In fact, this kind of prototype case is really not that hard to find.
After all, although talent shows in recent years seem not to be as popular as in the early years, TV stations still have many various singer talent shows every year.
Zhuo Yixiong found the person quickly.
Thanks to the proliferation of talent shows in recent years, many programs have no age restrictions and the threshold is very low.
That's why Zhuo Yixiong was able to find a candidate who met Li Yi's requirements so quickly.
A group called "Old Boys"!
Xu Nian and Fang Jianbin.
Both of them are approaching forty this year.
For the entertainment industry, although there is a saying that it is a late bloomer, those talent shows seem to have relaxed the age limit, but in fact, it is just to increase the attraction of the show.
How easy is it for such an old draft contestant to really get ahead?
Therefore, although the old boy duo Xu Nian and Fang Jianbin performed quite well in a certain talent show, it is a pity that they are amateur players after all. Even if they perform well, how can they compete with those young people?
, compared to players who have full support from entertainment companies behind them?
Many people think that talent shows are a stage for grassroots rise, but in fact, the water inside is too deep.
The vast majority of people who truly become famous through talent shows have actually been discovered before participating in the talent show.
Fang Jianbin and Xu Nian, one opened an auto repair shop and the other opened a barber shop.
When the two of them participated in the talent show, it was actually just to fulfill a previous dream. They never thought about becoming singers or anything like that.
After the talent show, the auto repair shop owner is still the auto repair shop owner, and the barber is still a barber. Of course, participating in the talent show has indeed had a certain impact on their lives.
At least during that period, their business improved a lot.
When Zhuo Yixiong sent someone to find the two of them, their first reactions were similar, that is, they had met a liar!
After all, they are all so old.
What's more, they actually said that the famous director Li Yi was looking for them, which was simply outrageous.
But after confirming it, the two of them were almost dumbfounded.
When Fang Jianbin and Xu Nian were brought to Li Yi, both of them were stunned on the spot.
Because for them, this is simply incredible and completely incomprehensible to them.
"Come, sit down!" Li Yi smiled and asked the two of them to sit down.
"Hey!" The two of them sat down numbly.
"Why did you participate in the talent show in the first place?" Li Yi asked curiously.
Although he also watched the "tell your story" segment when the two participated in the talent show, the effect of the show is one thing, and the reality is another.
"For a dream?" Li Yi asked again.
Xu Nian and Fang Jianbin looked at each other, and then Xu Nian mustered up his courage and said, "Actually, I just want to realize my dream of being on the stage."
"Stage dream?" Li Yi asked.
Xu Nian and Fang Jianbin looked at each other and nodded.
"Actually, when we were young, we were also popular figures in school." Xu Nian seemed to relax a lot and said with a smile.
Li Yi glanced at the two of them and nodded involuntarily.
In fact, to be honest, Li Yi thinks that the biggest failure of the original story is that those two guys are really not handsome, and they really don't fit in with the plot.
After all, a man of the hour, what is a man of the hour?
Either handsome or cool, but to be honest, Li Yi couldn't tell at all.
But Li Yi could see Xu Nian and Fang Jianbin in front of him.
Both of them look like handsome uncles now, especially Xu Nian. Although he is nearly forty years old, his clothes are not tacky at all. On the contrary, he still looks very handsome, and with the passage of time, he looks more elegant.
It smells like a "handsome uncle".
Therefore, when he said that they were once famous figures in the school, Li Yi believed it!
"We all liked singing and music at the beginning. Of course, it was not like this at the beginning. The main reason was that playing guitar and singing rock and roll at that time was really a cool thing and very eye-catching, so over time, we became
I fell in love with it.”
"When we were both young, we once thought about singing loudly on a big stage, under the spotlight, just like our idols, the Fengyun Band."
Fengyun Band is a relatively well-known old rock band in Hong Kong Island in this world.
However, the soul and lead singer of the band Fengyun back then was involved in an accident while performing in the island country and unfortunately died.
As a result, this old rock band disappeared into thin air, but at that time, it was an idol worshiped by countless young people.
As a Hong Kong Islander, Li Yi naturally knows the glory of Fengyun Band back then.
"But our academic performance was not good. We didn't pass the college entrance examination and went to university. I went to study auto mechanics and he went to be an apprentice barber."
"Actually, we usually keep in touch, but most of the time, singing is almost just at food stalls or KTV."
"Later on, wasn't the talent show a big hit? We started to think about it, so we just went crazy as a teenager, so we went."
Life is not so bloody. For example, what happened in "Oldboy" may partially overlap with the experiences of Xu Nian and Fang Jianbin, but many of them are different.
For example, Xu Nian and Fang Jianbin lived a good life.
Xu Nian opened a barber shop, and it was a mid-to-high-end barber shop, earning a lot of money. Fang Jianbin opened an auto repair shop, and the income was also high.
Of course, the girl they had a crush on, or the girl they liked when they were students, is indeed not their wife now, but this is similar.
But to put it bluntly, this kind of thing is really too common.
At the same time, the two of them don't have villain classmates like Bao Xiaobai in "Oldboy", but there are indeed many classmates who they once looked down upon who are now doing better than them, but they are not like in the story.
That's all the drama.
Xu Nian and Fang Jianbin have never thought about becoming singers. Of course, it's not because they don't want to, but because it's unrealistic.
They are no longer young, so naturally they are not so naive. They think that talent shows really have no threshold, and that they can become famous if they really have the ability.
Besides, is their strength really comparable to those young players who are extremely talented and have been trained since childhood?
Certainly not!
Therefore, according to Fang Jianbin, they simply wanted to have a chance to fulfill a dream they once had and sing loudly on a big stage with everyone's attention.
They did.
"Actually, there are really not that many regrets. At least we had the opportunity to sing on stage. During that time, we both received blessings from classmates, relatives and friends every day. It was actually quite good."
Li Yi nodded.
Of course, he will not adapt anything based on the story of the two people.
After all, film and television works are not reality. If there were no such twists and turns, the appeal would be much lower.
But he thinks Fang Jianbin and Xu Nian are quite suitable.
