Chapter 272 Liu Yifei Finished Filming, and Director Han Came to Set the Release Date
Wu Yuan has never been a person who likes to draw big cakes.
Not to mention that he kept his word, but at least what Liu Yifei saw, as long as Wu Yuan said it and made the promise, it was basically fulfilled.
Therefore, she also has some emotional blind obedience to Wu Yuan.
Even though there is no pop singer in the entire Chinese music scene who has entered Europe and the United States (Coin Lee can only be counted as half), Liu Yifei still believes that Wu Yuan can do this!
Furthermore, she was very motivated to record these two songs.
In the following period, under the guidance of Wu Yuan's words and deeds, her performance also embarked on the right path. She and Luo Jin became famous for a while, each with his own style, and both contributed good performances.
The two of them don't have many scenes, and together they only last about twenty minutes in the feature film.
Under intensive shooting, Wu Yuan only spent five days, and after wandering several times in the old city, the train maintenance station, and an alley, he finished the scene for the two of them.
Not counting the guest appearance in "Love", Liu Yifei's first trip to a literary film came to an end in just five days.
"Congratulations to Liu Yifei and Luo Jin for wrapping up the film!"
Amid the laughter of all the crew members, Wu Yuan personally presented a final cake.
Liu Yifei and Luo Jin stood behind the cake holding flowers and happily took a final photo. The filming of "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" was completed.
After work, as soon as Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei returned to the hotel, he asked: "Will you go directly to the United States tomorrow?"
Liu Yifei nodded reluctantly and started to pack her luggage while saying, "Yes, my mother will pick me up at the hotel tomorrow, and then we will fly directly to Los Angeles."
He leaned against the door of the dressing room with his arms folded, watching Liu Yifei hurriedly putting the bottles and cans into the suitcase. Wu Yuan said with some humor: "Qianxi, I think you will still have to bring an assistant when you join the team in the future. "
"You used to have a mother who helped you pack your things, help you remember this, and do that."
"You can't do it alone now. You still need an assistant."
"Look at Xiao Zhang, he's pretty good."
"Oops!" Liu Yifei interrupted Wu Yuan a little irritably.
"Senior brother, I can do my own thing well. Why do I have to bring a follower? I'm tired of nagging me every day."
Probably guessing the reason for Liu Yifei's resistance, Wu Yuan shook his head and laughed: "Assistants and mothers are different."
"The assistant can't control you. Don't worry, I'll just ask the company to arrange an obedient assistant for you."
"The kind of artist who does whatever the artist says and never refutes or has any objections."
"Look at Xiao Zhang who usually follows me, isn't he pretty good?"
Liu Yifei tilted her head and thought for a while.
Xiao Zhang is indeed very good. He usually knows how to be invisible, but he will always appear when Wu Yuan needs him to solve various daily chores, so that Wu Yuan can save a lot of worry and focus all his energy on work.
"Okay then." She nodded hesitantly: "I want a caring assistant like Xiao Zhang."
"Don't be the kind of assistant who harps on and helps managers supervise and supervise artists all day long."
Nowadays, some artist assistants are members of the agent team and are recruited by the agent. Their main job is to keep an eye on the artist's work and life on behalf of the agent.
Including but not limited to watching artists' weight loss, diet, love, private life, etc.
Some are even so strict that they will knock on the artist's door early in the morning even if it is a day off, and grab the artist out of bed to manage their life.
This kind of assistant is more like a supervisor than an assistant.
Liu Yifei, who has heard about this, is normal to be worried.
"Don't worry." Wu Yuan waved his hand: "I have arranged for you to be a personal assistant. You are her boss. How can she control you? It is you who controls her."
"Just ask her to help you with some daily chores."
"If you have an assistant today, when you are on the set, the assistant will be at the hotel to help you pack your luggage. Why do you need to pack it up bit by bit after you finish work?"
After a few brief explanations, Wu Yuan did not continue to dwell on this topic, but said:
"Over in the United States, I have already informed Daisy."
"She will pick you and Auntie up at the airport."
"After that, you can leave all the work with the record company and your daily life to her."
"I pay her tens of thousands of dollars in salary every year, so it's time to let her work more."
"When you arrive in Los Angeles, just stay in my house in Beverly."
"When I go to the United States this time, not only do I have to record songs, but I also have to shoot the MVs for these two songs together."
"I also wrote the MV scripts for the two songs, so there will be a surprise when the time comes!"
The MV for "Call Me Maybe" is also one of the highlights of this song, and it has over 100 million views on YouTube.
If it works well, the song and the MV will definitely become a big hit on the North American Internet.
Just like Justin Bieber's "Baby."
"Okay, I know." Liu Yifei smiled sweetly, feeling sweet in her heart.
It is very heart-warming to have someone help arrange everything, especially for this kind of cross-country trip.
"I'm going to the United States. You have to be honest and don't let yourself go."
Wrinkling her nose, Liu Yifei stopped packing her things and hugged Wu Yuan out of boredom.
Wu Yuan rubbed her head with a bit of a laugh: "Where can I go to let myself go?"
"Can you still worry about this?"
"That's hard to say~" Liu Yifei, who had buried her head in Wu Yuan's chest, raised her head: "Sister Ni'ao is on the crew."
Liu Yifei smiled and said jokingly: "She will be 16 years old next year, the same age as me when I filmed "Your Name"."
"What if a little girl falls in love at this age?"
"After all, men at work are the most attractive."
"If we hadn't been together for a while when we were filming "Your Name", I would have been attracted to you at work again, and I would have confirmed my thoughts, and I would not have confessed to you later."
It was originally a joke, but as she spoke, Liu Yifei became really worried.
She really decided on Wu Yuan when she was fifteen or sixteen years old.
It has to be admitted that Wu Yuan, who is handsome and talented, is really lethal to girls.
The kind that will immediately become bright with a little sunshine.
Liu Yifei has experienced it herself, and the past is a lesson for the future!
Looking at Liu Yifei's suddenly frowning brows, Wu Yuan was really speechless.
"No way, are you really worried about this?"
"When I knew Ni Ao, she was less than eleven years old!"
"In my eyes, she has always been a child, how could anything happen to her?"
"Oh, I'm not talking about you." Liu Yifei patted Wu Yuan's chest hard, "I'm worried about Ni Ao's sister."
"You guys, like a central air conditioner, are very nice to everyone, which is easy to be misunderstood."
"I remind you, don't get too close to Ni Ao's sister when you are on the crew, you are too seductive."
"Don't harm ignorant girls again."
There is a saying that you can't meet too amazing people when you are young.
Otherwise, everyone else will become a compromise.
After working hard for so many years, Wu Yuan can be regarded as a "stunning person".
Liu Yifei must keep an eye on him and not let him go out to harm ignorant girls.
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you." Wu Yuan said speechlessly.
He didn't understand how these girls' brain circuits worked.
Holding his girlfriend's thigh, Wu Yuan picked her up and smiled: "Compared to these, let's do some serious work first."
"You are going to the United States tomorrow, and we won't see each other for a while."
"Before that, you have to take away the scriptures that you haven't taken!"
Liu Yifei's face, lying on Wu Yuan's shoulder, turned red.
She stretched out her little fist and hit Wu Yuan's back a few times in shame. Her face turned red and she whispered: "Be gentle!"
"Every time you are like a wild bull, you will torment me!"
"Hehehe, I know." Wu Yuan walked briskly into the bedroom with Liu Yifei in his arms.
With a deft hook of her foot, the bedroom door was closed.
After a while, a series of suppressed strange sounds came from the bedroom.
The next day, Liu Yifei, who had a good night's sleep, left the hotel early in the morning with full energy and rushed to the United States with her mother.
And Wu Yuan, with a sore and numb waist, returned to the crew to continue filming.
As time passed and she grew older.
Liu Yifei has gradually entered her peak period, and the peak match between her and Wu Yuan has become more and more difficult to resolve.
On the contrary, Wu Yuan, who was at ease at the beginning, gradually became a little overwhelmed.
After arriving at the crew, Wu Yuan immediately asked Xiao Zhang to make him a cup of wolfberry tea.
Handing the brewed wolfberry tea to Wu Yuan, Xiao Zhang asked in surprise: "Director Wu, why are you so proactive in keeping healthy this time?"
"Have you felt a lack of energy recently?"
"How is that possible!" Wu Yuan jumped a little: "I have plenty of energy, I just want to drink wolfberries."
"Okay, go and do your thing."
"All units are ready to start work!"
The departure of Liu Yifei did not have much impact on Wu Yuan.
Except that the hotel was empty after work and there was no human pillow to sleep with at night, everything else was fine.
In fact, because of her departure, the movie "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" was shot better.
Because Wu Yuan put more energy and concentration on the filming of the movie, he cursed more frequently in the crew, was more picky in the filming, and had a worse temper.
Under his death hair dryer, everyone in the crew worked harder.
Time swayed to December.
After the full winter, Beijing had a heavy snowfall for three consecutive days.
The entire main urban area of Beijing was covered in white.
Wu Yuan, who had been waiting for this scene for more than half a month, immediately directed the crew to move around Teacher Li Xuejian.
Every art film shot by Wu Yuan has broken through his own level of picture aesthetics.
From the first film "Departures" which had almost no picture aesthetics and beautiful shots.
To "Love" which tried to deconstruct the story with the language of the lens.
And then to the current "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die".
Wu Yuan added more lens language and color aesthetics.
The winter with white as the main tone as a whole, and the use of a large number of bleak characters and scenery, are all metaphors and profiles for Li Wen's closed heart.
At the end of the story, after the winter ended, Li Wen fell asleep in his home on a spring morning.
This is also a shot that tests the level of director Wu Yuan.
Wu Yuan, who is considered to be a half-apprentice of Chen Kaige and has also learned a lot from Zhang Yimou, tried to use this movie to break through himself.
The other members of the crew, of course, cannot let down the chain.
"Where are the props!"
"Didn't you see that half of the snow under the eaves was swept away? Hurry up and make up for it!"
"Stage staff! Two flexible hands and feet, move the cabinet opposite the window sill, it affects the composition of the picture!"
Holding the intercom, Wu Yuan commanded everyone in an orderly manner to get into the best shooting state as soon as possible.
At this time, assistant Xiao Zhang suddenly came over and whispered: "Director Wu, Director Han of China Film is here."
"Look.?"
"Why is Director Han here?" Wu Yuan followed Xiao Zhang with a puzzled look on his face to the lounge next to the studio.
Director Han was sitting with his legs crossed and smoking inside.
They were all old acquaintances, so there was no need to be polite or pretend. When Wu Yuan came in, Director Han happily handed him a cigarette.
"Try it. It's a special cigarette from a friend. It tastes pretty good."
Although he was a little tempted, Wu Yuan still refused, "I'm sorry, Director Han, I quit smoking recently. My girlfriend doesn't like it and it's not good for my health."
"Huh?" Han Sanping was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly, "It's good to quit. Health is the most important thing."
Wu Yuan nodded and sat down next to Director Han.
After the Chinese New Year, Han Sanping's "Director Han" was real. His deputy director was going to be promoted to the official position, and the official director who had basically been in office before had retired.
Logically speaking, Director Han should be the busiest now, so why did he come to the set?
"Director Han, do you have something to ask me?" Wu Yuan asked directly.
There was no need for false courtesy between the two.
"That's right." Director Han was also very straightforward. After putting out the cigarette, he said seriously: "Director Wu, your post-production of "Gravity" should be almost done, right?"
"We at China Film Group regard your movie as the most important highlight in the mainland next year."
"We should also decide on the specific release schedule, right?"
"Yes, it should be decided." Wu Yuan nodded and agreed.
"Director Han, "Red Cliff" has been scheduled to be released in July 2008, right?"
Director Han was very perceptive and immediately said vigilantly: "Director Wu, the July schedule has been given to "Red Cliff". This is something that has been decided a long time ago and it is not easy to change."
Wu Yuan raised the corner of his mouth, also crossed his legs, and said with a smile: "What if I say that I also want to release it in July?"
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