Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 98 [Wanlingqing in Southern Sichuan, the crew went to Sichuan]

Inside the office.

Amy said, "Boss, you can't keep this money in the company's account."

Hearing this, Li Yishu nodded slightly. After the finance department finished the statistics and review, the money would definitely be transferred, but he felt it was not a good idea to simply transfer it to his own account.

After thinking for a while, Li Yishu asked, "Amy, do you have any good suggestions?"

"I think you can find a professional financial advisor to help you manage this money."

Amy didn't expect that her boss would develop so fast. He could make so much money from just two movies. This is more than what many well-known film companies in Hong Kong make.

"Professional financial advisor~" Li Yishu raised his eyebrows.

Amy nodded: "Many big stars and directors in Hong Kong will entrust their finances to professional financial advisors."

Among the popular stars in Hong Kong, there are very few who are truly cultured and educated.

There are only a few Miss Hong Kong champions who are both talented and beautiful, while many other big stars have not even finished high school. It is simply unrealistic to expect them to manage the wealth by themselves, so many people either invest in real estate or seek professional financial advisors.

"Okay, you can find one for me later."

Li Yishu thinks it is possible to find one.

Regardless of whether you need the other party to take care of it, at least one thing is that the other party knows how to manage finances.

Li Yishu can also use the consultant's understanding of financial management to judge what is suitable for investment and what is not based on future memory.

If he were really asked to think about it for a while, he really couldn't come up with any suitable financial management points.

Moreover, this is a period of wild capital growth, and it is really difficult for people without some background to do business.

Whenever Lao Wang went to Guangdong to do business, he had to pay for tea.

Amy nodded: "Okay, boss, I'll help you find out tomorrow."

"I will be back to the mainland tomorrow. If anyone wants to work with me recently, please call me directly."

"I know, boss."

Yanjing.

Gulou East Street, Dongcheng District.

No. 255 Siheyuan.

Walking into the courtyard, Li Yishu looked left and right, then turned around and said, "Sure, Sister Gong Li, you're really fast. You bought it as soon as you said you would."

"Didn't you say that this courtyard house will be valuable in the future? Anyway, I still have some money on hand, so I'll buy it."

Gong Li smiled and said, "Besides, this courtyard is not far from your apartment in Nanluoguxiang, so we can be neighbors in the future."

"How are you going to decorate it? In the style of my yard?"

Li Yishu bought the house in Nanluoguxiang later. At that time, she was preparing for the filming of "Farewell My Concubine", so she asked the set design crew to redo the exterior of her courtyard house. The interior was not touched much, except for a simple renovation, which added a bathroom and shower area.

“There’s no rush for renovation, but the bathroom must be fixed first.”

The reason why Gong Li doesn't like living in a courtyard house is because courtyard houses basically don't have independent bathrooms, and people have to go to public toilets outside to go to the toilet.

"Yes, this bathroom must be solved first."

Li Yishu nodded in agreement.

Although the small courtyard where he lives now has a bathroom, it can only be used for defecation, not for large defecation.

Because there is no sewage pipe, only a drain pipe.

But despite this, it is enough for Li Yishu to reduce the number of times she goes to the public toilet.

It really stinks in there~
It's much stinkier than the pit toilets in the countryside, after all, so many people come and go every day.

"Jingle Bell--"

Just as Li Yishu was chatting with Gong Li about the renovation of the courtyard house, his cell phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Xu Xu calling. He answered directly, "Hello, what's wrong, Sister Xu?"

"The script for the scene you asked me to add has been written. Do you want to take a look?"

"You don't have to watch it, Sister Xu. I only shot that scene for the Japanese market anyway. It's all martial arts. There's no point in watching it or not."

"Okay, then come to the crew tomorrow when you are free and take a look at the bamboo forests they have chosen to see which one is suitable."

"Sword Rain" has newly added a bamboo forest chase scene, which is also the place where "Zeng Jing" played by Gong Li shows off her superb martial arts and swordsmanship.

Li Yishu said, "Okay, I'll go to the crew tomorrow morning."

Gong Li asked curiously, "What did Sister Xu ask you to do on the set?"

"Nothing, Zhulin has chosen one, and asked me to go to the crew tomorrow to take a look."

"Ah~ We really need to shoot a bamboo forest scene."

Gong Li immediately showed an embarrassed expression. Although the filming had not started yet, she could already imagine the scene of herself being hung on the top of a bamboo forest more than ten meters high, or even more than twenty meters high, holding a long sword and sparring with others.

It is definitely beautiful, but it is too difficult, and it is at such a high position. "Try it, and if it doesn't work, find a substitute, but..."

Li Yishu smiled and said, "Sister Gong Li, you will definitely be hung up. You can't have such an exciting scene like the bamboo forest battle without even showing your face, right?"

Gong Li immediately lost her good mood as she was about to decorate her new house. "Forget it, forget it. I'm not in the mood anymore. I'd better go back to the crew and practice sword skills with Teacher Yu."

She has started looking for Master Yu Chenghui to practice basic sword techniques these days.

Thanks to the physical education classes she took at the Central Academy of Drama, Gong Li has quite good flexibility and can perform some sword dance moves of ordinary difficulty.

"Then let's go together."

As they talked, the two of them walked out of the courtyard and headed straight for the crew.

Waiting for the crew.

Seeing Li Yishu coming, Xu Lu pulled him to look at several scenic spots suitable for bamboo forests selected by the crew from various places in the south.

I glanced at the photos and most of them were of lush green bamboo forests. Every scenic spot was breathtakingly beautiful.

Among them are the Mukeng Bamboo Sea in Huangshan, Wanlingqing in southern Sichuan, and the Chashan Bamboo Sea in Shancheng...

Li Yishu vaguely remembers that the Mukeng Bamboo Sea in Huangshan seemed to be the filming location of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and the Chashan Bamboo Sea in Shancheng was the filming location of Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers".

"Let's go to Wanlingqing in southern Sichuan. It's my hometown after all. I should at least support it."

Li Yishu smiled and said, "It's just right to change Zeng Jing's retreat to the Land of Abundance, and the Battle of the Bamboo Sea will be filmed in Sichuan."

As a native of Sichuan, Li Yishu is of course happy to choose Sichuan as the filming location as long as it does not affect the movie.

Anyway, everything for the crew is still in preparation.

"Okay, then Sichuan... In that case, do we need to contact Emei Film Studio?"

Xu Xu didn't care where the filming location was, but he would feel uncomfortable if he went to Sichuan to film without contacting Emei Film Studio.

Li Yishu smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll contact them there."

"Oh, right. I almost forgot that Director Li, you are from Emei Film Studio."

Xu Lu suddenly remembered that Li Yishu was a genuine Emei person!
Early June.

Li Yishu returned to her hometown in Sichuan with the prepared crew.

As for the Emei Film Studio, naturally, a warm welcome ceremony was held. In recent years, they have been watching the Xi'an Film Studio and the Beijing Film Studio cooperate with film companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Don't they want to do that?

There is still no such opportunity!

This time, Li Yishu, a descendant of Emei Film Studio, brought the co-production crew here to film. Although there was no share for Emei Film Studio, in order to establish relationships with Hong Kong and Taiwan film companies, they also held a rather grand welcome ceremony.

Everyone at Emei Factory was so enthusiastic that Xu Suo was a little flattered.

Although she was already a very mature businessman, she could not resist the flattery of several leaders of Emei Studio, and finally nodded and agreed to cooperate with Emei Studio to shoot a film next year.

The next morning, Li Yishu led a dozen main creative staff members of the crew and followed the staff of Emei Studio to visit the outstanding works and past events of Emei Studio over the years.

After the tour, the group went directly to the small screening room in the factory to watch the movie "Red Angel" directed by Li Yishu's father, Li Jian.

The film was only edited late last month.

Including the preparation time, it took more than seven months in total.

Since the end of last year, when Li Yishu sent the script to her father, Emei Film Studio began preparations.

But as the saying goes, where there are people there are rivers and lakes. From the dispute over the director to the dispute over the actors, it took a full three months, and it was not until March that it was finalized.

The male lead Pei Yanzhi is played by Lei Han, a young actor from Emei Film Studio, who also played a small cameo role in "Farewell My Concubine", playing the role of Xiao Si who framed Duan Xiaolou in the play.

Lei Han has a handsome appearance and a scholarly air. He looks very good after putting on makeup to play the role of Pei Yan. Plus, he is an employee of Emei Factory, so naturally he can keep all the benefits within the family.

The actress who plays the heroine Xiu'er is relatively familiar. She is Pan Hong, who appeared in "The Last Empress". However, what really made her famous among the public was her later performances of various mother-like roles in TV dramas, which made her well-known.

Li Yishu had heard from her father before that they originally wanted to invite Zhu Lin, the Queen of the Kingdom of Women, to play the role, but she was acting in the TV series "Dramatic Life", and Pan Hong happened to be free, so they invited her to play the female lead who did not have many parts.

More than an hour later.

When the plot came to the end, the scene of the hero Pei Yanzhi laughing and sacrificing himself in the fire formed a sharp contrast with the Japanese soldiers who were in chaos and running away in panic below the stage.

"I have seen the orioles singing in the Jade Palace of Jinling at dawn, and the flowers blooming in the Qinhuai Waterside Pavilion, but who knew that the ice would melt so easily? I watched him build a red building, I watched him entertain guests, and I watched his building collapse. I once slept in this pile of green moss and tiles, and watched the rise and fall of the past fifty years..."

The movie ended with the end of the opera.

Everyone stood up and applauded. Gong Li then said to Li Yishu, "I didn't expect Lei Han to act so well."

Lei Han had previously made a guest appearance in "Farewell My Concubine". Although he did not have much rivalry with Gong Li, they had met before.

I just didn't expect that this young guest actor had such good acting skills, and he successfully portrayed the image of an opera actor who dared to love and hate, and was willing to stain the theater with blood.

"That's good. It seems that Emei Factory has a rising star."

Li Yishu nodded in agreement. Lei Han's acting skills must be good, otherwise he would not have become a golden supporting actor in TV dramas in the future, especially his role as Lu Hanqing in the spy drama "Kite", which he portrayed very well.

(End of this chapter)