China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 344 After a year of hard work, can’t the audience enjoy it?

"Daughter-in-law, take a look, this is the best script I have come across in the past ten years, bar none."

Director Chen's face showed unconcealable joy.

He couldn't wait to start sharing this good script with Chen Hong.

Chen Hong's eyes widened a lot, with surprise and confusion written in them.

In her mind, there were not many stories that could make Director Chen so excited.

How good is the script written by Li Yu? She couldn't resist the urge to find out.

She took the script and stared at every word on the paper.

After she read the contents of the script, she found that she could not calm down for a long time.

She didn't have Director Chen's expertise. She just watched the script from the perspective of an ordinary person.

He smiled and asked: "Director Chen, do you think there is anything that needs to be modified?"

The high praise from Director Chen and his wife was unexpected for Li Yu, because the quality of this script itself is very high.

Li Yu has really made great use of the two elements of suspense and thriller.

"Okay, since Director Chen said there is no need to change it, then there is no need to change it."

It can be seen that it is the unanimous consensus of the screenwriters not to let Director Chen have any ideas.

The heroines of his previous movies were either International Chapter or Zhang Baizhi.

She felt that the rhythm of the story was changing rapidly, and every step of the plot was beyond her expectations.

I am not afraid that Director Chen will not have any ideas, but I am afraid that Director Chen will have his own ideas.

Chen Hong gave his own evaluation.

Li Yu was quite satisfied with the result.

It should be admitted that there is a big gap between Shi Shi and these two in the film industry.

Lu Wei, the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine", once said that Director Chen should never touch the script.

In order to make Director Chen more stable, Li Yu specially provided him with double insurance.

Director Chen was stunned for a moment. He knew the level of Liu Shishi's acting skills. He could only say that he was above the passing level and there was not much that stood out.

No wonder her husband, Director Chen, who has such a high vision, is excited about it and commented that this story has the potential to win the best screenplay.

Director Chen felt that he could find no fault with this script.

His second insurance came and he said: "Director Chen, I want Shi Shi to play the leading female role in this movie."

As long as Director Chen does not bring his personal ideas to the script, the quality of the film is absolutely guaranteed.

Normally, Director Chen would never use Shi Shi as the heroine of a movie.

Director Chen immediately responded: "You don't need to change a single word, it's already perfect enough."

"Although I'm not a professional, I can tell that the script is very well written."

To be more precise, he will not use any little flower whose fame is greater than her acting skills as the heroine.

This time the situation is a bit special. The script was written by Li Yu, and he wrote it very well.

It can be seen that Li Yu took a very serious attitude in cooperating with him this time, which gave him a lot of face.

He should reciprocate the favor and give Li Yu some face.

As for actors, as long as they meet a good director, their acting skills can be improved in a short period of time. It just takes a lot of effort.

At worst, he would pay more attention to her later. If Liu Shishi couldn't perform well or didn't perform well, he would just give him more guidance.

"No problem, Director Li has already spoken, I have to agree."

After thinking about it for a while, Director Chen chose to agree to Li Yu's request.

What made Director Chen relieved was that Li Yu didn't propose adding people to the movie again. He was quite happy about this.

This is also the main reason why Li Yu rejected Huang Xiaoming.

Just arrange a charity. It would be a bit inappropriate if Li Yu made the decision for the male and female protagonists alone. Director Chen is still the top director in China no matter what. He also wants to save face, so he must leave some room for him to perform.

Except for Shi Shi, Li Yu had no involvement in the casting of other characters.

However, this is not the insurance that Li Yu wants to provide Director Chen. What he wants to say next is the key point: "Director Chen, when do you plan to start filming this movie?"

Director Chen felt a little uncomfortable. After receiving such a high-quality script, his heart began to itch, and he had a very strong desire to start writing immediately.

But the heroine of this movie is the core of the core.

Shi Shi is filming on the set of "The King of the Northern Dynasties", shouldn't he have to wait for a while?

Thinking of this, Director Chen smiled bitterly and said: "Director Li, doesn't this depend on you? I can't start filming until the heroine's schedule is freed up."

What Li Yu was waiting for was Director Chen's words, and he immediately said: "How can I let Director Chen and your entire crew wait for just one person from my side.

Well, if you want to start filming in the near future, I can let Shi Shi finish filming your movie first.

This kind of movie doesn't have too many complicated scenes, and one month is enough time.

Let me just say that it will take a few months to shoot. Shi Shi can just come back to my place to reshoot scenes after you finish filming your movie. "

Director Chen was greatly moved and felt that Li Yu was really interesting.

What Director Chen didn't know was that Li Yu asked Shi Shi to shoot his movie first in order not to give him too much time to develop.

Director Chen is a very strange person. The movies he shoots in a relatively short time are usually high-quality films, while the movies he shoots in a relatively long time are usually bad movies.

The adage that slow work makes the most of it doesn't quite apply to him.

Typical examples are "Farewell My Concubine" and "The Promise".

The former took only 5 months to shoot and was scheduled to be released in less than a year. The result was a masterpiece in the history of Chinese films.

The latter is a work that Director Chen spent three years polishing, but ended up making a lousy film that was so confusing that the audience couldn't understand it.

This shows that Director Chen cannot give him enough time when making movies.

Time has been dragging on for a long time. One day he feels inspired and may have to do some tricks.

It takes a month to shoot a movie, which is quite rushed. The workload every day is very sufficient, and there is no extra time for Director Chen to think about things.

Li Yu had such a calculation, but Director Chen was deeply moved. He believed that Li Yu was giving him too much face and wanted to help him even at the expense of his own filming progress.

"Director Li, a gentleman has no jokes. Are you serious?"

Director Chen's hands are so itchy now that he can't wait to start filming tomorrow.

Li Yu was willing to let Shi Shi shoot his movie first, which was really to his liking.

"How can I joke with you? It would be better to let Shi Shi go and let you make this movie first.

I'm afraid I'll have to wait until June or July to finish filming. The filming and post-production of the film will take time. By then, the film will have to be released during the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival.

These two schedules are not very friendly to this kind of literary film that satirizes society and marriage. "

Li Yu also found a good reason to think about Director Chen.

This reason is actually good advice.

Because this kind of literary film is really not suitable for the Lunar New Year movie, let alone the Spring Festival movie.

These two schedules are relatively friendly to comedy movies.

If a literary film that satirizes society is released at this time, isn't it going against the market audience? No matter how confident you are, you can't do this.

Li Yu remembered that Feng Xiaogang at his peak did not believe in evil, so he did such a thing and released a movie with a very heavy theme in the Lunar New Year period.

Objectively speaking, the quality and reputation of that movie are very good, and it is a good movie.

But the results are great.

The reason is simple. Audiences don’t want to spend money to cry in the cinema during the Lunar New Year period.

It’s hard to work until the end of the year. Can’t the audience enjoy it after working hard for a year?

If you have to make the audience cry, the audience has no choice but to vote with their feet to make the director and investors cry.

(End of this chapter)