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Chapter 578: Making Props Older Costs More Money

"You won't fool me like you fooled Brother Jing, right?" Li Yu said deliberately.

"It's hard to say. Director Li, I tell you, he has gone too far. Whenever a dog passes by the crew's gate, he has to pull the dog's hair over and let the dog act as an extra." Wu Jing complained.

Wu Jing's statement sounds outrageous, but it really happened.

Reality is so magical.

But that happened later.

Later, when Guo Fan was shooting the cover, there really was a dog passing by the crew’s gate.

Finally people discovered that in the cover photo, there was a dog on Guo Fan’s shoulder.

"Brother Jing, you are really going too far in your slander. Am I that kind of person? Director Li and I are good brothers. How could I cheat Director Li?" Guo Fan said this with great righteousness.

Can he cheat Li Yu?

He went around begging for alms last year. Although his ability to deceive people was indeed amazing, it was still difficult to trick people into taking money out of their pockets to give it to him.

He encountered many difficulties on his way to begging for alms.

As soon as Li Yu, the real big brother, saw him, he threw a 100 million investment in his face without saying a word.

He brought his junior fellow apprentice, who was both his teacher and friend, to beg for alms from Li Yu.

Li Yu also didn't even blink, and with a wave of his hand, he handed over several million to his junior brother.

In the words of Chu Fengxian, commander of the Xiliang 358th Army Corps, Director Li has treated me so well that I am willing to take him as my adoptive father and go through fire and water for him.

His relationship with Li Yu is so good that they are like brothers. How could he cheat Li Yu?
If someone is willing to pay him more to cheat Li Yu once, he can reluctantly withdraw his previous statement and add a sentence "You are really good at judging people."

However, no one in the circle should have the courage to pay him more money to cheat Li Yu.

"It's not that you can't cheat Director Li, I think you just don't dare to cheat Director Li." Wu Jing spoke the truth.

Seeing that he couldn't win the argument with Wu Jing, Guo Fan chose to shut up and refused to communicate.

"Director Li, Brother Jing only says these few words. Let's ignore him. I'll take you around." Guo Fan changed the subject.

Guo Fan pulled Li Yu along and quickened their pace, leaving Wu Jing far behind.

"Director Guo, you have a very good relationship with Brother Jing." Li Yu said.

"It must be good. He spreads rumors in the crew every day that I'm a liar. If I had a good relationship with him, I would have beaten him up a long time ago." Guo Fan said in a joking tone.

To be honest, he and Wu Jing have a really good relationship.

Wu Jing not only accused him in the crew, but later also called him a big liar in multiple interviews, which was a bit like good friends insulting each other.

However, their mutual insults have a certain positive impact on the film.

After the spread of Guo Fan's various deeds of deceiving people, it can have a publicity effect on the film.

It is also beneficial to Guo Fan himself, people will say that he is a good director.

Because he fooled actors, investors, directors, dogs, and everyone and every animal around him, but he didn't fool the audience.

And the purpose of his fooling around is to make a great blockbuster that will not disappoint everyone.

The character of Cyber ​​Daji is very likable, which is why Guo Fan acquiesces to others calling him a big liar.

Guo Fan took Li Yu around the crew and introduced everything in the crew to Li Yu one by one. "Look at this QBZ47 rifle. Does it have a lot of wear and tear on the surface?
People who don’t know the ins and outs of this might think that I didn’t put any effort into these props, and that they must be second-hand goods rented from a prop rental company to fool investors, just like the straw hats that some directors buy for thousands of dollars.

In fact, this prop gun took a lot of thought from the prop team. The living environment on the surface of the earth in the film has become very harsh and dangerous.

Most of the earth's resources will be channeled into those more than 10,000 planetary engines, and things like guns must continue to be used as long as they can be used.

So the wear and tear on the surface of these guns was deliberately made by the prop studio for the purpose of making them look old.”

Guo Fan was quite proud when he introduced these things.

Li Yu has been making movies for so many years, so he is naturally someone who knows the ropes.

He knew that props were easy to make new but difficult to make old.

Many costume dramas in China are now criticized by the audience, who ask why the palaces and streets are always so clean, and the characters' clothes don't even have a wrinkle, even though they are clearly set in ancient times.

The royal family members are at the top of the rentier class, and they have the means to wear clothes only once and then throw them away.

Why are the clothes of ordinary people so new? Even the patches on beggars' clothes are new.

The pictures taken with such props will appear fake and not real enough.

Whether at home or abroad, those truly well-made props of the crew are all made to look old.

"Director Guo put a lot of effort into it. The wear and tear and marks on each gun are different." Director Li played with several prop guns, and he really felt that Guo Fan's props were well made.

Guo Fan was very happy to get Li Yu's affirmative answer.

He brought Li Yu to see these props specifically to make Li Yu understand where he spent his money.

He is not the kind of person who would bid a very high price for a rubbish item and fool investors like they are fools. He spends every penny wisely.

Then, Guo Fan took Li Yu to visit the most hardcore place in the movie "The Wandering Earth", the real-life shooting location of the hibernation area of ​​the Navigator Space Station.

Here, Li Yu saw the three expensive space suits, exoskeleton suits, hibernation capsules, airbag balls and other very sci-fi and cool props.

According to Guo Fan, the design of the space suit and helmet alone took two months, during which many designs were overturned.

Li Yu was shocked when he saw these things.

He thought it made sense that no domestic director was willing to make science fiction films, as making a sophisticated science fiction film was really too time-consuming and laborious.

It took a long time to prepare the props alone. The time Wang Jing spent designing the space suit and helmet for "The Wandering Earth" was enough for him to make two bad movies.

Others are making money by releasing crappy movies, but we are still making props here.

Not to mention those directors who just want to make quick money, Li Yu doesn't have the patience to spend four or five years polishing a movie.

"This space suit is great. After the movie is finished, I want to collect one." Li Yu touched the texture of the clothes and thought it was great and should be worth collecting.

"That's no problem. I'll have someone send it to you after the movie is finished." Guo Fan agreed without hesitation.

Li Yu is the financial sponsor of the movie, so taking a prop away is no big deal.

Not to mention investors, some actors with a hobby of collecting will collect a prop after each performance.

As long as the actor's requests are not too excessive and they don't take too expensive props, the crew will generally agree.

"You can collect them, but I have to remind you in advance that these three space suits are all tailor-made. You may not be able to wear them when you take them back." Guo Fan did not forget to remind you at the end.

(End of this chapter)