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director yang lei is zhang luyi’s fanboy

this has been in my draft for days, and i don’t know if anyone will have the patience to read it, but i finally decided to post it after making a supporting gif set earlier lol. anyways, this has been talked about in the cfandom. it’a almost apparent that three-body’s director yang lei is a “fanboy” of zhang luyi or zhang luyi is yang lei’s muse. 

did you ever feel that almost every shot of wang miao was extra “pretty” in three-body? I mean, every shot was treated with utter respect in this show, and zhang luyi is handsome himself. but as a lot of fans mentioned, it felt that wang miao’s shots were just extra pretty or even sensual, especially with the full body tilt shots (yes, i made this set just for this post lol) that you usually wouldn’t see for a character that’s a middle aged male scientist. a lot of fans are finally getting the appeal of zhang luyi thanks to three-body. and it’s speculated that yang lei, who has worked with zhang luyi multiple times in the past, was part of the reason why those shots were there.

you want to know how much yang lei likes zhang luyi? screencaps from one bts video might shed some light. yang lei, zhang luyi, and yu hewei were writing on the screen to showcase their handwriting (and playing with the screen lol). zhang luyi and yu hewei did the normal thing. they wrote poems:

BUT director yang lei, he just kept writing zhang luyi’s name. and fans were like...this is too much!!! we know. we know that you love him. we know! 

in the first screencap below, he wrote zhang luyi’s name once to “summon” the actor to the screen. and quickly wiped that out after zhang luyi was there looking at him.

then, here, he wrote zhang luyi’s name for at least three times (circled in green). i’m almost sure that the one that was cut off on the right of the screen was his name because in the next screencap the top two names were in the exact same handwriting and position. our director only remembered to start to write yu hewei’s name (in purple circle) after that. poor yu hewei xD

lastly, i don’t know if this screencap below came in before or after the one above. if it was after the one above, then, yang lei erased one of zhang luyi’s names and yu hewei’s name, and finally remembered that he was filming this show called “three-body” and started to write it (in yellow circle). if it was before the screencap above, then, after he wrote three-body, he was like “nope, i don’t need the show name. i need one more zhang luyi.”

jokes aside, i read multiple interviews describing how close yang lei and zhang luyi were. they were old friends that were almost like families to each other. they can understand each other just through their eyes without any words. during the filming of three-body, yang lei wrote a lot of notes on the script. and immediately after reading them, zhang luyi would say i got it. and his acting would turn out to be exactly what yang lei had in mind.

in one other interview, the producer of another show said that you didn’t need to convince people about how much they loved each other. as a precious friend to yang lei, the director wouldn’t just give any roles to zhang luyi. it would have been the trump card, a character that was legendary in the show.

also, if the sites i researched on provided accurate info, the red in 2014 was the first series that zhang luyi played the main character. and as the cdrama with the second highest rating in 2014 on douban, it was the series that made zhang luyi more famous. guess what, the director was yang lei. 

and when the red was mentioned, you had to also mention the “infamous�� torture scenes of zhang luyi. these scenes are apparently resurfacing, and old and new fans are enjoying them because he was too “pretty” even in these unfortunate circumstances. and thanks to yang lei, we got to see these.

ps. be warned that these scenes are dark. but if you don’t mind, you can check them out here on bilibili. the first clip was zhang luyi accusing director yang lei and the visual effect director for designing these torture devices LOL. he was like who designed these scenes? there were sick! whoever designed them must have watched b-movies growing up and have twisted tastes. poor zhang luyi, LOLLOLLOL...