Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 213 223 [Chen Hong: Give you a little red flower]

United States.

The crew of "Final Destination".

Monica Bellucci, who is a first-time producer, is more enthusiastic about her work than one can imagine and comes to the crew almost every day.

Even if she does nothing, just sitting there watching the director filming, it brings her different experiences and fun.

In addition, everyone in the crew knew that Monica was the producer and had control over the crew's salaries and remuneration, so they were naturally respectful and flattering. For the first time, Monica Bellucci felt how great the American "producer-centered system" was.

This feeling is so wonderful.

Just as Monica Bellucci was sitting in a chair looking at the shooting schedule, a crew member suddenly came over and said, "Ms. Bellucci, there is a Chinese visiting the set."

Monica's face lit up with joy, thinking it was Li Yishu who came.

But on second thought, even though many people in the crew didn't know that the investor was Li Yishu, if he came, he would definitely call me in advance.

Thinking of this, Monica Bellucci frowned: "Who is it?"

"He calls himself Wu and says he's here to see Director Li An."

"Then go inform Director Li An."

Monica Bellucci was sure it wasn't Lee Yi-su, and waved her hand nonchalantly. The crew wasn't filming in a closed environment, and it wasn't a big deal that the director had friends visiting the set.

The stage manager nodded, then turned and ran to the shooting site.

"Wu?"

When Li An learned that someone was coming to visit him, he was confused at first, but when he heard the word "Wu", he immediately remembered that it might be Wu Yusen, and nodded and said, "Let him come over."

A few days ago, Wu Yusen got Li An's contact information through his friends in Hong Kong, and then called him.

Although the two had never interacted before, they were both Chinese working hard in the United States, and Li An sent the address of the crew to the other party.

It doesn't take a while.

The stage manager walked in with a middle-aged man who was a little thin and had a slightly bald head.

When Li An saw the person coming and confirmed it was Wu Yusen, he also walked over with a smile on his face: "Director Wu, welcome, welcome."

Wu Yusen held out his hand: "Director Li, I'm so sorry to come here so suddenly to interrupt your filming."

"Haha, how could that be? I'm so happy that Director Wu can come to visit the set."

Li An smiled and shook hands with the other party: "I saw your movie "The Ultimate Target" in the cinema before, it was very good."

Wu Yusen's mouth twitched, but the other party also meant well, so he forced a smile: "Thank you."

Seeing his reaction, Li An understood instantly and immediately changed the subject: "Jesse, can you help me get two cups of coffee?"

"No problem, director." The assistant director smiled and left.

"Director Wu, please take a seat."

Li An took Wu Yusen to sit down and started chatting.

When the assistant brought two cups of coffee, Wu Yusen looked at the other person's cup of black coffee and asked in surprise, "Director Li likes to drink pure black coffee?"

Li An smiled and said, "Recently, because of filming this movie, I have been thinking a lot. I can't sleep every night, which leads to lack of energy during the day. I have to drink black coffee to refresh myself."

"I heard Director Li is making a horror movie?"

Wu Yusen looked at the crew members who were setting up the show.

When he learned that Li An was recently shooting a horror thriller film, he was full of contempt. It was really depraved that a great director of art films who won the Berlin Golden Bear Award actually came to the United States to shoot a horror film.

"It's a horror film, but I think it's more of a film about fatalism..."

The more Li An participated in the film production, the more he felt that the script written by Li Yishu really touched the hearts of the people.

On the surface, this script is a horror film about the omnipresent pursuit of death, but its core essence is to teach others to cherish the people and things in front of them, because they don’t know which will come first, tomorrow or an accident.

Li Yishu: “…” This is just a simple horror movie with a Chinese fatalistic style.

In response to Li An's words, Wu Yusen nodded without comment.

In his opinion, no matter how terrifying American horror movies are, they cannot be separated from blood plasma. Even though Li An talked so much, he could not get rid of the style of horror movies.

Seeing that they had been chatting for quite a while, Li An didn't have that much time to waste with Wu Yusen, so he took the initiative to ask: "Director Wu, I wonder what you want to talk to me about this time?"

Wu Yusen hesitated and said, "Well... Director Li, I came to you this time because I really want to ask you for help with something."

"Well, Director Wu, why don't you just speak frankly."

"I know you know Director Li Yishu, could you introduce her to me?"

"..."

Li An raised his eyebrows. He knew that Wu Yusen came to him for this matter.

More than two months ago, in August, Wu Yusen's first Hollywood action film "Target" was released.

After more than a month of release in North America, it grossed 3200 million U.S. dollars.

It seems that the box office is very good, but you have to know that the production budget of this movie cost more than 2500 million US dollars!

Normally, if a movie wants to make a profit, it must at least make $5000 million in North America, and then the overseas box office is basically profit.

However, the North American box office of "The Hard Target" was only 3200 million US dollars, the overseas box office was more than 4000 million US dollars, and the global total box office was more than 7200 million US dollars.

The box office is three times the production fee, which seems pretty good, but you have to know that the overseas box office, the producer's earnings are small, more than 7200 million US dollars, minus the theater, distributor, publicity, tax and other expenses...

Not to mention making a profit, it is difficult to even recover the costs.

Of course, the loss will not be big, after all, there is the income from the videotapes, but it will take years to earn it back.

In just over two months, Wu Yusen, who had vowed to surpass Li Yishu, was thrown into a deep valley.

Li Yishu's production company, which made $2000 million, earned $4 million at the global box office, while his production company, which made $2500 million, only earned more than $7000 million at the global box office.

The difference is not even a tiny bit.

After "The Last Target", Wu Yusen also sent his resume to many Hollywood film companies, but almost without exception, all of them fell into oblivion and no one responded.

I heard from several Hollywood friends that the major Hollywood film studios basically have no intention of using Wu Yusen.

As the global commercial film center today, Hollywood has no shortage of high-quality directors.

Many directors who have achieved outstanding results in their own countries often have to work hard for many years before they can direct a movie after coming to Hollywood, and most of them start with small productions.

Wu Yusen is considered a very lucky director. He directed his last movie not long after coming to Hollywood, and the production budget was 2500 million US dollars. He also had the popular action film actor Jean-Claude Van Damme join the cast.

But unfortunately he didn't seize the opportunity.

"Director Wu, I can make an introduction for you."

Li An pondered for a moment and said, "But I can't guarantee that Director Li will give you this opportunity."

"I understand."

Wu Yusen's face lit up and he said, "I just want a chance for an introduction." For Wu Yusen, as long as he could meet with Li Yishu, he would be able to attract investment, or ask the other party to help introduce him to Columbia Pictures.

The reason why Wu Yusen did not ask his friends in Hong Kong to help contact Li Yishu was because he was afraid of being embarrassed.

Now the Hong Kong media has been bragging about Wu Yusen, saying that his first foreign language film earned more than 7000 million US dollars at the global box office, and his next film will definitely break through a certain number of billion US dollars...

Anyway, the citizens of Hong Kong were stunned, as if Wu Yusen would surpass mainlander Li Yishu and become the world's number one Chinese director in the next second, but he didn't even mention the high production costs.

Under such circumstances, if Wu Yusen contacted his friends in Hong Kong and asked for Li Yishu's contact information, he would definitely be exposed.

So he would rather take a detour and ask someone for Li An's contact information, under the pretext of helping this colleague from Taiwan.

At this time, Monica Bellucci walked over in her high heels, glanced at Wu Yusen, and then asked Li An, "Director Li An, when will the filming start?"

"Sorry, Producer Bellucci, we'll start shooting soon."

Li An apologized quickly. He knew that Monica was Li Yishu's woman and also the producer of his next multi-million dollar movie. Even if he didn't try to please her, he couldn't offend her either.

Wu Yusen stood up and said, "Director Li, I won't bother you any more. I'll wait for your good news."

"Okay Director Wu, I can't wait now. I'll contact Director Li in the evening."

After seeing Wu Yusen off, Li An also started filming as soon as possible. The shooting period of "Final Destination" was not long, and he had to finish it as soon as possible so that he could prepare for his own "Sense and Sensibility".

the next morning.

The early morning in Taipei is busy, with cars and people coming and going in front of the steaming breakfast shop.

Within the crew.

Li Yishu made a cup of wolfberries and began to direct the on-site shooting. The crew is now progressing very quickly and it will be completed in about another week.

Chen Hong came running over with a bag in her hand: "Director Li, this is the breakfast I brought for you."

"sorry to bother you."

Li Yishu took it with a smile and put it aside.

"You're welcome."

Chen Hong smiled sweetly, and suddenly remembered the scene she was going to shoot in the afternoon. She couldn't help but blush and said, "Director Li, when we shoot our bed...bed scene this afternoon, can you...can you clear the set?"

It’s called a bed scene, but actually it’s just getting into bed, with Chen Hong exposing her shoulders and half of her back.

But for the young Chen Hong today, it is still a little shy and difficult to accept. This is not as simple as just showing her back, but to take pictures with Li Yishu with her skin close to her skin.

That is Li Yishu. If she were to change someone or change the crew, Chen Hong would never agree, because she is now following the route of the Qiong Yao jade girl.

Li Yishu laughed and said, "Okay, when the time comes, we'll clear the place and it'll just be the two of us and Director Zhang to shoot."

"Thank you, Director Li. I won't disturb you from working now."

Chen Hong left in great joy. She didn't have any scenes in the past few days, so it was difficult for her to come to the crew to show her affection to Li Yishu. Now that she has a role, she naturally hopes to portray herself as a good wife and mother.

As they are all from the mainland, Chen Hong knows very well what kind of women mainland men like as wives nowadays.

Looking at her leaving figure, Li Yishu picked up the water cup and took a sip. It seems that the hidden little red flower reward of the Golden Palm can be successfully won in the next few days.

As the saying goes, if a man pursues a woman, it's as easy as a mountain; if a woman pursues a man, it's as easy as a gauze.

Chen Hong, who rejoined the team these two days, came to bring him food and drinks every few days, and took the initiative to help massage his shoulders when he was tired.

Don't be too obvious in your attempt to please me, who in the crew can't see it?

Coupled with the previous scandal, everyone turned a blind eye and no one dared to say anything more.

in the afternoon.

The crew cleared the room, leaving only two actors, Li Yishu and Chen Hong, and the photographer Zhang Aijia.

After Zhang Aijia adjusted the camera, she looked up and said, "Director Li, we can start now."

"Well, wait a minute."

Li Yishu replied, then looked at Chen Hong, whose face was blushing, and said, "It's okay, the camera can only see your shoulders..."

After a few words of encouragement, Chen Hong's nervousness gradually dissipated. After a while, her complexion gradually recovered and she nodded, "I'm ready, Director Li."

"Then let's get started."

Li Yishu's eyes flickered. In his previous life, he had seen Chen Hong being so arrogant. How awesome is the wife of a big director.

She looks so shy now, which is really exciting.

As Zhang Aijia spoke, Chen Hong slowly loosened the sheet wrapped around her body, then hugged Li Yishu and started to nibble on her.

Take a quick glimpse, take a closer look, it's so beautiful, so firm, so tender and pretty!

on purpose!
It's definitely intentional!

Zhang Aijia had reminded Chen Hong before that it was okay to wear underwear for this scene, but now she is wearing nothing.

This shot was shot very quickly and was completed in just over ten minutes.

After the filming, Li Yishu also walked out with Zhang Aijia, leaving Chen Hong to dress herself inside.

After she came out of the room, she said shyly, "Director Li, I...I'll go back first."

"Well, let's go."

Looking at the other party's shy appearance, Li Yishu nodded.

High-end hunters often appear as prey. No wonder Chen Hong was able to squeeze out Ni Ping in her previous life. She really has a bit of the nature of a green tea girl.

But unfortunately, Li Yishu has already seen through the hunter's disguise.

It’s not very convenient now, I’ll just expose Chen Hong’s disguise when the time comes.

Chen Hong: “…” Pierce me and I will give you a little red flower!

"Director Li, someone called from the United States and said they were looking for you."

Just then the stage manager came running over and said that there was a call from America looking for him.

Li Yishu went over to answer the call in confusion, only to find that it was Li An calling.

"Wu Yusen?"

After listening to Li An's words, Li Yishu raised his eyebrows: "He wants me to introduce him to Columbia?"

"He didn't say that. He just hoped I could introduce Director Li to him."

Isn't that what it means?

Li Yishu pondered for a moment and said, "Ask Wu Yusen to come to Taiwan in the next few days so I can meet him."

"Okay Director Li."

After hanging up the phone, Li Yishu's mouth curled up slightly and she began to think about how to deal with Wu Yusen.

(End of this chapter)