China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 418 Why are you so curious?
Li Yu came to visit the crew of "Wolf Warrior".

The movie "Wolf Warrior" tells the story of mercenaries fighting on the border, but the filming location was in Jinling, China.

Thanks to China's vast territory and rich resources, all kinds of natural scenery and cultural wonders can be found in China. Generally speaking, there is no need to go abroad to take pictures.

Unless it is a special movie like "Detective Chinatown" which originally sets the story abroad.

Come to think of it, it seems that Li Yu has never shot a movie abroad.

This has a lot to do with his approach to filming.

Li Yu has always believed that his films are made for domestic audiences.

He usually shoots movies with pure Chinese elements, such as "Guan Du" and "The Great Wall".

He would never do a movie that caters to the foreign market by packaging two foreigners to save China and pick up a Chinese girl at the same time.

This kind of story can satisfy the fantasies of Western audiences, but it is very unfriendly to Chinese audiences.

Director Li Yu wanted to curse when he saw this kind of plot.

If the audience is not masochistic, how can they feel good in the cinema?
The weather in Jinling in March is already very hot, with an average temperature of over 30 degrees.

Most of the scenes of "Wolf Warrior" were shot outdoors, so you can imagine the working environment.

When Wu Jing was looking for extras, he had to offer a price higher than the market price, otherwise no one would be willing to do it.

This is not an exaggeration at all, it's true.

In the original time and space, when Wu Jing was filming "Wolf Warrior", several extras were so hot that they went into shock.

The market price for extras at the time was 80 yuan a day, and even if Wu Jing raised it to 300 yuan a day, he still couldn't recruit enough people.

There was a small incident in the middle.

Wu Jing's father-in-law came to visit the crew and found that there were not enough extras that day, so he asked the crew for some clothes and satisfied his acting desire.

Fortunately, Wu Jing obtained Li Yu's investment this time, and the filming started much earlier than the original time and space.

Wu Jing had no chance to catch it during the hottest months of June, July and August.

The extras and staff were feeling a bit uncomfortable due to the heat, but as of today, no one has fainted from heat stroke, let alone suffered from shock.

With a little extra money, the extras can be gathered every day, and Wu Jing's father-in-law doesn't need to go on stage to play a supporting role.

Li Yu did not come empty-handed when he visited the set. He called a mobile ice drink truck to the crew and treated everyone to some cold drinks.

It is absolutely refreshing to drink an ice drink when the temperature is over 30 degrees outside.

"Everyone, please order whatever you want to drink. I'll pay for everything today."

Li Yu said in a rather proud tone.

After he said it, he found that his words had a certain flavor of "Mr. Zhao will pay for the whole meal tonight."

Having said that, Li Yu now has the ability to go to the places that Master Zhao likes to go and ask Master Li to pay for the whole place, let alone some drinks.

"Thank you, Director Li."

The sweaty extras and staff thanked Li Yu one after another, then lined up to get their drinks.

Wu Jing brought Yu Nan, Ni Dahong and other main actors to Li Yu.

"You don't need me to introduce you, right? I believe you all know who Director Li is. You may know him better than I do."

Wu Jing directly skipped the part of introducing Li Yu to the leading actors and started introducing these leading actors to Li Yu.

"Yu Nan, who plays the role of Long Xiaoyun, the captain of the Wolf Warrior Squadron in the movie."

"Hello, Director Li."

Long Xiaoyun extended his hand with a warm smile.

"Ah hello."

Li Yu shook hands with her.

Yu Nan was not very famous in the original time and space, but her thick lips were very distinctive and eye-catching, making her a memorable actress.

Li Yu is more familiar with the veteran actor Ni Dahong.

He played Wanyan Gou in "Man Jiang Hong" and his performance was so wonderful that he was criticized by the audience just like Li Xuejian's Qin Hui. As for whether he was happy to achieve the achievement of being threatened by his fellow villagers and not daring to return to his hometown, Li Yu was not sure.

In addition to the Chinese, there were several foreigners in the crew who played foreign mercenaries. Li Yu had a brief chat with them.

"Director Li, what do you think of my crew?"

Wu Jing asked curiously.

Li Yu has been here for quite some time.

When he first arrived, Wu Jing was about to pause the filming, so he asked Wu Jing to just work as usual while he watched a segment on the side.

"As a director who started out late, he must be a little bit unfamiliar, but overall it's still okay, above the passing line."

Li Yu chuckled.

"I heard that many famous directors in your school started out as amateurs like me."

Wu Jing became more confident when he saw that Xu Zheng had successfully transformed into a director.

“Don’t think too much. Most of the famous directors at Beijing Film Academy don’t seem to be from the directing department.

But if you study it carefully, you will find that their majors are more or less related to the profession of director, and it can even be said that the connection is very close.

For example, Ning Hao, from the photography department. Guo Shi, from the photography department.

Photography, editing and directing are inseparable. There are also successful cases of photographers transforming into directors in Hong Kong.

You should know Liu Weiqiang, the director of Infernal Affairs and Storm Riders. "

Li Yu immediately poured a bucket of cold water on Wu Jing.

People joke that the directing department of Beijing Film Academy does not train directors, but other departments have produced many directors.

Li Yu felt that he should give Beijing Film Academy a good reputation.

Those famous directors who came from unconventional backgrounds may seem to have unconventional approaches, but in fact their approaches are not unconventional at all. Only people like Wu Jing and Xu Zheng can be called unconventional.

This kind of self-taught director is okay at making simple commercial films, but his ability is not enough for films with a slightly higher level of difficulty.

Otherwise, why didn't Xu Zheng and Wu Jing continue to direct and act in their own films?

"I agree with what Director Li said."

Yu Nan echoed.

She graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy, so she must know more about the situation there than Wu Jing.

"Then I wonder, those people all want to be directors in the end, why don't they study directing from the beginning?"

Wu Jing's words sounded a bit like "Why not eat meat?"

If he said this in front of those who wanted to apply for the directing department but were not admitted, even if he was a martial artist, he would probably be beaten up and seriously injured.

"Do you think they don't want to? It's because the directing department recruits too few people. They can't recruit many people a year. Sometimes they don't recruit new students for a whole year.

There are so few students in the directing department. Let me tell you this: when I was in school, I shared a dormitory with students from the acting department.

"Since it's so difficult to get into the directing department, how did you get in?"

Wu Jing scratched his head in confusion.

"I have money."

Li Yu said seriously.

Back then, with his own hard work and a little bit of cash, he successfully defeated all his competitors and was admitted to the directing department at the age of less than 20.

Blanch!
Wu Jing felt like he was being shown off.

He regretted it. Why was he so curious?

Curiosity really kills the cat.

Seeing Wu Jing being humiliated, Yu Nan was laughing secretly, but what Li Yu added next made her stop laughing.

"I need to use my ability to count billions of dollars to get into the directing department. But if I want to be an actor and enter the acting department, I don't even need the ability to count dollars. I can pass the level just by sticking my head in there."

(End of this chapter)