China Entertainment 1997

On October 18th, Cao Xuan came to Fanxing Film and Television City to make a guest appearance in "The Founding of the Party" presented by China Film Group Corporation for next year.

In fact, it can't be regarded as a guest appearance. The role played by Cao Xuan is Cai E, which is considered a relatively important role in this movie. There are dozens of scenes. Cao Xuan was specially moved out of the schedule for less than half a month.

If it hadn't been for the "Foundation of the Nation" last time, Mr. Han had greeted Cao Xuan early, and he really wouldn't have been able to spare so much time.

In "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", Cai E's scenes mainly include three parts. The first is a virtual confrontation with Yuan Shikai, the second is bidding farewell to Xiaofengxian, and the third is meeting Sun Yat-sen and launching a movement to protect the country.

To be honest, with Cai E's popularity and modern influence, his role in this movie is a bit too much, largely because this role is played by Cao Xuan.

There is no way, even if it is a gift film, the box office must be considered.

If Cao Xuan hadn't really refused, the roles of Liu Huohua and Chen Kun would have to be replaced.

Han Sanye's original plan was to find Cao Xuan to play the role of Duke Wu. Later, when he was declined, he chose Cai E, the military god who protects the country.

However, there is another explanation. Cao Xuan plays Cai E, and Zhang Mazi from "Let the Bullets Fly" is General Cai's pistol captain.

Jiang Wen has something going on in the back of his head...

The director of "The Great Cause of Party Building" is still an old acquaintance, Huang Jianxin. Hearing that Cao Xuan was coming to report, he came to greet him personally.

"Welcome, welcome. Have the hotel arrangements been made? If there is any inconvenience, we will make adjustments."

"Director Huang, there is no need to be polite to me. This is my territory. There is nothing inconvenient."

In any other place, it's hard to say that Cao Xuan wouldn't trouble others, but in Fanxing Film and Television City, it was only for others to trouble him.

"Where is the third master?"

"There's something going on in the capital. Come over the day after tomorrow and ask me to let you know. Wait for him to come and pick you up."

"Hey, you're a heretic,"

Cao Xuan shook his head. The friendship between the two was here. They had cooperated so many times, so there was no need to be so polite.

After chatting for a while, Cao Xuan put away his luggage and went directly to the crew to put on makeup and film.

Cao Xuan arrived not too early, and the Beiyang warlords were basically in place.

Duan Qirui is played by Zhao Benshan, Li Yuanhong's actors Fan Wei and Feng Gong play their ancestors Feng Guozhang, comedian Liu Yiwei plays Duan Zhigui, the eldest son of the Yuan family is Li Dayan, plus Cao Xuan who has to play many scenes with them.

What I knew was that the Beiyang warlords were holding a conference, but what I didn’t know was that they thought they were holding a Spring Festival Gala of the Republic of China...

Feng Guozhang: President, I miss you so much

Duan Qirui: The president is not sick and can only take two steps

Li Yuanhong: Fool, then lie again

Duan Zhigui: President, let me tell you how to make braised pork.

Cai E: Congratulations on your fortune, congratulations on your wonderful life

Yuan Keding: It’s so exciting

Even Lao Zhao himself couldn't help complaining: "When I was filming just now, I looked to the side. Here are people talking about cross talk, over there are people doing sketches, and in the back are people singing and cooking. You think this Republic of China can be so bad? Is it messy?"

This Beiyang Tiantuan is also the most famous group of actors in the movie "The Founding of the Party".

Among them, Cao Xuan and Fa Ge (Yuan Shikai) are the most respected, plus a group of Spring Festival Gala celebrities with high national popularity, which can be said to be the most interesting group of people in the whole movie.

In contrast, although the group of professors and thinkers at Peking University are also big names, their status and influence are much lower. As for the later May Fourth students and major representatives, they are mainly young actors.

Even if it is confirmed that Liu Tianxian, Damimi, and Hu Ge, the top players of Fanxing, will all join, it will not be able to support the overall situation.

For Cao Xuan, apart from Fa Ge and a few Xiangjiang actors who are not familiar with each other, everyone else is an old friend, and it was very lively when they met.

"Third Master, the casting this time is really good, especially Mr. Feng. There is no one in China who is more suitable to play President Feng."

Feng Gong waved his hands repeatedly. It is said that he did not want to play this role at first. Being a direct descendant of Feng Guozhang may be an honor to others, but it made him suffer a lot back then.

Therefore, Feng Gong had a grudge against his great-grandfather and did not want to mention it to the outside world easily. Mr. Han only invited the man here after visiting the thatched cottage three times.

But Cao Xuan was more interested in Lao Zhao and Fan Wei.

Although the two are not openly feuding at the moment, there are still some heart-wrenching words. The whole of China knows that these two golden partners have parted ways.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Han would bring the two of them together again for filming.

To be honest, even if China Film + Gift Film has this ability, Cao Xuan does not have the confidence.

Lao Zhao looked calm, and his chat with Cao Xuan and Fan Wei was no different from before. Fan Wei was much more restrained, mostly just listening and rarely speaking.

The atmosphere in private was lively, and the filming actually went smoothly. The only difficulty was that it was easy to laugh.

Especially Lao Zhao, who is not only the pistachio of the crew, but also a "cancer".

During the filming of Yuan Shikai's Temple of Heaven offering sacrifices to heaven, everyone dressed in handsome clothes and worshiped together in the green screen studio.

Duan Qirui, played by Lao Zhao, was in the first row, but when he kowtowed, his beard fell off. His magical "hum hum" laughter made the entire scene tense.

Cao Xuan usually rarely laughs, but he was taken away this time. When filming, the person he was most afraid of running into was a comedy master like Lao Zhao.

A laugh or an expression can easily seduce people into drama. Just that hum, it doesn't matter how others laugh, but when Lao Zhao smiles, his DNA is triggered, and everyone can't help it.

This may also be a problem for many well-known comedians. Even though he is playing a very serious plot, you just want to laugh when you look at his face.

It is said that Duan Qirui still had a lot of lines in "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party". Later, after Zhao shot a few scenes, the director felt that the laughter was outstanding, so he deleted a lot of them.

Lao Zhao himself joked that he had a hard time playing a high-ranking official, but Huang followed Yuan Shikai around and his lines were all useless.

After Cao Xuan finished filming the Beiyang Warlords scene, he didn't care about other people's scenes, and then went to film the farewell to Xiao Fengxian at the train station.

The actor who plays Xiao Fengxian is none other than the famous Staring Queen - Yang Tianbao.

In fact, the role of Xiao Fengxian was initially cast for Fan Xiaopang, but Fan Xiaopang did not have enough schedule, so he only made a cameo appearance as Queen Mother Longyu.

Cao Xuan hasn't paid much attention to newcomers in the domestic entertainment industry recently, but he has heard about their reputations from others.

Currently, her most important identity attribute is that she is Brother Xiao Ming's rumored girlfriend.

It is worth mentioning that the two have not officially announced their relationship yet. Although there is various material evidence, the two refuse to admit it.

At the same time, Tianbao is not only Brother Xiao Ming's rumored boyfriend. In addition to Brother Xiao Ming, there are also William Chan, Prince Edward, Jay Chou, and Katsuhito Matsuura, the owner of Japan's Ai Hui Records.

The most outrageous thing is Cao Xuan.

You know, Cao Xuan had never met Yang Tianbao before now, and he didn't even know where this scandal came from.

But it's understandable, after all, Boss Cao is so popular because of his status, and actresses who haven't had any scandals with him are embarrassed to say they're popular.

Especially for someone like Tianbao who relied on gossip to get to the top, it would be simply incompetent for his agent not to break the news.

Yang Tianbao entered Japan in 2009. In fact, the resources are pretty good. He signed a contract with Japan's top record group Ai Hui, whose singers include Japan's top divas Amuro Namie and Hamasaki Ayumi.

Ai Hui is also very good to Tianbao. He has a lot of fashion resources and commercial endorsements. He also gave out an album and has cooperated and interacted with several big names.

Rumor has it that Ai Hui favored Tianbao because her boss Katsuto Matsuura liked her.

However, the official statement is that Tianbao was a young model at that time, very popular with the Japanese, and was dubbed the "Goddess of Hong Kong".

It's a pity that this goddess in Hong Kong is not accepted by the people in Hong Kong. Tianbao's album has sold less than 1,000 copies in Hong Kong. The new song did not even make it into the top 100 of the charts, and was ridiculed by the Hong Kong media.

After that, this so-called "Hong Kong Goddess" who was very popular in Japan chose to return to China to develop...

Yang Tianbao's early reputation in Xiangjiang was not good and he was very controversial, so after returning to China, he took advantage of Brother Xiao Ming's success and came directly to the mainland.

She participated in Huayi's "Love in the City" and now plays the role of Xiao Fengxian in "The Founding of the Party" opposite Cao Xuan.

In the cast list of "The Founding of the Party", Cao Xuan is not Ichiban, not because of his role, but because of his role positioning. Regardless of the number of roles, the first one in the cast list is definitely Liu Huohua, and the second one is Chen Kun.

However, in terms of publicity and attention, Cao Xuan is the C position of the entire "Party Founding" crew.

Apart from other things, in the past few days when Cao Xuan came to film, dozens of media reporters came to the crew.

Almost every two days, Cao Xuan would devote half an hour to dealing with reporters.

Naturally, as an actress who plays opposite him, the attention will not be too low. To be able to grab this role, Yang Tianbao and the team behind it must have worked hard before.

"Hello, Teacher Cao, I am Angela baby."

Putting aside his professional attitude and private personality, Yang Tianbao has always been well-behaved and sensible in public, especially in front of a boss like Cao Xuan.

Boss Cao pretended he didn’t know the other person: “English name? Foreign Chinese?”

"I am from Xiangjiang, my Chinese name is Yang Ying, and Angela baby is my stage name."

"Uh, pretty good."

Cao Xuan also didn't understand why he had to give an English stage name when he came to the mainland to develop his career. Is it for the sake of foreign style, or is it still a point of memory?

However, in his opinion, this is hardly a clever move. Many domestic audiences are not interested in English, which means they are very popular with variety shows, otherwise the name will definitely hinder it.

Yang Tianbao really wanted to chat with Cao Xuan for a while, and it was close, but Boss Cao didn't have time to talk to her.

After putting on makeup, I closed my eyes and rested, thinking about the training in the archery class these days.

Next month he will join the crew to shoot "Eagle Eye". He is not worried about close combat. He still needs to be more proficient in bow and arrow. It doesn't matter if he is accurate. His movements must be coherent, quick, concise and powerful.

Looking at the cold Cao Xuan, Yang Tianbao bit his lower lip unwillingly, but did not dare to make any next move.

Most of the men I had met before either coveted her beauty, or were selling off the favor of Brother Xiao Ming and the person behind her. Not to mention how enthusiastic they were, but I had never encountered such a cold reception.

However, Cao Xuan let her see it today.

Regardless of whether she is beautiful or not, Cao Xuan is not interested and will not dump you if she says otherwise.

As for Brother Xiao Ming and the Hong Kong capital behind her, they don't have any strong capital in front of Cao Xuan. Cao Xuan only exchanged a few words of greetings with face, but he didn't give up even if he didn't give face.

Put on your makeup and wait until night falls to start the official shooting.

This scene was shot in which Cai E pretended to be addicted to wine and sex to paralyze Yuan Shikai, and under the cover of his little confidante Xiao Fengxian, he went to Japan on the pretext of medical treatment.

The plot is slightly adapted from historical events. In history, Cai E secretly left Beijing and then went to Japan for medical treatment to carry out a series of connections. This saves a paragraph and goes directly to Japan.

Moreover, according to historical data, it is difficult to say how much true affection Cai E and Xiao Fengxian have.

Perhaps Xiao Fengxian had a crush on Cai E, but Cai E used Xiao Fengxian more, using her as a target to paralyze Yuan Shikai, and by the way, he "falled out" with his family, causing his wife, children, and children to leave Beijing.

There is even a saying that the two are just a simple money transaction, but Cai E likes her more, so they are connected.

But no matter what, Xiao Fengxian did become famous and became a well-known figure in the Republic of China. Xiao Fengxian was mentioned in "Let the Bullets Fly".

Little Phoenix Fairy doesn’t even know that you are still a prostitute?

That's a chicken that's famous in the capital and famous all over the country!

After that, the relationship between Xiao Fengxian and Cai E also became a good story. There are various versions of the legend. The two also became confidants and truly loved each other.

In any film and television version of Cai E, Xiao Fengxian is always around.

"The Founding of the Nation" adopts the most widespread version of the legend, that is, the two were confidantes.

Cai E went to Japan for an excuse, but he couldn't take Xiaofengxian with him to avoid Yuan Shikai becoming suspicious, so he could only stay and leave.

Both of them knew very well that the purpose of Cai E's trip was probably to say goodbye forever, so this parting scene was very touching.

The general is like "the country will be in trouble and the minister will be in trouble in this life." He is reluctant to leave the beautiful woman, but he is also willing to put aside his children's personal feelings and support the other party wholeheartedly for the sake of the righteousness of the family and the country.

"The Founding of the Party" doesn't have many emotional scenes. Sun Yat-sen and his wife are close to each other, and there is also a scene with Liu Huohua, who knows each other and falls in love, and then there are Cai E and Xiao Fengxian.

The separation between the two is full of affection, and at the same time mixed with restraint and the pain of separation, there is still a lot of room for the actors to play.

Then Cao Xuan was taught a lesson by Yang Tianbao.

Yang Tianbao frowned, seemingly affectionate, but in fact his eyes were dull and lifeless, just staring at Cao Xuan with his big Kazilan eyes.

As if to say, I love you, you love me, Mixue Bingcheng is sweet...

"Well…"

Cao Xuan raised his hand and gestured: "I'm sorry, mine, let's do it again."

That's right, Cao Xuan, the majestic Chinese-language Grand Slam Best Actor, who is equally good opposite Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, didn't pick up Yang Tian Bao's scene just now.

Cao Xuan breathed a long sigh of relief and patted his face.

After so many years of filming, it is not like Cao Xuan has never seen actors who are not good at acting, some are even worse than Yang Tianbao.

But as his fame grew, he came into contact with more and more good actors. For many years, there were no actors who could not act opposite him.

Even actors from ancient puppets like Liu Tianxian and Damimi are at least from a professional background and have a lot of filming experience. Their acting skills are not necessarily good, but at least they are not too bad.

So meeting Yang Tianbao today opened Cao Xuan's eyes after a long time, so much so that he almost lost his balance.

However, after all, Cao Daguanren was a professional and excellent actor, and he quickly adjusted his mood. He had given up hope on Yang Tianbao, and did not point to Yang Tianbao as a partner for him, so he no longer went to see Yang Tianbao when filming started. Just play your own role.

But even so, Yang Tianbao still exceeded Cao Xuan's lower limit.

I can’t cry during the crying scene!

The two parted with tears in their eyes. Cao Xuan had tears in his eyes and hugged Xiao Fengxian with mixed emotions. The latter shed two lines of tears with sadness.

Then the filming got stuck here, and Yang Tianbao couldn't cry no matter how hard he cried.

There is nothing Cao Xuan can do about this. The actors he has met in the past may not be good at crying scenes. He can give advice on how to cry more beautifully or more in line with the emotions of the characters.

For an actor like this who can't even cry, what do you ask Cao Xuan to do?

He breaks up the skills and mashes them into pieces, then stuffs them into people's stomachs. They can't even eat them and have to spit in your face.

There is a saying that Cao Xuan has been a drama tyrant for more than ten years, but Jiang Wen doesn't even look down on him. Today he has met his opponent.

Even when he killed Cao Xuan, he never expected that his nemesis on the road to becoming an actor would not be Li Xuejian, Chen Daoming, Oscar winner, Cannes Best Actress, but what the heck, Yang Tianbao...

Fortunately, this was the China Film Group's crew, so Cao Xuan couldn't interfere. If it had been Fanxing's crew, she would have been asked to pack her things and leave.

The original plan for this scene was to shoot for four hours. If things go well, it could be completed in two or three hours.

As a result, because of Yang Tianbao, we were photographed from 7pm to 11pm.

It was almost early in the morning, and the executive director really had no choice. Since the actor couldn't cry, let's use physical stimulation.

Eye drops method!

Since he had never thought of using this thing beforehand, the director could only instruct the stage staff to go to the drugstore to buy it. However, Yang Tianbao said no, and took out a bottle directly from his bag.

Good guy, Cao Xuan is convinced. You should have taken it out earlier if you were ready.

Yang Tianbao blinked his big eyes with an innocent look on his face. It was obvious that the director's suggestion to use eye drops and the actor's suggestion were completely different concepts.

The former means obeying the director's arrangements, and the director is responsible for the blame, while the latter is an actor's own thing and likes to be lazy by doing evil things.

This aspect of the entertainment industry finally made her understand.

Cao Xuan felt that as long as one third of her thoughts were devoted to studying acting skills, it would not be a waste of time.

The executive director took the eye drops and went into battle in person. Next to Cao Xuan, his face was expressionless and his eyes were slightly tearful.

It's not that he cried because of Yang Tianbao.

Instead, you have to maintain the character's emotions, wait until the point is finished, and then take over the scene and start filming immediately, otherwise what will happen if the eye drops dry up.

After all, it was the eyes, so the executive director didn’t dare to apply more eye drops. He applied it once or twice, and then quickly started shooting. As a result, when he turned around, the eye drops were gone and he had to reapply them.

After doing this, I even poured half a bottle in, but it still had no effect.

Either he turned around and did it, or it was leaked in advance. The executive director looked at Cao Xuan and was completely at his wits end.

"Did your eyes absorb it?"

Cao Xuan really didn't hold back this time and showed a wry smile. Seeing that it was already early in the morning, he had no choice but to go up and give Yang Tianbao eye drops in person.

Not only did he give her eye drops, he also put some eye drops himself to feel how to use them, and then thought about his experience, and then showed her how to store the eye drops and release them when she heard the signal.

The conscience of heaven and earth, Cao Xuan did this to himself. If Li Xuejian knew that he was filming like this, he might be kicked out of the school.

However, at least the scene was finally filmed.

Some media who stayed behind stopped Cao Xuan and asked him to evaluate Yang Tianbao. A very complicated look appeared on Cao Xuan's face, and he considered his words.

"She's the most incredible actor I've ever worked with and I'm so impressed with her."

It was so profound that when Cao Xuan planned to go back, he immediately wrote down in his notebook that he would never cooperate with Yang Tianbao in this life.

There are actually many people in this small book, but they are basically all because of their character or grievances. Only Yang Tianbao rose to the top through hard power.

Boss Cao has already had a psychological shadow on her. If he can't offend her, why can't he hide away...