superstar director

Chapter 313

"Ning Cheng's new film's male lead has been delayed for a long time, and many first-line movie stars have been rejected in auditions. Just when we thought that only the actor can satisfy Ning Cheng, director Ning Sheng gave the final answer with a TV star!" - ——China Entertainment News.

"Ning Cheng's new martial arts film "Swordsman" has finally released its leading role, but the candidates are far beyond all expectations. Ning Cheng rejected many first-line stars in the film industry with a strict and even harsh attitude, but in the end Ning Cheng The chosen male lead is indeed an idol who has only acted in a few TV dramas—Ding Xuan!"--Huaxia Film Express.

"Does Ding Xuan have the qualities that Ning Cheng asked for from other auditioned movie stars? Can we see the so-called prodigal feelings, unrestrained and uninhibited from Ding Xuan? Even in Ding Xuan's previous TV drama works, we can see that What is it? A Fei's coldness? Zhang Wuji's honesty? But he doesn't have the so-called prodigal personality? Then, how did Ning Cheng see that Ding Xuan possessed the things he wanted? Could it be that Ding Xuan suddenly surpassed his acting skills? God? Or is he possessed by Ning Chen's movie hero "Linghu Chong"?" --- Huaxia Film and Television News.

Facing the news of Ding Xuan playing the leading role in "Swordsman", Ning Sheng responded coldly at the opening ceremony of the movie, "I want to choose Ding Xuan as the leading actor because I think he is the actor I need. As for other people's doubts, I have nothing to explain. When the film is finally released, everyone will know by going to the cinema to see it for themselves. It is useless to say more!"

Ning Sheng's answer made the reporters try their best to make it up, but they could only come up with two points of view: "One, Ning Sheng deliberately set up a trap in order to attract audiences into the movie theater, so that everyone can remain curious." After more than half a year, it is doubtful how many people will be able to maintain this curiosity by then. Of course, idlers who watch gossip and join in the fun don't care.In other words, for them, the whole matter is not worth paying attention to, it's just another topic for chatting.

"Second, because of his good friend relationship with Ding Xuan, Ning Cheng intentionally used this method to make news for Ding Xuan to increase the exposure of the movie and Ding Xuan!" Many people dismissed this argument, Ning Sheng Does He Ding Xuan still need to use this method to increase exposure?

Wherever the two of them went, there were countless paparazzi following them, and they couldn't hide away. What's more, as soon as Ning Sheng's new movie plan was revealed, the film and television media and entertainment media across the country and all of Asia immediately rushed over. Hearing any news about the new movie, he wished he could tear down Ning Sheng's studio.

In this way, the two alone are big stars who are chasing after the paparazzi. When they are together, they don’t need to say anything, and the media can follow the situation for a day. Do you really need to use other things to increase exposure?
The media outside made a fuss about saying nothing, but Ning Sheng brought the entire crew to Hengdian Film and Television City to start filming "Swordsman".

At the end of September, the No.40 China Starlight Awards Ceremony was held at the Magic City Cultural Center. The Starlight Awards is a selection event for all the wonderful TV shows and movies in the past year in Asia. This selection method is different from the Golden Tripod Awards , there are not so many professional judges and jury, all the awards are decided by the votes of audiences from all over the country, even the whole of Asia.

Therefore, this is an award that is completely commercialized and judged entirely by their popularity. Of course, it is also an award for young people.

"Dragon Inn", as a martial arts blockbuster that created a box office record last year, is naturally the favorite of many young people. Therefore, this year's Starlight Awards "Dragon Inn" has once again been nominated in all film awards, and as a The director of "Dragon Inn", Ning Sheng was also nominated for the best director, so on the night of the awards, Ning Sheng, Lin Qingxia, Zhang Manyu and others who were on leave to attend the awards ceremony all appeared together.

Lin Qingxia, Zhang Manyu, and Liang Jiahui are actually rarely nominated for the Starlight Award. Some of them are the first time, and some are the second time. Apart from the fact that their previous films were biased towards literature and art, they were not liked by the young people. It is also a big reason that the movies at the box office are not the most dazzling. For example, Liang Jiahui in "Prison Storm" and "God of Gamblers", because of the powerful halo of Fa Ge, the nominations for the Starlight Awards are all Fa Ge, Even though he was finally nominated for Best Supporting Actor once, he was robbed of the final award by professional golden supporting actor Umonda.

Therefore, everyone is very happy at this awards ceremony, not only because of being nominated, but also because the award itself is not so serious, because it is a popular vote award for the audience, and it has little to do with your acting skills and strength. At the Golden Tripod Awards, the nominated films and stars are not nominated here at all, so this is a test that only depends on the popularity and popularity of you and your works among the audience last year.

It can be said that this is a very relaxed and stress-free awards ceremony. Winning an award means that your work and popularity last year were very high. Not winning an award means that someone is more popular than you in the same position. That’s all. For movie stars The acting skills and status that they care most about actually have no effect.It's just a pure popularity award.

Of course, being able to win this award can also prove your popularity, and it will also be beneficial in business.

And because of the rules of audience voting, every award-winning film and star will invisibly gain fame and popularity. This is a mutual influence and a very beneficial thing.

"Dragon Inn" is a big hit at this year's awards ceremony. As expected, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress were all selected In Ning Cheng's heart, Qiu Moyan and Jin Xiangyu are both heroines, but it is not impossible for them to automatically turn Qiu Moyan into a supporting actress in terms of the number of roles in the play and the reasoning of the plot. Anyway, they can win an extra award. Lin Qingxia herself was very happy to express her award-winning feelings, and Ning Sheng naturally happily accepted the award ceremony's great love for "Dragon Inn"!
The crew of "Dragon Inn" won a big win at the Starlight Awards, and the box office of the summer file is also the martial arts film "A Rider"!
This summer, among the dozens of newly released movies, martial arts movies accounted for half, and half of the top ten box office positions in the final summer file were also martial arts movies.

The media commented one after another that "the new style of martial arts will bring a new spring to such films in China!", "China's film market will enter a blowout period for martial arts films!", "the new style of martial arts films will become the most profitable genre in the Asian film market." !” Wait, even some old-school martial arts directors and stars are transitioning to new-style martial arts, and some old-school martial arts classics have become popular movies remade by new-style martial arts.

However, in these "martial arts hot" reports, some filmmakers expressed their own worries, "After the martial arts is extremely prosperous, and after the martial arts films are released together, we will be greeted by audiences who are bored with martial arts films. Now martial arts films are released like crazy. I will bury my glory with my own hands!"

There is no way for any country or region to stop filming genres with good box office success following the trend, and it is the same for Hollywood. , who can resist the temptation to make money, deliberately not to shoot, and then give the opportunity to make money to others?
Just like Ning Sheng's previous life, Hollywood hero blockbusters followed this one, and everyone who watched them became numb afterward, as if Hollywood blockbusters were represented by hero blockbusters.Even the box office of some heroic films has become more and more difficult to improve.

Don't those Hollywood film and television companies know that repeating a genre of film audiences will get bored?But if you don't shoot other people will shoot, no one wants to let go of those predictable income.

Of course, under such circumstances, what we have to do is to produce as many better works as possible, not to use junk movies to make up for the number, and at the same time try to develop other types of movies, so that the audience can choose other types of movies and adjust their viewing. Experience, so that you won't be shrouded in martial arts movies all year round, and finally just watch it and vomit.

This kind of major event that affects the industry naturally does not need a small director like Ning Sheng to worry about it. The bosses of those film and television companies will naturally think about it. The actual Huaxia Film and Television is mature, and they will naturally use mature methods and techniques to adjust this temporary bad situation.

For example, after the release of martial arts films in the summer file, in the second half of the year until the Spring Festival, there are almost no shadows of martial arts films, and most of them are romance, comedy, drama, war, action and other genres. of the video.

The weather in Hengdian in October is not so hot, but at noon, the temperature is still not low, so Ning Sheng did not turn on the machine at noon, and the filming resumed after three o'clock in the afternoon, when the temperature was not so high.

What is about to be filmed now is that Zuo Lengchan, the leader of the Five Sacred Mountains, came to see Liu Xun, the owner of Dongchang, and after a battle with Ouyang Quan, Liu Xun arranged a task to snatch back the secret book "Sunflower Treasure" from Lin Zhennan.

In the original version of Zuo Lengchan, the martial arts of the Songshan school were not used in the martial arts of the novel. Ning Cheng felt that in order to adapt the TV series in the future and try to be as close as possible to the original, those martial arts moves should not be changed. Zuo Lengchan’s martial arts are still It is better to use Ice God Palm, Great Songyang God Palm and Songshan Sword Technique.

Moreover, Ning Cheng set the action scene here so that Zuo Lengchan first fights Ouyang Quan with the Great Songyang God Palm, and after a few moves, there is no winner, and then Zuo Lengchan beats Ouyang Quan with the Ice God Palm Injured, and then was blocked by Mr. Dongchang during the second palm.

As for the Songshan Sword Art, I will use it at night when I go to grab the cheats.

Needless to say, the shooting of martial arts scenes is very hard, especially when Ning Sheng brought the magic weapon of Wia to the action scenes, the action scenes are even more difficult and dangerous. In order to shoot the few minutes in this movie, Gu Tianle insisted on shooting all afternoon over and over again before finishing it.

After dinner, I packed up and rested, and then changed the location, just in time to start filming the scene at Lin's house at night.

The staff took their positions, and Ning Sheng stood behind the camera, looking at the camera.

In Lin Zhai's room, Linghu Chong played by Ding Xuan and his younger junior sister Zhou Huimin were in the room. Ding Xuan was checking the situation outside the window when the younger junior sister who was taking a bath in the bathtub suddenly stood up and shouted, "Senior brother!"

Linghu Chong turned his head when he heard the sound, and with an oops, he quickly turned his head and said with "disgust" in embarrassment, "Why did you stand up!"

The little junior sister didn't care at all, while wiping the water stains on her body, she said, "The water is getting cold, hurry up and bring me a piece of clothing."

"Ca——" Ning Cheng shook his head, walked over to Ding Xuan who played Linghu Chong, and said, "Brother Xuan, your expression is not in place. We have analyzed Linghu Chong many times before. He is a chic and unrestrained prodigal son. There is still a difference between men and women, but the junior sister grew up with him, and they came from naked together. Linghu Chong has no love for the junior sister in his heart. Therefore, when Linghu Chong saw Junior Sister's body, he felt more embarrassment, dislike of Junior Sister's reckless behavior and family-like complaints, but he would not have any other thoughts, understand?"

Ding Xuan nodded and said, "I'll find out how I feel." Ning Cheng hummed, then turned to his junior sister Zhou Huimin and said, "Sister Zhou, your character has been like a boy since childhood, and everyone's brothers and sisters are also like a boy. You are used to being like a boy, but girls deliberately show their girly side in front of seniors because of their admiration for seniors. So in the situation just now, it’s not that you don’t understand the relationship between men and women at all, but At the beginning of love, I deliberately want my senior brother to see the difference between me and discover my feminine beauty, so your expression is mainly shy and expectant, understand?"

Zhou Huimin, who was wearing a bra, wondered, "Director, I don't know what the expression should look like. Can you give me someone to learn from?"

Ning Cheng looked at the actors on the set, and there was no one who could act as a demonstration. If it was on the set of "Dragon Inn", he could ask Lin Qingxia and Zhang Manyu to give him a demonstration, but now, apart from Zhou Hui ordered himself, only Guan Zhilin and Yuan Jieying were left, and Ning Sheng simply called Yuan Jieying, the best acting of the three of them, over and said, "Aying, talk to Sister Zhou and tell her about her acting skills."

As for the rest, Ning Chen can only watch the actors figure it out on their own. Zhou Huimin is fine, even if his acting skills are poor, it will not affect the plot, but Ding Xuan's acting skills must be watched to death. Ning Cheng has already decided in his heart that if Ding Xuan's performance can't meet his requirements, so he has to be a "bad director" who keeps shouting cards and makes actors repeat infinitely!

Even if the progress of the entire crew is delayed in the end, Ning Sheng will not relax his quality requirements. Moreover, he decided to use Ding Xuan at the beginning, not just because of the relationship between the two, but because Ding Xuan's audition made Ning Cheng see it. The potentials that Ding Xuan can discover, of course, the final choice of Ding Xuan has something to do with the fact that there was no suitable actor at that time, and the relationship between the two of them. However, the main reason is that Ding Xuan convinced Ning Sheng that he would It's a Linghu Chong who satisfies himself!

So, no matter what, Ning Cheng will only be more strict with this drama, especially Ding Xuan, and will never relax the requirements!
(End of this chapter)