84: The final scene of Chapter 84

Zhang Wentang's musical journey came to an abrupt end under the discouragement of Lin Chuyan.

Looking at the over 100 songs uploaded on the other's phone app, Lin Chuyan couldn't help but repeatedly urge his senior to absolutely never let anyone else discover this—otherwise, it would be social suicide.

The two chatted for a while longer, then went their separate ways to apply makeup and prepare for today's scene.

Today was Lin Chuyan's final scene.

In this scene, Zhao Jinpeng finally catches him, and facing the murderer who had harmed his daughter, amidst an internal struggle, two gunshots eventually rang out—

The first shot was Zhao Jinpeng hitting Lin Chuyan, with the bullet injuring his eye and ear, resulting in disfigurement.

The other shot was the police hitting Zhao Jinpeng, ultimately leading to his death.

Regarding this ending, Lin Chuyan could only say that although it was quite a pity, it was already much better than the other versions.

In other versions, the male lead was shot dead by the police, and the criminal not only suffered no consequences but also gloated and thanked the police for shooting...

Three words: completely absurd.

When the makeup was mostly done, there was a sound outside the door.

"Teacher Lin Chuyan, are you ready?"

Director Liu had sent someone to urge him.

"No problem, I'm ready anytime."

As it happened, this final scene was exactly the audition scene that Zhao Jinpeng had voluntarily requested to add back then.

Both sides knew how to perform it, so after simply running through the scene with Zhao Jinpeng, they could prepare to start.

He looked at the special skills on his virtual panel; his "Eye Acting" was at 45 points, and his "Crying Scene" was the most ridiculous, at only 13 points...

He thought about it, gritted his teeth, and simply leveled them both up to 50.

Don't ask, asking means he recently made a small fortune.

Besides that, didn't he have 2 prop cards left?

He looked at the effect of one of the "24-Hour Attribute Experience Cards"—

[This prop can specify any basic attribute to temporarily increase by 100 points, with the effect lasting 24 hours.]

This final scene was the most important highlight of the whole film, and it was also a very crucial scene between him and Zhao Jinpeng. Since Zhao Jinpeng wanted to perform brilliantly, didn't he want to as well?

Why save props for the New Year? No need to say more, he used it directly on his "Acting" attribute.

What kind of feeling did 150 points of "Acting" attribute bring? Lin Chuyan couldn't really say. If he had to describe it, he felt that his understanding of the character was deeper.

Like this character, his previous understanding was just to go to extremes, to make people dislike him more, to hate him more.

How exactly should he do that? He had ideas, but the ideas were too simple, and the character portrayed would likely be too thin.

Now, he knew how to make the character show more details on the path to extremes.

Besides that, he also realized his previous shortcomings, such as lacking explosive power when Acting.

What is explosive power? Isn't it just using one's body, voice, emotions, etc., to do one's best to express the character at the climax of the drama or the critical moment of emotional conflict?

Was there anything more suitable than this scene?

The set had already been arranged.

They had applied to the Shancheng authorities for the venue, and this large area was temporarily theirs for the day.

In the middle of winter, everyone, including the extras in the distance, was wearing short sleeves.

Lin Chuyan looked out, and in a daze, he almost thought it was summer...

This is probably one of the charms of filmmaking.

"Alright, camera ready."

"Action."

Lin Chuyan held a knife to Meng Xinle's neck, and before he could threaten him much, Zhao Jinpeng appeared from behind and kicked him squarely in the back.

Meng Xinle took the opportunity to slip away, and his part ended there.

The scene quickly formed a three-way standoff.

Zhang Wentang and a group of police officers pointed their guns at Zhao Jinpeng, while Zhao Jinpeng pointed his gun at Lin Chuyan.

"You can't kill me... You can't kill me! I, I..."

All the reasons why he couldn't kill him became invalid in the face of the cold muzzle.

The character played by Lin Chuyan soon realized this point as well. Originally looking ferocious, his expression became very interesting. Even before the tears came out, everyone on set heard his wailing.

Before, he might not have acted like this, but now Lin Chuyan had designed such details—this character was first and foremost bold, bad, and cunning.

Therefore, his "crying" also had to be fake in the first place.

Although Zhao Jinpeng didn't break character, he was startled by this wail: This kid, why is he Acting differently than before?

At this moment, Lin Chuyan was kneeling on the ground, starting to apologize to Zhao Jinpeng.

But even the apology seemed to have no new ideas, his mouth just repeating "I'm sorry."

The question was, who was he saying sorry to?

Lin Chuyan had changed the apology to the victim in the script to an apology to Zhao Jinpeng in front of him—

Yes, even at this time, he still had no remorse for the victim.

His so-called "I'm sorry" was just forced obedience under the muzzle of a gun.

This was also a design he made after using the prop card. He discussed it with the director and believed that this could better express the character's lack of remorse.

And then, seeing Zhao Jinpeng's increasingly firm gaze, seeing the latter's originally lowered muzzle slowly lift again, only then did Lin Chuyan's tears truly come out.

Lin Chuyan cried until his face was covered in snot and tears.

It was so ugly...

Idol baggage? It didn't exist.

For no other reason, he just wanted to completely uglify this disgusting character in this scene, leaving the deepest impression on the audience. Even if everyone hated him and scolded him, he didn't care.

In his previous life, Lin Chuyan watched those traffic idols Acting, all of them pretending to be something on screen, not a speck of dust could fall on their faces. He had scolded such people back then. Now that he had lived another life, could he really become the person he hated?

Other traffic idols maintain their image to cater to their fans' feelings.

As for him?

He didn't give a damn, bring on the hate!

Two gunshots!

Lin Chuyan and Zhao Jinpeng fell simultaneously.

"Cut!"

"Good, good."

Director Liu Zhi was very satisfied.

Although he performed well during the audition, he still felt that Lin Chuyan would be overshadowed by Zhao Jinpeng in this scene. He didn't expect the result... it seemed he hadn't lost to the latter at all?

On one hand, it was because Zhao Jinpeng was indeed best at police and crime films. This kind of father role that required handling delicate emotions was honestly not in his comfort zone. On the other hand, Lin Chuyan's performance was indeed good.

Director Liu Zhi thought carefully, it seemed that in the film industry, there weren't many people of this age who could act this well, right?

And recently, this kid had been neglecting his proper work to go release a record. Damn it, he was actually a Singer too!

Director Liu Zhi had listened to it a few times in private, and it was actually not bad!

Where is the logic in this?

And Zhao Jinpeng's feelings were even more different.

This kid is not right.

When auditioning, he had experienced it face-to-face, and it was definitely not like this.

How long has it been? He's improved again? What the hell, is Li Mujian's disciple really that awesome?

This is unreasonable.

Zhao Jinpeng even felt a bit of a crisis: Damn, is he going to be outclassed by this kid?

Looking at the monitor, Lin Chuyan was indeed Acting very well.

As for himself, he didn't know if it was because he had high standards for himself, but he always felt that no matter how he looked at it, it felt off.

Finally, he couldn't help it: "Director Liu, um, how about we do it one more time? Let's get a safety take!"

What else could Director Liu Zhi say? A safety take is a safety take. Although he was the director, he should still listen to Brother Peng.

Lin Chuyan also agreed very much: "Okay, okay, Director Liu, Brother Peng, I suddenly had a new idea just now, what do you think if we act it like this..."

Zhao Jinpeng: "..."