Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 99 [Women are fickle, Director Li appears again]

Emei Photography Base.

The crew of "Sword Rain".

In a dilapidated room.

"Qinqin, what are you doing?!"

Li Yishu stood up and walked directly to Jiang Qinqin, and said impatiently, "Your character is a cold-blooded killer with a frosty face. Don't smile. How can you be cold-blooded when you smile so sweetly?"

"I...I...I'm sorry Yi...I'm sorry Director Li."

Jiang Qinqin's eyes instantly turned red. She didn't want to laugh, but she didn't know why, but there was always a smile on her face.

"Okay, stop crying."

Her eyes turned red, and her big eyeballs slid down her cheeks, making Li Yishu feel embarrassed. She had no choice but to turn around and say to the stage manager, "Tell everyone to take a break for 20 minutes."

"Qinqin, come to Sister Gong Li!"

Seeing the girl crying, Gong Li also ran over and hugged her to comfort her. Then she stared at Li Yishu fiercely, "Director Li, you are such a jerk. If the filming is not good, just say it. Why are you yelling at me?"

"Okay, Sister Gong Li, comfort Qinqin. I'll go over there and watch the next show."

Li Yishu also shook her head helplessly.

Did he want to yell at Jiang Qinqin? It was because they had filmed this scene several times and he had no choice but to yell out of habit.

Jiang Qinqin is very good in terms of movements. After all, she started practicing Peking Opera at the age of ten. After learning that she was going to play a role with superb swordsmanship, she found a swordsmanship teacher in the art school to practice, and her progress was rapid.

The only thing that Li Yishu didn't expect was that Jiang Qinqin liked to laugh during the filming.

She walked out of the house in shame. Fortunately, her mother Zhao Xue didn't come, otherwise Li Yishu could imagine how furious she would be.

Sichuan girls are really fierce and hot-tempered, and Sichuan men tend to be henpecked. Li Yishu is somewhat like that, too, since his father is a henpecked man, and he has been influenced by him since he was a child.

When he got outside, Li Yishu saw Zhao Wenzhuo and others practicing sword with Yu Chenghui on the open ground.

In order to design different sword techniques for each person, Yu Chenghui also taught them different sword techniques according to each person's characteristics during the training period.

Among them, Gong Li takes the light style, while Zhao Wenzhuo takes the bold and open style. On the one hand, it is because he practiced Tongbeiquan, and on the other hand, it is because of his body shape.

Seeing Director Li coming out, Zhao Wenzhuo also came over and asked excitedly: "Director Li, how do you think of my two-handed sword skills?"

"Well, it's okay." Li Yishu nodded casually.

Yu Chenghui came over at this time: "Okay Wen Zhuo, you continue to lead everyone in sword practice, I will talk to Director Li."

"Okay, Master Yu."

Zhao Wenzhuo tactfully took his sword and left, and started practicing sword with Yang Liqing and others.

Li Yishu asked, "What's wrong, Coach Yu?"

Yu Chenghui said, "Director Li, Gong Li and I have a swordfight in a bamboo forest later in the script. I have some ideas that I would like to discuss with you to see if we can make the martial arts scene better."

"can."

Li Yishu nodded and called to Oshima Yukari who was not far away, "Ms. Oshima, please come over here."

"Hi!"

Yukari Oshima hurriedly trotted over with a sword in hand. She was Gong Li's martial arts stunt double, a Japanese kung fu actress who developed her career in Hong Kong and had appeared in dozens of Hong Kong films.

Because his body shape is quite similar to Gong Li, he was chosen to be the martial arts stunt double.

Of course, Yukari Oshima is now more or less a professional female fighter in Hong Kong films, so Li Yishu also arranged a role for her as a female ninja, and she will appear later with Shinichi Chiba and others.

"Director Li, you are looking for me."

Yukari Oshima first went to Taiwan to film a movie. She stayed there for more than a year and learned Mandarin fluently.

Later, I went to Hong Kong to develop my career for seven or eight years and also learned the more difficult Cantonese.

Now she speaks Cantonese and Mandarin fluently, and people who don’t know her would think she is an actress from Hong Kong or Taiwan.

Li Yishu said, "Coach Yu is going to discuss the bamboo forest battle scene. You are Ms. Gong Li's stunt double. If you have any ideas later, you can also bring them up."

"Okay, Director Li." Yukari Oshima nodded.

"Director Li, I want to shoot it in a lighter tone. Zeng Jing's character relies on light swordsmanship, and as her master, the Wheel King also knows how to use light swordsmanship..."

Yu Chenghui began to talk about his ideas. After he finished reading the script, he imagined the battle in the bamboo forest would not be all about flying in the air, but a ground battle.

Under the falling bamboo leaves, the forces of good and evil engaged in a gorgeous and exhilarating sword fight.

"You can try it."

After listening to Yu Chenghui's idea, Li Yishu nodded slightly: "Ms. Oshima, can you finish it?"

"There should be no problem." Yukari Oshima thought about it and felt that she could complete the difficult moves that the teacher mentioned.

"Okay, then Coach Yu, you design it first, and when we start shooting, we'll take a set to see the effect."

"Thank you, Director Li."

Yu Chenghui smiled, and he was very happy that his suggestion was adopted. "Director Yu, you are too polite. The battle in the bamboo forest is one of the most exciting fights in the whole movie. I should be the one to thank you for providing me with some more ideas."

Li Yishu still has great respect for this two-handed swordsman.

The few of them chatted for a few more minutes, and it was not until the stage manager came over to call him that twenty minutes had passed that Li Yishu returned to the house.

As soon as he came in, he saw Jiang Qinqin standing there with a stern face and a serious expression.

Li Yishu walked over curiously: "Are you okay, Qinqin?"

Jiang Qinqin glanced at him and turned her head away coldly.

Ok?
Li Yishu was confused and looked at Gong Li beside her. Seeing that she was smiling but not saying anything, she was also puzzled as to why Jiang Qinqin suddenly seemed like a different person.

The assistant director came over and said, "Director Li, do you want to start filming?"

"Okay, let's get ready and start."

Li Yishu didn't pay much attention to Jiang Qinqin's sudden change in cold and arrogant attitude, and just thought that she had gotten into the role under Gong Li's guidance.

After a while, as the camera started filming, the extras playing the killers came on stage.

After a thrilling fight, Jiang Qinqin coldly pulled out the sword that had stabbed the female killer in the chest, turned around silently and was about to leave.

At this moment, the camera was focused on Jiang Qinqin's cold and elegant face.

"Once you enter the arena, it's as deep as the sea. You can't escape."

As the female killer shouted her last words before she died, Li Yishu shouted, "Cut! This scene is over, clean up for the next scene."

“Nice shot Qinqin!”

Li Yishu came over and tried to talk to Jiang Qinqin about what had just happened with a smile.

But Jiang Qinqin just glanced at him indifferently, and then left without looking back.

Ok? ? ?
Li Yishu looked at the other person's back as she walked out the door. She was a little confused about what Jiang Qinqin was doing. She walked over to Gong Li and asked, "Sister Gong Li, what did you say to Qinqin? It seemed like she didn't want to talk to me."

Sister Gong Li said, "I didn't say much, I just told you that you had a girlfriend in Yanjing."

"Ah?" Li Yishu's heart skipped a beat. He had never told Gong Li about his relationship with Yu Feihong, let alone Izumi Sakai.

"I didn't realize, Yishu, you've hooked up with quite a few girls."

Gong Li looked at Li Yishu with a playful expression: "I just asked Qinqin why she wanted to laugh all the time during filming, and she said that she wanted to laugh because she was very happy filming with you. I casually mentioned that you had a boyfriend in Yanjing, and then Qinqin's expression changed instantly."

"This woman's expression changes so quickly. She was smiling one second and then cold and emotionless the next."

"Cough cough~~"

Li Yishu couldn't help but cough twice, looked at Gong Li strangely and said, "Sister Gong Li, you are also a woman. Don't you know how quickly women change their expressions?"

Upon hearing this, Gong Li's face instantly fell, and the corners of her eyes, which were curved with a smile, drooped suddenly. She said "I don't know" and left indifferently.

Li Yishu: “???”

The stagehand saw that Director Li looked unhappy and came over anxiously: "Director Li, are we still shooting the next scene?"

Li Yishu took a deep breath and uttered one word: "Shoot!"

Women are really fickle.

For two consecutive days, Jiang Qinqin and Gong Li ignored Li Yishu. Apart from the necessary communication during filming, they didn't say a word the rest of the time.

Li Yishu did approach the two of them privately and wanted to have a chat, but they were both turned away, leaving him at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

this day.

It was the rivalry scene between "Xi Yu" and "Lu Zhu".

Lu Zhu doesn't have many scenes, and Li Yishu just randomly pulled an actor from Emei Film Studio to play the role.

But as the performance went on, Li Yishu discovered something was wrong. Jiang Qinqin maintained a cold and ruthless attitude from beginning to end, and did not have the slightest feeling for the character of "Lu Zhu".

"Crack!"

Li Yishu stood up and walked to Jiang Qinqin and said, "Qinqin, I told you that in this scene you have to act like you appreciate each other and then develop some feelings for each other..."

He patiently talked about the play with the other party.

But after she finished speaking and tried several times, Jiang Qinqin was still like this. Li Yishu became a little impatient. Just when she was about to stand up and say a few words, she caught a glimpse of her mother Zhao Xue coming. She probably came to visit her, so she swallowed back the harsh words.

"Take a break for twenty minutes before shooting again."

Seeing Jiang Qinqin happily running to chat with Zhao Xue, Li Yishu also had a headache. After filming for the past few days, Jiang Qinqin's performance was still very good, but she was sometimes quite difficult to deal with.

It's not easy to scold her. After all, she is still a little girl with limited psychological endurance. In addition, given the relationship between the two of them, it's really hard to say anything too harsh about Li Yishu.

Gong Li, who was standing next to him, suddenly came over and said, "How about you play the role of Lu Zhu?"

"Me?" Li Yishu was slightly stunned.

Gong Li nodded: "Yes, didn't you say that the character Xiyu has to have some feelings for Lu Zhu, but restrains this feeling because of her own personality? Isn't this just right for you?"

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