New Age Artists

Chapter 75: Don't show humanity to bad guys, just cause trouble to Chinese and foreigners

"Send an audition invitation to Zhang Jingchu. The second female lead is also a key point in the play. We need someone who looks innocent but is evil inside. If she plays it well, it will be of great help to our play."

According to Shen Santong's design, this play will have two hidden highlights.

One is the male lead played by him, and the other is the second female lead.

When the heroine is looking for the murderer, she will look for people she has offended, teachers, and serial killers.

After going around in circles, I finally found out that it was my roommate.

In this version of the second female lead, Shen Santong's motive for murder is no longer because she is competing with the female lead for the doctor, teacher, and lover.

It was simply because the heroine offended her because of a trivial matter a few days ago, and then the heroine was very outstanding and she disliked her.

The second female lead must be purely evil, without any excuses or motives for being a bad person, she is just evil.

Anyone would die if they were with a roommate like this.

Last year, the media liked to find human nature for Ma Jiajue.

However, this man has no humanity. He only killed people whose family background is worse than his, and no one bullied him. He is just a bad person, and he is the only one who bullies others.

Find humanity for bad guys?
Shen Santong would not do that.

Not only will she not find humanity for the bad guys, but she will also allow the heroine to thoroughly criticize them through dialogue.

There are many hints about his thoughts on this character before they are revealed, but they are able to be ignored by the audience.

When she is exposed, it creates a huge plot tension, giving the audience a strong dramatic impact.

If the performance is good, it is possible that it will overshadow the heroine's performance.

Shen Santong hopes that the second female lead can overshadow the female lead. If such a presentation can be seen at the end of the movie, it will leave a very classic movie shot.

It is similar to Zhang Zifeng's last smile in "Detective Chinatown", or even better.

"Send another audition invitation to Jiang Xin and try a few more." Shen Santong selected a few more candidates for the second female role.

However, the casting director and screenwriter representative were very clear that Shen Santong had chosen Zhang Jingchu, and unless there were any special surprises, it would be Zhang Jingchu.

In previous castings, Shen Santong always let the editorial representative speak from a creative perspective first, but Zhang Jingchu was the only one that Shen Santong picked first.

A very strong hint. If you don’t understand it, don’t confuse it.

When the audition comes, the casting director will announce Zhang Jingchu for the role, and Shen Santong will just have to nod.

Many years later, the audition videos were posted on video sites such as Bilibili, and only professional evaluations were shown.

There was no offline transaction from beginning to end.

The casting director discusses the next role; "The student who opens the door. This role must be approachable and not annoying."

"According to the plot designed by Director Shen, there must also be different levels of acting skills." The screenwriter representative agreed.

The plot of Shen Santong's version of "Happy Birthday" is as follows.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the school bell rang.

The heroine Cheng Xiao had a hangover last night and woke up in the hero Xu Le's room.

The phone rang. It was the heroine's father calling and inviting her to lunch because it was her birthday.

The heroine's birthday is the same day as her mother's, but her mother passed away, so she doesn't want to celebrate her birthday.

Not only did he not answer his father's call, he also ignored it, leaving his father waiting alone in the restaurant.

After hanging up the phone and clearing her mind, she realized that she was in an unfamiliar room.

I was so surprised that I had a seizure on the spot.

Although she had a fever from time to time, she was not a casual girl and the police had to be called.

The male protagonist explained that it was the female protagonist who took the initiative to find him and nothing happened between them, so the female protagonist was half-believing and half-doubting.

The original heroine was very casual, and Shen Santong made some adaptations.

At this time, the male protagonist's friend came in and asked him, have you gotten the female protagonist?
In the original version, it was played by an Asian, who was a complete buffoon, full of stereotypes.

When creating this character, Shen Santong was very surprised by the operation of the original version.

This kind of politically correct casting wastes the function of the role and sacrifices the plot. A more natural character could have been used.

Later, Shen Santong thought about it carefully and felt that he might have thought too shallowly.

Just because it’s not funny from his perspective doesn’t mean that other ethnic groups in the United States find it not funny.

An Asian person playing a filthy clown is hilarious in itself.

He's the kind that doesn't need any design and is hilarious every time he appears.

Perhaps, other ethnic groups in the United States watch this just like the old Chinese watch the famous scenes of the American Civil War.

"Where are you from?"

"HK."

"Oh, China."

Bang!
Beaten to death.

It made the white people laugh as well as the Chinese people.

If so, the original character was indeed successful.

With each cycle, white people find it funnier to watch the clown Asians repeating their vulgarity.

Of course, it is also quite scary, it is completely naked discrimination based on identity label, and it is against an ethnic group. But because the discrimination is against Asians, no one cares.

The version played by Shen Santong has a lot of requirements for this role. After pushing the door open, he has to perform different tones and reactions to the same question in different cycles to produce different jokes.

Shen Santong thought that there were only two people who could play this role: Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang.

"Huang Bo, this role does not require an audition. There are too few actors with friendly qualities, and Huang Bo happens to have a Zhu Liao filter." Shen Santong decided.

Wang Baoqiang is also okay. Shen Santong can already imagine that every time Wang Baoqiang pushes open the door, he says "Brother" in different tones, which is absolutely hilarious.

However, Huang Bo can do it just as well, without any difference.

During this period, Huang Bo had everything he wanted.

Using Wang Baoqiang is really a way to promote Huayi, which is different from using Shuang Bing.

The contract between Wang Baoqiang and Huayi was just signed last year. It seems to be for eight years, and there are still many years to go.

The contracts of both actresses and actresses are about to expire, and in this era, top actresses earn much more than male actors of the same level.

The revenue that Shuangbing brought to Huayi was astonishing, and there were also some invisible benefits.

Shen Santong doesn't need to be pried away, as long as the two ices are independent.

Shen Santong didn't think he could purify the circle, and it was impossible.

Talking about purification is just an illusion about some strange species.

Did Wolf Warrior 2 lead to the production of blockbuster movies? Have science fiction movies flourished after The Wandering Earth?
It's good enough to be able to stand on your own feet and not feed shit to the audience.

He was quite happy because Huayi made less money and lived a miserable life.

The casting director continued, "The role of the teacher is that of a chief physician at an off-campus hospital who is also a guest lecturer. This character has feelings for his students and will be suspected of being the murderer in the plot."

"For this couple, please ask Teacher Feng Yuanzheng and Teacher Mei Ting to try it."

Shen Santong wants Feng Yuanzheng and Mei Ting to work together again, which will have a good effect.

Whether in the play or in publicity.

According to his idea, the teacher role would be the kind that has lustful thoughts but is timid.

When the heroine suspected the teacher, she let Teacher Feng show some of An Jiahe's colors, and then later let Teacher Feng be killed by the murderer, showing his cowardly side.

Can produce interesting effects.

If a sequel is made, let Mei Ting, who plays the wife, kill herself in the film.

There are many ways to play, it just depends on whether you can put them together.

Some actors are the kind that are chosen, while others are very scarce.

This is true for Huang Bo and Feng Yuanzheng as well.

The latter is more powerful, they can play any role, it just depends on whether they can be invited.

Going through each role one by one and screening resumes is also a way to further improve the characters.

There are many supporting characters that the heroine encounters repeatedly when she goes out of the apartment. Shen Santong designed them very attentively, and the plot is very exciting.

The presentation will definitely amuse the audience.

After Shen Santong set the audition time, he returned to the office and asked Li Yu, who had been waiting for a long time, to come in.

He knew very well the other party's intention.

Li Yu transformed into a cod on the spot and tried to fish for the moon from the bottom of the sea.

"Let's talk it over nicely." Shen Santong stopped him.

He is no longer the same person he was before the crew was formed. He may play around, but he never jokes about the project.

Movies are the foundation of his life and are not something that can be easily exchanged.

"Our crew eliminates all hidden rules. Actors get roles based on their professional abilities, not through backdoors or by building clean relationships."

Shen Santong gave her a manual and asked her to study it well.

Shen Santong found that the management of the film crew was too poor, far inferior to that of a construction site, so he asked someone to write a crew operation manual, and all employees in the crew had to study it.

Li Yu said: "I'm not an actor."

"do not do that."

Shen Santong tried his best to defend, which was no less than the flash of swords.

I was careless and didn't dodge.

No, I didn't guard against it.

Already seated.

I have found some rhythm. I was writing too slowly before. I will speed up the pace and keep going.

I have a lot of ideas, so I write them down and stop thinking about them.

For the first book, the main purpose is to accumulate information and to accumulate knowledge about the work.

It’s a pity that the rhythm was not written well before, and it’s still the critical time for putting it on the shelves.

Gritting teeth and rushing forward.

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(End of this chapter)