Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 89 Heart-wrenching despair

Cao Yang attached great importance to the final crying scene.

Throughout the entire film, the heroine is almost always suppressing her pain and enduring suffering. Even the laughter and joy she seems to be having is just an escape and an attempt to numb herself.

Only this crying scene in the church can truly release the heroine's repressed emotions, and it also provides the audience with a breakthrough to release their emotions.

Before the shooting, Gao Yuanyuan came to Cao Yang somewhat reluctantly, but still spoke very politely.

"Director Cao, how should I act in this scene so that the audience can feel the hurt my scumbag husband has caused me?"

"Ok?"

Cao Yang didn’t know whether he had heard it wrong or Gao Yuanyuan had expressed it incorrectly. What does the crying scene here have to do with the heroine’s husband?
"Director Cao, this is what I think. If the scumbag husband hadn't cheated on her, the heroine wouldn't have come to Kwun Tong, and her daughter wouldn't have gotten into trouble. So the source of all this is the fault of her hateful scumbag husband."

Cao Yang thought about it and felt that this idea...was not wrong.

"Yuanyuan, in this crying scene, there is actually no need for her to express hatred for her husband. There are no lines here, just crying, so her crying can be about resentment towards her husband, or about the injustice of fate, or about her poor child. What's the difference?"

"I think the source of all the trouble is her husband. What do you think, Director Cao?" Gao Yuanyuan emphasized again.

Cao Yang looked at Gao Yuanyuan strangely. You talked a lot today? Did you do that to make the crying scene more effective?

"Well, you're right. It's all her husband's fault."

Gao Yuanyuan visibly raised the corner of her mouth, and then repeated: "Yes, it's all her husband's fault."

After saying this, Gao Yuanyuan's heart skipped a beat. It was over. After Director Cao admitted that it was her husband's fault, most of the resentment in her heart disappeared. Crying scene... I couldn't cry at all. What should I do?
It’s over, it’s over!
Ten minutes later, the script supervisor clapped the clapboard and the last set of shots began shooting.

Gao Yuanyuan sat on the bench in the church, her tears falling like beads from a broken string. Then she covered her face with her hands, her body trembling slightly, as if she was trying her best to suppress her sadness and despair, which made people feel an indescribable heartache.

Wu Qihua, who was in the background, looked at Gao Yuanyuan with concern, then lowered his head silently as if he couldn't bear to look at her, and then looked up at Gao Yuanyuan again as if he was worried.

This silent performance allows the audience to understand his thoughts at a glance.

Cao Yang thought, isn't this great? That kind of silent pain makes people feel the same. All I need to do next is cry out loud again, preferably until I'm hoarse, then the ending will be perfect.

Then we just waited and waited, he didn't say cut, and the camera kept filming.

A minute passed, and Gao Yuanyuan was still shaking with sorrow, tears streaming down her cheeks. It was obvious that she was in great pain and despair, but she just couldn't vent her feelings and didn't cry out loud.

"Crack!"

Cao Yang pinched his chin with his hand, not quite sure what to say.

You say the acting was bad, but that kind of desperate silent crying could be included in the teaching materials of Beijing Film Academy.

But no matter how good it is, it still doesn't meet the requirements.

Cry out loud, you should cry out loud.

"Take a ten-minute break, touch up your makeup, and do another one later." Cao Yang shouted.

Gu Changwei told Ning Hao to change the film. He walked up to Cao Yang, shook his head regretfully, and then sighed.

"What a damn shame, such a good scene, just lacks the last shiver, ah."

Then, he suggested: "Director Cao, it's a shame to waste such a good shot. It's such a pity! How about shooting it separately, and then shooting a crying shot, and then editing them together?"

Cao Yang also sighed and shook his head gently, "No, the impact is not consistent enough."

Gu Changwei walked back, sighing, what a shame such a good performance wasted.

Ten minutes later, shoot again.

Then, Cao Yang and Gu Changwei shook their hands at the same time, and another wonderful shot was ruined!

"Rest, rest! Put on some makeup!" Cao Yang shouted. He also felt it was a pity. It was such a good performance, why couldn't she cry? Cao Yang wanted to kick Gao Yuanyuan a few times to see if she could cry out loud.

Then, Gao Yuanyuan came over and said to Cao Yang carefully, "I'm sorry, Director Cao, it's my fault. But I just can't cry out loud, even if I continue filming."

Cao Yang opened his mouth and wanted to scold her, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. Gao Yuanyuan's performance was good enough and she apologized in time, which made him feel embarrassed to scold her.

Now how to do?
You can't really kick her, can you?
Cao Yang suddenly had an idea and remembered what Gao Yuanyuan had just mentioned, that she hated her scumbag husband very much. Was there any way to find a breakthrough here?

"If I give you some photos, you can treat them as those of your scumbag husband, and tear them up while you vent your anger. Can you take advantage of the emotional outburst to cry?"

Gao Yuanyuan thought about it carefully and nodded, "I think it should be fine."

Then try this new idea.

Cao Yang was just about to ask his assistant to get some photos, but unexpectedly Gao Yuanyuan raised her hand and cautiously made a suggestion.

"Director Cao, can we use your photo?"

Cao Yang glared at him and said, "You're taking advantage of me, huh?"
At this time, Gu Changwei next to him started to make fun of her, "Director Cao, I think Yuanyuan's suggestion is good. Think about it, you made her suffer a lot on the first day. Maybe she has some resentment towards you. Using your photos can help her release her emotions better, haha..."

In the entire crew, probably only Lao Gu dared to joke with Cao Yang, and he was the only one who had the qualifications to do so.

"No, no, Mr. Gu, please don't talk nonsense. How dare I?"

Gao Yuanyuan quickly denied it and couldn't help but give Teacher Gu a thumbs up in her heart.

Cao Yang thought about it and decided, it's okay, as long as these guys can make a good movie for him and produce the effect he wants, it's not a problem for him to use his own photos.

Ten minutes later, the shooting started again and the script supervisor clapped the clapboard.

Gao Yuanyuan in the camera was staring at the photo in her hand with an expressionless face, giving people a feeling of despair, full of sadness and helplessness, and tears began to roll down her face like crazy.

Her body was trembling, as if she was trying hard to suppress her emotions, but her emotions were like a broken bottle that could no longer be blocked, and her heart was pierced by tearing pain.

Then, she suddenly went crazy and tore up all the photos in her hands one by one, then picked up the torn photos and threw them into the air.

"Ah...ah..."

Gao Yuanyuan pounded her chest with one hand and began to cry loudly.

It was like a volcano that was accumulating strength, surging, suppressing, and suffering, all erupting at this moment, and the voice was filled with incomparable despair and helplessness.

"Ah...ah...ah..."

At this moment, everyone in the crew seemed to have felt the same way and understood what hysterical and desperate crying was.

The little girl in the crew began to wipe her tears, her heart filled with sadness for no reason.

"Crack!"

Cao Yang shouted, and then added, "Perfect."

Gao Yuanyuan did not stop crying after hearing the "click" sound.

She no longer beat her chest, but instead pounded her hands on the back of the front bench over and over again as she cried in despair and grief, as if she felt no pain.

Damn, this system is really unreliable.

Cao Yang hurried over, grabbed her hand that was hitting the back of the chair, and shouted, "Okay, Yuanyuan, the photo is done, calm down, it's okay, it's okay..."

Gao Yuanyuan was still crying loudly. She glanced at Cao Yang, then suddenly broke free from her hands and hugged Cao Yang's waist. She seemed even more aggrieved and cried even louder than before.

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