In his heart, Li Dazhi is still reluctant to give up being a regular guest on "Favorite Challenge", which is understandable. Because the variety show "Favorite Challenge" has really improved his popularity. Even if he was not famous at all, as long as he As a regular guest on this show, you can steadily rise to the ranks of second-tier stars.
The main reason is that this program has very high ratings. At least tens of millions of people watch each episode, not to mention the number of broadcasts on the Internet.
There are even two relatively outstanding artists who have steadily risen to the ranks of first-line stars after participating in this show. This is based on the previous example.
For example, after a certain female artist joined this show as a regular guest, she was given special care and frequently photographed. The game script was also designed in favor of her. In addition, she herself is relatively beautiful. The most important thing is that she The financial backers behind it strongly supported it, but hired gunmen to post soft articles online.
In this way, within half a year, she started to become popular, and after a year, she became a first-line star. One obvious manifestation is that many well-known brands asked her to be an endorser, and the standard of the endorsement fee was based on the first-line star. Given by a star. Although she has never had any outstanding film and television works since then, she has gradually consolidated her position as a first-line star.
But after she quit the show "Favorite Challenge", her popularity declined rapidly. Within a year, the popularity was gone. She was no longer stable in the top ranks.
Therefore, if you want to truly establish yourself as a first-line star, the most important thing is to produce works that you can produce, especially movies that can get high box office or high reputation, because movies have the highest celebrity status, compared to TV series and songs. Be high.
If you can win a significant international film award, your status will be even higher, and you can rely on it for the rest of your life.
This is the case with the Li Jiayi I mentioned before. Even though she was unsuccessful in Hollywood and she didn't even win any major international awards, she became gilded by going to Hollywood. After returning to China, she The celebrities in the domestic film and television industry are among the best.
Chen Feng's original idea was to let Li Dazhi slowly rise to the top through the program "Favorite Challenge". As a result, Li Dazhi's performance in this program was not particularly eye-catching, and he himself was not What a handsome guy, he is already popular, but he is still far from the top. At least judging from his current fame growth trend, it will be difficult for him to reach the top within a year.
Therefore, Chen Feng had to use alternative plans and use a good movie to lead him.
Even though Li Dazhi knew Chen Feng's good intentions and wanted to help him improve his reputation, Chen was not in a hurry. Because for him, the current development trend is quite good and stable.
As long as he continues to perform stably and continues to show his face in front of the national audience through "Favorite Challenge", he can continue to steadily increase his popularity.
It's just that he can wait, but Chen Feng can't wait.
In order to complete the task of promoting Li Dazhi to a first-line star, Chen Feng has taken great pains.
And in order to get Li Dazhi to agree to participate in this movie early? She had to drag Li Wan to participate. Otherwise, according to Chen Feng's guess about Li Wan, she would definitely not agree to Li Dazhi's participation.
Even if Chen Feng could forcefully order Li Dazhi to participate, it would probably make both of them unhappy, and Li Dazhi would not be able to perform this classic movie well.
To put it simply, Chen Feng chose to compromise with Li Wan, an ambitious woman.
But Chen Feng knows that this is only temporary. After completing the task, Chen Feng will definitely kick this woman Li Wan away. In addition, in this movie, the heroine Li Wan really does not have much sense of existence.
The protagonist? But in fact, there are not many scenes. Because the movie itself can be said to be a one-man show? Except for Mr. Shu, the male protagonist, the other characters are not particularly outstanding? Or the other characters are not.
It serves to create the character of Mr. Shu.
Therefore, the probability that Li Wan will become an instant hit by starring in this movie is very low? Basically, not many people will pay attention to her as a deaf-mute heroine.
However, Li Wan obviously cherished this role very much. She stayed up all night that night, read the script three times, memorized all the content of her role, and even asked Li Dazhi to play with her.
It can be said that Li Wan is a really hard-working woman. Although she is ambitious, she works really hard. She worked hard to get into Summit Entertainment Company, worked hard to become Li Dazhi's girlfriend, worked hard to control Li Dazhi, and now she is working hard.
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After the male and female protagonists are determined, it is relatively simple to find the remaining protagonists. First, choose within your own company. If there are suitable roles, you will give priority to contracted actors within your own company, and the rest will be recruited from other companies. Chen Feng is now
I have relatively good relations with other entertainment companies. I send them the role lists of the actors I need. Those entertainment companies are more generous and recommend actors to their companies.
Chen Feng and them have a good foundation for cooperation on "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". Because of the popularity of this national drama, it has really become a star for several entertainment companies' contracted actors.
Therefore, even though Chen Feng had stated in advance that this was a low-cost literary film, and most of the characters were just minor supporting roles, these companies were very considerate and treated them seriously. Basically, each company chose its own film.
Several actors from the company with suitable roles came to audition.
Chen Feng reciprocated the favor and personally hosted the audition, and the candidate was quickly selected.
Two days later, the crew of "Mr. Tree" was officially established. A group of more than thirty people, one bus and two buses arrived at the pre-selected filming location, which was not in the suburbs of Beijing, but hundreds of kilometers away from the capital.
A large coal mine is located outside.
This was originally a small town, but due to large-scale coal mining, the entire town was relocated, and now it is basically a ghost town.
It happened to be very suitable for the location background of the movie "Mr. Tree". In addition, because there were no people here, it certainly reduced a lot of trouble when filming the movie.
Jia Yong and his people helped Chen Feng handle all the preliminary work, including reporting to relevant local departments for approval in advance.
Therefore, after Chen Feng led the team there, he was warmly welcomed by the reception staff waiting for him from the relevant local departments.
In the shadow of a famous tree, Chen Feng is now a big star and director, and there are very few people who don’t know him in China. As soon as they heard that Chen Feng was going to make a movie here, the relevant local departments, especially the cultural department, took action.
Both hands and feet agree.
Chen Feng was a little impatient with these social interactions, but in order to successfully make a movie here, he had to be patient and socialize with these people.
However, he was not too polite to these guys who soaked in the wine vat every day. He did not toast each of them. He just toasted them all a glass of wine in a symbolic way, and then left the meeting and went back to the hotel on the pretext of preparing a movie script.
The place has gone.
After all, he is still a famous person no matter what, as long as the etiquette is barely in place. And the red envelopes that should be given are not missing from these people. In addition, of course, Jia Yong, the vice president of Summit Entertainment, helps entertain him.
The crew's accommodation was arranged with the help of the Coal Mine Bureau here. It was an office dormitory building in this small town in the past. The living facilities inside were complete. The crew just paid some token money.
The conditions are not that primitive, but relatively good.
The entire crew rested here for a day and started filming the movie early the next morning.
On the first day of filming, all aspects still needed to be adjusted and coordinated, so the progress was not very fast. The male lead, Li Dazhi, was not in the mood at the beginning and failed several times. In the end, I had no choice but to film other people's scenes first.
On the contrary, as the heroine, Li Wan plays Zhang Xiaomei, which makes Chen Feng feel a little surprised. Not to mention that her performance is amazing, but she is also on the passing line. Of course, this may also have something to do with the fact that she plays a deaf-mute character, at least
You don’t even need to memorize the lines. All you need is body language.
But overall, she is quite amazing.
You must know that she is not from a professional background and has never participated in a movie before. As soon as she started, she actually performed pretty well. Even better than Li Dazhi. Of course, this surprised Chen Feng.
Since her performance is qualified, it is also a good thing for Chen Feng.
The next day, Li Dazhi finally got into the mood, but they were all Mr. Shu's scenes in his normal state, and the difficulty was not very high. Therefore, his performance was passable. After all, he had always hired professionals in the company before
The veteran actor narrated plays for him and directed his acting skills. He had worked hard to become famous.
Otherwise, his acting skills in "Don't Get Water" would not have been well received. Later, he became an instant hit in "囧囧". This is certainly due to the likability of the script and the character, but his acting skills cannot be denied.
It's still online.
In this way, after filming for more than half a month, we finally entered the difficult part. Li Dazhi's acting skills were indeed a bit stretched.
Li Dazhi couldn't express Mr. Shu's slightly exaggerated and dazed mental state well, and he didn't have the natural charm of the original Baby when he smoked.
You must know that the baby's smoking posture in the original version is a classic shot, and it was made into an animated picture by the uncle's netizens and spread everywhere on the Internet.
Even though director Chen Feng taught him step by step, Li Dazhi still lacked the flavor when demonstrating. This made Chen Feng very depressed.
On the other hand, due to the official launch and hot sales of Android phones, orders from all over the world were overwhelmed, and Shengtang Technology needed him, the chairman, to coordinate.
Even the Tangsheng Technology foundry in Shencheng needs to further expand its production capacity, which requires Chen Feng to lay out the layout. The other one is Meilijia Company and Summit Entertainment Company, which actually has a lot of work waiting for him to handle.
Even if he controls it remotely, some things cannot be solved at once.
Therefore, Chen Feng really wanted to finish filming this movie as soon as possible, but now it seems that things are going against his wishes.
As a director, he couldn't leave the entire crew behind and go back to work first. Therefore, the only way was to let Li Dazhi enter Mr. Shu's spiritual world as soon as possible.
In order to achieve this goal, Chen Feng gave the entire crew a day off, but Li Dazhi and Li Wan were left alone. Then, Chen Feng came to talk to Li Wan alone.
"Li Wan, you should also be able to feel it. In fact, I don't really like you."
After the two sat face to face in the room, Chen Feng said this to her straight to the point.
Even though Li Wan was mentally prepared, her expression couldn't help but change at this moment. She suppressed the fear and anger in her heart, gritted her teeth and asked, "Can you tell me why?"
Chen Feng said expressionlessly: "Because you are very ambitious and scheming. You are trying to influence me through Li Dazhi."
Li Wan immediately denied: "I didn't..."
Chen Feng raised his hand and said: "Don't deny it in a hurry. Listen to me first."
Only then did Li Wan suppress the anxiety in her heart, nodded and said, "You say."
Chen Feng continued: "There is nothing wrong with you being ambitious, and there is nothing wrong with being scheming. I didn't like you before because you used your ambition and scheming on Dazhi and me. Now Dazhi likes you very much, what?
I listen to you. It can be said that you played with him and applauded him. More importantly, I can feel that you don’t really like him or love him in your heart. Isn’t it right? If he is not my apprentice,
He's not a big star, do you still like him and love him?"
Li Wan said in a stiff tone: "Your assumption is not valid. He was originally your apprentice, and now he is also a big star."
Chen Feng sneered and said: "I can sever the master-disciple relationship with him, and then cut off the resources the company provides him. Do you think he can still let you live a well-dressed and prestigious life? Or in this case
Now, can you still share the joys and sorrows with him and live an ordinary life?"
Li Wan was horrified and retorted: "You wouldn't do this. He is your apprentice and you value him. Otherwise, why do you keep praising him so much?"
"People never love each other for no reason. Even the love of biological parents for their children has a limit. Otherwise, blind doting will only harm others and yourself. I am not his biological father, but his nominal master.
, I have been good enough to him. And if his performance disappoints me, I can only give up on him. But now his performance makes me more disappointed. I have spent so many resources to support him, but now he still
Just a second-tier star. If I give so many resources to others, such as you, do you think you will do better than him?"
Li Wan bit her lips and was speechless. In fact, even though she was Li Dazhi's girlfriend, she was often jealous of Li Dazhi. Because Chen Feng supported him so much and gave him so many resources to promote him.
"Now, I'll give you a chance to show off. You go and tell Dazhi that if he doesn't perform well in this role and lowers the quality of this movie, you will break up with him. Because this movie is very important to you. It's also important to him.
It's also very important. I need to use this movie to promote him as a first-line star, otherwise he is not worthy of being my apprentice. Do you understand what I mean? This is the last chance I give him, and also you. Okay,