Actor: My Entertainment Era

It’s been less than a month since the filming of The Wandering Earth started, so it’s not like the company is running out of money so quickly.

But Guo Fan really looked at Zhang Yuanjun as if he were the God of Wealth.

He didn't participate in the early preparation and development of the project, nor did he want to play any role. He just invested more than 2000 million yuan without asking for anything. If this isn't the God of Wealth, then what is he?

Guo Fan also wanted to promote Zhang Yuanjun during the publicity of the movie when it was released, and create a character for him that seemed like a righteous man helping someone, which could be considered a reward.

Zhang Yuanjun's arrival did not cause the crew to stop filming, and drinks were distributed during the breaks in filming.

"Drink!" Several actors were afraid to drink the milk tea that Zhang Yuanjun brought. Zhang Yuanjun said, "Wearing dozens of kilograms of protective clothing, it consumes so much energy. What's wrong with drinking a cup of milk tea?"

Zhang Yuanjun touched his belly, which had not yet started to lose weight, and taught them: "My agent didn't say anything when I did this, drink."

Having said that, the actors just let it go and didn't care about their agent's mood.

"Especially Maimai, you are so young and it's the time for you to grow up. What are you trying to control?" Zhang Yuanjun kept persuading Zhao Jinmai to eat more and drink more.

Zhang Yuanjun drank milk tea while watching the playback of Guo Fan's footage.

There are problems with the acting, and you can find faults wherever you want, but in "The Wandering Earth", the acting skills of this group of actors are more than adequate.

"There's no problem with the acting." After selectively watching two clips, Zhang Yuanjun felt that the acting skills of the main actors in the crew were above average.

Even Zhao Jinmai's acting was good.

Zhao Jinmai said that Zhang Songwen taught me well: "He taught me how to recite the lines and find the emotions one by one."

"Do you understand?" Zhao Jinmai was only 14 and a half years old.

"I didn't understand at first, but Teacher Zhang and many people in the crew helped me," said Zhao Jinmai.

After a cup of drink, the crew continued to work. Zhang Yuanjun sat next to Guo Fan and watched the monitor together.

Zhang Yuanjun came to the crew today. Visiting the set was second, and taking advantage of the situation was first!

Why? Guo Fan is only allowed to beg for alms from him, but Zhang Yuanjun can’t make moves on Guo Fan?
Zhang Yuanjun personally is indeed unable to manage an industrial film like "The Wandering Earth", but some of his small ideas and small productions can make use of a lot of things from Guo Fan.

Zhang Yuanjun has set his sights on the art and special effects team of "The Wandering Earth".

Visual effects director Ding Yanlai was not on the crew, but art director Gao Gao was.

Zhang Yuanjun quickly found Gao Gao and asked him some questions about the art design of science fiction films.

Zhang Yuanjun did not intend to get people to work for him for free. Things can be borrowed for free, so how can the team borrow them? Zhang Yuanjun was just asking for advice and communicating.

The crew of "The Wandering Earth" had already gathered the people, saving Zhang Yuanjun a lot of effort in finding people.

Zhang Yuanjun asked Gao Gao: "Will the art design of science fiction movies involve copyright disputes? For example, if I design a robot without any logo on the surface, but familiar audiences will think that my robot is very similar to the design style of Texas Instruments or other companies, will this lead to copyright disputes?"

"Normally not," Gao Gao told Zhang Yuanjun. "Appearance can be patented, but design style cannot, especially universal design, which is not subject to patent restrictions. For example, a camera, no matter how it changes, it still looks the same overall. If I cover the logo, can you tell whether it is Sony or IMAX?
"Many of the designs in our The Wandering Earth have real prototypes, but this does not constitute infringement." "I remember you made a science fiction film before, why are you asking this?"

Zhang Yuanjun said: "In the science fiction films I made before, there were not many futuristic props, so I didn't come into contact with this kind of things."

Gao Gao smiled and asked, "Why? You want to make a science fiction film too?"

Zhang Yuanjun nodded and said with a smile: "I have this idea, but it can't compare with yours. It's too big for me to handle."

It was still in the creative stage, and Zhang Yuanjun didn't have much more to say. Gao Gao just said, "If you need any help, just ask."

"Do you take that seriously?" Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile, "Don't deny me access when I come to see you next time."

"I'm just being polite, don't take it seriously." Gao Gao said with a smile.

After visiting the Oriental Movie Metropolis, Zhang Yuanjun flew directly to Shanghai to attend an event of the Shanghai Film Festival.

In the few days since the opening of this year's Shanghai Film Festival, the biggest highlights and the most explosive news almost all came from Feng Xiaogang.

He scolded the audience: "Just now I mentioned that there are many rubbish movies. This is also what the audience likes to say. Is it because there are so many rubbish audiences that there are so many rubbish movies? I think (this statement) may offend everyone present. Chinese movies are now so popular with the audience. There are so many rubbish everywhere. It must be related to the large number of rubbish audiences, right?"

"If you don't support it, it won't have room to survive, and the producer won't make this crappy movie. Often crappy movies still have high box office sales."

Then he criticized the traffic: "Nowadays, male actors are all very effeminate. How twisted is the market? How could anyone pursue a effeminate boy? Let me say this again. Nowadays, these agents have played a very bad role. When a child just debuts, he has to go take photos. The company has to spend a lot of budget, take a lot of photos and then retouch the photos. Actors have started to retouch photos. Every actor and child has not learned the acting skills when they debuted, but they have learned the photo-retouching skills. The problem is that when you show these photos to the director, the director will call you in and the difference is completely different... You are not running a brothel, why do you do this, flirting, trying to cover up, wanting to take off your clothes but not daring to do so, and then making it look like that."

"If you find an actor and tell him you want to try out for a role, he'll think you're crazy and feel offended."

Feng Xiaogang also criticized Sun Honglei by name at the scene: "I think Sun Honglei is a very sophisticated actor, but now he also wears bright clothes and tears off the brand names."

However, there are also positive examples. Feng Xiaogang mentioned Zhang Yuanjun and Jiang Wen: "Except for film promotion activities, you can't see them anywhere. There are not many actors who can stick to it now. Actors must not over-consume themselves."

What Feng Xiaogang said is not without reason, but every time I see him talking nonsense, my subconscious reaction is that he has a movie coming out.

There was a lot of pressure on Youth.

According to the bet agreement signed between Feng Xiaogang and Huayi, the box office of "Youth" must exceed 7 million yuan to complete the performance bet.

Otherwise, Feng Xiaogang would have to make up the profit out of his own pocket.

The main reason is that last year's "I Am Not Madame Bovary" won awards but not box office, forcing Feng Xiaogang to appear on variety shows to make money to fill the profit shortfall caused by "Madame Bovary".

"Youth" is currently scheduled to be released on National Day, but the competition for this year's National Day is very fierce. So far, more than 10 movies have announced their release dates for National Day.

As "Youth" has a brand new cast and tells the story of an art troupe, it is not certain whether the audience will like it or not.

Feng Xiaogang's words are sincere, but he may also be trying to attract attention to "Youth". (End of this chapter)