Chapter 273 Sad Yang Mi

Seeing Hu Jun, who was a little depressed because of the failed audition, join the crew, Zhang Da Huzi comforted him, but he was very happy in his heart. His "Tianlong Babu" crew can shoot as planned.

With the experience of the previous two Jin Yong dramas, he is still very confident about this "Tianlong Babu", and strives to be excellent in all aspects of this drama, including real-life shooting, fighting scenes, costumes, props, performances, and actors with their own characteristics.

Especially in the selection of actors, he feels that he has done a good job. Not only Hu Jun, but when thinking of Shu Chang, who Wu Yuchen said he had chosen when he called, Da Huzi was a little impulsive and wanted to change Shu Chang's role. It would be a waste of talent to let her play Tianshan Tonglao.

Wang Yuyan? Da Huzi shook his head. This role has been promised to Liu Xixi. The girl not only has a background, but also has a suitable image and temperament. Otherwise, he would not give such an important role to others so easily. In fact, he originally wanted to find Yan Danchen to play Wang Yuyan, but later someone came in and Liu Xixi wanted to take this role.

In fact, Shu Chang's age is very suitable for playing the clever and cute Zhong Ling. However, if she plays Zhong Ling, who should be cast for the role of Tianshan Tonglao? This role is not so easy to play. Those with acting skills are not of the right age, and those who are young have no acting skills. It is not easy to find Shu Chang.

After a lot of choices, Da Huzi still did not change Shu Chang's role. This role still has a lot of scenes, and it will leave a deep impression on the audience if it is played well. However, he thought that Shu Chang had already joined Wu Yuchen's movie, and he might not lack his popularity. When the time comes to promote it, he might have to take advantage of it.

Well, then he can tell the story of how Wu Yuchen attracted all the actors in his crew and made him worried for publicity, and the audience will definitely like to hear it!

This time, Da Huzi caused quite a stir in the casting. The role of Duan Yu even held an online vote. Lu Yi, Huang Haibing, and Ren Quan were all high-voted candidates online, and netizens were also arguing about this role. This also made Da Huzi smile proudly. This is his usual hype method.

In fact, he had already decided on the candidate, Qiao Zhenyu from F4, but he would not announce it until the crew started filming. With the popularity of F4 in Taiwan, Mainland China and Hong Kong, most people would be satisfied. Qiao Zhenyu's appearance and temperament are quite suitable for Duan Yu.

As for Lin Zhiying who contacted him, he had considered it. He became popular again after "The Twins". But the investor of his "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" is Miracle Films, so naturally they give priority to their actors. How can you, Lin Zhiying, compete with them? Besides, the appeal of F4 is not worse than that of you, Lin Zhiying.

The big bearded man of "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" is still working hard to do all kinds of hype and publicity, and has already hyped Wang Yuyan to the level of a Korean actress, while Wu Yuchen has no intention of doing this at all. At his current stage, he doesn't need to do any publicity and hype at all.

A lot of media surrounded his crew, trying to find out some news about "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", but he basically ignored them. However, the reporters enjoyed it very much. They recorded and reported on all the actors who came in and out, and even came up to interview them about their audition experience.

At this time, Wu Yuchen was busy interviewing for another important role. Gong Li had asked him about the conflict and tension of the drama before. In fact, in this movie, the most intuitive manifestation of the evil side is not the father of the protagonist, but the role of another young adjutant. That is, the young officer who is liked by the sister, and his existence also increases the tension and conflict of the whole movie.

In the original movie, the setting is a German SS soldier, who is particularly vicious to the Jews because his father fled to Switzerland. Here, it is naturally set as a Japanese, a soldier with a head full of Japanese militarism, who talks about the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere while despising the Chinese as fanatics of inferior races.

There are also several requirements for this role. The appearance is young, handsome, and tough, and at the same time, it can show the ruthless and cruel side of the character.

There were a lot of people who came to audition for this role. All male actors under 30 who thought they met the requirements signed up. However, only a few people actually came to Wu Yuchen for an interview, including Liu Ye, Chen Kun, Wu Yanzu, and Huang Xiaoming.

Liu Ye and Wu Yanzu both have good looks, and they are relatively sturdy. But the first person to be eliminated by Wu Yuchen was Liu Ye...

Although he is 186cm tall, his acting style and style since his debut have always been that of a melancholy young man and a silly child. Whether it is "If Love Has Destiny", "The Mountain, the Man, the Dog" or "Lan Yu", they are all in this line. The portrayal of this kind of vicious villain is really a bit lacking.

Then he excluded Chen Kun, not because his acting skills were not good, but because he was thin like Wang Zhiwen, and his overall style was a bit feminine, and his temperament was a bit different from what Wu Yuchen wanted. It feels that Chen Kun and Wang Zhiwen are very suitable to play spies, but it seems that the soldier is a bit lacking.

Finally, Wu Yuchen was making a choice between Wu Yanzu and Huang Xiaoming.

To be honest, Wu Yanzu's appearance was impeccable. His looks, height, and body shape were very suitable for this role. Wu Yuchen did not doubt his acting skills...

However, Huang Xiaoming gave him a big surprise this time. It seemed that this guy had finally come to his senses. He performed very well in the audition of playing a Japanese officer. And because of the F4 training, this guy is in great shape now, and his temperament is tough. He can play an officer.

This reminded Wu Yuchen of the role of Takeda, a Japanese soldier, played by Huang Xiaoming in "The Sound of Wind" in his previous life. He also performed very well, which was one of his peak acting moments.

However, what really made Wu Yuchen make up his mind was Huang Xiaoming's fluent Japanese language.

"Xiao Ming, when did you learn to speak Japanese?"

Hearing Wu Yuchen's question, Huang Xiaoming immediately answered: "Director Wu, because F4 often goes to Japan for activities, the company hired a Japanese teacher for us two years ago. I learned a little more from him, and I didn't expect to use it this time!"

"Meteor Garden" itself is adapted from the Japanese manga "Boys Over Flowers", so the TV series has a considerable influence there, and many fans and support clubs of F4 have been born, so they will naturally interact frequently.

Wu Yuchen didn't expect that letting Huang Xiaoming debut in F4 would also add a lot of talents to him.

Then he asked jokingly: "If you play this role, many of your Japanese fans may lose fans."

Huang Xiaoming immediately expressed his opinion: "That's different! I can't forget history and pain because of my current celebrity status! Even if all my Japanese fans run away, I still want to play this role!"

Wu Yuchen smiled and nodded: "It's good that you have this awareness! Okay, you go back and prepare well, arrange your schedule, and you will follow the crew for the next two months."

Huang Xiaoming was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed to Wu Yuchen: "Thank you Director Wu, thank you Teacher Wu!"

Ever since he entered school, he wanted to act in Wu Yuchen's movie. Now that he has finally realized this wish, he finally feels that he has been recognized on the road of acting. How can he not be happy?

Wu Yuchen also smiled as he watched Huang Xiaoming leave. With Huang Xiaoming's finalization, basically all the important roles were also decided. In the end, he chose Chen Baoguo for the role of the father. He gave the actors 5 days, and the crew held a start-up ceremony five days later.

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“It is revealed that the cast of Wu Yuchen’s new drama has been confirmed! Gong Li and Chen Baoguo will star in it!”

Looking at Shu Chang’s name on the list published in the newspaper, Yang Mi pouted her lips.

Yang Mi has had acting experience since she was a child, and she can be considered a child star, so she has always had a dream of becoming a star. She also signed up for the casting of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”, but she didn’t even make it through the audition, saying that she was over the age limit, which made Yang Mi a little depressed.

As a child star, she felt that she was no worse than Shu Chang. If she was two years younger, she might have been chosen!

What a pity, what a pity, Yang Xiaomi was born two years earlier!

While sighing, Yang Mi looked at another piece of news, and suddenly felt like a bolt from the blue:

“Little superstar Xie Tingfeng announced his retirement from the entertainment industry!”

“Ah! My Feng brother!” Yang Mi couldn’t help but wail, Xie Tingfeng was her favorite star, and she was obsessed with him.

One thing we have to admit is that Xie Tingfeng's appearance at that time was really good, and the works specially created for him by Emperor Entertainment Group made him look cool in various ways. Therefore, he had many fans in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, and was promoted as the little king of Chinese pop music.

Many teenagers chase stars just because of their looks, especially girls. Put Jay Chou and Xie Tingfeng together, and basically everyone will choose Xie Tingfeng. The proportion of male fans of Jay Chou during this period was quite high.

Yang Mi is a crazy fan of Xie Tingfeng. Girls who chase stars are like this. They don't care if he has a car accident or finds someone to take the blame.

In fact, if Xie Tingfeng's car accident itself hit the guardrail and flowerbed on the side of the road, it would not be a big deal. At most, he would do some community service work. But Xie Tingfeng actually found Emperor Entertainment Group's driver to take the blame for him and confessed, and it was found out. This caused a storm in the city. People from all sides were angry at him. The little king who couldn't stand the pressure could only announce his withdrawal from the entertainment industry to calm the public anger.

The little king's withdrawal from the entertainment industry also attracted a lot of reports from the mainland, and many people went to interview Wang Fei, which attracted the public to eat melons.

In fact, this is just a normal operation in Hong Kong Island. When the limelight passes next year, Xie Tingfeng will make a comeback. But Yang Mi didn't know at this time. Seeing her idol leaving the entertainment industry, she was really heartbroken.

Just at this time, the phone at home rang.

"Mi Mi, someone is looking for you!"

Yang Mi looked like she was about to cry, walked over and picked up the phone and answered: "Hello..."

After listening to a few words, the girl's crying face just now showed a look of surprise: "Really? No problem, no problem, I'll go on time!"

Seeing his daughter jumping up and down after answering the phone, Yang's father couldn't help asking: "Mi Mi, what's the matter?"

"Dad, your daughter is going to be a big star!"

"What is she going to act in again?" Yang's father was not surprised that his daughter went out to film TV dramas. After all, she had acted a lot since she was a child.

Yang Mi waved her hands and raised her chin and said, "No, no, this time I'm going to sign a contract with Miracle Films! It's the Miracle Films that filmed "The Blade of the Assassin", Wu Yuchen's company, and I will be their contracted artist in the future!"

"Contract?" Yang's father was really surprised this time.

At this time, Yang's mother also asked, "Contracted artist? You don't go to school?"

"Yes! Signing a contract does not mean you can't go to school. You can film while working! Let me tell you, Miracle Films is the most powerful company in China now. Many people want to get in but can't!" Yang Mi was so proud at this time that she was like a little fox with its tail up.

But what she said was not wrong. Miracle Films is undoubtedly the leading company in the film and television industry in China. No one in the entertainment industry can match it. Huayi is not good enough in front of it.

Now these actors and artists in the entertainment industry are scrambling to join Miracle Films, and the relevant projects, whether it is movies or TV series, are also very competitive among industry insiders.

Of course, this industry insider does not only refer to actors, but also includes many behind-the-scenes personnel. Miracle Films treats screenwriters, directors and producers within the company very well, and has established a reasonable incentive system. Good works can reap rewards, and there will be no situation where some projects make a lot of money, but the original creators can't get a penny. This naturally serves as a benchmark for the entire entertainment industry.

Not only is there a profit-sharing system for the original team, but there are also requirements such as production costs. For example, in film and television dramas, the proportion of actor pay shall not exceed 40% of the total production cost, and the pay of the main actor shall not exceed 70% of the total pay of all actors.

This is naturally a system established by Wu Yuchen, who knows the importance of behind-the-scenes creators. After ten years of development, the Chinese film and television industry has no shortage of actors at all, but what is lacking is actually good creators. The degree of care in other aspects such as costumes and makeup also directly determines the quality of a work. In fact, the audience's perception of many works depends on details.

While the current salary of actors is not high, this system is established and the rules of sharing the cake are made public, which can be regarded as setting a standard for the Chinese entertainment industry that has just begun to develop.

Yang's father and mother looked at each other, but they were not as happy as Yang Mi.

Yang's mother said: "You child, why don't you discuss such a big thing with us? Are you not going to tell us unless we ask?"

Her daughter has been very opinionated since she was a child, which makes the couple happy and worried sometimes.

"Oh, Mom! I'm telling you~" Yang Mi hurriedly started to act like a spoiled child to her parents.

Afterwards, the family of three had a comprehensive discussion on the matter of Yang Mi signing a contract...