Chapter 447 Two Actors and the Signing Ceremony

Liu Yifei is undoubtedly a very motivated actor. Although she is not as career-oriented as Fan Xiaopang and Yang Mi, she has always been meticulous in her work.

There were a lot of negative news about Liu Yifei in later generations, but no media or black fans said that she was a big shot or had a bad work attitude.

Not to mention anything else, the fact that she could ride a horse with ease in "The Return of the Condor Heroes" was far better than those popular stars in later generations. At that time, she was less than 18 years old.

Of course, this does not mean that actors who can ride horses deserve praise. In the past, actors who had filmed costume dramas almost all knew how to ride horses, and very few of them pretended to ride.

But in the era of traffic, everyone discovered that young actors who can ride horses can be praised to the sky.

There are actually not many actresses who are as popular and motivated as Liu Yifei, so it is quite rare that she can still be so dedicated.

So Golden Harvest decided to promote her. In addition to her extremely high popularity and strong fan stickiness, her attitude was undoubtedly also a very important consideration.

Although Liu Yifei has many good qualities, her acting skills are undoubtedly a flaw.

Her acting skills cannot be said to be bad, and are already better than most young actors in the industry. However, compared to the height she wants to reach, her current acting skills are undoubtedly not enough.

But there is no way around it. Although she graduated from Beijing Film Academy, she had such good resources that she had almost no time to study in school.

There is a famous scene on the Internet. When she and Jiang Yiyan went to the Luyu Youyue program to promote "The Four", Jiang Yiyan, as her classmate, publicly insulted her for not staying in school normally, which made her so angry that she lost control of her emotions and couldn't help rolling her eyes.

Although Jiang Yiyan is a green tea girl, there is no doubt that what she said is true.

So Liu Yifei never received any systematic training. She was similar to Fan Xiaopang in that she came from a self-taught background and figured out how to act on her own while in the crew.

But Liu Yifei is not as ambitious as Fan Xiaopang, and she will not work hard to improve herself.

Moreover, she was too well protected and became famous too quickly or too easily. Compared to Fan Xiaopang, she was less ruthless towards herself.

So whether in terms of business ability or professional ability, Liu Yifei has some gap with Fan Xiaopang.

It’s not that Liu Zhou has nothing to do and wants to give her special guidance.

But no matter what, Liu Yifei can be regarded as an iconic female star in the entertainment industry after the new century, and is now also an artist of his own company. Liu Zhou thought he could take this opportunity to give her some pointers.

To be honest, it was somewhat beyond his expectation that Liu Yifei could perform like that. It can be seen that she had made sufficient preparations in advance, and it can be seen that her acting skills have reached a bottleneck.

If you can break through this bottleneck, your acting skills will undoubtedly reach a higher level. If you can't, you may waste many years.

This statement may sound a bit mysterious, but acting skills are indeed like the true qi in fantasy novels, and they also have bottlenecks.

If you want to break through the bottleneck, you have to figure it out on your own.

So Liu Zhou also gave her a push, otherwise he would have told her directly how to act instead of letting her figure it out on her own over and over again.

Sometimes this kind of extreme pressure can help people break through bottlenecks.

Of course, Liu Zhou couldn't keep her wasting time all the time. At most, he would spend one day with her to see if she could break through herself.

If she can make a breakthrough, her performance of this scene will undoubtedly be even more exciting.

But unfortunately, after being under pressure for the whole afternoon, she still couldn't achieve a breakthrough.

Although it was a bit of a pity, Liu Zhou was prepared to give her another morning. If it still didn't work, he wouldn't continue to waste time with her.

When Liu Zhou was about to get in the car to go back to the hotel, he unexpectedly came over.

Seeing her red and swollen eyes and looking somewhat pitiful, Liu Zhou also understood what she meant.

"Let's talk about it after we get in the car."

In the car, Liu Zhou saw her looking at him and said directly:

"Do you feel that you performed well this afternoon?"

Liu Yifei was quite satisfied with her performance, so her answer was unambiguous:
"My emotions are very real and consistent with the character's thoughts and feelings in that situation. I feel pretty good about it."

Liu Zhou did not refute and asked:
"You went to Tangshan two months ago to experience life there. How many people who had experienced the earthquake did you talk to? What did you talk to them about?"

"I don't remember how many people there were, but there were at least dozens of people. I mainly talked to them about what I was thinking and doing when the earthquake hit, and what I felt."

"If that's the case, didn't you notice that few people cried in Tangshan after the earthquake?
Everyone is suppressing their sadness deep in their hearts and holding on!

The same goes for the character you play. Just imagine that your parents, brother and two nephews were all buried in the rubble and their lives or deaths were unknown. You might have been the only one alive in your family.

Who will collect the remains of my parents, who will bury my eldest brother and nephew? Only you!
So, you can't collapse. No matter how sad or desperate you are, you can only hide it and choose to be strong! "

Liu Yifei suddenly realized something. She didn't think she had acted badly, and even wondered if Liu Zhou was targeting her on purpose.

Now she understood why she couldn't pass it, and apologized embarrassedly:

"Director Liu, I am too subjective. I have always acted according to my own ideas and understanding."

Seeing the cheerful Liu Yifei, Liu Zhou felt that he could make his words more clear:
“Yifei, there are two kinds of actors in the world. One kind has a strong personal style and imprint when acting, such as Ge You;

One type is that there are thousands of faces, and no trace of individuality can be seen, such as Li Xuejian and Liang Jiahui;

There is no difference between these two types of actors. What determines whether they are good or bad is not the breadth of their acting range, but the degree to which they explore the role. "

Meeting Liu Zhou's gaze, Liu Yifei knew that he was instructing her, and nodded formally:
"I understand, Director Liu."

"So what type of actor do you want to be?"

"Of course it's the latter. I hope to be able to experience things in my life that I haven't tried or experienced in my life, and this is also what I think is the most attractive part of being an actor."

"Then do you know what your biggest obstacle is?"

Liu Yifei scratched her head and said:
"Is my acting too bad?"

"No, your acting skills can be improved slowly. Your biggest obstacle is that your performance is too personal.

When a role conflicts with your personal characteristics, people will not be able to accept it and will think that you acted badly, so it is difficult for you to become an actor with many faces.”

Liu Yifei’s biggest feature is her beauty, and it’s the kind of beauty that comes with a fairy-like air. No other female star in China has her kind of temperament.

So when she encountered roles like Wang Yuyan and Xiaolongnu that were more suitable for her, she soared to fame.

"Director Liu, do you want me to maintain my personal style?"

"Your acting career can only be determined by yourself. I'm just telling you what problems you're facing now!" "I want to try different roles, what should I do?"

"Erase your personal characteristics and learn to be restrained."

"What should we do specifically?" Liu Yifei asked.

"Each of us has a different situation. I can only point you in a direction. You have to slowly explore the specific path yourself. But one thing is certain, that is, insist on experiencing life!"

It is impossible for Liu Zhou to explain everything to her in detail. There is not much meaning in such forced indoctrination. If she wants to improve her acting skills, she still needs to understand and experience more on her own.

During the filming the next day, Liu Yifei's condition was indeed much better. She no longer howled and cried. With tears in her eyes, she hugged Dou Xiao tightly, not moving.

His eyes were filled with sadness, but he seemed to be standing firm and strong.

Liu Zhou couldn't help but nodded slightly at this. After shooting twice, he got a satisfactory shot and he shouted directly.

At this time, Liu Yifei also felt a sense of relief.

After completing the filming of this shot, Liu Yifei seemed to have opened up her Ren and Du meridians. When it came to her turn later, Liu Zhou no longer had to worry about her, and she even got several takes done in one go.

It took nearly a week to shoot the rain scene and Liu Yifei's scenes after the earthquake.

The next part was mainly about filming Zhang Yi's scenes, where Zhang Yi and his troops went to the Douhe Reservoir to carry out rescue operations.

After the earthquake, the Douhe Reservoir Dam sank 1 meter, the main dam was broken longitudinally for 1700 meters, and there was a transverse fracture every 50 meters, with a total of more than 50 cracks.

It happened to be a rainstorm, the water level rose sharply, and the dam was in danger.

The reservoir bottom is 10 meters above TS City and has a water storage capacity of 3600 million cubic meters. Once it breaks, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The only way to solve this hidden danger is to open the gate and release the water, but now there is a power outage and the gate cannot be opened at all. We can only manually push the winch to pull up the gate.

"Director, be ready." The executive director stepped forward and reminded Liu Zhou.

Liu Zhou nodded, raised the loudspeaker and shouted to everyone:
"Every team, get ready. Now we will start the actual filming and try to get it through in one take!"

On the ruins of a collapsed engine room, Zhang Yi and his colleagues were shaking the winch with all their might. The winch was turning, the gate was rising, and the surging water was rushing like a river.

As the camera zooms out, dozens of soldiers can be seen lying horizontally and vertically on the dam, indicating that it is not easy to shake the winch.

The gate weighs more than 100,000 pounds, and it is not easy for the soldiers to push the winch with manpower. The soldiers were the first to collapse from exhaustion.

The camera then gave a close-up of the company commander, whose clothes were covered in blood. In the 7.1-magnitude aftershock just now, the computer room collapsed, three soldiers died, and he was also injured.

He, Zhang Yi and two other soldiers pushed the winch like crazy. Suddenly the winch stopped moving. At this time, the workers of the Douhe Reservoir ran over and shouted:
"The gate has been lifted to the top, you can let go now."

Upon hearing the good news, Zhang Yi and the other two collapsed under the winch, gasping for breath, while the company commander smiled, spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell down.

"Company commander!"

Zhang Yi and the other two rushed over immediately.

"Crack!"

Liu Zhou looked at both sides again and again, and felt that the camera was fine. He picked up the intercom and said:

“This shot has passed!”

The crew members immediately started to move, cleaning the scene, moving equipment, and preparing for the next shot.

On April 1st, Liu Zhou had been filming in Tangshan for nearly a month, and most of the scenes in Tangshan had been shot.

However, on this day, he had to pause filming and go to Hangzhou to attend the signing ceremony of the film and television base that would soon be established in Hangzhou.

After nearly half a year of negotiations and comprehensive considerations, Golden Harvest finally decided to locate its film and television industry base in Hangzhou.

In the two months after the New Year, Zhang Zhao has been discussing the establishment of the film and television base with Hangzhou. Now the two parties have reached an agreement, and the final signing requires the presence of the big boss Liu Zhou.

After arriving in Hangzhou, Liu Zhou had almost no rest. He first had a brief meeting with two bigwigs from Zhejiang Province.

Now Liu Zhou is the richest man in mainland China and is fully qualified to be the guest of honor of bigwigs from various provinces, not to mention that he came to Zhejiang Province with huge investments.

In the afternoon, Liu Zhou and Zhang Zhao attended the Jiahe Film and Television Industry Base Plan Presentation Meeting organized by Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou City.

Zhang Zhao introduced the business model and investment scale of the plan to leaders at two levels.

The entire film and television base is planned to cover 30 square kilometers, but only a part of the entire plan was launched this time, covering an area of ​​20 square kilometers.

Originally, Liu Zhou had not planned to do something on such a large scale, he just wanted to build a film and television industry base.

But the policy offered by Hangzhou City was too good. Not only was the land price cheap, but they also provided a 1 billion yuan, three-year interest-free loan.

Considering the current prosperity of Golden Harvest, the goal of breaking through 100 billion in market value is not so far-fetched.

Therefore, after discussion, Liu Zhou and the senior management of Jiahe decided to expand the project. In addition to the Jiahe Film and Television Industrial Park, the Jiahe Theme Park was also launched.

In Hangzhou, a central city in the east, there is no need to worry about the flow of visitors, as theme parks are still quite promising.

But 30 square kilometers is too large an area, and it requires approval from the capital, which may not be approved.

Therefore, Jiahe and Hangzhou City discussed and decided to apply for two projects, one is a film and television base, and the other is a theme park.

However, due to the trend of building theme parks in China in recent years, it was found that most investment companies acquired land at low prices in the name of theme parks.

Then the local authorities were required to approve relevant residential and commercial properties in the surrounding area as additional compensation, so the approval of the theme park was slowed down.

Therefore, after the approval report of Jiahe Theme Park was submitted, there has been no movement until now and it has been treated coldly.

However, the application for the film and television industry base went exceptionally smoothly and was approved soon.

This is also a coincidence. After issuing the "Guiding Opinions" at the end of last year, the government issued the "Cultural Industry Revitalization Plan" in January this year, raising the development of cultural industries to the level of national strategy.

One of them is to accelerate the construction of cultural industry parks and bases, build a number of regional cultural product logistics centers that radiate across the country, build a number of industrial demonstration bases such as cultural creativity, film and television production, performing arts and entertainment, and animation, and support and accelerate the development of cultural industry clusters with regional and ethnic characteristics.

Jiahe's film and television industry base just meets the requirements of the authorities to speed up the construction of cultural industry parks and build a number of demonstration bases for cultural industries.

This was simply a model project that just happened to fall into the hands of the higher-ups, so they approved it without a second thought.

(End of this chapter)