Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 720 - Each Has Its Own Plans
"Hello, I'm Wangma Caidan, the director of "Killing a Sheep". Can we chat for a few minutes?"

The visitor's words were very polite and humble, but his expression revealed a hint of arrogance. Chen Yu ignored him and walked over to meet Guli Nazha.

In the main competition unit of the 75th Venice International Film Festival, there were rarely any works from the mainland or Hong Kong shortlisted, which caused the enthusiasm of the Chinese media to drop sharply.

Fortunately, this year's jury was able to maintain a balanced view.

In the absence of works from the mainland and Hong Kong, all works from Taiwan were screened out. As a member of the jury, Taiwanese director Sylvia Chang was really embarrassed.

It can only be said that some money is not easy to get. Sylvia Chang failed to force the works from her hometown into the main competition unit of this year's film festival, which caused her to lose a lot of favors, resources and money out of thin air, and she was in an extremely gloomy mood.

While Chen Yu was walking around the lounge of Venice International Cinema No. 1, he also had to deal with bored people with all kinds of intentions, thoughts and little calculations. After about fifteen minutes, Chen Yu felt his white shirt was soaked with sweat.

Because of this, "Fifty Shades of Grey" achieved great success in both box office and word of mouth.

This made Chen Yu a supernova in the industry of independent investor and producer.

This attracted many young directors who were just starting to make a name for themselves to come forward and recommend themselves.

Chen Yu was so annoyed by the entanglement that he could only encourage this group of big dreamers with a hypocritical and tired smile and a series of nonsense.

The young directors who surrounded him were not so naive as to not be able to tell good from bad. They knew very well that Chen Yu was just being polite and perfunctory.

But a formulaic and superficial compliment or comfort is also very important and even crucial to them.

If he couldn't convince Chen Yu to support him in terms of resources and funds, he could only ask him to provide some assistance from the spiritual will dimension.

It is difficult for young directors, like duckweed, to survive in the European and American film and television circles.

Don't ever believe the beautiful dream of film and television professionals promoted by Hollywood.

This is not the time before the millennium when amazing directors, screenwriters, and other talents alone could carve out a vast film niche.

Newcomers without backing and foundation are equivalent to garbage in today's European and American film and television circles, and no one will pay attention to them.

Chen Yu was willing to smile at them and chat with them, which was considered a kind attitude of a giant. These young directors should be grateful and at the same time remember the great favor.

"Get me a glass of water, and preferably a piece of chocolate cake!"

Guli Nazha covered her chest with her hands and leaned over to Chen Yu's ear and shouted. At this moment, the lounge was echoing with a shocking symphony, reminding the guests that the award ceremony would begin in forty-five minutes.

Just now, Guli Nazha and the "Shadow" crew led by director Zhang Yimou had a chat on the east side of the lounge. Although no Chinese works were shortlisted for the main competition unit of this Venice International Film Festival, they shined in the screening unit and received a lot of praise and attention.

"Shadow" directed by Zhang Yimou and "Your Face" directed by Malaysian Chinese Tsai Mingliang are among the best.

"Why don't you say hello to the Imperial Master so that we can work together in the future?"

Guli Nazha motioned Chen Yu to move closer to block her left side.

She didn't want to be photographed eating and drinking by domestic media.

Chen Yu understood and looked around, then pointed at Captain America who was choosing drinks in the cold food area and Judy who was looking for fruit.

Guli Nazha immediately handed the water cup, plate and fork to Chen Yu.

Then she walked towards Judy and Captain America with a calm and graceful pace, lightly lifting the hem of her skirt.

Chen Yu handed the utensils to the waiter and then went to a quiet corner to rest for a while to avoid falling asleep at the award ceremony. However, the moment he put on his headphones, he heard a warm greeting from behind.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't Zhang Yimou himself who came. How could the national master lower himself to jog over and chat with Chen Yu?

"Zhang Zhao, the general producer of Shadow, is glad to meet Mr. Chen."

Zhang Zhao had studied in the United States for many years and knew that being straightforward was more in line with the habits of Texans in social situations. Chen Yu immediately stood up and shook hands with the uncle out of politeness.

Zhang Zhao mainly wanted to test Chen Yu to see if he had any plans to return to the domestic film industry in the future. If Chen Yu showed any intention in this regard, he would be ready to place a heavy bet first.

Chen Yu was completely confused, but he remained calm and spoke pure nonsense in slow diplomatic language.

After listening to a few words, Zhang Zhao realized that the guy opposite him was also a cunning jackal.

But before he came here, Zhang Yimou said that Chen Yu would not be able to return to China.

After all, Chen Yu's roots are in Europe and the United States. He can quickly maximize the profits from film and television works by relying on his terrifying number of boxing fans. Moreover, "Knives Out" performed better than expected in terms of box office and word of mouth, allowing Chen Yu to perfectly achieve the first step of cross-border development. What reason is there to go backwards?

Zhang Yimou said calmly.

Besides, he didn't really want to have any business cooperation with Chen Yu.

Zhang Yimou does not dislike Chen Yu's professional ability or work attitude.

He looked at the problem from the perspective of a pure director and screenwriter and felt that he could not assign a suitable role to Chen Yu.

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After all, it takes a lot of caution to outline and set up villains in the country.

If Chen Yu were to play a positive role, it would be more time-consuming and troublesome than playing a villain.

The script of "Operation Ice Breaking" was changed several times, and although it took so long to finish filming, only less than 57% of the post-production editing work was completed.

It’s just because Chen Yu looks too much like Chen Yongren. Of course, the “like” here refers to the feeling and behavior in the picture.

Judging from the degree of completion of the role, Chen Yu can definitely be considered very qualified, even more or less exceeding the expectations of the director team, but the audience may not be willing to accept it.

What’s the matter? Is “Operation Ice Breaking” a TV version of “Infernal Affairs”?

Zhang Yimou was invited by Fu Dongyu to watch the two versions of the first ten episodes of "Operation Ice Breaking" and to be honest, he felt that both of them could score above 90 points.

Chen Yuzhen perfectly portrayed the undercover agent's sometimes decadent mentality and sometimes confused emotions. Even though it was not as natural as Tony Leung Chiu-wai's, he still had about the same ability.

Veterans such as Wang Jinsong, Wu Gang and Simon Yam also performed extremely well.

But again, the adaptation of "Operation Ice Breaking" was too depressing, or too close to reality, which may cause the audience to be unable to accept it for a while.

Especially the open ending of Chen Yu is more likely to prompt the audience to curse.

Zhang Yimou once felt that Fu Dongyu treated "Operation Ice Breaking" as "The Ming Dynasty 1566".

It was not until the national teacher took a rough look at the subsequent editing that he understood Fu Dongyu's difficulties.

Chen Yu really can't play a good guy or a positive role model in the traditional sense.

Therefore, Zhang Yimou had no intention of talking to Chen Yu about cooperation or collaboration.

Even if Zhang Yimou wanted to try again in the international film and television market, Chen Yu would never be his first choice for the leading actor.

Moreover, Chen Yu's current salary is nearly 23 million US dollars, which has a low cost-effectiveness. Zhang Yimou has suffered losses in this regard several times.

Even if he doesn't save costs for investors, he still has to consider his own reputation.

Now my head hurts when I think of Zhang Yimou's movie "The Great Wall".

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