The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 562 Preparing three movies at the same time
"Lee Sing-yew's new film will once again hit the Palme d'Or in Cannes, and he will set a new record in Cannes."

"The president of Disney appreciated Lee Sheng-yew's talent and invited Lee Sheng-yew to direct "Avengers 2."

"Lee Sing-yew will take a three-year break and come back after three years."

"Lee Sing-yao and Maggie Cheung share the same soul and will enter the music scene together."

"Fenghua's next investment project is online live broadcast, and Fenghua Live will be launched soon."

"The Fenghua Special Effects Department is producing an animated blockbuster. The script is written by Lee Sheng-yew himself. It is about a pure love movie."

"Lee Sing-yew will return to TV drama production and he will remake "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

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At 2012 pm on August 8, 24, almost two hundred professional audiences were invited to the recording hall of Yanjing's "Super Interview".

These people had attended several games today, and now they were all snoring as if they were about to fall asleep.

Li Shengyao and his assistant were sitting on the sofa, reading the script given to him by the program team.

The above is the access process and some questions.

Opposite him, Dai Jun and Li Jing, the hosts of "Super Interview", were sitting. They were looking at Li Shengyao with smiles on their faces and gentle eyes.

Li Shengyao read it intently. After reading it, he handed it to his assistant, "Anything is fine."

Basically, there is no problem. As long as it does not involve family or personal emotions, Lee Sheng Yew can answer everything.

Recently, there have been a lot of rumors about his next whereabouts. Some say that he will make a TV series, some say that he will enter the music industry, and some say that he will strive for the third Palme d'Or.

There are all kinds of guesses.

Lee Sheng Yew decided to participate in "Super Interview". In this interview, he will announce his next plan, which can be regarded as a formal explanation to the audience.

When Li Jing and Dai Jun heard this, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Super Interview" has been recorded since 2001, but it has always been tepid and not as famous as Datou's "A Date with Luyu".

The two of them were really unconvinced.

Isn't Li Jing prettier than Da Tou?
Isn't Dai Jun taller than Datou?

They have two mouths, why can't they have one mouth?
But the audience just prefers to watch Datou’s talk show, so there’s nothing we can do about it.

By 2012, "Super Interview" was even more tired. The professional audience invited had already dozed off before the show started.

This time, Li Shengyao was finally invited, and Li Jing and Dai Jun both attached great importance to it.

Li Jing ate a piece of corn for breakfast and didn't eat anything for lunch, hoping that she would look thinner.

Dai Jun looked in the mirror for two hours and finally felt a little bit of Liang Chaowei's hesitant temperament.

Generally speaking, "Super Interview" has always been very cooperative with the celebrities and artists, and the questions asked are not very intense. However, some celebrities are more sensitive and cannot ask anything.

With Li Shengyao's current reputation and status, Li Jing and Dai Jun were a little surprised that almost no questions were deleted.

Li Jing looked at Li Shengyao's handsome face and almost became a nymphomaniac.

There are too few men like him who are handsome, talented, and very friendly.

"Stop looking, we have to work."

As Li Jing's best friend, Dai Jun knew his friend's character very well and warned her in a low voice.

After a while, the recording of the "Super Interview" program officially started.

After a boring and awkward opening between Li Jing and Dai Jun.

Dai Jun seemed to be chatting and asked: "Director Li, you may not know me, but I have known you for more than ten years. I am a singer and an actor. Why don't you ask me to act?"

Many hosts like this, making fun of themselves and using themselves as hooks to stir up topics.

This can lower the vigilance of guests.

Hearing this, Li Shengyao chuckled and glanced at Dai Jun, "I know you. "A-Lian" became a hit, and I kept singing "A-Lian". If someone plays the role of a 90s singer in the future, I will consider you."

"Director Li, why do you want to highlight the 90s? This makes me look much older."

Dai Jun and Li Jing were sitting together. It seemed that Li Jing was the one leading the interview and seemed more important.

But those who know how to interview will know that it takes more skill for Dai Jun to make jokes without embarrassment. It is much easier for Li Jing to ask scripted questions like this.

With Dai Jun's lively atmosphere, the interview became more enjoyable.

The professional audience applauded appropriately, and this interview was more like that.

Li Jing knew it was time to take action. She glanced at Li Shengyao and still thought Director Li was good-looking.

Will he hate me after I ask these questions?
She was distracted, and then asked: "Director Li, there has been a lot of news related to you recently, can we ask about your future plans?"

"can."

“Are you going to Hollywood next?”

"No," Lee Sheng-yew crossed his legs and tapped his right hand on his knee, "It is difficult for Asian directors to succeed in Hollywood, unless they are people who are well versed in European and American culture, such as Mr. Ang Lee.

I can't. I can't make a movie that fits the mentality of European and American audiences like Mr. Ang Lee.

More importantly, I want to stay in China. I don’t really like going to beautiful countries. In the past few years, I haven’t encountered a story that excites me enough to make me abandon the living environment I’m used to and go to work in beautiful countries. "

Li Jing was confused when she heard this, "Didn't you say that many big Hollywood companies invited you to make new movies? Don't you want to go?"

"No, most of the current Hollywood productions are assembly-line commercial films, which I don't find interesting."

"What about "Avengers 2"? A movie like this should fetch over a billion dollars, right? This is a huge honor."

Lee Sheng Yew laughed when he heard this. Some media said that Disney asked him to direct "Avengeance 2". In fact, he was not. The "Avengers" series is a key project of Disney. How could they give it to Lee Sheng Yew.

Of course, even if Disney did send an invitation, Lee Sheng Yew would reject it.

For superhero movies like "Avengers", not to mention him, even the big guys in Hollywood look down upon him.

For example, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, and Woody Allen all dislike it.

Tom and Tom don't like him either.

Disney has invited DiCaprio countless times, but he has always declined.

Some things cannot be explained by money. There is always something to pursue in life.

In fact, Hollywood media producers are very clear that directors and actors of superhero films cannot be compared with directors and actors of other types of films.For example, the salary for acting in a superhero movie is exactly the same as the salary for acting in other movies.

She can earn US$2000 million for starring in a superhero movie, and US$500 million for a normal feature film.

She has no box office appeal at all.

The same goes for other actors in superhero movies. Without superhero movies, they have no appeal at all.

No one would regard superhero movies as the achievements of these people.

Even if Lee Sung-yew directed "Revenge 2" and made more than a billion dollars in global box office, no one would recognize him for it.

"For a movie like "Avengers", the director has too little room to play, and the editing rights must belong to Disney. The director is just a wage earner, and getting a billion or 20 billion has nothing to do with the director. I don't want to To direct a movie like this.”

Li Jing nodded, then looked at Dai Jun, who rolled his eyes, and the next question was a bit sensitive.

"Director Li, you are the most successful commercial film director in Asia. Do you think Chinese-language films can be as popular around the world as Hollywood films?"

In fact, many Kouhai big guys will discuss this issue on Tieba.

Many people think that as long as the content is good, they can challenge Hollywood. This view is wrong.

There are two main reasons. The first is that Chinese-language films do not have the ability to be distributed globally. If you can't distribute them globally, why should they reap global box office?
If you are really strong, will big Hollywood companies help you?

Dream it.

What will happen to Hua Why?
What’s the fate of TikTok?
The beautiful country is very sensitive to the right to speak. If one day a Chinese-language film is very powerful and good-looking, the big Hollywood companies will definitely block Chinese-language films collectively and refuse to cooperate. It is impossible for you to distribute them globally.

As for finding those cowards in Europe, it's also impossible.

After Sheila Krypton, there were no men in Europe.

After Merkel, there were no politicians in Europe.

If the beautiful country wants to ban it, it is impossible for Europeans to help distribute it.

The second is that it often takes 30 to [-] years for Mu Qiang's concept to change before the audience accepts it.

The real confidence of Hollywood is not special effects, truth, goodness, and beauty, nor Oscars, but beauty. The country has the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. This is the fundamental reason why Hollywood is popular in the world.

If you are number one in the world, audiences in other countries will naturally admire you and study your movies and TV series.

It was not until after the 2008 Olympic Games that mainland audiences gradually accepted the fact that their country was powerful.

It was not until "Wolf Warrior" that I gradually realized that beautiful countries can save the world, and Chinese people can do the same.

As for why "Tomorrow's War" later filmed by Raku Furuta didn't work, isn't the biggest reason why the audience didn't believe it?
It is the superhero of the beautiful country who wants to save the world, or the Chinese soldier, but who has it’s turn to be the little policeman of Hong Kong Island?
In the same way, even if a very good movie is produced in the Mainland, it will be difficult for it to become a hit even if it can be distributed globally.

European and American audiences simply don’t believe that you can save the world. They think it’s fake. What can you do?
"No."

Lee Sheng Yew then explained his reasons, and finally said: "In the 30s, the center of world cinema was in France, and it was not until the 50s that it moved to Hollywood. This was a transfer of rights.

In the 40s and [-]s, although the United States had the largest economy in the world, the center of world power was in Europe, and people still yearned for Europe more.

When our country is number one in economy, number one in military, and number one in number of followers, our movies will become popular around the world. "

Dai Jun was stunned when he heard this, "Isn't the content of the movie important?"

"Of course not. When you are number one economically, militarily, and technologically, you are also number one in talent. Hollywood attracts talents from all over the world. When so many talents come together, it is easy to produce classic movies.

If our country is number one in the world in everything, movies will also develop rapidly. "

In his previous life, "The Wandering Earth 12" was very good, but its overseas box office did not exceed 1000 million US dollars.

You are not the world's boss and want to save the world. Audiences from other countries will only think you are wishful thinking.

Therefore, Lee Sheng Yew has never thought about movies in this area. If the Chinese-language movies he makes can earn US$[-]-[-] million, it will be good. If he wants to earn US$[-] billion like "Avatar" and "Avengers", that is impossible. wake.

Before China became the world's leader, no matter how good your movie was, no one would recognize it.

Li Jing glanced at the next question and felt that it was something she could ask.

"Director Li, do you want to win the third Palme d'Or?"

"Yes, but not next year. I won't be able to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes next year. It's not about the quality of the film.

Let’s put ourselves in another’s shoes. If I were Jacob, the chief seal of Cannes, I would never give the same person three consecutive Palme d’Or.

This will seriously undermine the confidence of other contestants and undermine the credibility of the film festival.

The Ming Dynasty had to take care of scholars from the north when recruiting scholars, and the Cannes Film Festival still had to take care of filmmakers from other countries. It was impossible for me to be included three times in a row.

In two or three years, maybe if I have a story that interests me, I will win the Palme d'Or in Cannes. "

"Then would you like the Golden Lion in Venice or the Golden Bear in Berlin?"

"Yes, but it's still very difficult. Just like the reason I just mentioned, Cannes won't give it, and Venice and Berlin have to consider other filmmakers' ideas."

Dai Jun snapped his fingers, "Director Li, since it will be difficult to win awards next year, will your next film be a commercial film?"

"It's not a purely commercial film."

"why?"

“I have always wanted to make some movies that can make more people like movies, or that can make more people think, that can make more film school students improve, and that can make the country proud.

To be honest, I feel that if you are making commercial films, I am not missing.

People like Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, and Wu Ersan will all rise up. I am very optimistic about them. If I compete with them next about who is the most awesome commercial film director, I will find it boring.

I hope to follow another track and become the pride of our country’s film industry, becoming a legendary director of “Sight and Sound” and “Cahiers du Cinema”.

Of course, I don’t like the kind of literary movies that only focus on personal expression. Such movies are too biased and difficult for ordinary audiences to understand. I hope they are both commercial and artistic. "

"You already have two Palmes d'Or, do you still think it's not enough?"

"Not enough. Director Zhang Yimou has two Golden Lion Awards, one Golden Bear Award, one Cannes Grand Jury Prize, one Silver Bear Award, and one Silver Lion Award. Compared with him, I am far behind."

There was a burst of applause. No matter what netizens said, no matter how unconvinced they were, Lao Mouzi was famous all over the world.

"Do you hope to be on par with director Zhang Yimou in the future?"

"Yes, I hope I can stand next to him and add luster to Chinese films together."

Dai Jun turned the ballpoint pen in his hand and asked: "Then what movie do you want to make next?"

"I'm a person who can't sit still. I will prepare three movies at the same time. These three movies are stories that I like very much. I hope to help Chinese-language movies add some honors and win one or two best actors and actresses."

(End of this chapter)