Chapter 68: Iron Tree Blossoms
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Unlike the group drama "Escape", "The Queen of Generation" is worthy of being a historical masterpiece, with more than 800 creative teams. There are more than 100 famous actors in the script, including countless costumes, props, equipment, venues, and vehicles.
Managing such a large crew is a huge challenge for anyone.
What's more, this is Zhu Bing's first time working as a producer.
Fortunately, Zhu Bing has a strong team, and Zhu Bing is good to her subordinates on weekdays, so that her team employees have not been divorced for three years. Rumors, Zhu Bing is very generous to the people around her, with a year-end bonus of up to six or seven figures. When the company employee got married, she booked 30 tables of banquets and gave gifts and necklaces. Another old employee who had been with her for 7 years could not afford a house. She bought a set directly for the employee to be a wedding house. Let me ask, with such a boss, how could the employees be unfaithful and why would they not work hard?
With such a team to assist Zhu Bing, coupled with Zhu Bing's huge connections, the preparations for "The Queen of the Generation" are very smooth.
Moreover, Zhu Bing was really serious this time. Not only did she invest huge amounts of money, she also found many good friends to play in a friendly role.
Zhang Zhiwei plays Xu Hui, Yang Baobao plays Empress Changsun/Zheng Wanyan, and simply plays Chen Guiren, so I won’t say it.
Zhu Bing also found her friend Zhang Chen to play Li Zhi.
Zhang Chen is one of the iconic figures of Chinese pop culture. He is known as the "Asian superstar of film, television and music". He has an impressive and multi-faceted abilities. His status and traffic in the entertainment industry are even above the vast majority of the four kings.
Zhu Bing can find such a person to play the second male lead, and she can imagine how powerful she is.
March 29.
The crew of "The Queen of the Generation" held a grand opening ceremony at the Taichi Palace, the Tang Dynasty Palace in Hengdian.
As the male lead, Xu Kai also participated in the grand opening ceremony of "The Queen of the Generation".
Moreover, it is not known whether it was Zhu Bing's intention or because of Xu Kai's identity as the male protagonist, Zhu Bing actually arranged for Xu Kai to stand in the C position with her.
With the situation where the deputy producer Song Shan, the deputy producer Wang Qingzai, and the superstar Zhang Chen are, Xu Kai, the unknown person, actually stood in the C position with Zhu Bing, which will inevitably be imagined.
Someone swears: "If there is nothing wrong between Zhu Bing and Yu Qingyun, I will twist my head off and play it as a ball for you."
Some people envy Xu Kai: "You can actually deal with Zhu Bing. Yu Qingyun is really a role model for us!"
Someone else joked about Xu Kai: "Yu Qingyun looked very manly, but he didn't expect that he was just a soft-hearted person, tsk tsk!"
So many rumors cannot be heard from Xu Kai.
Xu Kaizhi smiled at this.
A mouth cannot persuade everyone, and villains must live.
Moreover, Xu Kai is not a young man in his twenties, and he is not as angry as that.
If you get old and explain, there is no need to.
Life is like making people laugh, and occasionally making jokes about others. In the world, people are fighting for hot meals in the downtown world, so why not be afraid of idle people talking about two or three?
At the opening ceremony, Zhu Bing announced on behalf of the producer: "This drama has a 800-person creative team, including more than 500 scene designs, 380 large-scale scenes, nearly 1,000 shooting points, and an investment budget of 350 million yuan. We also invited the Hollywood styling team to build the ancient capital of Chang'an, the Taiji Palace of the Tang Dynasty and the Battle of the Eastern Liao Dynasty in the ancient imperial battlefield. Some scenes in the shed were built in the National Digital Film Industrial Park. We are committed to restoring this real history."
Deputy producer Song Shan then said: "This time we spent no time to refresh the data in the TV series circle. We spent tens of millions of yuan on clothing style alone. The total number of costumes for all actors is about 3,000 sets, of which Bingbing alone has as many as 260 sets of costumes."
Deputy producer Wang Qing took over the conversation and said, "We must strive to create an epic historical masterpiece and present it to everyone."
After the three major producers finished speaking, it was the turn of the actors to speak.
With Zhu Bing finished speaking, Xu Kai was the first to stand up as the male lead: "Thank you for giving me this opportunity to play Emperor Taizong. I will do my best to interpret the role of Emperor Taizong."
After saying this, Xu Kai handed the microphone to Zhang Chen, acting quite low-key.
Zhang Chen said a lot of things to stand up for Zhu Bing, and then handed the microphone to Zhang Zhiwei.
The main actors spoke in turn, and then it was the reporter's turn to ask questions.
As the first protagonist, the first traffic star, the first investor, and the first producer of this drama, Zhu Bing is undoubtedly the person who has been asked the most questions.
Then there is Zhang Chen.
Then there are Yang Baobao, who is just popular stars like Simply.
When it was Xu Kai's turn, he asked only: "Mr. Yu, why could you be chosen as the protagonist?"
Xu Kai answered as Zhu Bing told him before: "I think the producer should have his own considerations."
Zhu Bing immediately took the ball from Xu Kai: "Please look at the stills."
As soon as Zhu Bing finished speaking, a still from Xu Kai appeared on the big screen.
In this still, Xu Kai is at least a teenager, and he is completely a middle-aged face.
But Xu Kai did not reduce his charm at all. On the contrary, Xu Kai exposed his other side, calm, wise, wise, heroic, and arrogant, and a good interpretation of the eternal emperor Li Shimin.
"My brother and I have worked together in "Escape". When I met Brother Yu for the first time, I felt that Brother Yu was the best candidate for Emperor Taizong. During the subsequent contact, I found that Brother Yu was both civil and military, had a calm personality, wise and excellent acting skills. At that time, I decided to sincerely invite Brother Yu to join "The Queen of the Generation" to add luster to the drama. Later, I found Brother Yu three times before Brother Yu agreed to play Emperor Taizong."
Speaking of this, Zhu Bing also showed a resentful look to Xu Kai, both true and false.
Xu Kai secretly said it was not good.
really!
The next day, Zhu Bing's eyes spread along with the opening ceremony of "The Queen of Generation".
Fortunately, this is just a look, and Xu Kai is not famous. This iconic historical moment was soon drowned in the overwhelming reports of "The Queen of Generation".
Almost all the reporters who can come to the opening ceremony are partners of the crew. How could they hold on to Xu Kai, who was advocated by Zhu Bing?
The questioning session ended and "The Queen of Generation" officially started filming.
In order to demonstrate the strength of the crew of "The Queen of Generation", the crew selected two sets of big dramas as the scenes to be filmed at the opening ceremony.
The first group was filming the drama of Zhu Bing and his wife entering the palace.
In the second group, Xu Kai competed with his three sons in martial arts competition.
(The rest are all ready long ago, and the filming can be officially started just by waiting for the main actors to arrive.)
Logically speaking, it is naturally the first group of dramas that attracted more attention.
Although there are only a few sets of shots in this scene and even Zhu Bing doesn't have a few lines, the cost of this scene is more than one million in the set and extras, which can fully demonstrate the strength and ambition of the crew of "The Queen of Generation".
But many reporters were attracted by the competition between Xu Kai and his three sons.
Xu Kai not only had his appearance and demeanor in line with Emperor Taizong, but also had a decisive move when he started, and he beat his three sons cleanly and neatly.
As for the matter, the reason why this happens is that Xu Kai is too skilled in martial arts. Moreover, it is because the three actors who play Xu Kai's son have practiced martial arts for a few days, but they are still just slutty. Whether it is movements or reactions, they are too much worse than Xu Kai.
The director didn't want Xu Kai to play Emperor Taizong too strong, and the three ambitious princes seemed too incompetent, so he repeatedly shouted and discussed with Wu Zhi and Xu Kai how to make the actors who played the three princes lose reasonably.
Every time Xu Kai would make way for the director and martial arts commander to cooperate with the three actors.
But because the two sides were so different, the more Xu Kai made the more uncomfortable the things he took out.
There is no way, the director can only let the three actors replace him.
In this way, Xu Kaicai contributed a wonderful fighting scene to "The Queen of Generation".
When I saw Xu Kai’s fighting scene, a group of reporters, including the actors and staff of the crew of "The Queen of Generation", I realized why Zhu Bing said that Xu Kai was both civil and military.
I won’t talk about the aspects of the text for now.
In terms of martial arts, Xu Kai is really powerful. The three well-known martial artists in the industry joined forces and were beaten by Xu Kai so that they could only fight back but not fight back. The key point is that Xu Kai's movements are not only beautiful, but also not fancy. Each move is a real killer move with great practical significance, which makes the fight between them look both real and beautiful.
It can be said that using Xu Kai's fight scene as the opening drama of "The Queen of Generation" will definitely catch the audience's attention in an instant.
Zhu Bing's eyes were filled with smiles and unconcealed appreciation.
Zhang Chen came over and asked bluntly: "Why, the iron tree is blooming?"
"go."
Zhu Bing said stubbornly: "I just think that I have discovered a good actor."
Zhang Chen sneered: "Use me as a green leaf to set off him, just because he is a good actor?"
Chapter completed!