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Chapter 717: Lu Yanhe who can discuss the Dao (9600 words)

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Lu Yanhe was stunned.

What exactly was going on?

"Didn't they say that I'm already very awesome now, and no one will come to mess with me?"

He asked Chen Ziyan.

Chen Ziyan also didn't know what to say for a moment, hesitated for a long time, and finally spat out two words.

"Small ghosts are hard to deal with."

Lu Yanhe asked: "Then, what is going on now? Even though he made an explanation, the internet is saying that I am dissatisfied with my senior being the first lead and me being the second, and I am also dissatisfied that my senior's salary is higher than mine, so I deliberately didn't cooperate with the promotion of *Burning Fire*. Long Yan is the victim, and I—"

Chen Ziyan: "You don't need to worry about Yongzhou; he will clarify this matter during the subsequent roadshow, and I have arrangements on my side."

Lu Yanhe was curious: "Sister Ziyan, what did you arrange?"

Chen Ziyan said: "Since Zhang Yang has entered the field, it's easy to handle. We have always been saving face and doing nothing to maintain the harmony on the surface, but now it's not needed."

Lu Yanhe was a bit confused.

Soon, he knew Chen Ziyan's arrangement.

A staff member of Long Yan who refused to reveal his name broke the news to the media that Lu Yanhe's relationship with Long Yan deteriorated during the promotion period of the Hexi Film Festival. Because Lu Yanhe answered other works when accepting media interviews (actually, it was putting other works and *Burning Fire* together for comparison, not purely asking an irrelevant question), Long Yan's promotion felt dissatisfied with Lu Yanhe's answer, thinking he shouldn't mention other movies during the promotion itinerary of *Burning Fire*. Lu Yanhe got angry. To be honest, the itinerary of the Hexi Film Festival was not required by the contract. Lu Yanhe participated in the Hexi Film Festival, and he didn't let Long Yan pay for this trip, and because he participated, the Hexi Film Festival also matched some promotional resources. Long Yan really shouldn't have complained about Lu Yanhe for such a small thing.

Once this matter was said, the spearhead pointed directly at Zhang Yang.

Wasn't the promotion that followed *Burning Fire* to participate in the Hexi Film Festival Zhang Yang?

Long Yan even reported it, and there were photos.

Subsequently, netizens followed the clues and found that interview. And everyone also discovered that after that interview, Lu Yanhe really never appeared in the promotional itinerary of *Burning Fire* again, until this time of release, Lu Yanhe participated in the premiere again, cooperated with overseas promotion, forwarded Weibo, recorded interview programs, etc., which looked like there was no problem with Long Yan, and he was still doing promotion.

Until later, Lu Yanhe didn't show up again.

Someone said: Lu Yanhe is clearly angry, so he only completed the promotional itinerary signed in the contract, and refused to participate in any others.

There were also industry insiders who said: Long Yan's Zhang Yang really has water in his brain. The matter has happened for so long, Lu Yanhe's side has never mentioned Hexi, always maintaining the harmony on the surface, not making any response, but he jumped out to stir up trouble. Now it's good.

The box office of *Burning Fire* was not too affected and was still within the normal trend range.

Afterwards, at a roadshow, Shang Yongzhou answered this question when facing reporters' questions about the dispute over billing.

"There will be no dispute over billing between Yanhe and me. If there really is, it's me asking him to take the first lead, and him asking me to take the first lead; neither of us wants to be the first lead." Shang Yongzhou explained to Lu Yanhe very firmly, "I think any media that thinks Lu Yanhe is a person who cares about billing is really too unprofessional. For an actor like him, is billing important?"

Immediately someone asked again.

"Then regarding Yanhe not participating in the roadshow of *Burning Fire* recently, is it because of a suspected conflict with Long Yan? Is it true?"

The host interrupted immediately.

However, at this time, director Wan Renhai raised the microphone.

"We are not the parties involved, so we cannot answer, but is there any problem with Yanhe not being able to participate in the roadshow?" Wan Renhai said, "The rest of us are not dead; only Yanhe has to run the roadshow? He has been filming all year and is about to join the cast to shoot another movie. He is one of the best actors I know to cooperate with and the best to protect a movie. Cooperating with *Burning Fire*, I have a profound feeling that for anything he does, my first reaction is that he must have his reasons, and I support him very much."

The responses of Shang Yongzhou and Wan Renhai caused an uproar on social media.

At the same time, under the official Weibo of *Burning Fire*, many of Lu Yanhe's fans began to criticize them for "killing the chicken to get the eggs."

The most terrible thing appeared; Lu Yanhe's fans did the opposite and pushed the hashtag #Burning Fire sells well at the box office even without Lu Yanhe# to the hot search.

The public who didn't know the situation clicked in and instead felt it was not worth it for Lu Yanhe.

—Without Lu Yanhe joining, did they dare to invest such a large production fee to make *Burning Fire* at that time?

—Can *Burning Fire* be released in nine places at the same time, isn't it because Lu Yanhe's international box office performance in the past few years is good enough to attract the interest of international film merchants?

—Overseas promotion is basically based on Lu Yanhe. I don't dislike Shang Yongzhou, but I am seeking truth from facts. Shang Yongzhou's popularity overseas is really not high, and his audience is all art films. Saying that Lu Yanhe carrying the overseas box office alone is too exaggerated, you really don't understand Lu Yanhe's box office appeal after *The Mist*, especially the appeal to the Asian group.

—If Long Yan has the ability, don't promote Lu Yanhe later, don't use Lu Yanhe as a promotional point.

—Lu Yanhe is really decent enough; he hasn't stood up to say anything until now. The matter between him and Long Yan's promotion is really just a fuse; there are many things you don't know. Long Yan's typical merchant logic, they know Lu Yanhe is a good person, so they push step by step, thinking Lu Yanhe will definitely let them. Now they find that they have lifted a rock and dropped it on their own feet; Lu Yanhe refuses to let them.

Suddenly, after the box office of *Burning Fire* reached 2.4 billion, the downward trend of the box office exceeded expectations, like opening a gate to release water.

People, you must put eggs in multiple baskets.

In the past few days, no matter how Long Yan tried to find Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan through various ways, Lu Yanhe just didn't respond or pay attention.

And the box office of *Burning Fire* was seen to be affected by negative public opinion. The box office, which was already at the end, had a trend of deflating in advance. The degree of difficulty Long Yan felt at this moment exceeded their imagination.

The box office of *Burning Fire* is secondary now; the key is that this is a series, a trilogy, and there are two more behind it, but Lu Yanhe's contract has not been finalized yet.

The person responsible for this contract became Lu Yanhe's executive agent, Wang Biao.

This person was impervious to oil and salt; no matter how they did public relations, he refused to reveal a trace of wind.

He didn't say he wouldn't sign, and he didn't say he would sign, just leaving it there, not starting the negotiation of this matter.

This made Long Yan very painful.

It just so happened that Lu Yanhe was about to join the cast of another movie of Long Yan, *Storm Calmer No. 1*.

Wang Biao's opening and closing words were—

"Now all of Yanhe's thoughts are on the preparation of the new play, and there is no way to consider the subsequent participation in *Burning Fire*. Everything will be discussed after *Storm Calmer No. 1* is finished."

Mrs. Huang was angered by this young man.

Before becoming Lu Yanhe's assistant, Wang Biao was a person who tried to support himself through internet anchors.

The first time Lu Yanhe interacted with him was when he was met by him holding a mobile phone very familiarly, and then he became a "guest" in his live broadcast room.

Lu Yanhe didn't doubt Wang Biao's ability to pester people at all.

Long Yan's people wanted to see Lu Yanhe, but there was no chance at all, until Lu Yanhe joined the cast of *Storm Calmer No. 1*. Because it was their own company's play, they finally found an opportunity.

Of course, although there were several of them, in fact, there was only one key person, and that was Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang's expression showed embarrassment.

Lu Yanhe nodded to them and said: "I have let my agent tell you that before *Storm Calmer No. 1* is finished, I don't want to continue talking about *Burning Fire*."

"Mr. Lu, I am here to apologize to you." Zhang Yang said.

Lu Yanhe raised his eyebrows slightly, the trace of raising his eyebrows was so shallow that it seemed traceless.

Zhang Yang said solemnly: "Because I expressed it wrongly, it caused a lot of negative public opinion, had a great impact on the box office of *Burning Fire*, and also had a negative impact on your image. I feel very sorry."

Lu Yanhe looked at him noncommittally.

Seeing this, Zhang Yang continued: "I am also very self-blaming, hoping that I can do something to make up for this."

Lu Yanhe shook his head gently.

"Mr. Zhang, in the process of cooperating with Long Yan, I have only been an actor from beginning to end, so I only performed my duties as an actor." He said, "The role of promotion in the movie actually has nothing to do with me; you don't need to apologize to me."

Zhang Yang bit the bullet and continued: "Mr. Lu, we—"

"Mr. Zhang, I said, I am an actor, not some Mr." Lu Yanhe interrupted directly, his eyes swept over the few people beside Zhang Yang, smiled slightly, and said politely, "When you go back to apologize to Mr. Huang and the others, I suggest not to be so aggressive. Now I am going to discuss the script with the director, goodbye."

"Long Yan is too big a company. Zhang Yang is an old man who followed Mr. Huang and Mrs. Huang to fight the world in his early years. He has deep qualifications in Long Yan, especially in charge of the company's promotion and public relations business. He is a person of real power. He doesn't deal with you directly, but he became the fuse for you to get angry at Long Yan. Mr. Huang and Mrs. Huang may not necessarily pursue him for this matter. Of course, now that he has come to apologize, it must be that Long Yan has given him considerable pressure internally."

Chen Ziyan analyzed it.

"You actually grasped a point very correctly. If he was sincerely coming to apologize to you, he shouldn't have brought others with him. In fact, this is a gesture, a gesture he showed to the internal part of Long Yan. He apologized, the action was taken, and look, he bit to death that it was a misunderstanding, not admitting that he was targeting you, just not leaving hidden dangers for himself."

Lu Yanhe: "Over time, I became the one who held onto the misunderstanding and wouldn't let go?"

"That's not the point. The point is that you and Long Yan clearly have to cooperate later." Chen Ziyan said, "Long Yan actually also grasped one thing: you and them are in a mutually beneficial relationship. In the country, the number of companies that can open such a large-scale movie as *Burning Fire* can be counted on one hand. You are now in the upper hand because of the sequel contract, and they are restrained by you, but just like you want to shoot *Storm Calmer No. 1* and cooperate with Liu Bige, OK, Long Yan is something you can't bypass."

"You are right." Lu Yanhe said, "They know I am deliberately not lowering my posture. I actually know in my heart that I will not abandon the *Burning Fire* series. Both sides know some bottom lines, so above the bottom line, our current game is more like going through the process."

Chen Ziyan: "They perhaps took all your series of actions as chips for your sequel movie contract negotiation. This is the key."

Lu Yanhe: "The box office performance of *Burning Fire* now is hard to break 3 billion, but the box office of more than 2 billion has already exceeded expectations, obviously making a lot of money. Plus the box office performance of *Burning Fire* overseas, they probably think I really want to offer a higher salary than my senior, so they used the dispute over billing to give me a warning?"

"Perhaps so." Chen Ziyan said, "However, if they think that for the sequel movie, we can still accept the conditions of the first one, then they are too confident. We can also be considered to have hit the mark by mistake, using this matter to make them realize your importance to the *Burning Fire* series."

Lu Yanhe said: "Actually, the box office of *Burning Fire* is not moving now, it may not be entirely affected by this matter. Such a special effects blockbuster often reaches a box office inflection point, and it will avalanche and decline."

"The problem is that no one dares to say so." Chen Ziyan said, "Especially, the overseas box office of *Burning Fire*, you are the undisputed first selling point. The film merchants bought the film because of you. Now the box office result of more than 30 million dollars, plus the several markets that have not been released, perhaps it will directly break the overseas box office record of Chinese films in the past five years, exceeding 50 million dollars, which is also uncertain. This is also a big income for Long Yan."

Lu Yanhe asked: "Sister Ziyan, then what price do you plan to quote for me in the sequel movie of *Burning Fire*?"

Chen Ziyan said: "The salary is 1 million lower than Shang Yongzhou, but enjoy 10% of the overseas revenue."

Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Ziyan in surprise.

10%?

Is this a bit exaggerated?

He received a salary of 12 million in the first one, and now the box office has exceeded 2 billion. According to the contract, Long Yan still needs to pay Lu Yanhe a salary bonus of 5 million. However, Lu Yanhe did not take any share.

And Shang Yongzhou's salary in the first one was 20 million.

In the sequel movie, Shang Yongzhou's salary cannot decrease, only higher than 20 million.

Now, this means that Lu Yanhe's salary is also very likely to reach more than 20 million, plus 10% of the overseas revenue share—

"You are worth this price." Chen Ziyan said, "Without you, the overseas box office of the movie *Burning Fire* could directly subtract a zero. I dare to pat the table and say so directly in front of them, and they dare not refute."

Lu Yanhe thought about his salary in Hollywood.

"Think about it, your salary in Hollywood has already reached the level of 5 million dollars. Appearing in a movie like the sequel to *The Mist* even approaches 10 million dollars. Long Yan is paying you a higher salary, and you are worth that price."

Now, Lu Yanhe's side has been slow to express opinions on the sequel performance contract. In Long Yan's eyes, this may not be his dissatisfaction with Long Yan's early stage, but his dissatisfaction with the contract conditions, waiting for Long Yan to re-quote.

If this is the case, Zhang Yang's gesture of apology can be understood.

A movie of this box office magnitude like *Burning Fire* is about 1 billion in revenue for Long Yan. After calculating the cost, it is also a huge profit.

Especially once this series is developed as an IP, from peripherals to authorization, there is also a huge gold mine waiting to be excavated.

Standing in Long Yan's eyes, is Lu Yanhe's series of actions just for Zhang Yang's attitude?

Impossible.

Absolutely impossible.

"That's fine, let them know a truth: their mistakes need to pay the greatest price. For those people, only by letting their hearts drip blood will they learn a lesson and not dare to do some small ghost actions in the future."

Chen Ziyan said, "Hang them? Anyway, the urgent one is them, not us."

"Are you okay?" Liu Bige asked Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Nothing bad."

Liu Bige sighed.

"Long Yan handled this matter too badly."

They thought that what could move Lu Yanhe was core interests, so they didn't care at all about how their attitude made Lu Yanhe feel.

Lu Yanhe shook his head.

"It's okay."

Fortunately, although *Storm Calmer No. 1* is a movie invested and produced by Long Yan, the crew is Liu Bige's crew.

Lu Yanhe is familiar with most people.

During this time, Lu Yanhe was pondering the script on one hand and dealing with the *Burning Fire* matter on the other, often having a feeling that the CPU in his brain was about to burn out.

There were too many things to think about every day.

However, it seems that every time he acts, the things he experienced in real life and the changes in emotions seem to correspond to the characters and plots he played, bringing "divine help" to his performance.

Because, coincidentally, this is also the state of his character in the movie.

The environment faced, the things handled, the interpersonal relationships around, are complex, he is quiet, but the pressure is huge, almost always in a state of restless strong pressure, and he cannot let people see it.

In contrast, Mr. Yan He seems much more normal.

He is completely in a state of punching in for work, entering and leaving the set with ease, greeting everyone gently, not only without airs, but also without any sense of oppression.

Lu Yanhe can clearly see that Yan He's sense of oppression is divided by people!

Seeing this scene, he gritted his teeth even more.

Damn.

Because he knew that Yan He's stimulation to him was helpful to his performance, Lu Yanhe now let his emotions be stimulated by Yan He very freely.

This feeling is actually quite wonderful. Knowing that Yan He is doing it on purpose, he is not only "enjoying it," but even has a rebellious psychology of "if you have the ability, be more fierce."

However, this is only a "war" between him and Yan He.

Other people in the crew, except Liu Bige, actually didn't notice.

There are quite a few actors participating in *Storm Calmer No. 1*.

This movie can be said to be a group play—

Similarly, it is conceivable that the crew with Lu Yanhe and Yan He as the leads and Liu Bige as the director, other roles, even if they only have two lines of scenes, have a huge attraction for many famous actors.

This significance is like the actors participating in the two plays *Dream of the Red Chamber* and *Journey to the West*.

You are not the protagonist, you are just a small role, but the play became a classic, and your role also became a classic.

Others don't know you, but hearing that you have acted in this play, they all look at you highly.

If *Dream of the Red Chamber* and *Journey to the West* are classics verified by time, then *Storm Calmer No. 1* is a classic booked by people.

This time, Long Yan stuffed quite a few of his own "related households" into the movie.

They are all actors who have a long-term cooperative relationship with Long Yan.

Of course, the "related households" that can be stuffed into *Storm Calmer No. 1* are different from those sent by the coal bosses.

At least from these names, Lu Yanhe can't pick out any problems; they are all good actors with strength.

If a crew is all famous actors, it is actually not a very good thing, especially for the crew staff.

Even if an actor puts his posture very low and is very approachable, like Lu Yanhe, in fact, for ordinary staff, there are still barriers between them.

Everyone can't move Lu Yanhe's scenes to the morning and evening because Lu Yanhe is easy to talk to, making him wait for a few hours in the middle.

Everyone can't do things perfunctorily for Yan He's affairs because Yan He is a big shot who is easy to deal with.

Their existence means the workload of the crew. The more famous actors like them, the greater the workload of the crew.

Just to give an example, the arrangement of vehicles for the crew is more.

Famous actors come to act, even if it's just a few scenes, the treatment that should be matched must be matched. You can't let them take the shuttle bus, go to the set together with a group of staff at the time.

For Lu Yanhe, often shooting a play means having to meet many new people again.

Doing his line of work, the circle is often closed—

Clearly meeting new people, but it is also people in the same circle, turning around, just spinning in this circle.

However, Lu Yanhe is relatively better.

He has many identities, and he knows many people in different circles.

Just as a popular star, no matter how many people he knows, he actually cannot have a normal lifestyle social life.

In these years, or, almost since graduating from university, he has never made a truly intimate friend again.

This is really no way.

Fortunately, he has a group of high school classmates, Li Zhibai and Yan Liang, and Chen Ziyan.

He is not short of true friends around him.

This is the most fortunate thing.

But the problem is also here—

Lu Yanhe doesn't know if he is affected by this character, subconsciously raising precautions and defenses against everyone, or if his own personality has changed, gradually losing interest and enthusiasm for meeting new people.

Facing a new crew and having to meet new people, Lu Yanhe is a bit uninterested at this stage.

Listless.

The script reading meeting was a total of four days.

Except for the first time they met, Lu Yanhe tried his best to mobilize his emotions and met everyone with enthusiasm, greeting them. After that, he felt that his emotions were like being tied with a lead block, involuntarily dragging him down.

Miao Yue, as the screenwriter, also participated in the script reading meeting.

Clearly, he was his university classmate, but his words became fewer. During the break, he basically sat alone, didn't look at the script, looked at his mobile phone, and put on headphones to listen to music.

Everyone seemed to have a tacit understanding, and no one disturbed him.

People who came to greet him were often before the script reading meeting started or after it ended. Besides that, during the long process, Lu Yanhe was almost completely trapped in a state of being alone.

Soon he realized it himself; he should be affected by this character.

This character is a "loner" himself, and because he has to monitor the deputy station chief, he is even more "isolated."

The more he knows about this script and character, the deeper he is, and the more he is subtly affected.

The intelligence station seems to be a work unit, but for the people working here, no one knows if there is a second layer of skin hidden under the first layer.

Everyone knows the secrets that only their position knows. Work discipline requires not to disclose them. In order to avoid suspicion, they often have very little contact with each other, or they have contact, but they have to avoid people's eyes and ears.

On the surface, they are polite, but in fact, they are guarding against each other.

When a person stays in an environment where there is no one to trust at all, they will become another person.

Or rather, they will lose many "human things."

For example, external emotions, such as pleasant emotions.

One morning, when Lu Yanhe was washing his face, he was startled by himself in the mirror, because the eyes in the mirror had completely changed, there was no youthful spirit at all, but instead, it was as deep as dead water.

How could this be?

Shouldn't it be like this?

He is not playing an "old fox"; he is a young man; he is just playing a relatively isolated, loner, introverted young man. How could it be this kind of "seen through the world, calm and calm" look?

Lu Yanhe scooped up cold water, splashed it on his face, and rubbed his face again.

A clear, cold feeling like a head-on blow spread throughout his body.

He couldn't let himself continue to be immersed in the previous emotions.

This spy war film *Storm Calmer No. 1* has the same effect as *The Lives of Others* to a large extent.

At the end of the movie, Lu Yanhe, the "villain" who finally found the evidence, arrested and shot Yan He, and was promoted, because of the things experienced in the whole monitoring process, his inner swaying, finally betrayed the intelligence station and chose to be an upright person and take the right path.

But the difference between this movie and *The Lives of Others* is that at the end of the film, the truth of the "Storm Calmer No. 1" monitoring action was revealed: Yan He's "spy" identity was actually fabricated by the station chief, which was a political struggle to get Yan He off the stage.

All the evidence about Yan He's "underground party" was actually fabricated and framed by the station chief.

This was an "intelligence station infighting" that did not involve the real "underground party" at all.

The materials fabricated and framed by the station chief were fake, but the stimulation, shock, and awakening it brought to Lu Yanhe were real. It was a young man who gained spiritual awakening and redemption from "infighting" and chose to embark on the right path.

"People awaken because of progress, and progress because of awakening." Miao Yue said, "Essentially, *Storm Calmer No. 1* is a mainstream melody, but I hope it can tell some things that past spy war films haven't told, so it was changed several times and finally changed to the current draft."

Lu Yanhe understood.

Conventional spy war films, especially mainstream melody spy war films, must have a hidden righteous person among a bunch of villains, and then, evil will not prevail over good.

*Storm Calmer No. 1* is based on this foundation, using the lead of "political struggle" to fictionalize an image of a "righteous person," but the existence of this fictional "righteous person" image itself gradually shaped a person who was numb at first and only wanted to protect himself into a "righteous person."

To some extent, the essence of its story is about a person who saw a beam of light disguised as the sun in the dark night, followed that beam of light, and really walked toward the sun.

The irony of "disguise" itself and the purity of "chasing light" itself form a sharp contrast, making the irony more ironic and the purity more precious.

"So, you know too clearly what you want; you are just repeatedly covering up what you want. This is not the look of an unawakened person."

Lu Yanhe looked at himself in the mirror and said softly.

"You are cautious, even timid, you have shaped an appearance of 'strangers stay away' for yourself, just to keep a distance from these people in the intelligence station."

"You haven't experienced many things, and there is no decisive killing in your heart. Your heart is full of hesitation and anxiety. It's not that you don't know the country is broken and the mountains and rivers are still there; you just put yourself in a shell, blinded your own eyes, didn't look at those sufferings and difficulties, didn't see those mountains and rivers. There is no cassock on you; you only seek to protect yourself in the world."

"You monitor the deputy station chief, report the dynamics of the deputy station chief to the station chief on time, and from the mouth of the station chief, you also know why the deputy station chief has so many strange actions, but, slowly, as you know more about the deputy station chief, a trace of swaying begins to appear in the depths of your heart? You begin to think about a question, why does he want to do this?"

Wang Biao became inexplicably nervous.

Because he started hearing Lu Yanhe talking to himself alone in the past two days.

Not once or twice, not for a short while, but over and over again, as if he were hypnotizing himself.

Lu Yanhe had never prepared for a character like this.

Wang Biao had to quickly tell Chen Ziyan about this situation.

Chen Ziyan also came to the crew for the first time. She didn't say anything else, just said she came to see.

Lu Yanhe also didn't say anything, going his own way, not hiding anything.

Then, Chen Ziyan discovered that Lu Yanhe actually started to change his walking posture consciously.

Lu Yanhe's walking posture became less handsome.

He prepared a pair of glasses for himself, wearing them from time to time.

Liu Bige asked him if he wanted to wear glasses in the movie?

Lu Yanhe shook his head and said, "I just want to transform my own personal habits."

There is actually a subtle difference in the eyes of people who wear glasses and those who don't.

Lu Yanhe is now a person with a very strong sense of camera and star style. His eyes always have light and power, even if he plays a person with no light in his eyes, he still has a sense of film.

He tried to eliminate the sense of film on himself and "be like everyone else."

At this moment, he was especially grateful that *Storm Calmer No. 1* reserved half a month of preparation time for them, reading scripts, taking history classes, and listening to people invited by the crew talk about the social background and customs at that time.

Lu Yanhe had plenty of time to transform himself physically while pondering the performance from understanding.

He even only looked at his mobile phone and replied to messages after returning to the hotel for a day, and put his mobile phone with Wang Biao at other times.

Little by little, Lu Yanhe's changes were visible to the naked eye, almost becoming another person.

His back was slightly hunched, his walking was slightly tilted to one side, and the angle of his eyes when looking at people and his micro-expressions all had subtle changes.

Liu Bige said to Yan He: "Mr. Yan, look, this is why I don't want to discuss the specific shaping of the character with him at the beginning."

Yan He: "Do you think his current change won't be slightly deliberate? The audience is too familiar with him, familiar to the point that many of his reactions are already 95% natural, but in the eyes of the audience, because it is different from before, only 70% remains."

While others were amazed at Lu Yanhe's transformation of himself, Yan He was dissatisfied.

He always felt that it is unrealistic for an actor to completely become another person from appearance and personal habits, especially a superstar, an actor that everyone knows, which must make people feel out of the play.

Liu Bige smiled and said: "Mr. Yan, you can believe me, he must have thought of what you said. He has never been an emotional actor. The current appearance is just a link in his transformation process."

Yan He: "The direction is wrong."

"Maybe the direction is not wrong, but different paths lead to the same destination." Liu Bige said softly.

Yan He continued to watch with suspicion.

Then, the day of the boot.

The first scene of the boot was not a heavy scene, but a process scene with large scheduling.

It was a set of panoramic shots presenting the intelligence station in the movie.

The station chief and the deputy station chief do not need to appear in this set of shots.

However, Yan He still came to the scene.

He didn't just come to see, but to act with the actors.

—The deputy station chief is sitting in his office.

Lu Yanhe walked over.

His back was not hunched, his walking was not tilted, there were no glasses on the bridge of his nose, and at first glance, he turned back into the original Lu Yanhe.

However, looking at it more, although his back was not hunched and his walking was tilted, the rhythm of his walking and the amplitude of his arms swinging had changed, and his steps were not so firm and powerful.

At first glance, he is Lu Yanhe.

At second glance, he is not that Lu Yanhe.

People around could see that Lu Yanhe was different again, but this time they found it difficult to say clearly how Lu Yanhe was different.

They could only see that Lu Yanhe's changes happened in subtle places, making his body language present a kind of reservedness that was as normal as possible, but vaguely visible as "pretending to be normal."

Yan He understood.

Lu Yanhe first made himself completely become another person—even if he was too famous and too familiar to the audience, so it was a forced imitation that could not be naturalized into the bones. Then, he abandoned everything and returned to his own body, but at this time, some things "remained" on him.

What Lu Yanhe wanted was this "residue," because it was "residue," it instead became "unnatural natural."

And this "residue" also made him and the audience become a kind of feeling where the audience thinks he is Lu Yanhe at first glance, but at second glance, they establish the difference between this character and Lu Yanhe as a person based on the audience's feeling of "don't know where it is different."

The character presented a state of "non-Lu Yanhe that the audience can substitute and believe."

—Lu Yanhe is not an emotional actor.

—Different paths lead to the same destination.

While Yan He was suddenly enlightened, he realized that Liu Bige was right.

This also made Yan He feel at a loss at this moment.

An actor, such a young actor, not only has the ability to use rationality and sensibility to build a character, but also has the spare energy to objectively think about the interaction and presentation effect between this character and Lu Yanhe himself?

Before this, no matter how talented Lu Yanhe was, no matter how much he was blown to the sky, no matter how excellent his performance in the movie was, for Yan He:

—Are you a Best Actor? I have judged many Best Actors.

For Yan He, his height has already stood at "it is not difficult for an actor to play a character well, it is difficult to have a real understanding of the profession of actor."

Until this moment, he truly produced a bit of "level-looking intention" that "can be discussed" toward Lu Yanhe. ===== CHAPTER 718 =====

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