Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 379 - Feel Free to Play

"The stage under your feet is the performance area. You can perform whatever you want on it. Don't limit yourself artificially."

Chen Yu translated Director Chad's encouragement and request to Li Yitong, who was panting slightly, and at the same time handed her a pack of tissues to wipe her sweat.

Li Yitong was a little uncomfortable with director Chad's shooting method - only a few key points were mentioned and the rest was left to the actors to add on their own.

Even the lines in the script are only general or instructive, and the actors need to improvise on the spot.

Because Chen Yu and Keanu told her something different in each of the previous three filmings, this made Li Yitong somewhat distressed.

"Your lines are too straightforward and tough. You should add some soft elements to enrich the emotions of the character you play."

After listening to Chen Yu's translation, Li Yitong's flat, glossy pink lips revealed a hint of sadness in his beautiful eyes.

Li Yitong spent an entire afternoon reciting and practicing more than 20 lines of different lengths and tones.

If the changes were overturned, all the efforts made by himself, his assistant, Chen Yu, and Barbara and Keanu who came to help would be in vain.

Li Yitong handed the tissue to the makeup artist behind him and asked her to wipe his sweat, while secretly winking at Chen Yu.

Mr. Kelly, the makeup artist of the crew, expressed great satisfaction and high praise for Li Yitong's move to let him deal with the sweat on his face.

If he just wiped it randomly like Keanu did, he and his team would have to spend time comparing the previous pictures and re-applying makeup.

Chen Yu asked Director Chad about the necessity of changing lines. Enriching the characters' emotions can also be achieved through body language.

"Man, I can see that Lee is a girl with potential, but she's just too rigid in her understanding of the word acting."

Li Yitong, who has a sweet image and generous personality, made the crew of "Rapid Prepare for War" have a very good first impression of her.

And yesterday, Li Yitong shocked his colleagues with his solid dance skills, and quickly became friends with Barbara.

But her shortcomings when facing the camera were also completely exposed, that is, Li Yitong could only write propositional compositions that were restricted by conditions.

But once Director Chad allowed her to express herself freely, the young lady became timid and didn't know how to perform.

This makes it difficult for Director Chad to understand why Chen Yu and Li Yitong, who are both Chinese actors, are so different?
Please note that what he is talking about here is difference, not gap. At this time, Chen Yu, who is sitting in front of him, is very good at performing casually.

As long as the character matches Chen Yu himself, he can complete the shot brilliantly even if he only listens to a few outlines from director Chad.

It can be said that when Chen Yu acted opposite Keanu, both of them were creative actors on the spot - neither one followed the script.

The advantage of improvisation is that it can always fill scenes and dialogues with unknown surprises and create wonderful shots that cannot be replicated.

The disadvantage is that the assistant director, scene recorder, and screenwriting team need to record and organize the words that the two blurt out at all times.

Then judge whether these statements are consistent with the character's stance, faction, and values, which invisibly increases the workload.

More than 95% of European and American directors strongly support the artists in the crew to freely display their imagination and creativity.

This trend was completely driven and carried forward by Francis Ford Coppola when he made "Apocalypse Now".

Because at that time, the two leading actors, Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, did not like to read the script but were keen on practicing gun shooting in the rainforest.

They really used the rainforest outside Manila as a battlefield in Vietnam to play CrossFire, which made Director Coppola dumbfounded.

The follow-up "The Godfather III" he directed also followed this approach, letting Al Pacino and Andy Garcia play casually.

Mr. Coppola's nephew Nicolas Cage is also a loyal supporter of the style, and he only refined the core of the script.

"This kind of directing method and performance attitude are actually related to, or reflect, the social trends in the United States after the Vietnam War."

Chen Yu explained to Li Yitong in a low voice and told her that this was not something progressive, positive and worth learning and learning from.

Chen Yu has always insisted that China can imitate Hollywood's film and television industrialization according to local conditions, but it must not copy its thinking.

The industrialization of film and television is a dead thing without a soul. It doesn’t matter if it’s done incorrectly by building studios, innovating equipment and clarifying functions.

However, Hollywood’s entertainment thinking and spirit are dangerous and corrosive to people’s hearts, and can easily conflict with traditional Chinese concepts.

Li Yitong took the foundation from the makeup artist, then raised his head slightly and asked Chen Yu if he had been corrupted by American culture.

"Of course, but the unique values ​​of Texas have a greater and stronger impact on me." Chen Yu said calmly.

Chen Yu, who has lived and grown up in the Lone Star Republic since he was six years old, has two sets of ideas: Chinese and Texas.

When Chen Yu returns to China, he will switch to the Chinese philosophy, but he admits that his Chinese philosophy is no longer pure and traditional.

Chen Yu is more aggressive than his counterparts in the Chinese entertainment industry, film and television industry, and sports, and it is difficult to hide all his fangs. Therefore, the entertainment-oriented Chen Yu and the professional football player Wei Shihao are two super thorns in the Chinese cultural and sports circles.

Chen Yu often criticizes some of his seniors and teachers in the weird circles on the Internet;

Wei Shihao has no scruples in using various channels to quarrel with fans who criticize him.

In terms of personal quality, cultural accomplishment and public morality, they can be called a sleeping dragon and a phoenix.

But professionally, he is a world-class boxing champion and a rare talent in Chinese football.

To put it bluntly, everyone can call Chen Yu and Wei Shihao hooligans, idiots, and bastards, but no one will question their competitive ability and level.

The reason why Chen Yu and Wei Shihao are not favored by the General Administration of Sports is simply because they often quarrel and criticize each other with the public, and it has nothing to do with their professional aspects.

Many media people in the sports industry hope that China will have more athletes like Chen Yu and Wei Shihao, which will ignite the competitive atmosphere in the industry.

"Don't listen to those boring reporters talking nonsense." Chen Yu smiled contemptuously and waved his hand to Li Yitong. The Chinese sports world only needs obedient students.

This is similar to how the Chinese entertainment and film and television industries favor artists who are willing to be manipulated at will.

"You can speak in Mandarin later. Don't worry that old man Keanu won't be able to catch the conversation."

Chen Yu raised his head slightly to let Armani's styling and makeup team check whether he needed to apply powder or cream.

Li Yitong picked up the script and combined it with Director Chad's suggestions just now, and once again figured out the character's psychology and dialogue logic.

The assistant girl pursed her lips and reminded Li Yitong, who was worried, to use American thinking to organize the character's words. After all, this is a Hollywood film.

"Help me, you can't reach the final level anyway!" Li Yitong grabbed Chen Yu's handheld device and handed over the script that was already written in Juan Xiu's handwriting.

Li Yitong took advantage of the stall where Chen Yu was writing, drawing and talking, and led the assistant to visit the ballet theater.

Since she gave a wonderful Chinese folk dance performance yesterday, the ballet teachers and actors backstage knew her and took photos with her.

It really allowed Li Yitong to experience the treatment of an international superstar, but she soon discovered something that was contrary to the script. These people were not of Slavic origin.

It is clearly written in the script [John Wick turns to a fellow Belarusian to help him find a safe route to Morocco. 】

But the English accents of the girls in front of me were very similar to Chen Yu's, and they had nothing to do with Slavic people.

This may not matter in China, but there is an unspoken rule in European and American film and television projects, that is, the ethnic groups specified in the script cannot be replaced at will.

In other words, the screenwriting team has set the male protagonist to be a yellow race, so even if they don't find Chen Yu to play the role, they can only choose him from China, Japan, South Korea and other places.

Even if you can find Indians, the crew must not hire a black or white person.

"The writing director of this film is Director Chad, so that rule does not apply. Should we let him go to the union or court to sue himself for his own fun?"

Chen Yu handed the script that he and Keanu revised together to Li Yitong, and at the same time explained the twists and turns hidden here.

Because Disney controls the copyright, it always does bad things that destroy classics and disgust audiences, including arbitrarily changing scripts and re-telling fairy tales.

Not long ago, when Lionsgate Pictures sold the overseas adaptation rights of "Knives Out" to Korean producers, they stated that there must be a black actor in the drama.

Even if he (she) appears and dies, he or she must be given a chance to show his face! This clause has nothing to do with political correctness and is purely a demonstration of the power of the copyright owner.

This is basically consistent with the fact that when Chinese producers purchase the copyrights of Korean film and television works, they usually ask Korean teams to handle special effects processing and post-production synthesis.

"Who are the male and female protagonists of the Korean version of "Knives Out"?" Li Yitong poked Chen Yu's arm and winked in a gossipy manner.

At this stage, the new team wants to invite Huang Zhengmin to play the role of Chen Yu, the great detective who serves money in the film.

However, in the previous "Charity Basketball Game", Huang Zhengmin withdrew directly because he objected to the order of appearance of the red carpet show, which made Chen Yu have a very bad impression of him.

Therefore, Showcase and Lotte introduced Jung Woo-sung, Lee Jung-jae and Park Sung-woong as candidates, while Korean netizens shouted Ma Dong-seok's name like a boo.

The role of the heroine, Jodie Comer, has been promised to Lin Yoona, but the character setting will be changed to adapt to Lin Yoona's acting skills.

To put it simply, the heroine changed from Judy's version of wisdom and calmness to Lin Yoona's version of beauty and agility, while the second female lead took on a small part of the reasoning tasks.

Nowadays, many fans of Son Ye Jin and Jun Ji Hyun accuse Lim Yoona of stealing the heroine.

In addition, Dilraba’s fans also joined in and continued to play Yoona Lin’s tune, in order to avenge Lin Yoona for beating her sister on the Facebook matching list!
Li Yitong borrowed Chen Yu's mobile phone to log into Facebook to check the dynamic list of "Who is the best match for Chen".

Sure enough, his boss once again fell out of the top fifteen, while Lin Yoona was still in the twelfth place.

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