Entertaining Children

  Chapter 799 Booting Conference

  After more than three months of preparation, the preparatory work for the first film directed by Ye Jiaying has been completed. On June 20th, Ye Jiaying and most of the main creators of the crew held the launch conference of the movie "127 Hours" in Yanjing.

  Many films have been promoted since the beginning of the project. Especially during the casting stage during the preparation period, there is a lot of news to choose actors, but Ye Jiaying’s film did not follow the routines of those films. Neither the formation of the crew nor the casting audition has ever released any news through the media, and all preliminary preparations are carried out out of the sight of the public. This press conference was held until all the preparations were completed and it was time to start shooting.

  Although there are a lot of actors acting and directing in recent years, there are still relatively few women among them. The transformation of actress Ye Jiaying as a director is still a very fascinating piece of news. There are a lot of media reporters here at the press conference.

At the press conference, Ye Jiaying, as the director and co-producer, gave a general introduction to the media reporters about the film’s genre, main story frame, and some work from the project to the preparatory stage. Of course, an introduction to the film was indispensable. Investors and creators.

  When Ye Jiaying introduced her first film as a biopic, the reporters below had some exclamations and quiet comments. Biographical films are a difficult type to shoot. Ye Jiaying's first film challenged biographical films, which was quite unexpected to reporters.

  When Ye Jiaying introduced that the actor who played the leading role in this movie was Xiao Yao, the following reporters talked more loudly. In fact, it should be natural for a mother to find her son to be the protagonist in her movie, but when she learned that Xiao Yao was the protagonist of the movie, the media reporters still had a lot of thoughts in their hearts.

  Through the introduction of the previous story, everyone knows that this movie about Zhan Youcheng's experience during the earthquake is a drama of a leading male protagonist, and it can even be regarded as a one-man show of the male protagonist. Xiao Yao is just a sophomore who has not graduated from the Department of Acting in Shenxi Opera. He has only played a supporting role in a TV series and a short film before, and it was six years ago and two years ago. Xiao Yao, who has never acted in a feature film before, has acted in such a one-man drama for the first time in a feature film. Can he support it?

  Since it is a press conference, of course, there is also a session for reporters to ask questions. After Ye Jiaying finished speaking, the host announced that the press conference had entered the questioning session for reporters, and the reporters below could not wait to raise their hands.

   "Director Ye, why did you choose Xiao Yao as the actor? Because he is your son?" A reporter who was called by the host stood up and asked Ye Jiaying. In fact, his original question was to ask Ye Jiaying why he chose to make a biopic, but after hearing Xiao Yao's name, he decided to ask Xiao Yao-related questions first.

"Can't I find my son to star in my own movie?" Ye Jiaying asked with a smile, and then replied, "Of course, he must be chosen not only because he is my son, but because he is suitable." "

"Which aspect is appropriate?" The reporter who asked the question seemed unsatisfied with Ye Jiaying's answer, and continued to ask, "Xiao Yao only played a supporting role in a TV series and a short film before, and it was from six years ago and two years ago. The thing is, I have never acted in a feature film before, let alone a leading actor. What makes you think he is suitable for such a leading actor's movie protagonist?"

"Of course the acting skills are appropriate and the ability is appropriate." Ye Jiaying said, "He is indeed the first time he has appeared in a feature film, but no one has stipulated that he must start with a supporting role in a movie, right? Since you mentioned that he had acted in the past. It’s the first time he has appeared in a TV series in "Ling Yun Zhi", and it is also the first time he has appeared in a short film in "The Tuner". Among them, "The Tuner" is still written and directed by himself. As the leading actor by himself, everyone knows how it turns out. Having not acted before is not a reason for judging that he can't play the leading role in a movie."

  Ye Jiaying's answer this time seemed unable to pick out any faults, and the reporter sat down a little unwillingly. The host picked another reporter to stand up and ask questions.

   "Director Ye, why didn't Xiao Yao attend today's press conference?" Another reporter who was called stood up and asked, "He seems to be the only creative person who is absent today."

  Ye Jiaying's answer just now couldn't find anything wrong, so many reporters wanted to ask Xiao Yao himself. However, the main creative team of this movie basically attended today’s press conference. Even the protagonist of the story, Zhan Youcheng, appeared on the scene of the conference, except that Xiao Yao, the very important actor in this movie, was absent. Up. Some reporters speculated that Ye Jiaying might not be as confident in Xiao Yao as she said. He did not want Xiao Yao to attend because he did not want him to face reporters' questions on the spot, so she asked why Xiao Yao was absent.

  "This week is the final exam week of Huaxia University." Ye Jiaying said, "Xiao Yao doesn't want to miss the final exam of this semester, so now others are in Shencheng, preparing for the final exam of Shenxi."

   "It takes about a week to finish all the subjects of the final exam, right? But this is the launch conference for you? You don't even have a male protagonist. How do you turn it on?" the reporter continued to ask.

"After today's launch conference, our crew will immediately go to Sichuan Province to shoot." Ye Jiaying returned, "Although Xiao Yao is the leading actor, he is not featured in all the scenes of the entire movie. This week we will We will shoot the scenes without Xiao Yao first. After Xiao Yao's final exams are over, he will go directly to Sichuan Province to join the crew. When he arrives, we will shoot the scenes with him."

"Wow~" After Ye Jiaying said this arrangement, the reporters below made some comments. A reporter stood up and asked, "Dao Ye, you are taking special care of your son! You postpone taking the exam for a week. Team, let the crew first film the scene without him, are you not afraid of people saying that Xiao Yao is playing a big name? With this arrangement, don’t the investors and the rest of the crew have any objection?”

"Let me answer this," a middle-aged man named Zhou Tianxiao who attended the press conference as an investor representative and one of the film producers voluntarily replied, "Let Xiao Yao take the final exam as scheduled. It was negotiated. When we first made the shooting plan, we planned not to shoot a scene with him a week before the start. There is no waste of manpower and material resources for him to temporarily adjust the shooting plan."

"In fact, as long as it doesn't affect the shooting schedule too much, the crew is convenient for the actors' personal affairs, and it is common to adjust the shooting plan temporarily." The producer continued, "Not to mention that Xiao Yao is still in our crew. We have already discussed with us during the preparatory stage, and it has no impact on the crew’s shooting progress, so we have absolutely no opinion on such an arrangement."

"If the actor is another actor, there may not be this problem." The reporter continued to ask Zhou Tianxiao, "Mr. Zhou, I would like to ask, the choice of Xiao Yao as the actor was decided by Ye Dao alone. , Or did you decide together?"

   "Of course, the director decides the actor in the end, but our investors also highly approve that Xiao Yao will play the leading role." Zhou Tianxiao replied.

This Zhou Tianxiao, a senior producer in the film and television industry, is old fritters, and has worked with Ye Jiaying many times before, and the relationship is very good. He will definitely not demolish Ye Jiaying’s station in front of reporters. Many reporters turned their attention to the scene again. Zhan Youcheng is the only one who is not a member of the film and television industry.

  "Mr. Zhan, are you satisfied with the arrangement of Dao Ye?" A reporter stood up and asked Zhan Youcheng.

"Professional people do professional things!" Zhan Youcheng's expression was a little nervous, but his voice was calm and replied, "Although it is the first time that Ye Dao has directed a movie, she has made many movies as an actor. On the one hand, I believe in Ye Dao very much, and of course I have no opinion on her arrangement."

  "Excuse me, how much is Mr. Zhan's participation in this movie? Do you just authorize your story to Director Ye?" the reporter continued to ask.

"No," Zhan Youcheng said, "Although I am not a professional, it is my story, so Dao Ye takes my opinion very seriously. During the preliminary preparations, Dao Ye invited me to participate in the writing of the script. When selecting actors Dao Ye invited me to audition for all actors except Xiao Yao. When the actors were finally decided, he also asked my opinion. During the filming, I will also appear on the scene as a special consultant to provide advice to Dao Ye."

   "Why are all actors except Xiao Yao auditioning?" A reporter keenly grasped a key point in Zhan Youcheng's words.

   "Because Xiao Yao is the only actor who decided not to pass the audition." Zhan Youcheng answered truthfully.

   "Why didn't Xiao Yao participate in the audition? Because he is the son of Ye Dao, has it been appointed by default?" the reporter asked with some excitement.

In fact, not every actor has to pass an audition when filming a movie. There are many cases where the director appointed an actor without passing the audition, but most of them are that the director is familiar with the actors, and the actors’ acting skills are recognized as solid. No one will question it.

But here, on the one hand, Xiao Yao’s age is relatively young, he has little experience, and Ye Jiaying is his mother. This kind of appointment would have attracted some discussion. On the other hand, as a biographical film of Zhan Youcheng, Xiao Yao played Zhan Youcheng again. Zhan has the most say in this role, but this role failed the audition. If Zhan Youcheng has some opinions about Xiao Yao's role as the actor, and if he has any dissatisfaction with Ye Jiaying's appointment of her son as the leading actor, there will be more room for reporters to play.

"Xiao Yao was indeed set by default, but it was not set by Director Ye, it was set by me!" Zhan Youcheng smiled, "When I talked to Director Ye about the right to adapt the story, the only condition I mentioned was that Xiao Yao must be the performer. Me. If she can't find Xiao Yao to play, then I won't give her the authorization."

   "Huh?" Many reporters were dumbfounded and asked one after another, "Why?"

"Because this movie mainly talks about my experience during the earthquake, and Xiao Yao is the only star who appeared on the scene of the disaster area during the earthquake rescue and participated in the field rescue. No, the actor!" Zhan Youcheng said, "I think Xiao Yao has personally experienced the tragic situation in the disaster area after the earthquake. He felt the deepest of all the actors and the actor who understood my mood best at the time, so I specified that he must act as me."

   "Damn, Xiao Yao still has this benefit when he goes to the disaster relief scene, so he was recognized as a role?" Many reporters murmured in their hearts.

"Although your reason sounds reasonable, as a person who is not a professional in film and television production, is it a bit too much for you to make such a request?" A reporter stood up and asked Zhan Youcheng, "You Is so confident in Xiao Yao? He is only twenty years old and has never made a feature film before!"

   "It was a bit taken for granted at the time." Zhan Youcheng smiled and nodded, "But now it seems that I should have made a very correct decision."

   "Very correct decision? Does it mean that Xiao Yao was appointed to perform?" the reporter continued to ask.

   "Yes!" Zhan Youcheng continued nodding.

   "Now the crew hasn't started shooting, let alone released. Box office and word of mouth are out of the question. Why do you think choosing Xiao Yao is a very correct decision now?" the reporter asked curiously.

"Because since March, Xiao Yao has come to my house every weekend to observe me, understand me, and even learn to imitate me, saying that it is to experience the role. The first weekend he came to experience the role, I was still While using crutches, he also got a pair of crutches, followed me with crutches and fell down the stairs.” Zhan Youcheng said, “Although I don’t know how to act, but seeing him do it, I’ll I think he will be able to act well, and this movie will definitely be a success."

   "Is there anything else?" Ye Jiaying looked at Zhan Youcheng in surprise.

  "Director Ye, don't you know about Xiao Yao's experience in the role?" a reporter asked Ye Jiaying.

   "No," Ye Jiaying shook her head, "I know about Xiao Yao looking for a successful character experience. He told me, but he never said that he fell down the stairs with crutches."

"Sure enough," Zhan Youcheng smiled. "Ye Dao is relieved, Xiao Yao is very good, and he just got a little bruise when he fell down the stairs. It's nothing big, so I won't say anything to worry you. Actually, Xiao Yao fell back and forth three times that day, and finally succeeded in walking up three flights of stairs with a cane and entering the fourth floor of my house."

"There is a saying in the Peking Opera industry that you can't live without madness, and our industry is actually the same." Ye Jiaying turned to the reporters below, "When Xiao Yao was filming "Ling Yun Zhi", everyone in the crew said that he He's crazy, in fact, he is experiencing the role. Now he walks up the stairs and fell back and forth three times in order to experience the role. Isn't that crazy enough? Do you still have any questions about us choosing Xiao Yao as the leading actor?"

  A group of reporters remembered the various behind-the-scenes highlights that were exposed in "Ling Yun Zhi" and the speeches of several winners of the "Flying Sky Award" that year when they received the award, and they couldn't help but look at each other.

At that time, Xiao Yao was young. Although it was indeed beyond everyone’s expectations and achieved extraordinary results, many people attributed it to Xiao Yao’s first play, with a young man’s playful mind. inside. If you are so crazy every time you make a movie, you can't stand it if you don't say that others can stand it. Later, there was no similar news when Xiao Yao made "The Tuner", and many people also concluded that Xiao Yao was really just "for fun."

  If Xiao Yao is so "crazy" in every play, who would doubt whether he can play the role well? But the question is, does Xiao Yao really do that in every play and every role? Although Zhan Youcheng is not in the film and television industry, he is also interested in this film. Could it be that he deliberately said that in order to flatter Xiao Yao?

Just when some people doubted whether what Zhan Youcheng said was real time, Zhan Youcheng spoke again: "Actually, even if this movie is not as successful as I expected, I will not suffer. In order to let me take him to climb the mountain, so that he can be better. A good experience role. He also specially took me to Germany and helped me order a high-tech prosthesis that can be used for outdoor sports. For this, I definitely made money. So I said, this is a very correct one. Decided."

  "Do you mean that Xiao Yao went to Germany to help you order a high-tech prosthesis for outdoor sports?" A reporter asked in surprise. At the beginning of the press conference, many reporters saw Zhan Youcheng walked in by himself without crutches. They had guessed that he was equipped with a prosthesis, but they did not expect that he was equipped with a high-tech prosthesis that can be used for outdoor sports. It was made by Xiao Yao for him.

"It's not that he went to Germany to order one for me, but he took me to Germany to order one." Zhan Youcheng corrected, "This kind of prosthesis requires me to go to a prosthetic company to do a series of tests before it can be done. That company Xiao Yao contacted me to book the prosthesis company, and he took me there. Xiao Yao arranged the itinerary all the way, and he even interpreted for me."

"By the way, thanks to him, I was fortunate enough to go to the VIP box of the Allianz Arena to watch the game once." Zhan Youcheng continued, "Everyone should remember that Xiao Yao was broadcast live at the Allianz Arena and rushed to the court in March. Give Yang Junyan a hat, right? He showed up in Germany at that time and took me to Germany to order a prosthesis. I was there at the time, but at that time my prosthesis was not ready and my legs and feet were not very convenient, so I stayed in the box. Inside, did not appear in the camera."

   "The time Xiao Yao appeared at the Allianz Arena in Germany to watch a game was to take you to Germany to order a prosthesis?" a reporter asked in surprise.

   "Yes!" Zhan Youcheng nodded, "Xiao Yao went to Germany because of me!"

  "Why did Xiao Yao appear in the VIP box at the Allianz Arena? Also, he visited the BMW Museum the day before and the Bayern headquarters the next day? Does he have any special relationship in Germany?" A reporter asked further.

“This is Xiao Yao’s privacy. I’m not convenient to say that you can ask Xiao Yao yourself, or talk about things related to the movie.” Zhan Youcheng turned the subject off, “Because I was climbing mountains and rock climbing and other outdoor sports in the early stage of the movie. The plot, so after the prosthesis was completed, Xiao Yao asked me to take him to outdoor sports such as mountain climbing. In the past few months, didn’t Xiao Yao occasionally broadcast live outdoors? The person who appeared in his live broadcasts from time to time was me. However, it seems that most of the netizens have not recognized me!"

  (End of this chapter)