Chinese Entertainment Intelligence King

Chapter 54 Fatty Fan: This guy’s mouth is really annoying
[Daily Intelligence X: Fan Bingbing, displeased with Yan Li's cold treatment in the dressing room, joins forces with his assistant in a frenzied attack on him. The details are as follows: "What's so great about that bastard? He's so quick to act and changes his expression like turning the pages of a book..."]

Tsk tsk, Yan Li roughly counted and found that it was at least several thousand words. He wondered how long she had been muttering about him behind his back.

Really narrow-minded!
During his daily running exercise, Yan Li took a detour to buy some pastries on the way to the dressing room.

Among Zhouzhuang’s specialties, the most famous is the famous Suzhou dish Wansanti, which is actually braised pork elbow with a sweet taste, and there are also various pastries.

Suzhou-style pastries are already well-known, and Zhouzhuang, as a famous town in Suzhou, is also famous for its related delicacies, including Wansan cake, Begonia cake, Chengyao cake, Qingtuan, Osmanthus cake... everything is available.

However, although there are so many pastries, how to pick out the delicious ones is a science.

In pastry shops like this, if they have been around for a while, they rarely make anything too bad. At least each one has one or two specialties.

This also means that unless you are an old customer, it is easy to confuse the good with the bad when buying pastries, and the Su-style pastries are delicate and beautiful in appearance, which makes it even more confusing.

But this is not difficult for Yan Li.

The intelligence system directly gave him a list, clearly stating which dim sum restaurants had the most delicious and authentic ones.

Not to mention ordinary Zhouzhuang locals, even those working in the pastry industry may not have as complete knowledge and evaluation standards as he does.

When we arrived at the dressing room, Yan Li shared pastries with everyone and kindly reminded us of the sweet and salty flavors and whether there was lard, etc.

People are always pleased with the food, especially the pastries are so delicious. The food soothes the heart and improves everyone's impression of Yan Li.

For example, Liang Guanhua was surprised and happy, and admired Yan Li very much.

As a foodie, how could he not have bought pastries after being in Zhouzhuang for so long? However, the overall quality and taste were much worse than what Yan Li bought.

Now Liang Guanhua really believed that Yan Li was a "dog nose" when it came to finding delicious food.

Fat Fan came a little late to put on makeup today. As soon as she entered the door, she saw everyone praising Yan Li.

After asking someone, I finally understood what was going on and couldn't help but mutter.

"To buy people's hearts."

Yan Li also saw Fan Xiaopang, and his smile was much warmer than yesterday.

"Teacher Xiao Fan is here. Try the snacks I just bought."

"no need."

Fan Xiaopang didn't want to accept Yan Li's small favors, but he couldn't resist Liang Guanhua's constant persuasion.

"Bingbing, try it. Yan Li specifically asked local people who know about it, and the cakes he bought are all very delicious."

Someone was instigating him, and in front of everyone, it was difficult for Fat Fan to refuse. Plus, he was a little tempted, so he came over reluctantly to get the cakes.

Yan Li enthusiastically recommended something to her: "Do you like sweet or salty?"

Fatty Fan said without hesitation: "Sweet."

Yan Li then wrapped a few for her using the extra pastry paper he had requested. Fan Xiaopang took them and his impression of him improved a little.

This person is not completely useless!
Sitting down at his seat, Fat Fan looked at the exquisite and beautiful snacks and his appetite was aroused. He picked up one, put it in his mouth and took a light bite.

Hmm, salty?
Fat Fan couldn't help but look back at Yan Li, who noticed him and smiled.

His friendly behavior dispelled Fan Xiaopang's doubts. He guessed that he might have taken the wrong thing in a hurry, which was understandable.

After finishing the pastry in a few bites, Fan Xiaopang picked out another pastry that looked whiter and more elegant. He thought it should be sweet, so he opened his cherry lips slightly and took a bite.

Or salty?

That bastard was deliberately playing tricks on her?!
Fat Fan turned around and glared at Yan Li, who was somewhat confused and looked at her innocently.

"what happened?"

"It's okay, it's delicious."

Fat Fan praised with a fake smile, feeling hesitant inside, wondering if Yan Li had just heard it wrong.

After all, there is no apparent conflict between the two of them, so the other party would not play tricks on her like this.

I could only angrily add another sentence to Yan Li's mind, saying that he didn't think before speaking and his ears didn't work well.

Yan Li calmly took a bite of the pastry. Hmm, it was sweet and soft.

Fatty Fan was narrow-minded, and he wasn't a generous person either. He cursed him behind his back for thousands of words, and Yan Li even wrote it down in his notebook...

————Yan Li has a lot more scenes today.

The film shows him playing Song Dian, Shen Wansan (Zhang Weijian) and Su Bancheng (Liang Guanhua), three men fighting for one woman, and this woman is Zhao Xue'e played by Fan Xiaopang.

The plot is that Zhao Xue'e's mother was blinded by money and accepted three betrothal gifts. One woman married three husbands. The men refused to give in, so they went to court to sue each other.

Finally, the county magistrate got up to his wits and pretended to beat Zhao Xue'e to death on the grounds of violating morals, and then asked the three husbands to pay for her burial.

It is conceivable that the two villains definitely don't want a dead woman, and the protagonist is deeply in love with her and finally wins the beauty.

Yan Li had no comment on this plot. Although it was not old-fashioned, it was not new either.

In terms of character setting, Su Bancheng is a cunning and treacherous businessman, and Song Dian is a talented person who studied hard and became the governor of Suzhou. How could he not see through such a crude trick?

But the screenwriter wrote it this way, the director filmed it this way, and the actors can only perform it this way.

Not to mention Yan Li, even someone like Liang Guanhua, who has performed in countless excellent dramas of the People's Art Theatre, still transformed himself into a noisy and funny villain after filming started.

As an actor, you get paid to work and do your best to play the role. You can't worry about anything else.

Actually, this scene is quite interesting.

Liang Guanhua and Yan Li are both more academic, very methodical, and even when they play comical villains, they still have some acting skills and designs.

Zhang Weijian is a little different. He started out as a singer, and then worked his way up in TVB and the Hong Kong film industry. He is a self-taught person.

It was actually okay in the early days, and Zhang Weijian could be seen to have quite a bit of acting skills in some of his works. Later, perhaps as he performed more and more comedies, and because most of the roles were somewhat similar, he slowly figured out his own set of acting routines.

Smart, funny, slightly exaggerated, with a bit of cartoon-like light nonsensical comedy.

Many times, when Zhang Weijian found that the characters were similar, he would just be lazy and try to fit in that way.

To put it more nicely, it means outstanding personal style.

To put it bluntly, their performance style is monotonous, they have no ambition to make progress, and they are only willing to stay in their comfort zone.

Of course, most actors are like this, and we can't be too harsh on them. Zhang's financial situation is special, so he has to choose to make money first.

And having said that, although Zhang Weijian's style is easy to get tired of after watching it too much, it is particularly eye-catching.

In addition, he is the protagonist and has more scenes, which makes him occupy the absolute center of the scene.

However, Liang Guanhua and Yan Li were not pushovers either. They each had their own performance. One was cunning and the other was evil, and they portrayed the hateful faces of villains. The county magistrate and Zhao's mother were veteran actors and their performances were also good.

The least noteworthy person is Fan Xiaopang. Apart from his crying look which is pretty nice, there is nothing else to remark on him.

In the next two performances, he even forgot the lyrics several times, which made Yan Li couldn't help shaking his head.

Poor acting skills can also be attributed to personal lack of talent or lack of experience.

Forgetting the lyrics is a complete problem of attitude.

Fan Xiaopang forgot the lines and ended up having to perform an NG. He was already nervous and embarrassed, fearing that others would say something wrong. Then he saw Yan Li shaking his head, biting his lower lip lightly, feeling a little aggrieved.

She took on this role as a temporary helper, as she was originally waiting to join the cast of the martial arts drama "Pingzong Xiaying".

The time was tight, the task was heavy, and Fan Xiaopang was still thinking about "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", so he did not have enough time to prepare privately and made some mistakes.

Perhaps because he didn't want to be looked down upon by someone he disliked, Fan Xiaopang went to find Yan Li to explain after work that she had her reasons.

"So that's it."

Yan Li nodded, as if he suddenly understood.

So it's because he's overlapping roles. That's definitely a problem with his attitude. His acting is average to begin with. And he's trying to do two things at once. It's a wonder he can play his role well.

Fat Fan vaguely felt that Yan Li was not being sincere. His beautiful eyes flickered slightly, and he asked directly without beating around the bush.

"Why do I feel like you seem to be somewhat...resistant to me? Is there some misunderstanding between us?"

"what?"

Yan Li was a little confused, then said very sincerely: "No, I really like your role as Jinsuo. Although she is just a maid, her acting skills are average and her looks are immature, but she is very smart..."

Fan Xiaopang: "..."

Putting aside whether it’s a misunderstanding or not, this guy’s mouth is really annoying!
(End of this chapter)