Become famous another day.

It rained heavily that day.

Work on site had to be stopped.

Lu Yanhe sat under the eaves, listening to the rain.

The actress who plays his sister in the movie is Zhou Ruo.

She is here today too.

Zhou Ruo is a very pretty and quiet girl. At first glance, she looks like a student rather than a female star in the entertainment industry.

Her temperament is very similar to Yu Mengling, both of them have that bookish air.

In fact, she did come from a prominent family. Her grandfather and father were both diplomats, her maternal grandfather was the leader of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Peking Union Medical College, and her mother was a professor who did research in condensed matter physics and was highly knowledgeable in a field.

In addition to being an actress, Zhou Ruo is also a painter. To be more precise, she is more famous as a painter.

When she was very young, her paintings were selected for several top exhibitions and she became famous at an early age.

When she was in college, while studying fine arts, she became the heroine of her then-boyfriend's short film photography work. She unexpectedly became an Internet celebrity and attracted a lot of attention, and thus unexpectedly embarked on the path of an actor.

Of course, her acting path is something that other actors simply cannot replicate.

She also basically doesn't make a living as an actress.

After all, the price of one of her paintings starts at six figures.

To be honest, she is a bit like another actress Lu Yanhe knows, He Saifei. In fact, she is already a film and television actress, but her identity is still mainly a drama actress, as if she can leave the film and television industry at any time.

He was also quite surprised that Zhou Ruolai chose to play his sister.

However, Liu Bige said that Zhou Ruo contacted him on his own initiative after reading the script.

Given Zhou Ruo's family background, if she was willing to act in this mainstream movie, Longyan would certainly welcome her with open doors.

Zhou Ruo was sitting one meter away from him, also holding his chin up to watch the rain, his eyes were clear, and had a charm like clouds and fog.

"Brother, do you prepare like this every time you shoot a scene?"

In the crew, everyone addresses each other by their role-relationship titles.

This is Liu Bigo's request.

Whether on or off the stage.

Lu Yanhe came back to his senses, smiled at Zhou Ruo, and said, "Not really. Different plays and different roles require different ways of preparation. This time, I didn't specifically want to prepare this way. It was just that when I was thinking about the script, I naturally entered this state."

Zhou Ruo nodded.

She looked at the rain in front of her thoughtfully.

"You're so weird. You're obviously acting with emotion, but you adjust your performance so rationally."

Lu Yanhe smiled.

"I am not a professional actor, and I don't know how to act in an academic school. I have to figure out a set of things that suit me."

Zhou Ruo: “That’s amazing.”
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A week after filming started, Chen Ziyan came again.

She came to see how Lu Yanhe was doing.

Of course, she didn't say that.

Wang Biao told Chen Ziyan that Lu Yanhe's condition seemed to have stabilized and was not developing in a more dangerous direction.

Chen Ziyan still wanted to see it for herself, seeing is believing.

After arriving, Chen Ziyan found that Lu Yanhe was in pretty good condition, and he was no longer in that lonely state of being "isolated from the world".

Lu Yanhe smiled at her and said, "I'm fine."

He knew why Chen Ziyan came to the crew again.

"When 'Burning' was released in Japan, the box office was better than anyone could have imagined. In two weeks, it took in more than 40 million US dollars, shocking everyone."

The news brought by Chen Ziyan made Lu Yanhe slightly dazed.

"Is it so powerful?"

"Yes." Chen Ziyan nodded. "This time, "Burning Fire" was released in Japan. Dozens of Japanese cartoonists and writers promoted the film on their social media. Siqi put a lot of effort behind the scenes."

The publication of the collection of works "Jump Up" in Japan was relatively smooth, which was rare.

In addition, the works of Liu Jiazhen, Mingyin and others have been published in Japan one after another, and Chen Siqi has always had a close relationship with the Japanese publishing industry.

Chen Ziyan said: "Longyan never thought that Burning would have such a high box office in Japan. They are now preparing to hold a meeting with the main creative staff in Japan to add fuel to the fire."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Unfortunately, the box office of 'Burning' in North America was not high. Midoriya refused to do a large-scale distribution. It is estimated that the box office will be around 5 million US dollars at most."

"Longyan is unwilling to lower the offer, and Lugu will not take risks for them. It is actually quite good to be able to get around 5 million US dollars at the box office in two or three hundred theaters." Lu Yanhe said, "Then the overseas box office of "Burning Fire" is also 70 to 80 million US dollars, right?"

"Almost. The box office in Japan was so huge that it accounted for more than half of the overseas box office." Chen Ziyan said, "Originally, there was a real hope that the overseas box office would exceed 100 million US dollars."

Lu Yanhe thought of the Chinese-language movie "Red Cliff" directed by John Woo, which was also an unexpected hit in Japan. Both parts, the two films, earned more than 50 million US dollars in Japan, and an average box office of tens of millions of US dollars in South Korea.

In his opinion, the slogan of "Burning Fire" at that time was actually very similar to that of "Red Cliff".

After all, East Asian culture is influenced by Chinese culture. An oriental fantasy special effects blockbuster like "Burning Fire" that is based on traditional Chinese culture will definitely be attractive to Japanese and Korean audiences.

Just let them know this movie is out -

By promoting the film through cartoonists and writers and raising its profile, it just so happens that the main audience of the film "Burning" in Japan and South Korea has a very high overlap.

"Chen Siqi has once again proved her marketing acumen." Chen Ziyan smiled, "She is now the leader in domestic film marketing. Domestic big productions will probably give priority to them to do film marketing."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Longyan's publicity team is also very interesting. They want to get the contact information of the cartoonists and writers who helped promote "Fenhuo" from Tiaoqi, saying that they want to send them thank-you merchandise." Chen Ziyan laughed, "Chen Siqi directly sent a message to Mrs. Huang, asking her to manage her subordinates well. If she continues to have such thoughts of meddling in other people's business, she will not accept Longyan's orders in the future. She is too tough."

Lu Yanhe heard this and laughed too.

He said, “Why is she so direct?”

"Siqi is not afraid." Chen Ziyan said, "The film and television marketing of Jumping Up is in short supply. They are taking the high-quality route, and it is difficult for people to hit them with sacks of money. They have made a statement to the industry that before accepting an order, they must watch the film first, conduct evaluation and review, and then decide whether to accept it. This top marketing team that does not rely on volume and does not act as a pure second-party is the hot cakes in the market, and everyone is vying for it."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Therefore, no matter what position you are in or what job you do, you should try your best to make yourself in a position that is "irreplaceable by others" so that you will have more say and choice.

"Longyan." Chen Ziyan sighed with a smile.

"Longyan." Lu Yanhe also smiled.

Chen Ziyan asked: "For the movie Dingfeng No. 1, is there anything I need to prepare in advance?"

Lu Yanhe shook his head.

"Okay, the filming of 'Those Years' has already started, and everything is normal. Chen Yin has gone to the crew to keep an eye on it personally." Chen Ziyan said with a smile.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"One more thing. Your album is almost finished, but it's a bit difficult to produce and release the physical album before your birthday in September. My idea is to release it on major platforms in the form of an electronic album to coincide with your birthday. Because our event is also themed around birthdays, we want to give all fans a gift." Chen Ziyan said, "What do you think?"

Lu Yanhe nodded: "Sure."

Chen Ziyan said: "After the album is released, we can plan the concert."

"concert?"

"Didn't you want to hold a concert before?" Chen Ziyan smiled at Lu Yanhe, "I may not be able to hold a concert tour, but I can hold a single concert. How about that?"

Lu Yanhe thought that he wanted to hold a concert at that time and planned to propose to Chen Siqi at the concert.

Actually, it’s almost the same.

That's it.

Then let’s plan it.

Lu Yanhe smiled and nodded, "Okay, then let's tentatively plan to hold a concert next year."

At this time, Zhou Ruo walked past them.

Chen Ziyan's eyes lit up, and she said in surprise: "This girl——"

Lu Yanhe turned and looked at Chen Ziyan.

"What's wrong? She plays my sister in the movie. Her name is Zhou Ruo."

"I know, I know her." Chen Ziyan said, "She is very beautiful, very recognizable, and has a very cinematic face. I thought about signing her before, but she refused."

Lu Yanhe was a little surprised.

Some people also rejected Chen Ziyan.

"She is really beautiful." Chen Ziyan said again.

There is never a shortage of beauties in the entertainment industry.

Chen Ziyan, who has met countless people, can only count on one hand the number of people she has met who repeatedly praise her for her beauty in a short period of time.

"I think her temperament is very similar to Yu Mengling," said Lu Yanhe.

"But Yu Mengling has the cool and graceful feeling of a female poet." Chen Ziyan said, "Zhou Ruo has a more elegant and quiet temperament of a mountain ghost."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yanhe nodded.

"Her temperament is unique, especially in the Chinese cultural context, which must be what big directors are most attracted to." Chen Ziyan said, "In recent years, she has also acted in many movies, and basically all of them are female images like this. I have never seen her play a very modern female role."

In "Dingfeng No. 1", the younger sister played by Zhou Ruo is also an image of a progressive female student, a girl as clean and pure as a white orchid. Her ending of being persecuted and dying innocently is also an important turning point for Lu Yanhe in the movie.

Lu Yanhe said: "But, I heard that she doesn't take acting as a full-time career, and she doesn't seem to have signed a management company."

"Yes." Chen Ziyan nodded. "She basically only cooperates with a few fixed film companies. One of her classmates helps her work as an agent. Apart from movies, she is basically not seen in other occasions. Her fame and popularity may not be comparable to those of popular stars, but she has a group of fans who like her style. In her small circle of fans, no one can compare with her."

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "I feel that you still want to sign her." "Yes, you are right." Chen Ziyan nodded, "When I see her, it's like seeing a rare gem."

Lu Yanhe asked: "Sister Zi Yan, why don't you go and ask again?"

"Forget it. There's no point in asking. She doesn't need an agency at all. Her only connection with the entertainment industry is really acting." Chen Ziyan said, "She's not even considered an artist."

Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Ziyan meant.

"Besides, my current status is not suitable for signing her. If I am not in charge of her work personally, and someone else does it, I don't think they will understand how to bring out the most precious thing about her."

When Lu Yanhe heard Chen Ziyan's high opinion of Zhou Ruo, he felt a little jealous for a moment.
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In "Dingfeng No. 1", almost all the actors are talented in acting, and there is no one who can't act.

However, Liu Bige was still often dissatisfied.

What he was not satisfied with was precisely that everyone was too good at acting.

He often stopped the scene, pulled the actors behind the monitor, and asked them to review the filmed footage, and then said, "It was performed too well, but it was too balanced. It was the kind of scene where the actor should shout out, and it did shout out in the next second. It was in line with our expectations for this scene, but I don't want something that is 100% consistent."

The actors were confused and didn't understand what Liu Bigo said.

It was difficult for Liu Bige to explain it to them clearly, so he could only reshoot it again and again. Then, by chance, he would capture a few seconds that satisfied him, and he would quickly call the actors over and tell them that this was how he wanted it.

In fact, to put it bluntly, he wants 90% of the good things that are well-balanced, and he also wants 10% of the things that are not so in line with the performance aesthetic system.

It’s not that restraint is always superior.

A sudden out-of-control storm on the vast ocean is a shocking experience that is more profound than the advanced one.

Liu Bigo wanted something that happened in an instant, like a fist hitting lava, sparks flying everywhere, and even making him forget the pain.

Lu Yanhe thought, for example, the glance that Jiang Wenli gave when she knelt down and raised her eyebrows in "Farewell My Concubine", the look in Zhang Guoli's eyes when she heard the voting results in "Founding of a Republic", and the look and tear that Zhang Ziyi shed after she said "Mr. Ye, I have had you in my heart" in "The Grandmaster".

Those are performances that are completely within the mature performance system, but cannot be accurately described by the so-called performance system.

The performance system is a norm, a model, and an aesthetic standard. Beyond the standard, there is art that cannot be copied.

Liu Bigo's requirements are too high.

Every actor was tortured to death by him.

Including Wen Shengming.

As soon as Wen Shengming looked up at Lu Yanhe, Liu Bige took pictures from the sunny afternoon to the dusk. Finally, Liu Bige said, "Teacher Wen, I didn't capture the moment I wanted. I have to continue shooting this shot tomorrow."

Wen Shengming left the scene without saying a word.

Everyone thought he was angry, after all, he was such a big star and an actor of such a high status.

However, the next day, Wen Shengming came again without saying a word.

Lu Yanhe had already fully understood Liu Bige's almost abnormal demands on the camera.

He knew that as an actor, he might have given his 100%, but it just didn't match the image Liu Bigo had in mind.

What else can we do? We can only keep giving over and over again, reaching over and over again into the depths of the soul whose end is unknown.

Often by the time the performance is over, people are completely exhausted and mentally tired.
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The summer is getting hotter.

However, air conditioning is not allowed on the set.

Liu Bige requested that the scene be made into a one-to-one replica of the Military Intelligence Station of that era.

A person's state in different environments is a physiological reaction.

The scene in the intelligence station was the most difficult for Lu Yanhe to act.

Because there is another mask on top of one mask, and there is another performance under one performance.

That sense of measure was not within Lu Yanhe's comfort zone.

Lu Yanhe knocked on the door and entered Wen Shengming's office. At this time, he had already accepted the surveillance mission and had to contact him and get to know him in the name of work.

After knocking for an hour, Lu Yanhe still couldn't get into the door.

Because Liu Bige felt that Lu Yanhe knocked on the door incorrectly.

"You are a nobody, knocking on the door to see the deputy station chief."

"You have something on your mind, you are confused and uneasy, but you are forced to do it."

"You don't have such a good acting skill. There's something wrong with you, but you still have to conceal your true colors."

"Didn't you hesitate? Didn't you back down? Weren't you forced by the stationmaster to do so?"

“Can you show it?”

Liu Bige asked Lu Yanhe question by question.

Lu Yanhe was already a little impatient, and now he wanted to use a needle to sew Liu Bige's mouth shut.

"Just leave me alone for a while."

"What's the point of you being quiet?" Liu Bige kept pestering, following Lu Yanhe. "Does he have time to be quiet? Does he have a place to sort out his thoughts? Is it useful to sort out his thoughts? Can this be designed?"

"Can you please shut up!" Lu Yanhe scolded Liu Bigo irritably.

Everyone around was stunned and looked at them in surprise.

Liu Bige: "Do you think he wants to listen to so many people talking? He wants to find a place where there is no one to be quiet. Does he have such a place? This is a dangerous place. He wants to monitor the deputy station chief. If the deputy station chief's people find out, or even the deputy station chief finds out directly, will he have a good ending?"

"Go to hell!" Lu Yanhe couldn't stand Liu Bige's Tang Monk-like provocation -

Even though he knew Liu Bigo was helping him find his form, he still couldn't stand it.

"Stop bothering me!"

Liu Bige pushed Lu Yanhe hard.

"I'm helping you get into the right state. If you weren't such a bad actor, who would be willing to spend so much time with you?"

Lu Yanhe staggered.

The staff around looked at him in bewilderment.

At that moment, Lu Yanhe's self-esteem was like smoke and dust, choking his eyes.

Liu Bige saw him and suddenly shouted, "All departments, get ready, shooting will start in ten seconds!"

A group of people on standby thought something was going to happen, but suddenly they received an order and hurriedly took their positions.

Lu Yanhe lowered his head and walked to the end of the corridor, nodding his head.

As the word "start" was spoken, Lu Yanhe walked over in a somewhat stiff and hurried manner. His eyes were a little out of focus, and he looked at the door, but seemed not to see it.

He still looked his usual simple and honest self, but his eyes were like a wolfhound enduring the heat, hiding his energy.

Then, slowly, that little bit of energy gradually faded away.

The camera follows him completely without any pause in between.

All in one go.

He walked to the door, raised his hand, and as he did so, he took a deep breath as if he couldn't breathe, held it, and then lowered his fingers.

thump.

dong dong.

He put his hands away, his upper body tilted slightly, and his eyes became out of focus again.

This time it was because all his senses were focused on his ears.

The light at the end of the corridor condensed into a gray spot in his eyes.

"Come in."

Lu Yanhe stood up without any pause, but during the movement, he gave people a momentary sense of stagnation. Was it hesitation and retreat?
The door opened.

He had no time to think.

The stationmaster's secretary was standing where he came and watched him enter the deputy stationmaster's room.
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"Okay, click!"

Liu Bigo let out a long sigh.

He watched the video he had just taken amid everyone's quiet anticipation.

"Okay, passed!"

Lu Yanhe let out a long sigh.

Liu Bige came over with a smile on his face.

Lu Yanhe stretched out a hand and made a gesture to stop him.

"I can't act anymore. Don't tell me anymore. I want to go back and rest."

He didn't even wait for Liu Bigo's reply and walked away with a gloomy face.

When the crew members saw this scene, they all started talking about it.

"Is Lu Yanhe angry?"

"The director was a bit too much just now."

However, the next day, just like Wen Shengming before, Lu Yanhe came as if nothing had happened.

It's nothing, he's just tired.

I really can’t take pictures anymore.

It is beyond human power, and even if we force ourselves, we cannot reach Liu Bigo's standards.

I can only go back and rest.

that is it. (End of chapter)