Chapter 469 Traffic Star, a Double-Edged Sword

Under the guidance of the staff, Li Youfan walked into the audition room.

He saw Tan Yue at first sight, and his heart was filled with complex emotions.

This man, if he had not been so arrogant at that time, if he had listened to his boss at that time and recorded an episode of "Tucao Conference", perhaps he would be the current Zhang Wenhua.

However, there is no regret medicine to sell in this world. Even if he regrets it now, it will not help.

He came to the center of the room and stood, looking at the three judges opposite with a serious expression, bowed, and said: "Hello, three judges, I am Li Youfan, and I hope to audition for the role of Ao Chun, the third male in "Baolian Lantern". "

After Li Youfan briefly introduced himself, he stopped talking.

Tan Yue did not deal with Li Youfan much, because after he joined the Brilliant Entertainment Company, Li Youfan had fallen from the first line to the second line, and was no longer ranked in the forefront among the company's artists.

Moreover, the program department under Tan Yue's management had never invited Li Youfan, so Tan Yue had heard more about Li Youfan.

Tan Yue didn't know much about Li Youfan, but others knew him very well.

Many people were quite surprised to see the humble and polite young man standing in the middle of the conference room.

Is this the arrogant Li Youfan? At that time, Li Youfan, a young and energetic first-line star, didn't buy face from anyone in the company except Boss Chen.

Sure enough, he still lacked the beating of society.

Everyone thought so in their hearts.

Tan Yue said, "Li Youfan, hello, I don't know what went wrong. We didn't receive the news that you wanted to audition for the third male role, Ao Chun?"

Li Youfan nodded, looked at Tan Yue, and said, "Mr. Tan, I got the news that "Baolian Lantern" was recruiting actors late, so I didn't have time to tell the staff."

Tan Yue nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and said, "You didn't read part of Ao Chun's script before?"

Li Youfan said, "Yes."

Tan Yue picked up the script of the third male role, Ao Chun, on the table, handed it to the staff next to him, and said to Li Youfan, "I'll give you five more minutes to understand it. In fifteen minutes, you will perform the scene where Ao Chun first appeared."

The staff took the script and handed it to Li Youfan.

After hearing what Tan Yue said, Li Youfan's tense mood since he came in finally relaxed a little. He was afraid that he would not even be given a chance to try.

There was more gratitude in his eyes when he looked at Tan Yue.

If it were a few years ago, he would not know what gratitude is, because he has been smooth sailing since his debut, until he became a top-tier star.

But after he passed the peak period, he soon tasted the warmth and coldness of human feelings. After being whipped by the cruelty of reality again and again, Li Youfan matured.

Because if he is not mature, he will really have to say goodbye to the entertainment industry.

Tan Yue gave him this opportunity, and he was grateful to Tan Yue.

"Thank you, Mr. Tan. Thank you to the two judges."

Li Youfan bowed again.

Lin Qingye looked at Li Youfan, who was a little reserved and humble, and for a moment he was a little surprised. It was not until Li Youfan walked aside to prepare that he retracted his gaze and shook his head.

If I had known this earlier, why did I do it in the first place.

If Li Youfan had been as humble and hardworking as Zhang Wenhua, even if he was not as good as Zhang Wenhua now, he would not be so miserable.

Want to change now, is it useful?

As the saying goes, it is easy to change the country but difficult to change one's nature. Lin Qingye is not optimistic about Li Youfan, who seems to have changed now.

I didn't seize such a good opportunity at the beginning, and now I have lost everything. It's too difficult to start over again.

Tan Yue looked at Li Youfan who was preparing seriously, retracted his gaze, and talked to Lin Qingye and Zhang Hong next to him.

Other roles can be solved, or there are top options, but the role of the male lead Chenxiang is a bit tricky.

Someone in the company also came to audition for Chenxiang.

But Tan Yue was not satisfied and couldn't play the feeling he wanted.

The company probably couldn't find a suitable candidate for Chenxiang, so they had to choose from outside.

Although this is a waste of money, everything is done to ensure the quality of "Baolian Lantern", and there is no other way.

Fifteen minutes later.

After the staff reminded him, Li Youfan put away the script, took a breath, and walked back to the middle of the meeting room.

After Tan Yue finished speaking, Li Youfan began to perform.

Li Youfan has also been practicing his acting skills during this period. He knows very well that only he can save him.

If he doesn't work hard, then he will only be destroyed.

Li Youfan learned from some of his former friends and practiced hard at home. His acting skills have improved a lot compared to before.

After watching Li Youfan's performance, Tan Yue didn't feel bright.

Li Youfan's performance can only be said to be mediocre, and he has no advantage over the previous actors who auditioned for Ao Chun.

This is also normal. Although Li Youfan has been practicing his acting skills hard during this period, his acting skills have greatly improved, but that is because his acting skills were too poor before.

In other words, his acting skills were almost zero before.

From the basis of zero, there has been a great improvement. It can be imagined that his acting skills will not be very superb.

Lin Qingye, who was sitting next to Tan Yue, raised his eyebrows. This Li Youfan, can actually act?

Lin Qingye is a well-known director in the company. He had worked with Li Youfan on several dramas. He knows Li Youfan's acting skills very well. If Li Youfan is not a member of the company, if Li Youfan does not have such a large traffic, even if Lin Qingye gives him money, Lin Qingye will not use him.

Li Youfan's acting skills are too exaggerated and exaggerated, and people can't bear to watch them.

Tan Yue doesn't know what Li Youfan was like before, so he can't feel it, but he thinks it's okay.

But Lin Qingye knows what Li Youfan's acting skills were like before, so he was quite surprised to see Li Youfan's current performance.

There was no result for Li Youfan, just let him go back and wait for notification like other actors.

After Li Youfan left, Tan Yue and the other two started chatting.

Tan Yue said, "Teachers, what do you think of Li Youfan's performance?"

Zhang Hong thought for a moment and said, "I think it's not bad, not too bad, but not very good either."

Lin Qingye tutted his tongue twice, and after Tan Yue and Zhang Hong looked over, he said, "Mr. Tan, Teacher Zhang, you may not know much about Li Youfan before. I have filmed several dramas with him. Well, let me tell you this, I was a little scared when I watched his performance just now."

Zhang Hong raised his eyebrows, as if he remembered something.

Tan Yue was surprised and looked at Lin Qingye, not quite understanding what Lin Qingye meant by "a little scared".

"Director Lin, are you scared?"

Lin Qingye explained Tan Yue's doubts. He sighed and said, "I can see that Li Youfan is really trying hard and wants to give it another try."

"His previous acting skills, uh, let me tell you this, his acting skills just now are completely different from his previous acting skills."

"Three years ago, if he had the current level of acting skills, he wouldn't have ended up so badly now."

Tan Yue was stunned. Li Youfan's acting skills just now can only be said to be okay, but far from being superb.

But even such acting skills, compared with Li Youfan's previous acting skills, Lin Qingye actually used the word "a world of difference" to describe it.

Good guy, how bad must Li Youfan's acting skills be before.

At this time, Tan Yue remembered some news reports about Li Youfan that he had seen by chance.

Many news have criticized Li Youfan's acting skills. He always gives the audience the word "out of play" and has no acting skills at all.

Thinking about Li Youfan's performance just now, Tan Yue couldn't help but feel that it was still okay.

Shaking his head and no longer thinking about those things, Tan Yue said to Lin Qingye and Zhang Hong, "Two teachers, do you think Li Youfan is suitable for playing Ao Chun?"

Tan Yue himself is not a professional in film and television dramas. He is still learning and can only be said to be an amateur close to professionals, while the two sitting next to him are both professionals.

So although whether the actor can play the role in the end is decided by Tan Yue, Tan Yue will still respect the opinions of Lin Qingye and Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong glanced at Lin Qingye, then looked at Tan Yue, and took the lead in speaking, saying: "Mr. Tan, Director Lin, then I will say something first."

"I think Li Youfan did not perform better than the previous three artists, and there are even two actors who performed better than Li Youfan."

"And Li Youfan's reputation is not very good now. If our crew uses him, it may be affected."

Tan Yue and Lin Qingye both heard what Zhang Hong meant.

Now, in the eyes of many viewers, Li Youfan has become a representative of bad dramas and bad movies. If Li Youfan is used, "Baolian Lantern" is likely to be affected. It has not yet been broadcast, but just the cast list will be passed by many viewers.

This is not nonsense, this is something that everyone in the entertainment industry knows, and it is also an important reason why many traffic stars are in a worse situation than other outdated singers and actors after their traffic has passed.

Who dares to use you when the traffic is gone? Are you looking for scolding?

Last year, a big director in China wanted to shoot a science fiction blockbuster. He was full of expectations for this science fiction blockbuster and hoped to hit international awards.

However, in that drama, the male lead chose a traffic star who had already started to decline at that time.

At that time, the traffic star was still the top stream and had just gone downhill. The entertainment company behind the traffic star hoped to extend the peak period of the star and try to make more money.

Then it took a lot of effort to let the traffic star serve as the male lead of the science fiction blockbuster.

The agency and the traffic star himself are looking forward to the follow-up effect.

But the effect was completely different from what they imagined, and what greeted them was a nightmare.

The higher you go, the worse you fall. After the peak period of traffic stars, they do not slowly go downhill, but roll down very steeply.

This sci-fi blockbuster, which was highly expected by the big director, has not been released yet. It was ridiculed by the whole network just during the promotion period, and after the release, it was boycotted by many netizens.

Not to mention the impact of international awards, this sci-fi blockbuster with huge investment has been a complete failure in China.

It is said that the investment was nearly 700 million, but the total box office did not even reach 10 million.

Among them, netizens gave very low scores and many negative reviews, and 90% of these negative reviews were complaining about the traffic star who was on the decline.

After this incident, the traffic star who had just gone downhill quickly disappeared from the entertainment circle like a meteor.

He is simply a box office poison. No director or producer dares to use him anymore.

And the entertainment company behind the traffic star also completely gave up on it.

The worst thing was for the great director. He was in a miserable state. His reputation was ruined and he even lost hundreds of millions to the production company. His future was not going to be easy.

This incident has also taught everyone in the entertainment industry a lesson.

Traffic stars are just for making money. If they go downhill, don't worry about them.

That's why Zhang Wenhua's specialness has attracted a lot of attention, and many celebrities are envious and jealous of him.

This is the only traffic star who did not fall quickly after going downhill. He is also the only weirdo who has transformed from traffic to a powerful artist.

Tan Yue frowned, Zhang Hong's words needed to be considered.

Will using Li Youfan cause the audience to boycott the show?

At this time, Lin Qingye coughed lightly, attracting the attention of Tan Yue and Zhang Hong.

Lin Qingye said: "If I didn't see Li Youfan's performance today, then I must have the same idea as Mr. Zhang. The outdated traffic star is a box office bomb. You can hide as far away as you can."

"But after seeing Li Youfan's performance today, I suddenly felt that this might also be a good boost."

"Although Li Youfan is no longer top-notch and has started to decline, he still has a lot of traffic and popularity. It's just that this popularity is not positive, but mostly negative."

"But it's also a lot of energy. If it can be harnessed, our show might become a hit before it even airs."

"If Li Youfan uses it well, his impact alone may be stronger than the effect of all our later publicity."

"I have confidence in our "Lotus Lantern". If we can attract the audience, they will definitely not let them leave cursing and have the opportunity to give us negative reviews and low scores on the Internet and film review websites."

Lin Qingye said, paused, and then continued: "One more thing, Li Youfan's performance just now was already good, and it was a huge improvement over his previous performance. This is not only a good gimmick to attract the audience, but also makes us believe more. he."

"We can see that he is working hard on his own, which is different from other traffic stars who are just waiting to die and wait to retire. I think this is very important."

Lin Qingye's idea was different from Zhang Hong's. He advocated using Li Youfan.

Tan Yue nodded lightly, Li Youfan was a double-edged sword, it depends on how he uses it.