coronation of stars

Chapter 9 The number one scandal (2)
"Brother Mu!" Yao Manxin showed him a sweet smile in surprise, and reached out to pull his arm, "Why are you here? I'm already very happy that Senior Wei Ze came for such a small thing as my audition, I didn't expect you to... thank you for giving me face as a junior!"

Of course, Yao Manxin knew that Wei Ze was the fixed male lead in this drama, so he was definitely going to watch other actors audition for other roles. Although she didn't know why Mu Ting came here, she and Mu Ting had only met each other a few times. Contact, she is not so narcissistic that she thinks that Mu Ting has any thoughts on her.

But she is the best newcomer that Fengchen is cultivating now, so Mu Ting, Fengchen's prince, should give her some face, right?It's just a hype on the sidelines. Although I heard that he disdained these things in the early days, but now that he is so popular, he has already understood what he should understand.Yao Manxin was full of confidence. After she said that, could he put down his body and hit her in the face?

Yet she was too naive.

Who came here for you, really treat yourself as a person, how much is your face worth?Mu Ting rolled his eyes violently in his heart, quickly took a step back, held her hand before Yao Manxin grabbed her, and shook his face vigorously: "I am here to watch the audition results on behalf of the investor Fang Fengchen Entertainment." The representative of Xiao Yao, come on and act, Fengchen is very optimistic about you."

"Brother Mu..." Yao Manxin was stunned for a moment at Mu Ting's serious expression of heroes and sons and daughters of our country working together for the cause. He quickly realized that his face was blushing, and after peeking around, he lowered his head shyly. , "Well, I know Brother Mu, I will!"

"..." Mu Ting paused, and asked her with a perplexed expression, "Why are you blushing, thinking you've got a good relationship? Be more dedicated during working hours. Director Cao doesn't like actors who randomly wander off."

"Huh? Well, not really..." Cao Rui was a little embarrassed when it was mentioned suddenly. He didn't mind Yao Manxin being courteous to Mu Ting. It doesn't matter, but now that Mu Ting mentioned him, he was a little bit speechless, so he coughed dryly and abruptly changed the subject.

"Hey, let's not talk about this, everyone be quiet." Cao Rui clapped his hands and signaled to the staff, "When everyone is here, let's start the audition, starting with the heroine, Yao Manxin, come on, you are the first. "

Everyone agreed one after another, and each returned to their positions to start preparations.After the director, screenwriter, male lead actor and investor representative sat down in turn, Yao Manxin came to the front, waited for a while but saw that Wei Ze was still sitting still, and suddenly became a little flustered.

"Brother Wei?" She reminded Wei Ze in a low voice. Yesterday, Yao Manxin personally called Wei Ze's manager Liu Mingshu, asking him to let Wei Ze take her for a audition in the next day's audition.

Although Yao Manxin became famous for playing the heroine of a popular idol drama, whether it was Cao Rui's script or the scene with Wei Ze, if she hadn't resorted to some tricks, she still wouldn't be able to get her turn now Yes, the status is worse, and the acting skills are even worse.

Therefore, the audition she picked was a scene where the male and female protagonists were arguing. Although the heroine had a lot of roles, the roles didn't change much. She felt that her acting skills were almost enough.Yesterday Liu Mingshu clearly agreed, but today Wei Ze...

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Yao Manxin was still not moving, Cao Rui asked suspiciously, and then quickly realized that she also turned to Wei Ze, "Wei Ze, then you have to work hard, the actors who accompanied the audition for the heroine are all right. How about a play? Or just... Wei Ze? Why haven't you said anything?"

In the middle of speaking, Cao Rui suddenly realized that Wei Ze hadn't spoken since he came to the set today, and couldn't help being surprised. When he looked at Wei Ze questioningly, he saw the latter pointing to his throat with a wry smile, and then waved his hand.Liu Mingshan leaned over and explained in a low voice: "He may have suffered from a cold recently, and he couldn't speak when he got up this morning. After the audition, he has to go to the hospital for water."

"Oh..." Cao Rui closed his mouth, nodded understandingly, and stopped talking about asking him to play with him.Yao Manxin, who was standing by the side, turned pale. If Wei Ze couldn't act with her, wouldn't the double play she had prepared be for nothing?Yao Manxin gritted her teeth, and continued to complain to Cao Rui: "Director Cao...if the play is wrong, I'm not used to acting alone..."

"How big are you, and others still have to take care of your habits?" Mu Ting sneered and retorted.As Fengchen's investment representative, he now has the most position to criticize his company's artists, and others can't say anything.Yao Manxin's face was a bit embarrassed, and he felt a dark hatred in his heart, but his eyes immediately turned red, "Then I...then I will..."

The acting skills are only used for this, Mu Ting burst into a curse in his heart, and calmly glanced at Qiao Yan who was sitting far away from the corner of his eyes, and said patiently: "Anyway, Wei Ze is I can’t help you anymore, so go ask who on the field can accompany you for a match.”

The male lead has already been decided on Wei Ze, so naturally no one will compete for the male lead position.There was a brief silence in the field, and then a gentle and comfortable voice sounded.

"I'll make a fool of myself." Qiao Yan stood up and smiled in Yao Manxin's complicated eyes, "I've read the script too, and I'm familiar with the heroine's play, so I can barely help the couple, I'm sure if they don't shine Yes, just be a green leaf and set off the red flowers."

Qiao Yan was definitely not in her range of choices, but today she had a bad time and no one else stood up, so she could only make do with it now.Yao Manxin nodded and accepted, and the two took positions according to the scene Yao Manxin had chosen.

After receiving the director's signal to start, Yao Manxin took a deep breath, lowered her head and pondered for two seconds, misty mist quickly formed in her eyes, her lips trembled slightly, and her voice was somewhat hoarse and choked.

"Zhao Lang," she looked up at him with a face full of tears, and looked at him with endless sadness, "Why do you have to go?"

Qiao Yan was tall and tall, nearly a head taller than her. When she raised her head, she could only see Qiao Yan's smooth and delicate slender neck.Qiao Yan didn't lower her head to look at her for a long time, Yao Manxin was a little impatient, glanced around but found that the people sitting were all looking at Qiao Yan.

She immediately became extremely vigilant, and raised her head even more tearfully.Seeing that Qiao Yan finally lowered her head at this time, she looked into her eyes, but was involuntarily startled for a moment.

There was no tenderness or tears in those beautifully curved eyes.

Some only have the deep and shallow vicissitudes and the bitterness left by the weather-beaten years. They are still clear in black and white, but they have long lost any innocence and innocence.

With just one glance, her heart couldn't help but tugged deeply.

Cao Rui's new play is a martial arts film called "The Ranger of the End of the World", which is adapted from a classic novel by a well-known martial arts novelist.As early as the last century, it has been put on the screen twice, and all of them can be called classics handed down from generation to generation.

Now that Cao Rui is working on the remake, the outside world is full of doubts and expectations, and the discussion is unprecedented. Let’s not talk about the number of people who are optimistic about the bad news, but the attention has earned [-]% and [-]%, which also makes this drama unfilmed. Fire first.

Cao Rui is happy to see the results. He has always been known as the director who knows the market best, and has always been very precise in grasping the market.In this remake version, Shidi Wei Ze was first used to suppress the formation, which reduced the doubts from the outside world by half, and then made a major adjustment to the script adapted from the original book.

The first is to add the plot, which is at least [-] episodes more than the previous two remakes; the second is to delete and adjust the characters, according to the audience's preferences, to blacken the supporting roles, to whitewash the white, to distinguish between good and evil , Standing in line is clear, and several characters who have switched between good and evil have also been directly related to the protagonist in the adjustment of the plot.

Finally, no matter how good the acting skills are, the few female characters who have close contact with the male lead must be beautiful, and they must have deep roots in love for the male lead. .

Zhao Zheng, the leading actor in "The Ranger of the End of the World", has extremely complex and changeable characters.As a martial arts novel centered on the male protagonist, the description of him in the original book is rich enough: He was born prominently, was gifted and intelligent, was successful at a young age, faced with the wind in a jade tree, and galloped by on a horse galloping past countless girls. heart.

The girl he married when he was young was the jewel in the palm of a well-known family in the world, and she became famous all over the world after she was born.It was originally as beautiful as a legendary story in a drama, but it suddenly changed suddenly. He was in the torrent, and it was difficult for him to be alone. Since then, he has embarked on a rough and bumpy road.

Everyone in the Jianghu is aiming for the world, but this world is not the arena of knights.Since ancient times, the use of martial arts was banned, and the court's tolerance was extremely limited. After the country became stable and strong, it finally extended its black hand to the Jianghu.

A post from the imperial court shocked the world, the martial arts conference was officially launched, and the leader of the martial arts alliance was officially named, and all the people in the world were excited about it.All of a sudden, intrigues and strife broke out, and the bloody wind roiled. Zhao Zheng's father stepped on the blood of his former brothers to ascend to the position of the leader of the martial arts leader.

Before the treacherous array, every step is dangerous.

Then the imperial court forcibly pushed his son Zhao Zheng to be the leader of the alliance. The young leader of the alliance led the Jianghu. Although he was talented, he was still young after all, and his martial arts were not top-notch.Coupled with his impulsive and irritable personality and youthful spirit, he had already made several enemies during the battle, and the contradictions quickly intensified after he took charge of the rivers and lakes.

Not long after, he, the martial arts leader, was kicked out by the whole world, and he returned to the matter of being a leader, but the grievances had already been settled.

Zhao Zheng survived by luck.

He had to be spared by the heavens, but he was not willing to live by idling. Thinking about the past, he felt more and more indebted.Since then, he has been tossing around the world for ten years, vowing to turn the evil causes he planted into good fruits, and go through all kinds of hardships, just to usher in the day when the rivers and lakes return to peace.

During this period, he laughed, cried, worried, and angry. He once put on a bamboo hat on a snowy night, rested his feet and then set off to shake off the dust; It is even more inevitable to hesitate to revisit the old place, exhausting all life's calculations and finally empty-handed.

But after all, he never stopped moving forward, never gave up halfway. After 20 years of turmoil in the rivers and lakes, Zhao Zheng finally got rid of his obsessions.

There have been several women who were important to him in his life.

The first is the girl who was betrothed to him. The two grew up as childhood sweethearts. Zhao Zheng was used to arrogance as a young man. He didn't think the girl was any different to him. It wasn't until the girl was ordered by the court to approach the palace that they knew each other's feelings for each other. Unfortunately, at this time It was already too late, her daughter was reserved, and he was reckless as a young man, with tears in his eyes at the last moment, and he couldn't say goodbye after all.

Later he was hunted down by the whole world, so he panicked and hid in the woman's embroidered building. Although the woman was not from the Jianghu, the place where the people grew up was simple and honest. After meeting Zhao Zheng, she secretly took all kinds of liking for him to heart.

Zhao Zheng lived a peaceful and comfortable life with her, but in the end, he resolutely gave up escaping from reality and living in isolation during night after night, and took the initiative to step into the rivers and lakes again and entered the siege of chaos, but in the end he did not dare to see the girl for the last time , After leaving a letter, he hurriedly left without saying goodbye.

The heroine Duan Qiurong that Yao Manxin auditioned for was the third girl he met, and she was also a confidante who accompanied Zhao Zheng wandering around the world after all the troubles were over.

In the original book, this character appeared almost in the middle of the book. Compared with the remake of the first two editions, which tried to restore the rhythm of the original book, Cao Rui deleted and revised the direction of many supporting characters, and brought Duan Qiurong's appearance forward by nearly ten episodes. When he was besieged and killed by everyone in the world, out of morality and admiration for Zhao Zheng, he took the initiative to solve the troubles left by Zhao Zheng, and then used it as another thread to intersperse it. When he really met Zhao Zheng, he naturally fell in love with it very quickly. .

As a unique woman who is well versed in the righteousness of the world, one of the important reasons why she can be cited by Zhao Zheng as his first confidante is that she has shown understanding of the righteousness in Zhao Zheng's heart and actively supported her in action. .

She used her power to help Zhao Zheng connect with people who hadn't been frightened or dazzled by the bloody storm, and she also showed tenderness and consideration in the gatherings and partings with Zhao Zheng.But at the end of the play, when Zhao Zheng went to a court banquet where he had escaped death, she was still afraid, and for the first time when she parted, she tried to persuade Zhao Zheng to stay.

And Zhao Zheng is of course still the same Zhao Zheng, he has reluctance, owes, and helplessness to Duan Qiurong, but because of his ideals and morals for these years, he will never, cannot, and will not choose to stand still.

When Duan Qiurong leaned on his chest with tears in her eyes and spoke words to keep him, it was the No. 16 years when he lived incognito in this world of mortals.

Yao Manxin cries really beautifully, which is endearing. It can be seen that she has worked hard on crying scenes, but Cao Rui and Wei Ze are all actors who have seen actors and actresses for more than ten years. The role of Duan Qiurong didn't blend well enough.

I only see sadness, not sorrow.

Duan Qiurong was crying because she couldn't bear to put her lover in danger. She had to stop her, but she knew in her heart that she couldn't stop her. If she didn't know this about Zhao Zheng, she really couldn't be Zhao Zheng's only confidante.So her crying is reluctance, helplessness, and farewell——

When you go here, remember to pay attention to all kinds of things, be careful in all kinds of ways, concubine in Qi clothes, half sitting in the empty door, I hope you will return in the Ming Dynasty.

After Cao Rui and others evaluated Yao Manxin's performance in their hearts, Cao Rui was still satisfied.Although Yao Manxin's acting skills are mediocre, as long as she cries well, the audience will definitely buy it. It doesn't really matter if she can act well, after all, her acting skills are supported by Wei Ze.But when he moved his eyes to Qiao Yan, even though he knew that Qiao Yan's acting skills were quite affirmed, he was still surprised when he actually saw her.

Her eyes are very sophisticated.

Those eyes really showed Zhao Zheng's state of mind after 17 years of wandering. He can't cry, men can't cry, and he doesn't regret it. This is the path he chose, and he can't live up to it all his life.He pitied Duan Qiurong, his good wife who had been by his side for many years, but in his eyes at this moment, there was more determination and generosity towards life and death.

Even if there are thousands of people, I will go.

She didn't put on formal makeup, but simply put on a fresher look, matched with a well-born face, and her skills didn't match her face. In fact, it would be a bit of a show.But after all, Cao Rui, as a well-known director, has been immersed in acting and expressing his career for many years, and he instantly understood what Qiao Yan really meant——

She is proving to Cao Rui that she may have many flaws that cannot be ignored and cannot be changed when playing Zhao Zheng, but her acting skills are more than enough to play a complete and fulfilling Duan Qiurong.

In this two-person audition with the heroine's perspective, the heroine needs to talk more, and there is still a long way to go. Yao Manxin's performance has gradually improved, and her expressions are much better than the initial bluntness.

However, at this point, the winner has already been divided.

It's a pity that the result will not change because of this. Ironically, Yao Manxin is the only one who came to audition for the female lead today, and she has made her decision so clearly. If it weren't for Wei Ze's kind phone call yesterday, she would have come here today full of ambition Audition, how much ridicule and sarcasm will you suffer, and become a pitiful and pitiful laughing stock in the eyes of others?
"Qiao Yan, you..." Cao Rui looked at her with an unnatural expression on his face, "You did a good job, you can audition for the second female lead in a while, you have read the script, you and the make-up artist can do a simple drawing... "

"Thank you Director Cao for your appreciation, but I haven't read the script of the second female lead. It's really a pity." Qiao Yan smiled lightly, with clear eyes, and said neatly: "Originally, I came here this time to observe and learn from the great director. I still have to thank Director Cao for agreeing to such an unreliable request, I have learned a lot from Director Cao these days, and Qiao Yan has been taught."

(End of this chapter)