The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 414 Suddenly enlightened

The hero of "Little Red Flower", Wei Yihang, is a brain cancer patient. He feels that he will not live long and has brought a heavy burden to his family. His attitude towards life is particularly negative and his personality becomes more and more withdrawn and eccentric until he meets Ma Xiaoyuan.

A girl who suffers from hereditary cancer but still lives optimistically.

Ma Xiaoyuan made Wei Yihang more proactive.

Ma Xiaoyuan died suddenly.

Wei Yihang was in pain, but he also understood the meaning of life and changed his attitude towards life.

This is the story outline of "Little Red Flower".

There is a lot of room for the character of Wei Yihang to play. The changes in attitude at different stages, the closure and outburst of emotions, all give Xu Xing a lot of room to perform.

Of course, space also means difficulty.

Even though Xu Xing won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, he was not blindly confident in his acting skills. He knew that he needed to work hard to find the feeling of Wei Yihang's basic personal temperament.

Xu Xing treated this challenge as a formidable one and never dared to be negligent. When he was in the crew of "Signal", he started dieting in advance to make his body thinner.

After the shooting started——

“Pah pah pah pah pah!!!”

Director Han clapped vigorously.

"It feels so good!"

In fact, before filming started, Director Han became more and more familiar with Xu Xing, and sometimes he would jokingly call her "God Xing".

But this time, before filming started, Xu Xing specifically asked him not to call himself "Xing Shen" and also asked him to remind other people in the crew not to call him that to avoid distracting him from the role.

Xu Xing explained that he was not confident in his acting skills and tried to avoid factors that might affect his immersion in the role.

At that time, Han Yan felt that Xu Xing seemed to be making excuses to show his humility.

Then when he arrived at the crew today, Han Yan was quite surprised to see Xu Xing's sudden change in personal temperament.

When Xu Xing arrived at the crew yesterday, he still had the confident and relaxed aura of a world-famous superstar, but today, at first glance, he seemed silent and withdrawn.

Han Yan immediately felt how much importance Xu Xing attached to this play.

Every director hopes that his actors have as much time as possible to prepare for their roles before filming begins, and everyone is aware of Xu Xing's schedule.

After his comeback, Xu Xing joined the crew with high intensity and seamlessly. He is a world-famous superstar. From receiving the script of "Little Red Flower" at the end of January to the official start of filming in June, Xu Xing filmed two dramas in four months.

As for Xu Xing's acting skills, Han Yan can only say that she has great potential.

He did perform well in some explosive scenes in "Witness", which won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, but it's not to the point of being overstated.

Wei Yihang is a completely different character from the one Xu Xing played before.

Xu Xing had almost no preparation time before he started filming on the crew. In fact, the feedback from Zheng Rong at the beginning was that Xu Xing might not have finished filming the previous drama after the official filming of "Little Red Flower" started.

Therefore, Han Yan had already prepared himself to spend no less than a week to mentally prepare Xu Xing and help her find the feeling of playing Wei Yihang.

Even though Zhengrong has been saying not to exceed the deadline, Xu Xing still has "Fanhua" to shoot later, but she has already arrived at the crew, so the director has the final say.

It’s not a big problem that it affects the filming of "Fanhua" later, but it’s Xu Xing’s fault that the filming was not good.

This is Xu Xing, whom Hollywood has tried hard to invite but refused.

It is said that even director Zhang Yimou once joked at a dinner party that he also wanted to work with Xu Xing, but the question was whether Xu Xing wanted to work with him.

But what was unexpected was that such a world-famous superstar like Xu Xing did not slack off in his professionalism at all.

With Xu Xing's calm temperament today, if she hadn't made careful preparations, she would never have been able to switch so naturally.

Before filming began, Han Yan had imagined countless times in his mind what Xu Xing's ideal Wei Yihang should be like, but every time it felt a little off.

I was still worrying before going to bed last night.

After seeing Xu Xing today, I suddenly found it.

"really?"

Xu Xing scratched his head and smiled.

"Of course!" Han Yan patted Xu Xing's shoulder. "Are you so unsure of yourself?"

"Wei Yihang, he doesn't have much confidence in the first place."

Xu Xing's voice was as faint as her smile, but she suddenly smiled smugly.

"But when he was affirmed, he was still very happy."

Han Yan was stunned for a moment, then he patted Xu Xing's shoulder again with great appreciation.

Nod in affirmation.

"Yes. Let's take another shot while we're still in good shape to solidify our feelings."

"Let me see?"

"Row."

Then, Xu Xing felt that he had acted really well.

Before playing the role of Wei Yihang, Xu Xing was really anxious. Not only did he think about how to act at night after his condition stabilized during the filming of "Signal", but he also kept thinking about it in his mind even after the filming was wrapped.

Wei Yihang dreamed of Ma Xiaoyuan, whose face he couldn't see clearly.

Xu Xing also dreamed of Wei Yihang last night.

Well, I dreamed of four words...

Ugh!
Xu Xingzhen is particularly indifferent to pain and melancholy.

But after waking up, she saw that Teacher Fan was being very unrestrained again. Xu Xing, who was in a bad mood, wanted to teach her a lesson. After teaching her a lesson, she realized that she had to shoot a movie soon. She was still doing it when she got up in the morning, which made her feel even more painful, depressed and self-blaming.

They have all given up on themselves a bit.

Just now after finishing the performance, Xu Xing was ready to say sorry and prepare for another one.

And... it seems that this mentality is unexpectedly okay?
...Let Teacher Fan not leave yet?
No!

Well, concentrate on acting!

After the second take, Xu Xing's performance became more comfortable.

Xu Xing suddenly felt that he had overestimated the difficulty of Wei Yihang's performance.

Because the preparation time was too short - this was the play Xu Xing had the shortest preparation time for, which made Xu Xing subconsciously try to fit her face into the role of Si Zi, which really felt like she was forcing herself to make things more difficult.

——It seems like a lot, such as chatting with Teacher Yuan in Bangkok at night, and taking time to read those materials, but that was not the time for Xu Xing to think about how to perform on his own. That was the time when he was trying to absorb. The more he absorbed, the more anxious he became when it came time to transform.

Si Zi's performance in "Little Red Flower" is very impressive, with sudden jumps and full of emotions, but in fact it pales in comparison to the performances of the veteran actors.

All his excessive efforts were helped to be absorbed by the two people who played his parents.

That is, there is Xiao Yueyue who is there for effects, and Liu Hao, whose acting skills are not particularly good but mainly rely on his looks and temperament, is there for comparison in other scenes, and ordinary audiences subconsciously feel that he has an atmosphere of good acting skills even though he is not good-looking.

Not to mention the extraordinary bubbling sounds.

Director Han Yan was just in front of the monitor and praised Xu Xing very much.

“And there’s a sense of vulnerability.”

The temperament of a beautiful boy.

The four characters are rough.

There is really no need for Xu Xing to work so hard and strain herself to get close to Si Zi's temperament and imitate his performance style.

Hey!
learn from mistakes.

Hu Ge, you should go away too. When Xu Xing performs "Fang Hua" next time, she won't make the same mistake again!

Although Hu Ge is also a bit pretentious.

"What a great performance! It's amazing!"

Wen Qi came over and praised him, interrupting Xu Xing's thoughts.

"Thanks for the encouragement," Xu Xing said with a smile, "You should do your best too!"

"Mmmmmmm!"

Wenqi nodded repeatedly.

The first scene we filmed was the one where Wei Yihang and Ma Xiaoyuan first met. We started filming in the car.

Wei Yihang first chatted with his mother who came to pick him up in the car, and then he saw that Ma Xiaoyuan's car broke down. His mother asked Ma Xiaoyuan to get in the car and help take her back.

In this scene, Wei Yihang is the lonely one, and Ma Xiaoyuan is the very normal one.

The previous conflict between the two only made the two people look at each other with a slightly different meaning, and it was not a difficult scene.

It's more about whether there is chemistry between the two actors.

It was indeed very easy for Wen Qi to play this kind of role, except for——

"Don't look at Xu Xing too many times."

Director Han Yan instructed.

This acquaintance was probably because Wei Yihang saw Ma Xiaoyuan more. He seemed to be aloof but he had a good impression of Ma Xiaoyuan, so he only went out when Ma Xiaoyuan asked him out.

"I think girls would be unable to resist peeking at boys like this."

Wenqi covered her face embarrassedly and explained.

In fact, Xu Xing's appearance is very ordinary.

Jeans, black T-shirt, grey hoodie, very shabby outfit.

In addition to the hairstyle, it is the thick bangs that the middle school boys love most after reluctantly abandoning the Shamatte style.

——Xu Xing wore a wig. The first thing Xu Xing did when she joined the crew was to cut her hair into a flat top so that she could wear a wig more easily. Because Xu Haiying in "Signal" has very spirited short hair, and Wei Yihang needs longer hair to show his loneliness. The time is too short for his hair to grow long, and he will have to shave his head later, so he cut his hair into a flat top first.

Xu Xing's face is still too superior.

Director Han could see the fragility of the beautiful boy in the profile of Xu Xing as he was half-lying in the back of the car. Adolescent girls like Wen Qi can naturally appreciate handsome men better.

"Too."

After a brief hesitation, Director Han agreed with Wen Qi.

"Then you can peek, but be careful not to peek too many times. Before you are encouraged by Mother Wei to introduce you to each other, you can only peek twice at most."

"Mmmmmmm!"

Wenqi nodded repeatedly.

"Xiao Xing, just act like that."

"it is good."

Hit the board!

Shoot!
……

"You are in a good mood today."

"good."

"Going out this morning was like visiting a grave, but now it's like returning from an enemy's grave."

"Uh, Manman, where did you learn to talk like that? This isn't your style!"

Xu Xing sighed.

"Isn't it enough if I say it right?"

Sun Man blinked.

"...That's true." Xu Xing nodded, "But it's a bit exaggerated. The most I've done is just returning from the grave of my love rival!"

After a day of filming, Xu Xing was indeed completely enlightened.

Wei Yihang is indeed aloof, depressed, and feels like a complete waste who is a burden to his parents.

But it doesn't affect his attractiveness.

Just by relying on a face!

Such a handsome boy should have had a bright future, but cancer made him give up on himself.

The beauty of Liu Haocun's Ma Xiaoyuan suddenly disappeared, and the four-character Wei Yihang actually had no persuasiveness to make Ma Xiaoyuan have any special affection for him.

Ma Xiaoyuan has been attending cancer patient gatherings for so many years and broadcasting live online every day. He has seen and encountered many cancer patients with a negative attitude towards life.

There is nothing special about Wei Yihang.

So much so that the previous life of "Little Red Flower" gave people the feeling that it was clearly telling a story of this type, but it was very suspended, forcing the two people to fall in love, and meeting each other in a dream before they even met, which made the whole movie quite fragmented.

This script is indeed about love, but it needs to be convincing.

Why would such an excellent person like Ma Xiaoyuan treat a patient who didn't want to live with such special regard? Is he simply trying to encourage the "saintly heart" of every cancer patient?
The fact that Wei Yihang met Ma Xiaoyuan and was constantly encouraged by him was, to put it bluntly, like "sexual fantasy."

The pairing of Xu Xing and Wen Qi is much more convincing.

Ma Xiaoyuan is a person who has cancer but still has a strong vitality, while Wei Yihang is a person who is depressed after his beautiful life was ruined. Therefore, it is normal for Ma Xiaoyuan to always want to encourage the handsome Wei Yihang, and it is also normal for Wei Yihang to yearn for Ma Xiaoyuan who is not outstanding in appearance.

Of course, if Liu Haocun is replaced, the persuasiveness will be just as good.

It is because Ma Xiaoyuan is just a symbol of "Little Red Flower", the "little red flower", and Wei Yihang is the story itself.

The image of Si Zi forced him to act like that.

Xu Xing should play his own Wei Yihang.

The four-character Wei Yihang may be more immersive, but Xu Xing's Wei Yihang can definitely give the audience a better viewing experience.

During most of the break from filming today, Xu Xing talked with director Han Yan about his understanding of the character of Wei Yihang. Compared with their previous discussions on WeChat, his understanding has been updated a lot.

Director Han also agreed with Xu Xing's understanding.

He also advised Xu Xing not to deliberately abandon her idol image. After all, judging from her performance on the first day, after Xu Xing suppressed her temperament, the performance was just right.

There is no need to deliberately look ugly when competing for awards in the country.

When I went back——

【Good luck in the start-up! [Flower]】

A WeChat message popped up.

Liu Haocun
The last message in the chat box was when she was forced to quit the show in April. She apologized to Xu Xing and Xu Xing encouraged her.

"Little Red Flower" has been filming for two days, and she may have just seen the news.

【Thanks. 】

Reply to the past.

Liu Haocun: [You're welcome. [grin]]

Xu Xing: [How are you now? ]

After Liu Haocun quit the role, it was unclear whether "One Second" could be released. The stars stopped targeting her, and the fan circle suddenly stopped paying attention to her.

Last month, Xu Xing saw her team’s follow-up public relations when she was surfing the Internet out of boredom.

The money was only paid back after receiving the salary for "One Second". The girl's parents said they had reconciled and the two families have a good relationship and often visit each other... The press release did not attract much attention.

Only Xu Xing's haters were secretly saying that she was cyberbullied by King Oyster Mushroom.

Because he has not officially debuted, Liu Haocun did not add fuel to the fire by going to the Disabled Persons’ Federation evening party to “dance on graves” when he was at the center of public attention in his previous life.

Therefore, for the time being, it seems that netizens have agreed with her team's public relations.

They said it had been very difficult for her, that parents shouldn't implicate their children, and that some people were just venting their dissatisfaction with celebrities who received sky-high salaries, and that they cyberbullied her, saying she had no roots and was the easiest to bully. They also said that they had ruined a talented new actress. They hoped that she would get another chance...

These are all the rhetoric used when being besieged in April.

It was brought up only a month later, and no one had time to refute it. The netizens who gave her a confused look almost disappeared.

then--

[Zhang Yimou's "On the Cliff" will probably start filming at the end of the year, and it was just confirmed today. ]

Liu Haocun replied.

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