Chapter 167 I Just Wish I Could Be Closer to You
On the bus, "Li Er", who had just come out of her alma mater and refused "Zhang Yang"'s offer to send her off, had just sat down.
Before the car door was closed, "Zhang Yang" followed closely and sat next to "Li Er".
"Why are you here?"
At this time, Chen Duling plays "Li Er", who has been working for a while after graduating from university.
She was wearing a mature white blouse for women and a brown casual skirt. Her beautiful hair was loose, and she wore a thin platinum necklace around her snow-white neck. She had light makeup on her face, and she looked much more mature.
The crew took great pains to dress her up.
Chen Duling has a pure appearance and looks a little childish. In addition, she has her own airport at a young age. Although she is 21 years old this year, she doesn't even need to put on makeup when playing a teenage middle school student, just wear a school uniform.
But now all the scenes set in the student days have been filmed, and the male and female protagonists have grown up and have been working for a few years.
Whenever Chen Duling appears on camera again, the crew will have to take the trouble to dress her up.
It seems to be working pretty well now.
Gu Wei was wearing a brown-green shirt and light blue jeans. His hair was no longer the buzz cut he had in his school days. It was styled a little and he looked much more mature.
At this moment, he no longer had the arrogance and aggressiveness he had in middle school.
He turned his head and looked at Chen Duling with a smile.
"I still have something to say to you~"
At this moment, the two looked at each other. Looking at Gu Wei's handsome face like jade, although Chen Duling's face showed no abnormality, her heart was beating abnormally fast.
After looking at each other for two seconds, Gu Wei leaned his head close to her left ear and said something. The hot air he exhaled hit Chen Duling's ear, instantly making her earlobes turn red.
"Do you know what I just told you?"
Chen Duling did not answer, and the two of them smiled at each other tacitly. At this time, the camera pushed forward and changed from the two of them in the same frame to Chen Duling alone.
Chen Duling lowered her head slightly, with a hint of a smile on her lips, shy, sweet, and relieved.
"Cut! Excellent, this shot is passed, and [Left Ear] is officially finished!"
Su Youpeng's voice came from the big speaker behind the monitor, and the crew immediately cheered.
When she heard the director announce the wrap, Chen Duling breathed a sigh of relief, as if a huge burden had been lifted from her shoulders.
Shooting this movie was a bit too difficult for her, an amateur with no experience at all.
Now that the filming is finally completed, she feels relieved and proud, as if she has accomplished some great goal.
Sitting in her seat without moving, she turned her head to look at Gu Wei next to her, and a complicated feeling surged in her heart.
Gu Wei felt her gaze, turned around and smiled gently at Chen Duling.
The sunlight outside the window happened to shine on Gu Wei's face, making his smile look particularly bright.
Chen Duling was completely stunned.
"Durin, thank you for your hard work. You've done an amazing job filming the scenes over the past few days. It's your outstanding performance that allowed us to wrap up filming so quickly."
Gu Wei's words woke Chen Duling up.
"Ah~ No, no, it's all thanks to your good teaching, Teacher Gu. These days, I'm so grateful to you for helping me rehearse my lines and getting me into the role.
I'm stupid, if it weren't for you, the filming wouldn't have gone so smoothly these days."
Chen Duling's face turned slightly red. She was in college and was looking forward to love the most. The young man Mu Ai.
For a girl of her age, it is hard not to be moved when she meets a boy like Gu Wei who can amaze her.
In her eyes, Gu Wei's appearance, figure, and personality are almost perfect. It was easy for her to put herself into the role when filming this somewhat ambiguous scene with him.
Unfortunately, filming is just filming after all. Now that the filming is over, the little ambiguity between the two of them quickly dissipated.
She felt that her life and Gu Wei's life were like two parallel straight lines. They occasionally intersected because of opportunities to make movies, but after that they became two parallel lines again.
Gu Wei is a big star and she is just an ordinary college student.
Just like in fairy tales, the prince and princess can live happily together, but if it is an ordinary girl, I am afraid the prince will not even look at her twice.
Although Chen Duling yearns for love, she is also a highly intelligent science and engineering girl who can recognize what reality is.
Gu Wei, who is only one year older than her, is already so outstanding that she can never reach her level now.
Thinking of this, the look she gave Gu Wei became more complicated and incomprehensible.
I sighed secretly in my heart.
She once read a sentence: "Don't meet someone too amazing when you are young, otherwise you will not be able to spend the rest of your life in peace."
Thinking about it now, it is so similar to her current situation.
Gu Wei would not know what Chen Duling was thinking, but through the filming these days, he could see that she had some feelings for him.
What can he do? Being too handsome is also a mistake.
He didn't take it too seriously, as he knew that this kind of affection often came and went quickly, and time would solve all problems.
The crew’s wrap-up party in the evening.
Director Su Youpeng is very excited. "The Left Ear" is his directorial debut. Now that the film is finished, he feels like he has raised his own child bit by bit, and his heart is filled with a sense of accomplishment.
"Gu Wei, this is my first time directing a movie.
Although a lot of preparations were made beforehand, many unexpected troubles were encountered after the filming started.
Now that I think about it, the best thing I did during the preparation stage was to find you to star in this movie."
Su Youpeng drank a lot of wine at the dinner table. He was really happy today and talked a lot with Gu Wei.
"Being a director isn't something that just anyone can do, luckily you're the leading actor in this movie.
I have met many young actors in the industry over the years, and your acting skills are definitely the best among them."
"Director, I'm almost embarrassed by your praise. I'm considered average, after all. I've studied acting for three years in school. If I can't perform well, it will bring shame to the school."
Gu Wei said modestly after hearing Su Youpeng's praise.
"I've seen many professionally trained actors, but few can reach your level. You definitely have a bright future in acting."
"Thank you for the compliment, Director~"
It was because Gu Wei left such a good impression on Su Youpeng during the filming, and the other actors in the crew were in stark contrast to him, which made Su Youpeng particularly enthusiastic about Gu Wei now.
He also knew that if his film wanted to be a big hit in the future, it would have to rely on Gu Wei's popularity.
He is a new director who switched from being an actor. Although he was quite famous when he was an actor, he is now a director after all. In the absence of any previous works, it is still unknown how much trust the audience can have in him.
[Left Ear] itself is just a low-budget youth film. Except for Gu Wei, the actors in the play are basically newcomers, and the female lead is a complete amateur.
In his opinion, if this movie wants to be a big hit, it still depends on Gu Wei. After all, Gu Wei is currently the most popular young actor with many fans.
The audience of "Left Ear" is basically young people, which coincidentally overlaps with Gu Wei's fan base. In time, the film can make a profit with the help of Gu Wei's fans.
Su Youpeng's decision to become a director was not a whim, he really wanted to do a good job as a director.
He was a popular star in the first half of his life, and switched careers to become a famous director in the second half. This resume is simply perfect in the entertainment industry.
He has a good idea, but whether he can continue on this path depends on how well the first shot goes.
If a debut film loses money, then he can basically say goodbye to being a director, and no investor will be willing to invest in him.
Just like Wu Jing, he lost money on his first movie "Wolf Tooth", and when he was about to make "Wolf Warrior", no one was willing to invest.
He gritted his teeth and emptied his savings to shoot the film, but in the end the money was all gone and the film was not completed. In the end, if Gu Wei had not helped him fill the gap, he would have had to mortgage his house to make the film.
Fortunately, "Wolf Warrior" made a small profit later on, which gave Wu Jing the opportunity to continue preparing for the filming of "Wolf Warrior 2".
Just imagine, if Wu Jing, who mortgaged his house to film the movie "Wolf Warrior" in the original time and space, had failed after its release, what would be waiting for him would be all his life savings gone to waste.
It is estimated that the whole person will be devastated and there is no need to mention being a director. The most likely thing is that he will be like Nicolas Cage in Hollywood, using his original fame to take on bad movies to pay off his debts.
So making a movie is a very risky thing, especially for the director, it can be said that it is one step to heaven and one step to hell.
Su Youpeng's requirements are not high. As long as the box office of "Left Ear" can make a profit, he can win the trust of investors and continue to work in this industry.
The investment in [Left Ear] was 80 million, of which 20 million was the converted cost of Gu Wei's salary, and the actual money spent was 60 million.
As long as the box office is above 240 million after release, it will make money.
He still has some confidence in the box office. Zhao Wei's "Youth" released last year achieved a good result of 720 million yuan at the box office. If "Little Swallow" is good, how bad can his "Fifth Prince" be?
Of course, this was all a joke. Although he was also popular in both Mainland China and Hong Kong through "My Fair Princess" in those years, Su Youpeng knew in his heart that in the mainland entertainment circle, he was far behind Zhao Wei in terms of popularity, connections and background resources.
However, he felt that the lead actor he invited to star in the movie, Gu Wei, had more box office appeal than Zhao Youting and Han in "Youth". Not only was he the male lead of a billion-yuan movie, he was also the male lead of this year's hit drama "Swords of Legends".
Whether it is his performance in movies or TV series, Gu Wei is the best among young male actors in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China, and no one can compare to him.
After chatting with Gu Wei for a while, Su Youpeng started drinking with screenwriter Rao Xueman.
During the preparation of [Left Ear], Su Youpeng replaced 36 screenwriters at one point because of his excessive pursuit of perfection. In the end, the problem was solved only when the original author Rao Xueman came forward to serve as the screenwriter herself.
Even so, the two still had many arguments later because of conflicting opinions on filming, but fortunately, everyone was for the good of the movie, and in the end they were always able to sit down calmly and solve the problem.
Rao Xueman recalled that during their most intense argument, Su Youpeng slammed the door and told her that she was not worthy of being a screenwriter and that he should do it himself.
But two seconds later, Su Youpeng opened the door and came in again, sat down in front of Rao Xueman, and said to her sincerely: Rao Xueman, I must have a good talk with you.
Su Youpeng never knew it, but because of this sentence, Rao Xueman said that was the moment she loved Su Youpeng the most. She realized that Su Youpeng loved "Left Ear" more than she did herself. Only then did Rao Xueman feel at ease and let Su Youpeng go ahead and do it.
As soon as Su Youpeng left, Chen Duling sat next to Gu Wei with a glass of wine.
"Teacher Gu, I'd like to toast you and thank you for taking care of me on the set."
As he said this, he picked up a glass of beer and drank it in one gulp.
After finishing the drink and putting down the wine glass, Chen Duling coughed a few times uncomfortably and wiped the corners of her mouth with her hand.
Seeing this situation, Gu Wei had no choice but to join in and drink a glass.
"You rarely drink, so drink slowly, or you'll get drunk quickly."
Gu Wei comforted him in a gentle voice.
Chen Duling was wearing a white dress with a butterfly pattern today, with a small piece of skin on her chest and her snow-white arms exposed. She did not choose to tie up her long black hair, but let it hang casually, and she wore a pair of small pearl earrings on her ears.
It can be seen that she wants to dress herself in a mature way.
After drinking a glass of wine, Chen Duling looked at Gu Wei happily, and the snow-white skin on her face turned slightly red.
"Teacher Gu, I have decided that I will continue to be an actor. I want to enter the entertainment industry and become a big star."
As he spoke, he raised one hand and clenched his little fist slightly as if to express his determination.
"Given your own conditions and current starting point, it will be no problem for you to enter the entertainment industry.
But you have never studied acting before. If you want to continue on this path in the future, it is best to sign up for an acting class and study systematically.
This will be of great benefit to your future acting career."
After Gu Wei affirmed her wishes, he gave his own suggestions.
"Yeah, I will. This filming also made me realize that acting is not an easy thing.
I will try my best.”
“Come on~
I look forward to working with you again in the future."
Gu Wei encouraged.
Chen Duling looked at Gu Wei's charming face and listened to his gentle words of encouragement, but her thoughts were not as simple as they seemed.
Originally, she was still hesitant about whether she should enter the entertainment industry and become an actor in the future.
After all, her original life plan was to work in aircraft manufacturing and engineering-related jobs after graduation and become a female engineer.
This life path was planned by her and her family long ago. It is stable and comfortable and there will not be too many changes.
But being unexpectedly chosen to star in a movie this year gave her the opportunity to make another choice in her life.
At first she was still hesitant and planned to go home and discuss it with her parents, but Gu Wei made her make up her mind.
If she went back to continue her original life, then she and Gu Wei would never have any intersection again.
How could she be willing to accept this? She wanted to act, to become famous and a big star, and she just wanted to be closer to Gu Wei. Even if there was no development, it would be good for the two of them to be friends.
The wrap-up party was still going on. Chen Duling sat next to Gu Wei without saying anything, but just watched him drinking and chatting with others.
"Gu Wei, I will work hard to improve myself. I hope the distance between us will be even smaller when we meet next time."
(End of this chapter)
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