Chapter 769: Technical flow

Lu Yanhe was a bit surprised and said: "It wasn't written by me, the idea for this story just came from me, you... also noticed this drama?"

The person who came to ask Lu Yanhe this question happened to be a makeup artist responsible for Lu Yanhe's makeup and hair every day.

She nodded and said: "I am an HP member, it sent me an email specifically recommending this drama, and the email wrote that you are the script consultant."

HP is the exclusive streaming platform for "2 Broke Girls" overseas.

However, because this drama is a brand-new lineup, Lu Yanhe didn't even think that HP would attach such importance to this drama.

Although it can't be said that sending recommendations to members belongs to how top-notch and awesome recommendation resources are, general dramas definitely don't have this treatment.

HP has always hoped to obtain a sitcom that will last forever like "Friends" from Lu Yanhe.

Now, "2 Broke Girls" has finally reached HP's hands. However, Lu Yanhe neither starred nor wrote the script, Lu Yanhe really thought HP wouldn't attach too much importance to this drama.

HP definitely didn't do this just to maintain its relationship with him.

HP has no need at all.

It can only explain one point, they themselves internally believe that this drama has the potential to be a hit.

Actually, whether a sitcom will be popular or not, you will know after watching it yourself.

Practitioners in this industry, perhaps only one percent of talents have the ability to make good content, but absolutely ninety percent of people can see what is good content.

Especially the heads of these platforms, if they make a wrong judgment during the preparation and filming stages and hand over a good project to others, that's fine. After all, that stage is full of various uncontrollable factors, and misjudgment is also possible.

But when it reaches the stage where the finished film is out, what everyone is not sure about is often how bad the box office will be, or how good the box office will be. This is indeed impossible to accurately predict and judge.

But if you still can't see whether this film is good or bad, and whether the audience will like it or not, then you have absolutely no basic judgment ability to work in this industry.

After the first episode of "2 Broke Girls" was broadcast, whether domestically or overseas, the playback data was very gratifying.

It didn't break any records, but it was very beautiful.

The first episode of "2 Broke Girls" premiered on Yuehu Station, and the ratings reached 0.85%. For a TV series with a brand-new lineup, this result is simply a "king bomb" opening.

And after this drama was launched on HP, the number of viewers exceeded 3.2 million within 24 hours of its launch, parachuting into the top ten of the HP platform's global list.

It is also because of this opening result that both the domestic broadcasters and HP took advantage of the victory and began to increase investment in promotion.

Even Lu Yanhe, who was filming "Godless", was plucked out to record VCRs, live stream connections, and was even required to post three consecutive promotional updates on his overseas social media.

And under the promotion of many powerful and energetic platforms, the promotional coverage of the drama "2 Broke Girls" spread like a hot knife through butter.

Episode 2, Episode 3...

The popularity of this drama did not become "high opening and low walking", but stabilized the opening results very well.

Following this, the degree of discussion gradually rose.

The two female leads of "2 Broke Girls", Deng Xiaoyuan and Cen Nan, became famous overnight.

The popularity and exposure of the two of them were completely opened up along with the drama's promotion.

The promotional thinking of "2 Broke Girls" is basically the same as the promotional thinking of all Hollywood blockbusters.

There is no other characteristic, it is just "the stall is spread very large", striving to let everyone see the promotion of this drama in every corner.

Therefore, even if before Deng Xiaoyuan and Cen Nan starred in this drama, or even during the promotion of this drama, most people didn't know who they were, just vaguely felt a bit familiar, and felt they had seen them somewhere, when they appeared with the title of the lead of "2 Broke Girls", they would always be "looked up to" by others.

Who knows if they will be super popular tomorrow?

Look at Liu Zi, the "Shopkeeper Tong" in "My Own Swordsman", who is now popular in the sky.

Not to mention Xiao Yun, "Guo Furong", who was already a quite popular young flower, and now is even more of a rare young flower with audience affinity and national popularity.

Before they starred in "My Own Swordsman", their popularity or status in the circle was not as high as it is now. Especially Liu Zi, from being unknown to being the first choice for the female lead in various big dramas, it took just one drama to become famous.

During the promotion process, the two of them were interviewed the most about how they got this opportunity at the beginning, and what their mood was after getting this opportunity.

"Nervous." Deng Xiaoyuan said, "And very excited, because this audition opportunity was something I actively fought for from Yan He myself. I was filming 'Chinese Paladin' with him at the time, I completely didn't expect that I would actually win this role in the end."

"Did you completely not expect that you would win this role at the time?"

"If you knew how many people were auditioning at the time, you wouldn't dare to think that you would definitely be able to win the role." Deng Xiaoyuan said, "There were even many well-known actors who came, we all thought we were definitely out."

"There were also many well-known actors who came to participate in the audition at the time, and were PKed out by you in the end?"

"It wasn't PKed out by us." Deng Xiaoyuan immediately waved her hand, "It was that the production side had already decided early on that these two roles must be played by actors that the audience is not very familiar with."

"Hmm?"

"Because if the actor himself is a relatively famous actor, it is very difficult to make everyone believe the setting of this story. We are a pair of broke girls." Deng Xiaoyuan said with a smile.

"However, this is also really quite bold, being able to use all actors that the audience is not very familiar with to act in a drama."

"Yes, actually when we were filming on the set, everyone also said that Linghe-produced dramas only have two dramas that didn't use stars, one is 'Co-renting Men and Women', and the other is our '2 Broke Girls'."

"The results of the third season of 'Co-renting Men and Women' broadcast this year are also quite good."

"Yes, I just finished chasing it." Cen Nan said, "Filming '2 Broke Girls' allowed us to learn a lot of things. At that time, I remember we also asked President Chen Yin why the company wanted to make dramas like 'Co-renting Men and Women' and '2 Broke Girls', which looked like dramas that didn't seem to make much money. He said, because the company cannot always rely on hits to maintain, and cannot always rely on President Lu. I was quite shocked at the time, especially later when I found out that the first two seasons of 'Co-renting Men and Women' almost didn't make money, but Linghe still agreed to produce the third season. I suddenly felt, okay, Linghe is like this, so I was relieved even if my previous efforts didn't get feedback immediately."

"Then will there be a second season of '2 Broke Girls'?"

"This... we don't know either, we have to listen to the company's arrangements." Deng Xiaoyuan said.

On the set of "Godless", Lu Yanhe was quite comfortable playing the role of the Eastern mage he played, and didn't encounter any problems.

This kind of typed role, for him, already has no difficulty.

Just need to find the positioning of this character, then find an entry point, and make a little design for each scene, and you can complete the shaping of the character very excellently.

Lu Yanhe has always kept one point in mind, never give a kind of "inaccurate" performance on such a role that "doesn't need to ponder complex human nature".

In movies like "Road to Glory" and "Storm Calmer No. 1", the chaotic state of "inaccuracy" is itself an expression of the character, but in movies like "Godless", except for specific moments, his performance should have a very clear "expression intention".

To put it bluntly, on this role, "state performance" is greater than "character performance".

Although many actors will say that they want to act as a character, not a state.

This is the difference in the methodology of each actor. It is not to say that the methodology of acting as a character applies to every actor and every movie. At least, like Zhang Ziyi, it is undeniable that she is a good actor. In the right drama and role, she has the spirit of "sweeping the army", but when acting in "Godzilla vs. Kong" and "10 Cloverfield Lane", her performance cannot quite integrate into the whole.

Lu Yanhe has acted in several scenes, Ignaz has not raised any objections to him, and almost very "indulgent" let him perform on the set. No matter how he acts, he says it's good. Of course, it's not that he says it's good when he says it's okay, many times, he will say shoot another take.

Lu Yanhe truly felt one thing, that is what Chen Siqi said before—

Thinking about this and that so much before was indeed him messing up his own position.

In fact, nothing happened.

Of course, Ignaz is not like this to every actor.

Lu Yanhe also discovered that for some actors whose performance autonomy is not so strong, or who act incorrectly (at least in his view, it is acting incorrectly), Ignaz will change a way, and will really teach him how to act hand-in-hand.

This degree of detail even reaches what rhythm, whether to turn his head, or to raise his eyes to look, just like teaching a primary school student how to do housework.

However, undoubtedly, his method is effective.

Such a method is the most efficient.

It is not just efficient.

Lu Yanhe feels that for those actors who don't know how to act, such guidance is the most useful.

An actor must first see the mountain before he can climb it himself.

Sometimes, Lu Yanhe even feels that some of Ignaz's guidance is also very inspiring to him.

Ignaz has many very practical methodologies.

For example, when he was guiding an actress to say lines, it was actually just one line, but the actress couldn't say it naturally, it was wrong.

Ignaz directly said to her: "You drag out every syllable, just like that kind of slow motion in the movie."

Although the actress felt strange, she still did it.

Then, Ignaz accelerated this "slow motion" segment with a machine, and he pointed to the accelerated video and said to the actress: "I want this."

Lu Yanhe also took a look at the video.

How to put it, the performance in the video is of course unwatchable.

However, putting aside the details, after processing, her performance and rhythm were strangely correct.

Ignaz let the actress learn how she acted in this processed version, and then said: "Your line rhythm is wrong, leading to problems with your performance rhythm, but your understanding and the performance itself are no problem, do you understand what I mean? See if you can adjust as soon as possible. If you can't adjust, don't worry about the line problem first, you focus all your attention on your performance, and we will dub it later."

It has to be said that when the actress really didn't try to speak the lines well, the affected and pretentious energy brought out in her performance rhythm immediately disappeared.

Lu Yanhe was shocked.

Can it still be operated like this?

In fact, many domestic actors have such problems.

Because they are not from a professional background, the most basic lines are a big problem, so big that because part of the attention has to be focused on their own lines, leading to distraction and loss of focus, the performance rhythm will follow and have problems.

This is a common problem for many actors.

Even many actors who are already famous and whose acting skills are actually quite good have the same line problems.

Lu Yanhe never thought that this could be solved technically.

For many filmmakers, this is of course not something worth praising.

Because it is not enough performance art.

It is even a blasphemy against performance art.

However, standing at the level of film production, it is very useful.

Practical.

Lu Yanhe feels that whether it is art or not, sometimes, there is no way, it has to be discounted. The so-called performance art has to give way to the director's film art.

A movie is not a show for you as an actor.

Thinking about this, Lu Yanhe was thinking again, is he a bit sorry for his identity as an actor?

Why does he have no pure awe for pure performance?

"Because you are not an academic school cultivated in an ivory tower." Chen Ziyan said, "Awe is something that exists if it exists, and it doesn't exist if it doesn't. Having it is not necessarily a good thing. Being self-righteous and aiming too high, there are too many such things."

Lu Yanhe said: "But you want me to use this technical way to complete the performance, and I am not willing."

"Very good, have requirements for yourself, don't babble about others." Chen Ziyan summarized, "The key is, the actor profession, it is uneven in quality, and you have no way to choose a 100% fit actor for every role, so the drama has to be filmed, and it can't be filmed blindly. That person doesn't have such great ability, what can you do with her? Can only be solved technically. You know she doesn't have the ability to achieve a higher-level solution. Especially good, the reason why you feel that Ignaz's guidance is also okay is because you subconsciously also understand that a movie is just something that only wants the final result, everyone's process is different."

Lu Yanhe was between laughter and tears.

"I always feel that I didn't think so much every time, but you always summarize it for me with special value."

Chen Ziyan: "Haha, then where am I? If you really go to work at Linghe for a few days, you will know what it means that you talk nonsense and someone will organize it into a value height for you."

Lu Yanhe: "Forget it, if someone really does this, I don't know what reaction to make."

Chen Ziyan: "What reaction is needed for this, just accept it silently."

Lu Yanhe: "I can't do it."

"Many things you thought you couldn't do before, you did later." Chen Ziyan said, "For example, you completely didn't accept asking for leave when filming before, didn't you?"

Lu Yanhe: "... Sigh, what to do, Sister Ziyan, I feel again that I am indeed not an actor with a heart for the Dao."

"What kind of Dao, if you want to seek the Dao, why be a star." Chen Ziyan laughed, "Don't have too high moral requirements and moral constraints on yourself. Professionalism, hard work, try to satisfy and balance the needs of all parties, even when you can clearly let all partners revolve around you, you are still cooperating and accommodating their arrangements, this is already enough, enough. It's not that it's more than enough compared to others, but it's completely enough in such a work occasion." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 770 =====