After returning from the United States, Li Yu stayed in Baodao and Xiangjiang for more than half a month, and came into contact with many professionals in the industry.
This time, the crew of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was formed, mainly the production team of Xiangjiang, as well as the team he brought from Hollywood, as well as acquaintances from Baodao, as for the mainland, Lin Zixuan was in charge.
This is a cooperation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places.
Due to the different working styles and living habits, it takes a period of time to get used to it.
As a director, Li Yu needs to coordinate from it, he has to figure out the abilities of these people, how to make these people follow his own ideas, so as to complete the martial arts film in his mind.
Heungjiang's production team may have made many martial arts films and has mature experience.
But if Li Yu wants to make a different martial arts film, he has to communicate with them constantly.
For example, in photography, Li Yu wants to use the tones of traditional ink painting to show the world of martial arts, which is simple and elegant, not thick and colorful, and has a literati atmosphere, which is quite different from the previous commercial martial arts films.
Speaking of art modeling, the modeling of martial arts films is very important, and the modeling of each actor must be designed.
What clothes the heroes wear and what clothes the eunuchs wear, not only look in line with their respective identities, but also have a sense of beauty.
Xiangjiang's stylists tend to exaggerate the way of modeling, how to attract the audience, so in Xiangjiang's martial arts films, you can always see some strangely dressed characters.
Li Yu prefers realism, respects history, and does not like fancy shapes.
Take Yu Jiaolong's clothing as an example, as the child of a high-ranking official, the clothes are gorgeous, and they need to be embroidered manually.
Just a few pieces of clothing, in the mainland, it takes four people two months to embroider, not to mention the cost.
Moreover, the clothes embroidered now are definitely different from those of ancient times, even if there is no difference in embroidery, but there is a lack of a meticulous taste, or there is no historical background.
Li Yu wanted that kind of quaint thing, realistic workmanship and style.
He communicated his ideas to the filmmakers in Xiangjiang, and some people couldn't accept his idea, thinking that it was not a martial arts film, but more like a historical film, with no prospects.
This is how it is to make a movie, you need to find a team that is as consistent as possible in terms of creative ideas, and you must unify your thoughts before shooting, otherwise it will definitely be chaotic during the filming process.
Li Yu communicated with different people during his time in Xiangjiang, which caused a lot of repercussions in the circle.
Xiangjiang's film circle is not big, everyone knows that Li Yu wants to make an alternative martial arts film, what an alternative method, everyone hears differently, but they are generally not optimistic about this film.
One is that the Chinese film market is sluggish, and the other is that they think Li Yu is a layman when making martial arts films.
Li Yu's literary films have nothing to say, he has won many awards, but martial arts films are the world of Xiangjiang people, and not everyone can shoot them well.
Although I am not optimistic about this film, there are still people who are willing to cooperate with Li Huan, because Li Huan is famous in Hollywood, and cooperating with Li Huan may be able to enter the Hollywood film market.
What's more, the film market in Xiangjiang is not very good now, and it is not bad to be able to participate in a drama with such a big investment.
In this way, Li Yu is quite popular in Xiangjiang, both the actors and the behind-the-scenes staff are very enthusiastic.
Jiang Zhiqiang led the needle for Li Yu and was responsible for negotiating contracts and salaries.
Due to the limited funding for the film, all funds had to be used for the filming of the film first, and the staff had to wait until the film was sold before it was paid, which had to be explained in advance.
Li Yu roughly negotiated the production team in Xiangjiang, and then came to the mainland.
Lin Zixuan and Feng Xiaogang went to pick up the plane and expressed their importance to Li Eucalyptus, and Li Eucalyptus came to the capital this time not only for the filming of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but also to participate in some exchange activities.
It's something that's hard to avoid.
After all, Li Yu is a successful director in Hollywood, and mainland filmmakers always want to know what Hollywood is like, what kind of operation mode it is, and what is the way inside.
The main thing is that they want to know how to make it to Hollywood.
Including the leaders of the Film Association, Han Sanping, the manager of China Film Company, professors from the Film Academy and many directors, they greeted Lin Zixuan and asked to hold an exchange event in the industry.
Lin Zixuan can't refuse, just listen to what Li Yu has to say, at least let mainland filmmakers understand the real situation.
In fact, Li Yu's film is not a purely literary film, but has both commercial attributes.
His films have done well at the global box office and can bring considerable returns to investors, and if he is a pure literary film director, it is impossible for him to enter the mainstream Hollywood film circle.
How to strike a balance between business and art is also a matter of concern.
Lin Zixuan took Li Yu to the hotel to rest, and held an internal exchange meeting at the Beijing Film Studio the next afternoon.
The atmosphere was quite warm, and Li Yan talked about his experience in Hollywood.
According to him, there is no trick, Hollywood has a mature operating system, and each film will go through detailed market research before shooting, and the director has a limited role in it.
This is not to say that the director does not contribute, the director's job is mainly focused on the film itself.
"When I was filming, I had a producer who took care of everyone's affairs, and I told him what I wanted, and he took care of it, and I just had to concentrate on the film."
Li Yu said.
This involves the difference between the film systems of the mainland and Hollywood.
In Hollywood, it is a producer-led production, and the status of the producer is higher than that of the director, responsible for all the affairs of the crew, and can even change the director, with a dominant position.
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In the mainland, the director-centered system does not play a big role, and sometimes the director takes the position of producer at the same time.
Therefore, it is difficult for mainland directors to adapt to the operation mode of Hollywood.
If you want to break into Hollywood, you have to follow the rules of Hollywood and adapt to it, not let Hollywood adapt to you.
"So how do you balance art and business?"
someone asked.
"I don't think art is something to be appreciated by oneself, and a good film is only one that has to be responded to, otherwise it doesn't make much sense, so don't think of business and art as two opposite sides, it's best to be able to make it naturally."
Li Yu replied.
At the end of the exchange, when talking in private, Li Yan thought that mainland directors took themselves too seriously.
When a director makes a movie, it doesn't mean that the audience must watch what I shoot, there is no such statement.
The audience has the right to choose whether to watch or not, so the director can't be too selfish, too selfish is not art, he must lower his figure, and each play has a humble learning attitude in order to make progress. t1706231537: