Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 406 417 [Jiang Wen: He not only kills people but also destroys their hearts! ]

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After hearing what Li Yishu said, Brother Chen Kai was a little hesitant. He understood what the other party meant, which was to make him obedient and shoot according to the other party's wishes.

"Okay, I promise you!"

Brother Chen Kai didn't hesitate for too long. For him, as long as he could reshoot the scene, it would be fine.

"Director Chen, you said this."

Li Yishu looked at Han Sanping with a smile: "Director Han, you heard it too. Director Chen promised to shoot according to the script and requirements. If there are any problems afterwards, I will replace him. Don't blame me for being ruthless."

Before Han Sanping could speak, Brother Chen Kai said, "I've promised you, so I won't break my promise!"

Hearing this, Li Yishu smiled. This was exactly what he wanted. He nodded and said, "Okay, then Director Chen will go back and prepare. The reshoots will be the same as the war scenes in Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms."

"I'll go back and prepare now."

Brother Chen Kai left the Qin Palace in a hurry.

Watching him leave, Han Sanping glanced at Li Yishu, who was smiling, and couldn't help asking, "Why did you agree to let him be the director of the reshoot? Aren't you afraid that he will mess up your film?"

Li Yishu shook her head and said, "I have asked someone to re-examine the material and write a new script. Even the lines have been changed. As long as we follow the script, there will be no problem."

"I'm afraid he won't be willing to give in."

Han Sanping had heard about Chen Kai's stubborn temper. Li Shaowei, one of the producers of "The Emperor and the Assassin", had often complained to him that Chen Kai was stubborn and would not listen to any suggestions from the crew.

Li Yishu said calmly: "If you are unwilling, then replace him. He is just a tool anyway."

Tool man?
The word is fresh.

Han Sanping asked: "Since they are all tools, aren't there other people? There are so many directors for Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms, wouldn't it be better to assign any one of them? And they are more suitable to be tools than Brother Chen Kai."

"Yes, Director Shen Haofang or Director Li Jun, they are both suitable, but we should not bother them with this matter. Besides, the progress of Red Cliff needs to be accelerated, and each of them has their own tasks."

Li Yishu suddenly laughed when he said this, "Third Uncle, do you think Brother Chen Kai will accept being a tool?"

"What do you mean?" Han Sanping didn't quite understand what he meant.

"If you are just a tool and you have to shoot according to the script, but there is a producer behind you to supervise you, and you cannot make any choices. You must shoot according to the script word for word. How do you feel?"

"Of course I am..."

Before Han Sanping finished speaking, he immediately reacted and pointed at Li Yishu and said with a smile: "You, you really are..."

"Uncle San, what's wrong with me? I'm a good person." Li Yishu said with a smile: "Director Chen is a senior, don't I respect him enough?"

Looking at Li Yishu's cunning appearance, Han Sanping couldn't find any words to describe him for a moment. Was he treacherous or harmful?

The Chinese film industry is director-centered, and the director has absolute authority in the crew, especially in the 1990s. Even if you are an investor, it will be useless in the crew.

In the director's opinion, investors know nothing about art.

Just because these days, not just anyone can be a director.

So it is quite insulting to let a director be a tool.

Han Sanping himself is a director and has made several movies. He has absolute authority in the crew. If someone makes comments while he is filming, saying this is not allowed, that is not allowed and he has to do it this way, and he cannot refute it, he will probably collapse.

Every director has his own ideas, especially famous directors. It is really a torture to ask them to shoot according to the script without changing anything.

Why did Rikutaro never promote his work "Looking for the Gun" to the outside world later on?
It’s because Jiang Wen used me as a tool.

On the crew, Jiang Wen changed the plot as he said, which made Lu Tailang collapse and lose confidence in the director.

Brother Chen Kai is such a proud and extremely self-centered person. For him to encounter such a thing would be more painful than killing him.

The reason why he agreed so readily at this moment was purely because he hadn't sorted out the situation and only wanted to get the right to reshoot.

When it came to the actual shooting, Brother Chen Kai realized he didn't want to shoot anymore, so we replaced him with someone else.

If he gritted his teeth and agreed, even if "The Emperor and the Assassin" later achieved high box office overseas, it would be regarded as a lifelong shame by Brother Chen Kai.

Brother Chen Kai is even more self-centered and proud than Lu Tailang!

In the future, he will definitely keep silent about this movie. If he is asked by reporters and gets angry, Brother Chen Kai might even come up with some golden sentences.

Therefore, no matter whether Brother Chen Kai resists and stops filming afterwards, or just serves as a tool to reshoot, Li Yishu will not suffer any loss.

If you don't want to shoot, just replace her. If people tell others about it, they will only praise Lee Yi-su for being kind and scold Chen Kai for being shameless, saying that the movie he made is terrible and he didn't even accept the chance to reshoot it.

If they shoot the film obediently, Brother Chen Kai is one of the best directors of the fifth generation after all, the reshoots will definitely not be bad, and Li Yishu won't have to worry too much.

I'm afraid that those insiders who know the situation afterwards will give Li Yishu a thumbs up.

In this circle, what you need is reputation.

Teng Wenji, who criticized Li Yishu for disrespecting his predecessors in the newspaper two years ago, jumped from the Xi'an Film Studio to the Beijing Film Studio. He finally attracted an investment, but the heroine Chen Hong, whom he had dreamed of, was poached away by Li Yishu.

Afterwards, when the Hong Kong investors learned about the situation, they simply ran away and there was no news about the movie at all. Even though Teng Wenzhi had built a close relationship with Li Yishu, as Li Yishu's fame grew, no one wanted to hire him anymore and he could only work at the Beijing Film Studio for a low salary.

It can be said that Teng Wenji’s reputation was completely ruined, and no trace of this person has been found since then.

With so many benefits, it’s a win-win situation for Li Yishu, so how could she not agree?
a few days later.

Several crews at Hengdian World Studios were in an uproar.

Because the crew of "The Emperor and the Assassin" reunited, Brother Chen Kai came back to shoot this movie.

Hengdian is not that big nowadays. Li Xuejian, Chen Kaige, Wang Zhiwen and others gathered together, and there are many members of the original creative team. Anyone who pays a little attention will know about this.

Later, someone asked around and found out that they needed to re-shoot some scenes.

For a moment, many people were surprised. The movie had already been taken off the screen, so what was the point of reshooting it?

I don’t know if it’s useful or not, but a lot of people are watching the fun anyway.

When the project of "The Emperor and the Assassin" was announced, Chen Kai was so bold at the launch conference:
"When the movie is released, you will know the difference between directors. No one knows Qin Shi Huang better than me, and no one else can make an epic blockbuster that can rival Hollywood..."

This heroic propaganda did shock many people at the time.

After all, although Brother Chen Kai's resume at that time was not as good as Li Yishu's, he had been famous for a long time. Even though Li Yishu had won several major awards, in the eyes of many people, she was still a little green, so many people sighed that the old ones are still the best.

But no one expected that Li Yishu's movie was still being filmed, but Chen Kaige's movie had already come to an end. All those words at the time hit him like a boomerang.

Movie weekly newspapers might be more tactful, but a newspaper in Yangcheng directly mocked Chen Kai, saying that we had seen the extremely crazy Qin Shi Huang, Shakespeare's Qin Shi Huang...

Jiang Wen, who had been waiting for news for a few days from the crew of "The Emperor's Shadow", suddenly heard that the reshoot director of "The Assassination of Qin" was still Brother Chen Kai, and he immediately felt very interesting.

"Hey!"

"How interesting!" "Li Yishu actually asked Brother Chen Kai to reshoot?"

Jiang Wen looked at Ge You: "Old Ge, what do you think Li Yishu is thinking? She actually wants Brother Chen Kai to shoot it?"

"I don't know about that." Ge You laughed.

"Well, it's useless to ask you." Jiang Wen knew Ge You's personality, turned around and looked at Xu Qing again, "What do you think?"

Xu Qing smiled and said, "I don't know about that either. Maybe Director Li has other ideas."

Be it Brother Chen Kai or Li Yishu, neither of them is someone she, a small actress, can afford to offend.

Seeing that he got no feedback from the two, Jiang Wen started to think about it himself. He was a person who loved to think, otherwise he would not have been able to make "The Sun Also Rises" and the later famous "Let the Bullets Fly".

Put yourself in other people’s shoes. If you were Lee Yi-su, why would you ask Chen Kai to reshoot the scenes?

He has bought the film rights, so he can just change someone else or re-shoot the film himself.

Although I don’t know the price for purchasing the copyright, this movie has at least cost two or three hundred million yuan, so it must cost several million dollars.

Reshooting will definitely cost money. If we let Brother Chen Kai do the reshooting, won’t he just continue to lose money?

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If Chen Kai is really asked to reshoot, there will definitely be restrictions, such as following the script, or assigning someone to supervise...

As he was thinking, Jiang Wen's eyes suddenly lit up and he clapped his hands fiercely, "Wow, this Li Yishu is really something, not only killing people, but also destroying their hearts!"

"What do you mean by killing someone and destroying their heart?" Ge You looked at him in confusion, not understanding why Jiang Wen was suddenly so startled.

Xu Qing also stared at him with curiosity.

"Hehe, you want to know?"

"Yes I do."

"I won't tell you."

Jiang Wen chuckled, got up and left.

"You love to talk but don't talk."

Ge You was not that curious, but Xu Qing was struggling over whether to follow and ask.

In fact, she was also very curious about why Li Yishu wanted to find Brother Chen Kai.

Until the end of the work in the afternoon.

Xu Qing was still struggling over whether or not to go find Jiang Wen and ask again.

But when I saw him and Ge You leaving, I thought about it and decided not to follow them.

"Old Ge, you're really not interested?"

Jiang Wen saw that Ge Youzhen was not interested. He had been filming for an entire afternoon without asking any questions. He felt very upset because he kept this in his heart. He wanted to find someone to see if his analysis was correct.

Ge You smiled and said, "You're interested but you don't say it."

"If you ask me, I'll tell you."

"Well, I won't ask!"

"Well, I'll tell you even if you don't ask me."

Jiang Wen couldn't do anything to Ge You, so he pulled him aside and said, "I have two guesses about why Li Yishu asked Brother Chen Kai to continue reshooting. First, it might be because Brother Chen Kai was making a fuss. Director Han from the Beijing Film Studio was here, and he also wanted to shoot Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms, so he let Brother Chen Kai shoot it."

"What about the second one?"

"This second one is interesting. Director Chen, you have never worked with him, so you probably don't know who he is. Director Chen is very proud and self-centered. If Li Yishu took the script and asked him to reshoot according to the new script..."

Jiang Wen's analysis was roughly the same as Li Yishu's idea of ​​asking Chen Kai to reshoot the scene, so when he expressed his guess, Ge You took a deep breath and said, "You're right, this is really murderous and heartbreaking!"

"Tsk tsk, that's cruel." Jiang Wen touched his chin, rolled his eyes, and said, "No, I have to take a leave tomorrow to go to the crew of "The Assassination of Qin" to see if it is what I guessed."

Ge You advised: "Don't go, we still have a lot of filming to do. Besides, what's the big deal if it's true?"

"No rush, it only takes half a day anyway, I'll tell Director Zhou and we can shoot your scenes first."

Jiang Wen waved his hands, his eyes burning as he said, "If it's really what I guessed, then you have to be more vigilant when dealing with Li Yishu in the future. Don't let yourself be sold out and help others count money."

This behavior of blatantly letting Brother Chen Kai jump in, such an open conspiracy, really opened Jiang Wen's eyes. He decided to write this open conspiracy into the script when he went back to prepare it. Killing people and destroying their hearts is really smart!

the next day.

Jiang Wen actually went to the set of "The Assassination of Qin" to watch. After watching for a whole morning, he found that Brother Chen Kai had lost his temper at least several times, and finally he just left in anger.

For a moment, the entire crew was paralyzed again.

I wanted to continue watching, but Director Zhou sent someone to urge him to go back to film, so I had to leave reluctantly. But I still asked someone to come here to see if Brother Chen Kai would come back in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, the person who made the arrangements came back and said that Brother Chen Kai had returned to continue filming.

After a few days, Brother Chen Kai was still filming honestly.

Jiang Wen couldn't help but sigh, Old Chen still didn't have enough brains, he shouldn't have come to make trouble in the first place and talked about reshooting.

But after thinking about it, it’s not a good idea. If Li Yishu just finds someone else to reshoot the scenes and the movie does very well at the overseas box office afterwards, then Brother Chen Kai will become a real joke.

Now that someone is killed and his heart is destroyed, the only one who feels uncomfortable is Brother Chen Kai.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is December.

Today is an important drama.

Zhao Yun went in and out seven times.

Originally, this scene was planned to be filmed in the early spring of next year, but the filming progress has been very good since Lee Yi-su returned.

In addition, it is winter now, and the clothes worn by the actors are thick enough, so even if they accidentally fall off the horses, it will not cause too much damage.

A vast wasteland outside Hengdian.

Dozens of cavalrymen and hundreds of armored soldiers were ready.

Inside the tent, Li Yishu looked at Zhao Zilong, who was riding a white horse and holding a silver spear, and asked, "How is it, Huazai? Is it okay?"

"No problem, Director Li!" Andy smiled: "I've been waiting for this day for almost two years!"

Ever since Zhao Yun was chosen, Andy has been waiting for the scene where Zhao Zilong goes in and out seven times.

As a man, who doesn’t want to fight on the battlefield?
What's more, Zhao Yun was such an awesome general that he could go in and out of the army seven times.

(End of this chapter)