The audition took place in the filming studio.
"Heaven Seeker" was a commercial film with a Xianxia theme. Naturally, it used a lot of special effects. In the green background, the director and several investors stood behind the camera with solemn expressions. They glanced at the three candidates with picky, cautious, and sharp eyes.
Zhou Yuhe took a look and found that only one person in the group had a relaxed and indifferent expression. There was even a slight gloating smile on his face.
Zhou Yuhe recognized him. It was Cai Yuan, the chairman of Yadong Culture.
Yadong Culture was a large international company with strong assets and had invested in many movies and TV series. Originally, the copyright company of "Heaven Seeker" had sold the movie rights to Yadong Culture. Unexpectedly, after this news broke out, it was like a stone that stirred up a thousand ripples. The popularity of the original "Heaven Seeker" skyrocketed, ushering in a second wave.
When the copyright company saw this, he felt that he had sold the movie rights at a low price. Therefore, before the two sides officially signed a contract, he sold the movie rights to three other film and television companies without telling Yadong Culture. They would invest and operate the movie together.
This angered Yadong Culture. However, the two sides had not signed a paper contract, so the copyright company could not be touched legally.
Cai Yuan could not take this lying down, so he bribed three public relations companies and prepared to smear "Heaven Seeker" and the copyright company in public opinion.
Only then did the copyright company realize the seriousness of the problem. They reported it to Zhang An and were scolded badly by Zhang An.
But at this point, they could only settle the matter and hand over the copyright of the TV series to Yadong Culture. They also let him participate in the movie investment.
Therefore, Cai Yuan was probably the only one who felt happy to see the movie suffer.
"Heaven Seeker" told the story of a young man from a cultivation sect, Yuan Tian. He accidentally picked up the cultivation artifact "Heaven Seeker Pearl", which attracted the covetous eyes of many forces in the Three Realms. After the righteous sect defeated the demons, they actually forced Yuan Tian to hand over the Heaven Seeker Pearl. In the Immortal Sect Competition, Yuan Tian's master was killed in order to protect Yuan Tian, and his soul was taken away by the boss. After that, the female lead, Lin Xue, who had been lurking beside Yuan Tian affectionately, betrayed him and stabbed a sword into Yuan Tian's chest.
Yuan Tian was abandoned by the sect that he had always been proud of, his master's body was destroyed, and the woman he loved betrayed him … Under these three heavy blows, the cheerful and pure Yuan Tian's emotions changed drastically. He fell into the devil's path and killed all who stood in his way. For him who had a blood feud, taking back his master's soul from the hands of the devil was the only thing that kept him alive …
The plot was a very melodramatic web novel, but in the days before the rise of fantasy novels, it left a deep impression in the hearts of countless readers and was still regarded as a work of God...
What truly made it a masterpiece was not its advanced writing style, but its core.
Compared to traditional Xianxia novels, or martial arts novels, "Heaven Seeker" could be said to be very "deviant". The righteous people in this novel were not completely righteous. Most of them were sanctimonious people like the sect leader, who sought their own interests under the banner of justice. As for the demons, there were also some chivalrous people who were free and easy and were not restricted by the framework of treaties …
"Heaven Seeker" questioned Dao, righteousness, and righteousness, and used its own unique values to explain the word "chivalrous". The angle was novel and thought-provoking. Countless later generations wanted to imitate his writing style, but unfortunately, they all failed.
Back to the audition itself.
The difficulty of playing the role of Yuan Tian was that this character would become evil.
From the simple and worry-free early stage to the cold-blooded and ruthless later stage, the gap between the two was very big, and it also tested an actor's acting skills.
The audition was divided into two parts. One was the plot where the Yuan Tian just got the Heaven Seeker Orb and didn't know what it was used for. The evil witch Lin Xue wanted to cheat the Heaven Seeker Orb from him.
The other was when the evil Yuan Tian got the news of Lin Xue and ran to the Thousand Ghost Valley. In the end, he didn't find his master and was ambushed by the Demon Lord's forces. Yuan Tian confronted Lin Xue and asked her why she lied to him.
These two plots respectively represented the different personalities of the two stages of Yuan Tian. The actor must grasp the mutual transformation of the two personalities. He must only play the chic and naive young man well, but not the heartless young man; or he must only play the heartless young man well, but not the chic and naive young man well. Neither of these was possible.
The first to audition was Luo Hao.
After the stage was set, he instantly got into the role.
Holding the "Heaven Seeker Orb" in one hand, a large wooden orb, he cautiously hid it behind his back. Luo Hao's handsome face was full of vigilance. "Miss, you suddenly acted, is there a reason?"
Lin Xue played by Ning Qiner was worthy of being called the number one beauty of the evil path. She clearly had a cold and aloof face, but the smile on her face was extremely beautiful. The two mixed temperaments perfectly blended together on her mixed-blood exquisite face. She teasingly stroked Luo Hao's shoulder. Luo Hao couldn't help but shiver, but his face still had the reserved and noble look of a righteous disciple.
"Little brother, the orb in your hand is of great use to me. Can you lend it to me for two days? After two days, I will definitely return it to you." Ning Qiner lightly opened her red lips. Her seductive expression and seductive eyes were almost irresistible to any man in the world.
Luo Hao sneered. He glanced sideways at Ning Qiner, who clearly didn't dress like a righteous disciple. "What if I don't lend it to you? What can you do? "
Ning Qiner curved her lips into a smile. Her hand slowly touched her waist, where there was a hidden sword.
"Then I can only take it by force!"
“CUT！”
The director nodded, and then shook his head.
He couldn't say whether he was satisfied or not. He just lightly tapped the script on his knee twice.
"Let's move on to the next part," he said.
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