Chapter 133: You sing and I appear

Boss Lu woke up in the mansion of the Ice Cellar Prince's Mansion. He drank a big wine with Liu Liu Cixin yesterday and took a night train, and he is still dizzy now.

The formal renovation of the three courtyards started at the end of June.

Previously, Xu Kaitong used the power of others to bully the weak, and with the help of Boss Lu's money offensive, he fiercely slapped the faces of more than ten co-property owners and invited them out of the ancestral house.

The last time Seeing Lu Kuan brought Liu Liu Yifei to inspect the progress, it was nearing the end. The fine renovation of the three houses was completely completed at the end of October.

The repair of the courtyard has one advantage: according to the requirements of various departments, original materials must be used if original materials can be used.

Wood, bricks, carvings, etc. are all antique flavors. Now chemical materials are rarely used, so there is no need to worry about the pollution of formaldehyde and other products.

After washing up and going out, looking at the dense missed calls on his mobile phone, Seeing Lu Kuan seemed to have returned to his previous life.

Previously, Wenjie Culture and China Film jointly issued an announcement that the film *Shoplifters* was filed, which attracted the attention of all parties in the industry.

Wenjie invested 7 million, and China Film invested 3 million.

This is still a low-budget film.

Before the domestic film environment truly took off, Seeing Lu Kuan still adhered to caution, making some low-budget films that were verified by later generations to be both good and popular.

And this film will be released in theaters after Cannes. At that time, it will be the time when the boiling point is raging in first-tier cities like Beijing, and the situation is unknown.

This project naturally attracted the covetousness of all parties.

Shanghai Film, Yanda Huayi, Fiber, Star Beauty...

Even Fatty Yu, who had just made a profit, made a few tentative calls.

Boss Lu could eat alone for the first film, but now it is definitely difficult. No matter how unwilling, he still took out 30% of the share to China Film.

This is the beginning of the formal cooperation between the two companies.

Other film companies that were rejected were not discouraged. Relationships are all handled.

First handle the relationship well. If Seeing Lu Kuan can continue to shine in this film that is quite artistic, then everyone will not lack opportunities to make money together in the future.

Workers are tired, and bosses are also tired.

Workers only need to take care of their own one-acre-three-cent land, and bosses have to deal with relationships in all aspects.

Because the position is high, the power is great, and there are more intersections between various circles.

There is a saying that summarizes this cultural phenomenon of the Chinese people very incisively:

Chinese people, communityism is superior to collectivism and individualism, because Chinese people are born to like to mix circles.

This is not, a *Shoplifters* that has just been filed has already ushered in the covetousness of all parties and all circles.

Sun Sun Wenwen knocked on the door and entered the office: "President Lu, according to your meaning, those that can be pushed away have been pushed away, and those that cannot be pushed away are all scheduled for today."

Boss Lu signed the documents quickly under his pen: "Well, one by one, solve them all today."

*Shoplifters* is a group play, and the main actors are this family of six who have no blood relationship.

A little girl of about 6 years old, a little boy of about 11 years old, a middle-aged couple, a girl of about 20 years old, and a grandmother of sixty years old.

The husband in the middle-aged couple is still played by Feng Feng Yuanzheng. Such a powerful actor is the basic plate of the film.

The role of the 20-year-old girl has sent an audition invitation to Wang Wang Jinhua and Yanda Huayi. Although it is Fan Fan Bingbing who is internally determined, it still has to go through a public audition procedure.

Fan Bingbing is his secret weapon planted in Yanda Huayi. On the surface, he still has to keep a distance. Recently, he let A Fei secretly pick her up for sex.

The grandmother role Seeing Lu Kuan invited Teacher Li Li Mingqi, not for anything else, just because the old man stabbed none of them were good things back then, eyes bright and heart bright!

The remaining boy, girl, and mother roles are still being considered.

The selection of child actors, Boss Lu has already let the casting director lead the team to the art schools and schools around Beijing to select people, and the shortlisted ones will come to the company for auditions today.

The first one to come was not from the film and television circle.

"Director Lu, sorry to bother you!"

A female voice full of breath, followed by a thin half-grown child, eyes rolling around, like a monkey.

"Teacher Han, welcome, welcome."

The person who came was Han Hong.

"Director Lu, I'm really sorry, I didn't say I would invite you to dinner or something before, so I just came to the door."

Although Seeing Lu Kuan has no roots in any circle, he has shown a tough image to the outside world in the conflicts with Emperor and Zhang Zhang Tianshuo.

Now that he has jumped to become a Golden Lion-winning big director, no matter which circle, those who come to ask for things are polite.

Things like Liu Bei coming to ask for roles carelessly should not happen again.

"It's okay, I know your intention, is it this child, Teacher Han?"

Zhang Zhang Yishan, who was looking up and down at Boss Lu, saw that he was being paid attention to, and immediately stood straight, showing a naughty child's fake smile.

"He is your..."

"I am a sworn brother with this child's father, decades of friendship, so he calls me aunt."

Boss Lu understood. Zhang Zhang Yishan's acting can't be said to be bad, but the roles after growing up are fixed, and it feels a bit too hard to act.

The little boy's scenes in the film are not few, but the acting difficulty is not high.

It is not difficult for Zhang Zhang Yishan to act well with his cleverness, but he has to correct his naughty personality.

"Okay! Teacher Han, take him to sit outside for a while. A few child actors will audition together later."

Han Hong smiled and didn't say anything else. She is still far from the status and prestige of later years.

It wasn't until 2009 that she was specially recruited by the military and joined the Air Force Political Department Art Troupe as deputy head, and also obtained the rank of senior colonel, that she truly mastered a certain right to speak in the circle.

The second one to come also made Seeing Lu Kuan's glasses fall off.

Jiang Jiang Wenli and her niece Ma Ma Sichun, this is a bit nonsensical.

"Teacher Jiang, the little girl in this movie is not more than 10 years old, Ma's age..."

Jiang Jiang Wenli called Seeing Lu Kuan through Zhang Zhang Yimou, and she was quite polite at this time.

"Oh, Director Little Lu, I just brought the child to show her face in front of you. If this time doesn't work, there will be next time!"

Ma Ma Sichun opened her big eyes and was still quite ignorant, just looking at Seeing Lu Kuan curiously. Who would have thought that she would be a terminal patient of love brain later.

After some polite greetings, Jiang Jiang Wenli was finally sent away.

This is the tentacle of the Northwest Circle.

The third one came from the Beijing Circle, but not the same way as Wang Shuo and his group of courtyard children.

"Guan Xiaotong, call someone."

"Hello, Director Brother!"

Boss Lu responded with a smile. The child is clever enough. The acting skills in later years can only be said to be ordinary. How specific it is, we have to look at the audition effect.

The one who brought her was her mother Li Jun, who was also a drama actress. This was through Feng Feng Yuanzheng and Seeing Lu Kuan.

Boss Lu looked at his watch: "Teacher Li, take Guan Xiaotong to the conference room. There are four children auditioning this morning."

"Okay, Director."

Wenjie Culture Conference Room, today temporarily acted as the audition room for the four children.

In addition to Guan Guan Xiaotong and Zhang Zhang Yishan who had greeted Seeing Lu Kuan through various relationships, there were also child actors discovered by the casting director from all over the country.

After layers of selection, finally decided by Seeing Lu Kuan, two appeared on the scene today.

Yang Yang, born in 1991, from Shanghai.

Yang Zi, born in 1991, from Beijing.

Both are child actors whose image, age, etc. match the characters in the play.

Book friends who have filmed movies all know the three difficulties in filming.

Children, animals, scheduling scenes.

Scheduling scenes are okay. Directors like Zhang Zhang Yimou who have mastered the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games with thousands of people are naturally not afraid.

But children are the same as animals, and they cannot be guided and taught by normal methods.

Animals are even better, with special animal trainers assisting.

Children really can't be beaten or scolded, they can only be coaxed to film slowly. If they encounter a child who really has no spirituality, they can worry the director to death!

The girl in *Shoplifters* is young and has few scenes; the boy is old and has many scenes, but as a character in a group play, they are all crucial.

"Okay, children, let's start the audition. Don't be nervous. If you want to drink water or go to the bathroom, tell the sister in time, okay?"

"Okay!"

"Hmm!"

Sun Sun Wenwen acted as Seeing Lu Kuan's assistant today, taking the parents and companions of the four children to the back row, watching Seeing Lu Kuan audition the four people.

According to the characteristics of the characters in the play, Boss Lu designed several audition steps and scored them separately.

The first question, poetry recitation, is to examine the breathing conditions of the four children.

They all meet the conditions in general, but obviously the three children in Beijing have smoother mouths.

The second question, perform the four expressions of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, which almost occupy all the scenes of the child actors in the play.

The most outstanding one should be Guan Guan Xiaotong. Zhang Zhang Yishan's performance is too flexible, looking like a little monkey who can't sit still.

The third question is situational performance. The girl performs a scene of telling sad things, and the boy follows Seeing Lu Kuan to perform stealing things in the supermarket.

It has to be said that children from opera families are more outstanding. Guan Guan Xiaotong is a few years younger than Yang Zi, but her performance is much more vivid and lively.

Especially the eye drama is particularly prominent.

The little girl in the film has a tragic experience of being abused by her original family. On the basis of lack of lines and actions, she really needs such eye drama to highlight the character image.

And the gap between Zhang Zhang Yishan and Yang Yang in the other group in this round is even more obvious.

Two hours later, Boss Lu asked Sun Sun Wenwen to send small gifts to the parents of Yang Yang and Yang Zi who were eliminated and left, and officially determined the roles of the two child actors.

It is really you sing and I appear. The greetings from this circle and that circle are even more annoying in the afternoon.

The first one to arrive was the actress who is best at doing hair in the entertainment industry, the youngest Golden Horse Award winner.

It's just that she took the shadow queen and turned around to scold Chen Chong, blaming her for using a nude stand-in to make the public think it was herself.

"Hello Director Lu, I am Li Li Xiaolu!"

She didn't have anyone with her.

Are you kidding? With my figure, my appearance, and the qualifications of winning the shadow queen at debut, and now one TV drama a year,

Can't I handle a little Seeing Lu Kuan?

Of course, her mother also greeted Tian Tian Zhuangzhuang before coming. The two are old colleagues at the Beijing Film Studio, and they see each other when they look down, so they are very familiar.

There is another one that was harmonized, modify it and it will be released tomorrow

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