I'm not a drama freak, I can really see through the script

Chapter 40, Actors, Group Performances
"Can I still lie to you?"

Looking at the stunned Wang Xinming, Zhang Jizhong wanted to laugh. This old guy is really interesting. He keeps saying that he wants to find a professional, but I introduced a professional to you, but you don’t believe him.

You at least give him a chance, you don't even give him a chance
However, this martial arts scene also surprised Zhang Jizhong a little, as it was so beautiful.

Moreover, it is very into the play.

To be honest, just in the behind-the-scenes footage, one can see the shadow of Zhang Jizhong's character, a young man burdened with hatred and overwhelmed by resentment, but at least at this second, he has no hesitation or delay.

And there is that melancholy that comes with hatred.

Wonderful.

The acting is so vivid.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhang Jizhong seemed to be thinking about something, at least from this clip.

Tell Yun Zhonghe what he said.

It seems like a waste of talent.
This looks a bit like the "cousin" in his mind.

At this moment, many thoughts flashed through Zhang Jizhong's mind.

But it was rejected again.

No, my cousin needs a professional to do this. This is the most important role after the protagonist.
Resumes are something that can be accumulated. No matter what level of actor, no matter whether the work is released or not, a resume is a resume, and it is something that objectively exists.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Young Zhang Sanfeng".

These two works can be considered as his resume, both of which have names and actors. Although they have not been broadcast yet, for Wei Ming, he can still use them to ask for roles.

At least, it can prove that this guy in my family is not an ordinary "extras".

But wow.

Extras!

In terms of TV dramas, he should be considered an "actor", but in movies, he is still half an "extra".

For "Looking for a Gun", it is the role of "Big Guy" that plays a role. After all, the resumes of movies and TV series, big screen and small screen are still different.
"Looking for a Gun" agreed to Wei Ming's recommendation. The remuneration was not much, only 700 yuan. As for the specific role, it could be arranged when he arrived.

Apart from Ma Shan, Zhou Xiaogang and Li Xiaomeng, the other characters are not very important.

Even to put it in an extreme way, this is a one-man show by Ma Shan, and anyone else can just tie a dog and perform.
The director said his name is Lu Chuan, but in fact this Lu Chuan is just Jiang Wen in disguise.

It can be considered a work that he wrote, directed and performed himself.

"Then go ahead. Just think of it as showing your face. At least there should be a chance to show your face."

Li Xuan didn't mind it at all, as this was an early work by the future director Jiang Wenda.

No, director Jiang Wenda was already famous when "The Devils" caused a big stir in Cannes.

Not to mention how appearing in his works can help him, the attribute points he can get are much more valuable than money.

I just need to save money now.

Collect works, collect resumes, collect attributes.

This year's works will be broadcast one after another during next year's art exams. Now, even though the works have been filmed but not yet broadcast, they can already bring experience to myself, not to mention the experience they can bring to me after they are broadcast.

The TV series stars Yin Zhiping and Zhang Cuishan, and the movie stars Sun Guo.

Only after they are played, will the resume come into play.

"The feeling is different from the beginning." Wei Ming sighed at this time.

From extras to actors.

Difficult, difficult, difficult.

Because you didn't come from a formal school, or from a theater or art troupe, you're basically a self-made person with no experience. In other words, when there are a lot of actors with formal school educations to choose from in the market, would you choose to be an extra?

Starting from the role of Sun Guo in "Big Guys, Big Wisdom", Wei Ming realized how difficult it is to move forward without a resume.

Because Mr. Zhang really "liked" me, and this role was really unimportant, just a decoration, and due to various factors, it fell into his hands.

But what even Wei Ming didn't know was that Li Xuan's performance was quite unexpected.

He also couldn't have imagined that Li Xuan could play a decorative character so well.

My uncle believes it.

He is the actor!

However, this thing is not what Wei Ming, as his uncle, thinks it is. There are many thresholds, and it exists objectively.

If there was no Sun Guo.

There would be no "Looking for a Gun".

It is always difficult to go from zero to one, but that doesn’t mean it is easy to go from one to two.

But after all, this step was taken.

At this time, Wei Ming was still explaining to Li Xuan the talent cultivation mechanisms in various circles.

Beijing Film Academy is in the Beijing circle, the Central Academy of Drama is in CCTV, and the Shanghai Theatre Academy is in Zhejiang and Shanghai circles.
What about the Hong Kong circle?
Wei Ming couldn't answer either.

Li Xuan, who came from later generations, can answer this question. Lao Deng was in the Hong Kong circle. Judging from the experience of later generations, the reason why the Hong Kong circle fell behind was because of this group of strong Mesozoic people. They got old, and this circle did not have any mechanism to screen talents, which led to a problem.

What do the elderly do when they get old?
It doesn’t matter, just fail and rot.

Just like actors, if they don’t make progress, they will regress. If actors can be eliminated, then the circle can be eliminated, and directors and producers can also be eliminated.

Every circle has its peak period.

Beijing circle, CCTV, Zhejiang and Shanghai, Hong Kong.

As a reborn person, I know their peak period and destiny, and I know where I need to take the next step to get out.
Maybe in the end, it won’t be these circles that are so popular, but a brand new place?
"How about I get you some resources in the Zhejiang and Shanghai circles? I heard that the girls at the Shanghai Theatre Academy are the most beautiful. You could just go there and feast your eyes."

"The more the better, uncle."

At this moment, Li Xuan was thinking that as long as it was a resource, he would not despise it, and he did not have the capital to despise it.

If it can add attributes and resume, then it is a good thing.

The next day, Li Xuan accompanied his uncle to work again. Still, a van was carrying more than 20 people. This time, Li Xuan saw clearly that there were a full 30 people.

Good guy.

Li Xuan was stunned to see that a van could carry thirty people. However, the extra who mocked him for pretending to be a great actor was still laughing. In his opinion, Li Xuan's strange "restraint" was just courting death.

He may have felt that since the last time he was noticed by the director of The Emperor of Han Dynasty, he had started to act like an actor.

Li Xuan would never tell him that he had not only acted in "The Emperor of Han Dynasty", but also in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Young Zhang Sanfeng" and "Big Man, Big Wisdom". These were all roles with lines and appearances, roles that these extras dreamed of but could not get.

Looking back, Li Xuan realized that he had escaped the level of wasted extras and would no longer have to squeeze into a van with thirty other people.
Even if the level of the movie is not enough to be an "actor", it is still better than the average extra, and there is no need to squat to receive the role.

Actors, extras.

Not to mention the characters with lines, even the female characters who can show their faces briefly can make the actor sleep with countless female extras. Only my uncle is so honest and doesn't do such a thing.

But in Hengdian, this kind of thing happens all the time.

There is only one word difference between extras and actors.

Shouldn't I be at the "Third Stage of Extras' Power" now?
He should be considered a quasi-actor.

(End of this chapter)