China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 787: Speeding Life
Liu Yifei and Shen Teng started their business, going on roadshows in theaters in major cities across the country and accepting media interviews. The box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" soon exceeded 1 billion and 1.5 billion.

In this year's Spring Festival, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" became the undisputed best work.

As for "Monster Hunt 2", it has received mixed reviews since the day it was released.

Many movie fans questioned whether the box office of "Monster Hunt 2" was inflated.

There were also fans who posted photos of their own movie tickets. They clearly bought tickets for another movie and watched another movie in the theater, but the printed tickets were for "Monster Hunt 2."

This controversial film lags far behind "The Richest Man in Xihong City".

There is no need to mention films like "Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom" and "19th Generation of Ancestors".

Their market feedback proved that they were not the protagonists at all, they were just supporting roles.

"Director Li, there is a voice saying that you are a director who can turn decay into magic. Shen Teng and Liu Yifei were both recognized as box office poisons. Whichever movie they starred in would flop. When they starred in your movies, not only did they perform well, but they also received good market feedback and audience reputation. How did you do it?"

There is indeed such a voice on the Internet.

In particular, Liu Yifei's fans all urged Liu Yifei to cooperate more often with Li Yu and Hualiu Company in the future.

Let’s take a look at the works that Liu Yifei did not collaborate with Hualiu Company.

Apart from their looks, none of their fans can even praise them, they are all terrible.

Li Yu glanced at Shen Teng and Liu Yifei, who were wearing professional smiles, picked up the microphone, took a breath and said, "First of all, I need to emphasize that I am not the only director of this film. "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is a work co-directed by Director Cao and I. It is our common 'child'.

I haven't watched many of the films made by Shen Teng and Liu Yifei in recent years.

But I disagree with your statement. We cannot simply and crudely put the blame for a movie's failure on a certain actor.

A movie is the result of the hard work of dozens, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people.

A movie is the joint achievement of many people, including the director, screenwriter, invisible crew members on the set, and post-production staff members who only appear in the thank you list at the end of the film.

The reason why actors receive so much attention is that they are front-stage workers and they appear on the big screen, so they have greater exposure and are more likely to attract everyone's attention.

Many times, an actor's role in a movie is not as big as everyone imagines.

They didn't write the script, they didn't film the play, they just acted according to the script and the director's arrangements.

Asking them to bear the blame for a failed movie is too heavy a responsibility for them to bear.”

Li Yu said some objective words.

There are so many bad movies. The acting skills of the young actors and actresses are poor. They don't act well, they are not dedicated enough, and they lack professional ethics, so they will definitely be criticized.

But can we simply and bluntly say that if a drama fails, it is entirely their responsibility?
Don’t the director and screenwriter have any responsibility? Isn’t it the director who made the final decision on such a bad clip?

Of course, this does not apply to the leading actors who bring in money into the crew.

When people bring money into the crew, the director becomes a beggar on his knees.

The director hinted that it wasn’t okay. The other person said, “I don’t want your opinion, I only want my opinion.” What can the director do?

However, this situation is not the majority, and most directors and screenwriters of bad movies are responsible.

Shen Teng and Liu Yifei were of course grateful that Li Yu could speak for them.

"There are also football players who blasted the movie "The Richest Man in Xihong City" on Weibo, saying that the movie is sensational and deliberately smearing Chinese football to gain attention. It is a very despicable method. What do you think?"

"Grandstanding means to cater to the masses with exaggerated remarks and deceive the masses' trust and support. Movies are works of art, and works of art will be processed to a certain extent. The football plot in the movie is indeed a bit exaggerated, but I didn't lie to you. How bad is the Chinese football team? Do they really have no idea how to play football?
It is known to all people in the country that they are terrible. I just mentioned something that everyone agrees on in the movie.

If you ask me to respond, my response would be if you are not good at it, just practice more.

For professional football players, their performance on the field must speak for itself.

If I make a movie about someone who is bad at table tennis and bad at badminton, will table tennis players and badminton players jump out?

No, because everyone knows that they are very strong, they also know that they are very strong, they know that the movie is just a spoof, they will just smile knowingly.

On the contrary, people without achievements will be so anxious when they are called upon.”

Li Yu responded very calmly.

Now the plot in "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is indeed a bit exaggerated. The Chinese football professional team actually lost to the amateur team of Xihong City. It's too much of a disrespect for Chinese football.

In the future, the Chinese football professional team really loses to an amateur team in a county.

When everyone watches this movie again, they will find that it was made too conservatively.

The Chinese football team in real life is even worse than the one in the movies.

After the success of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", Shen Teng received a new film contract before the movie was even released.

Tingdong Pictures in Shanghai invited Shen Teng to star in a movie that their company plans to start shooting this year.

The name of this movie is "Flying Life", and the director and screenwriter are the same person, Han Han.

They plan to invite Shen Teng to play the leading male role Zhang Chi.

The movie "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is a very impressive resume for Shen Teng personally.

Liu Yifei is a box office poison. With the help of Liu Yifei, a box office poison, and a bunch of supporting actors like Happy Mahua, he can get such good market feedback. It is normal for a film company to take a fancy to Shen Teng.

Shen Teng mentioned this matter to Li Yu.

"You should tell your Happy Mahua team. I'm not your agent, nor the boss of your company. What's the point of telling me?" Li Yu said.

"I just want to hear your opinion, Director Li. Everyone in the circle knows that you have a first-rate vision." Shen Teng was reckless last time and ended up ruining himself.

Now that I have regained my foothold in the film industry, I will definitely seek further development.

Otherwise, he will make himself out of fashion again and then try to enter the film industry for the third time?

Coming in and out, do you treat the film industry as a public toilet?

"I think you can take it. Han Han's films such as See You Tomorrow and The Breakup Guru, which were directed by him, have received good market feedback.

It's quite impressive that an outsider transformed himself into a director and made a profit with his debut film.

When you contact Han Han, can you help me ask him if he needs investment? If he does, I can invest some money."

Li Yu pondered for a moment and gave his suggestion.

Investing in "Speeding Life" is mainly for the future "Speeding Life 2".

Most of Han Han's movies have made money, so Li Yu can consider investing more in his movies.

(End of this chapter)