Chapter 562

In China, compared to star artists, people engaged in literary and artistic work actually have another title, called literary and artistic workers.

That was a title from a long time ago. People who still use it now are almost gone. It has almost become an honorific in some specific occasions.

For artists, in fact, when you reach a certain stage, if you have accumulated certain achievements and industry reputation, you will become a "virtuous and artistic old artist."

Many older generation artists are actually fighting for this goal.

Lu Yan He actually never thought that he would be linked to the title of "literary and artistic worker" so quickly, and even less did he think that he would be called a "virtuous and artistic young artist" by some media.

Seeing this evaluation of him by the media, Lu Yan He felt very ashamed.

However, after the Spring Festival Gala, when the song "Chinese Language" rang through the streets and alleys of the country, it was also really popular.

In the live broadcast room, many people were also covering this song.

This song is catchy, the melody is simple, and it is easy to learn.

Chen Siqi's little nephew Jiang Huadong was also wearing headphones and learning to hum, saying that his classmates were all learning this song.

Sure enough, to this day, even if the Spring Festival Gala is no longer the Spring Festival Gala of the past, the influence it should have is still there. As long as your work is hard enough, you can still become popular all over the country overnight.

Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi lived at her maternal grandparents' house for three days, and then went to Bingdao together.

They stayed there for a week, enjoying the two-person world without work and others disturbing them.

At this time, the shortlist for this year's Xitu'er Film Festival also came out.

Chinese-language films were once again zero-shortlisted for the main competition unit.

This matter of zero-shortlisting, speaking of which, is actually nothing.

Xitu'er Film Festival prefers auteur films, but among Chinese-language films, auteur films are indeed relatively few now, the quantity cannot go up, and naturally, it is impossible to stably output good works.

However, because the battle results of Chinese-language films in the past two years were too good, and there was a trend of taking off, but in the past two years, they have been defeated one after another at international film festivals, making everyone very disappointed, and it is inevitable to complain.

Some people even sent messages to Lu Yan He, asking him what he thought about such a situation.

Lu Yan He thought, what can he think about this.

The film industry and environment are different, which only shows that the Chinese-language films of these two years are not quite on the path of the Xitu'er Film Festival.

This year's Spring Festival file is all occupied by commercial blockbusters.

Now domestic films are still in an unstable stage of rapid box office growth.

How much potential the market has, it has not been excavated to the end now.

The habit of audiences going to the cinema to watch movies is also still in the process of being established.

At such a stage, it is impossible to expect how many auteur films will appear in the general environment. Directors have been absorbed by commercial films and genre films.

The only one that is still fixedly launching auteur directors is the domestic youth film venture capital fund.

Lu Yan He increasingly believes that all behaviors of talking about movies away from the industry and environment are empty talk.

"It is a good thing that Chinese-language films can shine at international film festivals, but it does not mean that if it does not appear at international film festivals, something big has really happened, as if the movie is not working." Lu Yan He said directly when accepting a telephone interview from a media, "The stage where Chinese-language films are now is inseparable from our market. When the market gradually stabilizes, whether it is commercial films or art films, they have their own stable production and sales industrial chain, and naturally, more auteur directors who can appear at film festivals will appear."

"In the past two years, Chinese-language films suddenly ushered in a big explosion, which was just catching up with that timing, and everyone brought out works suitable for film festivals at that time." Lu Yan He said, "Taking myself as an example, I filmed many movies suitable for film festivals in the past few years, so there were many shortlisted. In the past two years, I filmed less, which is because I also have my own career planning. I think there is no need to feel that there is a problem with Chinese-language films because there is no Chinese-language film at one or two film festivals. In the past two years, I have read many good scripts, and there will be more and more good movies."

After this statement by Lu Yan He was published by the media, it triggered some people's criticism.

The criticism mainly focused on: You also know that you haven't filmed any real movies in the past two years, and you are all filming vulgar commercial films like "Burning Fire" and "The Mist." Are you embarrassed to say it?

Seeing this criticism of Lu Yan He, Lu Yan He just smiled noncommittally.

It is enough for him to express the attitude he should express.

During this week in Bingdao, Lu Yan He and Chen Siqi spent most of their time in the house.

They stayed in a small wooden house here.

The conditions are very good.

When the wind and snow are not so heavy, they will go out for a walk together—going out fully armed, bloated like penguins.

In Bingdao, for most of the time, as far as they could see, there were only the two of them.

As if between heaven and earth, it is as desolate as a lonely soul. In such an environment, they snuggled up to each other, holding hands, trudging hard in the snow, and their hearts were closer.

"If you let me live here for half a year or a year, I definitely won't adapt, but staying for a week like this is really quite good."

Chen Siqi leaned in Lu Yan He's arms, and the two sat by the stove to roast fire together. Her face was reflected red by the firelight.

Lu Yan He said: "Strive for more such holidays every year in the future."

"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded, "After going back, it's endless work again."

"Don't you love work very much?"

"Love is love, but I don't love endlessness." Chen Siqi said, "The feeling that you have to start dealing with things as soon as you open your eyes every day, you should not be able to understand. Although you have a lot of things on your side, the nature is not quite the same."

"Yes." Lu Yan He nodded, "Not to mention anything else, just participating in some meetings at Linghe makes me quite big-headed. I don't want to participate, but I can't. Sister Ziyan insists on me participating, saying that it can enrich my life experience."

"Sister Ziyan saying so is hitting the snake seven inches." Chen Siqi laughed.

Lu Yan He: "Actually, sometimes I feel that it's not that I don't understand, I also realized slowly later that I seem to subconsciously resist understanding these things."

"Yes?"

"Don't laugh when I say this. I always feel that the higher the degree of socialization, the less things of sensibility there are. So to some extent, I resist this kind of socialized things."

Chen Siqi nodded.

"I understand."

"Actually, thinking this way may not be right."

"Forget whether it's right or wrong, just do it as you think now." Chen Siqi suddenly sat up straight, looking at Lu Yan He's eyes at close range, "Just like I want to do this now—"

Her hands clamped Lu Yan He's face from both sides like pressing a hamburger.

Lu Yan He widened his eyes in surprise, and the flesh on his face was squeezed into a ball.

Lu Yan He actually didn't know why Chen Siqi suddenly had such a move.

But—

Let her do whatever she wants.

He laughed.

After returning to the country, Lu Yan He stayed quietly at Ziyuan Bridge for two weeks, and combed through the script of the second season of "Silent River" that he had written one after another from beginning to end.

Thus, fans who hadn't seen Lu Yan He live broadcast for a long time rarely saw Lu Yan He live broadcast for two consecutive weeks, from morning to night every day, working at his desk for at least ten hours.

Knowing that he was writing the script for the second season of "Silent River," many fans were quite surprised.

However, when Lu Yan He live broadcast like this for two consecutive weeks, everyone could see how strong his concentration and determination were when he was writing the script, and suddenly understood why his creation speed was so fast.

Some writer friends Lu Yan He knew all said jokingly: I was rolled.

The live broadcast video of Lu Yan He writing at his desk for more than ten hours every day for two consecutive weeks was also made into a picture, and was urged by many writers' readers in the comment area to update and urge books.

Liu Jiazhen sent a very helpless expression and said: Fortunately, Lu Yan He is an actor, and secondly a screenwriter, especially not a writer, otherwise he would be rolled to death.

Mingyin forwarded this Weibo of Liu Jiazhen and said: I dare not say that I am diligent anymore.

But in fact, Mingyin is a very diligent writer.

She basically can write one or two books every year, and when there are many, she can even publish three.

After writing more scripts, Lu Yan He indeed felt why many people say that writing scripts is actually a line of work.

It doesn't need so many literary things.

It is a form of conveying feelings by white description.

Once the whole story is thought out clearly, for the screenwriter, just need to seriously and step-by-step write out the story and dialogue.

The more you write, the more handy you become.

As for the literary or white, style, and rhythm of the dialogue, those are things that rely on foundation rather than diligence.

Lu Yan He has maintained a lot of reading over the years. The purpose at the beginning was because he liked it, and also because he didn't want to have no goods in his stomach, and when acting, he couldn't accurately convey some subtle emotions—when his life experience was not rich enough, he could only rely on reading to increase his emotional experience, even if it was just a fictional emotional experience.

However, slowly, Lu Yan He also realized that a lot of reading has a very obvious help to the language rhythm of his script writing.

From the beginning of writing a script, every sentence needs to be thought about before it can be typed on the keyboard, to now, almost no need to think. After thinking clearly about the main personality and story development of each character, he feels that he seems to have become a carrier, a "ruthless code-typing machine." Before the next word is typed, he doesn't know what word he will type.

Writing has become an intuitive inertia.

Therefore, he writes faster and faster, and more and more steadily.

This two-week concentrated creation allowed him to rewrite "Silent River" from beginning to end twice.

A total of nearly 300,000 words of script, filmed into a show, is only 15 episodes.

After editing, it may be less.

He sent the script to Chen Lingling.

After sending it, he felt as if half of his life had been drawn away, and suddenly he was decadent, and his spirit was listless.

It happened that Li Zhibai and Yan Liang both joined the crew and couldn't accompany him.

Lu Yan He looked around and finally found Peng Zhixing to go out to eat and drink.

Yuming in February is still covered by heavy snow.

The goose-feather snow fell endlessly.

There are many choices for going out to eat in this weather, but the easiest choice to think of is still hot pot.

Peng Zhixing said he had eaten a very good old duck hot pot soup base and wanted to take him there.

Peng Zhixing drove to pick up Lu Yan He.

Upon meeting, Peng Zhixing laughed at him for looking like he had been sucked dry by a goblin.

Lu Yan He pursed his lips and gave him the middle finger.

Both of them were dressed very plainly—coincidentally in a long black down jacket, covering themselves tightly, not letting the biting cold wind have a chance to take advantage.

Peng Zhixing asked: "Is your script finished?"

"Finished, feeling very empty." Lu Yan He laughed.

Peng Zhixing nodded: "Understand, that kind of concentrating all the spirit to do one thing with all one's strength, suddenly falling into a kind of melancholy. I often drive home alone on the road after recording the program late at night, the big city, usually people coming and going, endless flow, but at that time, it will be empty, and there will be the kind of emptiness you said."

Whether it is Lu Yan He or Peng Zhixing, their creation methods are actually very difficult to get an immediate feedback. Of course, it is not to say that immediate feedback is the most precious. But people are inevitably like this, creating something, hoping to get feedback in the first time—

What do you think of it?

What kind of feeling will you have?

Few people create a work 100% for themselves. Most people want to get recognition from others, or in other words, can get others' liking.

Therefore, after creation, until it meets people, this period of time has both the mental fatigue and exhaustion after long-term creation, and the anxiety of not knowing what will happen.

Lu Yan He rarely takes the initiative to ask others out.

This time he asked one by one, do you have time? Let's go out for a meal together, chat. His move was regarded as abnormal by some people, even if there was work and couldn't come, they also called to ask if he encountered anything, very concerned, concerned to the point that Lu Yan He couldn't help but cry and laugh.

"'The Birth of an Actor' officially starts recording in March." Peng Zhixing said, "At that time, it will be another work that consumes energy. You should rest well."

Lu Yan He nodded.

In the evening, while eating hot pot, they talked about the program and future plans.

"How did you come up with this program 'The Birth of an Actor'?" Peng Zhixing asked.

Lu Yan He said: "It was when filming 'The Mist,' the American actors who cooperated with me, I found that each of their performance styles and foundations were particularly solid. Once I asked, I found out that they all performed on stage since they were young. Before officially participating in film and television performance, they already had very rich performance experience. I just felt that, in fact, our domestic film and television actors are still quite lacking in this kind of stage performance experience. It happened that Sister Ziyan's brokerage company signed several actors who are very capable but not known by people now, wanting to make them popular, so I thought of doing such a program of acting competition."

Peng Zhixing said: "I am not an actor, but I am still quite nervous about this program."

"Nervous? Why?" Lu Yan He asked.

Peng Zhixing said: "A very daring you, a Chen Lingling who doesn't give face, and two big guys Chen Bige and Shang Yongzhou who have been sealed in acting, you guys come to do this program, evaluate the performance of dozens of actors, I am worried that some actors will collapse directly on the stage."

"Col... lapse?" A big question mark appeared on Lu Yan He's forehead.

"You didn't think, maybe some actors act badly, are pointed out problems by you, will they collapse?" Peng Zhixing asked.

"Pointed out problems, will they collapse?" Lu Yan He was even more surprised.

Peng Zhixing was silent for a while and said: "I suddenly feel that you are indeed very necessary to do this program."

"Why?"

"Let you see the real entertainment industry, not the film and television crew you are familiar with where everyone is excellent."

Lu Yan He: "... Could it be that the actors they selected to participate in the competition still have that kind of unreliable ones?"

"Don't you know, although the program group also needs acting schools and strength schools, they need drama spirits and work spirits even more?" Peng Zhixing hit the nail on the head.

Lu Yan He was full of spirit.

The voice-over asked: "Why do you want to participate in this program 'The Birth of an Actor'?"

Liu Zhiyin said: "Come to try the possibilities of life."

Zhang Pingqing said: "Let more people see me, see an actor named Zhang Pingqing."

Liu Yu said: "Prove to others that I can act."

The voice-over asked: "What do you hope to get from this stage?"

Wang Dashan said: "Opportunity for exercise."

Cheng Hai said: "Opportunity for performance."

Wu Mingming said: "Get the audience."

The voice-over asked: "Do you think you can get the recognition of the mentors?"

Zhen Hongyu smiled: "I hope I can, but... they are all the best actors. Whether I can get recognition depends on my own performance later."

The voice-over asked: "With your current status, fame, and strength, why did you agree to participate in our program? When we were in a meeting, some people said that you should actually be a mentor."

Zhen Hongyu hurriedly shook her hands and said: "The mentor lineup of your program is too scary, I am not qualified, don't praise me to death."

She smiled again: "But why did I agree? One is that there is no script I particularly want to film on hand, and this program can cooperate with many awesome directors and actors, even if it is just a small film. The second is because I haven't heard the real evaluation of my performance from people in the circle for a long time. Basically, now I act, I can only hear praise."

The voice-over asked: "What is your representative work now?"

Cheng Hai was silent for two seconds, smiled somewhat sadly, and said: "Former teammates of Lu Yan He, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang?"

Cheng Hai in the lens had some loneliness on his face.

The voice-over asked: "Are you still in contact with them?"

Cheng Hai seemed to answer the question somewhat irrelevantly: "They are all very good people, our relationship has not changed."

The voice-over asked: "Do you think you are lucky?"

Zhang Pingqing nodded, "Very lucky, although as an actor, I have always been lukewarm, but my life has always been smooth, I have never encountered major setbacks, I have always been above food and clothing, even if the actor is not so outstanding, I don't worry about food and drink."

Liu Zhiyin said: "I can appear here and answer this question, in fact, I already need enough luck."

He Sha: "I don't want to sell misery, but I seem to have always missed the most important opportunity in life, you know? I was once almost the heroine of Director Chen Lingling's new play."

On the day the pilot of "The Birth of an Actor" was released, Yuehu Station and Northern Lights Video specifically held a grand press conference.

Peng Zhixing hosted.

None of the three mentors attended, only Lu Yan He went to stand on the stage.

When this pilot, which was edited from the previous interview, was played on the scene, Lu Yan He was quite moved.

Especially seeing Cheng Hai's part.

Lu Yan He was actually quite worried for Cheng Hai.

He also knew very well that Cheng Hai being able to come to this program was also a difficulty he needed to overcome for him.

When he answered that his representative work was the former teammate of Lu Yan He, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang, Lu Yan He's heart felt sour.

Life encounters are really hard to predict.

Cheng Hai was in the first echelon of popularity in Fengzhi Youth back then.

But now he has fallen to this position.

Lu Yan He sincerely hoped that he could rise again.

Also coming to the scene today was Liu Zhiyao.

A female actor who had a similar experience to Cheng Hai, was once popular, but is now outdated.

She spoke on stage as a representative of the participating actors. Before she said two sentences, tears began to flow.

"I really haven't had a chance to perform in front of the audience for a long time. Media friends who know a little about my recent situation may know that I have been filming web movies for the past two years. Some friends also asked me why I haven't seen me for a long time, is it not filming?" Liu Zhiyao said while shedding tears, "It's not that I don't film, it's that the plays I film are very difficult to walk in front of you. So, especially thank Lu Yan He for planning such a program, so that we can have a chance to return to the vision of so many audiences."

After speaking, Liu Zhiyao bowed deeply in the direction where Lu Yan He was sitting.

At this moment, Lu Yan He's face turned green with fright.

He hurriedly got up, waved his hands, and felt that this was not enough, so he bowed back.

"..."

Peng Zhixing's words that night echoed in Lu Yan He's mind again—

——Let you see the real entertainment industry.

——The program group needs drama spirits and work spirits even more.

No matter how much truth there is in what Liu Zhiyao said just now, but in front of so many media, thanking him so exaggeratedly, there must be an element of "showing off," right?

Lu Yan He: "..."

In the entertainment industry, people have more or less a mentality of "showing off."

It's just that the collaborators Lu Yan He met before, at least in their dealings with him, all presented the more real side.

As soon as the press conference ended, Lu Yan He was ready to leave.

Peng Zhixing messaged him: Shall we have a meal together later?

Lu Yan He: Is there anyone else?

Peng Zhixing: Just me, let's eat something casual, I'll find a shop.

Lu Yan He: Good.

He also said: I was really embarrassed today.

Peng Zhixing: Saw your expression, couldn't help laughing.

Lu Yan He: Liu Zhiyao... did you know her before?

Peng Zhixing: Heard of her, haven't met, but the hottest thing at the press conference today is the video of her bowing to thank you and you bowing back in a hurry. It's popular on the Internet.

Lu Yan He: I don't want to hear it, don't say it.

Peng Zhixing didn't care whether he wanted to hear it or not, and sent a GIF over.

I don't know which wicked netizen actually made this scene into a GIF.

Especially, it also highlighted his wide-eyed "shock," then waving his hands in a hurry, and finally bowing to Liu Zhiyao in a hurry.

The whole process looked exceptionally funny.

Lu Yan He: "..."

He covered his face with one hand.

Wang Biao saw him like this and couldn't help but curl his mouth.

Must have seen it.

At this time, someone knocked on the door.

Wang Biao went to open the door, not expecting the person knocking was Liu Zhiyao.

He was stunned.

Liu Zhiyao asked: "Is Yan He here?"

Wang Biao said: "Please wait a moment, Little Brother Lu is on the phone with someone."

He left the door ajar and looked back at Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He looked at him suspiciously.

Wang Biao mouthed: "Liu Zhiyao."

Lu Yan He's face turned black instantly.

Wang Biao continued to mouth: "What to do?"

Lu Yan He sighed and signaled for her to come in.

Left too late.

"Hello, Sister Yao... Sister Zhiyao." Lu Yan He changed his words immediately.

Liu Zhiyao's face had an apologetic smile, saying: "I just noticed that it seems some of the things I said just now caused you some trouble."

"No, no." Lu Yan He waved his hands and said: "It's just that I didn't expect it at first, and I was shocked."

Liu Zhiyao said: "But what I said is the truth."

"Thank you, Sister Zhiyao. Actually, it is Yuehu Station and Northern Lights Video that did a lot of work. I just took a false name." Lu Yan He said, "Looking forward to your performance in the program."

Liu Zhiyao hummed, "I will perform well. Are you free later? If you are free, shall we have lunch together?"

Lu Yan He: "I have already made an appointment with someone else, let's eat together next time."

He said with a smile: "Sister Zhiyao, I'll go first, see you when we record the program later."

He didn't leave any words for Liu Zhiyao, fearing that Liu Zhiyao would ask if she could go together.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg."

Peng Zhixing said to Lu Yan He with a smile.

Lu Yan He put on plastic gloves, tore open the roast chicken on the table, sprinkled chili powder, sighed frustratedly, and said: "I am also starting to hesitate now, whether to let the bodyguard guard at the door of my lounge, and not allow knocking on the door without an appointment in the future."

Peng Zhixing: "Actually, at your current position, if you don't do this, things like this will always happen. Many people will try every means to approach you and find you."

As soon as Peng Zhixing's voice fell, Lu Yan He's phone vibrated with a buzz.

Lu Yan He picked it up and took a look.

It was Fu Li who sent him a message: Are you okay? I saw the GIF on the Internet, you are almost broken. 【haha】

Lu Yan He put down the phone.

"Brother Zhixing, what about you? Haven't you encountered this kind of thing?"

"Definitely not as much as you encountered." Peng Zhixing said, "Moreover, what I encountered is different from yours."

Lu Yan He: "Brother Zhixing, how did you deal with it?"

"Help if you can, but for those who are too excessive in words and deeds, I will also refuse directly without hesitation." Peng Zhixing said, "You may find it hard to imagine how shameless some people can be to achieve their goals."

Lu Yan He: "I have encountered shameless people."

Peng Zhixing: "I suspect that the shamelessness I understand is not the same shamelessness as you understand."

Lu Yan He: "Why do I feel discriminated against by you."

Peng Zhixing laughed out loud.

"But in any case, this program is very good and very meaningful." Peng Zhixing said seriously, "The more I know about this program, the more I think so. Especially after watching the pilot released today, it is different from other programs on the market. The people found by the program are very representative and have stories. I looked at my phone just now, not only the part where you and Liu Zhiyao were on the hot search, but Cheng Hai and Liu Zhiyin were also on the hot search."

"Sister Zhiyin is because she was already very popular, Cheng Hai... nine times out of ten it was bought by Zhou Ping'an for him." Lu Yan He said, "But indeed, when choosing people at the beginning, it was very clear that there must be some people with stories who can cause topic discussion."

Peng Zhixing: "It's a pity that such a program only does twelve episodes, it can be done a little more."

Lu Yan He said: "It's not good to do too much, put the best content in the main film."

Peng Zhixing: "Will you do a second season of this program?"

"Do it if the response is good." Lu Yan He said, "Actually, I hope this program can drive everyone's discussion about acting. What is good acting, what is a good actor, and more people participate in the discussion, rather than being defined by some conventional views. I saw what acting explosion, plastic surgery acting before, and said some performances have no expression, acting like a blind person... well, it seems that I am also quite arrogant, thinking that others are wrong, but it is not said that performance without expression is a blind person. Some are more sad than heart death, some are really no feeling, and a group of people bring rhythm, thinking that this is the same performance, I want to go up and debate with them, think about it later, forget it."

Peng Zhixing laughed uncontrollably.

"You are so excited."

Lu Yan He said: "Want to be rational, want to be calm, but can't do it, because after knowing what is good, I can't stand some people calling a deer a horse. The most terrible place is that many people call a deer a horse now, not because he really doesn't know right from wrong, but because he is chasing stars, to speak for his idol, and lying with his eyes open. This is the most terrible thing, especially a group of fans, changing tricks to lie in 360 degrees."

Peng Zhixing: "You seem to have always disliked the attitude towards fans."

"I... I really don't like the fans on the Internet now, including my own." Lu Yan He said, "I don't like them because they like a person, so they are like locusts crossing the border, not allowing a second voice to appear."

"What if someone scolds you in various ways?"

"Look at how they scold. If they scold with a target, I am actually quite happy to watch." Lu Yan He said, "I am really not labeling myself. Sometimes I will also block some comments full of dirty words or distorted facts, or some discriminatory words, but if you just say you don't like me, or the play I act is not good, I really let you say it. If you can put forward some constructive criticism and suggestions, I will be happier."

Peng Zhixing nodded.

"But we can only adapt to the status quo."

"Yes." Lu Yan He nodded, "I never thought about being able to fight against the status quo, but if I can make this status quo change a little bit, that's also very good."

"Have you ever thought that if the change you want to make is not a good thing for this status quo?" Peng Zhixing suddenly asked.

"I would hesitate because of such thoughts in the past, but now I rarely do." Lu Yan He said, "Unless we don't contact this world, don't contact the surroundings, otherwise we are affecting the surroundings and affecting this world every moment. Good things and bad things are better than doing nothing. And I also believe that no matter how capable a person is, he can't beat the macro historical process."

"I believe I am doing the right thing and firmly doing the right thing. Only by firming this belief can I really do some things. Otherwise, always anxious, always looking forward and backward, always accomplishing nothing."