A week later.
The crew of "The Long Night".
Chen Kaige sat behind the camera, watching the performances of Yue Guan and Lian Yiming in the camera, and nodded with satisfaction.
"pass."
Yue Guan and Lian Yiming breathed a sigh of relief.
Lian Yiming smiled and said, "Yue Guan, it's not easy to keep up with you."
"Brother Ming, you are so humble. You performed very well. The role of Zhu Wei will definitely become one of your masterpieces."
Yes, Zhu Wei played by Lian Yiming.
Jiang Yang's best partner.
He was also a warrior who paid a heavy price.
Jiang Yang sacrificed almost everything to investigate the case.
As a policeman, Zhu Wei was stripped of his police uniform in order to investigate the case. In the end, he took the initiative to do the most dangerous things for Jiang Yang's plan:
Investigate information on criminals incognito.
Disguise yourself as a terrorist and investigate the truth of what happened faster than the police.
In the end, when delayed justice arrived, he chose to surrender and accept the trial of the law.
This is also a basically 100% pure good guy, a character that would be hard for an ordinary actor to impress the audience.
Yue Guan thought of Lian Yiming, Zhang Haiyang in his masterpiece: "Blood Romance".
Lian Yiming has a face that looks upright and awe-inspiring.
He is a natural fit for this role.
In addition, Lian Yiming has been in the industry for a long time, so there is no need to worry too much about acting skills.
This is indeed the case. After joining the cast, Lian Yiming performed very well and was unanimously recognized by the crew.
But Yue Guan actually regretted asking Lian to change his name.
After hiring Lian Yiming, he realized that Lian Yiming's filming was much harder than other actors.
Basically, you have to put in 200% effort to be on the same starting line as other actors.
At this time, Chen Kaige waved to Yue Guan and called Yue Guan over.
After Yue Guan came to Chen Kaige, Chen Kaige pointed at the picture and asked Yue Guan: "How does it look like?"
Yue Guan read it carefully and then nodded: "I feel pretty good. Lian Yiming's performance is much better than I expected."
"Yes, it's better than I expected. Speaking of which, Yue Guan, how did you come up with the idea of asking Lian Yiming to play Zhu Wei? Don't you know his situation?" Chen Kaige asked.
Yue Guan smiled bitterly: "I really didn't know at first, but later I found out, but Lian Yiming has already agreed, so I can't go back on it. Of course, I don't want to go back on my words because it's troublesome. I just don't want to see Lian Yiming be so... Hard."
Yes, hard work.
Lian Yiming's filming was much harder than ordinary people.
Because when he was 6 years old, he had a high fever. The doctor injected him with gentamicin, but ignored that he was allergic to the drug. As a result, Lian Yiming suffered hearing loss and became a hearing-impaired child.
Later, in 1998, when Lian Yiming was filming a "jumping off building scene", because the crew's protective measures were not in place, he fell from the fourth floor to the outside of the mat. Blood suddenly came out of his ears and he fainted on the spot.
After first aid, Lian Yiming was out of danger, but he was completely deaf in both ears and lost his hearing completely.
In order to live and work normally, Lian Yiming was equipped with a pair of powerful invisible cochlea, but his hearing is still very weak.
From then on, due to his hearing disability, Lian Yiming's filming journey became extremely difficult: he not only had to memorize his own lines, but also the lines of his opponent's actors.
Only in this way can he successfully complete the performance according to the opponent's mouth shape and movements.
Sometimes when the director adds a scene at short notice or an actor changes a scene, it is difficult for him to keep up with the rhythm in time, which affects the progress of the entire crew.
Because of this, even the opportunities for changing names in the industry have been drastically reduced, and directors and actors don't want to cause trouble for themselves.
Yue Guan had never paid attention to Lian Yiming before, so he really didn't know about these things.
Only after he found Lian Yiming did he see these information about Lian Yiming.
It's a pity that the script had already been given to Lian Yiming at that time, and Lian Yiming also wanted to film it, so it was too late to say anything.
In fact, it's not that Yue Guan doesn't want to use Lian Yiming. He doesn't mind that Lian Yiming will cause trouble. He just thinks that Lian Yiming's filming is too hard.
In particular, the drama "Long Night" has very high quality requirements, so Lian Yiming had to work even harder.
However, Lian Yiming was a man and had never complained. Yue Guan could only tell Chen Kaige privately that Lian Yiming's drama was almost over and he still had to take care of him when it was time to take care of him.
Chen Kaige sighed softly: "You asked me to take care of Lian Yiming as much as possible, but in fact I didn't take care of him very much. It is true that you all did a good job in filming. Our country really has no shortage of good actors. Many of the actors in our crew have been I had never heard of it, but I didn’t know until I actually filmed it. A good actor is definitely a good actor. It would be a pity not to be popular."
"Director Chen, are you talking about Teacher Ning Li?" Yue Guan said with a smile.
"Not only Ning Li, everyone else is also very good, but Ning Li is indeed the one who performs best."
Ning Li, the cold-blooded killer Li Toyota in "Undocumented Crime", and Zhang Chao, the calm, decisive and thoughtful lawyer in "The Silent Truth".
Two completely different characters, both portrayed very clearly by Ning Li.
The strength is vividly displayed.
And few people in the entertainment industry have heard of an actor of this caliber before.
I have to say that there is really no shortage of excellent actors in China.
What is missing is a good show for these excellent actors to shine.
"Yue Guan, you have found a group of good actors. Even the youngest Bai Jingting did not hold back too much and basically completed the portrayal of Hou Guiping." Chen Kaige praised Yue Guan's casting skills.
"As long as you are satisfied, Director Chen."
"Satisfied, I'm very satisfied. With this group of talented actors, we should be able to finish filming this drama soon. I feel a bit unsatisfied and want to shoot for a while longer." Chen Kaige said regretfully.
Yue Guan was shocked and immediately stopped him: "But don't, Director Chen. You have to think about Lian Yiming and finish the filming as soon as possible. Don't make Lian Yiming too hard."
When Chen Kaige heard what Yue Guan said, his eyes fell on Lian Yiming, and then nodded: "Yes, it is indeed too hard for him to accompany us. I'd better put this in place the next time I make a movie. Call the actor."
"That's good. With Director Chen's support, their luck will come."
Yue Guan felt that he did the right thing unintentionally by casting Lian Yiming to play Zhu Wei.
With Lian Yiming around, Chen Kaige was too embarrassed to delay the filming process and express too many personal thoughts. Only by completing the filming as soon as possible could he appear more humane.
In this way, "The Long Night" will restore the script to the greatest extent.
This drama will become a good drama that only retains Chen Kaige's masterful directing skills but does not have too much personal subjective will of Chen Kaige and respects the script.
The future is promising.
With this idea in mind, Yue Guan devoted himself wholeheartedly to the shooting.
Chen Kaige has made a masterpiece of speed at the peak of his career.
It only took a total of twenty days to complete the filming of "The Long Night"!
After the filming, Chen Kaige was in a daze.
"Can I be so fast?"