Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 492 I Want You to Know What Self-Discipline Is
Several waiters came in with dishes, and one waiter opened red wine and poured it into a decanter.

The dishes are served, the wine is poured, the dinner begins, and the conversation continues.

Because the important matter is at hand, everyone also has a taste of it.

All the people here are film and television professionals, even Wang Jinhua, who is a manager, can be regarded as a half-professional film and television professional.

Regarding the film framework proposed by Tang Jili, each of them spoke freely and made constructive suggestions on related cooperation matters.

There is an immersive communication here, and I don’t know it when the afterglow fades from noon to evening.

On the other side, the sun is just rising.

——New Haven, USA.

Eli community.

The sun is rising and the sun is shining brightly.

Roaming in the villa in the sun, Concubine Liu Yi is sitting in front of the dressing table in the bedroom. On the dressing table are cosmetic boxes, various combs and other tools for combing hair. Liu Xiaoli is standing behind her daughter with a comb, doing it for her hairstyle.

Concubine Liu Yi slightly swayed her head from side to side, looked at herself in the mirror, and admired her 360-degree beauty without dead ends.

She suddenly remembered what Chu Xuan said: "You are 3240 degrees of beauty without dead ends, 360 degrees of which stay in this impressive three-dimensional world, and the other eight 360 degrees are in the remaining eight invisible dimensions. Life appreciates it."

With a "puchi", Concubine Liu Yi smiled.

Every time she thinks of Chu Xuan's scientific and fancy praise, she feels happy and also very interesting at the same time.

Seeing her daughter suddenly smile, Liu Xiaoli combed her daughter's hair and shook her head: "I must miss Xiaoxuan again."

"I haven't seen you for almost two months." Concubine Liu Yi admitted frankly, with longing for Chu Xuan in her eyes.

Liu Xiaoli gave a doting smile, and stroked her daughter's hair: "After the interview is settled, we will return to China, and you can also film along the way."

"En." Concubine Liu Yi nodded repeatedly, thinking that she would be able to go back to filming with Chu Xuan in the near future, she was looking forward to it for a while.

She watched her mother help her start her hairstyle in the mirror, and after looking at it, she said, "Mom, how about a ponytail?"

Liu Xiaoli's hands froze in combing her hair, and she said with a thoughtful face, "Ponytail?"

After a pause, she shook her head: "I don't think so. If the ponytail hairstyle is combined with your face shape, although you are heroic, the ponytail will make you look a little delicate."

Concubine Liu Yi blinked, thinking about her mother's opinion.

Some time ago, Liu Yi sent her an email about the character setting of the heroine Princess Nihuang in "Legend of Red Flame", as well as some highlight plots of the characters, for her to ponder on her own.

She spent a few days thinking about it several times, and after communicating with Chu Xuan, in her daily life of shopping, walking, playing, and reading with her mother, she added training courses for herself.

She begged her mother to ask someone to arrange a room downstairs to look like a studio, similar to the ultra-small indoor studio used for self-study in the Donglin Bieyuan villa, and added three cameras and corresponding photography lights .

Look at your own training in the camera, so that you will have a more sense of substitution, and you will quickly find out the shortcomings.

In order to make the character feel stronger, she asked her mother to design Princess Nihuang's hairstyle for herself.

"Then how are you going to do it?" Except for filming, her mother has basically done her hair since she was a child, and when her mother was a dancer, she often set makeup for the dancers during the rehearsal stage.

Although my mother has no professional training in makeup, her experience and vision are not much worse than those of professional makeup artists.

Besides, this is her mother. How could her mother look at her as an ugly daughter?

"Impossible." Concubine Liu Yi thought proudly, this also came from her absolute trust in her mother from the bottom of her heart.

"Tie a neat bun." Liu Xiaoli said.

She raised her eyebrows and glanced at her daughter's questioning look through the mirror. She explained: "Princess Nihuang is not only a general but also a noble princess, and Princess Nihuang and Lin Shu had a marriage contract since they were young. It can be regarded as half-step married."

"In ancient times, when a woman put her hair up in a bun, it represented that she was a woman."

"The preciousness of the headdress on the bun represents the status of the woman."

"If you make a bun and match it with your appearance, it will give people a natural sense of nobility."

Liu Xiaoli rolled up her daughter's long hair and began to make it into a bun for her daughter.

"Chu Xuan always said that you have heroism between your brows, which means you have the temperament to fight in the battlefield."

"Princess Nihuang wears her hair in a bun before she is married, which means that Princess Nihuang has promised Lin Shu physically and mentally, and completely disregards etiquette. It also represents the love that Princess Nihuang has for Lin Shu."

"Pair it with one or two inconspicuous but precious headgear on the bun, which can also represent the noble status of Princess Nihuang."

"Why not a conspicuous headgear?" Concubine Liu Yi asked curiously.

"The headgear is too conspicuous and will distract the audience's attention. A good actor depends on his temperament and acting skills." Liu Xiaoli said.

"Wow." Concubine Liu Yi smiled when she heard the words: "Mom, I think you are so powerful now!"

Liu Xiaoli showed her face slightly, picked two dim but expensive hairpins from the dressing table, and carefully inserted them on the bun made for her daughter: "Because of your sister Hua, I have been working in the company for the past two years. I visited and studied in various departments, and the teachers were very polite to me, and they would say anything to me about any questions.”

"You are making progress, and I am making progress."

"Otherwise, how can I be your full-time agent when you go back after finishing your studies?"

"Mom is awesome!" Concubine Liu Yi smiled at her mother in the mirror. She and Chu Xuan didn't know what her mother had learned in the company. They just knew from her mother's occasional views on weekdays that her mother was getting better and better. incredible.

As for the analysis of Princess Nihuang just now, my mother can tell so many points with just a hairstyle, which was impossible for my previous mother.

It seems that she and Chu Xuan still underestimated the level of evolution of the mother, and the mother is now hiding it.

Liu Xiaoli looked at her daughter's changed hairstyle in the mirror, and nodded with satisfaction.

"That's right, I was quite as pretty as when I was young." She thought so, and it was rare for her to compete with her daughter in her heart at the age of nearly fifty.

"Go on, let mom see how you train." She squeezed her daughter's shoulder.

Concubine Liu Yi nodded, stood up and looked at herself in the mirror again.

"Beautiful." She admired herself, then turned and went downstairs with her mother.

When she came to the photography room, Concubine Liu Yi began to adjust the camera. Without the presence of a cameraman, she could only fix the camera in a suitable position.

Seeing her daughter busy, Liu Xiaoli couldn't help but ask, "Want to help?"

Concubine Liu Yi was adjusting a video camera, looking intently at the screen, and when she heard her mother's question, she said, "Point the video camera at the wall on my side, and point the video light over there at the center of the room. "

Liu Xiaoli fiddled with her daughter's instructions: "Do you have any explanation?"

Concubine Liu Yi adjusted the focal length of the camera, watching the screen zoom out, trying to find the best focused picture: "The camera is aimed at the corner of the wall, and the picture it takes will look like a wide-angle lens. Wide-angle lenses are usually used to shoot scenes. I rarely shoot people."

"The photography light is aimed at the lens of my camera, and the pictures taken will be backlit, and the effect is not good."

Liu Xiaoli adjusted the camera angle, and turned the camera light to face the center of the room: "If there is a backlight, the light source is the strongest, so the picture should be better, right?"

Concubine Liu Yi shook her head: "Although the light source is the strongest, the picture taken will be distorted. For example, if you shoot a face against the light, the face may look beautiful under strong light, but the skin of the face seems to be smoothed. I can’t take pictures of the inner lines, it’s almost like a beauty, which is very unreal.”

"Director Zhao, Director Kong, Wen Muye, including Brother Zhang, almost never use backlighting to shoot people, unless it is a special scene."

Liu Xiaoli nodded, and seeing her daughter get up and start working on another camera, she praised: "Yes, professional."

After a while, Concubine Liu Yi finished debugging the three cameras.

Three cameras are aimed at different angles, which can capture multi-faceted images.

After looking at her masterpiece, Concubine Liu Yi clapped her hands pretty, looking very satisfied.

"Okay." She came to the center of the room, ready to start training.

Liu Xiaoli looked at it with her arms around her and said, "Aren't you going to adjust the lights?"

"I don't know how to light up." Concubine Liu Yi pouted.

Liu Xiaoli gave her a gentle look and encouraged her: "I will learn later."

"Yeah." Concubine Liu Yi nodded, showing her interest and desire to learn lighting, and then fell silent.

Seeing her daughter's sudden stop, she knew that her daughter was looking for emotions, and Liu Xiaoli also calmed down without disturbing her.

For a moment, she saw her daughter frowning slightly and raising one hand, which was empty, but Liu Xiaoli knew that there should be a sword as a prop, but there is no such prop at present, and her daughter can only perform without the real thing.

"Kill!!" Concubine Liu Yi shouted in a deep voice.

Just this one word, and then... there is no after.

"How does it feel?" Concubine Liu Yi was eagerly waiting for her mother's comment.

Liu Xiaoli's stunned expression slowly dissipated, and she blinked at her daughter: "Is that just for a while? It's so embarrassing."

A mother is a mother, and she speaks so mercilessly.

Concubine Liu Yi squatted on the ground and couldn't help laughing.

"I think..." Liu Xiaoli thought about it for a while, and said, "I feel that your eyes are a bit like a child's affection."

"Children love each other?" Concubine Liu Yi squatted on the ground and raised her head.

Liu Xiaoli nodded: "In this plot, Lin Shu died here, and you led troops to fight against the enemy who killed Lin Shu back then at the place where Lin Shu died."

"The look in your eyes gives me the feeling of love for my son and daughter. What is this equivalent to? The purpose of you leading the army is to avenge Lin Shu."

"But you are a national marshal, how can you go to war for personal reasons?"

"If you give me the feeling that you have inherited Lin Shu's will, that you are defending your home and country, and that you are expelling the Tartars, then your sense of character will be higher and better."

Hearing her mother's words, Concubine Liu Yi thought about it thoughtfully.

Maybe it was because she had done too many emotional scenes with Chu Xuan, which made her unable to get out of her habitual emotional state for a while.

But after receiving her mother's suggestion, she suddenly realized that it would definitely not work to play Princess Nihuang in her previous state.

Moreover, the core idea to be expressed in "Legend of Red Flame" is to use the love between the life and death of the hero and heroine to show the noble and passionate theme of boundless love and the inheritance and continuation of the will of the country.

Then, love and love need to be abandoned.

Concubine Liu Yi stood up, got a new idea, and she was going to try again.

At this moment, a mobile phone rang, interrupting her actions.

"It must be Chu Xuan!"

Hearing the call in her hand, thinking that it might be Chu Xuan, Concubine Liu Yi suddenly lost her mind about training, and ran to the stool where the mobile phone was placed expectantly. ,

Seeing this scene, Liu Xiaoli shook her head helplessly, feeling amused.

Seeing that it was Chu Xuan on the caller ID on the mobile phone, Concubine Liu Yi happily pressed the connect button and the speakerphone: "You guys have been eating for a while."

Today, Chu Xuan and Sister Hua are going to discuss the movie with Brother Chenglong and the others. She knows this, and Chu Xuan also said that he will call after the meal to tell her the result of the discussion.

It's just that she didn't expect that a meal can be eaten from noon to night, which is quite awesome.

"It's all chatting." Chu Xuan's voice came from the phone.

"Didn't you drink too much?" Liu Yifei asked with concern.

"It's business, I didn't drink too much." Chu Xuan said.

Concubine Liu Yi felt relieved and nodded.

"What are you doing?"

"For training, just now my mother taught me a play, which made me realize everything."

"Auntie telling you a play?"

Hearing Concubine Liu Yi's words, Chu Xuan was obviously a little surprised.

"What do you mean?" Liu Xiaoli hugged her hands, walked slowly, lowered her head slightly and said to the phone: "I can't talk about dramas from your tone of voice?"

Probably Chu Xuan didn't expect Liu Xiaoli to be there, so he fell silent.

"Mom is very good, you don't know, the analysis is very orderly, as if she is a professional performance guide." Concubine Liu Yi praised her mother.

"Auntie, you have become so powerful, it puts me under a lot of pressure." Chu Xuan said.

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and Chu Xuan's joke made them each smile.

Concubine Liu Yi asked, "What's the result of your chat? We've been chatting for so long."

Chu Xuan replied: "Each of them talked about some creative plots and came up with some ideas, so we talked for a long time."

"After the story frame is determined, I will send you the content in the email. This will not change."

"The preliminary cooperation intention has been negotiated, and the three joint ventures will be jointly established by Brilliant Times, Huaying Group and Yinghuang."

"The general aspect of the selection of actors has also been determined. There are two of us in the leading role, so some supporting roles will use Xiangjiang actors."

Concubine Liu Yi slowly nodded, because it is a joint venture with Yinghuang, so many Xiangjiang actors must be used as actors, Bright Times no longer has the right to choose in this regard.

This is the result that she and Chu Xuan had expected a long time ago, and it can be regarded as responding to the call of the relevant departments to say that the two sides of the strait and the three places are one family.

"Next month, Yinghuang has a film that will premiere at the Brilliant Times Cinema in Pengcheng. The chairman of Yinghuang, Yang Shouchen, will come to the scene. At that time, Sister Hua and the third brother will also go there to discuss the details of the formal cooperation. , and determine whether to cooperate."

"Whether you decide to cooperate or not, director Tang will start working on the script tomorrow. Even if you don't cooperate with the script, you can stay in the bright era and wait for the follow-up opportunity to shoot."

"As for the structure of the crew, according to what I just talked about, the third brother is the chief producer and first producer, Sister Hua and that Du are always co-producers, Director Tang is the executive producer and executive director, and the action director will come A group of teachers from the Xiangjiang side are probably like this at present."

"Also, Brother Liu will help us design the characters."

Concubine Liu Yi said "Yes", expressing her understanding.

Liu Yi is the person who knows her and Chu Xuan's acting styles best, and also understands their acting skills very well.

Director Tang invited Brother Liu to help design her and Chu Xuan's characters, probably because of the above two points.

"How is "Legend of Red Flame" going?" She changed the subject.

"Brother Quan agreed to play Mei Changsu. The rest of the process is going smoothly. When you return to China after the interview in June, you should be able to start the machine." Chu Xuan replied.

Concubine Liu Yi's eyes glowed with anticipation, and she asked again: "Is "Zhu Xian" going to end next month?"

"Well, after the third week of next month, it will be aired in the early 20th of May." Chu Xuan replied.

"What about "The Legend of Zhen Huan"?" Concubine Liu Yi asked.

"Jiang Xin's role as Concubine Hua has been arranged, and the rest will be left to the teachers of the crew, don't worry about it," Chu Xuan said.

"Okay." Concubine Liu Yi nodded, "Go back to rest early after drinking, I'm going to continue looking for status."

"Okay." Chu Xuan said.

Concubine Liu Yi was about to hang up the phone, but she thought of something, and hurriedly said, "Have you washed your clothes yet?"

Chu Xuan probably didn't expect Concubine Liu Yi to ask such a question out of the blue, so he paused before saying, "It's done."

"I don't believe it!" Concubine Liu Yi knew Chu Xuan like the back of her hand, and snorted, "Go home and take a picture for me, and let me see if there are any clothes on the drying rack. It's best to take pictures of the clothes for me to see if the complexion has been washed or not. .”

"I'll take it for you tomorrow." Chu Xuan said.

"Tomorrow?!" Concubine Liu Yi laughed angrily: "You can wash it when you get back, and then take a picture of it for me after washing it! You can do it, and don't wash your clothes when they are all piled up, Chu Xuan, you are getting rougher and rougher! "

Hearing what she said, Chu Xuan laughed: "It's just a few clothes, don't worry."

"What if it stinks!" Concubine Liu Yi was speechless.

"Buy a new one." Chu Xuan said.

As soon as this remark came out, Concubine Liu Yi helplessly supported her forehead, and looked at her mother, both mother and daughter felt very happy.

"Chu Xuan, when I come back you're done, I want you to know what self-discipline is, hehe." Concubine Liu Yi made up her mind to get rid of Chu Xuan's laziness when she returned in June.

She is positive and self-disciplined in her career, but she starts to collapse after leaving her in life. How can this work?
Thinking so, saying goodbye to each other, Concubine Liu Yi hung up the phone, and continued the training performance under Liu Xiaoli's gaze.

(End of this chapter)