China Entertainment 1997

"Someone Like Me" became a hit all over the Internet. Cao Xuan himself did not make many appearances except for two interviews.

In early November, after he finished filming the scene in "The Founding of the Party", he flew directly to New York, USA, to film the movie "Eagle Eye" within two days of staying at home.

At the filming site, Cao Xuan met the film’s main creators.

Scarlett Johansson, the Black Widow, still has the red hair and black leather look in the movie.

The two had actually met before. Scarlett even gave Cao Xuan an award at the Grammy Awards. At that time, he felt that the other person's blond hair was not used to him. This time, he felt much more comfortable.

"Cao, this time we have to fight side by side for a long time."

Scarlett, the widowed sister, made a gesture of holding a gun with both hands, which was a pun. The two are close comrades in the movie. They will also shoot several Marvel movies together outside of the movie. It is likely that they will work together for several years. It is indeed a good relationship. Fight alongside.

"My pleasure."

Cao Xuan and the widowed sister hugged each other gently, thinking silently.

He has already collaborated with several of the most popular actresses in Hollywood in later generations, including Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Gal Gadot. It is estimated that with two more, he will be on the must-kill list of many male fans...

After the widowed sister was the second male lead, Andrew Garfield. He was very excited to see Cao Xuan and was eager to take a photo and post it on Twitter.

Compared with the widowed sister who has been famous for many years, this guy is just a newcomer. It was not until the release of "The Social Network" in which he starred last month that it took home nearly 100 million U.S. dollars at the box office in North America.

However, don't say that he hasn't changed his mind from the stage of ordinary actor. Even if he has changed his mind, he is still not enough in front of Cao Xuan.

Therefore, when Andrew Garfield was on the set of "Eagle Eye", he had a strong star-chasing mentality towards big names like Cao Xuan and Widow Sister.

It is estimated that he will not be able to build up his confidence in front of Cao Xuan and others until he appears in "The Amazing Spider-Man" and officially becomes a top Hollywood actor.

The actors who played Crossfire and Taskmaster were white and black, and Cao Xuan was not very familiar with them, so everyone greeted them as usual.

It's a pity that Marvel finally didn't use the Chinese actor he recommended. You must know that Taskmaster is not dead in the movie, and he is very likely to appear again in the future, and he can be regarded as an important villain.

Crazy Doctor Egghead, Marvel also did not use Fried Chicken Uncle and Lao Bai.

The former is because the schedule is not suitable, and the latter is because Marvel feels that Cao Xuan and Lao Bai have already collaborated in "Taken 2" and it is easy for the audience to get upset.

So in the end, Marvel hired British actor Ralph Fiennes, who plays Lord Voldemort in "Harry Potter."

It is worth mentioning that this Voldemort is actually very handsome, a melancholy British uncle, and very mature and charming.

But at the same time, he is also a very professional actor. He played a faceless monster in "Harry Potter". This time he received the invitation to "Eagle Eye" and shaved his head without hesitation.

The above six actors are basically the starring roles in the movie "Eagle Eye", and there are also some supporting roles and guest roles.

For example, SHIELD Director Fury, Deputy Director Hill, Iron Man Tony, etc.

When Cao Xuan joined the set, the filming had not officially started yet. He and the other main creators arrived at the same time. The director first held a research meeting before starting makeup trials and filming.

The entire process was kept secret, and there were no routine launch promotions or media visits.

But paparazzi in Hollywood are not just freeloaders. There are at least hundreds of people in a crew, coming in and out, so how can it be completely kept secret?

Soon, someone on the Internet broke the news that a new Marvel movie was being filmed, and it was suspected that it would be the fourth Marvel superhero after Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor to have a personal movie.

At the beginning, no one knew who the protagonist of this new movie would be, and speculation continued in the media and on the Internet.

However, everyone still knows the general plan of Marvel, so they are all guessing at the heroes of the Avengers.

Some people say it's a new version of the Hulk, some people think it's Ant-Man, and some people think it's the atomic bomb.

Hulk and Ant-Man are the original members of the Avengers, along with Thor, Iron Man and the Wasp.

Now Iron Man and Thor are available, and even Captain America, who joined later, has also made his own movie, so the Hulk and Ant-Man have the best chance.

As for the atomic bomb, he is a good friend of Hulk Banner. His abilities are similar to those of the Hulk. In addition, he also has a special [power of destiny], which is equivalent to becoming a screenwriter and changing settings for himself. It is very awesome.

This hero can also be regarded as an early hero of the Avengers. There have been rumors on the Internet that the Hulk is in copyright trouble and Marvel intends to replace it with Abomination or the Atomic Bomb.

In addition, there are also many people who guess other superheroes.

There is no way, there are dozens of official heroes in the Avengers, and there are also many founding veterans, and no one is sure which new hero it is.

Quicksilver, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Black Knight, Hercules, etc...

The heroes in the early days of The Avengers were basically stripped of everything, until someone took a Reuters photo of Scarlett Johansson wearing a costume on a location in New York, and the Internet began to tend to think that the new movie might be Black Widow's solo movie.

Soon, Marvel officials also acknowledged this statement: Marvel President Kevin Feige said in an interview.

"We do have plans for a new movie, and Scarlett Johansson is a core cast member for both the new movie and The Avengers."

Not long after, the widow sister posted a photo of her work on the set on Twitter with the text "Happy at work", and the costume and makeup were exactly what Black Widow was in fighting condition.

Now everyone is fully aware of it, and a large number of media have followed up with reports, and even some Chinese and Asian media have joined in the fun.

In "Iron Man 2", the widowed sister performed well and left a deep impression on many viewers, which can be said to have accumulated an initial popularity base in China.

The news that Marvel's "Black Widow" movie is being filmed is very popular, but it has confused many insiders. The Queen of the East Palace couldn't help but call to inquire.

"Didn't you talk about filming "Hawkeye"? Why did it become "Black Widow"?"

"Who makes Marvel like surprises?"

Cao Xuan was also a little helpless. Marvel has always had a bad habit of "false publicity". In order to prevent spoilers and keep confidentiality, the trailers were faked many times. They were nicknamed "trailer cheats" and even used fake scripts to fool the actors.

Marvel has always defined Cao Xuan's joining as a surprise, and plans to announce it when "Thor" is released, so netizens on the Internet are guessing and simply taking advantage of it.

As for what Kevin Feige said, it's not a lie. Scarlett Johansson is indeed the core actor of the two movies, but he didn't say it.

Even if Cao Xuan hadn't stopped him, Kevin Feige would have planned to show all the Black Widow footage in the first trailer of "Hawkeye" and wait until the second trailer to announce the new movie as "Hawkeye."

However, Cao Xuan believed that this was akin to selling dog meat to others.

In order to keep it secret during the filming period, it was just a bit of a cover-up, and since the words were not revealed clearly, it was not a complete lie. Afterwards, even if most of the audience knew about it, they would just laugh and curse a few words in annoyance.

But it shouldn’t be kept secret until the release date, or even used to deceive people with the trailer.

Cao Xuan has no objection to manipulation of trailers. He has done this kind of thing before, but it was just to hide part of the plot and prevent spoilers. Marvel is editing it into another movie for promotion, which is completely different in nature.

It's like people want to watch "Love Apartment", but what you show them is "Tomb Raiders". Is this a pure scam?

Even if Marvel doesn't care, he and the widowed sister still don't want to deceive the audience. This is a loss of their brands...

But having said that, this move by Marvel really made Cao Xuan calm down a lot, and his attention was sucked away by the widowed sister.

Cao Xuan has no other duties. Apart from occasionally discussing the plot and characters with the director, he spends the rest of his time filming steadily. He commutes back and forth from the hotel to the studio every day. He is the most leisurely filming crew in the past few years.

In addition to enjoying the rare peace of mind, "Eagle Eye" is also the most special film Cao Xuan has filmed in recent years.

A large number of green screens and no physical performances made him a little uncomfortable.

It’s not like Cao Xuan has never filmed green screen scenes. “Painted Skin”, “Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff” and “Now Now” all have a large number of green screen clips. Cao Xuan is also an actor who often spends time in the studio.

But in those scenes, at most half of the scenes required green screens, and the rest were either real scenes or set-up scenes.

As a result, in "Eagle Eye", almost 2/3 of Cao Xuan's scenes were shot in a green screen studio, with very few outdoor scenes.

So it's no wonder that the Hollywood paparazzi couldn't take photos of Cao Xuan, because he almost always stays in the studio, and unless he sneaks into the studio, he can't get frontal photos at all.

But it was just that he was not used to it. Cao Xuan was not a newbie. After a short adaptation period, he quickly overcame this problem.

The most important thing about performing without physical objects is the actor's sense of belief. You must believe that you are not on a green screen or on the streets of New York. Believe that the camera in front of you is not a camera, but an enemy who wants to kill you quickly.

Once you strengthen your sense of belief and automatically imagine the scene, the green screen will no longer hinder the actor's performance.

But there is one thing to say. Although such a performance without physical objects is convenient for cutting out pictures, it does have a negative impact on the actors.

Actors may be able to perform well with their sense of belief and professional ability, but without the support of the scene, environment, and characters, it is difficult for the actor to be fully immersed in it.

Therefore, many famous directors are very resistant to these green screen shootings, preferring to use labor and time to build real scenes.

From the perspective of a professional actor, others don’t know. Cao Xuan personally prefers real-life shooting, which has a sense of reality and is more conducive to shaping the characters and events.

However, the green screen is not without its benefits. First of all, the shooting progress is very fast, the scene props do not need to be arranged or restored, and the actors can continue to act, which saves time and effort.

The second is that it is not easy to get injured while playing.

Cao Xuan is considered a semi-professional action actor, and he is very aware of the dangers of fighting scenes.

When filming action scenes, the punches are very hard to the point of being hit, and whether you are hitting someone or being beaten, you can easily get injured if you are not careful, let alone drag racing, explosions, and parkour Wia.

Professional action actors such as Cheng Long, Jet Li, and Wu Jing are all scarred and devastated.

Cao Xuan is extremely lucky. After so many years of filming fighting scenes, he has never suffered a serious injury.

But even so, he was often bruised and bruised, and had several external injuries on his body. He once had a puncture on his left arm, which required four stitches, and the little finger of his right hand was fractured due to a fist.

Although fighting scenes cannot be avoided in green screen filming, highly dangerous actions such as explosions and jumping left and right from several buildings can be completely avoided.

Cao Xuan is also very dedicated when filming, and he never complains about being tired, but as long as his life is endangered, he will never film.

It’s useless even if the director kneels down!

He doesn't have the broad-mindedness of people like Cheng Long. He can make millions a day while his wife and children are waiting at home. What a waste of life.

Cao Xuan himself does not risk his life, and he does not easily allow substitutes to be used. He would rather spend more money to use special effects. In this regard, he is also a supporter of green screen studios. After all, the latter does improve the safety of action actors.

………

Cao Xuan's filming in the United States went smoothly, but in China, he has never been less in the news.

At the end of October, "Someone Like Me" was released first and became the most popular song in the second half of this year.

After finally waiting for the song to become less popular, on November 13th, Cao Xuan’s birthday, the second promotional song for the new album "Xuan" was released -

"My sky"

This song is a representative work of the Southern and Northern War, and is also the theme song of the 2013 movie "Youth Party". It is a rare perfect fusion of pop rock masterpieces in the declining stage of the Chinese music scene.

However, this song is also controversial. Because the intro is similar, many people think it plagiarizes the English song "Hall of Fame".

Of course, some people have obtained various evidences and said that this song is only similar in melody and arrangement, and only a small part of the main song, so it cannot be completely plagiarized.

But whether it's plagiarism or coincidence, at least Cao Xuan doesn't have this trouble.

Because as early as 2008, he had a relationship with the American rap king

Eminem co-produced "Hall of Fame" as a promotional song for the Beijing Olympics, and it also topped the Billboard singles chart.

If he copies himself, it won't cause controversy.

Cao Xuan originally planned to sing "My Sky" solo, but later felt that it would be more powerful without a chorus, so he enlisted Ouyang Jing, a top Chinese hip-hop singer, to collaborate.

Ouyang Jing, a Chinese-American who is good at rap and rap performances, is one of the few Chinese-American singers recognized by the mainstream American rap industry.

His English album has been in the top 50 of the U.S. Billboard album chart. He is the second Chinese singer to achieve such an achievement after Cao Xuan, and is known as the number one rapper in China.

In 2008, Ouyang Jing returned to China to develop his career. Although he collaborated with some big names, there was no good progress, mainly because there was not much interest in hip-hop in China.

It was not until the release of "Hip-Hop in China" that his career ushered in a second spring.

What's even more commendable is that when many program contestant mentors have been arrested and banned, Ouyang Jing can still be safe and sound, and his character can be praised.

Of course, according to the trend of domestic entertainment, it is difficult to say that he would be exposed if he turned around. After all, they who play hip-hop have too many criminal records.

Cao Xuan doesn't know if he has poisonous milk, but in terms of rap skills alone, Ouyang Jing is indeed one of the top Chinese singers he has seen.

He actually wanted to find Xiao Zhou, but Xiao Zhou was busy filming "The Green Hornet" at the time, so he could only settle for the next best thing.

"My Sky" has inspirational lyrics and a passionate melody. With the MV starring Yu Shi, a struggling high school student is searching for himself in his final senior year of high school. The song quickly became popular.

In particular, many college entrance examination students have given it very high praise. It is a pity that this song was released a little late, otherwise it could have been a hit.

But they are too late, but the college students taking the postgraduate entrance examination can finally get some glory, and next year's college entrance examination students will also have an inspirational song in their music library.

"My Sky" took three days to knock "Someone Like Me" off the top spot and successfully reach the top.

But "My Sky" did not stay at the top of the list for too long. On November 22, Cao Xuan's third chart-topping song "Birds and Cicadas" was released online.

The song "Birds and Cicadas" was written by singer Ren Ran. It was first released in 2020 and quickly became a hit song that year.

This song is a love song, with a light and fresh melody, and a hint of sadness in the warmth. The so-called birds and cicadas are about parting and love, or secret love.

Some people are like birds, yearning for freedom and beauty. This place and you are just one of thousands of scenes.

But some people are indeed in love like cicadas, and they will sing for this relationship all summer, or all their lives.

"You fly away proudly, the blade I rest on

Go to different worlds but never say goodbye

The longing of the sea and moon transformed into me yesterday

On my mature smile

You haven't even looked at it

…”

The cicada knows the flying birds, but the flying birds don't know the cicadas. It's fate when we meet, but we can't help ourselves when we part.

The music is good and the lyrics are even better.

This kind of love song with regret, helplessness, and reluctance is often the one that touches the heartstrings of fans the most. Maybe everyone doesn't have vigorous feelings, and it feels like most people have been like cicadas waiting for the birds to turn back.

"Birds and Cicadas" was no less popular than the previous "Someone Like Me", and was even hailed as comparable to Cao Xuan's classic love song.

This evaluation is not low. After all, Cao Xuan's works include so many classic love songs. If you pick one at random, it will be a masterpiece of the Chinese language for decades.

If Cao Xuan hadn't performed well in other themes, the title of "King of Love Songs" would have fallen to him long ago.

In more than a month, Cao Xuan's three new album chart-topping songs, which required word-of-mouth and popularity, successfully ranked in the top three of major charts, crushing all the Chinese singers.

Cao Xuan's fans roared with gongs and drums, fired firecrackers, and shouted arrogantly to the entire Chinese music scene.

The hot man who dominates the music scene is back!

The Chinese music industry, which is already on the decline, has been silent. Even Xiao Zhou, who is the most capable of beating, is only pulled out and whipped to death on a daily basis.

Everyone is desperate!

When Cao Xuan debuted, his predecessors, the Four Heavenly Kings, have basically retired, and those who have not retired rarely release new songs.

Xie Feng, who was of the same generation as Cao Xuan, had a transformation, while Nan Ren had passed away, and many queens were no longer in the spotlight.

Even Xiao Zhou, Wang and others who debuted later than him are now no longer at their peak and have begun to decline more or less.

Only Cao Xuan has been producing steadily for more than ten years, and the quality of his works is extremely high. Every time he releases a song, it is always inferior to the same period, surpassing the entire music industry.

In this situation, I even made a sheepish face all day long and said that my creative ability was declining.

Pooh!

I strongly suspect that this guy is cheating, and I hope the relevant departments will catch him and slice him into slices, preferably Lanzhou Ramen beef, and slowly chop him into pieces with tens of thousands of knives...