Huayu: From Prisoner to Movie King

Chapter 591 Sisters Group Variety Show Episode

After landing in Magic City.

The crew had a simple rest for one night and started the intensive filming task the next day.

Because two big directors joined the crew at the same time, in order to avoid favoritism, Xu Kun and Huang Jianxin were divided into two groups for filming, one with Huang Jianxin and Chen Kaige, and the other with Xu Kun and Feng Xiaogang - they had scenes together.

Everything was fine before the filming started, but when they got to the shooting site, Feng Xiaogang began to encourage Xu Kun to play around with the frame. For example, he could not show the face of his character Du Yuesheng, and only shoot below the neck - if they only shot below the knees, then the scene would be amazing!

Xu Kun naturally did not adopt it.

Feng Xiaogang and Du Yuesheng are somewhat similar. Instead of shooting the face of such a "special actor", they shot his legs. Isn't this missing the point?
Besides, Han Sanping had gone to great lengths to get three big directors to make cameo appearances with him, so how could it be that you, a little steel cannon, only showed your two legs?

After much persuasion, the filming was finally done according to Xu Kun's wishes.

Compared with Chen Kun's original version, Xu Kun's version of Chiang Ching-kuo is more domineering, and he seems more aggrieved when he is recalled to Nanjing by Chiang Kai-shek.

This is just a difference in personal style, and it is not a question of which is higher or lower.

During this period, the direction of public opinion quietly changed, and both traditional print media and emerging online media were more or less criticized.

The number of articles targeting Xu Kun is decreasing exponentially every day, and they are replaced by hot topics in society or gossip about other celebrities.

By mid-April, apart from some online forums where discussions were still ongoing, no articles criticizing Xu Kun could be found in any of the major media outlets.

But the Southern faction was clearly unwilling to accept the result, and they went to an over-correction approach. All news reports involving Xu Kun were made anonymous, with a variety of aliases that exuded a weird tone.

So the rumor that Xu Kun had a very strong background and was even able to suppress the overwhelming public opinion became popular again.

Although it was not discussed in the media, it quickly spread across the country through street talk.

The people who believe this most firmly are those in Hong Kong Island - Xu Kun was able to cause severe damage to the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry last year, and it has not recovered until now. What's so strange about suppressing the mainland media now?

At the end of April, someone published an obituary of the famous dissident Liang Wendao in the Hong Kong media, claiming that Mr. Liang Wendao had actually passed away more than ten days ago, so there has been no news about him in the past half month.

This caused a great deal of grief in the cultural circles of Hong Kong Island, and they quickly gathered together to mobilize the masses to petition the TS government, demanding that the case must be thoroughly investigated.

As a result, in the evening of the same day, Liang Wendao activated his old Fanfou account and announced to the public that he was still alive, but was collectively banned by most media, including Hong Kong media, so he was unable to speak out in time recently.

In May, an anonymous listener in Guangdong paid to order a song "One Hand Covers the Sky" for "a big director with extremely high box office success" on the radio.

This incident was quickly reported by the Hong Kong media, and then Xu Kun was given the nickname "Xu, the big boss who covers the sky with one hand" for no apparent reason.

However, Xu Kun had no time to pay attention to all this. "The Founding of a Republic" had already entered the final sprint stage. The task of reshooting the indoor scenes was given to Huang Jianxin, who took most of the crew to start shooting the war scenes.

After working hard on the set for more than half a month, I finally completed the task with guaranteed quality and quantity.

As a result, when it came to editing, there was too much material, so the scenes involving democratic figures, the KMT, and our party could not be deleted.

Finally, according to the instructions from the superiors, they had to delete the war scenes with tears in their eyes and retain a small part of the essence - Xu Kun was so angry that he stomped his feet and cursed, and vowed never to shoot such a restrictive drama again.

at the same time.

The first episode of the sister group’s variety show was finally officially launched on June 1st, and quickly caused a sensation.

The sister group variety show attracted a lot of traffic in the early stages. The gimmick of two people working in a group to fulfill the wishes of left-behind children was still quite novel in 09, but these were not the reasons why the show sparked public opinion.

What really made this episode a hot topic was the task that Jiang Xin and Liu Shishi received. The task was that a 12-year-old girl who was about to enter junior high school wanted to entrust them to take a letter to her mother who remarried four years ago. Because they had lost contact for a long time, Jiang Xin and Liu Shishi took a lot of effort to finally find the girl's mother.

As a result, the girl's mother opened the letter in front of the camera, only to find that the entire letter was filled with the words "I hate you", some of which were even written in blood.

The girl's mother broke down emotionally on the spot and even had a physical conflict with the program crew. Even Liu Shishi's back of the hand was scratched and left a bloody cut.

The production crew fled the scene in a hurry, and then the scene changed to the Teddy sisters gathered together and began to debate fiercely whether to include this segment in the show.

The affirmative side believes that the program will be broadcast on Children's Day, June 1, and such a plot should not be included, but a normal wish should be filmed separately.

The opposing side believes that this is more realistic, and on Children's Day, isn't it more of a warning to warn parents not to ignore their children's thoughts and opinions?

The ten women were divided into four and six parts, and they went all out in front of the camera, which greatly satisfied the expectations of the spectators and created several famous scenes - and the biggest melon among them was the slap mark on Xiong Naijin's face in the middle. Who put it there and how did it get there?

Secondly, why did Yang Mi suddenly change her clothes during the filming process?
Secondly, who made the call that ultimately led the program team's decision?

In fact, the third question is not a problem at all, because almost all the audience believe that this must be the work of Xu, and only he can suppress the entire Teddy Sisters.

In short, the first episode of this program became a huge hit, because variety shows these days are still trying to promote harmony, and even if there are conflicts, they will be minimized or simply edited out and not broadcast.

The show "Along the Way with Flowers" used nearly one-third of the show's duration to film the scenes of the women's intrigues and verbal battles.

However, their positions all have their own reasons, so they each have a group of supporters, and their arguments with each other have the effect of boosting the popularity.

…………

"No."

Xu Kun was speechless and said, "Did your production team stage that phone call to Hezhe?"

"Or else?"

Gan Wei said confidently, "Didn't you say before that we could insert topics related to you into the program?"

Fine.

Anyway, Xu Kun is used to taking the blame, and it’s not in vain.

Then he asked the question that the audience was most concerned about: "What's the matter with the slap mark on Xiong Naijin's face?"

"I do not know."

Gan Wei was also a little confused: "At that time, Shi Shi splashed tea water on Yang Mi's face for some reason. Yang Mi first pretended to be burned on the face, and then said that he was scared. In short, the scene was a mess, so I quickly asked someone to turn off the machine.

When we turned on the camera again, there was a slap mark on Naijin's face. I asked who hit her, but she refused to tell me and just begged me to put the slap mark on the show."

In fact, Gan Wei now has two suspicions. One is that it was Jiang Yiyan or Hao Lei who beat him, because apart from himself, these two are the only ones in the group who can intimidate Xiong Naijin.

As for another possibility...

That was what Xiong Naijin did himself in order to stand out.

Anyway, no matter which one it was, Gan Wei didn't want to delve into it, so he didn't tell Xu Kun about his guess.

(End of this chapter)