Chinese Entertainment Intelligence King

Chapter 3: Invincible and Brave, General Tianbao
After passing the director's review, the role of Yan Li was completely secured.

With Wang Decai's help, Yan Li quickly signed a formal contract with the crew and received part of the remuneration.

Not forgetting Wang Decai's contribution, and since he needed someone to take care of him in the group later, Yan Li immediately arranged to treat him to a meal.

In the cast of "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties", the role of Yuwen Chengdu does not have many scenes, but it is still okay.

Not to mention the female characters, he certainly can't make it into the top five male characters. Rounding it off, he can barely be considered male number ten. It would be a bit impolite to go any further.

No matter what, this role is also paid on a per-episode basis.

"Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties" has a total of 40 episodes. Yan Li's roles are counted as 15 episodes, and his pay for each episode is 800 yuan, totaling yuan.

That’s a lot!
At the beginning of the century, many ordinary people only earned a few hundred yuan a month, and the extras in Hengdian only received 20 to 30 yuan a day, and some even received more than a dozen yuan. Twelve thousand yuan was enough for them to work for more than a year.

This is also the most money Yan Li has ever earned since he was a child.

When I was working in a crew in Beijing before, I was basically a stand-in for extra roles. I worked so hard all day and earned so little money that I felt bad for taking the bus back to school.

Sure enough, the relative who had advised him to apply to the Beijing Film Academy was right. Being an actor is a profitable profession.

He hasn't even made it big yet, just secured a small role, and he's already making so much money. If he manages to become famous in the future, it will definitely be a hundred times better than if he stayed in his hometown and took over the family restaurant...

There is a big night show today, and Wang Decai has to watch it, so the dinner party will be postponed for two days.

Yan Li had no filming assignment at the moment, so he went to get his script and then went to the dressing room to change his clothes.

A bit worried about running into Wang Xiu's older brother...sister? Yan Li even specifically asked about it, but Wang Xiu happened to be away on business, which made him feel relieved.

Removing makeup is much faster than putting it on, and it was done in a short while. Yan Li changed his clothes and strolled back to the hotel.

I bought some food on the way, and since I wouldn't be able to have dinner soon, I found a bank and exchanged some cash.

After returning to the hotel and locking the door, Yan Li took out the red cardboard he had just bought at the convenience store and folded it into a red envelope.

Then, he counted out 2000 yuan from the cash he had just withdrawn and stuffed it in. After thinking about it, Yan Li gritted his teeth and stuffed another 1000 yuan in.

This red envelope is for Wang Decai!
Yan Li got this role thanks to a lot of help from others. This is not something that can be satisfied with just a meal. I will just give him a red envelope to show my gratitude.

Whether people want it or not is one thing, but the attitude must be right.

Besides, you will need them in the future, so this can be considered an investment. If you give them a red envelope of 3000 yuan today, they may introduce you to a role with a salary of tens of thousands of yuan later.

You have something to do with it!
If you want to make money at your family restaurant, you have to be willing to buy good ingredients. You can't lose the big picture for the sake of small gains. People who are stingy and miserly will never succeed.

In other words, the crew only paid him 4000 yuan in salary. Yan Li didn't have much money and had to keep some for living expenses. Otherwise, even if he got a red envelope of 5000 yuan, he would be willing to spend it if he was angry.

After receiving the red envelope and planning to give it away at a suitable opportunity, Yan Li picked up the script and read it carefully.

He knows very well that if he wants to make it in the acting industry, connections in the circle are important, but the key is to have his own abilities.

Only if you perform the tricks well can your connections be useful. If you only rely on connections or system intelligence to take shortcuts, you may not be able to seize the opportunity when it comes.

Although the role of Yuwen Chengdu is not big, it is an opportunity that many of his classmates can only dream of. Now that he has got this role, he cannot waste it.

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Yan Li had never read the script of "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties" before.

At the beginning, "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties" was looking for actors in the capital, and Yan Li, who got the news, submitted a piece of information.

At first, I didn’t take it seriously, and even felt that Hengdian was too far away and not as convenient as the crews around Beijing.

Later, through the system's monthly "Monthly Intelligence" report, Yan Li learned that the drama "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties" might become popular, and he began to pay attention to it. With the help of this intelligence, Yan Li met Wang Decai and learned some information about him.

Afterwards, he catered to his interests and followed his instructions, gradually building up a relationship with him and relying on him to get the role of Yuwen Chengdu.

But Yan Li was just a minor supporting role, and nothing had been finalized before he joined the crew. He was still a newcomer, so how could he be qualified to get the script in advance?

But even though he hadn't seen the show, Yan Li still had some understanding of the character of Yuwen Chengdu.

After all, when he was young, he listened to Shan Tianfang's storytelling a lot, and he also read some of the books "The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties", "The Rise of Tang Dynasty" and "The Story of Tang Dynasty".

Yuwen Chengdu, the second most heroic man in Sui and Tang Dynasties, was the general of the Tianbao period of Sui Dynasty. He held a phoenix-wing gilded hammer in his hand and rode a five-spotted dragon-racing colt. He was invincible and the strongest among the three armies.

Among all the military generals of the Sui and Tang dynasties, except for the number one hero Li Yuanba, Yuwen Chengdu suffered a little loss at the hands of the number three hero Pei Yuanqing at Siping Mountain.

This was because Yuwen Chengdu had previously defeated the fourth, fifth, and sixth heroes alone, and because of excessive energy consumption, Pei Yuanqing's victory was unfair.

As for Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, the Five Tigers of Wagang, etc., they are not enough for Yuwen Chengdu to defeat with one hand.

Yan Li was very much looking forward to and excited to play such an invincible warrior, even though he knew from Wang Decai that he was a villain.

The awesome villain pins the protagonist to the ground and rubs him, which makes the performance more exciting, right?

Besides, how bad can a pure thug character like Yuwen Chengdu be?

However, after reading the script, Yan Li found that he had underestimated the screenwriter's integrity.

Has this TM screenwriter even read "The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties"?!

It's okay if he's just bad, as for the villain, it's normal to uglier him a little bit, but the ugliness of Yuwen Chengdu in this script is too much.

He is despicable, arrogant and cowardly, talking trash every day but rarely winning. He is not General Tianbao, but a clown.

What he couldn't understand even more was the scene where Li Rongrong took the lead in the queue.

Yuwen Chengdu jumped into a well while holding the screenwriter's child. How could he treat the child so badly?
A real scoundrel, bah, scoundrel is an exaggeration, the Japanese devils in most anti-Japanese war dramas are not that hateful.

Yan Li scratched his head as he looked at the script, even feeling a little regretful.

How should I put it? Yan Li is a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy after all. He knows that there is no distinction between high and low roles. A good actor can play both good and bad roles, and he is not opposed to playing the villain role.

But after all, this was his first serious role in his acting career, and he was still young. It was inevitable that he felt a little overwhelmed psychologically when he encountered such an exciting thing right at the beginning.

Fortunately, Yan Li had a good psychological quality. The key contract was signed and the money was taken. It was too late to regret.

Moreover, from another perspective, although this kind of role is disgusting and irritating, it is also easy for the audience to remember, which is a good thing for the actor.

"I'm an actor, it's all fake..."

Yan Li muttered a few words to calm himself down, then picked up the script again and began to recite the lines silently, starting with the most exciting part.

The purpose is to temper your temper. It starts with the difficult part and then becomes the easy part. Once you have memorized this part, everything else will be no problem.

"I, Yuwen Chengdu, hate wasting things the most. I usually eat every grain of rice in my bowl."

"Haha, she asked me if I dared, do you dare?"

"Okay, follow my orders and line up outside."

"Fuck, this screenwriter is such a beast..."

(End of this chapter)