Euthanasia

The predecessor of "Assassin 2" was the dark horse "Assassin 1" at the box office. The highlight of "Assassin 1" is not only the exquisite production of the entire film, but also the big stars who starred in the film.

Of course, when "Assassin 1" was filmed, some of them were not as famous as they are today.

——For example, Qingxuan, who Liu Zhiwei once acted in.

Qingxuan is the heroine of "Assassin 1". After developing well in Hong Kong and Taiwan, she entered the mainland market with this film. Because the image in the film is so beautiful, it is still regarded as entertainment by a large number of movie fans. The most beautiful goddess in the circle.

Qingxuan has been married for a while now, and she rarely comes out for activities, but she still produces one or two films every once in a while, but there has been no news of her in the past two or three years.Many media reported that she had already planned to fade out of the entertainment industry, and would announce her official retirement soon. Unexpectedly, "Assassin 2" announced the filming plan at this time.

The actors of "Assassin 2" are almost all the original cast members, Qingxuan is also among them, and of course Hua Xiao, who was not the actor at the time, played a supporting role in the play.

It is conceivable that fans across the country were shocked.

Liu Zhiwei originally thought that Hua Xiao had reached the current position, and he would no longer take on easily controversial films, and he was not the protagonist, but just a supporting role in "Assassin 1". He didn't expect that Hua Xiao was also on the cast and crew list inside.

"Assassin 1" is a controversial film because, although it became a dark horse at the box office back then, film critics generally did not like this film. ".

Li Qiang used too many fantasy elements in it, a large number of special effects and unrealistic scenes that were unacceptable to the film industry at the time, thinking that it was purely a failed attempt and a show of skill.

But a few years later, when the "Assassin 2" shooting plan was released, many film critics who had a derogatory attitude towards "Assassin 1" began to change their tone.

From the perspective of today, the dazzling skills of the year are completely amazing and unprecedented developments and attempts. If analyzed and classified, no one can easily classify this film as a pure martial arts film.It is indeed a commercial film, and it is an overly forward-looking commercial film. It was not favored at the time, but watching it now only makes people admire the directors at that time-Li Qiang and Qu Ke.

Liu Zhiwei knew that there would be too many competitors for "Shen Feixue" in this film.

Even though it was a non-public audition, there were three figures of people who went there. All kinds of people or companies who were related to the director, who were qualified, who seemed to be related, and who might be qualified, lined up their artists to send them to the crew.Although Shen Feixue is a different kind of narrator protagonist whose role is only to connect the stories, but once it is said that she has acted in the dramas of Hua Xiao, Qingxuan and several other big names, and is still the protagonist, the value of this artist will soar immediately ——It can soar into the sky.

When Liu Zhiwei went to the audition hall in Xu Ting's car, he felt very nervous.

He wrung his hands on his knees and hunched over the script on his lap.He had already recited his lines, but for some reason, he always felt that he would forget them on the spot.

Xu Ting glanced at him from the driver's seat and said, "Don't be nervous, it doesn't matter if you don't get selected."

"Hey, this opportunity is great. I'm afraid that if I miss it, I will regret it for the rest of my life..." Liu Zhiwei said with emotion and humility.

"There are many opportunities, and there will be more in the future." Xu Ting's voice was quiet, but his tone was very sure, without any hesitation, "Don't say you have strength, even if you don't have strength, I can make you popular."

When Liu Zhiwei heard this, he subconsciously thought of Lu Yi's words.

"For your profession and peers, acting skills are the only criterion for evaluating your success. It is neither the amount of fame nor popularity, but the value of your works and the number of valuable works. Other than that , The behavior of expanding one's reputation is like a bubble economy. It may look prosperous at the beginning, but it has no real content in essence. People who consume you will eventually consume your work, not your bubble."

"I don't want foam." Liu Zhiwei whispered.

"What?" Xu Ting glanced at Liu Zhiwei, Liu Zhiwei immediately came back to his senses, and quickly waved his hands: "It's nothing... I mean, it doesn't matter if you're not popular, I just want to act." He looked at Xu Ting's confused expression , the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, "I like acting very much. Compared with making money and career, this is more like a dream..."

Xu Ting turned his head, but couldn't help but glance at Liu Zhiwei out of the corner of his eye.

There are many people in the entertainment industry, most of them choose to be actors for the sake of attracting attention, and some of them admire the people on the screen and try to do the same thing to succeed. These are the common purposes and reasons.Liu Zhiwei said that he entered this industry because he liked acting. Xu Ting had heard about it, but he said that it doesn't matter if he is not popular, as long as he can act. Xu Ting has never heard this from anyone else.

The reason why Liu Zhiwei entered this industry is as simple and pure as a child pointing at a small train and saying that he will drive a train in the future, full of fantasy and simplicity.

It's like even if one day he enters the transportation system and can manage railway stations across the country, he just holds a hat and says: "I don't want to be a station master, I just want to drive trains."

Xu Ting had never seen such a person before.

Liu Zhiwei didn't know what Xu Ting was thinking, he just looked ahead, and continued to recite the lines that he had memorized but didn't know when he would forget.When Xu Ting said it, Liu Zhiwei woke up suddenly and said in a panic, "Ah? It's here?"

"Here we are." Xu Ting said.

Liu Zhiwei and Xu Ting got out of the car together.

The audition hall was arranged in a suburban studio, presumably to avoid congestion.Liu Zhiwei and Xu Ting arrived neither early nor late, they were in the middle and early.Dozens of cars were already parked in front of them.Liu Zhiwei was panicked by the number of people, he said dumbfounded: "These are not people who have already come, right?"

"That's right." Xu Ting glanced at them, "There are about forty or fifty."

"Forty or fifty..." Liu Zhiwei was so shocked that he was almost speechless.Although he knew that there were a lot of people coming, and Xu Ting also told him that there were more than 200 people who were interested, but seeing the number, Liu Zhiwei still gasped.

"I feel like I'm a salted fish among a group of big shots..." Liu Zhiwei said silently.

"There are quite a lot of salted fish like you, don't worry." Xu Ting said sincerely.

Liu Zhiwei: "..." Isn't that still salted fish!

At the same time as they got out of the car, several more cars arrived one after another.Liu Zhiwei was a little guilty: "Don't we have to wait in the car?"

"We can't wait," Xu Ting said, "The number of people is uncertain, so go in as soon as you can."

Hearing this, Liu Zhiwei could only take a deep breath, and walked into the audition hall with strides.

The original appearance of the entire studio is unknown. When Liu Zhiwei entered and passed a waiting hall, what he saw was an open audition hall.Different from other audition halls, the inside has been arranged into a huge green screen space, like a huge square box, in which all lights, staff and required props are stuffed, it is simply a simplified version The blockbuster special effects set.

Liu Zhiwei didn't expect an audition to be of such a scale, he was a little stunned.In comparison, the previous audition for "Personality Game" can almost be said to be crude.

Most of the actors who came to the audition are very new faces, but there are also quite a few who already have a lot of experience and not weak acting ability, but their progress is stuck in the middle, and they need a high-profile blockbuster to boost their performance An actor of his own caliber.

Liu Zhiwei entered the waiting room, and many people who knew each other had already begun to greet each other.Liu Zhiwei has been in the industry for ten years no matter what, even if he is playing a role in rolling in the mud, he has recognized the faces of many actors. It can be said that Liu Zhiwei knows [-]% of the actors present.

It's just that they don't necessarily know Liu Zhiwei.

Liu Zhiwei made the appearance early in the morning, and it was done according to Shen Feixue's role setting.Shen Feixue is an assassin, one of the minor characters in the entire assassin camp, there is nothing special about it.All his appearance descriptions can be summed up in only two words: heroism.

For these two words, Xiao Yang was busy for three hours.

Liu Zhiwei's appearance is not bad, but there is a little more honesty and sunshine in his handsomeness, he looks more like a handsome brother next door, and he is a little less heroic.

Xiao Yang trimmed Liu Zhiwei's eyebrows into a new shape, pulling them out one by one. Liu Zhiwei still feels pain in the arch of his eyebrows.

Although the actors present were all male actors, they were more or less wearing make-up and went all out. Some of them even wore black clothes similar to assassins, and their equipment was a bit more than others.

When Liu Zhiwei entered the arena, several people looked him up and down from the corners and the crowd.Liu Zhiwei was also dressed in black, but it was not an ancient costume, but a windbreaker with two low collars turned up, a dark gray shirt and black trousers inside.The color scheme is low-key, and the overall is high-key.

Lively wear fashion into the temperament of an assassin.

"Hello, please sign in here." The staff in charge of the organization came over with the list and flipped through the names and photos on the sign-in form for a while.

"Here." Liu Zhiwei pointed to a portrait on the first page and said.

The avatar used was still a photo of Liang Junheng in "Personality Game", which is very different from his appearance today.

The staff member was a girl with long hair. Seeing Liu Zhiwei pointing at the head portrait, she immediately said "ah", "You are Zeo!"

Several actors on the side looked over.

The girl quickly lowered her volume and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a fan of Chu Yaohua's books, but I like Liang Junheng. Your still photos are so handsome! I fell in love with them when I saw the poster!"

Liu Zhiwei was stunned for a while, and suddenly realized——has he met his fans? !

Seeing Liu Zhiwei's bewildered expression, Xu Ting poked him in the back. Liu Zhiwei quickly reacted, opened his eyes wide and turned to Xu Ting and said, "Hey, brother Xu, did you see? Is she my fan? Do you have any fans?!"

Xu Ting: "...don't be so ashamed."

The girl let out a "poof" laugh, her face flushed.She ticked Liu Zhiwei's portrait, made an encouraging fist gesture to Liu Zhiwei, and ran to the backstage.From the backstage corner, she could still see Liu Zhiwei in the waiting room, and she excitedly said to another female staff member: "Zeo is super cute! Super cute! Why is he so cute!!"

At this moment, another seven or eight people entered the venue.More than a dozen staff were there to maintain order, but as more and more people came, the small waiting room became crowded.When Liu Zhiwei saw the entrance of the audition hall, Li Qiang poked his head out, as if startled by the situation outside, he quickly retracted.

His eyes seemed to have glanced at Liu Zhiwei before retracting.

Liu Zhiwei couldn't help asking: "Why didn't Director Li arrange a different audition time for everyone? It's too crowded."

Xu Ting said: "It was divided into seven groups, but someone must have come earlier."

The number of people who came here is enough to show the enthusiasm of the actors for this role. Liu Zhiwei clenched his hands nervously when he thought of this.

Li Qiang hid in the audition hall, and whispered to the assistant: "Is there a mistake? Send the wrong schedule? Now hundreds of people are gathered here, how do you want me to audition!"