Chapter 132 Kissing Scene
"Reunion?" Lu Yang frowned even deeper when he heard what his junior brother Yang Hao said.

Generally, people who can become directors have their own opinions and their own shooting styles. If ordinary people said this to themselves, Lu Yang would probably get angry.

But the person who raised the suggestion was Yang Hao, who is not only the male lead of the movie, but also an investor and a well-known screenwriter in the circle. He also directed the best-selling "The Richest Tomato" himself.

With such a brilliant record, Lu Yang couldn't help but take Yang Hao's words seriously.

"Junior brother, please tell me first." After thinking it through, Lu Yang's frown relaxed and he said to Yang Hao with a smile.

"Didn't Shen Lian and Hokusai end up living apart from each other? We'd add a scene where they meet again in front of the broken bridge several years later and smile at each other, and the plot would end there. It wouldn't say whether they were together or not, and it would be left to the audience to guess for themselves."

In the past, both "Knife of the Assassin 1" and "Knife of the Assassin 2" were well received by the critics but not by the box office.

The box office of "Knife of the Assassin 1" was only over million yuan, and many people said that it was due to poor publicity and promotion, which is barely a reasonable explanation.

However, "Knife of the Assassin 2" was produced by multiple companies, with a guaranteed promotion and publicity of 3.97 million yuan, and an initial screening of over 2.66 points. However, the final box office performance was only million yuan. It was still a critical success but not a commercial success. It would be a stretch to explain it by saying that the promotion and publicity were ineffective.

"Knife of the Assassin 1" has a Douban score of 7.5, and "Knife of the Assassin 2" has a Douban score of 7.7.

Although the reputation of the movie is getting better and better, the box office is far from expectations, and "Assassin 3" is nowhere in sight.

Yang Hao feels that the box office performance is not strong, and a big reason for this is that the core of "Knife of the Assassin" 1 and 2 are both tragedies, with constant tugs of love, hate, and vengeance in the tragedies. Although they are able to capture people's emotions and make audiences who like the movie like it very much, and often give the movie high ratings, they are just not popular, and have some of the feel of art films.

Martial arts films are already on the decline, and tragedy is a niche film. Given the two factors, Yang Hao would find it strange if the box office was high.

Yang Hao then told him what he had just been thinking about, the reasons why "The Blade of the Assassin" was not a box office hit.

After listening to what Yang Hao said, Lu Yang remained silent and did not reply for a long time, thinking all the time.

"Brother, I have just given you a brief analysis of the box office prospects of "The Blade of the Assassin". You can think about it yourself." After saying this, Yang Hao went closer to Liu Shishi and stayed close to her.

Yang Hao just analyzed to him that "The Blade of the Assassin" might be critically acclaimed but not commercially successful because its core is too tragic, which made Lu Yang feel very conflicted.

If an ordinary person analyzed it for him, he would definitely ignore it.

But this is what Yang Hao, a screenwriter, director and investor with a brilliant track record, said to him.

He must take Yang Hao's words seriously.

"Box office? Word of mouth? Tragedy? Happy ending?" These words have been echoing in Lu Yang's mind. How to choose makes Lu Yang feel conflicted.

"A movie with good reputation may not necessarily attract investment; a movie with good box office will definitely not lack investment," Lu Yang suddenly remembered this sentence.

"Maybe what Yang Hao said is right." After thinking it over again and again, Lu Yang felt more and more that what Yang Hao said made sense.

After thinking through Yang Hao's words, Lu Yang made a decision. He picked up the loud speaker in the field, walked to the center of the crew's venue, and said loudly,
"That's all for today's filming. We're done. Let's all go back to the hotel and rest early."

It is now past four in the afternoon. Although we finished work early, no one has any doubts. We just think that today's filming went smoothly and the scheduled filming plan has been completed.

Others may not know, but Yang Hao probably understood that Lu Yang must have listened to him and was planning to go back to the hotel to revise the script.

"Senior brother, do you need my help?" Yang Hao walked up to Lu Yang and said with concern.

"It's not a big deal. Just modify a few scenes to weaken the tragic atmosphere and create some joyful atmosphere between the male and female protagonists." Lu Yang waved his hand, indicating to Yang Hao that it was okay.

"Okay, if you need help, call me anytime," Yang Hao said. "Ok, I'll call you if you need me," Lu Yang didn't hesitate to be polite with his junior.
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"Senior Sister Shi, you finished work so early today, do you want to go to the movies together?" Yang Hao walked up to Liu Shishi and invited her with a smile.

"No, go and see it yourself," Liu Shishi said and disappeared in a flash.

Seeing this scene, Yang Hao showed a helpless smile.

In the past few days, after the crew finished work, Yang Hao has invited Liu Shishi several times, but was rejected every time.

When we were on the set, he looked at me with great affection, but once we were done with work, he turned hostile and ruthless.

This is obviously a sign of being on guard against me and treating me as an outsider.

Everyone says that Liu Shishi’s acting skills are not good, but Yang Hao has observed over the past few days and found that is not the case.

Judging from the speed with which she enters and exits the role, Yang Hao feels that Liu Shishi's acting skills are still on point.
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The next day, Senior Brother Lu Yang showed up at the crew on time. He was full of energy and had an excited look on his face. It seemed that he was very satisfied with the changes made to the script.

During the morning shoot, Liu Shishi successfully got into the role again, and there was a hint of love in her eyes as she looked at Yang Hao.

It was afternoon, and Lu Yang called Yang Hao and Liu Shishi over.

"Come on, let's add a kissing scene today," he said and handed the script to Yang Hao and Liu Shishi.

"Add a kissing scene?" Yang Hao and Liu Shishi were both stunned when they heard this.

Changing and adding scenes temporarily is a normal thing for the crew, and the two of them were not surprised, but adding a kissing scene made them a little stunned.

Yang Hao knew that this was probably the result of Lu Yang modifying the script last night.

Seeing the two people who were slightly dazed, Lu Yang laughed in his heart. In fact, on the first day of the crew's filming, when he saw Yang Hao sticking to Liu Shishi, Lu Yang planned to find an excuse to do some ambiguous scenes to help his junior brother.

You should know that your junior brother is a big money sponsor. Helping him is helping yourself.

Modifying the script now and helping his junior brother would definitely kill two birds with one stone.

There were always little flirtations between Yang Hao and Liu Shishi on the set, and Liu Shishi was not too resistant to kissing scenes.

There was no suggestion of finding a kiss substitute, which of course made Yang Hao happy to see happen. He agreed wholeheartedly and was very happy.

In Liu Shishi's blind spot, Yang Hao secretly gave Lu Yang a thumbs up, and Lu Yang smiled back.

At this time, Liu Shishi looked intently at Yang Hao's resolute and handsome face, and thinking of the upcoming kiss scene, she suddenly felt a little moved for no apparent reason.

She found that Yang Hao looked particularly handsome today.

He is rich, handsome, has resources, and is still so young. He is truly a perfect male god.

"Action"

As the camera started filming, Yang Hao and Liu Shishi hugged each other, put their mouths together, and kissed passionately.

(End of this chapter)