Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 74 Co-director?

Many people will overlook one issue: Gao Yuanyuan is not from a professional background!
She never learned how to perform a day.

Because of her beautiful looks, she was discovered and cast in movies and commercials, thus entering the film and television industry.

So it is really hard to evaluate her acting skills. Many film critics don’t like her and say that she has no acting skills and that she is always Gao Yuanyuan in every role.

Li Qiutang also ignored this when casting, and it was not until he actually came to film Gao Yuanyuan that he discovered that she had real problems.

Gao Yuanyuan lacks the sensitivity of an actor, or she fails to open her heart to feel the role and the environment.

Li An collapsed while photographing the amateur Tang Wei, and Li Qiutang had a similar feeling while photographing Gao Yuanyuan over the past two months.

There are serious deviations in her expression in many places, but Su Mengdie is not a very complicated character.

Because of this, Gao Yuanyuan was often scolded by Li Qiutang.

Li Qiutang could only guess that the heavy-themed movie "Nanjing! Nanjing!" distracted most of her energy and prevented her from fully devoting herself to the preparations for Su Mengdie.

It turns out that you can’t overlap your roles!
At the beginning of the year, Mr. Chen shocked the entertainment industry. While everyone was eating melons, Li Qiutang said privately: "The generation of young actors in Hong Kong is completely finished."

The main reason why mainland actors are taking the lead in the Chinese-language film and television industry is of course the growth of the mainland market, but Mr. Chen's incident undoubtedly also played a certain role in promoting it - it turns out that those Hong Kong stars are not so high and mighty after all.

Once this filter is broken, it can never be restored, not to mention that this incident ruined several young people who were most expected by the Hong Kong film and television industry: Chen Guanxi, Zhong Xintong, and Zhang Baizhi. Of course, Nicholas Tse will also be implicated.

The eighth day of the Lunar New Year happened to be Valentine’s Day, and the crew of “Famous” successfully completed the filming after two and a half months!
"Thank you very much, everyone. I hope you will continue to work hard on my next drama, The Sound of Wind. Thank you."

More than half of the crew members of "To Be Famous" came from "No One Is Righteous". Li Qiutang was used to this group of people and decided to bring them to "The Sound of the Wind".

As for the staff behind the scenes, Li Qiutang's seamless project development ensures that they have work and money to earn all year round. Who wouldn't like such a boss?

Apart from the strict prohibition of alcohol, there was nothing wrong with Li Qiutang's crew. After two dramas, they had adapted to it.

As soon as the filming of "Famous", Gao Yuanyuan drove to Jinling overnight. "Nanjing! Nanjing!" was suspended for 2 months and was finally going to start again.

The next day, the crew disbanded and Li Qiutang returned to Yanjing.

He had about a week's rest in between, but China Film Group was already urging him to do "The Sound of the Wind".

The market was very hot at the beginning of this year, and both "CJ7" and "Slam Dunk" performed well.

The appeal of Stephen Chow and Jay Chou is indeed terrifying. Needless to say, Stephen Chow’s status in the industry is there, so it is foreseeable that his films will sell well.

A bad movie like "Slam Dunk" was released on the second day of the Chinese New Year, and it now has a box office of 6000 million!
You know, there is no concept of Spring Festival period now, and the audience has not yet got used to watching movies during the Spring Festival. But they were dragged into the cinema by Jay Chou, and the theater managers had to kowtow to Jay Chou.

But then again, Jay Chou’s acting skills are real...or maybe his acting range is too narrow.

He can only play roles like the lonely genius well because that's who he is.

He played this type of role in "Initial D", "Secret" and "Slam Dunk".

By the way, "Secret" is really an excellent film. It's not about how excellent his camera language is, but about his story creativity and film thinking.

If Jay Chou could maintain the level of "Secret" and continue to shoot, he might have achieved some success as a director. But for some reason, he later turned to unpopular musicals, and his creative thinking also underwent a drastic change.

Perhaps, people really can only eat one bowl of rice.

During the one-week break, Li Qiutang stayed at home for three days. On the third night, people in Beijing urged her to go back. She had no choice but to take a plane back to Beijing on the fourth day. "I can't wait until after the festival to talk about anything." Li Qiutang planned to spend the Lantern Festival at home.

"Do you think I want you to come back? China Film Group and Huayi Film Group are already urging us to release the film, saying that The Sound of Wind must be shown during the National Day holiday next year."

"What kind of explanation is this?" Li Qiutang was confused.

"It's the 60th anniversary next year."

"Oh, there's enough time, why rush?" Main-theme commercial films cannot be made nowadays, so there is no such thing as a tribute.

But the 60th anniversary celebration is of great significance, and it also has enough gimmicks from a commercial point of view. It is a good choice to make a main-theme commercial film at this time.

"We have to do it first even if there is enough time."

"You need money to start the business first. Where is the money?" Li Qiutang said.

"You really don't have to worry about the money this time. China Film Group and Huayi are already in talks. Both companies will cover all the expenses. It's just a matter of who pays more."

"I don't care who gets more or less. I won't start working if I don't see the money this time." Li Qiutang said very simply, "Also, I want a share of The Sound of Wind."

"That's easy." Neither China Film Group nor Huayi Film Group would object to Li Qiutang's investment.

When Li Qiutang was not in Yanjing, The Sound of the Wind was in a hurry. When Li Qiutang returned to Yanjing, The Sound of the Wind could be done slowly.

Li Qiutang was really not in a hurry. He first had to take some time to read the novel "The Sound of Wind" twice to fully understand the story before he could start adapting it.

The novel "The Sound of Wind" is divided into three parts. The upper part is about catching the old ghost, the lower part is about "I" going to interview Gu Xiaomeng who survived that year, and completing the whole story through the interview, and the outer part is "I" concluding this story.

In the original novel, Li Ningyu was an underground worker of our party, and she was the one who sacrificed herself in the end.

Li Qiutang was still studying the novel at a leisurely pace, but Huayi was a little uncomfortable. They had to invest in "The Whistleblower", on the one hand, of course, they were optimistic about the IP, otherwise they would not have fought for it, and on the other hand, it was also to quell the outside world's speculation that Huayi and Li Qiutang were not on good terms.

However, Huayi’s top management still had some doubts about whether Li Qiutang could make a good film in “The Whistleblower”.

Because no matter what, Li Qiutang currently only has one film, "The Night the Comet Comes", that has been tested by the market, and he is so young!
It is understandable that Huayi did not believe that he could make "The Sound of Wind" well.

Huayi doesn’t believe it, and China Film Group may not believe it either.

These state-owned old studios have a natural distrust of new directors.

But there is no way, the copyright is in Li Qiutang's hands, and Mr. Han also supports him.

So Huayi and China Film Group came together and made a suggestion to Li Qiutang: "Why not add a co-director to work with you?" It sounded very nice.

How could Li Qiutang agree to this!

Why did he bring the team he brought from "No One" to "Famous" and then to "The Sound of the Wind"?
One reason is that the old team members are easy to cooperate with, but the deeper reason is to better control the crew.

If it weren’t for this, why would Chen Guofu cooperate with him so well in the crew of “Famous”?
Why did Li Qiutang invest in "The Sound of Wind"? In addition to knowing that "The Sound of Wind" is very profitable, the more important thing is to increase her voice in the crew: "I am not only a director, but also an investor!"

Li Qiutang rejected the co-director's proposal without hesitation: "I'm still busy." But it's not good to say something too unpleasant.

"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first. I still have a lot of things to do." With two films waiting to be broadcast and one to be prepared, Li Qiutang wished he had eight hands. He really didn't have the time to talk about co-director matters here.

(End of this chapter)