The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 651 Fighting for favor
The outside media has paid great attention to "The Cliff".

After Lu Yuan and others came to Dalian, the phenomenon of reporters secretly taking photos continued despite repeated bans.

For fear of affecting subsequent filming, the crew decided to hold a media meeting at a hotel in Nanshan, Dalian before the official start of filming.

The hotel's conference room was packed with reporters from all over the country, with the largest number of media from the Northeast.

Including many official media: Liaoning Daily, Shenyang Daily, Jilin Daily, Heilongjiang Daily
Lu Yuan, Jiang Wei, Cheng Yu, and Song Jia took their seats one after another.

When a reporter from Liaoning Daily asked why Lu Yuan was chosen as the leading actor, director Jiang Wei repeated the same old tune.

"The script doesn't give a clear description of Zhou Yi's appearance, but he should be handsome and elegant, with reserved manners and a sense of dominance. I think Lu Yuan is the best choice. Whether in terms of appearance or business ability, I can't think of anyone more suitable than him."

The reporter from Liaoning Daily sat down, and the reporter from Heilongjiang Daily raised his hand.

"Excuse me."

"Lu Yuan, after Before Dawn, you have revealed to the public many times that you will not act in spy dramas in the short term. Why did you choose The Cliff this time?"

People outside are very curious about this matter.

It was naturally impossible for Lu Yuan to say that he did it for PPS.

He smiled and said: "It's true. 'The Cliff' tells a story about survival. It is so real that it is cruel. It reflects not only faith, but also the choices that spies make when they face difficulties."

The reporter asked: "In recent years, there have been many spy war dramas, but not many of them are outstanding. There is a plot of pretending to be a couple in "The Hidden Danger", and in "The Cliff" you and Xiao Song Jia pretend to be a couple again. Will there be any repetition in the subject matter?"

"will not."

"Would you mind telling me a little more?"

Lu Yuan pondered for a moment: "In "The Hidden", Yu Zecheng and Cui Ping showed their true feelings, and finally their fake play became real. But in "The Cliff", the two have their own families and children."

"Will they be together?"

"Everyone will know after it's aired." Lu Yuan did not answer, but said apologetically.

"Next question."

The reporter from Heilongjiang Daily sat down, and the reporter from Southern Newspaper stood up eagerly.

"It is said that the director considered the female lead for a long time. Why did he choose Song Jia in the end?"

Song Jia looked at him with a smile, and complained in her heart, "You are younger than me, so what? Am I so bad?"

"She has a stubborn streak and takes filming very seriously," Jiang Wei agreed.

"Yes." Lu Yuan glanced at Song Jia and took over the conversation.

"I have worked with Song Jia many times. When we were filming Crossing the Guandong, she had a scene where she had to run in the snow. It was very cold at the time, and even a grown man like me couldn't stand it. She crawled and ran in the snow, and it was dozens of degrees below zero. She jumped into the water without saying a word. Being an actor requires such perseverance."

Although Song Jia is a bit literary, he has a rich love history.

However, in terms of business ability and professionalism, they are among the top in the post-80s age group.

With Zhang Li's introduction, she has starred in many good dramas in recent years.

He also starred in "Love Is Not Blind", developing himself on both the big and small screens.

His professional ability is far better than Liu Shishi, Yang Mi, Liu Qian and others.

But the popularity and traffic are not as good, which leads many outsiders to think that she is not popular.

One reason is that Song Jia never followed the Huadan route, but rather the Qingyi route.

Amateurs like to watch Huadan, while experts prefer Qingyi.

But as a leading actress, she has not played any particularly well-known leading female roles, and her national recognition is far less than that of Sun Li, Hai Qing, Liu Tao, Qin Hailu and others.

On the other hand, it has to do with her appearance.

Song Jia's facial features are simple and strong, and she has a strong aura. She doesn't look feminine at all. She fails to arouse the audience's desire to protect her, and little girls don't feel any sense of empathy.

Most little girls like to be pampered rather than be strong women.

And she seldom plays roles that please the audience and are loved by the public.

The characters he plays are either strong and tough, making it hard to conquer, or lustful and crazy, making it hard to resist...

For example, for the role of Gu Qiuyan, after understanding the character's personality, most female artists would hesitate, but she didn't care and regarded it as a challenge.

I am more self-centered in acting and I like to please myself.

In addition, there are a lot of negative news about her. She acts as a third party and interferes in other people's relationships. Her colleagues often pull her out to stir up trouble, and she is surrounded by negative public opinion.

It also makes her less popular with the audience.

The media meeting lasted for half an hour, and at the end, a reporter asked a key question.

“As both spy dramas, does The Cliff have a chance to surpass Insidious and Before Dawn?”

Jiang Wei hesitated. If it was just "The Hidden Danger", he would answer without hesitation that "The Cliff" was better.

Even if the audience does not approve of the dramas after they are aired, it does not matter, after all, he is the director of both dramas.

Unfortunately, "Before Dawn" was not directed by him, so his answer seemed quite tactful.

“Whether it can be surpassed or not is not within my consideration. When creating, none of us had the intention of surpassing anything. We just simply thought it was a good story.”

The reporter was not satisfied with this answer and turned to ask, "Lu Yuan, what do you think?"

Lu Yuan was very frank: "'Hidden' and 'Before the Dawn' represent the exploration of Chinese spy dramas at different stages. After 'Before the Dawn' was broadcast, most spy dramas indulged in the fast-paced American drama style.

This indirectly leads to the current spy war drama market being eager for quick success and quick profit and pandering to vulgarity.

Compared with "Before Dawn", the most commendable point of "The Cliff" is that it abandons the fast pace, starts with spy warfare and ends with emotion, which is a new direction for Chinese spy war dramas.

Compared with "Insidious", the story of "Cliff" is more authentic and more in line with that era. As far as I am concerned, "Cliff" is indistinguishable from "Insidious" and "Before Dawn"! "

"Wow!" The reporters in the audience were excited.

It is no exaggeration to say that "Insidious" and "Before Dawn" are two monuments in the history of spy warfare.

In recent years, spy war dramas have continued to challenge them.

As a result, all of them were broken into pieces, with corpses strewn across the ground under the monuments, which raised the status of these two dramas higher and higher.

Now, Lu Yuan, as the spokesperson for spy war dramas and the king of spy wars, actually said that "The Cliff" is not inferior to the previous two.

After the meeting, Lu Yuan saw Cheng Yu was worried and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid, so what are you afraid of?"

Cheng Yu shook his head helplessly, feeling under tremendous pressure.

outside world.

Fans and audiences were happy when they learned that Lu Yuan would star in the spy drama "The Cliff" again.

But when they heard that Lu Yuan thought "The Cliff" was not inferior to "Insidious" and "Before Dawn".

Fans, or fans of "Insidious" and "Before Dawn", are unhappy.

In recent years, the quality of spy war dramas on the market has been poor. After comparison, fans of "Hidden" and "Before Dawn" are very proud and overwhelmed with pride.

Everywhere you look, there's garbage.

There is an endless debate about which one ranks first between "Insidious" and "Before Dawn".

Fans of the two dramas can't wait to use a magnifying glass to find faults in each other and examine every detail frame by frame on PPS.

In public, Lu Yuan never expressed his opinion on who is better than the other, but now, he suddenly said that "The Cliff" is not inferior to the other two.

This is simply unreasonable.

This is like the two palaces in the east and west competing for favor, using all means, and in the end they ended up getting a mistress from the countryside into bed.

Fans of the two dramas were the first to disagree, feeling let down and betrayed.

The forums of "The Hidden" and "Before the Dawn" have nearly one million fans each, which is amazing if it doesn't move.

#Lu Yuan doesn't understand "Lush"#
#Lu Yuan doesn’t understand “Before the Dawn”#
#Lu Yuan doesn't understand spy dramas#
#Lu Yuan is fickle, he is a scumbag! #
Topics like these inexplicably became hot searches.

In the end, the following two ridiculous topics even came up.

#Lu Yuan cheated#
#《Cliff》is a mistress#
Because the title is so misleading, netizens who don’t know the truth were fooled and just followed suit, making it quite lively.

There are also screenwriters in the industry, such as Long Yixia, who said that it is too difficult for a spy war drama to surpass the two classics "The Disguiser" and "Before the Dawn", and even Lu Yuan would find it difficult to do so.

The spectators expressed their opinions.

The news that the box office of "So Young" exceeded 200 million in four days was suppressed.

Hong Kong, Sheung Shui Kwu Tung.

After Lu Yuan flew to Dalian, Liu Shishi also joined the crew to film "One Man's Martial Arts".

As soon as she finished her action training, she received several phone calls and checked her Weibo, and she laughed her head off.

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"Hahaha."

Bai Bing sat next to her and tilted his head: "What's wrong with you?"

"He was targeted by his own fans."

"How could that be? Aren't Mr. Lu's fans the most patient? They usually wear little lion vests, eh?"

Bai Bing realized that he had let something slip and tried to make amends: "These are all made up stories by unscrupulous tabloids. And you, why are you so happy?"

"Not really a fan, but a fan of the drama, ouch"

Liu Shishi laughed so hard that her stomach hurt. She covered her abdomen and threw the phone into her arms.

"I can't explain it clearly right now, you can see for yourself."

Bai Bing was extremely surprised. After understanding the whole story, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "This is the first time I've heard of such a thing. Because the leading actor praised the new drama, he was attacked and ridiculed by fans of the old drama. It's like..."

She frowned, unable to think of precise words to describe it.

"Compete for favor!" Liu Shishi wiped the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes.

"Yes, competing for favor, phew, it's really interesting."

"What are you fighting for?" Director Chen Desen walked over with Wang Baoqiang.

The movie "A Man's Martial Arts" was invested by Emperor Entertainment Group and distributed by Light Media and Far Eastern Media.

It roughly tells the story of a martial arts coach Xiahou Wu, who is challenged by a martial arts fanatic Feng Yuxiu, which causes a bloody storm in the Hong Kong martial arts world.

Zhen Zidan plays Xiahou Wu and Wang Baoqiang plays Feng Yuxiu.

Bai Bing will play Xiahou Wu's junior sister in the film. Both of them are martial arts coaches. They have always been by Xiahou Wu's side, assisting him in capturing the serial killer Feng Yuxiu.

Liu Shishi plays the only female Kung Fu master who Feng Yuxiu meets during his challenge to a martial arts school.

"Director Chen, it's like this," Liu Shishi explained while holding back her laughter, while looking at Wang Baoqiang who had a cold face.

She was very surprised. Wang Baoqiang was nothing like the honest image he had on the screen before. He had a limp, squinted his eyes, stood in a strange posture, and looked full of evil.

Maybe this is what it means to be a real person, she sighed in her heart.

At the same time, I feel that Lu Yuan is right. Wang Baoqiang is not the kind of actor who can only play one type of role. He has a wide range of acting skills, and many people in the industry underestimate his professional ability.

After listening to her, Chen Desen grinned.

"Sometimes we can ask Mr. Lu to come and make a cameo appearance. We can arrange a fight between him and Brother Cheng Long."

He had previously filmed "The Siege of the City in October", and this time the role of Wang Baoqiang originally belonged to Cheng Long, but Cheng Long's schedule was not suitable.

It happened that when "A World Without Thieves" was being promoted in Hong Kong in the early years, Wang Baoqiang rushed up to him and showed him his Shaolin Kung Fu, which left a deep impression on him.

Considering that he had played opposite Zhen Zidan before, it was decided that he would play the leading role.

As for Liu Shishi, it is entirely the power of capital.

After receiving the notice from Emperor Entertainment Group, he and screenwriter Liu Haoliang and others worked overtime and revised the script overnight.

According to the original plot, Feng Yuxiu would challenge five great masters, all of whom were men.

For Liu Shishi, he changed one of the masters into a heroic female fighter.

Naturally, he was resentful, so he pulled Yuen Biao and others over and asked them to design some gorgeous and difficult fighting scenes.

It really looks good, but whether it can be performed well is another matter.

But no one expected that Liu Shishi would practice silently while hanging on the wire, and her action scenes were unexpectedly beautiful, clean and neat.

Liu Shishi was puzzled: "Will Brother Cheng Long also be in the show?"

"Yes, he agreed to make a guest appearance." Chen Desen nodded.

In fact, Cheng Long did agree to make a cameo appearance, but it was in the form of a Drunken Master segment broadcast on TV.

But if Lu Yuan agreed, he would be able to trick Cheng Long into coming and let the two of them fight face to face.

Once the movie starts promoting, using these two people as a gimmick, it will be no problem for the box office to earn tens of millions more.

Liu Shishi ignored it, blinked, and said seriously, "He is busy filming a TV series. I don't know if he has time. I'll ask for you."

"it is good!"

Dalian, the crew of "The Cliff".

In the dressing room, fashion designer Chen Tongxun gave a thumbs up and said, "Teacher Lu, you are amazing. With your vision, you will be at the top level if you change your career to fashion design."

Chen Tongxun is the costume designer invited by the crew.

He once won the Golden Horse Award for Best Costume Design for his costume design for the movie "Mei Lanfang".

From the movie "The Promise" to "The Orphan of Zhao", he has assisted in every work of Chen Kaiquan and can be called the exclusive costume designer of Director Chen.

Chen Tongxun himself is good at designing costumes for costume dramas and period dramas.

The costume designs for "Empresses in the Palace", "Moment in Peking", "The Bund", and "Qiao Family Courtyard" were all created by him.

Lu Yuan stood up and looked at himself in the mirror.

From head to toe, he wore a black top hat, black leather jacket, black pants, and black leather shoes, looking like a gentleman, stylish and decent.

The character of Zhou Yi is deep and repressed. As an agent, he has been lurking for many years. He is taciturn and frugal with words. His emotions are hidden so deeply that they are almost undetectable.

He almost abandoned his humanity and lived like a machine in order to avoid making mistakes.

So he rejected the other colors of clothing offered by Chen Tongxun and chose to wear all black.

Depressed, reserved, and cold, it fits his image perfectly.

Chen Tongxun crossed his arms and said, "If Liu Xinjie is the most handsome agent, then Zhou Yi is the most stylish agent. He has captured this style perfectly."

Lu Yuan was satisfied with the outfit.

He put on a black top hat, and his eyes adjusted quietly, with a hint of indifference and gloom, his expression also became cold, and he exuded an aura of keeping strangers away.

Then, he glanced at Chen Tongxun casually and praised him naturally: "Master Chen's craftsmanship is still superb."

"Lu" The moment Chen Tongxun's light met his, he shuddered and swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

At that moment, he had the illusion that he had committed a crime, was completely seen through, and was about to be arrested and imprisoned.

When he came to his senses, Lu Yuan had disappeared.

(End of this chapter)