599: Chapter 599 Let's Dance

Yang Xiaozhou felt he had still underestimated Lin Chuyan's confidence in "ne zha", or perhaps it was a mysterious kind of confidence—this guy was too arrogant, how could he even say things like "From now on, everyone will only think of the Demon Child version of ne zha"? It was incomprehensible, even as a director himself, he couldn't understand it.

However, as things stood, the development was indeed very stable—just as Lin Chuyan had said, "ne zha" hadn't been affected by any public opinion at all.

There were several reasons for this.

First, if you only target "ne zha" to criticize, the production team might have a hard time fighting back. But when you attack both, as Lin Chuyan said, the audience will naturally compare the two. Once compared, the so-called "ugliness" of "ne zha" really wasn't a problem at all compared to "new year painting boy"... the art style of the latter was truly too outrageous.

Second, Lin Chuyan's fans weren't pushovers, and each of them had strong fighting power. With their Idol's company releasing a movie, how could they allow others to slander it at will?

This matter didn't even require "attacking back"; it just required presenting facts and reasoning: You're comparing "ne zha" with other versions of ne zha? Fine, then don't just compare it with one, let's just pull them all out and take a look.

As a result, after pulling them all out, people found that the animated images from each period were very different, the art styles were uneven, and each was doing its own thing. In fact, the earliest version was just a chubby baby, which also couldn't be called good-looking.

Third, that group of audience members who watched the preview screening also had something to say. Others might not know if "ne zha" was good, but didn't they know? Damn, where did this article come from? Trying to stir up trouble without even watching it? The little ne zha's appearance was clearly very fitting for the "Demon Pill" identity, okay! Want to see a handsome guy? It's not like there isn't one, Ao Bing is right there!

In short, the impact of this incident was that "new year painting boy" had already fallen into a whirlpool of public opinion before it was even officially released. And "ne zha", after opening pre-sales, continued the knockout as if nothing had happened.

Thinking back to two months ago, when both films had just set their release dates, the production team of "new year painting boy" was still thinking about going head-to-head with "ne zha"... no, they hadn't even met yet, and it seemed like they were about to be carried away?

Lin Chuyan, who had successfully predicted the public opinion, was still in Los Angeles filming "mr. & mrs. smith".

This film had been shooting for almost half a year, and today it was finally wrapping up.

Coincidentally, this final wrap-up scene was still a Dance. For a moment, the veterans in the production team felt a bit like they were dreaming back to the days of "la la land".

Lin Chuyan also found it very interesting. The most coincidental thing was that this Dance was very similar to the one he had used when he proposed under the starry sky.

The only difference was that the male and female leads in "mr. & mrs. smith", having just learned of each other's identity as assassins, were in the "killing each other" phase, so the dancing seemed very "hardcore".

Both in terms of Lines and Dance steps.

Ruan Xingyu: "What is your decision?"

Lin Chuyan's tone sounded like he was deliberately picking a fight, wanting to make the other person feel sad. He curled his lips upward, looking somewhat smug, and enunciated every word clearly: "I, want, a, divorce!"

Once these words were out, he felt as if he had won a great battle.

Ruan Xingyu feigned calmness: "Fine. You proposing to me here can be considered a beginning and an end."

Lin Chuyan walked to the opposite side of the table where she was sitting and pulled out a chair: "Can I sit?"

"No."

Lin Chuyan sat down.

Just doing the opposite in everything was the right way; happiness was just that simple.

After some dialogue, Lin Chuyan began to invite her to Dance.

With the same Dance moves, how could one Dance out a different feeling? If "la la land" was about romance, then "mr. & mrs. smith" was about brutality. However, there was a sexiness within that brutality.

Lin Chuyan took Ruan Xingyu's hand and pulled hard, and Ruan Xingyu fell into his arms.

After the rough action came a slight softening; this contrast made his character appear more vivid: "Will this story have a happy ending?"

She was clearly so close to him, yet she was speaking cruel words, making people doubt her sincerity: "Only unfinished stories can have happy endings."

After saying this, Ruan Xingyu turned her head to look at him, her eyelids lowered, then she slightly lifted her chin. She was like a proud swan, showing off her innate pride.

So he became angry, like a male animal that had been fiercely rejected after showing affection.

His Dance steps moved forward, forward, and continued to move forward; this was another form of attack.

She retreated again and again, then bumped into the wall.

He pulled her up, held her in his arms again, and held her even tighter. They looked into each other's eyes, their noses almost touching, drifting in and out of contact. They smelled each other's breath, and silent hormones were entangled.

The Dance continued.

She had a contemptuous smile on her face: "Satisfied?"

He responded with actions. His left hand wrapped around her waist, his right hand slid down from her waist, reached into the tactical thigh holster tied to her firm thigh, pulled out a small knife, and tossed it away.

She didn't want to be outdone, her right hand wrapped around his neck, and her left hand also began to grope downwards—in a place the camera didn't capture, she seemed to have also found a weapon.

"That's natural, baby."

A perfectly timed dirty joke.

Because of the setting of the male and female leads as an old married couple, this dirty joke didn't seem sleazy or abrupt, but instead added to the mood.

She asked, whispering in his ear: "Why do you think our marriage failed? Because we lived our own lives? Or did lies destroy everything?"

"I have a theory, just formed."

"I can't wait to hear it."

"It was you who killed our marriage." He criticized mercilessly, "You treat marriage like a job. Reconnaissance, planning, and then execution."

"And you are avoiding it."

"So what do you care about? Am I just a cover to hide your work?"

Facing his sincere gaze at this moment, facing his questioning, she suddenly softened. All lies disappeared at this moment, her voice was very soft, but very firm: "Who said you were a cover?"

Lin Chuyan's breathing seemed to pause for a moment, and his voice suddenly became lighter: "Am I not?"

The Dance steps continued.

Agile, elegant, all the rough movements were gone, and the visual experience suddenly changed from "mr. & mrs. smith" to "la la land".

Who said that "loving and killing each other" requires using various weapons to shoot at each other, punching and kicking, and then kissing? In this scene, Lin Chuyan demonstrated the changes in Dance and the clash of language—who knew that these two states of "loving and killing each other" could be switched so smoothly?

Many of the staff watching on set were laughing: I never thought that watching people show their affection would be such an interesting thing. Director Lin, why don't you stop calling "Cut", and just Dance for a while longer?

"Cut!" Director Lin was very angry now, he didn't care about the onlookers; finishing the shoot early and going back to the hotel was the serious business.

He ran back to the monitor to watch it twice, and after shooting four more takes, this final scene finally satisfied Director Lin.

"That's a wrap!"

Everyone on set erupted in huge cheers.

Lin Chuyan held his wife, and at the same time announced a piece of news to everyone: "Spring Festival Movie Season, I, Lin Chuyan, am back!"