Ten years of film queen, finally became a top star

Everyone finished their meal one after another, and finally Director Li announced that the script reading would begin at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Movies that focus more on quality will have script readings, but they usually happen right after the lead actors are confirmed or earlier.

Li Hanmo is also accustomed to doing the reading early to facilitate changes in the script and cast. This time, it is done at this stage because it would take too much time to negotiate with the investors.

The training ground specially designed to serve the crew is equipped with a large conference room, which generally has all the venues needed by the crew on the eve of filming.

At two o'clock, all the staff arrived on time and the script reading started on time.

Originally, Yu Jiang was sitting between Fu Si and Tang Zixu, but when he saw Ran Feng's eyes asking for help, he moved to sit between Li Hanmo and Ran Feng.

It’s not because Yu Jiang is so soft-hearted. Anyone who sees his watery and furry eyes staring at you without blinking would probably feel a little soft-hearted.

However, Yu Jiang's compassion was about to be exhausted.

On the cover of the script is a door carved with ancient patterns, with a dreamlike steep mountain stream as the background, and the word "Master" is written in the fairy air.

Yu Jiang and Tang Zixu sat opposite each other. Both of them had new scripts. Yu Jiang's habit was to use a photocopied version before joining the crew, and Tang Zixu learned this from her three years ago.

It was normal for these two people to do this, but when she glanced at Ran Feng beside her, she found that his script was also new.

Obviously, Yu Jiang was not the only one who discovered this problem. Even Sheng Nanfeixing's expression turned a little worse.

As per convention, the chief director Li Hanmo spoke a few words first. The rest of his speech was not very focused, just words like hoping for good cooperation. The concluding sentence sounded rather harsh.

"Most of you here should know me. I don't have any other problems, but I just can't stand people who overlap with others or take leave. Friends who are not familiar with me should avoid me in the future."

Ran Feng was secretly criticized again. In fact, there was no need for Director Li to say it specifically. When his agent signed the contract, these were forced to be written into the additional terms.

No one cared about Ran Feng's emotions. Next, the screenwriter team spoke. Fu Si talked about the theme of the story, and Sheng Nanfeixing expressed his expectations for the finished product.

In fact, as the original author, Sheng Nan Feixing rarely needs to intervene in the subsequent creation. This time, she was mainly asked to see how suitable the role is.

The main idea of ​​the director of photography's speech was the grouping of shooting tasks, and everyone should recognize the faces of the photographers in Group A and Group B.

All this took only half an hour, and then the reading officially began.

There is actually nothing wrong with Yu Jiang's explanation of Ran Feng. The script reading session is actually the main creators getting together to read the script.

However, the content to be read is selective. It is impossible to read it all. Just choose the controversial or improvement-enhancing passages to read.

Tang Zixu opened the script, "Teacher Yu, Scene 14, we meet again outside the mountain gate."

Yu Jiang nodded, symbolically opened the script, and prepared to act with Tang Zixu.

"Ling Ji, I'm back. I'm here to marry you. I want you to be my wife."

Tang Zixu was extremely affectionate when reciting his lines. His best feature was his line delivery. No other male actor of the same age could match him.

"Marry me? Yujun, I don't want to leave. You know I can't leave here. I will make the decisions about the sect in the future."

Yu Jiang didn't read the script. She looked at Tang Zixu opposite her with confusion and disappointment in her eyes.

Chai Yujun had said before that he would live in the sect with Mu Lingji forever, but he left secretly and only reappeared today, half a month later.

"I know, but I have my own difficulties. You have no less than a hundred fellow apprentices, and I have nothing but you. We agreed that I would take you to see the world under the mountain."

Ran Feng was stunned, and Tang Zixu had also finished the script. He was a little confused. Did he have to memorize the script so early?

After reading a scene, Tang Zixu expressed his opinion, "Teacher Fusi, I think Chai Yujun is very purposeful and will not persuade Mu Lingji to give up his master. He needs the help of his master more."

Yu Jiang also said: "I think Mu Lingji is unwilling to tell him so much at this time. She attaches great importance to promises. Chai Yujun sneaked down the mountain, and she should be more concerned about the reason why he left."

Several people, including the screenwriter and director, discussed it for a while and finally decided to use this scene as the readjusted segment.

Tang Zixu read the paragraphs starting from the part he thought had the biggest problems, and then read two more scenes, one was the first meeting between Chai Yujun and Mu Lingji, and the other was his political intrigue in the imperial city.

He believed that when Chai Yujun first met Mu Lingji, he should not have an attitude of immediate trust, but should have been protective of himself and questioned her.

The original author Sheng Nanfeixing said: "Chai Yujun lives in the imperial city, and cultivators are just legends to him. He knew that the sword had pierced his heart, and he saw Mu Lingji flying on the sword. His trust came from the fact that he was still alive. He knew his injury, and if Mu Lingji was not a fairy, he would definitely die."

The third scene in the imperial city is also the epilogue. After taking the throne, Chai Yujun has no attachment to Mu Lingji. Tang Zixu thinks this part is unreasonable.

This part showed indecision in the original novel, but Fusi deleted it because she wanted to use this scene to highlight Mu Lingji's worthlessness.

The last two paragraphs found reasonable support points from the screenwriter, and Tang Zixu had no objection to the remaining scenes.

Next it was Yu Jiang's turn. Her order was to start with the scenes with less problems. Mu Lingji decided to lend a helping hand to Chai Yujun.

"Mu Lingji grew up in the sect, and she has been suppressing her fellow disciples since she was young. I think no one here should object to her decision."

Fusi trusted Yu Jiang's intuition very much, and basically none of the revised paragraphs she proposed were rejected, and the same was true for the two subsequent paragraphs.

The last paragraph is the last conversation between Mu Lingji and Mu Yuanming. It is about Mu Yuanming who longs for a new life, and Mu Lingji who sticks to her master.

Yu Jiang leaned slightly to remind Ran Feng, "Scene 72, Farewell on the roof of the Imperial City."

Ran Feng was like a student who was suddenly asked a question by the teacher in class. His palms were sweating with nervousness. He flipped through the pages for a long time but couldn't find the show. It was Yu Jiang who reminded him of the page number.

He only read his role once when he first received the script and read it through before coming.

His teacher also told him that they would shoot the scene on the second day and would memorize the lines on the first day.

Ran Feng, who joined the crew for the first time, couldn't judge. Are all movie actors like this, or are the actors in the "Master" crew too competitive?

Listening to Ran Feng reading the lines without any emotion, Yu Jiang couldn't help but frown and raised his hand to stop him, "Zixu, you should help me."