Become Famous Another Day

"We know this, ha! Guess what? Nearly one-third of our authors have been exposed to!"

Chen Siqi was so angry on the phone.

Lu Yanhe had no choice but to comfort him: "What's going on now? Has anyone been poached?"

"The situation is not good for the time being." Chen Siqi said, "basically, front-line authors still chose to stay with us and did not agree to their conditions. However, there are two authors whose contracts are about to expire, and they have decided to go to their side. They have issued a signing fee of 600,000 yuan for them."

Lu Yanhe immediately understood.

In fact, in "jump up", in addition to the top authors who can get seven or even eight digits a year through royalties, publishing, copyright adaptation, etc., there are also some authors who have not yet issued single-line versions, so they rely on publishing articles in "jump up" magazine and writing articles to other media that "jump up" to make a living by royalties.

For this part of the authors, a signing fee of 600,000 yuan a year means a guaranteed income, and it is difficult not to be moved.

Lu Yanhe: "Didn't you always want to have a competitor before? You said that only competitors can make the market active, and now your competitors are here."

"Then I don't want to compete with a capital tycoon." Chen Siqi said with some annoyance, "It took us more than six years to slowly cultivate the current author lineup, and the backbone of our magazines were even mined by ourselves. As a result, the two that have been poached are all authors we cultivated ourselves."

"It's not that the contract has not expired, so I have to quarrel with you. To be honest, I may get at most 200,000 or 300,000 yuan a year for us. When I go to someone, my income will double. If it were you, wouldn't you go?"

“That’s what I said.”

"As long as they don't have backstabs or betrayals, they will walk openly, don't say anything about them." Lu Yanhe said, "Besides, they have dug people, and only two have been dug out after so many."

"There are two people now. I don't know what the situation is going on in the future. They are not short of money. If they really want to spend money, it will not be difficult for big capital like Shi Jin to poach them all." Chen Siqi said.

"First, not everyone will be poached. You can rest assured that many authors are not short of money, especially many authors we signed. After working together for so long, we have never treated the authors unfairly, so don't worry about anything."

"Second, it is of course easy for Shijin to poach people. However, after he poached the authors, how should he plan? How to provide these authors with opportunities?" Lu Yanhe said, "A magazine like "Jump Up" with sales of more than 400,000 copies is enough to allow a large number of authors to choose to stay. No matter how rich Shijin Group is, if they cannot provide such a large reader base for the authors, to be honest, the authors have choices."

Chen Siqi: "Although I understand the truth, suddenly a tiger broke into your field and was eyeing it. You can't really feel relieved."

“That’s true.”

"Don't forget, although Shi Jin doesn't have "Jump Up" now, it has a Leaf Vein Network."

Lu Yanhe: "Then let's compete. No matter how rich they are, they cannot change the market rules. What's more, we are not short of money ourselves. We can still support many authors to make money. If Shi Jin only relies on spending money on his own to spend some authors, they are not fools and cannot continue to spend endlessly."

Chen Siqi: "Well, let's watch it and see what they are going to do. How are you doing on the crew? Is the shooting of the sequel a little easier than the first one?"

"It's a different difficulty." Lu Yanhe said, "and, in the first part, the actors he collaborated on were not as big as they are now."

"Are these big actors you are working with now?" Chen Siqi was a little surprised.

"Anyway, I have the confidence to be a big shot." Lu Yanhe said concisely. "Muken is not the one who has the final say in the crew, you know what's going on with this crew."

Chen Siqi: "When he was filming the first film, he didn't have that final say? In Hollywood, the director's power is generally not as good as that of the producer."

"The main reason is that it is not as good as the producers of the production company." Lu Yanhe smiled, "The producers who cooperate with Muken are still very supportive of Muken."

"Then what's going on with you now?" Chen Siqi asked, "Isn't the environment very bad, right?"

"That's not bad." Lu Yanhe smiled, "It's still in the running-in period."

"I don't know why, although you are not very satisfied with this crew now and have met some big-name actors, I always feel that this situation will change after the movie is completed."

"What changes happened?" Lu Yanhe asked.

"Either you deal with them or they exploded." Chen Siqi smiled, "In my opinion, you are really lucky in this regard."

"Why do you say that? I don't think so."

Chen Siqi: "Think about it, do you know if you can meet a few friends who keep in touch and contact after the filming is finished?"

"This is yes, but this is normal. As long as you are a normal person, if you meet a little fate, you will become friends?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Chen Siqi: "Then the unhappy thing with you will either have a eased relationship with you in the end, such as Zeng Qiao and Li Yuefeng, or they will collapse by themselves, such as Saimen Schmid in the first part of "The Mist".

Lu Yanhe: "…I broke up with me and then broke down by myself, that is, Symon Schmid. He was betrayed by D19. Why don't you talk about Lang Xia? Isn't he still quite popular now?"

"Are you still thinking about him?" Chen Siqi laughed, "He has basically become Yu Jiang's official male lead now. He will be a campus youth love movie all his life. Let's see how long he can act. When he lasted a play last year, he had already become greasy by some people."

Lu Yanhe: "They are still popular."

Chen Siqi: "You actually mind him?"

"I don't mind him, I'm refuting you."

"Do you would rather refute me than mind him?" Chen Siqi instantly raised his tone.

Lu Yanhe: "…I don't mean that."

"What do you mean?"

Lu Yanhe: "…The director asked me to film."

Chen Siqi: "Looking back, you'd better think of a reasonable explanation, otherwise it won't end."

Lu Yanhe hung up the phone and looked up at the sky.

Oh my God.

OK, how did you make the situation worse in just one sentence?

Why did he suddenly become a refutation of her?

Lu Yanhe shook his head.

Bloody lesson—

Men still have to keep a steady mind, especially in front of their girlfriends, because once they speak quickly, their brain reaction speed will not keep up with the desire to survive.

-

At the filming scene, there was no Lu Yanhe in this scene, so he was not there either.

The movie has just started and everyone is still in the running-in period.

The atmosphere of the actors of the Ghost Catching Team was quite cold on the scene.

Mainly, Erin Wallace and Ryan Waters didn't talk at all on the set and ignored each other, which made it difficult for others to chat enthusiastically on the scene.

Jason Porter asked Wang Jiaqi if he knew Lu Yanhe before.

Wang Jiaqi nodded, "He and I are the same agent. I have had dinner together before. Do you like him so much?"

Jason Porter smiled embarrassedly.

"When he came to the UK to attend a screening, I was pulled over by my girlfriend at that time and watched his movies. I think he is very awesome."

"Which movie did you watch at that time?"

"Three Mountains." Jason Porter said, "My girlfriend was his movie fan at that time. I kept praising him, which made me a little angry, but later I understood her."

Wang Jiaqi was quite surprised.

"You didn't tell him this."

"There's nothing to say." Jason Porter shook his head, "After I retired, I was facing career choices. There was a movie that had an athlete role. My agent asked me if I wanted to try it. I thought at the time that if I was really an actor, maybe I would have the chance to act in a movie with him in the future, but I didn't expect it to come true."

"Really and false? Are you saying true? This is too movie." Wang Jiaqi said.

"It's not as exaggerated as the movie." Jason Porter shook his head immediately, "I don't regard him as an idol, because he is an actor. There are actually many considerations. I'm just telling you why I'm a little excited about being able to make a movie with him this time."

Wang Jiaqi nodded.

Jason Porter suddenly looked at Ryan Waters and Erin Wallace.

"And it was incredible that he made the two of them honest on the first day."

Wang Jiaqi also showed a complicated look.

"Indeed, this is something I didn't expect. When I took on this movie, my friend reminded me that the two of them were not easy to get along with on the crew."

Wang Jiaqi suddenly thought of something and asked: "You have been shooting movies in the UK before. This time I suddenly took on Hollywood movies. Could it be because of Lu Yanhe?"

What is different from ordinary new actors is that he is a member of the British diving team and has won world championships and Olympic medals, so he is very well-known.

As an actor, he basically never played a small role, all of whom have heavy roles. But he has been filming in the UK before and has never taken on Hollywood scenes. Many British actors, especially academic actors who come from dramas, are not so keen on filming in Hollywood.

This is probably not the case for Jason Porter.

"This was contacted by my agent for me." He said, "There is no special situation. Because I need such an image, he helped me win this very popular sequel movie."

Wang Jiaqi suddenly realized.

The characters in this movie are indeed difficult to grab.

Many people are snatching.

Jason Porter's agent must be very strong. Since he started being an actor, he has basically appeared in projects that have attracted attention, either famous directors or films starring other big stars.

The situation of him and her fighting since childhood are different.

"You just mentioned your girlfriend at that time-"

Wang Jiaqi suddenly came to his senses.

"Have you broken up with her?"

"Yes." Jason Botty said, "She was studying in Cambridge at the time, and after graduation, she went back to China."

"Is she a Chinese?"

"Yes." Jason Porter sighed.

Wang Jiaqi: "Okay, then the two of you broke up...is it because of a different place?"

"There are factors in this regard, but more importantly, it's because of other aspects." Jason Porter shook his head.

"Hey!" Suddenly, next to me, Erin Wallace let out a dissatisfied roar.

Jason Porter and Wang Jiaqi both looked at him in surprise.

Erin Wallace glared at Ryan Waters angrily and said, "Stay away from me!"

Rean Waters looked confused, as if he had no idea what was going on, and looked at Erin Wallace in confusion.

"What are you talking about?"

"I said, stay away from me!" Erin Wallace pointed to the chair with his name on it, "This is my area."

Ryan Waters showed an incredible look.

"This is a public area. I didn't sit on your chair, don't go too far!"

"Who knows what you want to do when you get close to this place." Erin Wallace looked bad.

"Neuropathy!"

The dispute between the two made everyone around them confused.

Everyone didn't know what happened between them, and why a sudden conflict broke out.

Just because Ryan Waters approached Erin Wallace's chair?

-

"Don't get involved in their affairs."

Darren Wilson warned Wang Jiaqi on the phone.

Wang Jiaqi: "Of course I'm not involved, but I have to know what's going on with them to avoid this minefield. What must have happened between them, and I want to know what happened."

Darren Wilson: "Rion Waters used to steal a role from Erin Wallace for his then-girlfriend, and the two of them became enemies."

Wang Jiaqi: "Rion Waters' girlfriend at that time? Who? Luna? Sally? This thing has made them both hold grudges until now?"

"Sally." Darren Wilson said, "Rion helped Sally grab the role at that time, and what he did was not glorious."

"What did he do?"

"At that time, in order to get Parameter to choose Sally, he told Parameter's executives that Erin was addicted to drugs."

"What?"

"This is not the dirtiest. You can't even imagine how dirty Leon's methods are." Darren Wilson said. "In order to make Parameter executives believe this, he found someone to bribe Irene's former assistant and spread rumors in the media, which attracted a lot of attention at the time." Wang Jiaqi was shocked.

"What a bastard," she said furiously.

Darren Wilson said: "Of course, Erin did take drugs before. She was admitted to a drug rehabilitation hospital when she was very young, so after this incident was dug up, her image was hit a big blow."

"Is this also revealed by Ryan?"

"No, that was poached by some media after that happened." Darren Wilson said, "Rion is a bastard, and Erin is not a good person. In the past few years, they have done a lot of **** things, so you stay away from them. Don't get involved in how they fight."

"Their public relations team is really powerful, and almost no one knows about them," said Wang Jiaqi.

"They were all first-tier Hollywood stars. Even though it has been many years since Naoty, their foundation is here," said Darren Wilson. "Otherwise, how could they win this movie."

Wang Jiaqi asked: "Does Lu know about them?"

"I don't know that it's so specific." Darren Wilson said, "The agent he has in China is very good. He was inquiring before Lu Yanhe came. Although she didn't know the specific details from me, she might have known it from other places."

"Lu set them up on the first day of reading the script. Will they take revenge on Lu later?"

"Lu is not so easy to be retaliated." Darren Wilson said. "Especially actors like Ryan and Erin who have lost power in Hollywood, they need the sequel to "The Mist" to help them regain the confidence and support of the film company, so they won't act rashly."

"Lu can't bear with them at all, which really surprised me."

"Why did Lu need to endure them?" Darren Wilson raised a question that made Wang Jiaqi think about all night.

-

Among the Asian actors in Hollywood, Wang Jiaqi is already a good player.

However, even in this era of political correctness, she is very clear that Asians are not only a minority among minorities in Hollywood, but also a very unvalued minority.

Even though the projects such as "Mist" and "Squid Game" have increased the number of Asian protagonists in Hollywood projects, in terms of absolute value, there are still very few monks and few meats.

Wang Jiaqi rarely expresses her opinions and dissatisfactions directly in every project, even in the project where she plays the leading role.

It’s not about judging the situation, it’s because she doesn’t want to make herself a “trouble person”.

If such a reputation and image are spread, her few opportunities may be even fewer.

This is also a question that Wang Jiaqi has been thinking about after talking to Darren Wilson.

The conclusion of thinking is that maybe Lu Yanhe can still do this, but she still can't.

She still has to hide her true emotions and attitudes.

For her, the important thing is to save her own chances.

She is not Lu Yanhe.

-

The first scene Lu Yanhe filmed was his first appearance in this movie.

That morning, he got up early one morning and started to look.

The character's look has many special effects on makeup.

Basically, it takes two hours to finish the whole look.

The entire makeup process just made Lu Yanhe watch the first part of "Mist" again.

He is not revisiting, but looking for the feeling of the role.

The form of ghosts is definitely different from that of humans.

However, since he has emotions, ten years will definitely cause some changes to his state.

Where is the change?

The great revenge is repaid, and his wish is over. He should have to let go of a lot of his anger.

After staying alone in this town for ten years, everyone in the town was exposed and turned into an empty place.

This loneliness—

Will ghosts feel lonely?

He may not feel lonely, but from the external appearance, it must be a somewhat lonely picture.

Then what is his state?

Is your heart as calm as water, or is it extremely indifferent?

Lu Yanhe's image of Voldemort in "Harry Potter" appeared in his mind, and Gong Li in "Journey to the West: Three Fighting the Bone Demon". That's all about something worth learning from. They are all characters who have a sense of atmosphere as soon as they appear. Through many detailed designs, the actor makes this extremely ultimate character more extreme, and at the same time has real flesh and blood.

This is what Lu Yanhe wants to present in his role.

Lu Yanhe had done a lot of homework before joining the group, but he did not make a decision.

How to perform each scene?

Lu Yanhe wanted to hand it over to the scene.

After the entire look is finished, Lu Yanhe will go to the shooting site.

He followed his live director with Wang Biao and Zou Dong.

Next to it is a camera with the crew's shooting record.

Wherever he passed, everyone he met showed a look of frightened look when he looked at him.

Lu Yanhe has already started to enter the role at this time, no longer greeting people, and has become serious and cold.

He went to the studio—

A real scene of a small town that was almost copied one by one, but it seems to have been processed, with traces of time, dilapidated and dusty.

Lu Yanhe looked over inch by inch, and psychological construction was built bit by bit.

Actors need imagination very much.

  It is not only the imagination of the picture, but also the imagination of the character.

Lu Yanhe looked at these real-life buildings, recalling his experience filming in Canada, while entering the ghost's mood, imagining that after the revenge was avenged, everyone in the town moved away one after another because of fear of his existence. He stood in a place where others could not see it, watching those people move in panic.

A very complex, alienated and real emotion arises naturally.

Then, this decade.

The sun rises and the moon appears.

  Spring, summer, autumn and winter, there are strong winds on nights, heavy rains on afternoons, and there are quiet moments to calm down.

He has been staying in this town and has not left.

Why didn’t he leave?

-

What is he doing?

Suddenly being dazed?

After seeing Lu Yanhe coming, several other actors kept looking at the surrounding environment, treating everyone as if nothing had happened, with expressionless faces, as if covered with frost.

Ryan Waters glanced at him, lowered his head, and continued to read the script in his hand.

Erin Wallace was wearing headphones and was sitting alone in her chair. She occasionally said a few words to the assistant next to her, but she glanced at Lu Yanhe from time to time.

Jason Porter asked Wang Jiaqi in confusion.

"What is Lu doing?"

Wang Jiaqi: "This may be his way of preparing. Every actor has his own way of preparing a scene."

Jason Porter nodded thoughtfully.

The other actors also looked different.

For a moment, no one went up to say hello to Lu Yanhe—

Afraid of disturbing him.

Muken communicated with the photographer about some of the filming and walked towards Lu Yanhe.

"Is everything OK?" he asked.

Lu Yanhe still did not change back to his own Lu Yanhe's state, and he nodded with a little arrogance.

Muken: "Then it depends on your performance next."

Lu Yanhe still didn't say anything, just lightly tapped his chin.

Muken turned around and smiled.

He filmed the first film with Lu Yanhe and knew very well what Lu Yanhe was in now.

As Wang Jiaqi said, every actor has his own way to get into the state.

Lu Yanhe is constantly strengthening his psychological construction in this way.

Muken gave Lu Yanhe another ten minutes before summoning all the actors to tell them about the scene to be filmed later.

How to say this scene?

Muken really loves this character and designed a very touching appearance for him in the script.

The ghost-catching team fled into the town in panic, in extreme fear, and then someone talked about the legend of the town.

Halfway through the legend, another ghost played by Ryan Waters chased after him.

When the ghost-catching team thought they were going to die here, a slow sound of footsteps came from the stairs.

Lu Yanhe appeared here—

There is no sound when ghosts go down the stairs.

In Muken's lens design, there is a series of changing close-up shots to switch.

The pale hand that appeared first on the armrest.

  The face was expressionless, and a "noble sense of death" faintly revealed.

When the third sound of foot stepping on the stairs sounded, the camera cut his foot, and Lu Yanhe's foot did not step on the stairs.

But footsteps sounded.

Muken gave this appearance, and the shot of going down the stairs alone had nearly thirty seconds, with a switch of more than a dozen shots.

The soundtracks of this section were all done before the computer was turned on.

 Muken found a speaker to play it out at the scene of the shooting.

A slow, clear rhythm but also a "thriller in silence".

Lu Yanhe likes Muken's design.

He is indeed a genius in shooting horror films.

The effect of appearance is to set the tone.

If the oppression of the first Asian ghost in the first part comes from his revenge mentality. The second part of the Asian ghosts comes from his terrifying strength, as well as his oppression and horror against this group of strangers due to their strangeness.

Every Muken design is magnifying this point.

Lu Yanhe was ready, walked the show for a while, and then waited at his own position, waiting for Muken to start filming.

Now, he will no longer worry about not acting well on the spot, or whether he will not know how he will act.

When Lu Yanhe stood on the stairs, he suddenly realized this.

-

Recently, I thought about picking out some wonderful clips, posting them to DY, promoting them myself, and watching the content I wrote before, I felt very narcissistic—

The badly written part of this book is really bad, but the well written part is really well written, with a unique set of language rhythm.

Wang Po sells melons and boasts about herself.

Okay, you can throw the bricks. (End of this chapter)