Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 219 Audience Appeal

Xiaomi’s mother doesn’t have many scenes, but her role is very important.

It can be said that the plot of the entire play is driven by this character.

Therefore, the importance of this role is self-evident.

In the evening, when Liu Xiaoli's scenes were being filmed, Zhou Ziheng didn't have to go, but for the sake of the quality of the film, he went in person.

The dance choreographer gave Liu Xiaoli is very open.

At least it seems very open to mainlanders of this era.

Liu Xiaoli even had to dance pole dancing in a bikini.

Because she was too open, Liu Xiaoli, who had originally vowed to be dedicated, began to become hesitant.

Finally, Zhou Ziheng and Chen Musheng joined forces to persuade her with various remarks such as "you are devoting yourself to art", and finally, she reluctantly agreed to the filming.

I have to say, Liu Xiaoli is indeed beautiful.

At the age of 35, she still has her charm and is beautiful, and the choreographer has specially designed the dance for her.

During the evening shoot, as soon as she started dancing on the stage, everyone didn't want to take their eyes off her.

The crew took two days to allow the actors to adapt.

From the third day, the shooting officially got on track.

As the leading actor and screenwriter, Zhou Ziheng is undoubtedly the busiest.

You need to figure out your own role, especially the action scenes.

Strictly speaking, the action scenes in this movie are not that professional and cannot compare to those of Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

But there are still a lot of fighting scenes in it.

In addition, Zhou Ziheng pursues that simple and sharp action style.

This requires him to work hard on the action scenes.

To this end, Zhou Ziheng specially hired a professional boxer who won the runner-up in the 1987 Asian Free Fighting Championship to be his coach.

In addition to filming every day, he needs to spend about three hours practicing boxing.

In fact, there is no need for Zhou Ziheng to work so hard for this play.

Won Bin, the actor in the original version of "The Man from Lonely Planet", was not a professional action actor, but he was able to perform the effects required by the movie.

Zhou Ziheng also invited Jet Li's golden partner Yuan Kui to be the martial arts instructor.

In this regard, his crew undoubtedly has richer experience.

Even if Zhou Ziheng doesn't know any Kung Fu, Yuan Kui can find a way to help him design the desired effect.

At worst, you can just hire a martial arts stunt double.

Hong Kong lacks everything, but the thing it lacks the least is martial arts stuntmen.

You can find any type.

Zhou Ziheng is not someone who is against using a stand-in.

Professional matters should be done by professionals, and that's the money that stand-ins get paid for. There's no such thing as not being a big shot if you're not a big shot.

The reason why Zhou Ziheng wanted to practice on his own was mainly for his own development.

He is actually not worried about the singing industry.

With a large number of songs in his mind, he is not afraid of being eliminated by the market.

It's the actors.

Zhou Ziheng himself still likes being an actor.

Especially when he sees himself in a movie in the cinema, it always gives him a different sense of accomplishment.

Therefore, he does not intend to simply make a cameo appearance occasionally, but intends to really make some good movies.

As for movies, there are actually some particularities involved.

There are different types of movies and so do actors.

There are actors who make a living by acting, actors who make a living by kung fu, and actors like Stephen Chow who make a living by comedy talent. There is no difference between the various types of actors, but their popularity in the eyes of the audience is different.

There is no doubt that action actors and comedians, because these two types of movies are the commercial mainstream of Chinese movies, which makes these two types of movies the most popular among the audience groups.

Zhou Ziheng admits that he has no talent for comedy.

Not to mention that he could not amaze an entire era like Stephen Chow, even if he could reach the level of Huang Bo and Shen Teng in the future, he could not do it.

As a comedian, if you don't have comedic talent, you will undoubtedly fail. No matter how good the script is in front of you, you won't be able to achieve that effect.

Therefore, if Zhou Ziheng wants to go further on the path of an actor, his only options left are undoubtedly acting and action.

Zhou Ziheng is indeed talented in acting, but he personally feels that his acting skills still need to be improved.

It is no exaggeration to say that his acting skills are indeed quite good among the younger generation, but he is definitely not the best.

Moreover, relying on acting skills to attract movie box office is a very uncertain thing.

Look at Tony Leung Ka Fai and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, there is no doubt that their acting is very good.

However, there are actually not many audiences who are willing to pay for their movies with movie tickets.

Instead, he's an action actor.

As long as you have the charm that can attract the audience, it will undoubtedly be faster to succeed and be a big success.

In fact, Zhou Ziheng discovered one thing in his previous life, that is, if an actor or a star wants to become popular, he must have a large number of fans.

Capital and capabilities are important, but there is another thing that is equally important.

That's the charm.

Charm is something that cannot be expressed in words.

Some actors actually have ordinary looks, but because they have the charm that can attract the audience, they will naturally attract a large number of fans who like them.

Some actors and stars are obviously very handsome, have good acting skills, and even have capital behind them willing to spend a lot of money to promote them, but they just don’t have that kind of charm, and they can never attract fans and become superstars.

This kind of charm may be cultivated, but in fact most of it is innate.

Just like Andy Lau and Hu Ge.

Do you think they are stunningly handsome? Obviously not.

But there is something about them that makes the audience feel that they are attractive when they see them for the first time.

The same goes for people like Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

If you put these people in any movie or TV series, naturally, even if he is not the protagonist, the audience will spontaneously regard him as the protagonist and hope that he is the protagonist.

This is the charm of an actor, or it can be said to be audience appeal.

Audience appeal is a strange thing.

Many viewers will inexplicably develop a liking for this actor when they see him for the first time.

This kind of goodwill accumulates slowly, and as time goes by, it will spread more and more...

Zhou Ziheng wasn't sure if he had this kind of charm.

However, what he can be sure of is that the audiences actually like him very much in the movies he starred in.

Now, all he needs to do is add a special feature to his film career.

For this specialty he chose action.

Action actors will remain in high demand for a long time to come.

Moreover, even in the future, action scenes will still be an important way for Chinese films to go global and promote Chinese culture to the world.

He already has a lot of classic action scenes in his mind.

As long as he could perform those action scenes, he felt that he might be able to become an action actor.

Therefore, with the help of the drama "The Man from Nowhere", he found himself a coach and insisted on practicing free fighting, boxing, etc. every day.

He doesn't ask himself to become a boxing champion, he can beat ten people by himself.

As long as he can perform most of the action scenes, it will undoubtedly be considered a success.

(End of this chapter)