Chinese Entertainment 2017: Starting from the Top Writers

Chapter 74 Acting Skills
Chen Duling's answer caused an uproar at the scene. This answer is too extensible.

This means that there is nothing now, but there may be something in the future, which gives people a lot of room for imagination.

A group of reporters were taking notes in their notebooks, thinking that they already had the material for today's front page.

However, faced with numerous questions, Chen Duling just smiled and did not continue answering, and put down the microphone in her hand.

After Chen Duling, a group of reporters continued to ask questions to other leading actors. Apart from Chen Duling, the person who received the most questions was Zhao Lusi.

Why are people so concerned about her? Because Zhang Ruonan is an artist of Guangguang Films, and Guangguang is one of the investors of this movie, so there is nothing wrong with that.

Hou Minghao and Peng Yuchang were not well-known at the time and had only appeared on Mango TV's variety shows, so there was nothing to dig up about them.

The only person who everyone felt had something interesting to dig into was Zhao Lusi.

Because her employer, Galaxy Cool Entertainment, was not a big company at that time, it would be difficult for her to get a chance to star in a movie directed by a popular director like Lin Li.

Didn’t you see who came to the platform today?
Wang Changtian, the head of Light Media, and Han Zijie of Penguin Pictures are both big names in the industry. In comparison, what is Galaxy Cool Entertainment at this moment?
So everyone is curious about how Zhao Lusi, a little-known person, got on board Lin Li's big ship.

At this time, Zhao Lusi was still a little immature. She was flustered by the numerous questions and could not speak while holding the microphone.

Seeing this, Lin Li picked up the microphone and signaled the reporters to be quiet. He only spoke after everyone fell silent.

"Let me explain why I chose Ruth to play the role of Tang Xiaomi. Ruth and I met at my book signing event. We were not familiar with each other at the time, but I had seen her on variety shows and had a certain impression of her. Later, we met again by chance near the National People's Congress. During the conversation, I thought that Ruth's cute appearance would have a stronger contrast if she played a villain, so I took the initiative to invite her to play the role of Tang Xiaomi. I believe that my vision will not be wrong, so please wait and see."

Chen Chao led the applause from the side, and seeing this, everyone also clapped out of respect, and the problem was solved.

Chen Duling and Zhang Ruonan on the side understood a little more after hearing what Lin Li said, but they didn't believe that the actual situation was as Lin Li said.

After all, it wasn't surprising to meet him at a book signing event, but to run into him again near the National People's Congress, isn't that nonsense?

Isn't it obvious that this was premeditated!

However, the smile on Zhao Lusi's face became sweeter. As expected, Lin Li would not embarrass her and helped her again.

She also once again reaffirmed her determination to take down Lin Li!

At this moment, the ambition in her eyes was almost solidified.

She really wants to make progress!

Finally, the reporters asked Wang Changtian and Han Zijie a series of questions. After several rounds of dialogue, the two expressed their confidence and support for Lin Li, and the interview finally came to an end.

The two people who achieved their goal expressed their respective attitudes after communicating with Lin Li for a while and then left the crew one after another.

Chen Chao began to arrange people to clean up the scene, while Lin Liye led the actors to the shooting location.

The first thing they had to shoot was the school scenes, and the location was Defu Road Middle School in Jiading New Town in Shanghai.

It was already a little after ten o'clock when they arrived at the filming location. Lin Li began to arrange for the actors to change their costumes and do their styling. The photography team, lighting team and other personnel quickly took their positions and began to set up the scene.

The first scene was the one where Chen Duling cried after being bullied by her classmates, so after she changed her clothes and came out, she immediately walked to a corner alone and started to get into the mood.

There are many crying scenes for the heroine in this movie, so last night Chen Duling even rejected Lin Li's request to spend the night together, in order to stay in shape and figure out the script.

For an actor, if he wants to play a role well, he must put himself into the role's environment and cannot interpret the character based on his own identity.

Therefore, Chen Duling had to deeply understand Yi Yao's inner world. Although her real life was completely different from Yi Yao's, she had to treat herself as Yi Yao and experience the life she led every day and the isolation she suffered from her classmates every day.

She even talked to Lin Li in advance and learned that she would deliberately distance herself from the crew members and not communicate with others during filming in order to better interpret the role.

When everything was ready, the photographer zoomed in to capture Chen Duling's facial expressions closely.

In front of the monitor, Lin Li stared at Chen Duling's face on the screen, always feeling that something was wrong.

Yes, it’s the makeup. There’s something wrong with the makeup. Given Yi Yao’s family background, her face shouldn’t be so fair and tender.

Pick up the intercom: "Makeup designer, reapply the actors' makeup. It would be best if they were completely bare-faced, or even do some rough treatment on the skin."

Upon hearing this, the makeup team leader hurried forward to take Chen Duling away, and the two makeup artists worked together to start re-doing her makeup.

After a while, Chen Duling returned to the camera again. Lin Li asked the cameraman through the intercom to zoom in continuously until the pores on Chen Duling's face could almost be seen.

"Turn the light a little to the left."

"Move the camera back a little to show the actor above the shoulders."

"Actors, please pay attention to your state and be ready to make me cry at any time."

"Prepare the notes!"

As Lin Li's voice continued to ring out on the intercom, the scene began to quiet down, and people quickly began to move. The only voice that could be heard in the entire space was Lin Li's calm and unhurried voice.

Zhang Ruonan and other leading actors gathered around and saw Lin Li entering the shooting state. For the first time, they had an intuitive feeling of his directing ability.

Peng Yuchang whispered: "This is so cool, the feeling of being in complete control of the whole scene!"

Zhang Ruonan's eyes sparkled and she nodded subconsciously.

Zhao Lusi, who had changed into her school uniform skirt, was also deeply attracted by Lin Li who was sitting in front of the monitor. Her eyes were full of admiration, and her sparkling eyes could only accommodate him. Everything was ready, and Lin Li's steady and powerful voice came from the intercom.

"Start shooting"

"Sadness flows like a river, act one, scene one, action!"

"Snapped!"

The script supervisor put down the copy and the shooting officially began.

Chen Duling immediately got into the mood, two lines of tears streaming down her eyes, her expression showing a kind of sadness as if her heart had died. It was much better than Lin Lizhong had expected, but it was still not enough.

"Crack!"

"Actors, please note that I want the face to not need any expression, the eyes to be empty, numb, and the feeling of tears welling up in the eyes, understand?"

Chen Duling nodded: "I understand, Director, I'll start over."

"Act One, Scene Two!"

"Snapped!"

Field recorder.

Lin Li stared closely at Chen Duling's expression on the monitor, with the intercom to his lips. When he saw that she started to cry, he spoke quickly.

"Cameraman, move the camera to the actor's entire face, and turn up the light!"

The camera lights moved in response to the sound and executed quickly.

Chen Duling's face was expressionless, her eyes were numb, but two lines of tears kept flowing down her cheeks, giving people the feeling that she was still alive but seemed to be dead.

Lonely, numb, desperate, and boring!
Chen Duling's performance this time was perfect. She expressed all the feelings that Lin Li wanted. It was amazing.

Not only Lin Li could feel this, other people at the scene also felt the obvious progress of the heroine, which was completely different from the Chen Duling they knew before.

Zhang Ruonan and Zhao Lusi felt even more pressure. Since the lead actress Chen Duling performed so well, they, who had fewer and simpler roles, had to perform even better!

"Okay, this one passes!"

Following Lin Li's order, Chen Duling buried her head in front of her, squatted down and burst into tears. She was so immersed in the role that she hadn't come out of it yet.

There was warm applause from everyone at the scene, one was cheering for Chen Duling's performance, the other was celebrating the completion of the first shot.

There are some rules to follow when taking the first shot. If the first shot goes well, it is a good sign.

"The actors will go off stage and take a break. The assistant director will arrange for the extras to get in place. We will shoot the scenes of going to and from school."

After the most important first scene was completed, Lin Li relaxed a lot. He arranged for Chen Duling to take a break and shoot some simple shots first.

The assistant director this time is Zhao Qian, a new director recruited by Xu Fei. Zhao Qian graduated from the directing department of Beijing Film Academy in 08. Before joining Nanxun Culture, he worked as an executive director in many crews and shot several MVs, but they were never very popular.

After comparing several newly recruited directors, Lin Li felt that he was the most malleable and his camera language had certain characteristics, so he appointed him as the deputy director of the Tragedy crew.

At the same time, the filming was divided into three groups, and he, Zhao Qian and another executive director were responsible for shooting different scenes every day.

After Zhao Qian arranged the extras, Lin Li gave an order for the clapboard to continue filming.

Chen Duling, who was standing by, calmed down at this time and began to look at Lin Li who was directing the dispatch in front of the monitor.

Of course she knew why Lin Li chose her for the first scene, he wanted to prove to the crew that she could act well.

She also knew that there was a lot of criticism online and on the set regarding her playing the female lead.

So she had been honing her acting skills during this period before filming began, and even hired an acting teacher.

She wanted to prove that Lin Li's choice was not wrong, and she knew that Lin Li was also aware of her thoughts, so the scene just now happened.

Fortunately, she did it.

Chen Duling stared at Lin Li, her pupils shimmering faintly.

With so many people standing around like this, how could she not hold on tightly?

So what if it's Zhang Ruonan or Zhao Lusi? As long as I'm here, no one can have any bad thoughts about her boyfriend.

Don’t even think about it!

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