Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 169 179 [Chinese Youth Representative, Invincible Golden Body]

Become a European double gold director!
Aim for the triple gold grand slam!
Youngest ever winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival!
The youngest director ever to win two European Golden Globes awards!

In the future, he is very likely to become the youngest European director to win the triple gold medal grand slam!

When these labels are put on Li Yishu, the word "explosive" can no longer be used to describe it.

The mainland film industry is in a state of excitement, and the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industry is also in a state of excitement.

Whether film is art or not is debatable, but there is no doubt that films that are able to achieve success at European film festivals basically have their reasons for doing so.

What's more, the three major European film festivals have not been defeated by Hollywood blockbusters and have not lost their basic principles, so their value is still very high.

After Lee Yi-seok's first film "The Mountain, the Man, the Dog" won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, although most people recognized it, there were still a small group of people who thought Lee Yi-seok was a lucky person.

But after "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or, the highest prize at the 1993 Cannes International Film Festival, this statement almost disappeared. If you want to talk about luck, it can't be lucky to win it twice in a row, right?
Call it a shady deal? Li Yishu's family background might be considered good in China, but it is bullshit in the international arena.

There are children of those big European directors who work in the directing industry, so they are more likely to operate shady business. If there really is any shady business, it won't be Lee Yi-su's turn.

Following the public reporting and praise by the People's Daily, major domestic official media outlets have stepped up to support the event.

On May 5, three days after Li Yishu won the award, China Youth Daily published an article that has influenced countless contemporary young people.

[Li Yishu: Stay true to our original aspiration and forge ahead]

"After the award ceremony of the Cannes International Film Festival in Europe on May 5, our young director Li Yishu won the Cannes Film Festival's highest award, the Golden Palm Award, becoming the first Chinese director to win this award, and a young director at that."

"Born in 1970, Lee Yi-su is only 23 years old this year. At the age of 21, she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. At the age of 22, she became the highest-grossing Chinese director in the world. At the age of 23, she won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival..."

"His achievements are not only his own, but also the achievements of countless young people in China. I believe that in the future, countless young people in China will achieve different outstanding results in different fields."

"As Mr. Liang Qichao said in his "On the Youth of China", if the youth are strong, the country will be strong; if the youth are wise, the country will be wise; if the youth are progressive, the country will be progressive; if the youth are better than Europe, the country will be better than Europe; if the youth are the most powerful on the earth, the country will be the most powerful on the earth..."

"This sentence can be perfectly applied to Director Lee Ye-seo..."

"Use the power and creativity of youth to stir up the surging spring tide of the rise of the Chinese nation; use the wisdom and sweat of youth to create a better tomorrow; let youth bloom into gorgeous flowers on the journey of the new era,"

“As Lee Yi-su said at the Cannes International Film Festival, let us not forget our original aspirations and keep moving forward!”

In today's world where the Internet is not yet well developed, reading books and newspapers is almost the only channel for many people to learn knowledge and understand domestic and international affairs.

China Youth Daily is very popular among contemporary young people, especially high school and college students, because it is a newspaper that belongs to them and its content mostly revolves around youth.

The name Li Yishu is familiar to many people, but there has never been a public, formal, and comprehensive report on his achievements in just a few years.

This time, China Youth Daily not only focused on Lee Yi-su's winning of the Cannes Palme d'Or, but also emphasized his age and his idea of ​​not forgetting his original aspiration and moving forward while achieving this outstanding result.

Never forget your original intention and keep moving forward. These eight words have been used frequently in later generations, but they appear for the first time in this era. The impact they bring is undoubtedly huge.

Not on the common people, but on those above them.

The early 90s was the period when the domestic craze for going abroad was at its peak, but it was also the period when the trend of worshipping foreign things was the most serious.

Just like the TV series "Yanjing People in New York" which was recently filmed in the United States,
This TV series is adapted from a novel written by an author who went abroad.

It is said that most of the plots in the novel are his personal experiences, including his work as a performer in an art troupe and his trip abroad with his wife Run...

The reason for making this novel is that the craze for going abroad is so hot now. Many people will do anything to go abroad, such as finding a foreigner to help them go abroad, or disappearing and staying in the United States during a business trip.

In today's world where everyone is holding high the banner of studying abroad, Li Yishu has achieved such a great result and can also say such a representative statement. Naturally, it should be vigorously publicized, encouraged and praised.

Moreover, Li Yishu is still a young person, not much different in age from today's high school and college students. With such an excellent role model as Li Yishu, I think the contemporary youth can be encouraged to a certain extent. Don't always say that you don't have opportunities. Did others give Li Yishu opportunities? He fought for them himself.

at this time.

Li Yishu, who was far away in Cannes discussing copyright transactions with film producers, had no idea that he had been promoted to the position of national youth representative. However, even if he knew, he would not care. He had no intention of going abroad. On the contrary, such praise made him ecstatic.

As long as Li Yishu doesn't make any principled mistakes in the future, she will basically be "invincible".

The hotel offers a meeting room.

Amy, Zhang Jie and others were talking with the film producers.

"Farewell My Concubine" was directed by Lee Yi-su, so there is basically no need to worry about the box office in East Asia. In Southeast Asia, Xu Su's Thompson Films is responsible for distribution. Simply selling the copyright is definitely not as good as operating it by oneself.

So the people who come here to talk are basically European and American film producers.

"700 million US dollars in Europe and 400 million US dollars in North America, this number is already a lot, right?"

Not far away, listening to their conversation about the amount of money, Xu Lu couldn't help but look at Li Yishu.

In her opinion, this amount of money was not a small amount, but a lot.

After all, the total investment cost of "Farewell My Concubine" is not high. The production cost is only 400 million US dollars, which also includes the actors' salaries.

Of course, compared with the production costs in China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is already a very high cost.

But now, just by selling the European and American copyrights, they have recovered their costs and made several times the profit. The subsequent box office and videotape copyrights in East Asia and Southeast Asia will be almost pure profit.

"not enough."

Li Yishu shook her head and said, "In 1991, the copyright of my film "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" was sold for 1100 million U.S. dollars."

"Ah? So much?" Xu Lu was dumbfounded. She didn't expect that the copyright of Li Yishu's first movie was sold for 1100 million US dollars.

“Yes, $1100 million.”

Li Yishu nodded. It was indeed this number, but Japan gave 600 million US dollars. In reality, the sales in Europe and the United States were only 500 million US dollars.

Now "Farewell My Concubine" is sold for 1100 million US dollars, and it is only the European and American copyright, which is already not low.

The reason why it is sold at such a high price now is of course not entirely because of the Palme d'Or, but mainly because Lee Yi-shu is no longer the same person she was before.

His "Sword Rain" sold 1.8 million US dollars at the global box office, not to mention that the Japanese box office contributed hundreds of millions of dollars, but the data is there, and it is an ironclad fact, not to mention that Li Yishu is now a double-Award-winning director in Europe.

After some negotiation, European film producers finally collectively offered a price of $800 million, and the North American side also gritted their teeth and offered $500 million.

Lee Yi-shu was not actually very satisfied with this price, because his movie "The Sixth Sense" would be released in North America soon, and Lee Yi-shu was very optimistic about the quality of this movie. Even though it was released several years earlier, he thought it would not be too bad.

As long as "The Sixth Sense" can get more than 1 million US dollars at the box office in North America, Lee Yi-su believes that her "Farewell My Concubine" will not have a bad box office after its release in North America, and it may even exceed million US dollars.

The North American film producers can make back their investment just from the box office share, so selling it for only 500 million US dollars is really not cost-effective.

After much thought, Li Yishu discussed with Xu Lu and decided that he might as well buy the North American copyright. After deducting his 360%, he would probably have to pay more than million US dollars.

If it's just this number, it's worth Li Yishu's chance.

(End of this chapter)