Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 68 My Heroine is My Master

This is really systematic!

What does it mean to give skill rewards based on completion? Is there a good or bad completion system in this game?
Of course!
Lin Yuan's advanced performance experience and skills immediately gave him the answer in his mind.

He completely understood what was better.

The selection of actors also gave Lin Yuan a headache.

It's not that he was worried that his suggestion of Ru Yue's actor would be rejected by director Zhang Mou. As the largest investor, it was not excessive for him to get a role.

But who are the Type A girls?

A string of beautiful faces flashed through my mind. Which of these female stars is the most suitable?
Suddenly, he thought of the woman in the future who always ranked second in the Hupu Goddess selection.

She has a fresh and beautiful appearance and a gentle and pleasant voice. The first impression she gives is that of an intellectual, elegant and beautiful woman.

She has always been beautiful and has been beautiful for many years. It can be said that she has amazed a generation.

Lin Yuan couldn't think of anyone more suitable than her: outstanding appearance, just the right age, and blood type A!
"Director Zhang Mou, regarding the actor for Ruyue, I would like to recommend someone." Lin Yuan said.

"Do you have a candidate? Then notify her to come for an audition. If she is suitable, we will decide on the role." Director Zhang Mou agreed readily.

The so-called audition is just a formality. As long as director Zhang Mou can bear it, he will choose to accept it.

After all, Lin Yuan not only bore the main cost of filming and was responsible for the overseas distribution of the film, but also provided the filming team. If he did not make some requests after putting in so much effort, director Zhang Mou would be uneasy.

After Director Zhang Mou agreed, Lin Yuan suddenly realized that there was a small problem with this:
He doesn’t even know Gao Yuanyuan!
There is no contact information for her either!
But this is not a big problem. His team will be coming from North America soon, and we can just leave it to them to handle it when the time comes.

The real problem is not this, but that Gao Yuanyuan will receive three messages at once:

1. Congratulations, you have got the opportunity to star in a movie directed by the great director Zhang Mou, and it is a role with quite an important part.

2. Your character has a passionate scene, please don’t be shy, be honest about it.

3. Although you don’t know the man who acted opposite you, he was the one who recommended you to star in this movie.

It was hard for Gao Yuanyuan not to have some strange associations, but Lin Yuan couldn't care less. The reward given by the system was too good to be true!

After the crew notifies Gao Yuanyuan that this scene is officially finished, Lin Yuan should be able to get a new skill reward. I wonder what skill it will be this time?

Having been confirmed to star in "Hero" and having negotiated the role, Lin Yuan has achieved one of his two goals today.

The remaining goal was even more difficult: to convince director Zhang Mou to shoot the film according to Lin Yuan's modification suggestions.

In other words, it is almost impossible to achieve.

Others may not know how stubborn Director Zhang Mou is, but Lin Yuan knows it very well.

He might compromise on the role, but when it comes to the core of the script, it is too difficult to convince him.

Director Zhang Mou has been tirelessly trying to express his ideas in films.

He struggled all his life, until many years later he briefly gave up this persistence and lay down to film "The Great Wall".

The result was terrible, worse than ever before, even worse than before.

So he got up again, continued to stick to his own expression, and made a more controversial film "Man Jiang Hong".

The later criticized "Man Jiang Hong" gave up the assassination of Qin Hui, which was similar to the "Hero" giving up the assassination of Qin Shi Huang.

In fact, he has not changed over the years and has always been stubborn.

The controversy surrounding "Red River" and "Hero" stemmed from exactly the same reasons, which shows how difficult it was to convince him to change. However, the script for "Hero" had to be revised, otherwise it would never reach the heights Lin Yuan expected.

Lin Yuan said, "Director Zhang Mou, I think there are some minor issues with the script of 'Hero.' From the perspective of overseas distribution, I suggest making some minor adjustments."

"Is it necessary to adjust it? I think the script is already perfect." Sure enough, director Zhang Mou's first reaction was to insist.

"Must!" Lin Yuan's attitude was also very firm.

Director Zhang Mou was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the young man in front of him would be as stubborn as himself once he got into work mode.

"Then tell me, what needs to be adjusted? After all, I'm the director, and the final decision on whether to change it is still mine."

"Foreigners don't have the same mindset as us. A story about sacrificing everything for a grand ideal is easily boycotted abroad, which is a major risk for the film."

This statement is half true and half false. "Hero" did not cause any controversy in this regard and was boycotted.

However, Europe and the United States, which are based on the slogan of self-reliance, do not like stories of sacrificing individuals for the sake of collective achievement.

Lin Yuan used this to scare director Zhang Mou, taking advantage of the information gap that he was not familiar with the overseas market to achieve his own goals.

Director Zhang Mou attached great importance to the overseas release of "Hero" and hoped to win an Oscar for this film, so he had to carefully consider Lin Yuan's warning.

Director Zhang Mou's first feeling was: What Lin Yuan said makes sense. The idea that individuals should sacrifice themselves for the sake of the world that I promote seems to conflict with mainstream European and American thinking.

What if we are really boycotted overseas?
"What should I do? Even if what you said makes sense, I can't change it. If I want to change it, I can only overturn the entire script, which is impossible." Director Zhang Mou was a little anxious.

"We just need to tweak the script a little bit."

"you say!"

"This is the modification plan I made earlier. See if it works."

Lin Yuan handed over his own suggestions for script revisions, which he had prepared before coming.

Simply put, the script modification plan for "Hero" is not very difficult, but almost unsolvable.

If the original script had been followed and the King of Qin had been interpreted as a benevolent monarch who fought for peace, he would have been heavily criticized.

But if the King of Qin was portrayed as a tyrant, Wuming would not be convinced and would not give up on assassinating him.

No matter what I choose, it won't work.

But Lin Yuan understood that the above deadlock was only superficial, and the real reason was:

In the movie "Hero", Wuming, as the protagonist, went through a lot of trouble but changed nothing, he just conveyed the director's ideas.

The audience will think that you made so much preparation to assassinate Qin, and so many people died, but then the other party said a few words and you wavered and gave up?
What were you doing earlier? Did you go through all this trouble just to be lectured and told off?

This will make the audience very unhappy, and as long as you make the audience unhappy, no matter how tight your logic is, people will find fault with it.

Too much talk about the world, ideals, and ideas, but no attention paid to the needs of the characters or the emotions of the audience.

Naturally, this will arouse resistance from a large part of the audience.

The core of Lin Yuan's solution is actually only one:
Wuming didn't want to be persuaded. Although he understood the concept of the people of the world, that was the business of you big guys.

As a small person who has been hurt, I only do what I want to do and what I think I should do.

Even if you have great ambitions for the world, that is your ideal and has nothing to do with me!
We are both right, but our paths are different, so we can only use the swords in our hands to decide our future.

(End of this chapter)