diskusbooks Chapter 874 The Entertainment Industry, The Original Female Lead Killed by the Transmigrator (40)
Chapter 874 The Entertainment Industry, The Original Female Lead Killed by the Transmigrator (40)
Actually, we could set up a teleportation array so that our daughter could go in by herself when the time comes. But we're a little worried that Mr. and Mrs. Xiao might go in at night to check on the child. What if they happen to be there and find the child missing? They'd be terrified.
Let the two of them run back and forth. It may be a bit of a hassle, but it won't take long anyway.
So Xiao Yu began to study the script carefully. In order to play the role well, he and Xiao Yun set up a 1:10 time array in the space at night and rehearsed their lines in it. One night lasted for ten days.
Xiao Yun taught him how to put on a calm and experienced expression. Actually, he could just learn from Xiao's father, who always had a calm expression and spoke slowly and deliberately.
Xiao Yu thought about it for a moment, tried to adjust her expression, and learned it after a few tries. Afterwards, she also pondered the male lead's emotions and state of mind repeatedly.
On the day of the audition, thanks to his deep understanding of the character and his outstanding performance, he successfully caught the eye of Director Wang, who immediately decided to cast him as the male lead.
Xiao Yu landed the role, and Xiao Yun breathed a sigh of relief. After this setback, the crew finally got back on track and began intensive preparations for filming.
Because this drama has a strong sense of the era and requires a specific background, the entire series was filmed in a film studio, with almost no location shooting outside the studio.
Even for the scene where the male and female leads fled famine as children, the film studio had those desolate open spaces where they could film directly, which was much better than filming outside on telephone poles or asphalt roads.
Except for Xiao Yu, who was an exception, all the other actors in this drama are the original cast from the first life.
Those veteran actors, including the ones from the company, had all acted in the original owner's first life. These people already had good reputations and weren't the kind of people who would mess around, which is why Xiao Yun had the company sign them in advance.
In its first incarnation, the filming of this drama went very smoothly. Perhaps the director was lucky and had a good eye for talent. None of the actors he chose had any mishaps or setbacks during filming. It also happened to coincide with the popularity of the Republican era, which is why it became a huge hit and won many awards.
Xiao Yun hadn't expected the male lead to get into a car accident in this life. She was quite surprised at the time and even used her personal computer to check the surveillance footage of the accident site and the dashcam footage in the car to see if it was the work of that failed strategy system.
Logically, since the Time and Space Administration over there has already collapsed, the system's mission should be invalidated, or at the very least, it should be recalled.
But Yao Yao said that the person in charge did not have the recall system program in his memory. The other party could only contact the main system. The clone could only return to the main system after completing the task. There was no main system that could control all systems in real time.
In other words, it's impossible to recall these subsystems that have already entered the small world halfway through, so the strategy system still hasn't been found.
This also means that whenever an unexpected situation arises, Xiao Yun will subconsciously think of it.
Unfortunately, none of these previous incidents were true, and this car accident was indeed just an accident. The actor who originally played the male lead was simply implicated by his friend.
His best friend broke up with his girlfriend and insisted on going out for drinks with him. He didn't ask the friend to drink with him, but instead poured out his troubles to him and then drank himself into a stupor.
Although he was conscious, he had driven himself there, so they found a designated driver for his friend.
Unexpectedly, his friend woke up halfway through the journey and started acting crazy, insisting on kicking the designated driver out of the car and driving himself.
The designated driver was quite responsible; he didn't ask the man to get out of the car, but instead called the person who had placed the order. When the original male protagonist received the call, he told the designated driver to keep driving and not to pay attention to his friend.
Then he drove his car alongside theirs and rolled down his window to yell at his friend.
His friend got even more excited and actually reached out to grab the steering wheel from the driver!
The car on the other side swerved suddenly. The two cars were already very close, and he had no chance to dodge in time. As a result, the two cars collided, and all three people were injured.
The male protagonist was the most severely injured due to the direct impact, suffering multiple fractures. His friend also injured his back because he leaned forward during the collision. The designated driver, on the other hand, suffered the least injuries, with only some contusions.
While his friend was in the hospital, the police came and scolded him, telling him to remember to accept punishment after he was discharged.
This didn't happen in the original owner's first life. Although his friend had also broken up with his girlfriend, he had taken on a role and joined another film crew, so he couldn't come out and didn't go drinking with his friend.
As for whether his friend was in a car accident, that's unclear. The plot certainly didn't go into detail about that, since the other party wasn't even considered cannon fodder.
In this life, because of the investment from Jiuxiao Entertainment, the drama "Tianxiang Ye Ranyi" was filmed several months ahead of schedule. Since the male lead was already chosen by Director Wang, he didn't have time to participate in the filming of another drama, which led to this incident. It can only be described as a butterfly effect.
After that, they began filming in seclusion. They could only call their families after filming ended; they couldn't come out.
As filming progressed, the situation described by Zhao Yaqi did not occur. Director Wang, who is skilled at filming large-scale scenes, did not add any grand war scenes this time, but instead focused more on the aesthetics and details of the visuals.
After all, neither the two main characters nor the important supporting characters had any scenes of going to the battlefield, so there was no need to force it in; it would only feel like gilding the lily.
Even if you want to show that feeling of constant gunfire, you can just use post-production dubbing and edit in previously filmed footage. There's no need to film it again and increase unnecessary costs.
The theme song for this movie was still written by Xiao Yu. Director Wang felt that the song he wrote for the previous police and gangster film was particularly good and had a high popularity. As soon as the music started, it would draw people into the scenes in the movie, making everyone more impressed with the film.
Having gained experience from producing several songs independently, Xiao Yu didn't collaborate with anyone this time; he wrote both the lyrics and music himself.
The theme song for this film, titled "The Ashes of the Opera," is very fitting and echoes the main plot. The lyrics have a classical Chinese style and incorporate operatic elements, making it very pleasant to listen to.
The lyrics are:
As the music fades, the lamplight casts a red glow on half of the pavilion.
With flowing sleeves, she sings of all the joys and sorrows of human life.
The drums and gongs have ceased; her faded makeup and tears reflect in the Milky Way.
In plays, who lightly sketches fate?
The guests at the table laughed and talked about how life is all fleeting and meaningless.
I sat in the audience, my longing for you unspoken.
As the curtain rises and falls, half a lifetime of ups and downs drifts with the dust and waves.
Singing of separation and reunion cannot break the cycle of cause and effect in this world.
The curtain rises, and I step onto the stage, draped in frost and snow.
Singing of the helplessness of a heart full of deep affection but an untimely death.
Where the sound ceased, only the lingering echo remained.
Can the audience understand the sorrow of the characters in the play?
When the curtain fell and I removed all my makeup,
Drink a cup of dust, its temperature known only to oneself.
Human affairs are but a stage for a play.
All gatherings and separations are like sand surging between our fingers.
The flute's melody fades, the dawn moon and waning wind sweep across the steps.
Flowers by her temples, their fleeting beauty scattered by the water.
The paper window is cold, and the ink stains have faded the old promises.
Beyond the play, who is adrift in the wind and rain?
People's views on love and hate in plays are superficial.
Who knew that my heart was ashes, with no one to turn to?
The drumbeats are deep, shattering the old flames of the past.
Singing of perseverance cannot fully express the vicissitudes of life.
The curtain rises, and I step onto the stage, draped in frost and snow.
Singing of the helplessness of a heart full of deep affection but an untimely death.
Where the sound ceased, only the lingering echo remained.
Can the audience understand the sorrow of the characters in the play?
When the curtain fell and I removed all my makeup,
Drink a cup of dust, its temperature known only to oneself.
Human affairs are but a stage.
All gatherings and separations are like sand surging between our fingers.
The strings are broken, the lamps are dim, and the stage is empty and silent.
The music ended, the audience dispersed, leaving only longing lingering around the railing.
Our karmic ties are shallow, our dreams are hard to fulfill, and our devoted hearts are all in vain.
The drama of life has faded, and joys and sorrows are now just tales told with a laugh.
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After more than three months of intensive filming, the drama has finally wrapped up smoothly. The actors who participated in the filming got along well during these months and their relationship became much closer. After filming was completed, they all exchanged contact information, and Xiao Yun was no exception.
Although Xiao Yun is a film queen and a wealthy woman, she has never put on any arrogant attitude. Therefore, people who have worked with her have a very good impression of her and find her very easy to get along with.
When Xiao Yun was having dinner with everyone, he jokingly said, "I will never take on scripts with characters who die young again. These few are all like that. My mom has told me to be careful about them. Every time she watches a movie I've made, she says it's too unlucky, and she's always afraid that I'll really curse myself."
Everyone laughed upon hearing this. A veteran actor said, "It's something I need to change. Older people are wary of this kind of thing. I used to always get cast as ruthless villains, and it even affected my son. His classmates said they wouldn't play with him because his dad was a bad guy. Later, I refused to play those kinds of roles anymore, and things got a little better..."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone laughed even louder.
Xiao Yun was naturally not afraid of these things. Not to mention that these things did not exist in this world, even if they did, her divine soul was already at the level of a demon saint, and a single thought could destroy the world. Anyone who wanted to curse her would have to suffer the backlash first, at best losing their life and at worst having their soul scattered.
But since Xiao's mother was one of her mission targets, if the other party didn't like it or felt uncomfortable, she could just stop accepting the assignments in the future. It wasn't a big deal.
In the future, I can try taking on some comedic roles with happy endings. This film should win a few more awards; I should be able to win all the well-known domestic awards. That way, the original owner's only wish will be to take good care of her parents and provide for them in their old age.
This drama is scheduled for the summer season. Post-production and review are still needed, so there's no rush to promote it.
Moreover, a major event is about to happen this year: the large-scale outbreak of the epidemic at the end of the year is coming, which is also the time when the original owner's doctor husband died.
The other person was one of the first doctors to go to provide support. He died on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year due to infection. Because of the lockdown, his family did not see him one last time. What they returned was a handful of ashes.
After returning from the interstellar region, Xiao Yun planned to go to the provincial capital in the central region to investigate and find out where the root of the problem lay.
At first, everyone said it broke out from there, but some said it came from abroad, brought by foreigners who came to participate in the Games.
She plans to thoroughly investigate the root cause, and if she can find the source and eliminate it, that would be the best outcome, since it has caused widespread panic and economic downturn for quite some time.
After the wrap party, she told Xiao Yu to go home first, since there were still two children to take care of at home. As for her parents, she told them that she still needed to finish up with the crew and then shoot a promotional video. Anyway, the old couple didn't understand these things, and they usually wouldn't ask any more questions after hearing the reason.
After Xiao Yu left, she also left the hotel she was staying at and went to the next city. Then she took out a robot and created a blurred version of her appearance.
He put his body into the space and returned to his original form. He then activated the teleportation array with Jia Duo Bao and went to the capital planet there, following the coordinates given by Yao Yao.
Although I had seen the video my son sent me before, it was still different from seeing it in person. The natural energy here is very abundant. Although there was no spiritual energy to cleanse the mind and body, I could still feel a power being infused into my body.
The power of nature can also be used for cultivation, and once mastered, it becomes what is known as superpower. It seems that the orcs here are not demonic beasts, but mutated beasts.
She and Jiaduobao landed at a deserted corner. As soon as they came out, they saw two little beastmen transforming. The two were fighting and got angry, so they turned into beasts and continued fighting.
These two little guys don't transform into ordinary wild beasts; instead, they have something extra on their bodies, and their colors are different.
One of the little tigers is red with gray stripes and has a pair of chubby little wings on its back. Although it can't fly, it flaps its little wings constantly when it fights, which is incredibly cute.
Xiao Yun stared at it for a long time, really wanting to go up and rub it. He wondered if those little fleshy wings would grow bigger as they grew up, eventually turning into... a flying tiger?
The little tiger's opponent was a silver wolf with glossy, silvery-white fur and a small, newly emerging horn on its head, not sharp at all.
The two little ones moved with lightning speed, their fists and palms clashing, creating gusts of wind. They would sometimes launch flying kicks in mid-air, and sometimes engage in close combat, their movements fluid and their teamwork seamless.
Surprisingly, despite the intense fighting, the two were not actually using their full strength; it was more like a routine training session or a friendly exchange of skills.
Pedestrians hurried by from time to time, some stopping to watch curiously for a moment, others walking straight past without glancing at them.
Clearly, this kind of scene is commonplace for these people; it seems to be just an ordinary daily phenomenon.
Perhaps this is intentionally used as a training activity for children, to hone their fighting skills and willpower through daily combat.
After watching for a while, Xiao Yun and Jia Duo Bao, who was also in human form, left. They found a quiet place, drew a barrier, and then Xiao Yun took out his communicator to contact Yao Yao.
"Mom, what's wrong?" His voice came as Yao Yao's image appeared on the screen.
“We’ve arrived at the capital planet, right where you placed the teleportation array,” Xiao Yun said to his son.