China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 793 You Made Me Lose Miserably

"I'm just using a metaphor. Also, don't be too narcissistic. Even if I wanted to shoot a movie like "Name," you wouldn't be able to pull it off with your acting skills.

The women in the play are so decent that it seems easy for them to talk without any worries. They are obviously decent, but they seem very hypocritical and fake.

Needless to say, the female villain has to perform with a sense of depth, which is a greater test of her acting skills.”

Li Yu told the truth.

"In short, don't be impatient. We have to wait until the script is out before we discuss this. For others, they may first find the actors and then write the roles. For me, I must first find the roles and then choose the actors."

Since Li Yu said so, Liu Yifei had to give up the idea of ​​occupying the toilet first.

She has known Li Yu for many years, and she knows that Li Yu is very serious about his work.

If an actor's image and temperament do not match the role in the script, Li Yu will refuse, no matter how good their relationship is.

She had been rejected by Li Yu many times before using this reason.

Li Yu is so strict because he cares about the quality of the works and gives priority to quality.

"Director Li, congratulations. You haven't come back yet, but I've already seen your performance in the Oscar race. You've received eight nominations, including a nomination for the prestigious Best Picture award. This is already a great success for a new director who has just arrived in Hollywood."

After Li Yu returned to the company, Cao Qing was the first to come and congratulate him.

Cao Qing was so envious when he saw the results.

Although he didn't win any award, being nominated is an honor in itself, not to mention receiving eight nominations at once, making him a runner-up at this year's Oscars.

"It's just a nomination. I didn't win the award. There's nothing worth bragging about." Li Yu said calmly.

“With eight nominations this time, maybe we’ll win an award next time. I filmed Joker with you, and Joker is much better than Barbie.” Cao Qing expressed his opinion.

A small progress today can lead to a big progress tomorrow.

Li Yu didn't say anything. "Joker" is definitely better than "Barbie".

Whether it can win an Oscar for Best Actor depends on "Joker". As for Best Picture and Best Director, Li Yu thinks there may be some chance.

Because Li Yu got there first with "Parasite," which won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Film.

The Silla people no longer have "Parasite".

Li Yu's "Joker" will have one less strong opponent in the Oscar competition.

But again, the reason why the people of Silla can win awards is because they attach great importance to cultural output and have been operating major global awards for more than ten or twenty years.

Li Yu is a Chinese director, and it is obvious that the Oscars are biased against the Chinese.

The Best Actor award might be given to "Joker". The actor is American and the winner of the award is American. It doesn't matter.

The Best Picture and Best Director awards were given to Li Yu, and Li Yu is the biggest beneficiary.

They may not necessarily give this award to Li Yu.

Sometimes it is useless to have a high quality film, as the judging is not absolutely fair.

If it were really fair, why wasn't the Best Picture award given to "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" this year?

"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" is the most popular film, and most people think it should win the Best Picture award.

However, the judges voted for "The Shape of Water", which was obviously inferior in quality but more correct by Zheng Zhi.

Li Yu chatted with Cao Qing for a while and said to him, "Originally, I wanted to arrange for you to shoot a comedy similar to "The Richest Man in Xihong City". But Shen Teng was asked by Han Han to shoot "Flying Life". I plan to write a script for you and let you strive for domestic awards."

Since we want to cultivate a great director, in addition to box office achievements, awards are definitely indispensable.

When one develops to a certain level, he or she will certainly pursue higher honors.

The previous film "Mojin: The Lost Legend" was very successful at the box office, but it fell short in terms of awards.

As for "Mulan", it has not been released yet. Arranging another powerful movie for Cao Qing can make his path to becoming a great director more stable.

Cao Qing immediately became excited, wondering what kind of script Li Yu was going to write for him.

Li Yu replied, "It's a romance film. Before I came back from the United States, I had someone contact the writer Keigo Higashino from Sakura Country. There will be news soon."

The script that Li Yu is going to write for Cao Qing is "Better Days".

The original title of "Better Days" is "Better Days, So Beautiful", an online novel.

However, this novel plagiarized many works, including Keigo Higashino's "Honeysuckle" and "White Night Walk".

In the previous life, "Better Days" had a good box office and high movie ratings after its release, but it received mixed reviews in the public opinion field.

When the first promotional video of this movie was released overseas, fans ran around to spread the word that the movie had gone abroad.

As a result, the promotional video was seen by those people in Sakura Country who were living a good life, and it caused heated discussions on the Internet in Sakura Country.

Netizens in the Land of Sakura reported the plagiarism of the movie to Keigo Higashino, boasting that the movie had gone abroad, but ended up bringing shame upon themselves abroad.

I wanted to show my face, but ended up showing my butt.

So Li Yu asked Cao Qing to shoot "Better Days" and directly asked someone to go to the country of cherry blossoms to find Keigo Higashino to buy the film and television rights of those novels.

The name of the movie will no longer be "Better Days", but will be changed to another name.

Anyway, the story and characters all come from Keigo Higashino's works. Li Yu bought the copyrights of those novels and just wrote a new script.

The movie itself is a good one, but there are problems with the original novel. Li Yu is definitely going to solve this problem.

He didn't want Cao Qing to lose face abroad.

Li Yu asked Cao Qing to read some of Keigo Higashino's works in advance to understand the original works first.

It turns out that even if Li Yu's script has some differences from the original work, it is still adapted from the original work.

In short, it is definitely beneficial to know those works in advance.

Cao Qing was also very receptive and he immediately bought online the novels that Li Yu mentioned.

He really wanted to improve.

Li Yu said that this movie was intended to win awards in the country, and he now just lacks some awards to elevate his status.

In addition to helping Cao Qing prepare for a new movie, Li Yu is also preparing a new drama for himself.

Li Yu plans to make a TV series about the Ming Dynasty to refresh the audience's eyes.

When it comes to filming a drama about the Ming Dynasty, the first person he thinks of is Liu Heping.

The quality of "The Ming Dynasty 1566" written by Liu Heping is there to be seen. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the ceiling of historical political dramas.

As soon as Li Yu made a phone call, Liu Heping came.

Liu Heping and Li Yu have a good relationship and have collaborated several times before.

Also, Liu Heping owes Li Yu a favor.

A few years ago, Liu Heping encountered many setbacks when preparing for "All Quiet in Peking", and not many people were willing to invest in him.

It was so hard to get someone to invest in him, but then they withdrew their investment.

We retreated seven times in total, what a misfortune.

It was Li Yu who invested a large sum of money in him, which made it possible for this drama to be filmed.

Then he made Li Yu lose badly. "All Quiet in Peking" is a recognized masterpiece and won several Feitian Awards, but it suffered losses.

(End of this chapter)