The King of Soft Rice in Chinese Entertainment

Chapter 174 What other accidents could happen?
Let’s get back to the topic of Canjian. In Xu Jiuyang’s design, Changkong is a chivalrous man, Feixue is a hero, and Canjian is a hermit.

He could see that the world really needed to be unified, and he could also see that the difficulties of people's livelihood would not change much because of the unification of the world, but he had no way to solve this problem. After all, unity is always a little better than disunity, so in the end he could only become a hermit, not worry about right and wrong, and just live his own life.

However, the hermit in Xu Jiuyang's eyes is different from the hermit in the eyes of Lao Mouzi and others.

In Xu Jiuyang's view, a true hermit should be like Wu Hou who tilled the land in Nanyang, or like Yan Hui who lived in a shabby alley with only a bowl of rice and a jug of water.

But Lao Mouzi and his friends disagreed. They believed that a hermit should live in a manor by the lake, wearing white clothes, and play the piano facing the lake every day when he had nothing to do.

It's really hard to complain. It is said that Westerners are full of stereotypes about China, and there are also many stereotypes among the Chinese people about their own people. But this time Angela chose to support them.

"According to the manuscript, at least the colors look pleasing to the eye. In comparison, European and American audiences obviously prefer to see a gorgeous showdown among green mountains and clear waters, just like the bamboo forest fighting scene in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The desolate style has already been shown in the plot of Flying Snow." She said this on the phone.

Xu Jiuyang admitted that what she said made sense, so he didn't insist. He just reminded her that the action scenes must be well designed and must not be made lightly - like in the previous life.

However, Zhang Yimou and his team did not just focus on these minor details, they also made some appropriate changes. For example, in the end, Wuming was surrounded by enemies and chopped off the throne with a white rainbow piercing the sun, instead of following Xu Jiuyang's plan to have the King of Qin take off his clothes and stab him three times in a row to complete the assassination.

After thinking about it carefully, I realized that my setting was indeed inappropriate. After all, not every audience knew Yu Rang's story.

A commercial film aimed at the general public must clearly understand who its audience is and what their level of knowledge is.

The simplest example is the Tianyuan Ding in "Nezha 2". Anyone who has watched any works related to cultivation of immortals or ancient times should understand that according to the rules, it should be called Qianyuan Ding, because "Tian" means "Qian", but the director still changed it to "Tian".

The reason is very simple. Children may not understand what the Tianyuan Ding is, but they definitely don’t understand what the Qianyuan Ding is.

Being a director should be this meticulous.

Back to the topic, in addition to the reason mentioned above, another reason is that such an ending is too unpleasant, and the audience's accumulated emotions have not been released.

People in the Qin and Han dynasties might be able to understand the actions of Zhao Xiangzi and Yu Rang, but today's audiences will only think that this approach is too stupid, or simply the wailing of a defeated dog.

Therefore, it would be better to replicate a white rainbow piercing the sun, and let Wuming use a mutually destructive fighting style to break through the layers of soldiers, and finally deliberately hit the throne with a slight miss.

In this case, it is understandable that the King of Qin was angry and ordered that it should not be recorded in the history books.

However, if you want the audience to accept the result that Wuming's last sword was misdirected, you have to spend a lot of effort to shape the image in the beginning. Although history cannot be changed is a good excuse, it makes the screenwriter and director seem too incompetent. Judging from the current script...

"Forget it, it has nothing to do with me anymore." Xu Jiuyang said after patting his head.

The reason why he followed the filming of "Hero" through Zhang Yuning was, on the one hand, because Huo Siyan had a performance, and on the other hand, it was out of habit.

After all, it is the first major domestic production, and I have been fully interfered with it, so it is normal to chase it and want to know the result.

To be honest, if Xu Jiuyang hadn't played Yang Kang, he might have joined the crew of "Hero".

With Angela's support, he could just give himself a title and do nothing in the crew. He could just leisurely watch how they filmed the modified version.

It's not like now... Xu Jiuyang glanced at Zhang Yunning who was still typing on the keyboard, and immediately coughed lightly: "Okay, let's stop here for today, you can't finish it now."

"Oh..." Zhang Yuning responded and closed the notebook obediently.

"Go take a shower and wash yourself clean," he ordered again. "Okay." Zhang Yunning's originally lazy voice suddenly became cheerful.

Not only that, she also changed her clothes in front of him, twisting and turning like some birds seeking a mate.

Xu Jiuyang just wanted to sigh. For more than ten days, his exploration machine had not rested at all. It was either digging a hole or on the way to dig a hole.

But he didn't feel any discomfort at all. Both mentally and physically, he maintained a good level, and even... he seemed to enjoy it a little.

But it doesn't seem like he is addicted. If they don't come to him now, he won't feel uncomfortable or unhappy at all and can continue to live his life as usual.

Is this really the innate soft rice saint body? Xu Jiuyang thought so and went into the bathroom. He quickly remembered the sound of laughter, and then it subsided again.

No matter what, the filming still needs to continue. It is impossible to give up halfway. It has come to this point, what other accidents can happen?
But he took it back the next day.

"Hello, my name is Yang Mi." The little girl in front of him stretched out her hand generously.

"Hello, my name is Xu Jiuyang." Xu Jiuyang shook hands with her while smiling.

"Are you a newcomer? Have you acted in any works before? I started acting when I was 4 years old!" Yang Mi chattered very familiarly with a proud expression.

To be honest, ignoring what happened in her past life, just looking at her current appearance, she is still quite cute, with a round face that is pink and tender, and she doesn't look like a young girl at all.

"Well, I'm indeed a newcomer. I used to be an advertising copywriter." Xu Jiuyang nodded.

"Then shouldn't you call me senior?" Yang Mi's eyes lit up.

"Mi Mi." He Qing called out from the side.

After all, everyone saw how Dong Qing lost his temper on the set and how he was so respectful to someone.

"It's okay, it's okay," Xu Jiuyang smiled and waved his hand. "It's okay to call me senior, but as a senior, what can Xiao Mimi teach me?"

"Of course it's acting. I have a lot of experience." Yang Mi put her hands on her hips, and she wanted to raise her nose to the sky.

Seeing Xu Jiuyang's disbelief, she coughed lightly and lowered her voice seriously, "The simplest way is, when you're acting out a crying scene, hold a broken pin in your palm. When you need it, squeeze it hard. I guarantee you'll cry."

"But, Xiao Mimi, what if the director wants to take a panoramic shot?" Xu Jiuyang asked with a smile, "What if when you pinch me, I only feel pain but don't feel like crying?"

"Ah...ah?" Yang Mi opened her mouth, blinked, and suddenly stamped her foot: "I'm teaching you acting. If you don't want to learn, it's fine, but why are you pointing fingers?"

After saying that, she ran away angrily with a red face.

"The little girl is just shy." Xu Jiuyang smiled and shook his head, then looked at He Qing and asked, "Speaking of which, how did Sister Qing get to know her?"

"About five or six years ago, I starred in a movie and Xiao Mimi had a role in it. That's how we met," He Qing explained. "She's quite a nice person. Although we don't keep in touch much, we always say hello when we run into each other during holidays."

(End of this chapter)