Chapter 574: Divergence

After the director problem of "Nineteen Years" was solved, Li Zhibai let out a long sigh of relief.

He felt that he had truly experienced the most turbulent period of his crew life since he became an actor.

No matter what problems the crew had before, it actually had little to do with him.

He was just an actor; he had no ideas, no responsibility, and no obligation to participate in the situations that appeared in the crew.

This time it was completely different, but it also brought him a completely different experience.

And what surprised Li Zhibai even more was another thing.

On the matter of Liu Manbo, Li Zhibai felt for the first time that it was worth it even if he had to experience more trouble, bear more responsibility, and put in more effort—helping Liu Manbo hold his position as director and making Lighthouse Video give up the idea of letting Lujingbo return to direct.

He also suddenly realized why, when it was clearly good enough to be an actor, Lu Yan He was still doing the producer of many projects while doing various identities such as screenwriter and director.

If identities like director and screenwriter are to control a project from the content, so that its content does not go astray, then the producer is to ensure the creative environment of these creators from a more source link, so that they can create well and let the right people stay in the right positions.

It was precisely this experience that gave Li Zhibai a very strong stimulation.

Even though he was already a popular actor, and even a producer with a very heavy weight and right to speak in the drama "Nineteen Years", when he had opinion contradictions and conflicts with the platform, he was still weak and still did not have enough ability to defend what he wanted to defend.

No wonder many actors walked on the road of producer later.

Because if they want to protect this project of theirs, they have to participate more in the project.

Malaysia.

Lu Yan He met with Director Huang Tianlin in an ecological park.

Although Lu Yan He didn't know why he would meet in such a place—indeed, few people would meet him in such a place, he still gladly accepted the appointment.

This is the director of the only movie he has determined to join the crew this year.

"Tropical Rainy Season", in this movie, he plays the protagonist—the bastard brother of a twelve-year-old child.

This is a family story unfolded from the perspective of a twelve-year-old child.

Lu Yan He has not filmed this type before.

Lu Yan He found all the works directed by Huang Tianlin and watched them.

Huang Tianlin gave him the feeling of being a very gentle and delicate director.

The family relationships in his lens are all based on love, and no matter how big the storm is, it finally returns to the calm daily life.

This trait is actually not easy to handle, and it is easy to film it into chicken soup.

Chicken soup is too vulgar and not artistic enough.

Huang Tianlin's sense of proportion is handled very well.

Lu Yan He feels that this is mainly because Huang Tianlin didn't want to film a warm story from the beginning; he just looked at the world from such a perspective—the difference between deliberate and unintentional.

Lu Yan He met Huang Tianlin at the entrance of the ecological park.

Lu Yan He only brought Zou Dong to follow him.

Huang Tianlin only had himself.

Zou Dong was about two or three meters away from Lu Yan He, leaving them enough space to communicate privately.

What Huang Tianlin said to Lu Yan He was not the Malaysian language, but Mandarin.

This surprised Lu Yan He very much.

Huang, his grandfather was Chinese, and he grew up with his grandfather when he was a child, so he could speak Mandarin, but he hadn't spoken it for a long time, so he would speak slowly.

Lu Yan He suddenly realized and nodded.

"I didn't see this information in your interview." He asked, "Is this matter not disclosed to the media?"

Huang Tianlin waved his hand with a smile and said: "It's not about disclosure or not. I didn't intend to hide this matter, but I didn't talk about it publicly. Everyone wouldn't be curious about who my grandfather is."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"They told me that when you were willing to act in this movie 'Tropical Rainy Season', they were all startled." Huang, "Actually, before my producer told me, I didn't know he contacted you."

Lu Yan He: "It should be my agent who contacted him. She has been helping me find scripts. I acted in a few commercial films some time ago, so I have been looking for films that are suitable for me and not so commercial."

He also spoke straight.

Huang Tianlin: "When 'The Mist' was released, I also went to the cinema to watch this movie. I only knew when I arrived at the cinema that there were many of your fans in Malaysia, and many people went to watch this movie specifically for you."

"Really? I am also very surprised." Lu Yan He said, "Because I have actually never been to Malaysia before, nor have I filmed a Malaysian movie. I didn't expect that there are still so many people who know me and then like me."

Huang Tianlin: "For this movie 'Tropical Rainy Season', I really didn't think that a movie star like you would participate at first, which startled me."

"I like this script very much. It reminds me of my childhood."

Lu Yan He walked under the shade of the trees, and the sunlight fell mottled on them and the road in front of them.

In the ecological park, there are actually not many people, just a few scattered ones.

He put his hands behind his back and said: "In the past few years, I have read many scripts about family ethics and family relationships. I don't know if it is because the world film industry has such a trend or what. In the stories of these themes, the family seems to have become a prison, a shadow that needs to be healed. Of course, I also know that indeed, for many people, the family has caused such harm. But when all the scripts are about such themes and stories, it makes me a bit resistant. It feels like this has become a trend, a correct trend. Only by escaping from one's original family can one build another life that truly belongs to oneself."

Lu Yan He said slowly the feeling that the script of "Tropical Rainy Season" brought to him.

"So, it is quite surprising to be able to see such a script that looks at family relationships from the perspective of a teenager." Lu Yan He said, "The brother character, although there are not many scenes, every appearance is very wonderful. In this story, he is actually a destroyer and a leaver, an uneasy factor. But even for such a character, behind his behavioral logic, one can see that while he is extremely eager to break through the prison of the family, he is also concerned about and difficult to cut off the people in this family."

Huang Tianlin looked at Lu Yan He with some surprise and asked: "Do you have brothers?" Lu Yan He shook his head.

Whether before crossing or after crossing, he has no brothers.

Huang Tianlin hesitated for a moment and said: "Yan He, I heard that you grew up with your grandparents since you were a child?"

"Yes." Lu Yan He nodded.

Huang Tianlin muttered a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but didn't say it.

As soon as Lu Yan He saw him like this, he reacted immediately.

He smiled.

"Director, are you worried that I can't understand the family relationships in 'Tropical Rainy Season'?"

Huang: "I am not questioning your ability as an actor. I have watched every one of your dramas, but you have acted in so many dramas, and it is indeed rare to see parts about family and kinship. Including the few dramas you wrote, the part of family and relatives is basically absent—"

Lu Yan He nodded.

"If you say so, it is indeed." He also didn't realize that the works he participated in in the past were not dominated by family and relatives.

Huang Tianlin looked at Lu Yan He seriously.

"I don't know if your understanding of this script is consistent with my understanding of this script."

"Director, for this scene in the elevator, can I change the smile towards this little girl? I don't want to smile too creepy. The murderer I play is not a mental patient. He just wants to kill everyone who has hurt him. The little girl has nothing to do with him. He shows a creepy smile at this time, which is indeed very scary, but I feel weird, not very consistent with the characteristics of his character. After all, whether before or after this scene, he does not have that kind of neurotic trait. He is a revenge-type murderer."

The scene Li Zhibai mentioned is a scene to be filmed next—the murderer he plays enters the same elevator with a little girl returning home from school.

He is going to kill someone, and the little girl lives in the building where the person he wants to kill is.

The little girl saw the tip of the knife exposed in his raincoat sleeve and was scared pale.

At this time, in the script, Li Zhibai showed a very creepy smile to the little girl, telling her not to be afraid.

Liu Manbo said: "The word creepy written in the script does not mean that he wants to deliberately scare this little girl. I think his creepiness is unintentional. Think about it, if your murder weapon has been bumped into by a little girl, in that situation, you must want to try to smile and appease the little girl, telling her not to be afraid, but in that tense mental state, your smile will be distorted and become creepy. This is actually correct."

Li Zhibai listened to Liu Manbo's interpretation, nodded thoughtfully, and said: "Then this difficulty is too great for me. I don't know how to show the creepy smile you said. I thought it was the kind of creepy murderer style—the technical difficulty is a bit big."

Liu Manbo: "Let's try it first and see what the effect is."

After trying three times, both Liu Manbo and Li Zhibai felt it didn't work.

Li Zhibai knew what Liu Manbo wanted, but he couldn't act it out.

The original intention was to comfort the little girl not to be afraid, but in fact, he smiled a more creepy effect—it is just a sentence to say, but to realize it at the technical level, I am afraid that few actors can do it.

After acting for the third time, when the effect was still not very good, Li Zhibai's mood was a bit irritable.

He didn't think Liu Manbo was wrong, but felt that he couldn't act it out.

"Director, change a way of acting. This really exceeds my ability." Li Zhibai felt that after so many NGs, other people in the crew were also a bit restless.

Liu Manbo said: "Zhibai, let's try again. I think you can act it out. You are already getting better and better."

Li Zhibai actually wanted to say to Liu Manbo at this moment, no, really can't act it out, but he looked at Liu Manbo's persistent eyes, sighed again, and decided to try again.

"What kind of brother do you hope I act?" Lu Yan He asked Huang Tianlin.

Huang: "Just now I heard you say your understanding of the brother character, I found that you have some deviations from my thoughts when I wrote this script."

"What deviation?" Lu Yan He knew that Huang Tianlin suddenly mentioned his family, there must be a reason, but he didn't expect it to be because of his interpretation of the script.

Huang: "The brother character, he has no nostalgia for this family, so you say that the background of many of his behaviors is because he can't bear to part with this family, this is not the original intention of my script."

Lu Yan He suddenly realized.

He thought about it and asked: "Then the bit of reluctance towards his family that I read from the script is also a misunderstanding?"

"If you say he has no emotional attachment to his family, that must be wrong, but that is not enough to bind him to want to leave this family." Huang Tianlin explained, "His mood to want to leave must be greater than everything. From quarreling with his parents to fighting and going home, including the chat with his brother, they are actually talking about one thing, he doesn't want to be trapped."

"But no matter how much a person wants to leave, when he can really leave, his mood will change, right?" Lu Yan He said.

Huang Tianlin: "What if I say, at least at the brother's age, there is no?"

"This is indeed a bit beyond my cognition." Lu Yan He didn't expect that he would have a divergence with the director in his understanding of the script and characters.

Before, if there was no divergence, it was fake. But those divergences were more about the way of expression, not the divergence of understanding the script itself.

Lu Yan He was a bit surprised.

Huang: "In 'Tropical Rainy Season', the brother character represents a kind of rebellion and departure, a kind of spiritual projection of the younger brother during his youth. In this story, he doesn't need such complexity and richness of character."

Lu Yan He was silent.

The two continued to walk forward for a while.

Lu Yan He said: "Director, I may need to go back and sort out this script and my own thoughts again."

Huang Tianlin nodded.

When the two parted, Huang: "Yan He, if you don't want to act in this movie, I understand you very well. Actually, it is indeed a grievance for such a famous actor like you to act in such a small role."

"Director, what I care about is not the size of the role." Lu Yan He looked directly at Huang, "I also want to ask you one thing."

Huang Tianlin looked at him suspiciously.

Lu Yan He said: "If our divergence is just a different understanding of the script and characters, I will think and consider it seriously after I go back. But, Director, I don't know if it is my illusion, I feel that you don't really want me to act in this movie. Can you tell me, is this feeling of mine my illusion?" ===== CHAPTER 575 =====