Chapter 237 Da Mimi: Fortunately Wei Yang Is Not a Woman

Da Mimi's schedule was tight, and when she came to the crew, she was in a large group drama. As an envoy, the male protagonist Fan Xian first arrived in Northern Qi, presented a letter of credence, and met with the emperor of Northern Qi.

"Foreign minister Fan Xian, I meet His Majesty the Emperor of Northern Qi."

Wei Yang held the ceremonial staff, bowed slightly, and then presented the letter of credence.

Da Mimi was a little disappointed to see this scene. She thought that when she became the emperor again, she would meet Wei Yang kneeling and kowtow to her.

In fact, in the original version of "Celebrating Yu Nian", Fan Xian really knelt down, which was somewhat conflicting in his character setting.

Because no matter in the original work or in the book, Fan Xian is a person with modern ideas, so he would recognize his cheap mother's vision of everyone being like a dragon, would avenge Fujiko Kyo, a guard, advocate free love and monogamy, dislike class hierarchy, and was not interested in kneeling except for elders, etc.

In the play, Fan Xian would not kneel if he could, and even acted like a spoiled child in front of Emperor Qing. He was always entangled in this issue, and only knelt to those who truly recognized him, the elders who were older, and those who felt guilty.

As a result, when he arrived in Northern Qi, he knelt down to the young emperor and the queen mother, which was really surprising.

Of course, it can also be forcibly explained that people have to bow their heads under the eaves. Fan Xian was determined to return home safely and did not want to cause trouble, so he deliberately showed weakness and pretended to be obedient.

This can also be reflected in the later plot. Fan Xian took this kind of harmless "white lotus" route in Northern Qi.

However, after discussion, Wei Yang and others finally decided not to kneel. It was not only the character setting, but also the plot.

According to the setting in the play, the male protagonist Fan Xian is an envoy of Nanqing. The two sides are on an equal footing. Even Nanqing has just won a victory and is relatively stronger.

In this case, Fan Xian, an envoy holding a seal, represents the face of the country. Even if he has to show weakness to save his life, he can admit his weakness and pretend to be obedient, but he cannot kneel down to see the emperor of Northern Qi, otherwise, if it is reported back to Qing, he will be criticized for insulting the national dignity.

This scene is relatively simple, introducing the appearance of the two giants of Northern Qi and the undercurrents within.

Then the birthday banquet scene behind the set began, Wei Yang and others changed their clothes. This kind of "big scene" that requires many ministers to perform as extras was basically shot in one go, saving money and effort.

The role of the birthday banquet was played by the emperor Da Mimi, who was a background board, and she didn't have many roles. Tang Yan, Wei Yang, Tian Yu, Zhang Songwen and other actors were the main actors.

First of all, Tang Yan and Wei Yang were fighting in name only, but actually dancing, which added a little romantic and ambiguous atmosphere to the two characters. This scene had been shot before, with a close-up style. Now we only need to add some panoramic shots and other people's reactions.

The reason for shooting this scene in advance was that it was an action scene, which delayed time and setting. It would be much simpler to shoot a literary scene.

Tian Yu and Wang Yanlin, who played Gaoda, performed crosstalk, teasing and praising the ambiguity of the two characters of Wei Yang and Tang Yan in the play, and were responsible for creating laughs.

Wang Yanlin is Wei Yang's junior in the 2008 class of Shanghai Theatre Academy, and is currently a junior in school.

Apart from the main roles of the crew of "Celebrating Yu Nian", some minor supporting roles and extras were directly auditioned in Shanghai, and quite a few of the active actors in Shanghai were from Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Wei Yang has been in the crew these days, and he has recognized more than a dozen junior brothers and sisters. There should be some senior brothers and sisters, but they may be embarrassed to speak up.

Wang Yanlin is strong and has a bit of a comedic talent. He was originally just playing the head of the Supervisory Council. Later, Wei Yang saw his information and asked him to play the silly Tiger Guard leader, the eighth-grade master Gaoda, who supported Tian Yu every day.

Crosstalk is to increase the laughs, while the plots of other people are power struggles and bloodless fighting.

The actors of Northern Qi are all powerful. Wei Yang's biggest rival, Shen Zhong, the head of the Northern Qi secret agency Jinyiwei, is played by Blue Whale artist Zhang Songwen.

The Queen Mother of Northern Qi is played by Liu Xuehua, a professional Queen Mother, and the actor of the general Shangshanhu is Yu Rongguang.

It is worth mentioning that this is the actor who played the villain Sean in the original version of "Celebrating Yu Nian".

He has a good relationship with the screenwriter Wang Juan, and Wei Yang contacted him through the screenwriter's relationship.

The latter has been interested in developing behind the scenes in recent years, and is happy to make friends with newcomers in the circle like Wei Yang, so he readily agreed to join.

However, Yu Rongguang is now in his prime. He played Guan Erye in "The New Three Kingdoms" two years ago. Compared with the old Sean, Wei Yang thinks that the domineering and affectionate general Shangshanhu is more suitable for him.

As for the old devil Sean, Wei Yang found the old Hong Kong actor Zeng Jiang, who is Huang Laoxie in the 1983 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

This person is famous for being good at playing villains, especially the kind of villain boss, and can be good and evil, which is very suitable for Sean, who is arrogant and domineering and values ​​family affection in the play.

When Wei Yang was thinking about Sean, the first choice was Chiba Shinichi, who had retired, and the second was Zeng Jiang.

However, this person is a little plump after old age, and does not look like he is imprisoned.

So the show made some patches. In order to get the secret out of him, they tortured Sean for decades but got nothing. They had to imprison him. They were afraid that he would die of illness, so they never deprived him of food. Even Sean himself joked that he was fattened by Chen Pingping of the Supervisory Commission.

Zeng Jiang didn't have many scenes. Now the filming has been completed. Today's scenes are mainly about the rivalry between Zhang, Wei, Yu, and Liu.

From the perspective of the plot, apart from the male protagonist's position, it has a bit of "framing a loyal and good person".

Shen Zhong, the commander of the Jinyiwei of the Northern Qi Dynasty, played by Zhang Songwen, is extremely outstanding in civil and military affairs, ruthless, strategic, and loyal to the Northern Qi Dynasty.

But he is arrogant, offends too many people, and insists on his own way, which makes the emperor feel overwhelmed.

Fan Xian came to Northern Qi, and he regarded Fan Xian as a great threat to him, and made things difficult for him. Fan Xian also intended to bring down Shen Zhong and complete his mission, so the two sides started fighting.

There were wins and losses during the period, but in the end Wei Yang won over the little emperor who wanted to rule the country, so he planned to get rid of the Queen Mother's ministers; the general Shang Shanhu who had a grudge against Shen Zhong for killing his father/comrade; and Zhongli provoked the Queen Mother of Northern Qi to abandon Shen Zhong; and even took advantage of Shen Zhong's sister's feelings.

In the end, Shen Zhong was attacked by everyone and died of "being abandoned by everyone".

It can be said that from the perspective of Northern Qi, Fan Xian is a complete villain, who instigated discord, killed people with borrowed knives, and finally made Shen Zhong, a loyal minister, suffer injustice.

But from the perspective of the male protagonist, this approach has a different sense of pleasure, and at most he sighed for Shen Zhong.

In the hall, Wei Yang, Zhang Songwen, and Yu Rongguang went back and forth, and there was basically no NG.

They all performed a segment, then watched the playback to see if there was anything wrong, discussed and adjusted the performance, and then performed it again.

It doesn't seem to be a big deal, but those who know the business know that this is a test of the actor's basic skills, the degree of tacit understanding with other actors, and the understanding of the role.

Da Mimi didn't know Zhang Songwen, but she still had a good eye and knew at a glance that he was a talented actor.

She knew Yu Rongguang even better. Although he was an action actor, his acting skills were not bad.

Wei Yang played against these two talented actors who seemed to have good skills, and he was not inferior at all, which really opened Da Mimi's eyes.

She knew that Wei Yang's acting skills were not bad. At least in the hit dramas he starred in, Wei Yang's acting skills were rarely criticized and were all above the passing line.

There were even some compliments, especially Li Chengyin in "Eastern Palace", who received a lot of praise. Although he did not become a talented actor like Wen Zhang, many people no longer had the impression that Wei Yang was the male lead in idol dramas who mainly relied on his face.

Don't underestimate this point. Huang Xiaoming has not completely gotten rid of the name of idol boy until now, let alone Hu Ge.

For a young actor who became famous through idol dramas, it is unattainable for many people to have continuous and stable positive reviews in acting.

The four kings back then were also vases for many years.

It is rare to see a high-value and powerful actor who is popular at a young age and has highly praised acting skills.

Da Mimi debuted in her early years and was also famous for her spirituality. In the past two years, she has tempered some of her reputation. Although she has not been completely labeled as "bad acting", she is not far away.

Da Mimi is not convinced by this, especially that many people think that Liu Shishi's acting skills are better than hers.

Others don't know. They filmed together for such a long time in "Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", and she definitely doesn't think Liu Shishi's acting skills are better than hers.

As for the amazing performance in "Twinkle Twinkle Star", she doesn't know how Wei Yang shot it, but she firmly believes that Liu Shishi definitely took shortcuts.

People in the industry understand that the actual shooting and the final product are two different things.

The audience may think that a scene is well acted, but in fact it is very likely that the actor has shot it dozens of times and polished it bit by bit, and combined with technical means such as camera movement, editing, and dubbing, it does not necessarily mean that the actor's actual acting is good.

It's just that the cost of shooting and post-production of this method is too high. It may be used in general movies, but it is difficult to use this method for TV series because the volume is too large.

However, Da Mimi really can't understand Liu Shishi's amazing performance, so she can only guess in this direction.

At the same time, she thinks that Wei Yang, whose acting skills have been steadily improving, may have also used similar methods.

However, seeing Wei Yang filming with her own eyes today, Da Mimi had to overturn her own ideas.

Wei Yang does have some talent. Although his acting skills are not particularly good, he is also relatively good among the younger generation.

At least Da Mimi calculated that among the young male actors who have worked with her recently, Zhang Ze in "Beijing Love Story" is better than Wei Yang.

And strictly speaking, Zhang Ze was born in 1978, nearly ten years older than Wei Yang, and cannot be completely considered the same generation.

If we only count those born around 1985, Wei Yang is almost the best actor of this age group she has worked with.

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Da Mimi is a little bit of a grinder. Not only is he handsome, but he is also very emotionally intelligent, talented and business-minded. Now even his acting skills are considered to be top-notch among his peers.

Those with the surname Wei don't leave any room for their peers.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Wei Yang is a male artist. Although he is also competitive, there is no direct competition.

If he were a woman, Da Mimi would think that the three beauties of the Fairy Sword and Liu Tianxian would not be enough to beat "Wei Yang", so she would just vote for him and make him her younger sister...