director of the millennium

Chapter 129 Brother, Happy New Year.

Hengdian Hotel, the banquet hall on the second floor.

A large red banner hangs over the front desk.

[TangRen Film and Television and Light and Shadow Times jointly produced a large-scale fairy tale TV series "Legend of Sword and Fairy" at the press conference! 】

The banquet hall was already full of reporters and media, carrying long guns and short cannons, looking at the side door expectantly.

"squeak--"

In full view, the side door was pushed open, and Cai Yinong and Wu Yuan led the leading actors of "Sword of Heaven" into the banquet hall.

In an instant, the entire banquet hall was filled with the sound of "clicking" cameras, and countless flashes were constantly exposing, and those who flashed could not open their eyes.

Unlike stars who are used to this scene and have received professional exposure light training, Wu Yuan has always hated this kind of high-explosion, so he prepared a pair of sunglasses in advance.

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Wu Yuan calmly walked to the interview booth on the stage, and sat in the middle without hesitation.

"Director Wu is so handsome." A female reporter couldn't help shouting.

Well, Wu Yuan immediately withdrew the smile he just showed, and he glanced at the reporter who made the noise in embarrassment.

My buddy is a director, and he doesn't rely on his looks for a living.

"Ahem, everyone, please sit down." The host of the opening press conference was an assistant director of the production team who played a cameo role, and he quickly greeted the main creators of the production team to sit down.

Director Li Guoli sat on Wu Yuan's left, Cai Yinong sat on his right, and the rest of the actors were arranged on both sides according to the importance of the roles.

After everyone was seated, the reporters in the audience immediately became agitated, all raising their hands and scrambling to interview and ask questions.

"Reporters from Sohu Entertainment in the first row, please ask questions first." The host gestured with his hand.

The person who just called Wu Yuan handsome was this female reporter from Sohu Entertainment.

Sure enough, she stood up and raised the microphone to Wu Yuan: "Director Wu, the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" you shot in the United States has been released in the mainland for a month and a half, and the box office has exceeded 500 million yuan."

"The North American box office of this film has accumulated a total of 3.5 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is 6.5 million U.S. dollars."

"You once again created a film box office record for a mainland director."

"What do you think of the mainland film market? Do you think the mainland film market has the opportunity to develop to the scale of North America?"

I didn't expect the first question to be this.

Wu Yuan shook his head with black lines all over his face: "Now is the opening ceremony of "Legend of Sword and Fairy". I will not answer any questions that have nothing to do with this TV series."

"My friends from the press, please focus on our new TV series."

But he thought about it, and when the female reporter sat down in disappointment, he said, "Well, I'll just answer this one question, and please don't touch on irrelevant topics in the next question."

"I have always been very confident in the film market for our Chinese-language films."

"China is a country with a large population. Since joining the WTO, the economy has also grown rapidly, and movies, as a kind of mass entertainment, have become more and more popular and popular."

"Now dozens of movie theaters are being built every year across the country. I believe that in the near future, our mainland movie market will catch up and even surpass that of North America."

"After all, our population is larger, and the film consumption potential is also greater!"

"I believe that the film market in the mainland will get better and better in the future, and I will also bring more good-looking Chinese movies to mainland audiences!"

Considering that it seems inappropriate to just talk about his own affairs, Wu Yuan smiled and looked at Hu Ge and Liu Yifei who were sitting on both sides.

"Let me tell you some news, Hu Ge and Liu Yifei, the hero and heroine of our "Legend of Sword and Fairy", they are not only the hero and heroine of this TV series, but also the hero and heroine of my new movie."

"The filming of this new movie has been completed, and we are doing post-production work. We will meet with fans and friends in the mainland soon!"

"So, everyone, don't think that since Hu Ge and Liu Yifei are newcomers, they won't be able to act well in this TV series!"

The filming of "Your Name" was almost kept secret throughout. Wu Yuan did not hold a press conference for the opening, nor did he notify any reporters.

He didn't miss the early publicity exposure, but he was disgusted by the trifle of being interviewed by reporters during the filming.

Wu Yuan prefers to focus on the publicity work one or two months before the official release of the movie.

The reporters in the mainland are not so sharp-nosed now, and they are even more incomparable with the paparazzi of Hong Kong Island.

So now the outside world does not know that he has made a new movie.

Wu Yuan threw out the bomb, and the reporters who were not interested in interviewing Hu Ge and Liu Yifei immediately opened their eyes and looked at the two of them in unison.

"Okay, next reporter."

Immediately, the next reporter who stood up to ask a question pointed the microphone at Hu Ge: "Hello Hu Ge, I am a reporter from Southern Metropolis Daily."

"As a newcomer, you can play in director Wu's movie for the first time, and now you are the leading actor in the TV series "Legend of Sword and Fairy". How do you feel about it? Can you talk to us?"

"Of course I'm honored, but apart from being honored, I'm also under a lot of pressure." Hu Ge seemed to have some kind of interview syndrome. Although it was the first time he was interviewed by the media, he didn't feel nervous at all.

Not only did he talk to reporters about his pressure in the crew and the pressure on the leading actor in "Sword of Heaven", but he also praised Wu Yuan's director level. Li Guoli's director ability is not like a rookie at all, but like He is an old star who is used to interviewing.

Not to mention the other heroine Liu Yifei, the main point of this interview is sincerity, she will say whatever the reporter asks, and she will say it very seriously.

"When I was filming Director Wu's new film, I had a big feeling, which was told by the director."

"It's just that as an actor, blindly pursuing such things as performance and explosiveness are actually superficial performances."

"That is to say, the kind of very difficult performance requires the most natural natural reaction, not what the so-called explosive power can bring."

"And this kind of performance, which is the most traceless and natural, is also the most precious and difficult. I am still in the process of learning."

"Actually, I think filming is also a different form of performance learning, which is also taught by Director Wu."

"Then the teacher would ask me to write down my performance experience after every filming."

"I'm not the kind of person who sharpens his skills on the spot. I write every day during the filming process, and finally accumulate an article of experience."

"For example, after filming director Wu's play, I wrote a very good experience and gave it to the teacher, who even praised me in class!"

"This time filming "Legend of Sword and Fairy", I will also study the performances of my predecessors in the crew and write about my experience."

It sounds a little too fake.

But the reporters at the scene looked at Liu Yifei's sincere eyes, and felt inexplicably that this little girl was not lying, she really summed up her experience and wrote her experience every time she filmed.

Even in 2004, actors who took their acting seriously were very rare.

"Dragon" has been aired in November, and Liu Yifei can no longer be regarded as an unknown actor.

Her role as Wang Yuyan in the play left a very deep impression on the audience.

Although there are not many scenes in general, the focus of discussion among netizens discussing the TV series "Dragon Ba Bu" on the Internet cannot be separated from Wang Yuyan.

Even she has been hailed as the most beautiful Wang Yuyan in history, and the title of "Sister Fairy" has been widely circulated on the Internet.

But the reporter friends are still relatively unfamiliar with Liu Yifei, and they don't know what kind of person this little girl is in reality.

This press conference gave them the opportunity to get to know Liu Yifei.

And the more they got to know each other, the more they realized that this 16-year-old girl was far more mature and real than her peers.

Not just her, but the entire starring team of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" are mostly actors who are not well-known in the mainland, including An Yixuan and Liu Pinyan.

For this opening press conference, for the journalists, there are too many news content to write.

In contrast, it was Wu Yuan who was left out in the later interviews.

There was no way, except for the identity of the investor, he didn't answer any questions that had nothing to do with "Legend of Sword and Fairy". After several reporters tried a few times, they could only give up asking Wu Yuan.

Anyway, he revealed his new movie, which is big enough news for everyone to go back and write reports.

In this way, during the entire one-hour press conference, except for the first 10 minutes, Wu Yuan watched other people being interviewed leisurely and relaxedly.

"Okay, thank you all journalists and friends for coming to this opening ceremony."

"This is the end of the interview session. Please move to the restaurant next door. Our "Sword" crew has prepared a sumptuous lunch for you."

A little after eleven o'clock at noon, the press conference ended, and Cai Yinong left these reporters with a lot of money, so that they could write more good things about "Sword".

The other creators of the crew left the hotel quickly after the show.

Wu Yuan also took his assistant Xiao Zhang, boarded the crew's bus, and headed to the hotel where the actors stayed.

Next, the crew of "Sword and Fairy" will have nothing to do with him, but he plans to take a rest today and return to the capital tomorrow.

You are such a big director, and there is no busy work to do next, so why rush it?

Cai Yinong had already reserved a room for him, it was the most upscale suite in this hotel, he lived in the inner room, and his assistant Xiao Zhang lived in the outer room.

This arrangement actually has connotations.

Now in the mainland entertainment industry, unspoken rules are gradually blowing up.

Some young actors on the crew want to climb into the bed of directors, producers, and assistant directors every day in order to get more and more important roles.

Actresses wrapped in bath towels in the middle of the night, knocking on the doors of directors, producers, and investors are all common occurrences.

For directors who don't want to accept this kind of unspoken rules, or don't want to play with such "dirty" women, it is very important to have a dedicated assistant living outside at this time.

In particular, it can prevent some actresses with ulterior motives from getting the director's room key from the front desk and sneaking into the director's bed in the middle of the night.

Otherwise, if you get into this kind of thing, it's just yellow mud on your crotch, and it's either shit or shit.

There is an assistant guarding outside, even if Wu Yuan is drunk, he is not afraid of being sneaked in, so he can sleep peacefully at night.

He really doesn't think much of this unspoken behavior now.

In previous dreams, he passively accepted this unspoken rule several times, but what level was he at that time, that is, the assistant director and executive director of the crew.

I have some power in my hand, but not much. No one will suffer if I make a consensual deal with some [-]th-tier actresses.

But with Wu Yuan's status and status, he won't do this again.

Whether it's directors such as Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Jiang Wen, and Chen Kaige, or later directors such as Wu Ershan, Ning Hao, Wu Jing, Wen Muye, and Guo Fan.

But those who have made achievements will not engage in unspoken rules in their own crew.

Even if they want to play with women, they mostly find some direct money transactions such as young models.

Or talk about primary three, primary four, and primary five.

why?
It's a very simple reason, because they are responsible for their own film projects, and it is impossible to assign a role to a woman just to sleep with her.

At their level, the role assigned is too expensive, at least it is an important supporting actress or even the heroine.

Great directors are really reluctant to pay such a price.

And those little actors who knock on the director's door just for a small supporting role, they also look down on them.

Those in the industry who like to engage in such unspoken rules are mainly TV drama producers and assistant directors, and TV drama directors don't engage in such unspoken rules, so it's not worthwhile.

Not to mention a movie director.

In their eyes, the most important thing is that the movie is well made and a hit at the box office. They will not assign a role to a woman just to sleep with her.

That is to say, the assistant directors, they are not the person in charge of the film, they are dominated by the lower body.

But the assistant directors can't decide the candidates for the leading role and the main supporting role, they can only dive into the [-]th line or even perform in the group.
The hardest-hit areas of the real unspoken rules are mainly among the TV drama producers and the majority of assistant directors.

Wu Yuan used to be a member of this group, but he has left this group now.

After returning to the hotel with his assistant, Wu Yuan said to him: "Xiao Zhang, if there are any unknown people knocking on the door later, just send them away."

"Especially actresses."

"I'll go to sleep for a while to catch up on sleep."

He didn't sleep well last night, and came to Hengdian from the capital early in the morning, Wu Yuan is a little sleepy now.

"Good director Wu!" Xiao Zhang, who heard Wu Yuan talk about some chaos in the circle on the first day of work, immediately promised: "I will never let other people disturb your rest!"

Wu Yuan waved his hand, took off his coat, and walked inside.

He slept until after nine o'clock in the evening.

The dinner Xiao Zhang ordered for him was cold and reheated three times before Wu Yuan woke up.

"Phew, I had a good sleep this time." He shook his stiff neck and got up from the bed.

"Director Wu, you're awake."

"I've ordered dinner for you, and it's on the table."

"Okay, please excuse me." Nodding to Xiao Zhang with a smile, Wu Yuan walked directly to the dining table and enjoyed his dinner.

But before he could take a few bites of food, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Xiao Zhang, who always remembered Wu Yuan's instructions, immediately stood up from the sofa, walked to the door in two steps, and lay down on the cat's eye to look outside.

Two figures, one big and one small, stood outside Wu Yuan's room door, and they were both women!
Xiao Zhang's heart immediately became nervous.

But when he saw clearly who was standing outside the door, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and shouted inside: "Director Wu, Liu Yifei and her daughter are outside the door. Do you want to let them in?"

Wu Yuan, who was stuffing prawns into his mouth, was stunned for a moment, why did they come here?

But he said immediately, "Please come in."

Soon, Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli walked into Wu Yuan's apartment one after the other.

Xiao Zhang even stuck his head out to look at the corridor to make sure no one was peeking outside, and then he closed the door with confidence.

"Qiqian, Aunt Liu, do you have anything to do with me?" Wu Yuan asked with a smile.

Liu Xiaoli didn't reply, but stood behind Liu Yifei with her arms folded, looking at Wu Yuan with a half-smile.

But Liu Yifei smiled and walked to Wu Yuan and sat down, holding his face in both hands, looking at him with bright eyes: "Brother, New Year's Eve is coming soon."

"I heard that there will be fireworks outside today, let's go to the rooftop on the top floor to watch the fireworks!"

"Huh?" As an authentic Chinese, Wu Yuan doesn't care much about the New Year's Eve, and since he has no relatives in his family, he doesn't love the Lunar New Year very much.

So he didn't even care that today was the last day of 2003.

Looking at his watch, Wu Yuan felt helpless: "Qianqian, it's only around nine o'clock now, it's still early before 12 o'clock, right?"

"But fireworks have started to be set off outside." Liu Yifei muttered and pointed out the window.

Looking along her hand, Wu Yuan happened to see a firework rising into the sky from a distance, exploding in splendor.

"Okay." Wu Yuan nodded and speeded up his dinner.

This is an invitation from the fairy sister, it is really hard for people to refuse.

After finishing dinner in a hurry, he took Xiao Zhang and followed Liu Yifei and her daughter out of the house, and went up to the rooftop from the emergency passage.

Coincidentally, just as they walked onto the roof, a firework shot into the sky from a very close place and exploded in front of their eyes.

The colorful colors magnified and bloomed in their pupils.

Liu Yifei looked up at the fleeting beauty with a bright smile.

"So beautiful~!"

"That's right." Wu Yuan echoed.

It’s really cold in Hengdian in December. Even if I’m wearing warm clothes, I still feel the cold wind blowing into my neck while standing on the rooftop.

But neither Liu Yifei nor Wu Yuan showed the slightest coldness, they just looked up at the constantly blooming fireworks in a daze.

Behind them, Liu Xiaoli and Xiao Zhang stood together.

Ignoring Xiao Zhang's constant movements of rubbing his hands and stomping his feet, Liu Xiaoli looked at the backs of the two in a daze.

Liu Yifei, who has grown to a height of 172, stands next to Wu Yuan, she really fits well, just looking at her back is very harmonious, she looks like a handsome man and a beautiful woman.

But obviously a few years ago, she was still a little girl who would hug her mother's thigh and act coquettishly asking for sweets.

Why did she grow into a slim girl in such a blink of an eye?
Liu Xiaoli's mind was filled with thoughts, melancholy mixed with sourness.

Liu Yifei's mood at the moment is very pure, only happiness and joy.

The new year is actually not special, and it doesn't deserve her to be so happy.

What’s special is the people who accompany me during this New Year’s Eve.

Turning her head, looking quietly at Wu Yuan's profile, Liu Yifei said softly, "Brother, Happy New Year."

Wu Yuan also turned around.

Under the illumination of the fireworks, he saw Liu Yifei's bright and fiery eyes.

For a moment, he felt his heart stop beating.

Pursing his lips, Wu Yuan looked away a little guilty.

"Well, happy new year."

(End of this chapter)