After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 452: Chosen Yang Cai's Ex-Girlfriend
After Gao Yuanyuan's assistant helped Gao Yuanyuan off the stage, the staff brought in a green cloth board.

Hu Ge sat on the ground, ready to start shooting at any time.

Green screen shooting is simple and not too fancy.

"You were beaten by your father and ran away from home. Now you are sitting on a boat and it starts to rain. You are confused... You don't know what to do next. OK, let's start shooting!"

Li Mingyang looked at the original film and finished his description.

As soon as the stage manager clapboard, the filming officially begins.

Hu Ge sat on the green cloth board, raised his head with grievance, and looked around...

"Ka! What are you looking at? Are you firing a machine gun? Do it again!"

"Ka! You are just a coward, not a beggar! You are just confused, not suicidal!"

Compared to Gao Yuanyuan, who has been in the Hong Kong circle and filmed several big productions.

Gao Yuanyuan is actually quite resistant to abuse. As long as she gets used to being scolded, she can improve little by little.

It cannot be said that Hu Ge has no acting skills, but his expressions are a bit stereotyped.

After reshooting four or five times, Hu Ge's emotions were understood.

He just couldn’t capture the feeling that Li Mingyang wanted, so he was forced to stand up and tell Hu Ge to get out.

He took off his sunglasses, sat on the green cloth board, swayed his body slightly, and started the show directly!
Let Hugo study hard!

Hu Ge didn't take it seriously at first, because he knew Li Mingyang's acting skills better than anyone else.

However, it wasn't long before Hugo was shocked.

It was a smooth performance, done in one go, with the sadness in the boy's heart revealed subtly, without any signs of acting at all.

"Director Li, you're amazing! You acted so well, I understand!"

"I understand. Then act quickly!"

What an act, I experienced it myself!

Li Mingyang complained in his heart, put on his sunglasses, returned to his position and continued filming.

With the original film in hand, you can just copy it.

Hu Ge’s performance couldn’t surpass the animation, so he just copied it.

Hu Ge was inspired and made rapid progress, passing the test in one try.

"Brother Bo, it's your turn. You are on the boat, it's raining heavily, and suddenly the boat shakes and the waves hit us!
Gao Fan was nearly knocked off the boat by a sudden huge wave, and it was you who saved him!"

Huang Bo listened patiently, then curled his lips and said with some embarrassment: "Director, can we not shoot according to the storyboard?"

"Okay, look at it yourself!"

Huang Bo has been in the industry for 11 years and gained fame with Crazy Stone. He is a rare talent in the domestic entertainment industry and will be the first male star in China to earn a box office of over billion yuan.

Li Mingyang chose him because of his box office appeal.

Huang Bo played freely, with surprisingly good results, and was even able to motivate Hu Ge.

From humor to depth, from comedy to literature, Huang Bo, who is at the peak of his career, is really strong.

But Hu Ge can’t quite keep up with his performance!
Li Mingyang was forced to cut the scene five times, and finally finished it after piecing it together.

After shooting three scenes, the morning was over.

At noon, after Li Mingyang finished his lunch, he was thinking about whether he should work non-stop and shoot for two days and two nights to catch up on the progress.

Wu Zhikui suddenly came over and said, "Director Li, I found a very interesting film review."

"What movie review?"

"I was browsing Douban just now and found a review about The Witch. The reviewer seemed to be someone in the industry. He looked at The Witch from the perspective of the film industry. The analysis was really good..." Wu Zhikui said as he handed his phone to Li Mingyang.

Li Mingyang took the phone and started reading the other party’s film reviews.

“After watching the movie ‘Uncle’, I couldn’t believe it was made by Koreans. You know, the Korean film system was immature before the beginning of the 20th century, and the market was monopolized by Hollywood.

The appearance of "The Man from Nowhere" made me realize that South Korea has surpassed Hong Kong in terms of police and gangster films, especially in the action scenes that Hong Kong is proud of. South Korea has completely come up with its own set of tricks, which are sharp, cruel, bloody and fast-cut, making people dazzled.

The film industry is a complete system, including everything from screenwriting to shooting, publicity, release, and commercial activities surrounding the film. However, what best reflects the industrial system is not niche art films that are difficult to understand, but stereotyped commercial films.

Action films are one of the most demanding genres, requiring a mature team in terms of shooting techniques, editing, and post-production. The best in this regard are Hollywood and Hong Kong films.

Now we have to add a Korean movie to the mix!
For so many years, domestic films have been advocating big productions, commercialization, and the film industry, but what have they produced?
Just a steamed bun, some leftover rice, and a field of chrysanthemums.

Either it relies on crowds or it relies on erotic sentiments.

Last year, three domestic films grossed over 1 billion yuan.

If You Are the One 2, the joys and sorrows of an old man.

Let the Bullets Fly, it’s hard to imagine that this movie could pass review.

Your name, mediocre work, top-notch publicity.

I have never felt that Li Mingyang is a real director.

He is very utilitarian and commercial, and his mind is not on the movie itself at all.

Until the witch appeared.

I think he is a truly great director.

The first half of The Witch takes too long to set up, and the second half is too bloody. The two are very disconnected.

Neither commercial nor artistic.

It's both brain-burning and tedious.

The best part of The Witch is the action scenes, which I would call the best in Asia!

As we all know, action scenes look best when shot by Orientals.

Although Hollywood invited Hong Kong martial arts instructors for its action scenes, the strength and posture were not strong enough, and most of them were imitations and inheritances of Hong Kong action movies, lacking innovation.

Hong Kong's action scenes rely too much on action stars and stuntmen.

As those people get older, there are fewer and fewer action movies to watch.

And the witch created her own action movie system.

There is no need for too many difficult actions. The ultimate violent aesthetics can be achieved by using storyboards, editing, special effects, and filters!
Time will slowly prove the witch's uniqueness and historicity.

I hope Li Mingyang can make more action movies.

Witch, I didn't go to the cinema to support it, which is a pity.

Although I don’t like romantic movies, I will buy a ticket to support Weathering With You.”

……

After reading the film review, Li Mingyang had to say that the critic wrote it very well.

Especially the one where the witch fights against the uncle, she is really professional!
Uncle is the pioneer of Korean action movies!
And The Witch is the pinnacle of Korean action movies!
The Witch is a joint creation of the Hollywood film industry and the Korean film industrialization!

It’s special…

So special that it cannot be replicated...

Otherwise, Warner would not have spent 10 million US dollars to buy both the North American adaptation rights and the screening rights.

Hollywood is smart.

Too bad I can't copy...

its not right!
You can ask Kim Da-mi to film another Witch 2!
perfect!

……

Six p.m.

"Okay, everyone, finish work early today and start work at five o'clock tomorrow morning!"

After Li Mingyang finished speaking, he and Wu Zhikui left the green screen studio.

Take the elevator to the ninth floor and head to the Flower Bouquet Video Production Department.

The members of the Huabu Video Production Department mainly come from the original Weibo Marketing Department.

I didn’t expect that Zhong Xiaoyu was so charismatic that she could actually pull these people back from Cao Manman’s hands.

"Boss." Zhong Xiaoyu stood up when she saw Li Mingyang coming.

"Sit down, how's the Weibo marketing going?" Li Mingyang pulled a chair and sat next to Zhong Xiaoyu, asking anxiously.

"good results."

Zhong Xiaoyu refreshed Li Mingyang’s Weibo. The first post was a repost of a review from the Weibo version of the Douban film review.

Li Mingyang easily found the other party’s Weibo through the Douban name.

There are only over 500 fans...

There were very few readers, not even a single comment.

After Li Mingyang forwarded it.

In less than six hours, there were over a thousand comments, over ten thousand likes, and over five hundred reposts.

There are many big Vs who reposted the article, more than a hundred.

It’s not that Li Mingyang hasn’t promoted The Witch. From June to now, he has posted ten Weibo posts to promote The Witch.

However, the effect is very general.

The publicity and promotion department of Guangguang and the famous Weibo marketing department worked together, wrote countless short essays, and spent more than one million on marketing, but they still couldn't stir up the popularity...

And this film critic's review is so effective that it makes my liver explode!

"What a talented guy!" Li Mingyang said with a smile.

"Yes! This film critic saw the essence of the witch and expressed it in a simple and easy-to-understand way, which resonated with netizens. In the end, he asked for movie tickets and promoted Weathering With You. Do you want to contact him?" Wu Zhikui said.

"Of course I have to contact you."

Li Mingyang contacted the other party directly through his Weibo, and the other party responded quickly.

Upon learning that the other party was in Hangzhou, Li Mingyang was eager to recruit talents and went to Hangzhou overnight with Wu Zhikui.

The two parties agreed to meet in a cafe.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Li Mingyang met an amateur film critic with the online name "Canghai Zhuke".

The other party was a male editor from Sohu Entertainment. He was not very old, only 24 years old. He spoke in an adult manner and was quite confident. We chatted for more than an hour.

Li Mingyang felt that this person knew a lot about movies and had watched countless movies, so he was very suitable to write film reviews.

Just when he was about to recruit the other party, the other party actually asked about his relationship with Liu Yifei.

This is annoying.

"Your film review is great. Here's a gift for you." Li Mingyang took out a red envelope of two thousand yuan that he had prepared in advance from his pocket and handed it to the other party.

After the other party received the red envelope, he felt the thickness of the money and smiled very happily.

After giving the red envelope, Li Mingyang and Wu Zhikui left the coffee shop and came to the door. Wu Zhikui said, "This guy has some talent, but his mouth..."

"Just think of it as getting to know an excellent film critic, maybe I can use him in the future..." Li Mingyang sentenced this man to death in his heart.

For some reason, he now hates people talking about Liu Yifei in front of him more and more.

Li Mingyang walked towards his Mercedes Benz, but after taking a few steps, he suddenly froze in place.

Wu Zhikui followed Li Mingyang's gaze and saw three little girls walking towards them.

The girl on the left is not the prettiest, but with her long hair, jeans and beige coat, she gives Wu Zhikui a very strange feeling...

"The one in the beige coat?"

"Yeah." Li Mingyang stretched out his hand and asked, "Do you have cigarettes?"

"I'll go buy some." Wu Zhikui saw a small shop nearby and went to buy cigarettes.

It took only the time to buy cigarettes. When Wu Zhikui came out of the store, he saw Li Mingyang holding a white Xiaomi mobile phone and taking a photo with the girl in the beige coat.

This is really rare. Having known Li Mingyang for so long, this is the first time that Wu Zhikui has seen Li Mingyang take photos with passers-by on his own initiative.

Li Mingyang actually didn’t want to take a photo.

But he stared at his ex-girlfriend in his previous life for too long, which aroused the vigilance of the three girls. Then they quickly recognized him and surrounded him to take a photo.

Li Mingyang agreed because he was afraid of being watched.

"Okay, I'm leaving first. Be careful on the road." After Li Mingyang finished speaking, he walked to the Mercedes-Benz and waved to Lao Wu.

Seeing this, Old Wu took out his car keys and unlocked the car door.

Li Mingyang got into the car. The three girls had not left yet. The girl with a cell phone held it up and pointed it at the car.

Old Wu got in the car, sat in the driver's seat, and threw the cigarettes and lighter to Li Mingyang.

Then he looked at the three little girls outside.

Compared to the other two excited little girls, the girl in the beige coat had a much calmer look on her face.

"It's illegal..." Old Wu said. "Get lost!" Li Mingyang lit a cigarette and glanced at his skinny ex-girlfriend.

My ex-girlfriend wasn’t doing well. Her clothes looked a little worn and her face looked a little sallow.

Li Mingyang felt a little uncomfortable.

My ex-girlfriend is only fifteen years old now, two years older than Juanjuan, and she is not yet an adult...

My ex-girlfriend's family favors boys over girls.

In order to have a boy, the parents gave birth to three daughters in a row, and only successfully gave birth to a younger brother with the fourth pregnancy.

As the saying goes, the more you give birth, the poorer you become, and the poorer you become, the more you give birth.

In order to support their four children, the parents went to Shijiazhuang to do business early.

As the eldest daughter, she grew up with her parents in Shijiazhuang and developed an independent character.

When she was a child, she had to help with the business and her academic performance was very poor, so she could only go to a vocational high school. Later, her family bought her an adult undergraduate degree, but she did not finish it because she was forced to drop out of school because of her father's huge gambling debts.

I could only work as a Taobao model in my uncle's shop, living under someone else's roof, and as a girl, no one was treated well by others.

Later, she participated in the Hangzhou University Campus Beauty Contest, and was finally discovered by Guangguang with a ranking in the top 30 and signed by Guangguang.

Later, the filming of "A River of Sorrow" produced by Guangguang started, and she and Ren Min were sent to the crew by Guangguang.

The ex-girlfriend and Ren Min were actors signed by Guangguang at the same time.

The ex-girlfriend was not from a professional background, but Ren Min graduated from the Central Academy of Drama.

The latter are naturally cultivated with emphasis on light.

Ren Min is not very good... He looks too ordinary, and is becoming more and more ordinary, and is ridiculed by everyone.

The ex-girlfriend has a first love face, is the chosen white moonlight, and is very popular with the public.

When Ren Min could no longer carry the banner, Juanjuan was banned again.

Her chance has just come...

When Li Mingyang met her, she hadn't yet photographed your wedding and was having a hard time.

Then she became very depressed and very free, so she often came to Hengdian to play with him.

Then one day, Li Mingyang slept with her and they started dating.

By the time Li Mingyuan became a senior executive at Penguin Video, her resources also increased.

Then Li Mingyang's heart changed. She became suspicious every day and often made trouble, so Li Mingyang dumped her.

When Li Mingyang left Penguin Video and wanted to become a director, his ex-girlfriend happened to be doing very well at Guangguang.

So he went to find Bai Yueguang and asked her to help him arrange a meeting with Wang Changtian.

Not everyone could see Wang Changtian at that time. He lived behind the scenes. Li Mingyang had never seen him when he was at Penguin.

The ex-girlfriend rolled her eyes at him, picked up her bag and smashed it, but for the sake of filming the movie, Li Mingyang endured it.

Then one day his ex-girlfriend asked him out and took him to meet Wang Changtian.

Bao Bei'er was also there that day.

As the first actor signed by Guangguang, Bao Bei'er has no other skills except loyalty.

Wang Changtian didn't think much of him and left after chatting for a while.

As soon as Wang Changtian left, Bao Bei'er became angry and warned him to stay away from Zhang Ruolan in the future, otherwise he would beat him every time he saw him.

Before he even left the house, Li Mingyang pinned Bao Bei'er to the ground and beat him up.

Just when they were having a great time fighting, Zhang Ruolan came back with Wang Changtian.

Wang Changtian looked very strange at the time. He asked Bao Bei'er to wash his face, then sat down and talked with Li Mingyang for more than two hours.

Eventually broke up on bad terms.

It was after that day that he realized he could not become a film director.

Unless you go back to Penguin and endure for a few years, you will have a chance to become a film director. You have to start with a small budget and follow the capital plan, step by step. If you make a mistake, you will never be able to recover.

The film industry is dominated by BAT.

Everyone works for BAT...

If I had to say, the woman Li Mingyang let down the most in his previous life was her ex-girlfriend.

The reason why he knows so much about light is because his ex-girlfriend told him...

To be honest, he didn't really want to see his ex-girlfriend so early.

Now that I have seen...

Li Mingyang put out the cigarette butt in the car ashtray, pushed open the car door, got out of the car, and gave Lao Wu's business card to Zhang Ruonan.

"If you have time, come to Mingyang Entertainment in Hengdian for an audition."

Zhang Ruonan took the business card in a daze, and when she came to her senses, the car had already gone far away.

"Wow, this is such good luck! I met a big star while shopping! And I even got an audition opportunity. It feels like a dream!"

"Xiao Nan, you're going to be a star!"

"We are sisters, please don't forget us!"

"Xiao Nan, Hengdian is very far away. I will go with you tomorrow. Oh, and call my dad along. He is a lawyer."

Zhang Ruonan listened to the chatter of the little sisters, looked at the business card for a while, and suddenly said, "He doesn't have a business card? It turns out that big stars don't have business cards!"

"..."*2
……

Zhang Ruonan came to Mingyang Entertainment the next day, with her friend and her friend's father.

Li Mingyang took her to the conference room for a private audition and asked her to play the role of Yang Cai.

Actors are talented.

Zhang Ruonan's talent is no worse than Juanjuan's.

Maybe it was because of her original family, which favored boys over girls. She had two younger sisters and one younger brother. As the eldest sister, she became strong and independent early on. She did not bring trouble to the family and also took care of her younger siblings.

Amano Haruna's optimism, strength, bravery and kindness.

Zhang Ruonan has them all.

Obsessed with love, sacrificing for love... Li Mingyang has experienced all of these.

Zhang Ruonan’s ability to empathize with the heroine is simply maxed out. Although her acting is very immature, it is really touching.

Yang Cai is simply the chosen one!
The crew has already started filming, and she is too young, so Yang Cai cannot play the role, but she can be a stand-in!

Gao Yuanyuan’s acting is okay and she is talented, but she just can’t understand the character’s emotions.

Yang Cai, who walked out of the animation, is right in front of me.

Everything is the best arrangement!

"Not bad, you acted very well." Li Mingyang applauded and said, "You are not yet an adult, right?

The guardian must agree. Are your parents free to come over?"

"Well...how much is the salary?" Zhang Ruonan said unconfidently.

"Ten thousand a month."

Zhang Ruonan's eyes widened and she nodded vigorously, "With so much money, my parents should agree."

After the deal was done.

Li Mingyang opened the door to let the people outside in.

Ye Xiangdong and the legal department communicated the contract details with Zhang Ruonan.

He went downstairs and talked to Gao Yuanyuan, who was rehearsing, about her next work arrangements.

I learned that Li Mingyang had found a little girl whose image was very similar to Yang Cai's, and asked her to imitate that little girl.

Gao Yuanyuan felt that her self-esteem had been trampled upon, but she did not dare to complain because her self-esteem had long been scolded away. "Director Li, is there anything wrong with my acting?"

"There's nothing wrong with your image, but it's too hard for you to act. You can't empathize with others! I don't need the affectation of an artistic girl. I need a strong girl who is working hard to survive."

"You live to live, and they live to survive. These are two different feelings. Why are you pouting? Are you dissatisfied?"

Gao Yuanyuan smiled slightly and lifted her hair beside her ear, "Director Li, whatever you say is right. I will follow your instructions."

"From now on you are responsible for taking care of her."

"Ah!" Gao Yuanyuan asked anxiously, "How old is she?"

"fifteen."

It’s okay if you don’t have to be a mother!

Gao Yuanyuan blinked quickly, nodded and smiled: "I promise to complete the task."

"Ah."

Li Mingyang arranged Zhang Ruonan's affairs and was about to leave when he suddenly turned around and said to Gao Yuanyuan, "Sister Yuanyuan, we have been filming for such a long time, have we ever had a meal together?"

"No..."

Li Mingyang nodded, and Gao Dajun happened to pass by, so he asked Gao Dajun to go to Haiyue Pavilion to make arrangements.

Two days later, 70 percent of the green screen scenes for Weathering With You were shot.

The crew moved to the circular building next door to shoot interior and exterior scenes.

The green screen scenes mainly feature Hu Ge and Gao Yuanyuan, and many actors were not present.

For the shooting of indoor and outdoor scenes, Li Mingyang required all crew members to be present.

There is the original Weathering With You as a reference.

Witch brings abundant funds from overseas.

Systematic management creates a tool assembly line.

The appearance of his ex-girlfriend allowed Li Mingyang to find the template of the real person Yang Cai.

As the filming progressed, the crew's cooperation became more and more tacit.

Then one day, the crew suddenly became like a huge and sophisticated machine, emitting a very rhythmic sound.

It turns in an orderly manner.

At that moment, Li Mingyang was sitting behind the monitor.

Suddenly I discovered that the crew of Son of Heaven had already entered the mechanized, assembly-line operation of the Peak Building in the previous life.

In a trance, he seemed to be in the Mingyang Building, sitting behind dozens of monitors, commanding hundreds of people with a walkie-talkie.

Li Mingyang was in a trance for a long time.

Crazy flashbacks in my mind, all the love and hate, all the joys and sorrows.

All the entrepreneurial experiences in his previous life collided and mixed together with those in this life, giving him a strong feeling of suffocation.

Zuoshandiao has extremely high expectations for him, and success or failure in Hollywood is not important.

"Hollywood has long since stopped being able to accommodate people like us from Dongda University. Culture and capital have no borders, but even dogs have borders!"

"We have the market, they have the technology, this is a cultural war!"

"We've used the market to buy you the opportunity to study abroad. You're the youngest among us and the one who knows the film industry best. You must seize this opportunity."

"The results are not important. What is important is that you know where the barrier between us and them is."

"Mingyang, you must always remember your position. You are a student of the University of Tokyo... Many people who went out to study before never came back. I hope you can come back as a filmmaker of the University of Tokyo."

Zuoshandiao's words echoed in Li Mingyang's ears.

The industrialization of film...

In order to seize and monopolize the market, BAT has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in ten years.

Unconsciously, the industrialization of film and television was born.

It’s just that there is a lack of operators who can stably produce hits…

There was a sudden silence in my ears!
Li Mingyang suddenly came back to his senses and realized that the scene had just ended.

Everyone looked at him, waiting for his next instruction.

"The one just now was okay, save another one."

Li Mingyang was distracted just now, and had no idea what Hu Ge was acting in...

The crew then started moving.

Soon everyone was in place.

"Action!" Li Mingyang said, holding up the walkie-talkie.

……

(End of this chapter)