Huayu: Director started with art films

After returning from Hong Kong, Li Yishu once again devoted himself to filming, but after only a few days of shooting, he had to leave again.

This year's 48th Locarno Film Festival will be held on August 8th. In order to win a Golden Leopard Award for herself, Lee Yi-su naturally has to bring the crew of "Black Coal, Thin Ice" there in advance.

However, because Yu Feihong, Jiang Qinqin and others were in Yanjing, Li Yishu did not ask them to fly over to join him. Instead, he asked them to follow the crew directly to Switzerland. He will depart from Shenzhen tomorrow!

“Don’t take it!”

In a hotel in Hengdian with a pretty good environment, Chen Hong immediately stopped Li Yishu who was about to leave.

Chen Hong felt that her words were ambiguous, and quickly said: "I, I am in the safe period now, it's okay."

Hearing this, Li Yishu looked at her strangely. No wonder she didn't let him use it from the beginning. It turned out that she came here for this purpose.

He thought about it and didn't refuse.

The wooden bed shook for a while, making a violent "DuangDuang" sound.

After a moment, Li Yishu pulled away.

Chen Hong immediately assumed a special yoga pose.

She put on makeup and went to the hospital to ask the obstetrician and gynecologist, who said that this posture was the most suitable for winning the pregnancy.

Perhaps she realized that the posture was not good, so she blushed and said, "I... I just feel a little uncomfortable in my stomach, and I feel bloated. This posture helps to expel gas."

Hearing this, Li Yishu curled the corners of her mouth and said, "Do you really think I'm a young guy who knows nothing?"

But he didn't say anything, just said: "In the second half of the year, the company will cooperate with ATV to prepare ten TV series. If you are interested, go to the company and pick a few that you like."

"Didn't you co-produce 'Mr. Vampire' and 'New Fist of Fury' last time?" Chen Hong asked curiously.

"This is for the first half of the year. There will be ten more in the second half of the year, and they will be finished within two years."

At this point, Li Yishu paused and said, "There is a TV series called "Great Era: Troubled Hong Kong". You can consider playing the second female lead in it."

"The Greed of Hong Kong in Troubled Times" is a TV series based on Hong Kong's century-long history, from its cession in the late Qing Dynasty to the Japanese invasion of China, the British rule of Hong Kong, and finally its return in 97.

When Li Yishu saw the script, she couldn't help but sigh that ATV had so many talented people. Knowing that 1997 was coming soon and the big boss was from mainland China, he wrote such a tribute TV series.

Li Yishu paused and said, "This TV series tells the story of Hong Kong's 1997-year history and the return of Hong Kong in . It is expected to be completed before and will be broadcast on CCTV. The second female lead has a good personality and is very likable. The broadcast will greatly enhance your fame."

"Okay! I'll go check it out."

Chen Hong still liked Li Yishu arranging her work. Now that she had taken the initiative to talk about it, she thought it would definitely be of great benefit to her, so she nodded and agreed immediately.

After chatting for a while, Li Yishu stood up.

Watching him getting dressed, Chen Hong asked in surprise, "Director Li, you're going out so late?"

"I have to take a flight to Shenzhen early tomorrow morning. I have to rush to the airport in Yiwu and sleep there tonight. After your guest appearance here is over, I will go back to Yanjing first."

Li Yishu would not go and go find Qingxia by herself.

Chen Hong didn't doubt him and nodded: "Okay."

Ten minutes later.

Li Yishu went out and drove to Jinhua.

Chen Hong continued to maintain the posture for two hours before she lowered her sore thighs and took out a book on pregnancy preparation from the drawer.

Start researching.

In the blink of an eye.

8 month 1 number.

Li Yishu arrived at the airport in Bern, the capital of Switzerland, and met Yu Feihong, Jiang Qinqin and others who had come to pick her up early.

The group set off for a big hotel in the city.

"Brother Yishu, can we go out and play tomorrow morning?" Jiang Qinqin and her friends arrived this morning. After adjusting their schedule, they just walked around the hotel when they woke up in the afternoon. Naturally, they thought that since it was a rare trip to Switzerland, they should have a good time.

"Okay."

Li Yishu turned around and readily agreed, "It's my first time here too. Let's go out together tomorrow morning and leave for Locarno in the afternoon!"

Locarno is located in southern Switzerland, close to the northern shore of Lake Maggiore. There is no airport there, so you have to take a car to get there.

"That's great!" Jiang Qinqin danced with joy. This was her second time going abroad, especially to Switzerland, a Central European country, so she was naturally very excited.

Seeing her happy look, Li Yishu smiled, glanced at the driver arranged by the hotel, and looked at Yu Feihong: "Have Wang Zhiwen and the others arranged it?"

"Well, it's all arranged."

Yu Feihong nodded: "They wanted to come to the airport to pick them up, but I refused because I had too many people. They all had to go back to the hotel anyway."

A few of them chatted and laughed as they drove to the hotel.

In the lobby, Li Yishu met Wang Zhiwen and other members of the creative team, and shook hands with them with a smile.

Wang Zhiwen smiled and said, "Director Li, you are finally here! We are all waiting for you to lead us to win the Golden Leopard Award!"

"Haha, don't worry, Senior Brother. We are here to win the prize. As for whether it is the Golden Leopard, that is hard to say."

Li Yishu smiled. He was still confident that he would win the Golden Leopard Award. In addition to the quality of the film, the most important thing was the "rules"!
Even though the Locarno Film Festival is an international A-class film festival and has been held for 48 years, and has the reputation of being one of the four major film festivals in Europe, the reality is that the Locarno Film Festival is not even worthy of carrying the shoes of the other three.

In terms of international influence, Cannes has the greatest influence, followed by Berlin and Venice. Not many people know about Locarno, and even the film festival is only known to people in the industry. Ordinary movie fans and ordinary people have never even heard of it.

Li Yishu didn't know much about this award. If she hadn't thought it would be difficult to continue winning awards at the three major European film festivals, and hadn't promised Yu Feihong that he would give her a Best Actress trophy, she probably wouldn't have thought of or been able to attend the Locarno Film Festival.

Several people came to Li Yishu's suite talking and laughing.

Jiang Qinqin graciously helped carry the suitcase into the bedroom, while Yu Feihong went to the tea room to prepare tea.

Li Yishu was chatting with Wang Zhiwen, Huang Lijia and others in the living room. There was originally an assistant director named Zhao Fei, but he and Li Yishu had participated in many film festivals, and now he was learning filming at the Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff, so he did not come.

Wang Zhiwen asked, "Director Li, if we can win the Golden Leopard Award this time, will we be the first in the country to win this award?"

The first one will always attract attention, just like the Cannes Palme d'Or won by Li Yishu, which is still the first and only one in the country.

"No." Li Yishu shook her head.

"No? Who won the award?"

Everyone was surprised; they had never even heard of the Locarno Film Festival before.

The main reason is that they don’t shoot films for awards, and they are not interested in film festivals other than the three major ones, so their knowledge of the Locarno Film Festival is very superficial. It was only when they learned that Li Yishu had signed up for this film festival that they asked someone to help them with relevant knowledge. I didn’t expect that someone actually won the highest Golden Leopard Award.

"A director from Hong Kong."

Li Yishu showed a strange look on her face and said, "I used to think that only director Chen Kai won a Silver Leopard Award, but I didn't expect that in 93, a female director from Hong Kong won the Golden Leopard Award."

It wasn't really Li Yishu's fault. He didn't know much about the Locarno Film Festival, so he asked the copyright purchasing office in Europe to look up relevant information. Perhaps it was because of the instability of international long-distance calls, or perhaps the Hong Kong side didn't explain it clearly.

The staff of the European office only checked the award information in mainland China and overlooked the Hong Kong female director who won the Golden Leopard Award in 93.

It was a few days ago when Li Yishu went to inspect the Hong Kong Arts and Entertainment Company and asked someone for information about the Locarno Film Festival, and she found it there.

"That was also the first Golden Leopard Award for our mainland."

Huang Lijia seemed to notice that Li Yishu looked unhappy. He probably thought that she had won the first Golden Leopard Award, but didn't expect to win the second one. So he smiled and said, "I haven't heard that there is a female director in Hong Kong who won the award. Is it that director Xu Anhua?"

"Not her."

Li Yishu shook her head and said, "It's a female director named Luo Zhuoyao. Speaking of her other works, you may have heard of her, including "The Past and Present Life of Pan Jinlian" which she collaborated with Zuxian, and "The Overlord of Western Chu" which Guan Zhilin and Zhang Fengyi collaborated with two years ago!"

Speaking of "The King of Western Chu", Lee Yi-shu felt something strange. Gong Li was invited to play the role of Lu Zhi in this movie, but Lee Yi-shu asked her to refuse.

Unexpectedly, the first person to win the first Golden Leopard Award was the director of this movie.

It is true that every sip and every bite is destined by heaven.

If Gong Li had starred in this movie, Li Yishu would probably have visited the set and met and chatted with Director Luo.

If they had known that the other party had won this award, they probably would not have come to the Locarno Film Festival to compete, but would have gone to other European film festivals.

For example, the Warsaw International Film Festival in Poland.

Although this film festival is only in its 10th year this year, it is also an international A-level film festival.

"Farewell My Concubine" was registered for the Warsaw International Film Festival that year, but because Lee Yi-su did not go to the event, she only won a small and useless award.

If Lee Yi-su officially signs up for the competition, it will be of great benefit to the Warsaw International Film Festival. Maybe they can win two major awards in one go.

After all, the success of a film festival is actually closely related to the director.

It's like the Shanghai Film Festival. If there are world-class directors like Cameron and Spielberg participating in the competition, then the publicity will definitely be maximized, and reporters from all over the world will rush to the festival upon hearing the news.

However, this year's Shanghai Film Festival was not bad either. After Li Yishu became the chairman, even if he was just a figurehead, he brought huge benefits to the Shanghai Film Festival. By the way, he also helped the Shanghai Film Festival invite a large number of overseas guests, from Europe to Japan to North America.

He chooses to invite anyone who has worked with Li Yishu and has a good relationship with him to participate, and even welcomes them to bring their works for promotion.

Perhaps it is because of China's huge market and the fact that many Hollywood blockbusters have achieved box office results of tens of millions of dollars in mainland China.

Considering that the box office market will be even stronger in the future, almost all the stars, directors and producers he invited readily agreed. In addition, many people who were not invited sent messages through the American company Amy, hoping to attend the Shanghai Film Festival.

In this regard, Li Yishu naturally accepted it all.

As many as possible are welcome.

In 1995, the influence of the Shanghai Film Festival was almost zero. The more overseas celebrities came, the more beneficial it would be for the Shanghai Film Festival to expand its popularity overseas.

What is the purpose of the red carpet in Cannes? Isn't it to allow journalists to take photos of these popular stars and directors, so as to promote and increase the status and popularity of the film festival?

The group chatted until about ten o'clock in the evening before gradually dispersing.

Before leaving, Li Yishu said:
"The security here in Europe is not as good as the newspapers say. When you go out at night, be sure to bring a translator and an assistant. They often work in Europe and know a little about the dangerous places here."

"No need, Director Li. We won't go out at night."

Wang Zhiwen shook his head.

Huang Lijia, who was standing next to him, held back what he was about to say.

It was his first time going abroad, and he came to Switzerland. When he was chatting with the translator during the day, he learned that the nights here were also very lively, and he wanted to go and have some fun.

But now that Wang Zhiwen has said so, I have no choice but to give up the idea.

"Well, it's okay if we don't go out. There's no need to go out at night. Let's go shopping together tomorrow morning and then take a bus to Locarno in the afternoon."

Li Yishu smiled and said, "The security there should be much better. After all, there are many overseas filmmakers coming to the film festival."

After chatting for a few more sentences and waiting for Wang Zhiwen and the others to leave, Li Yishu returned to the room and looked at Yu Feihong and Jiang Qinqin who were sitting there. He smiled and said, "Why, you two are not going to bed yet? Do you want to stay and sleep with me?"

"Who, who wants to sleep with you!"

Jiang Qinqin's pretty face turned red, and she glanced at Yu Feihong unhappily. Seeing her staring at her with a half-smile, she immediately blushed and stood up and said, "Sister Feihong, I'll go back to my room first."

Yu Feihong nodded: "Well, you go back first, I will talk to Director Li about tomorrow's film festival."

In order to save money, the crew lived together in pairs, except for Lee Yi-su, who lived in a separate room.

"Okay, I'll go back and take a shower first."

Jiang Qinqin said this and stood up to leave. Before leaving, she glared at Li Yishu, as if blaming him for talking nonsense and letting Sister Feihong, the class teacher, hear it.

What Jiang Qinqin didn't expect was that as soon as she closed the door, Sister Feihong, whom she admired and liked the most and who was also her class teacher, couldn't help but throw herself into Li Yishu's arms.

The two kissed passionately and went into the bedroom.

More than half an hour later.

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Jiang Qinqin was watching a TV program that she couldn't understand when she noticed the door opened. She hurriedly got up to see what was going on and saw Yu Feihong coming back.

"Sister Feihong, why did you come back just now? I almost fell asleep waiting for you."

"I discussed the film festival with Director Li."

Yu Feihong locked the door and said with a smile, "Go to bed first. I'm going to take a shower."

"I'd better wait for you to come together, otherwise I can't sleep with the noise."

Because she hadn't fully recovered from the jet lag, Jiang Qinqin had a light sleep and was easily awakened by noise.

"Okay, I'll go take a shower first."

Yu Feihong took some clean clothes and went into the bathroom. If he didn't go, the water would overflow. (End of this chapter)