Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 307 318 [Naomi and Cindy's gift, the true charm of musicals! ]

While playing with Monica's palm, Li Yishu asked, "How is the preparation for Saw going? When can it start filming?"

Monica felt her palms itchy and couldn't help but hum twice, saying, "Probably at the end of the month."

"At the end of the month? So David has finished filming Scream?"

"Well, it's finished filming and is in post-production. Amy's intention is to release it on Halloween in November, and Saw will be released on Halloween."

"How about coming with me to the Venice Film Festival in a couple of days?"

"Okay!"

Monica's eyes lit up and she said happily, "I haven't been back to Italy for a long time. This is a good opportunity for me to go home."

"Sure, but I'm afraid I don't have time to go back with you. I may only stay in Venice for two days this time, and I won't rush over until the closing ceremony. By then, I may need your help in promoting my film in Venice."

Lee Yi-su had no intention of doing public relations for this year's Venice Film Festival. In addition, the crew of "Chicago" was almost ready, so he had to get involved in the filming as soon as possible.

Monica smiled sweetly, "No problem dear, I'm happy to help you."

Monica Bellucci has never participated in the publicity work of a film festival. This time she will learn from the past. In the future, if the films she produces can be shortlisted for the three major European film festivals, she will not have to worry about not understanding anything.

Looking at Monica's deep eyes, her high nose, and the perfect facial contours that showed her nobility and elegance, and her delicate lips, like a blooming rose, exuding an alluring scent, Li Yishu's breathing became rapid: "Is the door locked?"

Monica was stunned at first, then she smiled, stood up and walked towards the door.

Looking from behind, her figure is graceful and curvy, so charming.

Click!

As the sound of the door being locked was heard, Monica turned around, reached behind her head, took off her hairpin, and let her long wavy hair casually fall on her shoulders, adding a bit of laziness and sexiness.

She walked towards me step by step in her high heels, and said with seductive eyes, "Dear, it's locked."

Broadway is located on Broadway Avenue in New York City. In its heyday, there were as many as 80 theaters in the area.

However, with the diversification of the entertainment industry, fewer and fewer people go to watch Broadway plays. For business considerations, Broadway has begun to move towards a mid- to high-end route, and ticket prices have also risen.

The disadvantages and advantages brought about by the increase in ticket prices are very obvious. Ordinary people cannot afford tickets that cost dozens or hundreds of dollars each, but the rich are happy to widen the gap between themselves and ordinary people. Broadway has gradually become a symbol of identity and status, and the audiences who come here to watch plays are mostly rich or noble.

Broadway runs through Manhattan, New York from north to south. For tourists, it is one of the symbols of New York's urban culture.

For musical lovers, this is paradise because there are rows of theaters and endless classic musicals.

This was also Li Yishu's first time to visit Broadway Avenue, and he was full of curiosity about the buildings on both sides of the road.

In the past, Li Yishu always thought that Broadway was a big theater, until yesterday when she was chatting with Monica, she realized that Broadway does not refer to a single theater, but the entire street.

This is like the famous Sanlitun Bar in Yanjing in the future. This is a general term, and the full name should be Sanlitun Bar Street.

Sitting in the car, Li Yishu asked Amy beside him, "When will Harvey come?"

"I'm afraid I can't come today."

Amy shook her head. "I got in touch with the people at Miramax this morning. They said Harvey went to England. It seems to be for a movie."

Hearing this, Li Yishu frowned, but didn't say much. The two parties were in a cooperative relationship, not a superior-subordinate relationship.

He asked, "How is the crew preparing?"

"Everything has been prepared, and we can meet with the creative team tonight."

"That's good."

Hearing that he would be able to meet with the main creative team in the evening, Li Yishu nodded with satisfaction. He would leave for Venice tomorrow and would be back after staying for two days.

He can start filming directly then. After a week, he will have to go to Venice to attend the closing ceremony.

It is a bit troublesome, but Lee Yi-shu must start filming as soon as possible and finish it in early September so that she can accompany Qingxia during her delivery period.

Seven or eight minutes later.

In a theater located on the edge of Broadway, it was still morning and the theater was deserted.

"Mr. Li, welcome to our Tom Theater!"

The theater's general manager, Ge Xiu Landry, stood at the door and warmly welcomed Li Yishu.

Li Yishu smiled and extended her hand: "Hello Landry, thank you for providing the venue."

Gertrude Landry smiled cheerfully, "It's no big deal. No famous director in Hollywood has made a musical for many years. When our boss learned that you wanted to make a musical, he was very happy to provide the venue to you."

Tom's Theater is an old theater. It was founded in 1937 and has a history of nearly 60 years. However, its attendance rate is not ideal. On the one hand, it is because of its poor geographical location, and on the other hand, it is because there are too many theaters on Broadway.

In today's situation where there are more people than meat, Tom Theater can only barely maintain a balance between income and expenditure.

This time, Li Yishu is going to start filming the famous musical "Chicago". After Tom III, the owner of Tom Theater, learned about this, he immediately contacted Harvey, hoping to provide the venue for free in exchange for the crew mentioning the name of their theater.

Harvey naturally agreed to this, and Li Yishu did not refuse after hearing it.

Naturally, we should save money on things that can be done. Simply setting up a theater scene does not cost much, but the difficulty lies in the stage lighting.

Almost all the theaters in the Broadway district have the best and most advanced lighting equipment. If the "Chicago" crew built it themselves, even if it was rented, the cost would probably be hundreds of thousands of dollars.

After some pleasantries, Li Yishu, Amy and several assistants followed the theater manager Landry into this theater with a history of more than 50 years.

The theater has a very nice environment and is decorated in a retro style. The floor is covered with gorgeous carpets, and both sides of the corridor are covered with vermilion patterned wallpaper. On the walls are hung pictures of well-known dance troupes, ballet companies, drama companies, musical theater companies, symphony orchestras, etc. that Tom Theater has invited over the past few decades.

As she walked along, Li Yishu's first impression was that this Tom Theater had a long history.

I think this is one of the reasons why Tom Theater designed the corridor in this way. In North America, any old store with a history of more than several decades can be called "long" in history.

Because their country has only been established for about three hundred years.

After passing through the corridor, we soon came to a fork in the road. There are five theaters in Tom Theater. The largest one can accommodate 5 people, and the remaining four theaters are mostly 1000-200 people in size.

Ge Xiu Landry took Li Yishu and others to the largest theater, which was also a theater specializing in musicals.

As soon as she entered the theater, Li Yishu found that the environment was similar to the auditorium of Beijing Film Academy, except that the decoration was more luxurious. At the same time, there were protruding terraces on the second floor on both sides, which were obviously for VIP users.

"Where are they?"

Li Yishu looked at Amy. He was talking about Naomi Watts, Cindy Crawford, and some other supporting actresses in the performance.

"I have already notified you..."

Amy was also confused. She had notified these people to come over yesterday.

Ge Xiu Landry beside him smiled and said, "Mr. Li, they are already putting on makeup and changing clothes backstage. I just sent someone to ask them. It will probably take about ten minutes."

"Then I'll wait and see." Hearing this, Li Yishu nodded with a smile, full of anticipation.

Although the invited Broadway choreographers said that Cindy and others were learning and improving very quickly, they couldn't say they could compare with professional dancers, but at least they were more than enough for filming a movie.

The three of them sat in the fourth row, which had the best view. It was neither too far nor too close, so they could better see the performance of everyone on the stage.

While a few people were chatting and waiting, a staff member ran over, walked through the seats, and whispered something in Ge Xiu Landry's ear.

"Okay, I see."

Ge Xiu Landry waved his hand and looked at Li Yishu: "Mr. Li, Miss Watts told Miss Crawford that she has prepared a gift for you."

"Gift? Where is it?"

Li Yishu raised an eyebrow.

Gertrude Landry pointed to the stage: "There!"

Li Yishu glanced sideways and saw that a chair had appeared on the stage at some point, with its back facing the stage.

Although she didn't understand what was going on, Li Yishu stood up and said, "Let's go see what gift they prepared for me."

"Director Li, please follow me."

The staff walked in front to lead the way.

After a while, Li Yishu came to the stage and looked back at Amy and Geshu Landry in the audience.

I have to say that the feeling of looking down from the stage is really different.

The staff member said, "Director Li, please take a seat."

"it is good!"

Li Yishu didn't think much about it and sat on the folding chair with her back to the audience.

"Kaka——"

Li Yishu looked back and saw that the lights in the auditorium were turned off one after another, and now only the lights on the stage were still on.

"JAZZ"

Suddenly, a soprano voice immediately attracted Li Yishu's attention, and he subconsciously looked towards the backstage passage on the right.

As fast-paced jazz music sounded, a black-haired woman appeared in the backstage passage.

Cindy Crawford!
She was wearing a silver-white Latin dance costume with sequins, and she was walking towards me step by step in high heels, singing: "Find a bottle of wine, let's have fun, jazz, my wine is all here, come on, baby, let's paint the blue sky..."

interesting.

Li Yishu stared at the other person with flickering eyes.

"Sir!"

The voice came from the left. Li Yishu turned around and saw Naomi Watts, wearing a black sequined Latin dress, walking towards her with an extremely sexy step, singing.

One on the left and one on the right, one white and one black, two girls came to Li Yishu and put their hands on his shoulders.

"Sir!"

Suddenly, a group of people chorused and twenty or thirty young women emerged from the aisles on both sides.

They all wore dark blue women's windbreakers, and walked side by side in two rows, chanting in a low voice:

"We, want, Art!"

"A, R, T!"

The girls on both sides came to Li Yishu and stood in a row, singing word by word: "We want art, we want art, we want art..."

As soon as the voice fell, a group of girls grabbed the buttons with both hands, suddenly pulled them out, revealing the sexy red jumpsuit inside, and shouted loudly:
"We are all his!"

Wow!

Li Yishu was shocked by this scene.

When jazz music plays, the rhythmic melody is like a magic thread, pulling everyone's soul.

Under the bright lights of the live stage, Lee Yi-su seemed to be in a dreamland.

Naomi Watts and Cindy Crawford walked around, surrounded by sexy beauties. They swayed their bodies and began a passionate jazz dance. Their movements were smooth and full of tension. They sometimes turned freely and sometimes twisted their waists playfully. Every dance step exuded endless charm.

"We are all...his!"

The performance lasted seven or eight minutes as everyone sang in unison.

With a bang, the balloon hanging high above the stage burst, and countless golden fragments fell from the sky.

The world is filled with decadence, bright lights and wine, and golden fragments shining with brilliant light, as if making people lose themselves in this endless dream scene.

Cindy Crawford panted and leaned close to Li Yishu's ear and whispered, "Li, this is our gift to you."

"That's right, we all belong to art!" Naomi Watts came over.

Li Yishu looked around.

Cindy's sexy face and the faint mole at the corner of her mouth are full of sexiness and charm. Naomi's pure face with light makeup makes her look more charming.

At this moment, Li Yishu felt the true charm of musicals. No wonder those old white men at the Oscars are so obsessed with musicals.

"awesome!"

Ge Xiu Landry stood up and applauded vigorously: "You danced so well. If I didn't know you were all amateurs, I would have thought you were Graham's modern dance troupe!"

Although Amy had never seen a musical, she was attracted by this moment of decadence and extravagance. It was a bit similar to the tap dance in Shanghai during the Republic of China. The fast rhythm brought about a dynamic rhythm that made people's bodies sway.

Cindy and Naomi looked at each other, held hands, and bowed with the team to express their gratitude: "Thank you!"

After a while, they left the stage one after another.

Li Yishu also woke up from the decadence and walked off the stage with a reluctant heart. She never expected that one day she would be able to experience the life of Xu Daibei.

The old white men like Oscar because they have felt the charm of Broadway musicals in the 1920s and 1930s. Xu Bei spent a lot of money to set up a dance troupe because he enjoyed the beauty of the dance troupe.

Now that Li Yishu has also experienced it personally, he can't help but sigh that human preferences are really similar.

　Today is my mother-in-law's birthday, just one chapter

　　
　
(End of this chapter)