The next day, Zhuang Fan woke up early.
He didn't report to the set of " Drawing Swords ". Instead, he went up to the roof and practiced some boxing. Only then did he calm down and think about the movie he had seen in his previous life-" A Thousand Miles of Riding Alone "!
This movie's budget wasn't high. It seemed to be 50 million, but it wasn't even 60 million!
As a member of the entertainment industry, Zhuang Fan had a habit before watching a movie. He would look at the movie's investment, production, company, and so on. Then, he would look at the list of main actors. Finally, when he watched the movie, he would analyze the acting skills of the main actors.
Therefore, Zhuang Fan still had some impression of this movie.
After all, it was a film by a famous director in the country. He watched it with the mentality of learning.
"Other than the lead actor, Takakura Ken, who is the second male lead?”
Zhuang Fan really could not recall anything, but he remembered the plot of the movie very clearly.
At the beginning of the film, it was about a father and son. The relationship between the father, Takada Okaichi, and his son, Takada Kenichi, had always been bad.
His father had always felt very regretful about this.
One day, Kenichi's wife told Takada Okaichi that Kenichi was seriously ill. Takada Okaichi rushed over, but Kenichi refused to see his father.
Then, Kenichi's wife gave Takada Okayi a videotape. In the videotape, Kenichi was studying Nuo opera in China.
The so-called Nuo opera was also known as ghost opera in China. It was the oldest dance of the Han people to sacrifice gods and dance ghosts, drive away plagues and avoid diseases, and express the joy of the gods.
In the video, his son and a Chinese folk artist named Li Jiamin had made an appointment to come back the next year to film his best traditional play," Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles."
This " A Thousand Miles of Riding Alone " was a very famous scene in Chinese Nuo opera.
Later, Takada Okazu suddenly received news that his son was terminally ill.
At this moment, Takada Okaichi somewhat forgave his son.
In order to make up for his relationship with his son, he decided to do something for his son. He decided to go to China alone to film Li Jiamin's Nuo opera.
He believed that this was his son's wish and he had to fulfill it.
However, Takada's trip to China did not go smoothly.
When Jiang Wen, the tour guide of the travel agency, accompanied Gao Tian to Li Family Village, she found that Li Jiamin was no longer in his original village. The reason was that when someone ridiculed him for having an illegitimate child, he was very angry and injured someone. He was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison.
Gao Tian wanted to enter the prison to film him. With the help of the local tour guide Qiu Lin, who had poor Japanese and English, and Director Li Bin of the Foreign Affairs and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, he finally made it to the prison.
When Gao Tian arrived in front of Li Jiamin and the small band began to play, Li Jiamin was unable to perform Nuo opera because he missed his son whom he had never seen before.
Gao Tian wanted to go back to the village to find Li Jiamin's son. Li Jiamin's son could not accept his father and refused to visit his father with Gao Tian.
In the end, Takada felt that he understood his son.
On his way back to the prison, he learned of the death of his son Kenichi and that Kenichi had forgiven him before he died.
However, Gao Tian still returned to the prison and showed Li Jiamin a photo of Li's son. He also watched and filmed the meticulously prepared Nuo opera," A Thousand Miles of Riding Alone ", in the prisoner activity room with the prisoners!
……
This was an extremely heartwarming story. It was about a father who, in order to express his love and repentance at the last moment of his son's life, embarked on a journey of redemption for his own soul!
Two of the father-son relationships intersected with each other and eventually saved each other.
It could be said that the plot was very outstanding. However, the reputation did not reach Zhang Yimou's expectations.
Although it was not too bad, it was definitely not outstanding.
Later, Zhuang Fan analyzed the reason. It might have something to do with the acting skills of the main leads.
Li Jiamin, who played the role of a folk artist, was Li Jiamin himself. He was a non-hereditary inheritor of Nuo opera and did not know how to perform at all. However, this was nothing.
However, the second female lead and the second male lead were the most miserable.
The second female lead was a student from the Japanese Arts Department of Beijing Film Academy. As for the second male lead, Old Moe had no choice but to find a local tour guide.
She knew a little Japanese and her image was passable.
With such a lineup, he formed this " A Thousand Miles of Riding Alone "!
In the end, its rating in China was 7.5. It barely exceeded 7 points overseas.
As for the awards, he didn't get many.
It could be said that compared to Old Moe's previous movies, this movie was undoubtedly inferior and gloomy.
However, it was actually a good movie.
Because his screenwriter was Zou Jingzhi, who had the reputation of being the best screenwriter in China. The script had been written for two years. In order to pass through Zhang Yimou and Takakura Ken's discerning eyes, it had been revised countless times. In the end, the story presented in the film was completely different from the story that Zou Jingzhi had written.
The background of the story was also moved from Shaanxi to Nanyun's Li City.
It could be said that all of this was due to problems with actors, directors, and so on.
"I hope that after I'm selected, I can rely on my performance to pull back some points!”
With this thought in mind, Zhuang Fan began to analyze the candidates he wanted to audition for!
The male lead was definitely unrealistic. The son of the male lead, Takada Kenichi…Zhuang Fan felt that it was possible.
However, his intuition told him that the second male lead, the tour guide, was undoubtedly the most suitable.
Because in his previous life, Old Moe had been troubled by this character for a long time.
In the end, they could only settle for the next best thing and find a real tour guide to deal with it. This was undoubtedly a blow to Moe, who was always striving for perfection in his movies.
After all, the difference between a tour guide and an actor…was too great.
Even if you were to act in your own character, the difference between what you usually did and the effect that the movie wanted to present was too big.
"Tour guide!"
"90% chance!"
"Then I…will recall some of the plot of the tour guide!”
Zhuang Fan closed his eyes and began to think about the scenes of the tour guide in " A Thousand Miles of Riding Alone."
Then, he thought of something and started acting.
The entire morning was spent in his memories. He didn't even reply to Yang Mi's message.
After a quick lunch, Zhuang Fan hailed a cab and headed straight for Hua Yuan Restaurant. He could be considered a rich man now.
Yesterday, he had signed the contract with Monk Wei and received 50% of the initial payment, which was 20,000 yuan.
The remaining 50% would only be given to him after the filming was done.
This 50% would also be deducted from the 8000 RMB performance tax.
So Zhuang Fan had about 30,000 yuan on him now, including the income from his extras and the 5000 yuan his mother gave him for rent.
His rent was paid once a month.
An hour and a half later, Zhuang Fan arrived at the audition venue, Hua Yuan Hotel.
One looked like a restaurant on the outside, but when one walked in, one would find that it was an office hotel with a different world. There were even many posters of Moe's movie on the first floor.
Obviously, this place was Zhang Yimou's studio.
At present, he obviously had not fallen out with Zhang Weiping. The two of them were currently in the honeymoon period of cooperation.
After confirming the floor with the front desk, the security guard confirmed with Pang Liwei before opening the elevator for Zhuang Fan and pressing the elevator number to the 9th floor.
Ding!
The elevator door on the 9th floor opened and Zhuang Fan saw a very fashionably dressed girl standing in front of him.
He looked to be in his twenties.
Zhuang Fan guessed that this should be Old Moe's personal assistant, Pang Liwei.
In his previous life, Zhuang Fan had heard of her name. She had used nearly 20 years to complete the magnificent transformation from the assistant of the old man to a movie producer.
The box office champion of the Spring Festival in 2023," Rivers Run Red," was her name.
At this moment, she should have only been with Old Moe for a short while.
"Zhuang Fan?"
Pang Liwei looked Zhuang Fan up and down and frowned slightly. However, she was still very polite and invited Zhuang Fan to a lounge to sit down.
"I'll go get Director Zhang!"
"Come in when your name is called!”
As Pang Liwei spoke to Zhuang Fan, she had already walked into the office.
Zhuang Fan stood up and looked at the decorations and posters in Zhang Yimou's studio. In less than a minute, he heard a few heavy footsteps.
"Xiao Pang, let the person recommended by Old Zhang in!”
A voice that Zhuang Fan was extremely familiar with sounded. It was a voice that was slightly hoarse. In his previous life, Zhuang Fan had heard it many times on the television news.
However, this was probably the first time they had met.
"Director Zhang…"
Zhuang Fan heard Pang Liwei's voice again, but she spoke very softly, so Zhuang Fan could not hear her clearly.
"Very young and handsome?"
"It's okay. Let him in first!”
Zhang Yimou's voice sounded again.
Zhuang Fan suddenly understood why Pang Liwei frowned when she first saw him. It was because he was too handsome.
He was probably afraid that he wouldn't be able to handle the role he was auditioning for?
Zhuang Fan couldn't help but laugh. Was being f * cking handsome a mistake?
Of course, this was a joke.
In fact, handsome male actors in many television and movies would indeed be subjected to a lot of restrictions.
Because the actor was too handsome, the audience might overlook…his acting skills.
Therefore, sometimes, the director would deliberately make the lead actor ugly.
Creak!
The office door was suddenly pushed open.
Pang Liwei walked out expressionlessly and said to Zhuang Fan,""Hello, come in!"
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