Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 788 Let’s Have a Glass of Lemonade First
The dinner ended after nightfall. The main purpose was to bring Zhang Shaohan to meet Chen Luyu and Li Hong, and then discuss the details of the plan to reverse public opinion.

Both Chen Luyu and Li Hong are senior media professionals and journalists. When Chu Xuan explained the situation over the phone a few days ago, the two of them already had a plan in mind. After a brief discussion at today's dinner, they came up with a comprehensive plan of action, which saved Chu Xuan a lot of worry.

In this matter, everyone has their own demands. Zhou Jielun and his company can gain a lot of good reputation through this plan. Chen Luyu and her "Luyu Has a Date" program team can also improve their reputation and fame. Li Hong wants to curry favor with Chu Xuan in order to seek a better future, and Chu Xuan wants to try to build his own media network and media circle through this matter.

But their common goal is the same, which is to help Zhang Shaohan, a poor girl who is misunderstood by the people of the whole country, to prove her innocence.

It has benefits and it is a good deed, so why not do it?
Except for Chu Xuan, the initiator and middleman, all parties at the dinner were very harmonious even though it was their first meeting, presenting a good situation of working together in harmony.

He means harmony and peace.

Come together, gather as one, and unite as one.

To plan, to seek profit, to plot.

Since ancient times, the best strategy is to attack the enemy's plans, and harmony and cooperation is the highest level of a good strategist, which not only achieves the goal but also allows all participants to benefit.

For those present, whether it was designing and planning Zhang Shaohan's music copyright, signing Zhang Shaohan, or having him appear on "Lu Yu You Yue" later, or letting Xinlang Media take advantage of the popularity of the show to reverse public opinion, this chain of plans seemed relatively simple, but to achieve the above harmonious situation, the mastermind's wisdom must be reflected, and Chu Xuan's plan did it.

Although the people present at the dinner did not say anything, they all had a new perception of Chu Xuan, especially in the eyes of the two media people Chen Luyu and Li Hong. Chu Xuan's behavior and planning this time were enough to paint a strong image of a big boss in their minds, or compared with the behavior of capital profiteering, Chu Xuan had more entrepreneurial style.

For Zhang Shaohan, she has more or less seen through the interests of all parties at the dinner party. Li Hong can make a profit by riding on the popularity and attracting traffic, Chen Luyu can gain fame by helping her, and the same is true for Zhou Jielun and his company.

But she didn't care. She was not afraid of these people having demands. She was just afraid that these people didn't want anything. Having seen too many conflicts of interest in the world of fame and fortune, this situation made her feel relieved and made her believe more that these people would help her with all their strength.

However, she still couldn't see through Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei's intentions. The family didn't reveal anything at the dinner, but she could feel a lot of sincerity and kindness from this family. She could only tell herself that she had met some great people.

In the next few days, Zhang Shaohan stayed with Chen Luyu and Li Hong to accept private interviews and prepare for the show.

With Chen Luyu and Li Hong controlling the planning rhythm, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei could just focus on filming their scenes, which saved them a lot of trouble.

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The set is a third-floor teahouse with a rooftop, which is the property that the heroine runs with peace of mind in the drama “My Love from the Star”.

The director team was on the rooftop, setting up an umbrella shed to block out the scorching sun in the morning.

Liu Yifei sat in the director's seat in front of the monitor, wearing a white sun hat and looking at the footage on the screen in front of her with a professional look in her eyes.

Since Chu Xuan directed and acted in the show herself, apart from the scenes with musical plots which were directed by Zhou Jielun, she was the one who took charge of the direction most of the time.

It has been more than a month since she joined the crew. She originally just wanted to experience the state of being a director, but now, except for not interfering with Chu Xuan in camera movements, she can take charge of all other matters. She can be regarded as someone who has one foot in the ranks of directors and seems quite professional.

"Stop!" She picked up the intercom and shouted, her frowning brows relaxed, and she said with amusement: "Can you guys be more professional? This is the nth time you've laughed again, really!"

This scene was between Chu Xuan and his mother. The real-life mother-in-law and son-in-law came into the play to play the mother-in-law and son-in-law. It was very funny and Chu Xuan and his mother filmed it five times in a row and they laughed every time.

There are not many opportunities to openly lecture Chu Xuan and his mother, which makes her treat it with great interest.

Walking down the stairs from the rooftop to the second floor, Chu Xuan couldn't help laughing: "Mom, can you please stop laughing? I can't hold back when I see you laughing."

"I'll try my best. It's so much fun." Liu Xiaoli waved her hand.

It’s so fun… After hearing his mother’s comment, Chu Xuan also felt it was interesting, and immediately the two of them took their positions and prepared.

Chu Xuan went up the stairs to the entrance of the rooftop, while Liu Xiaoli went down the stairs, turned and disappeared from the camera, and took her position on the steps next to the wall of the turning area and waited.

"Start!" Liu Yifei shouted into the intercom.

Chu Xuan started to go downstairs, and the camera followed him from behind, filming his back.

Liu Xiaoli took a step forward and entered the camera. She turned and went upstairs. The shot from behind by Chu Xuan was a frontal shot for her.

This scene is the first meeting between Liu Xiuxiu and Qiao Ke in the play. Liu Xiuxiu knows Qiao Ke, but Qiao Ke does not know Liu Xiuxiu.

According to the description of the literary script of "My Love from the Star"——

[In the morning, it was sunny.]

After having morning tea with Anxin on the rooftop of the teahouse, Jock rushed to the theater for a magic show. After saying goodbye to Anxin, he went downstairs and saw an elegant middle-aged woman. She was Liu Xiuxiu, Anxin's mother, but Jock did not recognize her.

Liu Xiuxiu met Qiao Ke for the first time and saw her daughter's legendary boyfriend in person. She looked at him eagle-like all the way up the stairs, which made Qiao Ke feel uncomfortable...】

Liu Xiaoli read the script and did not agree with Liu Yi's decision to use the word "eagle-eyed" to describe the character in this scene, which made her character seem very aggressive.

She doesn't know about other mothers, but she doesn't think she is very aggressive when it comes to her daughter's boyfriend in the early days.

Looking back to when she was on the set of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", she was indeed angry when she found out that Xixi and Chu Xuan were in love, but she did not show it in her outward words, actions or expressions.

Even though there was a time when he wanted to kill Chu Xuan with a knife, he was always as gentle as ever when facing Chu Xuan.

What is this called?
This is called elegance!
A mother who looks at her daughter's boyfriend with an eagle eye? It's low class to show your emotions on your face when facing your younger generation.

On this point, the script writes "elegant" one moment and "eagle-eyed" the next moment, which is simply inconsistent. She believes that the literary literacy of Liu Yi, the gold medal screenwriter, needs to be improved.

Since she was the one playing the role, she just did it according to her own feelings - she walked up the stairs with a leisurely posture, looked at him with gentle eyes, and had a gentle smile on her lips.

How should you deal with such a virtuous mother-in-law and son-in-law?

"Look, the mother-in-law has overshadowed her son-in-law." In front of the monitor, Huang Lei watched this scene with great interest.

"This attitude is really possible." Tang Jili nodded slightly and patted Liu Yifei on the shoulder: "It's a pity that your mother didn't change to become a film and television actor."

Liu Yifei smiled and watched the screen with great interest. From a bystander's perspective, her mother really outshined Chu Xuan. As soon as her mother entered the camera, her natural and elegant posture made people involuntarily focus their attention on her.

Of course, the main reason is that Chu Xuan was filmed from behind, and the front shots were all on his mother, which made his mother's appearance in this scene even more stunning.

Chu Xuan walked down the stairs as usual, his eyes looking at the corridor ahead. He glanced at Liu Xiaoli staring at him but didn't take it seriously and continued walking down the stairs. However, his mother's posture was really elegant, which made him praise her in his heart.

He went down one step and my mother went up another.

When the two of them were side by side on the same steps, Liu Xiaoli called out, "Jock?"

Chu Xuan was suspicious and continued to walk down the stairs, then turned to look at Liu Xiaoli.

At this time, the camera showed Chu Xuan's front face and Liu Xiaoli's side face.

"I am Anxin's mother." Liu Xiaoli was very gentle.

The suspicion on Chu Xuan's face immediately turned into embarrassment. He quickly pulled his hands out of his trouser pockets, put them on both sides of his trouser legs in a somewhat awkward manner, and greeted with a silly smile: "Hello, Auntie."

Liu Xiaoli smiled secretly in her heart. This son-in-law’s acting skills were really good. His attitude changed so quickly and smoothly. It was really like he was meeting his mother-in-law for the first time.

"It seems that I was not mistaken. You are Anxin's boyfriend Jock." She remained calm and kept smiling.

Chu Xuan said "hmm" and seemed very embarrassed.

Liu Xiaoli looked at him for another two seconds, nodded slightly at him twice, then turned around and went upstairs.

Chu Xuan looked at her back until she disappeared on the rooftop, then he slowly praised: "Is this An Xin's mother? Wouldn't her temperament instantly beat those celebrities? It's amazing."

"Stop! I think this time is okay." Liu Yifei picked up the intercom and shouted to stop in front of the monitor.

Chu Xuan quickly went upstairs to the rooftop and went to the monitor with Liu Xiaoli to watch the replay.

"Auntie, you are amazing, so beautiful." Yang Mi praised.

"Really?" Liu Xiaoli smiled.

"Sister Li, you really look photogenic." Wen Zhengrong echoed.

"Director Chu arranged this shot very well. It combines the natural light source on the balcony with your elegant posture, so this shot gets full marks in terms of the aesthetic effect of light and shadow." Zhang Songwen has a high EQ and praised both Liu Xiaoli and Chu Xuan.

Being praised like this, Chu Xuan was embarrassed and said, "Teacher Zhang, what you said gave me the courage to compete with Director Chen Kaige for a while."

Tang Jili took a sip of mineral water and joked, "Come on, you are still young, you have a chance to surpass him, at worst you can just outlast him."

"Hahaha..." Tang Jili's humorous remarks made everyone present laugh.

After securing one take, we shot the scene twice more and then moved on to the next scene.

The same staircase scene, the same mother-in-law and son-in-law meeting, but the situation is different.

In the foreplay of the script, Liu Xiuxiu expressed surprise and disgust when she heard that her daughter Anxin had a boyfriend.

In the last scene where they met for the first time, Liu Xiaoli as Liu Xiuxiu treated Qiao Ke in a friendly and approachable manner, which made Liu Xiuxiu, as a mother, a complex character. From the perspective of internal and external perception, she can also be said to be very generous.

This scene is the second time the two meet, and the character Liu Xiuxiu has to change his attitude.

In the picture, the shot arrangement this time was reversed.

Starting with the back shot of Liu Xiaoli, the place where the two met was no longer on the stairs, but in the corridor connecting the stairs.

Chu Xuan went downstairs and met Liu Xiaoli. The camera shot Liu Xiaoli from behind gave Chu Xuan's face. He made an expression as if he was caught off guard when meeting his mother-in-law, but then he relaxed and smiled: "Auntie."

The camera slowly panned to show Liu Xiaoli's profile. She glanced at Chu Xuan and nodded slightly without saying much.

But after the two of them passed each other, Liu Xiaoli turned her head, and the side-shot camera slowly panned back to give her a close-up of her face: "Qiao Ke, do you think you and An Xin will be happy together?"

This close-up retreats as the lines fall, and shot number two starts at the corner of the stairs and slowly moves forward.

In the one-shot scene, Liu Xiaoli is looking at Chu Xuan sideways, seeing Chu Xuan's back.

When Chu Xuan turned around, he was fully exposed in this shot. When he heard Liu Xiaoli's question, he was silent for a moment and said, "Auntie, do you think we are unhappy?"

The retreating camera No. 1 went around behind Chu Xuan and was located at the right rear corner of Chu Xuan, avoiding the cameraman of camera No. 1 and shooting Liu Xiaoli from the front at an oblique angle.

This is equivalent to lens No. 1 taking a panoramic shot of Liu Xiaoli, and lens No. 2 taking a panoramic shot of Chu Xuan. The effect presented by these two lenses is that two people are facing each other head-on.

Hearing Chu Xuan's reply, Liu Xiaoli said softly: "She is a star, and you are a magician. I don't mean to look down on you, but you are indeed from different worlds. Maybe you feel very good now, but it may not be the case in the future. As a mother, I always have to consider my daughter's future."

Chu Xuan said: "Who can predict what the future will be like? Auntie, why do you think our future will be bad?"

Facing Chu Xuan's doubts, Liu Xiaoli lost her gentle expression and became calm: "Based on my experience, I can't see your future."

Chu Xuan shook his head: "Many parents use their so-called experience to discipline their children, but few of them succeed. I don't think Auntie's experience can determine our future. We still have to live our own lives."

This scene reflects reality, which is the reality that many parents across the country impose their own ideas on their children.

Liu Xiaoli represents the type of parents, while Chu Xuan represents the generation of children, expressing this connotation with opposite statements.

Liu Xiaoli frowned, but laughed: "It's rare to see such a strong-minded young person, but I still say this, the experience of those who have been through it is the experience of those who have been through it, you young people can't understand it. Judging from the relationship between you and An Xin, it will be difficult for you to continue this relationship in the future."

Chu Xuan was silent for a moment, and then said, "I heard from An Xin that Auntie's relationship experience was not successful. Auntie divorced when An Xin was very young. Since your own relationship was a failure, why do you look at us who are now on the road to success with the eyes of failure? Or do you just hate me, Auntie?"

Liu Xiaoli was stunned at the right time. In front of Liu Xiuxiu's character, Chu Xuan, a jock at the age of 25, could say such words to her, which surprised her as an elder, and made her feel ashamed and a little annoyed.

If it were any idol drama on the market, the plots with evil moms or evil dads were also specifically used to stimulate the audience to have negative emotions in order to achieve the effect of looking forward to the hero and heroine being together. At this moment, Liu Xiaoli would be so angry that she would scold Chu Xuan.

But "My Love from the Star" does not follow this routine. The male protagonist Chu Xuan confronts the mother-in-law Liu Xiaoli from the perspective of the main character, which makes the audience feel a little relieved. At the same time, the character of Liu Xiaoli has a comedic extension at this time.

She looked speechless and stared at Chu Xuan for several seconds before she said, "You... don't want to consider changing your career?"

The sudden change of subject left Chu Xuan confused.

"I suggest you get a journalist certificate. You're just as good at talking as those in the media. You have great potential in this field. You might consider it."

After Liu Xiaoli finished speaking, she turned around and left, leaving Chu Xuan in the front camera still in a daze, looking like he couldn't keep up with Liu Xiaoli's train of thought.

As Liu Xiaoli turned to go upstairs, she glanced at Chu Xuan's confused look, and the corners of her mouth curved up in a teasing arc: "Young man, you dare to argue with me, you little brat."

"Stop!" Liu Yifei shouted stop in front of the monitor. After putting down the intercom, she and the teachers present enjoyed the fun.

"This play is good." Tang Jili nodded repeatedly: "The audience will never expect that the extension of emotions will take a 180-degree turn."

"Yes." Ning Hao folded his arms and said with interest, "According to normal thinking, this scene looks like two people are about to quarrel, and Sister Li's character is about to initiate a dramatic conflict. However, the conflict came to an abrupt end and turned into a comedy instead. This is very interesting. This scene is well designed, and it is eye-catching and not clichéd."

Liu Yifei nodded to the other teachers. It was really interesting to watch the emotions conveyed by the scene just now in front of the screen. Whether it was Chu Xuan's confrontation with his mother-in-law or his mother-in-law's final reversal, the short scene presented a very high-quality comedy effect.

Liu Xiaoli and Chu Xuan walked upstairs together: "Did you design the lines for this scene?"

"Yes." Chu Xuan nodded.

Liu Xiaoli climbed onto Chu Xuan's shoulder, blinked, and asked, "Tell me the truth, is this what you really think? I, your mother, have had a very failed love life, so you look down on my advice and care for you and your wife in your relationship? So you and your wife have always been perfunctory about what you said to me?"

Chu Xuan's face froze, and he cried out in injustice: "No way! Mom, this is acting, please don't reflect reality, okay? Everything is for dramatic effect!"

He was really at a loss for words. He really didn't expect his mother to do such a thing because of a play.

Seeing Chu Xuan's expression, Liu Xiaoli just found it funny and patted his shoulder: "Just kidding."

Chu Xuan exhaled and said, "Mom, you are really going further and further on the road of becoming a female devil."

Liu Xiaoli laughed, raised her hand and pulled his ear, and walked to the monitor together.

"Elegance with a bit of mischief, this state is put on a middle-aged woman like you, Sister Li. It has both unique style and distinctive personality, which is very charming. Although you don't have many roles, Sister Li, you, Mother Liu, will be very popular after the TV series is broadcast." Huang Lei said happily.

"Thanks for the compliment. Forget about the fame. Just treat it as a life experience." Liu Xiaoli said.

Chu Xuan looked at the playback footage and found that the effect was almost achieved, so he shot it again to finish it.

Huang Lei flipped through the shooting plan book, turned around and said to the staff: "Do you have lemonade? Give me a glass."

Yang Mi, Zhang Songwen, Wen Zhengrong, Qin Hao and other teachers didn't notice anything and just thought Huang Lei was thirsty and wanted some lemon water to quench his fatigue.

But the next moment, Huang Lei turned his head and said, "The rest is all dog food. I suggest you drink something sour first."

Dog food drama?
Everyone was startled.

Isn't that the love story between Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei?
Everyone suddenly realized what was going on, and Yang Mi immediately leaned over to the staff member and said, "Brother, I want some lemonade, too!"

"I want a cup too!" Wen Zhengrong shouted.

"I want one too!" Ning Hao, Zhang Songwen, Qin Hao and others started to make a noise.

Liu Yifei was both amused and annoyed, and stamped her feet: "What are you doing!"

Chu Xuan wiped his sweat with a tissue. Facing the teasing looks from everyone, he said, "Lemonade is not enough. You need to buy a bottle of vinegar to blow against it. Otherwise, you won't be able to eat enough dog food to death."

Hearing this, everyone burst into joy.

Liu Yifei frowned, reached out and patted Chu Xuan, then went downstairs with Chu Xuan to the makeup room to prepare for filming.

(End of this chapter)