Chapter 202: Throw Her Face
"They know shit!" Lin Yi, a scholar, was so angry that he swore. "What a mess! It's a complete mess! Xia Lu likes to add to the drama so much, why doesn't she run for the female lead? She's a villain, a supporting actress, she should recognize her own identity. If every supporting role adds to the drama like her, how can this show be performed? The main and secondary roles are lost, and the logic is chaotic!"
Lin Yi treats each character in the play like a chess game: everyone has their own position and role, all carefully arranged to form a complete story. Once disrupted, the entire game will be in chaos.
Although Zhao Zhenchuan and Xie Weihua's love scenes are few and far between, they are like salt. When cooking, you can use less salt, but you can never have no salt at all.
Every plot he arranged was complete and the short emotional scene he arranged for Zhao Zhenchuan was just to exaggerate the tragedy of the character Zhao Zhenchuan.
Lin Yi also scolded Qi Weiming. "Qi Weiming, that idiot! He changed the script without even telling me. I trusted him with the script, and he treated me like this? Don't even think about asking for my script next time!"
When asking him for the script, I said all the nice things I could, but once I got the script, I just messed around with it.
Lin Yi wanted to have a fight with Qi Weiming right away. He stood up and was about to call Qi Weiming to scold him.
Hu Xiaoxiao tried to persuade him, "Mr. Lin, Director Qi didn't mean to do this either. Please don't hurt your friendship. You've been friends with Director Qi for so many years, don't you understand him? Director Qi is wholeheartedly focused on making this drama a success and making it as perfect as possible. As long as it's for the good of the show, Director Qi is willing to do anything."
"Don't I think I'm doing this for the good of my script? A script is a whole, it needs to have some slow and some fast, some light and some heavy, with a clear rhythm. How can every plot be thrilling? Do they know what foreshadowing is? What is foreshadowing?
"The mayor's dinner scene seems soothing, but it's actually meant to portray the calm before the storm, creating a stark contrast with the intense conflict that follows." Lin Yi felt a little sad, both at the script being tampered with and at being betrayed by a friend. "If he's not satisfied with the plot, won't he discuss it with me? Want something more exciting? Can't I write it myself? Shouldn't he hire someone else to write it?"
Hu Xiaoxiao reminded him, "Director Qi didn't ask someone to write it. Xia Lu got it for him. Maybe it was Xia Lu who wrote it? I didn't expect her to be so talented."
"She can't write shit! She couldn't even recognize the most obscure characters in the script I wrote for her back then, and she's still writing a script!"
"Huh? There's such a thing? I thought Xia Lu was so educated, she could act and write, maybe even direct. It turns out they found an outside editor, I don't know which editor it was, but they wrote something so appealing to Director Qi. But no matter how well it's written, it's not an original script after all. No matter how I look at it, it feels like someone else's child was stolen, and there's inconsistency everywhere. It seems that even if you want to change the script, you have to find the original author. It's hard to paint the bones of a tiger with other people."
Hu Xiaoxiao said a lot of nice things to Lin Yi and finally calmed Lin Yi down.
Lin Yi was a man of letters, with his own pride. After calming down, his unwillingness to admit defeat returned. He simply couldn't believe that his scripts wouldn't be as brilliant as others'!
"Ms. Hu, thank you for telling me this. You can go back first. I need to rewrite the scene of the mayor's dinner." Lin Yi had to get his revenge.
"Mr. Lin wants to rewrite it? That's great. You put so much thought into this play, and no one can write better than you." Hu Xiaoxiao didn't show any intention of leaving. Instead, he sat more firmly and said:
"Mr. Lin, the reason Xia Lu was able to convince Director Qi to change the script is because she'd been filming for a while, understood the play, and found discrepancies between the script and the actual filming. Mr. Lin, you want to change the mayor's dinner scene, and I must help you. This scene is my highlight, and I've already studied it thoroughly.
I know the lead actor, An Ge, very well, and have worked with him on many scenes together. If you have any questions when Mr. Lin is writing, just ask me. I know everything."
Lin Yi thought what he said made some sense. Writing a script is one thing, but acting it out is another. The characters in the play were conceived by him first, and Zhao Zhenchuan and Xie Weihua were not set based on the images of Song Yanan and Hu Xiaoxiao.
So during the actual filming, there will be some discrepancies. Qi Weiming is a very thoughtful director and will make some changes during filming to make the shots perform better.
If there were actors in front of him to give him reference, Lin Yi would be able to polish the plot to perfection.
"You have a point."
"Mr. Lin, keep going! When you write a brilliant script, I'll throw it in Xia Lu's face and show her what professionalism is!"
Lin Yi refused Hu Xiaoxiao's help and said, "I won't throw it on Xia Lu's face, I want to throw it on Qi Weiming's face."
So, when Lin Yi was writing the outline, Hu Xiaoxiao gave him a lot of suggestions...
On the set, Qi Weiming planned to change the mayor's dinner scene, so he asked the staff to rebuild the dance floor, which also caused the scene to be postponed for a few days.
The shooting was finally about to begin. Xia Lu arrived at the set early and smiled happily as she looked at the dance floor that was built according to her wishes.
"Huh? Xia Lu?" Hu Xiaoxiao also arrived on the set and looked at Xia Lu in surprise as she put on her costume and finished her look. "Why are you here? Did you remember wrongly? You don't have a role in today's scene."
While feeling puzzled, he flipped through the original script, but there was no mention of Masako Yamamoto in the original script.
Xia Lu turned around and saw that Hu Xiaoxiao was completely unaware of the script changes. He was still diligently flipping through the original script that had been eliminated, with a smile on his face as if he was enjoying the show. "Hu Xiaoxiao, didn't you receive the notice?"
"What notification? None." Hu Xiaoxiao did not receive any notification, including the script being changed, and no one notified her.
"Mayor's Dinner, your scene was deleted." Xia Lu looked at Hu Xiaoxiao expectantly, wanting to see shock, sadness, and disbelief on Hu Xiaoxiao's face.
"Impossible, the director never told me about this." Hu Xiaoxiao said.
When Xia Lu saw Qi Weiming coming, she immediately waved to him and said, "Director Qi, didn't you tell Hu Xiaoxiao that her scene was deleted? Hu Xiaoxiao doesn't even need to come to today's scene."
Xia Lu's voice was very loud, and there were many staff members on the set, so they all heard what Xia Lu said.
Many people looked at Hu Xiaoxiao with sympathy.
Qi Weiming came over and saw Hu Xiaoxiao. He slapped his forehead and realized that he had been so busy these days that he forgot to ask someone to notify Hu Xiaoxiao.
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