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Chapter 467 The Great Director's Hype Method
After watching the movie, everyone left, but Chen Kaige stayed and continued to discuss with Li Yu the legendary story of hundreds of Han soldiers defending an isolated city.

Chen Kaige has already thought of the name of the script, which is "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen".

Chen Kaige was not in a hurry to ask Li Yu for the script.

His Han Dynasty city has not yet begun construction and is expected to take at least a year to complete.

Li Yu wrote the script and gave it to him today, but he didn't have a location to shoot it.

What? Chen Kaige can rent a location for filming?
Yes, it is possible. Historical dramas have been filmed in China for so many years, and there are many ancient photography cities built.

However, renting a city to film a movie does not suit the temperament of Chen Kaige, the entertainment industry's top architectural designer.

You have to build a city in a movie to get the feeling.

After returning, Chen Kaige was not idle.

He did not hide the news that he was going to build a Han Dynasty city to film "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen", and it was soon known to the media.

When flying to the northwest of the motherland to select the site for the city, a reporter followed to the northwest to interview Chen Kaige.

"Director Chen, is it true that there is a rumor that you are planning to build a city to film "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen"?

If this news is true, does it mean that you have given up the Tang Dynasty movie that you have been preparing for?"

Hearing this, Chen Kaige, who was wearing sunglasses, looked gloomy and thought, isn't this a rumor?
Who said he won’t film "Legend of the Cat Demon"?

He has been preparing for "Legend of the Cat Demon" for several years.

It takes time to replicate a Tang City on a one-to-one basis. A Tang City that is huge in scale and costs over one billion dollars will take at least two or three years to be used.

Couldn’t he have shot a movie like “The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen” in the next two or three years?

Who do you look down on? Are you looking down on those directors who don’t have enough money and can’t even raise enough money to finance a movie?
As long as he wants to shoot, he never needs to worry about investing, okay?
“That’s nonsense, I never said I wouldn’t make a movie about the Tang Dynasty.

Tang City is too large and it will take a long time to complete.

Can't I find something to do while I wait for it to be finished?"

Chen Kaige started to refute rumors.

When talking about why he came up with the idea of ​​making this movie, Chen Kaige generously admitted that he became interested in this wonderful story after accidentally learning about the news about Jackie Chan.

Every successful director is good at hype, and Chen Kaige is no exception.

He vaguely revealed to reporters that he had talked to Li Yu privately several times.

Li Yu is most likely the chief screenwriter of this movie.

If Li Yu really doesn't have time, he will write the script himself.

It was obvious that Li Yu's appointment was a foregone conclusion, but he said this deliberately in order to stir up discussion.

Netizens are arguing over the difference between screenwriter Li Yu and screenwriter himself.

Once netizens started arguing, the topic naturally became popular.

It is said that Zhang Da Huzi is the director in China who is best at hype.

In fact, compared with real hype masters, Zhang Da Huzi's hype method is not only offensive but also quite low-level.

After a long time, even the spectators saw through Zhang Da Hu's actions.

Chen Kaige’s way of hype is much more sophisticated.

He won't offend anyone.

Netizens would only advise him not to let himself down as a screenwriter. With the success of "Gone Girl" and being scolded by Li Yu, Chen Kaige seems to have accepted the fact that he is a poor screenwriter and can even make fun of himself.

Taking the topic of Li Yu's hype for his production of "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen", Chen Kaige compensated Li Yu with high emotional intelligence.

"I can reveal a piece of news that no one knows. Everyone knows that Director Li's "Operation Nujiang" has been scheduled to be released nationwide at the end of March.

I think everyone is curious about Director Li's latest masterpiece. I am honored to have participated in the internal screening of this movie and finished watching it a month earlier than everyone else.

My assessment of this film is that it is the pinnacle of mainland China’s drama and crime films. I won’t spoil the details of what it is like, so you can look forward to it.”

Chen Kaige praised "Operation Nujiang River" highly in front of reporters.

Although he seems to be bragging fiercely on the surface, Chen Kaige is actually very steady.

He was very careful in his wording, only saying that this was the pinnacle of mainland China's drama crime films, but not saying that it was the pinnacle of all Chinese drama crime films.

Because Hong Kong directors are the best at shooting this type of film.

The scenes in "Operation Nujiang River" are much larger than those in Hong Kong films of the same type, but if you really compare it with "Infernal Affairs", the pinnacle of Hong Kong crime films, it's hard to tell which one is better.

Chen Kaige believes that each has its own advantages and disadvantages. "Infernal Affairs" has better character creation and details, while "Operation Nujiang River" has bigger scenes and better pictures.

After Chen Kaige's words made the front page headlines of an entertainment website, they quickly sparked heated discussions online.

"Director Chen, please, please. Everyone has their own expertise. Can we directors not take the jobs of screenwriters? Learn from the coal bosses and leave professional matters to professionals, okay?"

“To put it on the front page and let the poet see it, Li Yu must be the screenwriter.

The quality of Li Yu's works is guaranteed and has never been bad. "

The netizens who were arguing endlessly had no idea that they had all been fooled by Chen Kaige.

This is exactly the effect Chen Kaige wants.

People started discussing it, so didn’t the movie “The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen” become popular?
He can save a lot of promotion costs with just a few simple words.

Chen Kaige's evaluation of "Operation Mekong" also sparked widespread discussion among netizens.

“Director Li’s performance is as stable as ever. Since poet Chen said so, it must be reliable.

I originally thought that Director Li would be like many other directors who were recruited, and the quality of his films would decline after being recruited, but it seems that I was worrying too much. "

"Poet Chen, why are you saying these things? If you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have been curious. Now that you've said it, my mind is full of fantasy scenes from Operation Nujiang River."

In the small group of actors created during the filming, Zhang Yi was extremely excited: "Director Chen spoke so highly of our movie. I feel like I'm really going to be famous."

Huang Xiaoming replied: "Keep calm, Director Li's leading male roles are basically popular."

Huang Xiaoming had been Li Yu's leading man, it was such a great experience and directly reached the pinnacle of his career.

It’s a pity that he is not the leading actor in “Operation Nujiang River”, otherwise he could have had more fun.

However, he had no complaints about Zhang Yi playing the leading male role. He noticed how strong Zhang Yi's acting skills were when they were filming in Siam.

His 55-Kai passive ability was fully stacked, but he was still some distance away from Zhang Yi.

He felt that the pressure of acting with Zhang Yi was similar to that of acting with a veteran movie star.

Zhang Yi: "Thank you, Brother Xiaoming, for your kind words. I also hope to become famous. I want to have a taste of what it feels like to be famous. I really want to make progress."

Zhang Yi was very excited. He had persisted for so many years. Some people had advised him to quit the circle, saying that he would never become famous with his ordinary looks.

He refused to believe in evil and persisted just to tell others that he could do it.

(End of this chapter)