Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 336 Cultural Workers Must Have Culture

But it’s not that there weren’t film crews looking for Liu Yifei. In the past 15 months, Liu Yifei has read at least 20 scripts, but found none of them interesting.

After "So Young" became popular during the May Day holiday, Red Star House received invitations to produce four youth films in just a few days.

Some of them didn’t even invite us, they just called and said, “We are planning to make a youth film and we want to invite Liu Yifei.”

Everyone wanted to ask Liu Yifei to play the role of school beauty, but he was not interested in any of them.

I feel a bit annoyed after seeing this.

But her agent told her: "Nowadays, actors of our age play these kinds of roles, love affairs, fighting and quarrels. That's it. Many people want to play these roles but can't."

Let’s not talk about those born after 85, as the scope is too small. Let’s expand it to those born after 80. There are many actresses born after 80 who have established a foothold in the film industry, but not many. There is no one else like Liu Yifei who insists on playing the leading female role and refuses to take a TV drama.

Fan Bingbing no longer takes on TV dramas, but she still plays supporting roles in movies.

The oldest of those born after 85 is only 28 years old, and Liu Yifei is only 26 years old. But she is most comfortable playing the role of a young girl, and the film producers will not cast her for other roles.

Liu Yifei is embarrassed here. She is not very old, but she debuted early and became famous early. "The Beauty Inside" and "Introduction to Architecture" did not help her improve her status - unlike Japan and South Korea, China does not recognize the role of youth romance movies in improving the status of actors.

But the most fatal thing is that she has a movie called "In Time" which is famous in film history and won the Golden Globe Award, and is recognized by people in the circle.

Liu Yifei is now in an awkward position. She is definitely more popular and has a higher status than most actresses born in the 80s, but she is not yet a big star recognized by the industry, and her status in the circle has not risen. With Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun sitting in the first row, she has to sit in the second row.

The industry is waiting, and Red Star House is waiting too.

What are you waiting for?
Waiting for "Pacific Rim" to be released this summer.

It's the most expensive co-production film, and she is the absolute leading actress in it, with no side roles. Her role and highlights are guaranteed. As long as this movie becomes a hit, Liu Yifei will be able to establish her position in the circle in one fell swoop.

She was the female lead in the two biggest co-productions in the past decade, "The Forbidden Kingdom" and "Pacific Rim". Together with "In Time", she was able to rival Zhang Ziyi's peak reputation as "International Zhang".

But they are only comparable in volume, Liu Yifei has a fatal shortcoming - she has no awards!
To improve an actor’s status, one must not only have box office results and exposure, but also awards.

No matter how much others say that Fan Bingbing is ugly, she is indeed the Tokyo Film Queen.

It seems that Liu Yifei is a big star, as her performance in movies is at least better than Xu Jinglei's. But she is too young, and there are many roles that the Four Dan Actresses and the Two Bings can play, but she cannot.

The film crew would never have asked Liu Yifei to play a role like Shang Qinqin in "My Best Friend".

Just like now, Liu Yifei finally saw a different and favorite role - Ren Xiaoyan in "Hypnotist".

This is Wanda's film, but Liu Yifei is not Wanda's first choice. Ye Ning just thinks that Liu Yifei has a high traffic now, so she just wants to give it a try.

Wan Da wants to find a mature actress over 35 years old to play Ren Xiaoyan.

Ren Xiaoyan is a mature psychologist with a painful past, and she also has to compete with the male protagonist Xu Ruining.

For roles like this in the industry, the film producers would not invite Liu Yifei - she doesn't look like a professional even when she's dressed in a professional suit. But Liu Yifei liked the story of "Hypnotist" and the role of Ren Xiaoyan. She had never played an elite woman like Ren Xiaoyan. Although "Hypnotist" is not a workplace drama, Liu Yifei took the initiative to call Wan Da and wanted to try this role.

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Li Qiutang knew that Jing Tian was not talented. She could understand what she heard, saw and felt, but she couldn't do it, at least not at the moment. Perhaps in the future, as her experience deepened, she would be able to appreciate life more deeply.

So when Li Qiutang talks to her about acting on the set now, she will tend to focus on more practical acting techniques. Li Qiutang will tell Jing Tian how to understand the characters, understand the characters' highest mission, and understand the highest mission of the play.

Only then did I talk to her about the on-set techniques, still starting from the method school and the expressionist school. In fact, there is no school of thought in specific acting techniques, but the theories that Li Qiutang talked about with Jing Tian tended towards the method school and the expressionist school.

"Actually, you'd better receive training from the Grotowski school, but you definitely don't have the time." As a pure academic, Li Qiutang received most of her acting education from Stanislavsky. But when Li Qiutang was in school, the academy had already realized the shortcomings of the Stanislavsky system, so it also explained and taught other mainstream acting methods in the world. Teacher Feng Yuanzheng had taught at the Film Academy and talked about Grotowski.

“Glotowski’s body training is very hard.” But he added, “Actually, no matter what school or method you follow, you still have to express the character in the end.”

From the trial shoot to the official start of filming of "The Invisible Guest", Jing Tian really felt that she had learned a lot: "More than I learned in four years of college. I wish you could have taught me when I was in school."

But Li Qiutang didn't accept this flattery: "Come on, the teachers in school must have talked about what I said before, you just didn't listen carefully and didn't learn seriously."

Jing Tian smiled awkwardly, and Li Qiutang continued, "Teacher Xi Meijuan will arrive late today, you stand over and check the light for Teacher Xi Meijuan." This was treating Jing Tian as a substitute for the light.

Jing Tian is very popular in the crew. At first, everyone thought that this girl was arrogant and difficult to deal with, but after a few days they found that she was really easy to get along with.

He also often treated the crew to coffee and chicken legs at his own expense.

Huang Xiaoming stood opposite Jing Tian. He even gave Jing Tian a script and asked her to rehearse the lines with him.

Of course Jing Tian was willing too.

Huang Xiaoming acted as a teacher and taught Jing Tian: "Don't make exaggerated expressions, the drama is in your eyes."

That makes sense! It absolutely makes sense!
Lu Zheng came to the crew a few days ago. It was true that Jing Tian came to Li Qiutang's "jobbery" without discussing it with him, but he didn't care. "Special Identity" had already been completed, and Jing Tian's next play had not been decided yet. If she was willing, let her stay in the crew of "The Invisible Guest". Anyway, with Li Qiutang watching over her, nothing unexpected would happen.

Xing Guangdan doesn't expect Jing Tian to make money, so Jing Tian feels at ease staying with Li Qiutang, and Lu Zheng doesn't have to worry about anything.

"No matter what you do, you need to read more books and learn widely." Li Qiutang is a little dissatisfied with today's young actors. "The ability to understand text is crucial for our industry. If you can't even understand the script, how can you analyze the characters and grasp the highest tasks?"

Li Qiutang himself has never filmed such actors, but he has seen such actors in other crews.

Neither Jing Tian nor Huang Xiaoming likes reading.

Everyone knows that they should read more and read good books, but it is really difficult to do so.

"Cultural workers must have culture." Li Qiutang said a correct piece of nonsense.

(End of this chapter)