Don't think that Zhang Yuanjun's reputation as the number one niche student in the Mainland is very useful.
In the eyes of a major international company like Mercedes-Benz, Zhang Yuanjun is their tool man.
Take it seriously, but if you want Mercedes-Benz to change its marketing strategy or upgrade Zhang Yuanjun's contract, don't even think about it.
Mercedes-Benz even suspected that Zhang Yuanjun directed and acted in the play.
Can’t afford to give away a car to Mercedes-Benz?
But Mercedes-Benz won't do that.
They held a two-hour meeting overnight, and the response strategy they came up with was just four words - let it go.
Just let Zhang Yuanjun drive his Volvo around the world, Mercedes-Benz doesn't care at all.
And judging from the information communicated so far, Zhang Yuanjun bought this Volvo last year before he graduated. Looking at the news of the past year, this car has a high appearance rate. There should be no threatening drama directed and acted by Zhang Yuanjun.
Besides, how could there be such a stupid person who would sign a contract on the first day and play with it the next day without even pretending for a few days?
Since Mercedes-Benz doesn't care, Zhang Yuanjun has nothing to say, so what should be done is still the same.
So much so that a week later, Zhang Yuanjun met the relevant Mercedes-Benz staff again for filming an advertisement, and both parties made a tacit agreement not to mention the matter.
This advertisement is said to be a blockbuster, but in fact the big thing is the product. As the spokesperson, Zhang Yuanjun only has to sit and talk.
Zhang Yuanjun was sitting across from someone in their 4S shop, and then read his lines:
"You can't resist this kind of attraction. Wow, this feeling of cornering is so beautiful. It's full of power and easy to do. It's so perfect. We seem to be integrated into one. Don't believe it? Come and try it too." After finishing, Zhang Yuanjun put a key on the table.
Zhang Yuanjun read this paragraph five times to facilitate later editing before he passed it.
From the time Zhang Yuanjun sat down to the time he finished filming, it only took 20 minutes.
"Okay, passed." The advertising director shouted.
After shooting the video commercial, Zhang Yuanjun will shoot a promotional poster outdoors with the actual car.
All the filming work was completed within one day. The brand told Zhang Yuanjun that the advertisement would be released nationwide after the National Day, and the new car would be released in November. Zhang Yuanjun would need to be on-site to support the brand.
On the 23rd, the penultimate day of the Shanghai Film Festival, Zhang Yuanjun finally arrived in Shanghai.
Since the opening of the film festival on the 16th, Zhang Yuanjun has been in the capital and has no time to look south. He came here today for no other reason than "Buried Alive" will be screened at the film festival. As the leading actor, he must be present.
The movie tickets were snapped up by Zhang Yuanjun's fans three days ago.
Many colleagues will also go to the screening today to watch the movie. This is the first domestic debut of "Buried Alive". Colleagues are curious about how this 20-year-old made it into Hollywood.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the film screening started on time.
Zhang Yuanjun is sitting in the front row, with Jackie Chan on the left, film director Rodrigo Cortez on the right, and insiders such as Fan Bingbing and Huang Xiaoming in the past.
He didn't feel very good watching his own acting, it was very awkward, so he felt uncomfortable sitting there, and would talk to Jackie Chan from time to time.
Jackie Chan naturally saw the reason for his restlessness and smiled: "Don't tell me, I still feel awkward when I watch myself acting on the screen. I think I can do better, and I wonder if a different approach would be effective." It will be better. But I'm not as serious as you are now, don't worry, this feeling will become less and less the more you act."
After Jackie Chan finished speaking, he started watching "Buried Alive" and whispered to Zhang Yuanjun while watching it.
When director Rodrigo Cortez met his idol Jackie Chan, he had no chance to strike up a conversation.
Jackie Chan even joked: "I can actually play such a role."
Judging by his age, it is not impossible for 53-year-old Jackie Chan to act in "Buried Alive". This movie has no age requirements for the protagonist.
But Zhang Yuanjun said: "Audiences all over the world want to see you fight."
Jackie Chan smiled and asked him how he came up with the idea of "Buried Alive".
Zhang and Cheng were whispering to each other, while Huang Xiaoming beside Jackie Chan was scratching his head.
After finally sitting together with Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan only talked to Zhang Yuanjun. He can only focus on the big screen.
Although Zhang Yuanjun is his junior, 8 years younger than him, according to media reports, they are both niche actors.
There is strong competition.
For example, for the Mercedes-Benz endorsement a while ago, Mercedes-Benz considered him, but finally chose Zhang Yuanjun.
Moving forward, Pepsi also considered him and Zhang Yuanjun at the same time for Pepsi endorsement in April, but this time he won.
Huang Xiaoming was shocked when he watched Zhang Yuanjun's performance in "Buried Alive". This scene was filmed last year and Zhang Yuanjun was 21 years old.
Huang Xiaoming asked himself whether he could perform as well as he does on the big screen when he was 21 years old. The physical expression of that despair was too real.
It was as if Zhang Yuanjun was really trapped and died in that coffin.
This is of course thanks to the director for capturing this sense of reality, but we also need to see the actors perform this sense of reality.
However, Huang Xiaoming was shocked, but he didn't feel that he was inferior to Zhang Yuanjun at all. He thought to himself: "Give me time to prepare, I will not be worse than him in this kind of scene."
But he still had a very struggling question in his mind: "If a role like this is given to me, can I sacrifice my image like him and make myself disgraced?"
Zhang Yuanjun made his debut with Gui Hai Yi Dao, and then Yang Guo. Both roles were handsome guys, which attracted Zhang Yuanjun's first batch of fans. However, Zhang Yuanjun later changed his mind and lost his image and played a less good-looking Li Jiahui. In "Buried Alive" Furthermore, John Yong is a disgraced and embarrassed character. When he breaks down emotionally, he sheds a lot of tears and has no image at all.
Huang Xiaoming was asking himself in his heart whether he could abandon his image and play such a role.
He didn't know how to answer himself.
The 95-minute film was screened quickly, and the audience was very considerate and gave warm applause.
During the brief sharing after the screening, the reporter first asked director Rodrigo Cortez what preparations he had done for "Buried Alive".
Rodrigo told reporters through a translator: "We made 7 very unique coffins in the preparation stage, each of which was prepared for the convenience of camera shooting. We put a lot of thought into these 7 coffins. And Zhang is here Before the filming started, he locked himself in a small secret room, lacking water and food, and spent a week like this. Just to find the feeling of John Yong being trapped in the coffin, Zhang paid a lot for this drama."
Many people in the audience, including Huang Xiaoming, understood this.
"If there is a role like this, I can do it." More than one actor in the audience thought so.
Domestically, Zhang Yuanjun’s home field must be dominated by him. Rodrigo Cortez also understood this and kept exaggerating Yuanjun at the exchange meeting: “He is a very good actor, and he will definitely make a breakthrough in Hollywood.” own career.”
Of course Zhang Yuanjun has to praise it. Although he is an investor and a starring actor, no one can deny the credit of the director.
"Will "Buried Alive" be introduced into China?"
This really bothered Zhang Yuanjun, but he still said: "It should be screened in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan first. I don't know yet when it will be released in the mainland."
As an actor, he does not need to answer the question of distribution and screening. China Film and Huayi will naturally worry about domestic screening.
However, the domestic release of "Buried Alive" did encounter some resistance.
At the end of the activities of "Buried Alive", Zhang Yuanjun left the show. He will not attend tomorrow's closing ceremony because he has received a notice from Yu Feihong that the rainy season in Yunnan Province has passed and the crew is preparing to return to Yunnan Province to start filming.
(End of chapter)
