China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 394: Parasite adapted by Li Yu

Envious Wang Jing said sourly: "Director Li, does Miss Jing's company sign directors? I really want to go for an interview."

"Don't think too much. Her star is shining for her alone. She will not sign any artist or director.

Except me, of course. She wanted to sign me before, but I refused. "

Li Yu ruthlessly cut off Wang Jing's thoughts.

Well, actually Li Yu understood that Wang Jing was joking.

Wang Jing founded his own film company with his friends as early as the 1990s. Being an employee is not as comfortable as being a boss.

Wang Jing's film company also participated in the investment of "Detective Chinatown".

After the joke, we started to get down to business.

"The actors and actresses of Detective Chinatown have basically been confirmed, and we can choose a good day to start filming."

Wang Jing regained his serious expression.

"You can set the date. You are the director of the movie."

Li Yu pushed all these tasks to Wang Jing.

Many people in Hong Kong are a bit superstitious, especially those in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

The tradition of burning incense and worshipping gods before filming begins was brought to the mainland by crews from Hong Kong Island.

In addition to director Wang Jing, who is from Hong Kong, many behind-the-scenes staff such as lighting and photography are also from Hong Kong.

Give them the decision-making power and let them find a master to choose a good day. They will feel comfortable and Li Yu will also save trouble.

When two groups of people cooperate, they have to save themselves the trouble and worry so that they can focus more on their work.

Wang Jing did not refuse and accepted Li Yu's suggestion.

Then he made a request to Li Yu.

On the day when the filming of "Detective Chinatown" started, Li Yu went to the scene to support him.

Hualiu Company is the largest investor in "Detective Chinatown" and Li Yu is the screenwriter.

Even if Wang Jing didn't say anything, Li Yu would be there for this kind of thing that would be beneficial to the future of the film.

So Li Yu readily agreed to Wang Jing's request.

Within a few days, Wang Jing selected the start date.

More than ten days later, "Detective Chinatown" officially started filming.

After filming in China for some time and finishing the domestic scenes, Wang Jing led the entire crew to fly to Siam for location shooting.

After Wang Jing, Shishi and others left, Li Yu started preparing for his next film while keeping a close eye on the post-production of "The Great Wall".

Nowadays, it is no problem for Li Yu’s movies to be box office hits.

It's just that I've hit a bottleneck in my climb to higher status.

If he wants to continue to improve his status in the circle, he has to rely on winning awards.

So he planned to make a big move and go abroad to win another big award, a big award that could surpass Chen Kaige's historical achievements - the Best Film Award at the Palme d'Or, which is the highest award in Cannes.

Li Yu has already selected the movie that will win awards. He plans to shoot the very famous "Parasite" in the original time and space.

"Parasite" is a Silla film released in 2019. It successfully won the highest award, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival that year and has won numerous awards around the world.

As a man who is determined to make the Koreans bald, it is reasonable for Li Yu to pry them bald again and take away their country's only Palme d'Or, right?

Because of Li Yu, the influence of Silla idol dramas in China is many times less than that of the original time and space.

Many Silla artists who had once become famous in East Asia through luck became unknown minor characters.

Good people do it to the end and send Buddha to the West.

Li Yu has already made such outstanding contributions to their film and television industry, so let him sacrifice his life for their film industry again.

It would not be reasonable to set the suffocating story background of "Parasite" in the mainland.

Li Yu decided to set the story in Hong Kong Island. Hong Kong Island society has many similarities with Silla, both of which are places where money can cover the sky with one hand.

Silla has dark basements without sunlight, and Hong Kong Island has the famous pigeon coops.

The wealthy in Silla have luxurious back gardens, and the wealthy in Hong Kong Island have extravagant Mid-Levels mansions.

Just by making certain modifications to the background setting and some details, it will become a Hong Kong version of "Parasite".

……

Almost two months later, the wrap-up party for "Detective Chinatown" directed by Wang Jing was held in Siam.

The title of the Hong Kong film industry's top quickshooter is indeed well-deserved.

In terms of shooting speed, Li Yu had to admit that Wang Jing was indeed unique, and he was not as good as Wang Jing in this regard.

By the way, this is not Wang Jing’s fastest speed. If he wants, he can be faster.

After the wrap party, he called Li Yu and said that it took more than two months to wrap up, which was very slow considering the shooting time in China.

Mainly because he wanted to restore his reputation in the mainland with this movie, he requested for many shots that normally would have passed the test to be re-shot.

If the standards are the same as usual, the work will be completed in a little over a month at most.

At this point, both "The Great Wall" and "Detective Chinatown" have entered post-production, and the first part of "The Great Wall" has reached the final stage, and it can be released during this year's Lunar New Year holiday.

After Wang Jing returned to the capital, he learned that Li Yu was currently preparing for an award-winning film.

He immediately showed great interest. Although he always makes commercial films, in fact, his love for art films is much deeper than commercial films.

Otherwise, why would he invest in so many art films and help so many directors making art films even though he knew he would lose money?

"Director Li, are you planning to make another art film yourself?"

Wang Jing was very interested.

He has seen another art film directed by Li Yu a few years ago, "Secret of the Sun", and he thought it was great.

So what kind of art film can Li Yu come up with this time? He was really curious.

Li Yu's gaze stayed on Wang Jing's face for a few seconds. He had already revised the script of "Parasite".

The story is set in Hong Kong Island. After all, Li Yu is not a native of Hong Kong Island, so it is a good choice to let Wang Jing help him with advice.

So Li Yu showed the script of "Parasite" to Wang Jing.

Wang Jing praised the script highly after reading it. He couldn't help but ask, "Did Director Li live in Hong Kong Island before?"

The reason why Wang Jing asked such a question was mainly because Li Yu’s script was too Hong Kong-style.

This script strongly reflects the differences and conflicts between the rich and the poor, and reveals the despair and helplessness of the lower classes of society.

The sharp contrast between the mansion and the pigeon coop is full of irony.

Reading the whole story, it is full of absurd comedy, but a closer look reveals that it is very sad. It can be said to be both satire and criticism, with comedy and horror going hand in hand.

Wang Jing's evaluation of this script is just "awesome".

If he were asked to write the script, he felt that it would be almost impossible for him to write a movie script with such depth and satire.

"Director Wang, I was born and raised in the mainland, how could I have ever lived in Hong Kong Island?

When I was young, I did travel to Hong Kong Island with my parents for a few days. ”

Li Yu was talking about the old story of his father taking him to Hong Kong Island to watch Zhang Xueyou's concert and taking a photo with Zhou Runfa.

Wang Jing was even more impressed. How could someone who had never lived in Hong Kong Island write about the social phenomena of Hong Kong Island so vividly?
Wang Jing could only understand that Li Yu was a genius in story writing and his talent in this area was really too high.

Many well-known veteran screenwriters who have spent their entire lives in Hong Kong Island cannot write such a profound story.

"Director Li, I really am not exaggerating at all, your script is really amazing.

If there is a director in Hong Kong who can come to me with a script like this and ask me for investment, even if it is clear that I will lose money, I am willing to sell everything I have to raise money for him.”

Wang Jing's expression at this moment was extremely serious.

(End of this chapter)