Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 146 Li Xiaoran’s Strategy
Li Xiaoran put a lot of effort into analyzing the role of Peirong. She wanted to suppress that vixen during the filming, and it would be best if she could be defeated so thoroughly that nothing was left of her.

Cao Yang’s explanation of the play is one aspect, and Li Xiaoran’s own understanding is another.

In Li Xiaoran's opinion, Peirong is not a saintly person. She gets angry, jealous, and mad. She also wants to label Xiaowei and get rid of her.

However, Xiao Wei is a monster, and even with the help of Pang Yong, monster catcher Xia Bing and Xiahou Xiang, they are still unable to do anything to Xiao Wei.

Peirong once resisted, but failed.

Peirong is a scheming person. She clearly suspects that Xiaowei is a demon, but she still persuades Pang Yong to stay and help her find evidence to expose Xiaowei's true face.

She took advantage of Pang Yong. Didn't she know that this would put Pang Yong in danger?

She knew it, but she didn't hesitate.

Li Xiaoran feels that in order to play Peirong well, she needs to strike a good balance so that she can make the character have a distinct personality.

You can neither play the role of a saintly wife and mother, nor a villain who will do anything to achieve her goals.

At the critical moment, Peirong was able to sacrifice herself to save the entire city, which is her shining point.

As long as it is within this line, she can be jealous and envious. She can also temporarily accept Wang Sheng and allow him to take her as a concubine when she finds out that Wang Sheng has special feelings for Xiao Wei.

Li Xiaoran performed according to this standard.

She played the role of a typical little woman vividly, with kindness but also jealousy.

When Xiao Wei was just rescued by Wang Sheng, the character she played, Peirong, was compassionate, caring about this poor woman and treating her tenderly.

When she found out that Xiaowei had "inappropriate" thoughts about Wang Sheng, Peirong, played by Li Xiaoran, became jealous again and targeted Xiaowei, using sarcastic and derogatory words.

When acting the scene where Peirong suspected Xiaowei was a demon, he became the same as before, no longer targeting Xiaowei, and his words became gentle again.

As the filming progressed, Cao Yang was surprised to find that among all the actors, Li Xiaoran's performance had the strongest sense of layers.

Although her acting is not as natural as in "A Night Alone on the Beach" after she added the experience of immersion in the drama, her acting in this movie is not inferior to anyone else, and sometimes she can even suppress Duan Yihong and Chen Kun!
Only Gao Yuanyuan can hold her own against Li Xiaoran when acting out jealousy, but she is not good at other times.

Because Li Xiaoran and Gao Yuanyuan have more rival scenes, Cao Yang can see that Gao Yuanyuan is overshadowed by Li Xiaoran.

Xiao Wei's changes can also be divided into several stages.

Wang Sheng can be used as the point of these changes.

At first, Xiao Wei was only slightly interested in Wang Sheng, who "saved" her, and there was no emotional involvement.

At this time, Xiao Wei should be curious and indifferent to the world. She can order the lizard spirit to kill people and take their hearts at will.

Gao Yuanyuan was able to play Xiao Wei at this stage very well, and her pure and innocent face played a big role in this.

When filming the scenes related to this stage, Gao Yuanyuan was able to act opposite Li Xiaoran without being suppressed. Her face was very suitable for Xiao Wei at this stage and it invisibly added a lot of points.

The second stage is when Xiao Wei is really interested in Wang Sheng. At this time, she has not yet thought about replacing Peirong to become Mrs. Wang, but she no longer minds being Wang Sheng's concubine.

This stage requires emotional changes compared to the first stage, but Gao Yuanyuan did not act it out, or her acting was not obvious.

That is to say, when filming at this stage, Gao Yuanyuan would be overshadowed by Li Xiaoran.

In the third stage, Xiao Wei fell in love with Wang Sheng and wanted to replace Peirong as Mrs. Wang.

This stage belongs to the "jealousy" stage. Gao Yuanyuan's explosive power is amazing. Compared with Li Xiaoran, she is not at all inferior. The rivalry between the two is very exciting. So much so that the spectator Pang Bing watched with relish.

In the last stage, Xiao Wei fell completely in love with Wang Sheng. After Wang Sheng committed suicide and said the three words "I love you", Xiao Wei truly gained "humanity" and she chose to sacrifice herself to save everyone.

This requires a very strong emotional outburst. Cao Yang chose to shoot that scene at the end. I don’t know if Gao Yuanyuan can do it.

Because the movies were not shot in sequence, others might not have noticed that Gao Yuanyuan was overshadowed by Li Xiaoran and might have thought it was normal.

But as the person who knows the movie best, how could Cao Yang not have noticed it?

To be honest, Gao Yuanyuan's acting skills are pretty good now. Even without participating in the play experience, she is better than Pang Bing.

This is definitely because of the changes brought about by the three immersive experiences when filming "Secret Sunshine". She can unconsciously mobilize her emotional changes to cope with different scenes.

Of course, this has a prerequisite, which is that she must first understand what the play is about and how to play her role, otherwise, it is likely that her performance will be a mess.

After all, she has not yet learned how to mobilize her emotions freely, and can only respond passively after understanding how to act.

It’s a bit like when Duan Yu had just mastered the Six Meridians Divine Sword.

Li Xiaoran is much better than her, maybe it's because of time? Or maybe it's because of her understanding.

"Crack!"

When it came to the second stage of filming the changes in Xiao Wei, Cao Yang felt a bit overwhelmed. As a commercial film, Gao Yuanyuan was definitely qualified at this stage and would not distract people from the show, but he was afraid of the comparison.

If people find out that the Cannes Film Festival winner is overshadowed by the Berlin Film Festival winner, it will be a huge blow not only to the movie, but also to Gao Yuanyuan.

A large part of the highlights of this movie lies in Xiao Wei. If Gao Yuanyuan is overshadowed, the movie will also be criticized.

There is no point in talking about the play anymore. I don’t know how many times I have said what I should have said.

Is it necessary to give her an immersive experience?

"I'm sorry, sorry everyone. Excuse me, I'll treat everyone to a midnight snack later."

Gao Yuanyuan bowed slightly to the staff around her and nodded repeatedly to apologize.

Even though she has become the Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, Gao Yuanyuan is still as polite as before when filming, and will apologize to the staff if there is a NG due to her.

However, before she would just keep saying sorry, but now she can naturally ask for a midnight snack for everyone.

This is the change brought about by the difference in income. Her current endorsement fee is higher than that of Zhang Ziyi, and is among the highest among domestic actresses. After all, the Cannes Film Queen is unique.

"What a vixen, pretending to be innocent and pitiful, all you know is how to win people's hearts, ugh!"

Li Xiaoran cursed Gao Yuanyuan in her heart, and she was also secretly excited.

"You little brat, you're the winner of the Cannes Film Festival, but you were still crushed by my acting skills. You must perform beyond your expectations and do better to make this vixen lose face."

"I'm sorry Director Cao, I know it needs to change, it's my fault."

Gao Yuanyuan hurriedly apologized to Cao Yang again, but only Cao Yang could hear the change in her tone, and she intentionally emphasized the words "Director Cao".

Isn’t the acting quite good? Why can’t he perform the emotional changes in the second stage?

(End of this chapter)