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Chapter 501: Attending the premiere of "The Conferred Gods"

After working overtime for two days at the filming site, Li Yu and Fan Xiaopang flew to Anyang City.

The national master chose Anyang as the premiere location for "Investiture of the Gods", probably because the ruins of Yinxu, the capital of the Shang Dynasty, are located in Anyang.

It can be seen that the national teacher put a lot of thought into it.

Even the location of the premiere was carefully selected.

Li Yu brought Fan Xiaopang and the national teacher to meet before the premiere.

The national teacher knew that Li Yu was currently filming a science fiction film called "Ready Player One".

He was personally quite touched that Li Yu put aside his filming schedule and came to support him.

"Director Li, you put aside the filming on the set and went to Anyang. It will delay a lot of things, right?"

The national teacher asked with concern.

"It doesn't matter. If you didn't invite me, I wouldn't have found a reason to take a two-day break.

From the start of filming to now, I have been spending more than ten hours on the set every day. To be honest, it is really tiring.

You are also a director, you should be able to understand what I am saying, right? "

Li Yu's tone was joking, but there was some truth in his words.

Being a director is much more tiring than being an actor.

An actor only needs to figure out how to play his role well.

The director can't do that. Strictly speaking, the director has to take care of all matters big and small on the crew.

Plot, filming, guiding actors’ acting skills, explaining the scenes to actors, and managing the entire crew of hundreds or thousands of people...

These tasks are very energy-consuming.

"It's understandable, it's understandable."

The Imperial Master nodded seriously, and his expression seemed to show some emotion.

A dozen or twenty years ago, he only slept four or five hours a day and spent the remaining seventeen or eighteen hours on work. He could work for several months in a row.

Therefore, many people in the circle say that the national master has more energy.

But people cannot refuse to accept aging. The current national master is over sixty years old and he can no longer work seventeen or eighteen hours a day.

If he heard Li Yu say that being a director is very tiring a dozen years ago, would he say "tired"? I slept four or five hours a day for two months without feeling tired! Could it be a problem for you, a young man?
Now, he really feels that being a director is very tiring.

After a few greetings, the national teacher began to introduce the actors of "Fengshen" to Li Yu.

"Fei Xiang, who played Yin Shou, the third prince of the Shang Dynasty, who later became Emperor Xin and King Zhou of Shang, in The Gods. Na Zha, who played the vixen Daji in the movie.

You are familiar with Li Xuejian, he played the role of Shen Gongbao. Liu Dekai, he played the role of Jiang Ziya..."

The national master introduced the important characters in the movie to Li Yu one by one.

Fei Xiang knew Li Yu. He became well-known among people in the mainland for his performances of "Clouds of Hometown" and "A Fire in Winter" at the 87 Spring Festival Gala.

You have to know that at that time there was no precedent for artists from Taiwan to set foot in the mainland.

His agency warned him that if he accepted the invitation to perform in the mainland Spring Festival Gala, his career in Taiwan, which he had worked hard for many years, would be ruined.

While he was hesitating, his mother received a letter from his grandmother.

The letter mentioned that his mother and grandmother had not seen each other for nearly 40 years.

In order to reunite his mother and grandmother and to return to his homeland, he ignored the warnings of his agency and decided to accept the invitation to the Spring Festival Gala. The price was that he was banned from the Taiwanese entertainment industry for 14 years.

Although Fei Xiang is an American artist, Li Yu has a good impression of him as an American because of his experiences.

At least for the sake of his family and relatives, he dared to take the first step at the risk of being banned in that context at the time and became the first Taiwanese singer to return to the stage of his motherland to perform.

This is of great significance. By the way, Fei Xiang is different from many foreign artists in the circle.

Most foreign artists are afraid that others will mention their foreign nationality, and yet they still say that they are Chinese in front of their fans and the camera.

Fei Xiang is very straightforward and he never hides his foreign identity.

He told everyone many times on the show that he is American, and also complained that the United States is an uncultured Guo Jia.

I wonder if this sharp contrast will make some foreign artists feel ashamed.

Li Yu shook hands with Fei Xiang and said with a smile: "I saw you on the Spring Festival Gala when I was only a few years old. You were wearing a red dress and singing. I was deeply impressed by you."

"Oh? Really? It's my pleasure."

Fei Xiang was very surprised.

In his memory, that was already a very distant thing, more than 20 years ago.

I didn’t expect that Li Yu actually remembered what color clothes he was wearing that day when he sang.

Fatty Fan joked, "It can be seen that Director Li had a very comfortable life when he was young. When he was a few years old, his family already had a TV."

Fat Fan is really envious.

If there had been a TV at home when she was a few years old, she might not have come out to make a living at the age of 16, let alone become an actress.

"It's not bad. At that time, my family only had a fortune of 1.8 million."

Li Yu said very modestly.

"..."

Fat Fan really wants to ask me where is the knife?
In an era when a person with a fortune of 10,000 yuan is considered wealthy, so what do you think of a family fortune of 800,000 yuan?
What’s the difference between this and the ordinary family described by a certain wealthy man named Ma who was able to use a telescope in the 1990s?
"Hello, senior. My name is Naza, and I'm a student in the 11th grade acting department. I heard a lot about your story when I was in school."

When Naza greeted Li Yu, she stretched out her fair little hand with a hint of admiration in her eyes.

Li Yu is the school's most outstanding graduate in the past twenty years, no doubt about it.

At Beijing Film Academy, there is no student who has not heard of Li Yu’s name and deeds.

Students in the directing department even regard Lee Yu Bong as their idol.

Unfortunately, Beijing Film Academy still cannot break free from the curse that the department of directing cannot produce any directors.

Apart from Li Yu, there are very few famous directors who have come from a legitimate directing background in recent years, and they can be counted on one hand.

After being ridiculed for so many years, even Beijing Film Academy is probably lying in wait.

Although the directing department rarely produces famous directors, you can ask whether there are many famous directors from Beijing Film Academy. Don't worry about what department those famous directors are from, just ask whether they are students of Beijing Film Academy.

“Well, hello Naza, I heard about you from my teacher at school.

There are not many young actresses who are as beautiful as you. Your looks can be described as stunning, and you can become famous just by your face.

But if I want to have longer-term development, I still have to concentrate on honing my acting skills.”

Li Yu gave pertinent comments and suggestions.

He is now talking to his junior sister as an old senior.

If this person was not a schoolmate but an outsider, Li Yu would at most reply with a "hello", and that would be it. It would be impossible for him to give any advice.

Nazha had a surprised expression on her face. She didn't expect that Li Yu had heard her name from the teacher and seemed to have some understanding of her.

For example, knowing that her acting skills are poor.

"Don't be too surprised. Every year the school recommends to me some good seedlings that they think have potential, and you are one of them."

Li Yu smiled and said.

(End of this chapter)