China Entertainment 1997

Chapter 484 The three beauties of the stars and the three sons of the stars and Cao Xuan in the east and west

Japan, a dilapidated basement

Chang Wei was tied to a chair with a bruised nose and swollen face. He was splashed with cold water and woke up. He pulled out the rag from his mouth. Cao Xuan slapped Liu Tianxian's photo in his face and asked seriously.

"Where is this girl?"

"idiot!"

Chang Wei struggled and cursed angrily, but Cao Xuan didn't even blink and raised his hand to slap him in the face.

"speak English."

Chang Wei glared at him fiercely. Before that, the underground red light district he was responsible for was destroyed by Cao Xuan. He had just finished being scolded by his superiors and was hiding in a safe house to avoid the limelight. Cao Xuan, who had found clues, came to the door.

After a fierce battle, all of his men were killed. The leader was beaten up, and then he was taken to the basement for interrogation and asked about his sister's whereabouts.

As a gang leader who is in charge of a dark line of flesh and blood and has dozens of subordinates, Chang Wei is still a very strong character and is not intimidated by this momentum.

Instead, he began to threaten the male protagonist directly and arrogantly: "Who do you think you are? This is the territory of the Black Dragon Society. You are dead, hahaha."

After saying that, he spat bloody spit at Cao Xuan. Cao Xuan was not angry. He still had the same calm expression. He just pulled a machine that looked like a makeshift machine from the side.

"You're lucky. I stole the skills from the FBI. Americans are rough but powerful."

After that, he stuffed the rag into Chang Wei's mouth and pulled the switch of the machine. Chang Wei's face turned red and trembled in pain, the veins on his neck popped out, and the light bulb in the basement flickered.

Cao Xuan stepped aside and let the machine take a close-up of Chang Wei. The props of this machine were not fake, they had real electric shock effects.

In order to pursue a better performance, after communication, Chang Wei took the initiative to request electric shock assistance.

Of course, the actual effect is definitely not as painful as shown in the movie, and the impact on the body is minimal. It is more about helping the actor get into the scene, rather than risking the actor's life.

But even so, it was still a bit painful. Cao Xuan himself had tried it, which was probably equivalent to constant needle pricks. Anyway, he made the electricity grin.

When Chang Wei was filming by himself, he stopped immediately when he couldn't hold on any longer. It took him half an hour to shoot back and forth before he finished shooting several electric shock scenes.

Regardless of the actor's perspective, this episode was actually quite enjoyable to shoot.

Cao Xuan shocked Chang Wei, took off the rag from his mouth, and asked if he wanted to talk. Chang Wei groaned in pain, and Cao Xuan pushed the switch up again without saying a word.

After going back and forth twice, Chang Wei gave up.

After all, he is just a gang leader, and he has a certain degree of toughness. If he could forget all the physical torture, he wouldn't be like this.

When he explained that the heroine was regarded as a high-end product because she was virginal and beautiful, she had been resold to an auction, and was now in the hands of a man named Kato Ohki.

Cao Xuan asked where the man named Kato Daiki was. Chang Wei said that he did not know, and begged that everything he said was true, and asked the other party to let him go.

"I believe you, but there is a price to pay for what you do."

Cao Xuan reached out and pulled the switch to full, then stood up and left. Chang Wei let out a painful and desperate wail under the flickering light bulbs.

In the next scene, Cao Xuan did not go far. He was standing not far from the basement smoking. When he heard there was no wailing in the basement, he looked at his watch, pinched off his cigarette butts and left.

However, whether this scene will be added to the finished film depends on the specific rhythm. The male protagonist will be more handsome if he leaves directly, clean and decisive.

Adding this paragraph can better reflect the male protagonist's caution. For many people, finishing the attack or waiting for the opponent to die is another feeling of pleasure.

and. Considering the villain character of Chang Wei and the tragic deaths of several girls including his best friend, making his death more miserable will give the audience a better viewing experience.

At the same time, it also implies the anger of the male protagonist. According to the plot, as time goes by, the sister's situation becomes more and more dangerous, his heart becomes more manic and nervous, and his methods become more and more extreme and violent.

But this is all considered in post-production.

Fortunately for TV dramas, the basic framework is here. Apart from partial changes during filming, it is difficult to directly subvert the entire framework.

Due to the limited duration of a movie, it is actually easy to change the script. It is also common for the script to be changed during filming, or for the plot to have multiple branches.

A 90-minute movie often requires more than three hours of effective material, and some directors can even shoot for five hours.

Therefore, post-production is also regarded as the real creation of a film. Some directors who do not have editing rights can only be said to be film-making tools.

Cao Xuan doesn't like to make movies from other companies because he can keep an eye on the editing of his own movies.

The plot structure and finished product effects of several previous movies are similar to the original ones. Not only the script, but Cao Xuan also contributed a lot to the post-production.

There have been rumors in the industry that Jiang Wen Xiba is a powerful minister, holding great power and leading the emperor (director) to command the princes, while Cao Xuan is the supreme emperor who seems to care about nothing, but if he doesn't nod his head in everything, the director can't do anything.

Because of this, Cao Xuan simply stopped acting. In the past, movies such as "New World" could only have a producer.

In recent movies, such as "Painted Skin", "Hurricane Rescue", "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff", etc., Cao Xuan has directly served as the producer, and he has legitimately participated in the movies.

Of course, he is not the only one in the industry. Many big-name actors will seek a certain say in the crew, or even complete dominance.

Although he was not the director of Cheng Long's films, he basically served as the producer. The most outrageous one was "Zodiac", where he held 15 or 17 positions at the same time, breaking the Guinness World Record.

Although it is more of a gimmick, it also shows Cheng Long's desire to control every detail of his film, which of course can also be called responsible for the work.

The same is true for Cao Xuan. He invested the money, and all the crew members are his. If they see any unsatisfactory situation, they must take care of it. It's not about overstepping their authority. In fact, it has nothing to do with the drama boss.

But outsiders can still relate to him if they understand it this way. It doesn't matter to Cao Xuan personally. He is a domineering actor. He has the capital to be domineering.

Some people even wanted to beg him to become a drama tycoon in another crew, but Cao Xuan didn't have the leisure and leisure...

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After filming this scene, Chang Wei wrapped up filming, and Cao Xuan left a special phone number.

This villain is very good and very distinctive. If we film other movies in the future, we may be able to continue working together.

Even if it's an action movie that makes it to Hollywood.

This villain who claims not to act in Hollywood does not want other races to be the protagonists, where justice defeats evil Chinese and affects the image of the Chinese.

But with Cao Xuan as the protagonist and there is no slander in the script, even if there is a Chinese villain, it will not damage the image, it will be a normal role allocation.

This is the case in "The King of Kung Fu" from the original time and space, which was also released in the United States, but with Cheng Long and Jet Li present, and with an oriental background, Chang Wei played the villain in a down-to-earth manner.

So as long as there is no slander, there is no need to be too sensitive by adding two Chinese villains.

In fact, the Chinese-Canadian actors are there to cheer people up. Otherwise, "Taken" would only feature Japanese villains and it would still not affect the plot development.

But if Chang Wei and Wu Jing get these two roles, they will be able to show their faces in Asia and even Europe and the United States to a certain extent, which will help their careers.

Although Cao Xuan has a high status in the music world, it is very difficult to bring Chinese singers to the international stage.

He is so popular not only because his songs are good, but more importantly because he is a "singer-songwriter", which is a great plus. Cao Xuan's most famous nickname in the overseas music scene is "Oriental Music Magician".

Unless you are a singer yourself and have extremely high creative ability, Cao Xuan can help pave the way.

Otherwise, Cao Xuan would have to copy the song himself and praise it, but this is no different from taking off his pants and farting. He might as well do it himself, and his inventory is not too big.

Prior to this, Wang, Lin Junjie, and Sun Yanzi had all released English albums or singles, and Cao Xuan also helped lead the way and even promoted them on his blog.

But there is a difference between cheating and not cheating. All of them failed, and not even one of them made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.

Xiao Zhou, the only one with extremely high creative ability, is a mess in English, and he only sticks to Chinese songs, and has only a mediocre interest in breaking into the European and American music scene.

In comparison, the film industry is relatively easy. A good movie can accumulate some fame. If Cao Xuan can stand out, pull and pull, it’s hard to say how many second- and third-tier international action stars or Actresses still have confidence.

Of course, whether they can gain a foothold in Hollywood in the future depends on them.

And considering the booming domestic market, going to Hollywood may not be the right answer.

Both International Chapter and Li Bingbing are good examples. The former decisively returned to China and was able to share some of the pie. Li Bingbing was obviously a step too late. He had no resources to stay in Hollywood and could not grab a good piece of pie when he returned to China, and it was difficult to let it go. worth.

It is said that she has transformed herself into a boss behind the scenes because of her age, but anyone with a discerning eye can see her embarrassing situation, so much so that even Peng Yuyan dared to use Jiang Wen to compete with her for the position.

If he were really a big shot like Cao Xuan, even if he went to Hollywood for eight years and didn't come back, he wouldn't dare to compete with Cao Xuan for a position if he had the courage to do so.

What kind of heavenly banquet, he asked these people to go to the "underworld" together...

After Chang Wei finished filming, two new actors were added to the cast. Wang Luoyong played the role of an embassy official, and Yano Koji played Cao Xuan's friend, an official who colludes with gangsters.

The latter is the host of "Tiantian Shang Shang". He is a Japanese officer who has acted in many anti-war films, such as Saito in "Little Soldier Zhang Ga". He is a Japanese actor familiar to domestic audiences.

For this role, I wanted to cast a Chinese actor, but later my Japanese skills were not good enough and the dubbing felt a bit inconsistent, so I chose Yano Koji.

This person is bilingual in Chinese and Japanese, which makes it easier for acting and communication, and his acting skills are not bad.

In fact, this person can be regarded as an "employee" of Cao Xuan to a certain extent. The important Japanese officer in "Railway Guerrillas" he invested in before was played by Koji Yano.

Afterwards, Fanxing Republic of China Film and Television City signed a short-term special contract with several Japanese actors or Japanese language practitioners such as Yano Koji.

During this period, Yano Koji and others joined the base to solve the problem of the shortage of Japanese actors in the base's Anti-Japanese War crew.

It is said that Koji Yano and these others compiled a booklet with basic Japanese translations of Japanese actors.

The booklet contains basic Japanese soldier terms such as "charge," "got it," "stop," "lay down," and "retreat," which can be easily fooled by the extras without lengthy dialogue.

Later, I heard that this booklet was also spread to other film and television bases such as Hengdian. It was very popular and became one of the must-buy books for many introductory group acting classes.

And Koji Yano, whose job was not stable in the past, also received notices of mercy in Zaoichi.

In less than a year, Yano Koji played four Japs officers and a Japanese minister of the Republic of China in the Starry Republic Film and Television Base. Among them, he died three times and was captured once. It can be said that he has "great military exploits."

This time I also got the opportunity to play an important supporting role in Cao Xuan's movie, which can be said to be a meteoric rise.

Cao Xuan originally deceived those Japanese actors, but now that he has a good example like Yano Koji, he encourages them even more vigorously.

There are many roles and great prospects, so don’t hesitate...

The character of Koji Yano is set to have joined a certain mercenary organization with the male protagonist. Later, he retired and returned to his country, and found a job as a police officer.

The male protagonist has no acquaintance in Japan, so he asks him for help. The man seems to be kind, but he doesn’t let the male protagonist get involved in the investigation at all.

Cao Xuan, who was anxious, had no choice but to take action himself, inevitably going too far. Then he was surrounded by his old comrade and his men, who were preparing to deport him.

I originally thought it was the conflict between the procedural policeman and the lone hero. In fact, in the movie, the male protagonist and the embassy also have a similar conflict.

But later, as things progressed, we found out that this old Japanese comrade-in-arms was in the same den as the gangster Snake Rat. Instead of deporting him, we wanted to kill him.

Adding this character will promote the plot to a certain extent, and at the same time, it will further shape the image of the male protagonist as a lone hero.

At the same time, a bug was also fixed, that is, the male protagonist did not trust the embassy due to various obstructions from his old comrades, so he rarely relied on the embassy's power. It was not until the end that the embassy made a crucial move and finally proved that he was decent.

"Taken" itself is a fast-paced film. Except for the action setting and some big scenes, the rest of the filming was actually very fast.

I moved to Japan at the beginning of October, and by the end of October I had almost finished filming half of it.

At this time, the crew of "Hurricane Rescue" was suspended for two days, and Cao Xuan went to Xiangjiang to attend Mr. Huo's funeral.

In late October, the old man passed away. Whether it was the friendship between the two or the help the Huo family had given him before, Cao Xuan had to express his feelings, so he stopped working and went to Xiangjiang in person to express his condolences.

On the other side, Liu Tianxian finally got the Golden Eagle Goddess, wore a specially tailored dress, and returned to China to participate in various activities of the Golden Eagle Festival.

As mentioned before, winning the Golden Eagle Goddess was a great help to Liu Tianxian and completely established her position as the number one little girl in the new generation.

In the past two years, as the reputations of Hu Jing and other four female actors have continued to rise, they have long since broken away from the limitations of popular actors and become real top actresses in the industry.

In fact, the Four Little Huadans are somewhat outdated and should be called the Four Great Huadans.

Therefore, there has been a heated debate among the public that it is time to select the second generation of Four Little Actresses. The selection range is basically those born in the 1980s.

Among them, the most popular candidate is Liu Tianxian. Basically everyone believes that no matter who is selected for the next term, she will definitely be one of the four little actresses, and she will even sit there and wait for one.

As for the remaining candidates, the quarrel was fiercer. Someone suggested Fan Xiaopang. After all, she was born in 1981 and can be considered a post-80s generation.

However, she became famous too early, and in the past two years she has been marketing "Four Dan Double Soldiers" a lot, so people automatically put her in the category of Hu Jing and Zhou Gongzi.

Gao Yuanyuan has also had good momentum in the past two years, but because he was born in the 1970s, he was directly passed.

Apart from Liu Tianxian among the stars, Dong Xuan is currently the most promising candidate for the top four roles. Da Mimi was reluctantly nominated, but her background is slightly shallow.

The outside world is a mess, and everyone is there. The examples of Hu Jing and the four people are right in front of us. Everyone wants to take advantage of the benefits.

But in fact, Fanxing is not very enthusiastic about the new four actresses. If you want to speculate on CP, you have to stir up fresh ones, and cold rice doesn’t taste good.

The New Four Heavenly Kings have been buzzing for so many years, and there are a few that really recognize them. The so-called [Beicao and Southern Zhou] is not as classic as [Nanren and Beicao] in everyone's mind.

There are four major Huadans in front of them, and if they have four minor Huadans, their influence will definitely be suppressed, and it will be difficult to stand up.

Besides, among the candidates for the Four Little Actresses, less than half were made up of numbers, and most of the rest were incomparable to Liu Tianxian. To put it bluntly, they were just taking advantage of Tianxian's popularity and forcibly promoting themselves.

It’s not that Fanxing is opposed to promoting celebrities. This kind of situation is very common in the entertainment industry.

Their own boss also relied on Ren Xianqi's promotion when he debuted, and has been used by many anti-fans to make trouble.

So Fanxing didn't object to this approach, but Liu Tianxian was the one they had managed to win. They would not praise outsiders if they wanted to, but it would be better to help the company's own people.

Damimi, in particular, is gaining momentum this year, and the company will soon tailor-make an idol drama "The Heirs."

Therefore, within Fanxing, we are thinking about whether to let Liu Tianxian and Da Mimi form a CP, such as [Fanxing Double Beauty] or add Dong Xuan, Lan Xi, Guo Zhenni, Yang Xue, and Gu Miaomiao to make a [Fanxing Seven Fairies].

However, this would be too unreliable, and several artists have developed differently. If we really want to focus on all first-line artists, we still have to select some with good potential.

So in the end there were only Liu Tianxian, Damimi, and Gu Miaomiao.

Needless to say about the first two, the latter is now the hottest new-generation super-popular female singer in the Mainland. At the beginning of this year, Cao Xuan personally produced two title songs for the new album, "Fairy Tale Town" and "The Most Beautiful Expectation". Topped all major rankings.

Cao Xuan has written three songs for Gu Miaomiao in total. There was also a song "You Must Be Happy" before that, all of which are her masterpieces.

Compared to other singers, she is treated like a daughter, so much so that the outside world spread rumors that this beautiful singer must have been taken over by Cao Daguan.

Otherwise, why don’t you see him writing songs for others?

You know, Zhang Jie, known as Xiao Cao Xuan, was the winner of the first season of "Tomorrow Star", and Cao Xuan wrote a song "This is Love" for him.

If outsiders knew that "This Is Love" is actually Zhang Jie's masterpiece from the original time and space, they would probably clamor for his partiality.

Cao Xuan must also admit that he has a greater desire to write songs for female singers than for male singers.

After all, even if nothing else is considered, the adoring and grateful eyes of a beautiful girl are very comforting. If a male singer does this, Cao Xuan's first reaction is to slap him in the face.

In addition, another reason why he focuses on cultivating Gu Miaomiao is that this girl is beautiful, extremely popular, and has the strongest commercial value among the star singers.

Well, except for Dao Lang in his peak period...

Others, even Phoenix Legend, are weaker. At the same time, Gu Miaomiao is also the first singer from "Tomorrow's Star" to hold a solo concert, and also has the highest commercial income such as endorsements.

This year's second album has made her even more popular, and she has become a little queen in mainland China.

With Fanxing's current strength and resources, it is possible to push her to the position of queen of the new generation.

After all, among the Taiwanese singers, except for a few such as Sun Yanzi, Cai Yilin, and Zhang Shaohan, there really weren't many who could stand up to Gu Miaomiao head-on.

They all dare to be called Queen of Heaven, and Gu Miaomiao certainly deserves it.

If it didn't work out, Cao Xuan would give her two English singles and go to Europe and the United States to get gold-plated. He might just fuck Wang Fei when he came back.

Gu Miaomiao was almost a singer trained by Cao Xuan himself. In the original time and space, there was no trace of the fame of this little mainland queen.

It was Cao Xuan who turned stone into gold, turning Gu Miaomiao, who was unknown at that time, into a hot star now.

Therefore, compared to other company artists, Cao Xuan has a more complicated view of Gu Miaomiao.

Even in Cao Xuan's heart, Gu Miaomiao was the disciple he truly trained.

In this regard, even Liu Tianxian, Damimi and Taylor from the United States are ranked behind. After all, they all have certain achievements in the original time and space, and Cao Xuan is just pulling and optimizing.

And Gu Miaomiao was raised as a pure vegetarian!

It is precisely because of this that Cao Xuan could not hide his preference and gave Gu Miaomiao the most support among all the star singers.

Cao Xuan was even thinking about whether to take Gu Miaomiao into his disciple before Taylor and let Taylor be the second disciple. Gu Miaomiao was the founding disciple.

But no matter what, Gu Miaomiao is indeed the most popular among the star singers now, maybe a little less than Liu Tianxian, but definitely more popular than Damimi.

Due to her popularity, high potential, and outstanding looks, Gu Miaomiao is actually more suitable to form "Starry Beauty" with Liu Tianxian than Da Mimi, but Da Mimi seems to be riding on the popularity.

However, considering that Da Mimi is the company's key training target, and the girl from Donggong opened the back door, she was finally able to join the ranks of the "Three Beauties of Stars", enjoying a wave of popularity and bundling marketing.

The so-called "Three Beauties of Stars" is not just the final number. In the future, if there are actresses with high popularity and potential, they can be added to become four or five beauties. The bottom line is still very flexible.

In fact, if Gao Yuanyuan was slightly older, Dong Xuan was a Buddhist, and his development momentum was limited, these two might have been added.

There was also Liu Yan, who was initially one of the candidates, but later considered that this girl was too lethal and more attractive to fight alone, so she was not included.

In addition, the male artists of Fanxing also formed the "Three Fans" - Yan Kuan, Hu Ge, and Qiao Zhenyu.

In fact, according to the original plan, these handsome guys were the "Fair Stars", but in the end they were the first to get there, and they became "The Stars".

Originally, the company wanted to hire Jiao Enjun, but he declined because he thought he was a little older.

Besides, he is one of the three handsome men also known as [Cao Xuan of Dongjiao and Xiguzhong], so there is no need to play with these juniors.

Huang Bo wanted to join but was strongly rejected, but was ruthlessly rejected. He went to Duan Long to form a CP, but was also disliked...

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ps: Friendly book recommendation, the new book "Little Guan Gong" by a high-quality historical author, Guan Yu's son Guan Ping repeatedly traveled through the world of the Three Kingdoms and the Republic of China. It is quite interesting.