Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 278 - Notes on the set
As Mr. Rian Johnson completed the first phase of promotional activities for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", the entire cast and crew of "Knives Out" once again gathered in New York to promote the remaining 70% of the film. The three actors work together.

Chen Sicheng also received permission to lead his team on the set for a close observation.

In 2014, Chen Sicheng, Ning Hao, Guo Fan, Lu Yang and Xiao Yang were sent to Hollywood by the National Film Administration to learn advanced experience in the film industry, production processes and so on.

But the five young directors discussed and concluded in just two days: this trip is at best sightseeing.

Because the Hollywood film industry and its assembly-line process from project establishment to release are closely related to the level of economic development, market layout, and social system of the United States.

Therefore, Hollywood’s advanced experience is nothing worthy of China’s learning or reference.

Making movies and TV series is not about studying vehicles, aircraft, and missiles, looking at other people's design ideas and blueprints, then imitating them and then reverse-engineering them, and finally complete independent research and development and production.

Making movies and TV dramas is a very subjective job. If Lu Yang and Chen Sicheng follow the Hollywood train of thought, they will lose their unique and charming national beauty.

If you are good at learning, you can draw at least eight points of spirit and energy, and then you can package your works and take them to Europe and America to deceive the general public.

If it were like Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall", it would be very embarrassing and instantly turn into Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror.

The total investment exceeded US$1.5 billion. As a result, domestic audiences looked at it with confused expressions, while European and American audiences also felt that they could not understand it.

That work seems to be a fused and mutated version of "Heroes" plus the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, with a little shadow of "Yellow River Love" tumbling into it.

It cannot be said that Zhang Yimou directly engaged in appropriationism in order to save trouble.

But after the release of "The Great Wall", Chen Sicheng felt that there was no need to be timid about taking on a project with a total budget of more than 1.5 billion US dollars.

Although "The Great Wall" failed miserably at the box office and in terms of reputation, Zhang Yimou used actions to strengthen the determination of young Chinese directors to find big money to spend on projects.

The original total budget of "Detective Chinatown II" was only 300 million yuan.

However, after being inspired by Zhang Yimou, Chen Sicheng directly asked the staff team to increase the shooting budget to 400 million yuan, plus 150 million yuan in publicity expenses.

Wanda Culture Group also dared to accept the recruitment, and approved as many Zeng Maojun as Chen Sicheng added.

Among them, Dilraba Studio also invested 60 million yuan. Originally, Dilraba and Xue Dan wanted to add another 20 million yuan, but the two projects of "Chen Xi Yuan" and "Crane Huating" forced them to take the initiative to give up the investment. Slow down and strive for stability.

Moreover, Dilraba is too embarrassed to ask her husband for support frequently.

Moreover, there are always large amounts of funds being transferred in and out across countries, which can easily lead to confusion or even omissions in the studio's finances.

At present, the finance and taxation of Dilireba's studio are handled by professional accounting firms.

"I didn't expect Xiaodi to be so cautious about money. It's worth learning from me." Chen Sicheng and Chen Yu were chatting in the waiting area.

Nowadays, the financial staff of Tong Liya Studio are still recruited from the public, and their professional performance is very average.

There are even some young girls who join the company to chase stars, but except for their relatively high work attitude, their professional abilities are of little use.

Chen Sicheng decided to talk to Tong Liya about financial matters when he returned from the United States.

I would rather spend a little more money every year like Dilraba, but I must seek professionalism and peace of mind.

Chen Yu is very supportive of him doing this. If Tong Liya has a financial or tax scandal, then you who are related to her must cooperate with the investigation and questioning whether you voluntarily or not.

While the two of them were discussing tax issues in low voices, Shang Yuxian and Liu Chengyu were walking in circles on the west side of the waiting area.

Ms. Tobin Heath, who was in charge of extras, invited them to make guest appearances, but the characters described in the script were a pair of lesbians.

This makes Shang Yuxian and Liu Chengyu very entangled and embarrassed. The latter is worried that in the future, if he goes out of his way, his opponents and black fans will dig up old scores.

On the other hand, Shang Yuxian's thoughts were more profound.

Chinese girls and mixed-race girls combined with lace may cause racial, ethnic, and gender issues.

Moreover, Shang Yuxian heard that "Knives Out" will not regard China as the main market for promotion due to two major factors: content, subject matter and audience positioning.

So she was more worried that there was something fishy in it.

After thinking deeply, Shang Yuxian decided to go to Chen Yu to talk about the situation.

"Lian, come here, there is a small matter that needs to be handled by you personally." Chen Yu handed the soda to Shang Yuxian and motioned for her to stand aside so there was no need to avoid it.

Chen Yu relayed what Shang Yuxian just said to Ryan, who took a look at the script for the next scene and stood up to apologize to Shang Yuxian.

He didn't mean to insinuate, but when he wrote this, he suddenly thought it would be interesting to add a pair of lace edges.

"My two daughters and I are die-hard boxing fans of Chen. In addition, I also like Chinese culture very much, so I will not do such boring or despicable things."

Chen Yu gently patted Ryan on the shoulder to express his complete belief, and Shang Yuxian then explained her original intention in English that was baffling to Ryan.

Chen Yu looked at Ryan, who had a blank look in his eyes, and translated again. He could understand that the English Shang Yuxian spoke was purely from previous practice.

In the end, the roles played by Shang Yuxian and Liu Chengyu were changed to college students, and Lane specially added a close-up of the brave Shang Yuxian's face.

But what excited Chen Sicheng was that Shang Yuxian actually brought the wig styled by her character in "Detective Chinatown II" to the set!

Director Ryan did not raise any objections to this type of collaboration. After all, the same situation often occurs in Hollywood movies.

Moreover, this set of shots was the last part of today's announcement, so Ryan decided to let the Chinese colleagues around Chen Yu give it a try.

After learning about Director Ryan's ideas through Chen Yu's translator, Chen Sicheng was only excited but not nervous.

After all, he and Chen Yu both believe that the boss of heaven, the second boss of earth, and the third boss of themselves must show off if they have the opportunity!
Since the areas of pretentiousness do not overlap, Chen Sicheng and Chen Yu are mutual confidants, otherwise these two guys would start fighting just by looking at each other.

Whether Chen Sicheng will be beaten to death by Chen Yu is another matter for discussion. After all, the spirit of wielding a sword must be shown first.

In fact, Chen Sicheng is not a candle head who only pretends to be cool but dare not take action.

He was admitted to the Chinese Opera because he organized and participated in a fight when he was studying in the theater. He was directly expelled and then switched to the "enemy camp".

"Originally, my crime was not serious and I would have been given a major demerit at most, but under the influence of the excitement at that time, I insisted that the other person had made the first move. As a result, everything was missed during the police investigation."

Before the police came, Chen Sicheng had given a unified confession to each of his classmates, but as soon as they entered the police station, all the bad boys were frightened to the point of impotence.

In the end, Chen Sicheng, who still persisted on his own, had his brother completely betrayed him. It was revealed in the show that he had made a false confession and was kicked out of the school for several crimes.

Chen Sicheng, who had just finished his addiction to directing, was no longer angry when talking to Chen Yu about these green years.

He felt that if there was an opportunity, he could try to create a Hong Kong police film similar to that of the 1980s, telling a story about brothers and love.

"Have you ever been involved in a fight outside of the Octagon and the boxing ring?" Chen Sicheng picked up a pen and paper and an idea flashed in his mind.

Chen Yu blinked. When he was a child, he was bullied by his Vietnamese neighbors because he was thin.

But since he prepared to use gasoline to secretly set fire to the main building of his Vietnamese neighbor's estate, no one in Anderson County dared to speak loudly to him.

At the same time, most girls regard the super cute Chen Yu as a guardian knight.

Therefore, Chenyu rarely fights before reaching adulthood.

As for Chen Yu, as an adult, whenever he returns home, he will go to bars with Bao Han and others to cause trouble.

"My fists are used to make money, so I don't know how to fight." Chen Yu raised his eyebrows, and then added that fighting usually uses fists.

Chen Sicheng paused with the pen in his hand and then looked sideways at Chen Yu, who was jumping around in place.

To be honest, Chen Sicheng always felt that Chen Yu was the kind of person who didn't bother to attack weaklings.

Unexpectedly, when it comes to bullying, Chen Yu doesn't care about his strength at all, only his mood.

"If you can't beat me, it's called bullying. That's too much of a slap on the wrist." Chen Yu waved his front fist at Chen Sicheng.

Because the crew had finished work, the Korean martial artists who maintained order in the crowd also came over one after another to bow to Chen Yu, and then took the subway home together.

"They have a good income. At least they can join the middle class in a metropolis like New York."

Chen Yu said to Chen Sicheng that this group of Korean martial arts masters are very similar to the Chinese martial arts masters of the past. They have money and they also pay attention to frugality and save every penny they should not spend.

Chen Sicheng stood up and stretched, squinting at the Korean martial arts masters who were chatting, laughing, and walking away slowly with their arms around each other, and muttered that he didn't know how long they could hold on.

After no one was responsible for the order on the set, Chen Yu's fans and boxing fans loudly greeted the idol or asked for autographs and photos.

However, everyone still voluntarily maintained order and tried their best to ensure that they did not cause unbearable trouble to passers-by and surrounding shops.

Chen Yu also asked his assistant to buy candies and distribute them to the enthusiastic fans and boxing fans, as well as Grace who blew kisses to the camera.

Then a tall girl dressed casually came over and wanted to take a photo with Chen Yu.

But her companion kept holding up his mobile phone to record Chen Yu behind her. It seemed like he was doing a live broadcast?
"I don't want to take a photo with you, so go away. Also, if you are live broadcasting, you and the platform will wait for the indictment."

Chen Yu took the pen handed by a black man and carefully signed his name on his white vest, while warning the Chinese girl.

The girl didn't expect that Chen Yu would sternly refuse, and she was stunned for a moment with incomprehensible eyes.

But his companion always kept the girl and Chen Yu in the frame.

Chen Yu moved a step.

He also took a step forward.

Such shameless behavior gradually made Chen Yu angry.

It’s okay for boxing fans and fans to record videos, but it’s not okay to live stream for profit! Fortunately, by this time, another porn star, Chen Sicheng, had already gotten on board to revise the script for "Detective Chinatown II".

Otherwise, these two people will definitely embarrass the couple in public.

Don't overestimate the quality of Chen Yu and Chen Sicheng.

Five minutes later, when the girl asked Chen Yu again if he could take a photo, Chen Yu's reply was a straight "Get out!"

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