China Entertainment Times 1999

Chapter 96 Transformation, Yilin’s bald head (please subscribe!)
After discussion, the two of them each took a step back.

The Lin family's scenes can be filmed according to the original work, but Linghu Chong must appear in the first episode.

This is Zhang Jizhong's bottom line.

The protagonist appears too late and the audience doesn’t buy it!

If the audience doesn’t buy it, what will happen to the ratings?
Without ratings, how can a 4000 million investment be repaid?
The producer must be responsible to the investors. Lin Xuan understood his difficulties and agreed to this request.

Zhang Jizhong breathed a sigh of relief and called the screenwriter and director over to discuss how to change the subsequent scenes.

They came to the director's room and after listening to their explanations, they immediately looked at Lin Xuan with admiration.

I quarreled with the producer on the first day I joined the group and forced him to change the scene. Young people nowadays are so brave.

Lin Xuan dared to come to Lao Zhang to change the play, so he naturally had the confidence.

First of all, Lao Zhang helped him. This was not a literal meaning.

What Zhang Jizhong likes is his undefeated golden body, which is "sure to be popular when he appears".

Hopefully this good luck will make this show a hit.

The second is the economic accounts.

Not long after the show started filming, it encountered a casting controversy and lost millions without doing anything.

If it were to change again, millions would be gone again.

Although the investment in this drama is huge, the expenditure is also sky-high, so Lao Zhang does not dare to replace him easily.

From the moment he received the invitation, Lin Xuan made up his mind to change the show.

There are so many things wrong with this show.

Once the shot is smashed, Zhang Jizhong will be sprayed to death and Lin Xuan will be laughed at.

He doesn't want future bloggers to include him when counting the worst Jin Yong dramas.

Linghu Chong is not involved in the Lin family scenes, but he is still allowed to appear in the first episode. How can this be changed?
The screenwriter racked his brains and the only way was to advance the scenes between Linghu Chong and Tian Boguang.

The first episode features two story lines, both of which go hand in hand.

Finally, during the Jinpen Washing Ceremony, the two story lines converged.

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The next morning, Lin Xuan arrived at the film and television studio on time, and first went to the stylist to confirm Linghu Chong's makeup and hair.

Perhaps it was the great success of "Water Margin" that made Zhang Jizhong fall in love with this realistic style and directly applied it to "The Swordsman".

How similar are the styles of the two TV series?

When you watch "The Swordsman", you can turn off the sound and click on the song "Wang Jin Beats Gao Qiu", and there will be no sense of violation at all.

Prior to this, when martial arts dramas were filmed in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the characters and scenes were very clean.

And the first feeling that this version of "Swordsman" gives people is:

The group of people on TV are not martial arts masters at all, but a group of low-level people fighting with each other.

Almost all the characters, including Linghu Chong, have simple costumes and makeup.

He looks shabby and his clothes are in rags. I believe you if you say he is a member of the beggar gang.

To put it mildly, this situation is called a gangland atmosphere. After all, most of the people who come out to hang out are low-level people.

To put it mildly, it is called rustic, and this is true for everything from filters to docility.

There is another reason why the two shows are so similar.

Many of the behind-the-scenes production team of "The Swordsman" came from "Water Margin".

For example, assistant director Kang Honglei and action director Zhao Jian.

In addition to the actors behind the scenes, Wang Ying, the short-footed tiger who plays the Six Immortals of Peach Valley, Lu Zhishen, who plays the unruly monk, and so on.

Some people love this style and some hate it, but Lin Xuan is relatively indifferent to it.

The dirty martial arts world shattered the martial arts dreams I had in my youth.

If there is a problem with the script, he dares to go to Lao Zhang to discuss it, but he can't bring it up with him on matters concerning the Taoism, because everyone's aesthetics are different.

And it was this dirty painting style that created the miracle of "Water Margin" with an average ratings of over 40%, so Lao Zhang had the confidence to shoot like this.

In the dressing room, the stylist adjusted the original makeup and hair according to Lin Xuan's figure and appearance.

He changed into his costume and walked to the mirror to observe, and also made several movements to draw his sword.

Needless to say, it does have a bit of a free and uninhibited flavor.

"Wow, you look so handsome in this outfit."

The leading actors were putting on their makeup in the same dressing room. When several girls saw Lin Xuan's new look, they immediately started to praise her.

Lin Xuan also looked at their styles.

Xu Qing, who plays Ren Yingying, puts on a blue costume, puts her hair up and wears a tiara. This is her "saint aunt" state.

"Does it look good?" she asked, tilting her head.

"beautiful."

Hearing this, Miao Jiji, who plays Yue Lingshan, also turned around and asked, "What do I think?"

Yue Lingshan had to pretend to be an ugly girl in her first scene, and the stylist put a disgusting prop on her cheek.

Lin Xuan rolled his eyes and complained: "You look like this and you can go next door to play a role as a female ghost."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

There was a burst of cheerful laughter in the dressing room. Miao was so angry that she stopped putting on makeup and picked up a sword to hack him to death.

"What's so funny."

Zhang Jizhong walked in from the outside and saw Lin Xuan's new look at a glance.

Although he was wearing coarse linen clothes, he had a handsome appearance and a good temperament, giving him a sense of freedom and ease as a young hero.

Zhang Jizhong smiled and nodded: "It's so similar, you are Linghu Chong."

"Producer Zhang, you came just in time. I have something to ask you."

"What's going on? The script is being changed. It doesn't affect your filming."

Lao Zhang was scared because he changed the script last night.

"Don't change the script."

"That's good." Lin Xuan pointed at Miao Jiji and said, "Reformed type!"

Lao Zhang almost couldn't breathe.

What kind of evil have I done? I invited two ancestors to come to the set to pay tribute.

"Why does this look offend you?"

Lin Xuan pulled Miao Jizu in front of him: "Look carefully, just pretend to be ugly. Why do you have to make it so disgusting? It's not Lin Zhengying's zombie movie."

Zhang Jizhong took a closer look at the props on Miao Jiji's face and felt like he was about to gush over the last night's meal.

Looking at it this way, it seems that it is a bit too hard. In case the audience finds it ugly, they will change the channel.

"Then how do you change it?"

"It's very simple. Just paint your face a little darker and add a few moles and pockmarks. It's just ugly, not a monster."

Zhang Jizhong thought for a moment and felt that what he said made sense, so he told the makeup artist: "Change it as he said first and see what the effect is."

After solving Yue Lingshan's makeup problem, Lin Xuan began to modify other people's makeup.

For example, Chen Lifeng, who plays Yi Lin, takes off her peaked cap, revealing a shiny bald head.

Her good looks at first turned into a horrible thing. Tian Boguang was really blind to be able to fall in love with her.

Lin Xuan suggested putting a nun hat on her, which would help her look at least half as good.

This is how the 96 version of "Swordsman" was handled.

With the nun's hat paired with He Meidian's sweet little round face, let alone Tian Boguang, who wouldn't be moved by it?

After talking about the styling, next came the makeup.

Lin Xuan was born in 80 years and Xu Qing was born in 68 years. There was a direct difference between them.

He made the audience feel like they were having fun watching him every minute.

Several other actresses are also much older than Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan suggested that your own makeup should be more mature and other people's makeup should be more youthful.

So that the age difference doesn't look so obvious.

No problem, Lao Zhang agreed directly.

After modifying the styling and makeup according to his requirements, the effect was indeed much better than before.

Zhang Jizhong was quite satisfied with the new look.

"Lin Xuan, you also know how to make up and style."

The makeup artist and stylist were amazed. They didn't expect Lin Xuan, a grown man, to be so good at it.

"I just know a little bit, not much." Lin Xuan said modestly.

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After a few days of running-in, the shooting progress began to accelerate.

As the leading actor, Lin Xuan only signed a three-month contract, so he had the heaviest filming tasks.

I was so exhausted from shooting during the day, and when it got dark, I had to shoot night scenes. My whole body kept spinning like a clockwork machine.

But it’s not the crew’s fault. The original film took Li Mianpeng five months to complete. He wanted to finish it in three months, so he had to work overtime 996 hours a day.

The path he chose was his own, and he could only persevere and persevere.

However, his literary and martial arts are both excellent, and he can basically pass three or five steps during filming without getting stuck and not being able to continue filming.

Occasionally encounter NG, most of the time it's the actor's mistake.

Lin Xuan's outstanding performance made Zhang Jizhong very satisfied.

Although he "randomly altered" his script, Lin Xuan could not fault it in terms of appearance, acting skills, or professionalism.

Zhang Jizhong firmly believes that he made the right choice for the leading role.

In addition to Zhang Jizhong, other actors and staff of the crew also admired Lin Xuan.

Even Yuan Bin, who was estranged from him, had a greatly improved impression of him.

After filming continuously for more than a month, Lin Xuan finally finished filming all the night scenes, and now he could finally have a good rest at night.

The filming tasks of the crew are very tiring. Even if he has time in the evening, he does not have the energy to go out and play. He usually just hangs out in the hotel with the actors in the same crew.

Play mahjong with actresses, drink with actors, or watch the latest popular TV series.

The most popular TV series in May was "Marry the Right Man" starring Nie Yuan and Huang Yi.

This drama only has just over 20 episodes, but it tells the love story of four couples.

Lin Xuan paid attention to it because Juanzi played the role of Princess Changping in the play, and his partner was Sha Yi, the "military art school star".

When filming, she often sent text messages to Lin Xuan to tell him the gossip about the crew.

The most explosive gossip is of course the temporary change of roles in this drama.

The original male lead of this drama was Sha Yi, who had not yet graduated when this drama was filmed.

Because the male protagonist is set to be a sick man, in order to meet the director's requirements, he lost 40 pounds crazily in a month, which was even more severe than Yan Danchen at the time.

When filming was about to start, Sha Yi suddenly received a notice that his male lead had been replaced.

It is said that because Huang Yi has a good relationship with the producer, he strongly requested that his boyfriend Nie Yuan play the male lead.

Therefore, Sha Yi was replaced on the spot, and the director was probably embarrassed, so he asked him if he would play the fourth male lead.

The fourth male lead is a lieutenant colonel in the army and needs to gain weight if he plays the role.

Sha Yi experienced the feeling of falling from heaven to hell.

But there are only so many opportunities that a student can seize, so he can stop acting.

I can only start eating haese to regain my weight.

Speaking of this drama, aside from off-screen factors, the leading actors in the drama performed well.

The makeup is also very attentive, especially the female characters, each one is beautiful and has their own charm.

Even if you watch it again more than ten years later, you will still be amazed by the characters in the play.

The songs in the drama are also very nice, especially "Yangzhou in the Rain" sung by Li Shu, which he must listen to every time he follows the drama.

(End of this chapter)