China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 621 Main Feelings
After finishing the long conversation with Li Yu, Chen Kaige felt refreshed.

The issue of the script for "Legend of the Cat Demon" has been bothering him for many days.

In the end, he realized that professional matters should be left to professionals.

Li Yu only took a little effort and outlined the concept of the script according to the requirements he put forward, and the quality was already much better than the scripts that he and other screenwriters had polished for many days.

"Director Li is not only incredibly talented in directing, but also in screenwriting. His scripts are really strong. No wonder people say that all the scripts he writes are hits."

Chen Kaige said admiringly.

Chen Hong was quite surprised, because she knew how ambitious Chen Kaige was.

Chen Kaige doesn't even take someone like the national master seriously.

Only Li Yu was looked upon with new eyes.

He once lamented that Li Yu was a talented director like him.

Judging from his current tone, it seems that in his heart, he has begun to admit that he is not as good as Li Yu.

There is a gap between geniuses.

What's more, he is the one who called himself a genius.

Chen Hong also knew that Chen Kaige's scripts had always been a weakness.

It is a good thing that Chen Kaige admires Li Yu and is willing to let Li Yu control the script.

Chen Kaige is perfect only when he doesn't touch the script. As soon as he touches the script, the movie will become very suspenseful.

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The box office of "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen" exceeding 700 million is just the beginning, and it is far from the end.

Chen Kaige drew on a lot of the successful experiences of Li Yu and the national master when making this movie.

For example, "Guan Du" and "Man Jiang Hong" used many talented actors who had great acting skills, tough images, but were not well-known.

Chen Kaige simply copied the homework and asked those people to play the thirteen soldiers in the movie.

The effect of copying homework is obvious. Finding tough guys to play the Han army warriors who are not afraid of life and death makes the viewing experience a thousand times better than that of young and handsome actors.

At least a tough guy actor wouldn't play the young general as Colonel Sakura.

When Cao Qing and others saw how well "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen" did, they were envious and began to look forward to their own version of the Ghost Blows Out the Light movie.

The script of "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen" was written by Li Yu, and the script of the movie version of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" was also written by Li Yu.

Based on the script written by Li Yu, this law will definitely be broken, and the performance of their Ghost Blows Out the Light movie version will definitely not be bad.

In order to prevent them from being blindly optimistic, Li Yu immediately poured a bucket of cold water on them: "It is true that I wrote the script, but it is almost impossible for the Ghost Blows Out the Light movie version to reach the height of The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen.

In terms of box office, it may not even be able to catch up to half of "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen". Because the theme of Ghost Blows Out the Light is a bit niche, and the suspense adventure genre is also a niche in the film industry.

The potential audience of Ghost Blows Out the Light is naturally not as high as that of The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen, and the director is very important.

The director of "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to Yumen" is Chen Kaige, and the film has attracted much attention since the day the project was launched.

For a movie made by a great director like this, as long as it is really good, it is highly likely to do well at the box office.”

Finally, Li Yu added: "Also, I am a human, not a god. I can't make every script a hit. Those people are just flattering me."

Li Yu felt a little emotional. People really like to create gods.

As long as one is a human being, who can guarantee that he or she can always be strong?
Even Li Yu could not guarantee that the movies he made would still appeal to young people in twenty or thirty years.

Because there is something called generation gap, which cannot be eliminated.

It is difficult for people who are not of the same age to understand other people's thoughts.

Feng Xiaogang's Feng-style comedy style is the same as it was more than a decade ago. More than a decade ago, when he was making Feng-style comedies, he was the king of Chinese New Year films in the mainland. Now when he is making Feng-style comedies, people are less and less interested in them.

Because the audience has changed.

The reason why Li Yu’s scripts are becoming popular now is that he is almost the same age as the mainstream audience.

"Director Li, you are too modest. As of now, all the scripts written by you have become hits.

Therefore, the statement that the script you write will definitely be a hit is applicable at this moment, and there is not the slightest bit of exaggeration in this statement.

Of course, a true master can always maintain the heart of an apprentice. A true master will never say that he is the best, let alone that he is invincible.

I really admire you for having achieved so much and still being able to stay true to your original aspirations. "

Cao Qing said seriously.

He couldn't even imagine how proud he would be if he achieved Li Yu's success.

If he had Li Yu's historical achievements and status, it is likely that one day he would perform poorly and make a movie that he thought was awesome but the audience would not buy into.

He would also get angry and tell the media that today's audiences are rubbish and cannot keep up with the pace of an advanced director like him, and that it would take another five to ten years for the audience to truly understand his movies.

"By the way, Director Li, when do you plan to go to Hollywood to make a movie again?" Cao Qing asked again.

Cao Qing knew about Li Yu and Huana's situation.

After the huge success of Aquaman 1, which truly brought success to both Huami and Xiaomi, Warner Bros. has been urging Li Yu to go back and shoot Aquaman 2 as soon as possible.

In order to persuade Li Yu to take action, they offered a very sincere price, but Li Yu just refused to give in.

Because Li Yu really thinks that "Aquaman 2" is a big pit.

"Aquaman 1" has already told the story of Aquaman, and it would be a waste to tell it again.

Unless you do the same as Man Wei, set up a xx alliance and let Aquaman appear in this xx alliance, turning him from a protagonist into a supporting role.

The problem is that "Justice League" just flopped, and it was a flop in both word of mouth and box office.

Even if Li Yu goes, he won't be able to lead the team.

So Li Yu still prefers to make other movies.

However, Warner doesn't quite trust him to make other films, as he is afraid that it would be a step too far and end up in trouble if he does.

The reason for this situation is that just relying on "Aquaman 1" is not enough to prove that Li Yu can continue to produce movies that suit the tastes of audiences in Hollywood.

Li Yu thought about it and realized that the opponent took a half step back last time, so he could take a half step back this time.

But he will definitely not shoot "Aquaman 2".

For the time being, I will not make an artistic film like "Oppenheimer", but I can make a commercial film instead.

Li Yu has already selected the film. The film he is going to shoot this time is "Barbie", which will become the highest-grossing film in the history of Warner Films in the future.

To be honest, if you are someone who knows Director Bi, when you first see the movie cover of "Barbie", you will really have a sense of déjà vu of "Pure Mind: Chasing Dreams in Show Business".

But if you really go and see it, you'll find that it's just the cover of this movie that's bad, and the movie itself is a very successful commercial film.

Just by listening to the name of the movie, you can tell that it is leveraging the influence of Barbie, a world-renowned classic IP.

When Barbie dolls were popular, not many Chinese children could play with them because they were expensive and extremely popular abroad.

This is the childhood memory of many foreign girls. To put it bluntly, it is an emotional hit.

Plus the theme of feminism.

The emotions of a generation + the theme of feminism, as long as it is well filmed, it will definitely do well at the box office there.

(End of this chapter)