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Chapter 247 Are you good enough?

On the set, Liu Yifei gave direct instructions, and the crew immediately got into working mode.

The two leading actors and extras are already in place.

"Photographer, remember to zoom in to the panorama first, then to the close-up!"

"Roger that, director!"

"Lights, pay attention to the light source!"

"Roger that!"

Panorama is generally used to show the actions between characters. When shooting such a picture, the characters in the picture must not be allowed to stand upright, but a certain range of space must be left.

The light on the characters must be accurate, true, and uniform, and others must not be able to see any light that obviously violates the on-site light source.

Close-ups allow the audience to fully pay attention to the details of the characters. It is the best way to express the details and makes them unforgettable.
Lighting, camera tracks, rail cars, matte boxes, etc. are all ready.

"Action!"

"What do you think of Qian Qian's direction?" Xing Aina asked, looking at Liu Yifei's directorial attitude.

Ning Hao looked at it carefully for a while and said uncertainly:

"It's hard to say. It's obvious that I'm still a novice, but I feel a little different from other novices. I can't put my finger on it."

Xing Aina glanced at Ning Hao with disgust: "Can you do it at your level? If you pay a billion-dollar director, it means you haven't said it yet."

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Ning Hao was also a little helpless at this time. Liu Yifei's directing techniques showed that he was still a novice, and he was as "clumsy" as when he was a newcomer.

However, looking at his directing, it seems that he did not pursue special shooting techniques, and everything seemed to serve the plot.

When the shot was over, Ning Hao went to the monitor to take a look at the shot.

Xing Aina was a little curious: "How is it?"

Ning Hao stroked his hands for a moment and then said slowly:

"If the script of this movie is not bad, there is a high probability that it will not be bad."

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After Xing Aina and Ning Hao visited the class, Zhou Xun, Chen Hong, and Zhou Yun came one after another. Each one came with a cart of food.

Everyone on the crew was numb. During this period, it was considered a good time to eat and drink.

“These people are so generous in visiting the class!”

When a few field staff were idle, they whispered to the side.

"I came here because of Director Liu's face."

"So, it should be for Director Li's sake."

"It's all the same, pretty much the same."

These people's visit to the class can be regarded as free publicity.

The day after the visit, the media will release a news.

"Director Ning Hao and Xing Aina visited the cast of "Those Years"."

"Zhou Xun asked for a guest appearance on the set of "Those Years", but was "mercilessly" rejected."

"Chen Hong visited Liu Yifei with two trucks of snacks, and the stills of "Those Years" were exposed."

Anyway, when Li Mu watches the news from time to time, he can catch various news about Liu Yifei's "Those Years".

He probably won't be able to go there in the near future, but he can go there again before filming is completed. The shooting period of "Those Years" is scheduled to be 2 months. Normally, one and a half months is enough for a movie with a simple plot like this.

Anticipating that novices like Liu Yifei would inevitably encounter obstacles, they deliberately added an extra half month to the time frame.

"Hawthorn Love" also released its first-week box office, ranking second with a box office of 4500 million in four days.

For such a low-cost literary work starring a young person, the first-week box office of 4500 million yuan is undoubtedly a success.

The pressure is on "Fist of Fury". Donnie Yen has made a lot of announcements in recent days, just to promote the movie.

That week's box office champion was still "Inception", achieving three consecutive championships in the mainland with a revenue of 7800 million yuan. The cumulative box office is approximately 2.8 million yuan. The domestic box office is expected to exceed 3 million yuan.

The first week's box office has just come out, and Zhang Yimou appeared at Century City Dream Cinema.

While attending a movie viewing event with the theme of "Awakening Innocence and Discovering Love", Zhang Yi announced on the spot the launch of a new movie, "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling". The film is scheduled to start filming at the end of this year or early next year.

The audience responded to Zhang Yimou's plans for a new movie with warm applause.

"Director Li, when will your new movie start?"

Some viewers pointed their finger at Li Mu, who was sitting in the front row at the event.

Zhang Yimou held the event at Mengying Cinema, and Li Mu naturally attended in honor of him.

When the host saw this, he quickly handed over a microphone.

Li Mu immediately felt dumbfounded.

"What you're doing is not good. People who don't know better think I'm here to cause trouble." Li Mu said falsely, and the audience cheered even louder.

"Forget it, I'll take this opportunity to announce a new movie plan, which will probably start at the end of this year or early next year. I won't talk about the subject yet, and will announce it on the official website of Mengying Media later!"

After speaking, Li Mu smiled and shouted to the host: "Hurry and pass the microphone back to Director Zhang."

The host also understood the effect of the program. He quickly took away Li Mu's microphone, ran to the stage, and replaced Zhang Yimou's microphone.

"Hahaha"

The scene suddenly burst into laughter.

After the event, Li Mu also had a chat with Zhang Yimou's crew.

"Director Li!" Zhou Dongyu quickly stepped forward and called.

"You are very popular now!" Li Mu responded with a smile.

"No, it's not red yet."

Zhou Dongyu looked a little cute when she responded.

Li Mu and Zhang Yimou immediately laughed.

Zhou Dongyu scratched the back of his head sheepishly, feeling a little dazed.

"Have you already thought about the new movie?" Zhang Yimou asked.

"Well, I'll continue to make space science fiction films. I plan to use the built space base and continue to improve it!"

"It's great to make science fiction movies. It's suitable for you young people, but it might not be possible for us."

For people of Zhang Yimou's generation, it may be possible for them to tell some period stories or stories with complex plots, but making good science fiction films is somewhat difficult. "You can help me read the script later. You are familiar with Hollywood actors. My new movie needs Hollywood actors. Then help me recommend them."

Li Mu nodded and agreed directly.

There are also rules for finding actors in Hollywood. You cannot find several actors at the same time, you can only find them one by one.

In his previous life, Zhang Yi gave the script to Spielberg and asked him to help recommend actors.

But with Li Mu here, there is no need for such trouble.

The box office of "Fist of Fury" in its first week was more than 5000 million, but this was only achieved after 6 days of release.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this movie is probably not as good as "The Hawthorn Tree". After all, "The Hawthorn Tree" has a better reputation and will have stronger staying power.

Wang Changtian may be feeling a little uncomfortable in the industry this time, especially when he met Zhang Weiping, so he may have to say a few words from time to time.

Recently, a piece of news from the National Copyright Administration once again made many netizens feel complicated.

Since the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television shut down the BT website in December last year, online video websites such as Tudou, Ku12, Youku, and PPS that have obtained audio-visual licenses have suddenly become the hot spots for netizens to enjoy free movies and TV shows.

And now it is necessary to increase the supervision of video websites. Video websites must carry out self-examination and self-correction. Works that are not authorized or whose rights status is unclear must be promptly deleted or disconnected.

Free sharing has suffered a heavy blow!
"Damn it, there will be no more pirated copies to watch in the future!"

"It's over, hurry up and put down more."

Netizens are wailing all over the place. After all, they may have to say goodbye to free movies and television after all.

However, this is a major benefit for Tudou Video.

More than 80% of the online videos on several major video websites are without genuine authorization. For them, even with ample funds, they are unwilling to purchase copyrights. In their view, the worst case scenario is losing money, which can be solved by tens of thousands. Well, it’s not cost-effective to buy the genuine version.

Tudou Video only has about 50%, which is naturally attributed to the copyright of Mengying Media.

This wave is considered to be ahead of the curve!

"Wang Wei, if Tudou cannot merge with Youku in this life, then you will hit the wall and die!"

Although Li Mu said this, he also knew that even if Tudou acquired Youku, these video websites would still have a long way to go before becoming profitable.

You must know that in the past 2010 years from 10, three video websites, led by Tencent, Youku, and iQiyi, burned more than 1000 billion.

However, although money was burned, the problem of profitability was never solved.

However, thanks to the country's emphasis on copyright and the popularity of streaming media, the era of crazy profits for TV dramas is coming. Mengying Media has been buying and selling the copyrights of TV dramas before, and it is finally ushering in the harvest season.

The next day, Zhang Yimou and Li Mu made an appointment to have a meal, and Zhang Yimou also brought the script.

A story related to Jinling, set in winter. It’s no wonder that Zhang Yimou wants to start filming at the end of this year or early next year.

"I have been preparing for this movie for more than 4 years, and it can finally be put on the big screen." Zhang Yimou looked at the script on the table and felt a little emotional for a while.

Li Mu naturally knew about this. As early as 06, Zhang Yi was deeply moved when he first read Yan Geling's novel "Thirteen Hairpins in Jinling". At that time, there were actually several other novels about this kind of novel. A movie on the subject has been registered with the Film Bureau.

However, the subject matter was very sensitive and almost all of them died young.

For Lu Xun to be able to pass the trial, he had to find a lot of people to tell him.

Li Mu picked it up and read it carefully.

The screenwriter of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is Liu Heng, who was the screenwriter of "Ju Dou" and is well-known in the industry.

Li Mu has also read Yan Geling's novel "The Thirteen Beauties of Jinling". The script has undergone many changes compared to the original work. The war scenes have been enlarged for commercialization, and the ensemble characters have been weakened for popularization. However, the story is still quite good.

"How about it?"

"It's a pretty good script, the flaws don't hide the flaws!"

"Scripts always have flaws!"

Li Mu also agrees with this point of view. There is no perfect script in this world, and there are always people who will find fault with it, but as long as it fits the story in their own minds, it will be enough.

Obviously Zhang Yimou can't wait to film this story now.

"Christian Bale and Keanu Reeves should both be fine! But I still recommend Christian Bale!"

Li Mu thought carefully.

"Oh?"

"Keanu Reeves mostly stars in action movies. It's hard to say whether he can act well in such dramas. Bale is more famous and has made many dramas. His previous film "American Psycho" was also eye-catching. , he should be able to play this role well. Moreover, he co-starred with Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams in "Bullfighting" this year. People in the circle said that he was Oscar-worthy, and the gimmick of inviting him was already there."

Zhang Yimou also thought about it seriously: "You can give it a try!"

Christian Bale, Li Mu has met this Batman several times, and Li Mu naturally has his contact information.

"Hey Christian!" Li Mu started to contact Zhang Yimou in front of him.

Bell, who was far away in Hollywood, answered the call with great joy. After all, these directors would not come to him for no reason.

"Li, are you asking me to make a movie? I've been waiting for 7 years!" Bell's voice came from the phone.

At the Warner annual meeting that year, Li Mu made a polite comment, but he didn't expect it to be remembered.

"Ahem, you guessed it, it's a movie, but it's not my play. You heard about director Zhang Yimou. He has a good script here. I think you can give it a try!"

"Zhang? I know that you are one of the most famous directors in China. I like his "Alive" and "Hero" very much. The movies you personally recommended are definitely not bad. Can I go over and read the script next month? "

Bell didn't think much and agreed directly.

It's not surprising that Bale praised "Hero" and Li Mu. Domestic audiences don't think highly of "Hero", but foreign audiences think this movie can at least be ranked in the top three.

In fact, the reason is very simple, because foreigners don’t understand Chinese culture that well!What they see is more visual, representational, and imagery, and they will naturally compare it with films from other countries and see more original parts.

The movie "Hero" can be said to have completely subverted many foreign audiences' impressions of Chinese action movies.

In fact, many foreigners first learned about the words "wuxia" (martial arts) and "tianxia" (world) from heroes. Before that, they only knew kongfu (kung fu).

"Okay, then it's settled!"

Li Mu hung up the phone, smiled and said, "This guy is also a crazy actor. He shouldn't refuse this script."

"I've heard about it for a long time! I heard that this crazy actor is not a Methodist or an Expressionist. His acting skills are of the Psychotic type."

It was rare for Lao Mouzi to make a joke.

However, this evaluation is indeed accurate. The most psychotic thing about Christian Bale is his constant weight gain and weight loss. Many actors can gain weight once or lose weight once, but they gain weight and lose weight over and over again. , I’m afraid it’s just him, Christian Bale.

"Hahaha, then you have to let him gain some weight!"

Bell lost another 30 pounds (about 26 pounds) for his new work "The Fighter".

9月底即将上映两部大片，9月28日的《剑雨》上映，9月29日《狄仁杰》。

The movie "Sword Rain" feels more like a nostalgic film, full of poetic Jiangnan scenery, with Zen-like dialogue, and the heroine is named Michelle Yeoh. The audience can't help but think of two long-lost names-Yu Xiulian and Li Mubai.

On the other hand, Tsui Hark's fantasy Tang Dynasty "Detective Detective" seems to be more innovative.
(End of this chapter)