Artists under the Rebirth of the Coal Boss

Chapter 157: Giving Liu Jialing Face! Major Adjustments to Scenes! Scenes Cut!

Lin Xingzhuo gave Liu Jialing this face.

It's purely because when she was filming "2046", she was traveling in Beijing's square and posted a Weibo post about it.

"Forty-eight years... I have finally arrived here! The East Is Red, the sun in my heart!!!"

Given the public opinion environment at that time, when she posted that Weibo, her team repeatedly and explicitly told her that she would definitely be attacked by the masses.

Liu Jialing still insisted on posting it!!

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Sure enough, this Weibo post immediately stirred up a huge uproar, unleashing a swarm of flies and maggots...

Her Weibo account was bombarded with criticism, with a bunch of influential figures, media professionals, lawyers, and professors launching fierce attacks and even demanding a boycott of Liu Jialing!

The most outrageous thing is that some official media outlets have also gone mad, starting to make sarcastic and sarcastic remarks. This includes a well-known second-rate newspaper...

Faced with this media storm, Liu Jialing persevered and never deleted her Weibo posts.

In his previous life, Tony Leung's film "Shang-Chi" sparked public controversy.

The General Administration held several meetings, and Lin Xingzhuo even compiled a set of meeting minutes.

Finally, a minor disciplinary action was taken, primarily for education, which also benefited from the halo effect of Liu Jialing's "bucket dipping" value system...

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This is a key reason why Lin Xingzhuo was willing to sacrifice time spent playing games, getting massages, and enjoying delicious food to participate in Liu Jialing's mahjong game.

Also, listening to her chat with Leung Ka-fai about old news from Hong Kong was quite entertaining...

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After playing mahjong, he became acquainted with Liu Jialing and Liang Jiahui. Through their introduction, he also got along well with the main cast and crew of "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame".

However, Lin Xingzhuo's acting skills remain a major problem.

The final scene in Tangdu City filmed was the scene where Xue Yong, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, tore up a peace charm, triggering a "divine retribution."

Xue Yong, played by Liu Jinshan, came to pay homage to Empress Wu with his subordinate Pei Dong. In front of all the civil and military officials, he was burned to a crisp.

Lin Xingzhuo, who plays Pei Donglai, is just a supporting character in this scene, yet he still has to keep making mistakes due to issues such as unrealistic portrayal of his albinism and a lack of emotional depth!

It even broke the crew's record for the most takes!
The second assistant director, Cao Dun, also quietly told Lin Xingzhuo that the production team's higher-ups were discussing Lin Xingzhuo's screen time...

He needs to be mentally prepared.

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After filming the scenes in Tangdu City was completed, the crew held a morning meeting on the last day, and even borrowed the largest conference room hall in the hotel.

Although the filming was supposed to be of a morning meeting, the staff was unusually well-organized.

Director Tsui Hark, action director Hung Chin-po, screenwriter Chen Fu-fu, producer Shi Nan-sheng, assistant director Chang Hsun-wei, second assistant director Cao Dun, and all the senior executives of the production team were present.

The cast included not only Andy Lau, Li Bingbing, Liu Jialing, Liang Jiahui, Wu Yaohan, Yao Lu, and Chen Xiao, but also featured actors and supporting actors.

Hiss!

With the sound of aluminum foil packaging tearing, Lin Xingzhuo opened a package of red Japanese-style steak flavored chocolate.

I found a Cheetos Three Kingdoms card featuring Cao Cao (plasticized version)!

This is the second time that Lu Junyi, the Heavenly Star of the Golden Armored Qilin Beast, has drawn a top-tier rare card while eating this card-collecting snack after drawing it from the Little Raccoon Crispy Noodles in the TV series "Dwelling Narrowness".

What amazing luck today!

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Faced with Lin Xingzhuo eating snacks and playing with small cards, the crew could only assume that she had given up entirely.

Director Tsui Hark wanted to say something, but held back and gestured for assistant director Chang Hsun-wei to chair the meeting. Chang Hsun-wei took a sip of hot tea, cleared his throat, and said, "Everyone has been working hard on filming lately."

"The script for the entire film is based on the 'Detective Dee' series by Dutch sinologist Robert van Gulik. After being adapted into a script by Professor Chen Fufu, the storylines of each character are outstanding!"

"However, in order to balance the overall pace of the series, concentrate the conflict scenes, and make the highlights more impactful, we still need to adjust everyone's roles."

The meeting room immediately erupted in commotion as the actors whispered amongst themselves.

Producer Shi Nansheng began by saying, "The Tangdu City portion has already seriously exceeded the budget!"

"In order to ensure the overall filming schedule, prioritize the completion of the main storyline, and focus on refining the arcs of the main characters, we will definitely need to make major adjustments to the scenes. Please understand!"

After Shi Nansheng finished speaking, she nodded to the assistant director Zhang Xunwei.

Zhang Xunwei cleared his throat and said, "The palace maids A and C around Wu Zetian will be merged into a single palace maid, and Shi Min will take on this role."

“The roles of the minor official Ding, the merchant Jia, and the rider Jia have been combined and all played by You Guohao.”

"The production manager wants to cut half of the supporting cast, and all the scenes featuring the Imperial Guards, ministers, and prime ministers will be removed!"

"The clerks of the Dali Temple were switched to daily pay, and local people were found to fill the positions, so they no longer had to work with the group."

All the featured and supporting actors whose names were called were completely distraught. Some left the meeting room immediately, while others remained inside, their faces flushed, stubbornly holding on.

Zhang Xunwei's voice is like a death chant, and the celebrities he's involved with are gradually rising in status.

"Teacher Wu Yaohan, the process of the disguise technique used by the character of the divine doctor Wang Lu and the background story need to be simplified."

Wu Yaohan's face turned grim. He said, "Then I'll leave?"

Zhang Xunwei was speechless for a moment.

Shi Nansheng interjected, "Old Wu, what's wrong with you! The Ghost Market detoxification plot has been retained."

Wu Yaohan said, "It doesn't matter, I'm just here to help anyway."

Zhang Xunwei continued, "Teacher Liang Jiahui, I won't go into the motives behind Shatuo's betrayal of Wu Zetian. The overall pacing of the film doesn't allow for that much plot."

Liang Jiahui shrugged and didn't say anything.

Zhang Xunwei: "Sister Bingbing, the mother-daughter relationship with Wu Zetian and the emotional conflict with Di Renjie, which is the content of the script updated last month, have been deleted, and the main action scene has been retained."

Li Bingbing's agent, Li Xue, spoke up, "We need to discuss this with the company, according to the filming agreement we signed at the time..."

Xu Ke interrupted, saying, "I've already spoken to producer Wang Zhonglei about this on the phone, and he understands."

None of the actors in the production crew expected that Li Bingbing's scenes would be cut.

However, director Tsui Hark picked up the conversation without pausing and continued:

“Andy Lau, the four scenes depicting Renjie’s life in prison during the burning of the font library have been deleted and the dialogue has been changed.”

Liu Dehua nodded, silently wrote it down in his notebook, and said calmly, "Okay, director."

Xu Ke continued, "Jialing, it's a group drama about Wu Zetian's power struggle with her court officials, the one with the court debates."

Liu Jialing argued forcefully: "Director, that scene wasn't filmed very well! It was you who wanted to add it! We worked so hard to film it!"

Xu Ke looked directly at Liu Jialing and said seriously, "This scene is indeed one I wanted to add."

"Jialing, I know it was tough filming. It's hard to get the right effect in ensemble scenes, and we had to do so many takes."
"But I discussed it with Xunwei, Nansheng, and Chen Fufu, and we felt that it was too scattered. We should just leave a close-up shot focusing on the individual."

Even Liu Jialing couldn't escape it. No wonder he's Tsui Hark; he's ruthless!

All eyes were fixed on Lin Xingzhuo, who was opening the second pack of blue turkey flavored Cheetos.

The scenes cut from this coal-related actor were revealed last!
This is definitely a case of making an example of someone! We're doomed!!

(End of this chapter)