Chapter 868

However, Lu Yan He was actually quite normal when he was on set.

He didn't have the situation of entering a self-state and being unable to communicate with people around him, nor did his temperament change drastically.

People in the crew were full of doubts about him, and even a bit curious, but no one dared to really ask him anything.

However, one day while waiting for a scene on set, Huang Tianlin suddenly came over and asked him if he was under a lot of pressure recently.

Lu Yan He shook his head, saying no, and was even strange, puzzled, asking Huang Tianlin why he asked this.

Huang Tianlin told him about many people in the crew seeing him talking to himself in front of the mirror alone.

Hearing this, Lu Yan He immediately revealed a shy embarrassment.

"This is really a bit embarrassing." He scratched his head.

Huang Tianlin asked: "So, what's going on?"

The shyness on Lu Yan He's face became even more intense.

"I formed a strange habit, inexplicably, I fell in love with saying the lines in this film to the mirror."

Huang Tianlin: "What kind of strange habit is this, you are also a bit exaggerated."

"Don't others find it strange when they see it? Even thinking if I am mentally abnormal." Lu Yan He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Huang Tianlin: "If you look at this behavior itself alone, it is indeed a bit strange, but you are an actor, you do this, it is nothing more than your own way of familiarizing and establishing a character's inner heart."

Lu Yan He: "It's still good to be an actor, some strange behaviors can get reasonable explanations."

Huang Tianlin: "Isn't it like this?"

"I don't think so—"

Lu Yan He was a bit hesitant, not knowing if he was dismantling his own platform by saying this.

"I haven't been like this when I filmed before."

Huang Tianlin frowned slightly, looking at him somewhat unexpectedly.

Lu Yan He shrugged his shoulders and said: "Maybe it's because I have new habits?"

Huang Tianlin asked hesitantly: "Is it because this character resonates with you?"

Lu Yan He: "Why do you say that?"

"A person who likes to look in the mirror is largely a narcissistic person. And you suddenly started to habitually get into character in front of the mirror, looking at yourself in the mirror and saying some lines. From a subconscious perspective, isn't this you wanting to say these words to someone deep in your heart? You look at yourself in the mirror and say it, is it possible that you are pretending to see the appearance of yourself in the mirror clearly, to imagine the appearance of someone looking at you and saying these words?"

Huang Tianlin's words were like a big hammer, smashing into his swaying heart.

Huh?

Is it?

It seems... yes.

Every time he said those lines to the mirror, there was actually a third him on the side.

He watched him say those words to the mirror.

Lu Yan He suddenly... panicked.

He thought with horror, is this not a precursor to schizophrenia?

Lu Yan He began to be very careful not to do this again.

However, every time he passed a mirror again, a strong urge welled up deep in his heart.

Even, for every scene, Lu Yan He had an obsession, as if he were bewitched, wanting to act it again after acting it, not wanting it to end.

He realized completely that Huang was right.

He had an empathy for this play, for this character, that he couldn't get rid of autonomously, and even a resonance, the degree of which far exceeded other characters he played.

And in the *The Original Father* crew, Lu Yan He's performance on set every day was refreshing everyone's understanding of this actor.

Many people in the crew had known Lu Yan He since the *Tropical Rainy Season* period.

They had also seen Lu Yan He's acting skills with their own eyes and witnessed Lu Yan He's glory from Best Actor in the main competition unit of the Xitu'er International Film Festival to Oscar Best Supporting Actor along with *Tropical Rainy Season*.

However, everyone clearly realized that the performance state Lu Yan He brought out in these two films was not at the same level at all.

In the current film, Lu Yan He seemed to have the state of those actors in film history who were crazy into the play.

Once in front of Huang Tianlin's lens, Lu Yan He's changes were not described by the four words "reborn," that was just a superficial change; his change was an extreme infectious power. This was not a change in form, but an explosion of spirit and meaning.

It is often said that good acting is introverted, and it is destructive in a calm manner.

Lu Yan He had also had such a performance.

But in *The Original Father*, he seemed to be firing on all cylinders; for a scene, the first shooting was absolutely an explosive performance—

At first, everyone felt strange, but later they knew, this was Lu Yan He's own request. He and Huang allowed him to vent himself first for the first shooting of every scene. Then, in subsequent shootings, he would find that balance point little by little. But that was still a performance style with a powerful aura, even steadily suppressing all actors, including his parents who had the most rival scenes with him.

But this was not abrupt.

Because in the script, in the originally set character relationship, A Lang was "forced" to return. His anger and hatred for this family had not decreased, and his rejection and disgust for his father had not disappeared. His bewilderment and pain like a wounded lone wolf only appeared when he was alone, and in normal times, especially in front of his parents, he was irritable, easily angry, and even had a deliberate confrontation, a revenge like a self-proving mood after growing up and being self-reliant.

In the middle, many people came to visit the set.

Including several selectors and artistic directors of international film festivals.

Whether it was the shooting situation they saw on set or the footage they saw in the machine room, it increased their efforts to compete for this film.

With the waves set off by this Chinese-language film *Storm Calmer No. 1* around the world this year, obviously, the world's market and audience's crazy love for Lu Yan He were far from going downhill.

Not to mention, this was Huang Tianlin's first work after winning the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, and it was a film continuing to collaborate with Lu Yan He.

For them, this film was only missing the film script being created by Lu Yan He—

A top configuration of an art film, a top big director, a top good script, and a top actor.

Although it was not to say that Huang Tianlin's script was not good enough.

But in terms of legend, Lu Yan He's record as a screenwriter was more prominent.

In recent years, *Get Out* won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, the *Home Alone* series created one of the highest-return film series in history, *Friends* became popular worldwide, *Raise the Red Lantern*, *Rouge*, *Red Eye*, *Flypaper*, *Love Letter*... artistic, commercial, genre, various themes and styles, all at his fingertips.

Everyone said that the only thing that hadn't been opened on Lu Yan He was the director. But this was only compared to his other identities; as a director, he also shot *Love Letter*. If Lu Yan He continued to be a director, the achievements obtained might not be bad.

"Do you have any plans to continue directing later?"

During the shooting break, the actors sat together and chatted, Qin Shulan asked curiously.

With her question, others also looked over.

Everyone was very curious.

Lu Yan He shook his head and said: "After being a director once, I found that it was not a profession I had passion for at all."

"This is really a bit strange, generally speaking, a person who can write and act should be the best director candidate, right?" Yuan Zhihua, who played his father, revealed a puzzled look and said, "I am an actor myself, and I often feel passive, especially when I have different ideas from the director."

Lu Yan He said: "I think this is my personality problem. I am not a person who likes absolute things. Directors are often people with aesthetic paranoia or even formal uniqueness in creation. Very good directors are often like this. You can see it by looking at the scripts I write. I write this for a while, and that for a while, and I especially value stories and characters, which is different from what film directors are often most focused on."

Qin Shulan immediately complained: "That's true. I have collaborated with Director Huang Tianlin on several films. I feel that no matter what script he gives me, it is his life, very personal things. He told me that he always asks me to play a mother because I look a bit like his mother."

Lu Yan He laughed dumbly.

Can it be like this?

Isn't Qin Shulan a national treasure-level actress in Malaysia? As a result, Huang Tianlin asked her to act, because of this?

Qin Shulan: "When he first came to me, he even brought a photo of his mother to convince me that he wasn't lying, and let me agree to appear in his film."

Lu Yan He heard Qin Shulan say this, imagining Huang Tianlin's arrogant appearance before, it was really imaginable how awkward Huang Tianlin was when he did that.

He laughed.

However, looking at Qin Shulan, a film suddenly popped up in his mind, a film he hadn't thought of when he wrote the film list before.

It was a film he watched when he was very young, called *The Lady in the Van*. Maggie Shi Misi, the actress who played Professor McGonagall in *Harry Potter*, acted in it. A very warm film. Lu Yan He quite liked this film.

Of course, he didn't want to write this script for Qin Shulan.

He was just a bit dazed—

He hadn't had such a flash of inspiration for a long time, thinking of a certain film.

As the time he came to this world got longer and longer, he also found it harder and harder to remember some of the original people, things, and movies he had watched.

Lu Yan He looked at Qin Shulan right in front of him, recalling Maggie Shi Misi's face that might be familiar to the whole world in his mind, that picture was actually gradually blurring and incomplete, and he couldn't remember some of it.

Time is a long river, destined to wash away many things; no matter how hard the stone is, it cannot resist the power of time.

The end of the year was gradually approaching like this.

Domestically, everyone's attention to the entertainment industry was, as expected, concentrated on the Spring Festival Gala.

Today, photos of Liu Zhiyin and others appearing at the joint rehearsal scene hit the hot search.

Tomorrow, the news that four actresses including Zhang Lan would appear in the same program spread vigorously.

The Spring Festival Gala in the past, all news revolved around that gala, but now, before the Spring Festival Gala, there are various supporting programs, allowing some actors who have already been officially announced to appear in advance, cooperate to play some small games, and start the creation of the Spring Festival Gala atmosphere early.

Besides this, the Spring Festival slot films also concentrated their efforts to grab promotional resources.

*Home Alone 4*, also the last part of the *Home Alone* series, began to hold premieres all over the world.

Everyone didn't understand why such a profitable film series, and the box office didn't show a downward trend, Lu Yan He directly announced the fourth part as the last one.

Lu Yan He certainly couldn't say that because he had only watched 4 *Home Alone* movies. Of course, most importantly, Huang Feng was no longer the image of the child he used to be. It was not impossible for him to continue to appear in this series, but he was no longer a "little ghost."

Combining several factors, Lu Yan He felt it was time to quit while ahead.

Lu Yan He didn't want to let this film be a dog's tail—he didn't have the ability to turn decay into magic.

A *Home Alone* series allowed Linghe to stand firm in the Spring Festival slot. What kind of film Linghe will bring out in next year's Spring Festival slot is also highly anticipated.

And besides *Home Alone 4*, the other films in the Spring Festival slot were all star-studded, and the promotional funds were almost starting from 100 million.

However, in pre-sales, *Home Alone 4* was leading by a wide margin.

Major film companies didn't know how many times they had felt envious and hateful.

The film series they each created hadn't formed a climate yet.

Why could *Home Alone* be like this?

Of course, Shijin didn't have such troubles. Because they firmly believed that *Ten Miles of Fragrance* would achieve excellent box office in this year's Spring Festival slot.

This film blockbuster starring Lang Xia and Yan Lingyu had been rumored for a long time, but no one expected it to be scheduled for the Spring Festival slot.

Even, Shijin was already planning to create this *Ten Miles of Fragrance* fairy-tale universe.

In fact, the fans of Lang Xia and Yan Lingyu were indeed capable, and the pre-sales of this film followed *Home Alone 4*, ranking second on the box office pre-sale list.

It's just that the fans of the two hadn't waited for the film to be released, and suddenly they started fighting.

The main reason was the issue of the two people's billing.

The two signed for equal billing, but fans on both sides thought their idol was much stronger than the other.

Lang Xia's fans felt that Yan Lingyu, except for her debut work *Late Spring* which achieved very good results, later completely became a TV drama actor. Although she was popular, it was recognized that TV drama actors were not as good as film actors, and the films starring Lang Xia had broken 100 million at the box office consecutively.

Yan Lingyu's fans directly said that Lang Xia didn't have a film with particularly outstanding box office results, and his popularity, fame, etc., were not as good as Yan Lingyu's now.

Both sides quarreled into a group, even shouting for the film party to open different film ticket pre-sale channels, not wanting to increase the actual performance for the other side—

To calculate the film's box office separately according to different leads.

This can be considered the first time in history.

Fortunately, neither Lang Xia nor Yan Lingyu personally participated in this matter, otherwise the scene would be too ugly.

However, a strange point is that Shijin actually didn't control the dispute between the two fans over billing, letting public opinion boil and ferment.

Generally speaking, the film party is very taboo about such negative public opinion, especially during the promotion period, because this will greatly affect the passerby's impression of the film—

No one would be willing to watch a film with huge topical disputes surrounding such trivial matters.

The industry often probes the reasons behind such unconventional phenomena.

Chen Yin also understood it, but the information he learned left him dumbfounded.

The reason why Shijin's publicity didn't control public opinion, and even let fans on both sides quarrel, was because they analyzed from the data that this was conducive to the promotion of *Ten Miles of Fragrance*, and it was also conducive to the pre-sale of the box office. The growth data of the box office pre-sale in the past two days was significantly higher than the initial model calculation—

Fans on both sides were posting statistics on how much box office they had rushed on the Internet, conducting a battle.

It was somewhat unbelievable.