Huayu: Starting with mentoring female stars

With the opening ceremony over, and under Chen Zhou's arrangement and coordination...

The first scene of "The Nameless" is about to begin filming.

This scene is also the opening scene of the movie "The Unknown".

Extremely important!

On the street, Zhu Yilong and Wang Jingchun rode their old motorcycle to the entrance of the mobile phone store.

Zhu Yilong was wearing a red helmet.

Wang Jingchun wore a Venom helmet and grinned, revealing a mouthful of bright white teeth.

Zhu Yilong put the cigarette inside his helmet and took a seemingly nonchalant puff.

He then stuffed the remaining cigarettes onto the large white teeth of Wang Jingchun's Venom helmet.

"Make your move," Zhu Yilong ordered.

"What?" Wang Jingchun asked.

"Do it!" Zhu Yilong threw away the cigarette.

After saying that, Zhu Yilong led Wang Jingchun directly into the mobile phone store.

"Hello, welcome." A shop assistant came forward to serve you.

"Robbery," Zhu Yilong said casually.

"What did you say?" The shop assistant asked incredulously.

"Robbery!" Zhu Yilong shouted fiercely, pulling out his gun.

"Bang!" Zhu Yilong fired a shot at the ceiling.

Wang Jingchun was so frightened that he shrank to one side.

"Cut!" Chen Zhou called out to stop.

"Yi Long, your tone of voice isn't arrogant enough. You need to be more cocky and show more disdain."

"And Wang Jingchun, you could have played the role a bit more cowardly, adding a touch of comical absurdity."

Chen Zhou preached.

Both of them nodded.

"Come on! Let's film it again!" Chen Zhou shouted.

Then, Zhu Yilong and Wang Jingchun did it again.

"Click! Very good, passed." Chen Zhou was very satisfied this time.

Standing next to Chen Zhou, Liu Yifei was admiring Chen Zhou's camera work the whole time.

"Director Chen, I didn't feel this kind of shock when you were filming me before, but now, watching you move the camera, I really feel that you are amazing!" Liu Yifei said.

"Indeed, I admire Director Chen's camerawork." Xing Jiadong, who doesn't have any scenes for the time being, is also observing.

"Director Chen's camera work is highly artistic," Chen Minghao said, staring intently at the camera.

Chen Zhou didn't say much in response to everyone's praise, and continued to direct the staff on site to film the next scene.

After the robbery scene ended, Zhu Yilong and Wang Jingchun returned outside the store and began filming the scene where the two of them ran away.

"Start!" Chen Zhou shouted.

"Hurry! Let's go, let's go, let's go!!!"

Zhu Yilong and Wang Jingchun hurriedly got into the car, and Wang Jingchun frantically twisted the accelerator.

"Hurry up! What are you doing with the clutch engaged! Release the clutch!" Zhu Yilong shouted.

The car suddenly tilted up and flew off.

"Hahaha!"

This kind of humor made all the staff laugh.

Chen Zhou felt the effect was mediocre, and it took three retakes to get it right.

Around 9 p.m., the film crew finished work and took a break.

In the hotel cafeteria, Chen Zhou and a group of actors sat together for a meal, with Liu Yifei sitting next to him.

At this moment, Chen Zhou was holding his phone, eating while looking at news online.

The news of the opening ceremony of "The Unknown" has already been reported online by those reporters.

The most discussed topic online remains why Liu Yifei was chosen to play the role of the unknown.

In this situation, rumors also increased.

There are so-called insider leaks claiming that Chen Zhou is actually Liu Xiaoli's illegitimate son, and that he and Liu Yifei are siblings. That's why Liu Yifei took a big risk to participate in a low-budget film like "The Nameless".

Others have also said that Chen Zhou and Liu Yifei were dating, and given this relationship, it's normal for Liu Yifei to participate in the film.

There are even rumors that Chen Zhou has some dirt on Liu Yifei, forcing her to film "The Nameless".

In short, rumors that are obviously fake often generate a lot of buzz online.

At that moment, Liu Yifei, who was sitting next to Chen Zhou, also saw those news reports.

"See? Whenever there's news about me, it's always this outrageous. We've become half-siblings, even though I'm younger than you," Liu Yifei said helplessly.

"No problem, a senior sister is still a sister." Chen Zhou joked.

"Go ahead and make a scene. When the reporters ask you who your father was, let's see how you answer," Liu Yifei joked.

"I told you, I was born of my mother," Chen Zhou blurted out.

Liu Yifei: "?"

After a while...

The crew of "Nanjing Nanjing"

"Hey, what are you lighting crew doing? Do I, the director, have to teach you how to set up the lights?"

"And your props department, why do you take so long to do such a small thing?"

"Are they all capable of doing the job? If not, then they're fired!"

Lu Chuan shouted angrily.

Seeing Lu Chuan's volatile temper, the staff on site were terrified, fearing they might be scolded by Lu Chuan for no reason.

In the corner, Gao Yuanyuan pulled Qin Lan aside and asked, "Lanlan, what's wrong with Director Lu Chuan? He's been very irritable since this afternoon, even though no one has provoked him."

Qin Lan replied:

"It's probably because he watched Chen Zhou's 'The Nameless' back then. I can't think of any other reason."

"After all, Chen Zhou was kicked out of our crew, and now he's starting to make movies like Director Lu Chuan."

"So, Director Lu Chuan must have felt a little unhappy about it."

Upon hearing this, Gao Yuanyuan felt very confused. "That's not right. The person who was kicked out of the crew was Chen Zhou. Logically speaking, the one who should be angry is Chen Zhou, so why is Director Lu Chuan angry?"

Qin Lan muttered cautiously, "That's just how petty people are. We should just leave him alone."

Gao Yuanyuan immediately covered her mouth, fearing that she might say something that would cause trouble.

At this moment, Lu Chuan couldn't stop her anger when she thought about the news she had seen back then.

Of course, he wouldn't tell anyone that the reason he had such a big conflict with Chen Zhou was because Chen Zhou told him that his filming style for "Nanjing Nanjing" belonged to the traitor type.

Lu Chuan could not possibly tolerate such an insult.

His stance is perfectly fine, his ideology is even more so, and he is completely aligned with the right side!

The reason he included the perspective of the Japanese struggle in his film is because his films have a grand scope; they are not just made for Chinese audiences, but for audiences all over the world!

How could someone as insignificant as Chen Zhou possibly understand someone with his great talent, ambition, and global vision?

What he found even more ridiculous was that Chen Zhou could actually be the chief director? What a joke!

But he was really puzzled.

Chen Zhou not only managed to secure funding from Liu Dehua's side, but he was even able to get Liu Yifei to play the female lead.

It's important to understand that the entertainment industry is an extremely realistic circle.

Every artist and every director has a price tag on their head.

For someone of Liu Yifei's caliber, even if Lu Chuan wanted to invite her to perform, it wouldn't be an easy task.

But then Lu Chuan thought again that the movie Chen Zhou made was destined to become a joke.

Thinking about this made him feel much better.

Chen Zhou's film is called The Nameless.

Lu Chuan wanted to see what kind of trouble Chen Zhou, this nobody, could possibly cause.

In the film industry, the position of director has never needed an unknown!