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Chapter 752 What doesn’t kill me will only make me stronger
After Li Yu stayed in the United States for some time, the filming of the movie "Joker" was officially announced.

Now Li Yu is no longer the "new director" who first arrived in Hollywood.

His movie has just started shooting, but the news has already been reported by major media.

"The new film "Joker" by Li Yu, a Chinese director from the Far East, recently started shooting in New York. This time he made a bold attempt, making a villain the protagonist, presenting Gotham through the eyes of the Joker.

Can this bold attempt achieve the same success as the previous two attempts? We have to question this.”

"Director Li Yu's new film Joker has started filming. It will be a great commercial blockbuster."

"He has been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar several times, and the winner of the Cannes Film Festival, Hua Jin, has joined us."

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Most of the media in the United States reported positively. After all, Wana’s financial ability is not in vain.

However, the media here defines "Joker" as a commercial film.

There is no consensus on whether "Joker" is a commercial film or an art film.

Even after the movie was released, everyone was arguing.

Some people think that this movie has nothing to do with the DC Universe except the name of the Joker, and it is just a very thorough art film.

These people believe that the film uses hazy and suggestive camera language and the actors' superb acting skills from beginning to end to express the inner world of the characters.

Using the method of seeing the big picture from the small to metaphorically explore human nature and criticize society is the narrative technique of art films.

Why do you say this is a commercial film?
Li Yu sometimes doesn’t understand why people always like to argue so much and have to argue for a black-and-white answer.

Can't it be an artistic commercial film that has both depth and commercial elements?
Business is the shell and literature and art are the core.

The two complement each other and make this movie a success.

The main filming locations for Joker were in New York and New Jersey.

These areas were chosen to fit the historical context of the 1980s.

One of the famous scenes in the movie is the clown dancing on the stairs.

The Dancing Stairs is located in the Bronx at 167th Street on Anderson Avenue in New York City.

After the movie was released, many fans from all over the world came to this place to check in.

The Clown Stairs has also become a popular check-in destination around the world.

When filming the movie, Li Yu tried to follow the order of the movie's plot as much as possible, so that Hua Jin could gradually get into the role of the clown during the acting process.

After putting on makeup, the stage manager said "start" in English, and Hua Jin began to immerse herself in the role.

The clown actor Arthur he played went to work in the store as usual to attract customers.

He held a billboard to advertise on the street.

After finishing the advertising shot, we moved on to the next shot.

A few kids passing by knocked the billboard out of his hand, picked it up and ran away.

Arthur turned and chased after him, crossing the sidewalk, crossing the street, and finally stopping in a damp and dark alley full of garbage.

This scene was shot from many camera positions in order to capture different perspectives from near and far.

This scene clearly shows that Gotham is still the same Gotham, full of violence and chaos.

Li Yu called Hua Jin and the actors who played the gangsters over and explained the scene to them: "In the next shot, Arthur rushes towards you. You, that is you, throw the billboard at Arthur. Arthur, you have to fall naturally, and it has to be like someone is hitting you with a billboard and falling backwards."

There are many Chinese people among the staff around, because Li Yu transferred dozens of staff from Chinese companies in China to come here to study.

Cao Qing has not arrived yet, and Cao Qing's "Mulan" has not been completed yet.

"no problem."

The actors who played the gangsters nodded at him.

Their performance was not difficult, one of them just hit Arthur with a billboard. Isn't it possible to hit someone with something?
The difficult one is Hua Jin's Arthur. He is the one who gets hit, and his fall has to be natural.

"Let me try." Hua Jin said.

"Be careful and don't get hurt." Li Yu patted his shoulder.

Hua Jin was born in 74, so he is not very old.

In order to make the scene realistic, he chose to let Hua Jin really fall.

If Hua Jin was an old man in his sixties or seventies, Li Yuzhen would not dare to let him fall and would have to use a substitute.

Older people are most afraid of falling. Many elderly people are normally in good health, but their condition suddenly deteriorates after a fall.

After the filming started, Arthur, played by Hua Jin, chased after them breathlessly. A billboard hit him head-on and he fell backwards.

It's a pity that the way he fell was so ugly, he almost fell upside down, which was not very aesthetically pleasing.

"One more." Li Yu said.

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The effect of the second one was quite good. Li Yu personally felt that it was passable. However, Hua Jin was a detail freak. He felt that his fall was not perfect enough and he had to do another one until it was perfect.

Hua Jin said so, which proved that he could hold on. Li Yu likes actors who have a good attitude towards acting and are eager to improve.

So he met Hua Jin's request and reshot it three times, and it was not until the fifth time that he passed.

"Director, I think you should be more strict with me.

If the full score is 100, I hope you can score at least 90 points on each question before I can pass.

I really like this script and I really like the character of Arthur.

In order to thoroughly study this role, I put in a lot of effort and worked hard.

Because I think this role has the potential to win me an Oscar for Best Actor."

Like many people, Hua Jin also developed an obsession.

He has been nominated so many times for the Oscars, including nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, and even won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, but he has never won the Oscar for Best Actor.

He hopes to win an Oscar for Best Actor to prove himself.

Li Yu also hopes that Hua Jin can win the Oscar for Best Actor.

It is also an honor for Hua Jin to achieve this achievement.

Not only did he win the Cannes Best Actress Award, he also won the Oscar Best Actor Award. It's so impressive to talk about it.

So, Li Yu replied, "That's what I've been waiting for you to say. From now on, you won't have a good life on the set. I will be the one who makes things difficult for you and finds fault with you everywhere.

Hua Jin shrugged and said, "What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger."

In the next few days of shooting, the probability of Hua Jin passing it in one go will be significantly reduced.

Even though he had performed 90% of the time the first time, Li Yu still asked him to do it again or twice to see if he could perform more brilliantly.

Finally, the first famous scene in the movie with explosive acting skills appeared.

Although Arthur was in a bad mood, he was still sunny at heart. On the way home in the car, he tried to make the children in the front seat laugh with funny expressions.

The children laughed, but their mothers thought that Arthur had offended them and that he was not a good person and they disliked him very much.

The child's mother's unwarranted criticism made Arthur, who was already in a bad mood, even worse.

"Hahaha……"

His eyes clearly showed aggrieved expression, but he burst into laughter the next second.

Hua Jin's acting is really powerful.

(End of this chapter)