Beijing Film Academy has a rule that freshmen and sophomores are not allowed to take on acting jobs outside, which actually means that they are not allowed to take leave to film during class time. Because Beijing Film Academy implements an attendance system and in-class assessment system in the classroom. Attendance and class assessments account for 50% of the final examination. In other words, if a student's attendance does not meet the requirements, he or she will be considered to have failed the course no matter how many points he or she gets in the major course at the end of the semester.
But in fact, if students use weekends or winter and summer vacations to go out for filming or take notices, Beijing Film Academy will not care. Because the school has no way to restrict what students do in their spare time. Students are even encouraged to use their spare time to film. Because of a well-known reason - to train dramatic sense. That is the sense of the lens,
As we all know, although theory and practice are equally important, they are never the same thing. The students of Beijing Film Academy only learn theoretical knowledge in school, including regular rehearsals and final performances. All learning and practice are for preparation to actually stand in front of the camera.
But camera sense is not something that can be developed through practice alone. Lighting, positioning, sense of drama, these subtle details that will be magnified in front of the camera all require actors to hone their skills again and again in front of the camera. Eventually reach the point where you can do it with ease and reach perfection.
This kind of opportunity cannot be provided through classroom rehearsal. Therefore, Beijing Film Academy also hopes that students can find opportunities to act in their spare time - whether it is joining a film crew or performing in a drama. You must experience and be familiar with the feeling of real filming or performing on stage.
However, in order to control the filming quality of Beijing Film Academy students, students must report to the school after receiving a role. Some scripts not only fail to hone students' acting skills but may also lead students astray - for example, some idiotic idol dramas. Even if students accept them, the school will not agree.
But "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood" was definitely not within the range of what the school would reject.
But even so, when Sun Yi, the head teacher of Class 1 of Beijing Film Academy in 2008, received Tao Mu and Wen Bao's filming applications, and learned that Tao Mu was fooled by director Zhou Hong into investing 9 million yuan just to play such a role, he was still a little shocked.
Sun Yi immediately called Zhou Hong and angrily accused the old man of being dishonest - it's okay for you to cheat the investment and swindle the students of Beijing Film Academy, anyway, Tao Mu is rich now. But in order to attract investment, you were so shameless as to lure people with roles, and deceived them into investing 9 million yuan for a traitor role with limited screen time and not many scenes. Isn't that a bit of bullying?
Even if Tao Mu is an orphan, they, Jingying, will not allow outsiders to bully their students like this.
Zhou Hong on the other end of the phone also kept smiling apologetically. And he used the words that screenwriter Fan had used to fool Tao Mu (the character of Su Dingbang is very important, and it highlights the depth of the script) to fool Sun Yi again.
But Sun Yi is not as easy to fool as Tao Mu: "Don't talk nonsense to me. Take your crappy script and find an investor to try. Use the role you said is very important to fool others and see if the investor will take care of you."
"I say, Lao Zhou, you should be a kind person. You can't fool him just because our child is young. He may be young, but nine million is not a small amount. With nine million, let alone a crew like yours, even if he pulls together a crew to make himself the male lead, this cost should be enough, right?"
Zhou Hong was speechless after being bullied by Sun Yi. After a while, he said embarrassedly, "Old Sun, how did you also learn this habit? As an investor, you have to support the male lead? But you have also read our script, and the male lead is not set to be a young man. Besides, we have already found the male lead, that is Zhan Bin. It took Lao Fan and I three visits to Mr. Zhan to agree to play the role. Just to support such a role, Mr. Zhan even reduced his salary. Just to support us. Old Sun, you also understand me. No one is optimistic about this script. If we don’t find a male lead with some influence, who will watch the show when it is broadcast?"
Of course Sun Yi knew what Zhou Hong was talking about. But he had to make it clear: "Then you can't just take nine million and give us such a role. You also know that this is Tao Mu's first time acting, and his first time filming a TV series, and you let him play a traitor. When the TV series is broadcast, all the audiences will have a fixed image of Tao Mu. What if he is only asked to play this kind of role in the future? You will ruin the child's acting career."
"Oh my, my old Sun!" Zhou Hong almost smiled bitterly: "Don't tease me. Who is Tao Mu? You said that he can invest 9 million in the script. Even if there is no good role for him, he can also raise investment and be the male lead. You don't have to worry about this, right?"
Sun Yi was stunned when he heard this, and then he remembered that Tao Mu was a domineering CEO at the investor level. There is indeed no shortage of movies to shoot.
"Then you can't deal with investors in this way." Nine million investment was given to an unnamed traitor.
"I would like to give him a more important role. I have seen his acting skills. But you have a rule at Beijing Film Academy. Winter vacation is only a few days long. If you exclude the Chinese New Year, you can calculate how many days are left. If I give him a more important role, he will agree. Do you agree?"
Back in H Town, several agencies were optimistic about Tao Mu and wanted to sign him, but Tao Mu evaded them by saying that the school rules of Beijing Film Academy did not allow freshmen and sophomores to film on campus. This is no secret in the circle. Especially after Tao Mu founded Feixun.com and it became very popular. Although no one said it, everyone knew in their hearts that Tao Mu had this ability. He must look down on the small agency and want to set up his own business to promote himself.
But excuses aside, Tao Mu has such a close relationship with Longteng Entertainment and Xia Hexing Entertainment, especially since the three companies jointly organized the "National School Flower and School Grass Selection Contest". Tao Mu has the ability to squeeze the contestants into the two companies. If he really wants to make a movie, he only needs to tell the two companies. I'm afraid the two companies will be happy to hold the script for Tao Mu to choose. But Tao Mu remained silent, which showed that he really wanted to abide by the school rules.
In fact, this is true. Tao Mu had adopted this attitude in the first place, one was to prevaricate those agencies and agents, and the other was to aim at the big drama that Beijing Film Academy would invest in and shoot two years later. In addition, Tao Mu has a psychological shadow that he can't express. I just want to use these two years of study to transform my acting skills so that there won't be any trace of Yan Sheng left.
But people's ideas always change. As Tao Mu founded Feixun.com and accumulated hundreds of millions of M gold in Xiaoheng Capital, his vision was no longer limited to his original vision. Plus his conversation with Wen Bao - I dare not say that he has untied his knot, but at least Tao Mu really wants to try to get out of the shadow.
Just like Wen Bao said, his acting skills were also honed bit by bit by himself. It wasn't like he stole or robbed anyone, so there was no need for him to hide it. Show it openly and act the way you want to act. He just likes acting. If he has to worry so much about doing something he likes, if he doesn't even have the courage to stand in front of the camera because he is worried about other people's opinions, then why does he insist on acting?
Wouldn't it be better for him to just be his domineering CEO?
Thinking of this, Tao Mu suddenly felt much more comfortable. He makes movies not for others or for any other reason, but just because he likes it.
He likes the character of Su Dingbang very much. He admitted that he was indeed fooled by Director Zhou and Screenwriter Fan, and he really wanted to try such a role that challenges human nature. He didn't know if he could portray the complexity of this role, but he wanted to try.
Just do it when you think about it. Don’t consider whether Su Dingbang’s character is upright or not, whether it will affect his image in the audience’s mind, or whether it will limit his future acting career - he doesn’t rely on acting to support his family anyway. Just like Young Master Wen, he also played a traitor. By then, the two of them can become a pair, shoot together, and wrap up the film together, and they can have each other as companions.
But Tao Mu was also grateful for Teacher Sun's kindness. He had been an orphan since childhood. After finally finding his ancestral home, he met the Shen family, a group of troublesome people. Therefore, he had very few experiences of being protected by others in his two lifetimes. This also makes Tao Mu extremely grateful now.
Let’s not talk about repaying a drop of kindness with a spring of gratitude. But Tao Mu was still happy to give feedback within his ability. Only by exchanging gifts can friendship last long.
So he took the phone from Teacher Sun Yi and asked, "Director Zhou, I remember that our crew hasn't recruited all the roles yet, right?"
"Our crew didn't even have all the funds for filming before, and the actors were afraid that the crew would fail halfway through filming, so no one dared to agree. Only Lao Fan and I shamelessly decided on a few main roles, so that we could talk better when we met with investors." Zhou Hong heard Tao Mu's words and thought that Tao Mu was also dissatisfied with the role, so he quickly said, "Mr. Tao, you have also read the script. If you are not satisfied with the current role and want to change it, just tell me directly."
Nine million investors! Zhou Hong is so unprincipled. Since you can come up with the money, you are my father and my ancestor. If you want a second male lead besides the male lead, I dare to take the funds and go with Lao Fan to confront the other investors. Just give your orders.
Unexpectedly, Tao Mu didn't want to change his role: "I think the role of Su Dingbang is quite interesting. I didn't want to change it, I just gave you a suggestion. Look at the other characters in the script..."
Tao Mu picked out a few characters that left a deep impression on him - those actors who played particularly well and were well-known among the audience after the TV series was broadcast. Tao Mu didn't want to change. I am afraid that changing the actors will affect the feeling of the TV series. As for the remaining characters that I don't remember much, "...I hope you can choose actors from Beijing Film Academy. My seniors. They are all actors with strong professional qualities and excellent acting skills. You can bring screenwriter Fan to Beijing Film Academy and let our school teachers recommend some people, or you can directly hold an open audition and pick whoever you like."
"Didn't they say that investors can add people to the crew? I don't want the main role, I don't want an important role, I just want these minor roles, a chance to gain experience with my senior brothers and sisters and classmates. Director Zhou won't disagree, right?"
Of course Zhou Hong would not disagree, he was even overjoyed. Not to mention that the actors Tao Mu selected were exactly the same as his casting preferences. Just say that Tao Mu wants to stuff people into the crew. Those are all from Beijing Film Academy. Even if students from Beijing Film Academy have no name or surname, their acting skills won’t be bad as they are professionally trained. At least it's much better than the actors who are stuffed in by some unreliable investors to gild the show.
Zhou Hong originally thought about handing those roles over to the casting director, or even finding a few special actors in H Town. Now, you can just watch it in Beijing Film Academy.
It's just like a mouse falling into a rice jar. Zhou Hong on the other end of the phone was almost floating.
Tao Mu returned the phone to Teacher Sun Yi and asked shyly, "Teacher Sun, you don't blame me for acting on my own, right?"
Of course Sun Yi would not blame Tao Mu for acting on his own. On the contrary, Sun Yi was looking at Tao Mu with a turbulent heart. The reason why he called Zhou Hong was that he felt that Tao Mu was at a disadvantage. I invested nine million dollars, but I was fooled into playing such an insignificant and not-so-good role of a traitor. This is not the way to bully people.
But he didn't expect that Tao Mu knew he was at a disadvantage, but he didn't fight for a better role for himself. Because Tao Mu always remembers the school rule that filming should not delay classes. Then he transferred the benefits that he deserved to his senior brothers and sisters in Beijing Film Academy.
How come this child is so... popular?
Sun Yi took a deep breath and looked at Tao Mu with an extremely kind look: "Have you really decided?"
Tao Mu was a little puzzled, he had already said what he wanted to say. What else can I do if I don’t decide? Besides, they are just some minor characters, it doesn’t matter who you choose. By pushing it all to Beijing Film Academy, we can not only control the quality issues of some actors in the crew, but also win over the hearts of people from both the crew and the school. He has already spent nine million, so there is nothing wrong with such a cost-free move.
Besides, their crew only wants small roles in the corners, which is to give students who have not filmed many scenes a chance to gain experience. As for those senior brothers and sisters who already have names, they probably look down on these small characters. Therefore, the favors Tao Mu can do are limited.
But after all, no matter how small a mosquito is, it’s still meat. He has spent all his money and now he just wants to maximize his profits.
"Okay then. Let me thank you on behalf of your senior brothers and sisters." Sun Yi looked at Tao Mu with a smile, and felt that this student was really considerate no matter how he looked at him. He has good looks, good acting talent, is able to make money and work hard, and knows how to guide his classmates when he has the chance.
Why is it so rare?
Tao Mu and Wen Bao, a student with almost no presence, walked out of the office under the loving gaze of Teacher Sun Yi.
It was the second day of the winter vacation, and the students who were quick on their feet had already packed their bags and returned to their hometowns. Now, Teacher Sun Yi is holding a phone book and notifying us one by one to come back for auditions. I don’t know how I’ll feel.
Wen Bao poked Tao Mu with a sly look on his face: "Hey, do you think that little Chuzi and that idiot Du Kang will call and scold us after receiving the notification from Old Sun?"
Before he finished speaking, Tao Mu's cell phone rang. Tao Mu glanced at the caller ID and handed the phone to Wen Bao: "Do you answer it?"
"I won't answer it." Wen Bao smiled more and more gloatingly.
Sun Yi also knew that the four people in dormitory 301 had a very good relationship. Tao Mu had found the crew, so even if Sun Yi wanted to notify students to come back for auditions, the first people to be notified would have to be those in dormitory 301.
So just as Du Kang called Tao Mu to complain, Wen Bao received a call from Chu Suian - the line was busy when he called Tao Mu, so he immediately turned his complaint to Wen Bao. Anyway, these two people are in Beijing, so they must be doing bad things together.
So it was no surprise that Wen Bao was implicated by Tao Mu. The two of them were both faced with the crying complaints of the other two grown men in the dormitory: "I just got home! More than ten hours in the sleeper, two hours in the car, and my butt hasn't even warmed up on the kang yet. Lao Sun called me... Do you think there are people like you?"
The situation on Chu Suian's side is similar. He arrived in Shanghai by plane. It hadn’t been two days since I returned home, and I hadn’t even finished eating all the hometown dishes, when I received a call from my homeroom teacher. When asked if he had any intention of coming back to film, Sun Yi didn't even mention the word audition. Because he knew that with Tao Mu's relationship, as long as Chu Suian and Du Kang were willing, they would definitely be able to join the group. And you can choose a good role.
How could Du Kang and Chu Suian not be happy! The key point is that they both just got home. Even though it’s a good thing that I can shoot a movie during the winter break of my freshman year, I still don’t want to leave home.
"You two don't have to worry, the New Year is coming soon. Even if the crew wants to start filming, they have to wait until after the New Year. You just stay at home peacefully, and after the seventh day of the New Year, you can go directly to the crew to film." As expected, Tao Mu said it directly.
In view of the fact that "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood" had been replayed many times in his previous life, although Tao Mu had not watched the film for this TV series, he still had an impression of the characters in it. I am more familiar with Du Kang and Chu Suian's future acting styles. So he just read the script and gave them two roles that were very consistent with their images. Circle it with a pen. Over there, Zhou Hong and screenwriter Fan knew what was going on.
The two giant babies who had already returned to their hometown finally changed their anger into joy. After a nice kiss with Tao Mu, he promised to bring back local specialties from his hometown to bribe Tao Mu after the New Year. And Wen Bao.
On the other hand, Tao Mu also asked Zhou Shenxing to sign an investment contract with the crew in the name of Danmu.com.
Before this, Zhou Hong was paralyzed by Tao Mu and really thought that Tao Mu was a pure, flawless, soft-hearted, kind-hearted, easy to coax, and rich - in short, a white lotus who was stupid and rich. I also expressed my feelings to my old partner, screenwriter Fan. As a result, they encountered Lawyer Zhou, who was weak, pitiful and helpless, but very good at making money. The two old artists truly realized how terrifying it was to be an economic lawyer hired by a capitalist with an annual salary of tens of millions.
After the signing was completed, Zhou Hong looked panicked as he hugged the freshly-made investment contract, as well as the check for nine million that seemed light but actually weighed more than a thousand pounds. He had an inexplicable illusion that he and the crew of "The Great Wall of Flesh and Blood" had been tricked into signing a contract to sell themselves.
"So it's really an illusion, right?" Zhou Hong looked at his partner Lao Fan with a look of despair. He has been making movies for so many years, but he has never seen such a cruel and shameless investor!
"It's really an illusion." Screenwriter Fan also looked devastated. He said, how could a young tyrant who could start Feixun.com from scratch at the age of 18, a stock market genius who could make hundreds of billions of dollars in the international futures market by cooperating with Xiaoheng Capital and transformed himself from a partner into a senior partner of someone else's investment company, be so innocent, kind and flawless.
It turns out that they were all deceived! Big liar! Return their feelings! Return their gratitude!
That night, Director Zhou Hong and Screenwriter Fan, whose spirits had been severely damaged by Lawyer Zhou, hugged the script in their arms and let out a deafening roar to the sky.
The ceiling is about to shake down╮(╯_╰)╭
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