Vol 2 Chapter 298: Casting

The launch of the first propaganda film heralded the official start of the propaganda war before the release. In the following days, Lu Ze went to the imperial capital and other provinces to cooperate with the crew to carry out propaganda work.
Because of the reputation of the three directors and the strong cast, this film did achieve impressive publicity before it was released. Whether it is online or offline, just mention "Find You", a big one. The crowd will instantly think of it, and nodded in response.
"You are talking about the movie about human trafficking, I know."
But this type of film will definitely not be a hot type of film, because the heavy story and the most offensive illegal activities are all taboos in the hearts of ordinary fans.
Not many people who just occasionally watch a movie to spend their time go to the cinema to watch the movie and find it unhappy for themselves. Those who can pay for this movie are basically loyal movie lovers and fans of actors.
But except for the fans of Lu Ze and the three directors, the average age of the fans of these old drama bones fluctuates around the age of 40 or 50. People in this age group are basically excluded from the profitable crowd by the movie market, unless It is the children who buy the tickets, otherwise these uncles and aunts would basically not buy tickets to go to the cinema by themselves.
Therefore, some people predict that the box office of "Find You" and "Alive" should be on the same level, and there will not be too much difference. They belong to the popular movies.
But this doesn't have much to do with Lu Ze. After all, he doesn't divide the box office of the movie. The profit of the movie is really not as important as word of mouth.
After participating in several publicity work, Lu Ze returned to the magic city and refocused his work on Qian Shijia's new film plan. After signing a filming contract with the company, the film title was officially determined.
"The Rise of Mankind: Desolation."
This movie is not a complete story, but the first part of an epic battle. It tells the story of the tenacious rise of mankind under the oppression of alien races in a fictional world.
As the beginning of the movie and the beginning of suffering, the first part is the darkest and most depressing part of the entire war. The living conditions of mankind are miserable and breathtaking.
In an era when there was no sunshine, no rainfall, the earth collapsed and served as rations for foreign races, there were demons outside to eat people, internal wars continued, and people regarded their children as rations, and the darkness was a mess.
With the birth of the son of God, he will lead the tribe to integrate internal conflicts, defeat foreign enemies, and lead humans to gain a foothold in a world where demons are rampant, and build a city that belongs to humans. The first part of the story ends here.
The next story, whether to shoot or not, depends on the performance of the first part, but if the sequel is really filmed, the investment in the second part should be more than double the capital of the first part.
Because with the gradual expansion of the world view, the scene of the war will become larger and larger. Even under the plan of the five screenwriters, in the final battle, human beings should be like the Zerg. The females should continue to have children, and use techniques to ripen them. One generation of men enters the battlefield, and the next generation of women continues to give birth. In such a cycle, each newborn takes about half an hour.
The last thing that broke out was a huge war involving hundreds of millions of humans and demons. Using a lot of special effects, the speed of burning money is definitely not slower than the crematorium refining furnace. It is estimated that by then, Gan Sega will really not be able to eat this movie. , It needs to be jointly produced with other companies, but that is a future thing, it is not necessarily whether it is filmed or not, it is too far.
On August 1st, Lu Ze came to the company to prepare outside film artists to come to Sega’s audition work. The number of interviews reached more than 170 people. The audition was divided into three days and batches.
"It can be over, thank you for your participation, please go back and wait for the news."
Bai Xiqun glanced at Lu Ze's wink, folded the artist's information in his hand, stood it up and knocked it on the table, reached out and handed it to the actor who came for the interview, and asked him to leave.
After the young man put his resume in his bag and left with a bitter face and closed the door, Bai Xiqun glanced at Lu Ze and tried to ask.
"I thought that person was pretty good just now, why don't you think?"
"The lines have a good foundation, and the movement strength and intensity are also very good. The control of micro expressions is slightly insufficient, but the problem is not big. His biggest problem is that he likes to hook his fingers. This should be his subconscious action, and he will inadvertently when he speaks. Show it, just like some people like to nod when they talk. The academics can't even change their subconscious movements, and they don't know which teacher taught them. In short, I don't think he is qualified."
Lu Ze picked out the fault of the young man who auditioned just now in a flat tone, in exchange for the wry smiles of Bai Xiqun, Feng Changhao and He Guohui.
In their opinion, Lu Ze has brushed down a lot of good seedlings, it is a bit too strict, and even to put it mildly, Lu Ze always has the meaning of picking the bones in the egg.
But what they didn’t know was that Lu Ze had actually relaxed the requirements for actors. For the actor who auditioned just now, if Lu Ze really wanted to stab him, he could weaken the frustration in the second half of the line the young man said just now. It can be caught, and there are more than ten or twenty problems all over the body.
After all, he is a young man, and he is not as systematic as Lu Ze when he was young. The ability is a little insufficient. Lu Ze certainly understands it, but with personal iconic actions that do not conform to the script, Lu Ze cannot accept this.
This is a young actor sent by the academy. During his four-year college career, if he listens carefully to the class, he will definitely be pointed out by the teacher and corrected, but he still maintains this habit. What does this show?
This shows that this young man has a good talent, but he shouldn't like to listen to lectures so much in college, and he is not serious about professional courses. He is always a kind of slippery student.
There are already more than a dozen oil bottles hanging on Lu Ze, and he is powerless to mention something about this young actor who has a criminal record of and skiing, so he simply finds someone who doesn't need to mention it and relieves himself a little bit.
Although from the young man’s frowning brows and wearing clothes that Lu Ze rented out in a private styling studio two or three years ago, it can be seen that his career development should not be very good. difficult.
But the casting is not terrible. Lu Ze can’t give him the role because he is pitiful. Otherwise, he is the last drag. Moreover, Lu Ze was able to get the role by his own personal ability during the most difficult period. No one has pityed him, this industry is like this, you can do it, you can't get out, from beginning to end, it has not changed.
For three consecutive days, I interviewed more than 150 actors. This is indeed a personal effort. Lu Ze felt that he was about to sit out of hemorrhoids. He rubbed his face, took the cigarette that Feng Changhao had handed him, and reached out to open the row on the wall. The wind switch, just wanted to call the next audition actor in, but was interrupted by Secretary Li Shanjun who suddenly knocked on the door and walked in.
"Secretary Wang, what's the matter?"
"This is the list given by Mr. Liu to the four. Brother Lu, take a look. I'll go first. You have worked hard.
The black high heels stepped on the marble and made a clattering sound. Lu Ze frowned and took it, motioning to let the three of them look at it first, but the three of them waved their hands and refused, so they could only open the folder by himself and look at the text and pictures. Talk it out.
"A studio owned by Sky Orange Media Co., Ltd., an artist from Zixin Studio, isn't Pei Yuanhui the captain of that girl group?"
Lu Ze didn't feel embarrassed to say the five words "nothing", he just got ambiguous, and turned the folder to the side and showed the one-inch photo on the file.
"This"
Bai Xiqun was also in trouble. With a cigarette in his hand, he shot the ashes into the disposable paper cup on the table. He looked at Feng Changhao and He Guohui. They had nothing to say, so they sat down and deliberately turned their phones out. Pull twice.
Lu Ze stood up the document and shook it twice. A small piece of paper fell out of it, and he took a look at it alone. It said the words Guo Mingde.
Reluctantly, I picked up the lighter and lit the small note, threw it into the ashtray to see it burned out, took the disposable paper cup and poured some water on it, opened the folder, and ordered Pei Yuanhui’s resume with a stapler. , Handed it to Bai Xiqun, watching him put the resume into the middle of the stack of resumes, shook his head, got up to open the door, waved his hand to the three of them first, and shouted outside.
"Okay, there is only one left this time, Xiaofei, Zhu Lan's interview actor will let them all leave and call the next audition actor in."
Lu Ze also walked through the back door, of course, not the back door.
At the beginning, he was happy that he had a relationship, but now, Lu Ze feels more and more upset. There were nine artists in the company. Originally there were fourteen role vacancies. Li Shanjun filled in five more, and finally only selected nine. The one who just came is still related to the leaving Guo Mingde. What do you ask Lu Ze to do? If others don't give face, can you make Lu Ze not sell Guo Mingde's face?
Pei Yuanhui is still making do, Lu Ze has heard that this girl is Guo Mingde’s niece, and regarding her seniority, she still has to call Lu Ze’s uncle. The key is that He Ruikuan sent in. Lu Ze doesn’t know what to do after the crew meets. Looking directly at her, I can only scold He Ruikuan secretly, this old shameless ~EbookFREE.me~ At the age of almost sixty, there is a 28-year-old wife who is not enough, and she raised a nineteenth child outside. Girl, Lu Ze feels that he is only thirty years old and not He Ruikuan. This old man is obsessed with this mess, and he is embarrassed to stuff other people's crew when he makes such a thing. It is really shameless.
The interview lasted until more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and when there were more than a dozen actors left, Lu Ze was relieved that he was finally assigned the last role.
I thought that the last one could only be the big one among the short guys who were interviewing actors, but I didn't expect that he didn't have to. The big one came by himself and saved the four people to discuss again. Now he can get off work.
"Lu Ze, tomorrow will be the Fei Di, right? I wish "Find You" the best reputation.
The three of them also knew that it was difficult for "Find You" to sell at the box office, so they changed their words to give a blessing. With good intentions, Lu Ze took it, and shook hands with the three of them, turned and left the company, and went to the underground parking lot.
Sitting in the driver's seat, closing his eyes, sighed for a long time, opened his eyes, fastened the seat belt, set the ignition, put in gear, gave fuel, and went home.
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