Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 572 The Era of Young and Handsome Men Has Arrived (44)

Li Qin... is an artist under Rong Xinda...

Shen Yan's impression of her had nothing to do with acting; he only knew that she was a woman who was easily deceived—her 40 yuan salary was taken away by a scam phone call!
As for her dramas, they can basically only be found on Baidu Baike (Baidu Encyclopedia).

"The Fallen Thief," "The General's Diary," "Blossoms in Half Summer," "The Sky We Watch Over," "Protecting Our Grandson," and also "The Return of the Heiress," "The Perfect Bride"...

The last two films had some popularity, but they were far from being blockbusters!

Later, a bunch of marketing accounts claimed that she was a "Guimen Dan" (a type of female role in Peking Opera) secretly trained by the state, and I wondered why she would be secretly trained... Then I discovered that she wasn't a "Qingyi" (a type of female role in Peking Opera), nor a "Hua Dan" (a type of female role in Peking Opera), but rather a "Guimen Dan" with a more niche and less mainstream appeal...

Guimen Dan is a branch of Dan roles, also known as Xiao Dan, who plays the roles of young girls, young women, and other similar characters.

As the name suggests, this specifically refers to playing an unmarried young woman. These roles are mostly characterized by introverted and shy personalities…

It's a category that describes someone with a simple, austere, and refined temperament.

Later, terms like "virtuous wife," "good mother," and "chaste and virtuous woman" became derogatory, and the concept of female selflessness completely lost its appeal...

Li Qin's temperament leans towards austerity and lacks grandeur.

She couldn't even pull off that kind of new leading lady role that stood tall against the tides of the times...

In short, things haven't gone very well for me...

However, after seeing her in person, Shen Yan thought that if she had been born 20 years earlier or caught the remake of a Qiong Yao drama, and practiced her crying scenes more, she would definitely have become a sensation.

Oh, she took on the role in "Legend of Fei" because New Classics Media arranged it—she'll terminate her contract next year and join New Classics Media directly.

That's understandable, considering he spent six years at Rongxinda filming mostly dramas featuring middle-aged women.
However, Shen Yan didn't talk to her much, and Li Yan, who played her, didn't have many scenes with Xie Yun.

On the contrary, Li Qin liked to come and ask Shen Yan for advice whenever she had a spare moment...

Li Qin's acting habits are really bad—she expresses all her emotional fluctuations through her mouth, and her facial features are all distorted!

He shakes his head and moves his mouth in exaggerated ways when he talks, unlike a normal person...

It has a bit of Lin Miaoke's vibe...

This shows you haven't even scratched the surface!

It sounds incredibly fake. The way they speak is only noticeable in certain specific situations, such as when students are giving speeches, reciting, or singing on stage. In those situations, their tone of voice, gestures, and lip movements often appear very unnatural and artificial, with a strong sense of performance...

Yes, you can refer to that announcer's comment: 'The first prize in this competition went to Li Zhenxing from Experimental Primary School for his performance of "I Dedicate My Oil to My Motherland!"'

Then, during their first scene together, Shen Yan couldn't take it anymore...

I couldn't help but stare at her mouth...

The upper half of her face was basically expressionless, her eyes were lifeless, and she relied entirely on exaggerated mouth movements to convey emotion—unable to connect emotionally with the character she was portraying, she could only resort to exaggerated performances to prove that she had tried her best…

But he didn't say anything—after all, he's just an actor!

But privately, I couldn't help but remind you: "Don't act so hard, tone it down a bit..."

Then Li Qin asked a lot of questions about acting...

Shen Yan didn't hold back either, sharing many of his methods.

Actually, his approach didn't work—Shen Yan was naturally relaxed from the beginning, and after learning from several films and studying film analysis, he learned some techniques, which, to put it simply, involved imitating the characteristics of other people.

This is the most basic skill for an actor.

After Shen Yan's guidance... Li Qin didn't change much!
He's not some kind of Midas touch, able to make an iron tree bloom with just a few pointers.
How can it be!

Li Shaohong couldn't tell that "Dream of the Red Chamber" was performed in such a terrible way?
She couldn't adjust, let alone Shen Yan...

As for Jin Chen, she was brought into the cast by Shi Shi. Her acting skills were also quite average.

Actually, Shi Shi's acting skills aren't that great either...

But Zhou Fei doesn't have many naive and innocent scenes, nor many emotionally intense scenes, so it's alright.

……

Filming for "Legend of Fei" is underway, and the May Day holiday is approaching.

This year's May Day holiday season doesn't have many big Hollywood productions, except for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," which is releasing on May 4th!
Transcendence, Koala Adventure, and Hummingbird are all filler...

Domestic films include "My Old Classmate", "The Great Hypnotist", and "The Big Winner"!
That's right, Rao Xiaozhi's film "The Big Winner" will be released on April 29th...

Then it really became the biggest winner in the same period - as of May 3, after 5 days of release, it had accumulated a box office of 3.02 million yuan, and its Douban score was as high as 8.2!
The main investors in "The Big Winner" are Spark Studio, Free Whale, Rao Xiaozhi's Yiyi Yiyi Media, China Film Group, Wanda Group, etc.

That's right, there's no light.

This is quite normal. During the May Day holiday, Enlight Media had its own film, "My Old Classmate"—although Guo Feifan wasn't in it, it was produced by Gao Xiaosong and directed by Zhang Qi, and it was quite successful at the box office. According to market estimates, it could gross at least 3.5 million yuan!

At the same time, the project "My Brother Who Sleeps on My Upper Bunk" was announced, with Zhang Qi still providing the introduction!
Although The Amazing Spider-Man 2 grossed 5 million yuan at the Chinese box office, it didn't receive great reviews. The main reason for this was that Gwen, played by Emma Stone, died.

This resulted in global box office revenue falling short of expectations…

After doing the math, we realized we'd lost money!

Why isn't there a third installment?

Because Sony Entertainment changed its leadership, and the new leadership has a different understanding of the Spider-Man super IP.

After all, the birth of The Amazing Spider-Man was full of surprises. It was a Spider-Man movie that was forced to be rebooted after the failure of the original Spider-Man 4 starring Tobey Maguire.

—The contract Sony signed with Marvel: If there are no new Spider-Man films within five years, the Spider-Man rights will automatically revert to Marvel. So Sony doesn't have much time left; they must make a new Spider-Man movie before 2012.

The first film only grossed $7.23 million!
It looks like a lot, but it's actually losing money—the production cost is as high as $2.3 million.

Moreover, Sony no longer had the rights to Spider-Man merchandise at this point.

In 2010, Marvel had already reclaimed the rights to the highly profitable Spider-Man movie merchandise (Sony later regained some of the merchandise rights after a second collaboration with Marvel). This meant that Sony's revenue from Spider-Man copyrights plummeted, leaving them reliant on box office revenue sharing and the DVD market. This highlights the headache that the film studios faced regarding the return on investment for the movies.

—The Amazing Spider-Man uses 3D technology, but Sony Pictures didn't use existing technology. Instead, they developed their own 3D technology and, incidentally, new CG models. These CG models sampled the dynamic characteristics of countless long jumpers, high jumpers, and pole vaulters to simulate Spider-Man's completely realistic swinging effects, such as the critical speed at the highest point of the swing and the acceleration during the fall…

They're rich and powerful.

The Amazing 2 had a production cost of $2 million, and then Sony, with its deep pockets, spent $1.9 million on marketing!

For example, Sony released customized theme songs for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in many countries. Unlike Disney, which has multiple versions of one song in multiple countries, Sony invited big names to create new songs for each country!
Elva Hsiao was invited to perform "Thunder and Fire" in China...

It's basically a collaboration with Sony Music to do some promotion.

But when the final accounts were settled, it turned out to be a huge loss!
Then Sony's SUV—the Sony Marvel Universe—almost died in the womb…

Later, they turned the tables with Venom!

Oh, these things don't really concern Shen Yan. In fact, he only has two movies this year, "Duckweed" and "Burning"...

Lately, besides filming, he's been spending all his time on Weibo...

The biggest news recently is Lu Han – Lu Han posted her first Weibo post, and the number of comments has exceeded one million, and she is now aiming for ten million comments!

That's right, the era of young, handsome men has arrived!

(End of this chapter)