Chapter 838: Rubbing Fists and Wiping Palms

Chen Pinhe's "scene stealer" scandal was rampant.

There were even unknown actors who had cooperated with Chen Pinhe who suddenly popped up at this time, saying some "scene stealer" behaviors of Chen Pinhe in the crew in the past.

However, this kind of behavior actually doesn't count as anything at all. Any actor with some ideas will definitely do some "scene stealer" things. When there is a contradiction, there is a dispute, and people with status are "bullies" in the eyes of others.

Changing the script is "bullying," and playing big names is also "bullying."

These things, some people look at the nature, some people look at the degree, and they are all different.

But for the public, "bully" is "bully."

People can always empathize more with the disadvantaged side.

Of course, the strong side, such as Chen Pinhe, even if he is attacked as a "bully," has means of self-protection.

These public opinions, as well as rumors, will not affect him in the slightest for the time being.

After all, let alone rumors, even if it is confirmed that he is a "scene stealer," so what?

His status in the entertainment industry today, his business ability, etc., his fans all said—

That is also to make this play better.

In fact, if Chen Pinhe hadn't been willing to star in Director Zheng Ximo's *The Pianist*, this movie might not even have had the chance to be shortlisted for the Venice International Film Festival.

Who can say that Chen Pinhe's "scene stealer" behaviors didn't make this movie better?

These things are not clear.

"We can only strike at Chen Pinhe's public image," Chen Ziyan said to Lu Qingzhen. "These things really can't make Chen Pinhe what he is in substance. Of course, if we can strike at Chen Pinhe's public image, that's enough. What he has been particularly cherishing all these years is this public image: artist, regardless of the human feelings in the circle, focusing on performance, and cherishing his profession."

Lu Qingzhen said: "If it is such an image, even if there is a rumor of a scene stealer, it actually hasn't hit the core. Maybe everyone will think that geniuses have some bad tempers."

Chen Ziyan said: "What I mainly want to shape is not the so-called bad temper, but his selfishness."

"Selfishness?" Lu Qingzhen frowned, "Can this make him lose everyone's liking?"

"No, but this will weaken the halo of his acting," Chen Ziyan shook her head. "We can't black his business ability. Although in many revenge novels, the big villain will be shaped into a stupid person with a false appearance, it is a pity that Chen Pinhe is not like this. He is not a movie king who relies on hard support. He does have acting skills and has two brushes. At this time, if we only attack him for having a bad temper, or some other things, it is too painless. This matter cannot fundamentally strike him, so we have to find a way to tear off a piece of meat with this matter at least. What does he care about? The feathers of a good actor."

"What are the feathers of a good actor?" Chen Ziyan continued, "Selfishness is of course human nature. Under normal circumstances, it will not affect anything. But the selfishness that happened to Chen Pinhe is that he was on the set, making the whole production tend to highlight his performance, sacrificing the value of a play. It is after a play comes out, the word of mouth is not good, so he bought a water army, while sacrificing the film director who just cooperated, while blowing his own acting skills."

Lu Qingzhen showed a look of surprise.

"I understand," she said. "Chen Pinhe's acting skills are recognized as good, but once the shadow of sacrificing others' reputation appears behind this matter, this so-called good acting will be discounted in the public impression."

"That's right," Chen Ziyan nodded. "The audience is ruthless. Most of the audience won't care about the background of your actor. They won't look at you because you graduated from a professional school. They might not even know you graduated from a professional school. Similarly, you are a group performance, and it is the same. The audience only knows you through roles and likes you. Many times, we have to accept the fact helplessly that even if we bring out a lot of factual evidence, we can't make Chen Pinhe lose his reputation, and there will still be many people who like him."

"Yes, then—"

"So, just the audience is not enough. This time, I want people in this industry to be wary of a movie king with such exquisite acting skills as Chen Pinhe."

"You seem to often cooperate with some young and inexperienced directors," the blonde and blue-eyed female reporter asked with a smile, "You have also said before that you are willing to cooperate with new directors. Are you never worried that your vision will be wrong?"

Lu Yan He sat on the sofa in the hotel, smiled slightly, and said: "Worried, but you must have had a similar experience. In your professional standards, some people are not your first choice for cooperation, but after you contact him, there is a voice in your heart telling you that standards are not omnipotent."

The female reporter laughed, "So for this voice in your heart, you are willing to take risks."

"This may be my luck. In the early stage of my becoming an actor, I met Liu Bige. At that time, *Late Spring* was his first work. Everyone questioned my choice. Of course, actually, I had only been an actor for a short time at that time, and I was just a little famous," Lu Yan He said. "At that time, I was young and vigorous, and felt that nothing was more important than my own feelings. I didn't care what others said, and very firmly chose Liu Bige. As a result, this movie won the Jury Prize in Venice. This matter gave me huge confidence. Everyone shapes different values according to their own life experiences."

Lu Yan He shrugged.

"I achieved success in this regard very early, so I believe it. Some people may have followed their hearts the first few times, but the result was not very good, so they didn't believe in their hearts later," Lu Yan He laughed. "If it weren't for this, maybe I wouldn't have dared to star in Huang Tianlin's *Tropical Rainy Season* later. As a result, this movie won me an Oscar again. Then I think anyone standing in my perspective will firmly believe in the voice in their heart for the rest of their lives, rather than a secular meaning, an industry standard."

The female reporter nodded thoughtfully.

"Cooperating with these young, new directors, you have indeed achieved a lot of success. Can you share with us how you cooperate with these directors?"

"Before deciding to cooperate, you can have all kinds of doubts, investigations, or even disbelief in them, but once you decide to cooperate, then fully trust them, especially in the production of the movie. We actors have been filming for a long time, and we will gain some fame, status, and right to speak. We will also develop our own aesthetics, including some ideas on how movies should be filmed. However, if you are only an actor in this play, then you must be clear about your role identity. Don't try to intervene in their creation, otherwise, you might as well be a director yourself."

After the interview, Wang Biao brought a water bottle to Lu Yan He and whispered: "Little Brother Lu, why do I feel that your interview today is a bit pointing?"

"Pointing at what?" Lu Yan He chuckled.

Wang Biao also laughed.

"After this report is published, many people will use what you said about how to cooperate with young directors to satirize Chen Pinhe, right?"

"They go to satirize theirs, it's not that I named and satirized," Lu Yan He said. "Besides, am I wrong?"

He shrugged, "This is a serious heartfelt word, that's what I think."

Wang Biao nodded.

"Chen Pinhe is probably having a very bad time because of public opinion," Wang Biao laughed with some schadenfreude, "Sister Ziyan's means are really powerful. All kinds of doubts and condemnations are emerging one after another, including the fact that Chen Pinhe asked the screenwriter to add scenes to himself in a movie crew before was also dug out. At that time, Chen Pinhe was also complained about by that screenwriter in front of the media."

"That was a long time ago," Lu Yan He didn't take it lightly, "Didn't you notice? Chen Pinhe's popularity in Europe and America has actually become bigger."

"I... Zhang Yuezhen is indeed very powerful," Wang Biao said. "I heard that Zhang Yuezhen has many friends here. She often mentions Chen Pinhe on various occasions, including *The Pianist*'s PR publicity here this year. Chen Pinhe suddenly has a representative work."

"Yes," Lu Yan He nodded. "Don't look at Chen Pinhe suffering a lot of attacks in public opinion now, but in fact, it won't have much impact on his career. Isn't someone saying today? The romantic comedy movie that Chen Pinhe is going to film next is a new script written by a screenwriter who has won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay?"

Wang Biao said: "But that is a commercial movie."

"In Hollywood, commercial movies are not a derogatory term," Lu Yan He frowned. "I have to get a movie to hit this film."

Wang Biao: "Direct frontal interception?" "Hmm." Lu Yan He nodded, "Grab the schedule and publicity."

Wang Biao was a bit puzzled and asked: "Are you also making a romance movie?"

"Only this way," Lu Yan He said. "If the themes are different, the intersection of competition is not large. What we want to erode is the space of their movie."

Wang Biao: "Then... Little Brother Lu, what are you going to do?"

"Self-directed and self-acted?" Lu Yan He raised his eyebrows and laughed.

The result of a commercial movie is actually very single, which is to look at the commercial return of this movie.

Chen Pinhe starred in a romance movie, and it was a script written by a screenwriter who had won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

Lu Yan He didn't know what was going on with this project yet.

The most feared thing is that this project will be quite good in the end and be a good movie.

Therefore, on the premise that Lu Yan He cannot intervene in that project, there is only one thing he can do, which is to try to make the commercial return of that project not high, so as to limit Chen Pinhe's development in Hollywood.

"Actually, there is no need to worry about him so much," Chen Siqi said. "We have no way to drive him to extinction now. Unless we find a principled handle on him and Zhang Yuezhen, otherwise, even if your work wins the box office first, his work only wins the box office second, and the second has the survival space of the second."

When Lu Yan He was rubbing his fists and wiping his palms to find a good project to intercept Chen Pinhe's project, Chen Siqi hit the nail on the head and poured a basin of cold water on Lu Yan He.

Actually, Chen Siqi is very right.

"Of course, interception is still necessary," Chen Siqi said. "The important thing is that your first place cannot be snatched by him. For the Chinese film circle, you are the most successful filmmaker overseas. This cannot be changed. For Hollywood, you are the most successful Chinese filmmaker globally. This cannot be changed either. As long as these two things don't change, Chen Pinhe can only stay in your shadow."

Lu Yan He understood Chen Siqi's meaning.

Interception should be intercepted, but don't get the whole person involved in this matter.

Don't expect to feel that you can step on Chen Pinhe completely under your feet by hitting Chen Pinhe to the second position.

Chen Siqi's reminder came very timely.

He almost fell into such a thinking trap.

November 13th.

Li Zhibai attended a press conference held by Beijiguang Film.

What information this press conference was going to release was not disclosed in advance, only that Li Zhibai would be present that day.

Just because of this, all the media that received the invitation sent people to attend.

Once they arrived at the scene, everyone found that today might really be a bit interesting.

Wang Xiao, the person in charge of Beijiguang Film, personally hosted today's press conference.

Beijiguang Video is the head of domestic first-tier video platforms—the number of members has been firmly in the first place for eight consecutive years.

In recent years, they suddenly wanted to expand their business sectors, from the original investment, suddenly established a special film company to be responsible for production.

Subsequently, Wang Xiao appeared in front of everyone.

Beijiguang Video's introduction to him is a high-achieving student at Zhenhua University and the president of the Youth Association of Zhenhua University for the most consecutive terms in history.

Originally, this was nothing, but Beijiguang Video is also good at making things happen, specially inviting more than 20 celebrities to congratulate Wang Xiao on his new appointment.

They are all big names from all walks of life that Wang Xiao had received when he was in the Youth Association.

Among them was Lu Yan He.

After Wang Xiao took office, Beijiguang Film did not make some very eye-catching projects like Shijin.

On the contrary, Beijiguang Film is relatively low-key, participating in many projects, but has not had any big moves.

Until not long ago, it suddenly announced the signing of *The Pianist* director Zheng Ximo, which attracted a little attention.

"We will spare no effort to support the development of Chinese art films. This time, Director Zheng Ximo brought his new work *The Traveler of Life*, and the lead actor of the movie is Li Zhibai."

After Wang Xiao announced this news, he immediately invited Zheng Ximo and Li Zhibai to the stage.

The whole audience was exclaiming.

How hot Li Zhibai is now, it can be said that he has reached the point where any new project is stared at by thousands of eyes.

Who is Director Zheng Ximo? He is a talented director who was pitted very miserably by Chen Pinhe in public opinion recently.

And Li Zhibai, just last month, had a big fight with Chen Pinhe because of *Flying on the Grass* and *Seventeen Layers: Reboot*.

The fans on both sides fought very lively.

Is it really that the enemy's enemy is a friend, so Li Zhibai and Zheng Ximo collaborated?

The media on the scene was excited instantly.

Zheng Ximo can respond to Chen Pinhe's "scene stealer" matter, right?

Li Zhibai also has a bad temper. Is he not afraid of meeting another scene stealer?

Li Zhibai, what is your opinion on Chen Pinhe's "scene stealer" matter?

The media off the stage was restless, rubbing their fists and wiping their palms, waiting for the opportunity to ask questions. ===== CHAPTER 839 =====