China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 596 The Disadvantages of Establishing a Personality
It is quite difficult to shoot a pure popcorn-type heavy industrial film like "Aquaman".

Li Yu felt this shortly after the filming started.

For example, there are many scenes in the movie where the male and female protagonists are in the water.

During the filming process, not all shots in the water have to be shot underwater.

Because there are more uncontrollable factors in underwater shooting, it will be more troublesome.

Most of the time, underwater shots are shot on land, which requires the prop team to use smoke, the photographer to use special color filters, and the lighting engineer to design special lighting effects to simulate the effect of people in the water.

If two characters are talking underwater, the difficulty of shooting will continue to soar.

Because you need to consider how the character's hair and clothes should float and move.

Li Yu is a graduate of a professional school and has been making movies for many years.

With his level, it is not difficult to deal with these troubles.

It’s just that this process is more torturous and time-consuming and energy-consuming.

……

The shooting time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, 2017 has arrived.

Li Yu and the main creative team of "Aquaman" traveled to three continents for filming, including Australia in Oceania, Italy in Europe, and the Maple Leaf Country in North America.

This is the film for which Li Yu traveled to the most countries for filming.

Finally, the movie "Aquaman" was completed in the Maple Leaf Country.

Just like in China, there are wrap-up parties abroad as well.

On the day of wrapping, the senior management of Huana came to the scene in person and celebrated the wrap-up party with Li Yu.

"Lee, I believe this will be a great start. This is your first step in Hollywood. I wish us a big box office success."

These words came from the other party's heart.

They traveled thousands of miles to invite Li Yu from China to Hollywood to make a movie. They hoped that Li Yu's name would make the movie a big seller in China and they could make a lot of money.

They really hope that Li Yu's movie will be a big hit.

"I also hope that this is the beginning of our cooperation, not the end," Li Yu also said.

"Of course it's not the end." The other party said seriously.

Doesn’t the ending mean that Aquaman has failed? Aquaman cannot fail.

In recent years, their superhero movies have been defeated by Slowdown. If "Aquaman" continues to fail, their superhero universe will really become a joke.

"During this filming period, I carried the comics you sent me with me, and I gained a new understanding of DC's heroes.

I think the villain Joker has great potential. We can consider making a movie with the Joker as the protagonist, telling the story of how he fell and went on a killing spree.

If the story can be told well, there is hope that the classic DC dark style will return to its peak.”

Li Yu said seriously.

"The Joker? The protagonist? The United States has a strict film rating system. The story of the Joker's fall is filled with a lot of blood, violence, swear words, and all kinds of uncomfortable behavior. Such a movie will most likely be classified as R-rated, and there will be many restrictions on the release of the movie."

The other party thought that Li Yu had some out-of-the-box ideas.

Making this kind of movie is risky and full of uncertainty, and right now they need movies that can make the company big money.

So he didn't take Li Yu's words to heart, and just said to Li Yu: "We will study this matter slowly later."

As an old and experienced person, Li Yu could naturally guess what the other party was thinking.

He also chose to avoid the topic.

He had not yet achieved success in Hollywood to prove his commercial value, and when he said he wanted to make an R-rated movie, people naturally did not trust him and thought his idea was a fantasy.

When he succeeds, naturally people will be willing to listen to him.

After the celebration banquet, Li Yu returned to China. To be honest, the editing matter had little to do with him.

Unless they screw themselves over and edit the movie to a point where it's unbearable to watch, Li Yu doesn't need to intervene.

After Li Yu returned to Beijing, Wu Jing personally drove to the airport to pick up Li Yu.

"The big Hollywood director has finally returned to China. You did a great job in confronting that foreign reporter a few months ago.

There are also such reporters who ask for trouble in China. When I was filming "Wolf Warrior", someone came up to me and caused trouble.

They say that my movie Wolf Warrior is not realistic at all. How can a Chinese fight so many foreign mercenaries?
I was so angry at that time. If I were in your position, I would curse back at you.

In those movies shot by foreigners, where one foreigner fights dozens of villains, why don't they say it's unreasonable?

There was also a man who broke into the Nazi camp with a shield and a motorcycle and rescued all the captured teammates.

Driving a car to chase a plane, a man single-handedly stopped the villain from bombing Washington with a super bomb.

Their films are more exaggerated than mine, so why doesn't anyone say their plots are unreasonable? Is it because they are foreigners that what they do is right?

We are Chinese, so if we do the same thing, it is wrong.”

Wu Jing kept complaining.

"You can say this in front of me, but don't say it to others as it may easily cause controversy," Li Yu kindly reminded.

In Li Yu's impression, after the success of "Wolf Warrior 2", Wu Jing's career reached its peak, and he really criticized those people like this in public.

There is nothing wrong with the words themselves, but AiG’s marketing is too much. If you forcibly tie it to AiG and then say those words, it will become ironic.

The character setting is sometimes very deceptive.

As long as you establish a character, it will collapse if you do something inconsistent with it in the future.

Wu Jing is like this. He said he can't stand Chinese movies and would like to watch American movies.

His image has collapsed. People asked him if he was not used to Chinese products so he used American products. Isn't it embarrassing?

"Why can't I say it?" Wu Jing was very depressed.

“Because the character you created for yourself is problematic, you have gained a lot of benefits from this character over the past few years.

If you really talk about these Chinese movies and American movies in public, you would be asking them if they are cheap or not.

You are too deeply bound to this character. When people ask you why you drive a foreign car and use foreign goods?
What if someone ridicules you with something you said? How do you respond?

Li Yu questioned.

"..."

Wu Jing's expression immediately turned awkward.

"It is normal for celebrities to establish their own personas. Most celebrities in the industry have their own personas, and some have more than one.

But everything has a limit, and it’s not good if it’s exceeded. For example, some popular stars set up a pure young man image and say that they have never been in a relationship.

But when the woman exposed the photo of him and her lying in bed, his reputation was immediately ruined. Would his reputation be ruined so easily if he didn't set up those bullshit personalities?

For example, some celebrities set up a single persona, isn’t it just to attract wife fans?

The day his cheating scandal was exposed, his wife fans could bury them without any need for the haters to do anything. "

Li Yu reminded Wu Jing.

Once you have established a persona and taken shortcuts, you must control your desires and keep them consistent with that persona.

If you can't, you will be doomed sooner or later.

If you can't stay consistent with your character for a long time, you'd better not overdo it, otherwise it will collapse sooner or later.

(End of this chapter)