The premiere ended with applause, and Li Xiang did not go home after the premiere, at the moment he was eating with Yang Mi in a private restaurant, and the person who invited him was Wuershan.

The dish is home-cooked, but the chef's skills are excellent, and there is a warm taste to make it, and this place of Lao Wu has been praised by Li Xiang and Yang Mi.

"Director Li, I may not be able to direct "The Hunger Games 2" anymore, but I hope to be the director of the film in the next few films!"

"Well, I'm taking it for granted!" Li Xiang replied unexpectedly.

"Don't get me wrong, I just don't think there's enough time left for me to prepare, I've read the novel, and I can't shoot it at my current level for the time being, so I hope you give me two years to prepare!" Wu Ershan said sincerely looking at Li Xiang's eyes.

Wuershan's personal development should be divided into three stages: the pure art stage, the art and business combination stage, and the pure business stage.

Pure art is before he dropped out of the Academy of Fine Arts in his sophomore year, and he has been studying fine arts and creating oil paintings at this stage.

The combination of art and business is that after graduating from his directing department, he was not only shooting commercials, MVs, but also doing contemporary art, and even found time to make a movie "Soap Opera" in 03.

The pure commercial stage is the idea that began to emerge in 06, when there was a turning point, Lao Wu participated in some film festivals, but he always felt that the film should not be like this, its main battlefield should not be in film festivals and art museums, but in the cinema, at that time it was the time when American blockbusters were very strong in theaters, and domestic films were a little weak.

Why Lao Wu can succeed, it is not unreasonable, before he starts to shoot movies, the first thing he does is genre analysis, which is very important, such as horror films and anarchist movies, which will definitely not be released in our country, you know this.

After excluding those types of movies that are impossible to release in China or that domestic audiences don't like, he chose his three favorite genres from the remaining genres - action movies, fantasy films, and epic films.

Fantasy films and epic films will definitely not be able to do it for the time being, because funding is the biggest problem restricting him, so the only genre to choose from is action movies, because it is relatively the cheapest.

Lao Wu paid for a large number of projects by himself, and at the same time he also wrote a lot of scripts, at that time he wrote four scripts for martial arts films, which were invested in different investment companies, those are all different forms of martial arts films, shot with DV, there are comic movies, and there are also games like "Sword and Laughter" that play with structure, and there are also more quaint movies that tend to be artistic.

After nearly four years of exploration, he started filming "Knife and Laugh", because this movie is the cheapest, investors feel that the cost is not high, they can take a risk, and the movie is really successful after its release.

But then why did his "Painted Skin 2" and "Looking for the Dragon" have very different reputations? Because the two movies gave him different preparation times.

"Painted Skin 2" only gave him one year, while "Looking for the Dragon" gave him almost three years.

He is the kind of person who needs to do a lot of preparation before shooting a type of movie, such as watching movies, a large number of classic movies of the same genre, and then summing up the rules of this type of movie, and waiting until he completely understands it before he starts shooting.

This is a particularly good habit, to make a commercial film, you must first compromise with the audience, understand the audience's interests and tastes, and a movie will not lose money.

The funny thing is that many directors in our country often claim to be artists and advertise that their films are art films, and when their movies are not satisfactory at the box office, they complain about this and that, please! Aren't you making art films? Why do you go into theaters and release them? Just watch it yourself!

If you go to the cinema and release a movie, it will not have an art film, because the audience will spend money to watch it, and it is a commercial act to make money through the movie, so how can you say art?

Lao Wu pondered this very well, so he is a very smart person, and he believes that the "Fengshen Series" of this smart person will definitely not be bad.

"Senior brother, our family doesn't talk to each other, brother, my "Hunger Games" is going to shoot four parts, and the third part is too long, so I have to shoot it up and down, and it's up to you then!" Li Xiang held a wine glass and said to Wu Ershan.

"Director Li, you can entrust me with a movie with an investment of more than 100 million US dollars, that is to look up to me, I naturally can't ignore it, you can rest assured! After I finished filming this action movie, I began to study "The Hunger Games", and I will definitely live up to your trust!" Wu Ershan was very grateful to Li Xiang for his appreciation.

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Li Xiang drank alcohol, so naturally he couldn't drive, so the young lady drove on his behalf.

"You're so optimistic about this Wuershan, I don't see anything great about him!" Yang Mi and Li Xiang chatted.

"You don't understand! If China can become a great director like a Canadian truck driver, then Wu Ershan is one of the strong players!" Li Xiang praised himself, comparing it to James Cameron.

"Wow, I want to hear your reasons!" the young lady was also interested.

"First, he is ambitious and ambitious, second, he is very smart, and third, he abides by the rules of commercial films!" Li Xiang told the reason why he is optimistic about Wuershan.

The first one is especially important, some directors have a certain type of film that is very exciting, but as soon as they make a war film or an epic film, it will be over, and this is the reason why the pattern is not enough.

The two of them had a mouthful of fun in the car, and the time passed quickly, and they drove home in a blink of an eye.

"Tomorrow will be thirty, go to your house first and tell your uncle and aunt about the two of us, and then you can fly to Bincheng with me, and the little balls have been bought!" Li Xiang locked the garage door and said to Yang Mi.

"You know, my parents complained that you said that things were settled, why didn't you talk about going to the house to discuss the engagement, my dad said that if you don't go, we won't marry this daughter!" Yang Mi said proudly.

"Aren't I afraid that your father will always wrestle with me? I always know that I will lose to your father quickly the first time, and he will always ask me to learn!" Li Xiang didn't want to go, the key was that his future father-in-law would teach him to be a man every time he came, and this feeling was very uncomfortable.

"My dad doesn't have any other hobbies, you rarely go there, just accompany him to be happy, and you have been wronged?" Yang Mixing's eyes widened, and she crossed her waist and said.

"No grievances, no grievances..." Li Xiang's expression attracted another fan fist from the young lady, and the two entered the house fighting.