Chapter 710: 《The Thousand-Hand Guanyin》

The group chat of the Disabled Persons Art Troupe immediately began to liven up.

You wouldn't believe it, but these deaf-mute girls have every kind of meme; they have reached a level where they can almost conduct simple conversations using only memes.

Typing is impossible; they can only communicate through silly memes like this.

Chen Lili looked at the content in the group chat, still in a daze.

Honestly, when Xu Cong first said that the dance they had previously choreographed had been rejected, everyone felt a bit upset.

This brought endless pressure.

They are too special; practicing dance is not as efficient for them as it is for normal people.

Dance usually needs to be paired with music, relying on the music to hit the beats.

But they can't do that.

If they want to perfectly integrate with the music, they must achieve a state where there is no sound in their ears, but "sound" in their hearts.

If they practice a new dance now, it might be too late, and they might not achieve the best effect.

In this way, even if Luo Mo and Ning Dan designated them as 【Special Invited Guests】, allowing them to participate directly in the rehearsals, they might still be kicked out during the rehearsal process.

However, Xu Cong said later that Luo Mo would help everyone modify the dance.

Note, it is not a complete re-choreography, but a modification.

Xu Cong continued in the group: "Luo Mo watched our dance and felt that we lack a theme, or rather, the current theme is not clear enough, nor is it shocking enough."

"He will incorporate some new elements into it, striving to achieve a better effect."

If it is just that, then it would be a bit better.

In the group, someone asked the question Chen Lili was most concerned about.

"Adding new elements? Clarifying the theme? Will it be like 'Palace Night Banquet'?"

Yes, "Tang Palace Night Banquet" had brought them too much shock.

This dance is not only beautiful and interesting, but at the same time, it actually showcases a brand-new stage form.

This point is the most important!

This is somewhat similar to how Luo Mo pioneered Chinese Style in the music scene!

Honestly, if it were before this, and Luo Mo felt the Disabled Persons Art Troupe's dance needed modification, Xu Cong would definitely have thought, "What the hell do you know?"

Can you understand better than me?

But after watching "Tang Palace Night Banquet"... Teacher Luo Mo, please give us your guidance!

Looking at the current dance world of Blue Star, there are plenty of people who want to cooperate with Luo Mo.

Who wouldn't want to replicate the success of "Palace Night Banquet"?

I heard that this stage performance even went viral on foreign websites.

In that dynasty, the Huaxia of Blue Star also had a Prosperous Age scene where ten thousand nations came to pay tribute.

Some netizens on foreign websites also know this piece of history.

Perhaps they were puzzled before: Why? On what grounds?

After watching this stage, perhaps they can perceive a portion of the myriad atmospheres of that dynasty!

Xu Cong looked at everyone's doubts in the group chat and said: "Actually, I don't know either if we will follow a route similar to 'Palace Night Banquet'."

"He said he will send me the specific modification plan very soon."

Chen Lili looked at these chat contents, her palm holding the phone tightening involuntarily.

No matter what, she just wants to practice the dance well.

This is the Spring Festival Gala!

And it is a Spring Festival Gala with Luo Mo serving as the Chief Planner!

This kind of opportunity must be cherished!

We must turn all the regrets of not making it onto the New Year's Eve Gala into the motivation to get onto the Spring Festival Gala!

On the sofa, in the living room, Chen Lili held her phone and played "Invisible Wings," with lyrics and music by Luo Mo and sung by Xu Chujing, one more time.

She cannot hear the singing, but she feels the lyrics are written so well, capable of giving people infinite strength.

These girls want to let the whole nation see their... invisible wings!

"Let the Bullets Fly" has wrapped up filming.

Xu Gangsheng took a plane back to Hong Kong, risking his life to join the crime syndicate led by Hua Jiaqun.

As soon as he got off the plane, there were crew members there to pick him up.

Even though they were also calling him "Brother Sheng," he always felt that the flavor of the way it was called was different from before.

It felt very much like a gang.

What on earth has this crew experienced during this time!

As soon as he arrived at the filming location, Hua Jiaqun enthusiastically took him to familiarize himself with the environment first.

Then, he even specially took him to visit the counterfeit money they had made with their own hands.

"If it weren't for the tight surveillance outside, I'd let you take some home as a souvenir," Hua Jiaqun said to Xu Gangsheng.

Xu Gangsheng: "..."

The surveillance is indeed quite tight; there are Hong Kong police stationed right outside the set.

He always feels the atmosphere of the entire crew is very eerie.

It seems like at the slightest disagreement, a group of people would suddenly stop filming and start living as fugitives from then on.

"By the way, this movie has many scenes that need to be filmed abroad, right?" Xu Gangsheng asked.

"Yeah, then we can finally let go and go all out!" Hua Jiaqun said immediately.

Xu Gangsheng again: "..."

What the hell, getting caught abroad is also very troublesome!

Qunzai, stop while you can!

Luo Mo might uphold Righteousness and exterminate his own kin at any time, using reporting you to clear his own name.

But I have to say, although this film crew seems to have been corrupted from top to bottom, in the process of filming, it really... is quite addictive!

Xu Gangsheng plays the film's public-facing "Painter," Wu Fusheng, in *Peerless*.

He felt that he was quite high while filming every scene.

Men, you know, are easily led astray.

It only took him two days to completely integrate into it.

Damn, being the "Painter" is so cool!

On the other side, Luo Mo, having left the *Let the Bullets Fly* crew, returned to Shanghai.

He now has to start entering a new round of busyness.

The film's post-production and the work for the Spring Festival Gala both require a massive amount of energy.

Also, *Hello Mr. Billionaire*, starring Liu Shixiong, is currently scheduled for release during the Spring Festival slot.

In other words, for this year's Spring Festival slot, if conditions permit, Luo Mo will bring two Comedy films to the audience.

He doesn't really feel like this is his left hand fighting his right hand.

On the contrary, they can drive traffic to each other.

Several films are released every year during the Spring Festival slot, and the number of slots is basically the same every year.

If you don't go sit in this spot, if you don't go grab these screenings, others will come to sit and grab them.

Moreover, during the New Year, everyone still has a high Demand for films.

It's not like they will watch one movie and then swear never to enter a cinema again during the New Year.

The key is still the quality of the film.

Over at *Hello Mr. Billionaire*, the efficiency is higher than *Let the Bullets Fly*.

This film is definitely going to be released during the Spring Festival slot.

As for the upcoming Shuji Dang, let's leave that to *The Wandering Earth*!

Over these past few months, the progress of the special effects production for *The Wandering Earth* has been very stable.

You could say it's fast, but it's not. You could say it's slow, but it's not to the point where you feel the release is indefinitely far off.

Of course, this is all thanks to Luo Mo being willing to burn money.

When it comes to burning money, if you stop halfway, you're just wasting time for nothing.

Keep burning, don't stop, anyway, we aren't short on money.

On Earth, if *The Wandering Earth* didn't have Wu Jing, the progress would likely be even slower.

Director Guo Fan initially only wanted to find a suitable candidate to make a cameo as the character Liu Peiqiang.

He wanted to find a middle-aged Actor who had influence and was willing to help a Newcomer.

As it turned out, after searching in a big circle, he couldn't find anyone at all.

The big stars all felt that Huaxia's Science Fiction films had no future.

For some films, it's not even a question of whether they make money or not, but that if you film them, you will invite endless trouble and abuse.

They say it's a cameo, but who knows if it's a huge trap?

Later, Director Guo Fan was drinking with Wu Jing one time.

As they drank, he suddenly realized, isn't Wu Jing quite good!

Who am I drinking with?

I'm fucking drinking with *Wolf Warrior*!

*Wolf Warrior*, hey, shouldn't he come into my movie and howl a few lines?

And so, he invited Wu Jing to cameo as the character Liu Peiqiang.

Wu Jing was very straightforward and agreed immediately.

Then, once the person was tricked onto the set, Guo Fan kept adding scenes for him.

It was supposed to be a cameo, but a whole batch of supporting actors had already wrapped, and I, a cameo, am still suffering on set acting.

This "cameo" lasted for a full thirty-one days, it seems.

If it were the Hong Kong of the past, in that era of "fast-gun" professionals, 31 days would be enough for a film to finish post-production and be ready for release.

Some ruthless people could even shoot two or three films in 31 days.

How should I put it, this is equivalent to Director Guo Fan using the traditional Huaxia ultimate skill, the "Eight Chinese-style Tolerances" of "Coming is Coming," on Wu Jing.

The most speechless part is that while Wu Jing was doing his cameo, the project seemed like it was about to go bust.

There was actually no money to film!

Science Fiction films are inherently money-burners, and the *The Wandering Earth* crew's progress was incredibly slow, so some investors ran off and switched to other films.

Guo Fan, with nowhere else to turn, focused his gaze on Wu Jing again.

Brother Jing, oh no! Brother Wolf! *Wolf Warrior* must be very profitable, right?

Why don't you invest a little?

The second of the Eight Chinese-style Tolerances: "It is Not Easy."

The whole set of things, no matter how you look at it, makes Wu Jing look like a huge sucker.

Fine, I'll invest then.

Having made a guest appearance for dozens of days, Luo Mo could also see that the entire film crew had great potential.

So it turns out you didn't ask me here to make a guest appearance; you came to move me.

And having filmed all the way like this, Wu Jing naturally counted as a lead actor.

Since he is a lead actor, he must certainly be paid a salary.

You have to know, after Wu Jing's *Wolf Warrior 2* became a massive hit, his salary was no joke.

Guo Fan expressed again, "I want more money to do the special effects well; Brother Jing, can you not take a salary? We're all friends here!"

【Eight Chinese-style Tolerances】 of 【All are Friends】.

Perhaps Wu Jing might also think in his heart: "They all say that film crews making Science Fiction are pits, but I didn't expect it to be such a pit!"

Speaking of which, *The Wandering Earth 2* is also about to be released on Earth.

This time, Guo Fan... has once again fallen behind on Wu Jing's salary.

It's not that he won't pay, it's just that he has no money.

We'll owe it, let's just owe it for now!

Oh my, we are all people of Decency!

In reality, on the Blue Star side, Luo Mo also didn't know what the final production cost would be if he wanted to achieve the more shocking effect he had in his heart.

He always felt that judging by the current situation, the rate of burning money was even faster than he had anticipated.

Filming a movie is actually a bit like doing home renovations.

You think about buying slightly better flooring, thinking it doesn't cost that much more anyway.

You also want to buy slightly better floor tiles for the stairs, feeling it doesn't cost that much more either.

Always harboring such thoughts, in the end, when added together, it will exceed the budget by a lot of money.

Fortunately, the movies released previously were all the kind that made a crazy amount of money.

Even *Famous and Accomplished*, whose box office was relatively less eye-catching, was a massive earner.

So this pressure, Luo Mo could bear.

Time pushed forward by another two days, and he had almost finished modifying the dance for the Disabled Persons Art Troupe.

The original dance of the Disabled Persons Art Troupe actually had many similarities in its creative concept to the "god-tier" stage he wanted to create.

It was just that without a specific theme, the shock would be much less.

This is just like *Night Banquet* and *Tang Palace Night Banquet*; they are certainly different.

On Earth, when you look at *Tang Palace Night Banquet*, you will think of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

And what Luo Mo wanted was for these deaf-mute girls' dance to achieve a peculiar effect on a spiritual level after incorporating some new elements.

I want you to be amazed, and I also want your soul to be cleansed!

At the same time, some elements belonging to Huaxia also needed to be integrated in.

For example—【Dunhuang Dance】!

This type of dance is very graceful and varied.

The application of the waist and hips is very extensive.

The more typical forms are tilting the neck, twisting the waist, shifting the hips, hooking the feet...

Of course, the techniques involved here are certainly more difficult than those dance videos on the internet nowadays that play on the edge of indecency.

These days, the simplest way to play on the edge is twisting the waist and shifting the hips, right?

For example, *Wiping the Glass*, or *The Big Pendulum*...

The original intention of the dance style of Dunhuang Dance was to make those murals in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang "come back to life"!

On the Blue Star side, 【Dunhuang Dance】 is still very immature.

It doesn't even count as a specific school yet.

Luo Mo felt that this really needed the appearance of a representative work.

He had the confidence to make the Disabled Persons Art Troupe famous throughout the world during the Spring Festival Gala!

After finishing his work, he sent it over to Xu Cong.

Xu Cong didn't expect that what Luo Mo said about modifying it quickly would be this fast.

He is truly worthy of being the fast man recognized within the entertainment industry!

Xu Cong first took a look at the name Luo Mo gave this dance.

—*Thousand-Hand Guanyin*.

"The name is quite special," Xu Cong thought to himself.

"So the element integrated is Guanyin?" He was somewhat curious.

And after he roughly understood Luo Mo's concept, he was simply stunned!

"It's sublimated! It has completely sublimated some of my previous choreography!"

He couldn't wait to call all the deaf-mute girls into the dance studio.

The rehearsal of a dance naturally cannot be accomplished in one move.

He used sign language to communicate with the girls, wanting to try a few movements first, have everyone find the feeling, and see the effect.

Just like that movement where everyone stands in a vertical row and then reaches their hands out, he had also choreographed it before.

It's just that the feeling Xu Cong originally wanted to create was similar to the feeling of "heavenly maidens scattering flowers"; he thought that since it was a big holiday, this would be more festive.

At this moment, inside the dance studio, everyone stood in a vertical row, with the lead dancer Chen Lili still standing at the very front.

They all stood in a row, and then reached out their hands one by one.

But with a specific imagery, the feeling expressed overall instantly became different!

Even though everyone wasn't wearing any Props on their hands, and they were all wearing ordinary practice clothes, and it was only a trial practice, it certainly hadn't reached the final desired effect yet.

Yet even so, Xu Cong still felt his scalp tingle a bit after watching it!

"If it can really be performed perfectly in the end."

Xu Cong imagined it for a moment and felt the effect would be absolutely terrifying!

To speak truthfully, the reason Thousand-Hand Guanyin is so shocking is that its unique costumes and dance Props provide a bonus, adding to the visual effect.

He suddenly felt that with this one move, Luo Mo had built a ladder to the heavens for the Disabled Persons Art Troupe.

A ladder that would allow them to become famous throughout Huaxia!

Honestly, if Luo Mo knew his inner thoughts, he would definitely shake his head repeatedly.

Famous throughout Huaxia?

Wrong!

I want them to be world-renowned!

(PS: Thanks to book friend Ye De Hei for the alliance leader reward~

Also, recommending a friend's new book, Forbidden Domain Walker. Such a hard title to type, my input method only has 'sexual abstinence'.)

(End of this chapter)