Chapter 764
Discussion of Martial Arts Scenes
Chien Li-ting had scenes with Lien Po-chi in the film crew of "Desperate Counterattack".
Therefore, she was impressed by Lian Baozhi's abilities.
Lian Baozhi was a decent actress, but definitely not a good one.
With her acting skills, she's good enough for TV dramas, but she often falls short when it comes to filming movies, which require delicate and subtle expressions.
Either you overdo it, or you'll always end up with the same expression.
Hearing Jinli say that, she became curious about Lian Baozhi instead.
Even without Jinli, her plays could still be performed.
When she chose this play, she was prepared to either play a supporting role to Jinli or have Jinli play a supporting role to her.
Now that Jinli is unable to participate in the play because she has to join a film crew, it is only natural for her to take on the lead role.
Even if Lian Baozhi joined the cast, she would not be able to play some of the core roles.
When Jinli first recommended this actress to her, she mentioned that she might not be suitable for the lead role, but could try other roles.
Jian Liting made up her mind and decided to give Lian Baozhi a chance.
But this opportunity wasn't something Jinli fought for for her. Even disregarding Jinli's recommendation, based on her previous observations in the crew, she could tell that Lian Baozhi had some talent.
She is more than capable of playing minor supporting roles in plays.
Jian Liting said, "Give me her WeChat ID, and I'll contact her later. By the way, how's filming going on you lately?"
Jinli smiled and said, "With Director Chu keeping things under control, the crew won't have any major problems."
On the contrary, my assistant occasionally mentions your relationship with Director Zheng. Is there really something going on between you two?
Jian Liting smiled gently: "When others tease me, it's because they don't know the truth. Don't you know what's going on between me and Director Zheng? It's all for show."
If I didn't have these unfounded rumors circulating from time to time, my company wouldn't let me off so easily.
I felt they might be coming to their senses soon, so I suggested going out to dinner with Director Zheng to give the paparazzi a little scoop.
Jinli asked a few questions: "What about you and your company?"
Chien Li-ting said in a relaxed tone: "It's still the same as before, a stiff stalemate, but thanks to my relationship with Director Zheng, they don't dare to offend me too much. At least they released the play for me so that I can participate."
After all, in the domestic special effects film market, apart from the internationally renowned Director Chu, Director Zheng is the one carrying the banner.
Unless they ban all their actors from making special effects movies in the future, offending Director Zheng won't matter.
Jinli said calmly, "You haven't appeared in public for the past few years, and you've lost a lot of popularity. You've fallen out of the ranks of first-tier stars and are probably not even as good as some third-tier stars."
Offending you is fine, but offending a director at the height of his career would be a huge loss for the company.
She exchanged a few words with Jian Liting and then hung up the phone.
Just then, Gu Cheng knocked on her door, holding a script in his hand.
Tomorrow we're filming scenes with him, Bai Jiang, and myself. There's a plot point he doesn't understand, so I thought I'd come over and discuss it with him.
Time flew by, and the second day arrived quickly.
There are more actors in the crew today. This is the first time that the three important characters have performed on the same stage since filming began.
The script makes it clear from the beginning that the villains behind the scenes have cultivated a large number of clones, whose genes all come from the most dangerous group of people when the apocalypse comes.
Therefore, in the laboratory, viewers can see many characters that appeared in the first Dawn movie.
After all, they are clones, so it's normal for them to look exactly alike.
However, due to different growing environments, everyone's personality and behavioral habits will also be different.
In this film, Director Chu did not abandon the dark humor that he deliberately expressed in the first film.
He made a change by deliberately making the clones in the second movie have different personalities from the characters in the first movie.
For example, a character who was quite eccentric in the first part becomes incredibly composed in the second part.
If someone is incredibly composed in the first film, they will become incredibly unconventional in the second, emphasizing a sense of contrast.
Viewers can't help but chuckle when they recall the actors' different performances in the first and second installments.
It can evoke a wave of nostalgia and allow the audience to continue exploring the characters, thus increasing the depth of the work.
However, the personalities of supporting characters can be changed at will, but the personalities of the main characters are hard to predict.
Director Chu deliberately ensured that Ji Ruibin's clone's personality remained the same as in the first film.
Then, in the second part, Ruan Ruan Ruan's clone personality was made to be more restrained and arrogant, and more like Ruan Ruan Ruan in the first part in the later stage of the apocalypse.
In this process, Director Chu introduced a new character, Gu Cheng.
Contrary to popular belief, Gu Quan, played by Gu Cheng, is also a clone, but the genes he clones are not those of the strongest warriors.
Instead, they cloned the genes of the mastermind's son—
The son who died at the very beginning of the apocalypse!
Therefore, even though Gu Quan's clone was just a human, he still held a high position in the laboratory.
It's important to know that the people in the lab are not clones, but real people born through natural childbirth.
They are the ones who control everything behind the scenes.
However, only Gu Quan, played by Gu Cheng, rose to a high position as a clone, and also learned the inside story before the other clones.
Gu Quan is a coward.
The clone is also called Gu Quan. His original genetic material, Gu Quan, couldn't survive the apocalypse and died.
Even though he is now a clone, it seems that the cowardice in Gu Quan's genes has also been cloned into him.
Despite receiving so much advanced material from the laboratory, his body is developing well and his potential is the greatest.
But when he learned that he was a clone, his first reaction was not to resist, but to figure out how to better cover it up.
Cowardice was deeply ingrained in his bones.
Therefore, when Gu Quan was pursuing Ruan Tang, Ruan Ruan Ruan Ruan's clone, he always kept her at arm's length.
Everyone in the lab thought that Gu Quan and Ruan Ruanruan were a match made in heaven, and that their personalities were compatible.
But Gu Quan was the only one who both looked down on Ruan Tang for being a clone, yet couldn't help being attracted to her.
Today, Director Chu is going to film a scene where Ji Ruibin's clone, Ji Ming, wants to pursue Ruan Tang after Ruan Tang helps him once.
Gu Quan deliberately separated his experimental projects from Ruan Tang's to prevent the two from having any contact.
Ji Ming noticed this and specifically sought out Gu Quan, only to find that Ruan Tang was also there.
Now things are really messed up. Ji Ming has confessed his feelings to Ruan Tang, while Gu Quan is angry and tells him to stay away from Ruan Tang.
As for Ruan Tang... that's even more absurd. She doesn't like either of them. No, she should say she has a crush on Gu Quan, but lately she's been getting headaches and irritable from the precognitive dreams that keep popping up in her head.
Then she suddenly declared, "I want to dedicate my life to science, and I won't marry anyone! If I absolutely have to marry, my husband will be science!"
This was a comedic scene specially designed by Director Chu.
I wonder if Jinli will look funny when filmed.
But when she saw this line, she felt it was quite abstract.
It might be a little awkward to shoot, but the results should be pretty good.
Moreover, this time, it's not just the version in the script that will be filmed.
Director Chu specially designed three versions for this plot, and had them film all three versions.
He'll do the editing then, see which version looks better, and that's the version he'll use.
Therefore, Jinli has to say this awkward line three times.
Director Chu not only incorporated humor into Jinli's lines, but Ji Ming and Gu Quan's lines also each had their own comedic elements.
When they're head over heels in love, their IQ drops to that of an elementary school kid, and their arguments become incredibly childish.
It's hard to believe that these highly intelligent researchers can argue like kindergarten children.
While the three were filming, the other actors in the crew were watching.
"It's here. Is the legendary battleground about to begin?"
"Hey, these three people's lines are hilarious, the atmosphere is harmonious, I didn't feel any 'shura field' at all, but instead it's so oily it's giving me goosebumps."
"After observing carefully, I realized that Bai Jiang ultimately lost. When filming ended, only Gu Cheng was talking to Jin Li, and Bai Jiang didn't even come over. He was probably avoiding suspicion."
"What you're saying is ridiculous. Jinli also spoke to Bai Jiang when Gu Cheng was still around. So, you have to avoid suspicion just because Bai Jiang is around? Why didn't Gu Cheng avoid suspicion then?"
"Sigh, Bai Jiang must be avoiding suspicion. Gu Cheng and Jin Li are the official couple, they're locked in!"
"I don't care. I've watched the first season of Dawn, and my favorite couple is Ruan Ruanruan and Ji Ruibin. Su Yuxuan is just not good enough. Anyway, I'm going to watch the second season of Dawn. I hope Director Chu can give them a good result."
It's better if we don't mention the character "Su Yuxuan".
The actors in the crew couldn't help but think a lot when this role was mentioned.
Director Chu recalled almost all the actors from Dawn Part 1, but why was the most important female lead, Xu Ting, not present?
Although the main focus of the second season of Dawn is on the character "Ruan Tang", even the absolute male lead of the first season, Ji Ruibin (Ji Ming), has to give way.
The male lead's presence is not strong at all, and he was even overshadowed by the character "Gu Quan" in the early stages.
Ji Ruibin (Ji Ming) only shines when he needs to use force to conquer the laboratory later on, but that's also an action scene.
In terms of dramatic scenes, there are actually fewer scenes than the character "Gu Quan".
In terms of character, "Gu Quan" is a more complex character and can be considered the second villain.
The primary villain is, of course, the mastermind behind the research base who secretly controls it.
Even though the focus of the second part is on "Ruan Tang", it doesn't mean that Su Yuxuan has no role at all.
They were looking through the script at the time and thought that this part of the content had been deliberately hidden by the production team.
This is for the sake of secrecy; each actor receives a script with a different focus.
But now that the crew has been filming for so many days, they have never heard any news from the crew about Xu Ting making a special appearance.
Did Director Chu replace the female lead this time, so that she wouldn't even have a scene where she could show her face?
The actors only dared to think these thoughts in their hearts; they didn't ask the director, much less Jinli and Baijiang.
If you ask the wrong question, you might offend them terribly.
The dialogue scenes filmed by the three of them were completed quickly.
These so-called "battlegrounds" have simple, lighthearted plots, mixed with some absurdity.
There was no difficulty for the three actors; if they performed normally, they wouldn't get stuck, and they usually got it right on the first or second try.
That evening, Director Chu was going to film Bai Jiang's action scenes.
He specifically called Gu Cheng over, but this time he didn't have him stand in front of the camera. Instead, he asked him to observe how Bai Jiang filmed the scene.
Director Chu said, "You just came out of 'Desperate Counterattack' not long ago, and I know that there are a lot of action scenes in that movie."
After Zheng Chengxin's coaching, your action scenes should be better than those of other actors, but they may not necessarily fit the style of my drama.
The reason I called you here is so you can observe how Bai Jiang films. If it's very different from your style, you should adjust it as soon as possible.
Because you'll be filming a lot of action scenes, and as the cloned son of the base's leader, you'll also be responsible for helping deal with some of the dirty work done by the big boss behind the scenes.
Therefore, although your combat strength is not as strong as that of the strongest warriors at the genetic level, you have been trained with the latest technology, so your combat strength is still very high.
Gu Cheng listened carefully to Director Chu's requirements, then suddenly thought of something and asked in confusion:
"Director Chu, according to your idea, Ji Ming has the genes of the strongest warrior in his body, so what is imprinted in his bones should be the habits that the strongest warrior developed when the apocalypse first came."
Therefore, my fighting style should be different from that of the strongest warrior.
A thoughtful look flashed across Director Chu's eyes, and he said with interest, "Go on."
Gu Cheng carefully chose his words, speaking slowly, as if he were also organizing his thoughts.
"What I mean is that the fighting style of their clones of genetically engineered warriors should be significantly different from that of the warriors being trained now."
This is what makes genes so compelling. Even cloned individuals, no matter how much they go through the motions, will retain the ingrained behavioral habits.
Personality can be changed, but instincts can never be altered.
These instincts are the abilities they unleash when faced with danger, residing deep within their genetic code.
Director Chu was silent for a moment before saying, "You're right."
“We didn’t consider this when we were writing the script. Fortunately, we haven’t officially put you into the action scenes yet, so we can still make changes.”
If you only discover this problem halfway through filming, it's too late to fix it.
So tonight, Bai Jiang arrived at the film set early, waiting for the action scenes to be filmed.
But then came a discussion between Director Chu and the action choreographer, who wanted to change Ji Ming's action scenes to give them a hint of his "past life".
Bai Jiang didn't know why the actions that had been planned were changed at the last minute.
He listened carefully to Director Chu and the action choreographer's discussion, understood their doubts, and stepped in to say:
"It needs to retain the martial arts style of the previous life, but it also needs to be different, to have a touch of naivety, and to have a sense of slowly activating itself."
A clone is, after all, a clone. Even with excellent genes, it is still different from the original. A clone is inherently flawed, a being artificially and rapidly created. (End of Chapter)