Chapter 129
It's not that the audience has bad taste, it's that the actors are not good enough
After failing to sign a contract in the first season, and signing for the second season but still failing in every book she wrote, Sun Jiayi from Freedom House Season 3 finally reached a small peak in her career when she sold the first film and television copyright in her life.
Ling Suisui also discussed with Bian Yuanzhou whether Sun Jiayi's performance style needed to be changed. After all, she is no longer the loser who could not make any money, and she finally has a bright future in the field of writing.
Ling Suisui considered it seriously for a long time, and finally decided not to make major changes.
Making money would make Sun Jiayi very happy, but it would not change her personality and mentality. Even before she signed the contract, she believed that she would definitely be able to succeed one day.
At that time, everyone thought she was joking or talking nonsense to comfort herself, but the neurotic Sun Jiayi really thought so.
Although it's a bit childish, if it weren't for her optimistic and confident attitude, it would have been difficult for her to persist in writing her novel when she received almost no positive feedback.
Therefore, Sun Jiayi in the third season did not change her character core. She is still naive, romantic, and her mind is full of fantasies, but when she dreams again, she will be more confident.
Sun Jiayi's career went from bumpy to successful, but her financial future was not so smooth. The next scene that Ling Suisui is going to film is that Qian Tu finds out that his income and expenditure are unbalanced and his savings are about to run out. At this time, Sun Jiayi receives payment from the platform and instantly turns into a wealthy woman.
Bian Yuanzhou discussed with her last night: "I failed in my career, but my girlfriend succeeded in hers. Qian Tu must be feeling very bad. Alas, this kind of male chauvinism is unacceptable. It's really a shame to save face."
Ling Sui chuckled in his heart and recalled the Supernova Games a few years ago.
When she scored better than Bian Yuanzhou, this guy didn't think so - he was also the first "male protagonist" in the unified election whose favorability towards her decreased.
During the official filming, Ling Suisui stood outside the door. When the shot of Bian Yuanzhou sighing at the balance interface was finished, she rushed in at the director's prompt.
The word "rush" was not an exaggeration at all. While calling "Lao Qian", Ling Suisui rushed from the door to the desk at the speed of a 100-meter hurdles, then excitedly pounced on Bian Yuanzhou who was sitting on the chair, put his arms around his neck and kissed him first.
"Old Qian, I have great news for you!" Ling Suisui said excitedly, "Lvjiang has transferred money to me. My copyright fee has arrived!"
Just as Bian Yuanzhou was about to say his lines, the director stopped him.
Yin Mingcheng: "This part was not filmed well. When your girlfriend rushed towards you, your first reaction must have been to catch her. Why did you move your body backwards?"
"She has kissed you, your expression should change. It's not enough now, you need to be more doting and have more obvious eye contact with Sun Jiayi."
Ling Suisui got up from him, Bian Yuanzhou also stood up, and the assistant came over to tidy up his clothes.
He was planning the action: "Sui Sui, come over here later, I'll hug you, and while you talk, I'll fix your hair or touch your face. Is that okay with you?"
Ling Suisui nodded and continued, "You can smile when you hug me. Just like that, I feel like I can't do anything to you, but since you're my girlfriend, I can only spoil you. Then we look at each other and laugh."
Wow, this shot may only last for one second, but it manages to convey several levels of performance.
Just as Bian Yuanzhou was about to speak, Ling Suisui demonstrated to him. She looked up at him, love flowing in her eyes. Bian Yuanzhou didn't have any specific feelings, but just felt a warmth in his chest, which he particularly enjoyed.
"Your eyes are very good, but the aesthetic threshold for this part is a bit high." He said honestly, "Even if we acted it out, the audience might not be able to feel it. If they eat and watch the show at the same time, such delicate expressions will be missed."
Stimulated by various fast-paced short videos, the standard for "good acting" has become much more open than before. Audiences love to see explosive, exciting, emotional, and dramatic performances. If you don't have a very explosive performance, it's hard to prove that you are a good actor.
This view sounds absurd, but it is in line with reality.
But Ling Sui-sui said: "Whether we can be discovered is up to the audience, whether we act or not is up to us. The audience may not get it, but we cannot lower our standards for ourselves. Otherwise, if you play badly, I will play badly too, and we will all play badly together, and casually deal with the audience together, lowering the industry's bottom line, and then accuse the audience of having no aesthetic taste?"
Bian Yuanzhou was stunned when he heard this. He had heard many of his colleagues complain privately that "today's audiences have poor taste", but this was the first time he heard someone say that today's actors are not good enough.
If you think about it carefully, this does make some sense, that is...
Bian Yuanzhou whispered, "If you say this to others, they will definitely hate you."
Ling Sui shrugged. She actually couldn't stand what some of her colleagues said: "Wild boars can't eat fine bran." Whether this statement makes sense or not is not the point. The problem is that your acting is not that great, so why are you so pretentious?
He feels like a fish in water in idol dramas, and is coaxed and praised by fans. He really thinks he is a good actor. His face is thicker than a dead pig and is not afraid of boiling water.
"I'm only telling you this." Ling Suisui said, "We are so familiar with each other, there is nothing we can't talk about."
——Although she and other people had complained about the same general idea, the way of expression was different each time, so if we counted word for word, she did not lie to him.
Chinese culture is profound and extensive. How can a small problem in expression be considered a lie?
After they had a "shared secret", Bian Yuanzhou looked at her in a subtle way. The system's full favorability prompt flashed through Ling Sui's mind, but the message was quickly withdrawn and his favorability value was still ninety-nine.
Ling Suisui: ...
She just said it casually, but this guy's favorability value fluctuated like this.
Tsk, man.
After they discussed it, they started filming again, but Bian Yuanzhou still got stuck on this action several times.
Ling Suisui could also understand that even if she was light, she still weighed nearly 100 kilograms. Faced with a living person rushing towards him, it was totally normal for Bian Yuanzhou to subconsciously step back.
The director simply gave them ten minutes of free rehearsal time, waiting for them to cooperate and for Bian Yuanzhou's body to adapt before starting filming.
During the rehearsal process, the two of them came up with several ways to add a lot of details to this action.
For example, after hearing Ling Suisui's voice, Bian Yuanzhou had to open his arms to welcome her. This action was also a psychological hint to himself. And after hugging her, he could utter some interjections. The audience's attention would be diverted by the sound, and no one would pay attention to his slight leaning back.
It is because they are filming the third season that the director’s requirements are getting higher and higher. If this scene was put in the first season, Yin Mingcheng would have approved it long ago.
By the time the actual shooting began, their performance finally satisfied the director.
Ling Suisui threw herself into Bian Yuanzhou's arms, sat on his lap, and stuck close to him. The little moves they had discussed worked very well. They wanted this slightly exaggerated, sticky feeling.
Ling Suisui continued to speak: "Old Qian, let's go traveling. I have a lot of places I want to go. I'll invite you!"
Bian Yuanzhou's smile froze. According to the script, Qian Tu was at a career low.
He has not received the final payment for several orders he has worked on. Many clients’ quotes are getting lower and lower, but their requirements are getting more and more. He is in a confused and hesitant period in his career development.
When he had no money, his girlfriend suggested going on a trip...
"Old Qian?" Ling Suisui called him softly, looking at him expectantly: "I've wanted to go out and play for a long time, will you come with me?"
Bian Yuanzhou just came back to his senses, and he continued, "Okay, if you want to go, we'll go. You go book the plane tickets and hotel, and I'll pay for the food, drinks and entertainment on the way."
"Oh, no need!"
Ling Suisui said proudly: "I told you, my copyright fee has arrived, I have money!"
Bian Yuanzhou: "You can't spend all of it. Give your boyfriend a chance to show off."
"Okay, since you said so... then fine."
Ling Sui held his face and kissed him on the lips: "Dear, it's great to have you. I really love you."
Handling such corny lines well is a real test of an actor's skills.
First of all, Ling Suisui must have a strong sense of faith in order to integrate it into her daily coquetry. The tone of her speech is also very natural, because once this kind of lines become "affectionate", they can make the audience dig out the Magic Fairy Castle with their toes.
Fortunately, she completed the task. The director didn't call for a stop, and her co-actor accepted it well and even pinched her face.
Hey——this is Bian Yuanzhou’s impromptu performance. After this scene was finished, Ling Sui raised her eyebrows and looked at him.
Bian Yuanzhou explained: "I'm sorry, I just did it on the spur of the moment... I thought you were so cute when you were acting like a spoiled brat, and I wanted to pinch you, so I couldn't help myself."
Ling Suisui nodded to show his understanding. It was just an actor's improvisation.
However, she stepped on him as she passed by, causing Bian Yuanzhou to grimace in pain.
"Sorry." She looked at him with an innocent expression, "I just thought you deserved a beating, so I stepped on you subconsciously."
Bian Yuanzhou: ...
He bowed and clasped his fists towards the other party, then stretched his face forward and was pinched by Ling Suisui.
He was prepared for the pain, but he didn't expect Ling Suisui to be so gentle.
Bian Yuanzhou couldn't help but tease: "Oh, it seems that Sister Sui still cares about me."
Although Ling Suisui is very young, having just turned 22 not long ago, some people started calling her "Sister Sui" from someone's perspective, and others followed suit.
Of course, the "sister" here does not represent physical age, but more of the suppression of aura.
"Get lost." Ling Suisui scolded him with a smile, "Stop being sentimental. I'm afraid it will leave red marks, and your foundation won't be able to cover it up later."
Playing is playing, joking is joking, Ling Suisui never jokes about filming.
She turned and left to prepare for the next scene. Bian Yuanzhou stared at her back and rubbed his cheek again.
"Brother?" the assistant called him from the side, "Why are you grinning like an idiot?"
Bian Yuanzhou awkwardly shifted his gaze and quickly asked his assistant what the next scene was going to be.
The shooting scenes of sitcoms are mostly fixed, and the producers rehearse the scenes according to the actors' costumes. Therefore, as long as there are no special scene changes, in most cases, there won’t be much of a leap in what they shoot that day.
Ling Sui was filming the scene of making travel plans. Sun Jiayi had relatively few roles in this episode. There was a lot of content about Qian Tu taking orders from various stupid clients in order to make money, and the gags were particularly dense.
So she can take it easy today, but she will be busy tomorrow because it will be full of her announcements. She has to shoot from morning to night, and for several days in a row.
Many viewers felt that something was missing as they didn’t see Sun Jiayi’s dream fighting scenes in the second season, so in the third season, Yin Mingcheng added fighting scenes for her. This time her new identity is still Feng Aotian, the protagonist of the ancient fantasy novels with a strong female character, the kind who can change the color of the world with just a wave of her hand.
Ling Suisui had figured out that the funding for the third season was particularly sufficient, otherwise Yin Mingcheng wouldn’t have been able to film a fantasy background story - the special effects for this stuff are really expensive.
When "Game Online" entered the post-production stage, Ai Tianming, who had previously clamored to invest in her next drama, also calmed down, deeply realizing how wise it was for Ling Suisui to repeatedly emphasize "leaving a budget for special effects."
If Ling Suisui hadn't been pulling the strings all the time, Ai Tianming would have had no choice but to beg from his family and friends shamelessly if he wanted to maintain the quality of the show.
After Ling Sui finished filming today's scene, he was studying tomorrow's script in the RV.
She will not have any weapons tomorrow, and all the fighting scenes will be fought with bare hands, because she also has to perform various spells and hand gestures, so having weapons would be a burden.
Well... as for the plot content, in order to satisfy her own XP, Sun Jiayi wrote a story on her secondary account about a green tea male fairy seducing a female war god in heaven. When she was about to write about the unspeakable plot, she traveled through time.
That’s right, she was reborn as the heroine of her own novel. The green tea male demon was originally supposed to have a promising future, but was later changed into a new role by the screenwriter. The actor was Lin Xiangyu, a popular student with a strong background who Yin Mingcheng could not refuse.
Come to think of it, he is an acquaintance of Ling Sui. She and the other party had known each other as early as her debut variety show "Mystery in Progress".
Among the many people who have been put on the list by capital, he is considered to have relatively good acting skills, does not have too much idol baggage, and is willing to be funny. Although Yin Mingcheng made compromises, he did put his heart into it.
Ling Suisui thought that Sun Jiayi would face a lot of embarrassing situations tomorrow.
First, the green tea male seduces her in various ways, and then her other friends will also come through. She has to face the money-losing consequences of jealousy, and also being discovered by her friends that she secretly opened a small account to write 18+ stories. The thought of it makes her feel socially dead, and she especially wants to live on another planet.
In such a Shura environment, she still has to perform a wonderful fighting scene and repel the attacking demons - and the demon leader is her ex-boyfriend who she had cheated on.
Needless to say, this is another male actor who was stuffed in, but his role is smaller than Lin Xiangyu's.
Of course, the entire time travel was a dream of Sun Jiayi. Freedom House is just your average urban sitcom, with no supernatural elements involved.
In order to get enough rest, Ling Suisui shortened the usage time of the system's internal space by half tonight and fell into deep sleep early.
She slept soundly, but Bian Yuanzhou tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
The scenes from today's filming kept flashing through his mind, where Ling Suisui was sticking to him and acting coquettishly, and the distance was so close that he could even count how many eyelashes she had.
"Don't think about it..."
He advised himself to calm down. Wasn't everything fine during the filming during the day?
Bian Yuanzhou was frantically counting sheep in his mind, but he unknowingly started counting Ling Sui's eyelashes. Whenever he thought of this, he felt hot all over. Even though it was January in Shanghai, he couldn't help but want to kick off the quilt.
In desperation, he searched the Internet for many ways to fall asleep quickly. Sadly, none of them were useful.
After a night, Ling Suisui came to the hotel dressing room refreshed. Bian Yuanzhou, who was sitting opposite her, had dull eyes and huge dark circles under his eyes.
The makeup artist sighed deeply, wondering how many layers of foundation she would have to use to cover this thing up.
"What's wrong with you?" Ling Suisui asked, "Are you following Chen Lin's example and staying up late playing games without realizing it? We have to film today, not a day off."
Bian Yuanzhou hesitated to speak. He wanted to say that he didn't play games, but he couldn't bring himself to tell the real reason why he was forced to stay up late.
He couldn't say that she was on his mind all last night and his heart was beating so fast that he couldn't sleep at all, right?
"…I'm a little worried." He said vaguely, "Today we're mainly filming your scene, so I'll take a break and rest while I'm free."
Ling Sui nodded, as long as it didn't affect the filming.
Given Bian Yuanzhou's level, being a little sleepy shouldn't cause him to perform poorly.
They were the first to arrive, and several other leading actors followed one after another. Song Lingshan was particularly excited as this was her first time filming a drama with a fantasy background.
Even though this can only be considered a play within a play, looking at the exquisite costumes and props, it can easily beat any S+ production out there.
When she was given the handbag, Song Lingshan excitedly took out her mobile phone to take pictures.
Several of the main actors, like Ling Suisui, have no weapons and fight with magic. Song Lingshan also asked Ling Suisui for advice on hand gestures, how to make them look better?
Ling Suisui: "Your action is correct, but you need to use force. You can imagine yourself pulling a very tight rubber band and try to find the feeling of exerting force."
She demonstrated to her, "You see, using force and not using force have two different effects. If it's soft and weak, the audience will be able to tell at a glance."
Song Lingshan nodded thoughtfully. She felt that her arms were sore from exerting so much strength, but she was still not as good as Ling Suisui in terms of momentum.
She analyzed it and found that besides Ling Sui's eyes being sharper, her movements also seemed to be lacking in meaning.
"You can't compare her hand strength." Zhu Yue said nearby, "When she was filming the game, she held that super heavy sword every day, and muscles grew on her arms."
This is true. Ling Sui rolled up his sleeves and let Song Lingshan touch him.
Song Lingshan sighed: "This is the most real case of hard work pays off. The difference between regular practice and no practice is immediately apparent."
The others nodded in agreement. The results of this hard work are so overwhelming that everyone can only envy them.
Everyone arrived at the set. Today's shooting location was in a special effects green shed, and the basic landscape had already been set up inside.
Ling Suisui and Lin Xiangyu met and started to discuss the arrangements for the next action. The other five people were also acting together, but their content was more about small talk.
Han Cheng lowered his voice and said, "I still think that the green tea male demon should be played by Brother Zhou. The guy over there doesn't look like a real person."
Bian Yuanzhou was also very unhappy about this. But there was no way out. The screenwriters had communicated with him sincerely, and he had to understand the difficulties faced by the crew.
He said calmly, "It's okay. This arrangement makes for a stronger comedic effect. The audience will like the three men's Shura Field more."
——Although this is the truth, everyone can hear the reluctance in his words.
Bian Yuanzhou adjusted his mood and joked, "What do you mean by that? He doesn't look like a green tea boy, but I look like a green tea boy demon?"
Han Cheng shook his head repeatedly: "That's not it, I mean you and Sister Sui will work better together. He and Sister Sui don't know each other..."
Before she finished speaking, the laughter of Ling Suisui and Lin Xiangyu could be heard from her side, and they sounded quite happy.
Han Cheng lowered his head and said nothing. The others immediately avoided his gaze and pretended nothing had happened.
Bian Yuanzhou: ...
He said expressionlessly, "They knew each other a long time ago. I have seen all of Ling Sui's works, including Jia Zhenzhen."
Chen Lin asked him: "When did you see it?"
Bian Yuanzhou was choked for a moment, because he had watched it last night.
Since he couldn't sleep anyway and would think of Ling Suisui anyway, he might as well watch some of her works. The more he watched, the more energetic he became, and he felt that Ling Suisui's acting skills were very impressive and her progress was very fast.
"...I saw it before." He evaded the question and turned the topic back to the script.
On the other hand, the communication between Ling Suisui and Lin Xiangyu was quite pleasant and the filming went smoothly.
After she opened her eyes, she first found herself lying on a gorgeous bed and wondered where she was. Then Lin Xiangyu appeared in a deep V robe and said he wanted to serve the Lord.
This specific "service" method was that he flirted with her, sat down beside her bed, and "accidentally" pulled off his belt...
Of course, in order to pass the review, Lin Xiangyu had to wear pants under his robe.
Moreover, Sun Jiayi is very determined and will not be easily bewitched by a male demon, so Ling Suisui had been playing the Qin King Around the Pillar game with Lin Xiangyu and accidentally knocked him down. Just as the male fairy was feeling shy, five other people rushed in.
This happens simultaneously on the film's timeline, and must be separated during shooting. From the close-up angle of Sun Jiayi and the male fairy, only a few blurry figures are needed.
Although the director said that a stand-in could be used, the other leading actors still stood in the designated positions in person.
There was no other reason, they just wanted to watch the show.
Even though Bian Yuanzhou said in the morning, "I'll take a nap when I have time," he was still standing there and concentrating on appreciating Ling Suisui's performance.
Hmm...or perhaps, would it be more appropriate to describe it as "staring intently"?
Ling Suisui is a very professional actor. She moved her hand away guiltily and tried to get up, but the other party grabbed her sleeve and looked at her with pitiful eyes. She was asked if she hated him.
Logically speaking, who can stand this? Ling Sui hurriedly shifted his gaze, stammering and unable to speak. While the two were struggling, Bian Yuanzhou and others rushed in.
According to the script, Qian Tu should be jealous and crazy at this time. And Bian Yuanzhou indeed brought out the aura of the "first wife". He looked at Ling Suisui with questioning eyes filled with pain. When he looked at Lin Xiangyu again, he really wanted to tear him apart with his bare hands.
Bian Yuanzhou's performance was completely beyond his expectations at this moment, and Ling Suisui almost couldn't catch up with his performance. Fortunately, she adjusted herself quickly and regained control of the shooting rhythm.
The director behind the monitor sighed that some actors really don’t know where their limit is unless they push themselves.
He dared to say that this was definitely Bian Yuanzhou's most exciting performance in the three seasons of Freedom House.
Haha, man.
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