Chapter 317: A few things

The movie had been filming for about five or six days before Lu Yan He truly realized what Liu Bige wanted.

Liu Bige has a pair of thief-like eyes. As long as you haven't completely entered the state of the character and have a little bit of acting, he can see it.

He doesn't tell you that you acted badly or wrongly. He knows this is not a problem of you not being serious or not working hard. He is just using a tempered way to polish away all your designs and deliberations, to capture the last moment of returning to the basics.

"He looks young, I didn't expect him to be quite able to torture people," Chen Ziyan joked after hearing Lu Yan He say this.

"Yeah," Lu Yan He said on the phone. "Before chatting with him about this movie, I felt he was a person with a chest full of bamboo, very clear about what he wanted to shoot. Now on the set, he just must have us actors act out the feeling he wants before he is willing to pass."

"Very good, I was worried before that he would be a director, have no experience, and not be very good."

"He has no shortage of experience. He has participated in the production of many movies in France before, especially this kind of low-budget movie," Lu Yan He smiled softly. "If this is a big production, he might really have no relevant experience. For a film like *Late Spring*, I feel he is familiar with the road, and he is very clear about the things in each department, and no one can fool him."

On the set, Liu Bige will also lose his temper with the staff.

Especially in the art department.

He always dislikes that there is a problem with the set. To be precise, he feels that everyone is doing a job and not paying attention.

"When you were studying, do you only put books on the desk?" Liu Bige pointed to the layout in the classroom and said many times. "This blackboard is so clean, where does it look like it has been used for many years? A blackboard that has been used for many years, even if it is wiped clean with a blackboard brush, will still leave a layer of chalk dust! Look again, are there any dust that can't be swept or wiped off in the corners of the podium? This is as clean as a laser surgery."

Lu Yan He heard Liu Bige's pickiness I don't know how many times when he was there, and I don't know how many times when he wasn't there.

Privately, Lu Yan He also heard staff say that Liu Bige is the most turtle-haired and troublesome person they have ever met.

These complaints are endless, and Lu Yan He couldn't help but want to mock Liu Bige after hearing them. However, facts have also proved that it is precisely because of a turtle-haired person like Liu Bige that the movie can be filmed well.

The importance of a behind-the-scenes team to a movie is often overlooked.

Seriousness has a serious way of doing things, and perfunctory has a perfunctory way of doing things.

The director is to let each department exert its best strength and make the best effect.

Liu Bige is not like Luo Yuzhong or Chen Lingling, who have high status in the industry and have their own fixed team. They all know the director's high requirements, and many basic things do not need them to emphasize one by one.

He is a newcomer director, and others inevitably look down on him. Especially those who do miscellaneous work on the scene, whether they are dedicated or not, whether this movie is filmed well or not, there is no direct and intuitive benefit to them, so most of the time, they are thinking about fooling around.

Liu Bige lost his temper so frequently because of this reason.

In comparison, the actors of *Late Spring*, one by one, didn't make any mistakes.

Situations like playing big names, poor professional ability, etc., didn't appear.

This is also because the cost of a movie like *Late Spring* is too small and the prospects are too unclear, so in terms of the cast, no one else intervened, and no actors who had to be accepted were stuffed in.

The actors of *Late Spring* were almost all decided by Liu Bige alone.

"It's also because you are there, you are so cooperative with Liu Bige, other people, they are all newcomers, how dare they not cooperate," Chen Ziyan pointed out the key problem sharply. "Don't think that as long as they are newcomers and young people, they are all obedient. In this industry, there are many young people who think they are extraordinary and don't know the height of the sky. It is not that there have been no people who are self-righteous and go their own way in front of big directors. You are considered lucky."

In this crew, Lu Yan He stayed very comfortably. This is also the first time Lu Yan He has served as a "key figure" in the crew, except for the cameo in *Three Mountains*.

Every play has a "key figure," which is a conventional unspoken rule that the movie industry has developed to this day.

Most of the time, if the director of the movie is a famous director, then this key figure is the director. Even if his movie is starred by the most awesome actor, and the promotion is based on this big-name actor, it will not affect the director's status as a "key figure."

However, many times, the director of a film is not considered a director who can carry the film in the industry. He has not entered the status of "film history." Whether in the industry or in the eyes of ordinary audiences, the key figure of this film has become the biggest actor.

In the film *Late Spring*, this key figure is undoubtedly Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He's attitude will invisibly affect everyone's attitude.

In the crew, the significance released by his every move is more influential than Liu Bige, who is serving as a director for the first time.

This is what Chen Ziyan meant.

Lu Yan He held Liu Bige high in the director's position, trusted Liu Bige's decisions completely, and executed them without reservation. He did so, and it affected others in the crew.

After Lu Yan He acted with other actors for a week, he slowly became familiar with them.

At this time, they dared to show some real emotions to Lu Yan He in the posture of friends.

"Yan He, can I ask you, why are you willing to star in this movie?" Kong Fan asked. "After all, you are so popular now, this kind of low-budget literary film, and the director has never been a director before."

Lu Yan He smiled and asked back: "Why did you come to act in this movie?"

"Just come if there is a play to act," Kong Fan said. "Originally, we were only freshmen, and we were not allowed to come out to take plays, but Director Liu went to find our head teacher several times, and I don't know how he moved our head teacher."

Kong Fan and Yan Lingyu are classmates in the same class.

Yan Lingyu also nodded.

"You are all students of Beijing Arts, you shouldn't worry about plays after graduation, right?" Lu Yan He said. "How can you take whatever play there is? Didn't you look at the script?"

Kong Fan said: "I didn't look at a complete script before taking this play, but isn't it that I heard you starred, so I immediately felt that I must take it. Even my head teacher said that judging from your eye for taking plays, this film is worth taking."

Lu Yan He didn't expect there to be such a stub.

"I am indeed because the script is good, and another one, I have known the director for a long time. The original novel and screenwriter Miao Yue of this movie are my classmates. At that time, the director wanted to buy the movie adaptation rights, Miao Yue asked me to accompany her to see the director, and then we became friends," Lu Yan He said. "Both of them are very talented people, so, how could I not come."

"Many people in our school are very surprised, why do you want to act in such a film, and they can't understand your decision."

"Do you know your senior Yan Liang?"

"Know, he is your teammate in the Fengzhi group before, right?"

"Yeah." Lu Yan He nodded. "He told me that students in the acting department of Beijing Arts also have to take literature classes."

"Yeah."

"Have you ever thought about why the school wants to arrange literature classes for students in the acting department?"

Kong Fan said: "This is because our understanding of characters also needs literary appreciation of scripts and characters, and we must have good aesthetics."

"Yeah, actors must have their own aesthetics. Put it on the script, know how to analyze, what script is a good script, what character is a good character," Lu Yan He said. "This is a standard of my own when I pick scripts. The production team is of course also very important. Big directors, big companies, big productions, everyone will tend to choose such plays because such configurations are often more attentive and seem to be able to make better works. But this is actually a choice of retreating to the second place. Actors who don't pick plays from the content and the talent of the collaborators themselves can only measure the pros and cons of a play from these external things."

Kong Fan and others listened to Lu Yan He's words silently, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Lu Yan He smiled. "Actually, I am not qualified to say this. Before *Late Spring*, the plays I filmed were either big directors or big productions."

Yan Lingyu shook her head at this time and said: "I understand what you mean."

"It's not that big productions must be good projects, nor is it that small productions must not be good projects. This is not a standard for taking plays," Yan Lingyu said, also looking at Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He smiled and nodded. "That's what it means, but this is just my own opinion."

Kong Fan: "But it feels like for us, there is actually no power to choose or make choices. I see many seniors who graduated, all facing the problem of unemployment upon graduation. There is no play to act at all. It is not a question of what play to choose, so I said, grab the opportunity if there is a play to act, especially if there is a play you act in."

In this era, there are more and more film and television projects, but the pool of actors is also getting bigger and bigger. In the past, it was mainly students who graduated from professional colleges, but now the situation is different. Compared with students who have just graduated and have no popularity, those young idols, cross-border people such as talk show actors or crosstalk actors who have already made a name for themselves in other fields... too many people come to grab rice bowls with actors who graduated from professional colleges.

Lu Yan He is one of them.

This has indeed made many students in professional colleges have no play to act.

Lu Yan He nodded and said: "When there is no choice, grab the opportunity first if there is one, but when there is a choice, you can consider more."

He Qingqing looked at Lu Yan He. This eighteen-year-old girl is not as standard as Yan Lingyu and Wang Jing in appearance, but she has a pleasing round face, very cute, and her features are very vivid. She said: "Little Lu, you have never learned acting, but your acting skills can be praised by everyone, so amazing."

Lu Yan He hurriedly waved his hand. "I just haven't learned acting in a professional acting school, but I have been learning acting, asking teachers, and learning on the set. You haven't seen the first time I filmed, *Golden Age* filmed with Director Luo Yuzhong. When I was on the set, I actually didn't understand anything. It was Director Luo who taught me a lot hand in hand, taking me into the door of the actor."

He Qingqing was a bit worried, holding her chin with both hands. "I still want to ask you if there is any method that can let me, a person who hasn't learned acting, refer to it. Alas, always ng, I don't know how to act. I didn't know how to act in the first place."

Among the five actors, He Qingqing has the most ng times.

Basically, as long as there is her play, that scene will definitely take more than ten times.

"Practice more. Liu Bige chose you, it must be because you are the most suitable candidate for the role of Jiang Mo. You have many ng, just because you haven't filmed, and you won't act, haven't learned, so you can't adapt to the lens, and you can't adapt to controlling your features and expressions," Lu Yan He said. "The reason why I often ng when I filmed *Golden Age* is also because I am not used to performing in front of the lens, have shame, and easily think about things, but instead have too many distractions. But after acting more, and being able to control my features, expressions and emotions better, this situation is much better."

They filmed in the *Late Spring* crew, lived together day and night, and would have such a conversation from time to time.

Lu Yan He became an "old senior," so it was inevitable to introduce his "experience" to them.

This movie *Late Spring* is planned to be filmed until the end of April.

Lu Yan He signed a fifty-day filming time with the crew, but if Liu Bige really needs more filming time, Lu Yan He will also cooperate. Anyway, he is in Yuming, and if he needs to go over, he will go over at any time. Therefore, the filming time of *Late Spring* is relatively abundant, not so rushing the schedule.

*Three Mountains* premiere is imminent, Wang Zhong contacted Lu Yan He several times, asking him to participate in several more promotional activities for *Three Mountains*.

Originally, Lu Yan He only agreed to participate in the premiere in Yuming, but because the filming schedule of *Late Spring* was not so tight, Lu Yan He tried his best to cooperate later.

In this movie, he only made a cameo for one night. No matter how good his reputation in the film is, he is not the lead. To some extent, he shouldn't participate in so many promotions. On the one hand, the previous agreement didn't include these contents, and on the other hand, it also involved a situation of promotional effect.

Lu Yan He and Chen Ziyan didn't want the audience to have the illusion that he was the protagonist of this movie. And now *Three Mountains* has this promotional trend. It is not directly saying that Lu Yan He is the lead, but intentionally avoiding the fact that Lu Yan He is only a cameo, only focusing on promoting Lu Yan He's performance in the film being praised in the Xitu'er Film Festival.

And besides this point, there is another point. For the subsequent promotional itinerary, Wang Zhong has always just asked Lu Yan He to cooperate more with the promotion, but didn't mention the matter of giving extra remuneration. When Lu Yan He couldn't go, Wang Zhong's attitude was also a bit dissatisfied, as if Lu Yan He was deliberately not cooperating.

Lu Yan He was a bit concerned in his heart, just because this movie *Three Mountains* brought Lu Yan He a very good evaluation, and the other party was Wang Zhong, Lu Yan He pressed it down silently and didn't put it on his mouth to say.

Chen Ziyan was a bit angry.

"Even if Wang Zhong won the Best Director of the Xitu'er Film Festival, and this movie has a good reputation, you are not a free laborer. Always pulling you to do free work, how can there be such a thing?!"

Lu Yan He had to persuade Chen Ziyan in turn, saying: "The movie is about to be released, it is normal for him to want to find me to cooperate with the crew to promote it."

"That is, only found you to cameo for one night, and as a result, now it is like you are the lead of this movie, letting you run the promotional itinerary for them for free, holding you so high, and when the movie is released, how many people who think you are the lead find that you only appeared for ten minutes, scolding you for false propaganda, who do you think will carry this pot?" Chen Ziyan said. "This matter must be handled well, and they cannot be allowed to play your actor card now. They took the benefits, and the pot was carried by you."

No matter how good the results of *Three Mountains* are, this result cannot be on Lu Yan He.

Otherwise, if Lu Yan He was a proper lead of *Three Mountains*, Chen Ziyan would cooperate.

Chen Ziyan said: "If it weren't for the fact that *Three Mountains* really helped your career to a new level before, I wouldn't cooperate with them."

So, Chen Ziyan and Lu Yan He were a little cold to *Three Mountains*.

Even Director Wang Zhong is the same.

These days, Wang Zhong has been received solemnly wherever he goes. This is the honor brought to him by the Best Director of the Xitu'er Film Festival.

The itinerary for promoting *Three Mountains* is very busy.

The publicity company hurried to set the movie for release in March, just to take advantage of the heat of the Xitu'er Film Festival.

Wang Zhong went on an interview program.

After the program, the host asked: "Director Wang, what are your expectations for the box office of *Three Mountains*?"

Wang Zhong of course hopes that the box office of *Three Mountains* will be as high as possible, but everyone also knows that for such a movie, the box office cannot be very high. Before winning the award, everyone felt that it would be a miracle to get a box office of tens of millions. Now that he has won the award, at most it is over 100 million, which is considered a big sale.

In today's movie market, such box office figures are undoubtedly not enough to look at.

Wang Zhong could only avoid the heavy and say: "I hope it can get more audience's love. Actually, we all know that it is not a movie that can get a high box office. From the beginning of filming, we didn't hold this purpose."

The host added another sentence: "Lu Yan He is popular, with him acting in this movie, can't it make you more confident in the box office of this movie?"

Wang Zhong felt a bit uncomfortable listening to this. This is his movie, not Lu Yan He's movie, and what's more, Lu Yan He only cameoed for ten minutes.

The publicity team has been asking him to find Lu Yan He to participate in more promotional activities during this period, and he has to be questioned by the host on the program, which made Wang Zhong feel a layer of anger in his heart.

"This has nothing to do with who acts. Little Lu is very good and very popular, but anyone's power is limited. How much box office a movie work can sell, time, place and people are all very important. *Three Mountains* is not the kind of shallow movie that makes everyone know what it is talking about at a glance. Simply put, it is not so friendly to the audience," Wang Zhong said with anger, directly saying such a paragraph that made the publicity company's scalp numb and at a loss.

"Director Wang is directly driving the audience away." Chen Ziyan was speechless and said to Lu Yan He, "I thought Director Wang frequently asked you to participate in promotional activities to rub your heat and make the box office better. Looking at his attitude on the program, it doesn't seem like he has this idea."

Lu Yan He was also confused. "I don't know what's going on with the director."

To say that the director doesn't want the box office to be good, it is impossible.

However, Wang Zhong's words attracted the attention of many people.

Especially many netizens made various interpretations of these words.

Well-known entertainment critic and *Dream Back* signed lead writer Chen Miao commented sharply: "Director Wang Zhong has ascended to immortality after winning the award at the Xitu'er Film Festival, and doesn't care if we ordinary people in the world like this movie. The movie is filmed unfathomably. It is not strange that we mortals don't understand it. Anyway, it is not that the movie is filmed badly."

Chen Miao's sarcasm won the likes of many people.

Wang Zhong has never been a director liked by the public, and his style is destined to be a minority.

He this personality is relatively arrogant. It can be seen from his speech on the program. After seeing Chen Miao say such a thing on the Internet, Wang Zhong was so angry that he directly said in the comment area: "I never said I don't care about the audience!"

"Director Wang's mentality has collapsed a bit." People with discerning eyes saw it at a glance. Wang Zhong was stimulated.

Chen Ziyan had originally been annoyed with Wang Zhong because of how *Sanshan* had previously dragged Lu Yan He in as free labor, and she didn't think much of him. However, after seeing Director Wang Zhong spend an entire night furiously retorting to over a dozen netizens' comments and trending on the hot search list with the phrase "Wang Zhong furiously retorts to netizens," Chen Ziyan realized that something must have gone wrong with him.

She contacted the producer of *Three Mountains*, Chen Ling.

Chen Ling didn't hide it and said directly: "It is that the publicity company we cooperate with has ideas that go against the director's ideas, and the two sides have been unable to twist together, finally causing the current situation."

"What is the specific situation?"

"The publicity company we cooperate with this time is Sanhe. After they saw *Three Mountains* won the award, they wanted the movie to be released as soon as possible with the heat of the Xitu'er Film Festival, and... and told Director Wang many times, hoping that he would come forward and ask Lu Yan He to help and participate in more promotions," Chen Ling said. "According to the contract we signed, Yan He has no obligation to cooperate with so many promotional itineraries."

Chen Ziyan: "I said so. I was still thinking about why the director came to find Yan He for free help several times. In fact, you also know that it is not that we don't want to help, but that we are filming *Late Spring*, and going to school, and we can't draw time. In addition, our Yan He is not the lead. Now it is deliberately not mentioning the fact that Yan He is only a cameo, and the battle of this promotion makes him look like a protagonist."

"Don't mention it. On this matter, the director and I have negotiated with them several times, but because they are both one of the investors of this movie and responsible for publicity, they don't take many of our words to heart," Chen Ling said. "It is because of this that the director has fire in his heart, and said such a paragraph on the program. You don't know, the boss of Sanhe also said a word behind his back, which reached the director's ears. I felt it was deliberately passed over."

"What did you say?" Chen Ziyan frowned and asked.

"Said that even if the director won the Best Director of the Xitu'er Film Festival, it is also their film circle's business. To sell the box office, you have to rely on big stars like Lu Yan He," Chen Ling said and sighed. "The director has always been an arrogant person. Even if the facts may be true, he must be uncomfortable listening to it in his heart."

Chen Ziyan didn't know what to say for a while, and even wanted to go to the boss of Sanhe and scold him: "What kind of disease is your brain!"

Chen Ling said: "Now *Three Mountains* is about to be released, I don't want to cause extra trouble, so I persuade the director to calm down first and stop being angry. He is in a bad mood, and his state in the past two days is also terrible, and he can't even run the promotion."

"The Sanhe you cooperate with really has a big disease in the brain! Why do you cooperate with such a company."

"There is no way. At that time, only they were willing to invest in Director Wang's movie and do publicity," Chen Ling said. "You also know that the director's films don't sell box office, and investment is harder to find than general movies."

"Don't cooperate with them next time," Chen Ziyan said.

Chen Ling smiled bitterly and didn't speak.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Ziyan went to the *Late Spring* crew to see Lu Yan He.

Today's play of *Late Spring* was not filmed in the cram school, but in an old house.

Liu Bige wants to film the scene where Lu Yan He eats with his parents.

Meng Bai saw his father having an affair, and at noon that day, the family of three sat together for lunch.

The mother didn't know the reason and arranged lunch as usual.

Meng Bai was holding anger in his heart, and was mentioned a few words by his father "don't fall in love early and delay study," so he replied with a few words of yin and yang. The two of them topped up like this. The mother persuaded the frame in the middle. Meng Bai had fire in his heart, but didn't want his mother to be embarrassed in the middle, so he left home with a cold face and a schoolbag on his back.

When Chen Ziyan arrived at the scene, Lu Yan He was walking the play with the actors who played his parents in the movie.

Both actors are old actors, their names are not loud, but their acting is top-notch.

The actor who played the father is named Chen Yinghui, and the actor who played the mother is named Jiang Biyu.

Chen Ziyan waited for them to finish walking the play before calling Lu Yan He aside and telling him about Wang Zhong, Chen Ling, and Sanhe Company.

"I thought that after you finish the play today, I would take you to see Director Wang," Chen Ziyan said. "There were misunderstandings before, and you and I also had coldness to Director Wang. Now that we know the situation, we can't let the misunderstanding continue like this. Furthermore, Director Wang is in a bad mood now. We go to have a meal with him, chat, maybe it can make him feel better."

Lu Yan He heard the words and nodded without saying a word.

After Chen Ziyan finished saying this, she turned to look at Chen Yinghui and Jiang Biyu.

"You cooperate with the two of them, learn well, the acting of these two is very good," Chen Ziyan seemed to be very familiar with them. "Liu Bige is also quite capable, and invited them to act with you."

Lu Yan He smiled and said: "Liu Bige also said that he invited these two people after three visits to the thatched cottage."

In the movie, these two have few scenes, only three or four scenes. Chen Ziyan is right, they are really here to act with Lu Yan He, and there is no room for them to play. It is usually for the sake of human feelings to be willing to come. ===== CHAPTER 318 =====