Chapter 236: The Man With His Own Bgm
“And there’s BGM?”
Which role open audition messes with background music? Qi Yunming and Peng Chao made eye contact, already knowing this kid likes to do fancy stuff.
Singing with some accompaniment is one thing, but how is performance also arranged with accompaniment? Music people are really extravagant…
The nearby already selected Zhang Lingye and others had something to say: there’s BGM, where’s mine?
Why does only Qi Yuan have it and they don’t? Being partial even here, right? Yu Wei understands special treatment.
This really isn’t Yu Wei doing special treatment. In the movie, Yi Jian Mei is Yuan Hua’s exclusive BGM, turning a sorrowful song into an execution tune.
Of course he has his own considerations. This song creates a special comedic effect in the movie precisely because of the contrast.
People who have heard this song in advance are mostly attracted by its classical and deep melody and singing style, never thinking toward the comedy level.
But the movie uses the song on Yuan Hua. Besides fitting the scene, this “using sorrowful scenery to set off the musical emotion” handling is the core of the comedic effect.
If Yi Jian Mei directly appears as BGM in the movie, its comedic effect would instead be weakened.
Because the audience doesn’t know the seriousness of the song itself, the contrast punchline would also be greatly discounted.
So Yu Wei thinks very clearly: today is just a demonstration. Later, he will release this song as a single in advance for everyone to listen, letting netizens first analyze it as serious music.
Then, when it appears as an execution tune, there will be that unexpected yet seamless echo, maximizing the comedic effect.
He sent an audio file to the staff, signaling Qi Yuan to start performing. This scene is best enjoyed with BGM.
“Will this work…”
Qi Yuan was still a bit confused. Making him perform so exaggeratedly, with a BGM too—sure this isn’t some new public execution?
“You’ll know if you try.”
Yu Wei figured it out: Qi Yuan says he’s a star of the future, but in reality he’s still hesitant.
If he had half of Qi Luo An’s belief in himself, he would have taken off by now.
With words said to this point, Qi Yuan had no reason to drag it out further. Yu Wei doing this probably really has his deep meaning.
When the beautiful prelude of Yi Jian Mei rang out in the audition room, everyone was stunned. Can a background music be of such high standard?
Yu Wei really has a big hand.
The people present still understand music. As soon as the prelude of this song rang, they knew it was not simple, especially the older judges on the panel—this song’s arrangement is very retro, sounding just right no matter how you listen.
But a song with such a sorrowful musical style, used as background music for a comedy film—really appropriate?
Soon, their gazes turned to Qi Yuan who was performing. Qi Yuan also felt this song’s musical style was great.
But he had no time to mind the song and could only continue performing along with the melody.
After hearing Qiu Ya’s reply, Qi Yuan’s expression went from expectation to stiffness, his mouth twitching as he tried to maintain decency.
But his voice gradually went off-key, finally turning into a whimper. He knelt in the “snow”, fingers deeply inserting into his hair, shoulders trembling violently.
Perhaps because the background music added a boost, they felt this Yuan Hua was especially miserable. Qi Yuan clearly learned something from Yu Wei just now.
It’s coming, it’s coming.
“Snowflakes drifting
North wind howling
Heaven and earth a vast desolation.”
A slightly clear voice rang out. The simple two lines instantly sketched a winter scene of vast heaven and earth desolation. Everyone seemed to feel the biting cold and boundless loneliness from it.
Listening to the song, Qi Yuan only felt this snow scene seemed really in a windy snowy realm. In surprise, he recalled Yu Wei’s performance just now.
Almost without thinking, Qi Yuan tilted his head up, as if snowflakes were really falling on his face.
His Adam’s apple rolled, tears shimmering in his eyes but not falling, perfectly expressing Yuan Hua’s forced dignity and complete heartbreak.
“No—! Qiu Ya—!”
Originally thought this hysterical shout would be very exaggerated, but Yi Jian Mei’s melody cooperated perfectly with his performance.
Director Qi Yunming’s body, originally leaning on the chair back, unconsciously leaned forward, surprise flashing in his eyes.
How hadn’t he discovered his silly son performed so well? It has to be Yu Wei— one BGM actually elevated the impression so much.
It does need to be exaggerated. With background music, if this plot were performed calmly, it would feel out of place instead.
Qi Yuan couldn’t see his own performance effect, but he felt it should be good. When shouting those two lines just now, he seemed to grasp the essence of Yuan Hua’s role a bit.
In this phone booth scene, Yuan Hua tastes rejection for the first time. This is not just emotional rejection, but the beginning of his life’s downfall.
This kind of major turning point in a role’s life needs exaggerated handling. Looks like Yu Wei’s role performance ability is above his…
Crucially, this song is really good. Qi Yuan’s audition ended, but the song was still playing. The people present subconsciously wanted to listen to the end.
“True feelings like plum blossoms blooming
Cold ice and snow cannot bury
Blooming on the coldest branch
Seeing spring walk toward you and me.”
Only when they heard the iconic lyrics did they realize that this song was Yi Jian Mei, which Teacher Yu Wei wrote in the book that day.
Peng Chao and Lu Zhou didn’t pay much attention to Teacher Yu Wei’s book, but they really did know this song, after all, the dirty jokes in that book were quite popular at the time.
Although Teacher Yu Wei recorded this song simply, everyone could clearly feel the weight of the song; with lyrics and music of this quality, it would be hard not to become popular.
“The score quality is really high, as expected of Teacher Yu Wei.” This was indeed what Peng Chao was thinking; having a top tier musician in the movie crew was truly luxurious.
“It’s not really the score, it’s Yuan Hua’s individual punishment song.”
Yi Jian Mei has no other purpose in this song; it only appears when Yuan Hua comes on stage, so it really can’t be considered traditional score.
A song of such high quality used as an exclusive song for a supporting role, is that real?
Qi Yuan’s eyes went straight upon hearing this; if arranged this way, it would bind Yuan Hua’s role with this song.
As soon as Yuan Hua appears, this song plays—what a man who comes with his own BGM.
When the time comes, the more popular the song gets, the more popular he gets; is there such a good thing?
Hearing this, he even wanted to kowtow to Teacher Yu Wei; the food was fed right into his mouth, as if afraid he would go hungry.
Fei Hong and others felt a bit unbalanced, but then they thought, Teacher Yu Wei had carried them many times, and this seemed to be Qi Yuan’s first time.
Triggered the big guarantee…
But it wasn’t over; Teacher Yu Wei also casually talked about his arrangements for this song. When he heard that the song was planned to be released separately before the movie, Qi Yuan’s eyes went even straighter.
He had already made a huge profit by making this song Yuan Hua’s individual song; if he could also sing it, wouldn’t that make him completely take off!
Not only would it strengthen the connection between the role and the song, he could even get double the popularity—once from the movie, once from the song, even producing a 1+1>2 effect.
After success, things like unfollows or lows wouldn’t exist at all; he could rely on the role and this song to eat for a lifetime.
Turns out eating “Yu leftovers” is so sweet; if he had known earlier, he would have surrendered from the start, no need to struggle for half a day.
“Can you let me sing this song when the time comes?”
At this point, Qi Yuan had to recommend himself; for his individual song, it would definitely have the best effect if he sang it himself.
The opportunity was right in front of him; he must seize it.
Hearing this, the others didn’t find it unexpected; from a comedy effect perspective, it would definitely be funnier for everyone to sing their own punishment song.
Although the song’s quality was very high, it was indeed more suitable for Qi Yuan, And they had no need to steal it..
Teacher Yu Wei had truly paved a broad road for Qi Yuan; is this the gold content of a brother-in-law?
“No.”
They thought it was a natural progression, but unexpectedly Teacher Yu Wei directly refused. Not only was Qi Yuan a bit dumbfounded, Zhang Lingye and the others were also stunned.
If the song was planned to be released early, giving it to Qi Yuan to sing would undoubtedly have the best effect; how could the duck in his mouth fly away?
Let him hear but not sing—isn’t this purely teasing him?
Qi Yunming, watching his son instantly deflate, secretly nodded; Teacher Yu Wei’s handling was very much to his liking.
No matter how good the relationship, don’t give too many benefits; helping too much would instead cause path dependency in the other party, and things obtained too easily won’t be cherished.
Help in emergencies but not poverty; it’s good for both sides to stop at the right point on such matters.
Although the person involved was his son, Qi Yunming didn’t want him to overly depend on others.
Teacher Yu Wei meant roughly the same: benefits can be given, but not all shoved over at once.
Qi Yuan sighed, but quickly calmed down; securing this role was already a huge benefit, demanding everything would indeed be a bit too greedy.
That’s what he said, but besides Qi Yuan, it didn’t seem as suitable for others to sing this song, and he didn’t know Teacher Yu Wei’s specific arrangements.
How else to arrange it, have Shen Yutong sing it; she was specially free of charge poached, and since she couldn’t act, she had to rely on singing to make up for it.
Yi Jian Mei actually isn’t very suitable for a female voice, but Teacher Yu Wei had his own considerations for this arrangement.
He gave the song, but once in their hands, it wasn’t impossible to swap…
Qi Yuan should have a song that the other party wanted; as for whether the two could hit it off and each get what they needed, Teacher Yu Wei wouldn’t interfere too much.
Doing this seemed superfluous, but actually had deep meaning; benefits can be given, but they still need to strive for them themselves, for the good of both sides.
Music works aren’t cabbages; giving whatever is wanted would make him seem like a simp, chasing after them to feed rice.
If such things happen too many times, it’s easy to forget his kindness; they need to go through this extra trouble to realize the significance of the work.
Additionally, Shen Yutong had long been enamored with Peach Blossom Promise, and after all the competition troubles so many times, he couldn’t disappoint her.
Yi Jian Mei would indeed have a better effect sung by Qi Yuan, and Teacher Yu Wei knew that in his heart.
After the morning sea selection ended, Teacher Yu Wei immediately sent the demo and sheet music of this song to Shen Yutong, only saying it was for the free of charge worker.
Shen Yutong listened to the beginning and realized that this song was not simple, but this sense of vicissitudes didn’t quite match her…
“Yuan Hua’s theme song.”
This was beyond Shen Yutong’s expectations. If the quality is this high for just a role song, then how luxurious must the movie be?
Qi Luo An, who was writing next to her, saw the message and was stunned for a moment. The role that her brother wanted to audition for wasn’t it Yuan Hua?
Singing big bro’s character song sounds good.
“He seems pretty eager to sing this song himself, but it was agreed that we’d have you sing.”
Yu Wei could only hint at that much.
Shen Yutong didn’t take it seriously upon hearing this, but Qi Luo An instantly caught the key information in Yu Wei’s words—big bro’s desired song, huh, that was very interesting.
He probably doesn’t want others to sing his execution song either…
