Chapter 120: Face Turns Green
The company is not worried about your TV series having too many episodes, but they are worried about your poor quality. The more episodes of a well-made and highly rated TV series, the more they like it.
Don't you see that popular TV series are constantly getting sequels, and sequels, and sequels? Some hit dramas even have crews called in mid-air to add more episodes, filming and airing them simultaneously.
When Hu Xiaoxiao heard Director Shao's words, his whole face lit up.
Sure enough, if you want to add more scenes, you have to find the director.
After watching Hu Xiaoxiao's audition, Shao Yitao felt that the role of Murong Qianluo was secure. Then he watched Mingxu's training and felt that it was unsatisfactory.
"Can't we strive for even greater perfection?" Shao Yitao said to Nie Jinlong.
Nie Jinlong said, "Mingxu is already doing very well. If it gets any more difficult, I don't know if he can handle it."
"Yes!" Mingxu untied the wire, drank a bottle of water to quench his thirst, and panted, "I have to hold on even if I can't!"
He is a male protagonist and cannot lose to the female protagonist... well, he cannot lose too much.
Mingxu glanced at Hu Xiaoxiao, who was still rethinking her moves, and felt a lingering fear: In all my years in the industry, I've never seen anyone more determined than her, and she's a woman. When a woman gets ruthless, a man like him has no chance.
Mingxu gritted his teeth and said to Nie Jinlong, "I think I can increase my strength a bit."
At least when he is in the same camera with Murong Qianluo, he won't lose too badly.
"You have great ambition!" Nie Jinlong and Shao Yitao said admiringly.
So, when Hu Xiaoxiao started rolling, Mingxu followed behind and continued rolling.
Mingxu had been in the industry for a few years, mostly doing action scenes. With his solid foundation, he gritted his teeth and continued to improve, making rapid progress. Sometimes even Mingxu himself was surprised, wondering how he could achieve this level.
If Hu Xiaoxiao hadn't inspired him, he wouldn't have known how great his potential was.
Hu Xiaoxiao sat nearby, chewing some dried meat, wrapping a piece of white silk around his arm, his head bowed, pondering something. Mingxu, rubbing his rumbling stomach, sat down next to Hu Xiaoxiao and pulled a piece of dried meat from her snack bag. As he chewed, he pondered how to deliver his martial arts scenes.
In the past, the martial arts scenes were designed by a martial arts instructor, and he just had to practice according to the teacher's design without having to use his brain.
Now Nie Jinlong has inspiration every day and asks Hu Xiaoxiao to revise the martial arts scenes every day, pursuing excellence. Mingxu inevitably follows suit and starts to think about whether he can use his own abilities to make the martial arts scenes more perfect and more entertaining.
After thinking about it, Mingxu felt that his fighting scenes on the ground were acceptable, but his aerial fighting scenes, that is, the stunts of hanging on wires, still lacked a lot.
As for the wire-hanging fighting scenes, no martial arts teacher is as good as Hu Xiaoxiao.
So, after eating Hu Xiaoxiao's bag of dried meat, Mingxu said to Hu Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, when I'm hanging on the wire later, please give me some pointers."
Hu Xiaoxiao agreed and said, "You have to help me practice the fighting scenes on the ground later."
Hu Xiaoxiao’s first martial arts teacher was Mingxu. It was Mingxu who taught her the first time she really learned martial arts.
The two hit it off immediately, one taught wire work and the other taught martial arts, and they combined the two and improved together.
When the two men were practicing, every move they made was full of the flavor of the martial arts world. Nie Jinlong watched from the side, nodded secretly, and praised Mingxu a few words.
Mingxu felt a little elated by the praise and thought that he had finally made it.
Hu Xiaoxiao, however, poured cold water on him, "Mingxu, your martial arts scenes are fine, but what about the drama? Don't forget the most important drama!"
Suddenly, a chill ran up from the soles of his feet to his heart, and Mingxu felt a chill all over his body. "A literary drama?"
However, he asked Hu Xiaoxiao again, "When are you going to think about the literary drama? Then we can practice together."
Hu Xiaoxiao smiled with some ill intentions, "I don't need to practice literary drama."
"Why?"
"Because of the character." Hu Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "The character the screenwriter gave me is frosty and expressionless all the time. I just need to recite the lines."
Because the character is designed to be fairy-like, cold, and unattainable, there is basically no performance of large emotions, and most of the time she just recites the lines.
Practice your eye expressions occasionally, such as shock, happiness, or anger.
Because she is a fairy, these expressions cannot be too big, they should be subtle.
So Hu Xiaoxiao spent the last few days practicing martial arts at the film and television studio during the day, and at night at home, holding a mirror, feeling slightly shocked, slightly angry, and slightly happy...
It doesn’t matter if she can’t perform, as long as she is beautiful enough.
She has only two tasks in this drama, one is to have ethereal martial arts scenes, and the other is to be beautiful enough.
But Mingxu is different. Long Yjiang is a man with a deep blood feud. He is an emotionally normal man who has to go through all kinds of thrilling struggles. He has many important scenes to perform joy, anger, sorrow and happiness.
Mingxu had already read the script, and when Hu Xiaoxiao reminded him, he felt like the sky was falling! Why did he have to learn so much?
How about asking the director to change the title of the play to "The Legend of Murong Qianluo"? Murong Qianluo goes for revenge, and he plays an expressionless fairy man.
The director obviously would not agree. When he saw how good Hu Xiaoxiao's martial arts were and how rapidly Mingxu's martial arts were improving, he liked them very much and decided not to delete any of them and to add more martial arts shots for the two of them.
With the addition of martial arts scenes, new problems arise——
TV dramas require complete narratives and interesting stories. If they are just full of fighting, no matter how good they are, it will cause visual fatigue.
Therefore, if the fighting scenes are added, the literary scenes must be added as well.
Otherwise, if there are too many fighting scenes, the whole TV series will be noisy and many viewers will lose patience. It is necessary to combine the literary and fighting scenes to achieve a wonderful balance.
Director Shao immediately went to the screenwriting department and asked the screenwriters there to work overtime to add more literary and dramatic plots.
When Mingxu heard that he was given more roles to play, and that they were the literary roles he hated the most, his face suddenly turned ugly.
He gritted his teeth: I will fight you!
From that day on, Mingxu also started to practice martial arts during the day and practice drama at night when he returned home. The little weight he had gained with great difficulty was suddenly lost.
Charlie came over and saw it, and praised him, saying, "You've become much more sensible. You know how to lose weight without me urging you. Keep up the good work."
Mingxu's face turned green from being praised.
The director's face also turned green.
He and Nie Jinlong had been focusing on the two main characters' fighting scenes, ignoring the other actors. When they arrived at the training room that day and saw the other actors' fighting scenes, they were so light and stiff, jumping here and there like rabbits, that it was really jarring.
"What are you training for? You call this martial arts? It's gymnastics, right?" Director Shao pointed at them and started yelling, "You don't want to be actors anymore. You want to become athletes instead? Are you thinking of representing Baogang in the next Olympics?"
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