"Indeed, I have watched the disc of the bloody heroes, and it is indeed as Mr. Wu said, it is very beautiful and romantic." Billy Crystal nodded: "Then Director Wu, I have a question for you."

Wu Yusen looked at Billy Crystal and nodded, meaning you can ask casually.

Billy Crystal thought for a moment and said, "We all know that you Hong Kong directors have a lot of autonomy, and the final editing power is in the hands of the director. But Mr. Wu, you should know that in Hollywood, the director does not have the editing right, and the editing right is in the hands of the producer. What do you think about the fact that the director does not have the editing right?"

Billy Crystal is a poignant question, and it's arguably the biggest point of contradiction between Hollywood directors and producers.

Directors want to have editing rights, because only with editing rights can they ensure that the cut film is the style they want and the content they want to express.

But this is also a right that producers or film investors are never willing to hand over.

Because what the producer wants is not what kind of film style, not what he wants to express, as the plenipotentiary representative of the investor, what they want is to make a movie that can make money.

As long as they can make money, they don't care about anything else.

And whether a film can make money or not, producers feel that they can see it more clearly than directors who want to have their own style.

Therefore, for directors who always want to do something of their own style, the Producers Alliance will never give them the right to edit.

The issue of editing rights has become a dead knot that is difficult for directors and producers to unravel.

In Hollywood, a big conflict or contradiction between the director and the producer comes from the issue of editing rights.

What the director wants to make is what he wants to express, but what the producer wants is a film that can make money at the box office.

Therefore, the issue of editing rights is a very sensitive issue in Hollywood.

For a director who is new to Hollywood, this sensitive issue is best not to talk about.

However, Wu Yusen is not worried about this, because his boss is Qiao Feng, even if he goes to Hollywood, Qiao Feng stands behind him.

Because, Wu Yusen, who does not have the right to edit, is not Wu Yusen.

"That's how I see editing rights, because I attach great importance to editing, and I am very good at editing, so I encourage young friends to learn from the words of directing, the fastest way, the best way, is to start with editing.

In the 60s, the film master David Lean, he turned out to be a very good photographer, he later made "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago", was a great director, others like Hitchcock, he was also very good at editing.

When I was making a movie, because the editors were all older editors, they weren't used to not having storyboards, they didn't know how to pick them up, they didn't know how to cut a scene, so it became very interesting, and I cut most of the scenes myself.

I worked with my assistant director and he helped me cut it. At that time, filming was more crazy, filming during the day, cutting at night, cutting until it was almost dawn, brushing my teeth, and going to film again.

My studio is also an editing room, and my studio only has a toothbrush, a sleeping bag, and three chairs stitched together, which is my bed.

I believe that as a director said, he has an innovation in every play, and he innovates a new technique in every play.

So I also wanted to make new techniques in each of my scenes, and as a result, there were some editing methods that I couldn't have imagined, so successful, and some of them were used as teaching materials by some film schools.

There are several editing methods, which were produced in quite interesting situations, and during the shooting, some of them were already there, that is, a killer and a police detective, appeared in different panes, and the two of them entered each other's psychological state with each other, and that way, as well as the fights, the editing was all cut by myself.

In addition, there are some editing methods that are quite ingenious and quite fun. So later, I also participated in the editing, and in the end, the whole scene was edited and filmed, and my team said that the scene was so romantic.

The actors thought they were filming the third episode of "The True Color of Heroes", but they didn't expect it to be such a movie. So this movie, a lot of people have some experience in creation, and I think it's quite interesting. It's worth talking to you about now. This is one of the most laissez-faire, free-spirited films I've ever made. “

"Mr. Wu, you are laissez-faire and free, but I think that in the end, when the film is going to be set with the original bottom, I think the original bottom, this editing is crazy, you want you to shoot 400,000 square feet, and there is no venue, and there is no board, how to set it, watch the film number to set it?" Billy Crystal looked funny with a look of silent mourning for the editing.

John Woo couldn't help but laugh, but still explained: "We didn't have a recording of the shooting. Because filming in Hong Kong, the first is to save money, and the second is because of the relationship between filming action scenes, the use of the lens of the film and the way of action are relatively free, and they are not affected by the recording equipment.

But we still use the original voice for dubbing, and we didn't have monitors when I was filming at the earliest, so we had to train to have a high level of memory from the beginning.

Whether it is a venue or an assistant director, first of all, we are very familiar with the camera machine lens, what kind of picture this lens can produce, and what kind of effect this track lens can produce.

I don't need to look at the camera, I just have to see the lens applied, with the actors' performances, and I can immediately see if the shots they're shooting are good or not.

No, start over now.

When you're halfway through your workout, and not even halfway through, walk around a bit and come back quickly. And the composition and everything, it's all very clear.

Therefore, it is necessary to be familiar with the lens, to be familiar with the editing, to master and grasp, plus the sense of music, which helps the director a lot. “

"Can you tell us more about how it was cut? I think the audience is also curious about how such a film is cut." Billy Crystal asked questions and interacted with the audience.

The audience at the scene also shouted to know the face.

The audience wanted to know, Wu Yusen was very happy, which showed that everyone still liked to listen to these things he said, and he smiled: "When it comes to the editing of this play, we all cut the film at that time, which is very fun.

That wool piece, we will hang it around our neck, and then hang it one by one, and then put it one by one, and then cut it, sometimes until there are pieces all over the ground, then my assistant director, director Liang Baijian, he is next to him, usually sends me the serial number of the shot I need, first help me put it together, first Zhou Yan sends it in, and then the killer ambushes ...... He put the sequence number, I moved it a little, and then cut out the head and tail of each shot, and put them together, and it was a picture ....."