Actor: My Entertainment Era

According to the production rules, the film studio takes the script to the director and cannot cast a wide net and submit the same script to multiple directors at the same time.

An invitation can only be extended to another director after one director has declined.

This is done to avoid vicious competition among directors and to respect the director himself.

After the script outline of "Her" was released, the producers of China Film and MK2 began to search for a suitable director in the Chinese film circle.

Chinese directors from the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and even those living overseas, are all under consideration.

This is also Zhang Yuanjun's request. He hopes to cooperate with Chinese-speaking directors as much as possible and does not want to increase communication costs for the crew.

The first person the production team considered was French writer and director Dai Sijie.

He gained certain popularity and influence in the international film industry with "Balzac and the Little Seamstress". MK2 thinks he can grasp a movie like "Her" well.

However, the invitation was rejected immediately after being sent out. The reason was that he had to rewrite the novel and had no inspiration or energy to direct a new play.

After Dai Sijie refused, the production team turned their attention to the country and extended an invitation to Luo Qirui, who Zhang Yuanjun had worked with before.

"Thieves of Time" is a rare masterpiece in Hong Kong's literary and artistic films in recent years.

But Luo Qirui also rejected it after reading the outline, saying that he was not familiar with science fiction and had not been in good health in recent years, so he had no plans to direct.

The selection of a director for "Her" was stalled for a while.

The production team of "Her" was looking for a director in the industry with such great fanfare, and it was impossible for the industry not to pay attention.

But nowadays it is difficult to make literary films. Let alone young people like Zhang Yuanjun, it is difficult for even established and well-known directors to attract investment.

Not to mention that it is a very bold literary science fiction film. For a while, the industry was very unfavorable to this film.

In fact, the crew of "Her" has a financial gap.

Zhang Yuanjun is not yet at the point where others will invest in him if he wants to make a film.

China Film, Anle Pictures and MK2 have only paid for half of the cost, leaving a gap of about 1500 million.

The employer says "full support", but if you believe it, you are a fool.

"She" is still pushing forward unhurriedly.

One night, it was past 8 o'clock. According to Liu Yifei's usual schedule, she should be doing yoga at home at this time, but today she has to go out.

"What are you doing?" Zhang Yuanjun walked around from the pond in the backyard to the front yard and saw Liu Yifei slowly reversing the car out.

"Men should not inquire about women's affairs."

"Hey!"

"I'm going to see Zhou Yang." Liu Yifei stopped the car, "Are you going?"

"What am I going to do? What is it?"

"I don't know. Wang Jia asked us to go there and said that Zhou Yang kept crying on the phone and couldn't persuade him no matter what."

"Love lost?"

"Who knows."

"Wait a moment." Zhang Yuanjun told Liu Yifei not to leave in a hurry. He walked into the house and took out a thin coat. "It's cold at night, so put on some clothes."

Liu Yifei took the clothes and was about to leave, but was stopped again: "If you don't know how to persuade, just stop talking and let Wang Jia persuade. You are so stupid, don't make people cry anymore."

"Oops." Liu Yifei shouted, "You can do it." Then she stepped on the accelerator and left.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Zhang Yuanjun finished writing and was about to call Liu Yifei to ask her if she would come back tonight. As soon as she picked up the phone, Liu Yifei's assistant called, saying that the matter was over and she would drive Liu Yifei back.

Five minutes later, the two arrived home.

"Drinking?"

"Yes." The assistant nodded, "Zhou Yang was knocked unconscious by them and was taken away by Wang Jia.

"I don't dare take her back to her mother. If she is seen, we will both be scolded."

Liu Yifei was not drunk, but her cheeks were red from drinking. Zhang Yuanjun said, "Okay, you can go back first." Liu Yifei's assistant left.

Zhang Yuanjun poured a glass of water for Liu Yifei: "How is it? What happened?"

"I didn't expect him to be this kind of person."

Zhang Yuanjun suddenly became interested in gossip: "Did you meet a scumbag?"

"What?" Liu Yifei waved her hand, "It's not a relationship issue. I'll cut it into a fruit plate and tell you."

"You've done it. I'll ask Wang Jia if he knows." But Zhang Yuanjun still got up and cut fruit for Liu Yifei.

While Zhang Yuanjun was cutting fruit, Liu Yifei went to the bathroom and simply washed her face.

Zhang Yuanjun cut the fruit plate and placed it in front of Liu Yifei: "Eat it, aunt."

Liu Yifei took a piece of pear to eat, and Zhang Yuanjun said, "You want to say it or not."

"Let me take a breath. It's none of your business. You are so active. Why are you so trustworthy?"

"Don't tell me I went up to sleep." Zhang Yuanjun stood up after saying this.

"Don't leave, don't leave." Liu Yifei grabbed Zhang Yuanjun and said, "Who will I gossip to when you leave?"

Zhang Yuanjun sat down and listened to Liu Yifei say: "You know that "Fist of Fury: Chen Zhen" will be released in a few days."

"Ah."

"Zhou Yang plays the second female lead in it, and Chen Zhen's fellow junior sister."

"It's a very good role." Zhang Yuanjun had already guessed what was going on, but he still listened to Liu Yifei continue:

"It's very good. Zhou Yang is very happy. In the script, this character also has a fighting scene and an emotional scene with the second male lead Huang Bo. There are many literary and martial arts scenes. He is a very outstanding character.

"Zhou Yang cherished this opportunity very much and worked hard to train under the guidance of Wu Xing before filming started."

"Then the fight scene was deleted?" Zhang Yuanjun said.

"how do you know?"

"Guess."

"Well, before the filming started, it was said that her fighting scenes were cancelled. All the scenes that required her to fight with others were all done by Zhen Zhu from start to finish."

"As expected." Zhang Yuanjun said, "Zhen Zhenzhu is very domineering in action movies. It would be hard to say that he is a domineering actor. He basically does not allow supporting actors to overshadow him in fighting scenes. He just wants the audience to watch him fight alone." "Painted Skin" was originally a fighting scene that served him alone. If he hadn't had money to film it, he wouldn't have let Chen Jiashang change it into a love triangle."

Liu Yifei continued: "If only the martial arts scenes were deleted, Zhou Yang would not be so dissatisfied. Zhen Zhuan would also delete the emotional scenes between her and Huang Bo. She would go from being a second female lead with both civil and military skills to being dispensable." She was a bit player. She protested to the crew and even quarreled with the director. As a result, she was no longer included in the promotion. She was so angry that she cried."

Zhang Yuanjun said: "Zhen Zhen is notoriously bad at acting. Huang Bo's excessive performance will make him look like he can't act."

"How bad is bad?"

Zhang Yuanjun thought for a moment and said, "If I were on the same stage with him, I'm confident that he wouldn't even be able to speak his lines clearly."

Without such self-confidence, Zhang Yuanjun would not have won the Best Actor Award.

There are two types of drama tyrants. One is to dominate the crew, and the other is to overwhelm the opponent's actors during the show, making the opponent unable to keep up with him and acting like a clown.

Zhang Yuanjun said helplessly: "Of course the crew is wrong about this, but," Zhang Yuanjun sighed, "That's how it is now. Big-name stars have almost absolute power on the crew, because investors only pay because of the stars, and the director is in the big-name I don’t even have the right to speak in front of me. The entire crew must revolve around the big-name stars.”

How could Liu Yifei, who has been in the crew since childhood, not understand this? Just like the crew of "Snow Leopard", Zhang Yuanjun didn't invest a penny, but the investors only paid because they saw Zhang Yuanjun starring, so the boss of the entire "Snow Leopard" crew is actually Zhang Yuanjun.

As for the starring list, if Zhang Yuanjun didn't nod, the list would not be approved. Zhang Yuanjun said that Luo Jin, Lu Fangsheng and Tang Yan would be used, so the crew had to let these three people be on board.

In fact, there is a very cruel truth in the industry: the top names are all drama tyrants.

Liu Yifei was also helpless: "We drank with her, and in the end she hugged Wang Jia and cried half to death. She said that if she made such a fuss, she was worried that Zhen would blame them and make it difficult to film in the future."

"It's okay. Except for the official, no one has the energy to ban an actor."

Finally, Liu Yifei also sighed: "I still hope she can become popular. It's really hard for young actors in this industry."

Zhang Yuanjun took a deep look at Liu Yifei and didn't know what to think. (End of chapter)