China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 526 One of the biggest flaws in the movie
Strictly speaking, "Fight Back to School" cannot be considered a work entirely directed by Lin Chaoxian.

Nominally, the chief director of "Fight Back to School" was his mentor Chen Jiashang, and he was only the assistant director.

The literary parts of "Fight Back to School" were basically filmed by the Chen family.

He was responsible for all the action scenes and gun battle scenes.

Although they are a close match between master and apprentice, they complement each other and make good movies that people love to watch.

But there is a very good saying: A real man, living between heaven and earth, cannot be depressed and inferior to others for long.

Lin Chaoxian is ambitious, and an ambitious person will certainly not be content to be an assistant director and assist others all his life.

He wants to direct a movie on his own and become a truly independent director.

It was not until 1997 that he finally got the chance to direct a movie on his own, and he made "G4 Agent", but that work was rather mediocre.

His career developed very well afterwards, and he successively produced excellent works such as "SPL", "The Informant", "The Witness", and "The Outcast".

These works all have one thing in common: the gun battles and action scenes are shot very well.

Through his resume, we can understand why he was the director of the original versions of "Operation Nujiang" and "Operation Red Sea".

He is indeed very good at action and gunfight scenes.

As for the disadvantage, the literary scenes are slightly lacking compared with the outstanding action scenes and gun battle scenes.

In fact, the plot and literary drama of "Operation Red Sea" are also very thin, but the exciting gun battle scenes from beginning to end are so brilliant that they cover up the problem of weak plot to a certain extent.

However, this weakness depends on who it is compared with. Compared with those masterpieces, there are definitely some shortcomings.

But compared with Lin Chaoxian's previous works, it is still an improvement.

It is for this reason that Lin Chaoxian gave such a high evaluation of Li Yu's script.

"Director Li, you wrote the script. I wonder which actors you think are most suitable for which roles?"

Lin Chaoxian asked again.

Li Yu is the screenwriter, and no one understands the character better than Li Yu.

Lin Chaoxian believes that Li Yu's advice should be listened to.

"If you can invite Sun Li, let her play the cameo role of the female war correspondent. You can handle the rest. This is an ensemble drama. Even if he is an actor of the best actor level, he won't have much room to play.

As long as the actor has a military temperament and good acting skills, I think there is no problem."

This is what Li Yu suggested.

However, Lin Chaoxian was completely stunned after hearing his advice.

He couldn't understand it, he really couldn't understand it.

Li Yu did not recommend the actor for the leading male role, but instead recommended an actor for a female war correspondent. What's the point of this?
Lin Chaoxian suddenly remembered what Wang Jing said some time ago.

The quality of "Detective Chinatown 2" has declined. It's not Li Yu's problem, but Wang Jing's problem.

Could it be that Li Yu only recommended an actor who played a non-significant role because he had fully considered his feelings and wanted to give the casting power to him as the director?

Yes, that must be the case.

Lin Chaoxian silently gave Li Yu a thumbs up for his behavior of fully considering the feelings of his partners.

Those entertainment media in Hong Kong Island really have no conscience at all. They said nonsense that Li Yu is difficult to get along with and bites everyone they see.

Isn't that slander? They have never been with Li Yu.

Only after getting along with Li Yu, you will know how comfortable it is to get along with Li Yu.

"Director Li, you are so polite. Considering that I asked you to recommend an actor, you can't refuse.

I was also afraid that if I recommended too many, I, as a director, would become a tool, so I only recommended a role with very few scenes, right?
I can see your good intentions at a glance."

Lin Chaoxian had an expression that said, "I know you all."

Li Yu was speechless.

Why do these people always like to misinterpret his meaning?

The reason why he recommended Sun Li to play the female war correspondent was simple: to prevent Lin Chaoxian from bringing Hai Qing in again.

Li Yu recognized Hai Qing's professional qualities as an actor, but did not approve of her performance in "Operation Red Sea".

Originally, the role of the female war correspondent had been decided upon.

The actress had something urgent to do and couldn't perform, so Hai Qing was asked to save the situation.

The next day after Hai Qing received a call from the crew, he rushed to Morocco where the crew was located.

She was unlucky. She encountered a level 10 sandstorm on the second day. During the filming process, she was blown away by explosives, her face was bitten by mosquitoes, and her legs were frozen to the point of numbness...

There is no doubt about her professionalism, but she is really not suitable to play a female war correspondent.

Her acting as a female reporter was too obvious, it was awkward and distracting.

She should be considered one of the biggest flaws in "Operation Red Sea".

Li Yu recommended the candidate to play the female reporter in order to avoid this role becoming one of the biggest criticisms of the movie again, but he did not expect that Lin Chaoxian over-imagined it.

"I think the actors you used in Operation Nujiang River are all very good. I plan to invite Zhang Yi and others to star in this movie."

Lin Chaoxian felt that since Li Yu had already helped him screen out outstanding actors suitable for this track in advance.

He can move forward by standing on the shoulders of his predecessors. If he doesn't know how to do this, wouldn't he appear to be stupid?

Li Yu's eyes lit up at first, and then he felt that everything made sense.

Except for Huang Xiaoming, most of the leading actors in his version of "Operation Nujiang River" are the original cast of "Operation Red Sea".

Those people were originally picked by Lin Chaoxian. He thought they were good people, which was very reasonable.

"Director Lin, you are the director of this film. You have the decision-making power in casting. Just do whatever you think is appropriate. If I really wanted to be heavily involved, I wouldn't turn down this task."

What Li Yu wanted to express was very simple, those were all Lin Chaoxian’s business.

He is only responsible for the scriptwriting and doesn't care about anything else.

If he could turn it down, he wouldn't even want to take on the screenwriting job, but he couldn't.

……

Another week later, a new record in the Chinese-language film industry was set when the first film to gross over 30 billion yuan was released.

Wang Jing successfully became the first director in China to enter the 30 billion club.

As the largest investor in the "Detective Chinatown" series, Li Yu has won a lot.

Just provide the script and a sum of money, and then do nothing to make hundreds of millions in profit.

As a director, Wang Jing must be very successful and has become the most watched director during the Spring Festival.

But in the circle, Li Yu receives much more attention than Wang Jing.

Many people in the industry were shocked once again.

Li Yu's script actually allowed a director like Wang Jing, whose abilities were not outstanding, to top the domestic box office.

People used to say that Li Yu was very good at promoting actors. Almost anyone he promoted became famous, and there had never been a failure case.

Now people have discovered that Li Yu is not only good at promoting actors, but he is even better at promoting directors. He can even promote directors who rank number one at the box office.

Some directors who had offended Li Yu began to regret it when they saw Wang Jing making a fortune.

If he had known that he could live such a comfortable life by having a good relationship with Li Yu, why did he fail to get over it?
(End of this chapter)