Chapter 1025 Chapter 100 Exotic Style

The arrival of three important supporting actors and their participation in the filming made the operation of the entire crew seem to speed up a lot—it turned out that it was either a heroine's play, or a male lead's play, or a male lead plus a heroine, basically Surrounding Li Qian and Qin Jingjing, so once they take a break, the whole crew has to take a break too, but now, a few important supporting roles have come, no matter the male lead or the heroine, the scenes are getting longer, and there are no scenes to shoot Therefore, the number of people who will be waiting has increased.

The whole crew is running more and more precisely.

Because of the schedule, Zhu Qiang's role must be filmed first, because the national tour of the drama he starred in is still going on, he flew over to film the drama when he found time, and he will go back soon. Counting the time spent flying back and forth, the time he was actually able to film in the crew was less than three days.

The first scene to be photographed was a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, New York.

This is where Du Yihua came to contact with Lu Lingxi in person. When he saw "Thirteenth Aunt", the restaurant owner was very excited. He heard that the film directed by Thirteenth Aunt wanted to be filmed here, and the leading actor was actually "Young Master", the boss even said "no problem"!

He even said that the restaurant can be closed for one day to provide a special venue for the crew to shoot, and he can also arrange meals for the crew for a day, free of charge!

Well, whether it's Li Qian or the "Once Upon a Time" series, perhaps the influence in the entire European and American world is relatively limited, but the influence on the Chinese living in the European and American world is definitely first-class!

Of course, the venue rental fee must be paid, and a group photo of the crew and all the restaurant staff will be sent as an extra. After the boss hurriedly developed the photo, Li Qian also signed the photo, and then was impatient. The boss framed it and hung it in the most conspicuous place in the restaurant.

Three days later, Zhu Qiang finished more than half of his role, came in a hurry, and left in a hurry.

Next, he will rush back to China to complete this week's drama performance, and then has no time to rest, and has to hurry back, because he, the second male lead, still has a lot of roles-if there is no accident, the next one will even For a month, he would fly around and fly around like this.

However, Zhou Ye and Zhong Yuanfu stayed and continued to participate in the shooting of many subsequent scenes.

Airports, train stations, restaurants, streets, seaside... The entire "Autumn Fairy Tale" needs to be filmed on the streets of New York, which exceeds half of the overall length of the film.

While the filming here was in progress, Sun Yuting had already brought people over from China, and began to have in-depth contacts with Columbia Pictures and Oriental Dream Films, and with the assistance of the two companies, It's time to start casting.

Therefore, Du Yihua also flew over from New York. As a representative sent by Columbia Film Company, he officially became one of the producers of "Avatar" and participated in the preliminary preparation and casting of actors.

At the beginning of December, when Zhu Qiang flew over for the third time and the crew began filming the two scenes between Qin Jingjing and him, Li Qian flew back to Los Angeles at night and participated in many scenes in the next three days Auditions—Of course, the roles that will be determined early are often not too important supporting roles. Du Yihua, Sun Yuting and John Dyce have already preliminarily selected a role in the first round of auditions held in advance. With a wide range of candidates, Li Qianlai was the last to drop the hammer. As for the relatively important roles, Li Qian had to be involved from the beginning to the end.

After all, he is the only director who knows best what kind of actors he needs.

Regarding the choice of actors for "Avatar", Li Qian's considerations are slightly different from "The Matrix". The main selling point of "The Matrix" is kung fu, which is cool. The logic setting of the story is different from the mirror style. , "Avatar" sells exotic customs.

In this movie, whether the male protagonist chooses white, black, yellow, or Latin, actually has no direct impact on the filmmaking and viewability of the entire movie. That said, the reverse is also true—the film isn't about promoting film actors at all.

So in this case, of course, it will be easier to use white actors to sell well around the world-after all, audiences in Europe and the United States who are heavily boxed at the box office still prefer to see a white male protagonist.

Therefore, the male lead Jack Sully wanted to choose a white actor, and the female lead Natalie tentatively chose Latino or black. It's good to keep one of the actors in these two roles as Latino and the other as black-this will allow the film to win everyone's approval to the maximum extent. At least politically correct.

Then, the two big villains of the movie, the boss of the company and the ruthless Colonel Miles, directly decided that white people must be used-white people like to conquer the world the most, and they are indeed the original founders of the modern world order. To put it bluntly, the colonists.

And Li Qian thought about it, and the most suitable position for Chinese actors is undoubtedly that Dr. Grace—even in the final version of the script, he has already finalized the actors, and even changed a lot of lines , making this role more in line with a Chinese cultural setting.

Well, man and nature are one, Tao follows nature.

In another time and space, when this movie was released, many people jokingly called it a ball rape movie, and Jack Sully was considered a rebel of earth humans, but in fact, this movie can be understood as a "Anti-white film" - or "anti-colonial film".

Of course, nothing can be done too absolutely.

For example, in the original movie, among the warriors who advocated violence to conquer Avatar but eventually died in Pandora, there were not only white people, but also black people-in this version of the movie, Japanese actors will be added.

With the global success of "The Matrix", not to mention Japanese actors, even Hollywood in the United States, almost all actors could not resist the temptation to cooperate with Li Qian.

Which first-line and super first-line superstars are included!

And there is no need to spend money to hire actors like Qin Wei.

Of course, also considering that this is a movie that promotes technology and "exotic style", so, from the very beginning, Li Qian didn't plan to invite those Hollywood first-line superstars for the leading actors and actresses of the movie - because There is absolutely no need to spend too much on the actors' remuneration.

After staying in Los Angeles for three days, Li Qian soon flew back to New York to continue filming "Autumn Fairy Tale".

Until mid-December, "Autumn Fairy Tale" finally finished filming in New York, and the main team returned to Los Angeles, but Li Qian did not go back with the team again, but went with Zhou Ye, who had basically finished filming. , flew to Toronto, and met Liao Liao briefly for a day.

Waking up early the next morning, Zhou Ye flew directly to China from Toronto and returned home, while Li Qian flew back to Los Angeles.

Now that we are in the same city, time and space have become a lot easier to schedule. On the basis of not delaying the filming of "Autumn Fairy Tale", Li Qian can still spare time to participate in many Actor auditions for "Avatar."

At this time, Liao Liao also finished her travels around North America, returned to Los Angeles, and started the final preparations and rehearsals before the concert.

So it is conceivable that Li Qian moved out of the hotel and lived in Liao Liao's villa.

And the routine daily card games of the crew of "Autumn Fairy Tales" have been completely suspended. It is strange that once Li Qian left, neither Qin Nuo, Lu Lingxi, nor Qin Jingjing ever thought about doing another one. Find someone to join in and keep playing.

He leaves and the game stops.

On the night of December 24th, Christmas Eve, Liao Liao's North American tour concert "The-one-Liao" kicked off with the Miami concert.

On the same day, "Autumn Fairy Tale" stopped shooting, and all the crew waited, one by one, and all flew to Miami to watch Liao Liao's concert live.

There is no doubt that once Liao Liao, who has been accumulating energy for several years, begins to sing, the first stop of her North American tour will be well received by the audience and related music media.

The atmosphere was so good.

In the reports of relevant domestic media, this is of course the greatest recognition a Chinese singer has achieved overseas, and it is also the greatest glory of the Chinese music scene.

Despite the fact that Liao Liao, who has been in the United States for these years and has released three Chinese and English mixed albums and two pure English albums, and her music approach has been largely globalized, it is hard to say that she is still It can really represent Chinese music. But she is Chinese and a Chinese singer, this is undeniable. And as long as this remains the same, she will definitely be the pride of Chinese people all over the world.

Of course, Li Qian appeared as a guest, and not only played two songs for Liao Liao with the guitar, but also presented a song he played and sang, which caused a huge sensation not only in China, but also in North America and Europe ——The relationship between the two of them, as well as the strange marriage system in China they represent behind them, has always been a hot spot of special concern in Western society.

What's more, they have always been popular.

And then, when Liao Liao's concert tour swept across North America like a storm, just before the arrival of New Year's Day in 2005, "Autumn Fairy Tale" officially ended its filming in the United States as scheduled, led by Lu Lingxi The team returned home.

And Li Qian just stayed for another three days, spent a New Year's Day with Liao Liao, and then returned to China by plane—and according to the agreement, the batch of Hollywood actors who have passed the initial test will be together In the first ten days of the month, I flew to China one after another to participate in the final audition for "Avatar". That is, a makeup audition.