The list sent by Shen Qing included three candidate directors, along with links to their works.
But as Shen Qing himself said, these directors are not very successful.
The first director started out shooting commercials and usually shot music videos for the company’s singers;
The second director had made a TV series before, but the ratings were average;
The third director is the only one who did not graduate from a professional school and became a director partway through his career, but he has experience in shooting a micro-film.
Lin Yuan took a quick look at the works of the three people.
Finally he circled the name of the third director:
Easy to succeed.
Of course, the director was not chosen because of his auspicious name.
The main reason is that the micro-film shot by the other party is quite funny. It is more like a collection of jokes than a micro-film. A bunch of jokes are used to piece together the scattered micro-film plot.
At least it's related to comedy.
Although his micro-films are made up of jokes, so that the plots are scattered and lack coherence, but at least he has restored the fun of these jokes very well, which shows that there is no big problem with his execution.
"No, change it."
Based on this principle, Lin Yuan began to select actors again.
Compared with the director's alternatives, Lin Yuan has quite a lot of actors to choose from.
But there really aren’t any big names here. They are either newcomers who have just entered the film and television industry, or they are 18th-tier actors who have been in the crew for many years but are still unknown...
Start with the image.
This requirement alone is enough for Lin Yuan to eliminate a group of people. After all, each character in "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" has his or her own characteristics.
For example, Ruhua.
For example, Sister Pomegranate.
Lin Yuan, who had a good image, was circled first.
After busying myself for a while, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
"Representative Lin."
The knocker comes in.
Lin Yuan looked up and saw that it was Gu Dong: "You didn't go back to Qi Province?"
"I want to stay at headquarters."
Gu Dong said nervously, "The headquarters intends to arrange for me to be Representative Lin's assistant, but they say that Representative Lin must give his personal approval."
"no problem."
Lin Yuan had a pretty good impression of Gu Dong.
Gu Dong was a little surprised and said: "I will definitely work hard!"
The branch office is definitely not as good as the head office, but at the head office I can be an assistant to Representative Lin, which is much better than working in the branch office!
So Gu Dong really wanted to get this job opportunity.
But she was not sure whether Lin Yuan was satisfied with her.
Now that she had Lin Yuan's approval, she felt relieved.
Lin Yuan took out the list he had circled and said, "Contact the butler and ask him to arrange a time for the audition."
“You really want to make a movie?”
Gu Dong was a little surprised. Before she arrived here, she had heard some rumors that Representative Lin wanted to make a movie for fun.
The word "play" is very intriguing and represents the views of many people on this matter.
"Um."
"Okay, I'll contact him right away, but who is the housekeeper?"
"Shen Qing, he is the producer of the film "Flirting Scholar"."
Gu Dong nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
She would not stop Lin Yuan, because the cooperation experience in the branch office made Gu Dong understand that it would be useless for anyone to persuade Representative Lin to do what he wanted to do.
She just needs to do her assistant job.
At this time, Gu Dong has completely put himself in the position of Representative Lin's assistant, and as an assistant, he only needs to do what Representative Lin requires.
You shouldn't even ask about that sentence just now...
Gu Dong summed up his verbal mistake in his mind and decided not to make it again.
…
The news that Lin Yuan was going to make a movie had indeed spread around the company, but no one commented on the fact itself.
Everyone was just expressing their admiration for the company's regard for Lin Yuan. The company did not even obstruct Lin Yuan's almost mischievous interests.
This incident simply made the people in the company realize that Representative Lin’s position in the company is higher than many people imagined.
But that's all.
Now that the company is facing a critical period of transformation, everyone is more concerned about whether the movie "Thunderstorm" can become a hit, thus allowing the company's transformation to get off to a successful start.
In contrast, after a few gossips about Lin Yuan's plan to make a movie, no one was interested in it anymore.
Lin Yuan naturally wouldn't care about other people's opinions.
The day before the audition, he met the director he had initially chosen.
Easy to succeed.
Yi Chenggong is a veritable young director.
What these young directors treasure most is the opportunity to shoot, and they will never do anything like being picky about the script!
After receiving the script of "Flirting Scholar", he read the content in detail that night and clearly understood his position -
Tool man!
How this movie should be shot and how the shots should be handled, Representative Lin has already decided in the script!
He only needs to be responsible for the execution and help manage the crew.
But unlike producer Shen Qing, Yi Chenggong fell in love with the script of "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" at first sight!
So the first thing he said after seeing Lin Yuan was:
"Representative Lin, this script is brilliant!"
Lin Yuan suddenly felt like he had found a close friend.
Shen Qing is the second person after Lao Zhou to affirm the quality of the script of "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Fragrance".
And unlike Lao Zhou, who is an irrelevant person, Yi Chenggong is the director of this play!
At this moment, Lin Yuan realized that this director might not need to be replaced.
Yi Chenggong was a bit fat, and was only about 1.7 meters tall. He wore a pair of myopic glasses on his nose, and his little mouth was eloquent:
"The script of this movie is a bit Qizhou... now it should be called Qi Province. They had a movie called "I'm a Master" in the early years. That movie also took this kind of exaggerated style route. Unfortunately, I think it was a bit restrained in some places. The actors didn't seem to be relaxed enough, and some jokes were not bold enough, so the box office of that movie was not high. After that, few people tried this type of movie..."
Lin Yuan nodded repeatedly.
Blue Star does have nonsensical movies, but they can only be said to be the prototype of nonsensical movies. In comparison, "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Fragrance" takes the nonsensical style to the extreme.
“When do casting auditions start?”
"tomorrow."
"Then we have to choose actors carefully. Supporting roles are fine, we mainly need to work on their image. But the male lead is a little difficult to choose, because all the laughs in this drama are concentrated on the male lead..."
Lin Yuan increasingly felt that Yi Chenggong understood very well.
Because Yi Chenggong and Lin Yuan have exactly the same ideas.
This made Lin Yuan look forward to it: "Do you have a suitable candidate for the male lead?"
Yi Chenggong pondered for a moment and said, "There is indeed a candidate, but this person is just a minor actor and can't support the box office..."
"It doesn't matter."
How many big-name actors started out as extras? If you don’t give them opportunities, how do you know they’ll be extras their whole lives
"You don't care about the fame of the leading actor?"
Yi Chenggong thought that Lin Yuan would at least choose an actor familiar to the audience as the leading male role.
"Um."
Lin Yuan gave an affirmative answer.
Yi Chenggong smiled: "Then the person I recommend should not disappoint Representative Lin..."