After The Vicious Cannon Fodder Was Reborn - Chapter 228

[Chapter 227]

The military recruitment propaganda drama with Tao Mu as the protagonist has a very simple and rude tentative name, and it is directly called “The King of Soldiers”. After naming the name, Tao Mu began to prepare for the audition. There are two scopes for auditions, one is for the entertainment industry, and the other is for the military troupe. Tao Mu vaguely remembered that when he watched similar military dramas in his previous life, a large number of actors who performed brilliantly were selected from the art troupe. Although Tao Mu couldn’t remember the names and specific units of those actors, Tao Mu still remembered those faces. Therefore, during the audition, Tao Mu paid special attention to the photos, and if there were familiar ones, he would choose them directly.

But what Tao Mu didn’t expect was that after the news of the “Bing King” audition spread, there were actually many Yan Ying and Shanghai Theatre Academy students who came to audition. The latter is understandable, but isn’t Yan Ying also preparing a drama about Qing history recently? Yan Ying’s students did not audition for their own production crew, but went to “The King of Soldiers” to audition instead. This made Tao Mu feel incredible.

What’s even more surprising is that among the Yan Ying students who came to audition, there was Gu Yuzhang – Yan Sheng left China to fight in the M country in his previous life, and after attacking Hollywood, Yan Ying began to support Gu Yuzhang in the upper position. And Gu Yuzhang lived up to expectations, and in a few years, he has become a first-line star from a debut rookie. At the peak of popularity, it even surpassed Yan Sheng faintly. It’s a pity that he didn’t have the halo of the male protagonist. When Yan Sheng returned to the domestic entertainment circle again and defended the box office myth, Gu Yuzhang’s upward momentum was immediately suppressed. Later, because of his low emotional intelligence, his popularity plummeted.

The reason why Tao Mu was deeply impressed by Gu Yuzhang. It’s because after Yan Sheng announced his marriage at the Oscars, he knew that his homosexual image was likely to affect his development in front of the screen. So Yan Sheng began to turn behind the scenes. And Gu Yuzhang is the first artist Yan Sheng signed in his film and television company. Shen Yu also ate vinegar with Yan Sheng several times because of this. It was not until the two officially announced their marriage that they turned their anger into joy.

After Gu Yuzhang performed according to the requirements of the crew, Tao Mu couldn’t help but asked curiously, “Why did you come to audition for “The King of Soldiers”?”

“Because I am optimistic about Mr. Tao’s production ability.” Gu Yuzhang said calmly.

Tao Mu nodded and asked again, “I mean, Yan Ying is also preparing for a TV series. As a student of Yan Ying, instead of auditioning for your own school’s drama, you went to “The King of Soldiers” to audition. Can I ask why?”

“Yan Ying has many brothers and sisters. And they are all well-known stars in the circle. I am just a freshman who has just entered school. There is not much more than me in the crew. One less of me is a lot less. The school can’t value a newcomer who has never acted before.” Gu Yuzhang explained bluntly: “But “The King of Soldiers” is different. I noticed the selection of “The King of Soldiers” Role requirements. In addition to Mr. Tao, who is the male lead, there are many old actors who are the original cast of “The Great Wall of Flesh”. As for the recruits who joined the army at the same time as the male lead, most of them are vegans with no acting experience. I deduce that President Tao must choose some fresh faces to play roles in order to make the audience feel more immersive.”

Gu Yuzhang has never filmed before, but he feels that his acting talent is good. So I came to audition rashly, just wanting to take a chance.

When Tao Mu heard Gu Yuzhang’s words, he thought to himself that it was no wonder that this kid was blackened to the core in his previous life. This way of speaking is simply flawed. However, this kid’s talent and acting skills are still good. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have acted in the first play in my last life, and it would have been an instant hit.

Tao Mu thought for a while, then said: “If you succeed in the audition, you will have to follow the crew to experience life in the army for three months. After that, there will be closed filming for nearly three months. That is to say, a total of six months of filming time, Can you bear it?”

Gu Yuzhang nodded: “No problem. My family owns a boxing gym. I learned Sanda with my dad since I was a child. I can endure hardship.”

In Gu Yuzhang’s view, these actors go to the army for training , at most the level of military training. Gu Yuzhang felt that the military training was not as hard as his usual boxing training!

Seeing that Gu Yuzhang was so sure, Tao Mu didn’t ask any more questions. He waved his hand and said, “Go back and wait for the announcement.”

Along with Tao Mu were the representatives sent by the military, the production team and the two teachers from Jingying. After Gu Yuzhang went out, Jingying’s teacher said with admiration, “It’s a good seedling.”

Another said with emotion: “It’s just that his temper is too upright. His character is not suitable for this circle.”

“It would be better if he was just an actor or acting in a drama.” Unfortunately, there are probably no students who applied for Yanying. It’s for acting.

Tao Mu put a check mark on Gu Yuzhang’s resume and said with a smile: “I have a personal destiny. If he encounters a good brokerage team and carefully packaged the character of an honest and ignorant veteran cadre, maybe he will. It’s more lovable.” As soon as

these words fell, the other examiners sitting in the classroom suddenly became confused: What is a straightforward and ignorant veteran cadre?

Tao Mu smiled but continued to call the next one.

All auditions for “The King of Soldiers” were held for a week. It was more than half a month before the Lingxiao Awards ceremony. Tao Mu, who had already taken a good leave from Beijing Film, brought the writing team of “The King of Soldiers” and all the actors who passed the audition into the army to experience life.

In order to facilitate the shooting, the troops stationed by the crew happens to be the troops that will be stationed in the future shooting. The troops had already greeted the soldiers before the crew entered, and directly announced that all the crew members would train with you for three months, during which time they would be with the soldiers. When the official shooting, many soldiers will also be in the camera together. If there are individual soldiers who perform well, they may even become special actors.

People from the military propaganda department specially emphasized that this is a recruitment propaganda drama. The troops are required to try their best to cooperate with the filming of the crew. At the same time, it is also necessary to ensure that all training is never leaked, and all actors are required to at least meet the standard and quality requirements of ordinary soldiers. And this one is also proposed by Tao Mu himself. He has always had the best temperament to either do it or not to do it.

Moreover, this conscription propaganda drama is also related to the reputation of Tao Mu Film and Television Company, and it is even related to the big resource of the cooperation between the military and Beijing Film a year later. Tao Mu’s ambition is to win and not to lose.

But what Tao Mu didn’t expect was that the entire crew clashed with the soldiers on the first day they entered the army.

When the leader of the army came over, Tao Mu was in the conference room, discussing with the screenwriter team about the material. Tao Mu had already drawn up the plot outline when he met with the military representative. But the details still need to be filled in slowly. In order to reflect the style of the army more realistically, Tao Mu decided to let the screenwriter team go deep into the soldiers to draw materials. To put it more simply and rudely, it is to ask soldiers and officers at all levels who have been in the army for different years, and ask them what these soldiers think “what is the most awesome thing about being a soldier”. Then combined with the Shuangwen face slap routine, these things were added when writing the plot.

As a result, without saying a word, the troop leader came over. With an embarrassed face, he told Tao Mu that the actors brought by the crew were fighting with the soldiers. When Tao Mu heard this, his first reaction was that there were squeamish actors who didn’t listen to the command and wanted to specialize. The troop leader quickly explained. It turned out that after the cast members were stationed in the army, according to the regulations, they had to be broken up and inserted into each class. Almost as an auditor, he trained with the soldiers of each class. Because there are indicators, the assessment results of these actors will also be linked to the class results.

Most of the soldiers have never seen the filming of TV dramas, and they have not been in contact with actors in the entertainment industry, so they think it is quite new. Moreover, it is a task assigned by the above, and it is also linked to the recruitment publicity next year, so they are quite willing to cooperate. But there are also a small group of soldiers who are not happy. I think this group of actors came here to be grandstanding. How can an actor eat the hard work of being a soldier. If you can’t keep up with the training, it will also drag down the grades of the class. Most of the soldiers have a sense of collective honor, and they couldn’t help complaining a word or two because they were worried that their class or even their company would be dragged down.

Under normal circumstances, if you can be an actor, let alone acting skills, you must have a little advantage in dealing with people. Otherwise, there is no way to survive in this circle where all words and deeds are magnified by the camera. But there are also newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers. Such as Gu Yuzhang.

He was very unconvinced that the veterans questioned that these actors would definitely not be able to keep up with the training, and they would definitely drag down the company’s remarks. I hate the veterans who say that these actors are all grandstanding, they are all soft eggs on stage, not real men (veteran: I didn’t say that).

Then, Gu Yuzhang, who was young and unwilling to bow his head, challenged the veteran! Ask the veteran to do various exercises with him. If he loses, he will not say a word, even if he is exhausted, he will grit his teeth and keep up with the training. And is responsible for washing the dirty laundry of the veterans. If he wins, the veteran must apologize to them.

This very dramatic challenge was immediately supported by both sides. But the key is that the veteran challenged by Gu Yuzhang is the soldier king selected by the company for three consecutive years. The army leader admired Gu Yuzhang, a young man with great courage and courage, but of course he did not believe that Gu Yuzhang could defeat the King of Soldiers. I was worried that Gu Yuzhang would be exhausted during the challenge without systematic training, so I hurried over to find Tao Mu, the person in charge of the crew. Let Tao Mu stop Gu Yuzhang. And also considerately said that Gu Yuzhang is not a soldier, and there is no chance of winning against the soldier king, so there is no need to wash clothes for the soldier king.

Hearing these words, Tao Mu was speechless. The screenwriters of the screenwriting team were excited: “This is a good entry point for the plot. Who is this Gu Yuzhang? The young man knows how to add drama to himself!”

Tao Mu sighed and hurriedly followed the army leaders to train site. Regardless of whether he adds drama or not, if he doesn’t hurry up and stop Gu Yuzhang, it is estimated that the stunned fool can really toss himself to the point of being half-crippled.

At that time, the news that the cast of “The King of Soldiers” abused and maimed the actors would really make headlines. How can they still shoot this conscription propaganda drama?

Tao Mu couldn’t understand Gu Yuzhang’s brain circuit! On the first day of entering the army, he dared to challenge the King of Soldiers, why didn’t he go to heaven!

[End of This Chapter]