Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 147 Confrontation
Cao Yang felt that he would not be able to capture that feeling in a short time, so he wondered if there was any way to solve it.

"Take a break for half an hour first, and then continue shooting half an hour later."

Cao Yang said this, and then walked to his own resting place.

Li Xiaoran returned to the resting place with a smile, right next to Cao Yang, just on Cao Yang's left.

The rest area to Cao Yang's right was Gao Yuanyuan's. The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, surrounded Cao Yang in the middle. However, this was a film crew, and the two of them were the most famous, so no one said anything nonsense.

Anything can happen in the crew. Even if the director and the heroine live together openly, no one will spread anything. If they are found out, they will become public enemies in the circle.

It is very common to see couples on the set.

Gao Yuanyuan glanced at Li Xiaoran and felt annoyed when she saw her smiling face.

You are such a good mistress, Li Ernai, you did this on purpose, didn't you? You want to embarrass me, don't you?
"I'm sorry to have wasted everyone's time. I'm really sorry."

Gao Yuanyuan nodded slightly to the staff around her again and apologized, being very polite.

Then, she walked to Cao Yang and whispered, "Director Cao, I still can't act it out. Why don't you tell me about the play again tonight, just like you did every night when we were filming Secret Sunshine."

Li Xiaoran, who was smiling, shuddered all over and turned to look at Cao Yang.

You tell this vixen about the play every night? In the middle of the night, a man and a woman alone, what kind of play are you telling her? Could it be that you are reading a glow-in-the-dark script?

"I've explained the play to you and Xiaoran many times."

Cao Yang narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "When we were filming Secret Sunshine, I explained the scenes to you and Old Wu at the same time. You were quite perceptive at the time. Your emotional mobilization and explosiveness were obviously better than Old Wu's."

It turned out that he was with Old Wu.

Li Xiaoran turned her head and imitated Cao Yang, smiling and squinting her eyes, looking relaxed and happy.

Old Wu knew that Wu Qihua from Hong Kong was an actor valued by Cao Yang. He had acted in two of Cao Yang's dramas and his upward momentum was very obvious. He was now quietly becoming one of the first echelons of the Mesozoic era.

I said that Cao Yang never does that when making a movie, and he always makes a clear distinction between public and private affairs. Otherwise, he would not be one of the top three directors in China.

"Yuanyuan, I have some ideas about Xiaowei, how about I teach you?"

Li Xiaoran smiled and looked up at Gao Yuanyuan with an expression of deep sisterly love.

Gao Yuanyuan cursed in her heart, thinking that Li Ernai was too mean. As soon as she said this, it sounded as if she was much more powerful than herself, leaving people with the impression that the Cannes Film Queen was not as good as the Berlin Film Queen.

"Ha, that's great, Xiaoran. I knew you had experience. You acted so naturally in "A Night Alone on the Beach" without any trace of acting. You were obviously very experienced."

Gao Yuanyuan looked so grateful, but her words were as sharp as a knife, coming straight to the point.

Since you want to teach me, okay, you must have similar experience. It’s not that my acting skills are worse than yours, but that I don’t have the “tricks” you have and I don’t have experience in this area.

"Yuanyuan, what you said is wrong. My acting skills are just better than yours. As for experience, I..."

"cough!"

Cao Yang coughed, interrupting Li Xiaoran's words. He stood up and asked directly, "Hey, is it time yet? I feel like it's been a long time."

"Director Cao, only eight minutes have passed," the stage manager reminded.

"is it?"

Cao Yang sat down again and thought about it. He felt that the time was right. If the two of them continued like this, they would become enemies and it would be difficult to resolve the situation.

If you have this spirit, use it in the play, don't cause trouble in real life. "That's enough, both of you, shut up, if you want to discuss the plot, find a place where there is no one, don't be sarcastic here, just think about how to play the character well.

This is a movie, with hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, this is not the place for you to bicker, if you keep doing this, I will replace all the leading actresses."

Pang Bing was resting next to Li Xiaoran. She was watching the show with great interest, but she didn't expect Cao Yang to suddenly get angry.

In her opinion, Li Xiaoran and Gao Yuanyuan are both international film queens and the top actresses in the country, so they should know a few words of yin and yang, right?
She had seen Gong Li teasing Zhang Yimou, and Zhang Yimou kept his head down and said nothing.

When filming "Cell Phone", I also saw Xu Fan's yin and yang little Cannon, and the little Cannon just grinned foolishly.

However, contrary to her expectations, neither Li Xiaoran nor Gao Yuanyuan spoke for a while. After a while, Gao Yuanyuan was the first to say, "Director Cao, I'm sorry."

Then, he said to Li Xiaoran: "Xiaoran, I was wrong. I shouldn't have joked with you like that. Please forgive me."

A pitiful look.

Li Xiaoran also reacted very quickly. She came over and held Gao Yuanyuan's hand, looking like a sister with deep affection, and said, "I was wrong, Yuanyuan, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have joked with you first. Can you forgive me too?"

Then, holding Gao Yuanyuan's hand, she turned around and said to Cao Yang: "I'm sorry, Director Cao, we sisters may have gone a little too far in our joke. There won't be a next time, I promise."

Afterwards, the two of them seemed to have no prejudice at all, chatting and laughing about clothes, makeup, and gossip about Zhang Ziyi...

It was reported by the media that international star Zhang had hooked up with the grandson of Hong Kong's super-rich Fok family.

When Pang Bing heard this, she immediately came over. The three women were chattering about whether Zhang Ziyi would marry into a wealthy family.

The filming continued half an hour later. "Good sister" Li Xiaoran still performed very well. As long as she was acting opposite Gao Yuanyuan, she could make Gao Yuanyuan look more like a "silly and sweet girl" and continued to dominate the show.

Xiao Wei is not a "naive naive" person. Gao Yuanyuan was obviously affected and her performance was not as good as before.

"Crack!"

Gao Yuanyuan was still polite and apologized to the staff.

Li Xiaoran didn't know what was going on, so she took Gao Yuanyuan's hand and apologized to the staff.

You can tell at first glance that they are sisters with deep affection.

Cao Yang saw that this was not going to work. Gao Yuanyuan's psychological quality was obviously not as good as Li Xiaoran's. If she continued like this, she would collapse sooner or later.

Hey, Cao Yang suddenly thought, if he goes on like this, as long as he finds the right balance and doesn't let Gao Yuanyuan really have a mental breakdown, then can he shoot the scene where Gao Yuanyuan explodes in the end?

Xiao Wei loved Wang Sheng so deeply, but Wang Sheng was willing to die for Peirong without hesitation at the last moment. Xiao Wei was mentally devastated, which led to the final outburst.

Why did Xiao Wei explode? Because she couldn't get the love she wanted, because she was disappointed, because she was angry, because she was sad.

As long as Gao Yuanyuan is disappointed, sad and angry, she will explode naturally and perfectly perform the final ending.

Try?

"Xiao Ran, you performed very well just now!"

Cao Yang deliberately didn't look at Gao Yuanyuan and said to the crew, "Take a ten-minute break and then shoot again."

Afterwards, he waved over the coordinator and production manager and told them to adjust the shooting order and move the scene where Xiao Wei had an outburst forward to three days later.

(End of this chapter)