director of the millennium

Chapter 122 Fix the angle, scan the scene, start the machine!
Hu Ge gave Wu Yuan a big surprise.

He played the reverse role really well.

In Wu Yuan's version of "Your Name", this part of the plot is reversed, and there are more male protagonists than female protagonists. In fact, the original version is also like this.

Because the male protagonist has a line where the female protagonist helps the male protagonist chase after the college student senior in the restaurant, so there are many reverse plots on the male protagonist’s side.

As for the heroine, most of the negative content is fragmented plots, such as touching her breasts, sitting in wild postures, playing basketball with boys, etc.

There aren't many that coherent, story-like backstory.

The heroine's story line is mainly her own story.

Although Wu Yuan has greatly changed the line of the temple, he has changed all the so-called "knotting gods" and "leading spirits" that are very Japanese-style.

But the story line of the heroine is still very full, including her life in a rural town, her male classmate who has a crush on him, her mood swing between wanting to live in a big city and inheriting the family business, and the emotional conflict with her father , the relationship with grandma, etc...

It is precisely because of the heroine's life and the peaceful and peaceful town that the story of the meteorite destroying the town makes the audience worry and unwilling to see it, so that the hero saves the heroine and the town across time and space. The plot becomes meaningful and valuable.

Only by taking the audience to understand this paradise-like town, the life of the heroine, her friends, relatives, and simple townspeople, and making the audience fall in love with this paradise, can the audience later reveal that everything has been destroyed. emotional gap.

Wu Yuan, who has been a director for so many years and has watched so many classic movies, has a deep self-understanding of script structure and knows how a movie can attract the audience's emotions with its "ups and downs".

Therefore, this line on the heroine's side, like the original "Your Name", is mostly her own life, not the hero who has changed his soul.

In comparison, nearly half of the male protagonist's role is to be reversed, and to have some stories with the female seniors in the restaurant as the female protagonist.

Hu Ge's ability to play a cross-dressing role very well will naturally make Wu Yuan very satisfied with him.

After the audition of the two, Wu Yuan immediately asked curiously, "Have you ever specially practiced this cross-dressing?"

"I don't think this is like playing a female role for the first time."

Hu Ge scratched his head and said honestly: "In school, teachers teach how to liberate nature, and one of the methods is to cross-dress women more often."

"The teacher said that for a new actor to have a man play the role of a woman, it is something that a new actor cannot be ashamed of and cannot let go of."

"If you can completely let go and act as a woman, then you can liberate your nature."

For actors, the so-called liberation of nature, to put it bluntly, is to lose face.

Actors from Nortel teach students to liberate their nature by asking them to play animals, such as imitating the "croak, croak, croak" of a frog, or imitating the movements of a toad, and they have to do it in front of the whole class.

Is such behavior shameful?

It must be embarrassing, especially for female classmates.

But after being embarrassed, most of the students have given up. If they play more clowns, they won't have any pressure, and their nature will be liberated.

This is also the reason why the teacher in the theater asked the students to play in reverse.

It is very shameful and shameless for a grown man to pretend to be a woman in front of his classmates. If he can do this and accept it calmly, he has completed the liberation of his nature.

"I think it's interesting to play girls, so I have observed some female classmates in private and tried to imitate their expressions and movements."

Hu Ge smiled foolishly: "I didn't expect this to be really useful."

Hey, it's really lucky for this kid to bump into him.

Wu Yuan laughed and shook his head: "The acting is good, and Yuan Hong's acting is also good."

"You two go back to the reception room and wait for the announcement."

Cai Yinong, who knew the inside story, was very satisfied and said to the two of them, "Go."

After watching the two leave the audition room, Sun Li's one-man show will follow.

Wu Yuan really didn't expect much from her.

In fact, Sun Li's performance was just as he thought.

The acting skills are really good, and the expression and state that should be given can be given.

But who told Sun Li to look like Xiaojiabiyu's face, she really didn't have that kind of "glamorous" demeanor.

Some roles really require people with a certain image to play them.

Cai Yinong also sensed that Wu Yuan was not satisfied with Sun Li, so after her performance, he waved her to leave first.

"Director Wu, the actors have finished their auditions, so I'll go back to the reception room first?"

As a smart person, Cai Yinong didn't take the initiative to ask Wu Yuan if he had decided on Hu Ge as the male lead, even though she heard Wu Yuan muttering to himself just now, "It's just the two of them."

"Well, by the way, call Liu Yifei and her classmates for me."

"Ok."

Cai Yinong opened the door and left the audition room.

A few minutes later, Luo Jin, Zhu Yawen, Zhou Yang, Cao Zheng, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli walked into the audition room together.

Only Liu Yifei brought her family members, mainly because she is under 18 years old, and her guardian needs to sign the contract together, and her mother is also her manager.

Not only were the other students over 18 years old, but they didn't sign with any company, and they didn't have an agent to take them with them. They came to the audition with their legs drooping.

His eyes stayed on Zhu Yawen's face for a moment longer before Wu Yuan nodded at them.

"Come and get the audition script."

According to different roles, Wu Yuan distributed the scripts of several people.

Liu Yifei tried the heroine, Zhu Yawen tried the hero, Luo Jin tried the hero's classmate Xiao Zhang, Cao Zheng tried the hero's other classmate Xiao Wei, Zhou Yang tried the heroine's classmate and childhood friend Xiao Wei.

The few of them are very familiar with each other, and after getting the script, they were divided into two sides, and each started to play against each other.

The script Zhu Yawen, Luo Jin, and Cao Zheng got was the same plot as Hu Ge and the others before, and it was precisely because of the same that Wu Yuan could have a comparison.

What Zhou Yang and Liu Yifei got was a plot of the two talking heart-to-heart on the way to school.

In addition, Liu Yifei also has to try a reverse play.

Although there are not many scenes of her role in reverse, and they are all piecemeal, but she has to let go to act it out. Wu Yuan still has to watch her try it out before he can rest assured.

Both groups of actors, Wu Yuan also gave 15 minutes of preparation time, and then began to audition.

The first team to appear was Zhu Yawen. He was very excited when he got the male lead script. He thought carefully about it and wanted to win this role with the determination to win.

However, his performance disappointed Wu Yuan.

Zhu Yawen really let go, without holding it in the slightest, and tried to act as a woman as much as possible.

But, the traces of his performance are too heavy.

It just gives people the impression that this is a man playing a woman at a glance, rather than really thinking that he is a girl.

In fact, Wu Yuan mentioned it to him.

When rehearsing the play before, he had a chat with Zhu Yawen. In his new movie, the male lead and the female lead exchanged bodies, so he wanted to perform a play where the body is a man and the soul is a woman.

If he wants to win this role, he needs to learn how to play the role of a girl.

Zhu Yawen also followed Wu Yuan's request to observe and imitate the movements and expressions of some female classmates in school.

But perhaps because Hu Ge has been studying this aspect longer than Zhu Yawen, he went on the show to arrange exercises for male students to cross-dress girls' liberating nature, which is indeed a mistake.

This makes Hu Ge's performance less and less traced because he has practiced more, and his sense of immersion is getting better and better, making him appear to be a better actor.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Xiao Zhu, it's not that I won't give you a chance." Wu Yuan sighed in his heart.

It seems that Zhu Yawen not only has a crush on Liu Yifei in life, but this time in the movie, she will continue to have a crush on Liu Yifei.

After Zhu Yawen's audition ended, Wu Yuan was silent for a long time and hesitantly took out another script from the drawer.

To be honest, Wu Yuan didn't want to give this role to Zhu Yawen.

Ever since the last drama performance, when Wu Yuan noticed that something was wrong with the way Zhu Yawen looked at Liu Yifei, he had carefully thought back on some details that he had not noticed during the previous rehearsals.

For example, Zhu Yawen's excessive enthusiasm and care for Liu Yifei, some subconscious protective actions, and careful behavior.

In the past, Wu Yuan just thought it was a normal help between classmates, but after finding out that Zhu Yawen was wrong, Wu Yuan understood that he had already fallen into it!
But Wu Yuan could also see that Liu Yifei deliberately kept a distance from Zhu Yawen, whether when rehearsing the play or when getting along in private.

This is at most just an unrequited love. Liu Yifei's relationship with Zhu Yawen did not exceed the boundary of friendship between classmates.

It would be fine if he played the leading role. Most of the leading roles in "Your Name" will be filmed in the capital, while the leading role will be filmed in a mountain town in Southwest China.

The two only acted in the last three or five scenes together, and there are not many opportunities to stay together.

In fact, he didn't have many opportunities to play opposite Liu Yifei, and he didn't spend much time together.

But the role of the heroine is different. Basically, the scenes that appear are with the heroine.

This character also has a crush on the heroine!

If Zhu Yawen was asked to play the role of Liu Yifei who has a crush on Liu Yifei, Wu Yuan was afraid that he would really be unable to get out of the drama and would be trapped deeper and deeper.

Wu Yuan glanced guiltily at Liu Xiaoli who was standing next to Liu Yifei, quietly watching her play with Zhou Yang.

If Zhu Yawen was impulsive and did something out of line in the crew, he didn't know how it would end.
But seeing Zhu Yawen's hopeful eyes and thinking of his hard work in the past few months to get Wu Yuan's new movie audition qualification, Wu Yuan still softened his heart and handed him the script.

"You try this role again."

Facts have proved that the directors of "Crossing the Guandong" and "Red Sorghum" have the right vision, and Wu Yuan's vision is also right.
Zhu Yawen plays this kind of sunny dog ​​licking.
That's called a lifelike image.
What does it mean to act in your true colors?
The heroine's classmate, a mysterious mechanical geek, has complicated feelings about his father, who is engaged in the local construction industry, and is very concerned about the heroine's affairs.

Except for the father, the other descriptions are Zhu Yawen himself!

Zhu Yawen also likes machines, or most men have mechanical plots.

Come on.

After watching Zhu Yawen try this role, Wu Yuan no longer hesitated, it was him!

Apart from him, Luo Jin, Cao Zheng, and Zhou Yang are all fine too, all capable of playing their respective roles.

As for the most important heroine, Liu Yifei, he also lived up to Wu Yuan's expectations. The 16-year-old Luo Sanye, she can play in her true colors.

In the opposite role of the male protagonist Lin Wenjie, she can completely let go, sitting on the chair with her legs crossed, although it is a bit funny, but it is not out of the play.

Wu Yuan's special training for half a year was still very effective.

"Director Wu, can I act okay?" After the audition, Liu Yifei blinked her big eyes and asked anxiously.

"Not bad." Wu Yuan nodded with a smile and looked around. Every actor was looking at him nervously.

"You all passed, go to the office next door to sign the contract later."

"Ahhhhh!" Liu Yifei suddenly jumped up and hugged Liu Xiaoli: "Mom! I want to play the heroine of Director Wu's movie!"

"Yeah, our Sissi is great!" Liu Xiaoli fondly stroked the back of Liu Yifei's head and looked at Wu Yuan with gratitude.

She observed Wu Yuan for a long time today and found nothing special about Wu Yuan towards Liu Yifei. He neither looked at her frequently nor treated her specially.

This reassured Liu Xiaoli a lot. It seemed that Wu Yuan didn't have any thoughts about his daughter.

No wonder Liu Xiaoli was thinking about it, as the entertainment circle in the Mainland flourished in the 90s, there were also many dirty things in this circle.

All kinds of directors and producers who like unspoken rules emerge in endlessly.

Although Wu Yuan is young, handsome and has high achievements, this does not mean that Liu Xiaoli is willing to let her daughter accept his unspoken rules for the sake of being the heroine of one of his movies.

Fortunately, now it seems that she misunderstood.

Liu Xiaoli finally let go of her love for daughters.

"Okay, you go to the next door to sign the contract first, I have other actors to audition." Wu Yuan waved his hand, and unceremoniously drove out this group of jumping young people.

Next, he tried Chen Hao again. An actor who was born in a Chinese opera is really nothing to say. He can act like a heartthrob. Playing a big sister who can stun high school students is simply a piece of cake.

What bothered Wu Yuan the most was the heroine's younger sister Yotsuba.

The news that Wu Yuan needed a 10-year-old girl to star in his new movie did spread throughout the Beijing circle.

Many young actors came to audition today, most of them are the children of employees of Beijing Film Studio or China Film, Youth Factory, and Beijing Translation Factory.

Ten-year-old girls are indeed very cute, but if you want to talk about acting skills, that's bullshit.

Wu Yuan met more than a dozen in a row, and apart from the difference in appearance, their acting skills were almost the same, and there was no distinction between high and low.

It made him choose one of them, and he also had some difficulty choosing
It seems that anyone can be chosen, and it seems that no one can be chosen.

It wasn't until a little girl named Yang Ni'ao appeared that he cured his difficulty in choosing.

Yang Ni'ao's mother is a voice actor. Through friends' relationship channels, she knew that Wu Yuan lacked a young actor, so she brought her daughter to the audition.

Although her daughter is young and has not yet passed her 11th birthday, she has already acted in "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang".

But this is not the point. The point is that Wu Yuan knows this little girl named Yang Niao.

A year later, this little girl will play the role of Xiaoxue in "Family with Children" and will change her stage name.

Yes, her stage name is Yang Zi!
Wu Yuan didn't know the other young actors who came to audition, but when he saw Yang Niao also came to audition, Wu Yuan would definitely choose her.

Anyway, I don't have acting skills at all, so it's better to choose someone I know.

In this way, after Yang Niao was set to play Clover, all the roles in "Your Name" were set.

When the actors were all confirmed and the contracts were signed, Wu Yuan sent them all the scripts, and then set off again, leaving the capital.

Wu Yuan's assistant director had already taken his orders a month ago to conduct scene surveys in several provinces in Southwest China.

According to the script of "Your Name", the heroine's small town needs to be in a beautiful intermountain basin, surrounded by mountains on all sides, preferably with a big lake.

In this way, it is easier to deal with the special effects of falling meteorites in the later stage, and the small town surrounded by mountains and rivers is indeed beautiful.

Fortunately, China is a vast land with abundant resources, and you can find all kinds of scenery.

Wu Yuan's assistant director quickly found a suitable location in Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, and Guizhou Province, and it was up to Wu Yuan to make the decision himself.

Wu Yuan did take a trip himself, and after visiting three small towns with their own charms, he finally chose a small town in Yunnan Province.

This town is right next to Erhai Lake and surrounded by Cangshan Mountain. Half of the town is at the foot of the mountain and half of the town is on the mountainside. It fits the appearance of the heroine's town in "Your Name" in his memory.

After settling on this place, Wu Yuan applied for a filming permit with the General Administration and asked the assistant director to discuss filming matters with the local government.

For a great director like Wu Yuan, no matter where he wants to film, the local government will definitely give the green light to support him, and all the procedures that others see as cumbersome will be handled quickly and smoothly.

On August 8th, Wu Yuan rushed back to the capital after a long journey.

All preparatory work before the start of filming has been completed, and the crew of nearly 80 people is already in place.

Taking advantage of the summer vacation before it was over, Wu Yuan directly booked a hotel in Beijing and called all the actors into the group.

There were still no superstitious ceremonies such as beheading the chicken head and lifting the red cloth. After Wu Yuan asked the coordinator to wrap a 50 yuan red envelope for everyone in the crew, "Your Name" officially started!

The first scene of the crew's start-up was arranged in a coffee shop in the east part of the capital.

This scene is the plot after the first exchange of bodies between the leading actor Lin Wenjie and the heroine Luo Sanye.

Mitsuha, who thought she was dreaming, came to the coffee shop that she had always wanted to go to but had never been to, and felt novel about everything here.

How to show the contrast between a country girl's longing for a big city and the real "high prices" in a big city is a test for Hu Ge.

He sat at a table in the middle of the cafe with Yuan Hong and Luo Jin, waiting nervously and expectantly for the order to start filming.

Behind the monitor in the corner of the coffee shop, Wu Yuan sat lazily on the director's chair and looked at Liu Yifei, who was standing next to him, with some confusion.

"Sissy, there is no show for you today, why are you here?"

"Brother, didn't you tell me that when you are on the set, you should also follow the set when there is no scene, and actively observe and learn the shooting experience and skills of other actors."

Liu Yifei stared intently at Wu Yuan with a pair of big eyes, her eyes were extremely innocent, as if she was saying, "You are a puppy".

Glancing at Liu Xiaoli who was standing with the crew not far away, Wu Yuan rubbed the base of his nose.

"Well, I said so."

No longer entangled with this, Wu Yuan picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Every unit is ready!"

"One shot at a time!"

"Action!"

　I thought to myself, since it is going to be published in one breath, why divide it into three chapters.

　　So here are two chapters and [-] words.

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