The arrival and joining of the filming of the three important supporting roles immediately made the rhythm of the entire crew seem to speed up a lot - it turned out to be either the heroine's play, or the hero's play, or the male protagonist and heroine, basically revolving around Li Qian and Qin Jingjing, so once they rested, the whole crew had to take a break, but now, several important supporting roles are coming, whether it is the male protagonist or the heroine, the scenes are starting to get longer, and there are no scenes to shoot, so there are more people who will wait.

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 in which he starred is still continuing, and he took the time to fly over to film, and he will go back soon. Counting the time to fly back and forth, the time he can really film in the crew is less than three days.

The first scene to be filmed is a Chinese-owned Chinese restaurant in New York's Chinatown.

When he saw "Aunt Thirteen", the restaurant owner was very excited, I heard that the movie directed by Aunt Thirteen wanted to shoot here, and the actor was actually "Qian Shao", and the boss even said "no problem"!

He even said that the restaurant can be closed for a day to provide a venue for the crew to shoot, and he can also charter the crew's food for a day, for free!

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

Of course, the venue rental fee must be given, and an additional group photo of the crew and all the staff of the restaurant will be given, and after the boss is anxious to wash out the photo, Li Qian also signed the photo, and then it was framed by the anxious boss and hung in the most conspicuous place in the restaurant.

Three days later, Zhu Qiang completed most 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 he has no time to rest, and he has to rush back in a hurry, because there are still a lot of scenes for him as the second male lead - if there is no accident, he will fly around and fly around like this for the next month or even a month.

Zhou Ye and Zhong Yuanfu stayed behind and continued to participate in the filming of many later shots.

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

And when the filming was underway, Sun Yuting had already flown over from China with people and began to have more in-depth contact with Columbia Pictures and Oriental Dream Films, and with the assistance of the two companies, it was time to start casting the actors.

So, Du Yihua also flew over from New York, as a representative sent by Columbia Pictures, 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 to shoot around the two scenes of Qin Jingjing and him, Li Qian flew back to Los Angeles at night, and participated in many auditions in the next three days - of course, the roles that will really be determined early are often not too important supporting roles, Du Yihua, Sun Yuting and John Days They have preliminarily selected a large range of candidates in the first round of auditions held in advance, and Li Qianlai finally fell the hammer. The more important roles are those that Li Qian must participate in from beginning to end.

After all, only he, the director, knows best what kind of actor he needs.

Regarding the choice of actors in "Avatar", Li Qian's considerations are slightly different from "The Matrix", and the main selling point of "The Matrix" is kung fu, which is a cool story logic setting and mirror style, and he knows very well in his heart that "Avatar" sells exotic style.

In this movie, whether the male protagonist chooses white, black, yellow, or Latino actually has no direct impact on the success and watchability of the whole movie. In other words, the reverse is also true - this movie is not about movie actors at all.

So in this case, of course, it will be easier to sell globally with white actors - after all, these box-office audiences in Europe and the United States still prefer to see a white actor.

Therefore, the male lead Jack Sully had to choose a white actor, the female lead Netari was tentatively Latino or black, and the role of female airplane pilot depended on the skin color chosen by Nietali's character, and then finally decided that it was best to keep the actors of these two roles one Latino and the other black - this would allow the film to win everyone's approval to the greatest extent. At least unassailable in terms of political correctness.

Then, the two villains of the movie, the company boss and the ruthless Colonel Miles, directly decided that they must use white people - 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, colonists.

And Li Qian thought about it, the most suitable position for Chinese actors, there is no doubt that Dr. Grace - even in the final version of the final script, he has already finalized the actors, and even changed a lot of lines to make the role more in line with a Chinese cultural setting.

Well, heaven and man are one, and the Tao is natural.

In another time and space, when the film was released, many people jokingly called it a ball rape movie, and Jack Sully was a rebel against the humans of Earth, but in fact, it can be understood that this movie is an "anti-white movie" - or "anti-colonial movie".

Of course, you can't do anything too absolutely.

For example, in the original movie, among the warriors who advocated the violent conquest of the Avatar but eventually died in Pandora, there were not only whites, but also blacks - in this version of the movie, Japanese actors will be added.

And with the global success of "The Matrix", not to mention Japanese actors, even Hollywood in the United States, it is an irresistible temptation for almost all actors to cooperate with Li Qian.

Which A-list and super-A-list superstars are included!

And there is no need to rely on throwing money to hire actors like Qin Wei.

Of course, it is also considering that this is a movie that promotes technology and "exoticism", so from the beginning, Li Qian did not plan to invite those Hollywood first-line superstars for the heroes and heroines of the movie and related important actors - because there is no need to spend too much money on the actors' salaries.

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

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

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

Now that it's in the same city, time and space have become much easier to schedule, and on the basis of not delaying the filming of "Autumn Fairy Tale", Li Qian can still find time to participate in many actor auditions for "Avatar" one after another.

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

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

And the routine daily card playing activities of the crew of "Autumn Fairy Tale" have also been completely suspended - it is very strange that as soon as Li Qian left, whether it was Qin Nuo, Lu Lingxi, or Qin Jingjing, they didn't think about finding another person to join in and continue to play.

He was gone, and the game stopped.

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

On the same day, "Autumn Fairy Tale" stopped filming, and all the crew waited, one counts as one, and all flew to Miami to watch Liao Liao's concert on the spot.

There is no doubt that once Liao Liao, who has been accumulating strength for several years, started singing, the first stop of her North American tour won unanimous praise from the audience and related music media.

The atmosphere was so good that it was bursting.

In the reports of relevant domestic media, this is of course the greatest recognition that Chinese singers have achieved overseas, and it is also the greatest glory of the Chinese music industry.

Despite the fact that Liao Liao, who has spent all these years in the United States and has released three mixed Chinese and English albums and two pure English albums, and her musical path have been largely globalized, it is difficult to say that she can really represent Chinese music now. But she is Chinese and a Chinese singer, and this is undoubted. And as long as this does not change, she will definitely be the pride of Chinese around the world.

Of course, Li Qian appeared as a guest, not only accompanied Liao Liao with two songs on the guitar, but also presented a self-playing and singing song, not only in China, but also in North America and Europe, which caused a huge sensation - the relationship between the two of them, and the marriage system in China, which they represent behind them, which seems strange to Westerners, has always been a hot spot of special concern in Western society.

What's more, they have always been very popular.

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

And Li Qian only stayed for three more days, accompanied Liao Liao for a New Year's Day, and then returned to China by plane - and according to the agreement, the Hollywood actors who have passed the preliminary audition will fly to China in early January to participate in the final audition of "Avatar". That is, an audition with makeup.