a few days later.
"Dad, what did you say?" Chen Shuanghe frowned, "The role of Qu Ling is given to Li Yu, not Ning Ning, why?"
I didn't say the last sentence... Has your brain disability committed again
Chen Guanchao took a sip of coffee: "I have another role for her."
Chen Shuanghe looked down and widened his eyes in surprise: "Dad, do you want to remake this drama?"
"Yes." Chen Guanchao put the coffee cup on the glass coffee table in front of him. Beside the cup was an outdated script. He looked at the script and said, "I want her to play Phantom!"
The cover of the script, four characters - The Phantom of the Theater.
Chen Shuanghe felt a suffocation in his heart. Although it is also a Chen Guanchao play, "Ugly Girl" and "Phantom of the Theater" have completely different statuses. If I have to say, "Ugly Girl" is a popcorn movie. The plot is easy and simple, and there are no characters. What difficulty, mainly for this year's Valentine's Day.
But "The Phantom of the Theater" is different, completely different...
"Just because of her audition?" At first, Chen Guanchao was fighting for Ningning's injustice, but now he is a little bit angry, "I admit, her performance in the audition was really good, but who can prove that it was not a flash in the pan? What's more, the role of Phantom is very complicated, much more complicated than Qu Ling, I don't think she can play it well!"
"In the beginning, I also looked at Ning Yuren this way." Chen Guanchao said.
Chen Shuanghe suddenly got stuck.
"The biggest failure in my life is the Phantom of the Theater." Chen Guanchao reached out and stroked the old cover, and said slowly, "The biggest mistake was to drive Ning Yuren out of the crew. Now I want to make up for this mistake... I want to give Ning Ning has a chance to see if I am wrong again, and the world is wrong again, she is actually talented, the same talent as her mother... "
The fingers hanging beside him slowly pulled into fists, and Chen Shuanghe said to him in his heart: Why do you always keep your eyes on them and refuse to see your real wife and your real children
"... Then, I'm going to resign from "Ugly Girl"." Finally, Chen Shuanghe said coldly, "If she is the Phantom, then give me the position of the male lead, and I will play Lu Yunhe!"
Their argument, Ning Ning did not know. Chen Shuanghe has his pain, and she has hers.
The water in the sink was rushing, Ning Ning stood in front of the mirror, but Qu Ning'er's face was reflected in the mirror, looking at her coldly through the mirror, Ning Ning closed her eyes, opened them again, She was still herself in the mirror.
When she saw this scene at first, she was so frightened that she fell to the ground. After a long time and many times, her reaction was not so great. Maybe like a singing dog, when Qu Ning'er was burned to ashes, it stuck to her body. When the anger and resentment that belonged to Qu Ning'er grew in her, she was no longer a human being, but a monster.
There was a knock on the door behind him, Ning Ning turned off the faucet and shouted, "Come on."
Opening the door, Cui Hongmei wore a newly bought mink coat and said arrogantly, "Why so late."
She was about to go inside, but Ning Ning raised her hand and pushed her out.
Cui Hongmei took a few steps back and looked at Ning Ning in surprise: "What are you doing?"
"This is my home, and you are not welcome in my home." Ningning said coldly.
Cui Hongmei stared at her for a moment, then suddenly took out her phone and pointed it at her, sneering: "Come on, let your fans see how you treated your grandmother, beat me, scold me, and repeat what you just said. Once again, let everyone know how unfilial you are!"
Ning Ning's breath was cold. She felt a hand, one belonging to Qu Ning'er, stretched out from behind, controlled her right hand, grabbed her grandmother's cell phone, and turned it towards her, using A childlike innocent and cruel smile said: "Come on, I also think it's time for everyone to see what kind of person you are, beat me, scold me, tell everyone what kind of contract you want me to sign. Shit contract, tell everyone how you swept away your daughter's many years of savings and didn't even leave her money for treatment!"
This is what Ning Ning is most worried about.
Ning Yuren spends a lot of money every year. If she is acting, then this is a normal expense. The strange thing is that she still maintains this kind of expense every year after she quits filming, until she is sick and admitted to the hospital, when she needs to spend the most money. When the time came, Ning Ning was surprised to find that she had no money in her account! Asked her, she smiled without saying a word, where did she spend the money? to whom? After thinking about it, Ning Ning could only think of her grandmother.
"What nonsense are you talking about!" But Cui Hongmei screamed at her angrily, "Didn't she give you all her money?"
After all, she was old. After screaming, she coughed twice, pressed her chest for a long time and panted for a long time, and then said to Ningning with gnashing teeth: "She is like this, so are you. She used to listen to me very much, and suddenly one day Don't listen to me anymore, since when..."
She was silent for a moment, and then slowly spit out the name of a film: "Yes, everything started from "The Phantom of the Theater"..."
After speaking, she suddenly understood something and looked at Ning Ning with a very complicated look, envy, loss, pain, regret, disgust... At last she laughed, with a very weird smile: "I know her money is spent where is it?"
"That's it." A man's voice suddenly inserted between the two.
Ning Ning looked around and saw that her agent, Li Boyue, was here.
He was a handsome, handsome man in a suit. I am afraid that there is no man in this world who is more suitable to wear a suit than him. Ning Ning even thought that he was born in a suit at all! Moreover, he walks vigorously, his smile is upright and decent, and his enthusiasm for speaking is contagious and provocative... He shouldn't be in the entertainment industry, he should go to the election!
Li Boyue stopped in front of Ning Ning, and gestured gracefully to Cui Hongmei: "Please leave, or I will call the security guard."
This time, Cui Hongmei didn't mess around anymore, she glanced at Ning Ning again, and left with a weird smile. Ning Ning ignored her and didn't believe what she just said. She brought Li Boyue back home. The moment Li Boyue walked in, she shuddered: "Why is it so cold? You didn't turn on the heating?"
It was already the coldest time of the year, and the treetops were covered with ice, but there was no heating in the room, and it was as cold as a mausoleum.
Ning Ning walked into the kitchen silently, poured a glass of water for the two of them, took a glass and sat on the sofa and drank it, Li Boyue looked at the cold water without a trace of heat in front of her, and looked up at her: "What the hell is wrong with you? ?"
"I think I'm still Qu..." Ning Ning swallowed the three words Qu Ning'er and changed her name to another name, "Qu Ling."
"You haven't come out yet?" Li Boyue asked.
At that moment, Ning Ning wanted to talk to him very much, telling him that he could see another person in the mirror every day. , but Li Boyue didn't have the time or patience. He took out his mobile phone and made a call. After hanging up, he said to her: "I made an appointment with a psychiatrist for you. This weekend at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I will send you the address and name later. , now we're talking about work."
Ning Ning was leaning over to look at him. After hearing this, she slowly leaned back on the sofa, raised her hand, and forced a smile: "You say it."
Li Boyue opened her briefcase and threw her a bunch of scripts. Before she could read it, she crossed her hands in front of her lips and smiled: "Do you want to hear my opinion?"
Ning Ning maintained the action of opening the first script: "...you said."
Li Boyue stretched out her hand and took back all the scripts she just gave her, as if it was just a cutscene. He gave her the right to choose, but the final decision rests with him.
"You don't need to read these." He threw away the pile of scripts and said to Ning Ning with a smile, "Your performance in the audition has spread, and now the scripts handed to you are all the same character, evil girl. , ugly girl, bad girl, if you have to play a role like this, why not pick the best one?"
"What's the best option?" Ningning asked.
"It's it." Li Boyue pushed forward the book she had prepared, and pushed it from the end of the coffee table to Ning Ning.
Ningning picked up the script and read its name.
"The Phantom of the Theater."
In 1911, the French writer Gaston and Leroux published the novel "The Phantom of the Opera", which tells a magnificent and eerie thriller love story that took place in the Paris Opera House. A "ghost" living in the Opera House fell in love with The rookie actress Christine, not only taught her to sing secretly, but also committed many murders in order to help her get the position of the heroine.
This story was later adapted many times and achieved great success in musicals and movies. The young Chen Guanchao wrote his first play, "The Phantom of the Theater" based on this story, in order to cater to the domestic market and the domestic masses. , he made a bold adaptation of the original play, the stage was replaced by the Republic of China, the opera was replaced by a drama, and the biggest adaptation was that the phantom was a woman.
This is a story of a phantom who fell in love with a newcomer actor Lu Yunhe, not only secretly taught him to sing, but also committed many murders in order to help him get the position of the leading actor.
As the first film written and acted by a legendary director, the final result was unsatisfactory. Not only was the content of the adaptation criticized, but the performance of the two leading actors was even more criticized. Perhaps it was because the blow was too great, so Chen Guanchao has since then been criticized. After leaving the film industry, he made a comeback three years later, but at this time he no longer acted, but turned to be a director.
"I got the exact news that Director Chen plans to remake "The Phantom of the Theater"," Li Boyue leaned towards Ning Ning, his eyes burning with ambition, "There are three candidates for the Phantom, you are one of them, and the other two All of them are big names that make you tremble when you hear your name, but it doesn't matter, Director Chen likes you the most, and I will help you!"
Compared to his ambitiousness, Ning Ning had only one sentence in his heart, the one left by Cui Hongmei.
"Yeah, it all started with The Phantom of the Theater..."