Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 569 Actor’s Persistence

Although Xiao Zhao is just an assistant, she has been with Zhang Yuanjun for 10 years and is Zhang Yuanjun’s right-hand man. She can even make decisions for Zhang Yuanjun on certain matters. She is quite famous in the industry, and some artists who have just debuted have to call her sister. .

Wen Muye was a poor student who had just graduated. He had no agent or assistant. Xiao Zhao found him easily through the official staff of the film festival.

After Xiao Zhao explained his intention, Wen Muye was surprised in his heart but calm on his face.

"Don't forget, it will be at the coffee shop downstairs at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning."

"I know Sister Zhao, I will definitely come tomorrow." Wen Muye smiled and sent Xiao Zhao out.

When Wen Muye's companions saw his overjoyed expression, they all asked him, "Who was that man just now? What did he want from you?"

Wen Muye smiled and said, "That's Zhang Yuanjun's assistant. He asked me to meet Zhang Yuanjun tomorrow morning."

"He wants to vote for you!?"

"Who knows." Wen Muye grinned from ear to ear, "I don't have any projects at the moment. What can he invest in me?"

The production is certainly rough, but the highlight of this movie is its structure, and the script is really good.

Even though Wen Makino has made several short films, won several awards, and was selected into the so-called "New Talent", he still has not received the opportunity to direct a feature film, let alone go to theaters.

After the movie ended, Zhang Yuanjun said, "Go find the director of this film and see if you can make an appointment to meet."

While Wen Muye and others were still filled with joy for their meeting tomorrow, Zhang Yuanjun sat in the theater and watched more than half of "The Funeral Coffin".

"Funeral Coffin" is indeed a surprise work that Zhang Yuanjun saw at the film festival, and I really want to get to know Xin Yukun.

Xiao Zhao came in midway, and of course he didn't understand "The Maze of the Heart".

"You are here to be a promotion ambassador, not a money-splitting boy."

Many screenwriters and directors in the industry will conceive a Ritchie-style story in their hearts, but many people cannot do it. Multi-line narrative is a test of the screenwriter's overall ability, let alone a multi-line parallel crime story, let alone this story. Happened in the countryside.

Zhang Yuanjun has money, knowledge, connections, and channels. If the meeting tomorrow can go well, there is a high probability that he will get the chance to make a theatrical feature film.

"Go ahead and let's meet and talk about what we're afraid of. With such an excellent director, let's make friends." Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile.

This makes "Heart Maze" even more valuable.

"I know how to write scripts myself. Bao Buqi likes you and even solves the script for you." All his friends are happy for him.

Although it was just a meeting, it was a good start.

After returning to the hotel after the day's trip, he called his wife and told her that he had watched a very surprising movie today.

"Same as "Crazy Stone", it is a crime movie with a multi-line narrative. Unfortunately, the crew's budget is too small and the production is too rough. Otherwise, if we hire a few well-known actors and upgrade the photography and art, we will definitely be able to go to theaters." Zhang Yuanjun is very fond of " Funeral Coffin".

Zhang Yuanjun rarely praised a movie like this. Liu Yifei, who was opposite him, was heartbroken when he heard this. Zhang Yuanjun said, "I heard that this director works in the capital. I told him to go back to the capital and show you a show." The next day, Zhang Yuanjun's The first event is the forum of the film festival. Today’s theme is: Inherent persistence in the development of the industry.

This forum aims to discuss the things that film practitioners should keep unchanged in today's environment of rapid development of the industry and rising box office.

In fact, as a promotion ambassador, Zhang Yuanjun's work is more about platform and endorsement. He contributes to film festival promotions and attends specific forum activities. Strictly speaking, it is not considered "promotion" work. Being a forum host is more or less the same.

But since the film festival officials have invited Zhang Yuanjun, they will not let him go so easily.

Zhang Yuanjun vaguely entered the guest seat of the forum.

The guests attending the forum today are all acquaintances, including Fang Bin, general manager of Dadi Cinemas, famous actor Jiang Wenli, film scholar Yin Hong, and director Huo Jianqi.

This guest lineup looks very comfortable, with talents from all walks of life, and they are all very influential figures in the industry.

At the forum, everyone expressed their opinions, had a full exchange on the current film market, and then returned to the theme.

From the perspective of actors, Zhang Yuanjun and Jiang Wenli both believe that in today's booming market, what actors must stick to is a love of performance.

Zhang Yuanjun explained his point of view: "This sounds a bit hollow." He pointed out that the audience and media present naturally did not want to listen to his empty talk about "loving performances" and "devoting oneself to art".

He continued: "But often the correct words are false. I know that many people become actors just to make money, because they make a lot of money."

This is what the media and the audience want to hear.

"It's okay to want to make money. Everyone wants to make money." Zhang Yuanjun said so matter-of-factly, "But I think as an actor, after making money, should you perform well for others? If you don't maintain your love for acting, how can you act?" A good show? Only if you really like acting and regard acting as a career can you perform a good show. If you perform well, the rewards will naturally be generous.

"I know you may want to say it again, look at so and so, his acting is a mess, and he makes a lot of money. What I want to say is, look at how long such an actor can survive in the market. There is hot money in the market There are so many, but there are always people who take advantage of others or suddenly get rich. Looking at the entire actor group, only those who are good at acting and respect performances can survive. This is what I think actors should stick to."

An audience member in the audience asked a pointed question: "We all know that Yuanjun became famous when he was young. His debut was a role like Gui Hai Yida, and his second role was Yang Guo. But many actors don't have opportunities like you, and they start to love acting. But because they don’t have the opportunity, they can only take on bad roles and act in bad movies, which makes it difficult to persevere.”

Zhang Yuanjun turned to the microphone and answered this question: "This is a good question. I want to talk about it carefully. Actors include other professions in our industry, such as directors, cameramen, screenwriters, artists, etc. I think it can be divided into two professional mentality. One is work and the other is career.

"What's the difference between the two? If you treat what you are doing now as a job, then you will clock in and clock out, and receive a fixed salary every month. If you treat what you are doing as a career, you will think I have to do a good job so that I can cope with the workload, but can I do better? This mentality is very important. Just now this friend said that many actors do not have good opportunities and can only act in bad movies. Come down. Yes, there are indeed many such actors, and there are even well-known actors to act in bad movies, but there are always only bad movies, not bad roles. A good actor should do it. You are a bad movie, but not as bad as me. On my head. I have to play my role well, and that's enough.

"Some actors have to take roles that they don't want to act due to livelihood or other reasons. When we receive these roles, all we can do is play our roles well. You have to trust the eyes of the audience. They know that you are acting well." If you are good, you must also trust the eyes of producers in the industry, they can see that your performance is good."

"This is what I call an actor's perseverance."

Zhang Yuanjun's speech won applause from the audience.

This circle is very dirty, but if you just wallow in the mire, you will never make it to the shore. You have to believe in the light ahead to get things done.

This circle is also very clean, because here you can really see people who are persistent and persistent for their dreams.

(End of this chapter)