Chapter 34: Idol making


"Magic Yang's new work manifesto, high school campus dance film" High School Musical "!"
This is the headline of the entertainment section of the "Los Angeles Times", they published an interview with Wang Yang as scheduled. Shortly after this issue of the newspaper went public, this interview report appeared on the Internet and was quickly reprinted everywhere. The forums that had been affected by the viral propaganda of Ghost Records were discussed hotly. After all, "The Ghost Record" has just been painted across North America. The total box office in North America has received 163 million. Wang Yang's current popularity has not dispersed, and there are still many fans.
Anyone who is following Wang Yang now knows the news. He is going to shoot a campus song and dance film called "High School Musical", which is an inspirational story. By the way, in order to make this movie, he also bought a small film company with no future. Before that, I did n’t know what it was called. Now it is renamed as Flame Film Company, so he became a company owner.
Of course this news, Wang Yang already told Jessica, Zachary and other friends last night and shared this joy with them.
However, the focus of the media is not his film company. It is no surprise that tens of millions of people have acquired a small company. Los Angeles has never lacked a film company; the media are concerned about film, his second film, campus song and dance sheet? ! Everyone in the movie was taken aback. Wang Yang was not surprised to make campus movies, but it was surprisingly song and dance movies. What is the market for song and dance movies now? Weak. Everyone knows this.
High school campus musical? He said he had high expectations for this movie? What is a very high definition? Recover the cost or become "The Prodigal Son"?
Although the entertainment media haven't had time to comment yet, the discussion of this news on the Internet is already underway. "To be honest, this movie is worrying. Perhaps in the future, it will give this young and vigorous 18-year-old director a lesson, telling him that the movie is not that simple." This comment is already polite. Many comments directly sarcastically: "Probably he was stimulated by university injustice, so he missed his high school life? Want to make a movie about high school students? But does he know how to make movies? Yes, he is on TV Film Academy, but guys, he just read one and a half semesters, he may not even know Eisenstein and Einstein ... "
Eisenstein is a great director, and Einstein is a great scientist. Of course, Wang Yang clearly distinguished it. He ignored these voices. The public's doubts were all in his expectation. If he continued to shoot horror movies, they might say "expect". He is still a future star; On campus singing and dancing films, their attitudes will change greatly. He is no longer a promising one, but a fire moth looking for death.
Will this moth die, know whether or not to make a movie, and wait for the future to prove it with facts. Although sparring with the media is one of the methods of propaganda, it is not suitable for movies with the theme of "High School Musical", and he doesn't like it. Besides, the market for "High School Musical" is mainly the student class, and the student class is not as mean as the film critics. They are willing to accept new things, and the more abnormal things are more like, such as his "youngest multimillionaire" title, He is now the new idol of many young students.
Wang Yang ’s previous worry also became a reality. In the interview report of the Los Angeles Times, the latter two-thirds of the content are all about his private life. It ’s no wonder that Wang Yang rarely accepts interviews from the media, and even declined the opportunity to cover the cover of Vanity Fair, let alone openly talk about his private life; this time, the Los Angeles Times was invited by the Fire Film Company to do it. In an exclusive interview, reporter Kim-Sylvie naturally knows to seize the opportunity and ask enough questions.
In the office of the chairman of Flame Films, Wang Yang sat on a rotating office chair and looked at the newspaper unfolding in his hands, but he was helpless.
I saw that more than half of the page was surrounded by the title of "The youngest multimillionaire is single". The first question in this paragraph is "Do you have a girlfriend?" Then follow his answer : "No, my career has just started. I hope I can devote myself here." This is indeed his current thinking. He has experienced a lot in the past six months, and his mentality has changed a lot. Now he just wants to make the movie well and cherish it. These hard-won opportunities; the emotional aspects just go with the flow.
"Then have you had a girlfriend before?" Kim-Sylvie's question, when she entered the private life stage of the interview, she became a gossip tabloid style. This was followed by his answer: "I fell in love once in high school, you know, and then broke up."
Seeing this question and answer, Wang Yang shook his head and wiped his eyes. It was a sweet love that ended in failure. During the second year of high school, he and a mixed-blood blonde girl from Lowell High School met at a San Francisco high school exchange event. She was very beautiful and had a personality. They all felt like each other and came together.
At first, they had a good relationship. They chatted happily on the phone every day, and came out to meet each other on the weekend to maintain their love. But the good times are not long. After the first love, the problem of their personality disharmony was also exposed. At first, they always noisy for some small things.
"I like to go to the cinema, but she likes to go to the playground; I like basketball, and she likes baseball; I like McDonald's, she likes KFC; I like Coca-Cola, she likes Pepsi ... So we started to quarrel, quarrel and quarrel, and finally we Ca n’t stand it anymore, so he broke up.
In the newspaper, he answered Kim Sylvie this way. She asked,
Can you share this relationship with us?

Looking at the text in the newspaper, Wang Yang smiled slightly. He now recalls that feeling and still feels a little sweet, but more calm. He was about to forget the look of the blonde girl. Even thinking hard now, it was vague, a big smile, a good voice ... He shook his head suddenly, interrupted his memories, and continued to watch. A glance at the newspaper "Has you ever thought about how your future partner will be?"
Why are all these gossip questions? Wang Yang reluctantly put the newspaper aside and stopped reading it. He turned on the computer and was ready to start work, making the first round of selection of the characters of "High School Musical".
In fact, just a few days ago, he just bought A-Pix company, he wrote a cast of "High School Musical", called Sandy-Pix sent to actors unions and agencies and other agencies, let them give some Good introduction.
"High School Musical" is different from "Ghost Story", the main actors have double digits, so if you don't let the agency help, it will increase the difficulty of casting, asking for trouble.
His casting table sets out the basic criteria for casting, including all the main characters such as the male lead and female lead, such as the male lead Troy Burton, the appearance requirements: tall, handsome and athletic, strong sports ... sent to the agency The cast selection table is the first round of standards. Institutions notify members who meet the requirements of the role, and then return the information of members who are interested in participating in the trial to Flame Movies.
Then, Wang Yang first looked at these materials, filtered out those who did not meet his requirements, and then returned the final list of actors to the institutions, and agreed to a time for a collective audition.
Today, the company has received replies from the actors' union and several organizations. They have passed on the eligible members who are interested in participating in the audition for "The High School". As for members who meet other roles, The information also needs time to sort out.
In "High School Musical", there are several roles that are particularly important, the actor Troy Burton, the actress Gabriela Mantis, the female No. 2 Chapel-Ivans, the male No. 2, a good friend of the male lead And teammate Chad Denver, as well as Xia Pei's brother Rennes, actress Taylor Mikesi, and piano accompaniment case Kathy Nelson.
As for the roles of Dad Troy, Mom Gabriella, Teacher Dabus, black team members who love cooking, and fat sisters, there is no need to worry about candidates. These characters have few appearances and do not need to break out. The young ones do n’t need charming and superb acting skills. The acting school grabs a handful; the older ones have more choices. The endless number of middle-aged actors who can perform well in Hollywood, And their pay is very cheap.
Therefore, in this cast selection, it is mainly aimed at the seven important roles, among them male and female protagonists, male and female No. 2 are the most difficult to choose; first of all, these four roles have many requirements in appearance, to meet the role of the role Temperament and appearance, sufficient acting skills, and film compensation meet the budget of the movie.
Also in singing and dancing, it is natural to understand well now; but those who do not understand now will not be eliminated immediately. Because in the dance area, no matter whether you understand it now, you will receive professional guidance to learn and rehearse the dance in the film; while in singing, as long as you have talent and a good voice, you can also complete the recording with the help of professional teachers and recording studios Song task.
Because Wang Yang is an investor, producer, and director of "High School Musical", there is no doubt that the power is in his hands. The decision of who to play what role is in his hands. Of these seven important roles, he has almost set one now, and Charpy Evans is played by Rachel.
Xia Pei-Evans is a proud and talented Miss Qianjin. She and her younger brother Rennes are the absolute stars of the school music club. She is always dressed in a noble and beautiful style. She speaks with a weird tone and is a bitter and mean "bad girl." ".
Rachel ’s acting skills are enough to cope with this role, and she has also done a very good job in the future "Transformed Hot Girls", a full "bad girl", and then she continued to work in the school flowers of "Bad Girls" and "Love Notebook" "Miss Qianjin is a performance that makes people thumbs up. Her performance of "Sharp-Evans" seems to be walking back to the original acting path.
In terms of appearance, she has no problem, plus she dances very well, and her voice is also good. Now, as long as she is sure that she is not completely without music cells, Wang Yang will hand over the role of "Shapei Evans" she was.
Why not let her audition for the heroine? Wang Yang had thought about it, but finally dismissed this idea, which had nothing to do with Rachel's appearance and acting skills, because she was the heroine of Ghost Record. The impact of "Ghost Shadow Records" is that when the audience sees her, they will think of "Meir", which will be a little scary, which is not conducive to watching movies.
So she can't be a heroine temporarily, the market needs time to eliminate her impression; otherwise, she will continue to star in horror movies. This is the terrible thing about "tags". Once you are classified as a "horror movie actor", sorry, it is difficult for you to get a chance to play a G-rated movie.
For this, Wang Yang has an apology in his heart, but he will not confuse the characters with Rachel and Zachary because of the apology. He is responsible for the film, the company, and himself. "High School Musical" is very important to him. The outside world is waiting to see his jokes. He can't screw it up. Affecting their own future will also expose dozens of employees of the Flame Movie to the unemployment crisis.
He promised Chris Lynch, he would make the company better and better, and promised himself to make the movie well! If it was because of his partiality that led to the failure of "High School Musical" and the company's major layoffs, he would not be able to forgive himself.
So the only reason for Rachel to get "Shapei Evans" is that she is suitable for this role and she can handle it. The same is true of Zachary-Levy, and Wang Yang wants to give him the role of "Ryan Evans".
Of course, if there are several girls who are suitable for "Shapei Evans", he will choose Rachel; but if someone is better than Rachel, he ... he will hesitate.
Thinking about this, Wang Yang held the mouse to open the information transmitted by the institutions and began to choose the male and female protagonists.
Only in a small part of the film, these two roles are not the most important; but in all films, no matter how long the male and female protagonists appear, it directly determines whether the film will succeed. This is especially true of "High School Musical". This movie "Idol School" is more important than "Strength School". The protagonist's requirements for appearance are more stringent than those for acting skills. Men and women have become the new idols of students, making them crazy.
"No, it doesn't look tall enough, it doesn't look dynamic ..." Wang Yang looked at the audition photo on the screen with his face intently, and said to himself with a few clicks, he eliminated the handsome guy on the screen. He 'S name is deleted and will not enter the second round of auditions.
"The eyes are not big enough, the eyes are not charming enough, no ... The eyes are too big, it looks cute, no ..." After a while, Wang Yang deleted more than 20 handsome young men of different types, and clicked again. A picture of a handsome white guy with blue eyes and inverted eyebrows appeared on the screen. Wang Yang was stunned and muttered: "Why is this guy so familiar?"
He stopped to look at the actor profile of this photo, Jack Gyllen Hill, born December 19, 1980, height 183CM ... He searched in his head for a while, and suddenly came over, it turned out that Jack Gyllen Hill was The protagonist of "Broken Mountain", this guy is still very tender, so he can't recognize it for a while.
Jack-Gyllen Hill? Wang Yang frowned, looked at several of his photos repeatedly, considered for a while, and finally shook his head to eliminate the future protagonist of "Broken Mountain". Jack Gyllen Hill is certainly handsome, but his type is not a handsome guy in the sun, not suitable for the temperament of Troy Burton, he is too mature, it can be said that Jack Gyllen Hill is "handsome", not "Handsome".
Wang Yang successively deleted more than a dozen actors, and then another actor stopped him, Heath Ledger! Born on April 4, 1979, 185cm tall ... Wang Yang could n’t help but sigh, oh my goodness, he is also the actor in Brokeback Mountain! There is also the clown in "Batman's Dark Knight". This guy's future acting is great. His clown is simply fascinating, an absolute film emperor! But after he finished acting as a clown, he didn't have a movie anymore, nor did he have any relevant reports in his mind, nor did he know what was going on. Wang Yang thought of this, but shook his head again, and deleted Heath Ledger.
The reason is very simple. Heath Ledger's appearance does not match. He is not handsome enough to play the charming effect of Troy Burton. He is a powerist, not an idol.
"No, there is no stiffness of the basketball captain ... No, we need sunshine ..." Wang Yang kept clicking the next and next pictures, and all the handsome guys were eliminated.
Wang Yang ’s current hand is like a
hand of making idols
. If he stays, he will have the opportunity to appear in Troy-Burton. If
High School Musical
succeeds,
Troy-Burton
will become popular all over the world. Youth idols became famous overnight; those deleted by him, regardless of whether they will become famous in the future, will forever lose the opportunity of "High School Musical".
Was eliminated one by one. In the end, there was no name to enter the second round! Wang Yang couldn't help but froze. Was he too picky? Oh, please, where are the handsome guys? !
Wang Yang quite scratched his head helplessly. In this case, he had to send the casting list of the actor to more agencies to expand the search scope. If there is no suitable candidate in Los Angeles, he might have to go to New York. Looking for. Now he had to turn to the audition of the heroine. There are really many candidates recommended by the heroine, almost double the number of heroes.
This is normal. Actresses will become famous earlier. Most of them come from child stars and child models. When they were young, they were the most popular, and then they were replaced by new beauties in a few years; It was not well-known when he was young, but in middle age, many people will suddenly become a superstar.
Of these girls, who came to participate in the first round of auditions, few people are famous, not to mention star-level actors. Not surprisingly, the 18-year-old director's film film debut, small cost investment, song and dance film ... these factors add up to seem to indicate the word "bad film".
"Smile is very beautiful, not bad ... well, the eyes are charming, not bad ..." Wang Yang browsed the pictures of these young and beautiful girls one by one, some were eliminated, some were selected in the second round.
These beautiful girls have their own characteristics and temperaments. The requirements of the actress Gabriela in "High School Musical" are beautiful, sweet, and a certain figure, not higher than 180CM. So, how many beautiful girls are not sweet to laugh? So this time, Wang Yang finally gained something. Only those who are too short and do not match their temperament, or who are old-fashioned and too tender-looking, will be kicked out.
"Wow, beautiful girl!" Looking at this picture, Wang Yang smiled in a good mood and stopped. The picture shows a white girl with black hair and blond hair, black eyes, a tall nose and a very good look Sweet, he looked at the girl's information, named Jennifer Love Hewitt, born on February 21, 1979, height 160CM, has played many small roles in movies, she learned dancing and singing since childhood, last year She also won the "Best Young Star" award from the Hollywood Reporter's Awards, and she seems to have a bright future.
Wang Yang didn't even need to think about it, so he checked Jennifer's name and went on to the next picture.
After more than a dozen beautiful girls, he has a new harvest, a sexy, charming and sweet smile beauty ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Eliza Dushku, born on December 30, 1980, height 165CM, I also learned to dance since I was a child, and I also played the piano. She became famous when she was 14 years old. That year she starred in "The Real Lie" and played the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film.
"Another one!" Wang Yang happily checked Eliza Dushku's name. There were more than a dozen beautiful girls who could enter the second round of auditions, and there were many who could sing and dance since childhood. Gabri Ella's selection doesn't seem to have to worry about. From the appearance, these beautiful girls are very suitable.
After browsing for a while, Wang Yang looked at the grinning the screen and couldn't help but smile: "Jessica Alba? Born on April 28, 1981, 170cm tall ... OK!" He nodded. , Hooked Jessica's name, and smiled at the screen: "Of course, you are in the second round."
He took a look at the candidate names that are now on the hook, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Eliza Dushku, Jordana Brewster ... no doubt, Jessica was the only one who was competing in appearance And in the future, as she becomes more and more charming, she also gets more performance opportunities. Although she won some "Golden Raspberry Awards", she has the highest achievement among these girls.
But it is now 1998, and now is now, Jessica's appearance has not yet reached the point of killing everyone, and her acting skills ... there must be no problem! Wang Yang looked at the screen and said softly, "Jessica, come on."
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