" is really a bit of a hip.

"Legend of the White Snake" came third and won the third place with 1.13 million. Anyway, it is definitely a loss, and it is not bad to get a box office of over [-] million.

"Legend of the White Snake" was suppressed, Yang Zhi and Huang Shengyi were silent afterwards, but Cheng Xiaodong was very upset, and Jet Li was also not happy.

After all, the two of them are seniors in the film and television industry, how can you target Yang Zhi, but you have to sell the face of the two of them, right?
How many people in the film and television industry know Yang Zhi?More people will say that "Legend of the White Snake" is a movie by Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li.But Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li were bullied in the mainland, so how can they save face?
So Jet Li and Cheng Xiaodong who returned to Hong Kong said so respectively when they were interviewed.

Cheng Xiaodong: "Don't mess with the second generation in China, they are so powerful and scary. They won't tell you about seniors and not seniors. Your movie will be withdrawn as soon as it is withdrawn. Filmmakers like this also say that they are the new generation from the mainland. Representative, heh..."

Cheng Xiaodong didn't say anything too harsh, but his tone and sarcasm said everything.It means that He Fang lost his face in the Mainland and disrespected him.

Jet Li said it a little more euphemistically: "It is true that the producer of "Legend of the White Snake" was at fault in the first place, but some people's actions were too extreme, which is really inappropriate. It's normal to be noisy, if you don't have the guts to do so, why are you talking about making it bigger and stronger?"

The words of Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li were immediately spread back to the mainland, and immediately aroused a lot of heated discussions on the Internet.

In particular, some liberals jumped up and pointed their finger at He Fang and Huying Group.

"So what if you won an international award? You also brazenly said that you will lead Chinese films to glory. This behavior of frequently suppressing competitors is destroying the market rules that have been established with great difficulty. Nationalization must be strictly prohibited, and privatization is the only way." It is the beginning of fairness, and marketization is the ultimate goal."

"It's really a bit embarrassing to do this time. It is inappropriate to withdraw the file to suppress the opponent."

"He Fang is just a representative of some people with old ideas who will not die. They are still stubbornly insisting on nationalization. Backward, outdated, embracing the West is the way out."

"He Fang is indeed talented, but the ideology of the privileged class is not good. This kind of practice is now shameful and thrown to Hong Kong, and will soon be thrown overseas."

……

Immediately, there was a lot of scolding on the Internet against Huying Group and He Fang. There is no way, this is the way it is in this era. If you scold life and death in China, as long as someone says a good word outside, you are wrong and right.

In the same way, even if you are justified but someone says something bad about what you do in China, people in China will attack you.

The siege came quite suddenly, which caught Tuanhuo Culture and Huying Group by surprise.

At the same time, Zhang Qian immediately found He Fang on the set and asked him how to deal with it.

After He Fang understood the situation before and after, he smoked a cigarette silently, and after thinking for a while, he made the following arrangements.

"First of all, you hurry up to take screenshots. These are the people who are scolding us now. How did they express their position when the Hu Cinema Line made the withdrawal process? They must be fast. If they are slow, they will delete them. Pick out some who were praising Hu What Ying did right is now scolding us for collecting what we did wrong."

Zhang Qian immediately understood what it meant, and then he quickly took out his phone to call the company's publicity department.

After he finished arranging this matter, He Fang had already finished his second cigarette.

"Secondly, it is to present the facts and make sense. It is said that the Huying Group was the victim before, and was questioned continuously. Since the manufacturer of the product questioned the merchant who sold the product instead of the manufacturer, how did the merchant explain it? They still cursed and refused to sell his products Is this reasonable? Is it freedom? This is also to prove our innocence. How did it become a suppression? Could it be that we have been questioned again and again, and we don’t even have the right not to sell other people’s things? ? What's the point?"

After He Fang finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Qian and kept nodding his head.

"Again, I must emphasize one point. We Chinese people are extremely unconfident. We clearly do reasonable things. As long as people outside say that they are wrong, the Chinese people's psychology will be fragile and collapsed, and then they will be scolded by outsiders. But the fact is that this is the case. Is it? Find some examples, such as when we were right, but when outsiders said we were wrong, some of us knelt down."

"For example, people outside say that we are a threat every day, and then they really think that we are a threat to others. In fact, people drive surveillance planes to our door every day. As soon as we are expelled, they say we are a threat, say We made provocations. But, in fact? People are holding guns in front of our house, and we can’t defend ourselves anymore? But some people in China cooperated with them and said that we should not be so tough and scare others.”

"If you look for this kind of example again, the general meaning is to counter the others in their rhetoric. Once they say that we are wrong, they will follow others indiscriminately and boo. It is our fault."

"And then I was brainwashed every day to 'think independently', but some people lost the ability to 'think independently' in the face of other people's rhythm."

"Finally, break the third trap of their rhetoric, which is to oppose nationalization and privatize this rhetoric. This... tsk, I'd better write it, it's troublesome to say."

He Fang put out his cigarette, found a few pieces of paper, and sat there to write.

He Fang wrote out all the benefits of nationalization, such as the comparison of domestic and foreign telecommunications, the difference between foreign private and domestic state-owned, why there is no signal in foreign rural areas, and the charges are quite expensive, while domestic telecommunication signals reach the villages, and the tariff is even cheaper.

Such as roads, such as railways, such as hydropower... In short, a lot of examples were cited to refute that privatization is not good.

Then he also wrote about why the West is calling for privatization in China every day, that is, to privatize all Chinese companies, and then foreign capital comes in to buy at the bottom, and finally they control our economy.

For example, the so-and-so toothpaste we used to be familiar with is now actually controlled by foreign countries, such as shampoo, cooking oil, feed, beer, cola and beverages...

Anyway, I gave a lot of examples, that is, how foreign capital quietly controlled our assets after we privatized some industries.

Therefore, some of the people who call for privatization every day are those who buy domestic industries for foreign capital, not necessarily for the good of China.

He Fang wrote several sheets of paper, but fortunately He Fang came here through time travel, otherwise he would really have nothing to do with them.

He Fang has experienced the era when the domestic trend of thought was reversed. Because of the awakening of the Chinese people, everyone began to analyze the rhythm of outsiders in our country and the history of what they did in cooperation with the West.

It just so happens that I have seen and researched all of them, so I am familiar with and understand their routine.

After Zhang Qian briefly read what He Fang wrote, the descendants were shocked. He Fang's vision is so high?Looking so deep?Things that even he had a half-knowledge before were suddenly enlightened after reading what He Fang wrote.

"Okay, is there any other arrangements?" Zhang Qian asked.

"Of course, you tell Huang Dong and Mr. Wang to hold a press conference to explain what Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li said. We must say that we have to fight back because of our reputation, and we must say what Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li said. Cheng is a way to solve problems with the loyalty of the rivers and lakes instead of rules."

"Also, let's say that the words of Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li have affected the reputation of Huying Group. I hope they understand what they said, and I hope they know that as influential people, talking nonsense will bring unnecessary trouble to others. , bring bad consequences to oneself.”

After He Fang finished speaking, Zhang Qian opened his mouth, he was not ashamed to say, but what he meant was 'shall we be so tough'?
"Don't worry about it, these people will only be honest if you frighten them. The more you shrink back, the easier it is for them to bully you, and the more they push forward."

"Okay, I understand." Zhang Qian hurried away after finishing speaking.

He Fang took out a cigarette again, lit it, and smoked it slowly, not in a hurry, there was still waiting for him to film.

He Fang was a little emotional, it was only a month, and he was still very polite to Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li when he was in Venice, but he didn't expect that he would fall in love with him.

He sincerely respects Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li. Chinese Kung Fu is the only Chinese culture that can be accepted by everyone in the world without conflicting views.

Cheng Xiaodong and Jet Li have contributed to the spread of Chinese Kung Fu.

Unexpectedly, I would have to go up against someone I once respected.

Sure enough, don't talk about relationships in the entertainment industry, it's all about profit.

(End of this chapter)