China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 728 Earn One or Two Small Goals

This is also the reason why Li Yu doesn't touch police and gangster films.

Of course, "Operation Nujiang" is an exception, which can also be considered a police and gangster film.

However, the scale is larger than most police and gangster films in Hong Kong, and the purpose is more lofty.

Li Yu has many advantages. He has a large group of young actors with strength and acting skills to use when filming "Operation Nujiang River".

Hong Kong's police and gangster films are very embarrassing. They all follow the same routine and you know the ending after watching the beginning.

That’s fine, the point is that the actors are still the same, it was Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok, Lau Ching-wan and Koo Tim-lok before.

After so many years, these people are still performing brotherhood on the big screen. Who can stand it?

Others are just changing the soup but not the medicine, but they are neither. It would be strange if this approach has any future.

These are not the most embarrassing things. The most embarrassing thing is that in recent years, it seems that only police and gangster films can make money in Hong Kong films, and the others are even worse.

Some people would also say that due to various reasons, many Hong Kong movies cannot be released in mainland China, and most of the movies released in mainland China are police and gangster films.

Having said that, however... those Hong Kong films that were not released in mainland China are not that good either, and they barely have any box office revenue in Hong Kong Island, Southeast Asia and other places.

Therefore, Hong Kong films are really in the coffin, only occasionally one or two masterpieces are released to revive them.

After about 40 days in release, "Wushuang" was taken off the screen, and the final box office in mainland China was about 2.1 billion.

This is the highest-grossing Hong Kong-style police and gangster film in recent years.

The emergence of "Wushuang" will surely rekindle the confidence of many industry insiders in Hong Kong Island in police and gangster films.

But it won’t be long before they realize the reality. What’s amazing is the movie “Wushuang”, not the revival of the crime drama genre.

As the largest investor of "Wushuang", Li Yu made another successful investment and made a lot of money.

After the curtain call of "Wushuang", Li Yu took some time out to visit the crew of "Dream of Splendor".

The filming of "Dream of Red Mansions" has been started for some time. It started before "Wushuang" was released.

There are many filming locations for "Dream of Red Mansions", including Water Margin City in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, Hengdian Film and Television City in Zhejiang Province, Xiangshan Film and Television City in Zhejiang Province, and Tang City in Xiangcheng, northern Hunan Province, which is the Tang City built by Chen Kaige for "Legend of the Cat Demon".

The crew recently filmed at Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang Province, which is one of the main filming locations.

"Director Li, congratulations, the movie 'Wushuang' that you invested in is a big hit at the box office." When Li Muge met Li Yu, the first thing he said was to congratulate Li Yu on his successful investment and making a lot of money.

Following Li Muge were several assistant directors and leading actors such as Liu Yifei, Chen Xiao, Liu Yan, and Fei Xia.

Liu Yifei and Li Yu are very familiar with each other.

As for the other few people, it was the first time that Li Yu saw them in person.

However, they may have met Master Li Yu more than once.

As one of the most prestigious directors in the Chinese entertainment and film industry, Li Yu usually attends various occasions and wins various awards. They are all spectators sitting in the audience, watching the glorious Li Yu from afar.

They wanted to become familiar to Li Yu, but in that kind of occasion, there were too many big men around Li Yu, and they didn't dare to step forward to disturb him.

It was not until today that they had the opportunity to get close to Li Yu.

There's not much to say about Chen Xiao. He's a handsome guy, but his taste in choosing a wife is a little poor.

Later, many people sympathized with him, saying that he had not checked the woman’s dark history in Taiwan and was cheated.

Li Yu has a slightly different opinion.

First of all, if you want to find a pure girl, looking for her in the entertainment industry, which is a big melting pot, is the wrong direction.

If you are going in the wrong direction, it is hard to do well. Liu Yan, who started out as a host, quickly became famous for her figure.

Many people are familiar with her because many of them used to be her fans.

Many people may find the name Feixia unfamiliar, but when it comes to her other name, Lin Yun, everyone will immediately understand who she is.

That’s right, she is one of the many Star Girls, the one that Stephen Chow strongly promoted in “The Mermaid”.

People say that the star girls are getting worse with each generation, and there is some truth to this.

Look, a generation of star girls have gone to play supporting roles in "Dream of Red Mansions".

Fei Xia has a lot of dark history, and his image collapsed not long after he became famous.

Also, her real name is Fei Xia, but she insisted on using the stage name Lin Yun. There is already an actress named Lin Yun'er in Silla, and she is very popular.

She changed her name to the same one as the other person and said she had no intention of committing fraud, but Li Yu didn't believe it.

In short, Li Yu couldn't say that he had any good feelings towards this person.

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"Director Mu, you're telling me all this just after I got here. Are you trying to rip me off?" Li Yu teased.

"Director Li, you've made so much money, it should be okay for us to rip you off, right? Don't you agree? We've worked so hard for so long, and we haven't had a big meal in a while." Li Muge started to make a fuss.

Chen Xiao, Liu Yan, Fei Xia and other people who are not familiar with Li Yu do not understand what kind of person Li Yu is, so they certainly do not dare to join in the fun.

The behind-the-scenes staff in the crew are different. They are all from Hualiu Company and have been working with Li Yu for so many years.

Some of the old people have been following Li Yu since his debut until now, and they know Li Yu very well.

Li Yu is usually very easy-going and doesn't put on airs.

Li Yu only becomes serious when filming.

However, no matter how serious he is, Li Yu generally won't scold people, as long as they complete their work satisfactorily.

In the play "Dream of Red Mansions", Li Yu is not the director, but just a visitor, so everyone has to follow Li Muge to make a scene.

Anyway, with Li Muge taking the lead, what is there to be afraid of?
"Yes, we haven't had a big meal for a long time."

"Not only have I never had a big meal, but since I started the machine, I haven't tried to sleep until I wake up naturally."

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More and more people were making a fuss. Li Yu, who had just made a small fortune from investing in "Wushuang", was very proud. He first asked Li Muge: "The crew should not have any work arrangements tonight, right?"

"Since you asked this, there must be no arrangements. Even if there are arrangements, I have to say there are no arrangements, otherwise everyone will scold me, right?" Li Muge replied cleverly.

"It's okay if there are no plans. We'll have a dinner together tonight and I'll pay for everything. I'll give the extras who are serving as background boards in the crew an extra 50 yuan for their lunch boxes so that they can have a good meal. This money will be put into my account." Li Yu is very generous.

Mr. Li will pay for the whole meal tonight.

The wages of those extras who serve as background boards or extras are very low, perhaps just over 100 yuan a day. The boxed lunches they eat are also the worst. If they encounter a stingy crew, there may not even be two slices of meat in the lunch boxes.

It was already very conscientious of Li Yu to give them an extra fifty yuan for lunch boxes.

Most of these people came to act as extras with great enthusiasm, and they all thought they could become the second Wang Baoqiang.

Unfortunately, facts have proved that over the years, the only one who has truly risen from being an extra is Wang Baoqiang.

Most of them don't stay long and eventually leave the industry with regret.

(End of this chapter)