Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 817 A Beautiful Idea
We gathered again in the middle of the night, eating barbecue, laughing and talking about the past, not noticing the passage of time.

It's rare for friends to get together. They all want to chat and communicate, but they can't have enough fun in a short period of time.

The joyful atmosphere of my mother's birthday continued until three or four in the morning. Although everyone was still reluctant to leave, they were exhausted and tired, so Wang Jinhua said, "Let's meet again later," which brought the birthday party to an end.

Everyone returns to their own home and also returns to their own life trajectory. Today's joy also turns into a node and becomes a memory.

When the couple woke up from their dream, the sun was shining brightly, and the warm summer sunshine illuminated the entire bedroom.

"They can really drink. I'm impressed." Liu Yifei sat up from the bed, still looking a bit grumpy.

Thinking about how they drank white wine yesterday, had a barbecue at night, drank beer, and finally drank red wine after the beer, she really admired Hu Jun, Li Qiaoqiao and others. "Massive" is not enough to describe their alcohol tolerance.

Fortunately, there was the big sister, Sister Hua, who forced those "drunkards" to slow down their drinking speed, thus avoiding her and Chu Xuan from getting drunk.

"They can drink so much that I've never seen them drunk in all these years." Chu Xuan said, throwing off the quilt and getting out of bed: "Get up, grandma and the others should have woken up a long time ago, go over and say hello, I'm going to take a shower first, you call Sister Qiaoqiao, we've made an appointment to go to Century Culture, ask her what's going on."

"Okay." Liu Yifei leaned back against the head of the bed, picked up the mobile phone under the pillow and called Li Qiaoqiao.

When she learned that Li Qiaoqiao was waiting at home to look for them, she hung up the phone, got out of bed, opened the closet and looked for clothes.

After Chu Xuan finished his shower and came out of the bathroom, she went into the bathroom and took a shower as well.

After Chu Xuan got dressed, he packed up the clothes he and his wife needed to change, then turned into a good family man and took the initiative to go to the balcony next door to wash.

Just as Wang Jinhua knew his younger brother, he could do nothing when he was alone at home, but when his wife was around, he would do the housework diligently without much explanation.

This is a behavior that occurs shortly after a man gets married, when he is stimulated by the novelty of his new identity and wants to express his psychological state.

Perhaps after the wedding next year, Chu Xuan's desire to perform will become even stronger.

However, as the marriage continues, can Chu Xuan continue to behave so well? This is an unknown number, and it also depends on whether Liu Yifei has a good way to control her husband.

"Happy second birthday, mom."

When the couple arrived at the villa, their mother was already cooking noodles in the kitchen, and their aunt and uncle were helping to prepare the noodles and the sauce.

Hearing her daughter say "Happy birthday, the next day", such a creative greeting made Liu Xiaoli laugh: "Don't do this next time, it's so troublesome, really..."

"Are you happy?" Liu Yifei hugged her mother from behind and asked while leaning on his shoulder.

"Happy, happy~" Liu Xiaoli catered to her daughter in a doting tone.

My aunt and my uncle felt the warmth between mother and daughter, and they each walked out with noodles in their hands, with a warm look on their faces.

Sister Hua had just woken up and was chatting with her family in the living room. She also came here specially to have breakfast and lunch.

After a while, Li Qiaoqiao also arrived at dinner time and had a meal of scallion oil noodles with rich toppings with the whole family.

After dinner, Wang Jinhua left for the company, and the couple took her cousin and Li Qiaoqiao to Century Culture. Liu Xiaoli called people from the company to dismantle the equipment and devices on the lawn and had to stay at home. The family prepared to play mahjong to spend the day.

In response, Liu Xiaoli sighed and complained: "It will probably take a long time to dismantle those things. And you called your family members over but didn't keep them company. You left me to clean up after you all. It was only because you made me happy yesterday that I would have said a few words to you otherwise."

Under the snickering of Li Qiaoqiao and his cousin, Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei looked a little embarrassed and fled to the parking garage. They drove to the door and took the two of them straight to Brilliant Times Century Culture.

As early as the end of last year when the company was making plans for 09, "My Love from the Star", "Ghost Blows Out the Light", "Zhu Xian 2", "Startling by Each Step" and "Xuan-Yuan Sword: Scar of Sky" were identified as the five major drama projects for this year.

At present, "My Love from the Star" has been completed, "Startling by Each Step" and "Xuan-Yuan Sword" are also on track and are being filmed. Only "Zhu Xian 2" and "Ghost Blows Out the Light" are still in the preparation stage, and the progress seems a little slow.

Among them, "Zhu Xian 2" is okay. The problem lies in the coordination of special effects, scripts and scenes. It does not mean that the progress is not smooth, it just takes more time, and it is only a matter of time before it starts.

Only "Ghost Blows Out the Light" has a slightly bigger problem. The images and characteristics of the three main characters in the original work, namely the "Iron Triangle" Hu Bayi, Wang Fatty, and Shirley Yang, are too distinct, and the whole work revolves around these three people, and the story framework is designed to be driven by the characters.

It is obvious then that the core of this work is the characters, and the plot is a secondary plot derived from the characters.

In short, the audience watches the characters first and then the plot.

To put it more clearly, if the characters are not established, then the plot is not established.

In this case, if you want to adapt the original work into a script, it is best to decide on the actors in advance, and then adapt some plots and design corresponding martial arts moves based on the actors' performance style and their abilities in both literary and martial arts that fit the role, so as to successfully complete the script creation.

For Brilliant Times, this is not a big problem. Whether it is the script first and the actors later or the actors first and the script later, I believe that with the company's energy and influence, it is not difficult to accurately find actors who match the roles.

However, if you make it more difficult for yourself, then it will become really difficult.

Liu Ye plays Hu Bayi?

Jiang Wu plays Fatty Wang?
Li Qiaoqiao plays Shirley Yang?

Xia Yu plays Da Jin Ya?
Will Chu Xuan play the subsequent Partridge Whistle?

Liu Yifei plays Hua Ling, the junior sister of Partridge Whistle?
The group came to the company's office and learned about the general situation. Li Qiaoqiao immediately didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Who came up with this cast?"

She didn't know what story "Ghost Blows Out the Light" was about, nor did she know what character Shirley Yang was. But when she heard Li Yu and Kong Sheng express this fantasy, she felt both amused and speechless.

Liu Ye, Jiang Wu and Xia Yu, three movie emperors.

She is a movie queen.

Although Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei have not yet achieved Best Actor or Best Actress in the film industry, these two people are undoubtedly super popular stars in China.

It is very difficult to bring such a group of people together in a drama. After all, they are all very famous people. It is easy to blur the priorities when they are in the same frame, making it difficult for a single actor to maximize the benefits.

Furthermore, I heard from them that Ghost Blows Out the Light will be developed into an IP drama, not just one or two, but seven or eight. What does this mean? Are these people going to be tied together for ten years?
It's not a fantasy. In American TV series, there have been many cases where actors have been tied together for many years, and the actors have all benefited greatly. But American TV series are American TV series after all, and they are an ecological chain derived from the Western environment.

But such a situation is unlikely to occur in China, mainly because domestic actors want to develop in multiple fields, and no one wants to spend so much time immersed in just one drama.

Therefore, Li Qiaoqiao just wants to say that although this cast is explosive, it is ultimately just a beautiful imagination.

"It was Teacher Zhang who proposed it." Kong Sheng said with a smile and glanced at Zhang Muye, who was sitting on the sofa opposite him. He is also the original author of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", Tianxia Bachang.

Zhang Muye was a little embarrassed. After being invited to the "Ghost Blows Out the Light" crew as one of the script coordinators at the beginning of the year, he felt extremely happy and honored that his work could be adapted into a film and television by a large company, and that they respected him as the original author so much that they invited him to participate in the main creation.

For several months, he communicated and exchanged ideas with director Kong Sheng, Liu Yi and other gold medal screenwriters, all of whom were people with profound cultural background. Many sparks were generated during the communication. This experience made him cherish it and feel comfortable, and it is also his artistic pursuit.

Hearing Li Yu and Kong Sheng say that they wanted to turn his "Ghost Blows Out the Light" into an IP series, and that it was in line with Brilliant Times' development plan to start the special effects industry, made him excited.

It is really fulfilling to have my work appreciated and valued in this way.

At the beginning of writing this work, in order to portray the protagonists well, I always imagined characters that exist in reality to deepen the sense of substitution. This is also the writing idea of ​​many excellent authors in portraying characters.

Based on this idea, the prototype of Hu Bayi in his writing is Liu Ye. He was deeply impressed by the "Lan Yu" starring Liu Ye and Hu Jun. Liu Ye's decadent, melancholy and a bit of the literati atmosphere of the Cultural Reform period are exactly the same as the Hu Bayi he imagined.

The same goes for Jiang Wu. The slightly plump guy, who also shares the same aura as Hu Bayi and comes from the era of literary reform, coupled with his temperament and acting skills that are funny without being annoying, and suicidal without being annoying, is the Fatty Wang he created.

Then let's talk about the character Shirley Yang. In the millennium drama "Young Justice Bao" starring Li Qiaoqiao and Ren Quan, Li Qiaoqiao played Ling Chuchu, who was both cool and playful, with extraordinary skills and high IQ. This was the setting for the character Shirley Yang in his creation.

As for the interspersed character Partridge Whistle, he didn't imagine Chu Xuan at the beginning, because Chu Xuan was just beginning to develop at that time. He imagined Gu Tianle, or to be more specific, Yang Guo.

Yang Guo is a chivalrous man who sticks to his original intention. As the best martial artist in the world, he is very cool and handsome, but also a bit good and evil. This is the design idea of ​​the character of Partridge Whistle in his novel.

Writing along this line of thought, gradually the character of Partridge Whistle became the best kung fu master in "Ghost Blows Out the Light", far surpassing the three protagonists Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang and Shirley Yang. He also wrote this character with a very martial arts feel.

He originally imagined Gu Tianle's Yang Guo, until the 06 version of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" starring Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei became a phenomenal TV series, and Chu Xuan's style of playing Yang Guo made him more impressed.

The wise appreciate, the foolish compare.

It’s not that Chu Xuan acted better than Gu Tianle, but in terms of image, Gu Tianle’s inexplicable darkening affected his sense of substitution, while Chu Xuan’s normal yellow skin and angular and resolute face, perhaps influenced by the large amount of publicity at the time, gradually changed his imagination of Partridge Whistle from Gu Tianle to Chu Xuan.

When thinking of Chu Xuan, one naturally thinks of Liu Yifei. These two people are complementary to each other, and it is hard not to subconsciously associate one of them with the other.

So... eh? Doesn't Partridge Whistle have a junior sister named Hua Ling? She is pure and beautiful, has extraordinary skills, is very dependent on Partridge Whistle, and only follows him around. Isn't this a combination of Zhao Ling'er and Xiao Longnv?
Once you have immerse yourself in the characters and have formed your own ideas, they will be difficult to change.

Two months ago, when I was working on the script outline design, scene composition, etc., I chatted about the topic of actors and he spoke out his ideas without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, teachers such as Li Yu, Kong Sheng and Liu Yi were all delighted and thought it was good.

After all, people who have a deep understanding of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" can easily resonate with him and quickly find commonalities between the character and the actor.

However, he also knew that this would most likely not become a reality. After all, the actors he imagined were all big names, which made it difficult.

Today, he came to Century Culture with Director Kong Sheng to discuss something with Li Yu. Coincidentally, three people on the imagined actor list came, and Kong Sheng and Li Yu expressed his ideas on the selection of actors. This made him feel a little embarrassed and awkward, but he still had a strong sense of anticipation.

It’s true that dreams are hard to achieve, but what if?
"Teacher Zhang is very ambitious, and I admire that." Chu Xuan looked at Zhang Muye and couldn't help laughing.

Just looking at the main cast, his and Liu Yifei's "Red Flame Legend" has the participation of three first-line stars Ren Quan, Qiao Zhenyu, and Yang Rong, which is already luxurious enough, but compared with the current cast, it is really dwarfed.

With four movie emperors and actresses including Liu Ye, Jiang Wu, Li Qiaoqiao and Xia Yu as the base, plus him and Liu Yifei, they will star in a TV series together. In this era that has not yet entered the traffic era, it is no exaggeration to say that the response caused by this lineup is on par with the Suns.

I can’t say whether it will succeed or not, but at least it shows that Zhang Muye, the original author, has great aspirations.

He can also understand that it is normal for him to want to have a group of actors who are suitable for his work to perform.

"Partridge Whistle appeared as a supporting role in The Cave of Dragon Ridge, and as the protagonist along with his junior sister Hua Ling in The Wrath of the West Hunan." Liu Yifei flipped through the information in her hand, and said to Chu Xuan with some interest, "This is not bad, just play a role in one or two of them, and interpret the role with a brand new identity of a senior brother or a junior sister, it seems quite interesting."

She didn't care whether he played a supporting role or the main role. If the cast just mentioned could be established, with the four movie emperors and actresses in charge, then it would be appropriate for him and Chu Xuan to play supporting roles for fun. She was more interested in her new identity as senior and junior brother and sister with Chu Xuan, which was a role relationship they had never experienced before.

In addition, the company wants to create IP and explore the derivative value of the film and television industry. Firstly, it is in line with the company's profit model that is relatively single and heavily dependent on movie box office and TV drama copyrights. Therefore, there is a need and plan to develop derivative industries such as games, peripherals, literature, etc. Secondly, it is in line with the company's need to develop special effects in the film and television industrialization. It needs to use special effects film and television dramas to experiment in order to gain more practical experience.

So it's pretty good for her and Chu Xuan to join in and play two interesting roles, which is also helping their own careers.

"Isn't the filming of "The Lost Tomb" going on now? The sequel will have to be a few years later. In that case, isn't it too early for me and Liu Yifei to play these two roles?" Chu Xuan looked through the information.

Kong Sheng nodded and said with interest: "Teacher Zhang said that in a few years you will be almost 30 years old. By then, your temperament and aura will be more refined. It will be perfect for you to play the role of Partridge Whistle."

Hearing this, Chu Xuan was speechless, but also full of interest: "Teacher Zhang, thank you for giving me a plan for my future acting career."

Liu Yifei also laughed for a moment. She thought she could participate as a supporting role this year, but she didn't know that she would have to wait until several years later. This is really funny.

Zhang Muye was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to answer, so he said that he was thinking too beautifully. Now it seemed that there was no hope...

(End of this chapter)