Huayu has been doing one good deed a day since 2001

Chapter 30: Fat Bing is like being reborn [Seeking follow-up reading]

After a while, Li Wenyu arrived at Teacher Zhang's office. He found that not only Teacher Zhang was there, but other teachers from the directing department, acting department, etc. were also gathered together.

Among the many teachers, the one that ordinary people know best is definitely Huang Lei.

After a group of people exchanged polite greetings, Li Wenyu gave the teacher tickets. Regardless of whether they wanted to see the concert themselves or not, the tickets were good seats for Zhang Guorong's concert, and giving them away was a favor.

After chatting with the teachers for a while, the onlookers left, and Li Wenyu said with a smile, "Teacher Zhang, please help me arrange an appointment with Gong Li. My new project has a female character who is around 30 years old, charming, capable, wealthy and generous."

"She's not the lead actress, but she has far more screen time than the main actress, making it easy for her to leave a deep impression on the audience. This isn't an award-winning film, but if she performs well, it could become a masterpiece, or even a commercial blockbuster like The Shallows."

Teacher Zhang took a sip of tea and said in surprise, "You are incredibly productive."

At this time, the well-informed people in the circle certainly knew about the seaside Tsuen Wan and the miracle boy sold to Andy Lau. The boy had been filming for almost ten days.

The script for Li Wenyu's Hong Kong adaptation (Let Me Embrace Happiness) was also handed over to Zhang Guorong. Brother Rong said that 90% of the Hong Kong adaptation still needed some minor details to be added and modified.

But it is a film of very high quality and very likely to win awards.

If The Shallows ends its run, and he doesn't need to rush around and start filming quickly, then he can use the seaside Tsuen Wan to attend the Berlin International Film Festival next year.

Then in May, I will go to Cannes with my new script "Let Me Embrace Happiness".

When the news reached Beijing Film Academy, countless teachers were shocked!
You're so quick to come up with new projects. The super promotion and hype for The Shallows is still in progress, and it hasn't even been released yet, but you already have a new project?
After sighing, Lao Zhang nodded and said, "I'm looking for someone to help me. I heard Gong Li just finished filming an art film and is taking a break. Xu Qing is easy to talk to, but her acting skills are far from Gong Li's, right?"

"She was okay in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, but on both the big and small screens..."

Of course, he knew the gossip in the circle about Li Wenyu's ability to train actors. After hearing about Pang Bing's progress, he felt like he was reborn. How could he not be strong?

But Xu Qing is almost 33 years old. Can she be reborn and improve her acting skills?

Li Wenyu was stunned for a second. "I want that kind of ruthlessness that comes with a smile on her face, but turns around and kills people. She and her lover killed her husband and cleanly disposed of the body in front of others. She cried quietly a few times to mourn her husband's death. It's a bit random... But she still has to clean up the mess when she turns around."

"If she can perform well, I even think she's more suitable than Gong Li."

He has become qualified to choose actors after a series of publicity for The Shallows.

Teacher Zhang thought for a few seconds and suddenly said, "Generous and wealthy? Damn, what a bunch of little words."

He finally understood what it meant to be generous and wealthy. From Gong Li and Xu Qing to Zhou Huimin and so on, well, a certain rumor within Beijing Film Academy didn't have much market, after all, there was a group of people stirring up trouble.

Old Zhang frowned again and said, "I remember Xu Qing's boyfriend was playing with his collection of handed-down books, claiming it was on par with the Yongle Encyclopedia. He sold a set of books for 60,000 to 70,000 RMB. Do you think that's reliable?"

Li Wenyu was numb for two seconds and slammed the table. "Fuck, then let's not look for Xu Qing. Find me a young actress around fifteen years old. This is a very small supporting role."

He almost forgot that Xu Qing was still being cheated by a fraudster at this time. He couldn't tell the difference between the two, but the fraudster would be exposed next year.

Teacher Zhang nodded. "What's the name of the new project?"

Li Wenyu smoked a cigarette and said, "Tuner."

He had thought about what to shoot next as early as the first time Li Bingbing visited the set. He considered the Crime City series, veterans, including "Slumdog Millionaire".

But when he was working on Slumdog Millionaire in Hong Kong, he found that with his current abilities, even if the screenwriter and director were in their 80s, it was still difficult to localize the film.

It's too difficult. The original version was so successful and involved too many things about children.

Including sectarian conflicts and faith-related ones. If you optimize it to a community, the critical themes will not be so profound.

There was also a case where the host of a millionaire variety show suspected the male protagonist of cheating and handed him over to the police. The police hung him up as a sandbag and tortured him with electric shock to extract a confession.

This is a bit of a discredit to the Hong Kong police in 2001 or 2002.

One host suspected that because the protagonist was poor and had not received a normal education, he should not have been able to answer so many questions correctly, so the police used all kinds of torture, even electric shock!
That was because the original version excessively exposed the dirtiness and disorder of Baixiang, the chaotic social classes, and deeply criticized society, which is why it won hundreds of awards.

Once it weakens, it will lose its power to win awards.

Li Wenyu finally gave up on Slumdog Millionaire. It wasn't that he would stop filming it. He planned to meet some Indians in Hong Kong Island in 2002 and travel to India for a month when he had free time.

I'll try to get the book published before autumn and put it aside...

The book hit the world and sold well after being translated. Then, in the next ten or twenty years, you can make a movie anytime you want, even with magical adaptations.

As long as it is completed before the original author came up with the creative inspiration in 2003, it will be safe.

At most, he could accumulate a few dozen attribute points to raise the writer's writing ability to 90.

Now Li Wenyu has chosen the Indian version of "The Sound Tuner" for his new film, which is a feature film "The Sound Tuner" rather than a short film competing for the César Award.

This is a classic twist, a twist with amazing acting skills, and a black comedy movie where all the characters are villains. The script was completed and the filming relied entirely on the acting skills of the veteran actors, and it went very quickly.

He still needs the help of the sound engineer to get into theaters and make some quick money. Now when he returns to Beijing, he either stays at Pang Bing's house or in a hotel. He also stays in a hotel with Pang Bing in Hong Kong Island.

This quick money will not be used to increase investment in NetEase, but to buy a house and a car in Beijing and Hong Kong.

After Li Wenyu took some phone lists and left the teaching building, he started making phone calls on the way. He wanted to use Zhang Guorong or Liu Dehua as the male tuner, or at least Liang Jiahui.

The biggest villain in the whole film, the big black policeman needs to look strong and ruthless, so he fights Xu Jinjiang, Jiang Wu, and Ding Haifeng one by one.

However, he did not invite them to dinner directly. Instead, he asked them to come to the interview for his new movie in the name of the director. If these people were willing to come to the interview for his new movie, they should first work out for a while and build up their muscles.

The villain role in his new film needs to give people the image of a fitness hunky who can knock ordinary people out with a slap when he is shirtless.

When these three learned that it was Director Li, the most popular director recently, who called, they were all very excited and repeatedly expressed their willingness to work out and wait for Director Li to call them.

After making a few more phone calls and chatting about some things, Li Wenyu walked out of the Beijing Film Academy campus and was thinking about where to eat, then he put away his phone with satisfaction.

The original version of The Piano Tuner grossed HK$5 million worldwide and had a very high reputation. It was only because it was adapted from a classic and sensational short film that it didn't win many awards. If he did a good job, he would have gained both fame and fortune.

If the promotion and marketing is done well, it can still be as popular as The Shallows.

The Piano Tuner is particularly suited to the tastes of Chinese audiences. It grossed 5 million RMB in mainland China out of a global total of 3.2 million RMB. Starring a group of dark-skinned Indians, it is essentially an unknown film with no star appeal.

Just as he was thinking, his phone rang. He took it out and saw it was Jiang Wu. After answering, he asked curiously, "What's the matter, Brother Wu?"

Jiang Wu smiled and said, "Director Li, my brother Jiang Wen knows you gave me a chance and wants to treat you to a meal to thank you. I wonder if Director Li has time?"

Li Wenyu was surprised. "Didn't your brother go to look for a gun?"

Jiang Wu immediately coughed twice and whispered, "Director Li, you must be joking. My brother is helping a friend by being the lead actor. He's not the director. Filming hasn't officially started yet."

(End of this chapter)