This director needs to apologize

Chapter 189 Controversy Yu Nan
The crew of "Mulan" did not hide their secrets. On the third day after the second round of auditions, both those who were promoted and those who were eliminated were officially notified by the crew.

The news spread quickly, and there was an immediate uproar in the media and on the Internet.

Whether it's the news of several big actresses resigning, or the news of Fan Xiaopang's failed audition, or the final list of five people deduced, they are all full of flaws.

Nowadays, Chen Yiming's status in the film industry and public opinion field is somewhat similar to that of the national teacher who completed the filming of "Hero" in his previous life. The national attention is a bit exaggerated, but the spotlight is always right.

Therefore, when people discuss the choice of the female lead in "Mulan", they are somewhat "looking for girls".

As the saying goes, there are 1 Hamlets in the eyes of 1 people. Everyone has their own inner psychological imagination about the literary character Mulan.

If you add in your own preferences and likes and dislikes of real actors, there will undoubtedly be countless permutations and combinations.

However, online public opinion is generally based on popularity. The five candidates selected by the "Mulan" crew are all of a kind with no popularity at all.

So before the third round of auditions, the question people asked the most was, why?
Although the official Weibo of "Mulan" has been set up, a single Weibo has not yet been posted, so "1951" suffered a disaster, and its last promotional Weibo was inexplicably posted in the comments section.

It was obviously a photo of Liu Dongjun and Duan Yining on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but the comment area was filled with all kinds of questions about the director off camera.

Chen Yiming, why don't you choose someone (you can randomly fill in any popular traffic flower here)?

Then, before the official blogger could reply, so-and-so’s fans and opponents had already started a sweet dialogue.

It was noisy outside and not peaceful inside.

According to the procedure, the list of female lead candidates needs to be circulated to various management parties, because they need to send representatives to serve as judges for the final round of auditions.

Boss Yang’s right-hand assistant, Hou Peijuan, a famous producer in Hong Kong City, immediately responded to the group email to express her opposition.

The wording in the email was very rude, thinking that Chen Yiming was too idealistic and that such a casting choice for a big production worth 3 million yuan was simply irresponsible.

The five candidates are only slightly better than Meng Xin. Their popularity and commercial value are completely unable to hold up the box office, and their resume and background are not enough to prove their professional abilities.

Then the scene where Ms. Ling Hou broke through the defense was magnificently staged. Moying and Warner China did not talk to her at all, nor did they reply to her email. Instead, they directly replied to the original email sent by Da Zhuang, and did not forget to copy it. she.

The content is very simple, I agree and I will attend on time.

Jin Dun was even more single and didn't even come to the audition. He said he completely trusted Director Chen's choice.

Da Zhuang, who was typing to refute Hou Peijuan at that time, laughed out loud and dragged the draft directly into the trash can. The friendly force was so powerful that the slap in the face was much harder than that of himself.

Chen Yiming doesn't know these things at all. These days, his energy is not focused on actors at all.

He and Lin Xiao walked together and stayed in the same room, almost becoming conjoined twins.

Turning a story into an image and outputting it frame by frame involves too many uncertain factors.

And when this story is also a historical story in a realistic style, this uncertainty is even more magnified.

For example, in the two audition scenes for the heroine, Jing Yesi joins the army and confronts Wang Wendu, there are a lot of problems to be solved for each one that falls into the camera.

Take the previous scene as an example, everything from the style of Mulan's room to Mulan's hairstyle and makeup all need to be fine-tuned based on historical facts to make them fit the aesthetic style and character setting of the movie.

In this regard, Lin and Chen have often had disputes. Lin Xiao is a master of ink-style animation and has his own aesthetics for historical films, while Chen Yiming thinks of commercial films. The first principle is the comfort of the visual experience.

So the rhythm of the interaction between the two was that you would draw sketches one by one, and after finishing the sketches, they would start to quarrel, and finally they would come up with a result. Looking at the pictures of cultural relics, it was quite different from the historical facts.

They had been arguing for more than a week, and until the third audition, the two had not been able to make a difference in Mulan's boudoir.

On the Monday of the last week of June, the audition for the female lead in "Mulan" was held at the Magic Film Studio. There was one audition every day with makeup on.

Compared with "1951", the audition for "Mulan" is much more formal, with seven or eight judges, including Chen Yiming, art director Lin Xiao, photography directors Qi Yu and Cui Fang, lighting director Wang Lizing, and producers Hou Peijuan and Mo Qiulin. , Sheng Xin.

Among them, Qi Yu is a pillar photographer of Moying Studio. He is 53 years old. He assisted director Xie Jing in filming "The Opium War" and "Li Lianying". Several famous Tang Dynasty court dramas in the 90s were He took charge.

Qi Yu is particularly good at interior scenes of ancient palaces, and Chen Yiming specially invited him to take charge of the filming of the Chang'an City part.

Cui Fang is a senior photographer at Bayi Film Studio. He is 47 years old this year. After winning the Oscar, Sang Ping was satisfied with his wish and declined Chen Yiming's invitation, and then recommended this chief disciple.

As Mr. Sang's eldest apprentice and a backbone of Bayi Factory, he naturally has special experience in shooting big scenes. The war scenes in "Mulan" were basically his job.

Among the producers, Mo Qiulin is affiliated with the Phantom Investment Department, while Sheng Xin is the deputy to Warner China director Blevin Ratner.

The reason why the audition venue was placed in the Phantom Studio was not only because of the large number of judges, but also because the audition required the use of the studio interior of the Phantom Studio.With makeup, lighting, and multi-camera recording, the audition specifications are almost the same as real filming. This is the main reason why only one candidate actor is arranged per day.

The first actor to audition was Yu Nan.

Yu Nan is 35 years old and graduated from the Imperial Film Academy. He is the oldest and most senior among the five candidates.

It's just that she has always been in the art film industry, and the directors she has worked with are An Quan and Jiang Shuai, so she has very little experience in commercial films.

She was invited by Chen Yiming to audition, because Chen Yiming had watched several military TV series in which she appeared, and she was one of the few actresses who could act in military uniforms.

Yu Nan arrived at the Magic Film Factory at 6 o'clock to put on makeup and try on costumes. The day before, Lin Xiao, Wang Lizing and the two photography directors had prepared the scene, camera position, and lighting in advance.

At 9 o'clock sharp, Yu Nan walked into the studio with a double-ringed bun on her head, a five-layered dark and light green skirt, a scarf, and moon-white embroidered shoes.

Five breaks means that the skirt has 5 seams.The more seams, the more fabric was used and the more expensive the garment is.In the early Tang Dynasty, frugality was advocated, and the concubines in the palace could only wear skirts of seven rags. As a civilian girl, Mulan wore a skirt of five rags.

Intermediate colors refer to two colors that are successively spaced. The set Yu Nan chose is dark green and light green.

Ru refers to the long-sleeved short top worn by women in autumn and winter. It was women's regular clothing during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

A scarf is an ancient shawl.

The complete set of costumes worn by Yu Nan were borrowed directly from the prop warehouse of Moying Factory by Chen Yiming, and Qi Yu, an expert in Tang Dynasty opera, personally stamped and certified them. They were more refined and more authentic than the costumes in the second round of auditions.

In the middle of the studio is the interior of a residence in the early Tang Dynasty that was set up in advance, and the supervisor is Lin Xiao.

Mulan's boudoir has a simple and elegant style, and the furnishings are also very simple. A couch and a set of stools stand opposite each other. On the desks are the Four Treasures of the Study. There is a loom in the back. Next to the couch and against the wall is a wooden box. Between the wooden boxes A sheathed sword hangs from it.

There is a table outside the boudoir, with fans, lanterns, candlesticks, mirrors and other daily necessities on it.

Chen Yiming said to Yu Nan, who was standing in the middle, "Hello, Teacher Yu, I am Chen Yiming, and I welcome you to audition for "Mulan".

The audition in the morning is this boudoir scene. You need to use this scene to show the whole process of Mulan's decision to join the army in place of her father.

Today's audition will be conducted according to the requirements of real shooting. Please pay attention to the voice-over, camera position and lighting, Mr. Yu.

现在时间是9点15分，到12点15分为止，你有3个小时的时间创作这场戏。

You can ask anyone present to cooperate with your performance, including me. "

Yu Nan didn't speak, just nodded, walked into the "boudoir" minding his own business, sat down on the wooden bench and began to close his eyes and meditate.

No one at the judges' table was talking to each other. Everyone here was an expert and knew the mysteries of an actor's state, and no one acted amateurishly.

Although it was their first meeting, Chen Yiming had a good impression of Yu Nan. He was a very professional actor.

Because just by glancing at the front, Chen Yiming discovered that Yu Nan had her chest tied.

You must know that Yu Nan specializes in literary films, and Chen Yiming knows her "greatness" very well. The current slope is definitely not her natural state.

He knows the characteristics of the audition role, knows the limitations of his own conditions, and prepares the best response in advance. He is an actor who knows how to do his homework.

After closing his eyes and concentrating for 10 minutes, Yu Nan's slightly hoarse voice sounded, "Can you play the voiceover for me?"

Sitting next to the judges' table, Cui Fang, who was a guest staff member, pressed the play button, and a line recorded in advance by a dubbing teacher from the Magic Shadow Factory came from the speaker.

"(Sobs) Dad, how can you fight in battle with your body? Don't go!"

"Fuck, don't worry. Those Turks can't survive more than three rounds under my sword. I have old brothers taking care of them to keep them safe."

"Do you still think it was more than ten years ago? Let's pay more taxes and suffer a little. As long as you are still here, we can live on. If you are no longer here, (sobs) our family will not be a family anymore."

"Don't be stupid. Now that I have joined the government army, it is my duty to fight for the country. How can I retreat?

After I leave, you must encourage sisters Mu Yan and Mulan to work diligently as female workers at home, and urge the mistress to practice calligraphy and martial arts every day. You must not slack off. "

"(Suppressed crying) I listen to you."

(End of this chapter)