Artists under the Rebirth of the Coal Boss

Chapter 263: I've discovered the switch that gets you into the zone!
Lin Xingzhuo faced Ajiao, who was staring at him blankly like a dodo bird.

This person is truly brainless...

Lin Xingzhuo felt that even if she were to talk about "The Complete Director - The Biography of Nishimura," she would still be able to get into character through her own practice...

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In Twins, Ah Jiao comes from a very poor family.

When she was one year old, her father died of liver disease, and her mother was unable to raise her. Ajiao was then fostered by her maternal grandmother, uncle, aunt and other families in turn.

I transferred schools six times during kindergarten and fifteen times during primary school. It was difficult for me to complete a full semester at the same school.

I had a terrible time at my uncle's house. I was forced to use the bathwater that my cousin had used to take a bath, and I would get hit on the head with a dog bowl if I did something wrong.

She asked her mother for help, but her mother did not believe her.

Ah Jiao's mother remarried a fisherman from Taibei. Ah Jiao was not accepted into her new family and had to take care of her stepfather's two children. She also worked as a beer girl in a bar to supplement the family income.

Gillian Chung recounted: "I had almost no childhood; I only found a sense of belonging after entering the entertainment industry..."

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Such a family of extreme lack of love, and no proper schooling.

This led her to exhibit severe introversion, low self-esteem, and a people-pleasing personality.

However, in the entertainment industry, such a trait is practically a magnet for scumbags, naturally leading to a bumpy road in her love life...

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dong dong dong! !

Producer Leung Kai-yuen's knocking on the door interrupted Lin Hsing-chu's internal struggle.

He brought two tickets to the re-release of the director's cut of the 94 version of "The Butterfly Lovers," hoping the two could find inspiration there.

Therefore, the production team adjusted the filming schedule, and in the afternoon, they filmed the scenes between Miriam Yeung's character Yu Chun-jiao and Ho Wa-chao's character Jia-hao, her ex-boyfriend.

Lin Xingzhuo drove the Bentley, which his company had recently purchased for its Hong Kong office, and took Ajiao to the Cinema, which had reopened at the original site of the Broadway Theatre in Kowloon Bay.

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When Lin Xingzhuo and Ajiao rushed to the movie theater, they realized that they had two tickets for a couple's seat.

The 94 version of "The Butterfly Lovers" shown on the screen starred Wu Qilong and Yang Caini, who were 24 and 20 years old respectively at the time, and their youthful temperament perfectly matched the character settings.

Director Tsui Hark innovatively portrays Zhu Yingtai as a "slacker," subverting the traditional image of a talented woman and emphasizing her rebellious spirit against feudal ethics.

The direct appearance of Ma Wencai was removed to highlight the oppression of love by the social class system and to deepen the critique.

The addition of a subplot about the relationship between Zhu's mother and the monk Ruoxu in her youth hints at the tragic cycle of generations...

Tsui Hark's version of "The Butterfly Lovers" reconstructs the classic story with a modern narrative, becoming a benchmark for Chinese classical love films. Its Douban rating ranks first among all film and television adaptations of "The Butterfly Lovers".

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Liang Shanbo: Yingtai is not a woman, so why does she have a ring mark on her ear?
Zhu Yingtai: There's a reason for the mark on my earring, Brother Liang, why do you have doubts? The village has many temple fairs to thank the gods, and every year I dress up as Guanyin.

Zhu Yingtai: Brother Liang, you should concentrate on your writing. You're not thinking about your future, you're thinking about women.

Liang Shanbo: From then on, I dared not look at Guanyin.

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As the light and shadow shifted on the screen, the couples' seats were already close together.

"What are circumcision marks? Do you have any, Ah Jiao?"

Lin Xingzhuo looked at the movie lines, muttering them softly as he casually ran his hand across Ajiao's ear, discovering that there was indeed a piercing mark.

"I...I...I fought in junior high school..."

Ah Jiao sat ramrod straight, completely absorbed in the movie, showing no reaction whatsoever, though her breathing seemed a little disordered...

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Lin Xingzhuo was a little curious. Something's not right! The lethality is so weak?

It is mentioned in the book "The Complete Director - The Biography of Nishimura".

Smell hair, kiss forehead, pinch earlobe...

This kind of action, which involves little actual contact but is incredibly swaggering, is extremely effective at charming introverted girls.

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Lin Xingzhuo used the same trick again, pausing for a moment on the earlobe, which was the softest and most pleasant-to-the-touch spot.

At this point, Ah Jiao couldn't hold back any longer...

She froze instantly, as if under a spell, her breath stopped, her fingers clenched slightly, and her knuckles turned bluish-white.

A fine shiver burst forth from my earlobe, spreading down my neck like a clear electric current.

My whole body trembled violently! My face instantly turned red!
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Hee hee hee!
I've found the switch that puts you into the right state!
For professional actors, the fastest way to get into emotional scenes is not to become the character, but to focus intently on specific, actionable steps.

This stems from the core idea of ​​performance systems like Stanislavski and Meisner: action evokes emotion, not the other way around.

The fastest way to get into the zone is to focus on executing specific "actions".

Therefore, Lin Xingzhuo instructed Ajiao in this way.

Instead of using lengthy theoretical lectures, I found the "action switch" that triggered her instinctive emotions!

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After watching the movie, Lin Xingzhuo and Ajiao went to eat at "Katsuto" Japanese hot pot restaurant, which has recently become very popular for its sea bream soup base.

This restaurant achieved great success in the Hong Kong food and beverage industry in just four months after it opened in 2009.

The store has only 18 seats, but its monthly profit can reach HK$200,000.

The shop owner imports Miyazaki Wagyu beef and Akita Prefecture Inaniwa udon through local agents.

The signature sea bream soup base is made by purchasing fresh sea bream daily, adding fresh milk, and simmering it over high heat for several hours.

After dinner, Lin Xingzhu drove Ajiao downstairs, but declined her invitation, which she made with a blush, to go to her house to watch the kitten do somersaults.

As Ajiao watched the Bentley's headlights disappear, her feelings for Lin Xingzhuo grew stronger...

Xingzhuo is truly different from other male celebrities in the Hong Kong entertainment circle! He is extremely cautious and serious when it comes to relationships!
I feel so safe!!
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After dealing with Ajiao's matter, Lin Xingzhuo sped back to the villa in Phase II of Hongshan Peninsula, turned on his computer, and logged into Mixi.

Phew! I finally caught Ishihara Satomi's birthday live stream!!!

The live stream showed Satomi Ishihara broadcasting from her dorm room at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Sure enough, her condition was terrible...

"Getting too old, thinking about changing careers! Old lady!" "The No. 1 actress who got 'killed'!" "I heard she was blacklisted by her agency, how come she's back in the spotlight?!"

"The ugliest morning drama actress in history," "Too much body fat," "Sausage lips are disgusting!" "Cold and indifferent to her colleagues in private, the second Erika Sawajiri!!"

The comment section below the live stream was flooded with negative reviews...

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The negative comments only quieted down a bit after Lin Xingzhuo led the die-hard fans of the Japanese Star God Group into the live stream.

Lin Xingzhuo's number of fans on Mixi in Japan surpassed 10 last week.

This rate of fan acquisition in Japan was once second only to Arashi, the idol group that was celebrating their 10th anniversary and whose popularity skyrocketed, making them "national idols" in Japan!
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The main reason is that Lin Xingzhuo is on Cyworld in South Korea and Mixi in Japan.

A sarcastic commentary was published regarding the rejection of a proposal to establish "men-only carriages" on the Tokyo Metro...

(End of this chapter)