Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 206: 216 [Beauty brings trouble to the family]

The media information, film and television entertainment here in Taiwan are relatively more developed than those in the mainland.

Li Yishu's achievements abroad are just cold words in newspapers in China, but in today's highly entertaining Taiwan, she often appears on major variety shows.

For example, the popular variety show "Dragon Brothers" in Taiwan is hosted by Wu Yaowang and his brother Zhang Fei. Every time a female actress comes as a guest, the two brothers will ask the same question, asking the other party which director they most want to work with.

There is no doubt that everyone hopes to work with director Lee Ye-soo.

This is mainly because Lee Ye-seo’s directing performance is so excellent.

The awards include the European Double Gold, the Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and the Best Director Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards...

Not to mention the box office, the total box office of the films he directed has exceeded 7 million US dollars worldwide, and a single film has grossed 4 million US dollars worldwide.

The well-deserved number one Chinese director!

This also led to a large number of Hong Kong and Taiwan reporters flocking to the opening ceremony of "The Reader" at a middle school in Taipei the next day, surrounding the school gate.

When Li Yishu was filming in the mainland, it was not convenient for entertainment reporters like them to go over. But this time, filming started in Taiwan, which is considered their home base, so naturally all major newspapers and weekly magazines sent people over.

Inside the crew, how can we start filming when we see the reporters outside making endless noise?
Li Yishu was also in a state of headache and called Lai Shengchuan, saying, "Director Lai, please let them in and tell them that they can interview for half an hour and leave when the time is up."

"Okay, Director Li." Lai Shengchuan also felt that these reporters were too noisy. If he didn't accept the interview, these people would really wait outside the door of the crew. Anyway, their job was to interview, and the worst that could happen was that they would just wait.

"Director Zhang, please go talk to the school and ask them to open the auditorium."

Li Yishu will first shoot the campus scenes of the male lead. The plan is to finish it within two days, Saturday and Sunday, and then shoot some long shots of the school exercises on Monday depending on the situation.

"Okay, Director Li." Sylvia Chang nodded and ran to communicate with the vice-principal of the school where they were filming.

After half an hour.

Inside the middle school auditorium.

Li Yishu, Qingxia, Zhang Aijia and other main creative staff were all there.

"Everyone!" Lai Shengchuan acted as a temporary host. He held the microphone and said, "Thank you very much for coming here, but our crew also needs to shoot the show as usual, so I discussed with Director Li and gave everyone half an hour for the interview. In order to avoid arguments, I will call on everyone to ask a question after I name them, so that everyone has a chance..."

After a lot of talking, Lai Shengchuan finally called a reporter from the Taipei Daily.

The reporter said, "Director Li, I'm a reporter from Taipei Daily. You came to Taiwan to film this time. Do you think the environment in Taiwan is better than that in mainland China? If you don't come to Taiwan to live in the future..."

Li Yishu's face turned strange, and the people around him also frowned.

Seeing that the man was going a bit too far, Lai Shengchuan interrupted him and said, "Okay, everyone, today is the opening interview for The Reader. Please only ask questions about the movie."

He then called on another reporter and ignored the Taipei Daily reporter.

"Director Li, I'm a reporter from Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily. I wonder what you think about the unfortunate death of Huang Jiaju from the Beyond band? When Huang Jiaju was interviewed before his death, he said that you were his favorite director and thanked you for helping their "Prisoners in Cages" crew at the Tokyo Film Festival."

After hearing this, Li Yishu pondered for a moment before picking up the microphone and saying, "Mr. Huang Jiaju is my favorite rock singer. His singing is full of positive energy. I had a brief exchange with him at the Tokyo International Film Festival. I had originally thought about getting him to play a role, but unfortunately, he is too talented..."

After saying this, Li Yishu sighed inwardly.

In June, just like in his previous life, Huang Jiaju fell off the stage while recording a program at Fuji TV in Tokyo, becoming seriously injured and unconscious. He was rescued for six days, but unfortunately passed away on June 6th.

Lee Yi-su did not know about this until early July, because he was busy filming "Nobody" during that time and had a lot of things waiting for him to arrange. After learning about this, he called Zhang Guorong, who had just returned from visiting the set, and asked him to help send a wreath to mourn.

The reporter from Sing Tao Daily quickly asked, "Director Li, have you ever thought about making a movie to commemorate Huang Jiaju? Recently, many directors in Hong Kong have mentioned that they are planning to make a movie to commemorate Huang Jiaju."

Lai Shengchuan was about to say that each person only had one chance to ask a question when Li Yishu said, "There will be a chance."

Li Yishu still likes the Beyond band very much. Previously at the Tokyo Film Festival, Huang Jiaju talked to him about many topics related to rock.

After all, rock music is now on the rise in mainland China, but Huang Jiaju has never had much opportunity to interact with mainland rock bands.

"Next one." Seeing that the man was about to ask a question, Lai Shengchuan immediately pointed to the next one.

"Hello, Director Li, I'm from XX Newspaper..."

The half-hour interview passed in a flash.

Except for a few newspapers with ulterior motives, most reporters' questions were quite standard.

After arranging for someone to send all the reporters away, Li Yishu saw that it was already past nine o'clock, so she waved her hand and told the crew to hurry up and prepare, those who needed to put on makeup should put on makeup, those who needed to change clothes should change clothes, and it must be done within half an hour.

Zhang Aijia came over: "Director Li, the makeup artist is here."

"Ok!"

Li Yishu nodded, said something to Lai Shengchuan beside her, asking him to take charge of the crew, and then followed Zhang Aijia to the dressing room.

As soon as she arrived at the door of the temporary dressing room, Li Yishu heard a quarrel next door. It sounded like Chen Hong~
He glanced at Sylvia Chang.

"I'll go take a look." Zhang Aijia walked towards the dressing room next door helplessly.

When the door was open, Li Yishu took a glance and saw Chen Hong and Xiao Qiang standing there confronting each other.

Shaking her head slightly, Li Yishu ignored it and went straight into her dressing room.

Ten o'clock in the morning.

The crew of "The Reader" officially started filming.

Sylvia Chang and Stan Lai served as assistant directors, while Zhao Fei was in charge of the camera.

This is a classroom scene, and the main character is the male student played by Li Yishu, who is in adolescence and becomes interested in the opposite sex around him and secretly looks at the school beauty Chen Hong.

It's a very simple scene.

It took less than ten minutes to shoot.

"How is it?" Li Yishu stood up and walked behind the monitor.

"no problem."

Zhang Aijia said with a smile: "Director Li's acting is very good."

"I'm afraid it won't be so easy later on."

Li Yishu shook her head slightly. Now it was just a campus scene. She just had to act a little dull and pretend to peek at the campus beauty Chen Hong. Later, when she was filming with Qingxia, that would be the real test of her acting skills.

However, Li Yishu thinks she can act well.

After all, he plays a student in adolescence who cannot resist temptation. On the contrary, Qingxia might have a bit of difficulty because she has to play a mature woman who still has charm and flirts with young men.

Thinking of this, Li Yishu glanced at Qingxia who was sitting not far away reading a script. She seemed to have felt something. Qingxia also looked up at this time, and the two smiled at each other.

night.

In a nearby hotel.

Li Yishu is discussing the next scene where the male and female protagonists meet with Zhang Aijia, Lai Shengchuan, Zhao Fei and others. The script is set up that it is a heavy rain, causing the male protagonist to be bitten by mosquitoes and contract dengue fever. Qingxia, who works as a bus conductor, discovers his symptoms and rushes him to the hospital.

However, there has been little rain in Taipei in recent times, so we can only carry out artificial rainfall simulation.

"I'll get the water truck." Zhang Aijia said, "I'll contact the fire department to see if we can rent a water truck."

"It's better not to bother the fire department."

Li Yishu shook his head and said, "Just dispatch a few large trucks, fill them with water, and then buy high-pressure water guns to spray the water."

Hearing this, Zhang Aijia didn't say anything else, but nodded and said, "Okay, Director Li."

After they chatted for a while, Li Yishu saw that it was getting late, so he got up and sent them back.

Looking at Zhang Aijia's back, Li Yishu said, "Director Zhang, wait a minute. I have something to tell you alone."

Zhang Aijia was stunned, "Okay."

After Lai Shengchuan and the others left, Li Yishu took Zhang Aijia back to the room and said, "When we shoot the scene later...When I'm acting with Sister Qingxia, you can take the photo."

"Okay, Director Lai has already told me about this before." Zhang Aijia knew that the reason why she was invited by Li Yishu to be the assistant director was mainly to let her shoot those large-scale scenes between Li Yishu and Qingxia.

Li Yishu smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Director Zhang."

"Haha, it's okay Director Li. Speaking of which, I'm still looking forward to you and Qingxia filming passionate scenes. Mature and immature, I believe your sense of the camera must be great."

Sylvia Chang's eyes were burning, and she seemed very interested in the intimate scenes that were to follow.

Looking at her like this, Li Yishu shrugged her nose. She was indeed a contestant who could film an age-gap romance and kissing scene with a 60-year-old girl at the age of 20.

In fact, when it came to the original candidate for assistant director, Lee Yi-su preferred Hong Kong female director Hsu On-wah. However, after participating in the production of "Fong Sai-yuk" at the beginning of the year, she went to Japan to study.

After chatting for a few more words, Li Yishu sent Zhang Aijia out again.

The door closed with a click.

Near the stairs of the emergency passage at the end.

After watching Zhang Aijia get into the elevator and leave, Xiao Qiang took a deep breath, recalled what her agent had said to her before, gritted her teeth, strode out, and went straight to Li Yishu's room.

She doesn't have much time left. After the campus scenes are finished tomorrow, Xiao Qiang will have to leave the crew. After all, she is just playing one of the many female students, not the school belle who will have a brief intimate scene with Li Yishu later in the film.

Therefore, Xiao Qiang had to act quickly and get involved in a scandal with Li Yishu as soon as possible. Of course, there was no better way to get involved in a scandal than for the actress to knock on the director's door in the middle of the night.

"Dong dong!"

Xiao Qian knocked on the door, and soon the door opened and Li Yishu appeared. When he saw Xiao Qian at the door, he was slightly startled, and then his expression gradually became playful.

A person coming here in the middle of the night, it's impossible that he's here to discuss the script, right?

What's more, Xiao Qiang will finish filming and leave tomorrow, so there is no need to discuss it at all.

"Director Li... Director Li, I... I'm here to say sorry to you. I was wrong about what happened yesterday. I shouldn't have..."

Facing Xiao Qian's apology, Li Yishu waved his hand: "Okay, you don't have to apologize. I know you did it carelessly."

"Thank you Director Li for your understanding."

At this point, Xiao Qian hesitated and said, "Director Li, I... I have some questions about the role, and I want to talk to you about it. I don't know if I can go in..."

"Director Li!"

At this moment, Chen Hong came over with her chin held high. She glanced at Xiao Qiang with disgust, then looked at Li Yishu and said with a smile, "Director Li, I have something to discuss with you about the script. I wonder if it's convenient for you now?"

"..."

Not far away, near the stairs of the emergency passage, a reporter wearing a baseball cap and holding a camera excitedly watched the two women walk into a room and took more than a dozen photos in one breath.

He was the reporter from Next Weekly who had sneaked into the crew's dinner venue earlier. He had come to the hotel very early and was waiting there. He didn't wait until he saw Xiao Qiang sneaking up to the stairs. Then he hurriedly ran up the stairs and waited there.

It was not until Xiao Qiang went out on her own initiative that he ran back to the entrance and peeked into the corridor. He was surprised to find Chen Hong and Xiao Qiang actually walking into Li Yishu's hotel room together.

"Editor-in-chief, big news, big news!"

The paparazzi lowered his voice and excitedly said to the editor-in-chief of the Taiwan "Next Weekly" branch: "Change it, quickly change the title of next Monday's weekly!"

The editor-in-chief on the other end of the phone was surprised: "What's going on? What big news did you find?"

"I just saw Xiao Qiang and Chen Hong walk into Li Yishu's room with my own eyes!!"

"What!!" The editor was stunned at first, then asked ecstatically: "Did you take pictures? Did you take pictures?!"

"Alright, editor-in-chief, I want more money for these photos!"

"Aga, aga, aga. I'll add as much as you want! Bring the photos back quickly. And what title do you think we should change to? The official printing will begin tomorrow, Sunday."

What titles are best-selling?
Chen Hong, Xiao Qiang...

The paparazzi pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Beauty is the root of trouble, and they all scramble to serve the king!"

Then he immediately explained the title to the editor-in-chief.

Beauty brings trouble within the family. The beauty is Chen Hong, and the trouble within the family is naturally Xiao Qiang.

The king is naturally Lee Yi-su. His reputation as a tyrant on the set had long been spread through Zhang Guorong's participation in Hong Kong and Taiwan television programs.

“It’s good, but not explosive enough.”

The editor-in-chief of Next Weekly thought for a moment and said, "Li Yishu met Chen Hong and Xiao Qiang at night, and a threesome battle was about to start?!"

The paparazzi hesitated and said, "Editor-in-chief, it's not right to say Li Yishu's name directly, right? After all, he is a big director."

"Then Chen Hong and Xiao Qiang, the sisters will "flip through the book" for 12 hours!"

The paparazzi remained silent.

"The great director pierced the red wall with his gun late at night!"

"The Duke's third cooperation is actually to deal with him?"

"..."

"Editor-in-chief... can we not learn from Hong Kong?"

The paparazzi had a headache because Next Weekly was divided into Taiwan and Hong Kong. Since Taiwan had its own news management department, the headlines were relatively conservative.

"Damn you, if you don't make it more exciting, how can you sell out? Don't worry, I will also add the title you came up with. I will definitely make a lot of money this time. Hurry and bring the photos back to me."

(End of this chapter)