Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 333 Chapter 344 [Graduation thesis after returning to Beijing, Old Mon in the north and new immigrants in the south]

"The world is so ridiculous, infatuation is the most boring, and it's okay to be arrogant..."

Liu Ruoying’s singing voice is still very nice to hear, but the song “Laughing in the Red Dust” she sang lacks some of the free and unrestrained feeling.

"Good!" Sylvia Chang applauded.

"It's not that good, Sister Aijia."

Liu Ruoying is only 25 years old this year. Although she is not very pretty, she has a good temperament. She blushed at the moment and was a little embarrassed.

"It's a nice song, but not as good as Qingxia's."

Zhang Aijia looked at Qingxia and said with a smile: "Qingxia, do you want to sing it again? I heard you sing it on the show when the movie was released."

Qingxia glanced at Li Yishu beside her and said with a smile: "I can't sing this song with the same flavor now, let's change it to another one."

"Okay, what song do you want to sing?"

"It's 'I Only Care About You' by Teresa Tang."

Zhang Aijia shouted to Liu Ruoying: "Aying, go change the song."

"Okay, Sister Aijia."

Rene Liu quickly changed the tape. Teresa Tang's song "I Only Care About You" is a must-sing song in many karaoke bars.

Soon the tape was changed, Qingxia stood up, took the microphone, looked at the TV screen, and sang slowly:

"If I hadn't met you, where would I be..."

Qingxia’s singing voice is ordinary, but she sings with true feelings.

When the song reached its climax, Qingxia subconsciously looked at Li Yishu and sang infatuatedly: "Let time pass by, I only care about you, and I am willing to be infected by your breath..."

Looking at her tender eyes, Li Yishu felt an inexplicable palpitation in his heart.

Perhaps no matter how many times he hears this song in the future, he will always remember this moment and Qingxia's infatuated eyes.

Just one song.

Sylvia Chang took the lead in applauding and cheering, and the new actress Rene Liu naturally followed suit.

Then she said with a smile: "Director Li, we have all sung, do you want to sing a song too?"

Hearing this, Li Yishu glanced at her watch and saw that it was already past eight o'clock. She smiled and stood up and said, "Okay, I'll sing a song. It's almost time. Let's stop here today after I finish singing."

"No problem, Director Li, I'll help you with whatever song you want to sing."

Sylvia Chang walked to the tapes. There were many tapes in this box, covering almost all the popular songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as many English songs.

He thought for a moment and asked, "Do you have a copy of Love Net by Zhang Xueyou?"

"I am searching."

Zhang Aijia searched for a while, took out a tape, and said with a smile: "It really is there!"

After saying that, she put the tape into the karaoke machine.

As the accompaniment sounded, Qingxia sat on the sofa, holding her chin with both hands, staring blankly at Li Yishu who was standing in the middle.

"Please light another candle for me, because I have already lost my way."

His singing was a little tone-deaf, but fortunately he could still keep up with the rhythm.

Li Yishu sang while looking at Qingxia, "I would rather stay by your side like this, I would rather never forget you for the rest of my life..."

Seeing this scene, Liu Ruoying is not a fool. With a movie like "I Only Care About You" and a movie like "Love Net", how could she not find out the trick?

But she still kept her mouth shut and dared not say much. Neither Qingxia nor Li Yishu were people she could afford to offend.

On the contrary, Rene Liu was grateful to Sylvia Chang from the bottom of her heart for bringing her to meet these two big names in the circle. One was once the most beautiful woman in Southeast Asia, and the other is now the godfather of Asian films. It was such an honor to know the secrets of these two people.

Zhang Aijia looked at the couple and felt both envious and jealous.

The song ends.

Li Yishu felt a little unsatisfied, but it was getting late. After putting down the microphone and chatting with Zhang Aijia for a few words, he looked at Liu Ruoying who was a little nervous and said with a smile:
"Sister Aijia praised your acting skills to me. The fact that you were praised by Sister Aijia for your first filming shows that you have a talent for acting. Work hard. I will invite you to act in a movie if there is a chance in the future."

"Thank you Director Li, thank you Director Li!"

Rene Liu was extremely excited. This was the great director Li Yishu, who actually invited her to film a movie. If this news got out, many people would be shocked.

"Work hard." Li Yishu smiled slightly, waved goodbye to Sylvia Chang, and took Qingxia back.

After the two left, Zhang Aijia smiled and said, "Aying, some things are better left to yourself, don't talk nonsense outside."

Liu Ruoying quickly said: "I understand, Sister Aijia, I am the most strict."

"Haha, OK, prepare two dresses and come with me to Cannes in May."

Sylvia Chang smiled. Even though her movie hasn't been sent to Cannes yet, she has already started preparing to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

On the way back to the car.

Qingxia was humming a song while driving.

Li Yishu asked with a smile: "Sister Qingxia, do you like singing?"

"It's not bad, but it's a little unsatisfactory."

"I'll buy a karaoke machine tomorrow. How about we sing at home then?"

"Okay."

The days passed by.

July 1nd.

Li Jian followed the inspection team of Emei Film Studio. Director Chen made the final decision on the cooperation with Changhong Film and Television and invited Wu Dun to visit Emei Film Studio in Sichuan and Shu after the New Year to finalize the film project.

Now that his father was gone, Li Yishu had to leave as well.

Yu Feihong has already set off for Northeast China. The crew of "Black Coal, Thin Ice" is almost ready. He has to hurry back to the mainland to finish the filming before the New Year.

This year the Chinese New Year falls on January 1th.

The movie "Black Coal, Thin Ice" doesn't have any big scenes, so the filming is not difficult. If we work hard, we can basically finish it in about 20 days.

After this film is finished and before filming Three Kingdoms in the middle of the year, Lee Yi-su will not have much work to do except for the post-production of two films. She can take a good rest for a few months and get enough energy to film Red Cliff.

After kissing Qingxia goodbye at the airport, Li Yishu flew back to Yanjing.

He did not rush to the Northeast, but went to the Beijing Film Studio first to communicate with Han Sanping about the "Red Cliff" crew.

After learning that the main Han Palace building in Hengdian World Studios had been completed, Li Yishu said, "Third Uncle, please tell Director Wang of the Bayi Film Studio that I will go to Inner Mongolia after the New Year. I hope the local troops can give me support."

"Haha, you don't need to tell me this. I have already discussed this with Director Wang."

Han Sanping said with a smile: "I have already contacted the local cavalry battalion for you. They will come over to join the crew in filming."

"Cavalry battalion?" Li Yishu frowned. "Isn't it a little too few? Didn't Inner Mongolia say they still have the last cavalry unit?"

"Yes, it is still retained, but there is only this one cavalry battalion left." During the large-scale military downsizing in the 80s, the numbers of various cavalry units were gradually cancelled, and now there is only this one left.

Han Sanping said: "But don't worry, we have also contacted the local herdsmen and the people from the Inner Mongolia Horse Farm, and they will provide us with at least 3000 horses when the time comes."

"3000 is still too few. This scene is very important." Li Yishu shook her head. "Cao Cao's expedition to the Wuhuan is the most important scene at the beginning of the movie. It must attract the audience. Nothing is more shocking than thousands of troops."

In the age of film industry, special effects blockbusters are certainly attractive, but the most primitive ancient war dramas can also make people's blood boil.

Who doesn’t have a dream of being a general who can trample the allied forces with his horse and lead an army of thousands?
What's more, "Red Cliff" was released in two parts. In addition to the grand scene of thousands of horses galloping in the first part, there is a large plot in the middle that involves power struggles and the dealings between Liu Bei and Sun Quan. The most interesting part is the ending, where Zhao Yun goes in and out seven times.

There are more big scenes in the second part, not to mention the most exciting Battle of Red Cliff, there are also scenes of various armies attacking the city, plus many well-known debates among scholars, Zhou Yu fighting Huang Gai, Jiang Gan stealing the book, Kong Ming borrowing the east wind, Huarong Road, etc.

Han Sanping nodded: "Then I will contact Director Wang and see if we can transfer horses from other places."

"Then I'll trouble you, Uncle San."

Li Yishu glanced at her watch and said, "It's getting late. I'll go back first and come back after the New Year."

"Not staying for lunch?"

"No, the crew is still waiting for me in the Northeast. I have to rush over tomorrow. I have a lot of things to deal with in the afternoon."

Now Li Yishu wishes he could split into three people, one to go to Northeast China to film, one to stay in Beijing Film Studio to follow the crew, and the other one would naturally go to the school to deal with his graduate graduation matters.

At the end of 1991, his teacher Situ Zhaodun helped him sign up for graduate school for the following year, and in June 1995, he was about to submit his graduation thesis.

With Li Yishu's current achievements, Beijing Film Academy would not have prevented him from graduating whether he submitted his thesis or not. However, he still had to go through the process, as he always had to save face.

This time he returned to Beijing Film Academy, he was planning to have a good talk with Situ Zhaodun about this matter.

in the afternoon.

Department of Directing, Beijing Film Academy.

In the director's office, Situ Zhaodun looked rounder and his skin was much darker than when he met him in mid-last year.

Looks like a fat black man.

"What? You can't recognize the teacher?"

"No, it's just that the change in you, teacher, is too big, isn't it?"

Seeing Li Yishu staring at him, Situ Zhaodun said unhappily, "It's all because of you. For your documentary, I traveled all over the world, exposed to the sun and rain..."

Li Yishu took out a bag that he had prepared in advance and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, teacher. I have brought back two boxes of good tea, authentic West Lake Longjing tea, which is rare in the north."

"Don't think you can buy me off with two boxes of tea."

"Teacher, you are wronging me. I bought this especially to honor you."

Hearing this, Situ Zhaodun snorted twice and said nothing more. Instead, he asked, "Regarding your graduation thesis, the school has agreed to allow you to present it as a work. Aren't you going to the Northeast soon to make a movie with Mr. Yu from the acting class? Just use this movie as your graduation thesis."

"Okay." Li Yishu nodded. It didn't matter to him whether he wrote a thesis or not.

Although there is no one in the Beijing Film Academy who is qualified to comment on him in the field of film, it is enough for the school to save face. After all, the greatest benefit that the Beijing Film Academy brings to him now is actually the supply of talents.

The future development of the Art and Entertainment Group in the Mainland cannot be achieved without the talents in all aspects cultivated by the Beijing Film Academy, from directors, actors to photographers and even script dubbing and so on.

After talking about their graduation thesis, the two talked about the documentary "A Bite of China".

Now Situ Zhaodun has finished filming the last six episodes and is rushing to find people to do the dubbing and editing.

After watching the previous episodes of A Bite of China, CCTV immediately agreed to introduce this documentary and broadcast it on CCTV-1.

It is expected that it will meet mainland audiences during the Chinese New Year this year.

I was thinking of starting from the evening of the first day of the Lunar New Year, with one episode released every week, for three consecutive months.

Seeing that the conversation was almost over, Situ Zhaodun said, "Okay, I know you are busy now, so I won't waste your time. I have already talked to Yongmei from your company about the documentary. She will handle the broadcast with CCTV."

"Okay, teacher. I'll go back first."

"Well, let's go."

After Li Yishu said goodbye, it was already past four o'clock and the students at Beijing Film Academy would be out of school soon, so she decided to wait for Jiang Qinqin to finish school.

It gets dark early in the north.

Around five o'clock, the sky was already grey and the originally quiet campus gradually became noisy as the bell rang for the end of get out of class.

“get out of class is over!!”

Someone shouted loudly, and the teaching building began to boil. Soon, a large number of students began to leave the classroom one after another.

The originally snow-covered ground gradually became muddy and turbid due to being trampled by the students.

"Jingle Bell……"

After school, Jiang Qinqin and Jia Jingwen were about to go back to the dormitory to rest before taking their lunch boxes to the cafeteria when they suddenly received a call. She picked it up and answered excitedly, "Hey, Brother Yishu, you're back?!"

"Yes Qinqin, I just got back today. I'm in the Beijing Film Academy parking lot. Where are you?"

"I just got out of school, I'm coming to see you now!"

"Well, come on."

Jiang Qinqin hung up the phone with a smile. After saying something to Jia Jingwen and Xu Jinglei, she handed the book in her hand to them and immediately ran towards the parking lot happily.

The two girls looked at each other with envy in their eyes.

In the car.

Jiang Qinqin said happily: "Brother Yishu, where are we going to eat?"

“Go try some newcomers.”

Li Yishu said as he drove: "I've always heard people say that there are Lao Mo in the north and Xinqiao in the south. I don't know how the Western food of Xinqiao tastes."

"I know, I know, it tastes delicious!" Jiang Qinqin's eyes lit up. She didn't care about the food, but was thinking about the western restaurant. It would be great to go there alone with Li Yishu.

"You have eaten?"

"Yes, I went there with Wenwen and the others last month."

Jiang Qinqin smiled and said, "The bread at Xinqiao Sanbao Le is also very delicious. Wenwen and I went there last time and bought a lot."

"Haha, if you like it, buy some more later. It won't go bad easily in the winter. When you get hungry after class at night, just eat a few pieces of bread."

"Uh-huh."

Jiang Qinqin nodded rapidly, glanced at Li Yishu, a happy smile on her face.

Li Yishu glanced at her and said with a smile, "Why are you so happy? We're just going to eat Western food, right?"

"It's not about eating Western food, I'm happy just thinking about eating Western food alone with Yishu."

Jiang Qinqin said happily: "I am so happy today, Brother Yishu!"

(End of this chapter)