China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 429 A Script Beyond Expectations

For movies like "Nujiang River", not randomly adding female characters is the basis for ensuring quality.

Male characters are much easier to deal with.

As long as the acting is good and the image and role are suitable, you can use it.

Huang Xiaoming's problem is that his acting is too greasy, but with great directors and actors with good acting skills, he has no chance to act greasy.

On the contrary, his passive skill 50-50 will be activated.

And Huang Xiaoming has experience in playing similar roles.

The young policeman in "Signal" was played by Huang Xiaoming.

Huang Xiaoming, with his passive skills fully stacked, contributed the peak acting skills of his career in "Signal".

Li Yu believes that Huang Xiaoming can play a role similar to Peng Yiyan's spy.

Li Yu couldn't guarantee whether Huang Xiaoming was better than Peng Yiyan in other aspects.

However, he was sure that Huang Xiaoming's Mandarin and salute movements were definitely more standard than Peng Yiyan's.

The most important thing is that Fan Xiaopang just mentioned that Huang Xiaoming can act for no pay.

Which director wouldn’t like an actor who provides his own food and gets no pay?
His films are rarely under-budget nowadays, but saving money on actors' salaries means more money can be spent on production.

Only by spending money wisely can you make a truly good movie.

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After the premiere, with the help of the first batch of audiences and media to promote the film, "Parasite" has been widely discussed on the Internet.

However, Li Yu's attention has shifted from "Parasite" to "Operation Nujiang River".

Li Yu achieved his goal of winning the Palme d'Or with "Parasite".

Li Yu really doesn't care about the box office or anything like that.

Art films are limited by their genre and their box office can never catch up with serious commercial blockbusters.

Therefore, there is really nothing to look forward to in terms of the box office of "Parasite". It may become Li Yu's lowest-grossing movie in recent years.

Sure enough, the performance of "Parasite" after its release was pretty much what Li Yu expected.

The box office on the first day was only over 30 million, rising to 40 million on the second day, and then the single-day box office could not go up any further, stabilizing between 30 million and 40 million.

For Chen Kaige, he received good news and bad news at the same time.

The good news is that Parasite didn’t perform as well as Li Yu’s previous films.

The bad news is that there is no problem for "Parasite" to surpass "Gone Girl" and become the number one art film at the domestic box office.

Chen Kaige smiled bitterly and made a special phone call to complain to Li Yu: "Director Li, you are so mean. I haven't even had the pleasure of sitting at the top of the box office for art films, and you want to kick me out."

No matter how much you complain or how much you joke, you will definitely feel a little bad when you lose the first place.

But Chen Kaige felt that there was no problem for "Parasite" to take the first place from him.

Because Parasite is really better than Gone Girl, and no one can deny that.

Li Yu's first place was well deserved.

About ten days later, Li Yu wrote the initial script for "Operation Nujiang River".

Why is it called the initial script? Because this script will definitely need to be revised.

This script involves a lot of professional reconnaissance and tactical knowledge.

Li Yu is not omnipotent. In order to make the plot and details more realistic, he considered asking professionals in relevant departments to watch the film and give him suggestions, and then he would improve the details.

Just like when he was filming "Signal", in order to make the plot more realistic, not only did he let professionals review the script in the early stages, he also hired several retired detectives to serve as consultants in the crew.

If there is anything unreasonable, stop shooting immediately and make modifications.

Such fine traditions should be carried out throughout. In addition to paying attention to details, Li Yu compressed the plot of the foreign arrest into about an hour, and added the domestic trial plot in the last half hour.

Again, Li Yu felt that Lin Chaoxian's version was pretty good, and it reached a very good level in all aspects.

There are definitely disadvantages.

For example, the fight is quite exciting from beginning to end, but the villain seems very incompetent.

After so many battles, the villains' greatest achievement was actually brought about by a few children, and the adults among the villains were mowed down by the protagonists just like the robots.

In the end, only Zhang Hanyu and Peng Yiyan were left to deal with the villains, and it felt like they were fighting just for the sake of fighting, which slowed down the pace.

There are also bosses in movies who shout and scream even when eating breakfast, like a patient with irritability. You can't find the temperament of a boss in him at all.

The prototype is much calmer than the character in the movie, more powerful, more arrogant, and more hateful.

After being arrested, he actually laughed without any psychological burden.

Because he thought that nothing would happen to him in the end.

He was arrested more than once in Country T and Country M, and he was able to solve the problem with money every time, so he was completely fearless.

When he went to court, he wildly overturned all his confessions, which was extremely arrogant.

There is a lot to write about in this paragraph.

Li Yu writes in this direction.

After writing the first version of the plot, Li Yu immediately asked Da Tiantian to contact the elder and let the other party take a look at the script first.

"We agreed that the script could be finalized by the end of the year, but Director Li finished writing the script in just 20 days. He is indeed a famous quick shooter."

The other party first praised Li Yu's efficiency.

"Li Yu has always been very fast. Twenty days is considered relatively slow."

Da Tiantian interrupted and said something.

"It was mainly because I was busy with the premiere of Parasite, which delayed me for a few days. Also, there were too many archives to look through to write this story, so it took a lot of time."

Li Yu responded.

The other party nodded twice and began to read the script written by Li Yu carefully.

Movies are works of art, and it is normal for works of art to undergo certain processing.

The prototypes of the protagonists in real life were able to escape successfully in their previous actions because of the boss's informant.

If the movie was shot like this, it would not be dramatic enough, so Li Yu integrated the details of several arrest operations together.

Make the story better while retaining its authenticity.

After seeing this, the other party believed that what Li Yu said about consulting a lot of information was not empty talk.

Many small details in the script can correspond to reality.

The arrest operation is very exciting and wonderful just by reading the text. With Li Yu's skills, it would be much more shocking if it were made into a movie.

Also, he originally thought that Li Yu would regard the successful arrest as the ending of the movie.

I didn't expect that at about 80% of the plot line, the boss had been captured, and the rest was just a battle of wits.

And the battle of wits in the last 20% is no less exciting than the previous arrest operation. This is a war without the smoke of gunpowder.

The arrogant attitude of the villain boss is in line with the reality and is very annoying.

However, the more arrogant the villain boss is, the more satisfying it is when he is finally sentenced to death.

The other party thought that Li Yu's script struck a balance between authenticity and commerciality, which was really excellent and exceeded his expectations.

Sure enough, choosing Li Yu was really the right decision.

(End of this chapter)