Become Famous Another Day

"Yan He, are you okay?"

When Lily Williams suddenly asked him in a low voice on the set, Lu Yanhe suddenly came back to his senses.

"Huh? Me? I'm fine. What's wrong?"

"I see you are sitting alone in a daze." Lily Williams said, "In the past two days, there have been people squatting at our door. I heard that when you came in this morning, you were blocked by others."

"That's nothing." Lu Yanhe smiled, "I was just thinking about how I would perform the last scene."

"That last scene?"

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "Didn't I let you go in the last scene? Because you were the only one who didn't really want to burn us to death. You always thought you were just scaring us for fun, and you would wait until something happened. You know what kind of devils your two friends are."

This is also a change in the film in its later stages.

The three targets of revenge, Arne and Simon, were all killed, but only Lily was spared in the end.

Lily's character also belongs to the same genre - after all, it was released in European and American countries where there are many white people. It cannot be that all three white people are evil devils.

Therefore, in Lily's role, her evil deeds back then became an ignorant evil that was kept in the dark.

Lily Williams said: "It was written in the script that you just let me go and left."

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, "But how to leave and how to end my last scene in the movie, I haven't figured out yet."

Lily Williams breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.

"So you were thinking about this. I thought you were in a bad mood because of what happened recently."

Lu Yanhe: "I wasn't scolded, why would I be in a bad mood?"

He had a smile on his face, as if everything was really fine.

Lily Williams said: "I feel like you don't want to deceive others."

"Huh?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised. He didn't expect Lily Williams to be so sharp and capture his true emotions at once.

All I can say is that actors are still actors, and sometimes they are really sharp.

Lily Williams: "Arne told me that you don't like the way the show is being marketed."

"Arne?" Lu Yanhe was even more surprised.

"Is he right?" Lily said, "Actually, he and I also looked for and watched your movies together. Your performances in "Late Spring" and "Path of Glory" were really good. No wonder you are so popular in Asia. red."

Lu Yanhe: "You suddenly praised me so much that I didn't even know what to say."

Lily laughed happily.

"It's such a pity that our movie was finished so quickly and we haven't even gotten to know each other very well yet."

The shooting time of "The Mist" was indeed not long. For a movie, more than thirty days of shooting time is considered to be relatively long.

However, for a horror film, this shooting time is not very long.

Lu Yanhe smiled and said, "It's good to know each other. There will be many opportunities to meet in the future."

Lily asked curiously: "Will you mainly make Hollywood movies in the future?"

"No." Lu Yanhe did not hesitate to answer this question, "I have many projects in China, and there is no way I can shift my focus to Hollywood."

Lily was a little frustrated and said, "Then you just lied to me. How come there are so many opportunities to meet?"

Lu Yanhe said with a smile: "That doesn't mean I won't go there in the future. What's more, you can come to China in the future. You are welcome to make movies in China."

Lily's understanding of Chinese movies is basically at the stage of "basically no understanding".

This is actually the case for many American filmmakers. They don’t pay much attention to foreign language films. At most, they only know about some award-winning films from film festivals.

Even in terms of art films, American films are recognized as inferior to those in Europe, but they never think that they are really inferior.

In such a large environment, young actors like Lily's understanding of movies is basically based on the aesthetics shaped by American movies.

Therefore, if they watch a "Late Spring" occasionally, they will find it very fresh.

In making this movie, Lu Yanhe actually had a good time working with Arne and Lily.

Working with the two of them gave Lu Yanhe a very different feeling - he found that everyone's performance system was still different. Both Arne and Lily's performances are explosive. This kind of explosive power is not about hysterically roaring at you, but a kind of fullness of emotion.

In fact, it's not just the two of them, but Simon as well.

Lu Yanhe studied it carefully later and felt that they all have such a unified explosive power, which may be related to the fact that the three of them have been performing on stage since childhood. Their stage performance experience shaped their emotional integrity and fullness. As for many young actors in China, they are actually actors trained by the camera. They rarely perform a scene from beginning to end without losing their emotions.

Each has its own advantages.

But overall, Lu Yanhe has to say that based on the movie "The Mist" alone, young actors in the United States have much stronger overall capabilities than their Chinese counterparts.

Of course, it was only the first time for Lu Yanhe to work with a foreign crew, so his feelings were not representative.

Moreover, if we really talk about the abilities of top actors, they are no less impressive.

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In fact, Lu Yanhe was quite moved.

Although many people on the Internet are questioning why he wants to act in a horror film overseas, basically no one who really knows Lu Yanhe comes to ask him this question.

Even Chen Lingling, as a director who has worked with Lu Yanhe twice and will also work with the sequel of "Silent River", when asked this question by reporters, Chen Lingling only said one sentence.

"For an actor like Lu Yanhe, no matter what role he takes, he must have his reasons. Before the movie is officially released, I will not ask him why he acted. After the movie is available, I will go directly to watch it. Go watch it in the movie and see why he acted in this movie.”

Liu Bige also responded to a comment in his social media comment area, "Go and persuade Yan He to stop acting." When Yan He was filming "Late Spring", how many people were also persuading him to stop acting? He stopped acting?

Lu Yanhe really had a lot of choices, none of which were understood at first.

For example, when he took on the role of "Late Spring", a low-cost literary film directed by a newcomer, at that time, many people said that he was crazy for wanting to win an award, and he dared to act in a three-no film.

For example, when he was a screenwriter, he wrote "On the Road" and "Rouge Button". Many people also laughed at him because he thought he was a great writer after studying literature for a few years.

For example, he left the "Party of Six" series without mercy and drew a clear line. At that time, many people scolded him for being out of his mind and stupid for giving up such a popular series for the sake of one breath.

It's been a big circle, and now looking back, Lu Yanhe can see that not a single step he took was in vain, not a single choice he made was wrong.

Linyu said in her show: "If an actor often makes the audience doubt and question, and when we can't help but beat our hearts and worry about him, please don't forget that it is because he did not stay in his comfort zone and play Playing it safe, he still chooses to take risks and challenge himself.”

Lin Desheng of Northern Lights Video personally asked him: Do you think this horror movie you are making is worth buying for us? Can I go domestically?

Lu Yanhe told the truth: Don't buy it, it basically can't be released, and it can't be uploaded to video platforms. It's a real ghost. I play a ghost. If you want to delete it, you have to delete all my scenes.

Lam Desheng: ...Why do you want to act in this film well?

This is the first person around Lu Yanhe to question his performance in "The Mist".

Lu Yanhe smiled.

On the contrary, this time, Maxine's Zhong Benzhuo and HP's Tom White also started a new round of competition.

Not only them, with Director Muken's reputation in horror films, all streaming media platforms with some reputation are vying for the exclusive streaming rights of this movie.

The same goes for TV stations.

Even though the movie has not yet been released in schools, these copyrights are being competed for first.

During this process, D19 Production Company was somewhat surprised to find that Lu Yanhe turned out to be a very important weight in the film's negotiations with the film producers.

Because during the negotiation, everyone mentioned that they hoped that Lu Yanhe would participate in promotional activities in a certain market and cooperate with at least XX promotions.

These contents are similar, but when put together they only mean one thing. In the eyes of film producers, Lu Yanhe is the selling point of the film for some markets.

D19 is not a big company.

It made its fortune by making independent films.

It also does not have a particularly strong and complete global distribution channel. Especially in Asia, D19’s network is not well established there.

Therefore, their impression for a long time was that Lu Yanhe was a very famous and popular actor in China. Mu Ken insisted on using him and admired him very much. That's all.

After all, this movie will not be released in mainland China. No matter how popular Lu Yanhe is, he will have to discount it by half.

Who knows, not only other Asian countries and regions, but also film producers in Europe and the United States are also concerned about Lu Yanhe.

What D19 Company didn't expect the most was that several international film festivals took the initiative to ask if they were willing to put the film in their festivals for its world premiere.

After chatting, it turned out that they were attracted by the topicality of this movie and that Lu Yanhe has been a frequent visitor to film festivals in recent years. They wanted to invite Lu Yanhe to attend almost every film festival. After all, Lu Yanhe carries huge media attention and popularity.

D19, an American company, heard about Lu Yanhe's brilliant achievements from different sources, which made them realize that they seemed to have completely underestimated this actor from the Eastern country.

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"The movie is about to be filmed, and it won't be so easy to sit down and eat together in the future." Hua Ruzhen came out of the kitchen with a pot of braised chicken, "This is a new dish I tried. I don't know how. So, give it a try, the other dishes are my specialties, feel free to eat them.”

Lu Yanhe smiled and nodded, saying yes.

When Director Mu Ken was filming here, Hua Ruzhen stayed with him and often called Lu Yanhe over for dinner.

One thing to say, Hua Ruzhen's craftsmanship is indeed very good.

Therefore, Lu Yanhe was able to have a bite of authentic Chinese food from time to time in Canada, instead of having to eat Western food every day.

"Sister, after the movie is finished, will you go back to the United States or Germany?"

Muchen is actually a German. When he is not making movies, he usually lives in Germany.

Hua Ruzhen said: "After filming, he went back to rest for two weeks, and then he had to go to the United States to focus on post-production matters."

Lu Yanhe nodded. Hua Ruzhen: "D19 wants to release this movie in January."

"January?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, because even though he didn't know much about the American film market, he still knew when the peak and low seasons were, and January was the well-known off-season.

When it comes to the best time for horror movies to be released, it’s actually Halloween.

Hua Ruzhen nodded and said, "I can't make it in time for the Halloween schedule. There's too much pressure in the later stages."

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

Hua Ruzhen said: "What are you going to film in your next movie?"

"Go back and record a program first, "Young Days". Sister, have you watched it?"

"It seems to have made an impression."

"It's a show I've been recording." Lu Yanhe said, "Then I will film the second season of "Seventeen Floors."

Hua Ruzhen was a little surprised and asked: "Are you still cooperating with Jingtai? I thought you would never cooperate with Jingtai again."

"I do think so, but I have to wait until the "Seventeenth Floor" series ends. It is a trilogy." Lu Yanhe said, "Director Jiang Lan, who is in charge of this project, has always been very good to me. I and the entire crew We are very familiar with each other, and we get along very well. I still want to have a beginning and an end, and I don’t want the drama to be affected by my bad relationship with other people in Beijing and Taiwan.”

Hua Ruzhen nodded, "It's good to be responsible."

Lu Yanhe smiled.

Hua Ruzhen said: "The movie "The Mist" is very popular now, but are you a little unhappy with the current marketing method of the crew?"

Lu Yanhe looked at Hua Ruzhen in surprise: "Sister, have you seen it all?"

Lu Yanhe felt that it was okay for him to be noticed by Lily. After all, when he was on the set, he did not deliberately put away his emotions like he did in front of Hua Ruzhen. However, despite this, Hua Ruzhen still saw it and let him I couldn't help being shocked and stunned, but also felt that my acting skills were in jeopardy.

how so?

Is he so incapable of pretending?

Hua Ruzhen said: "Mu Ken told me that he guessed that you don't like this marketing method, and you don't want to win everyone's support and sympathy by relying on the fact that the crew was racially profiled."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Actually, yes."

Hua Ruzhen: "I really want to comfort you, but I have to say that many situations like this do happen when it comes to movie marketing. It doesn't matter what an actor or even a director thinks. "

"Sister, I don't know what to say. I also hope that the movie will do well at the box office, but I always feel that adding a big label of Asian ghosts killing white villains to this movie will really benefit the movie. Is the movie liked by the audience?”

"No one can say for sure. If I, a layman, can give you an accurate answer, then those who specialize in film marketing can just pack up and leave." Hua Ruzhen smiled after saying that, "But it doesn't matter. , Yan He, you may not be able to control how they want to market, but you can completely behave according to your own ideas. If you don't like it and don't cooperate, then tell them clearly and let them stop taking you for granted. Marketing materials.”

"I did think so."

"Actually, you haven't made up your mind and firmly believe that this kind of marketing method is wrong?"

"Because... this matter will indeed help the popularity of the movie and the future box office. This is visible to the naked eye. I can't stop the movie from getting more box office just because I don't like it. To put it bluntly, it's because I am like this As an actor in a movie, I always think that I have the responsibility and obligation to make the movie achieve better results. I can't be this obstacle." Lu Yanhe sighed, "Even if I know that my inaction is actually a kind of tacit connivance. . This is where I am conflicted and entangled now.”

"Because you want to be an honest person, but you can't be honest without scruples, so you can only remain silent in a self-contradictory way." Hua Ruzhen looked at Lu Yanhe thoughtfully and asked, "right? "

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Hua Ruzhen smiled and said, "You are so young."

There is also some pampering from the elders to the younger ones in her smile.

Lu Yanhe was at a loss and didn't know why Hua Ruzhen had such an attitude.

Hua Ruzhen said: "Actually, Muken often encounters situations like this. He is actually a very strict and serious German by nature, but there are many things that conflict with his nature in the film industry. Not every time he I can get around it, but he doesn’t want to blend in, what should I do?”

Lu Yanhe listened.

"Actually, there is no other way. Mu Ken can only stay silent. I believe that if you were in a crew with more say, you would have directly intervened to stop it, and you also have the ability to stop it. But in "The Mist", Crew, you actually don’t have such ability, and you know subconsciously that your attitude doesn’t matter, and no one will pay for it,” Hua Ruzhen said, “So, silence is the only thing you can do. Before you have enough power to change all this, you can only do what you can do in silence. When you have your status and voice in the Chinese film industry in the European and American film circles, believe me, it will be like this. You can stop it directly. So, instead of being self-contradictory and silent, it is better to stay out of the matter and put it aside. Just like the first drama, you have to listen to the company for everything. Now, for this drama, Mu Ken said to use a Chinese. Actor, he insisted, and D19 agreed.”

Lu Yanhe suddenly woke up.

If Hua Ruzhen hadn't said it, Lu Yanhe wouldn't have realized that behind this incident, in the final analysis, it was the contradiction between his desire to change everything and his inability to change everything.

-

"If I tell Yan He, he will definitely be confused and in pain."

When asked about such a marketing plan, why didn't Chen Siqi take the initiative to tell Lu Yanhe? Chen Siqi had no intention of hiding it.

"Aren't you worried that one day Yan He will find out that the reason why Simon came up with this plan was actually because you found someone to blow it into the ears of his agent?" Linyu asked.

She was surprised that Chen Siqi didn't tell Lu Yanhe that Lin Yu had come up with this plan, and it was Chen Siqi who managed to get it to Simon's manager's ears.

"He will be worried, but it doesn't matter." Chen Siqi said, "He knows that I have never been a kind and perfect good person. I don't care if Simon suffered a huge loss by doing this. I only care that this is Yan He's first It’s an English film, and I hope this movie does well. Yan He might be sulking at me for not telling him in advance.”

"Are you afraid that he will reject you?"

"It would be great if he could refuse directly. The problem is that we can all see how beneficial this plan is to "The Mist", not to mention himself. By then, he himself will fall into a dilemma between morality and interests. A dilemma." Chen Siqi said, "It's better to keep him in the dark. If he wants to blame me, blame me, but I know he won't."

"Don't you two always have no secrets and talk about everything?"

"It's not a bad thing to have a little secret." Chen Siqi smiled slightly and winked.

Linyu actually knew what Chen Siqi was thinking.

To put it bluntly, Chen Siqi has a very simple thought: I will be the villain.

Rather than saying that she was worried about Lu Yanhe's entanglement, it was better to say that she didn't want Lu Yanhe to fall into possible entanglement and hardship.

Linyu knew that this was Chen Siqi's way of loving Lu Yanhe.

Definitely not right, but that's just the way she is.

Linyu couldn't say anything.

-

"Look, as soon as this incident came out, several Hollywood film companies sent scripts, asking Yan He to play a character who was discriminated against, bullied, and bullied." Chen Ziyan said speechlessly as she held the words in her hands. The script was placed in front of Lu Qingzhen, "Whatever is hot will come."

Lu Qingzhen smiled.

"How great. This shows that Yan He is indeed being noticed by Hollywood."

"What kind of attention is there? They are all small third-tier companies." Chen Ziyan said, "No, we still have to find a reliable overseas agency for Yan He. The current contact is scattered, firstly, it is inefficient, and secondly, it lacks focus."

Lu Qingzhen: "Didn't you find them before, but the conditions were not suitable and negotiations couldn't be reached? You said you would wait until "The Mist" was released and Yan He had more capital before you could talk to them again?"

"But Yan He's situation has changed now, but -" Chen Ziyan was a little discouraged, "I guess they still won't change the previous conditions. No, they still have to achieve results. If Yan He can immediately win a top international movie at this time It would be great if he won the best actor award at the festival, big agencies still look at this very much.”

Lu Qingzhen: "Let's not talk about it for now. Although you may not like these scripts, I would like to recommend them to some people because of the Asian characters in them."

"Ah?" Chen Ziyan said, "I haven't read this script yet, maybe it's terrible."

"If it sucks, it sucks. Many actors have no more roles to film. Who can care whether this movie is bad or not?" Lu Qingzhen smiled, "First, support yourself first."

Chen Ziyan: "Then take it and tell me if you want to fight for it, and I'll contact you together."

"Well." Lu Qingzhen asked, "By the way, when will Yan He come back?"

Chen Ziyan said: "After three days, he will finish filming tomorrow."

"It was so fast. The filming was completed in more than a month." Lu Qingzhen said, "The management of the crew is really unspeakable. We should learn from it."

"That's experience accumulated over hundreds of years, and we have to learn from it." Chen Ziyan said, "You and Yan He feel the same way."

"I think the cost of each of our projects is getting higher and higher. If we can effectively reduce the shooting time and improve efficiency, our costs can actually be suppressed." Lu Qingzhen said, "I saw a report before, For the same difficult scene, it would cost one million US dollars to film it in Hollywood, but it would cost at least three million US dollars to film it with a Chinese crew. It would be nothing more than losses. Our domestic crews would suffer too much from ineffective filming.”

"This is a matter of industry and industry. The more you shoot, the better you will naturally be." Chen Ziyan said, "Even if you arrange for some people to go to study, they will not give you the key things."

"That's true." Lu Qingzhen thought for a while and said, "But I found that most of the scenes shot by Yan He are not very long, and they are quite good. The key is that the quality of the films is very high."

Chen Ziyan said: "The proportion of invalid shots in Yan He's crew is very small. You can tell by looking at the preliminary preparations for each of his plays. Basically, the actors read the scripts, and the technical departments also have to hold repeated meetings to ensure Everyone on the crew knows how the show is going to be made, and they know how hard they have to work. Some crews always act on the spot.”

Lu Qingzhen: "Maybe Yan He's filming of "The Mist" this time can bring something new to our domestic crew."

When Lu Qingzhen said this, she didn't expect that she was really right.

Lu Yanhe didn't move things to the set immediately, but as soon as he came back, he told Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen that he wanted to do something.

Ask what happened.

He said he wanted to do a variety show.

Ask what program.

He said that a program that allows actors to compete on the stage allows film and television actors to perform like drama actors and stage actors, who can't perform on the same stage.

Chen Ziyan and Lu Qingzhen asked, does anyone watch such a program?

Lu Yanhe said, there must be one, and the name is "The Birth of an Actor".

Chen Ziyan asked, why did you suddenly think of doing this show?

Lu Yanhe said, because the overall performance level of the actors coming out of the stage is really much higher.

Let the actors do dramas and stage plays. They don't have the schedule and time.

But this kind of ten or twenty-minute performance clips can also play the same role.

Lu Yanhe said: "Aren't you always doing things to make outdated artists famous? Those actors who have acting skills can also be invited to this show."

Chen Ziyan: "I thought the first thing you did when you came back was to participate in a variety show. I didn't expect that the first thing you did when you came back was to do another variety show."

Lu Yanhe said: "Well, I think it's time." (End of Chapter)