Xiao He sensed Liu Rulan's worry and smiled helplessly: "Sister Liu, think about it another way. We've gotten a big production for free this time, so it's not a loss, is it?"
Since it's a project that promotes a particular actor, Xiao He believes the investment cost won't be low, and the script quality will likely remain stable.
"Don't worry, send me the script first."
Since it was just to repay a favor, he didn't care that the production team cut all his scenes in the end. After all, Professor Zhong had helped him win an award, so spending a little time to repay a favor wasn't a loss for him.
"Okay, sure."
Liu Rulan sighed, "Think about it tonight and give me an answer as soon as possible. Then I'll discuss with He Wenming how to adjust your filming schedule for 'Time Confrontation'."
Fortunately, Xiao He plays a villain in "Time and Space Standoff," a ruthless and taciturn character with few dialogue scenes and many action scenes. The production team is also mostly composed of their own people, so they had no problem adjusting the timeline.
"good."
Xiao He remained remarkably calm.
A few minutes later, Xiao He received an email from Liu Rulan.
Xiao He opened the script on the tablet next to him and quickly flipped through it.
The script is called "Making a Mistake," and the core plot is a story of "soul swapping."
Speaking of which, this kind of wildly imaginative plot can be seen in many novels in China.
However, the South Korean side actually took the use of the film script to its extreme.
An accident led to a killer and an ordinary office worker swapping souls.
The assassin's soul entered the body of an ordinary office worker, while the ordinary office worker entered the assassin's body.
From that moment on, the gears of a life out of sync began to turn.
—According to the usual formula, the story is usually told from the perspective of a top assassin becoming an ordinary office worker. Then the audience watches how he enters the workplace, solves problems in the way of an assassin, bullies his boss, takes care of his colleagues, changes his life as an office worker, and finally begins his life of enjoyment.
However, the story is told from the perspective of this ordinary office worker.
The protagonist, Zhu Feng, was originally an ordinary office worker whose life was unsatisfactory and who was defeated by work and reality.
He lived an honest and upright life for the first half of his life, never daring to kill a chicken. He was timid and cautious, and life wore down his edges. He dared not utter a word, but his life became increasingly stifling and frustrating.
At work, he has unscrupulous colleagues and a shameless boss who exploit and waste his time, leaving him physically and mentally exhausted. In his personal life, his wife, with whom he has been in love for many years, has gradually become indifferent to him and has developed feelings for him, suspected of having an affair.
His life was uneventful and without any hope.
For countless days and nights, the pent-up frustration and pain within him had nowhere to go. Even when he tried to numb his mind with cigarettes and alcohol, his body would start to react abnormally, telling him that he was no longer young and healthy. The pressures of life made him afraid to even get a medical check-up, feeling that he had no right to be sick.
In an accident, Zhu Feng swaps souls with a young assassin.
This young assassin was a rich second-generation heir who killed for fun. His daily life was extravagant, with money and women readily available. His life was practically perfect!
Zhu Feng never dared to dream of such a life before!
When he went back to find his own overworked body, he discovered that it had suffered cardiac arrest due to excessive drinking and had been rushed to the hospital, where it was now lying unconscious in the ICU.
In other words, he can't go back anytime soon, and even if he did, he might end up in a vegetative state.
Now, he has no choice but to go with the flow and become the new owner of this body!
After a moment of confusion, Zhu Feng was overjoyed. A young and healthy body, a life of wealth and power... wasn't this a completely new life?!
At the same time, Zhu Feng unexpectedly discovers that this body is plotting a new murder, and the target is none other than his boss!
Thinking of the humiliation he suffered at the company and his current identity, Zhu Feng gritted his teeth and decided to use his current identity to kill his former boss and avenge his past self.
And so the story begins...
Although the protagonist of this script is Zhu Feng, his soul is transferred to the body of an assassin. So, the seemingly protagonist, the office worker, is actually the second male lead, the role played by Xiao He, while the actor playing the assassin's body is the real male lead.
Furthermore, while reading the script, Xiao He discovered that although the character of this office worker seemed to be the "protagonist," all the frustration and humiliation actually needed to be acted out by him. On the contrary, the scenes with the assassin's body were all about being cool, domineering, and awesome, and were enjoyable all the way through. Even in the final fight scene, he won a round because of his good physical condition. So, the script actually reasonably transferred the embarrassment and frustration to the second male lead actor, and the lead actor only needed to be handsome.
For example, in the scenes before the protagonist Zhu Feng swaps souls, he is a slovenly middle-aged man, a corporate slave who is unhappy with his life. At work, he is treated like a dog by his boss, has no human rights, is cowardly and swallows his anger. At home, he is also an incompetent husband with no voice, lives in a separate room from his wife, and spends his days smoking and drinking. He is in a completely decadent state.
And all of these scenes belong to Xiao He.
After the soul swap, Xiao He plays a "vegetative" person in bed, lying there from beginning to end. Only at the very end does the plot twist occur, and in the finale, he takes on the role of an assassin and fights with Zhu Feng for control of his body...
Just as Liu Rulan said, this script is definitely a "supporting role".
Xiao He felt frustrated, but others got to show off.
This assassin's villainous style does indeed have some of the flavor of Xiao He's early work, Mu Ze—simply enjoying killing and enjoying art.
The plot of "Mistaken Identity" is somewhat similar to the absurdity of an honest man being forced into a dangerous situation, causing a ruckus, and then returning to his original state. It combines comedy and dark satire to explore social issues and human nature. The only pity is that the forced happy ending also shows some of the cultural incompatibility of the Korean version after entering the Chinese market, and the style of the script is relatively disjointed.
Xiao He guessed that the production team wanted to promote a member of the royal family because he had been in the limelight recently, so they wanted him to play a villainous role similar to the protagonist.
Hey, this is interesting.
Replicating his famous character's personality and then casting him in a supporting role—it all seems like a replacement.
It's no wonder Liu Rulan was somewhat worried.
But Xiao He found it unexpectedly interesting.
How can this kind of correspondence between the script and the outside world not be an interesting challenge?
In the story, Zhu Feng, in the body of an assassin, kills the real assassin and takes his place. In reality, would this guy have such good luck?
As Xiao He pondered, his fingers occasionally tapped the tablet, and finally a playful smile appeared on his face.
He took out his phone and called Liu Rulan again.
"Hey? You haven't already made up your mind, have you?"
Liu Rulan's voice was filled with surprise.
"Yes, I'll take it."
Xiao He swiped his finger across the screen, his gaze landing on Zhu Feng's name, and said casually.
"An incompetent husband, a frustrated killer... I've never played these roles before, I'm a little curious."
Liu Rulan: "..."
So, with so much script content, you're just focusing on these two tags?!
