Chapter 531: If the Words Aren't Startling, One Won't Stop Until Death

Night, the hotel where the crew of "I Am Not Medicine God" is staying.

Tang Shiyu is half-lying on the bed in a bathrobe, taking out her tablet to open the newly updated episode of "Director Show".

She had no scenes for the night shoot, so she could have actually finished work at 4:30 PM, but she stayed with the crew to eat dinner before returning to the hotel to rest.

Because the bathrobe is slightly loose, her current appearance is quite semi-concealed and semi-revealed, like a professional photoshoot.

In the new episode of "Director Show", it begins by connecting to the suspense at the end of the previous episode, which is Luo Mo's line: "Can I act in it myself?"

The answer is—yes.

Although this result was within the expectations of most viewers, one can see from the bullet comments that everyone is still quite excited and expectant.

"For the young male artists on the show, this is a disaster," Tang Shiyu says with a smile.

"Director Luo is doing it himself; if this isn't a dimensionality-reduction strike, what is?"

However, she just loves watching these things!

During the time she spent with the "Nirvana in Fire" crew, her worldview was reshaped.

Honestly, she doesn't even care about the title of the so-called Four Little Dan anymore.

In the past, seeing negative articles saying she was the last of the Four Little Dan or that she was just making up the numbers would make her so angry she couldn't sleep, only thinking about chasing traffic, chasing heat, and surpassing the other three.

Now her mindset has changed, or rather, she has been influenced by Luo Mo, who also possesses massive traffic.

She personally feels that this is a turning point in her life and her own good fortune.

So much so that she believes Director Luo personally stepping in to torment others is also the good fortune of this group of young male artists.

Is this striking out at you?

No, this is giving you a wake-up call.

—Go and enlighten yourselves, sisters!

After Luo Mo personally participated, not much of the rehearsal content was broadcast. It is clear that Ning Dan is keeping people in suspense, refusing to spoil the plot of the short film "Send You a Flower".

When the four short films were officially broadcast, Tang Shiyu tightened the collar of her bathrobe, which was sliding to the right, to cover her right breast, and watched intently.

"Director Fang Jie's 'Cancer' and Director Luo's 'Send You a Little Red Flower'—this is a clash of themes!" Tang Shiyu is slightly surprised.

She had heard Wang Rong and Luo Mo chatting on set, and heard them say that "Send You a Little Red Flower" could provide promotional effects for "Medicine God".

So she roughly knows that it is also about 【illness】.

This makes it very worth watching!

The two directors first clashed on 【genre】, both being 【Family Film】, and then immediately clashed on theme, both talking about being sick.

Then, the audience can very intuitively feel the gap between the scripts, the gap between the actors, and the gap between the abilities of the two directors!

Honestly, after watching it, she feels that Fang Jie, as someone known as the number one female director in Huaxia, really cannot be faulted in her directing ability.

The script is also okay, and the actors performed well too.

It's not stunning, but it's quite good to watch overall.

"It's a work above standard," Tang Shiyu thinks to herself.

In the bullet comments, the audience also feels it is acceptable.

Someone even commented: "The pressure is now on Luo Mo's side!"

At this moment, the camera even gave Luo Mo a special close-up of his face.

He is seen sitting calmly in the Director Seat, smiling and applauding Director Fang Jie's work, without a hint of nervousness.

After the short films of the other three directors were all finished, finally, it was Luo Mo's turn.

When he stood up from the Director Seat, many people at the scene let out gasps.

The bullet comments began to sweep the screen, with those few words often seen before: "Variety Show Great Demon King."

It seems that no matter which variety show this person goes to, he has the feeling of a Great Demon King.

—Are you ready for the fear of being dominated?

As soon as the short film started, one could feel that Luo Mo's entire temperament had changed.

"Although Wei Yihang and Lv Shouyi in 'Medicine God' are both patients, they are completely two different looks," Tang Shiyu thinks to herself.

There is a title in the industry called 【Thousand-Faced Best Actor】, referring to those who can act like whatever they play.

She feels that Luo Mo already has a bit of this posture.

When Tang Shiyu saw Wei Yihang, played by Luo Mo, having another episode while eating, she watched the twitching of his facial muscles and began to lie on the bed to imitate it.

"I can't do it!" No matter what, she couldn't learn it.

She had just been baring her teeth and grimacing, looking like someone who had been hurt.

After just these few seconds of performance, there were already viewers commenting in the bullet screen: "Acting skills are explosive!"

Tang Shiyu feels that if Luo Mo were watching with her right now, he would definitely be torn between laughter and tears seeing these screen-filling bullet comments.

Because he has spent a long time with those people from the National Theatre of China, in his view, this is just a performance above standard, far from reaching the word 【explosive】.

But against the backdrop of peers of the same age, this current situation has emerged.

Many older generation actors are actually very puzzled; they often see the teams of some young actors on the internet marketing the persona of these people having good acting skills, blowing them up crazily.

In their era, this would just be a passing level; if they marketed like this, they would be laughed at, and would be despised by their peers.

Now it's the opposite; getting a 60 can count as an honor student, and can even be posted on the Glory board.

After this segment of the plot, it was immediately followed by the scene of the emotional outburst in the car by the actor Zhou Lin, who plays the 【Mother】.

"This is the real explosive acting!" Tang Shiyu mutters.

As a fellow actress, she feels there is still a significant gap between herself and Zhou Lin.

At the same time, she admires Luo Mo's script more and more.

"This kind of holding on when encountering big things, emotions constantly piling up, but suddenly collapsing over small things, is too realistic."

And when the content progressed to that scene at the dinner table, Tang Shiyu watched until she wanted to cry.

Luo Mo and Xu Ruihong acted too well.

The dispute between father and son ended with a slap.

The screen dimmed, and what played next was Wei Yihang refusing to go home, and his father bringing him his Medicine.

——The iconic scene is here!

Tang Shiyu watched these scenes, her eyes turning red, and she couldn't stop sniffing.

This script and acting are streets ahead of "Cancer".

When it came to the critique and voting segment, she couldn't help but say: "Why are Li Dongliang and Fang Jie always targeting Director Luo!"

"What kind of things is she saying!"

Tang Shiyu's resentment and inner monologue could be considered civilized.

In the bullet comments, that was extreme foul-mouthedness.

"Old hag, keep yapping and I'll tear your mouth off!"

"Such a double standard!"

"Why are they so high and mighty?"

"No wonder their works are so out of touch with reality, this is class!"

"Can someone mute Li Dongliang's mic?"

"Fine, just target him then!"

It was very obvious that many viewers who had just entered the workplace had too strong a sense of immersion.

In their view, Li Dongliang and Fang Jie were just like those greasy seniors in their own workplaces, pointing fingers, using double standards, and acting high and mighty.

But fortunately, Luo Mo still got the highest number of votes in the end.

The bullet comments were all three words: "So satisfying!"

After watching the entire episode, Tang Shiyu immediately opened the Weibo Hot Search.

Sure enough, "A Little Red Flower" occupied multiple Hot Search spots.

The funniest thing was that there was another Hot Search called: 【Can Luo Mo not leave】.

The temp worker did too good a job; everyone hoped the permanent staff wouldn't come back.

Tang Shiyu clicked on this Hot Search, and there were even people "offering advice" below.

"Can't you add another chair to the Director Seat? The Four Heavenly Kings have five, that's common sense!"

"Director Tian should rest a bit longer; who doesn't encounter some issues in life? Take your time to handle them, no rush! We all understand."

"Director Show cannot be without Luo Mo; he is too talented. Once he leaves, this show can only be called 'Director'."

"I have a suggestion: didn't you eliminate a few people during the auditions that everyone felt was unreasonable? How many people are watching and feeling unconvinced! Let Luo Mo lead these 【Lost Pearls】 and form a fifth camp, everyone wins!"

"Whoa, so you're actually forming a revenge team? That's too exciting; it'd be hard for it not to blow up."

Tang Shiyu only felt that the eyes of the audience were sharp.

She continued to look down, and there was an even funnier entry at number ten on the Hot Search list, called 【Heartbroken for Tian Ou】.

In reality, although Luo Mo had withdrawn from the recording of the show "Director Show", the heat of the following episodes would not be low.

The reason was simple: who told Tian Ou to issue a challenge to Luo Mo from afar?

The audience would definitely want to see what kind of effect he could film, and whether he could be mentioned in the same breath as Luo Mo.

The referee for this battle was naturally—all the audience friends.

"Even if Luo Mo hasn't responded to this day and seems too lazy to take up the challenge, it doesn't matter, we will give a fair verdict!" ——【Netizen Office】.

As for Tang Shiyu, she was lying on the bed in her bathrobe, and there were almost lines of large characters floating above her head:

"【Admiration for Luo Mo +1, +1, +1.......】"

……..

……..

The short film "A Little Red Flower" received rave reviews, and as Luo Mo and Wang Rong expected, it began to add heat to "I Am Not a Medicine God".

Although not much information about this film had been released to the public, one could tell from the two words "Medicine God" that it was definitely still about illness.

That made people very expectant!

Most importantly, Luo Mo also participated in it, and this time he played a—leukemia patient.

A film that had only just started shooting not long ago saw its popularity soar.

Many people in the industry felt that Luo Mo's methods were very clever; this was the first time they had seen this kind of marketing method, and the effect was unexpectedly good.

And one had to know, he also got paid for going on "Director Show", a classic case of killing two birds with one stone.

Two days passed in a flash; Wang Rong was busy with the recording of the "Director Show" Semi-finals in Hangzhou, while Luo Mo was filming scenes without Wang Rong.

After finishing work at night, he received a call from Wang Rong.

"Luo Mo, there is something I need to tell you," Wang Rong said.

"What's so urgent? Aren't you coming back tomorrow?" Luo Mo asked.

"It's important, very important," Wang Rong said.

"Then tell me."

"I received a call from the Review Department today," Wang Rong said, dropping a bombshell.

(ps: First update, asking for monthly tickets.)

(End of this chapter)