Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 38 [Meeting, audition, unsatisfactory] Please read
This morning.

Li Yishu got into the car driven by Zhang Yimou and went to the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television.

This was the General Administration that everyone later came to know, but at this time it was just a department.

In Li Yishu's previous life, he had been to the General Administration several times, but his position was not the current film department.

As she entered the meeting room, Li Yishu felt a little regretful.

Those old men with obvious jealousy in their eyes were smiling and saying things like "You are young and promising, keep up the good work" and so on.

But his words are still full of the condescending "daddy flavor".

Counting the two lives together, Li Yishu's mental age is about 50 or 60 years old. He can be someone's "father" to educate others, but he doesn't want to impose one on himself.

Fortunately, after the directors from Beijing Film Studio and some senior colleagues living in Yanjing arrived one after another, the leaders of relevant departments also entered the venue on time. Li Yishu finally breathed a sigh of relief and made up his mind not to attend such crappy meetings in the future.

I had longed for it in my last life, so I’ll just forget about it in this one.

It won’t be too late for him to come in and act like a senior when he’s in his fifties or sixties and show off his power.

The theme of this conference is "Chinese Films Overseas".

As the name suggests, it is to follow the wave of reform and opening up, take advantage of the opportunity of Li Yishu and Zhang Yimou winning major awards, and study how to promote Chinese films to the international market.

"Deputy Minister, I think we should learn from European films comprehensively..."

“Maybe we can try to learn more diverse shooting…”

"The subject matter is very important. Films with Chinese themes are very popular in Europe now..."

“Technology, pursuit of technology…”

"..."

Everyone at the scene expressed their opinions, and from their chatter, it seemed as if Chinese films going international was already a foregone conclusion.

The little-known Li Yishu was drinking tea and listening to these old men bragging, feeling quite comfortable.

"Director Li Yishu, what do you think about Chinese films going global? Do you have any good suggestions?"

Li Yishu was not flustered when her name was suddenly called. She stood up and blurted out, "I am still young. I came here just to listen. I just listened to the thoughts and suggestions of the seniors. I think they are right..."

Barbara.

After all, he was half a member of the system in his previous life, so Li Yishu still has the ability to talk about "nonsense literature" seriously.

The senior people in the meeting room also immediately showed satisfied smiles. It is a good thing for young people to be humble and respect the elders.

"Very good, sit down."

The deputy minister who called out the name did not expect that Li Yishu was so young and could speak so accurately, so he could only turn his head and look at Zhang Yimou.

Hong Kong Island.

"Leslie, are you really not going to consider it? This role takes too long to prepare, and I have to go to Yanjing to study Peking Opera and Mandarin for half a year."

Chen Shufen was very opposed to Zhang Guorong taking on the role of "Cheng Dieyi", mainly because the training time was too long, a full half a year.

For Zhang Guorong, who is now at the peak of his career in the film industry, every day cannot be wasted, not to mention that it takes half a year of training to act in a play.

Zhang Guorong frowned and said, "Sister Chen, I really like this role. When I heard Sister Xu say that she wanted to make this movie, I recommended myself. But Sister Xu seemed to like Zun Long at that time. But now that the Golden Lion Award-winning director asked me to audition, I have to give it a try no matter what."

"But it will take half a year to prepare, and you also have All's Well, Ends Well in Your Life..."

"I will tell the director of All's Well, Ends Well to finish filming my scenes as soon as possible. After that, Sister Chen, please don't accept any more roles for me." Seeing that Zhang Guorong was determined to play in Farewell My Concubine, Chen Shufen, his agent and good friend, could only nod helplessly.

"I respect your choice, but I still think you shouldn't take it. Now that you're quitting the music industry, you should focus more on the film industry. Don't be like you did with Days of Being Wild, where you couldn't finish filming for more than a year. This is really a waste of your career."

"Don't worry, not everyone is Wang Jiawei."

Zhang Guorong waved his hand. "I've asked someone to find out more about Director Li. Although he's young, he's very creative. He only took a little over a month to make this Golden Lion Award-winning film. As long as I learn the early training well, the official filming should start quickly."

"Okay then. I'll tell Sister Xu this afternoon that after we finish filming All's Well, Ends Well, we'll..."

"No, tell Sister Xu that the sooner we audition, the better. Sister Xu already likes Zun Long. If she convinces the director, then I won't have a chance, right?"

"This is too fast, your play..."

"It's okay. Director Gao is always quick when filming. During the audition, I asked for two days off and will reshoot when I come back."

Seeing Zhang Guorong say this, Chen Shufen didn't know what to say. She took out her mobile phone and called Xu Xu, "Hello, Sister Xu, it's me, Shufen..."

"Yes, yes, Arong agreed to audition, but he has a movie to shoot recently, so he asked if he could audition as soon as possible..."

"Who's calling?"

Li Bihua is currently revising the script, not Farewell My Concubine, but Green Snake. Director Xu Ke found her the day before yesterday, hoping to remake the novel Green Snake and asked her to help revise the script first.

"Chen Shufang, Guorong's agent." Xu Lu put the mobile phone aside.

Hearing that it was her brother, Li Bihua quickly asked, "How is it? Did Guo Rong agree?"

"He agreed and asked us to arrange an audition for him as soon as possible."

"I've already said it, Arong will definitely agree. He told me before that he really likes this role."

"Let's not talk about this for now. What do you think of this Zhang Fengyi?"

Xu Suo handed the photo to the other party.

After returning from Venice, Xu Suo began to ask people from the company to prepare the crew, while she herself was communicating with the actors.

She is familiar with Zhang Guorong, and she will decide whether to choose him or not based on how his audition goes.

It’s different with Zhang Fengyi. She has no impression of him and has never seen his works.

So I used my connections to get a few of the movies he'd made, as well as some personal photos of him.

As for acting, Xu Lu is not worried. Nowadays, the acting skills of mainland actors are still very reliable. It mainly depends on whether the image is suitable.

Li Bihua picked up the photo and looked at it. "He looks quite decent and imposing in the photo. It can form a contrast with the filthy image of Duan Xiaolou later when he betrayed Juxian and Cheng Dieyi in order to protect himself. I think it will have a more dramatic effect."

"Then send him an audition notice and ask him to go to Yanjing for the audition."

Xu Suo didn't think much about it and asked her assistant to send an audition invitation to the Emei Film Studio in the mainland. Seeing that the assistant was about to leave, she hurriedly shouted, "Wait, you can contact Zun Long and send him an audition invitation."

She still decided to let Zun Long come for the audition.

You can't say that everything makes her feel unhappy, right?
The fact that Lee Yi-su was chosen as the director already made Xu Lu feel a little upset.

Now you can't just not give Zun Long, who you have always thought is suitable for the role of "Cheng Dieyi", even a chance to audition, right?

PS: The plot will speed up next, so here is an unimportant summary.

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