Chapter 237 Female Pirate Wei'er

At this time, Wu Yuan, who was regarded as a piece of Tang Monk's meat by mainland actresses, did receive a lot of "relationship" calls.

The first one to bear the brunt was the call from Zhang Jie.

Speaking of knowing each other, Wu Yuan and Zhang Jie did know each other very early, and he knew her in the second semester of his freshman year.

But the relationship between the two has always been just that of superficial friends.

He also made verbal invitations to Zhang Jie "next time", but he never really invited her to act in his own play.

It's not that Wu Yuan has any prejudice against Zhang Jie.

Zhang Jie is actually quite good at dealing with people, and her acting skills are really good under the training of Zhang Yimou. Except for the later scandals such as the ink splashing gate and the beach gate, there is no big black material on her, which is definitely cleaner than 80% of the actresses in the circle.

Except for being a little snobbish, Zhang Jie actually has no big shortcomings.

It's just really unfortunate that every time Wu Yuan shoots a Chinese-language film, there is no role suitable for Zhang Jie.

Either the role is too young or too old. The only suitable role is Gravity, but Gong Li is more suitable than her.

After seeing the news that Liu Yifei joined Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Zhang Ziyi couldn't sit still again and called Wu Yuan. Her words sounded like she was just reminiscing about the past, but in fact, she was playing the emotional card.

In response, Wu Yuan could only pretend to be stupid and only talked about feelings, not any roles or acting appointments.

He really didn't have any acting appointments to give.

At present, the works that Hollywood has set are only Limitless and Kingsman, and Twilight and World War Z, which are only in the planning stage.

There is no role suitable for Zhang Ziyi in these four movies, so he can only deal with it with "hmm" and "ah".

After a lot of effort, he finally dealt with it. After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Listening to the teasing voices in his ears, he rolled his eyes at Liu Yifei who was sitting on the bed and eavesdropping: "Still laughing, it's all your fault."

"I've ruined my reputation by putting you in the crew of Pirates of the Caribbean 3."

"Now domestic fans say that I'm a director who puts personal interests above public interests and gives backdoors to my actors."

"You have to act well this time and show your level."

Stuck out his tongue, Liu Yifei put away his smile, and replied with a guilty conscience: "I know, senior brother, I will work hard! ”

She also knew how much public opinion her joining of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 had caused in China.

If she performed well, it would be fine, and all the controversy would turn into praise.

If she didn't perform well, she would be finished.

Although she didn't know how serious the public ridicule of Da Tiantian was later, as an insider, Liu Yifei could fully predict this situation.

"Resource-based celebrities" have never been a good name, especially for resource-based celebrities who don't perform well, the backlash is terrible.

Liu Yifei has been working hard to treat this movie.

Five days later.

"Pirates of the Caribbean 3" held a high-profile opening ceremony in Los Angeles and officially started filming.

The third part of the film A scene was filmed on a relatively primitive island in the Caribbean.

This island is the "end of the world" in the movie, where Captain Jack was exiled.

A rescue team consisting of Captain Barbossa, Elizabeth, Will, and the pirates under the Singaporean pirate king Sao Feng and their leader Wei Er came here to rescue Captain Jack.

In the original film, the pirates under Sao Feng had a low sense of presence and lacked a leader, so Wu Yuan designed the role of Wei Er.

The role of this character is to participate in the task of rescuing Jack as a representative of "Sao Feng", and in the end, he fought back and captured Jack and gave him to Sao Feng.

Pirates, it is normal to stab back for profit. However.

In the temporary mobile house on the island, the actors and extras were all doing their makeup.

Wu Yuan, with his hands behind his back, wandered to the dressing room to check everyone's makeup.

There was nothing much to say about the old actors, they were just the same old images in the movie.

However, the newly joined Liu Yifei and the group of Chinese pirate extras, their looks were quite special.

While continuing the pirates' unkempt appearance, tattered clothes, bronze skin color and yellow teeth, their clothes were indeed completely different from the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Ordinary pirate extras all had their hair tied up, and most of them wore tattered Ming-style leather armor and Ming-style leather boots, with Ming waist knives on their waists and pistols in their hands.

Rather than saying they were pirates, it would be better to say they were pirates. It looks more like a defeated army that has lost a battle.

And this is actually the characteristic of pirates in the late Ming Dynasty.

Most of the Chinese pirates were legal merchants, and the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy turned them into illegal merchants, smugglers and pirates.

They were pirates when they were at sea, but they became normal merchants when they landed.

Some pirates even colluded with coastal officers, or simply went ashore to rob, not just rob at sea.

Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, many military households in coastal garrisons could not make it, so they simply boarded the ship and became pirates.

Therefore, the overall clothing characteristics of Chinese pirates are more like the army, but they are not regular troops. They wear tattered leather armor and messy jackets.

According to the background setting of the movie, Xiao Feng was a defeated general in the late Ming Dynasty. He was defeated all the way from the land to Annan. In the end, he had no way to escape, so he took his soldiers to rob several ships and became a pirate.

After more than ten years of development, he became the largest pirate king in Singapore.

So he had many pirates who looked like soldiers.

Some of the extras wore clothes with obvious Southeast Asian style, Japanese hairstyles, and Japanese-style clothes. Of course, these clothes were also tattered.

This is also in line with the characteristics of Chinese pirates in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. At that time, Chinese pirates would recruit some Japanese ronin and people from Singapore, the Philippines and other places to act as thugs, not all of them were Chinese.

In comparison, Liu Yifei, the "pirate leader", was dressed more formally and neatly.

She wore a horse-faced skirt with long boots on her lower body, and a Chinese-style men's jacket on her upper body, but the cuffs were narrowed and tied up for easy movement.

This combination is a bit out of place, with a female skirt on the lower body and a men's jacket on the upper body.

But this is in line with her identity of leading men as a woman.

The horse-faced skirt is convenient for movement, and wearing a men's jacket also means that although she is a woman, she is used by men on the ship.

Pirates are not the same as traditional ladies on the shore, and the movie still needs some artistic adaptations.

Not to mention, Liu Yifei looks pretty good in this outfit.

Although her face is deliberately painted bronze and her flowing hair is all tied behind her head, the "chosen ancient" is still a beautiful classical beauty after wearing a horse-faced skirt.

The bronze face not only does not bring her a negative bonus to her appearance, but also adds a bit of wild and wild beauty.

Of course, in order to meet the characteristics of "pirates" floating on the ship all year round and it is difficult to obtain good sanitary conditions, her face is also painted dirty.

It's just Liu Yifei's face, the plainer and dirtier it is, the more broken beauty it has (refer to Pan'er who was paraded in "Dream of Hualu"), and it can't be ugly at all.

Standing by the side, touching her chin with her hand, looking at the makeup artist trying to make her look ugly, but still very beautiful, Wu Yuan sighed: "Your face is really foul."

"Even if you are dressed as a beggar, it will look like you are walking in Paris Fashion Week."

Like her, there is also Kayla, no matter how hard the makeup artist tries, even if all kinds of mud are applied on her face, she is still very beautiful.

Seeing this, Liu Yifei was worried, "Isn't it ugly enough? I'm already pure without makeup. If it doesn't work, I can make it darker?"

She was really worried that her look would not satisfy the fans. Who has ever seen such a beautiful pirate?

"It's okay." Wu Yuan waved his hand indifferently.

What a joke, although Liu Yifei's identity in the movie is a pirate, her position is the same as Kayla, that is, to be a vase, the only difference is that she is very good at fighting.

As a commercial blockbuster, it must need such a beauty to adjust the atmosphere and attract the audience's attention.

Movies like Transformers, where the protagonists are a group of robots, need top-notch actresses like Megan Fox, not to mention Pirates of the Caribbean.

Keira is responsible for the aesthetics of European and American audiences, while Liu Yifei is responsible for the aesthetics of Asian audiences.

The role of Wei'er actually mainly replaces "Tai Huang", the leader of the Chinese pirates who drove the Black Pearl and was sent by Sao Feng to guide Barbossa to the end of the world in the original film.

And Wu Yuan added some scenes to this role. She will not only participate in the quarrel between Barbossa and Jack about the pirates uniting to deal with David Jones, but also participate in the pirate conference as Keira's deputy, and will participate in the final battle later.

Of course, although she is the daughter of Sao Feng, Wu Yuan did not change the main storyline and let Wei'er take over Sao Feng as the new Singapore Pirate King. Instead, according to the screenwriter's idea, he still let Elizabeth take over this position.

The reason is actually reasonable. In the script, Xiaofeng mistakenly thought that Elizabeth was a mortal who sealed the female sea god in her body, so when he was suddenly killed, he handed the token to the female sea god before he died.

He hoped that the female sea god could gather nine tokens, then regain her freedom and become a god again.

He looked down on the so-called Seven Seas Pirate King from the beginning to the end, looked down on the Pirate King Conference, and didn't care about the title of the Pirate King. He was a Chinese general, and being a pirate was originally a helpless thing.

Elizabeth only got a token representing the identity of "Singapore Pirate King", which allowed her to participate in the Pirate Conference.

The pirate army under Xiaofeng still obeyed Wei'er, which did not mean that Elizabeth could take over Xiaofeng's power with the token.

This also made the plot more reasonable. With Wei'er in the middle, it was reasonable for Elizabeth to get the support of the pirates under Xiaofeng.

These pirates did not support Elizabeth, but only supported Wei'er, the successor of Xiaofeng, and Wei'er was willing to help Elizabeth.

In this way, the role of "Weier" also has its important significance. Although the role is not large, it is very crucial.

As long as Liu Yifei plays this role well, she can be regarded as a celebrity in Hollywood.

The specific changes of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 will be revealed after it is released.