director of the millennium

A script workshop lasted from one o'clock in the afternoon to around six o'clock in the afternoon.

And this is just the beginning.

Although the story of "Ready Player One" is simple, the stories behind each character are very complicated, and each character's mental journey is also very rich.

Just like Oasis founder Zhu Chuanwei, who was a smart boy since childhood but knew nothing about socializing and found it particularly difficult to talk to people around him.

Despite his high IQ, his academic performance was a mess because he focused all his attention on computers, comics, fantasy novels, movies and games, especially games.

Apart from the fact that he created this great game, his experience in real life is a mess. He is a typical otaku. He has a girl he likes but he doesn't dare to take a step to confess his love to her.

He never married in his life, and lived in solitude and games.

And this "game" is the "Oasis" world he created.

Although this character is aloof and complex, he also has a soft spot in his heart. Like many people, he once had a crush on a beautiful girl, but he never expressed his secret love to her until his death, and even designed Easter eggs for her in the game.

The personality and mental journey of this character alone are quite complicated. In order to play this role well, Chen Daoming has to study a lot.

It took him an hour to communicate with Wu Yuan alone, and then he combined his own understanding and had a clear personality profile of the character in his mind.

The roles played by the other leading actors are also not simple.

Although the male protagonist Shi Lin is only an 18-year-old boy, he has almost two different faces in real life and in the Oasis world.

The reason why this happened has a lot to do with his family upbringing.

Peng Yuchang, the newcomer, also doesn't quite understand how to grasp the character of the male protagonist.

If Wu Yuan had to wait until after filming started to teach these things step by step, breaking them down and feeding them to Peng Yuchang, asking him to understand while filming, the filming progress would have been delayed to an unknown extent.

Therefore, before filming began, Wu Yuan had to talk more with Peng Yuchang about this character, how to play this character, and how this character's mental journey evolved into what it is.

This all depends on script study sessions, where each actor brings up the parts he doesn't understand, or the differences, and discusses them with everyone, then finds the correct way to perform, and learns from each other.

This is also the significance of script seminars, or reading sessions.

In that era when movies still needed to be shot with film, NG was not allowed during filming. Every NG would cost the crew a lot of film money.

Therefore, before the formal performance, the actors must understand the script thoroughly and even go through countless rehearsals before they can actually start filming.

It was also during this era that film crews would hold script seminars every day, so that the actors could have fewer NGs during filming and gain greater understanding.

In the digital film era, because film making no longer requires film, digital cameras have directly reduced costs to a very low level. No matter how many NGs are made, at most it will only waste some time and will not cause much economic loss.

Therefore, major film crews gradually stopped holding script seminars, and the situation where it took three to five years to polish a movie as before is gradually becoming less common.

Wu Yuan is not a conservative person. He now uses digital cameras when making movies. He is not like those real art directors who still stubbornly believe that only movies shot on film are movies.

But at the same time, he still believes that script seminars are a good thing and should not be swept into the garbage dump of the times just because the film era comes to an end.

Therefore, he actively held script seminars for "Ready Player One". From February to March, the main actors held seven or eight seminars together, and only then did they figure out the script. Each leading actor also had a very deep understanding of the role they were going to play.

Veteran actors like Chen Daoming and Sun Honglei have no objection to this, and instead feel that this is the way to make a movie seriously. But for actors like Zhu Yawen, Jin Sha, and Yuan Hong, who can be said to be actors of the new era, this is a relatively novel experience.

Overall, everyone is quite satisfied.

Wu Yuan, who has temporarily settled the arrangements for the actors, finally has some free time to care about the latest developments at the company.

Since the release of "Dear" in October last year, Wu Yuan has hardly been idle, and he didn't even pay much attention to last year's awards season.

But his lack of attention doesn't mean the company won't pay attention.

Last year, which was the 2013 awards season (October to December), the era of light and shadow had a bumper harvest.

Because last year, Light and Shadow Times released a lot of movies, including both commercial films and art films.

The most important ones are Wu Yuan's "Dear" and "Go Away, Tumor".

Both films were shortlisted for the Golden Horse Awards, Golden Rooster Awards and Tokyo International Film Festival during this year's awards season.

The final outcome of the battle was also very encouraging.

Although Wu Yuan was busy scouting locations in Shanghai and Fog City, negotiating with special effects companies, and holding video conferences with several special effects companies at home and abroad every day to discuss how to achieve the special effects of "Ready Player One", he was very busy.

However, the leading actors of the two films still attended these award ceremonies under the leadership of their producers.

Among them, "Dear" eventually won the Best Film and Best Actor awards at this year's Golden Rooster Awards, and Huang Bo was successfully named the Golden Rooster Award winner.

The Golden Rooster Awards are ultimately more artistic. Lost in Thailand and Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons won nothing at the Golden Rooster Awards. The latter only won a consolation special effects award, while the former didn't win any award at all.
If Huang Bo wants to win the Best Actor award, he still has to rely on "Dear"!
At the Golden Horse Awards, "Go Away Tumor" won great success, also winning the Golden Horse Best Picture and Best Actress awards. Liu Yifei finally won the Best Actress award at the three major domestic awards again after winning the Golden Rooster Double Yolk Award.

Now she has become the double winner of the Golden Horse and Golden Rooster Awards. She only needs one more Golden Statue Award to become the second actress in history to win three Golden Horse Awards.

Unknowingly, this girl who had never won any major Best Actress trophy in her previous life, has realized her dream of becoming a talented actress in this life.

However, the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards is really out of reach for Liu Yifei.

Guangying Times is not a Hong Kong film company, and it is unlikely to invest in a Hong Kong film whose director and crew are all from Hong Kong.

If Liu Yifei only relies on herself to take on Hong Kong movies and compete for the Academy Awards, to be honest, her hopes are very slim, because the Hong Kong circle will not play with her at all.

Liu Yifei was quite open-minded about this. As for the Best Actress award, she dreamed of it before she won it. But once she won it, she could immediately return to normal and no longer take it so seriously.

Perhaps because she feels she has already proven herself, she doesn't care much about winning the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards and doesn't have any obsession with it.

On the contrary, it was this year's Tokyo Film Festival that gave her a big surprise.

"Go Away Tumor" was shortlisted for the Tokyo Film Festival and eventually won the Best Actress award.

It seems that the Japanese really like this kind of movie that makes heavy topics like cancer and death light-hearted. Liu Yifei also unexpectedly won the first A-class film festival trophy in her life.

It can be said that throughout 2013, she was the most satisfied and successful actress in mainland China! (End of this chapter)