China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 661 Mud can’t hold up the wall
Fan Xiaopang knew Li Yu well enough. He knew that Li Yu would stand her up but would not cheat her.

After listening carefully to Li Yu's words, she thought about it carefully and felt that there was really no need for her to play such a role.

"That's right, what you said makes sense. I'm past the stage of acting in every movie. I don't take any role now." Fat Fan agreed.

“You are right not to play the female role in my new movie, but you said you don’t accept every role now, so don’t brag about it.

If I hadn't advised you last time, you would have gone to act in that "Legend of the Gods" a long time ago."

Li Yu ruthlessly exposed all of this.

Fatty Fan was embarrassed when he heard this: "Don't expose someone's shortcomings, and don't hit someone in the face. Can you please give me some face? This is all old news, so don't mention it again."

Thinking back to that incident, Fat Fan still felt a lingering fear.

At that time, she was really attracted by the big promises made by others.

She thought that although the male lead was a rich second-generation, his parents were capable.

During the golden age of Hong Kong movies, the company of the leading actor's parents produced many high-quality Hong Kong films.

With such powerful parents to back him up, the investment reached an astonishing 500 million yuan. With a group of superstars to help support him, it was a perfect situation. How bad could it be?
What happened later surprised Fan Xiaopang.

It turns out that with an investment of 500 million yuan and a cast of all-stars, you can still make a terrible movie that is hard to surpass.

Just like a table full of top-notch ingredients, someone who can’t cook can still make food that would make even a dog shake his head at the sight.

Li Yu thought for a moment and said, "Let me give you another piece of advice. From now on, you'd better not touch any movie that promotes that rich second-generation Hong Kong director, no matter how much the investment is or how strong the cast is.

I don’t mean to look down on people, but I still want to say that some pieces of mud just can’t be helped.”

Sometimes Li Yu couldn’t understand what the rich second generation were thinking.

Isn't it better to just play with sports cars, flirt with girls, and live a boring life? He is obviously not that kind of person, but he still insists on chasing his dream. The final result is a huge joke.

Fan Xiaopang felt that Li Yu's viewpoint was a bit radical, and asked skeptically: "His parents have produced so many Hong Kong superstars, so they must be very experienced in promoting people.

"Legend of the Gods" failed, can they fail again in the same place? No way?"

"Haha." Li Yu smiled but said nothing.

He didn't want to explain, because time would give the answer.

Next time, if Fan Xiaopang is interested in this kind of project again, Li Yu may consider not reminding him.

Every failure is a learning experience. This is how people are. You can’t learn to be smart without really suffering a loss.

"Don't tell me, don't tell me, there really is a Hong Kong crew that has approached me to film a movie.

It seems to be called "Journey to the West: The Women's Kingdom", and it is also full of superstars. I heard that Aaron Kwok and Lin Chi-ling will participate in it."

Fat Fan thought of something.

"That's great. You can take it if you think it's appropriate." Li Yu said with a smile.

Fat Fan was silent for a while. "I think something is wrong with you. Are you trying to trick me? From what you said, you suggested that I take it? You suggested that I turn down most of the film contracts I mentioned to you before."

Li Yu denied it and said, "You think too much. I don't know your Journey to the West: Kingdom of Women, so how can I know the quality?
I don't even know the situation, so how can I cheat you? I just asked you to accept it if you think it's appropriate. What's wrong with that?"

Fan Xiaopang pondered for a long time, but couldn't find any loopholes in Li Yu's words, but she always felt something was strange.

This is not in line with Li Yu's usual style.

"There's nothing wrong with what you said, but I always feel something is wrong. You actually suggested that I take this, I suspect it's a bad movie." Fan Xiaopang said suspiciously. "I still say the same thing, don't think too much, I don't even know this "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom", how can I know if it's a good movie or a bad movie.

If you think it's suitable, just take it. You also need to care whether it is a good movie or a bad one.

You don’t need to have such a big burden. You have made more bad movies than good ones in recent years, and the audiences have become accustomed to you making bad movies.”

Li Yu told the truth.

"..."

Fat Fan felt as if his heart was stabbed hard.

This is too much. How can you say that she has more bad movies than good ones?
Even though she has made a lot of bad movies, she wants to make good movies, right? Who would choose to make bad movies?
……

In the next few days, Li Yu sent invitations to some actors, most of whom were veteran actors.

For example, Li Xuejian, he planned to let Li Xuejian play Huang Chao during the rebellious stage.

Huang Chao failed the imperial examination three times and then returned to his hometown and burned books and started a rebellion.

After he returned to his hometown, he worked as a salt merchant for many years, always waiting for the opportunity.

He only responded to the uprising after another salt merchant named Wang Xianzhi took the lead in rebellion.

He was already 55 years old at that time. For people of that era, this age meant that they already had one foot in the coffin.

Therefore, Li Xuejian is just right to play Huang Chao, an old man who rises up in rebellion.

Huang Chao was only in his early twenties when he took the imperial examination, so a young actor must have been used.

In addition to Fan Xiaopang who got wind of the news and contacted Li Yu to ask for a role, Huang Xiaoming also took the initiative to contact Li Yu.

"Director Li, is there a role suitable for me? The remuneration can be discussed easily." Huang Xiaoming asked.

"You can't." Li Yu replied directly with three words.

"I can't do it. What's wrong with me? Is my acting not good enough? I can perform well at the crucial moment." Huang Xiaoming felt very hurt.

He has worked with Li Yu more than once. Doesn't Li Yu know whether he can do it or not?
"No, you misunderstood me. When I said you are not good enough, I didn't mean that your acting skills are bad, but that you don't look good," said Li Yu.

"..." Huang Xiaoming became even more unconvinced after hearing this. How could he not be good-looking when he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy based on his looks?

Without waiting for him to ask, Li Yu started to explain: "You are too handsome. Young Huang Chao does not need to be so handsome. Although there is no record of Huang Chao being ugly in the official history, there is in the unofficial history.

These are not the key points. The key point is that people have already assumed that Huang Chao is ugly.

If a handsome actor is cast at this time, it will challenge the audience's cognition and may cause the audience to be distracted.

I won’t do something that may cause harm but has no visible benefits.”

"Director Li, you might as well tell me that my acting is too bad and you look down on me." Huang Xiaoming felt even more hurt.

Is there anything wrong with being handsome? What's more, he has rejected Li Yu more than once because of his handsome appearance.

At this moment, he wished he were uglier.

"Anyway, this has nothing to do with you this time. I'll call you if there's something suitable next time." Li Yu said again.

(End of this chapter)