Yang Can knows that the quality of the next movie is the key to his ability to turn defeat into victory. Although the opponent seems to have strangled all his retreats, he has huge intangible assets, that is, accumulated strength and contacts during this period.
This biographical film called "Dreams in Hollywood" requires a total of 103 actors. Yang Can immediately called George Clooney and Brad Pitt to contact them and hope that these two can appear in guest roles, and these two After a short hesitation on the other side of the phone, the top actor still agreed. Their answer was simple.
"Yang, remember, no matter how many shots and lines we have, I am a guest star and cannot charge you a penny, so we are not a contractual relationship, and there is no legal agreement..." Obviously these two people are both very serious. Smartly circumventing the restrictions imposed by the Actors Association, and at the same time taking care of the friendship with Yang Can. After all, Yang Can saved their lives in the fire before, and Yang Can naturally agreed with pleasure.
What made Yang Can even more surprised was the reaction of his Hollywood iron buddies and the cheating ear in the Big Bang Theory—Jim Parsons. The Emmy Award winner for Best Actor was learning that Yang Can was preparing for a new shoot. During the show, I called from Los Angeles at 2:30 in the morning and scolded the old stubborn heads of the Screenwriters Association for more than an hour.
"Yang, don’t worry~! No matter what you shoot, you must give me a role. I told my agent that there is no remuneration. You can use the free time for one and a half months. You need to know that I love you buddy. , No matter what difficulties you encounter, you can tell me! Buddy is on your side this time..."
Xie Er’s expression was extremely excited. Although his tone of voice seemed a bit funny, Yang Can still clearly felt his sincerity. The real actors are pure and innocent people. This point is the same in any country. Somewhat moved, I felt warm in my chest.
But what embarrass him is that there is really no suitable role for Jim Parsons to appear in this time. This Xie Er's sense of presence is too strong. His appearance will destroy the atmosphere of the movie, so he can only politely decline. Up.
In addition to the heroine Wu Ya, played by Yang Xiuya, and Lu Zibo, who plays the boss of the agency, the most important role in the scenes, there are also the most important villain Freemason "James" and the female agent who competes with the protagonist. Julia.
As well as several supporting roles throughout the series, Wall TV director Rodford, gagging Chinese assistant Bruce, and of course the mayor of Los Angeles Huang, and several stars in the fire.
If you change to someone else, under the premise that the Actors Guild has stated that it is unable to provide actors, I am afraid that you will be at a loss for a long time, but Yang Can is different, he has his own exclusive actor school! !
The role of Julia naturally fell on the head of the blonde beauty Christina, and the person who played Rodford, under the multi-measurement of Yang Can and the crew, got a new soap opera actor from Irvine College, forty-three-year-old Wei On the body.
The slightly fat white actor was originally a handsome boy, but his image has now been ruined due to overeating after marriage. The starring model of Jonathan Duncan of Gabon TV is very suitable.
As for the Chinese assistant who gags, Mai Weijian and Downing Dale feel that they are not suitable. They propose to change the role to black. The reason is simple. Generally speaking, blacks are more talented in comedy, and the Chinese are worse in this respect. some.
Yang Can just said indifferently, "I have a personal choice. You can take a look first. If you think it doesn't work, it's not too late to change to a black person." Soon after, I went to Irvine College and found the long-lost roommate Lucky in the gym.
This stinky and sweaty Beijing guy saw Yang Can jump up in excitement and almost kissed Yang Can in his arms: "My Boss Yang~! How long hasn't seen me? I want to kill me. "
When it was learned that Yang Can had provided him with an important role, the young man running the train in Le Kai was shocked for a long time without making a sound. He just nodded deeply and said no excitedly. Speak.
When Yang Can was filming the Conferred Gods list, he didn’t even give him the role of the best performer, and Le Kai didn’t mention it at the time. He thought that Yang Can had forgotten him as a revolutionary comrade, but he didn’t expect it to be this important now. For his role, there are still so many opportunities to play against Yang Xiuya.
Yang Can squeezed his trembling shoulders and said with a smile: "Go, let's go for an interview now, the director is still waiting for you."
"Now?" The extremely excited Le Kai immediately stunned, and squeezed his fists somewhat nervously: "I'm going to take a bath and change clothes."
Yang Can laughed directly: "No, it's in a good state now. What are you afraid of? I invest in this film and I will produce it. If you are afraid that the director will not use you, just say a few words casually."
When Le Kai heard that he was full of enthusiasm at the time, what else could he be afraid of with a buddy like Yang Can to help him courage! ! Dese Budi drove Yang Can's sports car, yelling excitedly all the way back to the crew for the interview.
This Chinese assistant, Bruce, originally wanted to have that gag style. It was written by Yang Can according to Le Kai, and Le Kai almost played himself.
The most important point of a cheerful role is silly and relaxed. A rigorous Chinese actor is not as talented as a black person. Fortunately, Yang Can found out that Lucky has this specialty, as long as he can express him. The usual humor of Beijingers will give you a special sense of comicality.
Sure enough, as soon as Lucky, whose hair was blowing wildly in the convertible, appeared in front of Mai Weijian and Tangning Dale when he was naked in his upper body, the two professionals made a certain decision at the same time. After entering the state for a long time, I said the Beijing accented English "Hello everyone, I'm here for an interview...".
The two interviewers finally couldn't help but smiled at each other, it was him! It was him that was written completely in the script, and he nodded to Yang Can with little discussion. Tangning Dale graciously praised Le Kai for “doing enough homework” and even the character’s accent was so vivid..
It made Lucky himself embarrassed. Yang Can sat next to him and smiled as if he had expected this result a long time ago. It is not suitable. Before he started writing this script, he had already selected someone in his mind. It was based on them. The fit of the respective consciousness energies is written. ()
Senior filmmakers like Mai Weijian and Downing Dale generally have a rough outline of the character when they see the text. It is suitable or not, and it is easy to have a frame. The appearance of Lucky will give them a kind of sight. A bright feeling.
Yang Can can arrogantly say that after Yang Xiuya's diary was adapted by himself, every character is vivid and vivid on paper, because he described it from the perspective of the soul, and every line and every detail is in his mind. It was vividly presented once, and the atmosphere of the plot and scene contained too many precious memories of him.
Of course, these alone are not enough. After adding his powerful consciousness energy, the whole story and the characters will complement each other, and each segment is very attractive.
Outsiders don't know how much consciousness energy Yang Can used in his mind every day when he conceived this script before, and what kind of complicated and complicated work this is.
To use an analogy, Yang Can used to synthesize other consciousness energy consumption in the stage play for the script of Fengshen Bang before, and I am afraid it is less than one-tenth of this time.
In fact, being able to complete the script in such a short period of time, even Yang Can himself felt a little surprised. It seems that not only the value of his consciousness energy has increased during the recent period, but the quality has also changed. His energy and concentration are far away. Far surpassing him at any time before, memory and logical thinking have reached an unprecedented height.
When he concentrated his consciousness energy highly, he even felt that time seemed to stop. On the desktop, mobile phones, books, fans in the computer, and Yang Xiuya who was asleep by the bed, he was able to clearly understand the hair that was flicking gently. The feeling of this kind of feeling is simply indescribable, beyond words.
Although he is not sure, Yang Can vaguely guessed that this is the feeling that all the greatest artists in history, such as Van Gogh, Chaplin, Zhang Daqian, and Wang Xi have reached the pinnacle of a field.
The West calls this supreme feeling "art", while the East calls it "Tao". In conceiving this script, Yang Can clearly felt that he had reached a height that he could not imagine before. It seemed that everything was so perfect. At the same time, it is so smooth, there is no pressure, no sense of urgency, the story seems to be like this.
It is so natural and calm to complete a movie script.
This is certainly not an accident, but the accumulation of Yang Can's experience in this industry over the past few years, and the high degree of human thinking, all broke out at this moment.
In the first three days when the script was finalized, both Tangning Dell and Mai Weijian tried to modify the script to make it more perfect. Of course, Yang Can personally supervised this work, but not to mention that Mai Weijian even Tangning Dell could hardly Change even one word.
Even if the preconceived feeling of the plot setting is put aside, the rhythm of the dialogue and the matching of several characters are almost perfect. The old professor has the feeling when he was watching "Forrest Gump".
Tangning Dell even rushed to Yang Xiuya one day, and was a little excited to invite him to join ucla for further training. In the eyes of this old professor, Yang Xiuya was a great waste of top talent in the art of screenwriting. Can smile again and again.
At dinner in the evening, Yang Xiuya Yiyi also felt that this matter was a bit weird, staring at Yang Can at the dinner table for a long time, no matter how you look at Yang Can, the five-big and three-thirty Yang Can does not seem to be talented in this area.
"Let's go, did you look for this very commercial and artistic genius screenwriter in Professor Tangning's mouth?" Yang Xiuya asked Yang Can aggressively, holding the fork tightly in her hand, complaining in her eyes again. A little bit of resentment, my own sex has been spied on, and I always feel that I have suffered a lot! !
Of course, Yang Can knew that her anger came from being peeked at her diary by a third person. While cutting the steak with a knife, Yang Can said disapprovingly: "Professor Tangning really said that? It seems that my decision to study science in high school was really wrong. ."
"You know, do you know, people as proud as Director Mak say that anyone who writes this script can be his teacher. This script is much better and more perfect than the script of the Fengshen Bang..." Yiyi said hehe authentically beside him, neither I believe this is from Yang Can's handwriting. Of course, she doesn't have as many other emotions as Yang Xiuya. She always thought it was an adaptation of Yang Can's diary.
Yang Can smiled, lowered his head and continued to eat his food, but Yiyi became more aware of the recent subtle changes in him.
Although Yang Can exuded an invisible deepness before, there was still the impetuous aura of the sub-market faintly, but now he... looks calmer and calmer than ever.
The company is facing such a situation. Even Xu Yang, who is as nervous as steel, makes several calls a day, nervously asking about the progress of things, and Yiyi himself wakes up in his sleep every day. The heavy and suffocating pressure is ordinary. People can't realize it at all. Although she is still smiling, everyone close to her clearly feels that her tight nerves are on the verge of collapse.
But Yang Can gives people the feeling that no matter what he is doing or saying, there is an unspeakable sense of freedom and ease. You can say that he doesn’t care at all, or you can explain that he is fully committed to everything. A feeling of peace of mind.
Under such a complicated situation, looking at Yang Can like this, everything seems to be clear in the future. Yiyi has seen too many scenes of so-called "successful people" collapsing in desperate situations before, and she has even watched him once. An uncle engaged in real estate broke down and cried at home because of a problem with the turnover of funds. She was extremely impressed.
In her mind, men are strong on the surface, but they are indeed very fragile inside. When they lose the career, family, and even health that they used to be proud of, they usually behave more extremely than women.
But the indifferent expression in Yang Can's eyes in front of him is absolutely impossible to pretend. He unconsciously shook his head and muttered: "This guy really seems to be like someone outside the world recently." Then he remembered something. Ask Yang Can:
"What about the venue? Several scenes are described as being in the Los Angeles Municipal Building. Do we need to build a similar scene? I am afraid that time is too late."
Yiyi started to worry again when she mentioned this matter. This is what she worries most. Now the stock prices of top companies are falling. I am afraid that the company will not be able to support the day when the movie is released. Everything has to be shortened before the cycle is hoped. The problem is that the movie and The difference in TV cannot be filmed in a hurry.
Or a bad film may hit more severely than bankruptcy.
"No, we can go directly to the Los Angeles Municipal Building for shooting." Yang Can took a sip of porridge and said calmly.
Filming of the Los Angeles Municipal Building? Yang Xiuya first covered her head like Yiyi, then instinctively walked over and touched Yang Can's forehead with her hand.
"What nonsense?" Yang Can cried and laughed away from her hand
"No fever?" Yang Xiuya touched her forehead again to compare the temperature, and looked at Yang Can angrily:
"It's also the municipal building... The Fox company didn't get the authorization to shoot "Independence Day" back then. You thought you were the junior of the US president~"
Yiyi also had a nonsensical look and patted Yang Can on the shoulder: "It's serious." There are so many giant film companies in Los Angeles. I have never heard of the one that can win this benefit. After all, it is for big movies with sufficient financial resources. As far as the company is concerned, it is much more difficult to provide a public relations project for a political fu than to build a scene.
We must know that the 007 "Golden Eye" crew, which was famous for its magical powers, had to negotiate with the London municipal fu for more than three months in order to get a scene of a tank on the street. Street shots of the town, Los Angeles political fu building, what a joke! !
The doorbell rang suddenly, and Yang Xiuya wiped her hands, but Yiyi stopped herself from opening the door. Suddenly, Yang Can looked terrified and hurried over to pick up a coat and put it on Yang Xiuya who was only wearing a vest.
"Eighty percent is the Mrs. Lisa next door who came to see us to participate in community activities.. Don't be so cautious." Yang Xiuya just finished speaking, and after looking at the camera, Yiyi trot out cautiously to open the door..
Yang Xiuya noticed something wrong and looked out the window with the probe, and vaguely saw a few figures shaking at the gate of the yard. The face of the person in the front seemed very familiar, and when he looked carefully, the outline of his face suddenly muttered: "Hey, this is the gate He looks like Mayor Huang..."