China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 463 Since it is called resistance, it must be a head-on confrontation
"Director Chen, aren't you afraid that if you work with me you will lose absolute control over the film? The national master doesn't dare to work with me anymore because of this.

After he publicly announced that he was going to make the mythological film "Investiture of the Gods", countless netizens left messages asking him to ask me to be the screenwriter, but he pretended not to notice. "

Li Yu was really interested in this.

Great directors have a strong desire to control their own movies, including Li Yu and the top directors in Hollywood.

Most Hollywood directors are unable to hold the rights to the final editing in their own hands, not because they don't want to, but because they are unable to make the giant film companies there compromise with them.

The top directors there are similar to the top directors here in China, and they can maintain absolute control over the movies.

"He is him, I am me, I am different from him."

Chen Kaige doesn't want others to compare him with the national master.

He believed from the bottom of his heart that he was one level higher than the national master.

However, this point is not recognized by anyone except himself, not even Li Yu.

“It’s mainly because Director Li, you are so talented. Our old Chen always speaks highly of your scripts and movies whenever he mentions them.

Especially your movie "Parasite". When Lao Chen first saw that you won the same award as him in Cannes, he was quite dissatisfied.

Later, the film became available in China. He watched it no less than 30 times, and then he was convinced and said that you deserved the Palme d'Or. "

Just like last time, Chen Hong was the one who did most of the talking.

"It's like this, you and I are the only ones in this country who deserve the title of genius director. If there is a chance, we should work together more often."

Chen Kaige echoed.

Li Yu observed Chen Kaige's serious look.

He found that Chen Kaige might be serious.

Chen Kaige really thinks of himself and him as geniuses.

Fortunately, there was no thunder in the sky at this time, otherwise according to the plot, should Li Yu lie on the ground to pick up the chopsticks?
Uh...well, now Li Yu doesn't need to pick up chopsticks when facing Chen Kaige.

He is not Liu Bei who lives under someone else's roof, and Chen Kaige is not Cao Cao who controls a region.

His status in the film industry is no less than that of Chen Kaige, and this has been the case since the day he won the Palme d'Or.

However, Chen Kaige's description of Li Yu and himself as the only two talented directors in China made Li Yu feel a little amused and helpless.

Over the years, the media has repeatedly given Li Yu the title of genius director.

But he didn't really think of himself as a talented director.

Wait...Li Yu seemed to have discovered the reason why Chen Kaige was willing to work with him a second time.

He knew how arrogant Chen Kaige was. Even when his movie was criticized by the audience, he was unwilling to admit his mistakes and instead said that the audience could not understand his movie.

Even Chen Kaige, the recognized number one director in China, looked down on him.

He actually put this person on the same level as himself.

For a moment, Li Yu didn't know what to say. Could he say that he didn't want others to put him and Chen Kaige together?

When talking about the story mentioned by Cheng Long in the interview, Li Yu fully supported Chen Kaige in filming this story.

Chen Kaige's talent is not much inferior to that of the national master. Just like what Lu Wei, the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine" said, he is a good director as long as he is not allowed to touch the script.

If Chen Kaige didn't touch the script, Li Yu had reason to believe that he could film this story very well.

There are really not many directors in China who can handle this kind of subject matter.

It was necessary to capture both the ferocity of the Huns’ elite soldiers and the courage of the Han army’s soldiers who refused to give up an inch of territory.

To film the offensive and defensive battle between 300 Han soldiers and 20,000 elite Hun soldiers in a good-looking way is a technical job, and the number of extras required must be several thousand at the peak time.

It is very difficult to have thousands of people filming in an orderly manner without any problems. Chen Kaige happened to have such a set scheduling ability.

In short, Li Yu is looking forward to Chen Kaige's performance.

Li Yu talked with Chen Kaige for a long time and agreed to help him write a good script.

Li Yu also asked Chen Kaige to put forward his ideas.

If it is a reliable idea, he can include Chen Kaige's ideas when writing the script.

Otherwise Chen Kaige would look back and feel like he had only used 20% of his full strength.

Chen Kaige was very satisfied with this, and he even began to give Li Yu a thumbs up in his heart.

As expected of someone who is qualified to be on equal footing with him, he is indeed very thoughtful and took his feelings into full consideration when writing the script.

He told Li Yu a lot of his personal ideas.

Most of them were discarded by Li Yu, and he only kept a little for Chen Kaige.

At the end of the conversation, both parties were very satisfied, and Chen Kaige asked about Li Yu's "Operation Nujiang River".

"Your film Operation Nujiang will face strong competition when it is released in March or April.

"Fast and Furious 7" is currently in the pre-production stage and is expected to be released in the United States in early April.

As a rule, the domestic release time is usually one to two weeks later, so you might run into it.

In addition to "Fast and Furious 7", there are also powerful Hollywood blockbusters such as "Avengers 2", "Mission Impossible 5" and "Jurassic World". "

Chen Kaige couldn't help but sigh.

"Hollywood is really strong. I feel that the top spot in the domestic Chinese-language box office will be occupied by Hollywood blockbusters for a long time."

In fact, the domestic box office record set by Li Yu's "The Great Wall: Part Two" last year has been broken by "Transformers 4".

The pressure on Chinese-language films has increased again.

The slogan of fighting against Hollywood has been shouted for so many years, but the movie that ranks first in the local box office is actually a foreign movie, which is really embarrassing.

This year, Hollywood's offensive is more fierce than last year. Even Chen Kaige is pessimistic, not to mention other people in the circle.

"What are you afraid of? I'm fighting the elite. If we have to hide when we see a Hollywood blockbuster, how can we fight Hollywood? If we want to fight, we have to fight them head-on."

Li Yu said without fear.

Li Yu is very confident about "Operation Nujiang River".

Chen Kaige was so excited by Li Yu's declarations that he even felt the urge to make a good movie to compete with Hollywood blockbusters.

"Okay, be ambitious."

Chen Kaige praised loudly.

As expected of a genius like him, he has the courage to face challenges head-on.

"I plan to hold an internal screening next week. I will call you then."

Li Yu said again.

The final editing version of "Operation Nujiang" has just been completed, and Li Yu also wants to know what everyone will think of this movie.

The threshold for this internal film viewing is very high. Only people at the investor level can participate. Even the leading actors are not eligible to participate.

"I will definitely come when the time comes. I really want to see how good your movie is that dares to compete with Hollywood blockbusters."

Chen Kaige agreed without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)