Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 768 - The first problem faced when returning to work
Australia, Brisbane. As soon as Chen Yu came out of the arrival area, he saw Director Knight who came to pick him up at the airport.

Since the sky is clear today, which does not meet the filming conditions, the crew of "The Mystery of Waves" has a day off.

As for why the announcement was not adjusted, it was mainly because everyone has been too busy recently and needs to relax.

The Hollywood shutdown has just ended, and many cast and crew members have not yet reached their best working condition either mentally or physically.

The crew of "The Mystery of Tide" will resume work for just two weeks and more than a dozen people have suffered sprains, bruises and strains. This is a side manifestation of the fact that the body and mind are not ready for frequent distractions.

Yang Mi accidentally injured her hand yesterday while filming a simple scene of walking into a supermarket to buy Coca-Cola, which subsequently caused slight inflammation of the extensor pollicis brevis tendon and the carpometacarpal ligament.

After a detailed examination, the doctor advised that he would need to recover for at least three days before returning to work.

Moreover, 90 percent of the female cast and crew members in the crew suffered from gynecological symptoms such as menstrual disorders.

After discussing with the main creative team, the production team decided to take turns to rest and reduce the intensity of filming, so that the cast and crew can gradually recover and adapt to their working state.

The crew of "The Mystery of the Storm" also quickly reported the situation to the Actors Guild.

Although the Screen Actors Guild ultimately failed to defeat the Television and Television Producers Alliance, it fully demonstrated its power through the Hollywood strike.

And strive to obtain partial salary, benefits, insurance and other benefits for grassroots actors.

According to Dilraba Dilmurat, the Screen Actors Guild of America won an honorable defeat, and even if it had to compromise with the Association of Television and Television Producers later on, it was not a crime committed by the war.

After all, top stars like Chen Yu, Deadpool, Batman, and Tom Hanks all chose to stay out of the circle and protect themselves during the protests.

The Screen Actors Guild is not fighting the dark forces in its ultimate form.

"Is your wife going to join in?"

Director Knight pinched his cigarette butt and cut off the talk of a Hollywood shutdown. He is a classicist and doesn't bother to pay attention to either side.

The so-called classical school is to simply shoot works and refuse to get involved in organizational struggles. To put it nicely, it is to serve art. Otherwise, it is not very sociable and likes to tinker in small circles.

If Di Lieba wants to go in and experience it, Chen Yu can write a letter of recommendation. Director Knight asked this purely out of politeness to bring up a new topic.

Di Lieba had no intention of becoming a member as she was worried about domestic public opinion. Recently, there were voices online saying that Di Lieba had obtained a green card and was in the process of immigrating.

Di Lieba is really unwilling to respond to this matter.

But her silence resulted in increasingly aggressive fabrications from unscrupulous media, trolls, and marketing accounts.

Dilraba Dilmurat’s studio could only show the newly issued certificate from the police station where their boss is registered.

Even so, all kinds of rumors have not subsided. A small number of passers-by and haters brought up the matter of Di Lieba giving birth in the United States and said that she was bewitched by Chen Yu and became more and more worshipful of foreign things!
Whenever the issue of nationality comes up in the Chinese entertainment industry, the Fairy Sister gets criticized.

Some people really asked Liu Yifei what she thought about Dilraba Dilmurat's pregnancy care in the United States.

Fairy Sister was extremely disgusted by this, because it not only implied her nationality, which she did not want to mention, but also secretly mocked herself for being old and still not finding her love.

So Liu Yifei directly refused to answer, using the excuse that she was busy filming "Mulan" and had no time.

Director Knight had also heard of the film "Mulan", after all, it was owned by Disney, but he couldn't understand why they hired a European or American director.

And the female director also has feminist tendencies.

"Mulan" has already cut itself off from the Chinese market. Is it going to test the tolerance limit of the European and American markets?
It is a lesson that Hollywood has learned a long time ago that Eastern stories should be filmed by Eastern directors. Director Knight really did not understand what Disney was planning this time.

Chen Yu put the two suitcases into the back seat, and then talked to Director Knight about the heroic feat of a Chinese director who was going to adapt "Turandot".

Director Knight was stunned by this.

Even those famous directors in Europe and America who specialize in epics and literature would not dare to touch or try Turandot easily. It is very easy to trip a mine and bring disaster to oneself.

When he was young, Director Knight also dreamed of adapting Shakespeare's works, but he felt that he lacked the talent for it and that it would be too difficult to coax investors to invest.

“I think shooting epics and literary works is like burning your life.”

Director Knight stepped on the accelerator lightly, patted the steering wheel and sighed softly, saying that such works not only require the production team to be familiar with the relevant historical and cultural background.

Even the cast must understand the characters they play.

Usually the leading male and female characters and supporting roles need to start learning a year in advance. Nowadays, which star is willing to waste a year busy with a work?

"And there are only two outcomes for epics and literary works in the market: either they sell like hot cakes or they lose a lot of money."

Director Knight honked the horn to tell the pickup truck behind him to overtake quickly and not to delay.

Before Knives Out achieved great success in both box office and reputation, everyone only knew that it would not lose money, but no one expected that this film would make huge profits.

The industry's expectations for "The Mystery of Strange Tides" are polarized.

The Television and Film Producers Association felt that the production could at least make a small profit.

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On the contrary, some film critics who are familiar with the plot find it very suspenseful because the film contains content about the Vietnam War which is sensitive to European and American audiences.

Some film critics advised director Knight to conceal some of the Vietnam War content.

Currently, there are only a few directors who can handle the Vietnam War theme.

The first scene after Chen Yu returned to the crew was a rainforest war scene. The character he played had to fight with the North Vietnamese guerrillas in the wet and muddy water.

Upon hearing this, Chen Yu immediately shrank back.

He was not afraid of the damp and muddy tropical rainforest, but he could not stand the strange snakes, insects and poisonous ants.

Director Knight raised his eyebrows, never expecting that the world boxing champion would be unable to move when seeing a bug.

Chen Yu was not afraid of insects, but he felt uncomfortable when he saw them.

He always comes into contact with various insects when working on the manor, but it does not affect Chen Yu's work.

After returning home, the task of eliminating the insects was taken over by Di Lieba, and Chen Yu was only responsible for cheering.

Di Lieba was unwilling to mention this matter during the interview.

"I suggest that I use a body double to help me complete a small part of the shot tomorrow."

Director Knight knew exactly what Chen Yu wanted to express. For example, he used a stand-in for the shots of Chen Yu moving between trees and grass to prevent him from facing the insects directly.

Director Knight said he had to go back and look at the storyboard design again, but he could guarantee that the quagmire was made by mixing clean water and art clay.

The crew did this not to take care of Chen Yu.

The main thing is to make the local soil texture and light feel similar to that of the Vietnamese rainforest. Rather than airlifting the background from Marvel Studios, it is better to produce it on site.

This can save a lot of costs.

As for finding a real quagmire to film in? If an actor gets infected with the virus, the crew, producers, and insurance companies will all have to run to the bathroom and cry together.

Some actors' lives are worthless, while others are extremely precious. Chen Yu obviously belongs to the latter.

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