Chapter 359: Director Luo Mo's Acting Skills

In recent days, Luo Mo Studio and Penguin Music have already begun promoting the second song of the Dark Trilogy.

This song will also be uploaded next Monday.

This has made the folks at Cilong incredibly nervous.

Because based on Luo Mo's consistent performance, if he creates a brand-new style, it is never a flash in the pan, but rather a continuous output of high-quality and extremely mature works.

"The Seventh Chapter of the Night" has already opened up the situation and allowed everyone to witness the charm of his Dark Trilogy.

So, the next song absolutely cannot flop!

For this reason, Cilong held small meetings for two consecutive days, but they haven't come up with a solution yet.

What makes Chen Luo feel the most depressed is still that "bad move" by Yuan Hewen earlier.

You spread some "praise one, step on another" remarks on the internet, keeping internet trolls clamoring on major platforms, shouting that Chen Luo is inferior to Luo Mo, thereby ruining Luo Mo's reputation among passersby.

But in this arena competition, Luo Mo is actually leading for now!

That makes it awkward!

To give Chen Luo more of a winning chance, Cilong has increased their promotional efforts, having Chen Luo go on more variety shows to promote his new album.

Luo Mo is busy with the filming of Nirvana in Fire and certainly has no time to run around on variety shows.

Little did they know, Luo Mo had already made arrangements in this regard.

As mentioned earlier, the second season of the variety show King of Love Songs is co-directed by Run Jie, Ning Dan, and the dog director Ke Ming.

Tong Shu is the default starting Singer, replacing the spot Luo Mo held in the previous season.

Since short video platforms, Weibo, and places like Little Rotten Station have high traffic, and the live broadcast industry is continuously rising, Ning Dan came up with a warm-up promotional method for this program.

That is to have each of the confirmed starting Singers sing a song in their own home and record the video.

It follows a path somewhat like that in a live broadcast room, just using some simple equipment.

By doing this, her promotional selling point is not to learn from those internet celebrity streamers, but to take the route of crushing internet celebrities.

Letting powerful Singers perform with the same equipment and the same mode to highlight the gap between them and internet celebrity singers, and then using this for marketing.

She has already thought of some promotional slogans.

For example, when marketing accounts post the video, the caption: Ten-yuan earphones producing a thousand-yuan effect.

For example: Once a professional Singer opens their mouth, the gap with internet celebrities is immediately revealed.

As soon as Luo Mo heard that the second season of King of Love Songs was preparing to warm up this way, he immediately thought of Zhou Shen.

This is the person who used the simplest equipment in a live broadcast room and sat there singing "Left Finger Moonlight"…

Therefore, he felt that this promotional mode had a great advantage for Tong Shu.

Since he didn't have time to run promotional work for his new album, he just had Tong Shu record "Fireworks Cool Easily".

Luo Mo had heard Zhou Shen's cover of "Fireworks Cool Easily"; his version wasn't bad either, and compared to Lin Zhixuan and Zhou Jielun, it had a different flavor.

Thus, he slightly changed the Arranger and had his little brother cover it to run the promotion.

—A Boss must have the appearance of a Boss.

"It's been a long time since I let them come over to wash the dishes at home," Luo Mo thought.

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Luo Mo felt the filming process of Nirvana in Fire was very hard, but also very satisfying.

If a director encounters a good Actor who matches their intentions, it is truly like a tiger adding wings.

Luo Mo, who had "kidnapped" the National Team, felt he was in a state of a tiger adding wings.

"Speaking of which, old Western fantasy novels especially liked to use the number of wings to correspond to the level and combat power of angels; the more wings, the stronger."

"Then I am at least a sixteen-winged tiger now!"

This group of people from the National Theatre of China is simply too strong.

This made Luo Mo feel a lot of pressure when acting with them, but also very satisfied.

You don't need to worry about whether the other party can catch the Drama.

With their strength, even if you suddenly break the limits of the script and start improvising, they can still handle it.

At the same time, many viewers watching old pros act on screen get a thrill that makes their pores relax, not to mention Luo Mo, who as a director, was watching on set and was the one to choose the final version.

Many times, he felt this take could pass, but the Actors always wanted to do another one.

This also made the filming progress of Nirvana in Fire quite slow, but it was worth it!

When eating together occasionally, Luo Mo would even joke with them: "I am preparing to build you all into an Idol group."

These old pros all thought Luo Mo was joking.

But he was serious.

For dramas like In the Name of the People and Nirvana in Fire, after they air, the old pros inside not only see their popularity soar, but many also become quite trendy.

After In the Name of the People aired, didn't it produce a "Handong Men's Group"?

After audiences have been poisoned by all kinds of bad dramas for a long time, they will naturally return their attention to acting, and will feel that these middle-aged and elderly people are damn cool.

And in reality, there are indeed some dramas that make it easier for audiences to like old pros. This has to do with the Drama and character design, and even with the filming techniques.

For example, in In the Name of the People, Li Dakang's classic "King's Contempt".

For example, in Nirvana in Fire, some of Lord Yan's famous scenes.

The bad egg Luo Mo even thought: "Watch me stir up the Uncle Circle and the Grandpa Circle!"

"Stir, all of you stir for me!"

Shoot a few famous scenes and set an example for everyone.

But honestly, many female characters in Nirvana in Fire also have a lot of highlights.

Consort Jing goes without saying, and Chang Gongzhu also left a deep impression on Luo Mo back then.

Because he felt it had quite a bit of temperament and quite a bit of flavor.

The work content for this afternoon is to reshoot a scene in episode two of *Nirvana in Fire*.

It is the first meeting between Mei Zhangsu and the Grand Empress Dowager after many years.

The actor playing the Grand Empress Dowager is advanced in age and was only invited to the set today.

This segment of the play has extremely high requirements for Luo Mo's acting skills; if performed well, it will be the first tear-jerker of this drama.

Moreover, because this veteran actor is very old, they must be as efficient as possible; if they can do it in one take, they should do it in one take.

At this moment, Luo Chun and the others were idle, as this scene had nothing to do with them, and Tang Shiyu had no scenes to shoot today, but none of them returned to the hotel to rest, choosing instead to stay on set—to watch the play.

Luo Chun, who plays the dog emperor, said to Zhou Tong, another actor from the National Theatre of China who plays the Marquis Xie Yu: "How many takes do you think Director Luo will need?"

Although they are old and have high seniority, and privately call Luo Mo "Little Luo," as long as they are on set, they all call him Director.

Zhou Tong thought for a moment and said: "Director Luo's acting skills have always improved very quickly, comparable to mine back in the day. I think within three takes."

"What do you mean comparable to yours back in the day? Just you?" Luo Chun frowned and glanced at Zhou Tong, saying: "When you were at his stage, your acting was shit."

Zhou Tong was unhappy and said: "Brother Chun, you can say my acting is like a piece of shit, but you cannot say my acting *is* shit!"

"You're still unhappy?" Luo Chun said: "Just watch, I think he might be able to do it in one take."

"Wanna bet?" Zhou Tong said.

"Sure!"

The veteran actors watching the fun on the sidelines burst into laughter, only closing their mouths immediately when filming officially began to avoid affecting everyone.

However, many people still raised their hands and held up fingers to indicate numbers.

This represented that they also wanted to join the bet, and the number of fingers held up represented how many takes it would take to film.

The most popular choice was five, thinking it would take five takes.

Tang Shiyu watched from the side, not daring to join the bet at all.

They could critique Luo Mo's acting, but she was not qualified, nor did she dare.

She only opened her eyes wide, curious about Director Luo's upcoming performance.

Just then, Mei Zhangsu, played by Luo Mo, had already arrived at the imperial palace with his little guard Feiliu.

The person inside the room was both the Grand Empress Dowager and the grandmother of Mei Zhangsu's mother.

She was the elder who loved him most when he had not yet taken the pseudonym Mei Zhangsu and was still called Lin Shu.

Before going in to see the Grand Empress Dowager, Mei Zhangsu gave instructions to Feiliu, whose mental capacity was like that of a child: "We are going to see an old grandmother in a moment."

"If she calls you, you must answer."

"If she holds your hand, you are not allowed to pull away."

"If she gives you snacks to eat, you must take them."

Feiliu looked at Mei Zhangsu with a face full of confusion and incomprehension, and a bit of reluctance.

Mei Zhangsu was a bit distracted and said softly: "She is the kindest old grandmother in the world; you must be good and listen to her."

Although Feiliu's mental capacity was incomplete, he seemed to sense something and nodded vigorously.

Luo Chun and the others watched from the side, feeling that Luo Mo handled the details very well.

There was no overly deliberate attempt to stir up emotion; on the contrary, it was very restrained.

But watching it was moving.

At this time, the eunuchs began to let them in, and the group walked into the room.

Princess Nihuang, played by Xu Chujing, stood beside the Grand Empress Dowager and glanced at Mei Zhangsu in surprise, seemingly not expecting him to have followed, silently observing this man who gave her a special feeling.

After entering the room, the four of them knelt and said in unison: "Greetings to the Grand Empress Dowager, may the Grand Empress Dowager enjoy ten thousand years of peace."

When Mei Zhangsu performed the salute, his eyes looked elsewhere.

He actually did not dare to look at this old woman.

"Good, good, good, all rise, all rise." The Grand Empress Dowager, who was advanced in age and a bit senile, loved the younger generation most, and said with a chuckle.

"Whose, whose children are these?" the Grand Empress Dowager asked.

She was already so senile that she could not recognize people.

"Great-grandmother, I just came to pay my respects to you two days ago. I've grown up so handsome, don't you remember me?" Yan Yujin, whose personality was still quite Dancing at this stage, said first.

"Hmm? You came two days ago?" The Grand Empress Dowager had no impression.

"And you, whose family are you from?" the Grand Empress Dowager said again.

Xiao Jingrui stepped forward to salute: "Great-grandmother."

Chang Gongzhu immediately said gently from the side: "Imperial Grandmother, this is my child Jing Rui."

"The Jing Rui who was born on Mount Rui," Chang Gongzhu added, as if without doing so, the old woman might still not remember.

"Oh!" The old woman suddenly realized, her eyes widening as she said: "It's little Rui."

She laughed a few times, then suddenly blurted out: "Are you married?"

"Uh, not... not yet." Xiao Jingrui said.

"You must hurry, hahahaha." The old woman laughed.

Yan Yujin also ran up and said: "Hey, Great-grandmother! Do you remember me?"

Someone on the side immediately said: "Imperial Grandmother, this is the child of my elder brother Yan Que, Yujin, who has always been unruly."

"Oh! It's little Jin." The old woman realized, laughed happily a few more times, and asked: "Are you married?"

"Uh... married." he said.

"Good, good, good!" The old woman asked again: "Do you have children?"

"Not yet." Yan Yujin said.

"You must hurry." The old woman instructed earnestly.

The crowd ahead was happy and harmonious, while Mei Zhangsu stood far away, just watching from that distance.

His gaze was even more reserved than before he entered the room, and his expression even calmer, yet that slightly tense appearance made one feel all the more heartbroken watching him.

The old woman was much older than in his memories.

The old woman was becoming increasingly forgetful.

Through the crowd, the Grand Empress Dowager glanced at Mei Zhangsu and Feiliu in the distance and suddenly said, "And you, whose child are you?"

Upon hearing this, Mei Zhangsu raised his head.

The old woman's simple sentence stirred up endless waves in his heart.

Having fallen off a cliff and suffered a strange poison, and after changing his appearance, even the old woman who loved him most would surely no longer recognize him.

Not to mention that she was already so old, unable to remember things or clearly recognize people.

Even Yan Yujin, who had come to pay his respects a few days ago, she had not recognized.

Following Luo Mo's previous instructions, the camera was now aimed at Luo Mo's face, capturing his gaze and micro-expressions.

"This part is handled well!" Luo Chun and the others could not help but praise in low voices.

Tang Shiyu stood to the side, unable to help but look at the people from the National Theatre of China, and then looked at Director Luo.

(End of this chapter)