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Chapter 459: Operation Nujiang River is ready to go

"Everyone, I have just finished talking about the review. There should be no problems, right? If there are no problems, let's talk about the script and the characters."

Li Yu plans to start the next topic.

He intends to improve the quality as much as possible and make it perfect.

In particular, Cao Qing served as the director of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

Li Yu knows his senior very well.

This senior is a gold medal assistant. If you ask him to take the lead independently, he is a bit stubborn and sometimes can't adapt.

Every time he was asked to direct a play independently, Li Yu would do his best to make all arrangements to protect him, so that he didn't need to think about anything else except directing and filming.

Li Yu asked Pan Yueming, Zhang Yuqi and Jiang Chao to recite a passage from their respective lines.

Li Yu immediately discovered the problem.

Zhang Yuqi’s line delivery is very poor, it’s a bit like she’s reading a text.

Li Yu remembered the original version of "Longling Mystery Cave". In the first few episodes when Shirley Yang, played by Zhang Yuqi, appeared, she was mocked by the audience for her poor dialogue skills.

But she has one good point, she can admit her mistakes and correct them.

After being criticized by netizens, she generously admitted her mistake and apologized to them.

From this point of view, she is many times stronger than people like Yang Tianbao.

She received tens of millions of yuan in pay for her poor acting skills, and after being mocked by netizens, she still insisted that she was worth the price.

In fact, people are quite tolerant. As long as it is not a serious mistake and the actor is willing to admit it, everyone will forgive it.

For the sake of the quality of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", Li Yu did not want Zhang Yuqi to apologize.

He said to Zhang Yuqi: "You have to work hard on the lines and see if you can make some progress after the filming starts. If you really can't do it, don't force it, just use dubbing later."

Li Yu is not opposed to dubbing.

If the actor's original voice is available, it would definitely be best.

If the actor's original voice is not good but you still insist on using the original voice, it would be torturing the audience.

The fact that Stephen Chow has accumulated one or two generations of fans in the mainland is largely due to the Mandarin version’s voice actor Shibanyu.

If Stephen Chow had dubbed the soundtrack himself in Mandarin in pursuit of the original soundtrack, perhaps his films would not have such a great influence.

Li Yu's criticism made Zhang Yuqi a little embarrassed.

She is an actress who started out as a star girl, and her debut film was a movie starring Stephen Chow.

Li Yu said that as a movie actor, she must be embarrassed because her lines were poor.

She had to admit that what Li Yu said was objective fact.

Her dialogue skills have never been very good.

But wouldn't it be a bit too embarrassing for her, an actress who started out as a film actor, to use dubbing?

She also said the same thing to Li Yu: "Director Li, I'm an actor who made my debut in movies. Can I find a professional voice actor to help me with dubbing..."

"Do you think it would be too embarrassing?"

"Yes……"

"Think about it from another perspective. If you insist on using the original voice when you don't have good dialogue skills, it will be even more embarrassing if people later mock you for being an actor who came from a movie background and can't even speak the lines well."

Li Yu said nonsense.

"..."

Zhang Yuqi was speechless. She found what Li Yu said both heartbreaking and realistic.

It was precisely because of Li Yu's extremely heartbreaking words that she completely gave up struggling.

Try your best, if it still doesn't work, just listen to Li Yu and use voice actors. Li Yu's revision is based on the original version of the tomb-raiding iron triangle, and corrected some of their flaws.

There is not much to say about Pan Yueming, a veteran actor. Before he became obscure, he acted in serious dramas with so many big names and veteran actors. His acting skills and dialogue skills are impeccable.

If I have to find fault with him, his temperament is rather elegant.

Hu Bayi's temperament is definitely not like this. In Ba Chang's words, growing up to be like Jiang Wen is the Hu Bayi in his mind.

However, Pan Yueming was able to conquer the audience with his acting skills.

He filmed several "Ghost Blows Out the Light" movies, and people had only one dissatisfaction with his role as Hu Bayi - his Hu Bayi was getting fatter and fatter.

Jiang Chao gained 20 to 30 pounds in order to play the role of Fatty Wang well.

Why do you, Pan Yueming, want to gain weight with Jiang Chao?

As an actor, body management is very important.

This version of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" should not have the problem of Hu Bayi getting fatter as the filming goes on.

Pan Yueming is only 40 years old now. He started to gain weight when he was approaching 50, so it is still too early for him to gain weight now.

As for Jiang Chao, the early Wang Pangzi he played was recognized by many fans of the original novel. At least the fans of the original novel could accept his portrayal of Wang Pangzi.

Later, his acting became more and more distorted, and he turned a fat man who was fierce, greedy and poor into a funny comedian.

Objectively speaking, such a situation cannot be entirely blamed on the actors.

Actors act according to the script and the director's requirements.

The screenwriters of the several "Ghost Blows Out the Light" series he filmed have changed several times, and Wang Pangzi's reputation and the quality of the "Ghost Blows Out the Light" sequels have declined.

Maybe the screenwriter deliberately wrote Fatty Wang like that to create a laugh.

In short, Li Yu hopes to make this version of Fatty Wang closer to the original.

The film depicts Fatty Wang, who is usually poor and greedy, but more ferocious than anyone else at critical moments.

Jiang Chao has no problem with being poor or greedy. It just depends on whether he can perform Fatty Wang's ferocity.

When they were in the Ancient City of Jingjue, everyone had hallucinations because of the corpse-scented konjac, and Fatty Wang even wanted to kill Shirley Yang in exchange for him and Hu Bayi to escape unscathed.

This is not a comedian, he is an absolutely ruthless person. He dares to attack anyone except Hu Bayi, and he is more ruthless than anyone else.

Li Yu helped Cao Qing and the actors to sort out the positioning and specific direction of each character.

In 2015, after the Spring Festival holiday, the first film in the Ghost Blows Out the Light series, "The Mysterious City", officially started filming.

As soon as the news spread, fans of Ghost Blows Out the Light immediately became excited.

“Many years ago, I heard that Director Li’s company had bought the rights to Ghost Blows Out the Light for film and television adaptation.

At that time, I posted a message in the forum praising Li Yu for his good vision, and Ghost Blows Out the Light is definitely a big IP with potential.

After so many years, is it finally going to be adapted into a film or TV series? I hope it can satisfy the fantasies of us original fans when we read the book.”

"Director Li is so awesome that he actually wants to adapt my favorite novel into a film. It's a pity that it's not directed by Director Li himself. It would be much better if Director Li was the director."

"Director Cao is also good. Isn't A Little Thing Called First Love Director Cao's masterpiece? Moreover, Director Cao has been working with Director Li as assistant director and executive director for many years. Director Cao's level is absolutely trustworthy."

The plan of Hualiu Company to film Ghost Blows Out the Light has received strong support from fans of the original novel.

They have long wanted to see such an excellent work adapted into a TV series or even a movie.

Now it's finally here.

After entering late February, Hualiu Company once again announced good news that made thousands of movie fans go crazy.

All the post-production work for "Operation Nujiang River", which everyone has been looking forward to since last year, has been completed, and the release date is getting closer and closer.

(End of this chapter)