After finishing shooting of the countryside apple orchard, I returned to my home, and there was only one week left before the broadcast.

During the rare break today, Lee Junyi was not sleeping or creating music, but reading a script. This script was not brought by Lin Xiyuan, but by Lee Yunzhen. Before Lee Yunzhen successfully turned into a TV drama director, she was a famous short film director. This time her friend Luo Hongzhen was planning to shoot his first feature film.

When talking about Luo Hongzhen, just like when talking about Li Yunzhen, you will think of "Tailing Player Village", the "Perfect Red Silk Cuisine" and the "Hate" who won the Best Short Film Award for the Three Major Korean Film Festivals are Luo Hongzhen's representative works. Luo Hongzhen's works have always attracted attention with novel plots, and have shown outstanding talents in visual expression.

This time, Luo Hongzhen decided to shoot his feature film. He has found an investment and production team and is selecting actors. Luo Hongzhen handed his script to his friend Lee Yunzhen to discuss the candidates for the actors. During a joke chat, Lee Yunzhen mentioned the movie and asked if Lee Junyi was interested. Lee Junyi has always been straightforward, and it is certainly no problem to say that the script is good. So Lee Yunzhen copied a copy of the script to Lee Junyi.

Now, Lee Junzhen is looking at the Liben named "Chaser".

This is a crime film. Li Yunzhen said that Luo Hongzhen himself created this script. Luo Hongzhen walked on a street that was rarely visited one night. He accidentally saw a woman walking on a walking street and suddenly thought: If this woman suddenly disappeared at this time and did not leave any evidence or witnesses, can she still be found? Based on this sudden inspiration, Luo Hongzhen created this police and gangster film with an old theme but a novel perspective.

This story is actually very simple.

The former detective Zhonghao, who has changed his career, runs a massage parlor. Recently, there have been many strange incidents in the massage parlor. The massage parlor disappeared one after another, and the last girl who left was Mijin. The number of the guest who last called Mijin was surprisingly consistent with the number of all the missing girls who were last contacted, but Mijin could no longer contact her. While searching for Mijin, Zhonghao accidentally met a guy named Yingmin. When he saw blood stains on the other party's clothes, he concluded that the person was the culprit for the successive disappearance of the massage parlor and started pursuing him.

Yingmin revealed that all the missing girls were in trouble, and the police station was in an uproar for a moment. However, in front of the already busy police officers, Yingmin smiled calmly and claimed that Mijin was still alive. Everyone had no evidence to arrest Yingmin. The police, who were very troubled by the bloody case, were eager to find evidence related to the British police. Only Zhonghao firmly believed that Mijin was still alive, so he began to search everywhere.

Simply put, it is the story of a former criminal policeman fighting alone to save a missing massage girl. If you want to give the film some noble mission, it can be summarized in one sentence as a heroic story of a man saving his victims at all costs in order to defend his life's dignity.

In fact, the story is not complicated, just like Luo Hongzhen's initial inspiration, it is just a very simple story with a clue index. However, "the pursuiter. It is obviously different from the plot settings of previous crime movies.

Traditional crime videos generally focus on identifying the real person of the murderer. According to this task, all characters and plots are laid out, and the focus is on "Who is the murderer?" or "How to arrest?. However," the "chaser. He took a different approach and clearly explained the identity of the prisoner in the first half of the film. The prisoner even blatantly provoked the police. The perfect crime plan prevents the police from finding any flaws and thus cannot conduct the arrest. Therefore, the film has since staged personal heroism, and the protagonist Yan Zhonghao becomes the key figure in saving the only survivor and solving the mystery of the entire incident.

At the same time, because the style of the film is close to the documentary, it can also be called a side reflection of the Korean society in the century. In recent years, the social unrest caused by vicious cases such as robbery, kidnapping, and serial murder are becoming increasingly critical to the vital interests of citizens. This is also one of the reasons why the previous attack on Lee Jun-yi caused such a large social reaction. Now, many related videos have appeared on the big screen, hoping to sound the alarm for this society with flooding individualism and selfishness, but the effect has not been obvious, and the film has not received enough attention.

This time, Luo Hongzhen put such a snout relationship directly in front of everyone. He knew that the murderer was right in front of him, but there was no evidence to prove that he did it. The protagonist was even more in the last glory of human nature. He believed that the missing massage girl was still alive and worked hard to find the last survivor. The heroine of the film is positioned as a middle and lower profession of the massage girl, and it can be seen that Luo Hongzhen's seriousness in discussing social issues.

After reading this script, Lee Junyi was very interested. Not to mention that this is a police and gangster action film, it is completely different from the scenes that Lee Junyi took before, but in terms of story themes and character charm, it is enough to attract Lee Junyi. Every decision of the protagonist Zhonghao in the film coincides with Lee Junyi's thoughts. It does not refer to the profound wisdom of standing up for justice, but to the courage and determination of daring to love and hate. This resonates with Lee Junyi. Another one in the play: the second meaning of the sword, the murderous demon Yingmin's horn cooking is a huge challenge, such as crazy, having a slacking IQ, playing with the police in applause, which is a huge test for acting.

Whether it is a positive or negative character, Lee Junyi has become unlimitedly interested. He really can't put it down.

However, when discussing with Lin Xiyuan, Kobayashi showed a completely different attitude. Putting aside the role, this script is definitely a small production. Before the director was directed again, Natsuki Imai, who was "Love in the Sky", was the first time to direct the movie independently. The script was written by the director himself. Not to mention the subject matter, it is also a common police and gangster film. The work team is experienced but there are no famous award-winning works. Coupled with the caution of investors, it is destined to be a small production movie, at most a medium production movie.

Lin Xiyuan believes that after Li Junyi took on three TV series and one Japanese movie, the next movie needs to be strong and strong. Whether it is a big production is another matter, and the lineup must be at least powerful.

Li Junyi did not agree with Lin Xiyuan's point of view. For movies and TV, scripts are one of the most important conditions. The script of "Chaser" is undoubtedly excellent enough. If the director can accurately grasp the rhythm of the movie and create a sense of tension, then the movie is undoubtedly an excellent work.

However, Lin Xiyuan made a point. In the country, the directors are definitely the ones who have appeal to the box office, not the actors. Luo Hongzhen is famous for short films in the industry, but this is the first time to shoot a feature film, and there is no appeal among the audience. The box office is indeed not optimistic. What's more, Li Junyi has only had a successful work in the TV series. "Coffee Prince No. 1 Store" has not been broadcast yet, and "Love Kong" has not been released yet, so Li Junyi's box office appeal is completely indescribable. So Lin Pingyuan's worries are not unreasonable.

However, the second reason why Lin Xiyuan opposed it was more sufficient, "Chaser. The two main characters in the play, Zhonghao and Yingmin, are both characters over 30 years old. Even Zhonghao, a retired criminal policeman, needs to be close to 40 years old. Age is not absolute, but what the characters need is a sense of vicissitudes and experience. This is the first challenge facing Li Junyi, who has not yet celebrated his 20th birthday.

Speaking of this issue, Li Junyi was not confident enough and could not say with confidence that he could make up for the age gap by relying on his acting skills. Although his face was not a problem, there were still people in their twenties who were in their seventies and eighties by putting on makeup, so it was not a problem to let Li Junyi show his appearance in his thirties and forties, but the focus was on his eyes, which was the vicissitudes and experience in his expression. This was Li Junyi's biggest obstacle.

Li Junyi knew that Lin Xiyuan was right. But Li Junyi really liked this script, and his intuition told him that if he missed this script, he would regret it. So Li Junyi decided to meet Luo Hongzhen.

Lin Xiyuan knew that Li Junyi had always had his own unique vision for selecting works. He has proved this well in the past year and a half since his debut. So seeing Li Junyi persisted, Lin Xiyuan became more interested in the script. After repeated consideration, Lin Xiyuan still felt that it was inappropriate to take over the script. This was also the first time Lin Xiyuan questioned Li Junyi's vision. However, Lin Xiyuan did not stop Li Junyi from meeting Luo Hongzhen, and also actively set up a line for the two. In Lin Xiyuan's view, Luo Hongzhen would not think that Li Junyi was the suitable person for this role.

Li Junyi hasn't been so nervous about the interview for a long time, maybe because he cared. Of course, Li Junyi hasn't been rejected for a long time, especially when the scripts are delivered to the door. However, Luo Hongzhen directly rejected Li Junyi just like Lin Xiyuan's expectation.

The main reason is as expected. Lee Junyi is less than 20 years old. Even if his makeup skills are sophisticated, his eyes and expressions still cannot show a sense of vicissitudes. If he is not old, he needs absolute acting skills to make up for the age difference. But Luo Hongzhen believes that Lee Junyi does not have this perfect acting skills at present. Furthermore, Luo Hongzhen believes that Lee Junyi is too handsome and not suitable for the role in the movie. This makes Lee Junyi quite amused and cry.

Although he was unwilling to admit it, Li Junyi had nothing to say, just felt very regretful. After that, Li Junyi was unwilling to give up and looked at Luo Hongzhen twice and carefully studied the script. When he met Luo An Town for the third time, he performed a scene in the play in front of Luo Hongzhen. Lin Xiyuan had not seen Li Junyi so devoted for a long time. Even when he was producing the album "King", he did not see Li Junyi's desire expression. Even if he was busy with the shooting of "Coffee Prince No. 1 Store", Li Junyi would occasionally take time to study "Chaser. This script. Li Junyi's investment made Lin Xiyuan helpless and moved.

As the saying goes, "Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage" means full of sincerity, but Lee Junyi's third meeting with Luo Hongzhen was still rejected. Seeing Lee Junyi being rejected three times in a row, Lin Xiyuan was moved and changed his mind. He really hoped that Lee Junyi could get this role, whether it was Zhonghao or Yingmin. Lee Junyi showed too much desire for this script.
Chapter completed!