Chapter 361 It is possible to become the second behind-the-scenes of Shanhe
That's pretty much all the male characters in "Insidious", and then there are the female characters.
There are not many female characters in this drama, and some of them are quite distinctive.
For example, Xu Baofeng, a female spy who graduated from the special military acting training class and is "good at cooperating".
As soon as her husband died, Ma Kui’s daughter-in-law started hiding cats in the closet with her true love, Secretary Hong.
There is also a wise wife who knows everything and has a capable younger brother.
These female characters all have distinctive personalities and charms, but they are all supporting roles. The really important female characters in "Insidious" are the three heroines——
Zuo Lan, Cuiping, Mu Wanqiu.
Among them, the heroine Mu Wanqiu is relatively reluctant. In a strict sense, it is acceptable to be listed as a supporting actress.
For this character, many people simply define her as a nympho or a green tea bitch.
In fact, this definition of Mu Wanqiu is a bit one-sided. This character still has a certain complexity.
Mu Wanqiu is the niece who lives in her uncle Mu Liancheng's house. The relationship between the uncle and nephew is not as close as it seems. At least when Mu Liancheng fled abroad, he didn't ask anything about his niece.
This kind of life of being dependent on others can easily develop a character that longs for a sense of security.
It was not so much that she fell in love with Yu Zecheng at first sight, but rather that she developed an admiration for him after seeing her uncle, who was her patron, treat Yu Zecheng with humility and respect.
With this good impression, she "dated" with Yu Zecheng, and then slowly fell in love with him.
Later, Mu Liancheng ran away, Yu Zecheng no longer had the task of making money for Webmaster Wu, and no longer wasted time on Mu Wanqiu, and the two "broke up".
When Mu Wanqiu appeared again, she was already a wife.
She married a husband she didn't love, and she was self-righteous and respected the "freedom" of women in the new era, so when she met her first love again, Yu Zecheng, she burst out with great enthusiasm.
Since their reunion, Mu Wanqiu has shown love to Yu Zecheng in various ways and even seduced her. This is why many viewers hate her.
Especially with Cuiping, who is enthusiastic, hearty, kind and sincere, it makes Mu Wanqiu's character even more unlikable.
But actually from another perspective, Mu Wanqiu is also very pitiful.
An orphan girl lived in the care of others and finally fell in love with someone. However, her sweetheart broke up with her for no reason, her uncle ran away, and she was forced to marry a man who didn't love her.
From a strictly orthodox perspective, this character is definitely not a good woman, at least a few steps behind Zuo Lan and Cuiping, but in terms of complexity, she is definitely the best of the three heroines.
At the same time, she is also the one who has changed the most in the play, from the innocent girl at the beginning, to the prostitute in the middle, to the underground party who accompanied Yu Zecheng to lurk in Taiwan Province at the end.
Zuo Le studied this role carefully and finally settled on his own artist Song Jia.
Song Jia is a movie star and has no problem with her acting skills. She became famous across the country as a young actress in "Enter Guandong". Not long ago, her role in "The Lotus Lantern" made her popular even more.
Currently, Shanhe is filming "The Prequel to the Lotus Lantern", and Song Jia still plays the role of the Third Holy Mother Yang Chan, and her role can almost be regarded as the heroine.
If "The Prequel to the Lotus Lantern" can maintain more than half of the popularity and success of "The Lotus Lantern", Song Jia will have the confidence to challenge first-line artists.
If Mu Wanqiu from "Latent" is added to the mix, Song Jia's chance of success is extremely high.
In the same way, the same is true for Wan Qian.
The female artists of Shanhe have always had good luck, and they took off immediately after joining the company, which is several times easier than the male artists of the same company.
If the landlady of Shanhe hadn't been so careful, Zuo Le wouldn't have been able to escape even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
However, even among so many female artists with smooth careers, Wan Qian is the most enviable one.
Joining Shanhe, he started out in "Magic Phone" directed by Zuo Le, playing the female supporting role He Lan.
In fact, this is not too exaggerated. Shui Miaomiao, who has the best luck, started as the first female lead in "Seven Swords". Wan Qian, this is not too exaggerated.
What really made her famous is that Wan Qian starred in Zuo Le's three TV series, "Magic Phone", "Bright Sword" and now "Latent".
Yes, Wan Qian plays Zuo Lan in "Latent", a revolutionary female warrior full of faith and idealism, Yu Zecheng's true love and leader.
There is a saying that although Wan Qian and Tian Yan are good best friends, they have recently become Xiao Zuoxuan's godmother. After being a die-hard queen, they have also become the number one general of the princelings.
But when Zuo Le chose Wan Qian this time, he really didn't consider too much personal friendship. He simply felt that Wan Qian had a tenacity and intellectual beauty that was more suitable for the role of Zuo Lan.
However, although Zuo Le emphasized that there was no shady secrets in the casting, the outside world certainly did not believe it, especially within Shanhe, which almost exploded.
She has appeared in three Zuo Le TV series in a row, and she is still the heroine in the last two. Although she is not the first heroine, her weight is not much different.
Except for former Shanhe's first sister Yan Ni, even Shui Miaomiao, who is now carrying the tripod, have never experienced this kind of treatment. Wan Qian's popularity among the company's female artists has once again declined.
But Wan Qian doesn't care about this. As a "connected person" from the party, she has not been very popular among female artists since she entered Shanhe.
Except for Yan Ni, who has no competitive relationship with her, and Mao Tong, who joined the company at the same time, Wan Qian rarely communicates with the company's female artists.
If she has that free time, she might as well have a heart-to-heart talk with her best friend, the landlady...
Wan Qian played Chang'e in "Lotus Lantern", and she still plays this role in "Lotus Lantern". Together with Zuo Lan in "Latent", she is also very hopeful to break through to the top this year like Song Jia.
By then, Shanhe will have five first-line female artists, Shui Miaomiao, Yin Li, Zhang Jiajia, Song Jia and Wan Qian.
There is also Yan Ni who has a close relationship outside, and Mao Tong, who became famous because of Xiao Yu in "Lotus Lantern", is also chasing after her.
Zuo Le really came up with the idea of filming a palace battle drama. The artist resources are so good that there is no need to waste them.
Even his golden finger seems to have a quite classic palace fight drama, but he is not too fond of the Qing palace background in it. If he wants to film it, he can set up a separate overhead background.
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Let’s go too far, let’s talk about the last heroine of “Latent”, who also has the biggest role and is also Zuo Le’s favorite heroine – Cuiping.
This uneducated, careless, and even rude woman is second only to the male protagonist Yu Zecheng in the drama in terms of her shining point.
Yu Zecheng went through three women in the play, and Mu Wanqiu mostly acted for the occasion. Although he couldn't bear to kill her later, he couldn't fall in love with her.
The only people he really loves are Zuo Lan and Cuiping.
The former gave him faith, and the latter gave him strength. Even later in the plot, after countless life and death dependencies, Yu Zecheng relied more on and trusted Cuiping, otherwise Zuo Lan would have replaced Zuo Lan's weight in Yu Zecheng's heart.
Zuo Lan's sacrifice and the mistaken belief that Cuiping died were Yu Zecheng's two most painful scenes in the play, especially "Cuiping's death", which almost caused Yu Zecheng to collapse.
He no longer cares whether his identity is exposed or not, but confronts Li Ya in order to complete the tasks assigned by the organization and avenge Cuiping.
Zuo Le, a female guerrilla leader who looked earthy and straightforward but had great courage and strength in her heart, initially wanted to find Yan Ni, but then after serious consideration, she found Yin Li.
In addition to the age issue, the main reason is that Yan Ni is not an artist at Shanhe now, and the movie is just that. After all, she is still testing the waters, but as the company's basic TV series, we still have to give priority to the female artists who stay at Shanhe.
In addition, Yan Ni obviously does not want to continue to work in the field of TV dramas. In the first half of this year, except for the long-decided role of the Queen Mother in "The Prequel of the Lotus Lantern", she did not accept any TV dramas.
It can be expected that Yan Ni’s career development focus in the future will be 80% in the film field.
As for why Yin Li was chosen, it was mainly because her image and acting skills were more suitable, and Zuo Le also wanted to praise her more.
Although the Shanhe female artists are all very popular, since Yan Ni left, neither Shui Miaomiao nor Zhang Jiajia has a professional background and cannot take on the heavy responsibility of acting actresses.
Therefore, Zuo Le placed his hope on Yin Li.
This girl has been known for her amazing aura since she first debuted. She has filmed so many movies over the years, whether it is Guo Furong, Mei Xiangnan, or Saint Ling'er, her acting skills have made great progress.
If Zuo Le were asked to decide who among the company's female artists is most likely to become Sunward's second Golden Phoenix Queen, Zuo Le's absolute first choice would be Yin Li, followed by Song Jia.
As for Qishui, the most popular actress at the moment, even though she was nominated twice for Best Actress, it was all because of her popularity. In Zuo Le's mind, Shui Miaomiao's chances of being nominated for Best Actress were not even in the top three.
Zuo Le very much hopes that Yin Li can make a breakthrough with "Latent", not to mention becoming a TV queen, at least becoming a popular candidate.
It also proves that without Yan Ni, Shanhe’s female artistes still have capable film-level actresses...
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ps: I have some personal matters these past two days. I came back late in the evening and have to get up early tomorrow. There is only one chapter today.
