Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 173: Magic Sword Chess of Life and Death

Wu Zhuo was eating the melon with great relish when suddenly his eyes froze.

"Fuck, the melon has fallen on my head."

In another newspaper, he was prominently featured on the headlines, and it was also related to "Red Cliff".

"John Woo said that he might invite Wu Zhuo, a member of Fahrenheit who is currently very popular in Asia, to join the crew to play the role of Zhou Yu."

Reading this article, Wu Zhuo couldn't help but twitching his lips.

He didn't receive any invitation from John Woo to play Zhou Yu.

Besides, it is impossible for him to act.

He is already very popular in Asia, so why would he want to get involved in this drama that is destined to be criticized?

However, that's not the point.

The point is, it's obvious that he was being used to gain popularity.

Fahrenheit has been extremely popular in Asia recently.

"Double Faced Fahrenheit" achieved sales of 21 in Japan in its first week.

In the second week, it made further progress on the Oricon chart with sales of 280,000 copies, ranking second in Japan that week.

In South Korea, "Fahrenheit Double Edge" earned 230,000 in two weeks.

In addition, "Fahrenheit" is also extremely popular in mainland China, with the order volume reaching 1.8 million and actual sales of more than 400,000.

Then we include places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand where Chinese-language records have higher sales.

In less than a month, the total sales of "Double Sided Fahrenheit" in Asia have exceeded 1.4 million.

The hot data directly made Fahrenheit the most popular band this spring.

Among them, Wu Zhuo is extremely popular in the Chinese-speaking regions.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that "Red Cliff" wants to take advantage of the situation to maintain its popularity and attract attention.

It’s not a bad thing to be the target of others’ attention. It just means that you are popular.

However, "Red Cliff" was really just for the sake of popularity and didn't care about anything else.

Zhou Yu was already in his thirties during the Battle of Red Cliffs.

Where is Wu Zhuo?
He is only 21 years old now, this doesn't make sense at all.

What Wu Chao didn't know was that John Woo had actually thought of letting him play Zhou Yu.

The reason, of course, is that Wu Zhuo is very popular in Japan and South Korea now.

Another major investor in the drama "Red Cliff" is Japan's Avex.

It’s because the Japanese particularly like Zhao Yun.

Before the filming of "Red Cliff", the decision had already been made to take care of the international market, especially Japan and South Korea.

Therefore, John Woo filmed Zhao Yun's seven ins and outs at Changbanpo even though it was obvious that he could not film all the scenes in one movie.

Now, Wu Zhuo is so popular in Japan and South Korea that John Woo is really interested in letting Wu Zhuo play Zhou Yu.

In the end, I chose to give up because of my age.

But, even though he gave up, he still couldn't help but get close to Wu Zhuo. After Chow Yun-fat left the group, he told reporters that he might invite Wu Zhuo to play Zhou Yu...

The filming location of "Magic Sword: Life and Death Chess" is at the Wuxi Film and Television Base in Jiangsu.

Wu Zhuo went straight there.

When we arrived in Wuxi, it was already past four in the afternoon.

He definitely can't join the filming today.

So he checked into the hotel and started studying the script.

For the play "Magic Sword: Chess of Life and Death", the original script was no different from the previous life.

But as Wu Zhuo became more and more popular, he became popular not only in China, but also in Japan, South Korea and other places.

Therefore, the producers directly asked the editor and director to make major changes to the script.

In the original plot, the character of Ren Qianxing is a pure villain who will do anything to achieve his goals, and his life goal is to dominate the world.

After being revised by the screenwriter, Ren Qianxing is no longer a simple villain, but a true protagonist alongside Yan Zangfeng.

And in this version, although Ren Qianxing is still considered a villain, he is not born evil. Instead, it is because of the sword demon blood in his body that he is possessed by the devil, and his temperament changes drastically, becoming cold and ruthless.

Among them, the most important is the ending.

The ending of the original version of Ren Qianxing was a bit anticlimactic.

He had mastered the Heart Sword and the Demon Sword and was invincible, but out of nowhere a Sword Hidden One appeared and killed him instantly with one arrow. This was simply ridiculous.

What’s even funnier is that in the end, Ren Qianxing was suddenly influenced by Liu Yiyi’s motherly love and returned to the right path without any foreshadowing.

For this version, the director made some changes after Wu Chao’s reminder.

First of all, the character Jianyin still exists, and he is also one of the masters in the play, but he is not that buggy, and Ren Qianxing was not killed instantly by him.

Instead, he used his demonic body to suppress the righteous people.

In the end, Ren Qianxing did turn over a new leaf just like in the original version, but it was not because of Liu Yiyi's few words that he was persuaded.

But at the last moment, the righteous side gathered their strength and awakened the spirituality of the heart sword, which in turn suppressed the magic sword and cleansed the evil nature of Ren Qianxing.

In the meantime, there will be some foreshadowing to correspond to this ending.

Finally, in this version, some modifications and adjustments have been made to Ren Qianxing’s emotional scenes.

In the original version, Ren Qianxing kept licking Liu Yiyi like a dog.

That has changed a lot in this edition.

First of all, Ren Qianxing has an official couple.

She is his wife Bai Yuer in the original version.

In that version, Bai Yuer loves Yan Zangfeng.

The screenwriter cut out this part in this version and instead changed Bai Yuer's love object to Ren Qianxing.

Speaking of this, Wu Zhuo found it funny and wanted to complain.

Screenwriters of this era really like melodrama.

After the screenwriter changed the emotional scenes.

Now the love story has become that Ren Qianxing likes Liu Yiyi, Liu Yiyi likes Yan Zangfeng, Yan Zangfeng likes Bai Yuer, and finally, Bai Yuer likes Ren Qianxing again.

After a big circle, the most classic bloody love scene of this era is also there.

Then the ending of the love story is, of course, if a man pursues a woman, there is a mountain between them, but if a woman pursues a man, there is only a layer of gauze between them.

Ren Qianxing was moved by Bai Yuer, and Yan Zangfeng was moved by Liu Yiyi, and they became a couple.

It is worth mentioning here the actor who plays the role of Bai Yuer.

In the original version, she was played by Taiwanese actress Guo Tingting.

In this life, after Wu Zhuo joined the cast, he recommended Guo Biting to the crew to play the role.

The crew agreed to Wu Chao's recommendation and let Guo Biting play this role.

At around six o'clock in the afternoon, the crew of "The Magic Sword: Life and Death Chess" went home together.

A small group joining party was held for Wu Zhuo at a restaurant near the hotel.

"This is Shao Bing, the Golden Rooster Award winner, and the other main character of our drama, Yan Zangfeng. Wu Zhuo, you should have seen his drama."

At the dinner table, director Li Chuanfeng smiled and introduced the main creative members of the crew to Wu Chao.

"This is Liu Tao, the actor who plays Liu Yiyi."

"This is Mr. Ray Lui..."

"Hello, seniors. I'm Wu Zhuo. I'm really sorry that it took me so long to join the team."

Wu Zhuo held up a glass of wine and apologized for taking so long to join the group.

His delayed joining the crew actually had an impact on other actors.

He has most of the scenes in the entire crew.

Without him, these scenes couldn't be filmed.

When he was not here, many people in the crew were just sitting around doing nothing every day.

For an actor, idleness costs money.

Sometimes, if there is a delay of ten days or half a month, others may have already finished filming most of the movie.

Originally, everyone had complaints about Wu Zhuo's delay in joining the group.

At this moment, seeing how polite he was, everyone looked much better.

Liu Tao was the first to stand up and said, "It's no big deal. You have work to do over there, so it's normal that you can't squeeze in.

We encounter this situation frequently.”

(End of this chapter)