Before Tao Mu officially joined the group, he had already become a hot topic in the Hong Kong entertainment circle. As many Hong Kong netizens followed the clues and found Feixun.com, the news of Tao Mu's participation in "Black and White" soon spread in the mainland.
Hong Kong's film and television industry has always been known as the Hollywood of the East. Especially in the second half of the 20th century, many popular classics were produced. Cultural exports cover the entire East Asia and Southeast Asia. However, at the beginning of the new century, Hong Kong's film and television dramas gradually declined. Although many first-line superstars are still sought after by audiences and fans. But whether it is a movie or a TV series, the box office and ratings are often unsatisfactory.
This is certainly because the development of Hong Kong's film and television dramas has reached a certain stage and has entered an embarrassing bottleneck period where there is nothing left to shoot. The more important reason is that the cultural censorship systems in Hong Kong and the mainland are different. Some classic themes that are very popular in Hong Kong often fail to pass review in mainland China.
Just like this movie "Black and White", because it is a police and gangster film, the subject matter is very sensitive. In addition, at the end of the plot, the gangster boss played by Hong Kong superstar Zhou Yanqing successfully plotted against the undercover played by Yan Sheng and several other gang leaders, and fled to Southeast Asia with huge assets to make a comeback. This is certainly to lay the groundwork for making the play "Black and White" into a series, but in the eyes of the optoelectronics boss, this kind of plot where the villain boss escapes and gets away with it is particularly inconsistent with the core socialist values. Not to mention that the undercover Zhou Yuanting played by Tao Mu turned evil in the second half of the plot. In order to gain profit, he betrayed the undercover agent played by Yan Sheng, and teamed up with the gangster boss played by Zhou Yanqing to set up a trap, which almost killed the male protagonist played by Yan Sheng.
This part of the plot cannot be broadcast in mainland China.
So after this movie was released in Hong Kong, it failed to pass the mainland's review. The opinion given by Guangdian is that the villain must get what he deserves. So the director temporarily added a scene for Zhou Yuanting, played by Tao Mu, to be arrested and imprisoned. In the original plot setting, Zhou Yuanting, played by Tao Mu, should have fled far away with the gangster boss.
As a result, in order to promote the core socialist values, Zhou Yuanting was caught by the police when he was about to escape. He was directly sentenced to ten years.
In fact, when Optoelectronics gave suggestions for revision, the film producers did not want to make any changes at first, considering the integrity and continuity of the plot. But considering the vast film market in mainland China, they finally compromised.
Of course, the main reason is that Zhou Yuanting, played by Tao Mu, does not quite meet the director's casting criteria. In his previous life, the actor who played Zhou Yuanting, who was favored by director Xu Musen, was originally a very popular young actor in Hong Kong. However, Tao Mu relied on the power of the Shen family and insisted on playing the role of Zhou Yuanting. The young actor that director Xu Musen valued was caught in a whirlpool of public opinion because of a scandal involving checking into a hotel with his financial sponsor. Xu Musen had no choice but to compromise.
In this life, the first person Director Xu Musen took a fancy to was naturally the popular young actor. I only thought of Tao Mu after the scandal of the popular young actor was exposed. The main consideration is Tao Mu's identity as the founder of Feixun.com. As for Xu Musen's polite words when he invited Beijing Film Academy to play the role, he fell in love with Tao Mu at first sight when he saw him dancing in H Town and thought that this role belonged to Tao Mu. Although it's also true. But everyone knows that if Tao Mu is just a martial arts stand-in with no background or backing, then even if Tao Mu is Zhou Yuanting in the movie who has come back to life, Xu Musen will never use a pure newcomer to play such an important role.
However, things that are well known to people in the industry are not the case in the eyes of the general public, especially the fans of each company.
As we all know, the movie "Black and White" was a film that director Xu Musen spent three years to produce. A-list celebrities from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong were invited to perform. Even a small supporting role that only appears for a few minutes may become a hit under the influence of the big celebrities.
In this situation, roles like Zhou Yuanting's, who have obvious room for development and will definitely be outstanding if played well, are of course the ones that all young actors strive for.
Therefore, including the popular young actor who was previously exposed in the financial sponsor scandal, everyone is trying every means to pursue audition opportunities. As a result, Director Xu Musen didn't say anything and didn't even go through the audition process. He directly gave the role to Tao Mu.
A student who just got admitted to Beijing Film Academy and is still a freshman. How could Tao Mu be so worthy that he could beat so many second-tier and third-tier popular male stars and win the favor of Xu Musen.
Fans of the star who had chased this role were blown away. Many people left messages online to diss Tao Mu for taking the back door, and believed that Xu Musen had compromised with the capital. Some people even firmly believed that Xu Musen would ruin the movie. Calling on fans to boycott the film. Never compromise with shoddy films. Others have pointed out a new regulation just introduced by the Optoelectronics Industry - that co-productions must have an equal proportion of actors. That is to say, if one of the male or female protagonist is from Hong Kong or Taiwan, the other must be from the mainland. It is believed that the mainland film and television industry wants to use this to suppress Hong Kong's entertainment industry.
In a word, it was like a gust of wind blowing and all the demons started dancing wildly. In contrast, only Tao Mu's fans were excited, simply because their idol had the opportunity to act with a group of big names - yes, acting. Tao Mu's fans have always been confident in Tao Mu. Even if they have never seen Tao Mu act, they all agree that Tao Mu's acting skills must be very good. Haven’t you heard the comments from the industry? They say they can punch Wang Boyuan and kick Actor Yan.
At the same time when all the netizens in Xiangcheng, Mainland China, were enjoying themselves, Tao Mu flew to Xiangcheng in a low-key manner and met with Xu Musen and the production team of the movie "Black and White" in person. Agree on contract signing.
Tao Mu, who had not found an agent yet, took their weak, pitiful and helpless lawyer Zhou with him as usual. As a top domestic economic lawyer, Zhou Shenxing had never been involved in entertainment industry contracts before. However, Zhou Shenxing can analyze from the terms of the contract whether each clause will cause losses to Tao Mu's economy. This bizarre way of signing contracts also opened the eyes of Zhou Musen and a group of "Black and White" producers.
Once again, I realized that Tao Mu was able to start Feixun.com from scratch at such a young age and become a partner of Xiaoheng Capital. It was definitely not given for nothing.
When signing the contract, Zhou Musen smiled and asked Tao Mu if he had any intention of bringing in money to join the group. Tao Mu politely declined.
He said that as a minor supporting actor whose screen time usually did not exceed 20 minutes, he felt embarrassed to bring money into the crew. So as not to disrupt the normal ecology of the crew. Of course, the main reason why Tao Mu is so humble and low-key is that the box office of this movie in the mainland was not high after its release - because the review time was too long, it took nearly half a year. Movie fans who couldn't wait went to watch pirated DVDs. So when the movie was finally released in mainland China, the attendance was very poor - it was not one of those 3D movies that must be watched in a theater to be visually stunning. Movie fans who have already watched the pirated discs have no interest in going to the cinema to watch it again.
This is also the embarrassing situation that Hong Kong films often encountered when they first entered the mainland film market.
Because of the gossip paparazzi's revelations, Xu Musen and the crew's production staff also knew that Tao Mu was going to experience police school life a few months in advance before joining the crew. Xu Musen originally invited Tao Mu to play the role of Zhou Yuanting mainly because of Tao Mu's identity as the founder of Feixun.com. Secondly, I also saw the news online that Tao Mu had a fever in order to interpret the role, and went to a drug rehabilitation center to experience life. He inquired about Tao Mu's acting skills through his connections, and even called his friend who was a teacher at Beijing Film Academy. Finally, he confirmed that Tao Mu should be able to play this role.
——Just like netizens said, it does have a bit of a compromise with capital. But Xu Musen didn't expect that Tao Mu hadn't signed a contract with the crew yet. As soon as he got the script, he thought of going to the Royal Police School in Xiangcheng to experience life and prepare for the role. And actually got permission from the police academy.
No matter how good Tao Mu's acting skills are, first of all, this attitude makes Xu Musen quite satisfied. He feels that the news and colleagues in the mainland are really not exaggerated. At least in terms of professional ethics and professional accomplishment, Tao Mu really doesn't need others to worry about him.
After all, being able to prepare for a role several months in advance is something that even some popular young actors in the circle cannot do, let alone a boss like Tao Mu who is worth tens of billions of M gold. I often join the crew the day before filming and start reading the script on the day of filming. Sometimes I need the help of a teleprompter when rehearsing.
In contrast, Tao Mu's careful preparation at least allowed Xu Musen to see Tao Mu's sincerity.
Taking advantage of the free time after signing the contract, Tao Mu also took out his script and character biography and handed them to Xu Musen. Mainly, he wanted Xu Musen to give him some advice on what preparations Tao Mu needed to make to play the role of Zhou Yuanting.
Because he had an acting experience in his previous life, Tao Mu knew that the role of Zhou Yuanting had a considerable amount of fighting scenes - this was also an important reason why Xu Musen invited Tao Mu to play the role. He had seen Tao Mu's fighting scenes and thought that Tao Mu would at least not need a stunt double for the role of Zhou Musen. This is very valuable when shooting. At least it can ensure that Zhou Yuanting's shots are smoother. Don't cut too many shots.
Therefore, when Tao Mu was designing the character's biography, he also paid special attention to using fighting scenes to interpret the character's inner thoughts.
Tao Mu thought that when Zhou Yuanting's character first appeared, he could use the fighting skills he learned in the police academy for the fighting scenes. This is to highlight that although Zhou Yuanting has a hot temper and seems to be daring and reckless, he is actually very influenced by his environment and always believes that he is a policeman.
As the plot deepens, Zhou Yuanting's state of mind slowly changes after he joins the gang, and his fighting scenes also change from conventional fighting skills to more lethal moves. Some of the fancy tricks have been reduced, and every move has become deadly and lethal. When fighting, they changed from deliberately not hurting people's lives to focusing on attacking vital parts. He was shot dead at the last moment. The fighting scenes highlight the inner changes.
This is something Xu Musen had not considered. After all, although Xu Musen is good at shooting police and gangster films, the play "Black and White" is mainly about literary drama. The intrigue between the two male protagonists. The character Zhou Yuanting is just a minor supporting role who appears for less than twenty minutes. His role is not even as important as those of several other big-name superstars of his uncle’s generation. So Xu Musen and the screenwriter did not consider so much when writing the script.
Only Tao Mu started from his own perspective, and he had played this role in his previous life and had read many film reviews written by professional film critics. Only then can we think of starting from this point and interpret the character more three-dimensionally.
Of course, to some extent, it can also be considered as adding drama to myself.
But Tao Mujia's action scenes were originally part of his original role. What Tao Mu did was just to draw a few circles on the original outline of the plot. It does not change the character's appearance time, nor does it violate the character setting. It can even make the rhythm of a film with too much literary drama more compact and exciting. So Xu Musen didn't feel offended. He even praised Tao Mu's character biography and setting. I think Tao Mu really put a lot of effort into studying the script and the role.
Of course, this is mainly because Tao Mu's identity is different from that of ordinary new actors. It is unknown whether Xu Musen would still be so pleased if it was another young actor with no background or backing who rashly asked the director to design the fighting scenes himself before joining the crew.
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