Li Qian lay on the bed and sighed, enjoying the massage from Tong Liya's tender hands.
This period of time has exhausted him to death. He has never stopped since the release of "I Am Legend".
Running publicity, setting up a company, and then preparing for "I'm Not the God of Medicine", and making some investments with eyes closed in the middle, were all done in just three months, but Li Qian was exhausted to the point of death.
"You too, who told you to be in such a hurry? Why don't you take a two-month break like last year before preparing for the new film? Anyway, you can still make it in time for the Lunar New Year." Tong Liya said helplessly, it's not because she made herself so tired.
Li Qian shook his head, "It's not appropriate for the Lunar New Year, a festive day."
"Then "Assembly Number" was released during the Lunar New Year period, so it's the same, doesn't it?"
"Then you haven't watched "The Proposal". It's a pretty good movie, but the content is quite heavy and it's in the Lunar New Year period. How was the box office?"
"Don't argue!"
Tong Liya slapped Li Qian on the back of the head in annoyance, "Didn't you say at the beginning that a movie with no hope like "The Name of the Name" would be difficult to sell no matter when it was released?"
"Did I say that?" Li Qian was a little surprised.
"It wasn't you or who said that."
"Forget it, I don't know who said it, just take it as mine."
"...I won't touch you anymore. My hands are sore. I'm going to read the script."
Tong Liya left Li Qian and started reading a script from the bedside.
"Look, I'll lie down for a while." Li Qian changed his position and closed his eyes.
Five minutes passed, and I suddenly felt like someone was scratching me.
When I woke up, I saw it was a foot.
Li Qian moved his position with some disgust.
"What's going on?"
Tong Liya looked at Li Qian innocently, blinked, and had a big question mark carved on her forehead.
"I've slept enough, get up."
He shook his head, went to wash up, sat back on the bed, and read the script together.
"It's a very simple script. On the surface, Huang Xiaoxian has three stages. In the first stage, he will jump up when he hears Lu Ran's name. In the second stage, he pretends to have forgotten that person. Until the third stage, he completely lets it go. He completely forgets and treats him like a passerby.
This is the first level.”
"I know too. The script has been written, but what about the second level?"
Li Qian thought for a while and said, "On the surface, Lu Ran cheated on her and Huang Xiaoxian was the injured party, but like this line from Huang Xiaoxian's narration: In this relationship, we were evenly matched, but everything failed miserably at the end. I ruined it."
, is his dream about me; and what he owes me is a world that was originally promised.
The character of Huang Xiaoxian is a girl who speaks harshly, which is also a common character of older single women. Moreover, they have been dating for seven years, and with this line, it is understandable that Huang Xiaoxian destroyed Lu Ran's dream about her.
Because, in the past seven years, due to Huang Xiaoxian's character, Lu Ran endured it year after year, and finally was crushed, because Huang Xiaoxian was already the girl who was in the first year of love."
Listening to Li Qian's long analysis, Tong Liya thought thoughtfully, "Just like in "Nuan Nuan Contains the Light", the sweetness at the beginning of the relationship later exposed the shortcomings of both parties. Lu Ran couldn't bear it for seven years.
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While talking, Tong Liya suddenly discovered something, "That's wrong, why does the cheater seem to be innocent?"
"I haven't finished speaking yet." Li Qian spread his hands.
"Why did Huang Xiaoxian say that? Maybe that's the truth. There is no right or wrong. The two of them hurt each other. But as far as the script is concerned, we don't know the key details. Although Lu Ran said that he has always been in love.
He was humble and tired, but that was just his one-sided statement.
When he himself feels that his love is humble and that he is doing all his own giving and the other person is just shining in his life, he will enter such a vicious circle of thinking and gradually ignore the other person's contribution. People are all biased."
"so what?"
"So, I don't know. Only the director knows what's going on. You only need to show the first level. The rest of the deeper meaning actually depends on how the director arranges it. The same performance, in the hands of the director, will not affect the audience.
The understanding may be different.”
"Then you still say so much!" Tong Liya slapped Li Qian with the script angrily.
Li Qian was helpless, "Isn't this an analysis of Huang Xiaoxian's character? Don't worry about Lu Ran's character. It has nothing to do with you. All you need to do is think about Huang Xiaoxian's mentality and emotional changes. This film is about Love Broken Love III.
The story of thirteen days, the process of getting over a broken love.
The reason why she didn't come out at the beginning was because she hadn't let go yet. No matter what the reason was for Lu Ran's cheating, whether it was Huang Xiaoxian's too much work that wore away his patience, or because he didn't love her for other reasons, it has nothing to do with you playing this role. Just remember
Even when her boyfriend cheated on her best friend, Huang Xiaoxian still cried and chased the taxi. This shows that she still has Lu Ran in her heart. This lovelorn state must be grasped. Falling out of love is different from falling out of love."
"After all this, I still love my ex-boyfriend." Tong Liya sighed.
"Not necessarily, maybe she still loves her, or maybe she just felt hurt by Lu Ran's words and felt wronged, so she chased the car impulsively. It's all possible."
"...Too much trouble."
"It's easy to fall in love, but it's hard to break up. When you're in love, you love each other and stay together. There are more cases of falling out of love."
"How do you know so much and have so much experience?" Tong Liya reacted and suddenly turned her head to stare at Li Qian.
"Uh...any audience can interpret my movie in many ways. Have they ever made a movie?"
Li Qian shrugged, "Just think about it more, or read books, go online, and read all the emotional posts on various forums. Everyone is a master of theory. They have basic reading comprehension skills acquired through nine years of voluntary education."
There are still some.”
"Really? I'll go take a look later." Tong Liya turned around and said, "But it's so troublesome, layer by layer."
"There's no need to worry, just perform what's written in the script. As for the deeper level, listen to the director's arrangements. For example, in the car chase scene, after being stopped by Wang Xiaojian, if the director asks you to continue crying to death,
If he is struggling to run forward, then what he probably wants to express is that Huang Xiaoxian still loves Lu Ran, even if he cheated on his best friend.
If after stopping the car, I asked you to stop and stop crying, it would be basically because the words Lu Ran said before made her realize her mistakes for so many years, so she impulsively chased the car, just like
Wang Xiaojian asked her if she was awake, and this section was stuck exactly one-third of the way, which was considered a turning point."
When making a movie, the performance is very flexible. Nothing can be explained clearly in 90 minutes, but it will give the audience a lot of room for association. Sometimes even a small detail can make people think of a completely different direction.
Wherever it is explained clearly and where it is left to the audience, it is all skills. Unlike TV dramas, which are twenty or thirty episodes long, no matter how complicated the plot is, they can be clearly explained to you.
"Then you still tell me so many useless things." Tong Liya curled her lips.
"Isn't this teaching you to understand the characters from all angles? Besides, it's just a script, so I just read it once without studying it carefully."
He had memories of the movie in his mind, but just by watching it once and not thinking deeply, Li Qian couldn't explain why. It was not a movie that he had studied and analyzed over and over again.
"Then I'll watch it slowly. I've made an appointment with Director Teng and the screenwriter to discuss it in a few days." Tong Liya said curiously, "By the way, Wang Jinghua has offended you. Why didn't you change her actor when you invested in this drama?"
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"You don't want to act with Wen Zhang?" Li Qian asked confused.
"That's not true." Tong Liya shook her head, "He is two years older than me, and I know him at school, but our classmates all said that he has become more and more crazy in the past two years. In the past, he was just a bit naughty in school.
That’s all.”
"Let him be crazy. He can't be crazy in front of you. The crew will send a producer there. The main reason is that Teng Huatao has already decided on the male and female lead. He and Wen Zhang are also good friends. Wen Zhang must play the male role.
As for the protagonist, I also respect the creator's wishes, after all, it is his own film."
Wen Zhang is an actor with great plasticity. It's hard to say which of the new generation of actors is better than him. Hu Ge may not be better than him.
It doesn't matter if he changes or not, he is indeed very suitable for the role of Wang Xiaojian.
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While Li Qian was busy with the preparations for "I'm Not the God of Medicine", starting from the end of February, major companies spent a little money to create some discordant voices on the Internet, which have been going on for several days.
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Although most viewers are still looking forward to Li Qian's new film, many viewers still question whether Li Qian will switch to realistic subjects or medicine, a subject that has no precedent for being a hit either at home or abroad.
There are also some unpleasant sounds mixed in there.
"As a realistic movie, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is probably the same as "The Great Tangshan Earthquake". One relies on the grief of the people in the disaster area, while the other relies on leukemia patients selling their misery to gain sympathy."
"Li Qian is embarrassed to donate money to cancer patients. He has the same virtue as Ma Xiaogang!"
"Li Qian was probably recruited to film a character who touched the hearts of Chinese people. He is also the god of medicine. If he is such a god, why would there be so many people who look down on medical treatment?"
"Can't you just make a good commercial blockbuster? You have to engage in crooked ways, consuming cancer patients who are dying, and making a fortune by tricking yourself into tears!"
"Hey, what have become of today's directors? Ma Xiaogang consumes people in disaster areas, Li Qian consumes dying cancer patients, and Zhang Yimou's "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" also consumes 300,000 Jinling compatriots who died. It's simply disgusting!"
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Although various companies have not taken much action, these unpleasant voices can still be seen frequently.
However, they were obviously not united. Not only Li Qian, he also pulled out Ma Xiaogang, who had received mixed reviews last summer, and flogged his corpse. He also scolded Zhang Yimou.
Li Qian had no intention of clarifying the matter and told the company not to worry about it, so Du Yang took no action.
They are not as worried as various companies speculated, and are even a little leisurely.
After two months, the company is on the right track. The network and online marketing team are expanding, and the production team is also preparing several films.
None of the company's executives had any worries about Li Qian's "I'm Not the God of Medicine".
Both Du Yang and Zhong Lifang were still joking around in the company.
"Some people will never learn a lesson. Maybe if Director Li changes the subject of his next movie, there will be people who will badmouth him."
Zhong Lifang smiled, "Actually, as opponents, they subconsciously hope to see Director Li fail. Naturally, their thoughts will be affected. It's not surprising that they will wake up again after the movie is released, and then continue like this in the next movie.
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People are subjective creatures. No matter how rational they are, they are not immune to the influence of their own subconscious wishes. As long as there is a little factor that can support them in badmouthing Li Qian, this factor will be infinitely amplified.
When a boy sees his crush smiling at you, he will instantly think about many things in his mind. This is what his subconscious wants, which affects his objective judgment.
Contrary to outsiders, Li Qian had just established Future Pictures, and before they had even reached an agreement in private, he resigned from his original high position and decisively joined the company. Several executives of Future Pictures had absolute and blind views on Li Qian.
Confidence.
You know, Xiaoma is already preparing to go public, and as Zhong Lifang is the second-in-command, she will definitely get a huge fortune when it goes public.
Even if Li Ming's behavior was too radical and a bad company would be ruined, she had never had other ideas before.
However, the establishment of Li Qian's Future Pictures has allowed her to resolutely give up the benefits after going public, which is evident.
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At this time, in an office in another office building, Wang Jinghua, a domestic agent, was watching these voices on the Internet in her free time, and she felt inexplicably happy.
The only contact with Li Qian ended on bad terms. As Li Qian gradually reached his current status, Wang Jinghua felt increasingly uncomfortable even though he had no contact with him again.
Even though she couldn't afford to offend Li Qian now, and even had the idea of taking the initiative to apologize, she had been famous for many years and was respected everywhere, and her unhappiness did not disappear. She even wished that Li Qian would make a big mistake.
She fell down from a high place so that she could look down at Li Qian and not have to worry all day long about the negative consequences of offending such a great director.
Continuously flipping through the web pages, seeing all kinds of negative comments and even scoldings, the smile on Wang Jinghua's face grew wider and wider.
At this time, the phone rang. It was an old friend Teng Huatao calling.
The smile on Wang Jinghua's face dimmed slightly. Previously, she had worked hard to help Teng Huatao get investment for his project, and even asked Wen Zhang and Bai Baihe to get no remuneration but only a share of the film.
As a result, after all the busy work, Teng Huatao went to find Du Yang again in a blink of an eye.
Forget it with Du Yang, but later Du Yang and Li Qian joined forces to set up Future Pictures. Wouldn’t this become a movie invested by Li Qian?
As a director who has produced phenomenal TV series and is a relatively popular low-budget romance film at the moment, Wang Jinghua was very optimistic about "Love Is Not Blind", but Li Qian was the one to pick it up.
After working hard for several months, Li Qian got an advantage, and Wen Zhang and Bai Baihe might face some difficulties.
However, after answering the phone, Teng Huatao's first words stunned her.
"Sister Hua, I'm sorry, the role of Huang Xiaoxian cannot be given to Bai Baihe." Teng Huatao's apologetic voice came from the mobile phone.
"What?"
Wang Jinghua looked in disbelief, and his mood hit rock bottom.
Not only was the film cheap for Li Qian, but even the originally agreed-upon roles were replaced by Li Qian!
I was watching a joke just now and felt very comfortable. In an instant, I fell from heaven to the earth, and even dropped my bag hard.
Wang Jinghua couldn't accept it. After working for so long, Li Qian changed her role!