Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 162 Eat Melon
The two were chatting about penguins.

Li Qiutang: "Does it count as me meeting the parents today?"

Liu Yifei: “Not really.”

Li Qiutang: "Why not? Your mother said that we should treat each other well."

Liu Yifei: "Anyway, it doesn't count."

Then, without giving Li Qiutang any chance, the penguin avatar turned black.

Liu Yifei was very embarrassed. How could she meet her boyfriend's parents after just two months of dating? It was too fast.

But "In Time" has been filming for a month, and Liu Yifei hangs out with Li Qiutang every day. She does think he is a very good person, but she has to save face, so it's hard for her to say or do anything.

The crew started working again in the evening, but before starting work, Li Qiutang accepted an exclusive interview with the media.

I am not here to interview In Time, which is not allowed to be interviewed now. I am here to interview The Whistleblower. China Film Group and Huayi Film Group have released the release date trailer, posters and other materials for The Whistleblower. The film will be screened on the last day of this month, avoiding the all-star The Founding of a Republic, and fully hitting the National Day golden period.

Li Qiutang has been filming "In Time" in Hengdian recently, and he did not attend the internal screening of "The Sound of Wind" a few days ago.

Reporter: "Before filming, it was said that the director team was very worried about Huang Xiaoming playing a Japanese officer."

Li Qiutang did not deny this, and even pointed out Huang Xiaoming's shortcomings: "Yes, his language talent is not very good. We were worried that he could not memorize so many Japanese lines. We even contacted Japanese actors. Later, he took the initiative to volunteer and said that he wanted to play Takeda, but Xiaoming is a rather twisted person. He wanted to play Takeda, but he couldn't do Japanese. I said, if you can't memorize these Japanese lines, it means you can't play Takeda. I pushed him hard. He was the last actor in the group to sign the contract. I said we will sign the contract when you can memorize the Japanese lines. If you can't memorize them, I will replace you."

Reporter: "Isn't this too unfair to Xiao Ming?"

Li Qiutang laughed and said, "Use different incentives for different actors. Xiao Ming will fall for it."

Reporter: "Did you consider the scale of the film because of the censorship when filming?"

Li Qiutang said: "When we were shooting, we didn't deliberately avoid any shots. I, our producer Huang Jianxin, Chen Guofu, and even Director Han all said that directors can't self-censor or self-castrate. Just shoot whatever you want, and censorship is a later matter. The negative of "The Sound of Wind" was 50 hours long when developed, but only 2 hours were edited in the end."

Reporter: "Li Bingbing and Zhou Xun accused you in front of the media before, saying that you were too cruel when filming and tortured the actors. What do you think?"

Li Qiutang smiled: "The nature of the play 'The Sound of Wind' is like this. It is indeed a certain 'torture' for the actors, but I believe they still like me very much."

Reporter: "Some media outlets that have seen the film in advance said that the torture in the film is too cruel and should be appropriately cut."

Li Qiutang replied: "I'm sorry about this. But I presented it from a professional perspective. We say heroes cannot become heroes without going through some hardships. The display of these tortures is to show the cruelty of the enemy and the determination of the heroes." Then he laughed and said: "We even made some cuts."

The reporter asked a lot of questions about The Sound of Wind, and finally returned to In Time: "The audience is also very interested in the In Time you are currently filming."

But Li Qiutang refused to give in: "The progress of In Time is pretty good. There will be media visits later, and we can talk more then."

"Okay, thank you director for accepting our interview."

After finishing the interview with "The Sound of Wind", Li Qiutang returned to the crew and started filming "In Time".

He had to shoot a few more scenes during this period, and later he had to take a leave of absence from the crew to promote "The Sound of Wind".

The shooting ended at midnight. When it was time to take a break for lunch, Li Qiutang and Liu Yifei sat together to eat.

The Life Producer came over and whispered to him, "Director, talk to those Koreans."

"What's wrong with them?" The Lifestyle Producer sat down and said, "The hotel restaurant manager came to me to complain, saying that those Korean special effects artists were not particular about eating in the restaurant. They only picked meat and fruit, eating large plates of them. The barbecue chef must be too busy to handle them, and they also cursed at us. There were several times when they almost had conflicts with the restaurant staff. They didn't listen to us, and they quarreled with the barbecue chef again yesterday. The restaurant manager couldn't stand it anymore, so he came to complain to me."

Li Qiutang didn't think this was a big problem: "Isn't it just eating a few more mouthfuls of his food? Why are you complaining?"

"When they quarrel with others, they speak Korean in a jumbled way. You can't understand me and I can't understand you. If one wrong word is said, it's easy to get angry."

Liu Yifei was listening to gossip nearby, very curious: "There is such a thing?"

"There are so many strange things happening on the set that you don't know about." Li Qiutang said.

He knew something about the Korean team in advance. In the first few days of filming, this group of Koreans did eat and drink to their heart's content in the restaurant, and while eating they said that Chinese food was not as good as Korean food.

Li Qiutang just thought that they were just letting their pride get the better of them. As long as they did their job well, nothing else mattered. She thought they would get tired of eating like this for a week.

But I didn’t expect that after more than a month of filming, they were still eating like this and even had a conflict with the restaurant.

It’s a buffet restaurant, but you can’t stop people from eating.

Li Qiutang had an idea and said, "In the future, you should arrange for the Koreans to have dinner with the people from Vita Digital. They will behave themselves in front of the Americans."

The Lifestyle Producer went a step further: "I let the two groups eat at the same table. I disgusted those Koreans. You have never seen the way they eat. They are like wild boars coming down the mountain."

Li Qiutang laughed: "You are just insulting me."

Liu Yifei also laughed and said that the life producer was too bad.

Since the complaint had already been made, the Life Producer decided to speak out loud and moved closer. Liu Yifei also stretched her neck to listen.

"Director, you don't know, in the past month since the filming started, the most complaints I received came from those foreigners, including Koreans and Americans."

Most of the crew's daily life matters have nothing to do with Li Qiutang, and are handled by the daily life producer.

"Violating the crew's ban and drinking in the room after the filming is nothing." The Life Producer said and glanced at Liu Yifei, "They also called the woman to the hotel. The next day, the cleaning lady blocked my door and scolded me. I had to persuade her and finally let it go."

Of course the woman was called to the hotel to play poker, was she just playing house? As for why the cleaning lady cursed, it was definitely because she played too much and the room was too dirty and messy.

Liu Yifei looked embarrassed: "They are like this."

Li Qiutang said, "Warn them and tell them that I said it. If they break the crew rules again, report them directly to their headquarters. Collect evidence."

For things like this we can only give a warning first and wait and see what happens.

After the Life Producer left, Liu Yifei said, “It turns out there are so many things about the crew that we don’t know.”

"Don't talk about you, there are many things I don't know." Li Qiutang said.

"Time for watermelon!" An assistant rode a tricycle and dragged more than twenty watermelons to help the crew cool down.

The three Koreans' eyes suddenly lit up.

(End of this chapter)