Chapter 139 Officially Starts Filming
When they were about to leave, Grandpa Shi and Grandma Liang packed a lot of things for them to take with them, just like they were sending other children away on a long journey.
Homemade snacks, purchased mountain products, fruits from the trees in the garden...the gift is small but the sentiment is profound.
Zhao Liying stood at the door pulling a suitcase, and looked up at the small building that had sheltered him during his years of frustration. The building seemed as old as an old man who had experienced many hardships.
If he were older, he might want to end his life in such a peaceful and quiet way.
But he is still in his prime, so no matter how reluctant he is, he should follow the pace of the times and the hopes in his heart and keep moving forward.
Finally, after thanking the two elderly people for their care over the years, Zhao Liying quietly sat in the passenger seat of the SUV.
Knowing that he must still be feeling a little uncomfortable, Su Yun, who was sitting in the back seat with Wang Jiaju and Lin Jiashu, did not disturb him. Instead, she quietly sketched in her notebook, planning to go to Ueno, which was not far from here, after returning to the city.
It wasn't that she wanted to go to Ueno Zoo, the oldest zoo in Japan, to relax. The reason she went to Ueno this time was actually to look for an actor for a supporting role that would have a significant part in a new TV series.
In "The Thousand Faces of the Girl", the Tsukikage Theater Troupe founded by the heroine's teacher Tsukikage Chigusa, after being attacked by malicious commercial means, only the last few students including the heroine remained in the troupe.
Among them is a girl named "Aoki Rei", who has a gentle and cheerful personality and takes good care of the heroine. She is the heroine's most important friend in the Tsukikage Theater. However, because she looks particularly heroic and handsome, she is often mistaken for a handsome boy, and is basically positioned as a male role in the troupe.
She had to be both a girl and handsome and heroic, and based on these requirements, a familiar name came to mind: Amami Yuki.
Hearing Su Yun say that she was going to Ueno to find someone, Wang Jiaju, who was sitting on her left, couldn't help but look at her suspiciously, as if asking "How come you have such a wide circle of friends?"
"I haven't even been to Ueno yet." Lin Jiashu, a native of Japan, also added this while admiring the circle of Su Yun's friends.
"I saw it in a primary school drama competition broadcast on TV. The little prince played by that girl was particularly adorable." Su Yun came up with a reason right away: anyway, it was used to explain why she was able to recruit newcomers. This kind of excuse seen on TV programs is the most useful and popular. Others would never go out of their way to verify the truth of this reason.
When they arrived at Taitung District Ridshimachi Elementary School in Ueno, Su Yun did not take the initiative to come forward as she did in the past. Instead, she looked at Zhao Liying who got off the car with deep meaning.
So Zhao Liying is worthy of being the successor once designated by Zhao Rifu. Su Yun immediately understood with just one look and took two steps forward: The reason why Su Yun wanted to find him was that after training a useful assistant, she would have some free time to do other things.
It seems that recruiting new people this time is a small test given to him by Su Yun.
If Su Yun tested him with theory before, then what Su Yun is testing him with now is practice, to see whether he is still as good as ever or just talking big after leaving the entertainment industry for so many years, and whether he can be used and how well he can be used.
After making sure that Zhao Liying understood what she meant, Su Yun felt a sense of ease as if she was communicating with an intelligent person: people like Zhao Liying, who started working for their elders at an early age because of the family business, feel a sense of sympathy for "small bosses" like her, and most of them will not have any inappropriate thoughts about the young boss like ordinary talents do.
It is always like this in the world: some people, when facing their juniors, wish to break up all the pitfalls they stepped on in the past, and teach them step by step how to get on the right track and avoid stepping on the pit again; some people, when facing their juniors, always think sinisterly that the suffering they suffered in the past must be made to the later generations once, and then secretly laugh at them to satisfy their own bad psychology...
After these days of contact, Su Yun knew that Zhao Liying was the former, so she gave him a lot of trust.
As the saying goes, trust the people you employ, and don't employ people if you don't trust them. If you want talented people to submit to you, you must first give them your true trust.
In addition to being a test, this was also the first step for Su Yun to let him participate in affairs.
Zhao Liying also did it very efficiently: he originally invited the Tianhai children to film a TV series under the name of Su Yun, and the Tianhai people were just hesitant. Then he immediately threw out conditions that the Tianhai family could not refuse based on what he observed when he entered the door.
In Tianhai's family, Tianhai's grandfather is a carpenter, Tianhai's father runs a construction business, and Tianhai's mother is a beautician who runs a beauty salon - very good, when it comes to the construction of the TV series' interior and exterior scenes and the maintenance business of all the actors in the crew, they will naturally consider "acquaintances" first.
With two big deals coming down the pike, it was hard for the Tianhai family not to be tempted.
So he successfully got the young actress Tian Hai Youxi that Su Yun wanted.
Back at the hotel, Su Yun stood on tiptoe and patted him on the shoulder in admiration: "Sure enough, great minds think alike. I was also thinking that if the ordinary invitation method is not possible, then I will use the resource exchange method to recruit people."
"I have studied your way of doing things over the years, and I have to say that you have already mastered the business trick of getting all the necessary people on board the same boat." Zhao Liying replied very calmly.
This method of bringing all the necessary people into the same boat to form a community of interests is actually similar to the Zhao family's long-standing practice of "important positions must be filled by family members", and this approach is indeed the best choice under the current circumstances.
"Very good, I feel much more at ease having you here to help." Su Yun breathed a sigh of relief and decided to take advantage of the opportunity of filming the TV series to continue observing Zhao Liying for some time.
If it is suitable, her future cooperation with Nintendo in Japan will be handled by Zhao Liying.
"You should get the hang of it as soon as possible, then I can go back to study hard and try to get into college next year." Su Yun instructed.
"You...are going to take the college entrance exam next year?!" Zhao Liying was shocked by Su Yun's words and couldn't help but look at her again.
By the way, she was an excellent student at São Paulo... But there is also a rumor that she was able to study at São Paulo because she donated a building to São Paulo?
That's true. As long as you can donate a building, you can go to Harvard.
After all, people with the ability to money can do whatever they want.
"Hey, don't look at me like that. I plan to rely on my own strength to take the special recruitment exam!" Su Yun opened a small notebook and motioned Zhao Liying to read it carefully. "The computer science and engineering major at St. Clair University in the United States is exactly my strong point."
After carefully reading Su Yun's preparations, her star-studded resume of collaborations and her solid nominations and awards, Zhao Liying finally understood where Su Yun's confidence in skipping a grade came from.
Just the title of the leader of the Future Dream Studio is enough to make even the middle and lower-level professors in universities famous for their computer science majors perform worse than hers.
After everything was negotiated, the filming of the TV series began.
In order to accommodate the young actors, especially those like Akina Nakamori who were filming for the first time, Su Yun did not plan to disrupt the order at the beginning. Instead, he spent some more budget and filmed a part in the order of the plot development.
The story of "The Thousand Faces of the Girl" begins in a noodle shop on Chinatown in Yokohama. The heroine Kitajima Maya is a 13-year-old student with a poor family background and academic performance, but she is cheerful and optimistic. She lives with her mother who works in the noodle shop.
Kitajima Maya was born with an abnormal love for drama. Every time she worked at the noodle shop, she would accidentally break dishes because she was watching TV, or she would accidentally enter the theater while delivering takeout and be so fascinated by the theater that she forgot what she was doing. In the eyes of Maya's mother, she was a poor person who had no knowledge or talent at all.
This kind of repressive education from her biological mother made Kitajima Maya always have low self-esteem. She completely lost her natural talent of being able to memorize all the lines, movements and expressions of an entire play just by watching it once.
Until the release of "La Dame aux Camélias" starring the big star Utako Himekawa, in order to get the unwanted drama tickets from the daughter of the noodle shop owner, she delivered 100 take-out ramen noodles overnight, and jumped into the water on the freezing cold New Year's Eve to pick up the tickets that fell into the water. Finally, she successfully saw the drama "La Dame aux Camélias" that she had been dreaming of, and met the male protagonist who had just inherited the family business as president for the first time in the theater.
At the same time, in the theater showing "La Traviata", she met her lifelong rival - the superstar Utako Himekawa and the only daughter of the famous director Mr. Himekawa, known as the genius girl Ayumi Himekawa.
Because the plot of "The Thousand Faces of the Girl" also describes the growth of the protagonists, Su Yun decided to divide the current plot into three seasons. The first season ends with the two heroines competing to play the role of Helen Keller on different dates, while the second season is the real performance on the same stage in the drama "Two Princesses".
The third season is where the plot begins and ends - the competition for the successor to the Red Goddess in the Red Plum Valley.
There are three seasons in total, and they can all be filmed during the winter and summer vacations.
On the one hand, it will not affect the young actors' studies too much, and on the other hand, it will restore the original timeline to the greatest extent possible, reflecting the growth of the protagonists from physical to psychological.
When seeing the first episode, Akina Nakamori felt a sense of sadness, while her sister Akiho Nakamori gritted her teeth but lost her temper because of contract reasons and announced that she would quit acting.
The reason is simple. The daughter of the noodle shop owner in the first episode is a villain like Cinderella's sister, who specifically bullies the poor heroine. This is very consistent with the fact that she always secretly bullies her sister in reality.
Seeing how Mori Minghui was trying so hard to memorize the lines, Su Yun laughed in her heart: You wanted to act, look how much I take care of you, and let you act in your true colors, so you don't have to worry about being cut because of poor acting skills...
One after another, new people joined the crew to watch the filming of the first episode.
As an investor and producer, Su Yun naturally took the opportunity to send two of his connections to brush up their qualifications: the Mei sisters' age and image are just right for playing the role of left-behind students in the Yueying Theater, and then find a voice actor to match the roles - perfect!
In Japan, it is easy to find voice actors, but it is hard to find suitable child actors. For roles like this one, which have some parts but do not require too much of a leading role and do not have many lines, of course they will be given to our own people first.
After Su Yun went to pick up the Mei sisters, who were her relatives, the leading male actor Xicheng Xiushu and the second male actor Nomura Yoshio were also brought over by Jennis's car.
But why is there one more?
"I have brought you the two actors you wanted." To show sincerity, the person in charge who came with the car from Jennis's side was Mary Kitagawa, the sister of Jennis's president Johnny Kitagawa.
"It's a rare opportunity. Can I bring a newcomer with great potential to watch your filming?" Under Su Yun's disgusted gaze, Kitagawa Mari pushed out the boy standing next to the second male lead, Nomura Yoshio.
"Okay, but you have to sign a confidentiality agreement." Su Yun spoke in a businesslike tone, at least she managed to suppress the disgust in her tone: It is said that the reason why Kondo Shinhiko, an ashtray with poor business and personal qualities, could stay in J for a long time was because a senior boss had a special preference for him and had always protected him. What Su Yun could not have imagined was that this guy had already learned to cling to the thighs and ask for care so early...
Is it because she didn't pray to the gods before filming in Japan like they do in Hong Kong, so this blind person named Mary like her brought a plague god to plague her crew? !
Seeing Kondo Shinhiko standing next to his contemporary Nomura Yoshio with an innocent look on his face, Su Yun, who felt like she was being bullied again, secretly spit at him for being so pretentious, and then stroked her chin thoughtfully.
Since you bumped into my hands on your own initiative, I don't need to be polite.