Chapter 464: Arrangements, Return Home.

Liu Yifei pouted her lips. She also knew that what Wu Yuan said was right.

Her acting skills have indeed improved a lot in recent years under Wu Yuan's training.

In the first few years after her debut, her acting skills mainly relied on the fit of the role and the swordsman route. She stayed at a very shallow level of performing arts. Now she is a qualified and even excellent actor.

She can also play some images that are opposite to her personality purely by acting.

But to be honest, there is still some gap between her and the real top actors.

And the Best Actress trophy can only be won by the top actors.

At least the Best Actress trophy that Wu Yuan values ​​is not what Liu Yifei can get now in his opinion.

Perhaps, Liu Yifei can indeed win the Best Actress award of second- and third-tier awards such as the Macau Film Festival, the Hundred Flowers Award, and the College Student Film Festival, but are these second- and third-tier awards a bonus for Liu Yifei now?

If she wants to win, she will definitely aim for the three domestic golds and the three major European awards. At the very least, she will have to win the Tokyo Film Festival, the British Academy Film Awards, and other internationally influential actress trophies.

And to win such an award, Liu Yifei still needs to work harder.

However

"Xixi, I don't plan to shoot any new movies this year, but you can try the movie "Better Days."

Wu Yuan remembered the script that he had talked to Liu Yifei about before, and she also liked it very much.

"Better Days" has the potential to win the three domestic golds. After all, the heroine shaved her head and suffered school bullying, which is a big sacrifice.

As we all know, beautiful actors have to sacrifice enough in the movie, and the judges of major film festivals will look at them with a higher eye.

Leo made a lot of trouble for an Oscar winner, and then he won the award.

Although Liu Yifei is not so exaggerated, it is indeed difficult for her beautiful face to conquer the judges if she doesn't make a little sacrifice to look ugly.

"Better Days?" Liu Yifei's voice rose a few degrees. Of course she remembered this movie, but Wu Yuan only verbally told the story at that time, and he hadn't even written the script yet.

"You have already written the script?" she asked in surprise.

Wu Yuan nodded: "I took time to write the script intermittently before."

"How can I not pay attention to the movie you want to shoot?"

Very good, Wu Yuan's performance successfully won a kiss.

After wiping the red lipstick marks on his face, he continued: "But I don't have time to shoot, and this movie is not my style."

"Let Li Yang shoot it, it just happens that he is also free recently."

Li Yang is the first director to become famous in the Light and Shadow Times Young Film Director Support Program.

At that time, his movie "Whose Youth Is Not Confused" became a little popular in the 70s circle, and later another movie "Those Years" harvested a wave of tears from the 80s.

However, after "Those Years", Li Yang filmed a youth TV series according to the company's arrangement, and then he made a movie "Silent" that he wrote and directed. It also focuses on the student group, but this time it is not a campus romance, but a movie focusing on the academic pressure and family conflicts of contemporary students.

Well, this is an art film.

Domestic directors are like this. Once they become famous, they must make an art film of their own to win awards.

After all, the trend of the domestic film industry in the past few decades is to focus on awards. Directors who can win awards are directors who can be on the stage.

Then the box office of "Silent" is the same as the name of the movie. It flopped without a sound and only received a box office of less than 2 million.

However, it brought back the Best Director Award at the Brasilia International Film Festival for Li Yang, and a nomination for the main competition unit of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

In the international art film circle, the evaluation of this movie is pretty good, and it is very suitable for some art film lovers.

It is definitely a loss, but the cost of this movie is only 3 million, and Li Yang found a pure newcomer, which is not a big deal for the big family Guangying Times.

Wu Yuan heard that Li Yang wanted to make another movie by himself, this time he wanted to make a commercial film to make a breakthrough in the box office.

Now it's good, he doesn't have to do it by himself, Wu Yuan can just give him the script of "Better Days".

In the field of campus themes, Li Yang is one of the best directors in China, and he has a little bit of love and art, which is just right for this movie.

"Director Li Yang." Liu Yifei nodded with a smile: "Old acquaintance, no problem!"

She really didn't expect Wu Yuan to shoot "Better Days".

The Chinese-language movies that Wu Yuan has handled are either the annual box office champions in the mainland, or they are the three major art films that impact Europe. Letting him shoot "Better Days" is completely a waste of talent.

Liu Yifei is not the kind of person who lets her boyfriend condescend to cooperate with her for her own awards.

She hopes that she can improve her acting skills to a level that is good enough to be able to shoot Wu Yuan's top-notch art films!

"Okay, let's make this a deal." Wu Yuan thought about it and arranged: "The company will make two big films in a few years, and I guess the manpower will be a bit tight."

"When the time comes, let Li Yang put together a crew and let him do it himself. The company will not intervene."

"Hey, Xixi, do you want to invest?"

Wu Yuan looked at Liu Yifei with a half-smile, and said in a somewhat tempting tone: "Why don't you convert your salary into investment directly? I estimate that your salary will be the highest cost item in this film."

"If you convert your salary into investment, the production cost will be reduced by half immediately."

"And I am still very optimistic about this movie. As long as Li Yang can shoot it to a high standard, I dare not say how much, but it is still possible to make 300 to 500 million at the box office."

"If you want to share the box office, you will definitely earn more than taking the salary."

"300 to 500 million?!" Liu Yifei widened her eyes: "Can it be so much?"

In 2009, the box office champion of the Chinese-language film "Founding of a Republic" in the mainland last year, the total box office was only 420 million.

Wu Yuan asked for 300 to 500 million, which scared Liu Yifei. This box office result can only be achieved by a few mainland directors such as Wu Yuan, Zhang Yimou, and Feng Xiaogang.

"Yes, 300-500 million." Wu Yuan said with some emotion: "Starting next year, 300-500 million box office will no longer be a mountain in the mainland box office."

"Just like the movies with box office of over 100 million in the past two years are commonplace, 300-500 million box office in two years can only be considered normal."

"In another five or six years, the box office performance of "Avatar" in the mainland will be stepped on, and there will be a lot of movies that break 1 billion."

Liu Yifei's red lips opened slightly. This was the first time Wu Yuan mentioned his views on the future mainland film market in front of Liu Yifei.

Well, the answer surprised Liu Yifei a little too much. Even though she had some blind faith in Wu Yuan's vision, she couldn't help but think that Wu Yuan was a little too optimistic in her heart.

"Well, let's talk about the future later." Looking at Liu Yifei's unbelievable expression, Wu Yuan shook his head and laughed.

The miracle of China's rapid development is indeed beyond the imagination of the world, including China's own people.

People nowadays can predict that China's film market will indeed take off, but they never thought that it would take off to a level larger than the North American film market.

Just like the military fans who are still fantasizing about how to use the third-generation aircraft cluster to replace the fifth-generation aircraft of the United States, they simply cannot believe that in a dozen years, China will have three aircraft carriers, the navy will be able to produce dumplings, the fifth-generation aircraft will fly in the sky, and it is preparing to manned moon landing, and will become the country with the highest GDP in the world.

Similarly, film industry practitioners could not have imagined that in another nine years, the Chinese film market would surpass the United States and have a box office of more than 60 billion yuan a year.

Saying this now is indeed a fantasy.

Wu Yuan wisely stopped the topic and patted Liu Yifei's butt: "Okay, go pack your luggage quickly, we will return to China tomorrow to prepare for the mainland premiere of "Interstellar." (End of this chapter)