You've passed the college entrance examination, but can't you make it in the entertainment

During this period, in addition to devoting part of his energy to taking care of the superstar's business, LeYan is also making final preparations before joining the group.

For "The Disguiser", "The Best of Them" and "Charlotte's Troubles", Deng Xuefeng personally guided him in reading scripts, studying characters and designing performance details.

But now that Old Deng has returned, LeYan can't rely on his "grandfather" to pave the way for him all his life. It's time to show his real skills!

Since the holiday, no matter how busy he is, Le Yan will set aside two hours every day to read the script carefully. While recalling how Deng Xuefeng led him to do it at that time, he imitated the character of Li Xiaojun in "Sweet Honey".

Le Yan was fully prepared. With a good master and a motivated student, it was much easier than he expected for him to independently deal with the challenge of a new character.

There were just a few minor problems that caused him some minor trouble.

The first problem is language.

"Sweet Honey" is a reality-themed TV series created in response to the call for the 30th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland.

The TV series is set in the early days of reform and opening up, depicting the scene of a large number of mainlanders pouring into Hong Kong. They were engaged in the lowest-level jobs and faced discrimination from Hong Kong people, Cantonese people and even their own fellow countrymen.

In this unfortunate situation, the male protagonist Li, played by Le Yan, met Li Qiao, played by Bi Xia, who also came to Hong Kong from the mainland. The two spanned thirty years, from acquaintance, love, separation to reunion.

"Sweet Honey" is a work full of emotion and historical background. Its main purpose is to reflect social changes and human nature. The director hopes that through the story of Li Xiaojun and Li Qiao, the audience can feel the struggle and pursuit of the people of that era, as well as their reflection on human nature.

In order to allow the audience to better empathize with the film and achieve the film quality that Su Tian pursues, "Sweet Honey" requires that all actors must shoot with their original sound.

As early as the beginning of the script, the crew invited professional Cantonese teachers to guide Le Yan, Bi Xia and other actors in the crew. Counting the time, everyone has been learning for more than two months.

In order to suit the language proficiency of the two leading actors in the play, director Kong Chao arranged the entire TV series to be shot in chronological order.

The first scene that Le Yan and Bi Xia filmed after joining the crew was about their life when they first arrived in Hong Kong. The final scene three months later was about how they would look like 30 years later.

This requires Le Yan and Bi Xia's Cantonese proficiency to reach a leap from 0 to 100 points in the next three months.

We have lived there for 30 years, you can't just say "have a cup of tea when you have free time", right?
For Bi Xia, a poor student, the biggest difficulty is how to reach 100 points in three months.

For Le Yan, a top student, the biggest difficulty is how to smoothly and skillfully reduce the language level that has already passed the test to below the passing line.
In his previous life, LeYan was very obsessed with Cantonese songs. Although he was not very good at singing, there was no big problem with his pronunciation.

With this foundation and two months of professional learning, Le Yan can communicate normally in Cantonese, but he has not yet fully mastered the pronunciation and intonation. "Comrades: Almost a Love Story" was filmed in Hong Kong. Le Yan believes that once he gets there and has the language environment, he will be able to master it quickly.

But in the play, when Li Xiaojun first arrived in Hong Kong, his Cantonese was at a disastrous level. For a long time, he was unable to communicate normally with the people around him, which led to discrimination.

LeYan has only been exposed to Cantonese for a short time, and has not yet fully grasped the essence of it. If he forces himself to suppress his abilities, his performance may turn out to be "ridiculous".

Imagine, when northerners hear southerners add the wrong erhua sound, would they feel uncomfortable?
"You can never guess where your southern friends will put their accents when they're imitating northerners, but it can always fill your life with surprises."

When interpreting the character before, Le Yan described Li Xiaojun as a man who is brave behind his cowardice.

In the first half of the TV series, this character has been doing low-level work in Hong Kong, being fooled by Li Qiao but still wanting to be friends with her, and falling in love with someone he shouldn't because of loneliness but not having the courage to face it. It can be said that he carries a strong sense of fatalism.

Once Li Xiaojun is associated with "funny", important invisible contents such as the creation of character tension, the manifestation of pressure in the social environment, and the difficult choice of fate will be greatly discounted or even scattered.

No matter from which perspective, "funny" must not appear here.

Although the crew will arrange a language teacher to monitor the group and make corrections throughout the process, Le Yan is not used to leaving his fate in the hands of others. He wants to control his own destiny.

Le Yan wanted to find a way to show that Li Xiaojun had difficulty integrating into society due to his language barrier, while also avoiding falling into a language black hole.

Kong Chao and Su Tian kept persuading Le Yan not to make things difficult for himself, but Le Yan just didn't want to give up.
He firmly believes that nothing is difficult in this world if one sets his mind to it!

There must be a way to solve it!
The second thing that troubled him was the thirty-year span of performances.

He has to play the role from a young teenager to an old man in his fifties.

Personality and behavior need to change according to age and the surrounding environment.

But the role of a fifty-year-old man is much more than just adding some wrinkles to the face, a few grey hairs and bending the back a little.

After a long period of observation, Le Yan discovered that the old men around him who were nearly fifty years old had one thing in common - they were extremely stubborn in some aspects!
In order to prove that he was a good teacher, Deng Xuefeng gave up money, fame, or anything else and plunged headfirst into the education cause of his motherland.

Do you think he is stubborn?
Peng Yiwei was like being under a spell and was determined to work with Deng Xuefeng again.

Do you think he is stubborn?
I am afraid that there are too few individuals to observe and it may not be universal.

Le Yan went to ask a few buddies in the dormitory.

The final conclusion is extremely consistent - our fathers are all born in the year of the donkey.

Some are more obvious, some are more subtle.

But they must be particularly stubborn on some point!
So Le Yan also wanted to design a small detail for Li Xiaojun that could reflect the temperament of a stubborn old man.

But Li Xiaojun is timid, cowardly, and a little undecided.
How do you design a stubborn performance for such a character?

In the past, when Le Yan encountered problems that he couldn’t solve, he would ask for help from Deng Xuefeng, Li Yiran, Ji Xueli or Ye Xinchun.

But you can’t just shout “Wife, save me!”, “Dad, save me!”, “Mom, save me!” whenever something happens, right?

Mr. Ye had already severely criticized him last time!
Le Yan’s mistake was that he did not overcome difficulties independently, but always wanted to ask for help.

learn from mistakes.

Le Yan has grown up and matured.

This time he will not rely on others and must overcome difficulties independently.

So. Add some dark blue!

In fact, LeYan has been deliberately avoiding dependence on the system in the past six months. He only wears status cards that have bonuses in life, such as the pile driver switch "Work like a Horse", the rich woman's happy hand "Wealth", the high-difficulty physical sensation must-have "Quirky" and the Indian magic medicine "The Sun is Setting".

Anyway, I change a picture every day and try different ways to give Li Yiran the ultimate experience.

When acting, Le Yan prefers to express himself based on his own understanding. For example, he has never even used the "old age having a child" status card that was previously opened.

But when the song blind box was opened last month, a lot of "status card gift packs" were opened.

He has a problem. When he sees a gift package, his hands will itch if he doesn't open it.

I swore I would never wear a new status card, so I opened it and saw it was real!!

After swearing a solemn oath with a rock gesture, Le Yan opened all the gift packs in the system.

The results are quite crazy.

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the status card "Unreliable". You can wear or remove it at any time in the system."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the status card "Unrefined". You can wear or remove it at any time in the system."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the status card "Water is too clear to have fish". You can wear or remove it at any time in the system."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the status card "Indiscriminate", which can be worn or removed at any time in the system."

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Le Yan stared at the system panel for more than ten minutes.

He was sure that it was not only himself who was growing, but also the system.

First, you need telekinesis to charge before you can play a song, and now the status card is different from before.

Isn't the system here to make him successful?
Is he here to accomplish the system?

"If we continue to work together, will you publish Tang poetry and Song lyrics? Will the final form be a paper?"

Le Yan complained and looked for the lucky one among the six-character status cards.

There are a lot of new products coming out this time, and time is limited, so he, as a guinea pig, has to choose the best ones.

"Change to another batch."

The system automatically turned a page, and Le Yan finally saw a beauty he liked.

Status card "A gentleman takes action rather than talks"?
You're the one who's going to have breakfast with me! Boom boom boom——

"Oh my god, the sky was clear just now, why is there suddenly lightning and thunder? I have to quickly close the window of the boss's office!" Xiao Xin said as he ran towards Le Yan's office.

"It must be that some scumbag swore a poisonous oath again, and God couldn't stand it anymore, so he struck him down!" Xuan Xuan thought of something and suddenly shouted at Xiao Xin's back, "Don't go, come back, Teacher Deng is in the boss' office, he will close the window."

Xiao Xin braked suddenly and turned back to ask Xuan Xuan:

"What is Teacher Deng doing in the boss's office?"

Xuan Xuan shook her head:

"I don't know. He seems to be on the phone. Don't disturb him."

"Okay," Xiao Xin bounced back to his workstation, "Then I'll continue writing articles for the boss."

"What are you writing? The boss hasn't even joined the crew yet, and you're already writing the PR draft for "Sweet Honey"?"

People who work in the entertainment industry have a working state like a rubber band monkey.

When there are projects, I am so busy that I feel like I have a sudden death. When there are no projects, I am so idle that I stay at home and pick my feet every day.

Le Yan’s vacation is also the vacation for everyone in the studio.

Jessica Hsuan is currently following TV series.

"Write a few more articles when you have nothing to do, to relieve some of the pressure in the next few months. This article is called "Li Xiaojun - A Romantic Young Man Going Against the Wind."

Deng Xuefeng has been feeling a little lost recently.

Before, every time Le Yan joined the crew, he would receive his professional guidance.

But this time when joining the crew of "Sweet Honey", no matter how much Deng Xuefeng asked, Le Yan would not let him help at all.

The child has grown up and no longer needs him.

In fact, Deng Xuefeng is also going to join a group soon, and join two groups in a row, one is the project he discussed himself, and the other is the superstar project arranged for him by Le Yan.

Before, it was Deng Xuefeng who helped Le Yan in his career.

Now the child not only doesn't need his help, but can also help him in return. Old Deng is both happy and anxious.

The good thing is that Le Yan takes him to heart.

What worries me is, when will he be able to help Le Yan?
Whenever he thought of these sad things, he would call Peng Yiwei.

"Why are you so slow? Is the movie finished? What stage is it in post-production? When will you present the award? Are you trying to frame me?"

Peng Yiwei is working very hard on the post-production, and the time has been compressed to the limit, but Lao Deng's emo frequency is too high recently.

No matter what reasons he gave, Deng Xuefeng, who had his inner demons, would refute them, and the words he said would be as unpleasant as possible.

Later, Peng Yiwei figured out a solution to the problem.

As long as the blame is put on Le Yan, Deng Xuefeng will shut up immediately.

"We are working on it, everything is under control, except for the song that LeYan wrote for the movie, which cannot be finalized yet. We want to wait and see the reaction of the song before deciding whether to use it. We will decide after LeYan appears on the variety show and the song is heard by the public."

This is a lie Peng Yiwei made up to fool Deng Xuefeng. In fact, the song had been decided long ago, and Li Yiran and Le Yan had already recorded the studio version for Peng Yiwei.

The show that Le Yan attended will not be broadcast until half a month later. If this reason is given, Deng Xuefeng can at least be quiet for half a month.

But Deng Xuefeng didn't know this. After hanging up the phone, he went out to find Xuan Xuan:

"What promotional activities will you take for the variety show Le Yan is going to be on?"

The movie can only be completed after Le Yan’s song is finalized.

And deciding on a song requires good public feedback.

How will you promote this song to the public?
This question made Xuan Xuan dumbfounded. Why did Teacher Deng suddenly ask about publicity?
He has always been in charge of administration.
"First this, then that, and finally this and that. Our actions will mesh with those of the variety show crew, leveraging each other's strengths to promote this episode well."

The artist’s variety show promotions need to cooperate with the program team, but the program team has not set a promotion strategy, and the studio has not started its own promotion plan.

As soon as the studio was established, Deng Xuefeng came to supervise the work as the boss's father, and Xuan Xuan and her group of young people were more or less afraid of him.

Seeing Deng Xuefeng asking about it, Xuan Xuan recited a passage based on her experience.

Deng Xuefeng thought for a while with his hands behind his back, then frowned and said:
“Can we do more without increasing the budget?”

Xuan Xuan's heart skipped a beat.

Not satisfied?
She sat upright and spoke quickly:
"Without increasing the budget, we can only ask other departments if there are any opportunities for collaboration, just like when promoting the new album and collaborating with Singer. I will go to Superstar and ask around now. Even if there is no program that can be linked, I will do a good job of internal promotion. Don't worry, Mr. Deng."

The coupling of a new album and "Singer" is a once-in-a-century event, so we usually don't spend time and effort looking for linkage projects.

But Deng Xuefeng asked, even though he knew the hope was slim, he still had to ask.

"Internal propaganda?" Deng Xuefeng found that he couldn't understand many of the words these young people said.

Xuan Xuan's heart skipped a beat again.

What the hell, Deng Xuefeng stays in the studio every day. Did he see me secretly watching the drama?

Is this my point??

She neatly put her hair back, entered combat mode, and said goodbye to the holiday:
"Internal publicity is to promote within the company, such as putting up roll-up banners in the cafeteria, hanging colorful flags on workstations, etc. Don't worry, I will apply for the highest level of internal publicity for the boss. I swear that on the day when the variety show is broadcast, even the stray dogs at the company gate must sit in front of the TV on time to watch the boss's heroic appearance!"

Deng Xuefeng nodded and walked away with his hands behind his back.

He only took two steps and he became emo again.

Even Xuan Xuan can help Le Yan
I'm such a waste!

Deng Xuefeng had already harassed Peng Yiwei once today, and this time he was venting his illness to Le Yan.

He opened LeYan's WeChat and sent a 59-second voice message.

"Don't just focus on the social environment and ignore the character's label and personality. Li Xiaojun is a literary youth in today's terms. He has knowledge, ambition and dreams. When such a person goes to Hong Kong and is knocked down by reality, the sense of conflict will be stronger. Pay attention to the details of the character."

Deng Xuefeng has been studying Le Yan's script.

He pointed out the point that he thought Le Yan was most likely to overlook.

If you don't let me take care of you, I will!
I'll take care of it!!

Deng Xuefeng types very slowly, so he mostly speaks voice messages.

And because he always has a lot of things to say to Le Yan, the voice messages are often long, 59 seconds long.

Every time Deng Xuefeng sent a 59-second bomb, Le Yan would reply with a 59-second bomb.

Even if you don't say anything, you have to leave it blank for 59 seconds before letting go.

Deng Xuefeng thought that this time Le Yan’s reply to him would definitely be a 59-second piece of nonsense.

Unexpectedly, Le Yan’s reply was actually a photo.

The photo shows a notebook with a line of neatly written words on it:

"I can do it, don't worry"

Deng Xuefeng suddenly raised the phone to his face and almost killed him with a face-to-face attack.

Le Yan's writing is vigorous and powerful, the font is elegant and full, and the font has its own style
He actually has beautiful handwriting?

How come I didn't notice it when I was teaching him? (End of this chapter)