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Chapter 182 Casting
The city that Chen Youzhou and Tao Fushu came to was called Weijiang, a city along the coast. In addition to relying on fishery to develop the economy, many production crews filmed scenes in this city because of its beautiful scenery.

Later, someone built a film and television city directly here for the crew to shoot.

The construction of the film and television city attracted many people from other places to work here.

"Grocery stores are too rigid." Chen Youzhou has no interest in such a simple store. "I think there are two directions to choose from. One is to open a seafood shop, and the second is to open a group performance service center."

"What is the group performance service center?" Tao Fushu had never heard of it. This is the industry that Chen Youzhou saw when he came to this city and went outside.

"It's similar to a film and television company, except that the people we serve are not celebrity artists, but ordinary extras. We help them take on roles, and we draw a certain fee from them." Chen Youzhou said.

There are many group performances here, usually with a few local group leaders. If you sign up every day when there is a show, you can earn more than 100 yuan a day.

Why do people who come here to perform just to earn this little reward?They also want to have a camera, and they also want to use their talents to become actors, but the opportunities are too few and the crew will not find such people at all.

What Chen Youzhou has to do is to get the resources of a small number of roles in the crew, and after getting the resources, select the right people from the group performances to go to the crew to film, similar to a brokerage company.

Tao Fushu didn't understand this, but Chen Youzhou did. He expressed all his thoughts. Tao Fushu was very smart and quickly understood what Chen Youzhou wanted to do.

"Let's do it professionally. You are responsible for going to the crew to get character resources and recruiting suitable characters. I will hire a makeup artist to style the actors, and then hire a line teacher to give them some professional guidance. Support." Tao Fushu said.

"Okay, just do it."

"..."

The couple worked together and were not tired. They decided on the industry they wanted to work in. Chen Youzhou rented a store near the Actors Guild. After applying for a business license, it took more than 20 days to decorate the store and the store was ready.

The store is called "Passenger A Casting Center"

Right now, what Chen Youzhou lacks is a role in the crew. If he has a role, his business can be started.

Generally speaking, an assistant director is responsible for all the scenes in the crew, but getting to know an assistant director is not that simple.

It is early March and the weather is slightly cold.

The crews that have just settled in Weijiang Film and Television City include more than 20 crews such as "The World in Chang'an", "The Legend of Ba Qing", "Father of the Han Dynasty", "Rebellion", etc. The source of dramas is still very sufficient.

People die for money and birds die for food. The only thing Chen Youzhou doesn't lack is money. If he wants to get to know someone, as long as he is willing to spend money, there is no one he cannot meet.

Chen Youzhou caught up with a circle called Assistant Director Huang and got the role of five monks.

Assistant Director Huang also took good care of Chen Youzhou, and the price he gave was not low. There were five people in total, three days, 500 yuan per person per day. Chen Youzhou, who got these five roles, earned a total of 500 yuan.

But this is only the total price, and a large part of it has to go to the supporting cast.

Since this was the first time he got the notice, Chen Youzhou wanted to create some hype. He didn't want to make any money. He just wanted to get the name of "Standard Casting Center" out there.

The next day, Chen Youzhou arrived at the door of Wei Jiang's Extras Guild at four o'clock in the morning.

At this time every day, many extras will wait here for the call of the group leader, and then follow the group leader to the set to perform, and they can get a day's pay and two meals a day.

"Five hundred days, three days in a row, come here."

"Five hundred days, three days in a row, come here."

The already noisy entrance of the Actors Guild suddenly rang with the sound of a trumpet. Chen Youzhou sat on a chair and waited for the extras to come over and ask for a price.

"Five hundred days, three days in a row, what kind of fairy-tale crew is this? It's not a lie, right?"

"One thousand and five at a time, you can lie in the rented house for half a month immediately, and there is such a good thing, I don't believe it anyway."

"Others should be recruiting for special contracts or something like that. What does it have to do with us group actors who have not received professional training?"

"You can always go and have a look."

Although people at the scene didn't quite believe the price, they all walked over with curiosity due to the smell.

Wei Jiang's extras are actually a very miserable group of people. The notice fee for eight hours a day is only [-], and the rest is added up by miscellaneous expenses such as lying on the corpse, being exposed to the rain, getting up early, and smearing blood.

To be honest, it is rare to see a notice like Chen Youzhou's that can offer a price of [-] yuan at a time, because such a high notice will definitely be eaten up by the people above, and when it gets to the extras, only half will be left. .

"Uncle, five hundred a day, three days in a row, is it true?"

"What's your name, uncle? Have you ever seen such a young uncle?" Chen Youzhou resented others calling him uncle. Although he was indeed older, who would admit that he was old? "Call me brother."

"Brother, is it true? If it is true, I will sign up."

"I also signed up."

"I also signed up."

People around him swarmed up, and everyone who saw the movement here also ran over, wanting to give it a try and get the one thousand, five hundred yuan.

"Listen up." Chen Youzhou stood on the bench, picked up the speaker and said, "This time we are asking for five monks. The crew is "Shaolin Temple: Bodhidharma". It will run for three days. If you are interested, please come to the passerby Come to Casting Center A.”

Chen Youzhou shouted a few more times, then took out the flyers about sitting on your buttocks and distributed them to the people around him.

What is said to be a flyer is actually an invitation letter. The invitation letter was written by Tao Fushu, inviting everyone with dreams to come to the Passerby Casting Center to audition. As long as they are hired, they will become a member of the Passenger Casting Center permanently and have the resources. Contact at once.

What Chen Youzhou needs most now are two things, one is the source of the drama, and the second is the actors. As long as he has these two things in his hands, he can slowly make the Passerby Casting Center bigger and stronger.

Five hundred invitations were printed and distributed, and all were distributed on site. The effect was particularly good.

By the time Chen Youzhou finished his promotional work, it was already seven o'clock in the morning when he went back.

"Is it finished?" Tao Fushu asked.

"After sending it out, I will hand it over to Teacher Tao next, but I believe that your speech skills will definitely attract a group of people to become our members." Chen Youzhou said.

"..."

Wei Jiang's extras are a big group, and if there is any slight disturbance, basically everyone will know about it.

Because group acting is a very loose profession, if you want to run away from the scene, you can take it. If you don't want to run away, you can't take the scene and stay in the rental house to rest. It's very free.

In the extras apartment, many people were originally resting in the rental house without accepting the role, but when they heard that the casting center of Passerby A was recruiting monks, and the advertising fee was not low, they immediately became interested.

It was passed on to ten, and passed on to hundreds, and it became more and more outrageous.

"I heard that the Passerby Casting Center is recruiting monks. As long as they have bald heads, I'm suitable for this."

"The monk I want is still the person next to the protagonist. There are a lot of shots. If I don't do it, it will become popular. It's very suitable."

"What, this monk is actually a flower monk. I heard that he wants to sleep with his sister in his arms. Damn it, I'll do it, I'll do it, don't take it away."

In the hearts of the extras, there is one role that countless people are clamoring for, and that is the prostitute.

As long as there is a scene of a prostitute, there are basically countless people snatching it up, it doesn't matter whether it's money or not, just to have some intimate contact with the female special agent.

Originally we only wanted five monks, but as word spread, they became flower monks. After some exaggeration, more and more people wanted to interview the monks.

The interview time in the flyer Chen Youzhou distributed was around seven o'clock in the evening, because by this time most of the extras had finished work and could come for the interview.

It's not yet [-] p.m.

Chen Youzhou was stunned. There was a large crowd outside the door, all of which were people preparing for interviews. He originally thought that 500 people would be too many, but he didn't expect that there were thousands of people coming for interviews all along the street.

When we first rented the storefront, we also rented a function room on the second floor. Counting the lobby and the second floor, it could only accommodate no more than 100 people. So many people suddenly came and it was impossible to accommodate them.

There were five people in Chen Youzhou's shop, including Tao Fushu, makeup artist Xiaowen, cameraman Xiao Li and assistant Xiao Zhang. They were all shocked when faced with such a battle.

"I'll probably have to work overtime tonight." Chen Youzhou smiled bitterly, but still started the interview.

The interviewer was Tao Fushu, and the first round of interviews was very simple. It was enough to just take a look at the extras' height and appearance, and register their contact information.

"Please line up and interview one by one. After the interview, we will conduct a screening. Those who pass the screening will get this notice." Chen Youzhou took out his loudspeaker and shouted.

Tao Fushu registered people's information quickly. In a short while, he had registered hundreds of people's information, but the time had already reached ten o'clock in the evening.

There were only a few hundred people.

There are people coming from behind.

It's going to be an all nighter.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, it was almost time for Chen Youzhou to meet. Seeing that there were so many people behind him, he could only arrange his work until tomorrow.

He walked out of the store, picked up the loudspeaker and continued to shout, "Brothers, it's too late today. If we continue tomorrow, we will all have a chance to get this notice."

After waiting in line for a long time, I stopped choosing. Many people found it boring and left cursing.

Wait until the scene recovers.

The employees in the store also sent messages.

Chen Youzhou and Tao Fushu sat tiredly on the bench in the store.

"Are you tired?" Chen Youzhou asked her.

"Tired." Tao Fushu smiled. She stood up and moved her body and asked, "You said that we are already at this age. If we can't just stay at home and take care of ourselves, why do we have to go out and bother?"

"Repent?" Chen Youzhou came over and hugged Tao Fushu tightly.

“I have no regrets, I just feel it’s meaningless.”

"Teacher Tao, we are already this age. If we stay at home, we will just bask in the sun every day, raise flowers and vegetables together, live a leisurely life, and finally watch you and I grow old together."

Tao Fushu raised his head and asked, "Is this bad?"

"Okay." Chen Youzhou replied firmly, "But I hope that in our last days, we can cherish the time more, work hard to make progress, and let my story and yours touch countless people."

"Infection..." Tao Fushu repeated Chen Youzhou's words, she said, "Countless people?"

"Yes, struggle and love are originally synonymous with young people, but I want to tell many people about the struggle and love between you and me at this age, no matter what time, as long as there is someone supporting you by your side , can succeed." Chen Youzhou's eyes were full of fighting spirit, "This is the last time you and I will leave to others, our last story."

Tao Fushu was silent for a moment, and she suddenly understood why Chen Youzhou wanted to bring her here to start over.

He wanted to engrave the names of Chen Youzhou and Tao Fushu in this world forever.

There is only one way, and that is inspiring stories.

"According to what you said, if we want others to feel our spirit, the current store must be expanded countless times, and we must have people trained by us." Tao Fushu reasoned.

"More than that." Chen Youzhou shook his head, "You and I will work together to make movies and TV series. Only with works can we be famous for generations to come."

"With our two old bones, can we do it?" Tao Fushu smiled. Although his idea was very good, the difficulty was too great.

"How will you know if you don't try?" Chen Youzhou pressed Tao Fushu's forehead and looked at her face, "Teacher Tao, you are so beautiful."

"It's full of wrinkles, how can you still be beautiful." Tao Fushu frowned, looking at You Zhoudao, "It's you, the more you live, the more energetic you are, especially your eyes, which are more energetic than some young men."

"There are no wrinkles." Chen Youzhou's eyes were full of reluctance, "Teacher Tao, we are still young and we have many more years to live. You are still so beautiful in my heart."

Tao Fushu's eyes were red, and tears blurred her eyes. At this age, she and Chen Youzhou encouraged each other like a couple who had just started their business. It was amazing.

Chen Youzhou had long weighed whether to stay with his children and enjoy his old age or choose a strange place to start over with Tao Fushu.

He chose the latter, because people will age faster in the same environment, but it is different in another strange environment.

Chen Youzhou was very greedy and hoped that in this way, while busy, he and Tao Fushu could leave some memories that only belonged to each other.

"..."

After a busy day during the day, Chen Youzhou and Tao Fushu fell asleep as soon as they went to bed.

On the second day, casting began again.

The same goes for the third day.

It took four days of continuous selection before everyone was selected. In this round, more than 3000 people came for interviews.

It was even more difficult to choose five people of similar height and appearance to play the role of monks among more than 3000 people.

Chen Youzhou regarded this casting selection as very important. After finally getting the notice, he must take good care of the crew. Naturally, this candidate cannot be bad.

After careful consideration, five people were selected.

In order to make these five people more like monks, Chen Youzhou invited these five people to the casting center and asked professional acting teachers to teach them some basic expression lessons.

Next, let’s see the good news these five people brought to the crew.

"..."

(End of this chapter)