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Chapter 757 Shooting starts

The development of Taiwan's entertainment industry can be traced back to the 1950s and 1960s.

At that time, the film industry was just starting out in Taiwan. Later, with the rise of the television industry, Taiwan's entertainment industry entered its golden age.

The entertainment industry is a type of cultural industry. Whether the entertainment industry in a place is developed is closely related to the local political and economic conditions.

Why can Hollywood in the United States sell its movies all over the world and be so popular in countries around the world?

Because of its strong national strength, the United States' economic and military strength are both ranked first in the world.

Admiration for the strong is human nature. In the context of globalization, with the support of the United States, the world's largest country, all kinds of Hollywood blockbusters can naturally flow smoothly and be widely popular.

Economic prosperity is the foundation for the development of a region's entertainment industry.

In the last century, Taiwan was known as one of the Four Asian Tigers along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. With rapid economic development and a prosperous people, the entertainment industry naturally entered a golden period of development.

When talking about the Taiwanese entertainment industry, it is often combined with the Hong Kong entertainment industry and called the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industry.

The Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industry in the 1980s and 1990s was an era of fierce competition, with all kinds of superstars emerging one after another.

Chow and Yi Cheng, the Four Heavenly Kings, Cheng Yijian, Zhang Guorong, Liang Chaowei, Louis Koo, Chyi Chin, Wakin Chau, Jacky Cheung, Tony Tong, and the Little Tigers who are still active today, etc.

The Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles have achieved remarkable achievements in the fields of pop music, movies, TV dramas, and variety shows.

However, with the passage of time, the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment industry, which relied on the entire Asian market, inevitably began to decline after reaching its peak.

This situation has become increasingly obvious in the 21 years since the 20st century.

Today's Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles have entered an awkward situation of a lack of successors.

The older generation of stars are getting older, but there are no newcomers to take over.

In Hong Kong Island, Mr. Guan Xi repaired a computer and directly destroyed all the popular male and female stars of the younger generation. The much-anticipated successor, Nicholas Tse, also became Chef Xie, and stopped pursuing his career and started cooking.

In Taiwan, "Tian Ting Yan" is considered a young man favored by local capital, but after being fed with various resources, his achievements are still limited.

After the incident where the most popular actor Eddie Peng changed his seat at the Weibo Movie Night last year, his various resources were severely downgraded.

On the contrary, 10 years later, young mainland Chinese stars grew up rapidly.

This situation is not a coincidence, but is determined by the market environment and economic environment in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Gu Wei has come to Taiwan several times to promote his TV series.

He is quite famous here. To put it in context, he is as famous as F4 in China when Meteor Garden was at its peak.

[Swords of Legends], [Love O2O], [Nirvana in Fire], [Eternal Love], etc. These hit dramas directed by Gu Wei are not only popular in China, but also have a very high number of views in Taiwan.

To be precise, these dramas are very popular throughout Asia and in countries influenced by the Confucian cultural circle.

Unlike previous promotional visits, Gu Wei did not announce his itinerary this time when he came to Taiwan to film, so there were no fans to pick him up after the plane landed.

He was wearing a mask and a hat, and followed Zhou Ye, Peng Yuchang and a group of people out of the airport very smoothly and got on the nanny car that came to pick them up.

What impressed Gu Wei most during his several visits to Taiwan was its unchanging state.

In China, whether it is urban construction or people’s lifestyles, things are changing almost every year. Many things are constantly being updated and new things are emerging in an endless stream.

However, in Taiwan, the city and people's lives are still the same as they were 10 years ago. There has been almost no change in the city and people's lives.

Take telephone booths for example. Domestic cities once had telephone booths installed, but with the development of mobile communications within a few years, this kind of public facility was eliminated, and it is difficult to find telephone booths in domestic cities.

But in Taiwan, even in the provincial capital Taipei, you can see a lot of telephone booths.

"Has Xiaoye been to Taiwan?"

“No, this is the first time.”

In the black Mercedes-Benz vs900 business car, Gu Wei and his friends were chatting while looking at the scenery outside the window.

"You are the first one here~" Peng Yuchang said in surprise.

“It’s normal. I was in school before. Even when my parents took me on a trip, it was always in China. I’ve been to Europe a little bit further.

I’ve been to Hong Kong Island but never to Taiwan.”

Gu Wei said: "The scenery here is quite good, but the urban construction is a little worse, it can't be compared with the domestic one."

Zhou Ye looked at the scenery outside the window. There were tall buildings, shopping malls and pedestrian streets, as well as dilapidated neighborhoods and dirty streets.

“I feel that Taipei’s urban construction and architectural style are not much different from those of third- and fourth-tier cities in mainland China.

A little disappointed”

Gu Wei smiled and said, "Many of the buildings and streets here are very retro, which is hard to find in China. This is why we chose to shoot this movie here."

After entering the crew and settling down, Gu Wei also met and chatted with Wen Mu for a while.

Afterwards, all the main creators gathered together for a script reading.

"Teacher Wu Zhenyu, it's our first time meeting. I'm glad to be able to work with you~"

Apart from the protagonist Chen Guilin, the most important characters in "Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils" are the other two wanted criminals. Aberdeen is the second most wanted criminal and is played by Francis Ng.

"Mr. Gu, although this is the first time we meet, I have heard of your name before.

We talked about you when we were chatting with Song Wen before, and it is my honor to work with you this time."

Wu Zhenyu kept a very humble attitude.

Most of the Hong Kong stars of their generation came from relatively humble backgrounds, were very tactful in their dealings with others, and knew well how to survive.

Liu Dehua is one of the best among them.

Although Wu Zhenyu always plays villains in the dramas, in real life he only shows his villain side when dealing with some unknown small-time celebrities.

He never offends anyone who has a good background or is famous.

In the variety show "Infinite Beyond Class", mentors Wu Zhenyu and Derek Yee were very harsh on the participating new actors, but when Xiang Zuo came on stage, even if his performance was poor, they would manually turn off the microphone, and in the end, they would go against their conscience and find various angles to praise him.

The script reading went very smoothly. [Chu Zhou] The main actors in the crew are all absolutely talented and everyone will not have any major problems in acting. In addition to getting everyone familiar with the script, the main purpose of the script reading was to determine a tone so that everyone would not deviate in their understanding of the script.

The next day, the crew officially started filming.

In the morning, in the dressing room, Gu Wei's hair was shaved off again, and a small area of ​​his hairline was shaved back. His face was also painted darker, and he looked a lot older. His look was somewhat similar to the one he had when he was filming "Life Events".

"Brother Wei, you look quite handsome in this look!" Zhou Ye watched Gu Wei putting on makeup the whole time and said with a smile.

She didn't have any scenes in the first two days, but she still came to the crew to watch other people filming, mainly to watch Gu Wei.

"Your hair is all gone, and you've become so dark. How can you be handsome? Cricket?"

"You look a little oily now, but not too oily. You look a little bit cool."

Zhou Ye opened his big eyes, looked at Gu Wei's face carefully, and said seriously.

Today we shot the protagonist's first scene, in which he kills another gangster boss, Tietou, at Mr. Hong's funeral.

This is also a scene that establishes the character of the protagonist Chen Guilin. From this scene, everyone can know what kind of person he is. Outside a well-decorated mourning hall, there are extras wearing black suits all around, and wreaths are placed against the wall.

Gu Wei was wearing an oversized suit and eating a box lunch while Peng Yuchang, wearing a yellow wig, was sitting next to him.

"I haven't seen such a grand scene in a long time. Mr. Hong is really impressive.

That madman really came from Taipei and killed him!"

"Who are you talking about?"

Gu Wei was picking at the food in the lunch box seriously. He was really eating and seemed to be enjoying the food very much.

"A man named Guilinzi~"

"What is Guilinzi?"

Peng Yuchang looked around and lowered his volume.

"Fuck, let me tell you, even though he's a lunatic, I actually think he's pretty tough!"

"Do you know him?" Gu Wei chewed his food with a smile on his face.

"Guilinzi is a boy from Ren Yinjiu in Dingyu Village, Zhongshan District.

Two months ago, Brother Jiu went to Mr. Hong’s casino and won more than eight million.

Mr. Hong refused to admit the debt, and in anger, Brother Jiu asked Guilinzi to collect the debt.

Guess what the result is? "

"what's the result?"

"As a result, Guilinzi took the grenade, went over there and took the eight million and blew up the entire casino! Kill Mr. Hong!
Tell me, is he awesome or not? "

The gangster Jinmao, played by Peng Yuchang, has an exaggerated expression and looks of admiration.

Gu Wei was also very happy to hear him talk about his own story. He ate with big mouthfuls of food while smiling and nodded in agreement.

"Dick~"

"Damn~
But the nail that sticks out gets hammered down, and after Brother Tietou issued a killing order, it looks like Guilinzi is in great danger.” Peng Yuchang turned around and sighed, looking regretful.

The scene at the beginning of the movie is divided into two parts. One part is the conversation between Chen Guilin and the gangster Jinmao, which explains the protagonist's personal information and part of his character.

Then Chen Guilin walked into the mourning hall, pulled out a gun and shot Tietou in public. When he was leaving, he was seen by Wang Qianyuan, who played the policeman, and the two staged a chase scene.

Although filming had just started, this literary scene with Peng Yuchang was so simple that the two of them shot it three times before Wen Mu gave it the green light.

The first two takes were re-shot because Peng Peng’s lines were not good enough.

"Fortunately, if I don't do this again, I won't be able to finish my lunch. Fortunately, I had the foresight to know that we were filming this scene today, so I didn't even have breakfast."

After the shoot, Peng Yuchang scratched his head and said, "Sorry, Brother Wei, it was NG because of me."

“I’m just kidding, the first scene was passed after only 3 takes, which shows that both of us performed well.

Thank you for taking the trouble to make this trip for today’s scene. We finished shooting right after we started shooting. I’ll treat you to dinner tonight as a wrap-up party.”

Gu Wei smiled and patted Peng Peng on the shoulder, then went over to Wen Mu and discussed with him the filming of the next chase scene.

The crew was having lunch at noon, and Zhou Ye was swiping his phone while eating.

"Brother Wei, have you seen the news about Zheng Shuang implying something about Sister Mi?"

He had eaten a lot of boxed lunches while filming in the morning, so he wasn't hungry at all at noon, but Gu Wei still asked his assistant to prepare a small bowl of porridge and some fruits for him.

"News, what news?"

Zhou Ye raised his head, looking gossipy.

"Yesterday, Zheng Shuang participated in a live broadcast on a medical beauty platform. She asked the doctor whether tooth extraction can help slim down the face.
The doctor said that no injection for face slimming is effective.

Then Zheng Shuang asked, who said that you can make your face thinner?

After the live broadcast ended, Mi Jie’s fans started arguing with Zheng Shuang’s fans online.

There are a lot of news reports about this now.”

Yang Mi once said in an interview that he had four wisdom teeth removed and his face became much thinner. Zheng Shuang was almost naming him by name when she said this.

It's not surprising that the two fan groups are fighting.

"Haha, Shuangzi is still the straightforward girl as always." Gu Wei smiled and didn't take it seriously. This level of quarrel was just a minor incident and no one would pay attention to it for long.

"Brother Wei, you don't like Zheng Shuang?" Zhou Ye could hear a hint of sarcasm in Gu Wei's tone.

"When I first debuted, I filmed a drama with her, [Swords of Legends], Mi Jie and I starred in it, and Zheng Shuang played the second female lead.

To put it nicely, she is straightforward and simple-minded, but to put it bluntly, she is crazy and reckless.

I don’t like her or her ex-boyfriend.”

Zhou Ye nodded. Of course she knew who Zheng Shuang’s ex-boyfriend was.

As a die-hard fan of her boss, she knew that there had been a conflict between Gu Wei and Zhang Han because of the casting controversy for “Come on, My Mr. Love”.

However, Gu Wei's status rose too quickly afterwards, and the gap between him and Zhang Han became increasingly larger, making it difficult to compare the two.

At the end of December, "The Accidental Murderer" was in its third week of release, with a total box office of 12 billion yuan. "Ip Man 12.86" followed closely behind, with a total box office of over 4 million yuan.

After filming for a few days with the crew of "Zhou Chu", Gu Wei took a day off and flew back to Changsha to attend Mango TV's New Year's Eve concert.

This year, Mango TV invited many popular stars in the circle to the New Year’s Eve party. As the boss of local TV stations and with deep roots in the entertainment industry, many stars still have to give face to Mango TV’s invitation.

Gu Wei also has many friends participating in this year's Mango TV New Year's Eve party, such as Yang Mi, Yang Zi, and their little assistant from Rocket Girls 101.

Gu Wei was the finale performer with a solo performance of one of his old English songs, "Sold Out". Although there were no new songs this year, this song was also a classic enough.

"Miss Mi, you are dressed very beautifully today. I'm sure you will perform well on stage later."

After rehearsing twice in the afternoon, Gu Wei started chatting with Yang Mi, who was also participating in the New Year's Eve party.

She sang two songs tonight, one was "Wild Wolf DISCO" with Tengger and Wang Chenyi, and the other was "Little Lucky" with Zhou Bichang.

Da Mimi was wearing a low-cut long dress covered with sequins. Her plump upper body was surging and trembling slightly when she walked, which was very eye-catching.

"When am I not beautiful?" Yang Mi was very pleased with Gu Wei's compliments, but she habitually argued with him.

"Will there be a real performance at the party later?" Gu Wei asked a sensitive question.

Yang Mi rolled his eyes at him when he heard that.

"Of course I sang live. I have practiced these two songs before."

(End of this chapter)