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Chapter 692: Add Money Until You Are Satisfied

"As long as you meet the requirements, there should be no one who doesn't want this role, right? This is a Hollywood blockbuster. As long as you get this role, it means entering Hollywood." Liu Yifei said.

There is nothing wrong with that.

"If you are interested, go and give it a try." That was all Li Yu could say.

The investment reached 300 million yuan, and it was produced by Deshini. The animated version many years ago was a great success.

All positive buffs are already stacked.

Even if Li Yu could predict the future, he didn't dare tell Liu Yifei that this was a bad movie.

Because if he says it, the other party will really suspect that there is something wrong with his brain.

So, even if he wanted to persuade Liu Yifei not to fall into this trap, he couldn't say it.

Even if Liu Yifei could listen to his advice, her mother and her team would not believe him.

He didn't want to leave a bad impression of being stupid in the eyes of outsiders.

"What's the prospect of 'Mulan' that your company's Deshini is going to produce? If I go for the interview, what are my chances of winning?" Liu Yifei was really unsure.

With her fame and connections, it would be no problem for her to meet the film's director and core team. The difficulty lies in whether she can successfully get the role in the end.

This is a global casting, and the competition is extremely fierce.

She asked this because she wanted Li Yu to give him some confidence.

Li Yu gave her a boost of confidence as she wished: "Your advantages are obvious. First of all, you are of Chinese descent, can speak English, and are very well-known in China.

You have a certain foundation in martial arts. There are quite a few action scenes in the movie Mulan, so having a foundation in martial arts is also an advantage.

In short, your advantages are very obvious. As for whether you can get the role in the end, I won’t make a final conclusion.

Also, don't ask me about the prospects of the film.

This is a movie produced by Deshini, with an investment of 300 million US dollars.

If someone told you that this movie would flop, would you believe it? You would probably think that person was a fool.”

At the end, Li Yu had already hinted at it in a very subtle way.

Liu Yifei definitely couldn't hear it.

Let alone her, anyone who heard this would think that Li Yu was just joking, and no one would think it was serious.

At least that was the case before the movie came out.

This is the halo effect of big companies.

A master with brilliant achievements said that he wanted to create a unique work of art.

Anyone who dares to question the master's failure before his work is released will be labeled a fool.

However, Li Yu thinks that it is possible to shoot a Chinese version of "Mulan" to severely satirize the Deshini version of "Mulan".

The story of Hua Mulan can be traced back to the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

There is no rule that states that only foreigners can film stories about China but Chinese people cannot, right?
Li Yu dared to say that if he found any reliable screenwriter and paid him enough, it would be difficult for him to write a script worse than the Deshini version.

If he were to do it himself, he would definitely strive for perfection in the plot.

At least a few hundred years after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Fujian Province's earthen buildings, witches, qi, and weird human makeup, which are so embarrassing that Chinese people would pick their feet, will not appear in Li Yu's Mulan.

In fact, Mulan is really a good subject. If the story is well filmed, the story itself respects women.

Deshini's animated version and movie version did a lot of things for the sake of feminism and women's rights, such as Mulan was discovered to be a woman, and then she was said to be killed.

All these operations are just a waste of time. The story of Hua Mulan has undergone many changes in history.

But in every version she is portrayed as a heroic woman.

In the army, when people found out she was a daughter, they didn't say they wanted to kill her because she was a woman and had deceived everyone.

There is no plot where the commander says to Mulan, "Life for life, you saved me, so I won't kill you and let you go."

Take the most influential story, the story of Hua Mulan in the Qing Dynasty's Hua Bu's "Fighting on Behalf of My Father".

The story is about a border tribe invading, and the imperial court ordered He Tingyu to lead the army.

Then comes the story of Hua Mulan joining the army to replace her father.

Hua Mulan was handsome and talented. She had experienced a lot in the army and impressed everyone with her strength, including her boss He Tingyu.

This is true feminism! Men can lead troops to fight, and women can do the same, and they can do it better than men.

Because Hua Mulan performed outstandingly in the army, He Tingyu intended to marry his daughter He Min to Hua Mulan.

Hua Mulan politely declined.

Later, He Tingyu went to the battle and was surrounded. Hua Mulan put the overall situation first and did not send troops to rescue him immediately.

He Min didn't know that Hua Mulan was a girl, and she held a grudge against Hua Mulan for refusing the marriage proposal. Seeing that Hua Mulan refused to send troops to rescue her father, she took her maid into Hua Mulan's tent and beat her up.

The soldiers around the military tent did not dare to stop her because of He Min's status, resulting in Hua Mulan being beaten badly.

He Min beat Hua Mulan and found out that she was a girl.

There is no plot that you are a woman, and you joined the army for your father, which deceived the court, the emperor, and the general, so they want to kill you.

After He Min learned of Hua Mulan's identity, she felt ashamed, hated her own reckless behavior, and admired Hua Mulan's loyalty and righteousness.

In the end, He Min and Hua Mulan used the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao to rescue He Tingyu and defeated the enemy.

After returning triumphantly, Hua Mulan refused the imperial reward and returned to her hometown, where she resumed her daughter's attire.

He Tingyu didn't know that Hua Mulan was a girl, and He Min didn't tell him.

So he followed Mulan to her hometown and wanted to marry his daughter to her.

Only after arriving at Mulan's hometown did he learn the truth.

In the end, like He Min, he admired Mulan's filial piety and loyalty.

It's obvious that by filming this most widely circulated and most recognized story, they are very respectful to women and the intention is very high, but they had to go around in circles and create so many weird things.

Especially in the live-action movie version, the character played by Gong Huang said to Mulan, you and I are the same, because we are women, so even if we have super powers, they still don’t like us.

The power of this punch was so devastating that Li Yu was speechless.

All I can say is that Hollywood is becoming more and more abstract under the constraints of various political correctness.

Afterwards, Li Yu just mentioned to Da Tiantian that they should make a real version of Mulan.

Li Yu really doesn't want to see a classic IP ruined by foreigners.

He just mentioned it, and Da Tiantian immediately became interested: "Just tell me how much you want. As long as you leave the heroine to me, money is not a problem."

"Tiantian, I was just saying that. We haven't even started yet. Why do you take it seriously?" Li Yu was speechless.

"I can add more money until you are satisfied." Da Tiantian said simply.

"..." Li Yu was silent for a long time. In the face of such powerful money ability, what else could he say?

(End of this chapter)