There was a moment of stalemate.
The young man who had just come out of the meeting room was also very embarrassed, and apologized to them: "Sorry, this is a mistake in our time planning, you see, who is inconvenient to move the time back..."
"I'll have an announcement later." Wu Yuxin shook the stack of papers in his hand and said flatly, "It's not very convenient."
Xia Rong turned sideways and asked Shuyi in a low voice: "Can I push my announcement tonight?"
Shu Yi also lowered her voice and frowned: "You let him, and he doesn't accept your favor..."
"No, I can still read the script for a while..."
Xia Rong was discussing with Shu Yi in a low voice, but another person strode out of the conference room and asked with a displeased face, "The next actor hasn't come yet?"
It turned out that Director Xu Ping was in a hurry and walked out from inside. He has a square face, big eyes, a broad nose, and an upright appearance. In his early years, he took part in many films by himself. In his middle age, he also belongs to the more handsome category of uncles. Even if Shuyi didn't need to remind him in advance, he could see how much he valued the concept of time just by looking at his dark face now.
"No, no, it's coming." The young man who came out earlier quickly explained, "There was a mistake in our time planning, and we notified the wrong time to the actor, and it turned out that two people came..."
"Oh, that's our responsibility." Xu Ping's face paled, but he was quick to admit his mistakes. His extremely oppressive eyes swept Xia Rong and Wu Yuxin's faces, and asked, "Are you two here for the audition?"
"Yes." Facing Xu Ping, Wu Yuxin restrained her attitude a lot, and her tone of answer was actually very modest, "Hello, Director Xu."
Xia Rong also nodded seriously.
Xu Ping waved his hand: "Since it's our problem, let's come in together, try it out as soon as possible, and I won't waste your time, okay?"
"You can't say that, in order to perform the characters more comprehensively, the time spent is not considered a waste..." Wu Yuxin seemed to have forgotten that he just said "an announcement will be made later", and followed behind repeatedly showing his love for acting .
Xu Ping didn't answer his words, striding back to the back of the conference table, pulled out the chair, and sat down again.
The meeting room was very large. Except for a long table, all the extra tables and chairs were pushed aside, leaving a large area in the middle to provide performance space for the actors who came to audition.
Behind the long table, sitting in the middle is the chief director Xu Ping, and next to him should be screenwriter Xiang Wenbin. Sure enough, as Shu Yi said, compared to Xu Ping, Xiang Wenbin seemed much more amiable. When he made eye contact with Xia Rong, he smiled and nodded at him.
There were a few people sitting on either side of them. Some of them looked familiar to Xia Rong, but he couldn't recognize their names, while others were completely unfamiliar—after all, the distance between him and the film industry was still too far.
Someone walked over to adjust the cameras in the arena, and gestured to Xu Ping: "It's time to start."
"Hmm." Xu Ping asked in a deep voice, "Which of you two arrived first?"
"Director Xu, it's me." Wu Yuxin smiled slightly, stepped forward and said.
"Then you start first." Xu Ping nodded slightly at him, lowered his head and opened the script, "Scene one."
Hearing this, Wu Yuxin put the script phone in her hand aside, stood back on the stage, and introduced herself loudly: "Hi Director Xu, screenwriter Xiang, I'm Wu Yuxin, and the role I'm auditioning for today is Fu Lin."
In "Infernal Edge", Fu Lin's identity is a policeman. Xia Rong has read both the novel and the script, and knows that no matter in the novel or in the script, the story is told from the perspective of another protagonist—that is, "Zhu Xiaofei" played by Su Chi.
But this does not mean that Fu Lin's image is weak.
Ten years ago, when he just graduated from the police academy, he became an undercover agent for the underworld. His undercover job is not the traditional younger brother who works hard for the mafia boss, but the tutor of Tan Xiaoxiao, the daughter of the mafia boss, a gentle, handsome, and even a little young college student.
Tan Xiaoxiao was only 16 years old ten years ago. She was crazily fascinated by this tutor and desperately wanted to fall in love with him, but three months later, she waited for the bad news that her father had been imprisoned.
Ten years later, the underworld boss Tan Feng was released from prison with a reduced sentence. Fu Lin, who has become an excellent criminal policeman, has not given up on investigating an unsolved case many years ago. Kidnapping, with extremely complicated feelings and desires, the confrontation between the two began...
There are three scenes in the trial script, a tutor scene ten years ago, a confrontation scene when Tan Feng was arrested, and a kidnapped scene by Zhu Xiaofei. The time span is huge, and the contrast between the characters before and after is also extremely Obviously, it can be said to be quite difficult.
Xiao Zhou was at the side just now, and saw Wu Yuxin's attitude towards Xia Rong. Seeing that he was about to start acting now, he felt aggrieved, and whispered to Shu Yi next to him: "It seems that he can act like a flower." …”
Shu Yi's face was tense, her eyes were staring at the center of the field without blinking, she didn't speak, Xiao Zhou knew that she was in a state of high tension, she paused, she turned her head involuntarily, and fixed her eyes on Wu Yuxin body.
Unexpectedly, this young man who was arrogant and disdainful before, suddenly had a sudden change in his temperament - he softened his brows and eyes, and the original melancholy between his brows was swept away, and he naturally showed a gentle smile, with a conniving tone And helpless: "Didn't I explain this question the last time I came here? What, have you forgotten?"
He rubbed the center of his brows, with a kind of youthful trouble unique to fledgling college students: "...What can I do? Let me tell you again, smile, it's not me, your memory..."
"Oh, don't make trouble." There was nothing in front of him, but Wu Yuxin seemed to be knocked down by something, her face was reddish, and she gasped, "Is your father coming home soon? Let him It's not good to see... "
Panting for a moment, he turned his face and said softly, seemingly casually: "Xiaoxiao, what does your dad do? The time to go home is so unstable..."
"Stop—" Xu Ping raised his hand and said in a deep voice, "Next game."
Xu Ping was still stern, unable to see his expression, and Xiang Wenbin next to him was still smiling, not saying a word. The composure of the "judges" made Xiao Zhou's heart pound even more. She whispered to Shu Yi, "Sister Yi, he..."
Shu Yi turned her head and briefly exchanged glances with her, both of their hearts sank—
Obviously, both of them have realized that this opponent is more threatening than imagined.
Shu Yi quickly turned her gaze back to the field, and said in a low voice: "Look, the next game is about to begin."
One second, Wu Yuxin was a gentle and young tutor of a college student. In the next second, his demeanor changed suddenly: his back was straight, his eyes were sharp, and he seemed to be a calm and calculating police officer. It seemed to be on him in an instant.
He stood upright on the spot, speechless, but his eyes were not empty, he stared sharply and focused ahead, as if someone was really passing by in front of him.
"...I didn't expect it to be me?" He seemed to have heard someone's question, smirked slightly, and said condescendingly, "Tan Feng, from the day you walked on this road, you should have thought that today will come. As for that person It's not me, it doesn't matter."
"... Xiaoxiao?" He seemed to be hit by someone again, and he was knocked back again and again. Wu Yuxin stared down at the "person" in front of him, and said calmly: "... sorry. But this is my duty, I am a policeman. "
"Stop—" Xu Ping yelled to stop again, nodded at him and said, "The last match."
Xu Ping's nod made a smug smile appear on the corners of Wu Yuxin's lips, and it also made Shu Yi and Xiao Zhou's hearts drop again.
It also hardly required any transition time. When Wu Yuxin opened his eyes, the aura on his body had changed again—from a fledgling police officer to an experienced and calm criminal policeman.
He fell to the ground without hesitation, with his hands behind his back and his legs tightly together, as if they were being bound firmly. He seemed to be heavily restrained by someone, his face was flushed, and he was panting violently, but his eyes were still calm and sharp: "...you, who are you?"
After "listening" to the other person's answer, he was slightly taken aback, and immediately reacted: "Xiaoxiao? You said you are Tan Xiaoxiao's boyfriend?"
"I..." he sighed softly, and said straightly, "I did owe her something, but her father didn't wrong me, I just exercised my responsibility... Cough, cough cough..."
He coughed with an extremely painful face, as if someone had suddenly strangled his throat, his hands twisted and struggled violently behind his back, and his legs kicked realistically and wildly, as if he was doing his best to fight the person in front of him.
Even Xiao Zhou couldn't help holding his breath, staring blankly at Wu Yuxin's performance, and murmured: "Isn't there really an air man acting for him..."
The answer is of course no. Wu Yuxin struggled for a long time, seeing that he was in the convulsions of dying, suddenly his eyes lit up, and hissed: "Xiaoxiao... Xiaoxiao...!"
"Stop!" At the same time as he shouted to stop, Xu Ping also dropped the pen in his hand, turned his head and had a brief conversation with Xiang Wenbin, and said to Wu Yuxin, "We will notify you of the audition results when we get back, you have worked hard. "
Xu Ping was always expressionless, but his tone was obviously much gentler than when he first entered the door.
Wu Yuxin quickly got up from the ground, smiled and wiped the sweat from his forehead, bowed and said, "Thank you director and screenwriter, it's not hard work."
"Well, then you can..." Xu Ping nodded to him, indicating that he could leave.
"I want to stay here and watch my opponent's performance, is that okay?" Wu Yuxin interrupted aloud, and smiled a little embarrassedly, "He has already seen mine, and I want to see his too... Haha .”
"Hehe." The director also laughed and said, "We have no problem, just ask Xia Rong. Xia Rong. Xia Rong?"
It wasn't until Shu Yi elbowed him that Xia Rong suddenly came back to his senses, raised his head and responded, "Hmm...? Hmm!"
His dazed look made Wu Yuxin sneer, and Xu Ping had to repeat: "Wu Yuxin said he wanted to stay and watch your performance, do you mind?"
Xia Rong said without any hesitation, "Yes, no problem. Can I play now?"
"Well, come on." Xu Ping picked up the pen again, tapped the paper repeatedly, and as Xia Rong walked to the center of the field and stood still, the eyes of the audience were all focused on him.
In the first scene, a gentle and young tutor.
The temperament of Xia Rong's body also changed rapidly, with a soft smile on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, and he said helplessly: "This question, when I came last time..."
"...Xiao Zhou." Shu Yi slightly turned his body, his voice tense, "... What do you think of him?"
"Very, very good, right...?" Xiao Zhou stammered, "Aren't you on the same level as Wu Yuxin?"
"..." Shu Yi turned around and sighed silently, "Xia Rong has already acted very well, at least compared to his previous idol dramas... But his opponent is Wu Yuxin. He is too proficient, compared to this, Xia Rong is still a bit green... "
"Ah, ah? What should I do then?" Xiao Zhou asked nervously, "Is the boss going to lose? No, no, sister Yi, look, he and Wu Yuxin's acting is still different...!"
Hearing this, Shu Yi once again fixed her eyes on Xia Rong.
At the beginning, I only noticed his youthfulness, but the more I watched, the more I could find the difference in his performance—unlike Wu Yuxin who deliberately wiped away the melancholy between his brows, Xia Rong's originally bright face was instead covered There was a trace of melancholy, which made him hesitate and struggle when he was playing with Tan Xiaoxiao and inquiring about her father's work.
"Stop—" also called stop neatly, Xu Ping said, "Next game."
"...I didn't expect it to be me?" After successfully arresting Tan Feng, Officer Fu Lin's eyes were less happy and cold, and more complicated and heavy: "...It doesn't matter whether that person is me."
"...Smile?" Being bumped into the same person, Xia Rong tensed his body this time, restraining himself to take only half a step back, with guilt and reluctance in his eyes, "... sorry . But it's my job..." He let out a deep breath, "I'm the police. "
…
"...stop." This time the call to stop seemed not as sharp and decisive as usual, Xu Ping looked at Xia Rong thoughtfully, and said after a while, "Next game."
"...you, who are you?" After asking this sentence hissingly, Fu Lin, who got the answer from the other party, was suddenly stunned, and it took a long time before he almost murmured, with a trembling voice: "Smile?! You said you are Tan Xiaoxiao's boyfriend?!"
There was a deep sadness and sadness in his eyes, and he said in a low voice: "I do owe her, but her father is not wronged..." His tone, rather than convincing Zhu Xiaofei, he was convincing himself , "I just exercised my responsibility... Cough, cough cough...!"
After being strangled by the other party and forced to cough violently for a while, he seemed to think of struggling, suffering, and silently wrestling with Zhu Xiaofei.
Seeing that his eyes were rolling white and he was on the verge of death, suddenly there seemed to be some sound or someone came in, which made the force of "Zhu Xiaofei"'s grip loosen, Fu Lin turned his head and fixed his gaze on the "person" above him. , showing a sad and crazy smile: ""Xiaoxiao...? Smile...! "
For a moment, he seemed to be relieved, but also seemed to fall into the abyss of the most complete despair.
…
After Xia Rong's performance ended, Xu Ping and Xiang Wenbin kept talking in low voices. They didn't say "Go back and wait for news" or "Thanks for your hard work." Nervous, the palms of the hands are densely covered with cold sweat.
"Xia Rong, right?" Unexpectedly, the one who spoke this time was Xiang Wenbin who was always sitting beside him, just smiling without saying a word, who existed like a lucky cat mascot. He still looked at Xia Rong with a slight smile, and asked, "Can you tell me why you act like this?"
Xiao Zhou was a little at a loss: "Uh, why did the boss act..."
Shu Yi patted the back of her hand: "Listen to what Xia Rong has to say."
"... I think." Xia Rong wiped away the tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, took a deep breath, looked up and said, "I think, although it is not written in the script, Fu Lin should love Tan Xiaoxiao. This is a need The whole process is hidden, but extremely important premise, with this premise, the character of Fu Lin is complete."
"Oh?" Xiang Wenbin said with a half-smile, "it wasn't written in the script, how do you know that Fu Lin loves Tan Xiaoxiao? As far as I know, even the complete script and novel didn't mention this, right?"
"It's not written in the script." Xia Rong said, "But if you have read the novel, you will find that many contradictions and struggles in Fu Lin's thought and behavior are based on this hidden condition. With this premise, Fu Lin For example, why did he deliberately evade and conceal for him when he discovered that all the clues of the case pointed to Zhu Xiaofei? Why did he not hesitate to suspend his job to let him live when he was arresting Zhu Xiaofei? ?Why did Zhu Xiaofei willingly take care of the amnesiac Tan Xiaoxiao for the rest of his life after Zhu Xiaofei died? Many of Fu Rin's behaviors are abnormal at first glance. We must find the reason for his abnormality in order to make his image truly complete Stand up."
"He loves Tan Xiaoxiao, and I think that's why."
Xiang Wenbin looked at him, with a smile still on his face, as if he was thinking, but also seemed to think that what he said was interesting: "Go on."
"Although I know this, Fu Lin's love is extremely forbearing and restrained. Unless someone cuts his brain open, he will never reveal this secret to anyone in his life. I think this is also the author and screenwriter of the novel, They coincidentally did not reveal the reasons for his feelings." Xia Rong continued, "He has his own responsibilities, but he also hopes that Tan Xiaoxiao can be happy, even if this happiness is not given by him."
Xiang Wenbin said: "Can you tell me more about your overall opinion on Fu Lin?"
"Sharpness is his sharpness." Xia Rong replied, "Fu Lin loves Tan to smile, but he has never shown the slightest bit. He has also experienced weakness, evasion, and fear, but after experiencing conspiracy, blood, and painful struggles, In the end, he still did not give up the pursuit of truth and justice... Although both the novel and the movie are narrated from Zhu Xiaofei's point of view, I think Fu Lin is the one in the title who really sharpened his edge from the endless hell .”
"En." This time it was Xu Ping who had been silent for a long time, his face was still stern, and he couldn't see the specific thoughts, "That's it, I won't waste your time, Xia Rong, you go back and prepare Let's go. Xiao Li, go and inform the rest of the actors who haven't auditioned that they don't have to come."
"What?!" Wu Yuxin almost lost his composure and stood up directly from the chair-this is equivalent to saying that Xia Rong was directly ordered on the spot! Because he was too excited, his face was slightly distorted: "Director Xu, screenwriter Xiang, this is not in compliance with the rules!"
"My crew, I am the rule." Xu Ping said flatly, "Mr. Wu, I heard that you have an announcement later, so we won't waste your time. I hope your work goes well."
"..." Wu Yuxin blushed, and it took a while to force out a few words, "... I see, Director Xu, we'll see later."
He waved his hand and walked briskly away.
Xia Rong froze for a while, then bowed to them belatedly: "Thank you director, thank you screenwriter, then I will..."
"Don't rush away yet." Xiang Wenbin smiled, "Come here and say a few more words."
"Oh, oh..." Xia Rong stepped forward in a daze, but he really didn't expect it to be so smooth.
"What do you think of Wu Yuxin's performance?" Xiang Wenbin asked softly, "It's okay, let's just make it a routine, and you can say whatever you want."
"He acted very well...better than me." Xia Rong paused and added, "Technically."
"Well, indeed." Xiang Wenbin nodded, "You also know this. Then, in what do you think you are better than him, let us choose you?"
"...Maybe, it's a bit of a routine?" Xia Rong hesitated, "I've seen two of his films, when he was playing a tutor, it was a bit like one of them... when he was playing a police officer, he watched it with me again The other one I've seen was a bit like…”
"It's a common problem of old actors." Xu Ping, who has been silent all this time, said in a deep voice, "I've acted a lot, and I've figured out my own routine. Playing a teacher is like a teacher who has played before, and playing a policeman is like a policeman who has played before. Clever, easy, but actually lazy. The acting skills are pretty good at first glance, but what the audience sees is always a few character templates."
"Without you, there's nothing wrong with choosing a template with no merit or fault." Xiang Wenbin said with a smile, "However, in our place, actors with decent acting skills are already relatively easy to find. What's really hard to find is actors who are willing to think for themselves." Actors—you surprised us."
The word "surprise" flattered Xia Rong a little. He scratched his head and said, "Actually, I'm cheating too. I read the original book in advance..."
"Let's not say that there are too many people behind our backs." Xiang Wenbin smiled, "But if I don't want you to read the original work, I will put the words 'adapted from the novel of the same name "Infernal Edge"' on the trial script, Why print it so big?"
Xia Rong couldn't help laughing at Xiang Wenbin's words.
"Xia Rong, Su Chi has mentioned you to us many times." Xu Ping said suddenly, "Remind us to be sure to take you seriously."
"… what."
"Looking at it now, it's really the same as what he said." Xu Ping looked up at him, and smiled for the first time, "...The acting is indeed a little immature, but it's true, it's so interesting."