Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 392 - Goodbye, Budapest

Chen Yu's return route is Budapest-Tokyo-Yangcheng. Although he will arrive in Yangcheng 40 minutes early during the transfer in Seoul, he believes that safety is the most important thing!
Chen Yu would never approach South Korea without any business. After all, its northern neighbor was always in a crazy mental state and could do anything.

Chen Yu chose to travel this time on a flight owned by Etihad Airways, which he endorsed, and also helped him shoot a simple advertisement.

"Can I just drag my luggage and walk from the landmark under my feet to the security checkpoint in a relaxed manner?" Chen Yu tilted his head and looked around at the camera seats before asking the director.

Director Nick Rimando, who is well-known in the European advertising circle, immediately gave Chen Yu a demonstration. His expression should be pleasant and comfortable while his steps should be slow and slow.

Because he had a lot of time, Chen Yu rehearsed it back and forth several times. After watching it, Director Rimando felt that some interactions should be added to enrich the scene.

But it was just 3:07 in the morning, and there were very few passengers in the terminal. They were all taking a nap with their eyes closed in their seats, so it was inconvenient for the filming team to disturb them.

Director Rimando had no choice but to ask the airport ground staff for help, hoping that the staff could help guest passengers. The airport was very cooperative and the support they could provide was too limited.

The eight young ladies standing or sitting in the hall actually made the space look more deserted. Furthermore, they unconsciously used professional gestures when greeting Chen Yu.

To be honest, the preparations for this advertising shoot overestimated the busyness and passenger flow of Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport in the early morning hours.

Chen Yu sat astride the trolley box and looked helplessly at Director Rimando, who was scratching his head and spinning around.

If he had only used close-up shots and medium shots, the person in front of him would be enough to show the effect of his vision.

However, this genius director in the European advertising industry is not willing to give up the vision that can enhance the overall atmosphere. Unfortunately, the actual situation is: a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice.

It was already early four in the morning, and Chen Yu, who was slightly sleepy, began to do small-scale air attack training in the hall in order to maintain concentration and physical condition.

The ground crew girls also picked up their mobile phones to record this extremely precious scene. Being able to get up close and personal with Chen Yu is a dream scenario for many girls.

Dilraba must have saved the earth in her previous life, otherwise how could she become Chen Yu's fiancée? This is what cute girls, royal sisters, and young wives in Europe and America often say.

"Chen, what do you think of the scenery in Budapest?" A ground staff lady turned into a media reporter and took the opportunity to ask some trivial matters while helping him get water.

This question is not easy to answer for Chen Yu, because except for his guest appearance on the set of "Red Sparrow", Chen Yu has not seriously visited or visited Budapest.

If he closed his eyes and talked nonsense, he would easily be stumped by follow-up questions, so Chen Yu raised the back of his hand and wiped the corners of his lips to express that Budapest was a hundred times better than Moscow.

The relationship between Hungary and Russia is complicated. In international affairs, Hungary rarely offends Russia, a resource-rich country, for fear of being cut off from oil and gas.

However, there are many centre-left and clear-cut opposition groups in the country that advocate limited or restrained and evasive bilateral cooperation with Russia.

Municipal departments at all levels in Budapest are very caring and caring for the crew of "Red Sparrow", and even held a welcome dinner the day after Chen Yu arrived.

Mr. Czehak Judit, Deputy Minister of the Prime Minister's Office of Hungary, and Mr. Gong Tao, Consul of the Chinese Embassy in Hungary, attended the event.

Chen Yu's treatment and status in capitalist countries are even slightly higher than those of Messi and Cristiano.

Because Chen Yu is the perfect example of personal heroism today. He not only has absolute hard power and industry dominance, but also has a huge bonus of good looks.

Fighting and boxing have always been the most primitive, barbaric, bloody and cruel commercial projects in modern society. They can highlight the bandit genes in the blood of Europeans and Americans.

Heavyweight boxers can represent a more powerful and violent force, but most of them cannot win the favor, love and popularity of European and American people in terms of appearance.

Moreover, many heavyweight boxing champions are limited by their criminal records, which prevents their associations and brokerage companies from promoting them around the world, and European and American governments are also wary of them.

On the other hand, Chen Yu does not have these problems.

After his debut, he dominated the professional fighting world and the boxing circle's featherweight, lightweight and welterweight divisions.

And because of his era-changing innovations in offensive tactics and techniques, he was awarded the honor of being the first person in history to be simultaneously entered into the two major halls of fame of professional fighting and boxing.

In terms of boxing's offensive achievements, he is known as the third largest mountain and the pinnacle after Ali and Tyson. With superior strength, good looks, and a clean foundation, as well as his status as an upstart in the established European and American capital circles, Chen Yu has become an object of worship in European and American society.

After casually chatting with the eight ground crew ladies and passers-by about interesting things about the crew that could be revealed to the public, Chen Yu, who had replenished his water and energy, stood up.

He was going to do the third set of aerial attack training. Anyway, Director Rimando was still adjusting the camera position at the moment. Chen Yu couldn't let this time go to waste.

It stands to reason that Chen Yu should read the script twice to understand the relationship between many characters in "Operation Icebreaker".

After all, during this period of time he was participating in "Rush" and busy working on "Red Sparrow", which caused him to be confused about the character of "Operation Icebreaker".

In other words, this is a very unprofessional and particularly irresponsible situation.

However, after being exposed to the film "Red Sparrow", Chen Yu was timid about the film "Icebreaker" because he couldn't mobilize his enthusiasm and found it boring.

As a Korean reporter said before, it originally had a good chance of becoming a classic that promotes positive energy, but its shallow portrayal of evil made it a mere mortal.

And no matter how you change or adjust the character and style of the character played by Chen Yu, in fact, you can't break out of the stereotype and cage of the traditional positive character.

Teacher Wu Gang once said at the dinner table that the positive characters in this drama seem to be very novel, but upon closer inspection, they are just tricks to put old wine in new bottles.

All positive characters have not outgrown their old characteristics of being kind, responsible, and courageous.

Although the character played by Chen Yu is hesitant, confused, and frightened, he is shaken by his identity as a police officer rather than a deep-seated faith and belief.

Teacher Gao Ming believes that in terms of overall character design alone, the male protagonist of the series after repeated revisions cannot be as eye-catching as Chen Yongren in "Infernal Affairs III".

The character played by Chen Yu has been changed from the original hot-blooded and reckless character to a cautious one. When the final version was finalized, three parts of helplessness and loneliness were added, making the character four different.

But we can’t complain about this openly. After all, being able to make all the positive characters in the series have flaws is already the limit of what “Operation Icebreaker” can do.

No more will pass the radio and television review, so Mr. Wu Gang thinks the saddest and most ridiculous thing is: this series is actually regarded as a masterpiece that breaks the standard!
I really don’t know if iQiyi will be ashamed when doing publicity and marketing. Anyway, Wu Gang himself, Wang Jinsong, Gao Ming and other colleagues have never had the shame to mention this matter.

Chen Yu didn't care as long as iQiyi gave him the money and he could read it however he wanted. Even if he bothered Chen Yu and said that this drama could catch up with "House of Cards", it would be fine.

Anyway, the vast majority of Chinese viewers have not watched "House of Cards", and perhaps they still think that the series is about gambling.

Chen Yu's excellent quality of doing things as soon as the money is put into the account is deeply loved by Chinese employers.

A hundred times better than those in the same group like Wu Gang and Wang Jinsong who both take money and are arrogant.

Gong Lei, Ning Li, Zhang Xilin and others are on the other extreme who take money but passively resist. As a result, many businesses can only use small supporting actors to shoot the commercials purchased.

After all, the cost of specially designated aged fish is too high.

Only some of the top merchants in the country can afford it, but this small group of merchants need to consider issues such as cost-effectiveness and cannot close their eyes and give money to Chen Yu's pocket.

So the business of "Operation Icebreaker" is not very good.

The "not too good" here refers to the fact that it did not meet iQiyi's expectations. At this stage, "Operation Icebreaker" already has 41 financial backers from various industries.

That number is expected to top sixty by the time it plays.

At present, iQiyi is a little worried that too frequent and dense pre-roll ads, corner advertising, and non-starring interactive product placement will affect the viewing experience.

Yakult is currently cooperating with the film crew, iQiyi and Chen Yu’s domestic business agent Guo Jun to interactively place advertisements for the single starring role, but the progress is not optimistic.

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